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Over 9,000 Palestinians Displaced in a Decade of West Bank Demolitions
Natasha Roth-Rowland | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
24 Dec 2019 – Israel’s demolition regime in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has destroyed over 6,000 Palestinian structures, displacing thousands of Palestinians over the past decade — over half of whom are children and minors.
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Nepal: Inaugural Issue of “Social Inquiry” Published
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – The editorial board delightfully announces the publication of the opening issue of ‘Social Inquiry: Journal of Social Science Research,’ a biannual journal published by Sustainable Development and Empowerment Forum, Kathmandu, Nepal. The Editorial Board with its National and International Advisory Boards comprises research scholars, professors and veteran professionals with national and global repute.
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(Português) Retrospectiva 2019: Um Ano de Reflexão, Retrocessos e Resiliência
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
O ano de 2019 impressionou pela quantidade de perdas e grandes tragédias.
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NIH Director on Human Gene Editing: ‘We Must Never Allow Our Technology to Eclipse Our Humanity’
Francis S. Collins | Discover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
29 Dec 201 – The year opened with the scientific community scrambling to respond to the news that Chinese researcher He Jiankui had used CRISPR technology to edit the genomes of human embryos. The experiments resulted in the birth of twin girls, the first humans with genetically altered germline cells — which means their genetic changes are heritable and can be passed on to future generations. We consider such experiments both irresponsible and unethical.
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Everybody’s Watching You: The Intercept’s 2019 Big Brother/Surveillance Technology Coverage
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
27 Dec 2019 – A look back at The Intercept’s must-read technology stories from 2019.
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The Sham of Corporate Social Responsibility
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – Boeing recently fired CEO Dennis Muilenburg in order “to restore confidence in the Company moving forward.” Restore confidence? Muilenburg’s successor will be David Calhoun, who allowed Muilenburg to remain CEO after the first 737 Max crash and the jetliner posed an unacceptable risk of accident. It caused the deaths of 346 people. Muilenburg raked in $30 million in 2018. He could walk away from Boeing with another $60 million.
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With Suleimani Assassination, Trump Is Doing the Bidding of Washington’s Most Vile Cabal
Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
6 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – While the media focus for three years of the Trump presidency has centered around “Russia collusion” and impeachment, the most dangerous collusion of all was happening right out in the open — the Trump/Saudi/Israel/UAE drive to war with Iran.
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The Stitching-up of Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg
Keith Davis | The Australian Independent Media Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
27 Dec 2019 – So while we sit on our arses and fiddle with our fingers a brave son of Australia is about to be thrown to the wolves. It would pay us well to read, and reflect upon, the following transcript between the President of the United States, his National Security Adviser, and his Attorney General.
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Illegal Tin Mining Leaves Trail of Ruin in Protected Brazilian Rainforest
Ana Ionova | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
30 Dec 2019 – The damage became clear once the rain stopped over Altamira National Forest in northern Brazil. Instead of dense jungle, large patches of bare land now flanked the banks of the rivers in this protected stretch of the Amazon rainforest. “When we got a clean satellite image we just saw devastation,” said one source at a government environmental agency. “We never saw anything like that in Altamira.”
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World Peace Is a Possibility
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Being on this planet is similar to being on a plane going from one place to another. We are all transients sharing a flight, which is temporary. We may not have the best seats for the moment, but we will soon be landing somewhere else. So why should we engage in quarreling over temporary seats?
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Trump, Troll-In-Chief, Wags the Impeachment Dog by Going to War with Iran
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – The madman in the White House has been sulking and raging for weeks about his impeachment proceedings, tweeting manically on some days more than 100 times. Trump has abruptly begun trafficking in the sanguinary merchandise of all-out war just at this moment when his throne is on the brink of toppling. Now, by murdering Qasem Soleimani, Trump has brought the United States to the brink of war with Iran.
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War with Iran
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – The assassination of Gen. Soleimani has opened a Pandora’s Box containing existential dangers to the American Empire.
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2020 Vision: A New Year’s Regeneration
Ronnie Cummins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
1 Jan 2020 – The solutions we need are no farther away than the nearest solar panel, wind farm, retrofitted building, bicycle path, electric vehicle, community garden, farmers market, organic farm and holistically-managed ranch. The solutions we need lie at the end of our forks and knives, under the trees that shade us, the carbon-sequestering soil below our feet, the consumer dollars in our wallets and our nearest voting booth.
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Trump’s Ordered Assassinations: Cruel and Inhumane Breach of International Law
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
‘There are those who benefit from war, the militarists, the arms dealers, the corporate media/military industrial complex, but those who really pay for militarism and wars are the people and the tax of the poor. The propaganda and lies of of war are being spread and this time the target is Iran, just like US/UK/NATO carried out wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc. Let us, the people, learn lessons from the past and unite and mobilize calling for no war against Iran. USA troops out of Shannon and out of Iraq! Yes to nonviolence, peace and dialogue! Let the people unite together to stop war, remembering that there is power in truth and love is stronger than hate.’
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(Italiano) Che cosa muove l’antisemitismo? Forme fasulle e reali
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
30 Dicembre 2019 – Solo il tribalismo più estremo può spiegare l’etichettatura di coloro che si oppongono al trattamento abusivo di Israele nei confronti del popolo palestinese come “antisemiti”. Consideriamo l’incapacità di Aung San Suu Kyi di condannare l’abuso da parte del Myanmar dei Rohingya come il lancio delle nuvole più scure sul suo Nobel Premio per la Pace. È un insulto agli ebrei e agli altri semiti consentire ai sionisti di imprimere solidarietà alla lotta palestinese per i loro diritti fondamentali come antisemitismo.
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We Must Do More to Prevent Nuclear War
John Polanyi, Nobel Chemistry Laureate | THE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
The existing nuclear weapons states have no special right to possess nuclear weapons. Indeed, they should have no such moral right. Although powerful, these existing nuclear powers are vulnerable, being bound together by fragile networks of nuclear obligations. It is our great good fortune – nothing more – that has spared us from nuclear war.
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The Big Change Coming to Just About Every Website on New Year’s Day–Thanks, California!
Aaron Mak | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
30 Dec 2019 – Starting New Year’s Day, you may notice a small but momentous change to the websites you visit: a button or link, probably at the bottom of the page, reading “Do Not Sell My Personal Information.”
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How a Rising Anti-Mining Movement Is Challenging Portugal’s ‘White Gold’ Rush
Marina Martinez | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
19 Dec 2019 – Throughout Portugal, people are organizing to stop a boom in lithium mining, as the government rushes to become Europe’s top supplier of the valuable mineral.
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Jonas Brothers: Only Human (Music Video of the Week)
The Tonight Show | Jimmy Fallon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
The Jonas Brothers perform “Only Human” for the Tonight Show audience.
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The UN Predicted Gaza Would Be Unlivable by 2020. They Were Right.
Tania Hary | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – Israel is trying to keep Gaza ‘quiet’ by applying new calculations to make life survivable — without allowing the people to truly live. While revelers around the world are making New Year’s resolutions for 2020, in the Gaza Strip, a different kind of assessment is taking place as Palestinians try to determine whether, or how, they can survive.
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A World Dividing: The International Implications of the Sino-American Rift
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. | Quincy Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
• The U.S.-China trade war is reshaping global politics, creating new patterns of economic integration and alignment.
• By announcing a new era of “great power competition,” the United States is committing a mistake. It should instead focus on solving planet wide problems like climate change and sustaining economic and technological progress. All such challenges require some measure of cooperation with China.
Forgetting 2019
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – At this age, having exhausted prose options, I indulge myself during holidays by sharing poems that seek also your indulgence. I searched 2019 for some glimmers of good news, and felt stymied. Of course here, there, everywhere there were glorious private exceptions.
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The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps
Masha Gessen – The New Yorker,
6 Jan 2020
Like many arguments, the fight over the term “concentration camp” is mostly an argument about something entirely different. It is not about terminology. Almost refreshingly, it is not an argument about facts. This argument is about imagination, and it may be a deeper, more important conversation than it seems.
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(Português) Novo Filme sobre Testes em Animais Está Disponível Online
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
29 dez 2019 – O documentário “Test Subjects”, sobre a realidade dos testes em animais já está disponível no Vimeo para quem quiser assistir online. “Espero que esse filme ajude a desafiar essa crença e lance luz sobre o fato de que testes em animais são ineficazes quando se trata da saúde humana”.
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Imagining a World without Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
27 Dec 2019 – Anti-capitalists had a miserable year. But so did capitalism. The point is to suggest, just before the New Year, the wondrous possibilities of a truly liberal, post-capitalist, technologically advanced society. Those who refuse to imagine it are bound to fall prey to the absurdity pointed out by my friend Slavoj Žižek: a greater readiness to fathom the end of the world than to imagine life after capitalism.
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The Searching Life and Enigmatic Death of Albert Camus
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Albert Camus’ search ended sixty years ago on January 4, 1960, the day he died. Although he had already written The Stranger, The Rebel, The Plague, and The Fall, and had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he felt his true work had barely begun.
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The Plot Thickens
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Betrayals galore…
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Ring any Bells?
David G. Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Right!
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Gods of Good Tidings
Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Oh Gods of Good Tidings
Why create these Weather Rings
Russia basking in a Summer Show
Inviting us all to its Warm Glow
India back in a Winter Fury
Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
Stan Shabaz | Zinda Magazine/Assyrian International News Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
His most famous work, The Prophet, was first published in 1923. He has been described in many ways: “melancholic romantic”, “existentialist of the right wing”, Nietzschean rebel, revolutionary, renegade, poet-philosopher, “the William Blake of the twentieth century”, the “Lebanese prophet of New York”, a “burning genius”, etc. But who was he really?
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New Year 2020: A Prayer for Peace and Religious Harmony
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
1 Jan 2020 – As I am thinking about the New Year, I am thinking about peace, about how to make the world a peaceful place to live and thrive. The passing year was not that peaceful. There were violent incidents all over the world. There were violent incidents within states, there was also violence based on the exclusionary approach to particular people.
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Studying the Scope of STEM and Other Subjects in Our Academia
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Academic institutions —schools, colleges, universities offer various subjects for study and research. These subjects are generally grouped in broad categories such as Arts, Languages, Humanities, Commerce and Economics, Sciences, Mathematics, etc. These categories are broadly self explanatory; however, some subjects such as Geography, Sociology may be taught as parts of Humanities or Arts or even Science. A new combination that has recently emerged is called STEM.
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Maurice Béjart (1 Jan 1927 – 22 Nov 2007): Starting off the Year with a Dance
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Maurice Béjart was an innovative master of modern dance. In a world where there is both appreciation and fear of the mixing of cultural traditions, he was always a champion of blending cultural influences. He was a world citizen and an inspiration to all who work for a universal culture.
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Varieties of Violence: Structural, Cultural, and Direct
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
6 Jan 2020 – Terrorists, serial killers, domestic murderers — their ghoulish deeds fill our news and popular entertainment, interspersed with wars, riots, and brutal repressions. Violence surrounds us. Where does it come from? The answer propagated by the mass media is that violence is human nature. It’s just the way people are. Peace researcher Johan Galtung denies that human nature condemns us to violence.
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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task.”
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The Trump Administration Just Killed Iran’s Most Famous Military Commander. We’re Not Ready for What’s Next.
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
6 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – The assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani may be President Donald Trump’s most reckless foreign policy move to date.
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Afghan Children: Work of Necessity, Work of Choice
Carolyn Coe | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
2 Jan 2020 – If children like himself had a choice, Gul Mohammad thinks it better that they be able to study instead of having to work. He values an education and doesn’t want to join the estimated 1.6 million Afghan addicts. “If I don’t study, I could become like some people who stop studying and become addicts and who can’t find any job to support their families.” He started selling bread in a bakery when he was 8.
→ read full articleOn Curves, Their Interrelations, and History
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
This essay is focused on concrete curves, and on concrete actors like USA, EU, Russia, China. And on interrelations of several curves.
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The Fight to Expose Israel’s Arms Sales to the World’s Most Repressive Regimes
Sahar Vardi | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
25 Dec 2019 – In the span of less than 10 years, activists from across the political spectrum went head to head with the Israeli government, trying to bring an end to its arms exports to tyrannical governments worldwide.
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Each New Year
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
another revolution
around the sun
a moment of pause
to take account
(Français) Paroles sur les Crises au Mali et les Limites de la Démocratie
Dr Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Expériences et Analyses Pour Favoriser la Paix – Le Mali est victime d’un Choc des Corporations – Extrait Du Livre
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(Italiano) Immorale il Possesso di Armi Nucleari
Editoriale | Il Foglio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
«L’uso dell’energia atomica per fini di guerra è immorale, come allo stesso modo è immorale il possesso delle armi atomiche, come ho già detto due anni fa. Saremo giudicati per questo dalle nuove generazioni. Come possiamo parlare di pace mentre costruiamo nuove e formidabili armi di guerra? E mentre giustifichiamo determinate azioni illegittime con discorsi di discriminazione e di odio?» — Papa Francesco
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Anguish and Anger from the Navy SEALs Who Turned In War Criminal Edward Gallagher
Dave Philipps – The New York Times,
30 Dec 2019
27 Dec 2019 – Video Interviews and Group Texts Obtained by The Times Show Men Describing Navy Seal Pardoned of War Crimes by Trump as ‘Toxic, Freaking Evil’
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Billionaires’ Wealth Surged in 2019
Barry Grey | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 – The wealth of the world’s 500 richest people rose 25 percent in 2019, reaching a combined net worth of $5.9 trillion. To place this figure in some perspective, these 500 individuals control more wealth than the gross domestic product of the United States at the end of the third quarter of 2019, which was $5.4 trillion.
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(Castellano) Cada Nuevo Año [Poema]
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
otra revolución
alrededor del sol
un momento de pausa
para considerar
“Cost”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Subjective, intuitive, artistically scholarly, sophisticated…. Artists inhabit a world all of their own only accessible to the initiated, at times. Poets, particularly, seem to possess that especial quality of being able to transform the trivial into sublime–and vice versa. Playing with reality and irrealities as playthings. Not merely words or semantics but ideas, thoughts, perceptions, visions, consciousness. — TMS Editor
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Symbolic Disconnection from the Stars and the Universe?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
30 Dec 2019 – Surreptitious Global Implementation of Full-Spectrum Dominance and Shielding – Produced in Anticipation of the Imminent Launch of a Vast Array of Communications Satellites
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John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – It is impossible to understand the totality of capitalist relations apart from the conditions of both exploitation and expropriation, which together generate the ensemble of oppressions that characterize the system. It is here too that we begin to understand the various interlocking aspects of capitalist domination, which require a corevolutionary praxis in response.
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The Infinite Hotel Paradox
Jeff Dekofsky | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
The Infinite Hotel is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. What if it’s completely booked, but one person wants to check in? What about 40? Or an infinitely full bus of people? Jeff Dekofsky solves these heady lodging issues using Hilbert’s paradox. Enjoy our stay!
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Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century
Ron Paul | Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lute’s cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war.
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Indian Democracy Is Fighting Back
Samanth Subramanian – The Atlantic,
30 Dec 2019
24 Dec 2019 – The protesters are trying to save a liberal India—and keep bigotry from becoming the law of the country.
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The People of India Are Taking It to the Streets to Challenge Modi’s Bigoted and Dishonest Government
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019 – Every day and in every part of India, hundreds of thousands of people—mainly young people—gather on the streets to express their anger at the government. Their protests, like those of the protests in Chile, emerged out of one particular grievance but then have cascaded outward.
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Julian Assange “Slowly Dying” and “Often Sedated” at UK Belmarsh Prison
Mike Head | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 -Vaughan Smith is a freelance video news journalist who gave refuge to Assange in 2010. He tweeted that Assange called his family on Christmas Eve: “He told my wife and I how he was slowly dying in Belmarsh where, though only on remand, he is kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and is often sedated.”
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Japan’s Radioactive Water Will Be Released into Ocean or Atmosphere
Dan Robitzski | Futurism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
27 Dec 2019 – Officials overseeing the crumbled remains of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant have a growing problem: they’re running out of space to store its radioactive water. The only options on the table are dumping 1.7 million tons of contaminated water into the ocean, evaporating it so it enters the atmosphere, or a combination of both–in the not-so-distant future.
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Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
As you know, wars are fought not by the wordsmiths and their paymasters – but rather by simple-minded folk who must somehow be “driven to war”. So every “civilizational narrative” has two major strands coded within it – “master-speak” and “mass-speak”. The former is centred on “self-interest”, while the latter speaks to “duty and love of country.”… You heard “experts” at the summit talking about “new threats” facing NATO. In the hugely lucrative business of “threats”, eggheads can always be found to write up impressive “threat analyses” to suit any given agenda. Sadly, no political leader dares to question the eggheads.
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(Português) Tortura e Crueldade: Búfalo tem as patas esticadas e amarradas em postes antes de ser decapitado em festival indiano
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
30 Dec 2019
23 dez 2019 – O festival chamado de “Durga Puja”, é uma celebração anual dedicada à deusa Durga. Dezesseis animais mortos com requintes de crueldade enquanto o público passa os dedos no sangue derramado.
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A Nobel Laureate Justifies Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
William Felice – Tampa Bay Times,
30 Dec 2019
26 Dec 2019 – Aung San Suu Kyi mocks international law, writes an Eckerd professor.
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(Português) Poema de Ano Novo
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Quando o Ano Novo começa,
é natural que a Deus se peça
Saúde, Paz e Prosperidade
WaPo’s Afghan Papers Propagate Colonial Narrative of Noble Intentions Gone Awry
Joshua Cho | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
The Afghanistan Papers should also be considered an excellent case study of contemporary colonial propaganda, and yet another example of corporate media criticizing US wars without opposing US imperialism. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s famous analysis of media coverage of the Vietnam War, in Manufacturing Consent, found that questions of the invasion’s “tactics and costs”—to the US—dominated the debate.
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The Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 – The problem may be that a transition to 100% renewables is the wrong target. Reversing climate change need not mean emptying our pockets and tightening our belts. It is possible to sequester carbon and restore our collapsing ecosystem using the financial resources we already have, and it can be done while at the same time improving the quality of our food, water, air and general health.
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Media’s Deafening Silence on Latest from WikiLeaks about the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fake Douma Report Blaming Syria
Caitlin Johnstone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 – “Media Silence on This Story Is Its Own Scandal”- WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the OPCW adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year which resulted in airstrikes upon that country from the US, UK and France.
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Brazil Amazon Deforestation Climbs more than 100% in November over Same Month Last Year – Government Agency
Marcelo Teixeira | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published today.
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New Year
Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
On this cold day in the North
And warm days in the South
We celebrated the day of joy and mirth
2019 Bloomberg Billionaires Index [Absent: Mike Bloomberg]
Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
29 Dec 2019 – View profiles for each of the world’s 500 richest people, see the biggest movers, and compare fortunes or track returns. Details about the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire’s profile page. [From TMS Editor: Does anyone know why Mike Bloomberg is not in his own list? According to Forbes he ranks #20 with US$ 22 billion.]
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Myanmar: UN Expert Calls for Tolerance and Safety from Reprisals after Online Threats to Activists
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – The UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has condemned online threats against activists campaigning for justice and accountability, urging the Government and social media firms to do more to protect campaigners. “The online threats, including those targeting prominent activists Dr. Maung Zarni and Mr. Nay Say Lwin of the Free Rohingya Coalition are deeply concerning,” Lee said.
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New Russian Nuclear Weapon Can Travel 27 Times the Speed of Sound
Vladimir Isachenkov | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
27 Dec 2019 – A new intercontinental weapon that can fly 27 times the speed of sound became operational today, Russia’s defense minister reported, bolstering the country’s nuclear strike capability. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that he believes “it’s probably a matter of a couple of years” before the U.S. has one.
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Bolivia’s Coup Dictator Seeks to Annihilate Opposition from Exiled
Ramona Wadi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
27 Dec 2019 – In light of what is occurring in Venezuela, the latest imperialist intervention in Bolivia must be exposed as a plan not only to oust Morales, but also as one aimed at regional destabilisation. Deposed President Evo Morales will be working with an international team that includes the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, who in 1998 issued an international arrest warrant for Pinochet.
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We the People, We the Humanity are Victims of Political Insanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
22 Dec 2019 – “We have let the government’s evil-doing, its abuses, power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny go on for too long. We are approaching a reckoning. This is the point, as the poet W. B. Yeats warned, when things fall apart and anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
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EU: China Must Close Its “Re-Education Camps” for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Meps Say
News | European Parliament – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
19 Dec 2018 – MEPs express serious concern about China’s repression of the Uyghurs and call on the Chinese government to close the “re-education camps” in Xinjiang immediately.
• Torture, digital surveillance and arbitrary detentions without any charge
• Harassment of Uyghurs abroad
• Call on Council to adopt targeted sanctions and freeze assets
The Lies That Are Used for Denying the Legitimacy of Crimea’s Breakaway Vote
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
24 Dec 2019 – Crimea’s breakaway from Ukraine and rejoining Russia is treated in the US-and-allied world as being justification for the explosive re-emergence in 2014 of America’s Cold War NATO alliance as being a restored war against Russia; and, so, whether or not that ‘justification’ is truthful is the paramount geopolitical issue in our era; and it will therefore be discussed and (via the links here) documented in this article.
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On the Road to Gaza: The Freedom Flotilla Will Sail Again
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
25 Dec 2019 – What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets? On a daily basis, Gaza is conveyed to us as a bloody image or a dramatic video, none of which can truly capture the everyday reality of the Strip – its formidable steadfastness, the everyday acts of resistance, and the type of suffering that can never be really understood through a customary glance at a social media post.
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AMLO is Bringing New Hope to Mexico
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
17 Dec 2019 – Jeremy Corbyn lost the election but one of his political friends, the progressive Mexican leader named Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been in power for one year. He is carrying out the plans and priorities described in his 2018 book, New Hope for Mexico.
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China Detaining Millions of Uyghurs? Serious Problems with Claims by US-Backed NGO and Far-Right Researcher ‘Led by God’ against Beijing
Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz.
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Families Fleeing from Guatemala: A Case of Corporate and State Aggression
Marc Pilisuk, Jennifer Rountree and Rebecca Ferencik | Council of Hemispheric Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019 – In its attempt to stem the number of Latin American men, women, and children traveling to the U.S. seeking asylum, the Trump administration has pushed Guatemala and other countries in the region to sign “safe third country” agreements. The U.S. is bound by law to receive asylum seekers and this new agreement is an attempt to avoid this obligation by declaring Guatemala as a safe third country. However, an agreement does not make it so.
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The Most Important Free Press Stories of 2019
Leonard C. Goodman | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019 -Assange and Manning are being persecuted for speaking truth to power.
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Shelley’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and the Spiritual Value of Vegetarianism
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Since the dawn of our species and its consciousness, we have reverenced other animals and incorporated them into our myths and our metaphors, into the basic fabric of our stories. But we have also eaten them — we may be the storytelling animal, but we are fundamentally animal. “By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth, to give a fair trial to the vegetable system.”
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
In a recent symposium on Gandhi’s 150th Anniversary, a scholar mentioned that like Gandhi, we must do our best; we must be good patriots and work for the welfare of the people of our countries. This set me thinking–how can we do our best for our country or for society in general? I have completed seven decades of my life; have I been a good person, have I done anything for the welfare of our society? But how does one work for the good of other families, other people or society?
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Por Una Cabeza (Music Video of the Week)
Tango Harmony – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Delightful! Sensual! Simply Delicious!!
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(Italiano) Il nostro mondo che svanisce: fauna e flora selvatica
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Nel corso della sua storia, la Terra ha vissuto cinque estinzioni di massa. Ora sta vivendo la sesta.
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Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young
Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Chomsky has been known to vigorously defend and debate his views and opinions on philosophy, linguistics, politics, life—controversially so for some!
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(Português) Hambúrgueres vegetais salvam 250 mil animais por ano nos EUA
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 dez 2019 – “São 140 mil suínos e 110 mil bovinos por ano sendo ‘salvos do sistema alimentar’’, destaca a WAP-World Animal Protection, que considerou números baseados nas vendas estimadas em restaurantes de fast food nos EUA.
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Trump’s Wall
K. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
More to the point…
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(Français) De nouveaux documents de WikiLeaks démentent les mensonges sur une attaque chimique en Syrie en 2018
Niles Niemuth | WSWS, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
19 Déc 2019 – Des documents publiés par WikiLeaks le 15 décembre confirment l’existence d’une dissidence importante au sein de l’Organisation pour l’interdiction des armes chimiques (OIAC), l’organisme mondial de surveillance des armes chimiques. Les différences concernent la rédaction d’un rapport public sur l’attaque présumée du 7 avril 2018 à Douma, en Syrie, qui aurait tué 49 personnes et blessées jusqu’à 650.
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Greenland Is Nearing a Climate Tipping Point–How Long Warming Lasts Will Decide Its Fate, Study Says
Bob Berwyn | InsideClimate News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019 – Past meltdowns occurred with temperatures only slightly higher than today’s, suggesting the world is overestimating the ice sheet’s stability, scientists say.
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Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
14 Dec 2019 – Arrogance and ignorance, backed by mammoth brute force, led US policy in the remote Asian nation. Attacking Afghanistan was revenge for the 9/11 attacks against the US. As this writer saw firsthand in Afghanistan, all the claims about Osama bin Laden’s ‘terrorist training camps’ in Afghanistan were lies. 9/11 was not planned in Afghanistan. Taliban were not ‘terrorists.’ They were lightly armed tribal warriors fighting bandits and the US-backed Afghan intelligence services.
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Pamir Highway: The Road on the Roof of the World (I)
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
23 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – This is arguably the ultimate road trip on earth. Marco Polo did it. All the legendary Silk Road explorers did it. Traveling the Pamir Highway back to back, as a harsh winter approaches, able to appreciate it in full, in silence and solitude, offers not only a historical plunge into the intricacies of the ancient Silk Road but a glimpse of what the future may bring in the form of the New Silk Roads.
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Why Climate Change Is an Irrelevance, Economic Growth Is a Myth and Sustainability Is Forty Years Too Late
Kevin Casey | Global Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
20 Nov 2019 – As someone who has been exploring the world’s most isolated wilderness regions for nearly half a century, I have some insight into the state of the planet and the human race’s current environmental befuddlement. While it’s reassuring that today’s young people are increasingly aware of the seriousness of their environmental plight, they are protesting up the wrong tree. They should direct their passionate attention to the real enemy – a greedy, arrogant, two-legged species that’s in furious denial and has become far too adept at making excuses for the inexcusable.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Why do we need to do anything? Inspired by the succession of UN Climate Change Conferences (COP). Manifesto:
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Assange Gives Evidence in Spanish Case against Security Contractor
Thomas Scripps | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was brought from Belmarsh Prison yesterday to appear in person at Westminster Magistrates Court and provide video-link witness testimony. The relentless nine-year persecution of Assange—including the flagrant violation of his human rights and the monitoring of his every word and movement while he was supposed to be protected by political asylum—is aimed at terrorising all would-be whistleblowers and journalists into silence.
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Four Criteria for Differentiating Faith-Based Entities
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Religious currents, especially Islamic schools of thought, are often considered as monolithic blocs, and sometimes opposed to each other. In fact, not only do some academic and political elites regard various currents of Islamic thought as a form of extremism, but they also do the same with regard to the practice of religion itself.
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Canada, Netherlands Join Gambia’s Fight for Rohingyas
The Standard [Gambia] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
5 Dec 2019 – On 11 Nov 2019, The Gambia filed a lawsuit at The Hague demanding accountability on the systematic violations of the rights of minority Rohingya Muslims by the Government of Myanmar. Following this, Canada, Netherlands and The Gambia have agreed to form a tripartite joint working group to pursue the case.
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2019 Latin America in Review: Year of the Revolt of the Dispossessed
Roger Harris | COHA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
2019 has not been an entirely bullish year for US imperialism, notwithstanding the hard turns to the right in Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Powerful winds against neoliberalism are gusting in Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, and even in the US “Commonwealth” of Puerto Rico. Regime-change operations failed in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
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Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
My three favorite things…
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Merry Christmas from Palestine
Banksy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Greetings from the Holy Land, Jesus’ Birthplace
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The Invention of “Ethical Artificial Intelligence”: How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
Rodrigo Ochigame – The Intercept,
23 Dec 2019
20 Dec 2019 – A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on AI.
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Cruising Pamir Highway, the Heart of the Heartland (II)
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
23 Dec 2019
14 Dec 2019 – A privileged microcosm of what is evolving as the intersection between the New Silk Roads and Greater Eurasia.
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Is Growth Passé?
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
9 Dec 2019 – Some suggest that the Paris climate agreement’s target for limiting global warming can be achieved only by stopping economic expansion. But there is ample room to change the quality of growth and significantly reduce its environmental impact without condemning billions of people to lives of deprivation.
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Latin America: The Conservative Offensive and the Return of Class War
Antoine Pelletier interviews Franck Gaudichaud | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Several countries in Latin America are currently experiencing very powerful class conflicts and extremely violent repression on the part of reactionary forces and the state. The following is an overview of the situation in various countries and the dynamics of their struggles.
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Why All Religions Are Not the Same
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
It is often said by some Hindu gurus and leaders that all religions are the same. But is this really the case? Naturally, anyone who studies religion can see many similarities between them. And if we are talking about getting closer to God and increasing our understanding and love for God, then what religion is not trying to do that? Who cannot go to a church, mosque, or temple and worship and bow to God in prayer? So, what is the difference? Are not all religions the same?
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‘Cannot Be Trusted … Causing Harm’: Top Medical Journal Takes on Big Pharma
Liam Mannix – The Sydney Morning Herald,
23 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – A leading medical journal is launching a global campaign to separate medicine from big pharma. The BMJ says doctors are being unduly influenced by industry-sponsored education events and industry-funded trials for major drugs. Those trials cannot be trusted, the journal’s editor and a team of global healthcare leaders write in a scathing editorial published today.
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