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MH17 Turnabout: Ukraine’s Guilt Now Proven
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
31 Dec 2018 – Finally, a clear and convincing — and unrefuted — case can now be presented to the public, as to precisely whom the guilty party was, that downed the MH17 Malaysian airliner over Ukraine on 17 July 2014, and why it was done. The complete case, which will be fully documented here, displays unequivocally who needed the MH17 murders (of 298 persons) to be perpetrated.
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Afghanistan in 2019: Fewer US Troops, More CIA Torture and Killings
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
7 Jan 2019
3 Jan 2019 – Perhaps it’s just another sign of American psychic numbing, but the Times story seems to have provoked little response from other media, from politicians of any stripe, or from the public. More American war crimes in some Muslim country? Well, Happy New Year!
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Mairead Maguire Nominates Julian Assange for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
7 Jan 2019 – Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire wrote today to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating Julian Assange, Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Ms. Maguire wrote:
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UNESCO Should Cry No Tears over Israel’s Departure
Dr Daud Abdullah – Middle East Monitor,
7 Jan 2019
2 Jan 2018 – There will be no tears now Israel and the USA have withdrawn from the UNESCO. Both countries have undermined the organisation’s credibility and brought it into disrepute – UNESCO will be better off without them.
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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Leeds Beckett University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
Dr Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, political correspondent for Sky News and Sydney correspondent for the Independent, is the director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney and one of the most published authors in the field of Peace Journalism.
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(Português) Uma Ameaça Crescente à Vida Selvagem: Eletrocussão
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
5 jan 2019 – A África do Sul é um país de fazendas, reservas e parques nacionais, muitos deles cercados por quilômetros de cercas elétricas. O bloqueio impede a entrada de animais e humanos indesejados e protege o gado e a vida selvagem que ali habita mas também tem um efeito colateral letal: ela mata pequenos animais, particularmente pássaros e répteis, primatas, girafas , elefantes africanos , leopardos , búfalos e rinocerontes brancos.
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Carl Rogers (8 Jan 1902 – 4 Feb 1987): Healing the Person and the State
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
Carl Ransom Rogers was a US psychologist and educator and a leading figure of what is often called “the third wave of psychology.” The first wave was Freud and Jung and their views of psychoanalysis. The second wave was the behaviorists symbolized by B.F. Skinner. The third wave, often called “humanist”, has Abraham Maslow, Rollo May, and Carl Rogers as its best known figures.
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No Food, No Medicine and Little Hope: The Many Challenges Rohingyas Face
Osburn Oracle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
1 Jan 2019 – Significant progress has been made in protecting hundreds of thousands Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh since they fled violence in Myanmar, but lives “will once again be at risk” if funding is not urgently secured, United Nations officials have said on the eve of the first anniversary of a military crackdown that forced them to flee their country.
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A Global Prayer for PEACE
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
For Peace on Earth
Let’s pray every day
Within Hours of Taking Office, Brazil’s “Trump of the Tropics” Starts Assault on the Amazon
Andy Rowell | Oil Change International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
3 Jan 2019 – Within hours of taking office on 1 Jan, the Trump of the Tropics, aka the new President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, launched an all-out assault against the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous communities yesterday, potentially paving the way for large scale deforestation by agricultural, mining and oil companies.
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Giuliani Says Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted
Joe Lauria – Consortium News,
7 Jan 2019
31 Dec 2018 – Donald Trump’s lawyer said today that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange should not be prosecuted and he compared WikiLeaks publications to the Pentagon Papers.
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Nuclear War and Me: Annihilation Inscribed Across Time and Place
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
Time awaits Poet T.S. Elliot’s prophetic words! And who would be left to affirm Elliot’s insights amidst a nuclear “wasteland?” Why T.S. Elliot’s claim of a “whimper?” “Whimper!” “Whimper” murmurs! Whimper is subdued, timorous, surrender, like a final gasp! “Whimper” a sound preceding silence! I imagined myself “whimpering” in a final surge of life. Annihilation!
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A Call for Review of the Historical Facts Surrounding UNGA Resolution That Recognized Self-Government for Hawaii
Pōkā Laenui, Kioni Dudley, Leon Kaulahao Siu and Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
A careful review of the case will reveal that the General Assembly adopted Resolution 1469 under false premises, on the basis of false and incomplete information provided by the United States of America, relying on representations that were tainted by grave material and procedural irregularities surrounding the fraudulent referendum on Hawaii’s entry into the United States as a State, which amounted to an act of annexation. Because the referendum was fundamentally flawed, the resolution based thereon must be deemed null and void.
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Anti-nuclear Message from India
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
25 Dec 2018 – To put it tersely, nuclear things are getting out of hand. And we need to reinvigorate all the various national, regional and international anti-nuclear groups and movements here and now. We all need to discuss the nuclear issues more earnestly and devise clear strategies to create a nuclear-free world. Looking forward to hearing more from you on these issues, I send you my best personal regards and all peaceful wishes. Happy Holidays!
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In Praise of the Syria Withdrawal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
29 Dec 2018 – Trump’s withdrawal of American troops from Syria that defied the bipartisan consensus that has shaped U.S. foreign policy since 1945 poses the biggest challenge to the Trump presidency, especially as it shook Israel’s confidence and coincides with woes of Wall Street. In coming weeks it should become clear whether the American version of the deep state remains asleep or perceives this ‘watershed moment’ as the opportunity to restore confidence in the pre-Trump version of world order.
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In Rare Move, Indian State to Return Unused Land to Farmers
Rina Chandran | Thomson Reuters Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
26 Dec 2018 – Farmers in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh are getting back land that was taken from them more than a decade ago by the government because it was not used, a rare move in a country riven by conflict over land. About 660 disputes over land have stalled hundreds of projects and forced millions of people from their farms across India, say experts.
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Syria: Trump Pulling Out
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – Suppressing the independence and sovereignty of the Syrian nation — and not combating terrorism – was the real reason behind the active intervention and involvement of numerous actors from within and without the region in the 7-year Syrian conflict. Simply put, the aim was to oust Bashar, the protector of Syrian sovereignty, to achieve regime change in pursuit of the US-Israeli agenda of perpetuating their hegemony. Trump realised even before he became President that he would not be able to achieve this. Hence, his troop withdrawal.
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2018: A Year of Living Dangerously
Hamid Dabashi – Al Jazeera,
31 Dec 2018
31 Dec 2018 – A multitude of man-made disasters marked 2018 on the Christian calendar. If we cannot change the world we live in, we can at least shift the consciousness of our lives we have forgotten. Imagine a world in which Jewish, Islamic, Chinese, Iranian or any other calendar were more meaningful measures of our daily lives in the unique way they arranged the world and our place in the universe.
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(Português) Crueldade animal é denominador comum entre assassinos e estupradores
Yasmin Ribeiro - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
31 Dec 2018
Estatísticas apresentadas pelo governo dos Estados Unidos mostram que centenas de criminosos têm um histórico de crimes de crueldade animal na infância.
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A Major Win for the Whales
Captain Paul Watson | Sea Shepherd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
27 Dec 2018 – Despite bribing nations and insidious tactics, the proposal by Japan to overturn the 31-year moratorium on commercial whaling has failed by a vote of 41 to 27 with 2 abstentions. Following yesterday’s most welcome Florianopolis Declaration, this defeat of the Japanese Proposal has made the 67th meeting of the International Whaling Commission an awesome historical event for the world’s whales.
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10 Good Things about 2018
Medea Benjamin – Common Deams,
31 Dec 2018
29 Dec 2018 – Yes, you could say I’m trying to put lipstick on a pig. 2018 was a year of whiplash, a never-ending series of assaults on our environment, immigrants, people of color, Muslims, Jews, the poor, international law. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, and here are some rousing points of light from 2018, both domestic and international.
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Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
28 Dec 2018 – The pros and cons of a UBI are hotly debated and have been discussed elsewhere. The point here is to show that it could actually be funded year after year without driving up taxes or prices. New money is continually being added to the money supply, but it is added as debt created privately by banks.
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Merry Palestinian Christmas!
Sabaaneh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
Jesus was born here… like these children
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The Ironies of a Successful U.S./China Policy
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
Remarks to the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations, New York, 18 Dec 2018 – Three days ago, we celebrated the fortieth anniversary of Jimmy Carter’s and Deng Xiaoping’s politically courageous decision to normalize relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. I have been involved in our relations with China in one way or another for fifty years.
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Uyghur Dispersion and Detention in China – Worse Than We Thought
Gu Qi and Li Zaili | Bitter Winter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
18 Dec 2018 – New details about the detention of Uyghurs in China expose a ruthless state using inhuman methods – including torture – to wipe out a culture.
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White Helmets: ‘Organ Traders, Terrorists, Looters’
Miri Wood - Syria News,
31 Dec 2018
23 Dec 2018 – The White Helmets fraud responders should have received massive MSM reporting this week, based on the seminar given by the Permanent Missions of the Russian Federation and Syrian Arab Republic, on Thursday 20 December.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant strides backwards while passing up endless opportunities to make a positive difference in our world. Let me, very briefly, identify some of the more crucial backward steps.
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Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power
Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
19 Dec 2018 – Among so many questions and circumstances that are intermingled in the world, one of the most significant processes is the concentration of wealth and decisional power. Elitist forces influence in such a way that almost every national economic system and, of course, the global functioning have adjusted, and to a great extent subordinated, to serve the interests of these elites, the dominators of the world and countries’ course.
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Clarification
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
President George W. Bush was on a state visit in England. As he stepped off the plane onto the red carpet, he was greeted by the Queen.
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Socialism Is for Humanity
Adam J Sacks – Jacobin Magazine,
31 Dec 2018
The ultimate aim of socialism is as simple as it is beautiful: the freeing of all people from domination, replacing stunted dreams and alienation with human flourishing and boundless creativity.
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Britain Bans Puppy and Kitten Sales by Pet Shops
France24 | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
25 Dec 2018 – Britain is forbidding puppies and kittens from being sold by pet shops in a bid to crack down on animal exploitation and abuse.
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The Man Who Lives without Money
Amanda Froelich | True Activist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
“If someone told me seven years ago, in my final year of a business and economics degree, that I’d now be living without money, I’d have probably choked on my microwaved ready meal.”
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(Português) A crueldade da “farra do boi”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
Proibida no Brasil há mais de 20 anos, a “farra do boi” ainda continua a ser realizada em Santa Catarina.
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Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans? A Look at the Available Evidence
Adam Frank – The Atlantic,
31 Dec 2018
Given that all direct evidence would be long gone after many millions of years, what kinds of evidence might then still exist? The best way to answer this question is to figure out what evidence we’d leave behind if human civilization collapsed at its current stage of development.
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Why Does the World Store Nuclear Waste and Not Just Shoot It into the Sun or Deep Space?
Alice Gorman – The Conversation,
31 Dec 2018
23 Dec 2018 – It would be nice to blast dangerous nuclear waste far away from Earth, or into the Sun where it won’t cause any harm. However, it’s not as simple as it sounds.
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Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
Stan Shabaz | Zinda Magazine – Assyrian International News Agency,
31 Dec 2018
His most famous work, The Prophet, was first published in 1923. He has been described in many ways: “melancholic romantic”, “existentialist of the right wing”, Nietzschean rebel, revolutionary, renegade, poet-philosopher, “the William Blake of the twentieth century”, the “Lebanese prophet of New York”, a “burning genius”, etc. But who was he really?
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Angkor Wat: City of the God Kings
Timeline - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
Timeline-World History Documentaries travels to the 900-year-old remains of Angkor Wat in the Cambodian jungle–the staggering City of the God Kings.
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Israel Arrested 5,700 Palestinians, 980 Children in 2018
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
29 Dec 2018 – Israel arrested 5,700 Palestinians in 2018, including 980 children and 175 women, the Palestine Prisoners’ Centre for Studies announced yesterday. The Israeli occupation continued its violations against Palestinian prisoners in clear violation of international law, Quds Net News reported.
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Israel Demolished 538 Homes, Facilities in West Bank in 2018
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
29 Dec 2018 – Israel demolished 538 Palestinian homes and facilities across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem in 2018, leaving 1,300 Palestinians and 225 children homeless. These demolitions were carried out in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and other international laws.
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Russia Won’t Support Any UN Move to Pressure Myanmar
Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
27 Dec 2018 – Russia has reiterated its position to resolve Rohingya crisis through “bilateral negotiations” saying it will not support any resolution in the UNSC to put pressure on Myanmar engaging the UN.
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What’s Behind U.S. Troop Withdrawals Announced for Syria and Afghanistan?
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – The announced withdrawal of the remaining 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria and a partial withdrawal from Afghanistan does not mean an end to the Pentagon’s aggressive militarism and endless U.S. wars. The U.S. military has 170,000 troops stationed outside the U.S. in 150 countries, in more than 800 overseas bases. Nearly 40,000 are assigned to classified missions in locations that Washington refuses to even disclose.
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Nuremberg Principles
Schulberg Productions – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
On November 21, 1947, one year after the end of the first Nuremberg trial (IMT), the United Nations passed General Assembly Resolution 177 in order to codify the so-called “Nuremberg Principles.” The original language reads:
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Dec. 26, 1862: Mass Execution of Dakota Indians
Zinn Education Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
On Dec. 26, 1862, 38 Dakota Indians were executed by the U.S. government during the U.S. Dakota War of 1862 (also known as the Sioux Uprising, Dakota Uprising).
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How It Seems to Me
Ursula K. Le Guin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
In the vast abyss before time, self
is not, and soul commingles
Is Seventy-Five the Beginning of Babyhood?
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
Victor Hugo the great French novelist of the nineteenth century had once written, “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.” Why is seventy-five being referred to as becoming a baby again?
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Continued Debate over the Crime of Aggression: A Supreme International Irony
Donald M. Ferencz | Harvard Int’l Law Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
Notwithstanding the fact that it took the U.N. only seventy-one days to affirm aggression as a customary law offense, today, almost seventy-one years later, it remains a crime in legal limbo. Though the International Criminal Court (ICC) is technically vested with jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, it is, as yet, powerless to exercise such jurisdiction.
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New Cold War & Looming Threats: Interview with John Pilger
Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M. – Frontline,
31 Dec 2018
John Pilger, investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, talks about the U.S.’ aggression in the Asia-Pacific region and the decline of its global dominance and says that a “new Cold War beckons isolation for the U.S. and danger for the rest of us”.
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A Small Dark Light: The Legacy of the Tao Te Ching and What It Continues to Teach Us about Personal and Political Power 2,500 Years Later
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
“It is the profound modesty of the language that offers what so many people for so many centuries have found in this book: a pure apprehension of the mystery of which we are part.”
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TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
Virtuoso
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The War in Afghanistan Isn’t a ‘Stalemate.’ The U.S. Has Lost
Andrew J. Bacevich – Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec 2018
19 Dec 2018 – With the sole exception of Vietnam, the ongoing Afghanistan war represents the greatest failure in U.S. military history. Today, all but a few diehards understand that Vietnam was a debacle of epic proportions. With Afghanistan, it’s different: In both political and military circles, the urge to dodge the truth remains strong.
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U.S. Limits on Coal Plant Mercury Emissions Too Costly: Trump’s EPA
Humeyra Pamuk | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
28 Dec 2018 – The Trump administration today said limits on mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants were unnecessary as they were too costly, sparking an outcry from environmentalists who feared the next step would be looser rules favoring the coal industry at the expense of public health.
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Cracks Found in Containment Building of UAE Nuclear Power Plant Built by S. Korean Companies
Choi Ha-yan | The Hankyoreh [South Korea] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
17 Dec 2018 – There may be cracks in the containment building at the third unit at the Barakah nuclear power plant that South Korean companies are building in the United Arab Emirates. The grease inserted into the concrete walls as a lubricant has seeped into voids on the outside of the wall.
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Engaging with Elusive Connectivity and Coherence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Global Comprehension as a Mistaken Quest for Closure
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Hacking Nuclear Weapon Systems: A New Weakness in Nuclear Deterrence Theory
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
There are many ways a nuclear attack could be initiated. These include the four “Ms” of Malice, Madness, Mistake and Miscalculation. Of these ways of initiating a nuclear attack, only malice could possibly be inhibited by nuclear deterrence (fear of nuclear retaliation), and such an inhibition from attack would not be reliable due to psychological and communication issues that are required for nuclear deterrence to be effective.
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A Shift: Repudiating War on Yemen
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
The Horror of the Yemen War Is Changing Minds At Last
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Can Yemen Be Saved?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
23 Dec 2018 – The people of Yemen have been experiencing devastating civil strife for several years. This ordeal was greatly intensive by a massive and sustained Saudi-led air attacks and other belligerent tactics that have targeted civilians, even hospitals. Several recent events hint at the possibility of restoring peace to the country, thereby averting the worst effects of a threatened mass famine, risks starvation for more than 75% of Yemen’s population of over 22 million.
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Computer Love?
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
My computer knows me
better than I know me!
It knows my in’s and it knows my out’s.
Knows my subterfuges, knots and doubts.
Year-End Letter for 2018
S.P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
22 Dec 2018 – Our big and beautiful Planet Earth that can be likened to an airplane with limited resources has been literally hijacked by the nuclear state terrorists. I, for one, tend to think and feel that nuclearism is the single largest threat humanity faces today. And hence struggling for a nuclear-free world is a top priority task for us all. Nuclear deals, Uranium mining, nuclear reactors, radioactive waste dumps, atomic bombs and Fascist doomsday arrogance are all sides of the same killer cube.
→ read full articleABC of Human Nature: Angst, Boredom, Creativity
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Human beings are creative unlike most animals (except a few) that survive on instinct. But what boosts creativity — the urge to do something beyond living, surviving?
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They Rescued Pigs and Turkeys from Factory Farms — and Now Face Decades in Prison
Leighton Akio Woodhouse, Pedro Armando Aparicio and David Zlutnick – The Intercept,
24 Dec 2018
23 Dec 2018 – Direct Action Everywhere engages in a practice called “open rescue.” Open rescue involves entering, without authorization, the facilities of animal-based industries, such as farms, slaughterhouses, and puppy mills, documenting the conditions within them, and removing as many animals as possible, usually from among the sick and injured. The activists don’t wear masks and make no effort to conceal their identities; they post the videos on social media for the world to see. By practically inviting prosecution, the activists aim to make a point: that the laws that regard these animals as mere property are wrong and that violating those laws is a moral imperative.
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Inside Banksy’s The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
We check in to Banksy’s bizarre Palestinian hotel, where the hospitality is as peculiar as the message is powerful.
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TED Talks, London Business School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Radhanath Swami has been a Bhakti Yoga practitioner for more than 40 years, and is one of today’s most beloved and respected spiritual teachers. He is a guide, community builder, activist, and acclaimed author. Rooted in his study of ancient India’s mystic devotional, Radhanath’s message is simple: by cultivating a genuine practice of service, we can become instruments of compassion and agents of sustainable change in the world.
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Veterans For Peace Statement on Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Syria
Veterans For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – Veterans For Peace is pleased to hear that President Trump has ordered a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, where they had no legal right to be in the first place. Whatever the reasoning, withdrawing U.S. troops is the right thing to do.
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Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Continue reading…
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It’s the Brain-altering Drugs, Stupid: Addictive Opioids, SSRIs, Anti-psychotics, Benzodiazepines and Suicidality
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
19 Dec 2018 – The high rates of suicide among patients studied might suggest an “iceberg effect” in the general population. The numbers that come to light under the close scrutiny of the clinical trial situation indicate the extent to which attempted and completed suicides are concealed or mislabeled in the community.
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Syria – Tell Me It Ain’t So
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
22 Dec 2018 – It is daunting to find polite words for describing American foreign policy- such is its incoherence. Purpose is obscure, logic is invisible. There is no approximation to orderly process – in thought, in deliberation, in decision. These truths have been highlighted by Trump’s stated intention to withdraw (some) American troops from Syria – and by the reaction to it. The harsh reality that it is not the White House alone that lacks anything resembling a strategy in the Middle East. That holds for their critics, too, both inside and outside the government.
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Socialism or Barbarism in Brazil, According to Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Beverly Goldberg and Francesc Badia i Dalmases | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
17 Dec 2018 – What Francis Fukuyama called the ‘end of history’ after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the fight between the left and the right in the post-Cold War world, and the triumph of liberal democracy, lost its relevance thirty years later. One of the most influential modern thinkers that has positioned himself against this idea of the end of history is Portuguese sociologist, Boaventura de Sousa Santos.
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This Radical Plan to Fund the ‘Green New Deal’ Just Might Work
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
17 Dec 2018 – With what Naomi Klein calls “galloping momentum,” the “Green New Deal” promoted by newly-elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appears to be forging a political pathway for solving all of the ills of society and the planet in one fell swoop.
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Xi Jinping’s Speech on 40th Anniversary of China’s Reforms, Opening Up–Full Text
China News Service | Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Analysis/Highlights by Xinhua
16 Charts by the Singapore Strait Times
– 18 Dec 2018 – Comrades, friends:
A Spiritual Special Ops Team’s Christmas Gift
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – “It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning, they shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid general applause from all the wits, who believe that it is a joke.” — Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
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In the Shadow of the Bomb: Poems of Survival
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
This is the third book of poetry by David Krieger I am reviewing. The first, Wake Up, was a warning call; the second, Portraits: Peacemakers, Warmongers and People Between, etched the personalities of doers and their deeds; and in the latest, In the Shadow of the Bomb, Krieger confronts us with the naked reality of The Bomb. The questions he raises are: What is the value of poetry in the face of weapons of mass annihilation? Can poems awaken us to the dangers of the Nuclear Age?
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The Truth about Israel, Boycotts, and BDS
Mehdi Hasan - The Intercept,
24 Dec 2018
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are the first members of US Congress to support the BDS Movement. Mehdi Hasan debunks some of the controversies surrounding BDS.
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Whose Child Is This?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Whose Child is This? Whose child is this? Is this child an Iraqi . . . an Israeli . . . a Chechnyan . . . an Afghani . . . a Kurd . . . a Nigerian? Is she or he English, Indonesian, Spanish, Lebanese, Turkish, Congolese, Bosnian, Persian? Does it matter? Is this child not a daughter or son to each of us?
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(Português) Sem o consumo de carnes e laticínios, uso de terra poderia diminuir em mais de 75%
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
17 dez 2018 – Um estudo intitulado “Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers”, publicado na conceituada revista Science, afirma que se a humanidade abdicasse do consumo de carnes e de laticínios, o uso de terra para fins agrícolas poderia diminuir em mais de 75% – o equivalente as áreas dos Estados Unidos, China, União Europeia e Austrália.
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The Good and the Bad in the New Peace Agreement on Yemen
Osamah Al-Rawhani – Al Jazeera,
24 Dec 2018
19 Dec 2018 – More than two years after talks between the internationally recognised Yemeni government and the armed Houthi movement collapsed in Kuwait, the two warring sides finally sat down for another round of negotiations. The Stockholm Agreement marks a much-needed breakthrough but there are major issues with its provisions.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
A father told his son, “Never go to a nightclub!”
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Point of No Return: Erasing the Rohingya
Poppy McPherson, Simon Lewis, Thu Thu Aung, Shoon Naing and Zeba Siddiqui | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
18 Dec 2018 – Having fled waves of violence, more than 900,000 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority now languish in refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. A Reuters investigation has found the Myanmar government is taking steps that threaten to make the purge of the Rohingya permanent.
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‘Combat Proven’: Israel’s Thriving War Business in Europe
Romana Rubeo & Ramzy Baroud – Al Jazeera,
24 Dec 2018
Europe is increasingly sharing Israel’s racist approach to border security and adopting its deadly technologies.
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What Is the Significance of Considering Colonial Settlers as “Local Residents”?
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
21 Dec 2018 – On the one hand, settlers are “Israeli citizens”, but above that “the pioneers and the vanguard of the completion of the Zionist project”. The Israeli government says with full mouth that it is no longer satisfied with its control within the 1948 borders, but it wanted to claim and apply the right to all of Palestine. There is no longer any difference between what is happening in the Negev and what is going on in Jerusalem and the West Bank in this context.
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Back to the Old Path and Returning to
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
I was entered
Into the mythical cave
A lit up lamp
Gandhian Nonviolence Philosophy for Peace and Social Harmony
Subhash Chandra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Nonviolence
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Thoreau on Nature as Prayer
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
“In the street and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would in the least redeem it — dining with the Governor or a member of Congress!! But alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even on a black and, to most, cheerless day, like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that the cold and solitude are friends of mine.”
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(Português) Explosões sísmicas no oceano Atlântico ameaçam baleias em extinção
Mariana Duque - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
24 Dec 2018
21 dez 2018 – Ambientalistas da Caroline do Sul processaram o governo federal na semana passada para evitar explosões sísmicas de ar comprimido. O processo, extremamente barulhento e perigoso, é usado para procurar depósitos de petróleo e gás nas profundezas do oceano, o primeiro passo em direção à perfuração offshore.
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Where Can the Anger Go?
Carolyn Coe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
23 Dec 2018 – Writing from Kabul, Carolyn Coe describes experiences of frustration, outbreaks of rage and efforts to cope.
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‘Homo Implacatus’
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Living Economics – It may be noted that Homo Implacatus–the latter word meaning ‘discontented’–is a more suitable name for the species which has wrongly been named Homo Sapiens. A corollary of the above argument is that excessive economic inequality in human society is wasteful in a biological sense.
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Jeremy Scahill’s Top 10 Takeaways on Mattis Exit and Possible US Withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan
Jessica Corbett – Common Dreams,
24 Dec 2018
“This is an opportunity for progressive forces to assert an alternative vision for U.S. foreign policy.”
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Birth Anniversary of Woodrow Wilson
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born 28 December 1856 in Virginia. His father was his first teacher of writing style. “When you frame a sentence, shoot with a single bullet and hit that one thing alone”.
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Oh Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Il Divo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Il Divo with Katherine Jenkins – Merry Christmas!
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Japan to Withdraw from International Whaling Commission in Bid to Resume Commercial Whaling: Sources
Kyodo – The Japan Times,
24 Dec 2018
20 Dec 2018 – Japan has decided to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission in a bid to resume commercial whaling for the first time in 30 years, government sources said today. However, the government is considering allowing commercial whalers to operate only in seas near Japan and in its exclusive economic zone, the sources added.
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Meanwhile, at the US-Mexico Border
Latuff – MintPress News,
24 Dec 2018
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Whatever that means…
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Should We Engineer the Climate? A Social Scientist and Natural Scientist Discuss
Rob Bellamy and Matthew Watson – The Conversation,
24 Dec 2018
17 Dec 2018 – Nations may soon be desperate enough about global warming to consider deliberately engineering the world’s climate.
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Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
15 Dec 2018 – Like the “forever war” in Afghanistan, will we be having the same discussion over the indefinite occupation of Syria stretching two decades from now? A new unusually frank assessment in Stars and Stripes bluntly lays out the basic facts concerning the White House decision to “stay the course” until the war’s close.
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(Português) A tolice do Anti-globalismo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
9 dez 2018 – Está ocorrendo pelo mundo afora uma onda anti-globalista. Talvez haja poucas coisas mais regressivas e disparatadas no mundo atual do que esta. Por que se trata de um disparate dos mais insensatos? Porque vai diretamente contra a lógica do processo histórico irrefreável. Alcançamos um patamar novo da história da Terra e da Humanidade.
→ read full articleWinter Solstice: “The Day of the Longest Night . . .”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
I write in awe and reverence of Time! I write with respect for ancients pursuing mastery and control of Time’s mysterious cycles, determining life and lives. On “The Day of the Longest Night,” today calendarized as December 21, uncertainty of light’s return once brought chants, prayers, and sacrifices. Shrines, columns, and monuments were erected to map the past… So, let it be written . . . so, let it be sung . . . So let us honor, Time!
→ read full articleCoordination of Wing Deployment and Folding in Politics
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
13 Dec 2018 | Bird Flight and Landing as Complementary Metaphors of Global Strategic Coherence | Produced on the occasion of the unexpected riots of the Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vests”) throughout France, with images of Paris in flames, symbolically paralleled by a UN Climate Change Summit to implement the Paris Agreement .
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You Have NO Choice
George Carlin | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
George Carlin (12 May 1937 – 22 June 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. This quote is taken from his last stand up routine, “Life Is Worth Losing” (2005).
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(Français) Haiti : Crise et Solution
Fanmi Lavalas | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Il existe une grave crise dans la société haïtienne contemporaine, dans laquelle les masses de notre peuple s’opposent à une oligarchie déterminée à perpétuer un système d’exclusion.
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(Italiano) I Rohingya a Montecitorio
Emanuele Giordana | Lettera22 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Le prove raccolte dal Tribunale Permanente dei Popoli andranno all’Aja alla Corte penale internazionale.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
The voice of the marginalised sections of people is being ignored by the modern democratic world with its neoliberal capitalist order that is concerned with profit-making and not about increasing social and economic disparities and disorder.
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Fanmi Lavalas | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
There is a grave crisis in contemporary Haitian society, in which the masses of our people are opposing an oligarchy determined to perpetuate a system of exclusion.
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