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Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power
Michael E. Tigar | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

The “Justice Department” appears, by its very nature and practice, to appropriate “justice” as the exclusive property of the federal government. In his brilliantly acerbic collection of essays, Tigar reveals, deconstructs, and eviscerates mythologies surrounding the U.S. criminal justice system, racism, free expression, workers’ rights, and international human rights.

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The International Monetary Fund Flexes Its Muscles in Latin America
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

Thanks to the IMF, the pockets of the forgotten from Argentina to Mexico will suffer so that finance is left intact.

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Japan’s Abe Tells Putin He Won’t Let US Troops on Long-Disputed Islands if Russia Returns Them to Japan
Bill Bostock | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

16 Nov 2018 – Abe said: “This issue, which has existed for more than 70 years since the end of the war, will be solved by Putin and me, and not left for the next generation. President Putin and I completely shared that strong desire.” But the post-war agreement between Japan and the US could prove problematic, as the US can seek to build military bases in Japan due to the Japan-US Security Treaty and Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement.

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On My 88th Birthday: A Reflection
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

13 Nov 2018 – I post a poem that I wrote earlier today, and read at the end of my talk, perhaps a self-indulgent conceit on my part, but I share it here as a way of thanking so many friends near and far who sent me the most moving birthday greetings throughout the day, which made me feel that we who are supporting the Palestinian struggle are part of a growing community that will prevail at some point, and the two peoples now inhabiting Palestine can finally live in peace, and with dignity and equality.

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Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

“The institutionalization of the ‘Rwandan genocide’ has been the remarkable achievement of a propaganda system sustained by both public and private power. We’re told that the US failed to stop Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, so we’re now obliged to ‘intervene’ anytime and anywhere another genocide is underway.”

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Phil Ochs and the Crucifixion of President John F. Kennedy
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

Whatever the truth in this age of “not knowing,” I think his story is a parable for our times. Whenever you think you’re getting the straight scoop, think again, and then again. The CIA’s Operation Mockingbird is still singing its siren song to convince us that the crucifixion was a one-time event, when Phil knew otherwise, right from the start and right to the end. I think he tried to warn us and wouldn’t be silenced, even in death.

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Costs of Post-9/11 U.S. Wars to 2019: $5.9 Trillion
Neta C. Crawford | Watson Institute, Brown University - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

14 Nov 2018 -The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post-9/11 war veterans.

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Forced Return of Rohingya Crime against Humanity
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

15 Nov 1018 – From the Red Cross to the UN High Commission for Refugees, the world is screaming foul at the Bangladesh-Myanmar bilateral repatriation scheme scheduled to begin today. Red Cross’ Robert Mardini based in Myanmar told reporters that “we still believe that the conditions are not right for voluntary, safe, dignified returns …. Nobody can claim today that the security in Rakhine is so well established that people can return safely.”

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Donetsk-Luhansk-Ukraine-Russia: Another Round in a Frozen but Deadly Struggle
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

On 11 November, while French President Emmanuel Macron was warning the assembled heads of government in Paris on the dangers of the narrow nationalism which had led to the 1914-1918 war, people in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics of eastern Ukraine were voting in an effort to strengthen narrow nationalism. Since 2014, the eastern, largely Russian-speaking populations of eastern Ukraine have created two republics: Donetsk and Luhansk.

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Dairy Cows Blasted with Flame-Thrower
Vegan News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

Help spread the truth about meat & dairy. The old days of family farms are over. Today’s factories are cold, efficient money machines. That’s why we have this continual problem with abuse.

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(Italiano) La guerra per por fine alle guerre 100 anni dopo: valutazione e riorientamento della nostra resistenza alla guerra
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

L’autore e commentatore sociale britannico H.G. Wells ha forse coniato l’espressione che rese originariamente popolare la 1ª Guerra mondiale: La guerra che porrà fine alle guerre, secondo il titolo del suo libro basato su articoli scritti durante quel vasto conflitto militare. Por fine alla Guerra non è impossibile; tutt’altro, effettivamente. Ma ci vorrà una quantità fenomenale d’intelligente sforzo strategico, coraggio e dedizione.

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Multilingualism Today—Educational, Cultural, Historical Facets
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

Languages are not just a means of expression – written or oral but also have their distinctive features such as cultures, cuisines and histories. Languages had earlier evolved due to several factors – colonialization by powerful countries, interaction with other language and religious groups, trade and economic relations, and today due to the large scale globalization and the impact of internet and digitization that is taking place.

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(Português) A Realidade Por Trás dos Testes em Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

“O negócio de criação de macacos foi mais do que duplicado na última década”

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Abolish Militarism and War
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

Presented at the International Conference against US/NATO Military Bases, 16-18 Nov 2018, Dublin, Ireland – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization-NATO, which should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, continue to carry out wars and proxy wars in many countries pushing towards the borders of Russia and resurrecting a cold war between the East and West. I believe that NATO should be disbanded and should be made accountable and make restitutions to the millions of people in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and many others it has illegally attacked, invaded, destroyed.

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Cultural Imperialism: Linguistic Perversion and Obfuscation of Empire Building
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

12 Nov 2018 – In the contemporary world, western imperialist propagandists, particularly journalists and editors of the mass media, have resorted to perverting everyday concepts and the language of politics. The use and abuse of the language of politics has served to blame victims and to justify imperial aggressors. The consequences are multiple, both in legitimizing war crimes and economic plunder, as well as neutralizing domestic opposition.

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The Filter Bubble: Owen Jones and Con Coughlin
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

14 Nov 2018 – There is something dreamlike about the system of mass communication sometimes described as ‘mainstream media’. Why are defence editors, defence correspondents, diplomatic editors and the like so often biased in favour of the Western defence and diplomatic establishment they are covering? And why are they allowed to demonstrate this bias without anyone so much as commenting? The filter bubble ensures that these questions can never be asked, much less answered.

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Iran Honoring Nuclear Deal as New Sanctions Hit, IAEA Report Shows
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

12 Nov 2018 – Iran has continued to implement the main nuclear restrictions set by its 2015 deal with major powers even as the United States reimposed sanctions against Tehran, a U.N. atomic watchdog report showed today.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.

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Hymn for the Weekend (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

Kick back and simply enjoy…

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Sanctions as Collective Punishment
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

At present, we treat nations as though they were persons: We punish entire nations by sanctions, even when only the leaders are guilty, even though the burdens of the sanctions fall most heavily on the poorest and least guilty of the citizens, and even though sanctions often have the effect of uniting the citizens of a country behind the guilty leaders. Should we not regard sanctions as collective punishment? If we do so, then sanctions are a war crime, under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

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The Psychosocial Dimension of Power: An Emotional Analysis of the Davos Elite’s Discourse on Globalization
Mario D’Andreta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

I conducted an analysis of the globalization discourse of the World Economic Forum Board members by applying the methodological approach of Text Emotional Analysis’ Model of Collusion… On the basis of results, several intervention strategies can be proposed. Their implementation, however, requires an active and accountable involvement of all the interlocutors of the global elite.

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Burmese Activist Speaks Out for the Rohingya
Noriko Okada | NHK World Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

15 Nov 2018 – “Ask yourself, if you saw your wife raped and your father shot dead in front of your eyes, if your little 6-month old boy was burned alive in front of your eyes…would you like to be told that you need to go back?” Those are the words of Maung Zarni, leader of a global network of activists supporting the Rohingya refugees who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh.

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No Brainer
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

Stalin claimed he was the greatest philosopher of all times. In Moscow in the early 1950s, the following joke circulated among physicists, who have some disdain for chemists:

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Tchaikovsky on Depression and Finding Beauty amid the Wreckage of the Soul
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

“Life is beautiful in spite of everything! … There are many thorns, but the roses are there too.”

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Bachelet: Returning Rohingya Refugees to Myanmar Would Place Them at Serious Risk of Human Rights Violations
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

13 Nov 2018 – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today urged the Government of Bangladesh to halt plans for the repatriation of more than 2,200 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, warning that the returns would be in violation of international law and put their lives and freedom at serious risk.

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The New Abnormal
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

“Mass shootings and mass burnings. Welcome to the new America.” Gunfire and wildfire. This is a country at war with itself in multiple ways.

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(Italiano) “Nessuno si mise davanti a quei camion” ricorda Liliana Segre
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

La Memoria rende liberi. Contributo per la promozione del Convegno 1938-2018 Ottant’anni dalla promulgazione delle leggi razziali. La difesa della razza e la costruzione del nemico. Firenze 20 novembre 2018

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UNICEF Welcomes Bangladesh Statement That Rohingya Will Not Be Forced to Leave
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on Friday, 16 Nov, welcomed confirmation from the Bangladesh authorities that Rohingya refugees will not be returned to Myanmar against their will, amid reported ongoing rights violations there.

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Thanksgiving Revisited
TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

Happy Thanksgiving

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Argentina Goes Back to the IMF, Opening Floodgates for Neoliberal Intervention and Structural Adjustment
Tricontinental Institute for Social Research –TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

13 Nov 2018 – The negotiations with the IMF deepened Argentina’s crisis. The agreements between Macri and the IMF are part of a political intervention masquerading as economic policy. As long as there is a commitment to repay the massive debt to the IMF, it is international capital that will write Argentina’s economic policies—not the people—regardless of who sits in the presidential office.

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Memorial Prose Poem
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (29 May 1917 – 22 Nov 1963)
Remembering JFK: Voices from a Smoldering Grave . . .

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Confucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018

Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.

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(Italiano) Un mondo senza uccisioni del (l’Impero) USA?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

9 novembre 2018 – Un mondo senza uccisioni US sarebbe un grosso contributo a una pace negativa, al “mondo non omicida” di Glenn Paige; il suo paese, con o senza pena di morte, che smette di uccidere ovunque capiti. Sta arrivando. E in quanto a US e una pace positiva? Potrebbero meno uccisioni US contribuire anche a quello? Anche ciò è in arrivo, come mutamento della mentalità US.

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Statement by UN High Commissioner for Refugees on the Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees to Myanmar
UNHCR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

11 Nov 2018 – Before making a choice of whether to return or not, the refugees reportedly verified by Myanmar as having the right to return should be allowed to visit their places of origin in Rakhine State, or other places to which they might choose to return, so that they themselves can make an independent assessment of whether they feel they can return there in safety and dignity.

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(Italiano) Trascendere le regressioni nell’ordine mondiale
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

“In contrasto con i poteri governativo ed economico — del Principe e del Mercante — c’è un potere immediato e autonomo, talora evidente, talaltra latente: quello della gente. Alcuni ne sviluppano consapevolezza, si associano e agiscono con altri, divenendo così davvero cittadini. Essi e le loro associazioni, quando non cerchino il potere governativo o quello economico, costituiscono il Terzo Sistema”.

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(Français) Le silence des ONG et de l’ONU face au génocide au Yémen
Benallal Mohamed | Alter Info – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

Les arabo-sionistes abandonnent la Palestine pour en finir avec l’axe de la résistance.

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Veterans Day Reflection from 50 Years Ago
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

11 Nov 2018 – Looking back 50 years ago today, I learned two valuable lessons in nonviolence. In Nov 1968, I was teaching at St. Francis School in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. On Veterans Day, two other teachers and myself decided to picket the local Draft Board in protest of the escalating war in Vietnam. We made two strategic mistakes that day:

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42 NGOs Warn That Return of Refugees to Myanmar Now Would Be Dangerous and Premature
ReliefWeb – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

9 Nov 2018 – Humanitarian and civil society agencies working in Rakhine State in Myanmar and in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are deeply concerned that the repatriation of refugees will commence in mid-November. The UN has repeatedly stated that conditions in Myanmar are not conducive to return at this time. Refugees continue to flee Myanmar and facilitating repatriation now would be premature.

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Myanmar: UN Human Rights Expert Pleads for Rohingya Returns to Stop, Fears Repeat Abuses May Await
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

6 Nov 2018 – A UN human rights expert has implored Bangladesh to shelve plans to start repatriating Rohingya refugees to Rakhine State this month, saying the Myanmar Government had failed to provide guarantees they would not suffer the same persecution and horrific violence all over again.

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Concentration Camps for Kids: An Open Letter
Alberto Manguel, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, et al. | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

6 Nov 2018 – In Texas, in rows of yellow tents, some 1,600 children ages thirteen to seventeen forcefully taken from their families sleep in lined-up bunks. This generation will be remembered for having allowed for concentration camps for children to be built on “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” This is happening here and now, but not in our names.

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Swan Lake (Music Video of the Week)
Tchaikovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

Princess Odette and her companions have been turned into swans by the evil magician Baron von Rothbart. At night they change back to human form. Prince Siegfried meets Odette at the Lake and is captivated by her. She explains he must swear his undying love to break the spell. He is tricked by the Baron and the spell is now permanent. In the final act they decide to die together. The last minute is precious.

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Dozens of Rohingya Flee Camps by Boat, Reviving Memories of 2015 Tragedy
Ruma Paul and Poppy McPherson | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

8 Nov 2018 – Dozens of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Bangladesh have boarded boats to try to reach Malaysia, officials and aid workers said today, raising fears of a fresh wave of such dangerous voyages after a 2015 crackdown on people smugglers.

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Stop Saying ‘Migrant Caravan’: They’re Asylum Seekers Escaping a Conflict That the US Created
Kelli Korducki | Yahoo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

There is no migrant crisis. There is, however, a refugee crisis. That crisis is the effect of at least a half-century (and, arguably, twice that) of calamitous US political intervention in Central America, and not — as President Trump would have us believe — the inevitable byproduct of “bad hombres” who may as well be “animals.” US-funded military coups, resource exploitation, and American policies of economic neoliberalism in El Salvador have destabilized the entire region, and effectively created a climate where paramilitary-aligned drug cartels can thrive.

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Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon Is Elected the Best Album of All Time
Best Musics – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) was voted the best album of all time by Classic Rock readers.

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We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage
Christine Kenneally | BuzzFeed News Investigation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive. “If L was caught not paying attention, the nuns would take a needle and regularly prick his fingertips.” Some of the women recognized each other not by name but by number: Thirty-two! Fourteen!

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Central African Republic: Continuing Collapse – Local Peace Building Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

12 Nov 2018 – The continuing violence, refugee flows, internally displaced persons and the lack of government services is a good reminder of the difficulties of creating a functioning State with a top-down approach, especially one that begins by training a national army before there is a State to protect.

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(Italiano) Scuola e Cultura. Luogo e Mezzo per Combattere Chiusura, Pregiudizi e Inciviltà
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

La scuola è, per sua natura, il luogo dell’incontro e dell’educazione e a Riace rappresenta senza dubbio un nodo essenziale perché l’integrazione sia resa effettiva attraverso un processo formativo di crescita nella libertà, nel rispetto della dignità personale e della legalità. Italy, Lombardia, Brescia – sabato 10 novembre 2018

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U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Killed over Half a Million People: Study
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

The report published on 3 Nov 2018 by the Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the death toll between 480,000 and 507,000. It states that between 182,272 and 204,575 civilians have been killed in Iraq; 38,480 in Afghanistan; and 23,372 in Pakistan. Nearly 7,000 US troops were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period.

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Vandana Shiva on the Smallholder Farmers Who Feed the World
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Gaia Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

Opening of the We Feed the World exhibition in London, 11 Oct 2018.

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Exclusive: ‘Can’t Eat, Can’t Sleep’ – Rohingya on Myanmar Repatriation List
Ruma Paul | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

9 Nov 2018 – “I can hardly sleep at night for fear of getting forcibly repatriated. Since the time I heard that my name is on the list I can’t even eat,” says Amin, 35, who has four daughters, a wife and sister with him in Bangladesh. “Why are they sending us back? They may as well throw us into the sea.”

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The Fuehrer Princip (Principle): When Fascism Was/Is Ascendant in the World
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

When naive people are in trouble and go looking for someone to solve their problems for them, they often get bamboozled by cunning, politically-motivated con men… Adolf Hitler, ever since the 11/11/1918 Armistice that ended WWI, had long been part of the segment of the population that had been justifiably outraged by the terms of the massively unfair Treaty of Versailles.

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Trump Regime Imposes New Illegal Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

6 Nov 2018 – Cuba isn’t a US enemy as explained under the 1917 Trading with the Enemy Act. Neither country declared war on the other. The same applies to Venezuela, Nicaragua, Iran and other countries illegally sanctioned by Washington. Yet the same policies persist. On Thursday [1 Nov], John Bolton announced them on Havana and Caracas.

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The Pentagon’s Cunning Plot to Militarize the Economy
William D. Hartung | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

8 Nov 2018 – Given his erratic behavior, from daily Twitter eruptions to upping his tally of lies by the hour, it’s hard to think of Donald Trump as a man with a plan. But in at least one area — reshaping the economy to serve the needs of the military-industrial complex — he’s (gasp!) a socialist in the making.

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Curse of the Gypsies (Parts 1 to 3)
Open Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

This History Channel documentary tells the story of how linguists traced the historical roots and true origin of the Gypsies back to their original homeland looking at the history of the Roma culture over the last thousand years.

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U.S.A. Participation in World War One
Charles F. Howlett, Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace | U.S. Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

A deep analysis into the origins of U.S. involvement in WWI unpacking President Woodrow Wilson’s idealistic justifications for entering it and charting the efforts of European and U.S. peace advocates. It is written for the general public and students, synthesizing the work of many historians.

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Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight
Aleksandar Hemon | Literary Hub – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

The Problem with Civility – “Only those safe from fascism and its practices are likely to think that there might be a benefit in exchanging ideas with fascists.”

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Crucifying Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | Truthdig - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

12 Nov 2018 – The media’s refusal to defend the WikiLeaks publisher is a betrayal of press freedom.

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Dad’s Profession?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

It was the first day of school and the teacher thought she would get to know the kids by asking their names and what their fathers did for a living.

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Israel Settlers Dump Sewage on Palestinian School in Qalqiliya
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

2 Nov 2018 – Israeli settlers dumped their sewage on a Palestinian school in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqilia yesterday. The Azzun Beit Amin School playground was flooded with sewage for the second time in two months as a result of the settlers’ actions. Principal Alaa Marabeh said it would take more than ten days for the sewage water to dry and this has caused a foul smell to spread across the school building and risks damaging the students’ health.

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The Troika of Tyranny: The Imperialist Project in Latin America and Its Epigones
Roger Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are today threatened by US imperialism. The first salvo of the modern Age of Imperialism started back in 1898 when the US seized Cuba along with Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the Spanish-American War. The Age of Imperialism is characterized by the competition of the various imperial powers for dominance. That inter-imperialist rivalry led to World War I.

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International Crime Gangs Amass ‘Staggering’ Profits in Conflict Zones, Expert Tells Security Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

7 Nov 2018 – During yesterday’s briefing to the Security Council, Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, described the problem as a “global and accelerating phenomenon, and a threat to international peace and security,” that, in conflict areas alone, is generating around $31.5 billion in illicit profits.

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(Português) Como Tolstói Influenciou o Vegetarianismo na Rússia
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

“O vegetarianismo, desde que não tenha a saúde como objeto, está sempre associado a um alto ponto de vista moral”.

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Brazil’s Far Right President to Close Palestinian Embassy as Israel Hails His Victory
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

1 Nov 2018 – “Is Palestine a country? Palestine is not a country, so there should be no embassy here,” said Jair Bolsonaro, who won the national election on Sunday [28 Oct]. The right-wing political outsider, who has been portrayed in the West as a far-right nationalist with authoritarian tendencies and fascist inclinations, said: “We do not negotiate with terrorists.”

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Plagued by War and Famine, Yemen Is ‘No Longer a Functioning State,’ Journalist Warns
Terry Gross | U.S. National Public Radio - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

Gross writes: “Famine and water shortages are endemic throughout Yemen.”

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How Leo Tolstoy Found His Purpose: The Beloved Author on Personal Growth and the Meaning of Human Existence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

So I too shall be safe in taking for the aim of my existence a conscious striving for the universal development of everything existent. I should be the unhappiest of mortals if I could not find a purpose for my life, and a purpose at once universal and useful… Wherefore henceforth all my life must be a constant, active striving for that one purpose.

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The War to End War 100 Years On: An Evaluation and Reorientation of our Resistance to War
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

British author and social commentator H.G. Wells may have coined the expression that originally popularized World War I as The War that Will End War, as his book, based on articles written during that vast military conflict, was titled. Ending war is not impossible. Far from it, in fact. But it is going to take a phenomenal amount of intelligent strategic effort, courage and commitment.

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Every Bite of Burger Boosts Harmful Greenhouse Gases: UN Environment Agency
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

8 Nov 2018 – Even though meat production is known to be a major contributor to climate change and environmental destruction, worldwide demand for meat continues to rise, said UN environment agency, UNEP, in a statement released today.

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(Italiano) L’orribile Inno Nazionale Italiano
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

Riascoltando l’orribile Inno di Mameli (1847), inno nazionale italiano, mi sono ricordato che, anni fa, l’ho riscritto armonizzandolo con la Costituzione e con una mentalità di pace, nello stesso stile buffo del testo tradizionale, ma senza le sue violenze e brutture. Ecco qui:

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A Mother‘s Plea to Save Her Son… Held 8 Years without Charges by UK Government
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

On Nov 3, Christine Assange, mother of Julian Assange, made a deeply moving video with a public appeal to save the life of her son. She says Julian is in immediate critical danger, all alone, sick, and cut off from all contacts including computer, phone, and mail. He deserves all our admiration and gratitude for his courage and bravery in truth telling. He is an inspiration to us all.

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How to Be a Reliable ‘Mainstream’ Journalist
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

8 Nov 2018 – There are certain rules you need to follow as a journalist if you are going to demonstrate to your editors, and the media owners who employ you, that you can be trusted. Being a reliable ‘mainstream’ journalist entails: propagating the myth that ‘we’ are the good guys; conforming to the requirements of wealth and power; keeping one’s head down and never challenging authority; and refraining from any public discussion about these rules.

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Victory of Light over Darkness: The Indian Festival of Diwali
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

Diwali or Dipavali (Sanskrit for a row of lamps) is one of the most popular festivals in the Indian month of Kartik — in the solar calendar, between October and mid November on new moon night. The festival signifies victory of Light over Darkness as well as good over evil. The world needs such occasions in this violence-prone troubled contemporary times.

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As the Empire Crashes
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

2 Nov 2018 – As the American empire begins to crash, capitalism becomes desperate and takes off its gloves. We see its fist; all of the characteristics of the culture of war carried to extreme. In fact, that is the simple nature of fascism, the culture of war carried to extreme. Trump in the USA, Erdogan in Turkey, now Bolsonaro in Brazil. The capitalists finance their campaigns in a desperate effort to protect their wealth.

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Global Compact Enabling Complicity in the Ultimate Crime against Humanity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

5 Nov 2018 – Institutionalizing Global Myopia in Anticipation of Excessive Population Growth – Produced in anticipation of the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (Marrakech, 2018)

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Fly on the Wall
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

‘Wish I could be a fly on the wall when X and Y meet one-on-one’. This is an ardent – and not very uncommon – wish among those who must know ‘what is really going on in the world’. But last night a truly mind-boggling event occurred! Your humble correspondent had his ‘fly on the wall’ wish fulfilled! Naturally, what this particular ‘fly on the wall’ witnessed must be reported forthwith – as being of utmost and paramount significance to the future of mankind. Accordingly, this is your mind-boggled correspondent reporting, much more reliably than CNN:

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(Castellano) La psicología del fascismo
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

El continuo aumento del fascismo en todo el mundo está atrayendo cada vez más la atención, sobre todo porque se necesita un mayor control dentro de las sociedades nacionales que durante mucho tiempo se ha visto que lo han rechazado. Algunos estudios recientes nos han recordado las características de los movimientos e individuos fascistas, particularmente cuando se manifiestan entre fascistas políticamente activos.

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(Português) Considerações sobre Hitler e sua ascensão
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

A principal arma de Hitler para ganhar a confiança da população foi a propaganda nazista que se apresentava como uma terceira via e fez uma grande parcela dos alemães considerarem os judeus como inimigos, mas não a princípio com a tentativa de relegá-los como inferiores, como faria mais tarde, mas sim como representantes de algo que, segundo Hitler, estava destruindo o país – os comunistas e os capitalistas.

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Why Do Myanmar Public Hate Rohingya So Much?
Dr. Maung Zarni | Japan National Press Club – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

25 Oct 2018 – During the Q and A at the National Press Club of Japan, the country’s ruling class venue, a Japanese reporter asked me this question in English. She had been to Burma and said she found difficult to understand the palpable and pervasive hatred that Burmese public display towards Rohingyas.

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UN Investigator Says Myanmar Genocide against Rohingya ‘Ongoing’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

25 Oct 2018 – Genocide continues to take place against Muslim-majority Rohingya in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating it has no interest in establishing a fully functioning democracy. UN Security Council urged to take action as ‘most severe’ repression continues.

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A World without US (Empire) Killing?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

A world without US killing would be a major contribution to negative peace, to Glenn Paige’s “non-killing world”. His own country with or without death penalty stopping killing all over. It is coming. What about US and positive peace? Could less US killing also contribute to that? It is also coming, as a change in US mentality. There are many signs in that direction recently, as an expression of Washington now seeing the limits to “politics by military means”.

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Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.

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Pakistan Blasphemy Death Sentence Overturned: A One-time Event or a Trend toward Justice?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

1 Nov 2018 – On 29 October 2018, the Supreme Court of Pakistan reversed the decision of lower courts sentencing to death Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of four for blasphemy. After 3,422 days of imprisonment in solitary confinement, the Supreme Court reversed a 2010 lower court verdict. Asia Bibi is now in seclusion and will probably leave the country as some 60 persons in Pakistan have been murdered since 1990, accused of blasphemy. Her case had drawn attention in Pakistan.

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(Português) Brasil: Grande Frente de Valores Ético-Sociais
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

1 nov 2018 – Estamos vivendo tempos política e socialmente dramáticos. Nunca se viu em nossa história ódio e raiva tão difundidos, principalmente através das mídias sociais. Foi eleito para presidente uma figura amedrontadora que encarnou a dimensão de sombra e do recalcado de nossa história. Ele contaminou boa parte de seus eleitores. Essa figura conseguiu trazer à tona o dia-bólico (que separa e divide) que sempre acompanha o sim-bólico (o que une e congrega) de uma forma tão avassaladora que o dia-bólico inundou a consciência de muitos e enfraqueceu o sim-bólico a ponto de dividir famílias, romper com amigos e liberar a violência verbal e também física.

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Light and Luminosity: The Moon and the Sun in Our Lives
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

During the night, we have moonlight— not as bright as the Sun but soothing and refreshing to us human beings. On a full moon day, the Moon shines brightly and gives us a sense of peace and tranquility. Again on Amavasya (New Moon, when it is visible only in a semi-circumference shape), we feel somewhat forlorn and our sages and religious persons have asked us to be vigilant and sober on that day.

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Will Saudi Arabia Survive Unchanged after Jamal Khashoggi?
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

3 Nov 2018 – Puzzling is the furore caused in Washington and many European capitals kept on the boil by mainstream media suggesting that this incident will not go away without costing Saudi Arabia dear. So, what could be the aftermath of the Khashoggi murder on Saudi Arabia? Top of the list of possibilities is regime change.

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Do the Math
Submitted by Robin Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

A father left 17 camels as inheritance for his three sons. When he passed away, his sons read the will.

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Peace Education: Pedagogy of the Middle Class
Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

When I visited Paulo Freire at his Geneva office in 1975, I asked whether someone like me, concerned about justice issues, ought to leave my comfortable setting with the middle class in Hawai‘i and instead pick up a rifle and join the rebels in Latin America. (It was a hypothetical question.) Without hesitation, he said there are justice issues around you. Do the work where you are. Bloom where you are planted.

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‘101 Years since Balfour, Palestinians Have Not Let Go of Their Rights’
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

2 Nov 2018 – “Although it has been 101 years since the promise was made, the will of the Palestinians has not died down and generation after generation, they have not forgotten their rights and will not let go of their right to their lands,” the forum said in a statement.

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The Roma Community in Romania
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

A CNN team documented the situation of Roma communities in Romania. Depicting tragic life stories, it highlights the public authorities’ failure in tackling Roma marginalization.

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Second Wave of US Sanctions on Iran Starts Today
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

5 Nov 2018 – The US will reimpose today more sanctions lifted under a 2015 nuclear pact world powers struck with Iran. The new wave of sanctions, the second since August, will target Iran’s energy, shipbuilding, shipping, and financial sectors. In all, eight countries will receive temporary waivers to allow them to continue importing Iranian oil after the penalties take effect. The European Union is not one of the recipients, according to Pompeo.

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The Thin Line between Liberalism and Totalitarianism
Helena Rosenblatt | Literary Hub, Princeton University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

29 Oct 2018 – That liberalism owes something to totalitarianism would strike most people today as counter-intuitive, if not preposterous. How could a political belief system so dedicated to the protection of individual rights be indebted to its very opposite? – The 20th-Century Reinvention of a Political Idea

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The Biofuels Deception: Going Hungry on the Green Carbon Diet
Okbazghi Yohannes | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

There is by now no question among informed people that the Earth is undergoing severe climate change—soon to become catastrophic, if humans don’t take drastic measures to stop it. Heroically into the fray steps the biofuel industry, announcing to millions of anxious consumers that this eco-crisis can be averted if only they turn away from fossil fuels, to the saving power of synthetic bioproducts. But, although eliminating fossil fuels is essential, the manufacture of biofuels has far more to do with sating profit-hungry corporations than with saving the Earth.

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Free Rohingya Coalition Condemns Premature Repatriation of Rohingyas
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

1 Nov 2018 – The Free Rohingya Coalition is deeply troubled by yesterday’s announcement by Bangladesh and Myanmar that both countries will begin repatriating Rohingyas in mid-November. We are extremely disturbed that the Government of Bangladesh might be prepared to resort to the unconscionable and internationally illegal practices that characterized previous waves of repatriation.

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro: A Monster Engineered by Our Media
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

30 Oct 2018 – Social media and fake news are apparently the reasons Bolsonaro won at the ballot box. Without the gatekeepers in place to limit access to the “free press” the rabble has supposedly been freed to give expression to their innate bigotry. This is now the default consensus of the corporate media, whether in its rightwing incarnations or of the variety posing on the liberal-left end of the spectrum like the Guardian. The people are stupid, and we need to be protected from their base instincts. Social media, it is claimed, has unleashed humanity’s id.

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Grandchildren
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like:

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UN Rights Chief Warns of Potential ‘Witch-Hunt’ as Tanzanian Official Plans to Track and Arrest LGBT People
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

2 Nov 2018 – Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed apprehension today over a statement earlier this week that a committee would soon be put in place to track and arrest gays, and to encourage member of the public to report people suspected of being gay.

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The Seafloor Is Dissolving Because of Climate Change
Caroline Haskins | Motherboard – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

1 Nov 2018 – According to a new study, ocean acidification is setting off a dangerous feedback loop that’s dissolving the very bottom of the ocean. Carbon emissions are acidifying the ocean so quickly that the seafloor is disintegrating.

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Deported Rohingya Men Didn’t Get Myanmar Citizenship as India Claimed and the Supreme Court Believed
Abhishek Dey | Scroll.in – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

Myanmar has issued national verification cards to the seven men deported by India on October 4, which can only get them citizenship if a 1982 law is amended.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11 Nov 1821 – 9 Feb 1881)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time, he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.

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Eugene Victor Debs (5 Nov 1855 – 20 Oct 1926): An Early U.S. Socialist Voice
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

With the increasingly high profile of Senator Bernie Sanders in U.S. politics, the term “Democratic Socialist” has become increasingly used. Thus, it is useful to look at the first person on the U.S. political scene to represent the term.

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More Than 90% of the World’s Children Breathe Toxic Air Every Day
World Health Organization – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

29 Oct 2018 – Every day around 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 years (1.8 billion children), breathe air that is so polluted it puts their health and development at serious risk. Tragically, many of them die: WHO estimates that in 2016, 600,000 children died from acute lower respiratory infections caused by polluted air.

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