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(Deutsch) Wie die Deutschen den Regenwald mit aufessen
Anette Dowideit | WELT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
20.10.2019 – Deutsche Firmen kauften in den vergangenen fünf Jahren gut 40.000 Tonnen Rindfleisch bei Fleischkonzernen, die an der Abholzung des brasilianischen Regenwaldes beteiligt sind. Pro Jahr wurden dafür rund 2,5 Quadratkilometer geschützte Naturgebiete in Weideland umgewandelt.
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Assange “Struggles to Say His Own Name” as He Appears in Court
Jack Peat | The London Economic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
21 Oct 2019 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared to struggle to say his own name as he appeared in the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today to fight extradition to the US. Assange told the judge he is up against a “superpower” with “unlimited resources” and appeared to be fighting back tears as he added: “I can’t think properly.”
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Interpreting Turkey’s Military Operation in Syria
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
18 Oct 2019 – Ever since things started to go badly wrong in Syria after the uprising prompted by the 2011 Arab Spring, the situation has converted the customary fog of war into an impenetrable black box. None of the intervening political actors including Turkey, United States, Iran, Russia, Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia calculated correctly, nor did the various non-state extremist groups associated with al Qaeda and later ISIS, as well as a variety of anti-Damascus Syrian insurgencies.
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Anti-Nuke Activists, Kings-Bay-Plowshares-7 Found Guilty on All Counts
Bill Ofenloch | Kings Bay Plowshares 7 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
24 Oct 2019 – Nonviolent Direct Action against Trident Nuclear Missile Submarine Base – More than 18 months after they snuck onto the site of one of the largest known collections of nuclear weaponry in the world, a jury found the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 guilty of all four of the charges brought against them.
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(Français) Nestlé et la privatisation de l’eau : le cas Suisse
Franklin Frederick | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
22 Oct 2019 – En février dernier, le Gouvernement de la Suisse annonçait la création d’une fondation à Genève, nommée « Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator » . Le but de cette nouvelle fondation est de réguler les nouvelles technologies, depuis les drones jusqu’aux voitures automatiques en passant par l’ingénierie génétique. Les nouvelles technologies se développent très rapidement et cette fondation doit « anticiper » les conséquences de ces avancées sur les plans politique et sociétal. La GSDA se veut également un pont entre les communautés scientifiques et diplomatiques.
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Record Number of Palestinian Homes Demolished: Rights Group
Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
25 Oct 2019 – The rights group added the demolitions left 238 Palestinians including 127 minors without a home. Israel claims demolishing the family homes of alleged militants deters violence, while the Palestinians see it as a form of collective punishment.
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UK Judge Rejects Delay in Assange Extradition Case
Laura Tiernan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
22 Oct 2019 – Pilger told demonstrators: “The whole thing is a grotesque absurdity. There is an extradition law between this country and the United States. It states specifically that someone cannot be extradited if the offences are political… It is not a bit of agitprop, it is not an opinion, they ARE political. All but one charge is based on the 1917 Espionage Act, which was used to jail conscientious objectors during the First World War in the United States.”Pilger concluded: “The source of this is a rogue state—a state that ignores its own laws and international laws and the laws of this country.”
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Trident Is the Crime
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
On 24 Oct, following a three-day trial, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted of three felony counts and one misdemeanor. On April 4, 2018 the group had entered a U.S. Navy Submarine base which is a home port for the Trident nuclear missile fleet. Just one of those nuclear missiles, if launched, would cause 1,825 times more damage than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Courtroom
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faced the opposing lawyers.
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Don’t Railroad Julian Assange to Virginia
Consortium News | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
22 Oct 2019 – The WikiLeaks legal team has a strong case to throw out Assange’s extradition request after the government that wants him extradited got hold of surveillance video of his privileged attorney-client conversations.
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Coca-Cola, Nestlé and PepsiCo Named Top Plastic Polluters for the Second Year in a Row
Matt Franklin | Brand Audit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019 – Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo top the list according to a new report “BRANDED Volume II: Identifying the World’s Top Corporate Plastic Polluters.” The rest of the top 10 plastic polluters are Mondelēz International, Unilever, Mars, P&G, Colgate-Palmolive, Phillip Morris, and Perfetti Van Melle.
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Comcast Is Lobbying against Encryption That Could Prevent it from Learning Your Browsing History
Joseph Cox | Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019 – Internet giant Comcast is lobbying U.S. lawmakers against plans to encrypt web traffic that would make it harder for internet service providers (ISPs) to determine your browsing history, according to a lobbying presentation obtained.
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Pain and Pleasure — Laughing Away One’s Blues
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
Humankind has several emotions — not only pain, pleasure, but sorrow, greed, kindness, happiness, attachment, love, anger and several others. Perhaps the most common emotions are happiness or bliss and sorrow, or depression, sadness.
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The Pathocracy of the Deep State: Tyranny at the Hands of a Psychopathic Government
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians. Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents, trade political favors for campaign contributions, turn a blind eye to the wishes of the electorate, cheat taxpayers out of hard-earned dollars, favor the corporate elite, entrench the military industrial complex, and spare little thought for the impact their thoughtless actions and hastily passed legislation might have on defenseless citizens.
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Israel Prevents UN Special Rapporteur from Traveling to Palestine
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
24 Oct 2019 – Special rapporteur of the United Nations Organization on human rights in Palestine Michael Lynk condemned Israel for preventing him today from traveling to the Palestinian territories, violating thus established procedures and protocols. “Israel has occupied the Palestinian territory for more than 52 years, the longest belligerent occupation in the modern world,” Lynk said.
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Restoring the Korean Economic Miracle
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
This paper was written for the Economics of Happiness Conference co-sponsored by Local Futures, held in Jeonju, Korea, on October 16-17, where I was the keynote speaker — a wonderful city and great experience!
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(Português) Investigação secreta revela morte em massa e abuso por trás das corridas de cavalos
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
28 Oct 2019
23 out 2019 – A indústria de corridas de cavalos é uma das mais cruéis formas de exploração de animais já registradas. Cavalos são submetidos a métodos de criação dolorosos para que possam ganhar mais velocidade nas pistas onde muitas vezes são vítimas de acidentes fatais ou que deixam sequelas permanentes. A ABC News descobriu que cerca de 300 cavalos de corrida passaram por um único matadouro em apenas 22 dias.
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German Appetite for Beef Eats into Brazilian Rainforest
Andrew Wasley and Alexandra Heal – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
28 Oct 2019
21 Oct 2019 – Germany imported €216m worth of Brazilian beef over five years from meat companies linked to major deforestation in the Amazon and other vital areas.
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UK Blocks Spanish Judge from Questioning Julian Assange over Spying Allegations
José María Irujo – El País,
28 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019 – The UK is blocking a Spanish judge’s request to question Julian Assange as a witness about allegations that the Spanish security firm Undercover Global S.L. spied on Assange while he was living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The magistrate says the refusal by British judicial authorities is unprecedented.
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What Logically Vaccine-hesitant People Need to Know about Flu Shot Propaganda
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
22 Oct 2019 – How Big Pharma, the CDC and Big Medicine Have Deceived Us by the Cunning Use of Statistics
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Psychology’s “Dark Triad” and the Billionaire Class
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
25 Oct 2019 – The data are stark and compelling. The richest 400 families in the United States own financial assets that exceed the wealth of the bottom 60% of all American households combined. U.S. billionaires pay taxes at a lower effective rate than working class families. The CEOs of S&P 500 companies, averaging over $14 million in annual compensation, make roughly as much in a single day as their median employee earns in an entire year.
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Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
The deep-down sense of being boxed-in, and the outward display of greed, lust and vanity, form a deadly vicious cycle with no avenue of escape. Desperate antics – akin to rattling and banging the cage – only make matters worse; the only possible prognosis is senility. One is tempted to call this state of mind the “thwarted intelligence disorder” (TID); words such as “demonic” have been used for such conditions in earlier times.
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(Português) O Veganismo na Vida de River Phoenix
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
“Algumas pessoas mal informadas afirmam que os ativistas dos direitos animais são terroristas, mas essas pessoas simplesmente ignoram quem são os verdadeiros terroristas – as empresas e indústrias que torturam literalmente bilhões de animais a cada ano” – River Phoenix. Segundo River, é preciso que exista um movimento extremo quando o que acontece com os animais no cotidiano é tão extremo.
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The Passions of Mankind
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
I would like to announce the publication of a book which discusses human emotions from an evolutionary perspective. The book consists mainly of book chapters and articles that I have previously published, although some new material has been added. It can be freely downloaded and circulated.
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Investment Key Variable, though Not Any Type of Investment
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
It is claimed that investment is a key variable in every development process, but, beware, not any type of investment. There are investments that contribute to the pursued development and others that hurt it or do not impact on the chosen path. Therefore, it is not right to talk about plain investment without delving into such heterogeneous universe and discerning which investment to make and who does it. Those are two intimately related critical issues.
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Why Are the American People so Passive and Accepting of War?
Dave Alpert | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019 – We have not experienced war on our soil since the Civil War. The closest we came was the destruction and deaths caused by the 9/11 attack, a homegrown incident to gather support for US military action in the Middle East as it “does battle against terrorism”. The reality we refuse to recognize is that it is the US that is the biggest and most dangerous terrorist on the planet.
→ read full articleThat We Live under a Dictatorship Is Now Unquestionable: The Assange Case
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019 – The military-industrial complex didn’t entirely control the U.S. Government back in 1971 when its absolute right of censorship was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Pentagon Papers case; but, now, after 9/11, it finally does, and thus democracy has become totally eliminated in today’s America.
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Poet Inhabits the Heart of Jimmy Carter
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
The 39th President of the United States (1977-1981), Jimmy Carter has been in the news recently, and we wish him well…. I consider him one of the great people I’ve had the honor of meeting. Following his too-brief tenure in the White House, Carter worked gratis for decades with “Habitat for Humanity,” physically building and refurbishing houses for those in need.
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Returning to Obama’s Plan
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
21 Oct 2019 – If Israel wants to survive, then it must return to the Obama plan: to choose the road of peace while we still enjoy the support of the United States, so that we can arrive at a peace agreements that will dramatically reduce the security threat to our existence and our dependence on the superpowers.
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Moksha/Liberation: What Is It?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
Moksha is also called mukti, which essentially means to attain freedom from any further forms of differentiated, temporal, and ordinary material existence in the mortal world. It also means, quite simply, becoming free from samsara or the continued rounds of birth and death in the material realm, which is caused by the accumulation and continuation of karma.
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Don’t Forget the Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka
Lee Rhiannon – Jacobin Magazine,
28 Oct 2019
Review of Losing Santhia: Life and Loss in the Struggle for Tamil Eelam, by Ben Hillier (Interventions, 2019) – Victims of decades of racist pogroms, state violence, and military occupation, the Tamil minority has long fought for liberation in Sri Lanka. We should not ignore their struggle.
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What Makes a Protest Effective?
Public Radio International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
21 Oct 2019 – Major protests have exploded across the world over the past week, with people taking to the streets in Lebanon, Barcelona and Chile. That’s on top of recent demonstrations in Hong Kong, Haiti, Iraq and elsewhere. So, what makes a protest effective?
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Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976): Lessons from a Remarkable Life
Tayo Aluko | Counterfire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
Black Lawyer, Singer and Football Player, Paul Robeson’s Extraordinary Life Holds Many Lessons for the Present Day
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(Português) [Inter] Agir Pacificamente: Lista Preventiva
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
Sempre harmonizar. Jamais hostilizar
Sempre inspirar. Jamais conspirar…
2019 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award Acceptance Speech
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
24 Oct 2019 – Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” I would add, as I’m sure he would, that we must work diligently to attain this reality.
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Eminent Buddhist Leader Daisaku Ikeda Urges Halt to Nuclear Weapons and Killer Robots
Ramesh Jaura – IDN InDeptNews,
28 Oct 2019
Full text of the interview of SGI President Daisaku Ikeda where he shares his perspectives on the current state of nuclear disarmament and the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems in the days leading up to the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons held April 29—May 10, 2019, at the UN headquarters in New York.
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Amazon Rainforest ‘Close to Irreversible Tipping Point’
Dom Phillips – The Guardian,
28 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019 – Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible “tipping point” within two years, a prominent economist has said. Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021.
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Syria: The Human Cost of War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria, by Rania Abouzeid (London: Oneworld Publications, 2018) – A moving book by the Lebanese journalist. As an Arabic speaker, she was able to move in Syrian society to interview a range of Syrians caught up in the violence. She was also able to interview Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.
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Correcting the (Im)Balance of Power (Before It’s Too Late)
Joseph Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
Nothing New under the Sun… (?)
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UN Official’s Briefing on Torture of Assange Boycotted by Media
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
18 Oct 2019 – As it was, footage aired by the Russian-funded RT outlet showed a grand total of four people in the audience, surrounded by rows of empty chairs. To date, the RT article, and an accompanying video, appears to be the only report on the briefing by any media outlet in the world.
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What If the Government Abolished the Military?
Jørgen Johansen and Brian Martin | Journal of Resistance Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
25 Oct 2019 – Imagine that government leaders make an announcement: “We’re going to abdicate responsibility for defense. Over the next few years, our military forces will be phased out. They are too dangerous and counterproductive. It will be up to everyone to figure out how to defend us all without violence.” As entrenched as the military is in our society and minds, civilians can defend a society without using violence.
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Narrative: Whistleblower Denounces Lies, Deceit and Cover-up by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Report on Syria
Courage Foundation & Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019 – Panel Criticizes ‘Unacceptable Practices’ in the OPCW’s Investigation of the Alleged Syria Chemical Attack of April 2018 – The Courage Foundation convened a panel of concerned individuals in Brussels on 15 Oct, which met with a member of the investigation. On this basis the panel issued the following statement. [Foreword by Richard Falk]
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Everything You Need to Know about 5G
IEEE Spectrum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
If all goes well, telecommunications companies hope to debut the first commercial 5G networks in the early 2020s. Right now, though, 5G is still in the planning stages, and companies and industry groups are working together to figure out exactly what it will be.
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(Français) En Israël, les cueilleurs de plantes aromatiques ne veulent plus être criminalisés
Claire Bastier – Le Monde,
28 Oct 2019
6 septembre 2019 – L’origan et la sauge ont une position centrale dans la cuisine des populations arabes d’Israël. Or, depuis 1977, l’Etat hébreu en interdit la cueillette. Une réglementation culturellement discriminante en passe d’être assouplie.
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Securing US Interests through US Military Build-up in Saudi Arabia
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
24 Oct 2019 – That national interests determine foreign relations is the received norm, and it has been operating especially under Western hegemony forever. Hence, the inability of Western foreign relations experts to perceive of a win-win configuration of the Chinese kind in Africa and Asia.
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D.H. Lawrence on the Antidote to the Malady of Materialism
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
“Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.”
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Yi Jing – I Ching 易經 — The Book of Changes
Igor Micunovic | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
24 Oct 2019 — Ancient culture of China has made great contributions to world culture. Book of Changes is one of the most precious contributions of Chinese culture, which has exerted a great influence on Chinese philosophy, literature, historical study, as well as natural and social sciences.
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African Leadership Breaking the Deadly Silence on Future Migration
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
21 Oct 2019 – Courageous insight on a vital issue that European politicians and the UN fear to evoke. Given the remarkable interview with the President of Niger last week, I have produced this short piece summarizing its essential message within a wider context.
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Why Withdrawing US Troops from Northern Syria Is GOOD
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
16 Oct 2019 – The foreign policy elite is in an uproar. They say the decision to withdraw from northern Syria was a “gift” to Russia, Iran, and Assad… even ISIS. Despite the howls of indignation and disinformation, withdrawing US troops from northern Syria is a step in the right direction.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
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In Praise of Kamila Shamsie’s ‘Home Fire’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
13 Oct 2019 – It took the withdrawal of the Nelly Sachs Prize to make me familiar with the fine literary achievements and compassionate politics of Kamila Shamsie. Selfishly, I cannot thank the Dortmund City Council enough for its outrageous behavior, evidently canceling the award because a right-wing newspaper outed Shamsie as a supporter of the BDS Campaign. I can imagine Shamsie’ feeling of hurt as well as disappointment as this incident unfolded.
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The Climate Crisis (and Other Crises) Require the Transformation of the Basic Cultural Structure of the Modern World (Part 2)
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
This is a revised version of the TMS Editorial with same title published on 14 Oct 2019–to clarify and answer questions from readers.
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When Time Stands Still
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
I am finding that far too much of what is being published about our world situation is doing little good. We need different approaches. Here’s one.
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Assange Subjected to Torture & Violations of Due Process Rights – UN Envoy
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
16 Oct 2019 – WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been subjected to “psychological torture”– that’s a medical assessment–and his due process rights have been “systematically violated” by all the states involved, according to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer.
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(Italiano) È ora di finire la guerra contro la Terra
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
14 Ottobre 2019 – Quando pensiamo alle guerre ai nostri tempi, volgiamo la mente all’Iraq e all’Afghanistan. Ma la guerra più grossa è quella contro il pianeta. È una guerra con le radici in un’economia che manca di rispettare i limiti ecologici ed etici – limiti all’ineguaglianza, all’ingiustizia, all’avidità e alla concentrazione economica.
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24 Oct » U.N. Day: Strengthening and Reforming
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
24 October is U.N. Day, marking the day when there were enough ratifications including those of the five permanent members of the proposed Security Council for the U.N. Charter to come into force. It is a day not only of celebration, but also a day for looking at how the U.N. system can be strengthened, and when necessary, reformed.
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The Age of Radical Evil
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
14 Oct 2019 – All life, including our own, has become expendable, sacrificed on the altar of profit in a culture of death. “Radical evil, worse than merely treating others as objects, renders vast numbers of people superfluous. They possess no value at all and when no longer of utility to the powerful, discarded as human refuse.” — Hannah Arendt
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Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
16 Oct 2019 – Writing about his visit to the world’s largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: “Strike with Creativity.” Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs, fragments of which have been found in the wreckage of schools, hospitals, and markets across Yemen. How can a weapons manufacturer that causes such death, bloodshed, and misery lay claim to creativity?
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UN’s 75th Anniversary Shadowed by Right-Wing Nationalism, Widespread Authoritarianism and Budgetary Cuts
Thalif Deen | IPS - Human Wrongs Watch,
21 Oct 2019
17 Oct 2019 – Perhaps the most politically-significant event in 2020 will be the 75th anniversary of the United Nations amidst continued threats against multilateral institutions, rising right-wing nationalism, growing authoritarianism and widespread disinformation–in the shadow of one of UN’s worst financial crises. SG Guterres warned: “The situation remains dire; without immediate action, I can no longer guarantee the smooth functioning of the Organization.”
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Recently I read a rather uncanny report of some people in the USA getting an invitation for Death over Dinner. Why bizarre! Normally, talking of death is considered taboo.
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Communicating Nonviolently: A Preventive Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Let’s always harmonize. Let’s never antagonize.
Let’s always inspire. Let’s never conspire…
Tulsi Nails It on National TV… US Regime-Change Wars
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
18 Oct 2019 – Peace will come to the Middle East when Washington finally ends its criminal regime-change wars and its support for terrorist proxies. Tulsi Gabbard seems to be the only politician with the intelligence and integrity to tell Americans the truth.
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Switching to Plant-Based Diet from Animal-Based Food
Robert Smith | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Hunger in the world continues to grow, as do the number people are overweight. Suboptimal diets were responsible for more deaths than any other single cause, including smoking tobacco. In addition, switching to a primarily plant-based diet from a diet that includes unhealthy animal-based food (red meat and processed meat) is good for your health and for the environment.
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The Neo-Liberal Project in the World and in Brazil Is Anti-Life and the Enemy of Nature
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
18 Oct 2019 – I will address the reflections of one of our best philosophers, Manfredo de Oliveira, from the Federal University of Ceara, specialist in the relationship between the economy, society and ethics. His work on the topic is vast. We will summarize here a lengthy study on the project developed elsewhere, and now in Brazil: the ultra radical neo-liberalism.
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Kashmir–The Curious Case of Indian Collective Conscience
Dr Mudasir Firdosi | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
19 Oct 201 9 – Kashmir has been cut off from the rest of the world for more than two months now. The perpetual worry about that ‘phone call’ has traumatized so many. One fears that people are developing traumatic stress even when not physically present in the valley. Even when people do manage a phone call after begging or borrowing, the harrowing silence on the other side says it all.
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Rohingya Refugees Agree Move to Bangladesh Island: Official
Yahoo! News | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
20 Oct 2019 – Thousands of Rohingya living in Bangladesh refugee camps have agreed to move to an island in the Bay of Bengal, officials said today, despite fears the site is prone to flooding. Dhaka has long wanted to move 100,000 refugees to the muddy silt islet, saying it would take pressure off the overcrowded border camps where almost a million Rohingya live.
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The Eurozone in Crisis? New President of the European Central Bank has a Criminal Record. Christine Lagarde
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
21 Oct 2019
14 Oct 2019 – Lagarde was found “guilty” without the enforcement of a one year jail term ordered by the Court: criminals in high office are given special treatment. She was accused of “negligence” rather than “complicity” in a multimillion euro fraud. In a bitter irony, Lagarde was rewarded rather than penalized. Despite her criminal record, she was appointed to lead both the IMF (2011-2019) and the ECB (2019- ).
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‘It Breaks Down Innocent People’: The Interrogation Method at Center of Ava Duvernay Lawsuit
Sam Levin – The Guardian,
21 Oct 2019
16 Oct 2019 – Police consulting firm behind widely criticized ‘Reid interrogation technique’ claims Netflix drama When They See US misrepresents method. The Central Park Five case is one of the most notorious examples of police coercing people into giving false confession. The five teens went to prison and were eventually exonerated by DNA evidence.
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(Français) Dilma Rousseff: «Néolibéralisme et néofascisme sont des jumeaux siamois»
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
14 Oct 2019 – Parce que toutes les tentatives d’un retour au néolibéralisme par les voies démocratiques ont échoué, l’élite a fomenté un coup d’État constitutionnel. Compte rendu d’une conférence tenue le 21 septembre par Dilma Rousseff, ancienne présidente du Brésil.
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Can Flourishing Communities Fix the World?
George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
The challenge of ending global hunger can be addressed by ending hunger in local communities. This is the cellular approach to dealing with big problems. The health of the larger body is established by ensuring that its cells and the interactions among them all function well. It can be used to deal not only with hunger but also other big issues such as climate change, economics, disaster management, and peace. The approach is based on the simple fact that people are more likely to care about the well-being of people and things close to them than those far away. Caring works best at the local level.
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode, Le Déserteur, composed by Boris Vian in 1954. The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (over 170 books in his 89 years, +++).
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Taking Next Steps toward Nuclear Abolition
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
On April 4, 2018, several of Marianne’s close friends from the New York Catholic Worker community became part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 by entering the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine base in King’s Bay, GA and performing a traditional Plowshares action. Beginning Monday [21 Oct], they will face serious criminal charges and potentially harsh sentences for their action at Kings Bay. Marianne anxiously awaits their trial. “Why,” she asks, “isn’t there more coverage?”
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How Many Horrible Leaders!
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
How did we get to choose so many mediocre leaders, disoriented, coopted by power, horrible in terms of ethics and their motivations, able in forcing perks for themselves and their own, very far from state-persons orientated towards general wellbeing, environment protection, pacific solutions! Perhaps democracies were born captured by those who kept control over the instruments used for colonizing minds and formatting subjectivities.
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Let Me Know When It’s Over
Charles Hugh Smith – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
15 Oct 2019 – Maybe it’s my cheap seat or my general exhaustion, but the whole staged spectacle is beyond tiresome; I’ve had my fill. Let me know when it’s over–yes, all of it: the impeachment, the trade dispute with China, U.S. involvement in Syria, the manic stock market rally and the 2020 election.
→ read full articleWhen Is It ‘Politically Correct’ to Be Politically Correct?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Only a day after I published ‘In Praise of Kamila Shamsie’ [posted in TRANSCEND Members below], the Nobel Committee awarded their 2019 Literature Prize to Peter Handke, the Austrian novelist known for his support of ultra-nationalist behavior and endorsement of the crimes of Serbian leaders during the Bosnian War. By contrast, in Shamsie’s case her sin was to honor her conscience by supporting the nonviolent BDS-Boycott Divestment Sanctions Campaign that seeks an end to the violation of the basic rights of the Palestinian people.
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(Português) Nova Investigação Expõe Crueldade dos Testes em Animais (Video)
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
15 de out 2019 – Os resultados de uma investigação divulgada no último dia 11 pela organização Cruelty Free International em parceria com a SOKO Tierschutz expõem o sofrimento e tortura dos animais utilizados em exames toxicológicos em um laboratório alemão que presta serviços para empresas farmacêuticas, industriais e agroquímicas de diversas partes do mundo.
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China & India Aren’t Best Friends – but Agreed Strategic Adjustment Might Prevent WAR between Asian Superpowers
Sreeram Chaulia - RT,
21 Oct 2019
12 Oct 2019 – Asia’s No.1 and No.2 powers have longstanding conflicts of interest, but are seeking common ground through “strategic communication” between their leaders. The goal – stability – is pursued with a heavy dose of personal diplomacy.
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US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of ISIS
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
18 Oct 2019 – There is something profoundly deceitful in the way the Democratic Party and the corporate media are framing Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to defend Trump’s actions or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the departure of US forces from northern Syria to understand that the coverage is being crafted in such a way as to entirely overlook the bigger picture.
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‘The Management of Savagery’: Greater Middle East Project of Chaos
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
19 Oct 2019 – Max Blumenthal’s ‘The Management of Savagery’ provides a cogent explanation for the US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Libya, and Syria with Iran on the to-do list. Savagery reads like a real-life whodunit tracing the shadowy back channels of the CIA, FBI, DIA, and NSA piping jihadists around the greater Middle East to create chaos only to find their assets turning against them. Besides being well written, the analysis of the maturation of the neoliberal imperial project by the world’s sole remaining superpower illuminates the current bi-partisan consensus for militarism.
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What Is ‘the UN We Need’ and Who Gets to Choose?
Ben Donaldson and Florencia Gor | UN2020 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
12 Oct 2019 – Why are civil society organisations excited about strengthening the UN when momentum seems distinctly in the opposite direction? When divisions are rife and the international system is in damage limitation mode, as the US cuts funding and repeatedly pulls out of UN bodies? The opportunity is the UN’s 75th anniversary next year and there are modest reasons for hope.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report #15 (Oct 2019)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’. At the time of today’s report, we have signatories in 105 countries. We also have 118 organizations/networks from 39 countries. Here is another report of the activities of individuals and organizations who are your fellow Charter signatories.
→ read full articleClimate Change: A People-Centered Approach
Daisaku Ikeda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
I am reminded of the Buddhist teaching of the Four Views of the Sal Grove, which illustrates how differences in people’s mental or spiritual state or perspective will cause them to see the same thing in completely different ways. For example, the sight of the same forest might inspire one person to be moved by its natural beauty and another to calculate its economic value. The problem is that what is missing in one’s perspective will also be completely lacking in one’s overall worldview.
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World Population Growth
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
Eye-opening
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The Balkanization of the World
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
23 Sep 2019 – Far from having reached the end of history, there is profuse production of an out-of-control history—we produce more history than what we can consume. To curb this race we need to generate proposals.
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Dr. Maung Zarni Talks about Slow Burning Genocide of the Myanmar Rohingya
Rohingya Human Rights Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
A Buddhist humanist from Burma, Maung Zarni is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center – Cambodia.
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Secret Video Shot Inside German Testing Lab Shows Monkeys Screaming in Pain
Lorraine King – The Mirror,
21 Oct 2019
WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE – The upsetting footage, taken at a lab in Hamburg, also shows cats and dogs that appear to be bleeding. Undercover filming of animals in distress ‘in German lab’.
→ read full articleMystery of Mind, Intelligence and Ego—the Subtle Body
ISKCON Desire Tree – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
The Vedas explain that the soul is covered by two kinds of bodies- the gross material body and the subtle material body. The gross material body is the visible body that we feed and clean and dress and normally identify as ourselves. The subtle material body is an interface between the gross material body and the soul.
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Kurds Face Stark Options after US Pullback
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 Oct 2019
14 Oct 2019 – In the annals of bombastic Trump tweets, this one is simply astonishing: here we have a President of the United States, on the record, unmasking the whole $8-trillion intervention in the Middle East as an endless war based on a “false premise.” No wonder the Pentagon is not amused. Forget an independent Kurdistan: They may have to do a deal with Damascus on sharing their area with Sunni Arab refugees.
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Buddhist Economics: How to Start Prioritizing People over Products and Creativity over Consumption
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
What does it really mean to create wealth for people — for humanity — as opposed to money for governments and corporations? That’s precisely what the influential German-born British economist, statistician E. F. Schumacher explores in his seminal 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered.
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The History of Hong Kong, Britain’s Colonial Legacy. Fast Forward to 2019
Larry Romanoff - Global Research,
21 Oct 2019
13 Oct 2019 – The recent history of Hong Kong doesn’t begin where most Westerners might imagine. It began with the Rothschild’s British East India Company that existed from the early 1700s to nearly 1900, when Rothschild conceived the idea of inflicting opium onto China. The plans had been well-made, with approval from the top. Rothschild had the franchise for growing the opium and David Sassoon received from Queen Victoria herself, the exclusive franchise for distributing the drug in China.
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Bestselling Pentagon Fiction: Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform
William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger – TomDispatch,
14 Oct 2019
The pentagon is pledging to reform itself. Again. It Won’t. The new secretary of defense, a former Raytheon lobbyist, won’t even pledge not to go back through the revolving door. With a budget totaling more than $1.4 trillion for the next two years, the department is riding high, even as it attempts to set the stage for yet more spending increases in the years to come.
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Framing Cognitive Space for Higher Order Coherence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
14 Oct 2019 – Toroidal Interweaving from I Ching to Supercomputers and Back? – There is no lack of references in the history of mathematics and computing to the role of the encoding of the I Ching in providing inspiration to Gottfied Leibniz in 1701 with regard to the development of binary logic, as variously noted.
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(Castellano) Crisis en Ecuador: Lenín Moreno vs. Rafael Correa, los antiguos aliados cuya enemistad divide al país
BBC News Mundo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
10 octubre 2019 – ¿El hombre que transformará la economía ecuatoriana o el que “traicionó” el “socialismo del siglo XXI” que quería implantar su antecesor? El presidente ecuatoriano, Lenín Moreno aka neo-coño, afronta la mayor crisis de su gobierno tras acabar con más de 40 años de subsidios a los combustibles, en lo que constituye un paso más en la dirección contraria a la política de su predecesor, Rafael Correa.
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Ecuador: Nation on Military Lockdown
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
12 Oct 2019 – Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno says he’s handing over all security control to the military until further notice. In a statement released today, the military said it was prohibiting people’s movement in all parts of the country in “sensitive” sectors, including airports and ports, oil refineries, police and military bases, energy and electrical bases, and water reservoirs.
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Turkey-Syria-Kurds Violent Conflict: Action Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
On 9 October, Turkish troops began a long-anticipated cross-border assault against the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led militia in northeastern Syria. The Turkish operation is code-named “Operation Peace Spring” but there is a real danger that the situation turns into “Operation Violent Winter”. Before the situation grows worse, clear and dynamic leadership from non-governmental organizations is required. As Turkish Troops Advance, Dangers Escalate
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Iran’s Gulf Peace Proposal: HOPE
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
7 Oct 2019 – As I understand President Hassan Rouhani’s plan it concentrates upon regionalizing the protection of navigation and safeguarding of energy flows in the Persian Gulf with a particular emphasis on providing security for oil tanker traffic. The proposal comes against a background of months of warmongering threats, harsh sanctions, and dangerous incidents that pose unacceptable risks of provoking violent incidents, and even war.
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We Need Peace in the Middle East
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Stress can produce conflict. For example shortages of food or water can lead to regional wars. But wars only make original problems worse. Today the world is facing a number of severe problems, and solidarity will be needed to minimize the suffering with which we and future generations are threatened. The problems include shortages of fresh water, rising temperatures due to climate change, and food insecurity. Let us look at some of the problems in detail:
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33rd Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Evelin Lindner | HDUS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Our 33rd Annual Human DHS Dignity Conference in Brasil was unlike any other we had before! The conference took place at the time when the Amazon had just been set on fire (starting for full on 10th August 2019) and everyone was in a state of anxiety, alarm, and emergency. — A ‘Caravan’ conference titled ‘Cultivating Good Living Amazon: Nurturing Solidarity with Mother Earth’
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Norway Drops Missile Defense Program
News in English – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
10 Oct 2019 – Just weeks before meeting Russian officials to celebrate how the Soviet Union liberated Finnmark from Nazi German occupation, Norwegian government officials made a concession to their neighbours. They won’t be going along with the US- and NATO-backed missile defense program after all.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
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