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Concealing the Truth
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
4 Sep 2019 – Concealing the truth from the people is not unusual in politics. It is perhaps more pronounced in global politics partly because it is more difficult to hold powerful global actors accountable. Might Is Right is an adage that rings true at the international level more than in the domestic arena.
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Burning Down the House
John Feffer | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
4 Sep 2019 – Doesn’t idiocy ever take a vacation? Three different attempts at national self-destruction by far-right governments–Johnson in the UK, Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Trump in the US– are laying bare their nihilistic roots. Bolsonaro, at least, is only interested in trashing a rainforest (albeit a large one). Boris Johnson is content to trash a country (albeit a rich one). Donald Trump, with that ego of his, aspires to trash an entire planet.
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India Labels 1.9 Million Assam Residents “Foreigners” as Prelude to Their Mass Expulsion
Wasantha Rupasinghe | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
5 Sep 2019 – Almost two million residents of Assam, a state in India’s northeast, have been excluded from the Indian state’s reactionary National Register of Citizens. These de facto “foreigners” are now under threat of being herded into detention centres prior to their mass expulsion.
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Sparking Change: How Movements Pass on Inspiration
Rivera Sun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
30 Aug 2019 – Change doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Resistance is a continuum. Nonviolent movements arise amidst the efforts of many other struggles. The knowledge of how to organize for change is a global legacy passed between movements and generations of activists through lineages of inspiration that stretch through hundreds of years.
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John Pilger at London Rally in Defense of Julian Assange
WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
2 Sep 2019 – Journalist John Pilger Speaks at London Rally Organized by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters
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It’s Coming Soon: Can the UN Rethink Its Future in a Few Months?
Richard Ponzio and Cristina Petcu | PassBlue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
On 26 Jun 2020 the international community will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter. That doesn’t leave much time to hammer out a “concise, substantive, forward-looking and unifying declaration” that captures member states’ commitment to multilateralism and to the UN before the world leaders’ summit meeting on Sept. 21, 2020 — as the General Assembly resolved this month.
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Peace People Founder Ciaran McKeown Dead at 76
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
It is with deep sadness that I heard of the death of my dear friend and co-peace worker Ciaran McKeown on 1 Sep 2019. When the Peace People started in Aug l976 at the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland, it was Ciaran, a political journalist, who courageously took the peace leadership–giving up his job and becoming a volunteer in spite of the fact that his fifth child was soon due–and joined myself and Betty Williams in co-founding the Peace People. RIP
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Color Specific?
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
Some Food for Thought… True or False?
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The Destruction of the Amazon, Explained
The Week – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
1 Sep 2019 – The “lungs of the earth” are on fire, and shrinking every day. What are the consequences for the planet? Here’s everything you need to know:
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Roger Waters and John Pilger Make Powerful Defence of Julian Assange in London
WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
3 Sep 2019 – Thousands of people gathered last night in central London to hear Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters deliver a musical tribute to imprisoned WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange. John Pilger, a veteran filmmaker and investigative journalist and a personal friend of Assange, opened the event with an impassioned speech.
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Peace as a Profession and New Peace Action Roles
Johan Galtung | PRIO Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
1974 – Today we see relatively clearly that there are liberal and Marxist conceptions of peace, and perhaps we also see more clearly than before that «liberalism vs. Marxism» is a false dichotomy—although we still live under the pressure of the false dichotomies, and particularly in the thinking about peace. Hence, this essay is an effort to try to indicate, at a very simple, common sense level, that both views are fruitful in conceiving of new forms of peace action, and that they in a sense reinforce each other.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
On 2 October 2019, it will be the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas K. Gandhi in Gujarat, India. I would like to reflect on the visionary leadership that Gandhi offered the world, briefly comparing it with some national leaders of today, and to invite you to emulate Gandhi’s leadership.
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(Italiano) Al SIPRI parla il ministro degli esteri dell’Iran – e i media non colgono
Jan Oberg – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
Il 21 agosto2019 il ministro degli esteri dell’Iran, Dr. Javad Zarif, ha tenuto una conferenza al SIPRI, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. La trattazione mediatica della visita in Svezia di Zarif è stata invariabilmente un’illustrazione che i liberi media occidentali oggi sostanzialmente definiscono la propria libertà come libertà di essere ignoranti, selettivi e partigiani come gli aggrada –e che l’omissione è almeno quanto la falsità un enorme problemi per le possibilità dei consumatori di media di capire gli affari internazionali.
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(Português) Nascido para Sofrer: Filhote de macaco treme de medo ao ser afastado dos pais para ser explorado em laboratório
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
9 Sep 2019
Submetidos a alimentação forçada e injeções de compostos experimentais que podem resultar em sequelas dolorosas, esses animais passam toda a vida sendo vítimas de tortura e sofrimento.
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Commission Against Impunity (CICIG) Suspended in Guatemala
Cristina Cabrejas-Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
4 Sep 2019 – In a country where economic growth and democratic institutions are jeopardized by high levels of corruption, the Commission Against Impunity was created as an anti-corruption independent body of investigators, to assist Guatemala’s judicial institutions in the fight against organised crime.
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“The ‘Enemy of the State’ Speaks–Irreverent Essays and Interviews:” Maung Zarni on Burma/Myanmar
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
“The Enemy of the State” Speaks: Irreverent Essays and Interviews, by Maung Zarni, Gerakbudaya: 2019 – “Maung Zarni speaks truth to power and his words are powerful because they come from his own lived and personal experience.” — Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Peace Activist and Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment
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‘Political Mind Games’ Free PDF Online
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
3 Sep 2019 – It was just a year ago that I published Political Mind Games: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What’s Happening, What’s Right, and What’s Possible. Now, as we enter the 2020 election cycle, when we’re sure to be bombarded with manipulative psychological appeals designed to advance the interests of the super-rich and powerful, I’m eager to bring its progressive message to a broader audience. To download the free PDF version click HERE.
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Hospitals among Seven Health Centres Attacked in Syria
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
2 Sep 2019 – Seven health centres in Syria have been reportedly attacked in recent days and two of them have been destroyed, the World Health Organization said today.
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The Companies behind the Burning of the Amazon
Glenn Hurowitz, Mat Jacobson, Etelle Higonnet, and Lucia von Reusner | Mighty Earth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
The incentive for the destruction comes from large-scale international meat and soy animal feed companies like JBS and Cargill, and the global brands like Stop & Shop, Costco, McDonald’s, Walmart/Asda, and Sysco that buy from them and sell to the public. It is these companies that are creating the international demand that finances the fires and deforestation.
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UN Experts Decry Torture of Rakhine Men and Boys Held Incommunicado by Myanmar’s Military
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
3 Sep 2019 – Allegations of torture and ill-treatment leading to the death of ethnic Rakhine men and boys being held in incommunicado detention by Myanmar’s military, has prompted three independent UN rights experts to call for an end to the practice and for “credible, independent” investigations.
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(Português) ONG internacional denuncia empresas que financiam queimadas na Amazônia
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
3 set 2019 – Segundo a Mighty Earth, maior incentivo à destruição da Amazônia vem de grandes empresas que atuam na indústria de carne e de soja destinada à alimentação de animais criados para consumo.
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Immanuel Wallerstein: An Obituary
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Portside – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
5 Sep 2019 – Acclaimed Marxist sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, author of numerous works on capitalism as a world-system, died on 31 Aug at the age of 88. His death is an irreparable loss for the social sciences. He was unquestionably the most remarkable American sociologist of the twentieth century, and the one with greater international projection. RIP
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How Movements Build Strength through Training
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
22 Aug 2019 – Training for movements is not unlike training for athletic competition: Pain is inevitable. It’s the conditioning of mind, body and heart that makes winning possible.
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Julian Assange’s Brother Remarks at London Rally
WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
2 Sep 2019 – Gabriel Shipton Speaks at London Rally Organized by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters in Defense of Julian Assange
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The Rise of a New Climate Activism
Sophie Yeo | The Ecologist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
3 Sep 2019 – Climate activism isn’t new, but the last year has seen a resurgence in attention devoted to the subject. For many campaigners, who have grown weary of watching their warnings fall on deaf ears, it has felt like hope has arrived at last.
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Leo Tolstoy (9 Sep 1828 – 20 Nov 1910)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most-diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ endure as the summit of realist fiction.
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BRICS Was Created as a Tool of Attack: Lula
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
9 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 – In a wide-ranging, two-hour-plus, exclusive interview from a prison room in Curitiba in southern Brazil, former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva re-emerged for the first time, after more than 500 days in jail, and sent a clear message to the world.
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What Really Happened in Zimbabwe
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
8 Sep 2019 – Yesterday the New York Times carried several very long articles about former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe who had just died, saying that he was a “tyrant” and that he “presided over the decline of one of Africa’s most prosperous lands.”
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We Are All Indigenous
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
Can we flip the faux-humanity of Bolsonaro on its head and declare: We want to integrate ourselves into an indigenous global understanding. Doing so involves more than just scientific expertise; it involves transforming our way of life — beyond television, beyond the Internet, beyond domination and exploitation — to an ever-present awareness of the planet we inhabit. Can we set aside our technology and start learning to listen to it?
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Right Livelihood Awards – Johan Galtung
True Heroes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
1987 Right Livelihood Award Laureate – Excerpts
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New Bases to Counter China? Indo-Pacific Is New Priority Region for the US, Pentagon
Darius Shahtahmasebi – RT,
9 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 – After devastating the Middle East through sanctions, warfare, and the backing of extremists to fight proxy wars, the Indo-Pacific region – not the Middle East – is now the Pentagon’s “priority” region.
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Because ‘a World without Insects Is Not Worth Living in,’ Germany Announces Plan to Ban Glyphosate
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
9 Sep 2019
4 Sep 2019 – The German government announced today a plan to phase out the use of glyphosate—the key chemical in the weedkiller Roundup—with a total ban set to begin by the end of 2023. The European Commission in 2017 renewed the license for glyphosate in the bloc through the end of 2022. The “government intends to oppose any request for the E.U. to renew the license to produce the weedkiller, according to a release by the environment ministry.”
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Imagining Toroidal Life as a Sustainable Alternative
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
From Globalization to Toroidization or Back to Flatland? Much is made of the fundamental shift in historical perspective from living on a Flat Earth to dwelling on a rotating sphere — a globe revolving around the Sun. The argument here endeavours to clarify the manner in which the toroidal form can be used in support of imaginative insight of strategic relevance — for the individual, if not for the collective.
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Inside Exarcheia: The Self-Governing Community Athens Police Want Rid of
Alex King and Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou – The Guardian,
9 Sep 2019
26 Aug 2019 – The central Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia, which has helped house refugees, is in the crosshairs of a government crackdown. Ringed by university buildings, Exarcheia has long been the home of Greece’s intellectual left, antiauthoritarian and anarchist movements.
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This Time, the World Is Watching in Kashmir
Shubh Mathur | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
22 Aug 2019 – How India is shooting itself in the foot by taking over Kashmir at gunpoint; it has set itself up to reap the whirlwind. This time, the world will be watching.
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Cultural Festivals of India — Joy, Peace, Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
There are several cultural, religious festivals and celebrations all over the world. One such festival is Christmas; although being a Christian festival, it is celebrated all over the world on 25 Dec by non- Christians also. Similarly, Jewish, Muslims, Buddhists and Sikhs have special days to remember and celebrate their own Gods or leaders.
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Intelligent Design
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
A little boy went up to his father and asked:
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Immanuel Wallerstein: Ah, We were once both young and hopeful!
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
Immanuel Wallerstein (28 Sep 1930 – 31 Aug 2019) the political sociologist best known for his writings on the “world system” and I were friends in the mid 1950s; perhaps not friends but at least both student activists in the World Federalist-World Citizen Movement, especially in their international dimensions.
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The Secret Government Rulebook for Labeling You a Terrorist (Reprint)
Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
9 Sep 2019
23 Jul 2014 – The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.
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(Italiano) Russia e Stati Uniti tentano di legittimare i “killer robots”
Rete Italiana per il Disarmo | Campaign to Stop Killer Robots – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
22 ago 2019 – La Russia e gli Stati Uniti stanno continuando la loro battaglia persa contro l’ormai inevitabile Trattato internazionale riguardante le armi letali autonome (LAWS), i cosiddetti “killer robots”. La maggior parte degli Stati che partecipano ai colloqui diplomatici sui sistemi letali di armi autonome hanno infatti espresso il proprio forte desiderio di negoziare un nuovo Trattato per rispondere alle crescenti preoccupazioni su questa tipologia di armi.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
An important year, being one generation of 30 years ahead of us; neither too close, nor too far into the future, for predictions and prescriptions about The Year 2050 to be realistic–within the range of the probable for predictions and the feasible for prescriptions.
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Trump Moves to Allow Logging in the World’s Largest Intact Temperate Rainforest
Kyla Mandel | Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
28 Aug 2019 – As Brazil’s Amazon burns, Trump is taking aim at one of the largest expanses of temperate rainforest. Yesterday, he instructed the agriculture secretary to allow logging in the 16.7 million acre Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, the nation’s largest national forest.
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(Português) Comissão do Congresso brasileiro aprova emenda à Constituição que permite exploração agrícola de terras indígenas
Rádio Renascença [Portugal] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
27 ago 2019 – Uma comissão do congresso brasileiro aprovou hoje uma proposta de emenda constitucional para permitir a exploração de agricultura comercial em reservas indígenas, uma prática atualmente proibida. Decisão apoiada pelo Presidente brasileiro surge numa altura em que a comunidade internacional critica a postura do executivo do Brasil face aos incêndios da Amazónia.
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The Initiative to Clean Up Unexploded Bombs in Vietnam
Veterans For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Chuck Searcy of Project RENEW describes the major success and strides in making Vietnam safe from the devices of death dropped on the country by the United States.
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(Português) O legado de Chico Mendes para o Sínodo Panamazônico
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
27 ago 2019 – Chico Mendes é um lídimo filho da floresta, identificado com ela. Cedo se deu conta de que o atual desenvovlvimento prescinde da natureza e que se faz contra ela, pois a vê antes como um estorvo que como um aliado. Foi um dos poucos que entendeu a sustentabilidade como equilíbrio dinâmico e autoregulador da Terra. Chico Mendes será para o Sínodo Panamazônico a realizar-se em outubro de 2019 em Roma, um exemplo paradigmático e uma fonte de inspiração.
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Report: Seoul International Conference on Protection of Rohingya Survivors and Accountability for Genocide
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
30 Aug 2019 – The Seoul International Conference focused on the illegal and barbaric uses of sexual violence and rape of target victim population as a matter of strategy and policy by genocidal and militaristic regimes, past and present, in Asian region, from the WWII-era Fascist Japan, Suharto’s Indonesia and General Yaya Khan’s West Pakistan in the civil war in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) to Pol Pot’s Cambodia of the late 1970’s to present-day Myanmar. The conference attracted 150 activists, engaged scholars and experts from 12 different countries, far and near.
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(Français) C’est qui, ça?
Erik Rydberg | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
29 Août 2019 – Difficile d’imaginer un cas plus inouï que celui de Julian Assange. Il concerne tout le monde. Et tout le monde, ou presque, s’en fout. D’abord, on arrête les Juifs, puis les rouquins, comme on dit… De mémoire de, je ne pense pas avoir assisté à un scandale à ce point aussi intégralement étouffé.
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100,000 Rohingyas Rally in Bangladesh to Mark Genocide Day
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
25 Aug 2019 – At least 100,000 Rohingya refugees rallied in camps in Bangladesh today, marking two years since the start of a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar that forced more than 730,000 to flee across the border. The commemorations took place amid heightened tensions in parts of the camps after security forces shot dead two Rohingya yesterday.
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(Português) Steve Schwarzman, Apoiador de Donald Trump, Impulsiona o Desmatamento na Amazônia
Ryan Grim – The Intercept,
2 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 – Steve Schwarzman é o CEO do Grupo Blackstone, controlador de uma empresa brasileira que está ajudando a transformar a Amazônia em área de cultivo.
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Greta Thunberg, Frances Crowe and a Passing of the Torch
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
2 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 – Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, sailed into New York Harbor yesterday. The day before Greta’s arrival another activist ended a remarkable voyage. Frances Crowe, a lifelong peace activist, died at home at the age of 100. Frances Crowe, rest in power. Greta Thunberg, long may you carry the torch.
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Roger Waters to Perform ‘Wish You Were Here’ for Julian Assange Outside Britain’s Home Office on 2 Sep 2019
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
On Monday, 2 Sep, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd will perform his classic ‘Wish You Were Here’ outside the Home Office (Interior Ministry) on Marsham Street in the heart of London. I will be speaking. Join us at 6 p.m. in solidarity with Britain’s major political prisoner.
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What Good Is a New Cold War without a New Arm$ Race?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
7 Aug 2019 – “Trump is pursuing probably the most aggressive foreign policy that any US president has pursued in a long time… Before leaving office, President Obama announced a trillion-dollar nuclear weapons upgrade… Putin has vowed not to let the arms race bankrupt the Russian Federation as it did the Soviet Union.”
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Protectors of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science
Julianne Tveten | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
27 Aug 2019 – Thousands of Native Hawaiians and their supporters have been congregating since July 15 at the base of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano and mountain on the island of Hawaii… While proposals to compromise might appear fair, protectors say, they dismiss the historical context in Hawaii of colonialism and the usurpation of Indigenous land that continues today. Thus, these suggestions elide the stark power asymmetry between historically disenfranchised and marginalized Native Hawaiians and the billion-dollar, state-backed TMT project.
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When Pyromaniacs Lead, the World Burns
Marwan Bishara – Al Jazeera,
2 Sep 2019
As global crises are pushing the world towards disaster, the G7 could not even agree on a final communiqué.
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Karma: What Is It?
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Karma is one of those topics that many people know a little about, but few understand the intricacies of it. To start with, Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. On the universal scale, this is the law of karma.
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Make It with You (Music Video of the Week)
Bread - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Delightful! Kick back and enjoy…
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Iran Crisis: Dangers and Opportunities
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
The Russian proposal for Collective Security for the Persian Gulf follows closely the procedures which led to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act and the creation of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Bogdanov stressed multilateralism as a mechanism for all involved in the assessment of situations, the decision-making process, and the implementation of decisions.
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Inaction on China and India’s Crimes Emboldens Myanmar
Maung Zarni – Al Jazeera,
2 Sep 2019
25 Aug 2019 – How can Myanmar reverse its anti-Rohingya policies if it has China and India as an example? Today, Rohingya refugees and survivors in refugee camps, as well as their diasporic communities, commemorate the second Rohingya Genocide Memorial Day.
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As Jakarta Sinks, Indonesia Announces Location of New Capital City
Matt Stieb | Intelligencer – New York Magazine,
2 Sep 2019
26 Aug 2019 – Jakarta, the soon-to-be-former capital of Indonesia, is an imperfect city to point to as an early mark of climate change. The megalopolis of 10 million people is sinking, yes, but most of that descension can be traced back to human activity.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Speaks at SIPRI – And the Media Don’t Get It
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
On 21 Aug 2019, Iran’s foreign minister, Dr. Javad Zarif, gave a speech at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI. The media coverage of his visit to Sweden was yet another illustration of the ‘free’ Western media’s freedom to be ignorant, selective and biased – and that ‘omission,’ at least as much as ‘fake,’ is a huge problem for media consumers’ chances to understand international affairs.
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(Português) Amazônia Abriga Mais da Metade das Espécies Terrestres de Animais e Plantas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
24 ago 2019 – A Amazônia abriga a maior área de floresta tropical remanescente em nosso planeta. Com quase o dobro do tamanho da Índia, essas florestas desempenham um papel vital na regulação do clima global e na prestação de outros serviços, como a purificação da água e a absorção de carbono.
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A Top Financier of Trump and McConnell Is a Driving Force behind Amazon Deforestation
Ryan Grim – The Intercept,
2 Sep 2019
27 Aug 2019 – Steve Schwarzman is the CEO of the Blackstone Group, which partially owns a Brazilian firm that is helping transform the Amazon from jungle to farmland.
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Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Thoreau has no objection to government taxes for highways and schools, which make good neighbors. But government, he charges, is too often based on expediency, which can permit injustice in the name of public convenience. The individual, he insists, is never obliged to surrender conscience to the majority or to the State. If a law “is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another,” he declares, “then, I say, break the law.” The essay makes it clear that this stance is not a matter of whim but a demanding moral principle.
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Reconstructing Nonviolence: A New Theory and Action for a Post-Secular Society
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Nonviolent methods of action have been a powerful tool since the early 20th century for social protest and revolutionary social and political change, and there is diffuse awareness that nonviolence is an efficient spontaneous choice of movements, individuals, and whole nations. Yet from a conceptual standpoint, nonviolence struggles to engage with key contemporary political issues: the role of religion in a post-secular world; the crisis of democracy; and the use of supposedly ‘nonviolent techniques’ for violent aims.
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We Aren’t Terrified Enough about Losing the Amazon
James Temple | MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
26 Aug 2019 – With fires raging in the Brazilian Amazon this year, media reports have resurfaced a scary scenario known as “the Amazon dieback.” Scientists aren’t sure if there’s a tipping point, or how close we are to it – but it would be “absolutely catastrophic” if we cross it.
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Privilege and Education Advantage
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
In a democratic society, theoretically based upon equality of opportunity and resources, the “advantage” ethic represents a serious problem. While individual variations among citizens’ abilities and capacities must be acknowledged and valued, variations based on wealth, power, and position provide “advantages” which ultimately destroy the fabric of the “democratic” society. The playing field of life is not level! Unethical, Immoral, Illegal Abuses of “Privilege”
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Portugal as a Strategic Target
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 — A series of recent events has unveiled increasingly disturbing signs that far- right internationalism is turning Portugal into a strategic target. For the far right, it is the weak link through which it can carry out its attack on the European Union.
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The Key to a Sustainable Economy Is 5,000 Years Old
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
30 Aug 2019 – We are again reaching the point known as “peak debt,” when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot be paid. Student debt, credit card debt, auto loans, business debt and sovereign debt are all higher than they have ever been. As economist Michael Hudson writes, “Debts that can’t be paid won’t be paid.” The question, he says, is ‘how’ they won’t be paid.
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The World Is Burning!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
28 Aug 2019 – The heart wrenching fires in the Amazon. Africa, Australia, the US continent, Europe, etc. and increasingly right here in Hawaii are not “wild” fires. – Humanity Is on the Path toward Global Destruction through Climate Disaster and/or Nuclear War
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(Português) Imagens de Touros com os Chifres em Chamas Causam Revolta nas Redes Sociais
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
2 Sep 2019
26 ago 2019 – O evento conhecido como “Fire Bull” (touro em chamas) ocorre na cidade de La Vall d’Uixó, na Espanha. As fotos e vídeos mostram a multidão atormentando os animais assustados e indefesos por diversão. “Esses shows distorcem a visão que as crianças têm dos animais, distorcendo a empatia inata que sentem em relação a eles e ensinando que a violência, neste caso, é divertida.”
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The Inequities of this world — in Life, in Death
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
We are born, live in this unequal world and then die. There are inequities staring at us in this world — social, economic, religious, educational, racial and of other kinds, both in life and in death.
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Exile from Exarchia: An Anarchist Enclave in Athens Opened Its Doors to Refugees
Julia Rampen | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
22 Aug 2019 – When refugees started arriving on Greek shores in large numbers, the anarchists opened their doors. — Until the Authorities Had Enough
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The Meaning of Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of the intelligent people
and the affection of children;
Modern Martyrdom
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
2 Sep 2019
The truth shall set you free? Really?
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How Van Gogh Found His Purpose: Heartfelt Letters to His Brother on How Relationships Refine Us
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
“Does what goes on inside show on the outside? Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney.”
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Clinical Psychologist Lissa Johnson: They Are Trying to Break Assange “Physically and Psychologically”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
28 Aug 2019 – Australian clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson has been an outspoken defender of Julian Assange. Earlier this year she wrote an extensive five-part investigative series titled “The Psychology of Getting Julian Assange.” Johnson provided the following responses to a series of questions earlier this week.
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For Millions of Dogs, South Korea Is Hell on Earth
Nina Jackel | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Summer in South Korea brings the brutal, barbaric Boknal “dog eating days,” when more than a million dogs are tortured and slaughtered for meat.
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Millions in Idlib ‘Counting on Your Support to Make the Violence Stop’, UN Relief Chief Tells Security Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 – Despite an agreement signed nearly a year ago on a halt to further escalation in Syria’s war-battered Idlib, “the bombing and fighting go on in plain sight, day in and day out”, the UN humanitarian chief told the Security Council today.
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Breaking the Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange
Mnar Muhawesh - MintPress News,
2 Sep 2019
26 Aug 2019 – The role of journalism in a democracy is publishing information that empowers the public to become more engaged citizens so that we can vote in representatives that work in the interest of “we the people.” The same media that has spent years dragging Assange’s name through the mud is now engaging in a blackout on his treatment. If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you’re going to be disappointed.
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Amazon’s Indigenous Warriors Take on Invading Loggers and Ranchers
Fabiano Maisonnave – The Guardian,
2 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 – Trincheira Bacajá indigenous land: Under threat from fire, deforestation and Bolsonaro, Xikrin people take matters into own hands.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
During the German occupation of France, a German soldier entered Picasso’s studio and saw a small reproduction of his painting “Guernica”.
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Unsettling Truths about the 1959 U.S. Statehood Vote in Hawai’i
Poka Laenui, Kioni Dudley and Leon Siu– TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
August 16, 2019, marks the 60th Anniversary of U.S. Statehood for Hawai’i. It will go little noticed. This article offers new information on illegalities and fraudulence regarding the statehood vote, and why it should not have been accepted by the United Nations.
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(বাঙালি-Bengali) রোহিঙ্গাদের আরাম কমানো হবে, যাতে ফিরতে রাজি হয়: পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী
Channel 24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
২২ আগস্ট, 2019 – পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী ড. এ কে আব্দুল মোমেন বলেছেন, রোহিঙ্গাদের আরাম কমানো হবে, যাতে তারা মিয়ানমারে ফিরতে রাজি হয়। বৃহস্পতিবার (২২ আগস্ট) দুপুর আড়াইটার দিকে পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয়ে সাংবাদিকদের এসব কথা বলেন তিনি।
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Wildfires Rage throughout the Amazon Rainforest
Bryan Dyne | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Satellite imagery reveals that at least a quarter of the Amazon rainforest is on fire or covered in soot and ash across the four Brazilian Amazonian states: Amazonas, Rondônia, Mato Grosso and Pará. Cities across the region were blanketed with smoke, including Brazil’s largest city São Paulo where wildfire smoke blotted out the Sun and brought nighttime lighting hours early.
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‘The World Never Learns’, Rohingya Pay the Price
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
25 Aug 2019 – Today, Rohingya communities and their international supporters commemorate the 2nd anniversary of what is widely acknowledged as a textbook genocide commissioned by the UN member state of Myanmar. ‘Without UN, external intervention, Rohingya will remain most persecuted, vulnerable population’.
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Conspiracy Theories from the Elders of Zion to Epstein’s Youngsters
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
17 Aug 2019 – Following Jeffery Epstein’s alleged suicide last week we have been deluged by a tsunami of narratives that do not adhere to the shifting official reports of his death. Presumably a few of the intimate secrets of the most powerful people on this planet will be buried with Epstein. While it is rational to believe that people powerful enough to impoverish continents or launch world wars that kill tens of millions could easily arrange the death of a single registered sex criminal in a NY prison cell, anyone who advanced such a scenario, however plausible, was immediately denounced as a ‘conspiracy theorist.’
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Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer and Dale Jamieson | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
19 Aug 2019 – Recent updates, suggesting that climate change and its impacts are emerging faster than scientists previously thought, are consistent with observations that we and other colleagues have made identifying a pattern in assessments of climate research of underestimation of certain key climate indicators, and therefore underestimation of the threat of climate disruption.
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White Supremacy before Trump: The U.S. Conquest of Hawaii
Michael K. Smith – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
August 21 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Hawaiian statehood. Many Americans know little more than package tours and “Pearl Harbor” about the fiftieth state, and few realize that when the U.S. naval base was attacked by the Japanese, it was not at the time U.S. territory. Even fewer have any idea how Hawaii came to have an important American naval base capable of triggering a world war.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
Drawing
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(Português) Especialistas alertam: girafas enfrentam uma extinção silenciosa
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
26 Aug 2019
20 ago 2019 – Neste fim de semana, representantes de nações de todo o mundo se reunirão na Convenção sobre o Comércio Internacional de Espécies Ameaçadas de Fauna e Flora Silvestres. Medidas e esforços para proteger girafas, onças e lontras asiáticas estarão na agenda do encontro; os delegados também vão lançar uma proposta para combater o comércio internacional de animais selvagens.
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US Reprehensibly Inciting New Global Arms Race
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Russia and China are right to condemn the testing this week of an INF-busting new ground-based cruise missile off the coast of California under the usual cynical guise of “defense”. It was reportedly a Tomahawk-type nuclear-capable warhead, but the Pentagon said it was conventionally armed.
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(Français) Google est ton ami… Ou pas, en fait
Philippe Huysmans | Le Vilain Petit Canard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
18 août 2019 – Tous les éditeurs de médias alternatifs pourraient vous le dire, Google pratique une censure féroce, sous couvert de lutter contre les « fake news ». Ce n’est même plus un secret de polichinelle, chacun peut bien le voir. Voici presque trois ans, un ami qui se trouve être aussi un éditeur de presse m’avait demandé si je serais prêt à écrire un bouquin sur le sujet.
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(Italiano) I «biscotti» avvelenati della rete
Matteo Bartocci – Il Manifesto,
26 Aug 2019
Facciamo un esperimento. Immaginate di uscire di casa e di avere alle spalle ogni volta una ventina di tizi mascherati che vi seguono ovunque e prendono nota di tutto quello che fate, di quali vetrine guardate e per quanto tempo, del tragitto che fate. Immaginate di indossare un paio di occhiali che trasmettono in tempo reale a una società sconosciuta delle isole Vergini tutto quello che vedete, fate o scrivete.
→ read full articleEven the Bermuda Triangle Has a Plastic Problem
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – Sargasso Sea: Home to Sea Turtles, the Bermuda Triangle and… Way Too Much Plastic
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Fascism Then and Now
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
I would like to announce the publication of a new book, entitled Fascism, Then and Now. It can be freely downloaded HERE. There are many extremely worrying similarities between fascism in Europe in the 1930’s and the neo-fascism that we can see around us today.
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Repatriation Plans Stir Fear among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Naomi Conrad and Arafatul Islam - Deutsche Welle,
26 Aug 2019
21 Aug 2019 – Nearly 3,500 Rohingya living in Bangladesh fear for their lives after being told they would be sent back to Myanmar. We spoke to them at their shelters in Cox’s Bazar.
→ read full article(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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