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Notre Dame of Gaza: Our Mosques and Churches Are Also Burning
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
24 Apr 2019 – The Israeli army bombed the historic Al-Omari Mosque in northern Gaza. The ancient mosque dates back to the 7th century and has since served as a symbol of resilience and faith for the people of Gaza. As Notre Dame burned, I thought of Al-Omari too. While the fire at the French cathedral was likely accidental, destroyed Palestinian houses of worship were intentionally targeted. The Israeli culprits are yet to be held accountable.
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The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children Has Become Big Business in America
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
23 Apr 2019 – Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old. This is America’s dirty little secret.
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Of Godmen, Godwomen, and Ordinary Individuals
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
The society being what it is–disparities between the rich elite and the impoverished poor, the new liberal economic system that promotes degradation of our planet, the political and religious conflicts that are resulting in crimes and bombings–it is difficult to act sanely and with compassion and justice towards all forms of life. But let us not feel hopeless and dejected. Let us not just adore, admire the modern forms of Godmen and Godwomen.
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Consciousness: The Symptom of the Soul
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
The current idea that the mind is part of the brain is held not only by many biologists, neurologists, etc., but by others in all branches of science, including physics, computer science, and psychology. We might, however, point out a number of problems with this current thinking. Let us suggest that it is just as reasonable to consider an alternative view, and that the Vedic concept is actually more consistent and does not have as many problems as their concept has.
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Thanksgiving
TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
How nice!
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Planning Can Save the Planet: China Chooses Renewable Energy
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
23 Apr 2019 – The United States and China are the largest consumers of coal and oil. The choices made by the leaders of the two largest industrialized economies are having an impact on climate and on air quality for everyone. But the decisions being made in these two countries are going in totally different directions. Their choices reveal a lot about the different social and political bases of each country.
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The PA Is Taking Sides in a Diplomatic Game That Spells Disaster for Palestinians
Ramona Wadi – The Middle East Monitor,
29 Apr 2019
26 Apr 2019 – The excessive focus on US President Donald Trump’s forthcoming “deal of the century” is already marginalising the Palestinians. Pitting the US plan against the two-state compromise has created another diplomatic battlefield in which the only losers continue to be the people of Palestine.
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Saudi Arabia Beheads 37 People Guilty of ‘Terrorism-Related Crimes’
SBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
24 Apr 2019 – The executions are likely to stoke further regional and sectarian tensions between rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Cuban Five Hero Declares His Solidarity with Julian Assange
Yimel Diaz | Resumen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019 – Hernandez who is currently a Deputy of the Cuban National Assembly and Vice Dean of the Higher Institute of International Relations spent 16 years in U.S. prisons. He commented, through his own experience that if Assange is extradited to the U.S. nothing good will happen to him. “We witnessed how they were always trying to distort the truth as a way of demonizing us.
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(Português) No Uganda Há Uma Mãe Solteira com 38 Filhos para Cuidar e Esta É a Sua História
Pedro Dias | Visão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Mariam Nabatanzi, do Uganda, foi aconselhada pelo médico a não tomar a pílula, graças a uma condição física rara. O resultado foi o nascimento de 44 filhos – seis pares de gémeos, quatro pares de trigémeos e cinco pares de quadrigémeos – de quem cuida sozinha.
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
“Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person.”
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Genetically Modified Babies: The Genetic Editing of Human Life Is “Big Business”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
29 Apr 2019
28 Apr 2019 – The experiment raises important scientific and ethical issues. Human embryos are not commodities. The Chinese government immediately opened an investigation; Dr He Jiankui was fired by his University in January 2019. Despite government regulations and ethical issues, there are powerful corporate interests involved in the development and patenting of genetic editing of life forms including Dr. He’s findings on “genetically modified babies”.
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Jailed Myanmar Reuters Reporters, U.S. Border Photographers Win Pulitzer Prizes
Daniel Trotta | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
15 Apr 2019 – Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes today, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.
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2019 World Press Freedom Index – A Cycle of Fear
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
The 2019 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows how hatred of journalists has degenerated into violence, contributing to an increase in fear. The number of countries regarded as safe, where journalists can work in complete security, continues to decline, while authoritarian regimes continue to tighten their grip on the media.
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Stop the Ongoing U.S. Economic Terrorism against Iran and Help Its People!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
15 Apr 2019 – You have certainly not heard much about this in the West. And it didn’t get a fraction of the media attention (and none of the hundreds of millions of Euro pledges by the perversely rich) that the Notre Dame fire did.
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Defending Julian Assange -> Defending the Truth
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Because of my own longstanding interest in developing thoughtfully-designed nonviolent strategies in our struggle to make our world one of peace, justice and ecological sustainability, let me suggest a strategic way forward that will honor the courage of Julian and Chelsea by maximizing the impact of their truth-telling on the longer-term struggles just mentioned while also taking separate action to provide some additional pressure to assist them in the short and medium terms.
→ read full articleAssange Arrest (Part 1): ‘So now he’s our property.’
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
16 Apr 2019 – If ‘journalism’ meant what it is supposed to mean– acting as the proverbial ‘fourth estate’ to challenge power and to keep the public informed – then Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would be universally lauded as paragons. So would Chelsea Manning, the brave former US Army whistleblower who passed on to WikiLeaks more than 700,000 confidential US State Department and Pentagon documents, videos and diplomatic cables about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Compassion over Killing Investigation: Nestlé’s Nightmare
The Lives of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
6 Apr 2019 – A new undercover investigation by Compassion over Killing reveals the hidden truth behind Nestle’s dairy products.
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On Taking Controversial Public Positions: A Reflection
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – I have chosen activism to the end, both continuing with sports to the limit of my ability and to honor the political commitments of a citizen pilgrim (dedicated to a journey to a desired and desirable political community that functions now only as an imaginary, yet has the ambition to become a political project) to the best of my ability.
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Is the American Psychological Association Addicted to Militarism and War?
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
19 Apr 2019 – On the morning of September 11, 2001, the APA sprang into action and worked with the American Red Cross to provide psychological support to families of the victims and to rescue workers. The APA also ensured that the Bush Administration would view the association as a valued partner in the military and intelligence operations central to the new “war on terror.” These two responses are clearly very different from each other.
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It Is Time We Stop Treating Poor as Guinea Pigs
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
India has long been a testing ground for several western products, particularly in agriculture and medicine. Although imported programmes have the benefit of supplying ‘pre-tested’ models, they are inherently risky because they may not take root in the local culture when transplanted. Home-grown models have greater chances of success. The millions of households who constitute the rural poor are a potential source of great knowledge and creativity.
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The Public Banking Revolution Is Upon Us
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – As public banking gains momentum across the country, policymakers in California and Washington State are vying to form the nation’s second state-owned bank, following in the footsteps of the highly successful Bank of North Dakota, founded in 1919.
→ read full articleAssange Arrest (Part 2): ‘A Definite Creep, a Probable Rapist’
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – As discussed in Part 1, the nub of this ‘mainstream’ scorn was the belief that Assange’s concerns about extradition were a cowardly excuse for fleeing possible sex crimes – fears of extradition were a nerdish, paranoid fantasy. It is a bitter irony, then, that Assange is currently trapped in the high-security Belmarsh Prison, which has been described as ‘Britain’s Guantanamo Bay’.
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Why Israel Has No ‘Right to Exist’
Jeremy R. Hammond | Foreign Policy Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
15 Mar 2019 – Zionists taking it upon themselves to try to defend Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people frequently level the charge that its critics are attempting to “delegitimize” the self-described “Jewish state”. Israel, they counter, has a “right to exist”. But they are mistaken. This is not to single out Israel. There is no such thing as a state’s “right to exist”, period.
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The Good Friday Agreement
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Former US Senator George Mitchell played a crucial role as mediator in helping bring about a peace settlement between representatives of the Northern Irish Protestants and Sinn Fein.
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Is Africa on Trial by the ICC?
Global Policy Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
27 Mar 2019 – There are 15 cases currently before the International Criminal Court, and all of them are against Africans. Some critics argue that the Court was designed to target leaders who offend powerful western interests. They say that had Robert Bales, the US soldier who shot 17 Afghan civilians, been African, his commander in chief would surely be charged by the Court. Others defend the Court, arguing that every person facing charges, African or not, needs to be held accountable for their human rights violations. This pair of BBC articles looks at the issue from both sides.
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Yemen and World Law: Building from Current Violations
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
The aggression against Yemen has created a moral vacuum, an area devoid of the most basic human values both within Yemen and in the countries attacking it.
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The 2016 Coup in Brazil: The Door to Disaster
Dilma Rousseff | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
17 Apr 2019 – The Ex-President of Brazil Looks into the Country’s Political Scenario Today – Three years ago today, Brazil’s lower house, chaired by a congressman who was convicted of corruption, started impeachment proceedings against me. The coup resulted in unprecedented social and economic calamity in Brazil. Rights the people have historically accomplished are being annihilated. Civilizing advances achieved in the democratic period after the military dictatorship are being dilapidated.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
According to a recent United Nations report, extreme weather events displaced 2 million people during 2018. While no single event can be unambiguously attributed to anthropogenic climate change, scientists believe the increasing frequency of extreme weather events is definitely linked to global warming. The same is true of their increasing severity. “Don’t come with a speech, come with a plan. This is what science says is needed. It is what young people around the globe are rightfully demanding.” – UN Sec. Gen. António Guterres
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Glyphosate Worse Than We Could Imagine
F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
14 Apr 2019 – Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.
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Between Yes and No, Heaven and Earth with Albert Camus on a Spring Morning
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – For a writer to fight injustice to the exclusion of creating beauty and living passionately contradicts the deepest desires of the human heart. Albert Camus taught us this. The love of life must inform the rebel’s resistance to injustice… You are right, Albert, “We must simultaneously serve suffering and beauty.”
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ICC Will Not Investigate U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
The International Criminal Court announced Friday [12 Apr 2019] it was refusing to pursue an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the USA in Afghanistan.
— “The ICC is bowing to President Trump’s pressure campaign. With this decision it sends a dangerous message: that bullying wins and that the powerful won’t be held to account.” (Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights)
Easter Sunday at St James Church in Delhi
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
21 Apr 2019 – Today is Easter Sunday, the most holy day of the Christian Church calendar. Being a Hindu, somehow there was an urge in me to participate in this auspicious event.
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(Castellano) Defendiendo a Julian Assange -> Defendiendo la Verdad
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Debido a mi propio interés de larga data en desarrollar estrategias no violentas cuidadosamente diseñadas en nuestra lucha por hacer de nuestro mundo un mundo de paz, justicia y sostenibilidad ecológica, permítame sugerir una forma estratégica de avanzar que honre el coraje de Julian y Chelsea maximizando el impacto de su relato de la verdad en las luchas a más largo plazo que se acaban de mencionar, al tiempo que se toman medidas por separado para ejercer una presión adicional para ayudarles en el corto y mediano plazo.
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“Israel” Turns a Historical Palestinian Mosque into a Bar
Quds News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
13 Apr 2019 – The Israeli municipality in Safed has turned Al-Ahmar Mosque into a bar and events hall, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported. It has long been one of the most historical mosques in the Arab city of Safed, northern occupied Palestine, which was occupied by Jewish gangs in 1948.
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Years after She Smells Parkinson’s Disease on Her Husband, Woman Is Now Paving the Way for Early Detection Test
McKinley Corbley | Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
13 Apr 2019 – Milne did not realize that she had been smelling the disease for over a decade until she attended a support group for Parkinson’s patients and found that everyone of them had the smell.
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(Castellano) El Final del Camino
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
No hay soluciones económicas (es decir, no hay soluciones pro-vida) porque la economía vive y se mueve y tiene su ser dentro del marco del derecho de propiedad y del derecho contractual tal como se lo desarrolló primero en el Imperio Romano, después en los estados sucesores del Imperio Romano durante el período moderno temprano. La ley europea fue impuesta a los habitantes de las Américas, África y Asia por la fuerza. (Consultar Patriarcado y acumulación a escala mundial de María Mies)
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The ICC Was Wrong to Deny Prosecution Request for Afghan Probe
Mark Kersten – Al Jazeera,
22 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019 – Judges at the International Criminal Court have denied a request to open an investigation into atrocities committed in Afghanistan. US officials will never end up before ICC judges, but speaking truth to power could still boost the court’s credibility.
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Why the Assange Arrest Should Scare Reporters
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
22 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – The WikiLeaks founder will be tried in a real court for one thing, but for something else in the court of public opinion. His indictment falls just short of a full frontal attack on press freedoms.
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What Matters Is Our Consciousness
Radhanath Swami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
The famous writer Paulo Coelho once said, “There is always a gap between our intention and action.” This holds true in our lives. How we present things or in what ways we present is definitely important and critical, but if we deeply analyze the matter, it’s the intention or consciousness behind it that matters.
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White House Insider: War with Iran Planned by Trump to Occur in the Fall of 2019
Israel Today News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – President Donald Trump and his inner circle are planning an extensive invasion of Iran, according to a source working in the White House. The plan involves a ground invasion and the use of tactical nuclear weapons, in a campaign planned for the Fall of 2019. Iran will be “wiped off the map” according to the source, and the war effort is expected to cost “two and half times the Iraq War.”
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(Italiano) 70 anni di NATO. Di guerra in guerra. Un convegno di denuncia e proposta
Angela Dogliotti ed Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
22 Apr 2019
11 Aprile 2019 – La militarizzazione dell’Europa prodotta dalla NATO coinvolse in modo particolare l’Italia, che fin dal 1951 «ospitò» basi statunitensi sul suo territorio. Secondo l’art. 5 della NATO ogni decisione doveva essere presa solo con l’unanimità dei partecipanti: di fatto, nei primi anni nessun Paese espresse dissenso o pose il veto alle proposte della NATO, e dagli anni 2000 è entrato in vigore il «silenzio assenso», a testimoniare la totale mancanza di autonomia degli Stati membri e la sudditanza di fronte alle scelte statunitensi.
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Margaret Prescod | Pacifica – The Real News Network,
22 Apr 2019
14/16 Apr 2019 (Parts 1 & 2) – An unknown number of Haitians were killed, raped, and burned alive in La Saline, Haiti, home of the African Diaspora liberation. Margaret Prescod talks about what she found.
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Why Can’t the World’s Greatest Minds Solve the Mystery of Consciousness?
Oliver Burkeman – The Guardian,
22 Apr 2019
Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots. The answer might lie with the spiritualists.
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(Português) Multinacional decide libertar cães usados em testes de agrotóxicos exigidos pela Anvisa
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
12 abr 2019 – Segundo a Humane Society International, os animais que sobrevivessem às experiências seriam sacrificados.
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Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture (Music Video of the Week)
Boston Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
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(Português) Elefanta explorada em circo passa a sofrer de paralisia de tromba
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Animais selvagens que são explorados e mantidos em cativeiro em circos sofrem de problemas de saúde como obesidade, artrite e fome (desnutrição). O pior de tudo é que eles desenvolvem zoocose – depressão e comportamento compulsivo, como movimentos ritmados sem objetivo e automutilação.
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TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Ouch!
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We Already Know Who Will Win the War in Libya – Western Arms Dealers
Paul Rogers | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – They armed Gadaffi and the forces that ousted him alike – now they’re repeating that profitable trick. It is a hidden war that is very good indeed for business.
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Boiled Down and Down
Bob Neumann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
There can be no world peace
without world-wide justice.
No universal world justice
without enforceable world law.
Right to Own: A Policy Framework to Catalyze Worker Ownership Transitions
Peter Gowan | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
16 Apr 2019 – Age-old questions of ownership, control, and distribution in our economy remain as important as ever. In fostering the creation of communities and workplaces driven by values of solidarity, cooperation, and justice, workplace democracy and worker ownership are crucial, powerful tools, and they can and should play an important role in the next economic system.
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(Italiano) Perché gli attivisti falliscono
Robert J. Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Nonostante enormi sforzi continui per più di un millennio, durante e a partire dalla formazione e plasmazione del mondo moderno, e con il costante aumento delle tematiche contestate, gli attivisti di vario genere hanno fatto progressi insufficienti su punti chiave, particolarmente in relazione al porre fine alla violenza e alla guerra (e alla minaccia della guerra nucleare), al fermare lo sfruttamento di molti popoli e gli infiniti assalti alla biosfera terrestre.
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US Makes Stuff Up to Grease the Skids for War on Iran
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
22 Apr 2019
19 Apr 2019 – With absolutely zero good reasons for waging war on Iran, the Trump administration goes on making stuff up to lie the country into yet another war. The template looks like the Bush administration’s successful effort to lie the US into the Iraq War, the catastrophic effects of which keep unfolding.
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The Lasalin Massacre in Haiti
Vladimir Durace | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Was it an accidental event, a fight between rival gangs to control an area, or a calculated and planned political act?
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Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Pacesetter
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(Português) Einstein e Freud: Guerra e Paz Num Diálogo Interdisciplinar
Luis Henrique Beust | Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
O presente trabalho busca situar a relevância das ideias de Albert Einstein e de Sigmund Freud sobre a guerra e a paz para os esforços contemporaneos de construção de uma Cultura de Paz. Argumenta-se que suas contribuições são especialmente relevantes para fortalecer a ideia fundamental por trás dos esforços de educação para tal Cultura, qual seja, de que a guerra não é intrínseca à natureza humana, e que, portanto, pode ser eliminada.
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RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been evicted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has spent the last six years. Ecuador’s president has announced that the country has withdrawn asylum from Assange.
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Australian Academy of Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
10 Apr 2019 – BREAKING NEWS: This is the first real image of a black hole. Every image of a black hole you have seen before has been a computer or artist simulation. This super massive black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 is 6.5 billion times more massive than our sun.
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Julian Assange: Criminal or Benefactor?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
14 Apr 2019 – I suppose it is of interest that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have found something to agree about—the criminal indictment of Julian Assange. Trump is acutely vulnerable to the exposure of truth and Clinton blames her electoral defeat in 2016 partly on what WikiLeaks disclosed about her improper use of a government computer to send private emails. Such are the perverse ways of the deeply unjust.
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8 April: The Buddha Siddhartha Gautama Birthday (563–483 BC)
Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
8 Apr 2019 – Today is the anniversary of the Buddha’s birth—born Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, the fourth largest religion in the world.
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(Français) Déclaration : Pour les 70 ans de l’OTAN, demandons sa dissolution
Le Mouvement de la Paix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
4 avril 2019 – Le Mouvement de la Paix demande à notre pays de sortir complètement de l’OTAN et d’inciter tous les autres pays membres à faire de même et à exiger, avec nous, sa dissolution. Il coordonne l’action de 50 organisations françaises dans cet objectif. Un contresommet sera organisé à Washington début avril 2019 et à Londres en décembre. Il demande à ses partenaires, français et étrangers, de mener une telle campagne dans leur pays.
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Manning, Assange and the Use of Solitary Confinement
Dr. Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
9 Apr 2019 – Chelsea Manning courageously exposed war crimes. Julian Assange published her findings and many others that reveal the fetid and rank underbelly of Power and its lawless disregard for truth or human life. Their imprisonment is criminal, but their unnecessary isolation in their respective prisons is sadistic, cruel and deplorable. It is a peculiarly atrocious form of torture. In a truly civilised society, this should be wholly unacceptable.
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(Português) A acusação contra Julian Assange pelo governo dos EUA representa uma grave ameaça à liberdade de expressão
Glenn Greenwald e Micah Lee – The Intercept Brasil,
15 Apr 2019
12 Abr 2019 – O Departamento de Justiça americano usou a antipatia do público em relação ao Assange para tentar criminalizar uma função vital do jornalismo investigativo.
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Secrecy versus Democracy
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019 – According to the Nuremberg Principles, the citizens of a country have a responsibility for the crimes that their governments commit. But to prevent these crimes, the people need to have some knowledge of what is going on. Indeed, democracy cannot function at all without this knowledge, If Julian Assange becomes a martyr to the truth like Galileo or Bruno, his name will be honored in the future, and the shame of his captors will be remembered too.
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Trial of Julian Assange–Who Is the Pontius Pilate of Easter 2019?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
In Dramatic Anticipation of Emergence of a Church of Julian -> Produced to commemorate the arrest and indictment of Julian Assange (London, 11 April 2019)
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Denmark’s PM Admires a Killing Soldier’s Simplistic View of Good and Evil
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – An entertaining talk show, “Skavlan”, one of the largest in Europe with 2 million viewers. A dialogue between a prime minister and a UK Special Forces soldier who doesn’t regret that he has kicked in doors and “killed a lot” in Afghanistan. He justifies himself by the most primitive and long-ago debunked theory about Good and Evil in this world. After which the prime minister expresses his admiration and total agreement! Something is deeply wrong here. Disturbing. Do the issues of war and peace not require any intellectual capacity, knowledge or decent thinking? And how come that both the PM and the soldier seem to feel like victims in spite of having, directly and indirectly, themselves taken lives?
→ read full articleEinstein and Freud: War and Peace in an Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Luis Henrique Beust | Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
The present work makes a case for the relevance of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud’s exchange on war and peace for current efforts towards establishing a Culture of Peace. The author concludes by suggesting that the exchange between them is directly in line with, and contributes towards, current efforts to promote such Culture — particularly regarding their shared view that war is not intrinsic to human nature and therefore can be eliminated.
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How ‘Never Again!’ World Deals with Modern Genocides
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
9 Apr 2019 – If your people suffer genocide, here is the package deal you will get from our indifferent world:
The mass media will descend on the crime scene as long as there is blood to be filmed;
Western media corporations will send your spokesperson a chauffeured Mercedes for a three-minute TV interview;
The UN General Assembly will pass a resolution or annual resolutions — as long as the genocide has not stopped — in order to try to appear to be doing something for the victims;
The Security Council will debate and adopt a non-binding resolution;
The secretary-general, the glorified chief clerk of the world’s most bloated bureaucracy whose purpose is long gone, will mention “Never again!” and lament his — never her — impotence;
Read on…
The U.S. Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
Glenn Greenwald and Micah Lee – The Intercept,
15 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019 – The Trump DOJ is exploiting animosity toward Assange to launch a thinly disguised effort to criminalize core functions of investigative journalism.
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Leonardo Da Vinci Revisited: How a 15th Century Artist Dissected the Human Machine
Susan Broomhall and Ivan Marusic – The Conversation,
15 Apr 2019
15 Apr 2019 – On the 500th anniversary of his death, scholars from different disciplines re-examine the work, legacy and myth of Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was fascinated by the human body. His disdain for painters who did not bother to learn anatomy was barely concealed in his criticisms of those who “draw their nude figures looking like wood, devoid of grace; so that you would think you were looking at a sack of walnuts rather than the human form”.
→ read full articleJulian Assange Arrested in London After Ecuador Withdraws Asylum; U.S. Requests Extradition
Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – The WikiLeaks founder was arrested by British police who were invited into Ecuador’s London embassy today after his asylum was withdrawn. This breaking news report will be updated throughout the day.
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Don’t Blame Sharia for Islamic Extremism – Blame Colonialism
Mark Fathi Massoud – The Conversation,
15 Apr 2019
8 Apr 2019 – There is no inherent tension between Islam and democratic values. Like any use of religion in politics, the application of Sharia as law depends on who is using it – and why.
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Flood-Hit Iran Getting No Financial Aid from Abroad Because of US Sanctions
Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
7 Apr 2019 – US sanctions have prevented the Iranian Red Crescent from obtaining foreign financial aid to assist victims of flooding that has killed at least 70 people and inundated some 1,900 communities, the group said on Sunday.
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Six Big Leaks from Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks over the Years
William Cummings - USA Today,
15 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019 – Julian Assange: Some consider him a champion of government transparency and freedom of the press, while others have condemned him as a dangerous rogue who has undermined national security. Here is a look at some of the biggest leaks Assange and his organization have been behind since its founding in 2006.
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Money (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
‘Money’ by Pink Floyd from the album The Dark Side of the Moon
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What Does It Mean to Teach Peace?
Ellen Birkett Lindeen | Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
[Note from TMS editor]: Peace does not mean the absence of war; that is called negative peace. Positive peace is based on equitable distribution of resources, restoration of relationships, the creation of social systems that serve the needs of the whole population and the constructive resolution of conflict. To work for a sustainable peace, people focus on factors to generate positive peace, rather than simply to avoid violence. [Galtung 1996].
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Reckoning with Failure in the War on Terror
Chris Hedges | Truthdig - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
8 Apr 2019 – The endless conflict is the final gasp of the American Empire, signaling the end of hegemony abroad and democracy at home.
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8 Things You May Not Know about Leonardo Da Vinci, on the 500th Anniversary of His Death
Richard Gunderman – The Conversation,
15 Apr 2019
10 Apr 2019 – Dead five centuries, Leonardo retains a rock star’s fame, well known around the world by just one name. Here, some facts about the man and his legacy.
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Making Peace: Israel/Palestine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
Interview with Samu Tamás Gergő, a Hungarian journalist, April 9, 2019, on conditions of peace for the Palestine/Israel, with some initial emphasis on my experience as UN Special Rapporteur addressing human rights in Occupied Palestine on behalf of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Global Peace and Security: Why Wars on Humanity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
9 Apr 2019 – Remember that civilizations and humanity are not developed by the political-military-industrial complexes led economies, or IMF operative bankers, ruling elite, speculatory stock markets, legal judgments, kings and queens, morally and spiritually decadent generations and crime riddled authoritarian rulers, but are the tangible progressive outcomes of the proactive intellectual and moral visions of the societal thinkers, poets, philosophers, knowledge, truth, compassion and continuous movement by man to support the humanity and its natural strive for new thinking, change and progress.
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Another African Convicted in another Racist, Chauvinist Western Court
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
10 Apr 2019 – Western propaganda about the Rwandan Genocide has been so triumphant that a Rwandan Hutu on trial in the West faces inevitable jury bias. Last week a jury in Boston Federal Court convicted Rwandan asylum seeker Jean Leonard Teganya of fraud and perjury for lying on his immigration papers about his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
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(Português) Alemanha fecha sua última fazenda de abate de animais para extração de peles
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
6 abr 2019 – De acordo com informações da organização Pessoas Pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (PETA), a Alemanha fechou a sua última fazenda de abate de animais para extração de peles. A propriedade situada em Rahden, no estado da Renânia do Norte-Vestfália, agora não abriga mais nenhum animal com essa finalidade.
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Dictator: Media Code for ‘Government We Don’t Like’
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – Let’s start with a quiz: Quick! Name some dictators! I’m willing to bet most of you responded with just a few of the same names: Assad, Putin, Castro, Kim Jong-un, Gaddafi, Maduro. This is not because they are the only dictators in the world (far from it), or that all of them even necessarily qualify for the title, but precisely because these are the figures most constantly labeled as such by our media.
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TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
Body language
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
15 Apr 2019 – Most people around the world clap to appreciate or applaud a performance of music, dance or even a powerful speech. In fact the larger the number of claps or louder the clapping, the more heartening and encouraging it is to the performer on the stage. Occasionally, the clapping may be disruptive to the performer or the orator if one claps at the wrong moment.
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Researchers Have Identified How Naval Sonar Is Killing and Beaching Whales
Alex Larson | Sea Voice News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
We have known for a long time that naval sonar has devastating effects on marine life but just exactly how it leads to sickness and death was a mystery till now. In new research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they discovered that the sound emitted by sonar is so intense that marine mammals will swim hundreds of miles, dive deep into the abyss or even beach themselves to flee from the sounds that are literally unbearable to them.
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Statues of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning Unveiled in Berlin
Stefan Steinberg | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
WORTH REMEMBERING… 7 May 2015 – Bronze statues of persecuted whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning were unveiled in Berlin on May Day. The statues are an art project entitled “Anything to Say?”, of Italian artist Davide Dormino.
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Hate Lessons
Leslie Lytle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
I don’t know what to do with the sadness
or the hate. The hate
what makes me sad. Not
my hate. The haters’ hate. The haters
have been trying to teach me
to hate. See the bird. See
Leonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Leonardo would have been exposed to a vast range of technical skills and had the opportunity to learn drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling.
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First Black Hole Photo Confirms Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Kevin Pimbblet – The Conversation,
15 Apr 2019
10 Apr 2019 – Scientists turned Earth into one giant telescope to capture the uncapturable.
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Rohingya Genocide Survivor Censored by American Patrons in His Testimony before the US Senate
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
9 Apr 2019 – It came to my attention that Tun Khin was, in effect, instructed to NOT mention the Genocide Convention in his testimony, because it would undermine a Burma legislation that IS SUPPOSED TO help Rohingyas. When a fact such as that the Genocide Convention exists – and was envisaged as a tool to actualize this post-Holocaust mantra “never again!” – is unwelcome at one of the most powerful chambers of power, US Senate – it becomes categorically questionable why the Senate sub-committee even holds such a hearing, wasting American taxpayers’ money and giving millions of victims FALSE HOPES – not just Rohingyas, but Uyghurs and Tibetans.
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Gaza: Israel Targeted Marches of Return with ‘Lethal’ Gas Bombs
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
9 Apr 2019 – Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the levels of injuries of people who arrived at the hospitals during the March of Return and breaking the siege reveal the occupation’s deliberate intentions in killing and mutilation.
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Thu, 11 April Brief: Women in Peacekeeping, the Arrests of Assange & Sudan’s Leader, Updates on Libya, Nigeria & Syria
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – Today the Security Council looked at the key role played by women in the UN’s peacekeeping operations. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be exposed to “serious human rights violations”, following his arrest in the United Kingdom, according a UN independent human rights expert. Fighting continues to escalate in Tripoli, Libya, and in Idlib, Syria, and 10,000 conflict-affected people were forcibly relocated in Nigeria and are in dire need of humanitarian aid.
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Assange’s ‘Conspiracy’ to Expose War Crimes Has Already Been Punished
Joe Emersberger | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
In 2010, the Guardian, like the New York Times and a few other corporate newspapers, briefly partnered with WikiLeaks to publish the contents of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables, known as Cablegate. The material exposed atrocities perpetrated by the US military, as well as other disgraceful acts—like US diplomats strategizing on how to undermine elected governments out of favor with Washington, spying on official US allies and bullying poor countries into paying wildly exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs.
→ read full articleWhen You Get to the End of the Road It Is Time to Think Outside the Box
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
Thinking outside the box means thinking outside private law and outside the political and ethical philosophies that legitimate what Karl Polanyi called ‘market society’ (market society is a genus of which capitalism is a species). It means acknowledging that traditional Muslims are not stupid, in the light of their life experience, when they prefer Sharia Law. Sharia Law with all its faults is at least a possible way to organize human life including everybody (at least ‘all the faithful’) and respecting nature.
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Trump Regime Escalates Sanctions War on Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
8 Apr 2019 – Sanctions are ineffective as a regime change tool, harming targeted economies and populations, achieving little more. Yet they’re a US favorite, used repeatedly against targeted countries like Venezuela, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and many others.
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(Português) Veterinário que Colocava Heroína no Estômago de Cães É Preso e Condenado
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
O veterinário fazia parte de um esquema que transformava cães em traficantes de drogas costurando sacos contendo as substâncias seus estômagos. Pelo menos nove cães foram submetidos ao terrível e cruel procedimento cruel e três deles morreram depois de contrair vírus.
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The Assange Arrest Is a Warning from History
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
13 Apr 2019 – The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen manhandled a sick journalist, his eyes wincing against his first natural light in almost seven years. That this outrage happened in the heart of London, in the land of Magna Carta, ought to shame and anger all who fear for “democratic” societies.
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French Court Finds Bayer’s Monsanto Liable for Farmer’s Sickness
Simon Carraud and Catherine Lagrange | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – A French court has ruled that Monsanto was liable for the sickness of a farmer who inhaled one of its weedkillers, in another legal setback for the Bayer-owned business over health claims.
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Essays on Myanmar’s Genocide
Ayesha Kabir | Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
5 Apr 2019 – Essays on Myanmar’s Genocide of Rohingyas (2012-2018) by Maung Zarni and Natalie Brinham is an exposure of the brutal killings, rapes, looting, arson and other heinous crimes unleashed by the military junta and their cohorts in Myanmar. The writers are leading human rights activists, speaking out against the atrocities in Myanmar and calling for justice.
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