Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Wave – Tom Jobim (Music Video of the Week)
José André Jazz Trío – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
He is just nine years old… and blind. Jazz prodigy José André Montano Baina takes Bolivia and the world music scene by storm.
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Free Rohingya Coalition Statement on Canada’s Unprecedented Official Declaration of Myanmar’s Crimes against Rohingyas as Genocide
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
20 Sep 2018 – The Free Rohingya Coalition wholeheartedly welcome the motion in the Canadian House of Commons that with a rare unanimity declared Myanmar’s crimes against Rohingya people a genocide.
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Singing National Anthems–Or Protesting against Them
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Most countries have national anthems or songs that are sung on official functions of the country — Independence Day, Republic Day, at international sports events, etc.
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(Português) Jumentos, uma vida de exploração que agora termina no matadouro
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
21 set 2018 – Hoje, caminha-se para um novo nível de objetificação desnecessária de mais uma espécie animal. O jumento já não é apenas um animal explorado como meio de mão de obra, mas também reduzido a fonte de alimento.
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US Expels Palestinian Ambassador, Freezes Family Bank Account
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
17 Sep 2018 – The United States, in yet another attempt to force the hand of Palestinians, expelled the Palestinian Ambassador to the U.S. Husam Zomlot. The family’s bank account has also been frozen. This came few days after the U.S. State Department ordered the closure of Palestine Liberation Organization’s embassy in Washington.
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Johan Galtung: US Empire Will Collapse and Become a Dictatorship
Geopolitics & Empire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
The founder of peace and conflict studies, Dr. Johan Galtung, discusses his predictions of the US Empire collapsing and becoming a dictatorship, before eventually rebuilding the republic’s democracy.
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Idlib Deal Could Save Three Million ‘from Catastrophe’ Says UN Chief, as Militants Are Urged to Lay Down Arms
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
20 Sep 2018 – A deal reached between Russia and Turkey to create a demilitarized buffer zone protecting citizens “from catastrophe” in Syria’s Idlib region is a welcome development, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said today, before urging all parties to make a “strong commitment” to it.
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Wake Up!
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
The alarm is sounding.
Can you hear it?
Can you hear the bells
of Nagasaki
ringing out for peace?
Why Israel Demolishes: Khan Al-Ahmar as Representation of Greater Genocide
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
19 Sep 2018 – Like vultures, Israeli soldiers descended on Khan Al-Ahmar, on Sep. 14, recreating a menacing scene with which the residents of this small Palestinian village, located East of Jerusalem, are all-too-familiar. The strategic location of Khan Al-Ahmar makes the story behind the imminent Israeli demolition of the peaceful village unique amid the ongoing destruction of Palestinian homes and lives throughout besieged Gaza and Occupied West Bank.
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Northern Ireland: Squandering a Future
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
I want to challenge everyone to look at their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews and question: how big is their division? Gone are the days of fear and threat. So where does the problem lie? I believe the problem lies in the older generations who have suffered terribly on all sides through violence and fear. My generation has a responsibility not to restrain the youth by our bigotry and division.
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(Castellano) Educación Moral para el Cambio Estructural
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Se proponen tres principios educativos respaldados por hallazgos científicos para orientar la educación moral: la comprensión, la participación, y la empatía. Tomando como ejemplo la ‘trampa estructural’ por la cual la buena intención de cumplir con los DDHH sociales, como la salud, termina desincentivando la inversión económica, se sugiere que la buena y masiva educación moral es capaz de facilitar la resolución de obstáculos estructurales que traban las soluciones a los problemas sociales y ecológicos
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(Português) Um problema nunca resolvido: o sofrimento dos inocentes
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
14 Set 2018 – Sejamos sinceros: até hoje não identificamos nenhuma resposta satisfatória por mais que grandes nomes, desde Agostinho, Tomás de Aquino, Leibnitz até Gustavo Gutiérrez entre nós, tentassem elaborar uma teodicéia, quer dizer, um esforço de não ligar Deus ao sofrimento humano. A culpa estaria apenas do nosso lado. Mas em vão, pois o sofrimento continua e a pergunta permanece irrespondível.
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Why We Are Blind to the System Destroying Us
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
15 Sep 2018 – I rarely use this blog to tell readers what they should believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe.
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Assam: Preventive Diplomacy Needed to Protect Bengali-speaking Muslims
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
22 Sep 2018 – Potentially, the people of northeast India are sitting atop of a smoldering volcano to erupt into catastrophic suffering. The violence would target Bengali-speaking Muslims on the pattern of the Rohingya of Myanmar (Burma). Preventive diplomacy is not restricted to the UN or national government officials. Non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and the media can all play a role.
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Trade Tariffs & Sanctions
Mr. Online – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
An Exercise in Backfiring…
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(မြန်မာ Burmese) ကုလသမဂၢ လြတ္လပ္ေသာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အခ်က္အလက္ရွာေဖြေရးမစ္ရွင္ ၏သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္။
UN Information Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – Today, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar have released in Burmese their report on human rights violations and abuses committed in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine States.
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21 September – International Day of Peace
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
2018 Theme: “The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70”
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(Português) “Ilegítimo” e “perigoso”: EUA ameaçam juízes do Tribunal Penal Internacional
Jornal Económico | Lusa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
11 set 2’018 – “Se o Tribunal for contra nós, Israel ou outros aliados, não ficaremos calados”, afirmou John Bolton, conselheiro de segurança nacional dos EUA, no seu primeiro discurso formal desde que chegou ao cargo, em abril passado. Os Estados Unidos, acrescentou, “proibirão a entrada de juízes e procuradores” no território nacional.
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(Français) Education aux médias et théories du complot: des capsules difficiles à avaler
Michèle Janss | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – Le centre de ressources en communication et éducation aux médias en Communauté Française de Belgique a créé 14 capsules vidéo destinées à aider les enseignants dans l’éducation aux médias et aux théories du complot. Pensant y trouver une abondante documentation, j’ai très vite abandonné l’idée d’utiliser cet outil.
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(Português) O Golpe de Pinochet Contra Allende no Chile: Uma Virada Internacional
Osvaldo A. Coggiola | Jornal da USP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
10 set 2018 – A 11 de setembro de 1973, as Forças Armadas chilenas, encabeçadas pelo general Augusto Pinochet, derrubaram mediante a força o governo socialista no Chile. A queda e morte de Salvador Allende foi a ‘dobradiça’ entre duas etapas da história da esquerda internacional. A última delas já entrou, como se sabe, em forte crise, que ainda não desfraldou todas as suas contradições e potencialidades, dramáticas no caso brasileiro.
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(Français) Le renversement d’Allende au Chili, raconté par Washington
Hernando Calvo Ospina | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Le 11 septembre 1973, Salvador Allende, président démocratiquement élu du Chili, mourait pendant un coup d’État militaire ourdi et financé depuis les États-Unis. La répression fit 3 800 morts ou disparus (évaluation minimale) et plus de 37 000 torturés. Des centaines de milliers de Chiliens furent contraints à l’exil. Une aube noire se leva sur le Chili de Pinochet…
→ read full articleEconomy and Living Standards of Gaza ‘Eviscerated’ by Crippling Blockade – UN Trade and Development Report
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
12 Sep 2018 – The Occupied Palestinian Territory now suffers the highest unemployment rate in the world, with incomes and agricultural production going down, the United Nations trade and development agency said today, noting that women and young people were worst affected, as the Israeli occupation continues.
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Blockades ‘Expose’ the Innocent to the ‘Ravages of Economic War’ – UN Sanctions Expert Warns
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy pointed out today that civilians affected by blockades do not benefit from the protection of the Geneva Convention, which is aimed at safeguarding civilians during wartime. Economic sanctions must not be allowed to degenerate into blockades that “expose people to the ravages of economic war in peacetime.”
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Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
14 Sep 2018 – Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could. They can create money at will, and they have declared their “independence” from government. They have become rogue players in a game of their own.
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Decoding the Pipes/Trump/Kushner ‘Deal of the Century’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
True, Oslo diplomacy was a failure that worked to the political benefit of Israel, and was rightly abandoned. But the Trump response to this failure amount to the criminalization of diplomacy that violates the most basic precepts of international law, as spelled out in the UN Charter. It amounts to waging an aggressive war against a vulnerable and helpless people. If the UN and the leading governments watch this dismal spectacle in stony silence it can only be fervently hoped that the peoples of the world will recognize the need for radical reform to avoid a catastrophic future, not just for the Palestinians, but for all of humanity.
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Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
The Trump administration announced Monday [10 Sep] that it would retaliate against the International Criminal Court, a judicial panel established under the auspices of the UN, if the ICC took any action against US military or civilian officials over charges of war crimes in Afghanistan. The announcement was made by National Security Advisor John Bolton.
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Honourable Theft
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
17 Sep 2018 – Never underestimate the power of one determined person. What Carole Cadwalladr has done to Facebook and Big Data and Edward Snowden has done to the state security complex, the young Kazakhstani scientist Alexandra Elbakyan has done to the multi-billion dollar industry that traps knowledge behind paywalls. Her pirate webscraper service, Sci-hub, has done more than any government to tackle one of the biggest rip-offs of the modern era: the capture of research that should belong to us all.
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Things to Remember about Chile’s Sept. 11, 1973 Coup
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Thousands of Chileans were subsequently tortured, disappeared, jailed and killed by the military dictatorship.
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Myanmar, the Country Where Facebook Posts Whipped Up Hate
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Decades of ethnic and religious tensions, a sudden explosion of internet access, and a company that had trouble identifying and removing the most hateful posts.
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Sabra and Shatila: New Revelations
Seth Anziska | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
17 Sep 2018 – Sifting through Foreign Ministry files, I stumbled upon the minutes of a September 17 [1982] meeting between Israeli and American officials that took place in the midst of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. The startling verbatim exchange between Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and US diplomat Morris Draper clearly demonstrated how the slaughter of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of south Beirut was prolonged by Draper’s acquiescence in the face of Sharon’s deceptive claim of “terrorists” remaining behind.
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Good Question, Son
TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Good Answer, Mom
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Are You Political?
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
“I’m Not Political” – From 1942 to 1944, transport trains delivered Jews and others to Auschwitz gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed en masse. In Hawaii, Camp H.M. Smith is headquarters of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command covering more than 50% of the earth. U.S. nuclear submarines and strategic nuclear bombers are based on Oahu. The Pohakuloa Training Area is a training ground for nuclear war and military human experimentation. Are You Political?
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Annual Democracy Report 2018
V-Dem Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
In the 2018 Democracy Report we find that global levels of democracy are still close to an all-time high. However, even though the electoral aspects of democracy have improved in many countries in recent years, freedom of expression, media, and civil society are under threat in other parts of the world. The report identifies disquieting trends in several key countries, such as Brazil, India, Poland, Russia, Turkey, and the United States.
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The Veiled Danger of the ‘Dead’ Oslo Accords
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
12 Sep 2018 – Yossi Beilin is back. This unrepentant Israeli ‘peacemaker’ is like the mythical phoenix, continually resurrecting from its ashes. In a recent article in Al-Monitor, Beilin wrote in support of the idea of a confederation between Israel and Palestine. Bizarrely, Beilin is promoting a version of an idea that was pushed by Israel’s extremist Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman.
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(Português) Respeito, Tolerância, Diálogo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
2 set 2018 – Há pessoas que estão sempre buscando salvadores, heróis, gurus ou pessoas que, numa idealização romanesca, concordem com elas em tudo, ou as representem em tudo.
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Life without Principle
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Thoreau offers a program for a righteous livelihood focusing on his penetrating questions about HOW TO LIVE ETHICALLY AND RESPONSIBLY as part of nature and part of society–questions that transcend regional and national boundaries leading us to confront the way we live our lives. Published 1863.
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(Português) Desfile do London Fashion Week Não Terá Peles de Animais
Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
7 set 2018 – Pela primeira vez na história do London Fashion Week, ativistas não precisarão protestar contra o uso de peles. Realizado desde 1984, a iniciativa partiu dos estilistas.
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Why Do “Good Americans” Believe the “Big Lies”, just like Their “Good German” Counterparts in the 1930s and 40s? (Part 2)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 – Why do so many average American citizens prefer to think that our government, our Congress, our Presidents, our Vice Presidents, our CIA, our FBI, our major media, etc. would be telling the truth about the events that allowed thousands of pseudo-patriotic (or cognitively impaired) scoundrels to lead America into a series of military misadventures that have already cost both current and future American taxpayers uncountable trillions of scarce dollars, not to mention the current perpetual war quagmire and planetary pollution that has no visible end, as long as there are profits to be made from war?
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Brazil Home to World’s 3rd Largest Prison Population, Highest Incarceration Rate
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Between 2000 and 2015, while the United States’ prison population increased by 14 percent, Brazil’s jumped by approximately 170 percent.
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The Story of Stuff
Annie Leonard | The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
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In Our Hubris
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
We have, through our cleverness,
created nuclear weapons and found a way
to live with them.
Demonization of Russia in a New Cold War Era
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – Inventing a foe to sell military ambitions: still the most dangerous of games. In examining the future, we must look to the past.
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2018 Military Strength Ranking
Global Firepower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
The complete Global Firepower list for 2018 puts the military powers of the world into full perspective.
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The Current Demise of Ethics
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – In 1944, Karl Polanyi called the phenomenon of transitioning from a market economy to a society of pure commerce, “The Great Transformation”. Everything is transformed into merchandise, which Karl Marx already foresaw in his 1848 text The Poverty of Philosophy, where he noted that the most sacred things, such as truth and consciousness, would be commercialized; and this would be the “time of great corruption and universal venality”. We are now living in that time. The economy, especially the speculative sector, dictates the path of politics and of society as a whole. Competition is its trademark and solidarity has practically disappeared.
→ read full articleOur Broken System Has No ‘Moderate’ Devotees
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – Western politics is tearing itself apart, polarising into two camps –it is the narrative of corporate media. The warring camps are “moderate centrists” and “extreme right”. But what if this isn’t a feud between two opposed ideological camps but rather two differing – and irrational – reactions to the breakdown of late-stage capitalism as an economic model, a system that can no longer offer plausible solutions to the problems of our age?
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John Scales Avery - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
In thinking of violence and war, we must be extremely careful not to confuse the behavioral patterns that lead to wife-beating or barroom brawls with those like the trench warfare of WW-I, or to the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first type of aggression is similar to the rank-determining fights of animals, while the second is more akin to the team-spirit exhibited by a football side. Heroic behavior in defense of one’s community has been praised throughout the ages, but the tendency to such behavior has now become a threat to the survival of civilization, since tribalism makes war possible.
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Nikolai Kondratiev (4 Mar 1892 – 17 Sep 1938): The Long Economic Cycles
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
17 September marks the execution of Nikolai Kondratiev (also written as Kondratieff) in 1938 as part of Stalin’s “Great Purge” of those who disagreed with him.
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Oslo Accords: The Morning After
Edward Said | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Edward Said wrote in Oct 1993 a remarkably accurate portrayal of the level of capitulation that was done via the so-called Oslo Accords. This piece is remarkable and still worth reading. Oslo II of 1994 was even worse and we saw the ramification of all of this in the past 25 years. No wonder the Trump administration cut all aid to Palestinians except the money for the “Vichy style” Palestinian Authority security services–the Dayton Forces.
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Jupiter from “The Planets” -for 5 pianos (Music Video of the Week)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from “The Planets” by Gustav Holst and Greg Anderson. At the Palladium.
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How Criminalization of the Victim Is Done
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 – It is quite remarkable to trace the process of criminalizing the victim and to examine this process as it plays out in the case of the Bedouins of the Negev. For hundreds and perhaps thousands of years the Bedouins have lived in the Negev where the desert climate forced most if not all of them to develop a nomadic, and over the course of time, a semi-nomadic lifestyle, remaining sedentary during the rainy season.
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The Constitutional Turn: Liberty and the Cooperative State
Dan Hind | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
7 Sep 2018 – A provocative essay that challenges readers to think beyond the politics of revolution and redistribution to consider what deep democracy actually means. It stands “for making the state a site for radical reform.” To do that, however, “we need to develop a constitutional imagination” based on direct citizen engagement in the political economy.
→ read full articlePromoting Unity and Harmony in Diversity
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
The world is full of diversities of various types — religious, linguistic, economic, political, geographic, anthropological. There are several religions that people have faith in, hundreds of languages that are spoken, existence of rich and poor countries and people, different types of political systems ranging from democracies to dictatorships, etc.
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Plastic Soup
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism.
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The Fakest Fake News: The U.S. Government’s 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
If you want to fathom today’s world, absolutely nothing is more important than to understand the truth about the attacks of September 11, 2001… 9/11 Unmasked is the definitive book on the defining event of the 21st century.
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Trump Cuts US$25 Million Aid for Palestinians in Hospitals
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
8 Sep 2018 – U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered that US$25 million earmarked for the care of Palestinians in East Jerusalem hospitals be directed elsewhere as part of a review of aid, a State Department official said today.
Trump called for a review of U.S. assistance to the Palestinians earlier this year to ensure that the funds were being spent in accordance with national interests.
(Português) O golpe de 2016 interrompeu construção de um Brasil autônomo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
9 set 2018 – Tudo está a clamar para uma refundação do Brasil sobre outras bases porque as vigentes são altamente antipovo, destrutivas das pessoas, desrespeitosas da natureza, espoliadoras dos bens públicos, violadoras da soberania nacional e negadores de um futuro melhor. A atual sociedade brasileira, há que se reconhecer, conheceu avanços significativos sob os governos do Partido dos Trabalhadores e de seus aliados .
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On Qatar and Gulf Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – This is a slightly modified text of an interview by the Tunisian journalist Awatef Ben Ali on behalf of the Qatar newspaper, Al Sharq, August 26, 2018.
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IAEA Says Iran Continues to Meet Nuclear Obligations
Brinkwire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
8 Sep 2018 – Iran continues to comply with the nuclear deal reached in 2015 with major powers even after the withdrawal of the United States, the United Nations’ atomic watchdog said Thursday [6 Sep] in a confidential report.
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How Today’s American Plutocrats Are Not so Different from the Czars
Jack Balkwill | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – Serfdom was prevalent during the reign of the Russian Czars. Almost 80% of the Russian people were either peasants or serfs. Today we have wage slaves to replace the peasants, obligated to work so that the modern Romanovs, our ruling plutocrats, may live in similar splendor. Today, the richest 10% of American families are worth a combined $51 trillion, equal to 75% of total household wealth. To put that figure in perspective, US GDP totaled only $18.5 trillion in 2016.
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Al Awda Boarded by Israeli Occupation Forces
Ship to Gaza 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
This footage got smuggled out from an Israeli prison. Due to our safety we couldn’t film while we got boarded. It went really fast. Reporter: Divina Levrini
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What Would a Socialist America Look Like?
POLITICO Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – We asked thinkers on the left—and a couple of outliers—to describe their vision for a re-imagined American economy.
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Tehran Summit Calls for Political Solution in Syria
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
7 Sep 2018 – The leaders of Iran, Turkey and Russia “rejected all attempts to create new realities on the ground under the pretext of combating terrorism,” while expressing determination to stand against separatist agendas aimed at undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria and national security of neighboring countries.
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(Français) Autour de la tentative d’assassinat du président Maduro: Comprendre les mécanismes d’une guerre non-conventionnelle
Misión Verdad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
7 Sep 2018 – Les enquêtes menées par les services officiels vénézuéliens sur l’attentat manqué contre la vie du président Maduro le 4 août dernier suivent leurs cours. A ce stade des recherches, les preuves accumulées et les protagonistes dûment identifiés permettent déjà de définir les contours de l’opération terroriste/mercenaire qui a pu se développer dans le pays avec les résultats que l’on connaît ; elles permettent également d’anticiper et d’évaluer les mesures cruciales et nécessaires à prendre pour la sécurité du pays.
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Can’t We Just Leave Syria Alone?
Ron Paul | Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – The U.S. Is Defending al-Qaeda in Idlib – Assad was supposed to be gone already. President Obama thought it would be just another “regime change” operation and perhaps Assad would end up like Saddam Hussein or Yanukovych. Or maybe even Gaddafi. The US spent billions to get rid of him and even provided weapons and training to the kinds of radicals that attacked the United States on 9/11.
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Uprising and the End of Empire
Johan Galtung | Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
Peace mediator Johan Galtung gives his analysis of the uprisings in the Arab world as an indicator the era of Western domination in the region is coming to an end.
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Mass Atrocities and Western Imperialism: Evaluating “Responsibility to Protect”
Laura Ningelgen | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 – Amidst unimaginable human rights violations in countries such as Syria, Yemen and Myanmar, the international community is faced with a moral predicament how to react. In 1999, Kofi Annan stressed the responsibility to protect citizens of states, meaning that even though states are sovereign, they do not have a free ride to endorse or accept the suffering or killing of civilians. The concept of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P), authorised after the UN World Summit 2005 attempted to resolve the contradiction between individual human rights and sovereignty.
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Syria & Russia Accuse U.S. Coalition, ‘White Helmets’, of Preparing Chemical Weapons Attacks in Idlib
Eric Zuesse | Off Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
8 Sep 2018 – The Governments of Syria and Russia claim to have proofs that the U.S. coalition that has invaded and now occupies Syria has prepared chlorine and sarin gas attacks for Idlib and other areas where Syria and Russia are trying to destroy all jihadists — prepared attacks designed to be blamed against Syria’s Government.
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Nuclear Abolition: The Road from Armageddon to Transformation
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – The sunlight-blocking dust generated by the detonation of, say, 300 thermonuclear weapons in a war between the US and Russia could trigger a new Ice Age, dropping global temperatures to the lowest levels in 18,000 years, and leaving civilization utterly destroyed. Those who would survive the blast, heat, and radiation of nuclear war would live in a nuclear winter of freezing temperatures and perpetual darkness. The survivors would likely envy the dead.
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A Diabolic False Flag Empire
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – No one is more emblematic of this noble effort [to report the truth about America’s demonic history] than David Ray Griffin, who, in book after book since the attacks of 11 Sep 2001, has meticulously exposed the underside of the American empire and its evil masters. His persistence in trying to reach people and to warn them of the horrors that have resulted is extraordinary. Excluding his philosophical and theological works, this is his fifteenth book since 2004 on these grave issues of life and death and the future of the world.
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The Tip of the Radiation Disaster Iceberg
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – The World Nuclear Association says its goal is “to increase global support for nuclear energy” and it repeatedly claims on its website: “There have only been three major accidents across 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of operation in 32 countries.” … Some of the world’s other major accidental radiation releases indicate that the Big Three are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Haiti: Roots of an Uprising
Robert Roth | International Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
On July 6, 2018, Haiti exploded. By the tens of thousands, Haitians poured into the streets of Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise. The contrast could not be more stark — education or militarism, democracy or authoritarian rule, inclusion or exclusion, development or corruption, self-determination or occupation. With the July uprising, the Haitian people have once again made known their choice.
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We Are the Same
Hüsamettin Olgun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
What if each of us listens to a different song
And cherishes a different color;
That wouldn’t be wrong!
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
True to Stephen King’s assertion that “good fiction is the truth inside the lie,” the story sheds light on Dostoyevsky’s personal spiritual and philosophical bents with extraordinary clarity — perhaps more so than any of his other published works. The contemplation at its heart falls somewhere between Tolstoy’s tussle with the meaning of life and Philip K. Dick’s hallucinatory exegesis.
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Child Piano Prodigy: Outstanding Natural Talent! (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
4-Year Old Chinese Boy Plays Piano like a Master
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India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History
Bernard D’Mello | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
India After Naxalbari is about a thread of Indian history that mainstream historians have tended to either ignore or misrepresent. This account puts it squarely into our history books. –Arundhati Roy, author, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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What Lies Beneath: The US-Israeli Plot to ‘Save’ Gaza
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
5 Sep 2018 – With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden opportunity to redefine what has, for decades, constituted the legal and political foundation for the so-called ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict.’ It aims to create a new reality in which Israel achieves its strategic goals while the rights of Palestinians are limited to mere humanitarian issues.
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India’s Missing Women
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
Gender remains a critically important but largely ignored lens to view development issues across the world. Gender inequality is not only a pressing moral and social issue but also a critical economic challenge. India has a larger relative economic value at stake in advancing gender equality.
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Solidarity for Full Employment (whole paper)
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
1. Analysis of the Bottleneck Problem
2. Examples (showing how to solve the bottleneck problem)
3. The Road from Here to There (generalizing from the examples)
4. The Imperative to Maximize Profits (blocks the road from here to there)
5. The Fiscal Crisis of the State (blocks the road from here to there)
6. Unbounded Organization (a way forward)
Eros and Civilization (A Love Story)
Herbert Marcuse | Thomas Altfather Good – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
According to Freud, humans denied their basic impulses in order to build a civilization. They traded happiness for security and it was, by and large, a fair exchange. Freud called this the Reality Principle. Herbert Marcuse argued that a ruling elite has exploited the Reality Principle for personal gain, gradually constructing a stratified society based on the “logic of domination” — the masses are rewarded for their servitude with a relative affluence.
→ read full articleThe Uneven Road to Negotiations in Good Faith to Resolve Armed Conflicts
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – World Citizen Diplomacy is still a new field. As with any new field, there is a process of presenting ideas, of drawing upon different fields of thought, and of distilling experiences. World Citizen Diplomats must learn from government policy-making procedures but must use them creatively, with more sympathy for the people of the country being analyzed and with a broader vision of the healing of the Planet rather than the national interest focus of government policy makers.
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Swami Vivekananda: 125 Years after His Stirring Speech in Chicago, 11 Sep 1893
Dr. Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
One of the greatest seers and philosophers that modern India has produced is undoubtedly Swami Vivekananda. He was lucky to have met Sri Ramakrishna who was impressed by his intelligence and keenness in asking questions of spirituality and divinity. Sri Ramakrishna encouraged the precocious boy, gave him the name Vivekananda and asked him to spread the word of peace, harmony, joy to the world.
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India Court Legalises Gay Sex in Landmark Ruling
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 – In a historic decision, India’s Supreme Court has ruled today that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence. The ruling overturns a colonial-era law known as section 377. Author and commentator Sandip Roy told the BBC that although the ruling was a cause for celebration, there were still hurdles to overcome, and a need for anti-discrimination laws.
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China Offers African Nations $60 Billion in Development with ‘No Strings Attached’
TeleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – China is offering US$60 billion in financial support and a debt write-off to impoverished African nations- no strings attached, Chinese President Xi Jinping said today.
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Myanmar Rejects, Refutes UN Fact-Finding Mission on Rohingya Genocide: You Are Not Fair and Objective
Nay Pyi Taw | Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
Original document, please read.
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(Português) 50 empresas vendem metade dos alimentos do mundo – e elas estão cada vez maiores
Rafael Moro Martins | The Intercept Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
4 Set 2018 – Concentração no Brasil é ainda maior, aponta Atlas do Agronegócio, documento que faz retrato do mercado de alimentos e insumos e agora tem sua primeira edição brasileira.
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(Português) Mercado de substitutos da carne deve valer U$ 5,81 bilhões até 2022
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 set 2018 – Por enquanto, os substitutos da carne baseados em soja estão liderando o mercado, seguido por substitutos à base de trigo e micoproteínas (fungos). A proteína texturizada de soja está em primeiro lugar. No entanto, até 2022, substitutos da carne à base de trigo, como o seitan, devem conquistar.maior participação no mercado
→ read full articleHeading to the Bank
TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
As only sheep know how…
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
The problems of drug addiction, gangs, crime, ethnic nationalism, racism, sexism, chronic depression, immigration issues, poverty in old age, mental illness, war, inner city schools, taking necessary measures to save the biosphere that cost jobs, and many others will not be reduced to manageable proportions, much less solved, until human life is reorganized so that most people who need decent employment are able to find it. Would you agree? I call employment a bottleneck problem. If it is not solved, many other problems will not be solved either.
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Latin America: Rightwing Interlude and the Death Rattle of Neoliberalism
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
5 Sep 2018 – Beginning in 2015, business writers, neo-liberal economists and politicians in North America and the EU heralded Latin America’s embrace of a ‘new wave of free markets and free elections’. By early 2018 the entire neo-liberal edifice was crumbling, the promises and predictions of a neoliberal success story were forgotten. This paper will discuss the recent rise of a so-called ‘neo-liberal wave’ or right turn and the regimes directing it.
→ read full articleWhy Did “Good Germans” Become Silent about the Holocaust while It Was Happening? … (Part 1)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
… And Why Are Good Americans Silent about the Documentable Facts That Disprove the Official White House Conspiracy Theory about 9/11?
→ read full article‘The Onion’ Has Chosen to Publish an Anonymous Op-Ed from Two Sources Close to Trump Who Think Their Dad Is the Best President Ever
The Onion | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 – Today, The Onion is making an unusual editorial decision, and we want to explain why. As turmoil continues to increase within the Trump White House, this essay offers an invaluable high-level perspective into the administration’s inner workings. Due to the sensitive nature of this op-ed, revealing the identities of the writers could jeopardize their positions in the administration. We believe, however, that any issues with the writers’ identities or their motivations for writing this piece are overridden by the necessity of informing the public about what it’s like to work for the president. That is why The Onion has chosen to publish an anonymous op-ed from two sources close to Mr. Trump who think their dad is the best president ever.
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Prohibition of Reference to Overpopulation of the Planet
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Draft Proposal for an International Convention – It can be readily argued that many conventional crises are a consequence of increasing population — unemployment, environmental degradation, access to food and water resources, failing social security services, disease, inaccessibility of education, refugees, security threats, violence, and the like. Such arguments derive primarily from marginal groups and are readily deprecated.
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Exposing the Giants: The Global Power Elite
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
This $41 trillion represents the wealth invested for profit by thousands of millionaires, billionaires and corporations. The seventeen Giants operate in nearly every country in the world and are ‘the central institutions of the financial capital that powers the global economic system’. They invest in anything considered profitable, ranging from ‘agricultural lands on which indigenous farmers are replaced by power elite investors’ to public assets (such as energy and water utilities) to war.
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Nicaragua: A View from the Left
Jeffrey L. Gould | NACLA-North American Congress on Latin America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Making sense of Daniel Ortega’s slow betrayal of the Nicaraguan revolution.
→ read full articleYemen: A New but Difficult Start to Conflict Resolution
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
31 Aug 2018 – Today, the choice–between an end to the armed conflict with negotiations for a renewal of a Yemeni State on the basis of the con-federal system proposed vs. continued fighting in the hope that one faction become a “winner-take-all”–is relatively clear. There is little of what can be called “civil society” in Yemen, but what little exists should have their voices heard in the negotiations.
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Israel Killed 19 Palestinians and Wounded 1,600 in August
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
1 Sep 2018 – Israel’s occupation forces killed 19 civilian Palestinians, including four children, and wounded 1,600 during August, Quds Press reported on Friday [31 Aug]. The killings took place in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem.
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Revisiting the Earth Charter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Ron Engel has articulated an insider review of the Earth Charter so thoughtfully, urbanely, and persuasively that my initial temptation was to restrict my response to a single word: ‘Amen!’ Yet I am familiar enough with the academic ways of gathering diverse voices to explore a topic or to evaluate the scholarship of a distinguished author, as to discard my one-word option.
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Mystery of Mind, Intelligence and Ego: The Subtle Body
ISKCON Desire Tree – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
The Vedas explain that the soul is covered by two kinds of bodies- the gross material body and the subtle material body. The gross material body is the visible body that we feed and clean and dress and normally identify as ourselves. The subtle material body is an interface between the gross material body and the soul.
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(Italiano) I Giganti: l’élite del potere globale
Robert J. Burrowes | Znet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Questi 41 trilioni di dollari rappresentano la ricchezza investito per profitto da migliaia di milionari, miliardari e imprese. I diciassette Giganti operano in quasi ogni paese del mondo e sono “le istituzioni centrali del capitale finanziario che alimenta il sistema economico globale”. Investono in qualsiasi cosa sia considerata redditizia da “terre agricole sulle quali i coltivatori indigeni sono sostituiti da investitori dell’élite del potere” ad attività pubbliche (quali le reti elettriche e idriche).
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As Conflicts Become More Complex, ‘Mediation Is No Longer an Option; It Is a Necessity’, UN Chief Tells Security Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – As war and the mediation of peace have become increasingly complex, innovative thinking is needed to save and improve the lives of millions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council today.
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