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The Schoolteacher and the Genocide
Sarah A. Topol – The New York Times Magazine,
12 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019 – He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.
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Brazil Supreme Court Minister Rules to Protect Press Freedom for Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept
Trevor Timm – The Intercept,
12 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019 – In a crucial victory for press freedom in Brazil, the Supreme Court has barred the Bolsonaro administration and Justice Minister Sergio Moro from investigating The Intercept Brasil and journalist Glenn Greenwald for its reporting on unethical and potentially illegal conduct involving Moro.
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Google’s Extravagant Climate Change Camp Mocked as Party for ‘Entitled Fools’
Ebony Bowden | Page Six – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – Google’s carbon-spewing climate change conference at an Italian resort has been widely slammed as a tone-deaf party for the elite A-listers who jetted there. “Is there anything more hypocritical than a bunch of rich people flying their private jets across the world to sit on yachts and discuss the future of our planet?” reflected the general reaction online to this week’s Google Camp event in Sicily.
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(Français) Démasquer la torture exercée sur Julian Assange
Nils Meltzer | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
La tribune libre ci-dessous a été proposée par le professeur Nils Melzer, Rapporteur spécial des Nations unies sur la torture, pour être publiée à l’occasion de la Journée internationale pour le soutien aux victimes de la torture, le 26 juin 2019, au Guardian, au Times, au Financial Times, au Sydney Morning Herald, à The Australian, au Canberra Times, au Telegraph, au New York Times, au Washington Post, à Reuters et à Newsweek. Tous ont refusé de la publier.
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(Italiano) Dissacrare i confini, costruire contatti
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Oggi – nell’incontro dei popoli, nel comune rischio dei danni ambientali irreparabili, e delle guerre alimentate dai suprematismi e dal libero criminale mercato di armi, e dalla proliferazione e non proibizione anche di quelle total-distruttive – l’opera politica e civile più necessaria è abbassare i confini escludenti, gettare ponti di conoscenza, di riconoscimento e di accoglienza solidale, tra le culture, tra le persone, perché il destino umano è sempre più comune, inseparabile. A questo argine universale alla disumanizzazione, è nostro dovere, e anche sana convenienza, obbedire attivamente.
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Cuban Compassion: Training Doctors for a Pacific Island Nation Running Out of Time
Robert Huish and Sharon McLennan – The Conversation,
5 Aug 2019
11 Jul 2019 – Cuba is offering a compelling example of how we can take care of each other during the climate crisis with its work training doctors on Kiribati, a nation that is being devastated by climate change.
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Killer Clowns
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – Everywhere the killer clowns are taking over. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Scott Morrison, Rodrigo Duterte, Matteo Salvini, Recep Erdogan, Viktor Orban and a host of other ludicrous strongmen – or weakmen as they so often turn out to be – dominate nations that would once have laughed them off stage.
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto on Nuclear Weapons
Pugwash University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
‘A War with H Bomb Might Possibly Put an End to the Human Race.’
– London, 9 Jul 1955 – In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft.
Gun Violence in 2019: There Have Been 251 Mass Shootings in the U.S. in 216 Days
Daniel Politi | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
It was a particularly deadly 24 hours in the USA as a shooting spree early Sunday [4 Aug] morning in Dayton, Ohio, which left at least 10 dead, including the gunman, took place less than a day after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and killed at least 20 people. The violence in Dayton, which took place on the 216th day of the year, marked the 251st mass shooting of 2019, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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Coping Capacity of Governance as Dangerously Questionable
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Recognizing Assumptions and Unasked Questions when Facing Crisis – The question here is whether the institutions of governance, and those attaching credibility to them, are capable of recognizing that there is every possibility that they are unable to cope. It could be argued that this has long been the case.
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Lifeboat Earth: Is China or the Green New Deal the Answer to Climate Change?
John Feffer - TomDispatch,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – At its best, the earth was once likened to a spaceship that sails through the heavens with a crew working together for the common good. Thanks to climate change, this metaphor no longer works. Our planet is now more like a lifeboat that’s sprung a major leak. People onboard are beginning to panic and the clock is ticking. It is, however, the perfect environment to test out the best way to deal with life-and-death situations.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – The struggle for a culture of peace could gain much more force if this resolution were used as the basis for analysis and practice by more organizations around the world, but unfortunately it is relatively unknown. The situation reminds me of the use of another landmark UN document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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(Português) E agora, Brasil?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Sul21 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
23 julho 2019 – As palavras que mais ocorrem são estupefacção e perplexidade. O governo brasileiro caiu no abismo do absurdo, na banalização total do insulto e da agressão, no atropelo primário às regras mínimas de convivência democrática, para já não falar das leis e da Constituição. A perplexidade decorre de outra verificação, não menos surpreendente: a aparente apatia da sociedade civil, dos partidos democráticos, dos movimentos sociais, enfim, de todos os que se sentem agredidos por tamanho desconchavo.
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In Joyful Act of Resistance, Pink Seesaws Installed at US-Mexico Border Fence
Jenna McGuire – Common Dreams,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – Two California professors built three pink seesaws on the U.S.-Mexico border to allow families to play together and to bring “joy, excitement, and togetherness” to both sides of the divide. “We are all connected.”
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Sur Baher Home Demolitions Illustrate a Vicious Spiral of Oppression in Palestine
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
28 Jul 2019 – Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions. The more the West represses criticism, the more Israel luxuriates in its impunity.
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U.N. Urges Sanctions on Myanmar Army Businesses, Says Foreign Partners Could Be Complicit
Angie Teo and Poppy McPherson | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
5 Aug 2019 – United Nations investigators urged world leaders today to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing business with them could be complicit in international crimes.
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China Sees New Era of ‘Shared Destiny’ with US No Longer in the Driving Seat
Darius Shahtahmasebi - RT,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – The release of China’s white paper on defense demonstrates an increasingly confident and more assertive China. “Asia-Pacific countries are increasingly aware that they are members of a community with shared destiny” is perhaps the single-most important sentence of the entire white paper. China is hinting that the region shares the destiny of what will become “the end of a US-led alliance system.”
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March of the Uyghurs
Andre Vltchek | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
21 Jul 2019 – The Uyghurs have managed to create a very old and deep culture. Most of them are good, law abiding citizens of the PRC. Also the great majority of followers of Sunni Islam are peaceful people. This work is addressing terrible problems related to extremism and terrorism, most of them crafted and then fueled by the West and its allies. The goal is to damage China. The victims live in various countries. Again, the West tries to destroy China, using religion and terror.
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“Omnipresent Surveillance:” Dystopian Society in Our Global Era
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Imposing Authoritarian Control, Domination, and Rule: Strategies, Methods, Techniques, Tactics
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Mahathir’s Rohingya Proposal Spurs Mixed Reactions
Riyaz ul Khaliq | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – A recent proposal by Malaysian premier that the Rohingya ethnic minority should be given the chance to form their own state drew cautious reactions from members of the persecuted community.
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Untitled…
Michael de Adder – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
… and legend unnecessary. Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder was dropped after creating this drawing.
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US Withdraws from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019 – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced today that the United States has abandoned the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) signed with Russia. The United States will no longer be prohibited from having ground-launched intermediate-range missiles.
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Judge’s Ruling Throws Huge Spanner into US Extradition Proceedings against Assange
Tom Coburg | The Canary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
31 Jul 2019 – A US judge has ruled that WikiLeaks was fully entitled to publish the Democratic National Congress (DNC) emails, which means no law was broken. The ruling is highly significant as it could impact upon the US extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as well as the ongoing imprisonment of whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
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How Trees Talk to Each Other
Suzanne Simard | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
“A forest is much more than what you see,” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances. Learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes.
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Lives in Economics
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019 – I would like to announce the publication of a book describing the lives of some of the people who have contributed importantly to economic thought. Their lives can help us today, as the world faces a crisis that has both economic dimensions. The book can be freely downloaded here.
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Homo Roboticus?
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Remote Control
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Tulsi Gabbard vs Google Goliath
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – The Tulsi Gabbard presidential campaign has filed a major law suit against Google. This article outlines the main points of the law suit and evidence the social media giant Google has quietly acquired enormous influence on public perceptions and has been actively censoring alternative viewpoints.
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No ‘Made In Israel’ Label for Settlement Wines: Canada Court
AFP | Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
29 Jul 2019 – A Canadian court today ruled that it was “false, misleading and deceptive” to label wines made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as a “Product of Israel.”
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Protecting Palestinians: Postcolonial Reminiscences
Siba N'zatioula Grovogui | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
The troubling part of the neglect to protect Palestinians today is that the degradation of the lives of Palestinians and the existential threat to the territorial integrity of post-partition Palestine are the direct consequences of actions by the ‘international community,’ including indulging Israeli occupation, and the response of Palestinians to both. The lack of both accountability for the occupation and the denial of rights to protection and self-determination have multiple origins.
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“Rohingya Refugee Crisis Is a Time Bomb That Must Be Quickly Defused to Avoid any Future Flare-Up”
The Daily Star – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
5 Aug 2019 – Dr. Shamsul Bari, a former Director of UNHCR, talks about the Rohingya refugee crisis, its local, regional and global implications and the possible solutions to the crisis.
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Context Matters Except for the Palestinians
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019 – Palestinians could and should have done better in setting forth their own vision of peace. The extreme one-sidedness of the Trump approach handed Palestinians a golden opportunity to declare as forcibly as possible the urgent and immediate need for a new peace intermediary that was a facilitator, and not a partisan as past American presidents, or an imposer as this one seems to be. The United States had long overplayed its hand as ‘honest broker.’
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(Português) Elefantes São Espancados e Torturados com Ganchos de Metal para Transportar Turistas
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Fotos divulgadas nas redes sociais mostram elefantes com feridas abertas na cabeça e no corpo, enquanto levam turistas australianos – que viajam para a Tailândia exclusivamente com este fim – em suas costas. Os pacotes de viagem são anunciados pelas agências de turismo como possibilidades únicas de “interação” com os animais.
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Policies That Lead to the Violation of Human Rights
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – When we struggle for Palestinians’ rights over their landed property, we are struggling against the policies which attempt to confiscate their land. When we struggle for their right to a roof over their heads, we are struggling against the government’s policy of home demolitions. When we struggle against the theft of their water sources, we are struggling against policies which attempt to cause them to leave Area C or Palestine altogether. And so it goes.
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Unlike South Africa, the World Is Giving Israel a Pass on Apartheid
Amjad Iraqi | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
26 Jul 2019 – A UN Security Council resolution rejecting South Africa’s 1983 constitution shows that there is precedent and necessity to act against Israel’s Nation-State Law.
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‘Elites’ Flock to Google Summit in 114 Private Jets, Mega Yachts to Talk Climate Change
Emily Smith and Ebony Bowden | Page Six – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – The world’s rich and famous have flocked to a posh Italian resort to talk about saving Mother Earth — but they sure are punishing her in the process.
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Do Not Turn Away from the Horrors That the Rohingya Face
Bob Rae - The Globe and Mail,
5 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019 – Two years ago this August, the world was shocked by brutal, tragic images coming out of Myanmar–a deep humanitarian crisis: systematic violence, rape, burning of villages and the killing of some 10,000 Rohingya who make up the largest percentage of Muslims in Myanmar. More than 700,000 were forced to abandon their homes and villages, joining an earlier exodus of refugees to Bangladesh – and those refugees are still there, in a crowded muddy camp in a town on Bangladesh’s southeast coast known as Cox’s Bazar.
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Murder of Brazilian Indigenous Leader a ‘Worrying Symptom’ of Land Invasion
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
29 Jul 2019 – In the wake of the murder of indigenous leader Emrya Wajãpi in Brazil, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has called on the country’s authorities to “react quickly and decisively” to protect the rights of indigenous peoples on their lands. According to media reports, witnesses saw a number of gold miners enter the protected reserve of the Wajãpi community, then stab their leader to death.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
The United States in America is a rolling agenda. Dark comes up, women come up, dark women come up–and that is more than the sum of the two. Some US citizens travel the world searching for “the old US” may find the US culture at its best outside the US, as the US Way of Life; liberated from the concerns and the violence of making the US also prevail militarily, economically and politically over all others.
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The U.S. Military Emits More Greenhouse Gases than Sweden and Denmark
Scotty Hendricks | Big Think – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
• A new study shows how the United States’ Military is the largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world.
• These emissions come from both combat and non-combat operations.
• The use of some of the fossil fuels the military burns to protect the supply of oil creates an interesting paradox.
Dear Wonderful Kids (& Co.)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
4 Aug 2019 – It looks like a funny tale. But it is much more than just that—it is about nothing less than your health. Please read this (and ask your grown-ups to explain and… behave themselves).
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Brotherly Love in Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’
Dr. Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
A Novel Reading of a Famous Tale
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Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi – Struggles for Justice, Independence and Peace
Dr Ravi P Bhatia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi were two great icons of the twentieth century. Their births, their backgrounds, their education, however, were starkly different from each other.
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The Science of Sleep: Dreaming, Depression, and How REM Sleep Regulates Negative Emotions
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
“Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation. Dream images are the product of that creation.”
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A Brief History of the CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan
Thomas C. Mountain | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – With the CIA’s dirty war in South Sudan winding down, it’s time to take a brief but comprehensive look at the origins and history of this most secret of Pax Americana crimes in Africa. It is in the national interests of the USA to deprive China of access to African energy resources, with the Sudanese oil fields being the only Chinese owned and operated in Africa.
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It Took a Crisis to Bring Hawaiians Back Together
Trisha Kehaulani Watson | Honolulu Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – Some proponents of the Thirty Meter Telescope have commented to me that they wish Hawaiians were putting this kind of energy into nation-building or addressing issues like housing or health. My response is that this is all those things. This is nation-building. Nationhood was never going to emerge from a conference room or hastily written constitution. It was always destined to emerge from crisis. There absolutely needed to be some catalyst that brought Hawaiians together.
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Brazil’s Massive Crime against Humanity in the Amazon Forest
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
29 Jul 2019 – The corrupt Brazilian government installed by Washington has decided to destroy the Amazon Rain Forest. This will adversely affect the Earth’s climate by eliminating a massive carbon sink. The beneficiaries of the destruction of the rain forest are the timber loggers who are buddies with Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro.
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Incentivizing the Cartels: Evan Ratliff’s “The Mastermind”
Antony Loewenstein | Los Angeles Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Le Roux, a 46-year-old ex-computer programmer, said that he had built a mercenary army to overthrow the government of the Seychelles, armed a 200-man militia in Somalia, smuggled methamphetamine out of North Korea, sold missile technology to Iran, and shipped guns out of Indonesia. Asked by the prosecutor what he had trafficked over the years, he said, “Cash, chemicals, drugs and gold.” The weapons, Le Roux said, were sold to “rebels, warlords, criminals — essentially anyone who had money.” The technology-driven cartel model that Le Roux pioneered is only in its infancy. His was a road map for a new kind of organized crime, fully exploiting the power of the Web.
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UN Chief Laments Ending of Cold War-Era Disarmament Treaty
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019 – Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his “deep regret” today that the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the United States and Russia came to an end.
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What Now, Brazil?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
29 Jul 2019 — The words that come to mind the most are astonishment and perplexity. The Brazilian government has slipped into the abyss of absurdity, into an absolute trivialization of abuse and aggression. Not a day goes by that we are not bombarded with bits of news and comments that seem to come out of some ideological sewer overflowing with years or centuries of rancid decay, exuding the most pestilential stench as if it were the very perfume of novelty and candor.
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Can the Department of Defense Win Its Complicated Battle against Climate Change?
Daniel Ross| Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – The world’s biggest institutional user of oil is grappling with the impacts of climate change.
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The Dragon Lays out Its Road Map, Denies Seeking Hegemony
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
5 Aug 2019
27 Jul 2019 – China’s ‘National Defense in the New Era’ white paper shows where the country aims to be by 2049. The key merit of China’s National Defense in the New Era, a white paper released by the State Council in Beijing, is to clear any remaining doubts about where the Middle Kingdom is coming from, and where it’s going to.
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Michael De Adder Responds to Contract End after Trump Cartoon
HuffPost Canada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Jul 2019 -He posted a cartoon last week which shows Trump standing by a golf cart, asking “Do you mind if I play through?” while standing above two bodies. The image recalls the drowning of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, in the Rio Grande River as they tried to cross the Mexico-U.S. border.
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Standing with Pablo
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Like the three tenors, like three pillars,
there are three Pablos for peace:
Picasso, Neruda and Peredes.
Wouldn’t Get Fooled Again (Music Video of the Week)
Pete Townshend | The Who – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
A Classic from 1971 whose lyrics are even truer today.
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Julian Assange’s Lawyer Briefs Australian Parliamentarians on His Persecution
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – As many as 30 federal Australian parliamentarians attended a closed-door legal briefing by Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer for Julian Assange, at Canberra’s parliament house yesterday. The MPs included representatives of the conservative parties, Labor and the Greens. The barrister outlined the dire implications for press freedom and democratic rights of the US-led persecution of Assange.
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The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Front Men
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | Children’s Health Defense Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
23 Jul 2019 – The pharmaceutical has a “complex and mutually-dependent” relationship with physician trade groups and physicians. Although the details are not always fully or accurately documented, the funding trail can often provide revealing clues. Thus, the American Academy of Pediatrics, one of the most notorious vaccine industry front groups, receives funding from all four manufacturers of childhood vaccines in the U.S. (Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline).
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Japan Approves First Human-Animal Embryo Experiments
David Cyranoski | Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
26 Jul 2019 – A Japanese stem-cell scientist is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals since a ban on the practice was overturned earlier this year. The research could eventually lead to new sources of organs for transplant, but ethical and technical hurdles need to be overcome.
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Why Americans Should Support BDS
Omar Barghouti – The Nation,
5 Aug 2019
29 Jul 2019 – Inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements, it calls for Palestinian liberation on terms of full equality with Israelis and categorically opposes all forms of racism, including antisemitism.
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Geopolitical Crimes: A Revolutionary Proposal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019 – International criminal law has developed a framework for judging the criminal conduct of states with respect to armed conflict but is silent about even the most severe crimes of diplomacy. It is these ‘geopolitical crimes’ that are more responsible for inflicting mass suffering on civilian populations than are most of the forms of international behavior currently criminalized. I am aware that criminalizing acts of diplomacy is a revolutionary idea, but no less for that, deserving of commentary and debate.
→ read full articleClarifying the Unexplored Dynamics of 12-fold Round Tables
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
29 Jul 2019 – This exploration follows from previous concern that, despite their symbolic importance, little effort has been made to clarify the possible dynamics between people of wisdom variously configured together at an archetypal “round table”. The issue is of continuing importance with respect to 12-person juries and the committees of the wise periodically convened in response to challenges of governance.
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Ike’s Warning about America’s Threat to World Peace: The 15 Biggest Pentagon Contractors That Make up the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Out-of-Control Military Spending Since Eisenhower’s Presidency May be the Primary Reason Why the US National Debt is $23,000,000,000,000 (23 trillion) and Counting.
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When Warriors Become Saints
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
As I sit on the small balcony on the top floor of an old house in Lisbon, Portugal, it is early evening, the time for wine and voices wafting on the fragrant breeze… Wherever you go, the monuments and statues glorifying humanity’s violent history are always presented as a form of liberation. Tourist attractions. Generals, princes, and kings atop horses, brandishing swords and guns, “grace” squares and monuments as a reminder to the common folk.
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Exceptionally Insulated: Americans’ Unconcern Enables Wrongdoing Abroad
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
If you were Iranian and learned that U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton wanted to attack your country, wouldn’t you feel terrified? But we’re taught to dismiss that. The training begins early: Complete the assignment. Get good grades. Insulate your life. Automate your soul. Don’t worry about U.S. bombs pulverizing Baghdad or U.S.-funded death squads mutilating peasants in Latin America.
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The Ongoing Dread in Gaza: So Many Names, So Many Lives
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019 – Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the United States, grew up in Gaza. In Chicago last week, addressing activists committed to breaking the siege of Gaza, he held up a stack of 31 papers. On each page were names of 1,254 Palestinians living in Gaza who had been killed in just one month of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” attacks five years ago.
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Extinction Is Stalking Humanity: The Threats to Human Survival Accumulate
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
I have previously written a summary of the interrelated psychological, sociological, political-economic, military, nuclear, ecological and climate threats to human survival on Earth. I would like to add to it by focusing attention on three additional threats – geoengineering, medical vaccinations and electromagnetic radiation – that are less well-known (largely because the evidence is officially suppressed and only made available by conscientious investigative activists).
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US Congress Overwhelmingly Condemns Movement to Boycott Israel
Sheryl Gay Stolberg – The New York Times,
29 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019 — The House today overwhelmingly [398-to-17 vote] passed a bipartisan resolution condemning the boycott-Israel movement. Backers of the boycott movement say the resolution threatens free speech rights, and they argue that boycotts are a legitimate form of economic protest citing the Civil Rights boycotts, boycotts of Apartheid South Africa and American boycotts of Nazi Germany.
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The Secret Language of Trees
Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard | TED-Ed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
1 Jul 2019 – Learn how trees are able to communicate with each other through a vast root system and symbiotic fungi called mycorrhizae. Most of the forest lives in the shadow of the giants that make up the highest canopy. These are the oldest trees, with hundreds of children and grandchildren. They check in with their neighbors, share food, supplies and wisdom gained over their lives, all while rooted in place. How do they do this?
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I Was Inside This Family’s Home when Israeli Troops Came to Demolish It
A. Daniel Roth | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 – Spending the night with Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, hoping to stop the bulldozers coming to demolish their homes. ‘Our whole lives are here. Where can we go?’
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Empire’s War under the Radar: Nicaragua
Roger Stoll | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
13 Jul 2019 – Live from Nicaragua: An Uprising or a Coup? authored and published by the Alliance for Global Justice. In April of 2018 armed and unarmed proxies of the US in collaboration with Nicaraguan elites launched a war against the Nicaraguan state and its people. This 270-page ebook, a “Reader,” is offered free and includes essays, investigative journalism, interviews and first-hand accounts of the war. It is a thoughtful and multifaceted collection covering a highly significant event in modern revolutionary and anti-imperialist history.
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America and Pakistan in Search of Peace and Conflict Resolution
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 201 – President Trump and young looking Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan met this week at the White House. Trump is master to transform rhetoric into reality as he did to North Korean leader. Both were trying to overcome the historic indifference and prejudice to bridge the ever widening gaps between the reality and perceptions of relationship.
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Quds News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019 – The United States has blocked an attempt to get the United Nations Security Council issue a formal statement condemning Israel’s demolitions of Palestinian homes in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher, earlier this week.
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VIPs and Ordinary Mortals
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
The world is divided into much diversity that is based on economic, social, racial, linguistic cultural factors. This leads to divisions of people that I am terming as VIPs (very important persons) and ordinary persons.
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Generations of Transitional Justice in the World
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
The objectives of the paper are to investigate the axiomatic truth and record the human wrongdoings of the past, deliver justice to the victims at present, make perpetrators accountable and initiate generous change in the rule of law for prosperous, peaceful and harmonious nation. The state-of-the-art paper is prepared based upon literature review, exchanging and sharing, and a practical observation approach rather than theoretical-analytical conception, except Generation.
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The Cheapest Way to Save the Planet Grows Like a Weed
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019 – Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. For skeptics who reject the global warming thesis, reforestation also addresses the critical problems of mass species extinction and environmental pollution, which are well documented. Rather than engaging in endless debates over carbon taxes and Silicon Valley-style technological fixes, we need to be regenerating our soils, our forests and our oceans with nature’s own plant solutions.
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The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
UN Development Programme – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
11 July 2019 – The 2019 Global MPI data and publication “Illuminating Inequalities” released today shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves. Jointly developed by the UNDP and the University of Oxford, it offers data for 101 countries, covering 76 percent of the global population.
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50 Years after the Moon Landing: Why Conspiracy Theories Won’t Die
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
29 Jul 2019
Belief in a faked moon program is one of the first great “fake news” stories. Why there are sure to be a lot more going forward. [TMS Appendix: Related materials debunking the moon landing]
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Under Brazil’s Far Right Leader, Amazon Protections Slashed and Forests Fall
Letícia Casado and Ernesto Londoño – The New York Times,
29 Jul 2019
28 Jul 2019 — The destruction of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil has increased rapidly since the nation’s new far-right president took over and his government scaled back efforts to fight illegal logging, ranching and mining.
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Nikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with Nikola Tesla, the Serbian scientist and his path breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).
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Child Separation & Prison Camps: China’s Campaign against Uyghur Muslims Is “Cultural Genocide”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 – Chinese authorities have been accused of systematically separating Muslim children from their families in the far western region of Xinjiang. According to a new report commissioned by the BBC, China is rushing to build boarding schools where children, mostly from the Uyghur community, are deliberately removed from their families, as well as their language and culture.
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The Puerto Rican People and their Combative Spirit
Carlos Aznarez | Resumen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019 – Current events in Puerto Rico are clear evidence that when people are challenged beyond the limits of their patience they just explode, leading to the possibility of unpredictable consequences.
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India’s Ailing Health Sector
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
India’s economy is soaring and is now the world’s envy but its healthcare system remains an Achilles’ heel. For millions of people, the high costs of treatment continue to undermine economic progress. This is largely on account of the country’s dilapidated healthcare system — a major symptom of the dire lack of funding.
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Puerto Rico Governor Resigns after Popular Protests
Jerry White | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019 – After two weeks of protests demanding his removal, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation late last night. In a statement posted online, Rosselló said he would step down on August 2. The protests reached their highpoint on 22 Jul when 1 million people participated in the huge procession in San Juan, a substantial portion of the island’s 3.2 million inhabitants.
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New Earth Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
The Extinction Event – What is 5G? We need to know the dangers of this technology. A full length documentary by Sacha Stone exposing the 5G existential threat to humanity in a way we never imagined possible!
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The Special Feature of Human Existence
Radhanath Swami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
According to how we invest in our karmic life, we will get a particular type of body. There are millions of species of life. Each one facilitates a particular opportunity to get the reactions of our particular karma.
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Listen to the Music (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Doobie Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
From the second album, Toulouse Street; their first big hit in 1972 – A Classic of the 70s.
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Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
“The key is building fires where you can warm yourself as you wait for the tempest to pass.”
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(Italiano) Vivere nella casa comune
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Aristotele aveva definito l’”oikonomia” come l’arte di vivere, differenziandola dalla “crematistica”, l’arte di fare soldi. Oggi l’economia, spiega Vandana Shiva, “è diventata solo una brutale macchina da soldi che sta distruggendo le case dei poveri e la nostra casa comune. È diventata una guerra contro le persone e il pianeta… Anche il significato originale di ricchezza è benessere e felicità, non denaro…
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Trump Adds $4.1 Trillion to National Debt. Here’s Where the Money Went
Sibile Marcellus | Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 – Once President Trump signs the budget deal that was passed by the House yesterday and is expected to be approved by the Senate in a few days, he will have added $4.1 trillion to the national debt. It seems that Trump is steadily walking toward a collapse of the US federal debt, which could trigger the fall of the US Empire–by 2020 according to peace/conflict researcher, sociologist Johan Galtung.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Really!?
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(Français) Le traité UE-Mercosur, un chèque en blanc pour violer les droits de l’homme et dévaster la planète
Tom Kucharz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Juil 2019 – Acclamé par des dirigeants comme le président espagnol Pedro Sánchez, l’accord commercial entre l’Union européenne et les pays du Mercosur est critiqué pour avoir blanchi l’extrême droite brésilienne ou pour les conséquences dévastatrices du commerce entre les deux régions sur les populations et le climat.
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State Terrorism: The Deception and Terrorisation of Populaces from the Era of Gladio to the War on Terror
Adeyinka Makinde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, unknown people far from any political game. The reason was quite simple – to force the people to turn to the state for greater security.”
–- Vincenzo Vinciguerra
All the News Is Bad
Francis Gooding | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
How long do we have left, and how bad will it get? David Wallace-Wells opens his book with a short, sharp reality check: ‘It’s worse, much worse, than you think.’ All the news is bad. Marshalling research from across the sprawling field of climate studies, he paints a picture of disastrous change on an almost incomprehensible scale. –>The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells, Allen Lane, 320 pp, Feb 2019
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The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation
Matthew Fox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
For years I have spoken out about how fishy the official story of Thomas Merton’s sudden death smelled to me. I have also, over the years, met three CIA agents who were present in Southeast Asia at the time and asked them pointedly whether they killed Thomas Merton.
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The Chomsky Poem
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
On the Occasion of Noam Chomsky Receiving the Peace Abbey Foundation Courage of Conscience Award–9 Dec 2016
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Road Map to a Green New Deal: From Extraction to Stewardship
Mathew Lawrence | Common Wealth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
5 Jul 2019 – The latest report from the UK-based think tank Common Wealth includes “a transatlantic proposal” for making public power ownership a core feature of the Green New Deal. A public buyout of the fossil fuel industry is the timeliest way to bring to heel the industry’s insatiable pursuit of profit at the expense of the planet.
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Fully Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated — A Summary of the Research
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
“How do child health outcomes compare between fully vaccinated and unvaccinated children”? During a Congressional hearing on autism, Dr. Coleen Boyle, the Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, gave evasive answers to lawmakers pressing her on this point. After considerable badgering, she finally stated, “We have not studied vaccinated versus unvaccinated [children].” That was perjury.
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Of Super-Patriots and War Fever
W.J. Astore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
This week a good friend sent me the image below from Mad Magazine.
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The US Government Just Officially Recognized the Satanic Temple as a Religion
Matthew Bell | PRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
There’s a new religion in America.
• The Satanic Temple has earned the same tax-exempt status as a church by the IRS.
• The Satanic Temple is growing rapidly, with around 20 chapters across the US, and affiliate groups in Canada, Australia, Germany, and the UK.
• While members of the Satanic Temple see the mythological, and literary, figure of Satan as a symbol of rebellion against tyranny, they do not worship Satan in any way.
Peace Journalism: Signs and Trends
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
A task of Peace Journalism is to be able to discern trends and to detect signs of emerging political and social issues. One aspect is what I call “raising a storm warning flag”. This is to highlight growing tensions or inappropriate responses to situations which are not yet on the world security agenda–that is, neither being discussed at the United Nations Security Council nor leading to action in a regular way.
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Johan Galtung Predictions: Fall of U.S. Empire, End to U.S. Wars
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Galtung suggests solutions based on 50 years of research in the areas of conflict transformation, mediation, peace studies, and related disciplines.
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