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Cyberattack Caused Venezuela’s Power Outage
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – On Thursday [7 Mar] at around 5:00PM during the rush hour for maximum effect, a cyberattack on Venezuela’s electrical grid plunged most of the nation into darkness.
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(Castellano) Niño autista es el alumno más joven de Universidad de Oxford. Con 6 años estudió historia y filosofía
Constanza Suárez | Upsocl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
8 mar 2019 – A los seis años, la mayoría de los niños ingresan a primer grado. Aprenden a relacionarse con sus compañeros, a leer, los números. Pero el pequeño Joshua Beckford, apostó por conocimientos más complejos y a esa edad se convirtió en la persona más joven en asistir a la prestigiosa Universidad de Oxford.
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Snoring of The Other
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
A Politically Relevant Psycho-Spiritual Metaphor? – The snoring of The Other keeps me awake — preventing me from getting back to sleep.
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Syrian Crisis Enters Ninth Year with 11 Million Refugees Overseas & 6 Million Home
Herve Verhoosel | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
This Friday [15 Mar] marks the ninth anniversary of the start of the Syria crisis. For most of us, it is difficult to understand what it must feel like to be uprooted by conflict. To flee bullets and bombs and leave behind a life, a house, a job, a family, friends, school…. In the meantime, we need to maintain the vital lifeline of food assistance on which millions of vulnerable Syrians depend.
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(Italiano) Perché la chiesa ufficiale non vuole discutere né la sessualita né la legge del celibato
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
15 mar 2019 – È innegabile il coraggio di Papa Francesco nell’affrontare apertamente la questione della pedofilia all’interno della chiesa. Ha fatto consegnare alla giustizia civile i pedofili, a cominciare dai preti e religiosi fino ai cardinali per farli giudicare e punire. Nell’incontro di Roma verso la fine di febbraio del 2019 sulla protezione dei minori, il Papa ha imposto otto punti tra i quali “pedofilia zero” e la “protezione dei bambini abusati”.
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Dozens Killed and Injured by New Airstrikes in Western Yemen, UN Coordinator Condemns ‘Outrageous’ Toll
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – Reports from Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate indicate that scores of civilians have been killed following airstrikes that hit residential areas over the past two days. Medical sources suggest that at least 22 have died, with more than 30 injured during the aerial bombardment.
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Indefatigable Evil
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
No end in sight…
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(Português) Fisalis: a planta que ajuda na recuperação de Alzheimer e Parkinson
Alice Branco | greenMe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
O interessante é que a ciência está estudando esta planta pois ela ajuda na recuperação dos neurônios e, portanto, das doenças neuro-degenerativas como o Alzheimer, o Parkinson e diversas outras.
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Syria: Concerns Raised and Possible Next Steps
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
I think that it is important for us to look at why organizations that promote nonviolent action and conflict resolution in the US and Western Europe were not able to do more to aid those in Syria who tried to use nonviolence during the first months of 2011.
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Love Letter from Smoky Kabul: Nonviolent vs Violent Peace in Afghanistan and the World
Dr Hakim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
15 Mar 2019 – “Salam (peace)!” is how Afghans greet one another, some of them simultaneously placing a hand over their hearts. But, while everyone including Afghans wants peace, the Afghan Peace Volunteers and I have observed that the human species appears to be stuck on violent peace.
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What is Justice?
Gregory Stanton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
What is justice to a woman who’s children were slaughtered just before she was raped? What is justice to a bride who’s last caress was the last she will ever know? What is justice to a woman who will never trust a man again? What is justice to an orphan in a refugee camp?
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Rachel Corrie Remembered
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
16 Mar 2019 – On 16 March 2003 in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah, Corrie stood before an Israeli bulldozer in hopes of stopping it from demolishing the home of a local Palestinian family. Corrie believed that her foreign features and blonde hair would deter the bulldozer – but she was wrong. She was crushed to death when the bulldozer driver ran her over repeatedly, according to witnesses.
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Digital Trends – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
25 May 2015 – Stepping out of the realm of science fiction and into reality is the joint U.S. Air Force and Boeing electromagnetic pulse weapon, capable of targeting and destroying electrical systems without the collateral damage often associated with traditional firepower. As Don Cheadle noted in the ever-relevant Ocean’s 11, this new weapon “is a bomb — but without the bomb.”
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US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators
Matthew Lee | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
15 Mar 2019 — The United States will revoke or deny visas+ to International Criminal Court personnel seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other abuses committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere, and may do the same with those who seek action against Israel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today.
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Ilhan Omar, AIPAC, Congress, and the Future of American Democracy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
The Ilhan Omar Incident: A Zionist Witch Hunt?
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Engaging with the Past — Numbers, Nostalgia, Perspectives
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
One can add to the above features and outlook of engaging with history. This is a never ending process. What is contemporary for us and generates awe and nostalgia, will become past over time to our future generations; they will look at their own past with different lens and fresh perspectives. Let this process continue and enrich us all.
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Myanmar: New Land Law Could Have Disastrous Impact on Ethnic Minorities
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
• Law affects traditional communities who passed down land for generations
• Revenues from resource extraction going to army and its allies
• Alleged crimes committed in Myanmar must be referred to ICC
New Film
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
Following its Premiere on 7 March at the London premises of Global Justice Now premises and organised by their youth division Our Future Now, the documentary film PEACE IS POSSIBLE, on the work of HUFUD (Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation), is now available on the Internet.
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Right!
TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
Yes
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Human Rights Council Discusses the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN Human Rights Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – The Human Rights Council held an interactive dialogue with Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
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Fame – Remember My Name (Music Video of the Week)
MGM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
Versions from 1980 and 2009 – Enjoy!
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What Is Consciousness?
Sadhguru | Uplift – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
You actually can neither raise consciousness, nor can you bring it down. We only use the expression of “raising consciousness” against the following background: if you are strongly identified with your physical body, the boundaries of what is you and what is not you are distinctly clear. In this state, you experience yourself as a separate existence. This means you are in survival mode, which is what every other creature is in too. When you identify yourself as the body, the boundaries of who you are, are 100% fixed.
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UN Rights Expert Calls for End to ‘Purgatory’ of ‘International Inaction’ Facing Myanmar’s Remaining Rohingya
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – A humanitarian crisis fuelled by the suppression of basic human rights is continuing across Myanmar’s Rakhine state, a UN Human Rights Council-appointed expert said today, in an appeal for alleged atrocities there to be referred to the International Criminal Court.
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Global Humanity Looks to Unity of Minds in Crisis: Massacres of Muslim Worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
Killing of the innocent people undoubtedly is a crime against humanity. The global political consciousness is obsessed with terms like “terrorism”, “Islamophobia” and “extremism”, not knowing its reality and how and why it is happening across the globe. The 21st century global humanity is conscientious how some political propagandists besiege the people with false flags and imagery to incite hatred, violence and human destruction in societies having systematic liberal democracies.
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(Français) Pour comprendre la révolte des Haïtiens
Maurice Lemoine | Mémoire des luttes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
« Le Gouvernement des Etats-Unis exhorte tous les citoyens, partis politiques et organisations de la société civile à s’exprimer pacifiquement. La violence aggrave l’instabilité et la souffrance du peuple (…). » Ce n’est bien entendu ni à l’opposition vénézuélienne, en phase insurrectionnelle en 2014 et 2017, ni à celle du Nicaragua, pareillement soulevée en 2018, que l’ambassade des Etats-Unis a adressé ce message. Ce 15 février 2019, à Port-au-Prince, la déclaration est destinée aux Haïtiens qui, depuis le 7 février, se soulèvent contre le pouvoir dans les principales villes du pays le plus pauvre d’Amérique latine et des Caraïbes.
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Two International Poets Dialoguing Across Borders
Gary Corseri and Preeti Tej Singh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
“All real living is meeting” – Martin Buber (I And Thou)
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3-5°C Temperature Rise Is Now ‘Locked-in’ for the Arctic
UN Environment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
• Even if Paris Agreement goals met, Arctic winter temperatures will increase 3-5°C by 2050 compared to 1986-2005 levels.
• Thawing permafrost could wake ‘sleeping giant’ of more greenhouse gases, potentially derailing global climate goals.
• Ocean acidification and pollution also posing major threats to Arctic
India’s First Urban Self-Help Group Continues to Bloom
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize: “Poverty is not created by poor people. It’s created by the system we built. Poor people are like a bonsai tree. You take the best seed from the tallest tree in the forest, but if you put it in a flower pot to grow, it grows only a meter high. There’s nothing wrong with the seed. The problem is the size of the pot. Society doesn’t give poor people the space to grow as tall as everybody else. ”
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Talk by John Perkins, Author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’
Veterans For Peace National Convention – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
A Talk at the Veterans For Peace National Convention
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The Future of Work
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
In order to prepare our children for the future of work we need to teach them in school about worker solidarity and the history of the labor movement. Instead of being prodded to compete for limited spaces at universities and scarce “dream” jobs (guaranteeing that many will lose out), young people should be learning how to build a society where every job is a good job.
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Multilateralism: A Testimony
Ambassador Idriss Jazairy and Roberto Savio| Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
For over 70 years, the UN system has been perceived as the guardian of peace and development in the world. However, multilateralism today is undeniably under strain. The effectiveness of global institutions and of global policymaking is questioned, and alliances are fraying.
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Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Artist as a Voice of Resistance and a Liberator of Society
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
“To create today is to create dangerously… The question, for all those who cannot live without art and what it signifies, is merely to find out how, among the police forces of so many ideologies… the strange liberty of creation is possible.”
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(Português) Apicultores brasileiros encontram meio bilhão de abelhas mortas em três meses
Pedro Grigori | Agência Pública/Repórter Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
• Pesticidas que causaram extermínio no Brasil estão banidos da União Europeia
• Impacto nos polinizadores faz Ibama reavaliar registro de quatro ingredientes ativos
• MPF investiga mortes em 4 estados e no Distrito Federal
WAR!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
War!
Side pitted against other!
Human against human!
Primitive!
Arms against arms!
Belief against belief!
Life, lives, time, … lost!
Atomic Bombs Are Not Lifesavers
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
One shouldn’t have to state the obvious. It is well known that two atomic detonations, in early August, 1945, killed over 100,000 Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents, revealing the unlimited human capacity for atrocity in wartime. But it seems many U.S. history teachers are still telling students that the atomic bombings somehow saved lives.
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Elite Banking at Your Expense: How Secretive Tax Havens Are Used to Steal Your Money
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Tax havens are locations around the world where wealthy individuals, criminals and terrorists, as well as governments and government agencies (such as the CIA), banks, corporations, hedge funds, international organizations (such as the Vatican) and crime syndicates (such as the Mafia), can stash their money so that they can avoid regulation and oversight and, very often, evade tax. According to Nicholas Shaxson: ‘Tax havens are now at the heart of the global economy.’
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Trump to World: Pay Up for Hosting US Troops
Jose Nino | Big League Politics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
8 Mar 2019 – President Trump wants countries to pay up for hosting American troops. Trump is now advocating for a plan to make Germany, Japan, and other countries hosting U.S. troops to pay in full plus 50 percent or more for the privilege of hosting them on their soil. In a speech to the Pentagon on January 17, Trump said “Wealthy, wealthy countries that we’re protecting are all under notice. We cannot be the fools for others.”
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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Women and families the world over work tirelessly to end the poverty and hunger in their lives. But it can take much more than hard work. They need new tools to create their own paths forward. They need opportunities that can overcome economic, cultural and gender barriers. It needs multissectoral cooperation to create breakthrough ideas and breakthrough solutions that break through and break down economic, social and technical barriers.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
A woman taught English to immigrants in London.
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The Spiritual and Socialist Start of International Women’s Day
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
8 March is the International Day of Women and thus a time to highlight the specific role of women in local, national and world society. International Women’s Day was first proposed by Clara Zetlin (1857-1933) at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1911. Later, she served as a socialist-communist member of the German Parliament during the Wiemar Republic which existed from 1920 to 1933 when Hitler came to power. Zetlin went into exile in the Soviet Union shortly after Hitler came to power. She died there several months later in 1933.
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Cracks Found in Nuclear Reactor That Could Lead to the Full Evacuation of Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh Live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
The Hunterston B reactors in Ayrshire are the oldest in Europe, and dangerous cracks have been found.
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John Steinbeck on Good and Evil, the Necessary Contradictions of the Human Nature, and Our Grounds for Lucid Hope
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.”
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To Demilitarize and Denuclearize Trieste
Alessandro Capuzzo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
11 Feb 2019 – The port of Trieste, the subject of an allied bombing in 1944 with 500 deaths and 1000 wounded, also saved by the Nazi-fascist destruction in the last days of war, is now place of transit for authentic death instruments. So it is also in our interest that the new Treaty for the prohibition of nuclear weapons makes it possible to resume talks on the denuclearization of the Mediterranean, pre-established in Barcelona by the Euro-Mediterranean partnership since 1995.
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(Français) “Le Venezuela est un parfait exemple de ce qu’on peut faire avec la propagande”
La Rédaction | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Anne Morelli sur le Venezuela : “Ceux qui refusent cette propagande élémentaire qui nous est instillée tous les jours par les médias, on va les considérer comme des traîtres”.
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Re-Inhabiting Planet Earth
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
6 Mar 2019 – The atmosphere didn’t catch fire at 5:30 that morning, but Segre’s words remain relevant, sort of like radioactive fallout. They encapsulate what may be history’s ultimate moment of human arrogance: the belief in a sense of separateness from and superiority to nature so thorough that we have, with our monstrous intelligence, the ability and therefore the right to play Bad God and make the whole planet go poof.
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Can We Divest from Weapons Dealers?
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
8 Mar 2019 – Impoverished people living in numerous countries today would stand a far better chance of survival, and risk far less trauma, if weapon manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Raytheon stopped manufacturing and selling death-dealing products.
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Venezuela – Guaidó Planned to Use Arms – Frustration over Stalemate Sets In
Bernhardt Horstmann | Moon of Alabama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
6 Mar 2019 – New reports about the U.S. coup attempt in Venezuela describe the current mood in Washington as ‘frustration’. They also shine new light on why of the opposition’s plans failed.
→ read full articleTaxes or Debt?
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Economists define ‘the wealth of a society’ as its total stock of useful assets – homes, cars, buildings, roads, factories, cattle, money, gold … et cetera. Let us call this definition D1. It turns out that the original definition of ‘wealth’, a few hundred years ago, was NOT D1. Originally, in Old English, the word ‘wealth’ was related to ‘well-being’, via the word ‘weal’. ‘Wealth’ meant, quite simply, ‘that which brought well-being’. Let us call this simpler definition D2.
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René Dumont (13 Mar 1904 – 18 Jun 2001): Focus of the Small-Scale Farmer and Social Justice
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
René Dumont highlighted the importance of small-scale peasant farmers in the world’s food production. Despite massive displacement of the peasantry toward cities, more than 70 percent of the world’s food is produced by small family-owned farms. René Dumont was an active world citizen and always stressed world citizenship in his justification for his studies of agriculture worldwide.
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Will 5G Cell Phone Technology Lead to Dramatic Population Reduction as Large Numbers of Men Become Sterile?
Michael Snyder | End of the American Dream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
3 Mar 2019 – I know that the title of this article is controversial, but the scientific research that has been done in this area inevitably leads us to some conclusions that are inescapable. Our current cell phone technology produces electromagnetic radiation that damages male fertility, and the radiation produced by the new 5G technology will be much more powerful and therefore much more dangerous.
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(Français) Médias: «On produit l’information quasiment comme si on produisait des voitures»
Apocalypse News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Rencontre avec Grégoire Lalieu, journaliste à Investig’Action, qui nous livre sa vision du journalisme de demain !
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Room 101 Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
4 Mar 2019 – Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The curtains are always drawn and there is no natural light. The air is still and fetid. This is Room 101. Before I enter Room 101, I must surrender my passport and phone. My pockets and possessions are examined. The food I bring is inspected. The man who guards Room 101 sits in what looks like an old-fashioned telephone box. He watches a screen, watching Julian.
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(Português) Nova campanha da Sea Shepherd mostra animais que sofrem com a contaminação plástica dos oceanos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
9 mar 2019 – Em sua nova campanha, a organização de conservação da vida marinha Sea Shepherd mostra que um simples saco plástico, que parece inofensivo aos nossos olhos, pode representar o sofrimento extremo e até a morte de milhares de animais que habitam os oceanos. “Se os oceanos morrerem, nós também morreremos”, alerta Paul Watson.
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Blood Money: Meet the Top 20 Companies Profiting from Endless War
Elias Marat | The Mind Unleash – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
4 Mar 2019 – U.S. arms expenditures rose by $9.6 billion, driving the global rise and further consolidating the status of the United States as the world’s top spender on the military–by far. The U.S. spending on war is rooted in post-World War II “new Pentagon capitalism” that eventually became known as the military-industrial complex.
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Algarabías (Music Video of the Week)
Vasco Hernández | ARC Music – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Algarabías: Yelling or boisterous babble of people shouting or speaking at the same time. (Spanish culture)
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Tell the EU to Ban the Ivory Trade – NOW!
Rainforest Rescue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
The EU sees itself as a conservation leader, yet it has a blind spot for the ivory business. The trade in “antique” ivory remains legal in the EU – a convenient loophole to launder tons of freshly poached tusks and export them to Asia. Tell the EU to kill the trade – before the trade kills the last elephants!
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Violence in Myanmar: Look Elsewhere Than Security Council
Rebecca Barber | The Interpreter, Lowy Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
6 Mar 2019 – Last week the UN Security Council was briefed yet again on the situation in Myanmar. The Fact-Finding Mission recommended the Security Council refer the situation to the International Criminal Court or establish an international criminal tribunal. But due to the politics of the Security Council, in which any of the five permanent members may veto any proposed action, such recommendation will almost certainly never be acted upon.
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Celebrating Gandhi Anniversary Musically
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
As many people know, the Indian government and various institutions are celebrating Gandhi’s 150th anniversary with great joy and gaiety. The celebrations are taking various forms — seminars, talks, exhibitions, plays and skits by students of various academic institutions etc. The objective of these events is to demonstrate various aspects of Gandhi in an attractive and easy to understand manner.
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Britain’s Second Empire: The Spider’s Web
True Publica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
4 Dec 2018 – At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance.
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Worrying about Huawei: Is China Winning the G5 Race?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
20 Feb 2019 – My responses to questions posed by Sputnik News Agency a few days ago. The effort to warn European countries not to use equipment from the Chinese telecom giant, Huawei, is part warning and part threat. It claims to be a matter of security, but seems like an effort to avoid the competitive challenge posed by the superior technology of Huawei by claiming a threat to the security of European countries because China will be able to engage in unauthorized data surveillance.
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Reporting from Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
28 Feb 2019 – Here in Palestine, life of suffering continues. The UN Human Rights Council issued a report this week that shows the extent of Israel’s violations of international law and human rights including on targeting children [5]. Yet, we continue to exist and to resist. We are not alone. Last two weeks for example I hosted five International delegations.
→ read full articleArt of the Deal Revisited while Waiting for the Next Summit
Donald Trump with René Wadlow, Ghostwriter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
The Art of the Deal, part biography, part business advice, received wide readership and drew attention to Donald Trump beyond the New York milieu in which he worked. The book was largely written by his ghostwriter, journalist Tony Schwartz. In this spirit, here is a ghostwritten presentation of what Donald Trump should say in his next meeting with Kim Jong-Un which should also be held in Hanoi so that Kim can take a train.
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Stand with the People’s Uprising in Haiti
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
25 Feb 2019 – Statement in Solidarity with the Popular Uprising in Haiti – This February marks the 15th anniversary of the 2004 coup d’état that ousted the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In these fifteen years, the Haitian popular movement has refused to be silenced, in spite of the kidnapping and forced exile of President Aristide and his wife and colleague, Mildred Trouillot Aristide, a subsequent UN military occupation, continuous and deadly repression against peaceful protestors, and a rigged electoral system.
→ read full articleReport of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
UN Human Rights Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
25 Feb 2019 – Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories – The commission was mandated to focus on accountability and identifying those responsible for violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The commission found reasonable grounds to believe that some violations may constitute international crimes.
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2019 Peace Proposal – “Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach.”
Daisaku Ikeda | Soka Gakkai International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
26 Jan 2019 – Last May, UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the UN Disarmament Agenda in which he noted that total military spending was around eighty times the amount required to meet the humanitarian aid needs of the whole world. Now is the time to accelerate momentum toward disarmament. To this end, I propose three key themes that could support the effort to advance disarmament as a cornerstone of the twenty-first century.
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Don’t Play Politics with Our Peace
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
It is with deep concern and regret that I witness Northern Ireland has been without a Parliament for almost two years. We have a fundamental right to government; all our futures are in your hands. Please don’t play politics with our peace. SIGN THE PETITION
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‘Global Indifference to Human Rights Violations in the Middle East and North Africa Fuelling Atrocities and Impunity’
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
Report reviews human rights in 19 MENA states during 2018
• International arms trade and lucrative business deals fuel cycle of abuse
• Lack of accountability drives widespread repression and civilian suffering
• Small advances on women’s rights and efforts to tackle past abuses due to civil society campaigns
He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother (Music Video of the Week)
The Hollies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
Story behind the song:
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
The world abounds with violence, terrorism, militarism, wars that lead to lack of harmony, selfishness and absence of moral behaviour and an absence of feeling of sharing and results in otherness. Vasudev kutumbakam, the Vedas suggested that the whole world is a family.
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Health and Development in Norway — A New Old Book from TRANSCEND University Press
TRANSCEND University Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
With great pleasure TRANSCEND University Press (TUP) publishes a new book which is both the most modern and the oldest book from TUP as of today: Health and Development in Norway by Johan Galtung and Dag Viljen Poleszynski is the first ebook published by TUP and based on an unpublished manuscript from 1982. Most of the text has been reformatted and the book is now available for free in modern ebook formats.
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Venezuela: Beyond Regime Change and Oil
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
26 Feb 2019 – The world is unevenly split over Venezuela. The Non-Aligned Movement, accounting for 120 countries “reiterates its firm support” of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in line with the Bandung principles. Russia and China declared their pro-Maduro stand from the word go. The UN refuses to entertain Guido. Recently, some 50 UN envoys have stood in solidarity with Venezuela determined to protect the UN Charter and International Law. This leaves only the usual lapdogs standing with Washington.
→ read full articleAnti Reuter
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
The task of journalists is to mirror reality, empirical reality, not some potential reality desired by some and-or predicted by some. It is not to mediate to change empirical reality in favor a new social reality. The task of journalists mirroring reality would include information about communities handling successfully natural and-or social disasters and how; not only all those that did not.
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Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
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Lost in Globalisation – A Chaotic Tale of a Process Now Being Dismantled (Apparently)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
28 Feb 2019 — Do not panic! This is not about telling you how bank accounts and pension funds have been used to finance the production of nuclear bombs (they call it ‘investment’). Nor it is about the four dozens of major and minor wars that the so-called “traditional weapons,” which are being manufactured and exported by civilised, democratic countries, continue to systematically fuel.
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Structural Violence and Health
Dag Viljen Poleszynski, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
Structural Violence Makes Peace/Healthy Living Obtainable only for the Wealthy Few
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(Português) Campanha Divulgada por Leonardo Dicaprio Convence o Governo Russo a Libertar Mais de 100 Baleias
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
2 mar 2019 – DiCaprio motivou os seus quase 19 milhões de seguidores no Twitter a assinarem uma petição contra o confinamento de baleias na Rússia.
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Milan Anti-Racism March Draws “Hundreds of Thousands”
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
3 Mar 2019 – Organisers said about 200,000 people turned out to protest against racism in the northern Italian city of Milan in Lombardy, a region where the right-wing populist League party has strong support.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Balance Profits and Social Good
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ or better known by its acronym, CSR, is a very broad concept that aims at managing a business in a way that it contributes towards sustainable development by delivering social, economic and environmental benefits to all its stakeholders.
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The “Parties” Are Enjoyed by the Wealthy, Not by Popular Sectors
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
21 Feb 2019 – Many countries apply adjustment policies arguing that the State generated a “party” spending income it did not have, which produced serious imbalances. This proposition conceals perverse situations: the “party,” if there was one, was enjoyed by large corporations and wealthy families. Let us be clear: if there were parties, they were just for some; the rest has been submitted to an unbridle process of concentration of wealth and, with that, decisional power as well.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
“How was your vacation in the mountain resort?”
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Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
We speak with world-renowned environmental leader and ecologist Dr. Vandana Shiva about climate change, seed sovereignty and her new book, “Oneness vs. the 1%.” Shiva is an Indian scholar, physicist, and food sovereignty and seed freedom advocate. She was born in Doon Valley in the Himalayan foothills.
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Peace Journalism in Theory and Practice
Silvia De Michelis | E-IR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
23 Dec 2018 – Peace journalism, as the name suggests, is a form of journalism committed to exploring root causes of conflict in order to “create opportunities for society at large to consider and value nonviolent responses to conflict.” Its history can be tracked back to 1965, when Johan Galtung and Mari Ruge analysed what makes foreign news newsworthy. Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung further developed the notion of peace journalism and argued that the media (war reporting, in particular) predominantly exhibit biases towards violence and rest on the conceptual belief that ‘conflict’ equals ‘war’.
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The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
In this analysis, John Pilger looks back over the Chavez years in Venezuela, including his own travels with Hugo Chavez, and the current US and European campaign to overthrow Nicolas Maduro in a ‘coup by media’ and to return Latin America to the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Kashmir: What Would Gandhi Say?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
1 Mar 2019 – What would Mahatma Gandhi say about the threat of war between India and Pakistan, which has brought the two nations and the world to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe? Throughout the struggle for Indian independence, Gandhi was faced with the serious problem of avoiding conflict between religious groups once independence had been achieved. He made every effort to bridge the rift between the Hindu and Muslim communities.
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Nobel-Winning Physicist Niels Bohr on Subjective vs. Objective Reality and the Uses of Religion in a Secular World
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
“The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won’t get us very far.”
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Prof. Johan Galtung: “I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire.”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
On the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out
2010 Interview Still More Relevant Today
A Conspiracy of Decency
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
We will conspire to keep this blue dot floating and alive,
to keep the soldiers from gunning down the children;
to make the water clean and clear and plentiful,
Why Myanmar Must Develop an Identity of Inclusion
Khin Mai Aung| Lion’s Roar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
28 Feb 2019 – Report from the International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma, which called attention to the ongoing human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims and other religious minorities in the Buddhist-majority country of Myanmar.
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How to Prepare for a Global Financial Crash: Rural-Urban Continuum and Electric Vehicles
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
1 Mar 2019 In this blog we have often proposed that the culture of war is not sustainable and that the American empire is destined to crash for the same reasons that the Soviet empire crashed. It can be an opportunity for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace. However, the crash of the American empire may well be accompanied (caused) by a global financial crash with suffering for ordinary people, as it did for the Soviet people 30 years ago.
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Migrant Crisis in Europe? Look at Yemen
Helen Lackner | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
More desperate people crossed the Red Sea into Yemen in 2018 than crossed the Mediterranean heading for Europe. Yemen is in the midst of an internationalised civil war and suffering from the world’s worst humanitarian crisis according to the UN’s Secretary General. There has been no outcry about a ‘migrant invasion’ from the Yemeni Minister of the Interior, whether from the internationally recognised government or the Huthi movement that controls the capital Sana’a.
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Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Among the many challenges India faces, the most underappreciated is the ongoing mental health crisis. Mental illness is actually India’s ticking bomb.
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The U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It
Adam H Johnson | Truthdig- TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
21 Feb 2019 – No one actually thinks the murderers row of Cold Warriors, Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams and national security adviser John Bolton care at all about the starving people in Venezuela or their plight. No one reading this, be they right, left, center, libertarian or communist, actually buys the prevailing narrative that the U.S. is sending “aid” to Venezuela as a humanitarian gesture.
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(Castellano) Una estrategia no violenta para derrotar el intento de golpe de Estado de EE.UU. en Venezuela
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Al pueblo de Venezuela: Una vez más, la élite de los Estados Unidos ha decidido tratar de imponer su voluntad en el pueblo de otra nación, en este caso, y no por primera vez, su país, Venezuela.Por supuesto, este golpe es perfectamente consistente con la política exterior estadounidense de los últimos dos siglos, cuyo enfoque esencial ha sido asegurar su control en áreas geoestratégicas clave del mundo y robar los recursos de naciones extranjeras.
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(Français) José Martí et l’Anti-Impérialisme Etats-Unien: Une Analyse d’Actualité
Christine Gillard | Journal Notre Amérique – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
20 Fév 2019 – Depuis une dizaine d’années les États-Unis regardent à nouveau vers les pays d’Amérique du sud, attentifs à la remontée des oppositions des droites aux gouvernements progressistes. Cette attention vigilante se traduit par des stratégies d’aide plus ou moins directe aux opposants, ainsi que par le déploiement de forces armées sur les frontières sensibles en s’appuyant sur les pays amis comme la Colombie.
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White Helmets’ Staged Chemical Attack Videos and Other Trends in Modern Propaganda
South Front – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – The scandal regarding the fake hospital video published by the White Helmets as a proof of the Douma chemical attack has reached its peak in the media and has caused reaction on the diplomatic level.
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The French Army Has Killed Hamadoun Kouffa, the Malian Robin Hood
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
How might the Malian government find a way to negotiate with his successors, to avoid genocide or civil war?
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Laughter for All (Financial) Times
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – In these times, when the United States pursues an unprecedented military build-up, promotes coups and trade wars, breaks weapons agreements, organizes the illegal seizure of overseas financial accounts, building barriers and walls along the southern border, Washington can count on the mass media to provide a variety of propaganda messages, ranging from the predictable ‘yellow ’ to the sophisticated ‘serious press’.
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Conference Calls for Action to End Rohingya Genocide
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – On Feb. 8 and 9 at Barnard College in New York City, the Free Rohingya Coalition held an extremely productive conference, drawing an audience of 200 researchers, activists and renowned academics from around 12 countries. Victims demand that ‘Never again!’ must be more than an empty slogan.
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UN Alliance of Civilizations Call for Applications for 2019 Fellowship Programme
UNAOC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
The theme of the Fellowship 2019 is “The role of women in peacemaking and conflict prevention”. Candidates must be able to present professional achievements in these fields and have until Sunday March 10th 2019 to apply.
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