Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Films from India: Music, Dance, Entertainment, Nostalgia
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
The Indian film industry is perhaps the most popular in the world with its revenues today exceeding those of Hollywood. It makes movies in several Indian languages— Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu apart from Hindi.
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Psychiatrist’s Couch
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
A sick mind with delusions of greatness…
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Why Do They Hate Us? How the West Creates Its Own Enemies
Marco Carnelos | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
From ancient Greece onward, the West has used the Eastern other as an enemy through which to identify itself.
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There Is a Deeper, Darker Agenda Afoot as the US Cuts UNRWA Funding
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
The US State Department said on Friday [31 Aug] it would no longer continue its $360 million annual contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, depriving it of a third of its budget. The move follows an announcement last week that Washington had slashed $200 million from other aid programmes for the Palestinians. Refugees are the final loose end in forcing Palestinians to accept Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ peace plan.
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A Serious Warning about the Toxicity of Aluminum-Adjuvanted Vaccines–Especially for Infants and the Elderly
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
“Aluminum has long been identified as a neurotoxic metal, affecting memory, cognition and psychomotor control, altering neurotransmission and synaptic activity, damaging the blood–brain barrier (BBB), exerting pro-oxidant effects, activating microglia and neuroinflammation, depressing the cerebral glucose metabolism and mitochondrial functions, interfering with transcriptional activity, and promoting beta-amyloid and neurofilament aggregation. Aluminum adjuvants are currently used in vaccines against tetanus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, human papillomavirus, haemophilus influenzae B, pneumococcal and meningococcal infections, and anthrax.”
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Israel Advocate Ravich Named to Senior Intelligence Post, Planned US-Israel Cyber Project against BDS
If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
28 Aug 2018 – New deputy chair of the Intelligence Advisory Board, which helps shape U.S. intelligence policy, is Samantha Ravich–an Israel advocate who previously worked for AIPAC spinoff WINEP, was a senior advisor to pro-Israel FDD, senior advisor to the Chertoff Group. See video of her speech at Israel Bonds event, where she describes a cyber project that will combat BDS.
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Tourism, Democracy and Development in Nicaragua
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
25 Aug 2018 – An interview by Tortilla con Sal with Anasha Campbell, co-director of Nicaragua’s Tourist Institute. Tortilla con Sal: How do you feel about activity in Nicaragua’s tourist sector at the moment? What’s your main focus?
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The Rich Will Not Save Us
Rob Meiksins | Nonprofit Quarterly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
27 Aug 2018 – Philanthropic plutocracy is the use of donations from the ultra-wealthy to shift the overall allocation of resources in society. The philanthropy of today’s ultra-wealthy rests on a paradox of wanting to have a positive impact on society’s inequity but using money earned from businesses that take advantage of that very inequity to do so. Stiglitz argues that the rich will continue to use their wealth to maintain their power and that philanthropists are their enablers. Ultimately, it is up to civil society to intervene and build a more just and equitable economy if we want these patterns to change.
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The Paradox of the United Nations: Peace vs. Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
2 Sep 2018 – If we consider the purpose for which the United Nations was formed: “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” it is failing badly. This spring, when we hoped that the UN would convene a High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, the meeting was cancelled due to pressure from the United States and its allies.
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My Reflections on Pope Francis’ Visit to Ireland…
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
… and His Plea for Forgiveness of Victims for Church Clerical Sexual Abuse
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Mankind Must Know: The UN and Global Leaders are a Menace to Peace and Problem-Solving
Mahboob A Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Mankind is constantly victimized by the willful deceit of triumphalism of the few who use extreme rhetoric of peace and harmony but deliver nothing except self-serving fantasies and neglect of prevalent truth.
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(Français) Pourquoi Marx avait raison
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Août 2018 – Karl Marx naissait il y a 200 ans. Peu de penseurs ont autant influencé l’histoire que lui. Sa critique aiguë et radicale du capitalisme est aujourd’hui toujours actuelle : crises économiques, exploitation, les caractéristiques de l’état, la lutte des classes, le rôle de la classe ouvrière, la pensée écologiste, …
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US Southern Command Begins Joint Military Exercises in Colombia
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
30 Aug 2018 – In Colombia, 13 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Canada, and England participate today in the 58th edition of the joint military exercises known as “Unitas,” raising concern in neighboring Venezuela.
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(Português) Pesquisa Revela Que Muitos Consumidores Desconhecem a Real Violência por Trás da Carne Que Comem
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Sete de cada dez consumidores que participaram do estudo se mostraram chocados.
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Israel’s Dirty Arms Deals with Myanmar
Haaretz | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – A United Nations report issued this week found that the Myanmar military committed genocide and crimes against humanity, including rape, torture, enslavement, violence against children and the destruction of entire villages, against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. Such reports have not kept the Israeli government from cooperating with those war criminals.
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My Sweet Lord (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
George Harrison’s worldwide hit single from his brilliant All Things Must Pass album. Today, 3 Sep 2018, is celebration of Janmastami, the day Lord Krishna appeared on earth 5,000 years ago. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sweet Lord!
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Our Misbegotten Moon
Emanuel E Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
On the 50th anniversary of that “giant leap for mankind” this coming July 20, 2019, let’s see things for what they are and were: the greatest propaganda stunt of our age. It’s high time we opened our eyes. Since Apollo 17 was reputed to have flown to the moon in 1972 there have been no further manned landings. None. Nobody has gone back. And for good reason: it is not yet possible now, and it was certainly not possible then.
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Leprosy in Social Body
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Leprosy is primarily a disease of the nervous system, which has the effect that patients no longer feel pain.
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Has Microfinance Missed the Mark?
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
30 Aug 2018 – Microfinance continues to thrive despite being under fire from legions of critics. One plausible reason for the lingering faith in the power of microfinance is that it provides a convenient strategy for investors to demonstrate that they are active fighters against poverty and are trying to save the poor while making a substantial amount of money from them. It is built on a false belief that credit is the most vital need of the marginalized.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
“Mob protests in Germany show vigor of far right”, in Chemnitz. Neo-nazis. Nazism was about race–Bolshevism about class. Churchill about both–so it is probably skin color, not religion. As expected. There are difficult, bad times ahead.
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Gift?
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
No legend
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Another Hiroshima Day Has Passed
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
And there are still nuclear weapons in the world.
They are still on hair-trigger alert, weapons
with no concern for you or me or anyone.
Time for Provocative Mnemonic Aids to Systemic Connectivity?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
27 Aug 2018 – The challenge of the “headless hearts” to the “heartless heads” was used in an earlier argument as a means of framing the response to the refugee/migration crisis. The conclusion pointed to the possibility of new mnemonic aids to discourse, as developed here — possibly to be understood as an annex to that argument.
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(Français) La crise des Rohingya, un an après: un massacre planifié
Agnès Gruda | La Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
25 août 2018 – Il y a un an aujourd’hui, des combattants de la minorité musulmane des Rohingya ont tué 12 soldats birmans, donnant le prétexte à une campagne de répression qui a forcé plus de 700 000 personnes à fuir vers le Bangladesh voisin. Alors que la majorité de ces survivants s’entassent dans le plus grand camp de réfugiés de la planète, de plus en plus d’indices montrent que les massacres de l’automne dernier n’avaient absolument rien de spontané. Des similitudes frappantes avec ce qui s’était passé au Rwanda.
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(Italiano) Il neo–fascismo, ondata planetaria
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
13 agosto 2018 – Il fascismo è una derivazione del fondamentalismo portata all’estremo, con ampia tradizione in quasi tutte le culture. L’Occidente come uno dei più violenti fondamentalisti. Immagina che la sua cultura è la migliore del mondo, possiede la religione migliore l’unica vera, la miglior forma di governo, la democrazia, il migliore apparato tecnico scientifico che ha cambiato la faccia del pianeta e che ha dato la capacità di distruggere tutti gli esseri umani e parte della biosfera con le sue armi letali.
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21st Bloody Friday in Gaza
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
21 Aug 2018 – Since March 30, Palestinian Great March of Return demonstrations have been all about contesting Israel’s unlawful blockade of the Strip, along with denying them all their fundamental rights. Israeli forces lethally shot two Palestinians on Friday, injuring at least 270 others, scores from live fire—including 19 children and nine medics targeted for aiding the wounded.
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A Warning to Wannabe Pro-violence Fascist Tyrants (and Their Cult Followers): Don’t Disregard the “Living by the Sword–Dying by the Sword” Admonition
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Fascism emphasized action and heroism over intellectualism and philosophy. This is why Hitler’s ideal Aryan concept was a strong, handsome, and physically fit person rather than someone with a mind for civics. The other part of fascism was extreme patriotism, which is why each nation/group had its own fascist symbolism and mythology. “Put up your sword; for those who take up the sword will surely die by the sword”: Matthew 26:52
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Law Not War: Listen Very Carefully to Ben Ferencz
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 – Listen to 99-year old Ben Ferencz sharing his crystal clear perception of the human stupidity of war. He is the last surviving Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor and has thought more than probably anyone about the psychology and politics of evil. Ferencz is a staunch believer in abolishing wars as such and, of course, in nuclear weapons abolition.
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The Cell Phone and the Virgin (2018): A Montreal Odyssey
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Curtin’s primary odyssey was to try to unmask the true font of power in the contemporary world. The world had suffered a series of radical breaks with historical continuity and loss of identity with place, starting shortly after Adams was born in the mid-nineteenth century. Space and time had been contracted by the new technology. Adams had contemplated the dynamo. The computerized cell phone was its current symbol, and its evil twin the concentrated power of nuclear weapons. The modern mind had suffered severe dislocation and confusion.
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Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People
John W. Whitehead | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
21 Aug 2018 – These cases are legion. This is what a state of undeclared martial law looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely for not complying with a government agent’s order or not complying fast enough. This isn’t just happening in crime-ridden inner cities. It’s happening all across the country. America has been locked down. This is what it’s like to be a citizen of the American police state.
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Turn It around – Not an Impossible Dream
Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
A compelling mixture of stunning video images and music with an inspirational message of concern and hope for the future of our beloved planet Earth. Can we prevail? Watch and see.
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World Scholars, Artists, Activists Call for Demilitarization of Okinawa
Peace Philosophy Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
… We call on Prime Minister Abe to cancel forthwith the planned base construction for the US Marine Corps at Henoko and to open negotiations with the government of the United States towards drastically reducing, and eventually eliminating, the US military base presence on Okinawa…
(TO SIGNERS: Please email satoko@peacephilosophy.com your name and your brief title/affiliation)
How China’s Mobile Ecosystems Are Making Banks Obsolete
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018 – Giant Chinese tech companies have bypassed credit cards and banks to create their own low-cost digital payment systems.
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That Facebook Will Turn to Censoring the Left Isn’t a Worry—It’s a Reality
Alan MacLeod | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
22 Aug 2018 – That Facebook’s stated concern about stopping the spread of hate speech is genuine is challenged by the fact that the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party went to Facebook headquarters in Berlin in 2017 to discuss how it could use the platform for recruitment and for micro-targeting in the German elections.
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Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Myth and mysticism are resurgent. Brexit will enable Britons to “take back control”. Corporate tax cuts will lead to “jobs and growth”. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has a “clean bill of health”. Global warming is a “Chinese conspiracy”. None of these claims withstands more than a minute’s informed scrutiny, but that doesn’t dispel them because, as Trump’s lawyer, the former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, told NBC’s Meet The Press recently, “truth isn’t truth”.
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Japan Fleet Kills 177 Whales in Latest Hunt
Science X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
22 Aug 2018 – A fleet of Japanese whaling ships caught 177 minke and sei whales during a three-month tour of the northwestern Pacific. Japan is a signatory to the moratorium on whale hunting, but exploits a loophole which allows whales to be killed in the name of scientific research. It makes no secret of the fact that meat from the expeditions ends up on dinner tables.
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Liberal Internationalism: Peace, War and Democracy
Michael W. Doyle | Nobel Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Peace and democracy are just two sides of the same coin, it has often been said. In a speech before the British parliament in June of 1982, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed that governments founded on a respect for individual liberty exercise “restraint” and “peaceful intentions” in their foreign policy. He then, perhaps unaware of the contrast, announced a “crusade for freedom” and a “campaign for democratic development.”
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Declaration of Solidarity with Rohingya and Call for Myanmar Government to Be Investigated by the ICC
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
One young woman, Fatima (20), told us how Myanmar soldiers entered their village and came into her home. They shot her husband, made her carry her six month- old baby girl down to the lake where they threw the child into the pond and drowned her. They took Fatima back to her home; several soldiers held her down and constantly raped her until she became unconscious. They carried her outside to the field where they left her for dead. She was saved by an elderly Rohingya woman who helped her get across the border into Bangladesh. – Rohingya Genocide Day 25 Aug 2018
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Giving Birth to Happiness
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
As indicated, relatively poor countries of the world are giving birth to many children and it is estimated that on an average a woman gives birth to four or even five children.
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(Français) Comprendre les défis économiques du Venezuela
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
06 Août 2018 – La crise économique que traverse le Venezuela est-elle bien la preuve de la faillite de la révolution bolivarienne? Dans Les 7 péchés d’Hugo Chavez, Michel Collon analysait le défi qui se posait: rééquilibrer une économie basée sur la rente pétrolière et disposant de maigres secteurs agricole et industriel. Contrairement à certaines idées reçues, Chavez ne s’est pas contenté de distribuer l’argent du pétrole aux pauvres à travers des programmes sociaux. L’ancien président avait entrepris de jeter les bases nécessaires au développement d’une véritable économie nationale. Un processus toujours en cours, mais dont le chemin est semé d’embûches.
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The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish
Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – The American millenarian ‘myth’, then and now, was (and is), rooted in the fervent belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States, ‘the New Jerusalem’, to represent humanity’s best hope for a utopian future. This belief in a special destiny has been reflected in a conviction that the United States must lead – or more properly, has the duty to coerce – mankind toward that future. Pre-Socratic values: For the Ancients, the very notion of ‘man’, in that way, did not exist. There were only men: Greeks, Romans, barbarians, Syrians, and so on. This stands in obvious opposition to universal, cosmopolitan ‘man’.
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Distorting Past and Present: Reuters on Nicaragua’s Armed Uprising
Joe Emersberger | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018 – I examined 45 Reuters news articles about the uprising in Nicaragua since April 18, which are widely reprinted throughout English-language Western media as portrayed by corporate journalism. The story conveyed by Reuters is that the Sandinista government is opposed to democracy and human rights in Nicaragua, while the US government supports these things. But a closer look at the picture reveals numerous distortions about Nicaragua’s past and present.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Is Most Polished Mouthpiece of Myanmar Military
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
25 Aug 2018 – Free Rohingya Coalition co-founder Maung Zarni, a member of the TRANSCEND Network, says time to reject false messiahs in Myanmar beginning with Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
25 Aug 2018 – Headlining “Terrorists readying chemical attack to frame Damascus & provide pretext for US strikes” RT reported on Sat 25 Aug that “The US and its allies are preparing new airstrikes on Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding that militants are poised to stage a chemical weapons attack in order to frame Damascus and provide a pretext for the strikes.”
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Burma/Myanmar: Shameful Anniversary Highlights Lack of Accountability for Atrocities against Rohingya
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018 – World leaders’ failure to act has allowed the Myanmar security forces’ perpetrators of crimes against humanity to remain at large for a year after their murderous campaign against the Rohingya prompted an exodus of epic proportions. More than 700,000 Rohingya women, men, and children fled from northern Rakhine State to neighbouring Bangladesh after 25 August 2017, when the Myanmar security forces launched a widespread as well as systematic assault on hundreds of Rohingya villages.
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India’s Changing Health Discourse
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Inclusive growth is now perhaps the strongest buzzword in development discourse. We have all been talking about growth without understanding that development interventions will not be effectual if they don’t benefit all sections of society. The illusion of trickle-down and ripple-effects of growth had kept us on the wrong track for quite long.
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(Português) Forças Armadas da Finlândia oferecem refeições vegetarianas em todos os quartéis
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
22 agosto 2018 – As Forças Armadas da Finlândia estão oferecendo refeições ovolactovegetarianas e vegetarianas em todos os quartéis do país. Atualmente, todas as guarnições da Finlândia atendem às necessidades de vegetarianos e veganos.
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One Love | Song around the World
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
From the award-winning documentary, Playing for Change: Peace through Music, comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao. This tribute to the legend is performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.
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Cox’s Bazar: The World’s Largest Refugee Settlement
Kristine Kolstad | Norwegian Refugee Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
24 Aug 2018 – In August of last year, extreme violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes. One year has passed, and around 725,000 refugees from Myanmar have sought safety in neighbouring Bangladesh, according to the UNHCR.
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A ‘Regime’ Is a Government at Odds with the US Empire
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – A country’s political leaders are likely to be called a “regime” when they do not follow US dictates, and are less likely to be categorized as such if they cooperate with the empire. Calling a government a “regime” suggests a lack of legitimacy, with the implication that its ousting would serve humanitarian and democratic ends; it’s no accident that the phrase is “regime change,” not “government change” or “administration change.”
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
When God created the various countries, he used some balance; each country got some advantages and some disadvantages.
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Necessary Illusions – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, the film explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. The film is light on its feet, favoring a style that encourages viewers to question its own workings, as Chomsky himself encourages his listeners to extricate themselves from the “web of deceit” by undertaking a course of “intellectual self-defense.”
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Trade Wars: Is There an Off-Ramp?
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
That an economic world war has already started is beyond dispute. Between the sanctions imposed on several countries and prohibitive tariffs inflicted on friends and foes alike most are warning against a catastrophe, not just for those directly involved, but the world generally.
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A Glass of Milk
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
As a poor student, Howard Kelly supported himself by selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door. It did not always go well.
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Uri Avnery, TRANSCEND Member and Israeli Activist for a Palestinian State, Dead at 94
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – Uri Avnery, a self-confessed former “Jewish terrorist” who went on to become Israel’s best-known peace activist, died in Tel Aviv today, following a stroke. He was 94.
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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Kimberlye Kowalczyk and Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Presentation on Peace Journalism at Point of Peace Summit in Stavanger, Norway
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The Language Is Dangerous – Communicating Is Remedying
Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Freud, Nietzsche, Barthes, and so many others regarded language as dangerous. The Freudian slip, the transvaluation of values, the semiotics, in short, the meanings that follow, leap and sneeze from the spoken make clear the danger that exists in language as an expression of what one wishes to communicate.
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(Français) Proche conseiller d’Obama, Ben Rhodes reconnait que les Etats-Unis ont armé les jihadistes en Syrie
Tyler Durden | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Août 2018 – Quelqu’un a finalement osé demander à des officiels du gouvernement Obama d’assumer leur responsabilité dans l’aide à Daesh et l’armement des jihadistes en Syrie. Au cours d’un large entretien intitulé « Examen des conséquences de la politique étrangère d’Obama », l’analyste Mehdi Hasan pose la question à Ben Rhodes, longtemps conseiller national à la sécurité à la Maison Blanche sous Obama.
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U.S. to Cut US$ 200m Aid to Gaza and West Bank
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
24 Aug 2018 – US President Donald Trump has ordered more than US$200m in economic aid which was to be allocated to Gaza and the West Bank be redirected elsewhere. A State Department official said the decision was made after a review “to ensure these funds are spent in accordance with US national interests”.
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Genocide of the Greek Nation
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
21 Aug 2018 – The political and media cover-up of the genocide of the Greek Nation began yesterday (August 20) with European Union and other political statements announcing that the Greek Crisis is over. What they mean is that Greece is over, dead, and done with. It has been exploited to the limit, and the carcass has been thrown to the dogs.
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Camilo Mejía Analyzes the Soft Coup Attempt in Nicaragua
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
24 Aug 2018 – The first video showed opposition activists torturing a Sandinista supporter under the oversight of a Catholic priest and the remains of a Sandinista burned alive. A second video showed a statement from an American who has lived in Nicaragua for many years. He described how gangs had invaded his town, set up road blocks, intimidated and abused local civilians. He described the joy of the community when the roadblocks were removed and masked “protesters” departed.
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Myanmar: Tatmadaw Leaders Must Be Investigated for Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes – UN Report
UH Human Rights Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
27 Aug 2018 – “Military necessity would never justify killing indiscriminately, gang raping women, assaulting children, and burning entire villages. The Tatmadaw’s tactics are consistently and grossly disproportionate to actual security threats. They are shocking for the level of denial, normalcy and impunity. The State Counsellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has not used her de facto position as Head of Government, nor her moral authority, to stem or prevent the unfolding events in Rakhine State,” the report states.
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Gaza: Genocidal Prison & Torture Chamber–Israeli Apartheid Worse than Slavery
Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
21st Century Horror Story – Worse than Nazi Germany
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Israel to Build 650 New Settlement Units in West Bank
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
22 Aug 2018 – Israel announced yesterday plans to build 650 new settler units in the central West Bank, according to Hebrew-language daily Israel Hayom. The new housing units will be built in the Jewish-only Beit El settlement, which is located adjacent to the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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Systematic Humanitarian Blackmail via Aquarius?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Confronting Europe with a Humanitarian Trojan Horse – Challenge of the “headless hearts” to the “heartless heads”?
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A Distant Flickering Light: The Hibakusha Peace Movement (Part 2)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – An Interview with Kazuyo Yamane, Associate Professor of Peace Studies (retired) Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan – Is the Hibakusha Peace Movement fading? Why or why not?
→ read full articleThe 73rd Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki: Unwelcome Truths for Church and State
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
“What the Japanese Imperial government could not do in 250 years of persecution (i.e., destroy Japanese Christianity) American Christians did in mere seconds.”
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Rohingyas Declare Their Crime as GENOCIDE: Join Them in Their Radical Act
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
16 Aug 2018 – One fundamentally misguided thinking regarding genocides and atrocity crimes is this: only the UN-supported judicial process and lawyers can determine what is and what is not genocide. I for one reject any neo-colonial thinking that looks to powerful politicians and networks to call atrocity crimes by their names.
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It Is Confusing, but I Dream
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
12 Aug 2018 – “It is dark, but I sing because tomorrow will come”, poet Thiago de Mello proclaimed in the somber epoch of the 1964 civil-military dictatorship in Brazil. “It is confusing but I dream”, I say in these, no less somber, times. No one can take our dreams away. Dreams anticipate the future and announce the tomorrow.
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Charlie Chaplin’s much Celebrated ‘The Great Dictator’ Speech
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Inspirational speech given by silent comedian Charlie Chaplin in his famous movie, The Great Dictator.
→ read full articleSeeds of Discontent
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Small farmers are the key to ending poverty and hunger and promoting sustainable development. In India, small and marginal farmers—those who work on less than two hectares (five acres) of land—constitute 80 percent of all farm households, 50 percent of rural households and 36 percent of the total of all households. Sadly, the plight of these farmers is very distressing.
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Beautiful, Peace Loving Elephants and the Challenges They Face
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
As the environment gets polluted and jungles get destroyed due to economic and development reasons, these huge animals are losing their sanctuaries and habitats. Should we not put a stop to this challenge being faced by these noble and beautiful creatures?
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Rufus Jones
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Rufus Jones (1863-1948), an American Quaker, who helped found the American Friends Service Committee in 1917, went to England after World War I to try and help with the reconstruction.
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Japanese Emperor’s Remorse and Efforts to Make Amends for His Father’s War
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – Akihito is carrying a huge and unbearable cross on his shoulders, created by his father, Hirohito. Akihito cannot avoid carrying it. He has been carrying it for decades. I am impressed by his courageous and sincere attitude. It is difficult to overcome one’s fear, caused by possible physical danger, for instance. It is far more difficult to overcome one’s ego and pride to accept the supreme political and moral responsibility for the sufferings of peoples, caused by the war that was declared by his father.
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Google Tracks Your Movements, Like It or Not
Ryan Nakashima | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 — An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so. Computer-science researchers at Princeton confirmed these findings at the AP’s request.
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Israel Again Tests Chemical Weapons on Gaza Protesters
Ariyana Love | Occupy Palestine TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
15 Aug 2018 – The Israeli Occupation has once again tested strange new and unknown weapons on civilians protesting the illegal siege on Gaza, at the separation barrier fence last Friday. Below is video footage of this new weapon technology. Have you seen anything like this before?
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O! Jericho
Farid Bitar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Into by Gary Corseri: My decade-long poet/writer-friend, Farid Bitar, sent me A BLADE OF GRASS, a fine anthology of new Palestinian poetry from 10 poets of the diaspora. A splendid enticement to explore the poems and to understand the suffering and yearning of these disenfranchised Semitic people.
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Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Laureate and Former UN Chief, Dead at 80
Kofi Annan Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Kofi Annan, the only black African to become UN Secretary-General, has died.
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Carr Fire Catastrophe, Front-Line Footage
Dane Wigington | GeoEngineering Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
10 Aug 2018 – The global climate engineering assault continues to be ramped up, geoengineering operations are mathematically the greatest and most immediate threat we collectively face. Though there are countless forms of anthropogenic damage to the biosphere and climate system, in regard to the off the scale increases in wildfires, and in regard to the unprecedented fire behavior, geoengineering is the core causal factor.
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(Castellano) El neo-fascismo, ola mundial
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
12 agosto 2018 – El fascismo es una derivación extrema del fundamentalismo que tiene una larga tradición en casi todas las culturas. El Occidente imagina que su cultura es la mejor del mundo, que tiene la mejor religión, la única verdadera, la mejor forma de gobierno, la democracia, la mejor tecnociencia, que ha cambiado la faz del planeta y que le ha conferido la capacidad de destruir a todos los seres humanos y parte de la biosfera con sus armas letales.
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Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
While the author has at times felt being “on top of the world”, he cannot claim any personal experience of “life at the top”. However, being a keen witness and a dogged student, the common idea of “top” fascinates him. After all, a crazed race to “the top” inevitably leads to injustice, crime and war. But anyone obsessed with “reaching the top” can provide only a self-serving report of his or her life. Therefore an objective if light-hearted study is attempted here.
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Releasing My North Korean Documentary Film to My Readers
Andre Vltchek — TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
The Faces of North Korea
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Remembering Rohingya Genocide on 25 August 2018
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Free Rohingya Coalition, a global network of Rohingya and non-Rohingya activists and advocates, are planning to commemorate 25 August 2018 as the “Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day”. On this day, Myanmar Tatmadaw or the Armed Forces launched the largest scale mass killing, rape and arson to date.
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Global Heatwave Is Symptom of Early Stage Cycle of Civilisational Collapse
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. | INSURGE Intelligence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018 – The extreme weather events of the summer of 2018 are not just symptoms of climate breakdown. They are early stage warnings of a protracted process of civilisational collapse as industrial societies face some of the opening symptoms of having already breached the limits of a safe climate. These events are a taste of things to come on a business-as-usual trajectory.
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A Writer’s Last Port of Call: V.S. Naipaul
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
V. S. Naipaul, the Nobel winning author who just died, was, like so many people, an enigma, at least in his writing. He once said that fiction never lies, and while this may or may not be true, it is true that writers whose politics one may find repulsive can also, despite their conscious intentions, write books that glow with an extraordinary prose luminescence that mesmerizes and reveals deep insights.
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10 Tons of Mail That Had Been Blocked by Israel for Up To 8 Years Arrives in Palestinian Territories
VOA News | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
14 Aug 2018 – Palestinian postal service employees are working overtime, Palestinian officials said today. The parcels, dating from between 2010 and this year, had been prevented by Israel from entering the West Bank via Jordan but were released in a one-time deal, the officials said. The goods range from simple letters to medicine and even wheelchairs for the disabled.
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‘Defend the People, Not the States’, Says Outgoing UN Human Rights Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
15 Aug 2018 – For four years, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been taking governments across the world to task, publicly naming and shaming States which have fallen short of their human rights obligations.
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Hawaii Aloha (Music Video of the Week)
Various Singers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Local artists including Cyril Pahinui, Imua Garza, Paula Fuga, and Kuana Torres Kahele join more than 1,000 Hawaii keiki (children) in this rendition of a timeless Hawaiian anthem filmed on location on Kauai.
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Drifting Away from Peace
Sajjad Hussain | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
According to a new study, peaceful countries are getting more peaceful while the violent are getting more violent.
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Drugged Waters – How Modern Medicine Is Turning into an Environmental Curse
UN Environment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
The aquatic and human health consequences of pharmaceutical drugs entering the environment through wastewater treatment plants is not yet well understood.
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Gaza, Palestine
Farr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
No comment necessary, possible…
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Forget about GDP: It’s Time for a Wellbeing Economy
Kate Pickett | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
“The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” – Presidential candidate Sen. Robert Kennedy, 1968
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Mission Accomplished: Why Solidarity Boats to Gaza Succeed Despite Failing to Break the Siege
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
15 Aug 2018 – Between 2008 and 2016, 31 boats have sailed to Gaza from many destinations, all intercepted, their cargo seized and their passengers mistreated. The most tragic of these incidents was in May 2010 when the Israeli navy attacked the “Mavi Marmara” ship killing ten activists and wounding many more. Even then, the stream of solidarity boats continued to arrive, not only unhindered by the fear of Israeli retribution, but also stronger in their resolve.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
How is it possible that TMS is in New Delhi? Have Prof. Johan Galtung and Editor Antonio C S Rosa decided to move from Alicante and Porto, respectively, to Delhi?
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(Português) Quando Tolstói condenou a caça e a exploração de mão de obra animal
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
“O primeiro passo para reduzir essa dependência é não comer animais e não viajar sobre eles, mas sim a pé”.
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UN Chief Proposes Armed Peacekeeping Force to Protect Palestinians
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
18 Aug 2018 – Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, proposed Friday [17 Aug] a United Nations-led armed international mission to defend Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza from the Israeli army.
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Kerala Flood Is Thousands of Times the Magnitude of Thai Cave Rescue!
Binu Mathew | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
18 Aug 2018 – The international community that stood as one to save the Thai kids should wake up to the disaster in Kerala. Tens of thousands of people are stranded in remote areas, in the upper floors of the houses, on trees and even on roof tops. Dead bodies are floating around in flood waters. And nobody moves. The support of UN disaster management team should be sought.
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Inside Facebook’s Myanmar Operation: Hatebook
Steve Stecklow | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
15 Aug 2018 – A Reuters Special Report – Why Facebook Is Losing the War on Hate Speech in Myanmar: Reuters found more than 1,000 examples of posts, comments and pornographic images attacking the Rohingya and other Muslims on Facebook. A secretive operation set up by the social media giant to combat the hate speech is failing to end the problem.
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How Has the Declaration of Human Rights Changed the World?
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 – This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. How has it changed the world as we know it? In 1948 the Declaration was signed to prevent the horrors of WWII from re-occurring. It set up human rights standards for all and is the world’s most translated document, in over 500 languages.
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The ‘Gig Economy’ Is the New Term for Serfdom
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
The corporate capitalist elites, which have seized control of ruling institutions including the government and destroyed labor unions, are re-establishing the inhumane labor conditions that characterized the 19th and early 20th centuries. They want everyone to be temp workers trapped in demeaning, low-paying, part-time, service-sector jobs without job security or benefits.
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