Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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When the Hero Is the Problem
Rebecca Solnit | Literary Hub – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
2 Apr 2019 – Finding Strength in Numbers: Heroes & Heroines Are Major Obstacles to Successful Movement Building – Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.
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(Português) Zoo fecha na Espanha e animais são abandonados sem comida e água
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
Ativistas dizem que há risco de fuga ou morte para os ursos, tigres e outros animais deixados no Parque Zoológico Prudencio Navarro, na Costa de la Luz, na Espanha
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Thoreau on the Long Cycles of Social Change and the Importance of Not Mistaking Politics for Progress
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man’s life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant. The longer the lever the less perceptible its motion… The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely.
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Berryman
W.S. Merwin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
I will tell you what he told me
in the years just after the war
as we then called
the second world war
Peace Journalism
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
Peace Journalism has two primary tasks: to make creative proposals for the settlement of conflicts and to work for broad inclusion of parties for negotiations held in good faith. Thus Peace Journalists need to work so that all voices can be heard. Inclusiveness may not make negotiations easier.
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Syria: Is US Fighting ISIS or Liquidating Assets?
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
28 Mar 2019 – That the “final stronghold” of ISIS resides in US occupied territory in Syria says it all. From US Defense Intelligence Agency memos noting efforts to create a “Salafist” [Islamic] “principality” [State] in eastern Syria precisely where ISIS rose and now clings to its “final stronghold,” to the obvious fact that ISIS’ fighting capacity was only possible through extensive state sponsorship – it was already clear that the US and its partners in regime change against Syria had been using terrorists including ISIS as proxy ground forces.
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On the Beginnings of Language
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
8 Apr 2019 – Language is an intimate part of human beings that largely distinguishes us from animals or birds. Whereas the latter do communicate with each other mainly through sounds — grunts, squeaks and howls etc, only humans have the ability to communicate with each other through language.
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Voices of Latin America: Social Movements and the New Activism
Tom Gatehouse | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
3 Apr 2019 – These are uncertain times in Latin America. Popular faith in democracy has been shaken; traditional political parties and institutions are stagnating, and there is a growing right-wing extremism overtaking some governments. Yet, in recent years, autonomous social movements have multiplied and thrived. This book presents voices of these movement protagonists themselves, as they describe the major issues, conflicts, and campaigns for social justice in Latin America today.
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(Italiano) PLEDGE… da appello, a promessa, a impegno
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
28 Marzo 2019 – ‘Pledge’ è una parola inglese interessante, con una pluralità di significati. In italiano il sostantivo si può tradurre con impegno, promessa, giuramento…Con il verbo (to pledge) si intende giurare fedeltà, promettere, sostenere, garantire, impegnarsi… Sono attualmente presenti a livello internazionale numerosi ‘pledges’ (appelli, impegni…), che vengono proposti al pubblico (ai singoli individui, alle associazioni, fino ai governi) sollecitando un’adesione: da una semplice firma fino a un impegno economico, una donazione.
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(Português) China aceita dois métodos de testes sem uso de animais para a regulamentação de cosméticos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
4 abr 2019 – Os novos métodos serão colocados em prática a partir de 1º de janeiro de 2020.
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Evolution
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
Two aliens in their spaceship approached earth.
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The Communitarianism of Violence in the Sahel: States Confronted with the Challenge of Identity
Abdoulaye Bâ | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
31 Mar 2019 – The new violent intrusion of “jihadism” in the Sahel in the early 2000s has plunged the region into a new, atypical phase of insecurity, which is putting a strain on social cohesion in these countries. Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon, among others, have increasingly been hit in the last decade, and to varying degrees, by groups proclaiming “jihad”.
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Great March of Return Is Palestinians’ Cry for Justice
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
3 Apr 2019 – The aims of the Great March of Return protests, which began in Gaza on March 30 last year, are to put an end to the suffocating Israeli siege and implement the right of return for Palestinian refugees who were expelled from their homes and towns in historic Palestine 70 years ago. But there is much more to the protests than a few demands, especially bearing in mind the high human cost associated with them.
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Social Wealth Fund
Adam Simpson | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
28 Mar 2019 – A social wealth fund is a publicly owned pool of money and other assets, such as stocks or land, which can be used for socially beneficial purposes.
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(Français) Golan: Trump bafoue le droit international et plonge encore plus le Moyen-Orient dans l’instabilité
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
2 Avr 2019 – Donald Trump a reconnu la souveraineté d’Israël sur le Golan, plateau syrien occupé illégalement depuis 1967. Motivée par des enjeux politiciens, sa décision pourrait créer un dangereux précédent au regard du droit international. Cette reconnaissance pourrait également avoir de graves répercussions sur tout le Moyen-Orient, une région déjà instable.
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Hugo Grotius (10 Apr 1583 – 28 Aug 1645): War and Peace
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
Hugo Grotius was a jurist born in Delft, the Netherlands and he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. It is thought that he was not the first to formulate the international society doctrine, but he was one of the first to define expressly the idea of one society of states, governed not by force or warfare but by actual laws and mutual agreement to enforce those laws.
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(Français) Gaza: “Nous ne sommes pas des chiffres”
Iyad Alasttal | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
01 Avr 2019 – Le 30 mars 2018, c’était le début des manifestations de la Grande Marche du Retour dans la bande de Gaza. Une série des manifestations pacifiques suite au déplacement de l’ambassade des États-Unis à Jérusalem et à la reconnaissance par Donald Trump de cette ville sainte comme capitale d’Israël. Ces manifestations pacifiques exigent le droit de retour aux réfugiés palestiniens, la levé du blocus israélien inhumain imposé sur la bande de Gaza depuis 2007 et le retrait du plan de Donald Trump, le « deal du siècle », qui n’est qu’une tentative pour imposer un fait accompli.
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War with Russia?
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
3 Apr 2019 – Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are key figures, along with mainstream media parrots, in fueling the new demonization of Russia on behalf of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex. The demonizing of Russia is now as bad as or worse than during the 1950s McCarthy-era and the height of the Cold War. To avoid catastrophic nuclear confrontation with Russia we need dialog and diplomacy, not escalating confrontation.
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Massimo Mazzucco’s American Moon
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Aulis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
Apr 2019 – Massimo Mazzucco, the Italian-born photographer and filmmaker is no stranger to deceptions. He brings his considerable talents and methodology to tackling the Moon landings, and the result is American Moon, a 3 ½ hour long documentary that is clear, comprehensive and utterly damning.
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Teach Your Children (Music Video of the Week)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
From the 1970 Album “Déjà Vu” – A classic for teachers & parents.
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Can Vedic Dharma Bring Peace to the World?
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
When you progress in yoga, you can feel the unwanted burdens of the mind fall away, such as anxiety, anger, greed, envy, hate, discontent, etc. Then other qualities like peacefulness, tranquility, contentment, and blissfulness will be felt. These are qualities everyone is trying to find and are some of the many things that can be accomplished with yoga, at least on the elementary level. As you make further progress, you may enter into the deeper levels of understanding and transcending the mind and gradually go so far as to attain realizations as to what your own spiritual identity is and what your relationship is with the Absolute.
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SUNY Uses Taxpayer Dollars to Torture Kittens in Useless Experiments
Stephen Wells | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
4 Apr 2019 – Documents reviewed by the Animal Legal Defense Fund show that since 2002, researchers at the State University of New York’s (SUNY) College of Optometry have been performing invasive, painful and expensive experiments on young cats and kittens. These experiments appear to be of little to no scientific value, and taxpayers have been footing the bill.
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“Like Fish in a Pool with Little Water”: Who Will Help the Rohingya?
Matthew Gindin | Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
2 Apr 2019 – Conditions deteriorate for Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh’s refugee camps as countries around the globe close their doors.
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UN Agencies Urge Brunei to Repeal New ‘Extreme and Unjustified’ Penal Code
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
4 Apr 2019 – New criminal laws in Brunei that impose the death penalty for same-sex relationships, adultery and childbirth out of marriage, “breach international human rights norms”, and should be suspended or repealed said the heads of two United Nations agencies today.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2019
What is needed is a system where negative, violent relations are changing to neutral or no relations, where neutral or no relations are changing to positive, peaceful relations, and where positive, peaceful relations become even more peaceful and positive. The Octagon World might be one such system. But for this to work, the state system is not sufficient.
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‘Every War Is a War against Children’
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
28 Mar 2019 – We, in the United States, have yet to realize both the futility and immense consequences of war even as we develop, store, sell, and use hideous weapons. The number of children killed is rising.
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Dr Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
Recently the issue of water and its increasing scarcity the world over was highlighted on 22 March which appropriately is now termed as World Water Day. Today more than anything else, we need to understand and appreciate the issues of conservation of water and protection of our environment. Some people are saying it is already too late since we have shown a total disregard towards these concerns. But better late than never.
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A Dark Day for the Internet
OpenMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
27 Mar 2019 – Yesterday, the European Parliament held the final vote on the controversial EU Copyright Directive, which is one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation in European history.1 The final vote approved Articles 11 (Link Tax) and 13 (mandatory content filtering) of the Copyright Directive, in a vote of 348 to 274.
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Legacy: Portal to Immortality!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
29 Mar 2019 – A legacy is an act, known and unknown, to ourselves and to others, in which we assert presence as identity, thoughts, and feeling. Legacy is, in some respects, an effort to preserve immortality. In contrast to consciousness legacy, much of our life is passed unaware each day, we create legacy in what we do; legacy has profound implications for ourselves and others.
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Hunger, Universal Health Care, and the Right to Food in India
Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
1 Apr 2019 – I appreciate Moin Qazi’s recent article on India’s losing the battle against hunger, but reducing waste in India’s food system is not likely to be an effective remedy. If large quantities of food are prevented from rotting, who is likely to get it? In the food chain, refrigeration and other technologies for preserving foods are more likely to be used to protect food for the rich than food for the poor. In market-dominated food systems, food migrates toward money, not toward needs.
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(Português) Os Conceitos que Nos Faltam
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
29 mar 2019 – Os seres humanos, ao contrário dos pássaros, voam com raízes. Parte das raízes estão nos conceitos que herdamos para analisar ou avaliar o mundo em que vivemos. Sem eles, o mundo pareceria caótico, uma incógnita perigosa, uma ameaça desconhecida, uma jornada insondável.
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Exploring Representation of the Tao in 3D
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
1 Apr 2019 – The Tao symbol is widely known as an indication of viable harmony between opposites — understood as a possibility for a mature human civilization of the future. There is extensive commentary on the subtlety of the insight it represents, dating most notably from that of Laozi in the Tao Te Ching. This explains that the Tao is not a ‘name’ for a ‘thing’ but the underlying natural order of the Universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe due to it being non conceptual yet evident in one’s being of aliveness.
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Dogon-Peul Conflict in Mali Draws U.N. Attention to Broader Settled Agriculturalist-Pastoralists Tensions in Africa
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
The degree of poor administration and the disintegration of the State of Mali became apparent in March 2012 when there were revolts led by the Twareg in northern Mali. The creation of a new state, Azawed, to be led by ethnic Twareg was proclaimed.
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Blood in the Water: How the U.S. and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty, by Joan Mellen
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
29 Mar 2019 – The author on the basis of meticulous research probes every detail to establish beyond a shadow of a doubt that the sinking of USS Liberty in the midst of the 1967 War is the greatest moral and political scandal in all of American history. In what was long described as a ‘mistake’ or ‘accident’ Israeli planes and submarines attacked the Liberty, killing 34, wounding 174 American naval personnel.
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Honest Government Ad | Article 13 (Internet Censorship Bill)
thejuicimedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
The European Union has made an ad about its Internet Censorship Bill (aka Article 13) and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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U.S. Closes Jerusalem Consulate That Gave Palestinians a Link to Washington
Bill Chappell | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
4 Mar 2019 – The U.S. officially shut down its Jerusalem Consulate General today, severing a connection that for decades served as a direct link between Palestinians and Washington. The consulate’s work is being folded into the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem — a move Palestinian officials have condemned.
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(Français) Bal macabre au Brésil: le clan Bolsonaro, l’extrême droite et les milices
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
14 mars 2019 – Les révélations récentes de la presse brésilienne sur les liens entre le fils aîné du président Bolsonaro et l’une des plus dangereuses organisations criminelles de Rio, soupçonnée notamment de l’assassinat de la jeune conseillère progressiste Marielle Franco, le 14 mars 2018, jettent une lumière crue sur la proximité entre l’extrême droite politique et les milices urbaines qui contrôlent une partie des quartiers périphériques de la ville. Les mesures prises par l’actuel gouvernement offrent à ces groupes paramilitaires de nouvelles marges de manœuvre pour opérer en toute impunité, tandis qu’elles annoncent pour les défenseurs des droits humains, les minorités et les populations marginalisées des heures encore plus sombres.
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Born Complete, Don’t Mutilate Them!
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
30 March 2019 — While male circumcision is spread mainly among Muslim and Jews communities, and it is apparently accepted by some medical spheres, more than 200 million child-girls have already fallen prey to a dangerous practice, which is carried out in the name of traditions or even religions: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
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The United Kingdom vis-a-vis the European Union
Cristina Cabrejas Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
During the 60’s, France under the leadership of President Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain’s entry as he expressed his concern about Britain diminishing France’s position in the EEC and the influence of the Anglo-American relations in Europe. It would take 24 years after the inception of the EEC, that on January 1st 1973 UK together with Denmark and the Republic of Ireland, that finally Britain joined the European block.
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Pablo Neruda: Against the Illusion of Separateness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song — but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.
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Baba Amte’s Legacy Sparks a Granddaughter’s Fire
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
26 Mar 2019 – The world is witnessing a spring of a new generation of young game-changing women social entrepreneurs that is boldly scripting inspiring stories of change. It is pairing ingenuity and knowledge with passion for bringing innovative and sustainable solutions to long entrenched social challenges so that our world becomes more equitable and sustainable. These young icons are stepping into power in technology, banking, philanthropy, civil society, business, media and even politics.
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Chelsea Manning and the New Inquisition
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
18 Mar 2019 — The whistleblower is back behind bars as the government continues to try to hide its crimes.
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A Poem to Live By
Walt Whitman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms do everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
‘Renouncing Violence’ Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims
Adam Johnson | FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
29 Mar 2019 – A FAIR survey of the phrase “renounce violence” in the New York Times over the past 10 years shows that 95 percent of the time the demand is made of Muslim organizations, people or political parties, the most prominent being the Taliban and Hamas. There are zero instances of anyone in the Times—whether reporters quoting officials or columnists—from March 28, 2009, to March 28, 2019, insisting or suggesting that the United States, Israel or any white-majority country “renounce violence.”
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Maya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
Angelou’s timeless wisdom shines with unparalleled light in a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, in which Angelou explores issues of identity and the meaning of life.
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Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
The greatest happiness for the soul starts with complete freedom: freedom from misery, unhappiness, suffering, freedom from the dictates of desires, and, ultimately, freedom from being trapped in a material body. But what keeps us ensnared in such a condition are the desires for sensual and mental pleasures. And the hardest freedom to attain is freedom from sex desire.
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Is This the End of the American Century?
Adam Tooze | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
4 Apr 2019 – Trump can be compared to Napoleon, according to Sargent, because they are both destroyers of international order. In the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon wrecked what was left of the legitimate order of Europe. Trump, in turn, has apparently ended the American world order, or, as Sargent prefers to call it, Pax Americana. Sargent’s is an extraordinary suggestion, even though overenthusiastic historic comparisons have now become commonplace.
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We Need an Ecological Revolution
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled We Need an Ecological Revolution. It can be freely downloaded and circulated .
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Truth v. Fiction in Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
25 Mar 2019 – Followers of independent alternative media know Venezuela is the hemisphere’s leading social democracy. It’s not a “dictatorship” as falsely claimed by US hardliners and establishment media. Reality on the ground in Venezuela is a world apart from the fabricated Western narrative—all propaganda all the time, supporting the Trump regime’s coup plot.
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Reforestation Drones Drop Seeds Instead of Bombs, Planting 100,000 Trees a Day Each
Sara Burrows | Return to Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
20 Mar 2019 – A former NASA engineer has developed drones that can plant 100,000 trees a day each. Multiply that by 165 drones, and we could easily fill the 6-billion-tree gap we face each year. The drones are far more efficient than humans at planting trees.
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(Português) Trabalhar Abatendo Animais Pode Alterar a Personalidade Humana
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
26 mar 2019 – O professor Antoni Barnard, da Universidade da África do Sul, republicou um estudo sobre o impacto psicológico e emocional de se trabalhar em matadouros. RP8 segredou que nunca havia agredido um animal como um cão ou gato, mas desde que começou a matar bovinos ele já não sente a mesma inibição de antes: “Eu acredito que posso chutar se eu quiser porque eu mato boi todos os dias. Chutar um cão ou gato e jogá-lo para longe já não é uma preocupação.”
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Our Wounded Planet
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
27 Mar 2019 – Should we save the planet or kill the enemy?… I am because you are!
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Jury Slams Monsanto for Corporate Malfeasance in Roundup Cancer Trial, Awards $80 Million in Damages
Environmental Working Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
27 Mar 2019 – Today, a second jury in less than 8 months found weed killer Roundup responsible for causing cancer. Courtroom testimony obliterated Bayer-Monsanto defense of Roundup.
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TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
Gosh!
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Scientists from Around the World Call for Immediate Halt to ‘Genetically Altered Children’
Derrick Broze | The Mind Unleashed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
21 Mar 2019 – Scientists and ethicists from around the world are warning of the consequences of failing to implement a temporary global halt on gene editing of human eggs, embryos, and sperm.
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Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (Music Video of the Week)
BJ Thomas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
Lyrics
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Find the Differences
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
Brainwashing? Masochism? Stupidity?…
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(Português) Oceano subterrâneo com 160 trilhões de metros cúbicos é descoberto na Amazônia
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
27 mar 2019 – Um oceano subterrâneo foi descoberto na Amazônia. A reserva de água tem volume de aproximadamente 160 trilhões de metros cúbicos. Com 1,2 milhão de quilômetros quadrados, ele abrange os territórios do Uruguai, Argentina, Paraguai e Brasil. A informação é de João Lara Mesquita, publicada pelo jornal O Estado de S. Paulo.
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Third Trump Regime Sabotage of Venezuela’s Electrical Grid Foiled
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
28 Mar 2019 – Unbowed after over two months of failed efforts to topple Maduro, failure to win over its military or gain popular support, its paramilitary attack scheme and other tactics foiled so far—the Trump regime cyberattacked Venezuela’s electrical power grid for the third time since March 7. This time, preparations were in place to counter further cyberattacks.
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(Français) Venezuela: l’humanitaire entre gâchette et substitut
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
19 mars 2019 – La crise a remis au-devant de la scène la question du bon usage de l’humanitaire. Si son instrumentalisation ne fait guère de doute, reprocher à l’humanitaire de faire le jeu du politique est naïf et déplacé.
→ read full articleHarbingers
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
I wrote Harbingers to remind myself and others, of the 1950s and 1960s, years of our youth, there were people who warned us of the costs of silence and passivity. Sometimes, courage comes late in life. I did not want to waste another chance. We squander time!
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Monetary Policy Takes Center Stage: MMT, QE or Public Banks?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
21 Mar 2019 – As alarm bells sound over the advancing destruction of the environment, a variety of Green New Deal proposals have appeared in the U.S. and Europe, along with some interesting academic debates about how to fund them. Monetary policy, normally relegated to obscure academic tomes and bureaucratic meetings behind closed doors, has suddenly taken center stage.
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Failed Economics
Rex Weyler | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
17 Mar 2019 – The super-elites, the 2,208 billionaires — those who attend Global Economic Summits, own banks, buy off governments, pollute with impunity, and hold political influence in virtually every nation in the world — comprise not the “1%” but only 28-millionths of a percent of the human population. According to Forbes magazine, the average billionaire makes about $635 million dollars every year, $12 million per week, even when they’re on holiday.
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Stoking Fear: We Must Remember How the Iraq War Was Sold
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” — Nazi propagandist Hermann Goering .
It was 16 years ago this month, on March 19, 2003, that U.S. forces began a misguided and illegal “shock and awe” military assault on Iraq.
Thomas Piketty vs. Yanis Varoufakis
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
Markets are the primary institution. Governments are secondary. Markets govern governments. Governments do not control markets. The first imperative for any government is to make the economy work for the people. The government can only comply with that imperative by pleasing the markets… This is why the disagreement between Thomas Piketty and Yanis Varoufakis is a splendid educational opportunity to move the conversation to a deeper level, to take to heart the words of Albert Einstein: ‘We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.’
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Bloomberg Billionaires Index
Bloomberg News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
As of March 25, 2019: The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. View profiles for each of the world’s 500 richest people, see the biggest movers, and compare fortunes or track returns.
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Primitive Accumulation
Daniel Little | Understanding Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
It is Marx’s account of the historical processes of change in rural life of the fifteenth through eighteenth century in Britain and Ireland, through which peasants were forced off their land and the commons were enclosed. Marx believes that this separation of the peasantry from the land was a necessary condition for the development of capitalism, in that it created the conditions in which there was a pliable and abundant proletariat. This “free” proletariat was needed for the creation of the factory system and the development of manufacturing cities. So the process of primitive accumulation created the changes in social relations, property relations, and the accumulation of wealth that permitted the creation of the capital-labor relation and factory-based capitalism.
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Evolutionary Economics and the Question of Corporate Power
Matti Ylönen | E-IR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
The past decades have seen a great number of books and articles that discuss the retreat of the state and the triumph of corporate-driven globalization. If we want to seek answers to the question of what role MNEs should play in IR scholarship, we need to take seriously the blurring boundaries between seemingly market-based mechanisms, hierarchical transactions, and political rule.
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Tulsi Gabbard Comes to San Francisco
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
20 Mar 2019 – Tulsi Gabbard visited the San Francisco Bay Area last weekend. The 3-term Congresswoman from Hawaii is 37 years old and ethnically diverse. Remarkably, she has 15 years military experience in the US Army and National Guard as well as substantial political experience. She was elected to the Hawaii State Assembly at age 21.
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The Empathic Civilization
Jeremy Rifkin | Ross Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
Jeremy Rifkin argues that society has been living off outdated ideas that are increasingly dysfunctional and that we need to actively work to change our mode of consciousness. With a belief that human beings are ‘soft wired’ for empathy, he pleads for educators and society at large to nurture and cultivate this empathy in students in an effort to form a global, biospheric consciousness.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues being contested has steadily increased, activists of many types have made insufficient progress on key issues, particularly in relation to ending violence and war (and the threat of nuclear war), stopping the exploitation of many peoples and halting the endless assaults on Earth’s biosphere.
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(Castellano) Banca de élite a sus expensas: Cómo se utilizan los paraísos fiscales secretos para robarle su dinero
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
18 Mar 2019 – Los paraísos fiscales son lugares en todo el mundo donde las personas ricas, los delincuentes y los terroristas, así como los gobiernos y los organismos gubernamentales (como la CIA), los bancos, las empresas, los fondos de cobertura, las organizaciones internacionales (como el Vaticano) y los sindicatos del crimen (como la Mafia), pueden esconder su dinero para evitar la regulación y la supervisión y, muy a menudo, evadir impuestos.
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Challenging Pitzer/Haifa Study Abroad Program: Can Civil Society Act?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
22 Mar 2019 – This post is an open letter to the President of Pitzer College urging support for reconsideration of his veto of a resolution urging the college to suspend its study abroad program with the University of Haifa until Israel ends its discriminatory policies in the educational sphere that affect Palestinians and anyone exercising rights of free expression in a manner that Israel disapproves, and more specifically the BDS Campaign.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.
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Planetary Collapse Threatens Our Survival: A New Study Says That More Than 1,200 Species “Will Almost Certainly Face Extinction”
Michael Snyder |The Economic Collapse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
14 Mar 2019 – We are witnessing a worldwide environmental collapse, and nobody seems to know how to stop it. A study just released looked at more than 5,000 species of birds, mammals, and amphibians and discovered that nearly a quarter of them “will almost certainly face extinction”. Yet the vast majority of the population doesn’t seem concerned about what is happening. Species after species is being permanently wiped out, and most of us couldn’t care less.
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“Rebuilding U.S. Defenses” Project for the New American Century (PNAC) – A Summary
Compiled by Bette Stockbauer | PNAC Library & Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
Blueprint of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony – Not since “Mein Kampf” has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed years ahead of the blow. 20 Mar 2019 is the anniversary of tragic and criminal invasion of Iraq. The PNAC, planned in the 1990s to invade, used 9/11 as excuse. We must not forget this treasonous and criminal act by a cabal of self-interested men and nations.
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Viral Internet Challenge Is Spurring People around the World to Pick up Tons of Trash and Then Snap Photos
McKinley Corbley | Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
13 Mar 2019 – Rather than eating tide pods or spoonfuls of cinnamon, an eco-friendly new social media trend is inspiring people around the world to clean up litter.
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How a Cooperative Approach to Property Management Can Build Collective Power
Saki Bailey | Shareable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
13 Mar 2019 – Historically, affordable housing has had a stigma as “welfare,” which often disempowers its recipients. The Bay Area trust’s program is aimed at removing this stigma and creating a greater sense of dignity and empowerment through self-organization and the security offered by ownership.
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(Português) Manteiga Vegana Criada a Partir da Água do Grão-de-Bico Agrada Chefs nos EUA
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
16 mar 2019 – No ano passado, a Fora Foods, uma startup que surgiu no bairro do Brooklyn, NY, lançou uma manteiga vegana à base de aquafaba, a água do grão-de-bico cozido, com óleo de coco. O produto que recebeu o nome de FabaButter não é transgênico, não contém óleo de palma e substitui a manteiga tradicional em receitas.
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The Rightful Owners of a Key Island US Military Base Would Like It Back, and the UN Agrees
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
The Chagos Archipelago belongs to the country of Mauritius; it’s not a bargaining chip for the American empire.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
20 Mar 2019 – The last Friday, 15 March saw students from about 125 countries pushing their governments, parliamentarians and community leaders to come together for the protection of the environment that has degraded to an extent that life of human beings, plants and animals is at risk. On the same date 15 March, a totally different act has been perpetrated in a far away town of Christchurch in New Zealand by a 28 year old Australian Brenton Tarrant.
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‘Safe Zones’ Put the Rohingya at Greater Risk
Azeem Ibrahim | Stars & Stripes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
22 Mar 2019 – Myanmar has “honored” its resettlement agreement with Bangladesh by building so-called transit camps for returning refugees — which look eerily similar to World War II concentration camps, with barbed wire, high fences and “security” provided by the very same army that carried out the initial “clearance operations” two years ago. Thankfully, those camps are currently sitting empty, as the Rohingya refuse to trade the safe camps in Bangladesh for the prison camps in Myanmar.
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Brazil to Open Indigenous Reserves to Mining without Indigenous Consent
Sue Branford and Maurício Torres | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
14 Mar 2019 – For many years, international and Brazilian mining companies have dreamed of getting access to the mineral wealth lying beneath indigenous lands. And finally, the government of Jair Bolsonaro seems determined to give them that opportunity. On 4 March, while Brazilians were distracted by Carnival celebrations, the new Minister of Mines and Energy Admiral Bento Albuquerque announced plans to permit mining on indigenous land.
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Johan Galtung: The American Empire Will Fall by 2020
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
Jan 2017 – Famous researcher-prognosticator, father of Peace Studies John Galtung explains his prediction.
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Reflections of My Life (Music Video of the Week)
The Marmalade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
Reflections of My Life was recorded in London in October 1969. With hypnotic music and lyrics, what a monumental ballad it was and still is! Enjoy.
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A New Theory on Time Indicates Present and Future Exist Simultaneously
Physics-Astronomy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
8 Jan 2019 – According to a new controversial theory, everything around us is intricately planned, and each and everyone’s destiny has already been decided. The new theory suggests that time does not PASS and that everything is ever-present.
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UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar Advances Accountability and Initiates New Investigations
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
14 Mar 2019 – As a result of the serious nature of the findings of the Fact-Finding Mission, the Human Rights Council also established the Independent Mechanism on Myanmar. The new mechanism will build on the important work of the FFM by collecting, consolidating, preserving and analysing evidence of the most serious crimes and violations of international law committed in Myanmar since 2011.
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Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
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Food for Thought: India Losing the Battle against Hunger
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
India produces enough food to meet the needs of its entire population, and has at its disposal arable land that has the potential to produce food surplus for export. Yet, it is unable to feed millions of its people, especially women and children. India needs to mobilise large-scale investments in cold storage methods, refrigerated transport and other modern logistics to modernise its food supply chain.
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Monsanto Loses Millions of Dollars after Indian Farmers Switch to Indigenous Seeds
Ruth Milka | Nation of Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
9 Mar 2019 – Monsanto is losing millions of dollars now that farmers in India are switching to indigenous cotton seeds rather than Bt cotton. Monsanto claims that the genetically modified cotton seeds they sell are superior. So why are so many people trying to switch?
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GODOT (Reconsidered)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
“Waiting for Godot,” emerged amidst the “beat generation,” in which the absurdities of the time, the sheer contradictions, were captured in ironies, cynicism, despair, and ambivalence. I need express my feelings about current times. Finding in them, parallel, the same absurdities; but the risks, dangers, threats, greater! Does it ever change?
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Intergenerational Theft
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
18 Mar 2019 – At the heart of capitalism is a vast and scarcely examined assumption: you are entitled to as great a share of the world’s resources as your money can buy. You can purchase as much land, as much atmospheric space, as many minerals, as much meat and fish as you can afford, regardless of who might be deprived. If you can pay for them, you can own entire mountain ranges and fertile plains. You can burn as much fuel as you like. Every pound or dollar secures a certain right over the world’s natural wealth. But why? What just principle equates the numbers in your bank account with a right to own the fabric of the Earth? Most people I ask are completely stumped by this question.
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The Conflict of Our Time: U.S. Imperialism vs the Rule of Law
Nicolas J S Davies | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – The world faces many overlapping crises: regional political crises from Kashmir to Venezuela; brutal wars that rage on in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia; and the existential dangers of nuclear weapons, climate change, and mass extinction. The underlying crisis of legitimacy and authority that makes so many of our problems almost impossible to solve is the conflict between U.S. imperialism and the rule of law.
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The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange and the Corporate Media
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
19 March 2019 – The corporate media is institutionally opposed to the interests of the vast majority of the public; that is why we reject the label ‘mainstream’. The corporate media including BBC News, systematically promotes imperialist and exploitative state interests, together with private power in the form of big business, financial speculation, military forces, the arms industry, the fossil fuel lobby, destructive agribusiness, unsustainable food production and rampant global consumerism that is destroying ecosystems, ramping up mass loss of species and endangering human survival through climate chaos.
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Anti-Semitism and “The Israel Project”
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
19 Mar 2019 – Israel is off-limits. The criminalisation of anti-Semitism means nothing short of this. In fact, France’s President Macron says anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism and both are now legally defined as “hate crimes”. Will this be a global precursor? Will the world uphold such a sweeping, broad legal definition that has the potential to embrace the inhumanity and egregious acts of such nations as Israel, now an apartheid Jewish state?
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The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
“Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
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Rocky Road to World Law: Need for a U.N.-led Conference on the Reaffirmation of Humanitarian Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
World law, as world citizens use the term, is more than current international law. World law has as its base universally recognized international law but also the human rights declarations and standards, the oft-repeated declarations of the United Nations General Assembly as well as the international legal bodies such as the World Court and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
→ read full articleBig Mistake
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
A new young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.
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Judging U.S. War Crimes
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
10 Mar 2’019 – Chelsea Manning, who bravely exposed atrocities committed by the U.S. military, is again imprisoned in a U.S. jail. On International Women’s Day, March 8, she was incarcerated for refusing to testify in front of a secretive Grand Jury. Her principled and courageous actions provide guidance for us to control our fears. We must seek an end to war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and other areas where the U.S. terrifies and kills civilians.
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US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as ‘Watershed Event’ for ‘Galvanizing Public Unrest’
Max Blumenthal | Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – The US-funded CANVAS organization that trained Juan Guaido and his allies produced a 2010 memo on exploiting electricity outages and urged the opposition “to take advantage of the situation…towards their needs.”
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