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The Hidden Military Use of 5G Technology
Manlio Dinucci | teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – While the earlier technologies were perfected to create ever more advanced smartphones, 5G is designed not only to improve their performance, but mainly to link digital systems which need enormous quantities of data in order to work automatically. The most important 5G applications will not be intended for civil use, but for the military domain.
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Corporate Media Silent on Journalists’ Letter Demanding Freedom for Julian Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
11 Dec 2019 – In a glaring act of political censorship, media corporations in the English-speaking world have maintained a complete silence on a powerful open letter by journalists and media workers issued last weekend demanding the unconditional freedom of Julian Assange. The blackout occurs under conditions where doctors have warned that Assange’s health has deteriorated to the point that he may die in Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison.
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Militarism: The Delusion Lives
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019 – The annual defense budget, passed recently by both the House (377-48) and Senate (82-8), came in at $738 billion for 2020, up from last year a sweet $22 billion. War hits the motherlode every year.
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(Français) À Gaza, un artiste sculpte dans la terre la souffrance des Palestiniens
Tomas Statius | Konbini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Des statues en terre cuite grandeur nature à Gaza incarnent la douleur et la souffrance des Palestiniens dans une zone abandonnée en raison des bombardements israéliens.
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Aung San Suu Kyi Appears at ICJ as UN Rights Expert Urges Greater Protection for Myanmar Activists
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – “I call on each and every organ of the Myanmar State to ensure that absolutely no reprisals are taken against any group or individual that is advocating for justice and accountability in Myanmar,” said the independent expert in a statement issued today, adding that those targeted include members of the Free Rohingya Coalition.
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Our Vanishing World (Part 5): Birds
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
In the nineteenth century, it is estimated that the total number of passenger pigeons in the United States was about three billion birds; it was one of the most abundant birds on Earth. In 1914 it was extinct. … This ongoing assault on birds is well documented in the scientific literature, along with descriptions of long-standing causes as well as those that are more recent.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
20 Dec 2019 – “The preliminary examination into the Situation in Palestine has concluded with the determination that all the statutory criteria under the Rome Statute for the opening of an investigation have been met”, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said, “I am satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation into the situation in Palestine”.
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Chelsea Manning Must Not Be Forgotten!
Eric London | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019 – Yesterday, December 17, whistleblower Chelsea Manning spent her 32nd birthday alone in a prison cell in Alexandria, Virginia, where she has been locked up for nine months for refusing to testify in a grand jury proceeding against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Christianity, Imperialism, Capitalism: Christian Dogma Should Be Questioned
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
This year as in every other year, Christianity and fundamentalist/military capitalism, two great allies, are joining their forces to extract billions of dollars, all over the world, mainly from the poor, as money flies towards the coffers of churches and into military and corporate accounts.
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From a Blessing to a Curse: How UN Resolution 2334 Accelerated Israel’s Colonization in the West Bank
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Three years ago, the UNSC passed Resolution 2334. Immediately after its adoption, Israel thumbed its nose at the whole world by announcing plans to construct thousands of new homes in illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Gone are the days of traditional American “peace-making” and its adjoining elaborate discourse centered on a two-state and other make-believe solutions. Now, Israel is single-handedly formulating its own “vision”.
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Sore Sports: Russia Barred from Olympics for Thwarting Washington’s Geopolitical Game Plan?
Robert Bridge | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – Clearly, the motivation here is to humiliate, provoke and punish Moscow by any means available – even on the field of dreams.
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Photo Essay: 2009 UN Climate Conference through the Lens of Mediators Beyond Borders
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – The 25th meeting of the Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 25, has just ended in Madrid. Ten years ago, I had the privilege of attending COP 15 in Copenhagen with Mediators Beyond Borders. 45,000 people registered. Delegates, negotiators, NGOs, press, and over 1000 youth participated in more than 2000 events over two weeks. Images below
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Should UN Peacekeepers Leave the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Ann Garrison | S. F. Bay Area – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – Since 1996 the history of DRC provinces has been of perpetual Rwandan and Ugandan invasion, occupation and resource plunder, and the UN Organization Stabilization Mission (MONUSCO) has failed to protect the people or the peace. I spoke to Jean-Claude Maswana about why and whether anything can be done. Maswana is a Congolese native and economics professor at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
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How Whales Sequester Tonnes of CO2: Our Secret Weapon against Climate Change
Terra Mater – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
A humpback whale is worth US $2 million. But can we put a figure on these giant marine mammals? A group of economists thinks so and it’s all to do with fighting climate change. We look in detail at how whales are contributing to saving the planet, and how we in turn need to start saving them.
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Terra Incognita
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Sitting dark and tight
In crepuscular light,
You pass the shuttered houses
That line the half-lit streets,
The Pentagon’s Disastrous Radioactive Waste Dump in the Drowning Marshall Islands is Leaking into the Pacific Ocean
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
19 Dec 2019 – Neither the Pentagon nor the US Government Will Take any Responsibility for the Crisis – An undesignated US SuperFund site in the middle of the Pacific that will be impossible to remediate even if the recalcitrant and bankrupt US government were inclined to do anything about it. These videos and images will help explain why the US corporate, political, military and religious elites must take responsibility.
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The Real Interest of the United States and Transnational Corporations in Latin America and the Caribbean
Enrique Moreno Gimeranez | Granma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – What are the real interests of the U.S. and corporations in the region? Freedom, democracy, human rights? No. Their goal is to preserve imperialist domination of our natural resources. Our America is again suffering escalating aggression by U.S. imperialism and local oligarchies.
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Terrorism: A False Threat
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
19 Dec 2019 – Is the threat of terrorism real? Or is it like the barking of a dog driving a herd? The threat of catastrophic climate change is very real indeed. The threat to future global food security is real too. Millions starve. Millions die yearly from preventable diseases. Millions die as a consequence of wars. Compared with these numbers, the total count of terrorist victims is vanishingly small. It is even invisible compared with the number of people killed yearly in automobile accidents.
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Three Cheers for the Cheerfully Deluded!
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Let’s hear three cheers for the cheerfully deluded! Instead of telling them that their dreams are very likely to be disappointed, let’s change the world to make it possible for more of their dreams to come true. Soul medicine. What is not possible in pure neoliberal markets is possible in impure African and Latin American markets. Public policies and human sympathy can rescue not only the bodies of the poor, but also the dignity of the poor.
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We’ve Been Epsteined! The Death of the “Conspiracy Theorist” Label
James Grundvig | Vaxxter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
The hairy canard of the CIA’s 1967 “conspiracy theorist” label died a thousand deaths when Epstein had his neck broken. With the murder of Jeffrey Epstein – only press lapdogs believe this narcissist committed suicide – the spin cycle has come to a full stop. The centrifuge is over. No more wet lies to be squeezed out of the bedsheets of pedophile rings or false flag events. I’m sure Epstein helped the hit squad turn off the hallway video cameras, too.
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Interesting Aspects of Onions
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Onions bring tears to the eyes of most people because of their pungent taste. But today they are bringing tears as a result of their escalating price. This simple item is part of the ingredients of the meals — both vegetarian and non vegetarian that are cooked in India and in many South Asian countries. The only people who do not use it in their meals belong to the faith of Jainism.
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13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
More Fluid Reflections on Keeping a Solid Center – On October 23, 2006, Brain Pickings was born as a plain-text email to seven friends. It was then, and continues to be, a labor of love and ledger of curiosity, although the mind and heart from which it sprang have changed — have grown, I hope — tremendously.
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Hope Lies in the Streets
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Global finance capital has seized control of the economies of most nation-states. The citizens watch, helplessly, as money and goods are transferred with little regulation across borders, as jobs in manufacturing and the professions are shipped to regions of the global south where most workers are paid a dollar or less an hour and receive no benefits, … Civil disobedience is the last tool we have to prevent corporate tyranny and save the planet.
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Oh Holy Night
HomeTown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Our Rendition for the Christmas Season
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Only the most extreme tribalism can explain labeling those who oppose Israel’s abusive treatment of the Palestinian people as ‘anti-Semites.’ We look upon Aung San Suu Kyi’s failure to condemn the Myanmar abuse of the Rohingya as casting the darkest of clouds over her Nobel Peace Prize. It is an insult to Jews and other Semites to allow Zionists to brand solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for their most basic rights as anti-Semitism.
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India’s Government Is Going to War against Its Own People
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019 – On December 13, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights released a powerful statement that criticized India’s new citizenship law. The UN said that not only does this law violate India’s obligations to conventions, treaties, and compacts that it has signed at the global level, but also that it is in violation of its own Constitution.
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Sackler-Owned Opioid Maker Pushes Overdose Treatment Abroad
Claire Galofaro and Kristen Gelineau | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Big Pharma Empire behind OxyContin Now Selling Overdose Cure – “You’re in the business of selling medicine that causes addiction and overdoses, and now you’re in the business of selling medicine that treats addiction and overdoses?” asked Dr. Andrew Kolodny, an outspoken critic of Purdue who has testified against the company in court. “That’s pretty clever, isn’t it?”
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One Third of Poorer Countries Face both Undernutrition and Obesity: WHO Report
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – With one in three low and middle-income countries facing the two extremes of malnutrition – undernutrition and obesity – the World Health Organization is calling for a new approach to deal with rapidly changing food systems.
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Keynes Was Wrong – Gen Z Will Have It Worse
Malcolm Harris | MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – The founder of macroeconomics predicted that capitalism would last for approximately 450 years. That’s the length of time between 1580, when Queen Elizabeth invested Spanish gold stolen by Francis Drake, and 2030, the year by which John Maynard Keynes assumed humanity would have solved the problem of our needs and moved on to higher concerns. Instead of never-ending progress, today’s kids face a world on the edge of collapse. What next?
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The Freedom of Lula
Fernando Ayala | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – Political earthquake and great boost for the progressive space of the continent. Lula is a national and continental leader in Latin America. His release has made President Bolsonaro and his justice minister very nervous, who declared: “The majority of the congress can change the law or the Constitution”, referring to the fact that they could re-imprison the former president.
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Peace Linguistics: Contributions of Peacelinguactivist Francisco Gomes de Matos
Jocelyn Wright | Humanising Language Teaching – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Even before the term peace linguistics was first formally defined in Crystal’s (1999) A Dictionary of Language, this distinguished applied linguist began giving workshops and presentations and publishing academic and creative works educating about and promoting peace. His contributions to this emerging field are noteworthy.
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The “Afghanistan Papers”: The Criminality and Disaster of a War Based upon Lies
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – The documents published by the Washington Post constitute a damning indictment of both major parties as well as the media for lying to the world for two decades. The Post obtained the raw interviews after a three-year Freedom of Information Act court battle. The Obama administration moved to classify the documents after the newspaper sought to obtain them.
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The Stubborn Persistence of the Military-Industrial State: The Pentagon Budget Still Rising, 40 Years Later
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – It is staggering the number of tax dollars that persistently go into what passes for national security in this country, i.e., subsidizing the U.S. military-industrial complex, year in, year out, at levels that should be (but aren’t) beyond belief. In 2019, Pentagon spending is actually higher than it was at the peak of either the Korean or Vietnam wars and may soon be twice the Cold War average.
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UK to Leave European Union at End of January after Johnson Passes Withdrawal Agreement
Robert Stevens | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – MPs have backed Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson Withdrawal Agreement Bill. MPs voted yesterday 358 to 234—a majority of 124. The massive majority vote was the first since Johnson defeated Labour by a landslide in last week’s general election.
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Congress Adopts Defense Bill That Creates Space Force
Joe Gould | Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019 ― Congress has approved a compromise defense policy bill that creates a new Space Force in exchange for establishing paid parental leave for federal workers, as part of $738 billion for the Pentagon for 2020. The Senate overwhelmingly approved the bill Tuesday, 82-8, just days after the House passed it, 377-48. The bill now goes to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature, and he has signaled he will sign the defense policy measure.
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In Final Hours, COP 25 Denounced as ‘Utter Failure’ as Deal Is Stripped of Ambition and US Refuses to Accept Liability for Climate Crisis
Julia Conley | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
14 Dec 2019 – After the talks on the Paris climate agreement went into overtime amid a stalled agreement on wealthy countries reducing their carbon emissions, civil society groups and scientists were shocked by the weak language that emerged from the late-night talks today. “The only thing more disastrous than the state of UN climate negotiations at COP 25 is the state of the global climate.”
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(Português) O Complô dos USA para Derrubar o Papa Francisco
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
7 dez 2019 – É importante que os católicos, os cristãos e pessoas interessadas em assuntos religiosos saibam da enorme e até perversa campanha articulada por multibilionários estadounidenses, ultraconsrevadores, junto com pessoas de dentro do Vaticano, ocupando altos cargos, interessados em distorcer suas doutrinas, criticar suas práticas pastorais e diretamente difamar a pessoa do Papa Francisco.
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US House Approves Bill for Record Military Spending
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The House of Representatives voted by a huge bipartisan majority, 377–48, to approve the largest US military spending bill in history, providing a record $738 billion for the US war machine. The National Defense Authorization Act passed with 188 Democrats and 189 Republicans supporting it.
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Arctic Report Card 2019: Extreme Ice Loss, Dying Species as Global Warming Worsens
Sabrina Shankman | Inside Climate News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – For indigenous communities on the Bering Sea, a way of life is at risk as climate change hits fish populations and ricochets through ecosystems. When dead salmon wash ashore along the coast, the problem is much bigger than dead fish. It’s a sign of deeper trouble cascading through the Arctic’s ecosystems.
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Hearing the Variety of Voices in Climate Change Discourse
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – Recognizing the Challenge of Soundscape Comprehension in Controversy and Emergency – Current discourse on any theme is readily recognized as characterized by distinctive “voices” and their associated “tones”. This could be recognized as the primary characteristic of discourse between political parties — between the right and the left — now variously held to be “poisonous” and “toxic”.
→ read full articleAung San Suu Kyi Defends Myanmar from Accusations of Genocide, at Top UN Court
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
11 Dec 2019 – Myanmar will have “no tolerance” for human rights abuses committed in Rakhine state and will prosecute the military, if war crimes have been committed there, Aung San Suu Kyi told the International Court of Justice, the UN’s main judicial body, today.
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Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize 2020 Deadline: 31 Jan
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Please Nominate for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize – The Nobel Peace Prize Watch – wishing the prize to confer the greatest benefit on mankind (Nobel´s own words) – offers advice and help to get the best candidates nominated and each year submits a screening of all known and qualified candidates to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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(Italiano) In ricordo di un’amica: Anna Bravo
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
9 Dicembre 2019 – Ieri è improvvisamente mancata Anna Bravo. E’ una tristissima notizia, che ci sorprende e ci addolora. Solo la scorsa settimana, aveva invece risposto positivamente all’invito di dialogare con Giuliano Pontara nel convegno Gandhi after Gandhi organizzato dall’Università di Torino, in occasione del centocinquantesimo anniversario della nascita del Mahatma. Anche per questo la notizia della sua morte improvvisa ci ha colpiti in modo particolare.
→ read full articleWhy Is the UK Registering Companies for Criminals?
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – Money laundering, sanctions-busting and fraud: This video is part of an OCCRP investigation into leaked data from Formations House, a London-based formation agent that has registered companies for international fraudsters, the former leader of the Swedish Hells Angels, and individuals with ties to the Italian mafia.
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Kashmir Is Heading to a Point of No Return
Naveed Mehmood Ahmad | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The crackdown on the mainstream leadership in Jammu and Kashmir and the inability of the present dispensation, to take into confidence the Abdullah’s and the Mufti’s, is deeply problematic. The political doctrine that has been operating in Kashmir since 1947 has now been challenged. A rudderless policy may lead Kashmiri politics to a point of no return, with Khalida Shah recently calling for unity amongst leaders, including the separatists.
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A Riddle
Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Say what?
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Hebron Plan Is Israel’s Reminder to Palestinians That Settler-Power Knows No Limits
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – With its plan for a new Hebron settlement, Israel has reminded Palestinians that there are no limits – military, legal, moral or diplomatic – to the settlers’ power. Israel will annex land where it chooses and deceptively refashion the resulting apartheid system as the rule of law.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – A new law in India which expedites citizenship for certain religious minorities has been criticized by the UN human rights office for being “fundamentally discriminatory in nature.” It gives priority to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians resident in India before 2014, but excludes Muslims.
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix participa de mais uma campanha pró-vegana
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
5 dez 2019 – Joaquin Phoenix está participando de mais uma campanha pró-vegana – desta vez da organização Veganuary, que convida a população a experimentar uma dieta à base de vegetais em janeiro. Ator vegano diz que podemos lutar contra a violência do sistema alimentar optando pelo veganismo.
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The End of Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of History
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Literature Laureate | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
4 Nov 2019 – For 40 years, elites in rich and poor countries alike promised that neoliberal policies would lead to faster economic growth, and that the benefits would trickle down so that everyone, including the poorest, would be better off. Now that the evidence is in, is it any wonder that trust in elites and confidence in democracy have plummeted?
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Reservation, Debate and Reality in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota and Mahadev Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – After the declaration of federal democratic republican state, the power structure has been shifted from central to local units. People were really excited. They believe they will get service delivery from their own places. However, because of their inexperience, they cannot materialize people expectation into action and service delivery has been affected.
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Stunning Images Show How Severe Drought Has Changed One of the World’s Largest Waterfalls
Adriana Navarro | MSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019 – Situated across the Zimbabwe and Zambia border, Victoria Falls is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. However, after several months of severe drought, the natural wonder has lost some of its signature majesty, transforming from a thundering cascade plummeting more than 300 feet to a mere whimper of its former grandeur. Photos taken in January and December 2019 show the stark contrast in the condition of the falls before and after the drought.
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Reconciling Ecological Imperatives and the Right to Food at a Time of Bio-Ethical Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Humanity faces an unprecedented challenge in the coming decades that threatens the foundations of life itself, and yet to date societal reactions have been disappointingly weak and evasive, aside from voices in the wilderness. Despite expertly documented studies from the most qualified climate scientists, the overall response of supposedly responsible political and economic elites has been tepid, escapist, and even denialist.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
If you’re looking for a treatise on the joys of love-making between consenting, autonomous adults, read no further. In fact, what follows quite the inverse, revealing an ongoing nightmare of child sexual violence that lurks just beneath the surface of our collective consciousness and has infected the highest circles of power. After all, who wants to think about such things? But ignoring them will not make them go away. Pedophilia, human trafficking, kiddie porn are terms that pop up here and there in news reports and local crime blotters.
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Paul Volcker’s Long Shadow
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called Paul Volcker “the most effective chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.” But while Volcker, who passed away Dec. 8 at age 92, probably did have the greatest historical impact of any Fed chairman, his legacy is, at best, controversial.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.
→ read full articleThe Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
The U.S./U.K./NATO propaganda outfit Bellingcat, like all effective war-promoting intelligence agency propaganda, needs the support of left-wing intellectuals to give it credence. The CIA recognized this in the 1950s and created multiple methods to get that support, which it has done effectively up to the present day. This left-wing support is necessary to control the thinking of the portion of the population that considers itself “educated” and in the know, who in turn pass on their compromised “knowledge” to others in a sophisticated game of mind control.”
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US Weaponizing Space in Bid to Launch Arms Race
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The US has utilized the 29-nation NATO alliance to rubber-stamp its criminal weaponization of space.
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The Book of Delights: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
“The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study… I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.”
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67 Pictures of Protest That Defined the Decade
Gabriel H. Sanchez | BuzzFeed News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
7 Dec 2019 – From #MeToo and Black Lives Matter to the Arab Spring and Hong Kong protests, here are the tremendous moments in activism that have defined this past decade.
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Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
8 Dec 2019 – Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in the UK and faces extradition to the USA and criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. WikiLeaks’ War Diaries provided evidence that the US government committed war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. We, journalists and journalistic organizations around the globe, express our grave concern for Mr Assange’s wellbeing, for his continued detention and for the draconian espionage charges. This case stands at the heart of the principle of free speech and free press.
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The Rape of India’s Soul
Jayati Ghosh | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – India’s rapid descent into xenophobia, violence, and irrationality. The government is keen to pass a new Citizenship Amendment Bill, which makes Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Parsi, or Christian refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan eligible for Indian citizenship. Muslims are excluded.
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(Français) Journalisme d’information et journalisme d’émotion
Philippe Stroot | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
9 Déc 2019 – Les 48e Assises de l’Union internationale de la presse francophone se sont réunies au Cameroun du 19 au 22 novembre. Plus de 300 journalistes et communicants d’une quarantaine de pays ont abordé le thème du journalisme d’information opposé au journalisme d’émotion, dans la foulée de la publication du livre d’Anne-Cécile Robert, Directrice des relations internationales du Monde diplomatique, intitulé « Stratégie de l’émotion ».
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Russia Banned from Next Olympics and World Cup Soccer
Brian Homewood and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
9 Dec 2019 – Russia was banned today from the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup. The World Anti-Doping Agency concluded that Moscow had planted fake evidence and deleted files linked to positive doping tests in laboratory data that could have helped identify drug cheats. If RUSADA appeals WADA’s punishment, the case will be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” – A Summary of the PNAC
Bette Stockbauer | PNAC Library & Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Blueprint of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony – Comparable to Hitler’s publication of Mein Kampf, ignored until the war was over.
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Massive Leak of Data Reveals Money-Hiding Secrets of Superrich—and This Is ‘Only the Beginning’
Eoin Higgins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – A massive trove of documents, data, and recorded phone calls show how British company Formations House works to hide money for the superrich, international fraudsters, the former leader of the Swedish Hells Angels, and the Italian mafia, with the first stories dropping today at midnight.
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(Castellano) Evo Morales: El Indio Fuera de Lugar
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
4 diciembre 2019 – Los dramáticos acontecimientos en Bolivia han seguido un guion imperial que los latinoamericanos empiezan a conocer bien: preparar el cambio de régimen de un gobierno considerado hostil a los intereses de los Estados Unidos (o mejor de las multinacionales norteamericanas). Lo hacen montando un plan doble: anular una victoria electoral “enemiga” y consolidar rápidamente el nuevo régimen que toma medidas que no son propias de un gobierno de transición.
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Europe’s Green Deal
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – The Green Deal announced by the European Commission is a demonstration of European social democracy at work. A mixed economy, combining markets, government regulation, the public sector, and civil society, will pursue a mixed strategy, combining public goals, public and private investments, and public support.
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Ela Gandhi on Nonviolence and the Mahatma, Her Grandfather
Clovis Community College – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
14 Oct 2019 – Nearly 300 students, staff, and community members gathered to listen to Ms. Ela Gandhi. Ms. Gandhi, a peace activist and granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, spoke about the power and peace and transformation in the 21st century.
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I Will Survive “Live” (Music Video of the Week)
Gloria Gaynor | PBS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Just kick back and ENJOY…
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A Game-Changer in the Fight against Ebola
Sarah Baldwin | Watson Institute, Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 -In modern medicine, physicians and health care practitioners tend to talk about treatments rather than cure. It’s a spectrum. For a disease that had 66 percent mortality that can now be decreased to as low as 10 or 15 percent if you get this treatment early, I have no problem calling that a cure.
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Inequality and Its Many Discontents
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
3 Dec 2019 – Much recent unrest, such as the ‘yellow-vest’ protests in France and the US ‘Abolish the Super-Rich’ campaign, is not against inequality per se, but reflects perceptions of changing inequalities. Most citizens resent when they are not only unacceptably high but also rising. Excessive inequality is widely seen as fundamentally unfair. Even President Obama described “dangerous and growing inequality” as “the defining challenge of our time”.
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(Français) Haïti : « Ce n’est pas une lutte contre le pouvoir ; c’est une lutte contre le système »
Frédéric Thomas interviewe Gilbert Mirambeau Jr. et Pascale Solages | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 décembre 2019 – Entretien avec Gilbert Mirambeau Jr. et Pascale Solages, figures centrales du groupe Nou pap dòmi [Nous ne dormons pas], l’un des fers de lance des manifestations actuelles en Haïti, réalisé à Port-au-Prince par Frédéric Thomas, chargé d’étude au CETRI.
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Comparative Study of Gandhi and Marx
Pragya Markandey | Hidayatullah University, Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
• Gandhian political thought
• Marxian political theory
• Similarities & dissimilarities
Proper Nutrition for Education
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
It is a well known fact that proper nutrition is essential especially for children’s bodily and mental development; otherwise they may become stunted and have difficulties in learning. Children also need to play and jump — activities that require balanced diet and nutrition.
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Stop the Hate
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Stop the racism, stop the hate
Start with your heart – never too late
At a world in turmoil we sadly wonder
Our duty and responsibility we ponder
What Social Model Are We Heading For? The World Bank’s ‘New Social Contract’
Francine Mestrum | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – In a recent report the World Bank proposes a ’New Social Contract’. After decades of structural adjustments, is it changing its discourse and its practices? This article tries to find out what the financial institution is really up to and whether the new approach can make a positive end to the neoliberal era.
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Move Over, Peak Oil. Scientists Say ‘Peak Livestock’ Must Arrive This Decade to Limit Global Heating
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – “If the livestock sector were to continue with business as usual,” experts warn, “this sector alone would account for 49% of the emissions budget for 1.5°C by 2030.”
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(Italiano) Anna Bravo, storica del sangue risparmiato
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
9 Dicembre 2019 – Nel rimpiangere di vivo cuore Anna Bravo, morta improvvisamente l’8 dicembre, trovo una delle sue parole che riassume bene la sua passione e la sua intelligente ricerca storica delle azioni di vita invece che di morte organizzata dalla guerra: «È un’idea malsana che quando c’è guerra c’è storia, quando c’è pace no. Il sangue risparmiato fa storia come il sangue versato».
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Sociological Problems—Post-Communism: Reload or Revert
Stephan E. Nikolov | Bulgarian Academy of Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Sociological Problems—Post-Communism: Reload or Revert–Case Studies from the Balkans and Central Asia, ed. Stephan E. Nikolov, Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Sociological Association, Vol./mom 51, 2019
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(Français) La fin du néo-libéralisme et la renaissance de l’histoire
Joseph Stiglitz | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
19 novembre 2019 – Pendant 40 ans, les élites des pays riches comme des pays pauvres ont promis que les politiques néolibérales mèneraient à une croissance économique plus rapide, dont les bénéfices ruisselleraient, de sorte que tous, y compris les plus pauvres, seraient mieux lotis. Maintenant que preuve est faite du contraire, faut-il s’étonner que la confiance dans les élites et dans la démocratie se soit effondrée ?
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(Français) Le Pape, la Religion et la Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
2 décembre 2019 – Les initiatives du pape sont particulièrement opportunes, car elles soutiennent ce lien entre le désarmement nucléaire et le développement durable et envoient ce message aux églises catholiques du monde entier et à leurs fidèles qui sont plus d’un milliard.
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Trump Was Right before He Did a 180: NATO Is Obsolete
Medea Benjamin | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
This Cold War relic shouldn’t be reconfigured to maintain U.S. domination in Europe, or to mobilize against Russia or China, or to launch new wars in space. It should not be expanded, but disbanded. Seventy years of militarism is more than enough.
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(Italiano) Pax Gandhiana: La Filosofia Politica del Mahatma Gandhi
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
In un mondo in cui gli studi prevalenti di pace e politica sono dominati da ciò che passa per realismo e ciò che passa per ordine mondiale, l’emerito studioso di Gandhi Anthony Parel ha derivato da un attento studio delle opera di Gandhi una filosofia politica che promette di essere alla lunga più realistica di quella/e dei cosiddetti realisti.
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Don’t Repeat US Military Occupation of Haiti
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019 – Advocating US military intervention and a US base in Haiti resurrects painful memories of the brutal US military invasion and occupation from 1915-1934. Ninety years ago, on 6 Dec 1929, US Marines killed many peasant farmers who were demonstrating against the occupation. A sculpture at the very spot to commemorate this massacre was destroyed within two months of its dedication in 1987.
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Beyond Macron’s Subversive NATO Comments: France’s Growing Unease with the Alliance
Hajnalka Vincze | Foreign Policy Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
26 Nov 2019 – Most European governments prefer discreet but concrete steps to appease the United States and to reinforce the U.S.-dominated Alliance. To Paris, this is utterly illogical. But as Robert Cooper had said precisely on the issue of EU autonomy: “The world does not proceed by logic. It proceeds by political choice.” In the French vision, the path of strategic autonomy and away from dependence on les Anglo-Saxons has not yet produced the expected results.
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Ocean Deoxygenation: Everyone’s Problem
Laffoley, D. and Baxter, J. M. | International Union for Conservation of Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
7 Dec 2019 – Abstract: The ocean represents 97% of the physical habitable space on the planet and is central to sustaining all life on Earth. Since 2000 significant and dedicated effort has been directed at raising awareness and understanding of the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions on the ocean. Carbon dioxide emitted by human activities is driving the ocean towards more acidic conditions. Ocean Deoxygenation: Everyone’s Problem–Causes, Impacts, Consequences and Solutions, Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 2019, 562 pp.
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(Português) Ecologia e Teologia da Libertação
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
4 dez 2019 – A Ecologia Integral e a Teologia da Libertação ambas partem de um grito. A ecologia do grito da Terra, dos seres vivos, dos ecossistemas agredidos pelo crescimento material ilimitado. A Teologia da libertação nasceu ao escutar o grito dos pobres econômicos, das classes exploradas, das culturas humilhadas, dos negros discriminados, das mulheres oprimidas pela cultura patriarcal, dos LGBT e portadores de necessidades especiais. Todos gritam por libertação.
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A Brave and Startling Truth
Maya Angelou – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
We, this people, on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through casual space
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns
To a destination where all signs tell us…
Europe Agonistes
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
If America in the late eighteenth century was born against others’ history, Western Europe in the mid-twentieth century succeeded in liberating itself from its own history.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
Moore’s Law: The growth of knowledge feeds on itself. The number of scientific papers published each year is increasing exponentially. This would be all to the good but because of institutional and cultural inertia the exponentially accelerating rate of technical innovation is threatening to shake human society to pieces. We need new global institutions of governance and new global ethics to match our new technology.
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NATO Splits Reveal Alliance Is Redundant
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019 – The 70th anniversary summit-turned-circus this week would seem to be a portent for NATO’s overdue redundancy.
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Millions Die in Congo while the UN ‘Keeps the Peace’
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – The UN Peacekeeping Mission has been in Congo for 20 years without protecting the people or the peace. “Rwanda is responsible for what is going wrong in the peace in Congo!”
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Joaquin Phoenix Is PETA’s 2019 Person of the Year: Kind and Committed
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
Standing in the spotlight doesn’t interest Joaquin Phoenix. As the buzz, critical acclaim, and Oscar talk surrounding his performance in Joker swirl, he’s been steadfastly ensuring that the spotlight is on what he cares about most deeply: animal liberation. His lifelong dedication to ending speciesism has brought him another award: He’s PETA’s 2019 Person of the Year.
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The Decline of Arab World: Leaders Who Could Not Lead
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
Once the Arabs were leaders in knowledge, creativity, science and human manifestation, progress and future-making; the Islamic civilization lasting for eight hundred years in Al-Andalucía, Spain. But when they replaced Islam, the power and core value of their advancements, with petro-dollar transitory economic prosperity, they failed to think intelligently and fell in disgrace and lost what was gained over the centuries.
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#29LEAKS: Inside a London Company Mill
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – What do a Swedish Hells Angels boss, an Iranian state oil company, the Italian mob, and a fake Gambian bank have in common? A company called Formations House at one of London’s most exclusive addresses. For years it has been a front for a vast back-office operation run out of Pakistan that have churned out some 400,000 companies around the globe.
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Seeing Beyond the Illusion
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
The first thing to understand is that it is better not to try to see what is beyond the illusion, but to know how to recognize the illusory nature itself. Then the Truth beyond the veil will reveal itself.
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Serena and Venus Williams Included in Top 11 World’s Best Vegan Athletes
Claudiu Pop | Tennis World Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
2 Dec 2019 – Both Serena and Venus Williams were featured in the world’s 11 most successful vegan athletes by Guinness World Records. Veganism has seen increasing popularity among sports figures like Novak Djokovic, Patrick Baboumian, Dana Glowacka, Nate Diaz, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lewis Hamilton and many more great examples.
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NATO’s Deep Political and Legal Crises: The 2-Percent Goal as Defence Illiteracy
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
The total regular UN budget for the year 2016-17 was US $ 5.6 billion. That is, NATO countries spend 185 times more on the military than all the world does on the UN. Do you find that sane and in accordance with the problems humanity need to solve? This author does not. I stand by the word madness. There exists no rational academic, empirical analysis and no theory that can explain NATO’s military expenditures as rational or in service of the common good of humankind.
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Capitalism & Robbery
Editorial | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – Bloomberg insists that we need to get our priorities straight: the economy comes before the earth, capitalism before nature. Yet, it is clear that we are faced with two irreversible crises: one threatening to destabilize the world capitalist economy, the other promising to destroy the planet as a home to humanity. Both represent the culmination of capitalist contradictions and point to the need to transform society. It is the coevolution of economic and ecological contradictions under global monopoly-finance capital that defines the crisis of our times.
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