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A Brief and Independent Inquiry into the Involvement of the United Nations in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018
UN Diplomat Gert Rosenthal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
29 May 2019 – It should be noted at the outset that this exercise is being compared by many knowledgeable people in the United Nations and the Human Rights community to the iconic internal review carried out in 2012 on the United Nations’ actions in Sri Lanka by a panel under the leadership of Charles Petrie. In fact, there are many commonalities to events that triggered the Organization’s actions in Sri Lanka from 2007 to 2009 with those observed in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018, as well as to the manner in which different parts of the UN System responded to those events.
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Myanmar: Building Businesses over Killing Fields
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
21 Jun 2019 – Bleak future lies ahead of Rohingya, as Myanmar is getting away with genocide amid UN ‘system failure’. Governments and firms from Canada, U.S., Australia, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands, Spain, France, and Germany are in numerous partnerships with the country. The World Bank’s latest proposal to give Myanmar $100 million in grants is just one of many signs that it has gotten away with genocide.
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The Cart before a Dead Horse – Open Letter to Mahmoud Abbas and All Palestinians
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
23 Jun 2019 – Someone asked what is your solution? I said, ‘Go back to be a real Palestine Liberation Organization: Palestine is all of Palestine not 22% of it, Liberation is self-explanatory and it is for all 13.5 million of us Palestinians, and organization means more than one person we “pledge loyalties” to’. The well-dressed politician came after the meeting to chastise me before he got into his fancy black Mercedes (which was left running all the time) with his body guards.
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Refugees Are Finding Their Own Solutions – But Are Taking Great Risks in the Process
Dr Jeff Crisp | Refugee Law Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
19 Jun 2019 – Many of the world’s 25 million refugees are confronted with the prospect of a life in limbo. They are unable to go back to their own country because of continued persecution or violence there. They do not have the option of becoming citizens in the state that has offered them asylum. And they are unable to move on to another country because they lack the passports and visas that would allow them to do so.
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Has India Abandoned Palestine?
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
22 Jun 2019 – India has recently voted in support of Israel at the UN for the first time in its post-independence history to deny a Palestinian non-governmental organisation, the Shahed, an observer status. To many this may appear innocuous.
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Acting Beyond the State: Toward a Cosmopolitan Awakening?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
20 Jun 2019 – The following review of Ayça Çubukçu’s For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, is scheduled to appear in a forthcoming issue of the London Review of International Law.
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The Implacable Desertification of Planet Earth
Baher Kamal - Human Wrongs Watch,
24 Jun 2019
17 Jun 2019 – Yet another under-reported human-made disaster: the relentless desertification of Planet Earth that may make uninhabitable some regions like the Middle East, endanger food security, aggravate climate crisis, and force more and more millions of people to flee.
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Bridging the Gap between Strategic and Principled Nonviolence
Markus Bayer | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
29 May 2019 – Stellan Vinthagen’s book “A Theory of Nonviolent Action” develops a new theoretical framework for what nonviolence is. I would recommend the book for every student and scholar who is familiar with the actual debates within nonviolent resistance studies. Due to its demanding theory, it is, however, not very suitable for those who want a short and easy introduction.
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Chandra Muzaffar and Tan Sri Norian Mai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
21 Jun 2019 – The International Movement for a Just World and the Perdana Global Peace Foundation share Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s skepticism about Russia’s culpability in the shooting down of MH17 on 17July 2014. The Dutch-led joint investigation team has not produced solid evidence that the four suspects it named are guilty. Dr.Mahathir is right when he argues that from the very beginning there was a political script in place to put the blame on Russia.
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Can You Be Spiritual without Being Religious?
Radhanath Swami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
The universal character of anyone on any religious or spiritual path – if they are really doing it right, in a deep meaningful way – is that they are going to have common characteristics and values that are universal; compassion, honesty, self-control, generosity, wisdom, and insight. Whether one is a Christian, Muslim, Jew or Hindu, or whatever, these are the common values we find in the scriptures and in the lives of the saints. The realized person or saint could be a mother with three children, or a monk who is traveling around and preaching.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
Green New Deals can be thought of as bearing new wine in old bottles. The old bottles are demands for social justice. Now they include shock and dismay at threats to the survival of our fragile biosphere. They can easily become just another rationale for tax benefits for investors and for massive public investment financed by public debt even more massive than it already is. The new wine is the creative thinking that is seeking ways to achieve structural changes that will make it possible to succeed where social democracy failed.
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Need for Reconciliation Bridge-Builders
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
21 Jun 2019 -Felix Tshisekedi, son of the late, long-time opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, put an end to the 18-year rule of Joseph Kabila. However, in a number of provinces of the country, especially the east, armed violence continues between the army and different tribal-based militias. In some area, warlords battle among themselves.
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The Antiwar Movement No One Can See
Allegra Harpootlian – TomDispatch,
24 Jun 2019
23 Jun 2019 – After the enormous demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the antiwar movement disappeared almost as suddenly as it began, with some even openly declaring it dead. Critics noted the long-term absence of significant protests against those wars, a lack of political will in Congress to deal with them, and ultimately, apathy on matters of war and peace when compared to issues like health care, gun control, or recently even climate change.
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A Primer Concerning US Military War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Committed in the Middle East Post-9/11
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
18 Jun 2019 – Plus a Short List of Largely Unexamined, Unindicted and Unpunished Examples
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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Losing a Friend
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”
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Fukushima’s Three Nuclear Meltdowns Are “Under Control” – That’s a Lie
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
24 Jun 2019
22 Jun 2019 – The bland language of the official IAEA report is itself a form of lying, offering the false appearance of reassurance that a catastrophic event will be safely managed “for several decades.” There is no way to know that: it is a hope, a prayer, a form of denial. The IAEA, as is its job in a sense, offers this optimism that is unsupported by the realities at Fukushima.
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Globalisation before Globalisation
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
What do I mean by globalisation before the present globalisation of the world? Probably the term globalisation in earlier periods of history is incorrect and misleading. We should perhaps have a term such as interconnectedness, or intercultural or religious movements to describe the exchange of ideologies, religious, cultural or linguistic in earlier times. It was through this interchange that Buddhism spread from India to many eastern parts of the world, for example.
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Once Upon a Time Never Comes Again: Bob Dylan, a Masked Man in Search of Redemption?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
21 Jun 2019 – It is quite a story, powerful enough to induce one to ask: Who are we becoming in this American Dream? Will we keep sleeping through the nightmares we create and support, or will be return home with Dylan and embrace the radical truth he once gifted us with and dare to “tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it/And reflect from the mountains so all souls can see it” that our country continues to kill and oppress people all around the world as it did once upon a time very long ago?
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Why Credit Rating Agencies Are Still Getting Away with Bad Behaviour
Misheck Mutize – The Conversation,
24 Jun 2019
Rating agencies continue to be found wanting, primarily because of their business model where the institution being rated pays. This brings about a conflict of interest which is not easy to resolve.
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Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
Gerald Horne | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
18 Jun 2019 – The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New Orleans—based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music known as the “blues,” which expressed the pain, sufferings, and hopes of Black folk then pulverized by Jim Crow, this new music entered the world via the instruments that had been abandoned by departing military bands after the Civil War.
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Record Displacement Shows ‘We’re Almost Unable to Make Peace’, Warns UN Refugee Agency Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
19 Jun 2019 – A record 70.8 million people fled war, persecution and conflict in 2018, UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said today, appealing for greater international solidarity to counter the fact that “we have become almost unable to make peace”.
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Why Stonewall Matters Today
Andy Thayer – Jacobin Magazine,
24 Jun 2019
22 Jun 2019 – Stonewall wasn’t just an uprising for LGBT rights — it was also part of a broader movement that fought racism, war, and poverty. To go beyond today’s tepid gay activism, we need to remember its anti-capitalism.
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The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War
Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
The all-pervasive occurrence of violence makes it seem like an unavoidable, and ultimately incomprehensible, aspect of the human world, particularly in a modern era. But, in this detailed and expansive book, Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree demonstrate otherwise. Widespread violence, they argue, is in fact an expression of the underlying social order, and whether it is carried out by military forces or by patterns of investment, the aim is to strengthen that order for the benefit of the powerful.
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‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System
Andrea Pitzer | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
On Monday [17 Jun 2019], New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to US border detention facilities as “concentration camps,” spurring a backlash in which critics accused her of demeaning the memory of those who died in the Holocaust. Debates raged over a label for what is happening along the southern border and grew louder as the week rolled on. -A Brief History of US Concentration Camps-
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(Português) Governo brasileiro já liberou 197 agrotóxicos este ano
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
21 jun 2019 – Brasil tem 2263 agrotóxicos liberados, 31 aprovados somente no mês passado.
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The World’s Largest Oil Reserves by Country
Jessica Dillinger | World Atlas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
Proven oil reserves are those that have a reasonable certainty of being recoverable under existing economic and political conditions, with existing technology. 1 Venezuela, 2 Saudi Arabia, 3 Canada, 4 Iran, 5 Iraq, 6 Kuwait, 7 UAE, 8 Russia, 9 Libya, 10 USA
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“Their Little Show”: Brazilian Judge in Corruption Case Mocked Lula’s Defense and Secretly Directed Prosecutors’ Media Strategy During Trial
Andrew Fishman, Rafael Moro Martins, Leandro Demori, Glenn Greenwald and Amanda Audi – the Intercept,
24 Jun 2019
17 Jun 2019 – Brazil’s Justice Minister Sergio Moro, while serving as a judge in a corruption case that upended Brazilian politics, took to private chats to mock the defense of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and direct prosecutors’ media strategy, according to newly unearthed chats from an archive obtained by The Intercept Brasil.
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Ring any bells?
Wordinfo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
Right!
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(Português) Como e por que o Intercept está publicando chats privados sobre a Lava Jato e Sergio Moro (Partes 1 a 6)
Glenn Greenwald, Betsy Reed e Leandro Demori – The Intercept Brasil,
17 Jun 2019
Série de reportagens mostra comportamentos antiéticos e transgressões que o Brasil e o mundo têm o direito de conhecer. Uma enorme coleção de materiais nunca revelados fornece o olhar sem precedentes sobre as operações da força-tarefa anticorrupção que transformou a política brasileira e conquistou a atenção mundial. As Mensagens Secretas da Lava Jato:
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(Français) La complexité mystique et autres mythes de la création d’Israël
Thomas Suarez | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
12 Juin 2019 – Israël, Palestine. Juifs, Arabes. Gaza, Jérusalem. Des affrontements qui remontent à la nuit des temps, insolubles, entend-on! Mais dans « Comment le terrorisme a créé Israël », Thomas Suarez examine les débuts de la question israélo-palestinienne: les centaines d’attentats à la bombe et de massacres de civils perpétrés par les mouvements sionistes juifs jusqu’en 1948 pour chasser les Palestiniens, mais aussi frapper l’administration britannique et les juifs « non-coopérants ». S’agit-il de terrorisme? Les sionistes ne faisaient-ils que se défendre? Thomas Suarez élague la question dans l’introduction de son livre que nous vous invitons à découvrir.
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The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
10 Jun 2019 – Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. It’s been 70 years since Orwell depicted the ominous rise of ubiquitous technology, fascism and totalitarianism in ‘1984’. Who could have predicted that after Orwell typed the final words to his dystopian novel, “He loved Big Brother,” we would fail to heed his warning and come to love Big Brother.
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Glenn Greenwald on the Leaked Brazil Archive Exposing Operation Car Wash
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
15 June 2019 – Glenn Greenwald Explains the Political Earthquake in Brazil Caused by Our Ongoing Exposés
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How and Why the Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials about Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro (Parts 1 to 3)
Glenn Greenwald, Leandro Demori and Betsy Reed – The Intercept,
17 Jun 2019
A massive archive exclusively provided to The Intercept confirms long-held suspicions about the politicized motives and deceit of Brazil’s corruption investigators who plotted Lula’s conviction and Bolsonaro’s rise.
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(Português) MapBiomas revela que 95% do desmatamento no Brasil é ilegal
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
10 jun 2019 – Já foi possível detectar no Brasil uma área desmatada de 89.741 hectares, o que equivale a duas vezes e meia o tamanho de Belo Horizonte.
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The Psychosis of Hegemony
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
‘Negotiated truth’ has become the standard currency. Robert Mueller’s manner of handling his relations with the Department of Justice fits the pattern. In declaring that William Barr’s gross misrepresentations of his report’s conclusion were ‘well intentioned,’ while making it obvious that Trump had obstructed justice, is a prime example. In this instance, Mueller negotiated the truth among his sense of professional duty, his conscience and his keen desire to maintain a certain standing among his fellow Republicans. In the end, he tilted toward the last while hiding behind the first. Par for the course.
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EU Blasted for Ever Closer Cooperation with Terror Regime in Israel
Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
12 Jun 2019 – One hundred and fifteen European researchers and academics have delivered a stinging rebuke to Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission. “Public funds contributed by European taxpayers are channeled to a country that not only disregards human rights but also uses the most advanced knowledge and technology for the very violation of human rights…. This is not compatible with the values Europe upholds.”
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The American Dream Is Alive and Well—in China
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
14 Jun 2019 – Unlike the U.S. government, the Chinese government supports its workers and its industries. Rather than penalizing China for that “unfair” trade practice, perhaps the U.S. government should try doing the same. China’s legacy is socialist, and after opening to international trade it has continued to serve the collective good, particularly of its workers. Meanwhile, the U.S. model has been regressing into feudalism, with workers driven into slave-like conditions through debt.
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The Thought Police Are Coming
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
11 Jun 2019 – The oppression of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange heralds a frightening new totalitarianism.
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Redrawing the Galtung Triangle – Finding Place for Healing Trauma in Peace Work
Kirthi Jayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
Abstract – The Galtung Triangle describes direct violence as emanating from underlying cultural and structural violence. This focal point enables a cogent understanding of how every instance of direct violence depicts something underlying that needs to be addressed. This paper digs deeper and makes the case for expanding the framework presented by Galtung, by advancing an argument that underlying structural and cultural violence, is unhealed and unresolved trauma. In doing so, this paper argues in favor of addressing the unhealed trauma in order to address both structural and systemic factors keeping violence alive, as well as the direct manifestations of violence.
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When Secular Israelis Claim “God Gave This Land to Us”
Rabbi Brant Rosen | Shalom Rav – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
23 May 2019 – Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, created something of viral sensation last week when, during a speech in the Security Council, he dramatically brandished a Bible and declared, “This is the deed to our land.” He then continued:
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The U.S. Government’s Crusade against Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
17 Jun 2019
13 Jun 2019 – For the first time ever, a publisher is being prosecuted under the World War I-era Espionage Act. Julian Assange, co-founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, is facing 170 years in prison if he is extradited to the U.S. from the United Kingdom. The case could deal a monumental blow to the free press in the United States.
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‘Mirthless Laugh’ – The Persecution and Torture of Julian Assange
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
11 Jun 2019 – As Melzer says, corporate media have an astonishing power to influence what we think. We are all vulnerable to the impact of numerous, apparently independent and impartial journalists all insisting that Assange is a vile narcissist, that Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous anti-semite, that Nicolas Maduro is a brutal dictator, that Gaddafi is planning a vast massacre, that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction that pose a genuine threat to the West, that Iran is working on a ‘nuclear trigger’, and so on.
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Democratic Ownership Funds: Creating Shared Wealth and Power
Peter Gowan and Mat Lawrence | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
12 Jun 2019 – A combination of concentrated wealth, the primacy of shareholder interest in shaping company behavior, and the institutional weakness of labour has helped turn many companies into engines of wealth extraction for external owners, institutional investors, and senior management, often at the expense of the workers and communities who generate value. Any attempt to transform our economy will therefore require reshaping company ownership so that it is democratic, inclusive, and purposeful by design.
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War Cries at a Peace Journalism Conference
Ruth Ebenstein – The Times of Israel,
17 Jun 2019
The day a conference on peace journalism crashed a yoga class in a safe room during a missile strike.
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Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
Gosh…!
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Lao Tzu on Living an Inspired and Peaceful Life
Azriel ReShel | Uplift – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
When you succeed in connecting your energy with the divine realm through high awareness and the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the transmission of the ultimate subtle truths will follow. – Lao Tzu
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Mexico Releases the Full Text of Trump’s Immigration “Deal”
Rachel Withers | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
15 Jun 2019 – It is less a deal and more an agreement to discuss a future agreement.
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Facing the Facts: Israel Cannot Escape ICC Jurisdiction
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
5 Jun 2019 – Israeli war crimes must not go unpunished; Israel’s judicial system is untrustworthy, and the ICC has the legal right and moral duty to carry out the will of the international community and hold to account those responsible for war crimes anywhere, including Israel.
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Tax Bads, Not Goods
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
We’ve long taxed various sins. While some confuse the purpose of sin taxes, it should be clear that the purpose of taxing bads is not to “raise revenue” but to “reduce sin”. We want to reduce the sin of smoking. Of polluting. Of high-speed trading. I’m always surprised when my progressive friends see the “Tobin Tax” (financial transactions tax) as a potentially great source of tax revenue to “pay for” all the goodies they’d like government to provide.
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Climate Crisis and the 2020 U.S. Elections
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
13 Jun 2019 – Trump has denied the reality of the climate emergency, encouraged the use of coal as well as exploration for new oil, sabotaged the Environmental Protection Agency, and withdrew the USA from the Paris Agreement. Because of the climate issue alone, it is vital for the future of humanity that he and his party should be defeated in the 2020 elections.
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Conflict Prevention, Mediation: Among ‘Most Important Tools’ to Reduce Human Suffering, Guterres Tells Security Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
12 Jun 2019 – Conflict prevention and mediation are two of “the most important tools at our disposal to reduce human suffering” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council today. “When we act early, and are united, we can successfully prevent crises from escalating, saving lives and reducing suffering – fulfilling the most fundamental mandate of the United Nations”, he continued.
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(Italiano) La ‘vergogna’ di volare?!
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
10 Giugno 2019 – Di solito, quando dico che mi sposto più volentieri in treno, la prima domanda è «come mai, hai paura di volare?» Quando cerco di spiegare che non ho paura, e che la mia è una scelta ambientalista mi guardano con ironia e un po’ di compassione: «non è con quella scelta – dicono – che cambi la situazione…».
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The Holocaust and the Nakba: The Jew as the Arab
Hamid Dabashi – Al Jazeera,
17 Jun 2019
16 Jun 2019 – Can Jews and Palestinians see each others’ pain? No amount of “sensitivity training” can ever replace the necessity of the Jew and the Arab to see each other’s history of suffering as their own: Close their eyes for one moment and imagine themselves in the shoes of the other.
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New Report Exposes Pentagon’s Massive Contributions to Climate Crisis Post-9/11
Jessica Corbett – Common Dreams,
17 Jun 2019
12 Jun 2019 – From the 2001 launch of the so-called War on Terror to 2017, the Pentagon generated at least 1.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases—with annual rates exceeding countries such as Portugal or Sweden. Failing to curb the U.S. military’s fossil fuel use, Costs of War Project co-director warns, “will help guarantee the nightmare scenarios” forecast by scientists.
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Before the High Court of Australia: The Case of [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi
Rawan Arraf | OpinioJuris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
10 Jun 2019 – In March 2018, the Attorney-General of Australia refused to consent to a private prosecution against Aung San Suu Kyi for crimes against humanity. This month, the High Court of Australia will hear a petition seeking review of this decision. On 16 March 2018, on behalf of members of the Australian Rohingya community, a private prosecution application was filed in Melbourne’s Magistrates’ Court laying an indictment for crimes against humanity offences against Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Russia-China: The Summit That the Media Ignored
Manlio Dinucci – Global Research,
17 Jun 2019
On 5 June, the media projectors zeroed in on President Trump and the European leaders of NATO, who, for the anniversary of D-Day, auto-celebrated “peace, freedom and democracy in Europe.” The major media have either ignored, or somewhat sarcastically relegated to a second plane, the meeting on the same day in Moscow between the Presidents of Russia and China. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, for their thirtieth meeting in six years.
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Brazil: Lula Is Innocent. Free Him Now.
Tony Burke – Jacobin Magazine,
17 Jun 2019
15 Jun 2019 – The Intercept published a range of documents that show Lula’s conviction was politically motivated and aimed at stopping him running in the 2018 presidential election. With Lula out of the race, far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the election. Lula’s prosecuting Judge Sergio Moro was then appointed Minister of Justice. The evidence is now overwhelming — Lula must be freed.
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Jean-Paul Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
Sartre was offered, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 for his autobiography, Words, though he subsequently rejected the award based on his own notions of his integrity as a writer.
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We Are the World (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
An unbelievable constellation of 47 legendary superstars singing together in a historic music video with a message of love from Michael to the world. Recorded in 1985.
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Nukes and Misdirected “Manhood” in Washington, D.C.
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | DWF News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
12 Jun 2019 – In “Unmaking War, Remaking Men” Dr. Kathleen Barry describes how many men suffer from “core masculinity,” meaning, these men psychologically experience the possession of nuclear weapons and a large military force as increasing their (unconscious) sense of manhood! Do we really want to trust our safety and that of our children to “modernized” nuclear missiles and to more plutonium pits, the triggers for nuclear bombs?
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
There is the New Testament symbol of the Sower and the Seed. The Sower has only one type of seed, which stands for the truth or at least that aspect of the truth appropriate for the period. He throws some of the seeds on ill-prepared hard ground. Some others are thrown on slightly prepared ground, but their roots do not go deep. Finally, some seeds are put into well-prepared ground, take root and in turn produce more seeds that can be used elsewhere.
→ read full articleBuried in Broad Daylight: The ‘Free Press’ and the Report from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Douma, Syria
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
14 Jun 2019 – A defining feature of the propaganda system is that facts supporting the agenda of Western power are pushed to the forefront of the ‘mainstream’ media, while inconvenient facts are buried. A prime example is the shameful media silence in response to a devastating document leaked from the OPCW. ‘When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.’
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The Various Shades of Cricket Matches
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
Cricket as most people agree is a rich person’s game. The bats, balls, stumps, gloves, etc., are expensive. This aspect is evident when one sees the World Cup Cricket tournament being played in England. The tickets range from 100 pounds or more. Players make millions inside the stadiums as well as outside through advertisements. Who wins or makes the finals of the tournament is a game that bookies play with alacrity making thousands of pounds by the bets that are placed.
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The End of the Western Development Model?
Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
World Peace Academy, Basel, 7 May 2012 – Introduction by late Prof. Dietrich Fisher
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(Italiano) L’albero di Achille
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
7 Giugno 2019 – Per prevenire i conflitti o per affrontarli e gestirli in modo umano, cioè senza violenza, è necessaria la pratica attiva della nonviolenza; e quest’ultima è possibile solo se di essa si conoscono i principi, lo spirito e le tecniche. E’ quindi necessario studiare, praticare, insegnare e propagandare questi principi e queste tecniche, adottandoli in primo luogo nella propria vita individuale e diffondendoli con il buon esempio e la coerenza di vita, prima ancora che con le parole e con gli scritti (Achille Croce, I mezzi della pace)
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Neoliberalism Is a Political Project
David Harvey interviewed by Bjarke Skærlund Risager – Jacobin Magazine,
17 Jun 2019
Cornel West speaks of the Black Lives Matter movement as “an indictment of neoliberal power”; the late Hugo Chávez called neoliberalism a “path to hell”; and labor leaders are increasingly using the term to describe the larger environment in which workplace struggles occur. The mainstream press has also picked up the term, if only to argue that neoliberalism doesn’t actually exist. David Harvey on what neoliberalism actually is — and why the concept matters.
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Obscuring the Responsibility to Protect in Palestine
David Palumbo-Liu | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
Clearly the spirit of the democratic revolutions linked together power and responsibility in a way radically different from noblesse oblige—the obligation of the privileged to act with generosity toward the less privileged. The revolutionaries wanted rulers in a liberal democracy to be held accountable to the citizens and established institutions and laws to solidify and disambiguate that relationship. Of course, those in power have proven over and over again their capacity to obfuscate that relationship and avoid the law.
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Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division
Linda Taffs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division, by Matthew Legge, New Society Publisher, 2019 – Matthew Legge is the Peace Coordinator for Canadian Friends Service Committee, the peace and social action arm of Canadian Quakers. He believes we are living in a moment where polarization and hate movements are on the rise. Peace happens at different levels, so if you’re wishing to cultivate an inner change, improve your relationships and spread peace, this book will have something for you.
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Trump Enjoys Bipartisan Support for His Plan to Eradicate the Palestinian Cause
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
15 June 2019 – The White House’s prolonged financial bullying of the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinians’ government-in-waiting, has reached the point where there are now credible warnings that it is close to collapse. The US seeks to engineer a suitable regional environment before it begins implementing the ‘deal of the century’.
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(Português) Direito Divino
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
“Esse direito – o de matar um veado ou uma vaca – nos parece natural porque nós estamos no alto da hierarquia. Mas bastaria que um terceiro entrasse no jogo, por exemplo, um visitante de outro planeta a quem Deus tivesse dito: Tu reinarás sobre as criaturas de todas as outras estrelas, para que toda a evidência do Gênese fosse posta em dúvida. O homem atrelado à carroça de um marciano – eventualmente grelhado no espeto por um visitante da Via-Láctea – talvez se lembrasse da costeleta de vitela que tinha o hábito de cortar em seu prato. Pediria (tarde demais), desculpas à vaca.”
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School Tales
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
Out of sync…
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(Italiano) Frattanto, nel mondo
Johan Galtung e Antonio C. S. Rosa | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
In effetti, sembriamo essere giunti al punto di essere noi stessi i nostri peggiori nemici, come maggior causa di morte e di ferimento da violenza e guerra. Eppure ci riferiamo a noi stessi come “intelligenti”, in cerca ovunque di qualcosa altrettanto “intelligente”.
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(Français) Comment la guerre de l’Occident en Libye a stimulé le terrorisme dans 14 pays
Mark Curtis | Entelekheia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
4 Juin 2019 – Huit ans après la guerre de l’OTAN en Libye de 2011, alors que le pays entre dans une nouvelle phase de son conflit, j’ai fait le point sur le nombre de pays dans lesquels le terrorisme s’est propagé comme un produit direct de cette guerre. Le nombre est d’au moins 14.
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(Castellano/Português) A tecnologia 5G e seus riscos para a vida em geral e para a humana
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
¿Por qué la tecnología 5G representa un nuevo peligro para la vida? – Mario Enrique De León, sociólogo da Universidad do Panamá, nos apresenta um resumo das questões referentes à nova tecnologia 5G, motivo de grande disputa entre EEUU e a China. Aqui ele ressalta, o que nos interessa sumamente, os efeitos sobre a vida em sua diversidade, em particular, sobre a vida humana.
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Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 39/46 of 10 December 1984 – Entry into force 26 June 1987, in accordance with article 27 (1)
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Torture as a Jus Cogens Norm
Law Teacher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
This paper will examine the claims, prior to September 11, that torture prohibition is a jus cogens norm and whether or not the actions of the international community after this date can justifiably support such a contention.
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UN Staffer to SG Guterres: 5G Is War on Humanity—He Admits Own Ignorance, Wants to Know More
Claire Edwards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
The first eight months of WWII with no fighting was called The Phony War. Using millimeter waves as a fifth-generation or 5G wireless communications technology is a phony war of another kind. It is also silent, but this time shots are being fired – in the form of laser-like beams of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from banks of thousands of tiny antennae – and almost no one in the firing line knows that they are being silently, seriously and irreparably injured.
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(Português) Biografia de Fernando Pessoa (13 jun 1888 – 30 nov 1935)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Fernando Pessoa foi um poeta português, um dos mais importantes da língua portuguesa. Foi editor, astrólogo, publicitário, tradutor técnico, jornalista, empresário, crítico literário e crítico político. Nasceu e morreu em Lisboa, Portugal. Ficou órfão de pai aos 5 anos. Sua morte prematura, aos 47 anos, foi consequencia de beber álcool em excesso pois apresentou cirrose hepática.
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An Answer to the Question, ‘Why Do You Care so much about Palestine/Israel?’
Joel Doerfler | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Had I been a staunch defender of Israel the student probably wouldn’t have found my emotional investment surprising. Especially since I was avowedly Jewish it would have seemed to him “normal” for me to be teaching a class extolling Zionism and Israel. But what could be driving a Jew to invest so much critical energy in the subject? It was an honest question.
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The Murdering of Julian Assange
Peter Koenig | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
3 Jun 2019 – Julian Assange is being slowly murdered by “Her Majesty’s Prison Service” at Belmarsh prison in the south-east of London. The prison is notorious for holding people who have never been charged with a crime indefinitely. It is also called the British version of Guantanamo, and, typically used to detain so-called terrorists.
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Forget GDP — New Zealand Is Prioritizing Gross National Well-Being
Sigal Samuel | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
8 Jun 2019 – We usually think of a country’s wealth or capital in terms of its gross domestic product. But New Zealand challenged the world to assess it in terms of a very different commodity, as the country released the first-ever “well-being budget” on May 30.
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Dispelling the Fear of Death
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Death is not an enemy; it is a natural fact of life, a stage of our existence, and a transition or doorway between planes of reality. Death has its own harmony with nature just as a tree loses its leaves every fall. We don’t feel that it is unjust or that the tree failed to stay fully alive when it goes dormant through the winter. It is natural. Neither should doctors and nurses feel they have failed if after every endeavor a patient dies.
→ read full article[VIDEO] Imagine… (A moving parody of Lennon’s legendary song)
Canny AI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Imagine All the Politicians…
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Tightening the Noose on Cuba
Chandra Muzaffar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
In dealing with US sanctions against Cuba we have to go beyond merely criticising or condemning them. The time has come to decide whether unilateral sanctions by any one nation or a group of nations against another nation or a group of nations should be tolerated at all. Shouldn’t we prohibit unilateral sanctions of this sort?
→ read full articleBrexit and the Dilemma of UK Labour
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
There might once have been a Brexit capable of meeting its criteria and concerns, and of bringing Britain together. That was destroyed by May’s disastrous ‘red lines’, and the Tories appear intent on moving in Farage’s direction by embracing a no-deal exit from the EU. In response to that, Corbyn will have to work out how to combine the campaigning appeal of Labour’s pitch to transform Britain, and using the country’s EU membership as a springboard to fight inequality and injustice.
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Kierkegaard on the Individual vs. the Crowd, Why We Conform, and the Power of the Minority
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
“Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.”
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Experimental Visualization of Dynamics of the European Parliament in 3D
Anthony Judge – Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Produced on the occasion of the reconfiguration of political groupings following Europe-wide elections — coinciding with an “optics” enhancing visit of Donald Trump to Europe — raising the question of the necessary “optics” enhancement of the European Union.
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More Than a Quarter of the World’s Countries Helped the CIA Run Its Torture Program
Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Ryan Grim and Lauren Weber – Huffington Post,
10 Jun 2019
These countries made the CIA program possible in two ways: by enabling rendition, which involved transferring U.S. detainees abroad without due legal process, and by providing facilities far beyond the reach of U.S. law where those detainees were subjected to torture.
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“Peace Is Possible” All-Day Summit
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
We are happy to announce our “Peace Is Possible” All-Day Summit. A free event, held at Initiatives of Change in LONDON on 17 June 2019. Panel debates will follow each film and speech.
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Genocide Is an Act of State and Demands Response by Other States
John Packer | Open Global Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
The Myanmar state can and must be held accountable for the genocide being perpetrated against the Rohingya, a point lost in largely illusory efforts to pursue international criminal trials of individuals.
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Environmental Justice in Palestine: Rights of Natives to Their Environment versus Colonial Onslaught
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Although Palestinians have long identified their relationship to their land as a key aspect of their struggle for self-determination, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rarely discussed as a struggle for environmental justice. This situation is not really a conflict since the word conflict implies equal or almost equal parties. It is a colonial onslaught on natives who have little by way of self-defense abilities. It originally derived from international sources and for most of its history was internationalized. It must therefore be brought to a resolution through an international effort that returns dignity and sovereignty to the local people.
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After 30 Years of Stagnation, Incompetence and Repression, Omar al-Bashir of Sudan Is Pushed Out
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
The Central government gave the Janjaweed guns, uniforms, equipment and indications where to attack by first bombing village–but no regular pay. Thus the bandit militias had to pay themselves by looting homes, crops, livestock, by taking slaves and raping women and girls. Village after village was destroyed; crops were burned, water wells filled with sand.
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Unfuck the World (Music Video of the Week)
Prophets of Rage – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Heavy Metal Telling Truth to Power – with Lyrics
→ read full articleWorld Environment Day — Reacting to the Existing Terrible Situation
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
The world is celebrating the Environment Day on June 5. There will be the usual discussions and statements regarding the crisis of pollution, problems of earth’s sustainability and some well articulated action plans that governments propose to undertake but which are weak in practice.
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Creative + Strategic = Effective Movements for Change
Rivera Sun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
8 Jun 2019 – If you want to make change, think outside the protest box. It’s easy to get hung up on protests. We’ve heard about them, they’re highly visible, and they’re relatively easy to pull off. The problem with protests is that – all too often – they’re easily ignored. Creativity is key to making your actions meaningful and memorable. Paired with a sound strategy, creative actions can be unstoppable.
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The ‘Great Dying’ Nearly Erased Life on Earth. Scientists See Similarities to Today
Christopher Joyce | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
4 Jun 2019 – There was a time when life on Earth almost blinked out. The “Great Dying,” the biggest extinction the planet has ever seen, happened some 250 million years ago and was largely caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Now scientists are beginning to see alarming similarities between the Great Dying and what’s currently happening to our atmosphere.
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U.S. and Allies Wage ‘Hybrid War’ against Venezuela
Tricontinental Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
6 Jun 2019 – The various dimensions of the hybrid warfare that is currently being unleashed across Latin America—from Colombia to Haiti. At the center of this offensive is a strategy to exploit governments hostile to a world order driven by global capital: economic and financial asphyxiation, economic destabilization, diplomatic and media blockades, the instigation of internal violence, the generation of chaos by attacking essential services, and pressures attempting to create institutional fractures or a coup d’état, and even the threat of military intervention.
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(Português) Brasil Já Perdeu 85,5% da Floresta Nativa da Mata Atlântica
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Brasil precisa criar 262 mil quilômetros quadrados de unidades de conservação para proteger, pelo menos, 10% dos seus biomas, fora a Amazônia.
→ read full articleOne Day in Gaza 2019 Leaked Documentary (MUST WATCH)
BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
One Day in Gaza is a Frontline/BBC documentary on Gaza which aired in Britain and was supposed to have aired in the U.S. on 14 May 2019 but was cancelled at the last minute. It was then made available on YouTube and Vimeo, but both have since taken it down. Frontline is now distancing itself from this publicly funded video, though it is still available for download in the UK.
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WHO: 3 Children a Month in Gaza Left Disabled for Life
The Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
3 Jun 2019 – At least three children in the Gaza Strip are left permanently disabled every month as a result of armed attacks and Israeli violations, data from the World Health Organisation has revealed. Why Are We Seeing Such International Apathy towards the Palestinians?
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