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15 Years Ago: US Sponsored Coup d’état. The Destabilization of Haiti
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
11 Mar 2019
29 Feb 2019 – Author’s Note: This article was written 15 years ago, in the last days of February 2004 in response to the barrage of disinformation in the mainstream media. It was completed on 29 Feb 2004, the day of President Jean Bertrand Aristide’s kidnapping and deportation by US Forces. The armed insurrection which contributed to unseating President Aristide was the result of a carefully staged military-intelligence operation, involving the US, France and Canada.
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Trump TV: The Making of the Fox News White House
Jane Mayer – The New Yorker,
11 Mar 2019
Fox—which, as the most watched cable news network, generates about $2.7 billion a year for its parent company, 21st Century Fox—acts as a force multiplier for Trump, solidifying his hold over the Republican Party and intensifying his support. “Fox is not just taking the temperature of the base—it’s raising the temperature,” she says. “It’s a radicalization model.” For both Trump and Fox, “fear is a business strategy—it keeps people watching.” As the President has been beset by scandals, congressional hearings, and even talk of impeachment, Fox has been both his shield and his sword.
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John Steinbeck on Good and Evil, the Necessary Contradictions of the Human Nature, and Our Grounds for Lucid Hope
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.”
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A Peek into the Horrific Findings of the UN Report on Israel’s Massacre of Gaza Protesters
Robert Inlakesh – MintPress News,
11 Mar 2019
8 Mar 2019 – The commission found serious human rights violations that may constitute crimes against humanity and called on Israel to “Lift the blockade on Gaza with immediate effect.”
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Democratize Finance, Euthanize the Fossil Fuel Industry
Johanna Bozuwa and Thomas M. Hanna – Jacobin Magazine,
11 Mar 2019
7 Mar 2019 – The Green New Deal won’t get far if it’s left hostage to the whims of private finance. We need to set up public banks and democratize the Federal Reserve.
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Investment Whitewash for Rohingya Bloodshed
Phelim Kine – Asia Times,
11 Mar 2019
According to Aung Naing Oo, director general of Myanmar’s Directorate of Investment and Company Administration, the failure to mention the humanitarian catastrophe inflicted on the Rohingya in Rakhine reflect the government’s position that “investment is not political.” This as sinister as it is dishonest reflecting the role of the Rakhine State Investment Fair as part of a wider government campaign to attempt to paper over the monstrous crimes with a veneer of business-as-usual normalcy.
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To Demilitarize and Denuclearize Trieste
Alessandro Capuzzo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
11 Feb 2019 – The port of Trieste, the subject of an allied bombing in 1944 with 500 deaths and 1000 wounded, also saved by the Nazi-fascist destruction in the last days of war, is now place of transit for authentic death instruments. So it is also in our interest that the new Treaty for the prohibition of nuclear weapons makes it possible to resume talks on the denuclearization of the Mediterranean, pre-established in Barcelona by the Euro-Mediterranean partnership since 1995.
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We’re Killing Off Our Vital Insects Too
F. William Engdahl – New Eastern Outlook,
11 Mar 2019
3 Mar 2019 – Recent independent scientific studies indicate that we are threatening our vital global insect population, including of bees, with widespread extinction through massive deployment of agriculture pesticides. For most of us, insects such as flies or mosquitoes or wasps are nuisances to be avoided. Yet if the latest studies are any indication, we may be in danger of massive elimination of vital insects that maintain nature’s balance.
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(Français) “Le Venezuela est un parfait exemple de ce qu’on peut faire avec la propagande”
La Rédaction | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Anne Morelli sur le Venezuela : “Ceux qui refusent cette propagande élémentaire qui nous est instillée tous les jours par les médias, on va les considérer comme des traîtres”.
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Re-Inhabiting Planet Earth
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
6 Mar 2019 – The atmosphere didn’t catch fire at 5:30 that morning, but Segre’s words remain relevant, sort of like radioactive fallout. They encapsulate what may be history’s ultimate moment of human arrogance: the belief in a sense of separateness from and superiority to nature so thorough that we have, with our monstrous intelligence, the ability and therefore the right to play Bad God and make the whole planet go poof.
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Can We Divest from Weapons Dealers?
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
8 Mar 2019 – Impoverished people living in numerous countries today would stand a far better chance of survival, and risk far less trauma, if weapon manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Raytheon stopped manufacturing and selling death-dealing products.
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Meanwhile, in Syria
Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Mar 2019
More of the same
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Venezuela – Guaidó Planned to Use Arms – Frustration over Stalemate Sets In
Bernhardt Horstmann | Moon of Alabama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
6 Mar 2019 – New reports about the U.S. coup attempt in Venezuela describe the current mood in Washington as ‘frustration’. They also shine new light on why of the opposition’s plans failed.
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Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Economists define ‘the wealth of a society’ as its total stock of useful assets – homes, cars, buildings, roads, factories, cattle, money, gold … et cetera. Let us call this definition D1. It turns out that the original definition of ‘wealth’, a few hundred years ago, was NOT D1. Originally, in Old English, the word ‘wealth’ was related to ‘well-being’, via the word ‘weal’. ‘Wealth’ meant, quite simply, ‘that which brought well-being’. Let us call this simpler definition D2.
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René Dumont (13 Mar 1904 – 18 Jun 2001): Focus of the Small-Scale Farmer and Social Justice
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
René Dumont highlighted the importance of small-scale peasant farmers in the world’s food production. Despite massive displacement of the peasantry toward cities, more than 70 percent of the world’s food is produced by small family-owned farms. René Dumont was an active world citizen and always stressed world citizenship in his justification for his studies of agriculture worldwide.
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John Dean: I Testified Against Nixon. Here’s My Advice for Michael Cohen.
John W. Dean – The New York Times,
11 Mar 2019
1 Mar 2019 – My appearance before Congress helped take down a president. Will the same thing happen to Trump? Michael Cohen told the legislators, “Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020 that there will never be a peaceful transition of power, and this is why I agreed to appear before you today.” This was the most troubling — actually, chilling — thing he said in his five hours before the committee.
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Will 5G Cell Phone Technology Lead to Dramatic Population Reduction as Large Numbers of Men Become Sterile?
Michael Snyder | End of the American Dream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
3 Mar 2019 – I know that the title of this article is controversial, but the scientific research that has been done in this area inevitably leads us to some conclusions that are inescapable. Our current cell phone technology produces electromagnetic radiation that damages male fertility, and the radiation produced by the new 5G technology will be much more powerful and therefore much more dangerous.
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(Português) Alimentação vegana salva a vida de jovem obesa, cardíaca e hipertensa
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
11 Mar 2019
Brittany lutava contra o colesterol alto, obesidade, pressão alta, inicio de diabetes e baixa frequência cardíaca, aos 25 anos de idade. Após assistir a um documentário vegano ela transformou a sua vida.
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(Français) Médias: «On produit l’information quasiment comme si on produisait des voitures»
Apocalypse News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Rencontre avec Grégoire Lalieu, journaliste à Investig’Action, qui nous livre sa vision du journalisme de demain !
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Room 101 Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
4 Mar 2019 – Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The curtains are always drawn and there is no natural light. The air is still and fetid. This is Room 101. Before I enter Room 101, I must surrender my passport and phone. My pockets and possessions are examined. The food I bring is inspected. The man who guards Room 101 sits in what looks like an old-fashioned telephone box. He watches a screen, watching Julian.
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(Português) Nova campanha da Sea Shepherd mostra animais que sofrem com a contaminação plástica dos oceanos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
9 mar 2019 – Em sua nova campanha, a organização de conservação da vida marinha Sea Shepherd mostra que um simples saco plástico, que parece inofensivo aos nossos olhos, pode representar o sofrimento extremo e até a morte de milhares de animais que habitam os oceanos. “Se os oceanos morrerem, nós também morreremos”, alerta Paul Watson.
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Blood Money: Meet the Top 20 Companies Profiting from Endless War
Elias Marat | The Mind Unleash – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
4 Mar 2019 – U.S. arms expenditures rose by $9.6 billion, driving the global rise and further consolidating the status of the United States as the world’s top spender on the military–by far. The U.S. spending on war is rooted in post-World War II “new Pentagon capitalism” that eventually became known as the military-industrial complex.
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Algarabías (Music Video of the Week)
Vasco Hernández | ARC Music – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Algarabías: Yelling or boisterous babble of people shouting or speaking at the same time. (Spanish culture)
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Tell the EU to Ban the Ivory Trade – NOW!
Rainforest Rescue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
The EU sees itself as a conservation leader, yet it has a blind spot for the ivory business. The trade in “antique” ivory remains legal in the EU – a convenient loophole to launder tons of freshly poached tusks and export them to Asia. Tell the EU to kill the trade – before the trade kills the last elephants!
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Violence in Myanmar: Look Elsewhere Than Security Council
Rebecca Barber | The Interpreter, Lowy Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
6 Mar 2019 – Last week the UN Security Council was briefed yet again on the situation in Myanmar. The Fact-Finding Mission recommended the Security Council refer the situation to the International Criminal Court or establish an international criminal tribunal. But due to the politics of the Security Council, in which any of the five permanent members may veto any proposed action, such recommendation will almost certainly never be acted upon.
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Chelsea Manning Jailed for Refusing to Testify Before Grand Jury in Virginia
Pete Williams and Elisha Fieldstadt – NBC News,
11 Mar 2019
8 Mar 2019 – Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was jailed today after refusing to answer questions from a federal grand jury in Virginia looking into the release of documents to WikiLeaks. Manning will remain in custody until she agrees to testify or until the grand jury ends its work.
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Celebrating Gandhi Anniversary Musically
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
As many people know, the Indian government and various institutions are celebrating Gandhi’s 150th anniversary with great joy and gaiety. The celebrations are taking various forms — seminars, talks, exhibitions, plays and skits by students of various academic institutions etc. The objective of these events is to demonstrate various aspects of Gandhi in an attractive and easy to understand manner.
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Britain’s Second Empire: The Spider’s Web
True Publica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
4 Dec 2018 – At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance.
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Neoliberalism – The Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems
George Monbiot – The Guardian,
4 Mar 2019
15 Apr 2016 – Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. The ideology that dominates our lives has, for most of us, no name. Mention it in conversation and you’ll be rewarded with a shrug. Even if your listeners have heard the term before, they will struggle to define it. Neoliberalism: do you know what it is? Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?
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When We Celebrate Israeli Democracy, We Celebrate the Violence of Occupation
Hagai El-Ad - +972 Magazine,
4 Mar 2019
25 Feb 2019 – In democratic countries, elections are conventionally described as ‘a celebration.’ But in an undemocratic reality of endless military occupation, they become an overt celebration of the violence of the powerful.
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Worrying about Huawei: Is China Winning the G5 Race?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
20 Feb 2019 – My responses to questions posed by Sputnik News Agency a few days ago. The effort to warn European countries not to use equipment from the Chinese telecom giant, Huawei, is part warning and part threat. It claims to be a matter of security, but seems like an effort to avoid the competitive challenge posed by the superior technology of Huawei by claiming a threat to the security of European countries because China will be able to engage in unauthorized data surveillance.
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Reporting from Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
28 Feb 2019 – Here in Palestine, life of suffering continues. The UN Human Rights Council issued a report this week that shows the extent of Israel’s violations of international law and human rights including on targeting children [5]. Yet, we continue to exist and to resist. We are not alone. Last two weeks for example I hosted five International delegations.
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Art of the Deal Revisited while Waiting for the Next Summit
Donald Trump with René Wadlow, Ghostwriter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
The Art of the Deal, part biography, part business advice, received wide readership and drew attention to Donald Trump beyond the New York milieu in which he worked. The book was largely written by his ghostwriter, journalist Tony Schwartz. In this spirit, here is a ghostwritten presentation of what Donald Trump should say in his next meeting with Kim Jong-Un which should also be held in Hanoi so that Kim can take a train.
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Stand with the People’s Uprising in Haiti
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
25 Feb 2019 – Statement in Solidarity with the Popular Uprising in Haiti – This February marks the 15th anniversary of the 2004 coup d’état that ousted the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In these fifteen years, the Haitian popular movement has refused to be silenced, in spite of the kidnapping and forced exile of President Aristide and his wife and colleague, Mildred Trouillot Aristide, a subsequent UN military occupation, continuous and deadly repression against peaceful protestors, and a rigged electoral system.
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Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
UN Human Rights Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
25 Feb 2019 – Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories – The commission was mandated to focus on accountability and identifying those responsible for violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The commission found reasonable grounds to believe that some violations may constitute international crimes.
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The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We’re Being Branded, Bought and Sold for Our Data
John W. Whitehead – Information Clearing House,
4 Mar 2019
“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s no delete button.” —Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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Iran: Sixty Years after the 1953 CIA Coup That Toppled Democracy
Palash Ghosh – International Business Times,
4 Mar 2019
In August 1953, through the auspices of the U.S. CIA and British intelligence, in cooperation with forces loyal to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, the popularly elected prime minister of Iran, a man named Mohammad Mosaddegh was forcibly removed from power. Following clashes between the police, military and pro-monarchy elements on one side and Mossadegh supporters on the other, which killed hundreds of people, Mossadegh was placed under arrest. The rest is history…
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2019 Peace Proposal – “Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach.”
Daisaku Ikeda | Soka Gakkai International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
26 Jan 2019 – Last May, UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the UN Disarmament Agenda in which he noted that total military spending was around eighty times the amount required to meet the humanitarian aid needs of the whole world. Now is the time to accelerate momentum toward disarmament. To this end, I propose three key themes that could support the effort to advance disarmament as a cornerstone of the twenty-first century.
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‘Global Indifference to Human Rights Violations in the Middle East and North Africa Fuelling Atrocities and Impunity’
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
Report reviews human rights in 19 MENA states during 2018
• International arms trade and lucrative business deals fuel cycle of abuse
• Lack of accountability drives widespread repression and civilian suffering
• Small advances on women’s rights and efforts to tackle past abuses due to civil society campaigns
Don’t Play Politics with Our Peace
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
It is with deep concern and regret that I witness Northern Ireland has been without a Parliament for almost two years. We have a fundamental right to government; all our futures are in your hands. Please don’t play politics with our peace. SIGN THE PETITION
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He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother (Music Video of the Week)
The Hollies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
Story behind the song:
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House of Horrors — Understanding the Factors at Play
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
The world abounds with violence, terrorism, militarism, wars that lead to lack of harmony, selfishness and absence of moral behaviour and an absence of feeling of sharing and results in otherness. Vasudev kutumbakam, the Vedas suggested that the whole world is a family.
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Rohingya Crisis: UN Investigates Its ‘Dysfunctional’ Conduct in Myanmar
Emanuel Stoakes and Hannah Ellis-Petersen – The Guardian,
4 Mar 2019
27 Feb 2019 – The UN has launched an inquiry into its conduct in Myanmar over the past decade, where it has been accused of ignoring warning signs of escalating violence prior to an alleged genocide of the Rohingya minority.
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Uncle Sam in Venezuela
Latuff – MintPress News,
4 Mar 2019
No comment…
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Health and Development in Norway — A New Old Book from TRANSCEND University Press
TRANSCEND University Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
With great pleasure TRANSCEND University Press (TUP) publishes a new book which is both the most modern and the oldest book from TUP as of today: Health and Development in Norway by Johan Galtung and Dag Viljen Poleszynski is the first ebook published by TUP and based on an unpublished manuscript from 1982. Most of the text has been reformatted and the book is now available for free in modern ebook formats.
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Venezuela: Beyond Regime Change and Oil
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
26 Feb 2019 – The world is unevenly split over Venezuela. The Non-Aligned Movement, accounting for 120 countries “reiterates its firm support” of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in line with the Bandung principles. Russia and China declared their pro-Maduro stand from the word go. The UN refuses to entertain Guido. Recently, some 50 UN envoys have stood in solidarity with Venezuela determined to protect the UN Charter and International Law. This leaves only the usual lapdogs standing with Washington.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
The task of journalists is to mirror reality, empirical reality, not some potential reality desired by some and-or predicted by some. It is not to mediate to change empirical reality in favor a new social reality. The task of journalists mirroring reality would include information about communities handling successfully natural and-or social disasters and how; not only all those that did not.
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Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
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A Teenage War Resister in Israel
Rory Fanning – TomDispatch,
4 Mar 2019
An Antiwar Story from the Embattled Middle East
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Lost in Globalisation – A Chaotic Tale of a Process Now Being Dismantled (Apparently)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
28 Feb 2019 — Do not panic! This is not about telling you how bank accounts and pension funds have been used to finance the production of nuclear bombs (they call it ‘investment’). Nor it is about the four dozens of major and minor wars that the so-called “traditional weapons,” which are being manufactured and exported by civilised, democratic countries, continue to systematically fuel.
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(Português) Campanha Divulgada por Leonardo Dicaprio Convence o Governo Russo a Libertar Mais de 100 Baleias
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
2 mar 2019 – DiCaprio motivou os seus quase 19 milhões de seguidores no Twitter a assinarem uma petição contra o confinamento de baleias na Rússia.
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Structural Violence and Health
Dag Viljen Poleszynski, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
Structural Violence Makes Peace/Healthy Living Obtainable only for the Wealthy Few
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Milan Anti-Racism March Draws “Hundreds of Thousands”
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
3 Mar 2019 – Organisers said about 200,000 people turned out to protest against racism in the northern Italian city of Milan in Lombardy, a region where the right-wing populist League party has strong support.
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Why Has Kashmir Been Forgotten?
Samreen Mushtaq & Mudasir Amin – Al Jazeera,
4 Mar 2019
2 Mar 2019 – Amid all the talks of India-Pakistan war, the issue at the very heart of present tensions has been completely ignored.
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It’s Time to Balance Profits and Social Good
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ or better known by its acronym, CSR, is a very broad concept that aims at managing a business in a way that it contributes towards sustainable development by delivering social, economic and environmental benefits to all its stakeholders.
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The “Parties” Are Enjoyed by the Wealthy, Not by Popular Sectors
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
21 Feb 2019 – Many countries apply adjustment policies arguing that the State generated a “party” spending income it did not have, which produced serious imbalances. This proposition conceals perverse situations: the “party,” if there was one, was enjoyed by large corporations and wealthy families. Let us be clear: if there were parties, they were just for some; the rest has been submitted to an unbridle process of concentration of wealth and, with that, decisional power as well.
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Vacationing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
“How was your vacation in the mountain resort?”
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Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
We speak with world-renowned environmental leader and ecologist Dr. Vandana Shiva about climate change, seed sovereignty and her new book, “Oneness vs. the 1%.” Shiva is an Indian scholar, physicist, and food sovereignty and seed freedom advocate. She was born in Doon Valley in the Himalayan foothills.
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The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
In this analysis, John Pilger looks back over the Chavez years in Venezuela, including his own travels with Hugo Chavez, and the current US and European campaign to overthrow Nicolas Maduro in a ‘coup by media’ and to return Latin America to the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Peace Journalism in Theory and Practice
Silvia De Michelis | E-IR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
23 Dec 2018 – Peace journalism, as the name suggests, is a form of journalism committed to exploring root causes of conflict in order to “create opportunities for society at large to consider and value nonviolent responses to conflict.” Its history can be tracked back to 1965, when Johan Galtung and Mari Ruge analysed what makes foreign news newsworthy. Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung further developed the notion of peace journalism and argued that the media (war reporting, in particular) predominantly exhibit biases towards violence and rest on the conceptual belief that ‘conflict’ equals ‘war’.
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Prof. Johan Galtung: “I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire.”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
On the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out
2010 Interview Still More Relevant Today
Kashmir: What Would Gandhi Say?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
1 Mar 2019 – What would Mahatma Gandhi say about the threat of war between India and Pakistan, which has brought the two nations and the world to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe? Throughout the struggle for Indian independence, Gandhi was faced with the serious problem of avoiding conflict between religious groups once independence had been achieved. He made every effort to bridge the rift between the Hindu and Muslim communities.
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Nobel-Winning Physicist Niels Bohr on Subjective vs. Objective Reality and the Uses of Religion in a Secular World
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
“The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won’t get us very far.”
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Trump Has Turned Foreign Aid into Shabby Political Theatre
Peter Beaumont - The Guardian,
4 Mar 2019
20 Feb 2019 – Stalled relief supplies for Venezuela at the Colombian border are a stark illustration of Trump’s crudely transactional approach to aid. The flights look something more shabby: a dangerous stunt utilising aid for other purposes, alluded to by UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric: “Humanitarian action needs to be independent of political, military or any other objectives.”
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A Conspiracy of Decency
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
We will conspire to keep this blue dot floating and alive,
to keep the soldiers from gunning down the children;
to make the water clean and clear and plentiful,
How to Prepare for a Global Financial Crash: Rural-Urban Continuum and Electric Vehicles
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
1 Mar 2019 In this blog we have often proposed that the culture of war is not sustainable and that the American empire is destined to crash for the same reasons that the Soviet empire crashed. It can be an opportunity for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace. However, the crash of the American empire may well be accompanied (caused) by a global financial crash with suffering for ordinary people, as it did for the Soviet people 30 years ago.
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Why Myanmar Must Develop an Identity of Inclusion
Khin Mai Aung| Lion’s Roar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
28 Feb 2019 – Report from the International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma, which called attention to the ongoing human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims and other religious minorities in the Buddhist-majority country of Myanmar.
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Migrant Crisis in Europe? Look at Yemen
Helen Lackner | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
More desperate people crossed the Red Sea into Yemen in 2018 than crossed the Mediterranean heading for Europe. Yemen is in the midst of an internationalised civil war and suffering from the world’s worst humanitarian crisis according to the UN’s Secretary General. There has been no outcry about a ‘migrant invasion’ from the Yemeni Minister of the Interior, whether from the internationally recognised government or the Huthi movement that controls the capital Sana’a.
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Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Among the many challenges India faces, the most underappreciated is the ongoing mental health crisis. Mental illness is actually India’s ticking bomb.
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The U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It
Adam H Johnson | Truthdig- TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
21 Feb 2019 – No one actually thinks the murderers row of Cold Warriors, Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams and national security adviser John Bolton care at all about the starving people in Venezuela or their plight. No one reading this, be they right, left, center, libertarian or communist, actually buys the prevailing narrative that the U.S. is sending “aid” to Venezuela as a humanitarian gesture.
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(Castellano) Una estrategia no violenta para derrotar el intento de golpe de Estado de EE.UU. en Venezuela
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Al pueblo de Venezuela: Una vez más, la élite de los Estados Unidos ha decidido tratar de imponer su voluntad en el pueblo de otra nación, en este caso, y no por primera vez, su país, Venezuela.Por supuesto, este golpe es perfectamente consistente con la política exterior estadounidense de los últimos dos siglos, cuyo enfoque esencial ha sido asegurar su control en áreas geoestratégicas clave del mundo y robar los recursos de naciones extranjeras.
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(Français) José Martí et l’Anti-Impérialisme Etats-Unien: Une Analyse d’Actualité
Christine Gillard | Journal Notre Amérique – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
20 Fév 2019 – Depuis une dizaine d’années les États-Unis regardent à nouveau vers les pays d’Amérique du sud, attentifs à la remontée des oppositions des droites aux gouvernements progressistes. Cette attention vigilante se traduit par des stratégies d’aide plus ou moins directe aux opposants, ainsi que par le déploiement de forces armées sur les frontières sensibles en s’appuyant sur les pays amis comme la Colombie.
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White Helmets’ Staged Chemical Attack Videos and Other Trends in Modern Propaganda
South Front – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – The scandal regarding the fake hospital video published by the White Helmets as a proof of the Douma chemical attack has reached its peak in the media and has caused reaction on the diplomatic level.
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The French Army Has Killed Hamadoun Kouffa, the Malian Robin Hood
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
How might the Malian government find a way to negotiate with his successors, to avoid genocide or civil war?
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Laughter for All (Financial) Times
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – In these times, when the United States pursues an unprecedented military build-up, promotes coups and trade wars, breaks weapons agreements, organizes the illegal seizure of overseas financial accounts, building barriers and walls along the southern border, Washington can count on the mass media to provide a variety of propaganda messages, ranging from the predictable ‘yellow ’ to the sophisticated ‘serious press’.
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Conference Calls for Action to End Rohingya Genocide
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – On Feb. 8 and 9 at Barnard College in New York City, the Free Rohingya Coalition held an extremely productive conference, drawing an audience of 200 researchers, activists and renowned academics from around 12 countries. Victims demand that ‘Never again!’ must be more than an empty slogan.
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UN Alliance of Civilizations Call for Applications for 2019 Fellowship Programme
UNAOC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
The theme of the Fellowship 2019 is “The role of women in peacemaking and conflict prevention”. Candidates must be able to present professional achievements in these fields and have until Sunday March 10th 2019 to apply.
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Pink Floyd’s Waters Slams Venezuela Border Aid Concert
Brian Ellsworth and Sarah Marsh | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters slammed an upcoming “Live Aid”-style concert to raise funds for humanitarian aid for Venezuela, calling the event a U.S.-backed effort to tarnish the socialist government in a video circulating today.
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What Can Video Games Teach Us about Peace?
Gene Carolan | Raidió Teilifís Éireann [Ireland] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
18 Feb 2019 – More and more games are incorporating nonviolence as a feature and encouraging better social behaviour in the real world.
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(Português) Austrália aprova lei que proíbe testes em animais para produtos cosméticos
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
18 fev 2019 – Empresas livres de crueldade abandonaram os testes em animais, mas ainda são capazes de oferecer produtos de beleza seguros e de qualidade. Com o uso de ingredientes e testes livres de crueldade animal, atendem a enorme e consciente demanda do mercado. Após quase dois anos de discussões sobre o assunto, o Senado australiano aprovou a proibição de testes em animais na indústria cosmética.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
25 Feb 2019 – The world is celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi this year. On this important occasion, let us remember Gandhi’s belief in the core values of Truth, Nonviolence, Satyagraha, Religious Amity, Harmony, Cleanliness and Love for Nature. He not only believed in these values but consistently acted in consonance with them.
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Artist in Agony: My Step-Father, Stefano
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
My step-father, Stefano, died in my arms at home at age 66. In the days before his death, he said to me: “The great tragedy of life is so few people have an opportunity to develop their talents.” He knew the agony!
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(Português) Número de veganos tem dobrado a cada dois anos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
18 fev2019 – De acordo com a organização britânica The Vegan Society, o número de veganos, ou seja, de pessoas que não consomem produtos de origem animal e que fazem oposição à exploração animal para qualquer fim, tem dobrado a cada dois anos desde 2014. No ano passado, só no Reino Unido, o total de veganos chegou a 600 mil, superando de longe os 300 mil de 2016.
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Training in Conflict Transformation, Morocco
The Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
The Cordoba Foundation of Geneva’s work in Morocco has focused on building the capacity of university activists in conflict transformation with the aim of equipping them with the skills to alleviate violence between political groups in university campuses. When we asked these activists how their participation in our workshops changed their awareness about conflict and peace promotion, this is what they said.
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A World Party
Roberto Savio | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – I have decided that I can be more useful as a practitioner than as a theoretician in the cultured an interesting debate that Paul Raskin has opened on a world political party. But I still remember that during the debate on the New International Information Order in the seventies, the German chairman of the conference observed: “what Roberto had said works in practice. But the question is: would it work in theory”?
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American Mercenaries Arrested in Haiti Go Free
Ezili Dantò – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
21 Feb 2019 – On February 20, 2019, five former American military men and other nationals arrested on 17 Feb got on a specially charted plane and took off for the United States.
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Another Day in Paradise (Music Video of the Week)
Phil Collins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
– Lyrics – Kick back & enjoy…
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The Misuses of Histories and Historiography by the state in Myanmar: The Case of Rakhine and Rohingya
Michael W. Charney | SOAS University of London – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
10 Feb 2019 – I am not a lawyer but a historian so my talk will be a little different than the others we listened to yesterday. While everyone else is looking for solutions, I am not doing that necessarily. Ultimately, some look to find solutions in holding Myanmar to account through international law. That’s what they can do.
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After 18 Years of War, the Taliban Has the Upper Hand in Afghanistan Peace Talks
Bilal Sarwary and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
25 Feb 2019
15 Feb 2019 – For many observers, the negotiations register as a defeat — recognition that the Taliban has not only survived, but will be central to Afghanistan’s future.
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How Much of Venezuela’s Crisis Is Really Maduro’s Fault?
Steve Ellner – Consortium News,
25 Feb 2019
15 Feb 2019 – The Venezuelan opposition frequently argues that neither the sanctions nor depressed international oil prices are to blame for the nation’s economic difficulties, only the mismanagement of the economy. There are several factors for Venezuela’s economic crisis, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to U.S. leaders or following corporate media.
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Facts Don’t Interfere with Propaganda Blitz against Venezuela’s Elected President
Joe Emersberger | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
12 Feb 2019 – The Miami Herald (2/8/19) reported, “Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro continues to reject international aid.”“ The “Venezuelan leader” is Venezuela’s elected president. In contrast, it referred to Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s “interim president.” Calling for international aid and being democratically elected will do as little to protect Maduro’s government from US aggression as being disarmed of WMD did to prevent Iraq from being invaded—unless there is much more pushback from the US public against a lethal propaganda system.
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World Premiere London, UK
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Disarmament: Alternative to International Security – Screening of the documentary ‘Peace is Possible’, about the work of HUFUD-Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation. London Thursday 7 March, 7 pm. Event organised by Our Future Now, the Youth Network of Global Justice Now.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
In Vienna, everything that is not explicitly forbidden is permitted.
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Hate-Fest in Warsaw
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – Warsaw, Poland is where the US just staged an anti-Iranian jamboree of 60 client states that brought derision and scorn from Europeans and much of the Mideast. The point of this exercise was an anti-Iranian coalition for an upcoming attack on Iran planned by President Donald Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. It seems to many that the Israeli tail is again wagging the American dog.
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Venezuela False Flag Brewing? Under the Cloak of “the Humanitarian Convoy”
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – The alleged false flag operation is intended to justify “an outside invasion” of Venezuela by one or more foreign powers. The false flag is slated to result in the deaths of civilians.
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Animals, Workers and Consumers Suffer Under USDA Slaughter Programs
Laura Cascada | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
21 Feb 2019 – The Trump administration is letting slaughter plants kill at increasingly dangerous rates, benefiting only the meat industry at the expense of animals, workers and consumers.
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Death of the Author
Alex Watson | Wall Street International - Human Wrongs Watch,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – On Valentine’s Day 2019, the Elon Musk-sponsored artificial intelligence lab OpenAI made a sensational announcement. It has created a groundbreaking AI system, entitled “GP2”, that is stunningly effective at generating prose news stories and fiction. So impressive were its results that the lab felt compelled to take the unusual step of not releasing it immediately, due to fears of malicious use.
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Carl Sagan on Mystery, Why Common Sense Blinds Us to the Universe, and How to Live with the Unknown
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
“We are bathing in mystery and confusion on many subjects, and I think that will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”
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Israel in Gaza
Sabaaneth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Business as usual… and the world indifferent.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
25 Feb 2019 – When the drums of war start beating, can cooler heads prevail and negotiations in good faith start? Vijay Mehta has written a useful overview of efforts to create a Department of Peace within governments so that there would be an institutionalized official voice proposing other avenues than war. Such proposals are not new.
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