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(Português) Amazônia em Chamas
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
O Presidente brasileiro Jair Bolsonaro declarou que os incêndios são uma questão puramente doméstica e as atitudes do G7 representam uma política neocolonial do passado. Como Cidadãos do Mundo, acreditamos que a Amazônia, assim como outras grandes áreas florestais, fazem parte da herança comum da humanidade; a sua destruição afeta a todos nós.
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Then… & Now
Asier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
A drawing is worth a thousand words…
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Altered States of Consciousness: The Neuropsychology of How Time Perception Modulates Our Experience of Self, from Depression to Boredom to Creative Flow
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
“The brain does not simply represent the world in a disembodied way as an intellectual construct… Our mind is body-bound. We think, feel, and act with our body in the world. All experience is embedded in this body-related being-in-the-world.”
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Will Trump’s War-Mongering Lead to War with Iran?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
12 Aug 2019 – This is an edited version of an interview on 11 Aug 2019 by Iranian journalist Nozhan Etezad and published in Iran News. It addresses various aspects of the troubled recent Iran/U.S. relationship.
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NPR Mocks Cancer Survivor in Drumbeat of Syria Propaganda
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
20 Aug 2019 – It may be a new low in propaganda. National Public Radio (NPR) used the news that Syrian First Lady Asma Assad had overcome breast cancer to mock her and continue the information war against Syria.
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Behind a Made-For-TV Hong Kong Protest Narrative, Washington Is Backing Nativism and Mob Violence
Dan Cohen | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
17 Aug 2019 – Hong Kong’s increasingly xenophobic protests are devolving into chaos with help from US government regime-change outfits and a right-wing local media tycoon with close ties to hardliners in Washington.
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1 Sep 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Posted by Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was a Gaudiya Vaishnavism spiritual teacher (guru) and the founder preceptor (acharya) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna Movement”. In February 2014, ISKCON’s news agency reported to have reached a milestone of distributing over half a billion books authored by Prabhupada, since 1965. He has been described as a charismatic leader, in the sense used by sociologist Max Weber, as he was successful in acquiring followers in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, India and elsewhere.
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Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
In a world marked by cognitive disassociation, is there a rational option? As long as there is reason, there has to be a rational option; and the first step has to be this: Understand clearly the problem. The following may seem to be a triviality, or perhaps a tautology, but it is also a tough dilemma of human nature: The promise of attaining durable peace goes hand in hand with the challenge of having to countenance the horrors of human nature.
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Hawai’i: Mauna Kea Is only Latest Thing They Want to Take, ‘We Will Not Give It to Them’
Anne Keala Kelly | Indian Country Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
21 Jul 2019 – Mauna Kea is a 13,800-foot high mountain on Hawai‘i Island, and considered the most sacred site to Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, the Native Hawaiian people. Named after Wākea, Father Sky, it is home to a number of religious deities, and is a traditional burial ground for the most revered ali‘i (royalty) and kahuna (priests). So far, Hawaiians have managed to stop all efforts to begin construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope through legal challenges and civil disobedience.
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Women at the Peace Table: Building from the Grassroots to the Tree Tops
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
There is a need to study how to overcome the cultural barriers, the traditional patriarchal attitudes that prevent women from playing a full role in armed-conflict resolution and to strengthen the capacities of women-led initiatives.
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Hong Kong, Kashmir: A Tale of Two Occupations
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
Much to the distress of neocons and humanitarian imperialists, there won’t be a bloody mainland China crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong – a Tiananmen 2.0. Why? Because it’s not worth it. While China identified “Occupy Hong Kong” as a mere Western-instilled and instrumentalized plot, India, for its part, decided to go for Full Occupy in Kashmir. Welcome to the Kashmiri Intifada.
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Speaking for the Silenced: The Holy Inquisition in Portugal
Richard Zimler | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
Prisoners in Inquisitorial prisons who refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah and make a full confession of their Jewish practices would be burnt at the stake in a public ceremony known as an auto-da-fé, meaning act of faith. In 1560, Portugal imposed this same religious dictatorship in Goa, where tens of thousands of converted Hindus and their descendants were arrested and tortured – and hundreds burnt alive – by the Inquisition from 1560 to 1820. The Inquisition was also a diabolically effective money-making scam, since all the assets of its victims were confiscated and given to the Church.
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(Português) 12 mil pessoas participam da Marcha dos Direitos Animais em Londres
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
19 ago 2019 – De acordo com a organização Surge, 12 mil pessoas, principalmente ativistas veganos, participaram da Marcha dos Direitos Animais ((The Official Animal Rights March) no último sábado (17) em Londres, quando os participantes marcharam do Hyde Park até a Praça do Parlamento. O evento contou com discursos de ativistas como Earthling Ed e James Hoot. A iniciativa foi da Surge e da Animal Rebellion.
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Are We Really Listening when We Ask Marginalized Voices to Speak?
Sean Chabot | Resistance Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
15 Aug 2019 – For scholars and activists to truly support marginalized peoples, we need to prioritize their words, stories and truths — not our interpretation of them. Most students of resistance struggles pay close attention to the stories and words of oppressed people confronting oppressive authorities. We want to respect the marginalized in our research and try our best to write about them in empowering ways. But as Ivan Illich said to American students eager to serve poor Mexicans in 1968: “To hell with good intentions.”
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Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, Flash Mob (Music Video of the Week)
Societat Musical d'Algemesí – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
“1812 Overture” is the main theme of the celebrated movie “V for Vendetta” soundtrack.
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Lessons from Einstein for Scientists Today
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
The year 2005 also marked the 50th anniversary of Einstein’s death and of the issuing of his last public appeal, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. It is an appropriate time to consider what lessons we might draw from Einstein’s life that would benefit those engaged in scientific activities today.
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Participatory Evolution
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
The core paradox of nonviolent protest against such legally sanctioned immoralities is that, if you block a driveway with your body or simply cross a bridge, you’re depending on the humanity of those you confront, who are armed with the weapons they hold or the vehicles they are driving, to keep them from acting on their anger and harming or killing you. Is this not the essence of courage? You are bringing nothing but yourself, empowered solely by the force of moral compassion — the way the world should be — to a confrontational demand for change.
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Gaza: A Documentary Film
Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
‘Gaza’, a Canadian-Irish documentary made by Andrew McConnell & Garry Keane, gives an insight into how people try to live their lives in this very difficult environment, whether a taxi-driver and his customers, a cello-playing girl or fishermen restricted by gunships to within 3 miles of the shore.
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Jeffrey Epstein and the Spectacle of Secrecy
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
21 Aug 2019 – When phrases such as “the deep state” and “conspiracy theory” become staples of both the corporate mainstream media and the alternative press, we know the realities behind these phrases have outlasted their usefulness for the ruling elites and for their critics. These phrases are bandied about so often that they have become hackneyed and inane.
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Imagining a Free Palestine Should Be Commonplace—That’s Why I Wrote the Novel ‘Siegebreakers’
Justin Podur | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
The siege of Gaza is crushing the people who live under it, and it is crushing all of our imaginations. I wrote Siegebreakers because I can’t liberate Gaza or Palestine, but I can dream about it. I wanted it to be a proximate dream, a dream of the next step from now, not a distant dream that depends on too many unpredictable things going right.
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Ernst Jünger, Total Mobilisation and the Work of War
Bogdan Costea and Kostas Amiridis | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
The relationship between war, destruction, organisation and technology. Jünger argued that entering the realm of total organisation, that is, organisation which claims its ground to be scientific, calculated, planned, rationally-administered and technological, destruction is subtly appropriated into, and thought of, as a process of production. Jünger understood war as an increasingly ‘necessary’ and permanent requirement of the politics of peace and freedom.
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G7: An Obsolete, Useless Talking Shop
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Russia’s exclusion from the G8 has been a political punishment to bolster a propaganda narrative for undermining and isolating Russia. This is again why the G7 is no longer a viable forum for its stated purpose of advancing the global economy. “Russia should be at the negotiating table,” said Trump, in a rare moment of lucidity.
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My Infinite World
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
I am a small person
Small in age, Small in mind
What do I understand
Of this large complex land
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
Seth Donnelly | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
“We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. “Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues,” reports the World Bank. And “How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?” inquires The Economist magazine. Seth Donnelly answers: “It didn’t!” In fact, according to Donnelly’s The Lie of Global Prosperity, virtually nothing about these glad tidings proclaiming plummeting global poverty rates is true.
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Our Vanishing World (Part 2): Glaciers
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Something is causing the world’s glaciers and mountain ice fields to melt. And, despite your first thought, it is not the ongoing climate catastrophe. It does not matter where on Earth the glaciers and mountain ice fields are located, they are all melting. Moreover, the projected timeframe for some of them to disappear altogether is ‘imminently’; that is, within years.
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(Français) Notre monde en voie de disparition: Forêts Tropicales
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Mais l’Amazonie est immense, on pourrait dire: c’est le cas. Est-il important que nous en détruisions quelque chose pour le soja et l’élevage? Eh bien, une étude récente a suggéré que la déforestation de 20-25% de l’Amazonie serait en train de basculer point après lequel il cesse de fonctionner écosystème de la forêt pluviale et ce, comme on peut s’y attendre, serait catastrophique. De plus, les graves sécheresses récentes semblent avoir “Le premier scintillement de ce point de basculement écologique”; suggère qu’il est déjà imminent.
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Global Coherence by Interrelating Disparate Strategic Patterns Dynamically
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Any 16-fold pattern is a provocative challenge to comprehension, given the constraints on human capacity with respect to the complexity of any such pattern as a whole. This is especially the case when such a pattern is used by the United Nations to frame an overriding strategic preoccupation for global governance — with an explicit call for widespread credibility.
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My Sweet Lord “Live” (Music Video of the Week)
Federico Perlingieri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
By “Family & Friends” — A Tribute to George Harrison
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How the Western Media Support State Terror – While Millions Die
Matthew Alford, Florian Zollman, Alan Macleod, Jeffery Klaehn and Daniel Broudy | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Issue Aug/Sep 2019 – Five academics examine our media’s coverage of foreign affairs, in a piece censored (and then rejected) by a leading liberal publication.
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What Is Empathy?
Dr Brené Brown | RSA Short – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
What is the best way to ease someone’s pain and suffering? We can only create a genuine empathic connection if we get in touch with our own fragility. Dr Brené Brown is a researcher, professor and author who has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame.
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The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming: Here Are Five Lessons We Must Learn
Robert Walker | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
15 Aug 2019 – In a recent report, scientists warn of a precipitous drop in the world’s insect population due to human activity—and that spells trouble for humans. We need to pay close attention, as over time, this could be just as catastrophic to humans as it is to insects.
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Global Challenges 2019: Amidst a World in Peril and Collapse
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
If ever there was a time for citizen action for peace, justice, sustainability, caring and compassion – it is now! If ever there was a time for creative and imaginative ideas, products, and collective actions to reduce the human burden on Earth, it is now. If ever there was a time to grasp the sheer magnificence of the beauty before us being lost, it is now! Sacrifices appeasing greed and mammon abound, and their consequences threaten life.
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Two New Books: Social Defence and Constructive Resistance
Jørgen Johansen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
–Social Defence: Nonviolent community resistance to aggression and repression, as an alternative to military forces.
–Revolutionary Constructive Resistance: From Poland 1980-89 to Algeria 2019 we can identify seven “waves” where massive civil society mobilization has successfully challenged the ruling regimes.
Seesaws at Trump’s US-Mexico Border Fence
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Children-teachers Defy Evil-minded Structures and Policies – Seesaw connections installed along the steel border fence between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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Banning U.S. Congresspersons from Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
18 Aug 2019 – The decision to ban, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two sitting members of the U.S. House of Representatives, disgraces the leaders of both the United States and Israel, confirms the illegitimacy of both political parties by their tepid responses, and confirms once more the unhealthy relationship that has evolved between Trump and Netanyahu, these two most reactionary of political figures, and badly reflects on the political atmosphere in the countries they represent.
→ read full articleQuotes from Courageous Anti-Authoritarians, Anti-Imperialists, Anti-Corporatists, Anti-Militarists and Anti-Fascists through History
Compiled by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
These quotes are intended to inspire and give courage to the cloud of witnesses who are seeking justice, peace and prosperity and environmental and human rights for the impoverished, the outcasts, the bullied, the displaced, the victimized and the enslaved. Use them early and often.
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Killing Julian Assange Slowly
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
14 Aug 2019 – Since April 11 when unlawfully dragged from Ecuador’s London embassy to captivity, Assange has languished under draconian conditions in a UK dungeon at the behest of the Trump regime, wanting him tried in the US for the “crime” of truth-telling journalism. More on this below.
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The Power of Positive Media
Vision Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019 – There is a slew of studies and information conducted out there about how the media has played a negative role in our contemporary lives. But could the media be an influential force in shaping our society for the better?
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Hundreds of Zoos and Aquariums Accused of Mistreating Animals
Rachel Fobar | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
15 Aug 2018 – In a new report, an animal welfare group has flagged hundreds of zoos affiliated with the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums for mistreating animals, including making big cats perform in gladiator-style shows, elephants play basketball, and diapered chimpanzees ride scooters.
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Brazil’s Pres. Bolsonaro Threatens Journalist Glenn Greenwald, Ratchets up Fascist Rants
Miguel Andrade | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
The Justice Ministry issued on July 25 Ordinance 666 for deportation within 48 hours of ‘suspects’ of terrorism, human-, drug-, or arms-trafficking, and child pornography. The government organized a “national security” scare, prompting calls for Greenwald’s deportation. There have been further allegations that Greenwald acted in collaboration with “Russian intelligence.” Greenwald, a US citizen, is married to Congressman Miranda, of the PSOL, with whom he is raising two adopted Brazilian children.
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Sri Lanka: Starving Elderly Elephant’s Emaciated Body in Buddhist Festival
Joe Roberts | Metro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
13 Aug 2019 – This starving 70-year-old elephant is made to walk miles every night so people can feel ‘blessed’ at a religious festival, an activist has claimed.
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Questionnaire
Wendell Berry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Wendell Berry, a poet of uncommon insight and courage of conviction, wrote this stunningly prescient poem first published in 2009.
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As Scientists Warn of Biodiversity Crisis, Trump Administration Guts Endangered Species Act
Natural Resources Defense Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
12 Aug 2019 – The Trump administration finalized its drastic rollback of the Endangered Species Act, just months after the UN released a dire report warning that one million species could go extinct if business continues as usual.
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On Dogs & Buildings
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Quite right…
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Listen to People of Jammu & Kashmir: End ‘Reign of Occupation and Terror’
National Alliance of People’s Movements | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) unequivocally condemns the indefensible and totalitarian move of the BJP-led NDA Govt. to repeal Article 370 of the Constitution by way of a Presidential Order and introduce a Bill for bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, not only without but seemingly in violation of the consent of the people and key political actors of the state.
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Washington Intensifies Its Collective Punishment of Venezuelans
Kevin Young | NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
14 Aug 2019 – On August 5, the Trump administration issued an executive order escalating its sanctions against Venezuela. The order froze all Venezuelan government assets in the United States and threatened third parties around the world with punitive action if they trade with the Venezuelan government. Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive.
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The World Is Uniting for International Law, against US Empire
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
11 Aug 2019 – “We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures.” That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies who have embarrassed themselves by recognizing the phony “interim president” Juan Guaido are saying the US has gone too far.
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Borders and Belonging: Toni Morrison’s Prescient Wisdom on the Refugee Struggle, the Violence of Otherness, and the Meaning of Home
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
“It may be that the most defining characteristic of our times is that, again, walls and weapons feature as prominently now as they once did in medieval times.”
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Portugal: A New Home for Those Who Fear Hong Kong’s Fate?
Raquel Carvalho | This Week in Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
• Growing frustration over extradition bill and worries over erosion of city’s freedoms have seen a surge in number of Hongkongers considering migration
• For those who want access to Europe, Portugal is increasingly seen as a gateway – either through family ties in Macau or investment
(Português) Série Fotográfica Expõe Barbárie do Abate de Porcos no Mundo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
15 ago 2019 – Uma série fotográfica idealizada pela fotojornalista canadense Jo-Anne McArthur expõe a barbárie do abate de porcos no mundo. Ela publicou no site do projeto We Animals uma compilação de fotografias ambientadas nos matadouros da Tailândia e de Taiwan. Chocante!
→ read full articleFrom Legitimacy Wars to the Politics of Impossibility: Horizons of Hope
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
The Palestinian people are being cruelly pushed hard against walls of submission by violence and threats, which amounts to what has become ‘a lost cause’ somewhat along the lines of Tibet, Western Sahara, and the fates that have befallen most indigenous peoples. This is what Trump is promoting as ‘the deal of the century’ and seems to be what the Arab dynastic autocrats would like to see happen so that they can get on with their business of confronting Iran and keeping their own peoples forever captive.
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A Man of Courage
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Paul Findley, one of the most remarkable Congressmen that the US House of Representatives had produced since the Second World War, passed away on the 9th of August 2019. He was 98 years old.
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Kashmir: A Coup against the Constitution and the Kashmiris
People's Union for Civil Liberties | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – The PUCL condemns the abrogation of key portions of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and the bifurcation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and taking away its statehood. While the deed by itself is deceitful, the manner in which it was done is even more so.
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Why Krishna Comes to This World
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | ISKCON – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
August 1973 at the Bhaktivedanta Manor, in the countryside near London. Several thousand guests (including the Indian High Commissioner) listen to Swami Prabhupada speak about the day Lord Krsna made His appearance on earth 5,000 years ago – CELEBRATED ON 23-24 AUGUST 2019.
→ read full articleThe Likely Outcome of Narendra Modi’s Unconstitutional Seizure of Kashmir
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
17 Aug 2019 – There can be no honest legal question about the unConstitutionality of what Modi has been doing to J&K since 5 Aug—Modi’s traitorism to India’s Constitution. The question is whether India’s ‘news’-media will start to publicize this important fact. The Government hopes that enough J&K Muslims will evacuate so as to enable Hindus ‘democratically’ to impose an apartheid anti-Muslim regime. The whole of Kashmir is, at the moment, a prison, under military control.
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(Português) Ursos arranham e batem as patas contra as paredes de cativeiro em zoo
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Ursos aflitos podem ser vistos se balançando para frente e para trás e se batendo contra as paredes de concreto do recinto onde ficam aprisionados, em um vídeo comovente feito em zoológico na Tailândia.
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Deforestation, Chipko Movements: Role of Countless Women
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
All over the world forests are being cut or destroyed for development or for infrastructure purposes. Roads, dams, railway lines are being constructed or mining activities occurring in forest lands; making furniture or ladders or various other items are also obtained from trees.
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Trump Imposes Economic Embargo against Venezuela
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019 – US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing an economic embargo against Venezuela, in the latest move against President Nicolas Maduro and his government. First-ever expanded sanctions against a western hemisphere government in over 30 years similar to those faced by Cuba.
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Our Vanishing World (Part 1): Rainforests
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
But the Amazon is huge, you might say: Does it matter if we destroy some of it for soy and cattle farming? Well, one recent study suggested that deforestation of 20–25% of the Amazon would be the tipping point beyond which it would cease to be a functioning rainforest ecosystem and this, as you might expect, would be catastrophic. Moreover, recent severe droughts appear to be ‘the first flickers of this ecological tipping point’ suggesting that it is already imminent.
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EU Opposes US Total Embargo against Venezuela
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – The European Union said today that it rejected new moves by the White House to impose a total blockade on Venezuela. “We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures,” said EU spokesperson Carlos Martin Ruiz de Gordejuela.
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Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – America’s chief competitor in the trade war is obviously China, which subsidizes not just worker costs but the costs of its businesses. The government owns 80% of the banks. Typically, if the businesses cannot repay the loans, neither the banks nor the businesses are put into bankruptcy. The non-performing loans are just carried on the books or written off. No private creditors are hurt, since the creditor is the government, and the loans were created on the banks’ books in the first place (following standard banking practice globally).
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International Humanitarian Law, Constant Challenges, NGO Responses
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
12 August is the anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions in 1949. The 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Protocols Additional are central instruments of International Humanitarian Law. The Geneva Conventions are also often called the Red Cross Conventions.
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“That Was Then, This Is Now.” “Oh, yeah?” The Problem of Anti-Relativism in Political Morality
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Anti-relativist thinking insists that certain values approved by the speaker are constant and unchangeable. This means that behaviors that we now believe are wrong were ‘always’ unacceptable, and should always have always been recognized as such. Anti-relativism’s opposite, moral relativism, can be summed up in the phrase, “Other times, other customs.” Historical eras, social conditions, and cultural environments change, altering commonly accepted definitions of right and wrong.
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Kapu Aloha Needed Now More Than Ever to Free Us from Our Addiction to War & Violence
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019 – Kapu Aloha is a solemn Hawaiian pledge and commitment to live aloha (love and nonviolence) even under the most adverse circumstances. The U.S. spends 32 million dollars per minute on war – every minute of every hour of every day of the year. The U.S., which represents only 5% of the world’s population, has 45% of the world’s guns. There are 390 million guns in the U.S., more guns than people. This includes 15-20 million military assault weapons, the kind used in the recent mass killings in El Paso and Dayton.
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(Português) A Naturalização do Horror no Brasil
Frei Betto | Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
10 ago 2019 – Em 1934, o embaixador José Jobim (assassinado pela ditadura em 1979) publicou o livro Hitler e os Comediantes onde descreve a ascensão do líder nazista e a reação do povo alemão diante de seus abusos. Não se acreditava que ele haveria de implantar um regime de terror. E sabemos todos que deu no que deu. Estou convencido de que Bolsonaro sabe o que quer, e tem projeto de longo prazo para o Brasil. Adota uma estratégia bem arquitetada. Enumero 10 táticas mais óbvias.
→ read full article(Français) La résolution des Nations Unies pour la culture de la paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
1er août 2019 – La lutte pour une culture de la paix pourrait gagner beaucoup plus de force si cette résolution était utilisée comme base d’analyse et de pratique par plus d’organisations dans le monde, mais malheureusement, elle est mal connue. La situation me rappelle l’utilisation d’un autre document historique des Nations Unies, la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme.
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White Supremacy
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
5 Aug 2019 – White Supremacism is a belief that whites are superior to others and have a right to dominate them. There were elements of such thinking in a “manifesto” posted online allegedly written by the suspected killer, a 21-year-old white who justified his massacre as a response “to the Hispanic invasion of Texas” and making references to Christchurch (New Zealand) where a white gunman killed 51 mosque worshippers in March.
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Peace Journalism for the Koreas Negotiations
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
What can the Peace Journalism playbook contribute? How can readers and audiences be prompted and equipped to consider and value nonviolent responses to the still-unresolved conflict on the Korean peninsula, with all its potential dangers? Look past slogans from both ‘sides’ to focus on the goals of the conflict parties, for one.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
According to some scholars, mindfulness is a type of meditation that allows a person to focus intensely on some physical activity such as breathing, which results in de-stressing the mind and body. It also acts as a suitable medication. Many persons who have followed these guidelines for de-stressing themselves admit that they have been quite effective.
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Trump Regime Aims to Starve Venezuelans into Submission
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – The Trump regime is waging all-out war by other means on Iran and Venezuela, heading toward a similar policy against China. Their latest shoe to drop against Venezuela occurred Wednesday [7 Aug] when a vessel carrying 25,000 tons of soy cake was illegally seized in the Panama Canal. The ship is “being kept in the Panama Canal due to the criminal blockade imposed by” the Trump regime, explained Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.
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Rohingya Poets Turn Words into Art of Resistance
Natalie Brinham, Yuriko Cowper-Smith, and Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – Rohingya poets featured in an anthology, I am Rohingya, write with an urgency and passion of genocide survivors. They reclaim their experience, their group identity and their agency from the victimhood that has framed their existence for so long.
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(Português) Vacas e Bois São Amarrados e Içados por Guindaste nas Ruas do Paquistão
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Imagens fortes divulgadas recentemente mostram vacas e bois sendo içados de grandes alturas até o chão, numa operação arriscada e improvisada pelos agricultores paquistaneses, que mantêm seu rebanho no telhado em Karachi. Nas fotos pode-se ver homens sobre os animais enquanto eles são movimentados por um guindaste, presos a cordas e mal acomodados, eles pousam no chão muitas vezes de forma abrupta e mal planejada, causando sofrimento aos animais.
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(Italiano) Ai confini dell’estrattivismo: il saccheggio del patrimonio spirituale
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
29 Luglio 2019 – Secondo la versione inglese di Wikipedia (che qui traduco in italiano) “estrattivismo si riferisce al processo di rimozione di grandi quantità di materiali grezzi o naturali, soprattutto per destinarli all’esportazione. La maggior parte delle risorse estratte viene esportata perché vi è una mancanza di domanda nei paesi di origine.”
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(Português) Desflorestação da Amazónia brasileira cresce 278% num ano
MadreMedia | Lusa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 ago 2019 – A desflorestação da Amazónia brasileira atingiu 2.254,8 quilómetros quadrados (km2) em julho, um número 278% superior ao mesmo período de 2018, referem as últimas estimativas do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), atualizadas na terça-feira [6 ago].
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Very revealing and interesting experiment… In Spanish but Understandable.
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New York Area Fire Commissioners Make History, Call for New 9/11 Investigation
Ted Walter | Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
On July 24, 2019 — nearly 18 years after the horrific attacks that traumatized a nation and changed the world forever — the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District, just outside of Queens, New York, became the first legislative body in the country to officially support a new investigation into the events of 9/11. The resolution, drafted and introduced by Commissioner Christopher Gioia, was unanimously approved.
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Neoliberalism, Neofascism & Trumpism – Racist Alliance of Mob & Capital
Dr Gideon Polya | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
4 Aug 2019 – Philosopher Hannah Arendt found common causes of genocidal Western European imperialism on 5 continents and genocidal 20th century fascism as an alliance between the mob and capital, with a commonality in this union of extreme nationalism, lying, rapacity, atrocity-justifying racism and anti-humanism. Today American Trumpism is ferociously anti-intellectual, anti-humanist, nationalist and racist, with genocidal Trump threats to “totally destroy” or “obliterate”.
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Toni Morrison on the Power of Language: Her Spectacular Nobel Acceptance Speech after Becoming the First African American Woman Awarded the Accolade
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
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Israel’s War on Innocence: Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Courts
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – Ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli military and police is so widespread and systematic that videos and reports of their arrests are almost a staple on social media platforms concerned with Palestine and Palestinian rights. The sad reality is that Muhammad Elayyan, 4, and Qais Obaid, 6, and many children like them, have become a target of Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Global Peace and Human Security: India and Pakistan Itching for Showdown on Kashmir
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – History made India and Pakistan enemies and geography made them neighbors. The State of Jammu and Kashmir is at the heart of all political and strategic problems which characterize the nature of relationships between the two nuclear rivals. This week, Indian parliament using a legal stipulation of its own paperwork has changed the status of Kashmir without any consent or reference to the people of Kashmir.
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Eat Less Meat: UN Climate Change Report Calls for Change to Human Diet
Quirin Schiermeier | Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019 – The report on global land use and agriculture from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon.
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Frequencies That Can Kill, Heal, and Transcend
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
There are all kinds of frequencies and vibrations all around us. There are frequencies we see (such as light waves), hear (sound waves), or feel, and others that are beyond our ability to sense, such as gamma rays, infrared, or radio and television frequencies.
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Tulsi Gabbard Has Done the Unpardonable: Criticized US Global Hegemony
David Bromwich | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
3 Aug 2019 – The Times’ yellow journalism half disguised as human interest, with a few random points of political information. Headline: “Unorthodox Campaign Shows Isolationism May Have a Hold.” Opening sentence: “Tulsi Gabbard is running for president of a country that she believes has wrought horror on the world.”
→ read full articleA Dreaming Stranger on a Train
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
“Perhaps that’s what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that’s what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I’m neither one side nor the other, I’m in the middle, I’m the partition, I’ve two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that’s what I feel, myself vibrating, I’m the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don’t belong to either.” — Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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Why Native Hawaiians Are Fighting to Protect Maunakea from a Telescope
Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Pundits have said the Native Hawaiian resistance to the Thirty Meter Telescope project is a conflict between science and culture. But the protectors are not against science; they just believe the telescope does not belong on Maunakea’s sacred lands. The mountain is among the most sacred sites in Hawaiian cosmology.
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The Politics and Potential of the Green New Deal
Johanna Bozuwa | Progressive Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
10 Jul 2019 – The Green New Deal “is not, and cannot be, simply about reducing carbon emissions. It must be ambitious enough to construct entirely new national institutions, reorganize sectors of our society, transform extractive industry into real wealth creation for communities, and rigorously rewrite the rules of the game for business and the economy at large.”
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Leo Tolstoy on Kindness and the Measure of Love
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. Kindness is for your soul as health is for your body: you do not notice it when you have it.”
→ read full articleBenefits of Equality
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Warren Buffet famously remarked, “There’s class warfare, all right. But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” However, the evidence presented by Hobson, Hanauer and Wilkinson shows conclusively that no one wins in a society where inequality is too great, and everyone wins when incomes are more evenly distributed.
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Fidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba, transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
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Burning Down the House
Alan Weisman | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
August 15, 2019 Issue – Environmental writers today have a twofold problem. First, how to overcome readers’ resistance to ever-worsening truths, especially when climate-change denial has turned into a political credo and a highly profitable industry with its own television network. Second, in view of the breathless pace of new discoveries, publishing can barely keep up. I’m not the only writer to wonder whether books are still an appropriate medium to convey the frightening speed of environmental upheaval.
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(Português) Criação de Animais em Regime Industrial É Um dos Piores Crimes da Humanidade
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 ago 2019 – O destino dos animais criados em regime industrial é uma das questões éticas mais urgentes do nosso tempo. Dezenas de bilhões de animais sencientes, cada um com sensações e emoções complexas, vivem e morrem em uma linha de produção. A marcha do progresso humano está repleta de animais mortos.
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Ravel’s Bolero–Flash Mob (Music Video of the Week)
Societat Musical d'Algemesí – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Flash Mob Performed by Banda Simfònica d’Algemesí at Plaça del Mercat, Algemesí,Valencia, Spain
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The Paradox of Mortality: Death and Perpetual Denial
Devaleena Kundu | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Literary discourses often seek to explore the emotional motley experienced by individuals while encountering death and dying. Representations by literary artists offer a virtual space wherein readers partake of the conclusive episode in a character’s lived experience. However, does a reader in the process imagine and accept his/her own cessation? Or does it always have to be an “other” being at whose death we are present as voyeurs? Freud in his 1918 work “Reflections on War and Death” observed: “We cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we find that we survive ourselves as spectators.”
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Meet Antonio C. S. Rosa: Pioneer in Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Peace Journalism, a New Paradigm for Journalists Covering Conflict Situations: Meet the man behind TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE-TMS
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Washington Orders International Embargo on Venezuela, Threatens Invasion
Andrea Lobo | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday [6 Aug] freezing “all property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States.” The move is the culmination of a series of increasingly severe sanctions and marks a new stage in the US coup operation against the Government of Nicolás Maduro.
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More British Complicity Exposed in Latest ‘CIA Torture Unredacted’ Report
TruePublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
4 Aug 2019 – The latest report about kidnappings, rendition, ‘black sites’ and torture is a remarkable piece of investigative work. It provides us with nothing less than a litany of shocking evidence and testimony and at 403 pages it makes for truly grim reading. This article is made up of a very brief set of extracts from the just-released CIA Torture Unredacted report.
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{What War on Drugs?} US Protection of Afghan Opiates Has Killed 5.2 Million People since 9-11
Gideon Polya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
11 Aug 2019 – US-imposed Opiate Holocaust
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IPCC Special Report: Climate Change and Land
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019 – An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.
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John Pilger Warns: “Do Not Forget Assange. Or You Will Lose Him”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – In a tweet that has been shared more than 10,000 times, Pilger wrote: “Do not forget Julian #Assange. Or you will lose him. I saw him in Belmarsh prison and his health has deteriorated. Treated worse than a murderer, he is isolated, medicated and denied the tools to fight the bogus charges of a US extradition. I now fear for him. Do not forget him.”. Christine Assange, Julian’s mother, responded to Pilger’s update with a series of tweets.
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