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Multi-option Technical Facilitation of Public Debate
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

14 Jan 2019 – Eliciting Consensus Nationally and Internationally – At the time of writing, the French government of Emmanuel Macron is about to engage in a three month Grand Débat National (January-March 2019). This is being instigated around the country as a means of clarifying issues raised by the remarkable uprising of the Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vests”), widely publicized worldwide.

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1958 TV Show Had Conman ‘Trump’ Selling Mystical ‘Wall’ to Hysterical Townspeople (Must Watch)
Matt Shuham | TPM – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

10 Jan 2019 – In 1958, CBS aired an episode of the series “Trackdown” called “The End of the World,” in which a confidence man named Trump attempts to sell a western town a “wall” — in the form of supposedly mystical parasols — to protect them from the fake threat of a meteor shower.

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Small Is Beautiful – A Contemporary Perspective
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

Ernest F. Schumacher, the German born British economist, wrote a collection of essays called Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered in 1973, arguing against the large capitalist economy that ill-treats the earth’s resources resulting in degradation of the earth and depletion of its resources. Small can be Beautiful even today if properly visualized and effectively implemented. Ernest Schumacher’s book is still relevant even after about half a century of its publication.

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New EU Sanctions on Iran: The Plank in Your Own Eyes
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

9 Jan 2019 – European Union issues sanctions on Iran on January 8, 2019. The move puts the individuals and intelligence unit on the EU terrorist list – freezing their financial assets. It’s a brilliant example of Matthew 7:3-6: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”

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Astonishing the Enemy
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

This is a poem about people who challenge us to acknowledge our common humanity—and the way they are too often rejected and ostracized—and even worse. I’m working in quatrains and a quiet rhyme scheme, but more important, a certain tone, an ironic tone that reveals the limitations of the speaker.

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(Português) A Estupidez Social e Ambiental Condena Toda a Vida: Eduardo Gudynas
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

8 jan 2019 – Eduardo Gudynas, uruguaio, é um dos grandes ecólogos mundiais. Está entre os primeiros a formular uma ecologia social.Este artigo é um balanço de 2018 sobre os dramas ecologicosocias que se aproximam, se não mudarmos a nossa relação para com a Mãe Terra -tema central da encíclica do Papa Francisco “sobre o cuidado da Casa Comum – e para com a natureza em geral.

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Time for a New Paradigm
Roberto Savio | Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

Foreword to Riccardo Petrella’s In the Name of Humanity – Riccardo is a central point of reference for those who have not yet given up on seeing the governance of globalisation in terms of values and ideals. He has behind him a long series of struggles for a different economy and has denounced the dangers of neoliberal globalisation from the outset. We owe it to him if the theme of “commons” began to be debated, in particular that of water as a public good.

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When Bolsonaro and Netanyahu Are ‘Brothers’: Why Brazil Should Shun the Israeli Model
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

9 Jan 2019 – Newly-inaugurated Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, is set to be the arch-enemy of the environment and indigenous and disadvantaged communities in his country and promises to be a friend of like-minded, far-right leaders the world over. A special friendship is blossoming between Bolsonaro and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel exports wars to its neighbors, war technology to the rest of the world, and should not be seen as the model to follow, but rather the example to avoid.

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“Evacuate the Coffee”: A White Supremacist Classic
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

9 Jan 2019 – US troops have been dispatched to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the results of presidential balloting are still unknown. Are they there to make sure that Joseph Kabila, the president they installed and kept in power for 18 years, cedes power to former Exxon-Mobil executive Martin Fayula, their new horse to ride?

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Rising Human Trafficking Takes on ‘Horrific Dimensions’: Almost a Third of Victims Are Children
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

7 Jan 2019 – A new UN report published today shows that human trafficking is on the rise and taking on “horrific dimensions”, with sexual exploitation of victims the main driver. Children now account for 30 per cent of those being trafficked, and far more girls are detected than boys.

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An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis
James Baldwin | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

November 19, 1970 – Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can, here in Europe, on radio and television—in fact, have just returned from a land, Germany, which was made notorious by a silent majority not so very long ago. I was asked to speak on the case of Miss Angela Davis, and did so. Very probably an exercise in futility, but one must let no opportunity slide.

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International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma
Columbia University & Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

This conference is designed to call world’s attention to and educate the international public at large about the twofold need for protection and accountability which Rohingya genocide survivors and other ethnic and religious minorities such as Kachin, Shan, Karen, Myanmar Muslims, etc. demand and deserve. 8-9 Feb 2019, Columbia University, Barnard Hall

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Israel Spraying Herbicides inside Gaza Violates Int’l Law, Rights Groups Say
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

9 Jan 2019 – The Israeli army is continuing to spray dangerous herbicides on agricultural fields inside the Gaza Strip, three years since +972 Magazine first reported on the practice. This week, three Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups sent a letter to Israeli military officials demanding they immediately cease spraying the dangerous chemicals into Gaza.

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America at War
Stephanie Savell and 5W Infographics | Smithsonian Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

January 2019 – This Map Shows Where in the World the U.S. Military Is Operating | The infographic reveals for the first time that the U.S. is now operating in 40 percent of the world’s nations.

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(Français) Socialisme tropical depuis 60 ans. Bilan de la Révolution cubaine
Marc Vandepitte | Journal Notre Amérique – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

Le 1er janvier 2019, cela a fait exactement 60 ans que le peuple cubain, dirigé par les frères Castro et Che Guevara, renversèrent le dictateur Batista. Ce fut le début d’une histoire tumultueuse et légendaire. Un bilan présenté par Marc Vandepitte, expert en matière de Cuba.

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(Français) Tout comprendre à la nouvelle offensive contre le Venezuela
Romain Migus | Le Grand Soir – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

L’investiture de Nicolas Maduro, ce jeudi 10 janvier, provoque déjà des remous politiques et médiatiques. Élu le 20 mai 2018, le président du Venezuela doit faire face à une opération concertée et planifiée des USA et de leurs alliés.

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On Transforming Humanity: A Checklist for Reflection/Research
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

We want Humanity politically to transform
but current political systems how to reform ?

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Martin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.

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Media Worried US Won’t Occupy Syria Forever
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

11 Jan 2019 – In December, President Donald Trump said that he planned to withdraw the US troops from Syria, which number between 2,000 and 4,000. Trump’s claim was widely condemned in corporate media, demonstrating the commentariat’s shared belief in American benevolence toward other peoples, in Washington’s alleged right and duty to decide other countries’ fates, and in the forever war the US supposedly has to wage in the Middle East.

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Commonality and Hope
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

13 Jan 2019 – The Gandhis of the world are a bit more numerous than the Trumps but numbers are not everything. For example, we do have to consider that greedy selfish people can accumulate significant wealth and control media and thus influence fate of millions of people (Zionism is a good example). They even get elected as happened in the US, Brazil, or “Israel”.

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(Português) Luta com Touros Ganha Espaço na China
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

4 jan 2019 – Na China, alguns professores de kung-fu decidiram criar um “esporte infame”, a luta com touros. Em vez de lutar com pessoas, eles lutam contra bovinos com cinco vezes o seu peso. Claramente não conta com o aval do animal, mas o força a reagir pelo instinto de autodefesa em uma situação de violência.

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From Child Refugee in Mozambique to School Principal in the United States
Marta Martinez | UNHCR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

Growing up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bertine Bahige was studying hard to become a doctor. At 13, he had his life figured out. Or so he thought. Resettlement gave Bertine Bahige a new chance in life. The former Congolese refugee would have never imagined he would one day call Wyoming home.

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City of London Corporation Votes in Favour of Revoking [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Honorary Freedom Award
Alexandra Rogers | City A.M. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

10 Jan 2019 – City of London Corporation councillors have voted in favour of removing the honorary freedom award granted to Aung San Suu Kyi over her failure to condemn atrocities committed against the Rohingya people in Myanmar.

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Toward Geopolitical Disengagement: Uncertain yet Desirable
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

13 Jan 2019 – For a region that has endured so much suffering and abuse, I offer fervent wishes that we will be surprised by hopeful developments during coming months. Already the shakeup of regional politics and perceptions due to the Trump withdrawal move is ambiguous in its implications, but seemingly leading in the positive direction of U.S. political disengagement, and an end to the delusions of being ‘a force for good.’

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What is Patriotism?
TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

Actress Sandra Oh reads the speech given by Anarchist Emma Goldman in San Francisco before the United States entered WWI.

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‘Israel’s Permit Regime Isn’t about Security, It’s about Segregation’
Edo Konrad | + 972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

9 Jan 2019 – The image should be familiar to every person with even the slightest bit of knowledge about Palestine. Hundreds of middle-aged men huddled together at ungodly hours, waiting in interminable lines in corridors enclosed by concrete walls, turnstiles, guard towers, and armed soldiers. The permit system for Palestinians allows Israel to recruit informants, suppress political activity, and create an opaque system of segregation and control. Just don’t say it’s about security.

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Global Wars and Peace: Insanity against Humanity – What Next?
Mahboob A Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

The UNO, The Geneva Conventions, The Hague Conventions, The Declaration of Human Rights, The Human Rights Commission and so many other paper-based laws and conventions often are a distraction from the prevalent reality of raging global conflicts needing urgent and forceful action for peace and human security.

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Calling all Healers!
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

In TMS’ first editorial of the new year, Johan Galtung anointed 2019 as the Year of Health. This is a call to all of you to recognize and cultivate the healer in yourselves, to support and elevate healers everywhere at all levels. To revive ancient healing methods and create new ones for the most intractable ailments afflicting individuals, communities, societies and our human species.

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Stringfellow Barr (15 Jan 1897 – 3 Feb 1982): Joining the Human Race
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

Stringfellow Barr was a historian of the classic Greek and Roman period and an active world citizen. He served as president of the Foundation for World Government from 1948 to 1958 and of St. John’s College in Annapolis. The aim of St. John’s under Stringfellow was to turn out well-read liberals who would have studied a common set of “Great Books” starting with the Greeks such as Plato.

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Rosa Luxemburg, Murdered 15 Jan 1919: I Was, I Am, I Shall Be!
Journeyman | Public Reading Rooms – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

100 years since her death, Rosa Luxemburg’s life and writing are more than ever an inspiration for all who believe, like her, another world is possible.

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Storms and Snow in Lebanon Worsen Plight for Syrian Refugees
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

10 Jan 2019 – Storm-force winds and snow across Lebanon have worsened the plight for tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who’ve been forced from their homes by nearly eight years of conflict, a top UN humanitarian official said today.

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Palestinian Aspirations versus Zombie Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

8 Jan 2019 – The mental processes that infuse zombie geopolitics with political vitality long after their viability has vanished is partly mysterious, and partly a calculated effort to deny a changed reality. More concretely, I have in mind the afterlife of ‘the two-state solution’ to the long Israel-Palestine confrontation. It retained its status as the only practical solution for years after it became crystal clear to even semi-informed observers that it would never happen.

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Beethoven “Moonlight” Sonata (Music Video of the Week)
Valentina Lisitsa – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

Op 27 # 2 Mov 3 – At Beethovensaal, Hannover, Germany – 34,348,601 views on YouTube

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What Are We Working for “At Eternity’s Gate”?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

Vincent, responding to Gauguin, a former stock broker, when he urged him to paint slowly and methodically, said, “I need to be out of control. I don’t want to calm down.” He knew that to be fully alive was to be vulnerable, to not hold back, to always be slipping away, and to be threatened with annihilation at any moment. When painting, he was intoxicated with a creative joy that belies the popular image of him as always depressed.

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(Français) 100e anniversaire de la révolution spartakiste: Réflexions autour de l’œuvre de Rosa Luxemburg
Jacques Kmieciak | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

Ce mercredi 9 janvier 2019 à Grenay (1), près de Lens (Pas-de-Calais), à l’occasion des cent ans de la révolution spartakiste, la projection du documentaire de Marcel Bluwal consacré à Rosa Luxemburg (2) offrira l’occasion à Dominique Villaeys-Poirré de revenir sur le parcours de cette militante anti-impérialiste et théoricienne du marxisme.

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Amid Troop Build-Up in Rohingya’s Home State, UN Appeals to Myanmar for Peaceful Solution
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

9 Jan 2019 – Major fighting in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state has so far been avoided following clashes between armed separatists and national security forces that are increasing troop numbers there, a top UN humanitarian official there said today.

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The Rohingya – The Forgotten Genocide of Our Time
Leila Yasmine Khan and Daud Khan | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

9 Jan 2019 – The violence towards the Rohingya, and their displacement from their homes and villages, is likely to wipe out their traditions, culture and lifestyle as well as their mental and cultural constructs. This combination of physical and psychological violence is likely to lead to the elimination of the Rohingya’s identity.

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Art Divine
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

A kindergarten teacher was observing her class while the children drew pictures.

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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA and the Mafia
Antony C. Black – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

The moniker ‘Gladio’ (after the two-edged sword used in classical Rome) was broadened to include a host of deep state terrorist structures including: ‘P2’ In Italy, ‘P26’ in Switzerland, ‘Sveaborg’ in Sweden, ‘Counter-Guerrilla’ in Turkey and ‘Sheepskin’ in Greece. These had connections with virtually every US secret state terrorist organization in the world including Operation Condor in Latin America and many global drug cartels that provided the secretive wealth needed to fund and otherwise lubricate the whole rotting, corrupt shebang.

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Nobel Peace Prize 2019 – Nomination info in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish – Deadline: 31 Jan
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

14 Jan 2019 – Please use our attached information on the 2019 Nobel Prize; for your convenience in English, Français, Deutsch, Castellano, Svenska.

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Progressive Tax with Examples
Kimberly Amadeo | The Balance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019

28 Dec 2018 – How a Progressive Tax System Helps You Even if You Are Not Poor

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Comprehension of Unity as a Paradoxical Dynamic
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

7 Dec 2019 – Metaphors Reframing Problematic Engagement with Otherness – The continuing quest for some form of unity is evident in many domains. It is however striking that enthusiasm for unity in any one domain typically precludes any consideration for that of another.

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Six-Sided Tao
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

Do, or Tao, or Taoism, is the root of Zen—that philosophy or discipline that characterizes so much of the culture of Japan. We all know about Judo, for example, which means “the way of self-defense.” There is also Aikido, “the way of the meeting of force and spirit.” And Kendo, “the way of the sword.” There is Sado, “the way of poetry”; and several others. Obviously, do means “the way of.”

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The Doomsday Clock
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

2 Jan 2019 – Looking back at 2018, we see progress in all of the areas of a culture of peace except one: disarmament, and in particular nuclear disarmament. Symbolic of this, last year the “doomsday clock” of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was reset to only two minutes before midnight, the shortest it has been since 1953!

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Reflections for the New Year: 2019
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

31 Dec 2018 – My private commitment for 2019 is to nurture humility, while trusting the formation of identities that link a progressive vision for our nation to a cosmopolitan embrace of humanity, with a major infusion of empathy. And as citizens, we need to be rooted in our particular personal and public experiences, while reaching out to the world and to the future.

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(Français) Périple brésilien d’une démocratie assassinée: Du coup d’État contre Dilma Rousseff à l’élection de Jair Bolsonaro
Paulo Correia | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

2 Jan 2019 – Alors que la plupart de la classe bien-pensante planétaire constituée de philosophes, d’analystes politiques et de journalistes, n’arrête pas de nous dire que nous n’assistons pas au retour du fascisme mais à une nouvelle forme jamais vue de populisme, l’exemple brésilien démontre que la brutalité et les persécutions d’autres temps sont déjà là, au présent !

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Polymaths — Then and Now
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

A Polymath is a person who has more than one interest and expertise, which gives such a person a broader perspective of life and society. There have been many individuals in the past who could be categorised by this definition.

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The Uighur Question: A Civil Society Solution
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

4 Jan 2019 – It is in Beijing’s interest to resolve the Uighur issue in such a manner that the identity and dignity of the Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang are protected and enhanced. If injustices against Uighurs real or perceived are allowed to fester much longer, it may erode China’s standing among Muslim majority countries. This is especially so since the Hui, Muslims among the majority Han people, it is alleged, are also now being targeted by the authorities.

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Dr. Bruce Lipton on Drugs vs Consciousness: Placebo Effect
Be Inspired – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

Make up your own mind and take charge of your body, mind and consciousness.

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Thought on Palestine/Israel: Acquisition and Dispossessions Is Theirs, Return from the Internal and External Transfers Is Ours
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

3 Jan 2019 – As Zionism blurs the difference between Jerusalem and the rest of the country in terms of colonial settlement practice, we must, on the other hand, re-establish the Palestinian national movement according to its original values and make it a guide for our actions. There is no way to uphold the right and defeat the colonist prospects unless we do so.

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Top 10 Happy Environmental Stories of 2018
Basten Gokkon | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

31 Dec 2018 – “I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces of puzzle scattered all over the place. If you look at the whole picture it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits of it, that’s what will give you hope.”
— Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist and conservationist

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Liberté, Égalité, Impérialisme! Vive la France in Black Africa! (Part 1)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

2 Jan 2019 — Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s troops most likely shot down a plane carrying two African presidents, igniting genocides that killed millions. Geopolitics trumped international justice again—just in time for Christmas. On December 21, a French court closed the long-running case against Kagame for assassinating Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira.

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(Português) Sérvia proíbe a criação de animais para a indústria de peles
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

“A imposição da proibição é o resultado bem-sucedido de uma década de luta decisiva e persistente de cidadãos, especialistas e ativistas dos direitos animais”.

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Welcome, 2019! A Year for Health
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

Being 88 and suffering from nothing, what is my health formula? Food low on carbs: low on bread, easy; on sugar-sweets, not easy. Health from food? Yes, but with taste, and with beauty. Health from exercise? Yes, but also with taste, and with beauty. TRANSCEND wishes our 70,000+ contacts around the world and everybody else a 2019 with Health. Have much fun–basic to health.

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Haiti, First Black Republic, Gained Independence 215 Years Ago
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

1 Jan 2019 – Haiti, the first Latin American country to declare independence and the first Black republic, celebrates 215 years since it forced France to surrender its colonial claim over what the slave-driven plantation formerly known as Saint-Domingue.

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The Cuban Revolution, 60 Years On
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

3 Jan 2019 – Early on New Year’s Day 1959—60 years ago—Cuba’s dictator Fulgencio Batista boarded a flight for the Dominican Republic. The previous day, Batista had bragged that his forces had won the decisive Battle of Santa Clara. The morning newspapers printed his side of the story. It was false. Che Guevara’s band of troops in Column 8 had taken the town and derailed a train filled with Batista’s U.S.-backed forces.

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These Are the Animals That Went Extinct in 2018
Mark Kaufman | Mashable – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

30 Dec 2018 – With the end of 2018 comes the reality that some critters, after millions of years of existence on Earth, are gone for good. 2017 saw the extinctions of multiple lizard species and a bat. This year, scientists brought news that three bird species have gone completely extinct.

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Jerusalem and Foreign Embassies: Legal, Political, and Diplomatic Implications
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

6 Jan 2019 | Interview with Rodrigo Craveiro, Correio Braziliense – It seems obvious that Israel is trying to induce enough governments to move their embassy to Jerusalem so as to weaken the legal, political, and diplomatic weight of the UNGA Resolution that declared such an initiative by the USA to be ‘null and void’ by a vote of 128-9, finding the proposed move unlawful and lacking any political effect.

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Resistance Is the Supreme Act of Faith
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

31 Dec 2018 – We can resist the radical evil enveloping our lives and our planet only when we acquire the faith that resistance always weakens the oppressor and empowers the oppressed.

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Ten Grim Climate Scenarios if Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius
Lorraine Chow | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

3 Jan 2019 – Here’s A Peek into Our Climate-Addled Future

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Sea Shepherd Claims Victory as Japan Leaves International Whaling Commission
AP | Stuff [New Zealand] – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

27 Dec 2018 – Marine conservationists Sea Shepherd are claiming Japan’s decision to abandon whaling around Antarctica as a victory, though their battle will go on with the Asian nation moving to resume hunting elsewhere. On Boxing Day, Japan announced it was leaving the International Whaling Commission so it could resume commercial hunting of the marine mammals in their territorial waters.

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Game Theory and Disarmament: Thinking Beyond the Table
Max Willner-Giwerc | E-IR, Northeastern University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

18 Dec 2018 – Game theory and disarmament have a long and rich history together. Though the logic of game theory has been used for millennia, it was not formalized until the violence of World War II, and the nascent field was popularized extensively during the Cold War. Indeed, it was pursued mainly for military purposes, especially to model the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States. These models were studied “exhaustively” during the Cold War, and they led to a rich body of literature and theory that has become integral to economics, philosophy, mathematics, international relations, business, and evolutionary biology.

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Voltaire and Bertrand Russell, a Comparison: The Crusade against Dogma and Fanaticism (Part 1)
David Lorimer | Wall Street International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

The history of the world is the history of fanaticism. (Voltaire)
Mankind is never refrained from committing any folly of which he is capable. (Russell)

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Back in 1960s
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

The United Nations conducted a worldwide survey asking, “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”

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The Sound of Silence (Music Video of the Week)
Simon & Garfunkel – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert – Madison Square Garden, NYC

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Catechism for America
Prof. Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

1 Jan 2019 – Donald Trump experienced an epiphany during his lonesome Christmas at the White House. Riveted by the telecast of the midnight Mass at the Vatican, it came unto him a blinding light that awakened his spirit. The troubled soul of America needed a patriotic version of the Church’s ancient catechism. He set about commissioning a composition modeled on the NICENE CREED and the Roman Catholic Catechism to serve as a devotional paean to America.

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Nominate a True Nobel «Champion of a Global Peace Order and Disarmament»
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

Nobel Peace Prize 2019-Nominations Deadline: 31 January | Dreaming of a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019… for some person, idea, or group dear to you?

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Will 2019 Bring Opportunities to Change the System?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

1 Jan 2019 – Some of us think 2008 was a lost opportunity. Humanity had a chance to change course to save itself and the biosphere. We blew it. Could 2019 be a second chance? The reason why 2008, instead of some other recent year, stands out as a change opportunity is that toward the end of that year investors were losing money.

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(Português) A Revolução Cubana Completa 60 Anos: Frei Betto
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

4 jan 2019 – Frei Betto é muito conhecido e não preciso apresentá-lo. Publico este seu texto por amor à verdade contra todos os preconceitos imperantes em nosso país, reforçados pelos muitos que elegeram Jair Bolsonaro e pelo governo que montou propondo desmontar o socialismo e a cultura marxista. Seguramente nunca leram nada sério sobre Cuba. Aqui há um relato sumário, poderia ser muito mais detalhado sobre a situação daquele país.

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Especially When It Comes to Unsafe and Essentially Useless Influenza Vaccines, Big Pharma Has Again Bamboozled Us Doctors and Harmed Our Patients
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

4 Jan 2019 – Medical writer and vaccine immunology expert Vinu Arumugham has written one of the best articles concerning the issue of vaccine toxicology that I have ever read. It should help every altruistic person who is as concerned as Vinu is about the pandemic of vaccine injuries to better articulate what are the various mechanisms of action of vaccine poisoning when he or she is trying to talk to dubious – and conflicted – pediatricians that order cocktails of toxic vaccines to be injected into their tiny, immunologically-immature infant patients

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MH17 Turnabout: Ukraine’s Guilt Now Proven
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

31 Dec 2018 – Finally, a clear and convincing — and unrefuted — case can now be presented to the public, as to precisely whom the guilty party was, that downed the MH17 Malaysian airliner over Ukraine on 17 July 2014, and why it was done. The complete case, which will be fully documented here, displays unequivocally who needed the MH17 murders (of 298 persons) to be perpetrated.

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Mairead Maguire Nominates Julian Assange for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

7 Jan 2019 – Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire wrote today to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating Julian Assange, Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Ms. Maguire wrote:

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(Português) Uma Ameaça Crescente à Vida Selvagem: Eletrocussão
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

5 jan 2019 – A África do Sul é um país de fazendas, reservas e parques nacionais, muitos deles cercados por quilômetros de cercas elétricas. O bloqueio impede a entrada de animais e humanos indesejados e protege o gado e a vida selvagem que ali habita mas também tem um efeito colateral letal: ela mata pequenos animais, particularmente pássaros e répteis, primatas, girafas , elefantes africanos , leopardos , búfalos e rinocerontes brancos.

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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Leeds Beckett University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

Dr Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, political correspondent for Sky News and Sydney correspondent for the Independent, is the director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney and one of the most published authors in the field of Peace Journalism.

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Carl Rogers (8 Jan 1902 – 4 Feb 1987): Healing the Person and the State
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

Carl Ransom Rogers was a US psychologist and educator and a leading figure of what is often called “the third wave of psychology.” The first wave was Freud and Jung and their views of psychoanalysis. The second wave was the behaviorists symbolized by B.F. Skinner. The third wave, often called “humanist”, has Abraham Maslow, Rollo May, and Carl Rogers as its best known figures.

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No Food, No Medicine and Little Hope: The Many Challenges Rohingyas Face
Osburn Oracle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

1 Jan 2019 – Significant progress has been made in protecting hundreds of thousands Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh since they fled violence in Myanmar, but lives “will once again be at risk” if funding is not urgently secured, United Nations officials have said on the eve of the first anniversary of a military crackdown that forced them to flee their country.

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A Global Prayer for PEACE
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

For Peace on Earth
Let’s pray every day

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Within Hours of Taking Office, Brazil’s “Trump of the Tropics” Starts Assault on the Amazon
Andy Rowell | Oil Change International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019

3 Jan 2019 – Within hours of taking office on 1 Jan, the Trump of the Tropics, aka the new President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, launched an all-out assault against the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous communities yesterday, potentially paving the way for large scale deforestation by agricultural, mining and oil companies.

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Nuclear War and Me: Annihilation Inscribed Across Time and Place
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

Time awaits Poet T.S. Elliot’s prophetic words! And who would be left to affirm Elliot’s insights amidst a nuclear “wasteland?” Why T.S. Elliot’s claim of a “whimper?” “Whimper!” “Whimper” murmurs! Whimper is subdued, timorous, surrender, like a final gasp! “Whimper” a sound preceding silence! I imagined myself “whimpering” in a final surge of life. Annihilation!

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A Call for Review of the Historical Facts Surrounding UNGA Resolution That Recognized Self-Government for Hawaii
Pōkā Laenui, Kioni Dudley, Leon Kaulahao Siu and Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

A careful review of the case will reveal that the General Assembly adopted Resolution 1469 under false premises, on the basis of false and incomplete information provided by the United States of America, relying on representations that were tainted by grave material and procedural irregularities surrounding the fraudulent referendum on Hawaii’s entry into the United States as a State, which amounted to an act of annexation. Because the referendum was fundamentally flawed, the resolution based thereon must be deemed null and void.

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In Praise of the Syria Withdrawal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

29 Dec 2018 – Trump’s withdrawal of American troops from Syria that defied the bipartisan consensus that has shaped U.S. foreign policy since 1945 poses the biggest challenge to the Trump presidency, especially as it shook Israel’s confidence and coincides with woes of Wall Street. In coming weeks it should become clear whether the American version of the deep state remains asleep or perceives this ‘watershed moment’ as the opportunity to restore confidence in the pre-Trump version of world order.

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Anti-nuclear Message from India
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

25 Dec 2018 – To put it tersely, nuclear things are getting out of hand. And we need to reinvigorate all the various national, regional and international anti-nuclear groups and movements here and now. We all need to discuss the nuclear issues more earnestly and devise clear strategies to create a nuclear-free world. Looking forward to hearing more from you on these issues, I send you my best personal regards and all peaceful wishes. Happy Holidays!

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In Rare Move, Indian State to Return Unused Land to Farmers
Rina Chandran | Thomson Reuters Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

26 Dec 2018 – Farmers in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh are getting back land that was taken from them more than a decade ago by the government because it was not used, a rare move in a country riven by conflict over land. About 660 disputes over land have stalled hundreds of projects and forced millions of people from their farms across India, say experts.

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Syria: Trump Pulling Out
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

24 Dec 2018 – Suppressing the independence and sovereignty of the Syrian nation — and not combating terrorism – was the real reason behind the active intervention and involvement of numerous actors from within and without the region in the 7-year Syrian conflict. Simply put, the aim was to oust Bashar, the protector of Syrian sovereignty, to achieve regime change in pursuit of the US-Israeli agenda of perpetuating their hegemony. Trump realised even before he became President that he would not be able to achieve this. Hence, his troop withdrawal.

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A Major Win for the Whales
Captain Paul Watson | Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

27 Dec 2018 – Despite bribing nations and insidious tactics, the proposal by Japan to overturn the 31-year moratorium on commercial whaling has failed by a vote of 41 to 27 with 2 abstentions. Following yesterday’s most welcome Florianopolis Declaration, this defeat of the Japanese Proposal has made the 67th meeting of the International Whaling Commission an awesome historical event for the world’s whales.

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Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

28 Dec 2018 – The pros and cons of a UBI are hotly debated and have been discussed elsewhere. The point here is to show that it could actually be funded year after year without driving up taxes or prices. New money is continually being added to the money supply, but it is added as debt created privately by banks.

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Merry Palestinian Christmas!
Sabaaneh – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

Jesus was born here… like these children

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The Ironies of a Successful U.S./China Policy
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

Remarks to the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations, New York, 18 Dec 2018 – Three days ago, we celebrated the fortieth anniversary of Jimmy Carter’s and Deng Xiaoping’s politically courageous decision to normalize relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. I have been involved in our relations with China in one way or another for fifty years.

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Uyghur Dispersion and Detention in China – Worse Than We Thought
Gu Qi and Li Zaili | Bitter Winter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

18 Dec 2018 – New details about the detention of Uyghurs in China expose a ruthless state using inhuman methods – including torture – to wipe out a culture.

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Reflections on 2018, Forecasting 2019
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant strides backwards while passing up endless opportunities to make a positive difference in our world. Let me, very briefly, identify some of the more crucial backward steps.

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Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power
Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

19 Dec 2018 – Among so many questions and circumstances that are intermingled in the world, one of the most significant processes is the concentration of wealth and decisional power. Elitist forces influence in such a way that almost every national economic system and, of course, the global functioning have adjusted, and to a great extent subordinated, to serve the interests of these elites, the dominators of the world and countries’ course.

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Clarification
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

President George W. Bush was on a state visit in England. As he stepped off the plane onto the red carpet, he was greeted by the Queen.

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Britain Bans Puppy and Kitten Sales by Pet Shops
France24 | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

25 Dec 2018 – Britain is forbidding puppies and kittens from being sold by pet shops in a bid to crack down on animal exploitation and abuse.

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The Man Who Lives without Money
Amanda Froelich | True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

“If someone told me seven years ago, in my final year of a business and economics degree, that I’d now be living without money, I’d have probably choked on my microwaved ready meal.”

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(Português) A crueldade da “farra do boi”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

Proibida no Brasil há mais de 20 anos, a “farra do boi” ainda continua a ser realizada em Santa Catarina.

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Angkor Wat: City of the God Kings
Timeline - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

Timeline-World History Documentaries travels to the 900-year-old remains of Angkor Wat in the Cambodian jungle–the staggering City of the God Kings.

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Israel Arrested 5,700 Palestinians, 980 Children in 2018
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

29 Dec 2018 – Israel arrested 5,700 Palestinians in 2018, including 980 children and 175 women, the Palestine Prisoners’ Centre for Studies announced yesterday. The Israeli occupation continued its violations against Palestinian prisoners in clear violation of international law, Quds Net News reported.

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Israel Demolished 538 Homes, Facilities in West Bank in 2018
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

29 Dec 2018 – Israel demolished 538 Palestinian homes and facilities across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem in 2018, leaving 1,300 Palestinians and 225 children homeless. These demolitions were carried out in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and other international laws.

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Russia Won’t Support Any UN Move to Pressure Myanmar
Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

27 Dec 2018 – Russia has reiterated its position to resolve Rohingya crisis through “bilateral negotiations” saying it will not support any resolution in the UNSC to put pressure on Myanmar engaging the UN.

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What’s Behind U.S. Troop Withdrawals Announced for Syria and Afghanistan?
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2018

24 Dec 2018 – The announced withdrawal of the remaining 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria and a partial withdrawal from Afghanistan does not mean an end to the Pentagon’s aggressive militarism and endless U.S. wars. The U.S. military has 170,000 troops stationed outside the U.S. in 150 countries, in more than 800 overseas bases. Nearly 40,000 are assigned to classified missions in locations that Washington refuses to even disclose.

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