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(Français) Brésil: le suprémaciste Steve Bannon, ami public commun de Bolsonaro & Marine Le Pen
Smail Hadj Ali | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Interrogée sur Bolsonaro le jeudi 11 octobre Mme Le Pen a été d’une grande clarté sur ce candidat de l’extrême droite brésilienne : « Dès que quelqu’un dit quelque chose de déplaisant, il est d’extrême droite dans les médias français. Je ne vois pas ce qui en l’occurrence fait de M. Bolsonaro un candidat d’extrême droite”.
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Women’s Critical Role in the Food Chain
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
15 OCTOBER is the U.N. designated INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMEN. It is a day in which to highlight the need to increase food production, especially in those countries that face a persistent food deficit. There is a need to increase production, create better storage methods to prevent post-harvest loss, and improve distribution methods.
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Wasting Food in a Hungry World
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
WORLD FOOD DAY: 16 OCTOBER – India produces enough food to meet the needs of its entire population, and has at its disposal arable land that has the potential to produce food surplus for export. Yet, it is unable to feed millions of its people. It ranks 100th among 119 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2017, where it has consistently ranked poorly.
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Cognitive Embodiment of Nature “Re-cognized” Systemically
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Part III of Collapse and Renaissance of Civilization: Dilemma of Communication and Engagement Understood Otherwise – The argument here is that, rather than depending on authorities anxious to ensure that their particular worldview is faithfully reproduced in any Renaissance (however ineffectually), individuals may in effect be free to adopt and test alternative modalities at will.
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Kavanaugh Hearing on Saturday Night Live with Matt Damon
SNL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Matt Damon Kills It as Kavanaugh – Have a laugh!
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(Français) La solution souffle dans le vent
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
7 octobre 2018 – Je suis tombé sur an article à propos de deux réunions le même jour aux Nations Unies sur les armes nucléaires. Les principaux États nucléaires (États-Unis, France, Royaume-Uni, Chine et Russie) se sont tous rendus à la réunion sur la non-prolifération et ils ont boycotté ainsi la réunion sur le désarmement! Comme l’article le conclut à juste titre, les États nucléaires “n’accordent pas de priorité à leur obligation d’éliminer leurs propres armes de destruction massive, mais se concentrent plutôt sur l’empêchement des autres d’acquérir de telles armes”.
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(Français) Les empreintes digitales de la CIA sont sur l’élection au Brésil
Marcelo Zero | Brasil Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
La montée du fascisme bolsonarien dans la dernière ligne droite de la campagne présidentielle*, suralimentée par une avalanche de fausses informations disséminées sur Internet, n’est pas surprenante. C’est une vieille tactique développée par les agences de renseignement américaines et britanniques dans le but de manipuler l’opinion publique et d’influencer les processus politiques et les élections. Elle a été utilisée en Ukraine, dans le Printemps arabe et au Brésil en 2013. Il y a de la science derrière cette manipulation.
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(Français) Impérialisme et Fascisme
Kurt Gossweiler | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Le fascisme, au même titre que l’impérialisme, est un phénomène international.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
The mass media could mobilize us to action, but they have failed in their duty. Our educational systems could also wake us up and make us act, but they too have failed us. The battle to save the earth from human greed and folly has to be fought in the alternative media. The alternative media, and all who work with them deserve both our gratitude and our financial support. They alone can correct the distorted and incomplete picture of the world that we obtain from the mass media. They alone can show us the path to a future in which our children, grandchildren, and all future generations can survive.
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A Nobel Prize-Winning Cancer Therapy Will Be Unaffordable for Most. Public Pharmaceuticals Can Help Change That.
Dana Brown | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
9 Oct 2018 – Cuba has, perhaps, the most developed public pharmaceutical sector in the world and is actually known for its achievements in biologics. It nationalized the pharmaceutical sector in 1960 and consolidated a number of pharmaceutical manufacturing companies under the auspices of the Ministry of Health. By 2013, the Cuban biotechnology industry held around 1,200 international patents and was marketing pharmaceutical products and vaccines in more than 50 countries.
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No Joke…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
… and, we promise we are not savages.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report #13 (Oct 2018)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
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My Way (Music Video of the Week)
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
The Voice of the 20th Century – Composition: Paul Anka
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Iranian-Saudi Detente Could Transform the Region but US Power Is There to Prevent It
Finian Cunningham – RT,
15 Oct 2018
10 Oct 2018 – The rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has for decades roiled the Middle East with sectarian conflict, instability and war. Thinking about how the region would look if these two powerhouses normalized relations is intriguing. But, sadly, such an outcome is unrealistic. American power and Saudi rulers are a symbiotic scourge on the region, which, shamefully, will never permit restoration of relations with Iran. Peaceful relations may only come when American and Saudi power are democratized.
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(Português) Filmagem denuncia bezerros criados em pequenas gaiolas e cobertos de fezes
Julia Cortezia - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
15 Oct 2018
Por trás da indústria de laticínios: filmagens de fazenda da Califórnia mostram como animais estão sendo criados no local – condições desumanas
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Palestine: Transfer Anxiety and the Anxiety of Alternatives
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018 – A state of anxiety prevails among the Palestinians, a situation that stems from two sources: the first: the escalation and acceleration of the annexation and its procedures, the growing fear of official annexation to Israel and expulsion to abroad; and the second: concern over the vague Palestinian responses to what is happening.
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“On Company Business” – A Documentary about the CIA
Kim Scipes | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
30 Sep 2018 – There is a new version of a 1980 film on the CIA called On Company Business. It is a history of the CIA told by men and one woman who have worked there and later turned against it. There is a lot of amazing real-time video included.
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As Interventions Go…
Latuff – MintPress News,
15 Oct 2018
The Fact of the Matter
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Global Warming Report, an ‘Ear-Splitting Wake-Up Call’ Warns UN Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
A special report on limiting global warming released on Monday [8 Oct] by a UN scientific panel, should be heard around the world as an “ear-splitting wake-up call” said UN chief António Guterres. He said the long-awaited findings show that “climate change is running faster than we are – and we are running out of time.”
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Vatican Conference on Peace Journalism: Empathy, Not Only Sympathy
Francesca Merlo – Vatican News,
15 Oct 2018
13 Oct 2018 – Four peace journalists spoke today in an International Conference on “Peace Journalism”, at the Vatican. Professor Johan Galtung, the creator of the concept and one of the speakers, defines PJ as “editors and reporters making choices – about what to report, and how to report it – that create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value nonviolent responses to conflict.”
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Gutless Wonders
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
A chief aim of political or business propaganda is to put ‘common people’ in doubt about their own judgement – and thereby to make them dependent on the judgement of ‘the elites’. Throughout history, it has been a cunning political and business strategy to induce – through ceaseless propaganda – an inferiority complex amongst ‘common people’.
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Brazil’s Neo-Liberal Fascist Road to Power
James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
10 Oct 2018 – The decisive electoral victory of far-right Brazilian presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro startled politicians and analysts of the traditional parties of the left and right. The possible implications for the present and near future raises a number of fundamental questions whether it represents a ‘model’ for other countries or is the result of the specific circumstances of Brazil.
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Israeli PM’s Wife Goes on Trial in Delivery Meals Case
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara appeared in court today for the first hearing in the fraud trial against her, in which she is alleged to have misused state funds in ordering catered meals.
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The Pentagon’s Insect Army
Manlio Dinucci – Global Research,
15 Oct 2018
10 Oct 2018 – Swarms of insects, transporting genetically modified infectious viruses, attack the agricultural crops of a country and destroy its food production – this is not a science-fiction scenario, but a plan that is actually being prepared by DARPA, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Amazon Atlas
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
11 Oct 2018 – Today, WikiLeaks publishes a “Highly Confidential” internal document from the cloud computing provider Amazon. It lists the addresses and some operational details of over one hundred data centers spread across fifteen cities in nine countries. To accompany this document, WikiLeaks also created a map showing where Amazon’s data centers are located. Amazon is the leading cloud provider for the United States intelligence community.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
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The CIA Finger in Brazil’s Elections
Marcelo Zero | Brasil Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
5 Oct 2018 – The growth of Bolsonarian fascism in the final stretch of the election campaign, turbo charged by an avalanche of fake news disseminated on the internet, is not surprising. It is an old tactic developed by American and British intelligence agencies, with the goal of manipulating public opinion and influencing political processes and elections. It was used in the Ukraine, in the Arab Spring and in Brazil in 2013. There is science behind this manipulation.
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Dogs as Teachers
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
If dogs were our teachers, we would learn:
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Trump’s Idea of World Order Endangers the Human Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
This is an interview with Daniel Falcone that was published in slightly modified form in Counterpunch on October 4, 2018. Question: What are your general thoughts on Trump’s recent UN talk and how world opinion received it?
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Transformational Journey – John F. Kennedy’s Turning toward Peace
David T. Ratcliffe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
In 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy gave the commencement address to the graduating class at American University. Saturday Review editor Norman Cousins summed up the significance of that remarkable speech: “At American University on June 10, 1963, President Kennedy proposed an end to the Cold War.” Khrushchev called the American University Address “the greatest speech by any American President since Roosevelt.”
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16 Science-Based Health Benefits of Probiotics
Katie Stone, ND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Probiotics are a type of beneficial bacteria that live in your gut. They’re actually a very important part of your immune system; 70 percent of your immune system cells reside in your gut! Many of the scientific studies on probiotics show that they can provide positive changes for those with food allergies, behavioral disorders, mood changes, autoimmune disease, arthritis, chronic fatigue, skin disorders, and even cancer. That’s why a probiotic-rich diet is so valuable.
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Roche Presents Reasons to Hope for Peace in the World: Herr Lectures
Ashli Barrett – The Lacombe Globe [Canada],
15 Oct 2018
11 Oct 2018 – It may be easy to get jaded by happenings around the world but Douglas Roche, an author, former parliamentarian and senator, and UN Disarmament Committee chair, believes there are signs more peaceful times are ahead.
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I Love Therefore I Am!
Koozma J. Tarasoff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
The Evolution of Homo Sapiens
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(Português) Brasil: A democracia diante do abismo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
10 out 2018 – Há momentos na vida em que temos que escolher de que lado politicamente nos colocamos. Ou do lado da democracia que respeita as liberdades, permite a manifestação dos cidadãos. Ou do lado de quem a nega, exalta a ditadura militar de 1964, magnifica seus torturadores, que, segundo ele, nem deviam torturar, mas simplesmente fuzilar, …
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Stop Measuring Obesity with a Ruler: We’ve Discovered a Far Better Predictor of Health
Tim Spector – The Conversation,
15 Oct 2018
11 Oct 2018 – For over a century, we have relied on a simplistic measure to determine if someone is a “healthy” weight or not. This is the body mass index, the ratio of a person’s weight to the square of their height. The limits of this ratio are clearly demonstrated by professional rugby players; most of whom would be classified as “overweight”, despite having less than 10% body fat.
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Buddhist Dhammapada — Seeking Happiness, Nirvana, Enlightenment
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
A collection of verses dealing with various human aspects are contained in a Buddhist collection called Dhammapada. These verses written in Pali language, were compiled about 2,600 years ago, are part of the Buddhist scripture Tipitaka, which literally means three baskets.
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The World Decries Myanmar’s Rohingya Abuses – Myanmar’s Reply: Denial, Defiance and Propaganda
Shibani Mahtani – The Washington Post,
15 Oct 2018
9 Oct 2018 — The Myanmar government and military has held firm to the explanation that their operation in Rakhine state was provoked by Rohingya militant attacks on police posts, but reports from both the United Nations and State Department indicate a degree of premeditation and coordination.
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“Pinochet via Fujimori”: Wall Street’s New Man in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro
Brasil Wire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
“No room for feelings” say Wall Street insiders as they back another Neofascist to deliver Neoliberalism, at the point of a gun, in the most resource-rich nation on earth.
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Good Bye, Gandhi!
L K Sharma | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Writing on Gandhi in an India stricken by faux patriotism and jingoism causes gloom. A poem in Indian English provides an antidote.
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Global Warming of 1.5 °C
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
8 Oct 2018 – An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
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(Português) Como podemos subestimar o sofrimento de um animal reduzido a comida?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
O ser humano é embrutecido pela naturalização do destino terrível dos animais que são colocados à nossa mesa.
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To Fix the Climate Crisis We Must Face Up to Our Imperial Past
Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
8 Oct 2018 – It’s time to join the dots between our overlapping crises of – and shared solutions to – environmental degradation, damaged health, racial oppression and gender injustice.
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Feeding 10 Billion People by 2050 within Planetary Limits May Be Achievable
Stockholm Resilience Centre | Science X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
10 Oct 2018 – A global shift toward healthy and more plant-based diets, halving food loss and waste and improving farming practices and technologies are required to feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050. The study, led by University of Oxford, was published in the journal Nature.
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(Français) «Hollywood Propaganda»: La fabrication du consentement au cinéma
Laurent Dauré | Les Crises – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
8 octobre 2018 – La publication d’Hollywood propaganda de Matthew Alford est assurément la bienvenue, tant les travaux récents sur le pouvoir idéologique du cinéma américain sont rares en français, a fortiori quand il est question de la politique étrangère des États-Unis et des guerres qui lui sont consubstantielles. Pour la première fois un ouvrage analyse de façon approfondie et documentée ce soft power au service de l’hégémonie américaine, passant en revue des dizaines de films sortis depuis le début des années 1990.
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Insightfulness and Palestine
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
14 Oct 2018 – Observing the evolution of the Palestinian solidarity movement and the growing influence of Jewish bodies within this movement has provided me with the opportunity to monitor a spectacular anti-insightful operation. For many years I have wondered why the Palestinian solidarity discourse is uniquely anti-intellectual. It basically jettisons critical thinking and acts instead from a rigid activism manual.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Engaging with Otherness Otherwise? – Part III of ‘Collapse and Renaissance of Civilization: Dilemma of Communication and Engagement Understood Otherwise’
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Rethinking Nuclearism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – More than thirty years ago I applied the term ‘nuclearism’ to the association between the hardware dimensions of the weaponry and their various software dimensions ranging from strategic doctrine to the infatuations of powerful men with their awesome destructive capabilities.
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John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that should have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
—John Lennon
Noam Chomsky: Facebook and Google Pose a Manifest Danger
Jacob Sugarman | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
1 Oct 2018 – In “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” (1988), authors Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky identified what they called the “five filters of editorial bias”: Size, Ownership and Profit Orientation; the Advertising License to Do Business; Sourcing Mass Media News; Flak and the Enforcers; and Anti-Communism.
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U.S. Ends 1955 Treaty with Iran, After U.N. Court Orders a Partial Lift of Sanctions
Bill Chappell | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – The U.N.’s top court gave a partial victory to Iran today saying the U.S. “must remove” sanctions that could stop food, medical supplies and other humanitarian products from entering Iran. In response, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that because of continuing disputes with Iran, “I am therefore announcing today that the United States is terminating the Treaty of Amity with Iran” — referring to the 1955 treaty that laid out economic relations between the two countries.
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India: Why Don’t We Talk More about Mental Health?
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
World Mental Health Day – 10 October 2018
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(Français) Le désespoir de Gandhi et la lutte pour la vérité et l’amour
Robert J Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
«Quand je désespère, je me souviens qu’au cours de toute l’histoire, les moyens de vérité et d’amour ont toujours gagnés. Il y a eu des tyrans et des meurtriers et ils peuvent sembler invincibles, mais à la fin, ils s’effondrent toujours. Pensez-y – toujours.» — M.K. Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi — An Icon of Truth, Amity, Nonviolence and Cleanliness
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The Indian government is active in construction of toilets and encouraging the private corporate sector towards this objective. Several NGOs are also helping in the mammoth task of construction and maintenance of millions of toilets in homes, public places, in schools, etc.
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Suu Kyi and Nobel Laureates
Saudi Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
8 Oct 2018 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee and Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi were very much in the news last week for two reasons. First, the committee announced this year’s NPP winners: Nadia Murad of Iraq and Denis Mukwege of Congo. Second, the announcement by the Nobel Foundation that Suu Kyi’s Peace Prize will not be withdrawn as demanded by many people around the world including some Nobel Peace Laureates.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate) Aung San Suu Kyi Exclusive Interview
NHK World Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – In an exclusive with NHK in Tokyo today, she said, “I don’t care about the prizes and honors as such. I’m sorry that friends are not as steadfast as they might be. Because I think friendship means understanding, basically, trying to understand rather than to just make your own judgement, but prizes come and prizes go.”
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It Is Liberalism That Has Helped Sow the Seeds of Illiberalism
Mike Wayne | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Liberalism has lost its way because it has forgotten its own history, and the left seems similarly blindsided.
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Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Oct 2018
Autistic Crying Wolf
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U.S. Military Project Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn
NBC News | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
4 Oct 2018 – A research arm of the U.S. military is exploring the possibility of deploying insects to make plants more resilient by altering their genes. Some experts say the work may be seen as a potential biological weapon.
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman | Short Documentary
John Perkins | Zeitgeist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Many North Europeans think Greece and Europe are in crisis because the Greeks lived more luxuriously than they could afford. The truth is far from that. I can tell with certainty, Greece is not paying for its thoughtlessness. Greece is under the attack of economic hitmen. And I’m afraid so is the whole Europe, country after country.
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The Suffocation of Democracy
Christopher R. Browning | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
25 Oct 2018 – As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.
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Syria’s No-Fly Zone
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – There is then no room for doubt that Russia’s promise to bolster the security of her interests in Syria is about accomplishing a no-fly zone over most of Syria, if not all of it.
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Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Hannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
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Five Concrete Measures Can End Rohingya Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Five steps can be taken towards achieving justice, repatriation and the rebuilding of Rohingya communities in Myanmar.
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Global Wealth Concentration: The Global Power Elite Drive Amazon Share Value to a Trillion Dollars
Peter Phillips | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Exciting news for capitalism was the recent achievement of trillion-dollar value for both Amazon and Apple, making them the first corporations to obtain such a lofty status. Amazon’s skyrocketing growth makes its CEO, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person with a $160 billion net worth.
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Algorithm’s Going to Get You: The Mysterious Rules of Social Media Lead to a Strange Place
Simon Rite – RT,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – I make my living online, where ‘The Algorithm’ is the essential tool that no one really knows how to use. In essence it’s the ever changing set of rules the big online companies like Google programme into their systems to decide who sees what in their search results and timelines.
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One Man Could End World Hunger, but He Won’t
Lee Camp | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – We all know the Lex Luthor-looking head of Amazon is the richest human in the world. Did you notice I said Bezos “achieved” a net worth of $150 billion, and that seems like a normal way to phrase it? However, would you say, “Jeffrey Dahmer achieved eating the hearts of 10 different people?” No, that would sound odd to you. Yet having $150 billion is nearly as sociopathic, and still we use terminology as if it’s GREAT!
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(Português) Geração Z está mais inclinada a adotar veganismo, diz estudo
Ana Laura Essi - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
8 Oct 2018
Quase um quarto dos britânicos entre 18 e 24 anos viraram veganos no ano passado.
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How the Tentacles of the US Military Are Strangling the Planet
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
4 Oct 2018 -The overreach of the US military provides incentive for it to treat every conflict as a potential war. The US military has a staggering 883 military bases in 183 countries. In contrast, Russia has 10 such bases – eight of them in the former USSR. China has one overseas military base. These US-NATO bases provide instability and insecurity rather than peace. Tensions abound around them. Threats emanate from their presence.
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The Past Six Months in Gaza Have Been like another War
Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb – Al Jazeera,
8 Oct 2018
1 Oct 2018 – As a doctor living and working in Gaza all my life, I thought I had seen it all. I felt I knew the limits of what Gaza can endure. But the last six months have been the most difficult I have experienced in my 15 years with MSF in Gaza.
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America Is on the Road to Becoming a Fascist State
Robert Scheer | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
5 Oct 2017 – In a compelling essay for The New York Review of Books this month, Christopher R. Browning, a leading historian of the Holocaust and Nazism, outlines the frightening parallels between the United States and the Weimar Republic. “No matter how and when the Trump presidency ends,” he writes, “the specter of illiberalism will continue to haunt American politics.”
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I Just Visited Lula, the World’s Most Prominent Political Prisoner. A “Soft Coup” in Brazil’s Election Will Have Global Consequences.
Noam Chomsky – The Intercept,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – As the fifth most populous country, what happens in Brazil matters. The current election reflects dynamics that are globally relevant and historically familiar.
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Building Resilience Far from Home: Communal Democracy Practices amongst Urban Congolese Refugees in Uganda
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
It is possible for solution to germinate from within by working as one voice despite the differences and challenges; we reconcile and heal. This is the a testimony of resilience by displaced or sometime segregated people showed to us by the Congolese Refugee Community in deep Katwe suburb in Uganda, far from home; the very “Democratic republic of the Congo”.
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‘They’re Drug Dealers in Armani Suits’: Executives Draw Focus amid US Epidemic
Chris McGreal – The Guardian,
8 Oct 2018
30 Sep 2018 – As the pharmaceutical industry fights off a flood of lawsuits, there’s an increased call to investigate the roles of executives pushing opioid painkillers. “The more drugs they sold, the more money they made, and the more people in Massachusetts suffered and died.” — Maura Healey
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While Nestlé Extracts Millions of Litres from Their Land, Indigenous Residents Have No Drinking Water
Alexandra Shimo – The Guardian,
8 Oct 2018
Just 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
“Keshagesh means Greedy Guts. It’s what you call a little puppy who eats his own food and then wants everybody else’s.” –Buffy Sainte-Marie. Selfishness is the common cold we treat with parental guidance and peer pressure. Greed is a cancer that will consume us as a species unless we get serious about implementing effective interventions.
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Symposium on Global Environmental Law
Richard Falk | Univ. of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law & Governance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The symposium aimed to discuss whether and to what extent emerging concepts in global environmental law can help shed new light on the evolution and challenges of environmental law across different levels and sectors.
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(Português) Segundo estudo da Comissão Europeia, a dieta vegetariana é mais benéfica para o meio ambiente
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
De acordo com o trabalho, uma dieta vegetariana requer cinco vezes menos água do que uma dieta padrão (que inclui o consumo de carne).
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018 – I came across a piece about two meetings at the UN on the same day concerning nuclear weapons. The major nuclear states (USA, France, UK, China and Russia) all went to a meeting for non-proliferation and boycotted the meeting for nuclear disarmament. As the article correctly concludes, the nuclear states “place very little priority on their obligations to eliminate their own weapons of mass destruction, focusing instead on preventing others from acquiring such weapons.”
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Alexander Yakovlev
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
In 1958, Alexander Yakovlev was among the first thirty Soviet students who received a Fulbright scholarship to study a year in the United States.
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Stairway to Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
Led Zeppelin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
(Lyrics) ~ *Led Zeppelin for life*
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The Bigger Picture
Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Oct 2018
Media No-Show
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India, in a First, Sends Seven Rohingya for Deportation to Myanmar
Zarir Hussain | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – In violation of international law, India is deporting Rohingyas back to Myanmar with an ongoing genocide. Indian police bussed seven Rohingya Muslims to the border today to be deported to neighboring Myanmar for illegal entry. Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, additional director general of police, said that the seven men would be handed over to Myanmar authorities on Thursday [4 Oct].
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The Invisible Army: Explaining Private Military and Security Companies
Tea Cimini | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Aug 2018 – Recent US administrations, specifically under President Obama, continued to make private military and security companies part and parcel of their military efforts abroad.
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African Feminists Emphasize Key to Global Peace
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
25 Sep 2018 – Peace is quintessentially a woman’s issue, most clearly when the continuum of male violence against women in its private, social and structural dimensions is grasped. “That continuum of violence persists along a scale of force (fist to nuclear bomb); space (the home, the street, the village, the city, the battlefield and the nation); and time (pre-war, wartime and post-war).”
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Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – The United States Government is now treating Ukraine as if it were a NATO member, and on September 27th donated to Ukraine two warships for use against Russia. This is the latest indication that the US is switching to Ukraine as the locale to start World War III. Here is why Syria is no longer the US alliance’s preferred choice as a place to start WW III:
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The Birth of American Empire
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire – A book by Stephen Kinzer
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Taibbi: Why Aren’t We Talking More about Trump’s Nihilism?
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
8 Oct 2018
1 Oct 2018 – While America was consumed with the Brett Kavanaugh drama last week, the Washington Post unearthed a crazy tidbit in the latest environmental impact statement. The White House now says we might as well pollute because global catastrophe is inevitable.
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Military and U.S. Law Enforcement Establishing Joint Communication Network for Biometric Databases
Nicholas West | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – Does anyone remember that it used to be considered a conspiracy theory to warn people about biometric databases? Well, now that it is an accepted reality, we should be looking even farther down the slippery slope for new signposts indicating even greater plans to track, trace and database all human beings.
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The Cruelty Is the Point
Adam Serwer - The Atlantic,
8 Oct 2018
President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.
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The Longevity Poster
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Rhymes for Reflection/Research
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Rwanda to Rohingyas: The US Genocide Whitewash
Maung Zarni – The Citizen (India),
1 Oct 2018
27 Sep 2018 – The message from Washington is loud and clear: we will not call any international state crime genocide unless doing so serves America’s commercial and strategic interests. Rohingyas, still sitting ducks for the next round of slaughter in Myanmar, are not the first victims of the failure of American leadership – and for that matter, moral and political failure of the entire post-Holocaust Human Civilization.
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Weaponizing the ‘New Anti-Semitism’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
22 Sep 2018 – This post consists of an opinion piece developed by several members of California Scholars for Academic Freedom.
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Peace Poll Reveals People Think Conflict Prevention Is Better than Cure
Harriet Lamb | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
20 Sep 2018 – Asked where their governments should spend more to promote peace, people gave top ranking to ‘dealing with the reasons why people fight in the first place’. This was strongly followed by ‘teaching peace, tolerance and conflict resolution in schools’. Again, military interventions had the least support.
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International Day of Nonviolence 2 October
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
The International Day of Nonviolence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of nonviolence: “Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man”.
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What Is Freedom?
Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Not many will dispute that ‘freedom’ is one of the more popular words in English language today — in spite of the fact that, as we shall see, this word does not even have a well-defined meaning.
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What Is Genocide?
Prof. Daniel Feierstein | Rohingya Genocide Documentation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Prof. Daniel Feierstein is president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; director of the Centre for Genocide Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; professor in the Faculty of Genocide at the University of Buenos Aires; author of Genocide as a Social Practice: Reorganizing Society Under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas (Rutgers University Press, 2014)
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Ottawa Creating New Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security
Morgan Lowrie | The Canadian Press – CTV News,
1 Oct 2018
22 Sep 2018 – Canada will create a new ambassador position dedicated to women, peace and security, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said today. She made the announcement at a meeting of female foreign affairs ministers in Montreal.
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Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
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(Português) O Eclipse da Ética na Atualidade
Leonardo Boff | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
28 Set 2018 – A meu ver, dois fatores atingiram o coração da ética: o processo de globalização e a mercantilização da sociedade. A justiça não vale apenas entre os humanos mas também para com a natureza e a Terra que são portadores de direitos e por isso devem ser incluídos em nosso conceito de democracia sócio-ecológica.
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