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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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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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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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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.
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Clarifying 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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US Blocks UN Statement to Condemn Demolition of Palestinian Homes
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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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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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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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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A Compliment
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Really!?
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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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(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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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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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
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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Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account in Response to Backlash
Caitlin Johnstone | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 – After a week of vocal protests from online supporters of Julian Assange, Twitter has reversed its unjust removal of the prominent pro-Assange activism account @Unity4J. It cannot be denied that there is pressure being applied to new media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to forcibly marginalize all perspectives which fall outside the ever-shrinking Overton window of approved political discourse.
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Israel Destroys Land, Water Wells in West Bank
Quds News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019 – The Israeli occupation forces yesterday bulldozed four water wells and destroyed trees south of Hebron in the West Bank, the coordinator of the national and popular committees, Rateb Jabour, said. Israel is trying to displace these residents in the wider scheme to annex the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces and settlers routinely attack Palestinians in the occupied territories, demolishing their homes, poisoning their livestock and vandalising properties.
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Non-state Violence and the Right to Protect Oneself against Excessive State Use of Force
Chiara Redaelli | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Positive international law does not recognise a right to rebel or a right to self-defence to groups against state’s excessive use of force. Nevertheless, de lege ferenda we may wonder whether the traditional approach should be revised. The R2P doctrine confirms that the international community considers genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity as particularly heinous. In light of the gravity of these crimes, it is not preposterous to wonder whether they could trigger a right to self-defence, at least under certain circumstances.
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NSA Whistleblower Speaks about Julian Assange & the ‘Shadow Government’
Arjun Walia | Collective Evolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
22 Jul 201 – Longtime high-ranking NSA employee William Binney shares his thoughts on the arrest of Julian Assange and who is really in control.
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Dag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo.
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(Português) Cidadania, Florestania: A Amazônia, Titular de Direitos
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
23 julho 2019 – Fenômenos novos exigem palavras novas. Assim cidadania se deriva de cidade e florestania, de floresta. O propósito é implementar a cidadania dos povos da floresta, dos indígenas, dos seringueiros e dos ribeirinhos. Floresta e ser humano vivem um pacto sócio-ecológico includente, onde o ser humano se entende parte da floresta e a floresta passa a ser um novo cidadão, respeitado em sua integridade, biodiversidade, estabilidade e luxuriante beleza junto com os outros cidadãos humanos.
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Hong Kong in Decline
Bunn Nagara – The Star [Malaysia],
29 Jul 2019
28 Jul 2019 – For China today Hong Kong is just another Chinese city, meaning it is dispensable. Shenzhen and the rest of the mainland do not need a nettlesome Hong Kong for China’s continued rise. Hong Kong protesters have committed at least a dozen strategic errors.
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Privatization Increases Corruption
Jomo Kwame Sundaram | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019 – International financial institutions (IFIs) have typically imposed wide-ranging policy reforms – called ‘conditionalities’ – in exchange for country governments to secure access to financial assistance. IFI policy conditionalities, such as the privatization of state-owned enterprises, can create new rentier opportunities, undermining government will and capacity to curb corruption.
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Iran Seizes British Tanker after Britain Seizes Iranian Tanker
Kim Iversen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
19 Jul 2019 – A MUST WATCH for anyone looking for the truth of the current situation. A sensible, intelligent, literate commentary that sees through the military-capitalist alliance, USA-Britain-Israel-Saudi Arabia and their vassal states, which is doing everything possible to go into another Middle East war for spurious reasons with unforeseen consequences for the world.
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(Português) A Verdadeira História dos Erros Futuros
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Opinion SUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
5 jul 2019 – A verdade de um sistema errado é o erro. Para ser politicamente eficaz, este erro tem de ser incessantemente repetido, amplamente difundido e aceite pela população como a única verdade possível ou credível. É necessário que o que se difunde seja percebido como algo com que naturalmente temos de estar de acordo, que o que se aceita seja aceite para o bem de todos e que, se envolver algum sacrifício, ele seja o preço a pagar por um bem maior no futuro.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 – Learning Action Avoidance from Rabbits in Anticipation of Disaster – Much is now made of assessments of carbon footprint, ecological footprint and climate footprint, and the strategies for their reduction in different situations. There is however a case for exploring the choice of the footprint metaphor given its associations with the most distant part of the human anatomy, however grounded it may be held to be — despite being necessarily left behind.
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(Français) L’esprit limité: Pourquoi la peur poursuit l’humanité à l’extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Ma propre préoccupation se termine violence, en prévenant l’extinction des personnes et en reconstruisant et durablement nos relations avec la terre et entre nous. Et vous?
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A Few Thoughts on Inequality
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
The International Day for Elimination of Racial Injustice and the forceful propagation of Sustainable Development Goals are not enough to banish or even reduce worldwide inequality and discrimination. The world needs the emergence of stalwarts like Gandhi, Mandela and other honest personalities for this uphill task.
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Non-Aligned Movement Demands End of Sanctions against Venezuela
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
21 Jul 2019 – Non-Aligned Countries demanded today that the United States Government immediately lift the economic and financial sanctions imposed on Venezuela. In a statement, the delegations of 120 NAM countries indicated that only Venezuela can decide its fate, no other State can intervene in accordance with the United Nations Charter.
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Modern Money Theory: How I Came to MMT and What I Include in MMT
L Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
I was asked to give a short presentation at the MMT conference. What follows is the text version of my remarks, some of which I had to skip over in the interests of time. Many readers might want to skip to the bullet points near the end, which summarize what I include in MMT.
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The Rise of Corporate Nations
Lorenzo Marsili – Al Jazeera,
22 Jul 2019
19 Jul 2019 – “There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today … The world is a collage of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business.” Last month, Facebook announced that it is introducing its own currency, Libra, which the more than two billion users (or “citizens”) of the platform will be able to use to pay for goods and services.
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The Joy of Suffering Overcome: Young Beethoven’s Stirring Letter to His Brothers about the Loneliness of Living with Deafness and How Music Saved His Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?” Like Frida Kahlo, Beethoven sublimated a lifetime of unbearable bodily suffering to the irrepressible vitality of his creative spirit. Bedeviled by debilitating physical illness and loss of hearing at the age of twenty-eight, he nonetheless became a servant of joy. Even Helen Keller, herself deaf and blind, conveyed the timeless transcendence of his music in her moving account of “hearing” his Ode to Joy.
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(Français) Dominants des médias, médias dominants et médiatisation de la pensée dominante
Denis Souchon | Le Grand Soir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
16 juillet 2019 – La connaissance des groupes dominants de l’espace médiatique, une arme au service de la lutte de libération et d’appropriation démocratique des médias.
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A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall–Nobel Prize Ceremony (Music Video of the Week)
Patti Smith performs Bob Dylan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Celebrated singer Patti Smith performs a moving rendition of Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall.
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Merger Mania: The Military-Industrial Complex on Steroids
William D. Hartung - TomDispatch,
22 Jul 2019
16 Jul 2019 – Raytheon, already one of the top five U.S. defense contractors, is planning to merge with United Technologies. That company is a major contractor in its own right, producing, among other things, the engine for the F-35 combat aircraft, the most expensive Pentagon weapons program ever.
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My Father Was a Poet
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
of course he didn’t write anything
in any way resembling a poem,
his signature was barely legible,
his words were few
(Português) 10 Razões para Não Frequentar Touradas
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Por favor, não vá à tourada!
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Cogito Ergo Sum! . . . Perhaps!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
I think!
Therefore, I am!
I am!
Therefore, I think!
I think I am!
The Big Lie
Jeff Davis | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
End US terror wars and US drug wars!
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Fighting Climate Change Means Ending War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
17 Jul 2019 – The “world’s greatest democracy” has morphed, over the course of my lifetime, into a money-driven military-industrial monstrosity, waging pointless wars, selling arms to the world, expanding its prison archipelago and generating endless wealth for the powerful — all the while insulated from public scrutiny by the mainstream propaganda industry, which shrugs and calls it all self-defense and situation normal as it serves up endless distractions to Spectator Nation.
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Will The Real Gene Sharp Please Step Forward?
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
16 Jul 201 – Recent criticisms calling the founder of nonviolent theory a Cold Warrior are way off the mark. To rightly evaluate him, we need to understand the role he chose for himself.
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The Ignominious Collapse of the Case against Actor Kevin Spacey
David Walsh | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
19 Jul 2019 – Cape and Islands District Attorney announced that his office was dropping its sexual assault case against prominent actor Kevin Spacey. The prosecution had little choice in the matter since the accuser in the case, William Little, refused to testify 10 days ago. Little, after consulting with his family and legal counsel, pleaded the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination, essentially bringing the pretrial hearing and the entire case to a halt.
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My Browser, the Spy: How Extensions Slurped Up Browsing Histories from 4M Users
Dan Goodin | Ars Technica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
18 Jul 2019 – Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public? Don’t trust extensions.
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Shoot to Maim: The Harvesting of Palestinian Bodies
Ghassan Abu-Sittah | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
After 30 years of working as a Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon with the injuries inflicted by the Israeli war machine on the bodies of Palestinians, I have been driven to try to understand the politics of injuring within the greater context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This journey culminated on the eve of the 14th of May 2018 (the move of the American Embassy to Jerusalem) when, over a period of 4 hours, 3,400 Palestinian demonstrators were wounded by Israeli troops, the majority of whom with high velocity sniper rifles.
→ read full articleHanging by a Thread
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
India has been home to a variety of arts and crafts which have won it a coveted place in the cultural heritage of the world. The weavers’ craft is threatened with extinction by power looms which offer a cheaper and faster way to produce the same goods; it can take weaver weeks to create what the machines can produce in a day. Moreover, machine products have a much sophisticated finish. As a result, many weavers’ clusters across the country are languishing.
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July 1995 Srebrenica Genocide: A Mirror for All Europeans
Dunja Mijatović | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
10 Jul 2019 – This happened with the complicity of a passive international community which knew what was happening but chose to look away. It took its final form in deliberate acts intended to destroy a group of people only because they were Muslims – before the unseeing eyes of those who did not feel concerned.
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James Cousins (22 Jul 1873 – 20 Feb 1956): An Effort of Synthesis
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
“From the total push and pressure of the Cosmos come the impulses of life that manifest themselves through desires (emotions) counsel (cognition) and works (action)…In other terms, the intuition flows through thoughts as truth, through feeling as beauty, through action as goodness.”
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Aldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become most specifically known to the public for his novels, and especially his fifth one, Brave New World, written in 1931 and published in 1932, which would delineate what the perfect dictatorship would look like. It would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.
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Required Reading: Noura Erakat on Palestine and Law
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, by Noura Erakat, Stanford University Press, 2019 – I make no claim to approach this book with an open mind. Making a fuller disclosure, I acknowledge with some pride that I have endorsed Justice for Some even before it was published, and my blurb appears on its back cover.
→ read full articleTwo Necessary and Sufficient Principles
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Life’s (humanity’s and the earth’s) bottleneck problems can be solved, I dare to suggest, by applying just two general principles. The two can be regarded as principles of unbounded organization. Unbounded organization is the name of a conversation, an academy and a movement (one of many, but not one that duplicates what the others do) devoted to making the impossible possible. Here I contribute to its conversation the proposal that implementing just two principles will make the impossible possible; namely, a pro-social attitude plus doing what works; or alternatively, a pro-social attitude plus structural understanding.
→ read full articleThieves
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Whatever…
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(Português) Djokovic diz que está se recuperando melhor desde que parou de se alimentar de animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
13 jul 2019 – O célebre tenista sérvio Novak Djokovic, número 1 do ranking mundial, disse esta semana que está se recuperando melhor desde que parou de se alimentar de animais há alguns anos. “Não tenho mais as alergias que eu costumava ter. Gosto disso”
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(Français) Twitter supprime le compte de l’organisation de défense d’Assange
Mike Head | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
15 juillet 2019 – Jeudi dernier, sans préavis ni explication, Twitter a arbitrairement suspendu le compte de @Unity4J, une plateforme dédiée à la diffusion d’informations et au plaidoyer pour le fondateur de WikiLeaks Julian Assange. Au moment d’écrire ces lignes, le compte a disparu depuis deux jours.
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