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Puerto Rico Governor Resigns after Popular Protests
Jerry White | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019 – After two weeks of protests demanding his removal, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation late last night. In a statement posted online, Rosselló said he would step down on August 2. The protests reached their highpoint on 22 Jul when 1 million people participated in the huge procession in San Juan, a substantial portion of the island’s 3.2 million inhabitants.
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New Earth Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
The Extinction Event – What is 5G? We need to know the dangers of this technology. A full length documentary by Sacha Stone exposing the 5G existential threat to humanity in a way we never imagined possible!
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The Special Feature of Human Existence
Radhanath Swami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
According to how we invest in our karmic life, we will get a particular type of body. There are millions of species of life. Each one facilitates a particular opportunity to get the reactions of our particular karma.
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Listen to the Music (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Doobie Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
From the second album, Toulouse Street; their first big hit in 1972 – A Classic of the 70s.
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Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
“The key is building fires where you can warm yourself as you wait for the tempest to pass.”
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(Italiano) Vivere nella casa comune
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Aristotele aveva definito l’”oikonomia” come l’arte di vivere, differenziandola dalla “crematistica”, l’arte di fare soldi. Oggi l’economia, spiega Vandana Shiva, “è diventata solo una brutale macchina da soldi che sta distruggendo le case dei poveri e la nostra casa comune. È diventata una guerra contro le persone e il pianeta… Anche il significato originale di ricchezza è benessere e felicità, non denaro…
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Trump Adds $4.1 Trillion to National Debt. Here’s Where the Money Went
Sibile Marcellus | Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 – Once President Trump signs the budget deal that was passed by the House yesterday and is expected to be approved by the Senate in a few days, he will have added $4.1 trillion to the national debt. It seems that Trump is steadily walking toward a collapse of the US federal debt, which could trigger the fall of the US Empire–by 2020 according to peace/conflict researcher, sociologist Johan Galtung.
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A Compliment
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Really!?
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(Français) Le traité UE-Mercosur, un chèque en blanc pour violer les droits de l’homme et dévaster la planète
Tom Kucharz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Juil 2019 – Acclamé par des dirigeants comme le président espagnol Pedro Sánchez, l’accord commercial entre l’Union européenne et les pays du Mercosur est critiqué pour avoir blanchi l’extrême droite brésilienne ou pour les conséquences dévastatrices du commerce entre les deux régions sur les populations et le climat.
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State Terrorism: The Deception and Terrorisation of Populaces from the Era of Gladio to the War on Terror
Adeyinka Makinde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, unknown people far from any political game. The reason was quite simple – to force the people to turn to the state for greater security.”
–- Vincenzo Vinciguerra
All the News Is Bad
Francis Gooding | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
How long do we have left, and how bad will it get? David Wallace-Wells opens his book with a short, sharp reality check: ‘It’s worse, much worse, than you think.’ All the news is bad. Marshalling research from across the sprawling field of climate studies, he paints a picture of disastrous change on an almost incomprehensible scale. –>The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells, Allen Lane, 320 pp, Feb 2019
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The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation
Matthew Fox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
For years I have spoken out about how fishy the official story of Thomas Merton’s sudden death smelled to me. I have also, over the years, met three CIA agents who were present in Southeast Asia at the time and asked them pointedly whether they killed Thomas Merton.
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The Chomsky Poem
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
On the Occasion of Noam Chomsky Receiving the Peace Abbey Foundation Courage of Conscience Award–9 Dec 2016
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Road Map to a Green New Deal: From Extraction to Stewardship
Mathew Lawrence | Common Wealth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
5 Jul 2019 – The latest report from the UK-based think tank Common Wealth includes “a transatlantic proposal” for making public power ownership a core feature of the Green New Deal. A public buyout of the fossil fuel industry is the timeliest way to bring to heel the industry’s insatiable pursuit of profit at the expense of the planet.
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Fully Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated — A Summary of the Research
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
“How do child health outcomes compare between fully vaccinated and unvaccinated children”? During a Congressional hearing on autism, Dr. Coleen Boyle, the Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, gave evasive answers to lawmakers pressing her on this point. After considerable badgering, she finally stated, “We have not studied vaccinated versus unvaccinated [children].” That was perjury.
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Of Super-Patriots and War Fever
W.J. Astore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
This week a good friend sent me the image below from Mad Magazine.
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The US Government Just Officially Recognized the Satanic Temple as a Religion
Matthew Bell | PRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
There’s a new religion in America.
• The Satanic Temple has earned the same tax-exempt status as a church by the IRS.
• The Satanic Temple is growing rapidly, with around 20 chapters across the US, and affiliate groups in Canada, Australia, Germany, and the UK.
• While members of the Satanic Temple see the mythological, and literary, figure of Satan as a symbol of rebellion against tyranny, they do not worship Satan in any way.
Peace Journalism: Signs and Trends
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
A task of Peace Journalism is to be able to discern trends and to detect signs of emerging political and social issues. One aspect is what I call “raising a storm warning flag”. This is to highlight growing tensions or inappropriate responses to situations which are not yet on the world security agenda–that is, neither being discussed at the United Nations Security Council nor leading to action in a regular way.
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Johan Galtung Predictions: Fall of U.S. Empire, End to U.S. Wars
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Galtung suggests solutions based on 50 years of research in the areas of conflict transformation, mediation, peace studies, and related disciplines.
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Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account in Response to Backlash
Caitlin Johnstone | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 – After a week of vocal protests from online supporters of Julian Assange, Twitter has reversed its unjust removal of the prominent pro-Assange activism account @Unity4J. It cannot be denied that there is pressure being applied to new media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to forcibly marginalize all perspectives which fall outside the ever-shrinking Overton window of approved political discourse.
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Israel Destroys Land, Water Wells in West Bank
Quds News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019 – The Israeli occupation forces yesterday bulldozed four water wells and destroyed trees south of Hebron in the West Bank, the coordinator of the national and popular committees, Rateb Jabour, said. Israel is trying to displace these residents in the wider scheme to annex the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces and settlers routinely attack Palestinians in the occupied territories, demolishing their homes, poisoning their livestock and vandalising properties.
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Non-state Violence and the Right to Protect Oneself against Excessive State Use of Force
Chiara Redaelli | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Positive international law does not recognise a right to rebel or a right to self-defence to groups against state’s excessive use of force. Nevertheless, de lege ferenda we may wonder whether the traditional approach should be revised. The R2P doctrine confirms that the international community considers genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity as particularly heinous. In light of the gravity of these crimes, it is not preposterous to wonder whether they could trigger a right to self-defence, at least under certain circumstances.
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NSA Whistleblower Speaks about Julian Assange & the ‘Shadow Government’
Arjun Walia | Collective Evolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
22 Jul 201 – Longtime high-ranking NSA employee William Binney shares his thoughts on the arrest of Julian Assange and who is really in control.
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Dag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo.
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Hong Kong in Decline
Bunn Nagara – The Star [Malaysia],
29 Jul 2019
28 Jul 2019 – For China today Hong Kong is just another Chinese city, meaning it is dispensable. Shenzhen and the rest of the mainland do not need a nettlesome Hong Kong for China’s continued rise. Hong Kong protesters have committed at least a dozen strategic errors.
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(Português) Cidadania, Florestania: A Amazônia, Titular de Direitos
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
23 julho 2019 – Fenômenos novos exigem palavras novas. Assim cidadania se deriva de cidade e florestania, de floresta. O propósito é implementar a cidadania dos povos da floresta, dos indígenas, dos seringueiros e dos ribeirinhos. Floresta e ser humano vivem um pacto sócio-ecológico includente, onde o ser humano se entende parte da floresta e a floresta passa a ser um novo cidadão, respeitado em sua integridade, biodiversidade, estabilidade e luxuriante beleza junto com os outros cidadãos humanos.
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Privatization Increases Corruption
Jomo Kwame Sundaram | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019 – International financial institutions (IFIs) have typically imposed wide-ranging policy reforms – called ‘conditionalities’ – in exchange for country governments to secure access to financial assistance. IFI policy conditionalities, such as the privatization of state-owned enterprises, can create new rentier opportunities, undermining government will and capacity to curb corruption.
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Iran Seizes British Tanker after Britain Seizes Iranian Tanker
Kim Iversen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
19 Jul 2019 – A MUST WATCH for anyone looking for the truth of the current situation. A sensible, intelligent, literate commentary that sees through the military-capitalist alliance, USA-Britain-Israel-Saudi Arabia and their vassal states, which is doing everything possible to go into another Middle East war for spurious reasons with unforeseen consequences for the world.
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(Português) A Verdadeira História dos Erros Futuros
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Opinion SUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
5 jul 2019 – A verdade de um sistema errado é o erro. Para ser politicamente eficaz, este erro tem de ser incessantemente repetido, amplamente difundido e aceite pela população como a única verdade possível ou credível. É necessário que o que se difunde seja percebido como algo com que naturalmente temos de estar de acordo, que o que se aceita seja aceite para o bem de todos e que, se envolver algum sacrifício, ele seja o preço a pagar por um bem maior no futuro.
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Ecological Mouthprint versus Ecological Footprint
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 – Learning Action Avoidance from Rabbits in Anticipation of Disaster – Much is now made of assessments of carbon footprint, ecological footprint and climate footprint, and the strategies for their reduction in different situations. There is however a case for exploring the choice of the footprint metaphor given its associations with the most distant part of the human anatomy, however grounded it may be held to be — despite being necessarily left behind.
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(Français) L’esprit limité: Pourquoi la peur poursuit l’humanité à l’extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Ma propre préoccupation se termine violence, en prévenant l’extinction des personnes et en reconstruisant et durablement nos relations avec la terre et entre nous. Et vous?
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A Few Thoughts on Inequality
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
The International Day for Elimination of Racial Injustice and the forceful propagation of Sustainable Development Goals are not enough to banish or even reduce worldwide inequality and discrimination. The world needs the emergence of stalwarts like Gandhi, Mandela and other honest personalities for this uphill task.
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Non-Aligned Movement Demands End of Sanctions against Venezuela
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
21 Jul 2019 – Non-Aligned Countries demanded today that the United States Government immediately lift the economic and financial sanctions imposed on Venezuela. In a statement, the delegations of 120 NAM countries indicated that only Venezuela can decide its fate, no other State can intervene in accordance with the United Nations Charter.
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The Rise of Corporate Nations
Lorenzo Marsili – Al Jazeera,
22 Jul 2019
19 Jul 2019 – “There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today … The world is a collage of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business.” Last month, Facebook announced that it is introducing its own currency, Libra, which the more than two billion users (or “citizens”) of the platform will be able to use to pay for goods and services.
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Modern Money Theory: How I Came to MMT and What I Include in MMT
L Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
I was asked to give a short presentation at the MMT conference. What follows is the text version of my remarks, some of which I had to skip over in the interests of time. Many readers might want to skip to the bullet points near the end, which summarize what I include in MMT.
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The Joy of Suffering Overcome: Young Beethoven’s Stirring Letter to His Brothers about the Loneliness of Living with Deafness and How Music Saved His Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?” Like Frida Kahlo, Beethoven sublimated a lifetime of unbearable bodily suffering to the irrepressible vitality of his creative spirit. Bedeviled by debilitating physical illness and loss of hearing at the age of twenty-eight, he nonetheless became a servant of joy. Even Helen Keller, herself deaf and blind, conveyed the timeless transcendence of his music in her moving account of “hearing” his Ode to Joy.
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(Français) Dominants des médias, médias dominants et médiatisation de la pensée dominante
Denis Souchon | Le Grand Soir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
16 juillet 2019 – La connaissance des groupes dominants de l’espace médiatique, une arme au service de la lutte de libération et d’appropriation démocratique des médias.
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Merger Mania: The Military-Industrial Complex on Steroids
William D. Hartung - TomDispatch,
22 Jul 2019
16 Jul 2019 – Raytheon, already one of the top five U.S. defense contractors, is planning to merge with United Technologies. That company is a major contractor in its own right, producing, among other things, the engine for the F-35 combat aircraft, the most expensive Pentagon weapons program ever.
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A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall–Nobel Prize Ceremony (Music Video of the Week)
Patti Smith performs Bob Dylan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Celebrated singer Patti Smith performs a moving rendition of Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall.
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My Father Was a Poet
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
of course he didn’t write anything
in any way resembling a poem,
his signature was barely legible,
his words were few
(Português) 10 Razões para Não Frequentar Touradas
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Por favor, não vá à tourada!
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Cogito Ergo Sum! . . . Perhaps!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
I think!
Therefore, I am!
I am!
Therefore, I think!
I think I am!
The Big Lie
Jeff Davis | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
End US terror wars and US drug wars!
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Fighting Climate Change Means Ending War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
17 Jul 2019 – The “world’s greatest democracy” has morphed, over the course of my lifetime, into a money-driven military-industrial monstrosity, waging pointless wars, selling arms to the world, expanding its prison archipelago and generating endless wealth for the powerful — all the while insulated from public scrutiny by the mainstream propaganda industry, which shrugs and calls it all self-defense and situation normal as it serves up endless distractions to Spectator Nation.
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Will The Real Gene Sharp Please Step Forward?
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
16 Jul 201 – Recent criticisms calling the founder of nonviolent theory a Cold Warrior are way off the mark. To rightly evaluate him, we need to understand the role he chose for himself.
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The Ignominious Collapse of the Case against Actor Kevin Spacey
David Walsh | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
19 Jul 2019 – Cape and Islands District Attorney announced that his office was dropping its sexual assault case against prominent actor Kevin Spacey. The prosecution had little choice in the matter since the accuser in the case, William Little, refused to testify 10 days ago. Little, after consulting with his family and legal counsel, pleaded the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination, essentially bringing the pretrial hearing and the entire case to a halt.
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My Browser, the Spy: How Extensions Slurped Up Browsing Histories from 4M Users
Dan Goodin | Ars Technica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
18 Jul 2019 – Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public? Don’t trust extensions.
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Shoot to Maim: The Harvesting of Palestinian Bodies
Ghassan Abu-Sittah | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
After 30 years of working as a Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon with the injuries inflicted by the Israeli war machine on the bodies of Palestinians, I have been driven to try to understand the politics of injuring within the greater context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This journey culminated on the eve of the 14th of May 2018 (the move of the American Embassy to Jerusalem) when, over a period of 4 hours, 3,400 Palestinian demonstrators were wounded by Israeli troops, the majority of whom with high velocity sniper rifles.
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Hanging by a Thread
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
India has been home to a variety of arts and crafts which have won it a coveted place in the cultural heritage of the world. The weavers’ craft is threatened with extinction by power looms which offer a cheaper and faster way to produce the same goods; it can take weaver weeks to create what the machines can produce in a day. Moreover, machine products have a much sophisticated finish. As a result, many weavers’ clusters across the country are languishing.
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July 1995 Srebrenica Genocide: A Mirror for All Europeans
Dunja Mijatović | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
10 Jul 2019 – This happened with the complicity of a passive international community which knew what was happening but chose to look away. It took its final form in deliberate acts intended to destroy a group of people only because they were Muslims – before the unseeing eyes of those who did not feel concerned.
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James Cousins (22 Jul 1873 – 20 Feb 1956): An Effort of Synthesis
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
“From the total push and pressure of the Cosmos come the impulses of life that manifest themselves through desires (emotions) counsel (cognition) and works (action)…In other terms, the intuition flows through thoughts as truth, through feeling as beauty, through action as goodness.”
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Aldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become most specifically known to the public for his novels, and especially his fifth one, Brave New World, written in 1931 and published in 1932, which would delineate what the perfect dictatorship would look like. It would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.
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Required Reading: Noura Erakat on Palestine and Law
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, by Noura Erakat, Stanford University Press, 2019 – I make no claim to approach this book with an open mind. Making a fuller disclosure, I acknowledge with some pride that I have endorsed Justice for Some even before it was published, and my blurb appears on its back cover.
→ read full articleTwo Necessary and Sufficient Principles
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Life’s (humanity’s and the earth’s) bottleneck problems can be solved, I dare to suggest, by applying just two general principles. The two can be regarded as principles of unbounded organization. Unbounded organization is the name of a conversation, an academy and a movement (one of many, but not one that duplicates what the others do) devoted to making the impossible possible. Here I contribute to its conversation the proposal that implementing just two principles will make the impossible possible; namely, a pro-social attitude plus doing what works; or alternatively, a pro-social attitude plus structural understanding.
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Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Whatever…
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(Français) Twitter supprime le compte de l’organisation de défense d’Assange
Mike Head | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
15 juillet 2019 – Jeudi dernier, sans préavis ni explication, Twitter a arbitrairement suspendu le compte de @Unity4J, une plateforme dédiée à la diffusion d’informations et au plaidoyer pour le fondateur de WikiLeaks Julian Assange. Au moment d’écrire ces lignes, le compte a disparu depuis deux jours.
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(Português) Djokovic diz que está se recuperando melhor desde que parou de se alimentar de animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
13 jul 2019 – O célebre tenista sérvio Novak Djokovic, número 1 do ranking mundial, disse esta semana que está se recuperando melhor desde que parou de se alimentar de animais há alguns anos. “Não tenho mais as alergias que eu costumava ter. Gosto disso”
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Scientists Identify Malaria’s Achilles’ Heel
James Ives, Editor | News Medical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
29 Jun 2019 – Scientists have finally found malaria’s Achilles’ heel, a neurotoxin that isn’t harmful to any living thing except Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria.
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Top Assange Defense Account Deleted by Twitter
Caitlin Johnstone | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
12 Jul 2019 – One of the biggest Twitter accounts dedicated to circulating information and advocacy for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, @Unity4J, has been completely removed from the site. The operators of the account report that they have been given no reason for its removal by Twitter staff, and have received no response to their appeals.
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Worshipping the Electronic Image
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
15 Jul 2019 – Our post-literate culture has crippled us intellectually and produced a president whose babble replicates the nonsensical diatribes of the age.
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Does Religion Cause Violence?
William T. Cavanaugh | Harvard Divinity Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
[A qualifying note from the TMS Editor: The main premise of this essay–acquittal of organized religion–relies heavily on the Abrahamic religions’ (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) interpretations, theologies, doctrines and scriptures; a built-in bias from the author’s Christian background.]
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Lotus in the Swamp
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Wall Street is just Las Vegas
fused with a military-industrial mafia
who tell congress and the president what to do.
Climate Changed: The U.S. Military Has Spewed $21 Billion in Emissions since 9/11
David R Baker | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
American armed forces–with a globe-spanning array of bases, warships, planes and land vehicles–are the world’s largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases, topping countries including Sweden and Denmark, according to the study from Brown University’s Costs of War project.
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Human Rights Team Finds US-Backed Haitian Government Culpable in Lasalin Massacre
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
8 Jul 2019 – Haiti Action Committee together with the National Lawyers Guild is releasing a new report The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti about the Nov 2018 massacre. U.S. support for the Moise government includes millions of dollars to fund and train the Haitian National Police despite its well-documented participation in brutality, killings of unarmed protesters, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings, and massacres such as the Lasalin massacre.
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Israel Begins to Demolish Dozens of Homes near East Jerusalem
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 – The demolition is the latest round of protracted wrangling over the future of Jerusalem, home to more than 500,000 Israelis and 300,000 Palestinians, and sites sacred to Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
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Jair Bolsonaro Wants to Deforest the Amazon – What Powers Does the UN Have to Stop Him?
Ash Murphy – The Conversation,
22 Jul 2019
12 Jul 2019 – Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil is at its highest rate in a decade, according to new satellite data. This comes after President Jair Bolsonaro has loosened environmental regulations, cut enforcement budgets, and supported further development in the region.
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A Short History of the High Costs of Military Air Shows
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Part of the process that led many to killing and dying for their nation’s financial elites began with the thrill of experiencing military air shows. America’s soldiers, airmen, seamen and marines have been, in reality, working not for the US constitution to which they pledged allegiance, but rather for a whole host of nefarious special interest groups that stopped supporting them when their broken bodies, their broken brains and the body bags came home under cover of darkness.
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Venezuela Building Socialism in the Midst of a War: Report from the Left Forum
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
5 Jul 2019 – The U.S. is currently unilaterally sanctioning not only Venezuela but also some 30 other countries. The increasing danger of major power confrontation and consequently of world war urgently calls for building a unified movement against militarism, because only a peace movement within the U.S. can overcome this war mongering.
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This Dutch City Has Transformed Its Bus Stops into Bee Stops
Michiel de Gooijer | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
8 Jul 2019 – In the Dutch city Utrecht 316 bus stops now have a green roof. They do not only look great, they also help capture fine dust, storage of rainwater and provide cooling in the summertime. From Bus Stops to Bee Stops
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7,000+ Colleges and Universities Declare Climate Emergency and Unveil Three-Point Plan to Combat It
Jessica Corbett – Common Dreams,
15 Jul 2019
10 Jul 2019 – More than 7,000 colleges and universities across the globe declared a climate emergency today and unveiled a three-point plan to collectively commit to addressing the crisis. “We all need to work together to nurture a habitable planet for future generations and to play our part in building a greener and cleaner future for all.”
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Debunking the Indo-Pacific Myth
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
9 Jul 2019 – The Trump administration is obsessively spinning the concept of a “free and open Indo-Pacific”. Apart from a small coterie of scholars, very few people around the world, especially across the Global South, know what that means. Now everything one needs to know – and especially not know – about the Indo-Pacific is contained in a detailed Pentagon report.
→ read full articleComprehension of Requisite Variety via Rotation of the Complex Plane
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
15 Jul 2019 – Faced with global crises, it is useful to recall the variants of the well-known insight: There Is Always a Well-Known Solution to Every Human Problem — Neat, Plausible, and Wrong. How many of the advocated global strategies can be recognized in that light?
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Lives in the Peace Movement
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
I would like to announce the publication of a book describing the lives of some of the people who have contributed importantly to the peace movement. The book can be freely downloaded from the following link: I hope that the lives of these women and men can inspire us as we work together to abolish the institution of war.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
One of those…
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Frantz Omar Fanon was a Martinique-born French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and an existentialist humanist concerning the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
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In Myanmar’s Conflict-Torn Rakhine, Fresh Allegations of ‘War Crimes’
Poppy McPherson and Thu Thu Aung | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
12 Jul 2019 – When 35-year-old Ah Hla showed up to a police station in western Myanmar in late April hoping to see her husband among the prisoners, she didn’t know whether he was alive or dead. “I went there with the hope that I am going to see my husband, but he was not there,” said Ah Hla, who had walked to the police station with a group of relatives of the detained men. When she arrived, police told her that her husband of 15 years had hanged himself in his cell, and that his body had already been disposed of.
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Stifling the Amman Message
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
14 Jul 2019 – In the case of the aborted Amman Message Seminar in Malaysia, since names and identities are known, and as one of the three organisers of the seminar, the International Movement for a Just World (JUST) would like to know what action has been taken against the individual and group that threatened to bomb the venue. The public has a right to know.
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Diane Perlman, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Before the UN Conference on a Nuclear Weapons [WMD] Free Zone in the Middle East
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US Duty Free Shop Owners Give Millions to Israeli Settlements
Uri Blau and Josef Federman | Associated Press – ABC News,
15 Jul 2019
1 Jul 2019 – When travelers shop at Duty Free Shops at airports worldwide, they may be paying for more than a bottle of vodka or box of chocolates. The Falic family of Florida, owners of the ubiquitous chain, funds a generous and sometimes controversial philanthropic empire in Israel that runs through the corridors of power and stretches deep into the occupied West Bank. The family supports many far right causes considered extreme even in Israel.
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Planetary Condominium: The Legal Framework for the Common Home of Humanity
Paulo Miguel Ferreira Magalhães, et al. | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Inspired by the thoughts of Garrett Hardin and Elinor Ostrom the submission proposes to legally recognize the Earth System as Natural Intangible Common Heritage of Humankind and scale-up the legal model of condominiums to the global level: A condominium is an object with a unitary structure and common functional systems, with private rights for determined fractions and, simultaneously, common ownership and governance for common structures and functions. Different legal regimes would be able to coexist. A revived UN Trusteeship Council would be the guardian of the new heritage and others global commons, as well as for addressing global catastrophic risks using the planetary boundaries framework as a guidance system.
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Bangladesh Can Make Myanmar Pay for Crimes against Rohingya
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
8 Jul 2019 – Bangladesh simply lacks the resources to cope with the burden of having to shelter and feed 1.2 million Rohingya genocide survivors. It is also unfair to Dhaka to be left to handle a huge refugee burden alone without adequate financial support from the international community. Dhaka should move International Court of Justice to force Myanmar to pay reparations to for hosting victims of genocide.
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(Castellano) La mente limitada: por qué el miedo está llevando la humanidad a la extinción
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Mi propia preocupación es poner fin a la violencia, evitar la extinción humana y construir de nuevo y de manera sostenible nuestras relaciones con la Tierra y con los demás. ¿Tú que dices?
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Defining Constructive Resistance
Majken Jul Sørensen | Journal of Resistance Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
What does it mean when people start to build the society they desire independently of structures of power?
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Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face
Cade Metz – The New York Times,
15 Jul 2019
13 Jul 2019 — Dozens of databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge by companies and researchers, with many of the images then being shared around the world, in what has become a vast ecosystem fueling the spread of facial recognition technology.
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Activists Walk “Cease and Desist” Order into Nuclear Weapons Base in Germany
Submitted by Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
10 Jul 2019 — News advisory on antinuclear protests that Voices for Creative Nonviolence co-coordinator Brian Terrell is currently attending in Büchel, Germany. Included is the “Treaty Enforcement Order” presented to Büchel Air Base today and a photograph of the eleven activists’ entry to the base.
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150,000,000 More Child-Mothers?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
So far, 650 million women alive today were married as children.
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Euronews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
20 Jun 2019 – An undercover video released by a French animal rights group showed live cows whose sides have been perforated with a “porthole” into their stomach to study their digestion.
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Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Against Busyness and Surfaces: Emerson on Living with Presence and Authenticity
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.” — Walt Whitman
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Most Veterans Say America’s Wars Are a Waste. No One’s Listening to Them.
Adam Weinstein – The New Republic,
15 Jul 2019
12 Jul 2019 – There’s a widening gap between Washington’s bipartisan militarism and veterans’ bipartisan war-skepticism.
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Why Stimulus Can’t Fix Our Energy Problems
Gail Tverberg | Our Finite World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
10 Jul 2019 – Economists tell us that within the economy there is a lot of substitutability, and they are correct. However, there are a couple of not-so-minor details that they overlook: There is no substitute for energy. It is possible to harness energy from another source, or to make a particular object run more efficiently, but the laws of physics prevent us from substituting something else for energy.
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And Ye Shall Inherit the Whirlwind or Learn to Live in Gratitude and Grace (Parts 1 to 3)
Stefan Schindler | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
We are free to become free. This is the lesson taught by Socrates. It is also the essence of Buddhism. The word “Buddha” means “awake.” Awakening, as Plato would say, is recollecting the sanity we were born with. Nietzsche quotes Pindar: “Become who you are.” We are inextricable strands in the holistic web of being and becoming. Said the poet Byron: “Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part of me and of my soul, as I of them?” John Lennon said: “I am the walrus.”
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Settlers Seize another Home in Jerusalem
Asharq Al-Awsat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
11 Jul 2019 – Israeli soldiers evicted a Palestinian family from their east Jerusalem home and handed it over to settlers yesterday. The police forcefully removed the family from their home after a court dismissed their appeal and ruled in favor of the settler group ending a 25-year-long battle over the property against Elad settlement association.
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Choosing a Material or Spiritual Lifestyle–or a Balance of Both
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Quite often I get questions from young people who may be in college or starting out in their career, regarding the decision of whether they should take up a serious spiritual lifestyle or remain engaged in material pursuits such as education, career, family, etc. Others are worried that their family will not understand or will wonder what will become of them if they become overly spiritual. Or the family may even become overly upset if they show too much spiritual inclination. Let us think this over.
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Nuclear Weapons as Theological Statements
TalkWorks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Johan Galtung on the way forward for nuclear disarmament and sustainable global security.
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Land Thieves Ramp up Deforestation in Brazil’s Jamanxim National Forest
Sue Branford and Thais Borges | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
4 Jul 2019 – Deforestation is rising dramatically in Brazil, with satellite data showing the country’s Amazonian region lost more forest in May than during any other month in the past decade.
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Indian Child Lydian Nadhaswaram Plays the Piano Masterfully (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Word in the streets is that Lydian Nadhaswaram is an incarnation of Chopin… Who am I to judge or contradict? Just enjoy…
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July 16, 1945: First Successful Test of Atomic Bomb
Mystic Stamp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
On16 Jul 1945, members of America’s Manhattan Project held their first successful test of the atom bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico. [A day to live in infamy]
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Men
Jean Ranc – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Pity the hollow men who
only know how to say No!
After creating false gods and
phallic weapons in the image of
Give Peace a Chance: Don’t Believe the War Profiteers
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
11 Jul 2019 – Last month I had the opportunity to share some thoughts at a Divest Philly from the War Machine event, hosted by Wooden Shoe Books and sponsored by World Beyond War, Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, and other anti-war groups. Below are my remarks, slightly edited for clarity. My thanks to everyone involved.
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