Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Playing the Trump Card
Victor Grossman | Berlin Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
29 Sep 2019 – Analysis of the current Trump impeachment investigation in the context of repeated US bullying of other leaders and ruining of other countries’ economies for the personal gain of the ruling class. The whole bloody Ukrainian mess blew up with the well-financed involvement of the Democratic administration, including Joe Biden. Donald Trump is only a late-comer. Of course, such entries fill the annals of both parties.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
The purpose of peace research is to produce intersubjectively communicable and verifiable knowledge according to the general rules of research. Thus, research is incompatible with secrecy, as it has to take place in public space. And one purpose of peace studies is the communication of the findings of peace research, in line with general rules for education, another public space activity.
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Ring Any Bells?
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
lol
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Perspective
Muhammad Ali – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Insight
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Re-examining Political Silence: New Openings for Research and Practice
Sophia Dingli and Thomas N. Cooke | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Political silence, whether intentional or unintentional, produces uncertainty, in such a way that entangles the recipient of silence in confusion.
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Rwanda: Murder of Dissidents Continues as Migrants Are Shipped in
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
2 Oct 2019 – Sylidio Dusabumuremyi, a member of the Rwandan opposition party, was murdered on Sep 23, the day before Rwandan President Paul Kagame addressed the UNGA. During the same week, 500 African migrants were shipped from Libya to Rwanda, thanks to an agreement between the EU, the AU, and the UNHCR.
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How South Africa Forced Gandhi to Reckon with Racism and Imperialism
Mary Elizabeth King | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
1 Oct 2019 – Born 150 years ago this week [2 Oct], Mohandas K. Gandhi was a polarizing figure during his life and remains a lightning rod for controversy to this day. Gandhi’s perceptions about human sensibilities, social power and political truths began their transformation not in India, but South Africa.
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Nepal Maoist Leaders: The Hague Journey!
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
23 Sep 2019 – Child soldiers are children under the age of 18 who are recruited by armed organizations, state-and-non-state forces. They are trained for informants, spies, porters, messengers, sentries, cooks, and often used for sexual purposes and as human shields. Children are easily trapped appealing for hope of better future and are trouble-free targets for military recruitment owing to their grater defenselessness to influence compared to the grown-ups. Girls are at high risk of rape, other forms of degrading treatment, and those who have had pregnancies or babies are often rejected by their own families or communities.
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The Global Climate Movement Is Failing: Why?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – It has been satisfying to note the response to two recent climate campaigns: the Global Climate Strike by school students inspired by Greta Thunberg and the climate actions by Extinction Rebellion. While delighted that these campaigns have managed to mobilize significant numbers of people, I would like to briefly raise some issues for consideration by each of those involved in the climate movement as well as those considering involvement.
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Dark Clouds and the Human Condition: Youth to the Rescue!
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – If the young and old act together this kind of UN can be nurtured. In the meantime, we should resist the temptation to pretend that this UN of the peoples already exists, but we should never forget that we have it within our potential collective power to make it happen, and by doing, to make the sort of difference that youth are rightfully demanding.
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Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Friday’s [20 Sep] climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War. This does not mean these protests should not have taken place. But such demonstrations need to be grounded in the bitter reality that in the corridors of power we do not count.
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Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
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(Français) L’humanitaire perdu en chemin ?
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
20 septembre 2019 – Dans une tribune d’Alternatives humanitaires, l’écrivain et humanitaire Pierre Brunel s’interrogeait sur ce qui avait peut-être été perdu d’essentiel dans la transformation de l’humanitaire en « industrie mondialisée ». Ce texte, sensible et intelligent, est symptomatique de certains des paradoxes et du hors-champ de l’humanitaire.
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(Português) Ursos Obrigados a Andar de Skate e Tigres Acorrentados para Tirar Selfies São Explorados pela Indústria do Turismo
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
20 set 2019 – Casos terríveis de animais sendo explorados para agradar turistas por toda a Europa foram filmados por investigadores.
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What Can a University Course Actually Teach Us about Resistance?
Anthony Huaqui | Resistance Studies/Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
18 Sep 2019 – Many scholars debate theories of civil resistance. But a new course of study shows that power and intersectionality are the most important concepts to understand how resistance works.
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What is the Kumbha Mela?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
The Greatest Gathering of People in the History of the World
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The Human and Financial Costs of the Explosive Remnants of War in Afghanistan
Suzanne Fiederlein and SaraJane Rzegocki | James Madison University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – Costs of War – Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University – Afghanistan ranks as one of the most landmine- and unexploded ordnance-impacted countries in the world, even after thirty years of clearance operations supported extensively by the UN and a number of major donors.
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U.N. General Assembly: Can It Provide the Needed Global Leadership?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
27 Sep 2019 – The international relations specialist Stanley Hoffmann once quipped “Goals are easy to describe. What matters more is a strategy for reaching them.” This September the UNGA began with a “Climate Action Summit” to evaluate governmental efforts to meet the challenges of climate change. Government leaders set out what they have done, or plan to do, at the national level but they said relatively little on what they could do together.
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(Português) ONG expõe crueldade que antecede o abate de animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
26 set 2019 – A ONG espanhola Equalia publicou o resultado de uma investigação que mostra a cruel realidade que antecede o abate de cordeiros e ovelhas. No vídeo, é possível ver animais sendo arremessados e recebendo chutes, pisadas, socos e outros tipos de agressões.
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Václav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
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Silencing Our Veterans: A Bridge Too Far
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
During my assignment to Abu Ghraib, I witnessed detainees killed and maimed due to insufficient protection from indirect fire, detainee suicide, detainee abuse at each other’s hands as members of opposing factions were knowingly housed together. I placed cuffed and shackled children in un-air conditioned cages in tents for punishment purposes and was forced by the nature of my duty to contribute to their general mistreatment. It’s my hope that through sharing my experiences I’m able to generate awareness of the inhumanity of war and detention. — A member of Veterans For Peace
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Sports and Games for Promoting Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Football, hockey, cricket, volleyball, baseball, tennis, badminton, table tennis, swimming, cycling and many other sports are popular all over the world. Most people play some form of games or sports. Of course these vary from place to place and often depend on the weather. Traditional games are also still being played by several tribal communities.
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Iran: From Survival Struggle to Sphere of Influence
Cristina Cabrejas-Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
30 Sep 2019 – While Iran’s rivals are threatened by nearly two and half millennia of imperial supremacy, they ignore Iran’s historical impact in the world on political, religious, scientific, cultural and philosophical developments that can hardly be interpreted as enemies of the “free world”. Such an international misinterpretation has forced Iran to adopt an offensive foreign policy approach, which offers a theoretical framework for the validation of offensive realism against other realist and neoliberal theories.
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Systemic Failure
Arundhati Roy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Input => Output
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Do You Hear the People Sing? (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
The emblematic song of the movie and musical ‘Les Miserables’ based on the novel by Victor Hugo [with lyrics]
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Why Does Chris Hedges Hedge His Bets?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
27 Sep 2019 – The CIA’s mind control operations need to be exposed, as Hedges does to a degree in this latest article. But revealing while concealing is unworthy of one who condemns “creeps who revel in human degradation, dirty tricks, and murder.” It itself is a form of mind control. Perhaps he will see fit to publicly explain why he has done this.
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Trump Regime Denies Visas to Members of Russian and Iranian UN Delegations
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
27 Sep 2019 – International protocol obliges host country USA to issue visas for delegation members, attending sessions at UN headquarters in New York. But many of Iranian President Rouhani’s aides and Iranian journalists were denied visa permission to attend the General Assembly session. Russia was offended the same way. Reportedly, 10 members of its UN delegation were denied visas.
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(Français) Les Nouveaux Territoires de l’Agrobusiness
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 septembre 2019 – Plus d’une décennie après la crise alimentaire de 2007-2008, l’appel à changer de modèle agricole est resté lettre morte. Mises en cause dans la flambée des prix, les grandes firmes de l’agrobusiness ont poursuivi leur expansion à l’échelle de la planète, imposant leurs modes de production standardisés, socialement excluants et écologiquement destructeurs. Fortes de leur poids économique et de leur capacité d’influence politique, elles ont réussi aussi à imposer leurs priorités sur le terrain du développement durable et de la sécurité alimentaire.
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Washington’s Long War on Syria
Roberto Sirvent | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – Three hostile foreign powers—Israel, Turkey and the United States—occupy parts of Syria in defiance of international law. “Washington seeks to inflame sectarian divisions to prevent Arabs coalescing as an independent political force.”
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For Humanity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
One day in the not-too-distant future, by all governments/nations, a Global Peace Treaty will be signed!
To all signatories, a dual mission will be assigned:
China Defies Trump on Iran Big Time with $400 bn Belt-and-Road Investment and 5000 Red Army Troops
Juan Cole | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
9 Sep 2019 – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was in Beijing recently for what turns out to have been the biggest triumph of his career. China has decided it has nothing further to fear from the Trump administration, and has decided to incorporate Iran into its One Belt, One Road plan with investments totaling some $400 billion.
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Spanish Security Firm Spied on Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy for US Intelligence
Kevin Reed | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
28 Sep 2019 – A Spanish defense and security contractor hired to protect the Ecuadorian Embassy in London spied on Julian Assange on behalf of US intelligence while the WikiLeaks’ founder and editor was living there. A report in the Spanish newspaper El País reported early Friday [27 Sep] that it had access to statements and documents that show David Morales, the owner of Undercover Global S.L., handed over audio and video to the CIA of meetings between Julian Assange and his lawyers and collaborators.
→ read full articleLeon Trotsky’s Four Fateful Years in Prinkipo: 1929-1933
David North | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
23 Sep 2019 – Review of the political struggle conducted by Trotsky during his four years on the Turkish island of Prinkipo to oppose the bureaucracy headed by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. Trotsky arrived in Turkey, along with his wife Natalia Sedova, in February 1929 as a political exile, deported by Stalin’s GPU. “Unable to answer Trotsky with principled arguments,” North notes, “Stalin was determined to silence him.”
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Gandhi the Organiser
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Gandhi the Organiser tells the extraordinary story of how Gandhi’s early campaigns of nonviolent direct action in India took the country by storm. From the impact of these first dramatic, local and nationwide struggles, Gandhi, this most unlikely politician, became leader of the Indian national movement and utterly transformed its fortunes. At the climax in 1921-22, the British hold
on India no longer seemed unbreakable, in the face of Gandhi’s carefully orchestrated withdrawal of popular support known as Noncooperation.
Risk-Taking
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Never be afraid to try something new.
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The Disaster of Negative Interest Rates
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
29 Sep 2019 – President Trump wants negative interest rates, but they would be disastrous for the U.S. economy; his objectives can be better achieved by other means.
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Climate Change and Consciousness Shift
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – Climate change: It feels like the approaching End Times. But it’s the secular version thereof, which means that humanity is responsible for both its cause and — if possible — its transcendence. All we need to do is change everything about the way the high-tech, global society functions in the next dozen years.
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Remembering Hisham Ahmed
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Sometimes you meet someone who is unforgettable. Hisham Ahmed was such a person. He was born in a refugee camp in Bethlehem, Palestine in 1963. Blind from birth, Hisham somehow surmounted all odds and ultimately earned a PhD. He taught for many years at Birzeit University in Palestine before coming to Saint Mary’s College of California in 2006. He died of cancer in July 2019, age 56.
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Is Julian Assange Britain’s Latest ‘Political Prisoner’?
Fra Hughes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
23 Sep 2019 – Is Julian Assange now a ‘political prisoner’ being held in Belmarsh maximum security prison on behalf the American administration that wants to sentence him to a possible 175 years in prison for simply exposing the truth?
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The Lion and the Three Bulls
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
There is fable attributed to Aesop and others about three bulls and the lion. While there are variations to the story, the moral remains the same. The lion comes to the Red and black bull and says: You are in danger; the white bull stands out and can attract predators which can endanger you, so let me eliminate him. They agreed.
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Another Climate Woe
Bob Neumann | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – The climate scientists and climate freaks are finally being heard and many politicians are ready to take action. It has only taken forty or fifty years of talk and pleading by experts. Then I got to thinking, there is no worldwide leadership or enforcement in the UN. Who will lead? Who will coordinate? Sadly the UN failed its main job since 1945 in preventing wars. We’ve only had 348 wars since 1945. The UN must have prevented or stopped a few wars — I just can’t name one.
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The Origins of European Unification
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
After World War II, the French economist and diplomat Jean Monnet thought that the best way to end the century old hostility between Germany and France was to tie the two countries together in some mutually beneficial economic venture.
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The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
10 Sep 2019 – Watch a special event in New York City hosted by Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein and headlined by trailblazing climate activist Greta Thunberg.
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Lives in Medicine
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
A New Freely Downloadable Book – As it is taught today, history is a chronicle of power struggles and war, told from a biased national standpoint. We are taught that our own country is always heroic and in the right. We urgently need to replace this indoctrination in chauvinism by a reformed view of history.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Our House Is on Fire! History has given to our generation an enormous responsibility towards future generations. We must achieve a new kind of economy, a steady-state economy. We must stabilize global population. We must replace fossil fuels by renewable energy. We must abolish nuclear weapons. We must end the institution of war… {Read on}
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The Deepening Decay of the West – And the Brighter Post-West Future
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – It is entire systems approaching existential breakdown because of their own morally corrupt actions and policies – or system fatique. Two Western societies in contemporary history – a former Empire and the present one – increasingly look like failed states, failed societies, and failing their own ideals and laws. What we see is a decay of morals, an erosion of democracy and a downward spiraling chaos with an end but no solution in sight. The Occident has become an Accident. To itself and to the Rest.
→ read full articleLives in Ecology
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
A New Freely Downloadable Book – I would like to announce the publication of a book, which reviews the lives and thoughts of some of the women and men who have addressed the crucial problems of ecology and sustainability that we are currently facing. I have tried to let them speak to us in their own words.
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Annexing the World as the Deal of the Century
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
23 Sep 2019 – Imaginative Global Transformation through Full-Spectrum Dominance by MeToo – Inspired by the proposal for a Deal of the Century regarding the challenge of Palestine-Israel and by Green New Deal initiatives.
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Attend September 28 Demonstration at London’s Belmarsh Prison to Demand Freedom for Julian Assange!
WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
We urge all those who can to attend the rally outside Belmarsh Prison on Saturday, September 28 at 2 p.m. The rally has been called by the Julian Assange Defence Committee to demand Assange’s freedom from the high-security jail in London. Help to publicise this important protest, share the article as widely as possible on social media and with friends, family and colleagues.
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(Português) A Destruição das “Indias Brasileiras”
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
17 set 2019 – Em função do Sínodo panamazônico de outubro, comvém relembrar o que foi a destruição das Indias Brasileiras, no linguajar de Bartolomé de las Casas. Com a dizimação de mais de mil povos, em 500 anos de história brasileira, desapareceu para sempre uma herança humana construída em milhares de anos de trabalho cultural, de dialogação com a natureza, de invenção de línguas e de construção de uma visão do mundo, amiga da vida e respeitosa da natureza.
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Japan Is Lying about the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, as It Promotes the 2020 Olympic Games
Nuclear News | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
16 Sep 2019 – Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which experienced three massive meltdowns in 2011, is running out of room to store radioactive water. No surprise! But now, what to do about phosphorescent water? The Japanese government is lying and should be held accountable for hoodwinking the world about the ravages of Fukushima, especially with the Olympics scheduled for next year.
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Amazon: The Common Wealth of the Earth and Humanity
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
17 Sep 2019 – The Amazonian biome covers an area of 8,129,057 square kilometers in nine countries: Brazil (67%), Peru (13%), Bolivia (11%), Colombia (6%), Ecuador (2%), Venezuela (1%), Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana (0.15%). It has over 37,700,000 inhabitants, of which 2.8 million are Indigenous, from 390 different nations, who speak 240 languages, of the rich matrix of 49 linguistic branches, a unique phenomenon in the history of world linguistics.
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(Italiano) Jai Jagat – Vittoria per tutti
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Jai Jagat è una marcia di 10.000 chilometri che inizierà il 2 ottobre 2019 a Nuova Delhi (India), nel giorno del centocinquantesimo anniversario dalla nascita del Mahatma Gandhi, per concludersi a Ginevra (Svizzera) il 25 settembre 2020, nella giornata dedicata alla pace internazionale.
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Iran: Neither Military Action nor Economic Sanctions
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
21 Sep 2019 – It would be utterly immoral of the United States to launch a military attack upon Iran if it is true that one of the missiles that destroyed an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia on 14 Sep 2019 had a casing bearing a number that suggested that the weapon was manufactured for NATO forces. The picture of the missile was inadvertently supplied to the media by the Saudi Defence Ministry. A theory that has emerged in the wake of the picture is that the assault on the oil refineries in Saudi’s Eastern Province could have been a false flag operation initiated by John Bolton.
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Seeds of Sustenance/Freedom vs. Seeds of Suicide/Surveillance
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Corporations that made war chemicals introduced these chemicals as agrichemicals. In the first Green Revolution they changed the seeds to adapt to chemicals. In the second Green Revolution they tried to own and control the seed itself through genetic engineering and patents. There is now an attempt to introduce the third Green Revolution with total control over the seed through the convergence of industrial breeding and surveillance digital technologies. What is at stake is our biodiversity and our freedom.
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Growing Tensions on the Road to Persian Gulf Security
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
17 Sep 2019 – The 14 Sep drone attacks on oil installations in Saudi Arabia have dimmed hope for U.S. – Iranian discussions. Tensions have increased, and oil prices have risen. In fact, the aim of the attacks may have been to lessen the possibility of Iran – U.S. discussions which might have taken place during the start of the UNGA later in September. There is a need for non-governmental efforts today as the Persian Gulf and the wider Middle East are growing ever-more tense.
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Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
18 Sep 2019 – Conceding that their grip on the economy is slipping, central bankers are proposing a radical economic reset that would shift yet more power from government to themselves.
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Nelson Mandela’s Inspirational Message
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
The Simplicity of Wisdom [3 min]
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The Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan: Is Community Engagement the Key?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – I have just read a superb book by Mark Isaacs, ‘The Kabul Peace House: How a Group of Young Afghans are Daring to Dream in a Land of War,’ which records in considerable detail the struggle, both internal and external, to generate a peaceful future in Afghanistan… Allow yourself to be inspired by a group of young people, each of whom has lived their entire life in a country at war both with itself and with foreign countries, but has refused to submit to the predominant delusion that violence is the way out.
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On the Road to Damascus: International Conference in Syria on Sanctions and Its Blowback
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
20 Sep 2019 – Security-wise, it was a lot easier to get into the presidential palace to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad than it is to take a commuter plane from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The president individually greeted each one of us as we entered. He thanked a German delegate for his country’s acceptance of Syrian refugees.
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UK “Justice” System Tortures Julian Assange, Treats Fascist Tommy Robinson with Kid Gloves
Thomas Scripps | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – British class justice was on full display last Friday [13 Sep], as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was detained indefinitely at Belmarsh prison, beyond the completion of his sentence, while fascist leader Tommy Robinson was released 10 weeks early from the same jail. Robinson is the founder of the fascist English Defence League and a former British National Party member.
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Chelsea Manning Imprisoned without Charge for Six Months for Refusing to Testify against Julian Assange
Kevin Reed and James Cogan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
21 Sep 2019 – The courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning has now been held in a federal detention center for more than six months. Manning has not been charged with or committed any crime. She was sent to jail for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury that has indicted persecuted Julian Assange, who published the information she leaked exposing rampant US imperialist criminality.
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(Italiano) India tra fame e sete
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
12 Settembre 2019 – I Ghats occidentali ci hanno dato le spezie. E l’Himalaya ci ha dato amaranto, grano saraceno e una grande varietà di altre colture nutrienti. Oggi l’India sta affrontando un’emergenza idrica e un’emergenza nutrizionale. Le due emergenze sono interconnesse. Le origini dell’emergenza che viviamo oggi risalgono a 40-50 anni fa con i «consigli» della Banca Mondiale e con la cosiddetta «rivoluzione verde», che ha distrutto le nostre risorse d’acqua, il nostro suolo, la nostra biodiversità.
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Chained to Its Past: A German Recipe for Injustice toward the People of Palestine
Hans von Sponeck and Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
17 Sep 2019 – The Bundestag resolution that condemned the BDS Campaign as contributing to a rising threat of antisemitism in Europe is a grave cause of concern. It brands the BDS, a nonviolent Palestinian initiative, anti-Semitic and takes this stand pointing out Germany’s special responsibility toward Jews, without any reference at all to Israel’s prolonged abuse of the most fundamental of human rights, that of self-determination, of the Palestinian people.
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The Freud-Einstein Correspondence of 1932: Theories of War
Norrie MacQueen | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
At the end of 1931 the League of Nations invited Albert Einstein to initiate an exchange of letters with a fellow ‘leader of intellectual thought’ on a subject ‘calculated to serve the common interest of the LN and of intellectual life’. Einstein selected Sigmund Freud as his correspondent and the question he wished to explore with him was, simply and ambitiously, ‘is there any way of delivering mankind from the scourge of war?’
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How a Major Meat Company Is Linked to Amazon Deforestation
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
In an investigation with Repórter Brasil and The Guardian, we found that the world’s largest beef supplier is buying cattle from a company that illegally grazes its cows on deforested land.
→ read full articleBoycott All U.S.-Corporate Media!
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
13 Sep 2019 – Now Twitter is just as corrupt (propaganda-organizations) as Google and Facebook and MSNBC and CNN and Fox and the Washington Post and The Atlantic and all the rest. Twitter has suspended multiple large Cuban media accounts for reasons the social media platform has yet to explain as of this writing.
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(Italiano) Per Ilaria Alpi e Miran Hrovatin Noi Ricorderemo. 25 anni (dopo l’esecuzione dei due reporter) senza VERITA’
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
21 Set 2019 – Dedicato alle lettrici e ai lettori di Trascend Media Service – NOI RICORDEREMO, anche se, di tanto in tanto, qualcuno preferisce che noi dimentichiamo … NOI RICORDEREMO.
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The Blue Danube (Music Video of the Week)
Johann Strauss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
The Blue Danube is the common title of ‘An der schönen blauen Donau’, ‘By the Beautiful Blue Danube’, a waltz composed in 1866 by Austrian composer Johann Strauss II.
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Nuclear Abolition: Q&A with Dr. David Krieger
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
A special dialogue held at Nuclear Age Peace Foundation during our overseas fieldwork on 1 Feb 2019. This session was held between 13 Kansai Soka High School students and Dr. David Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
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The Mysterious Death of the Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning
Dina Temple-Raston | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – Debbie Scroggin and her husband live at the end of a series of gravel roads in a lonesome part of Kansas. It is the kind of place where, Debbie says, “you have to drive 15 minutes to get anywhere.” It was easy to think that someone might come here to either get lost or be forgotten. Scroggin remembers Adrian Lamo arriving on a night train with nothing but a broken suitcase and a hangdog expression.
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Superman’s USA
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Remember principles?
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Shame on Us
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Shame on us
for silence on Palestine, Kashmir, Amazon, Bahamas, detention centers in US and much more
for letting our neighbor’s homes be demolished
for allowing fascist politicians to take over our countries…
Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
In 150 NYT, CNN and Fox articles, ‘oligarch’ seems reserved for Slavic billionaires.
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Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Human Rights are embedded in Dignity
Dignity is embedded in Character
Character is embedded in Conduct…
Current Events in an Historical Perspective
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
To rebuild the world, to build a world that works, we do not need ‘other economists’ as much as we need people trained in other fields who are able to look at problems now classified as ‘economic’–like ‘unemployment’–from other perspectives using different conceptual and mathematical tools.
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A Lake without Fish
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Someone flew in a seaplane over a lake and saw two people fishing down there.
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Genocide Threat for Myanmar’s Rohingya Greater than Ever, Investigators Warn Human Rights Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
16 Sep 2019 – Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya who remain in Myanmar may face a greater threat of genocide than ever, amid Government attempts to “erase their identity and remove them from the country”, UN-appointed independent investigators said today.
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Tall and Short — Similar Issues, Similar Challenges
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Recently I saw a photo in an Indian newspaper of a man who is supposed to be 8 feet-2 inch tall and is the tallest man in India… There is a well known dwarf family in the Indian city of Hyderabad consisting of eleven members, nine of whom are dwarfs… All people have the same Humanity and same challenges.
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(Português) Brasil: Lei da vaquejada sancionada por Bolsonaro entra em vigor
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
18 set 2019 – A lei também beneficia rodeios, atividades como enduro, hipismo rural, provas de velocidade, cavalgada, cavalhada, concurso de marcha, corrida e polo equestre.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Although it is likely that the 2020 U.S. presidential elections will get more media space, the United Nations is preparing a number of 2020 landmarks. Members of the TRANSCEND network may propose avenues of creative action, and we must prepare now, as negotiations on content are already underway. The UN is sensitive to anniversary dates to look back as to what has been done (or not done) and to look ahead at the new challenges and what can be done to meet them.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Sunday school teacher: “What do we have to do so that our sins can be forgiven?”
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A Think Tank Named PNAC (Project for a New American Century)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019 – Below is a list of 25 of the signatories of a high-powered Right-wing Think Tank that wanted to increase military spending in order to ensure American global hegemony. The PNAC document had a concluding phrase used as evidence that it was ready for a catastrophic event (real OR false flag) that would shake up the citizenry and make them go off to war: “The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”
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Top 100 Polluter Indexes
Political Economy Research Institute | University of Massachusetts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Aug 2019 – The Top 100 Polluter indexes identify the top corporate air and water polluters and top greenhouse gas emitters using the most recent data available from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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August Mornings
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Hiroshima – Nagasaki
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Viva Vegan Charity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
28 Aug 2019 – Our groundbreaking documentary about the Hogwood Farm is the biggest ever exposure of UK pig factory farming.
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Kashmir after 370
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019 – Early in August 2019, the Indian government repealed Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which provided special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The Article, a later incorporation to the Indian constitution, was titled temporary. In this article, I will focus on the implications of this decision at three levels: people within Jammu and Kashmir; the states of India and Pakistan; and the world in general and major powers in particular.
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Who’s Responsible for the Ecocide in the Amazon
Juan Manuel Crespo | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
9 Sep 2019 – There’s a cause for alarm as the world witnesses how the Amazon forests in Brazil, the Bolivian Chiquitanía and the Paraguayan swamps are being ravaged by uncontrolled fires. And it’s not just Bolsonaro, nor is it just Morales or Correa. There is more to it than meets the eye.
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While Britain’s Parliament Is Suspended, Its Arms Fair Is Open for Business
Tim Gee | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
9 Sep 2019 – In any other week, the arrival of the world’s largest arms fair to Britain would have been big news. Thirty-six thousand people are expected to attend the Defense and Security Equipment International fair, which opens on Tuesday [10 Sep]. It is cruelly symbolic that even as the prime minister closes the doors on Parliament, his government opens the doors of the arms fair.
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(Castellano) Liderazgo Político Comparativo: Gandhi vs. Líderes Contemporáneos
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
El 2 de octubre de 2019 se cumple el 150º aniversario del nacimiento de Mohandas K. Gandhi en Gujarat, India. Me gustaría reflexionar sobre el liderazgo visionario que Gandhi ofreció al mundo, comparándolo brevemente con algunos líderes nacionales de hoy en día, e invitarlos a emular el liderazgo de Gandhi.
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«Give Nonkilling a Chance» Book Released in Delhi
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
7 Sep 2019 – Give Nonkilling a Chance: Are Nonkilling Societies Possible? edited by Prof. Anoop Swarup and dedicated to late Prof. Glenn D. Paige, with contributions from across the world, was released at Gandhi Smriti, Delhi on 31 Aug 2019.
→ read full articleDonald Trump’s Foreign Policy Sows Confusion
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
If Democrats are unable to recognize Trump’s (and their own) addiction to power as the sole means of dealing with conflicts, they will not understand that “toughness” and “softness” constitute a false dichotomy in foreign affairs. Power does not solve the social problems that generate war. Creativity, empathy, analysis, and determination are needed to solve those problems and generate effective options for conflict resolution. We have reason to believe that younger members of the opposition, in particular, have already begun to understand this.
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Realization
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Is it?
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France and Germany Escalate Occupation of Mali and the Sahel
Will Morrow | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019 – The French and German governments are expanding their nearly seven-year-old neo-colonial occupation of Mali and the resource-rich Sahel region of western Africa.
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Yemen: Western Powers May Be Held Responsible for War Crimes – UN
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
4 Sep 2019 – The UK, US, France and Iran may be complicit in possible war crimes in Yemen over their support for parties to the conflict there, UN experts say. The Western powers provide weapons and logistical support to the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s government, while Iran backs the Houthi rebels. The experts say both sides continue to commit violations with impunity.
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US Agency Warns of Lung Illness Epidemic among Young People, Attributed to E-Cigarettes
Benjamin Mateus | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
9 Sep 2019 – The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a public warning of a rapidly developing epidemic of severe lung illnesses associated with the smoking of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), also known as “vaping.”
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Complete 9/11 Timeline Pipeline Politics
Submitted by Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
The Soviet Union collapses in 1991, creating several new nations in Central Asia. Major US oil companies, including ExxonMobil, Texaco, Unocal, BP Amoco, Shell, and Enron, directly invest billions in these Central Asian nations, bribing heads of state to secure equity rights in the huge oil reserves in these regions. The oil companies commit to $35 billion in future direct investments in Kazakhstan. {Read on…}
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Will NPR Now Officially Change Its Name to National Propaganda Radio?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Back in the 1960s, the CIA official Cord Meyer said the agency needed to “court the compatible left.” He knew that drawing liberals and leftists into the CIA’s orbit was the key to efficient propaganda. Right-wing and left-wing collaborators were needed to create a powerful propaganda apparatus that would be capable of hypnotizing audiences into believing the myth of American exceptionalism and its divine right to rule the world.
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Why War?
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, 1932
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A Morning in Afghanistan
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019 – On a very warm September morning in Kabul, several dozen men, women, and children sit on the carpeted floor of a room at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Borderfree Center. Amidst political posturing, aerial terrorism and street bombings, Afghan citizens pursue their daily work toward peace.
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