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Mahatma Gandhi on Conversion
Swami Aksharanandaji | Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
“I disbelieve in the conversion of one person by another. My effort should never to be to undermine another’s faith. This implies belief in the truth of all religions and, therefore, respect for them. It implies true humility.” (Young India: April 23, 1931)
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Private Equity Firm to Purchase the Assets of the .ORG Domain Registry for $1 Billion
Kevin Reed | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
27 Jan 2020 – A public demonstration took place on 24 Jan in front of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to demand a halt to the sale of the .ORG domain registry to the private equity firm Ethos Capital for $1.135 billion. The conversion of .ORG into a for-profit is an attack on public access to news, information and digital media. Among the threats are higher domain registration fees, censorship-for-hire schemes, selling browsing data and diminished technical maintenance and support.
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How the Myth of the Alpha Male Has Hijacked Modern Masculinity
Lizzy Francis | Fatherly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
14 Jan 2020 – In “Are Men Animals?” anthropologist Matthew Gutmann explores how modern ideas of masculinity repress and harm men.
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To Rob or Not to Rob?
Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Consider this simple “parlour game”. Pass a blank slip of paper to every person present in a group. Request each person to answer the following question anonymously on the slip provided. ‘An old, richly bejewelled lady is passing along a dimly-lit and lonely lane at night. A lone robber robbing all her jewellery would certainly not be recognized or caught. Out of a hundred adult citizens of the city, how many do you think will rob the old lady?’
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Contesting Nuclearism: Management or Transformation? An Urgent Challenge
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – This essay calls attention to the generally unappreciated tensions between managing nuclear weapons and eliminating them altogether. It stresses the crucial point that management inevitably produces a structure of ‘nuclear apartheid’ that is to some extent ‘legalized’ by way of the Nonproliferation Treaty of 1961, and depends for implementation, not on law, but on geopolitical muscle, including war. This geopolitical pattern of NPT enforcement has been mainly undertaken by the United States, but is generally supported by most of the other nuclear weapons states.
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Lives in Engineering
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
23 Jan 2020 – At present, history is taught as though power struggles were its most important aspect. Furthermore, the present teaching of history is indoctrination in nationalism. We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a growth to which all nations and ethnic groups have contributed.
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(Italiano) L’arrivo dell’Apocalisse: tra una manciata di secondi…
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
23 Gennaio 2020 – Il messaggio che oggi è stato comunicato ai governanti e alle società civili di tutto il mondo è drammatico: mancano 100 secondi a mezzanotte, l’umanità non è mai stata così vicina all’autodistruzione!
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The Business Party Syndicate
James McFadden | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 – Each year Leftist Democrats, Socialists and Radicals are asked to hold their noses and vote for the lesser-of-two-evils. This is a false choice because we live in a rigged One-Party state – a plutocracy run by the Business Party, a Syndicate with Democratic and Republican wings. “Syndicate” is the proper word for our corrupt One-Party system.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2020–Nomination Info in English, Français, Deutsch, Русский, Castellano, Svenska–Deadline: 31 Jan
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Please nominate for the 2020 Nobel Prize – Information below in English, French, German, Russian, Castellano and Swedish
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Lions Are Starving to Death in Sudanese Park and a Global Campaign Has Begun to Rescue Them
Jisha Joseph | Upworthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – Although the images spread like a wildfire across social media feeds around the world with the hashtag #SudanAnimalRescue, it was already too late for at least one lioness, which died Monday [20 Jan].
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2020 Edelman Trust Barometer
Edelman Intelligence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
19 Jan 2020 – The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that despite a strong global economy and near full employment, none of the four societal institutions that the study measures—government, business, NGOs and media—is trusted.
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One World Digital Dictatorship
Soren Korsgaard | Crime and Power – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
5 Jan 2020 – The accelerating movement by both Western-style democracies and one-party states towards world-wide ongoing digital disempowerment and digital imprisonment of humanity involving mass data collection on everyone, mass surveillance, facial recognition-based tracking, cryptocurrency-based cashless societies, and social credit-based disempowerment. A Must Read.
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Embracing Islamic Terrorism
Chris Kanthan | Nation of Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Ever wonder why we never go to war against or impose sanctions on these sponsors of terrorism? Heck, we don’t even condemn them! Terrorism is the problem. Fear is the reaction. Government is the solution.
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Top UN Court Orders Myanmar to Protect Rohingya from Genocide
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
23 Jan 2020 – Myanmar must take steps to protect its minority Rohingya population, the top UN court unanimously ruled on today. “The Secretary-General recalls that, pursuant to the UN Charter and to the Statute of the Court, decisions of the Court are binding and trusts that Myanmar will duly comply with the Order from the Court,” it said.
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Secret Wars, Forgotten Betrayals, Global Tyranny, Runway Budget. Who Is Really in Charge of the U.S. Military?
Cynthia Chung | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
19 Jan 2020 – Trump, who is under attack from all sides within his own country, is not in a position to hold the CIA or the Pentagon accountable for their past and future crimes.
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World’s Billionaires Have More Wealth than 4.6 Billion People
Oxfam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020 – The world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 percent of the planet’s population, reveals a new report from Oxfam today ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
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Landmark UN Ruling: Countries Banned from Returning Refugees to Countries Threatened by Climate Crisis
Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – A landmark ruling by the UN Human Rights Committee states that, “It is unlawful to return refugees to countries where their lives may be threatened by the impacts of the climate crisis.” The non-binding ruling is a move that could set a precedent for future protection claims.
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Geopolitics & Empire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 Jan 2020 – Dr. Johan Galtung discusses his view of the future of the world and U.S. empire. He believes we’re moving into a peaceful multipolar world composed of regional civilizations, but not quite attaining “one world”. He sees Islam returning with a vengeance and the U.S. possibly splitting or dividing into two parts.
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UN Biodiversity Chief: Humans Risk Living in an ‘Empty World’ with ‘Catastrophic’ Consequences
Jordan Davidson | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020 – Talk is cheap, says the acting executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, who begged governments around the world to make sure that 2020 is not another year of conferences and empty promises, but instead is the year to take decisive action to stop the mass extinction of wildlife and the destruction of habitat-sustaining ecosystems.
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Bernie, Biden, and My Father
Roy Eidelson | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 Jan 2020 – Bernie has the highest favorability ratings of all the primary candidates and the latest national polls show him beating Trump in the general election. Democratic socialism really just means ensuring fair treatment and decent and fulfilling lives for all Americans, not just the privileged few.
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A Critical Analysis of Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict Resolution and Way Ahead
Jagmeet Bawa and Harpreet Singh | International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Present study tries to focus on the overall conflict resolution philosophy given by Mahatma Gandhi as an alternative path towards the eradication of conflicts. This study deals with three things; Gandhian philosophy of conflict resolution, critical evaluation of the Gandhian theory of conflict resolution and study comes out with a universal and holistic way out for the resolution of conflicts.
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Never the Pentagon: How the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away with Murder in Contract after Contract
Mandy Smithberger | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 Jan 2020 – As the latest Pentagon budget shows, no matter the revelations, there will be no reckoning when it comes to this country’s endless wars or its military establishment — not at a moment when President Donald Trump is sending yet more U.S. military personnel into the Middle East and has picked a new fight with Iran. No less troubling: how few in either party in Congress are willing to hold the president and the Pentagon accountable for runaway defense spending or the poor performance that has gone with it.
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Now Three Years into the Reign of Trump, What’s Left? Class Trumps Partisan Differences
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – The campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard, and before them Occupy, point to a popular insurgency. Mass protests of the dispossessed are rocking France, India, Colombia, Chile, and perhaps here soon.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
We approach the 72nd anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas K. Gandhi on 30 January 1948. Wearing his own homespun cloth, he noted more than 100 years ago: ‘Earth provides enough for every person’s need but not for every person’s greed.’ This is something that those attending the World Economic Forum are too psychologically damaged to understand. And you?
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The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 Jan 2020 – Even when critical of US actions, media commentary on recent US bombings and assassinations in the Middle East is premised on the assumption that the US has the right to use violence (or the threat of it) to assert its will, anytime, anywhere. Conversely, corporate media coverage suggests that any countermeasure—such as resistance to the US presence in Iraq—is inherently illegitimate, criminal and/or terroristic.
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Gender and Caste Differences — Efforts at Overcoming Them
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
23 Jan 2020 – Most countries and communities have various types of differences and consequent challenges — social, economic, racial, educational, gender etc. India has all these but there is one that is perhaps unique — caste difference or caste hierarchy.
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Rohingyas
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
26 Jan 2020 – The ICJ Order to the Government of Myanmar to protect the Rohingya community from “physical destruction” and to prevent all acts within Article 11 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide including killing members of the group and imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group” is a decision of tremendous significance.
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Single-Use Plastic: China to Ban Bags and Other Items
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020 – Non-degradable bags will be banned in major cities by the end of 2020 and in all cities and towns by 2022. The restaurant industry will also be banned from using single-use straws by the end of 2020. China has for years been struggling to deal with the rubbish its 1.4 billion citizens generate.
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ICJ Interim Genocide Ruling on Myanmar Vindicates Rohingya
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
24 Jan 2020 – Rohingya around the world yesterday shared a pervasive sense of vindication after four-decades of policy-inflicted sufferings at the hands of Myanmar state which has systematically sought to destroy their identity and physical existence in the country. Historic decision of World Court makes voice of Rohingya Muslims eventually heard.
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Several Caribbean Nations Reject Pompeo’s Visit to Jamaica
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 Jan 2020 – The Caribbean nations are standing in defiance of Pompeo’s attempts to split up the region and isolate friendly countries.
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In the Name of ‘Israel’s Security’: Retreating US Gives Israel Billions more in Military Aid
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – Despite the fact that the US is retreating from the region, lacking strategy and future vision, lawmakers in Washington are congratulating themselves on passing yet another generous aid package to Israel. In their confused thinking, a ‘secured’ Israel is the only guarantor of US dominance in the Middle East. That is a theory that has been proven false, time and time again.
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Read the Luanda Leaks Documents
Will Fitzgibbon and Mago Torres | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
19 Jan 2020 – We’ve published emails, contracts, organizational charts, meeting videos, loan agreements and more from our investigation into Isabel dos Santos.
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What if Competition Isn’t as “Natural” as We Think?
John Favini | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
23 Jan 2020 – Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology, which might just help liberate our collective imagination in time to better address the climate [and other] crises.
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(Português) Entenda as Causas e as Consequências dos Incêndios na Austrália
Bruna Araújo | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 jan 2020 – O prejuízo para a fauna e flora são inestimáveis. Estudos afirmam que mais de 1 bilhão de animais foram mortos.
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It’s all in the Timing
Joe Kandra and Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Mind control…?
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791)
Encyclopædia Britannica– TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. With Haydn and Beethoven he brought to its height the achievement of the Viennese Classical School. Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers.
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Watch Before It Gets Deleted
Mike Prysner | Iraq War Veteran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
27 Sep 2019 – Speaking Truth to Power from the Inside – BRAVO!
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Hovering in Cyberspace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
24 Jan 2020 – We live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world became people’s “window on the world.” An electronic nothingness replaced reality as people gleefully embraced digital wraparound apparitions. These days people still move about in the physical world but live in the electronic one. The result is mass hallucination.
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You Know Me–a Poem Shared at #NoWarOnIran
PeaceActionMaine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
25 Jan 2020 – Portland, Maine (Please Watch)
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Closer than Ever: It Is 100 Seconds to Midnight
John Mecklin | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Doomsday Clock Statement – 23 Jan 2020 – Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that undercuts society’s ability to respond. The international security situation is dire, not just because these threats exist, but because world leaders have allowed the international political infrastructure for managing them to erode. (Read on…)
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(Italiano) Camminare in pace per la pace
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
15 Gennaio 2020 – A Madrid, il 2 Ottobre 2019, in occasione della Giornata Internazionale della Nonviolenza, un centinaio di marciatori, provenienti da vari continenti si sono dati appuntamento al Km Zero della Puerta del Sol di Madrid per la partenza. Il programma prevede che si percorrano territori in Africa, America, Oceania, Asia, Europa, per tornare a Madrid l’8 Marzo, giornata internazionale della donna.
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This Is Our Legacy
Marge Piercy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
How will they curse us,
the 3rd, 4th generations,
the ones that survive
the deaths we left them?
(Português) ONU: Mudanças climáticas podem ser ainda piores para o mundo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
24 jan 2020 – “O mundo está ‘condenado’ diante das mudanças climáticas, a menos que os principais países industrializados reduzam suas emissões de gases de efeito estufa”, disse ontem (23) o secretário-geral da ONU, António Guterres, a líderes empresariais no Fórum Econômico Mundial em Davos, na Suíça.
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What the Right Wing in Latin America Means by Democracy Is Violence
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights—a body of the pro-U.S. Organization of American States—reported in December 2019 that there have been a series of massacres conducted by the armed forces of the current interim government in Bolivia. The use of the word “massacre” in this report is significant; these were not clashes or conflicts, but the targeted murder of civilians who supported MAS and Morales.
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These Chains Will Be Broken: New Book Delivers Resistance Message from Palestinian Prisoners to the World
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020 – Today, Clarity Press announced the launch of These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Ramzy Baroud and The Palestine Chronicle Editorial Team with a foreword by Khalida Jarrar, Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and an Afterword by Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.
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Fight to Clean
Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
I grew up above my father’s tavern.
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Romanza (Music Video of the Week)
Al Marconi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Played with Feeling on Spanish Classical Guitar
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‘We Apologize’ for Trump’s Reckless Aggression, US Peace Advocates Say in Open Letter to Iranian People
Eoin Higgins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
24 Jan 2020 – Letter from activist group CodePink: “As Americans committed to peace and the safety of all people, we, the undersigned, apologize for the actions of our reckless, hate-filled president,” the letter says, “and pledge to do everything we can to stop Trump’s aggression, remove the crippling sanctions you are suffering under, and resume a process of diplomacy with your country.”
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(Português) Brasil: Estudantes protestam contra interferência de evangélicos em cultura e religião indígenas
Araguaia Notícia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 jan 2020 – Estudantes Apyãwa – Tapirapé do Aranowa’yao – Ensino Médio, da Escola Indígena Estadual “Tapi’itãwa” da Terra Indígena Urubu Branco em Confresa escreveram carta de protesto contra a ingerência de evangélicos sobre sua cultura e sua religião.
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An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Disaster as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
“The constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times.”
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Ancient Never-Before-Seen Viruses Discovered Locked up in Tibetan Glacier
Laura Geggel | Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau has hosted a party for some unusual guests: an ensemble of frozen viruses. Scientists recently took a look at two ice cores from this melting Tibetan glacier, revealing the existence of 28 never-before-seen virus groups unknown to modern science.
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(Português) A História Foi Escrita pela Mão Branca
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – Uma das realidades mais perversas da história humana foi o milenar estatuto da escravidão. Aí se mostra o que também podemos ser: não só sapiens, portadores de amor, empatia, respeito e devoção, mas também demens, odientos, agressivos, cruéis e sem piedade. Este nosso lado sombrio parece dominar a cena social de nosso tempo e também do Brasil.
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(Português) PETA e Greenpeace São Classificados como Grupos Terroristas no Reino Unido
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
17 jan 2020 – A organização Pessoas Pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (PETA), Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd e Stop The Cull, que atuam em defesa dos animais e do meio ambiente, foram incluídas em uma lista de grupos terroristas no Reino Unido, de acordo com edição de hoje (17) do jornal inglês The Guardian.
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Crowdsourcing Just Punishment for Julian Assange
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
In a period of so-called just war, with which forms of “just torture” are increasingly evident, the concern in what follow is how best to reflect the highest democratic principles in those countries most inspired by the highest Christian values — and most implicated in the outcome of the trial of Julian Assange for having spoken truth to power.
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Reconciling Dr. King’s 1968 Dream and Our 2020 Nightmare
Bob Hennelly | Salon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
12 Jan 2020 – Debt servitude, endless wars, and our economic turmoil was all prophesied by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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(Français) La Chine et la Destinée du Monde
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
13 janvier 2020 – Si l’on veut en croire ce qui s’écrit à droite comme à gauche, pour la Chine, la messe est dite ! Le pays aurait capitulé et serait devenu capitaliste, quoi que le régime chinois lui-même puisse prétendre. C’est précisément cette opinion quasi unanime, que les économistes Rémy Herrera et Zhiming Long combattent avec verve dans leur livre ‘La Chine est-elle capitaliste?’.
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Facing the Global Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
16 Jan 2020 – This is an amplified version of an interview published on 7 Jan in the online journal, Global Policy. As the interview was conducted in Dec 2019, it fails to address the various disruptive consequences of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, including the violation of Iraqi sovereignty, Baghdad being the site of the drone attack, as well as the risks of war arising from an escalating tit-for-tat cycle of actions and reactions.
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The Art of Listening
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Dr. Bernard Lown, Professor of Cardiology emeritus at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-recipient with Yevgeniy Chazov of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize as Chairman of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said that he once toured a hospital as a young intern with other interns observing their professor.
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Growing Gardens of Diversity Weaving Gardens of Love
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – Diversity is the Hindustan Way. In these times of limitless greed and manufactured division and hate, we resist by living and thinking through, and with, our diversities as one humanity on one planet. We grow gardens of Diversity. We weave garlands of love.
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Smart Power & the Human Rights Industrial Complex
Patrick Henningsen | UK Column – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Human rights in the West: does the reality live up to the rhetoric? Billionaire philanthropists, political luminaries and transnational corporations, all work for social justice, forging a better, fairer and more accountable world…. Along with military invasions and missionaries, NGOs help crack countries open like ripe nuts, paving the way for exploitation and extraction. If the international community is to go beyond neocolonialist paradigms, it will need to place compassion ahead of policy, and humanity ahead of profits. Only then can the reality live up to the rhetoric.
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(Italiano) Lo Schema di Pensiero della Laudato Sii di Papa Francesco
Antonino Drago - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Lo schema di pensiero della Laudato sii di Papa Francesco non è quello classico della dottrina sociale della Chiesa, per la quale i testi sacri interpretati dal Magistero prescrivono ai fedeli un determinato comportamento. Questo schema si chiama integrista, perché fa discendere dall’alto di principi e di norme il giusto comportamento degli appartenenti alla istituzione Chiesa.
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New Pair of Jeans
Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Buying a new pair of jeans
With her hard earned means
The teenager Tanu put them on
For her friends to like her taste
Brazil: Bolsonaro Leads 2019 Record for Attacks on the Press
teleSUR | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 — The far-right former Capitan accounted for three out of five press attacks in 2019.
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Jeremy Scahill | Intercepted – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – The Trump administration’s assassination of Iranian military official Qassim Suleimani in Iraq was an act of aggression and an offensive act of war. What the latest developments mean for Iran and the U.S. and how tensions have rapidly escalated since Donald Trump came to office? Will Trump’s current posture hold, or will he order more violence?
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How Democracies Die
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
13 Jan 2020 – The United States’ descent toward tyranny mirrors the experience of Germany and Italy in the 1930s.
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Iran Jet Disaster Setup
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich and Finian Cunningham | Sputnik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – The 19-second video published by the New York Times last week showing the moment an Iranian missile hit a passenger jet has prompted much social media skepticism. Questions arise about the improbable timing and circumstances of recording the precise moment when the plane was hit.
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Structured Dialogue
Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Under some circumstances discussions of major public issues could be more productive if the participants prepared a joint analysis about the issues, including observations about the historical background, the major relevant facts, the points of contention, and proposed actions. Even for the most contentious of issues, there would be a great deal about which the participants could agree. Conflicts can be addressed in constructive ways. One path to peace is to work toward a jointly imagined peace.
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Grace under Fire: Getting Arrested with Jane Fonda
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – Following Jane Fonda’s 11th weekly Fire Drill Friday rally on the Capitol, we marched over the Hart Senate Office Building where 138 of us risked arrest and spent the rest of December 20 celebrating Jane Fonda’s 82nd birthday in a very cold warehouse, hosted by friendly DC police officers.
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The Man Who Murdered Rosa Luxemburg
Klaus Gietinger | Jacobin Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – On January 15, 1919, the leaders of the German revolution were murdered by far-right soldiers enraged by the rising socialist movement. The man who masterminded the killings was Waldemar Pabst — a fanatical nationalist officer whose paramilitaries became the rank and file for Nazism.
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Beethoven 5th Symphony-Ode to Europe (Music Video of the Week)
Literatube Multimídia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
European Union’s Anthem
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(Português) Insecta Aposta em Sandálias de “Couro de Abacaxi”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 jan 2020 – Nova coleção da marca é baseada na tecnologia Piñatex, tecido criado a partir de fibras de abacaxi e que imita o couro.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Resigns from Nobel Women’s Initiative
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
1 Jan 2020 – Press Release. Mairead Maguire Resigned Today from the Nobel Women’s Initiative Board and Organization
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2020 U.S. Presidential Elections: Reflections outside the Box
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – Four Reflections on What Would Help Democrats Defeat Trump
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JPMorgan Chase Records the Biggest Profit of any Bank in US History
Gabriel Black | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
18 Jan 2020 – JPMorgan Chase made $36.4 billion in 2019, the biggest annual profit of any bank in American history. The six largest US banks revealed that they saved a combined $32 billion from Trump’s corporate tax cut. JPMorgan’s profit is more than half the education budget of the US federal government.
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The Prosecution of Julian Assange, the Destruction of Legality and the Rise of the National Security State
Richard Hoffman | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – It is worthwhile to consider briefly the lawless character of Assange’s persecution by Britain, the United States and Sweden. Since the beginning, Assange has been subjected to endless procedural abuses and political interference in the legal process. Virtually every customary precept, practice and procedural protection, which an accused is traditionally afforded, has been discarded in the effort to railroad him. The disintegration of the democratic system and the rise of the national security state are hallmarks of the deepening crisis of imperialism.
→ read full articleGreed Is Driving Us towards Disaster
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
The greed of giant fossil fuel corporations is driving us towards a tipping point after which human efforts to control climate change will be futile because feedback loops will have taken over. The greed of the military industrial complex is driving us towards a Third World War that might develop into a catastrophic thermonuclear war. The greed of our financial institutions is also driving us towards economic collapse.
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Why Myanmar’s Genocide Denial Will Come Back to Haunt It
Maung Zarni | Free Rohingya Coalition/The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 – As the International Criminal Court proceeds with its own separate investigation into Myanmar’s crimes against the Rohingya, it is imperative that the prosecutor name Aung San Suu Kyi, along with the generals, as partners in crime. The international community must stand firm in holding her to account.
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A Hundred Reasons That Make Vaccine Hesitancy Logical and Compatible with the Actual Science of Vaccinology
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Even if Big Pharma’s Investors/Wall Street and the Pseudo Scientists at the CDC and AAP Complain – On Aluminum-adjuvanted Vaccines, Autoimmunity, Alzheimer’s Dementia and Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Under US Pressure, Social Media Companies Censor Critical Content and Suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian Accounts
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
12 Jan 2020 – As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that conflicts with Washington’s pro-war narrative. We spoke to several people silenced in these social media purges.
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Qatar: End of Abusive Exit Permits for Migrant Workers
Human Rights Watch | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020 — Qatar announced on Jan 16 that most migrant workers previously prevented from leaving the country without their employer’s permission will no longer need an exit permit, Human Rights Watch said today. But domestic workers will have to notify employers before leaving.
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(Português) Área com Alertas de Desmatamento na Amazônia Aumenta 85% em 2019
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 jan 2020 – De janeiro a dezembro de 2019 foram registrados 9.165,6 km² de área com alertas de desmatamento na Amazônia Legal.
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Will We Always Be This Way?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – “The people do not want war!” Perhaps this sanguinary legacy is why, in survey after international survey, the United States is perennially voted the world’s greatest threat to peace in most of the world’s nations. After Soleimani’s assassination, Trump boasted that ‘his bloody rampage is forever gone.’ If only the same were true of Trump. . .
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Sigh!
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Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? A Report on the State of Planet Earth
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
There are at least four distinct paths to imminent (that is, within five years) human extinction: nuclear war (possibly started regionally), biodiversity collapse (already well advanced and teetering on the brink), the deployment of 5G (commenced recently) and the climate catastrophe. Needless to say, each of these four paths might unfold in a variety of ways.
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On The Brink of War?
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – Are we on the brink of a Third World War? There are signs that demand that we ask this question. Three clusters of signs compel us to probe a question that could well determine the future of our civilisation.
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Satellite Constellation and Crown Chakra as Complementary Global Metaphors?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
13 Jan 2020 – An earlier document focused on the imminent launch into orbit of the Starlink satellite constellation of some 12,500 communication satellites, and especially on their problematic psycho-social and symbolic implications. Experimental Representation of Crown Chakra in Virtual Reality
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(Italiano) La tecnologia 5G: verità a confronto… e le ambiguità della Scienza
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 Gennaio 2020 – L’introduzione di questa nuova tecnologia riguarderà un numero enorme di persone: non solo quelle direttamente coinvolte nelle fasi di progettazione, implementazione e commercializzazione, e gli utenti che vorranno utilizzarla, ma milioni di cittadini e cittadine che, senza averlo scelto e spesso a loro insaputa, si troveranno immersi in una fitta rete di segnali elettromagnetici. Il pubblico sta ricevendo ormai da tempo messaggi pubblicitari che danno per scontata la diffusione del sistema a 5G.
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Two-Nation Theory Re-examined–and a Few Reflections on India’s Citizenship (Amendment) Bill
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
30 Dec 2019 – The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill would revive the two-nation theory, which implied Hindus and Muslims are two different nations, hence they cannot stay together. The architects of this theory were Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Muhammad Iqbal, and on the basis of this theory British India was partitioned into India and Pakistan. Jinnah and Iqbal must be smiling in their graves as their TNT idea gets new adherents, and Gandhi must be turning in pain.
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Pity the Nation
Kahlil Gibran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not harvest.
(Français) Comment Haïti est devenu la « république des ONG »
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 janvier 2020 – Le désastre de la reconstruction de l’un des pays les plus pauvres au monde, après le séisme meurtrier du 12 janvier 2010, est l’histoire d’un rendez-vous manqué des acteurs de l’humanitaire avec le peuple haïtien.
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Becoming God! “Controlling Human Ontology:” Ambitions of the “Secret-State Confederation”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 Jan 2020 – I use the word “Confederation” because I do believe no single group, no single nation, and no single concern is capable of controlling and dominating humanity, nations, and the world. Defining characteristics of sinister “Confederation” of individuals, groups, and organizations include:
→ read full articleLives in Astronomy
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – At present, history is taught as though power struggles were its most important aspect. Furthermore, the present teaching of history is indoctrination in nationalism. We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a growth to which all nations and ethnic groups have contributed.
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Open Letter to Members of the U.S. Congress
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – I listened to Trump from my own perspective and with an attempt to hear his words as if I were an Iranian living in Iran. I found the statement belligerent, and formulated in an imperialist/hegemonic language, avoiding a diplomatic sequel, and instead resuming the ‘maximum pressure’ approach involving threats and further intensified sanctions and other coercive moves that will bring additional suffering to the Iranian people.
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix é preso durante protesto em Washington
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
12 jan 2020 – O ator vegano Joaquin Phoenix, que recentemente recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Ator no 77º Globo de Ouro por sua interpetração em “Coringa”, foi preso na última sexta-feira (10) logo após discursar em protesto em Washington DC contra as mudanças climáticas.
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For Western Press, the Only Coup in Venezuela Is against Guaidó
Lucas Koerner | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – The international corporate media have entered crisis mode following the replacement of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as head of the country’s National Assembly. In headline after headline, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro “Takes Over”, “Claims Control of” or “Seizes” parliament, and “Ousts” Guaidó in the process. However, the elementary if inconvenient fact is that Guaidó failed to secure the necessary votes from his own coalition’s deputies to continue as president of the legislature.
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The Current U.S. Approach to Nuclear Weapons Can Only Lead to Armageddon
Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – The U.S. is returning to its post-World War II U.S. vision of a Pax Americana. This is embedded in its nuclear doctrine, its strategic vision of controlling all theaters of war, and defining its competition in regional theaters as “revisionist powers.” That the U.S. and its leaders do not understand the world would not have mattered so much in an earlier era. Today, any war, let alone a nuclear one, will inevitably have global consequences. Arms Control Provides the Only Path to Peace
→ read full article(Français) Le Schéma de la Pensée de L’Encyclique Laudato Sii du Pape François
Antonino Drago - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Le schéma de la pensée de la Laudato Sii du pape François n’est pas le classique de la doctrine sociale de l’Église : les textes sacrés, interprétés par le Magistère, prescrivent aux fidèles de précis comportements. Ce schéma est appelé intégriste, car il fait descendre du haut de principes et de normes l’entière comportement des membres de l’institution ecclésiale.
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Activism, Nonviolence, Direct Action: Strategy, Tactics, Organizing
Glen Perusek | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – The word “strategy” is overused and is often confused with tactics. This is a problem not just for organized labor and progressive movements; it is also endemic in business and many other realms of organized activity. This seems odd, given that the literature on strategy and tactics is thousands of years old. This article draws on some of that classical literature.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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India: A Dangerous New Low in State-Sponsored Hate
Harsh Mander | The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
7 Jan 2020 – In Uttar Pradesh, police bias and the scale of violence against the minorities are plumbing new depths. It may not be an exaggeration to say that the Chief Minister has declared war on the minority communities of his State, inciting and encouraging his police forces to unleash upon them an unlawful and brutal reign of terror.
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