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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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Culture?
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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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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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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(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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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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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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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?
→ read full articlePeace Journalism: The Sower, the Seed, the Harvest
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.
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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?
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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
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World 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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30 Years of Torture Convention – States Still Failing on Obligations
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
10 Dec 2014 – On the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention against Torture, Amnesty International is calling upon states not to obstruct efforts to prevent the appalling practice. While 156 states have ratified the Convention, a host of nations are still carrying out torture and are obstructing efforts to prevent, monitor, investigate and to bring about prosecutions.
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William Butler Yeats (13 Jun 1865 – 28 Jan 1939): The Transition to Aquarius
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
William Butler Yeats is the modern European poet most conscious of the transition within astrological cycles from the Piscean Period to the Age of Aquarius. The concept that humanity is at the end of a 2000-year cycle and about to start a new dispensation at a higher turn of the spiral – the gyre as Yeats called the historic spiral – was the framework within which he always worked.
→ read full articleTwitting…
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Gimme a Break!
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The American Cult of Bombing and Endless Wars
William J. Astore - TomDispatch,
10 Jun 2019
4 Jun 2019 – From Syria to Yemen in the Middle East, Libya to Somalia in Africa, Afghanistan to Pakistan in South Asia, an American aerial curtain has descended across a huge swath of the planet. Its stated purpose: combating terrorism. Its economic benefit: plenty of high-profit business for weapons makers for whom the president can now declare a national security emergency whenever he likes and so sell their warplanes and munitions to preferred dictatorships in the Middle East (no congressional approval required).
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The Climate Crisis Is Our Third World War. It Needs a Bold Response
Joseph Stiglitz | Nobel Economics Laureate – The Guardian,
10 Jun 2019
4 Jun 2019 – Advocates of the Green New Deal say there is great urgency in dealing with the climate crisis and highlight the scale and scope of what is required to combat it. They are right. They use the term “New Deal” to evoke the massive response by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the United States government to the Great Depression. An even better analogy would be the country’s mobilization to fight World War II.
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(Português) Advogados e juristas do mundo todo se reúnem em conferência para discutir os direitos animais
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
As propostas, se aprovadas, significariam que produtos como hambúrgueres vegetarianos e veganos poderiam ser chamados de “discos” e salsichas de “tubos”. À luz dessas questões e assuntos semelhantes, advogados e juristas veganos de todo o mundo se reunirão em uma conferência jurídica anual para discutir como influenciar a lei em benefício dos animais e do planeta.
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Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.
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These Are the Banks and Financial Institutions Investing $748 Billion in Nuclear Weapon Producers
ICAN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
5 Jun 2019 – Today, PAX and ICAN have co-published a report showing how banks and pension funds are financing the companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons: Shorting our security. Financing the companies that make nuclear weapons. This is what you need to know:
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Gnawing Hunger
Preeti Tej Singh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
it rises to a crescendo
and then
gradually dies down
after all, how long
will hunger gnaw
‘We Are Literally Sawing Off the Branch We All Live On’: Amazon Deforestation Increasing Under Bolsonaro
Eoin Higgins – Common Dreams,
10 Jun 2019
5 Jun 2019 – Satellite images show massive deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, a grim reminder of the devastation wrought by the country’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro. “People who destroy forests feel safe and those who protect forests feel threatened.”
→ read full articleModern Money Theory: The Basics
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
So here’s an attempt to put the fears of Krugman and Post Keynesians to rest. There is a symmetry between bank lending and government spending. I also hope to help clarify things for a third group—the “debt-free money” folks who want Uncle Sam to spend “debt-free money”. Short answer: depending on how you look at it, he either already does, or cannot ever do so.
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Time Bombs: A Meditation on Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday
Bill C. Davis – Common Dreams,
10 Jun 2019
31 May 2019 – Today is Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. A friend observed it’s better he’s not seeing what’s happened to his country. He was a wound dresser during the civil war so he knew what men tend to do to each other. I suppose a war of sorts is in progress here – the enemy gets chosen not by geographical location but by a roulette wheel of sudden psychotic combatants. Background checks? First question. Are you a human being? Yes. Sorry—no gun for you.
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Myanmar’s [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Is Turning Far-Right
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
8 Jun 2019 – Pictures from Budapest of a smiling Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi shaking hands with Viktor Orban, Hungary’s president, strikes fear for my Muslim friends back home in Myanmar, including the systematically persecuted Rohingya. The two reportedly exchanged their unconcealed fear and loathing of Muslims and migrants.
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He Was Arrested at 13. Now Saudi Arabia Wants to Execute Him
Muhammad Darwish, Tamara Qiblawi and Ghazi Balkiz – CNN,
10 Jun 2019
8 Jun 2019 —Three years after he was filmed taking part in the bike protest, Saudi authorities arrested Qureiris, then just 13 years old. At the time, he was considered by lawyers and activists to be the youngest known political prisoner in Saudi Arabia. Now, at the age of 18, Qureiris is facing the death penalty after being held for almost four years in pre-trial detention, CNN has learned.
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Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution in the Crosshairs of US Imperialism
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
7 Jun 2019 – Hugo Chávez was elected president and initiated what has become known as the Bolivarian Revolution, which has inspired the peoples of the world while engendering the enmity of both the US imperialists and the Venezuelan elites. This article explores the contributions, shortcomings, and lessons of the Bolivarian Revolution’s two decades, in the context of the US regime-change efforts from its inception to current attempts by the US to install the unelected Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president.
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(Poesia~Português) Vida em Plenitude
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
Vida em plenitude
requer profunda atitude
Meanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung and Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
In fact, we seem to have come to the point that we ourselves, as the major cause of death and being wounded through violence and war, are our own worst enemies. And yet we refer to ourselves as being “intelligent”, searching all over for something equally “intelligent”.
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(Português) As corporações alimentam a ultra-direita mundial: Jean Ziegler
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
26 maio 2019 – Jean Ziegler suiço, professor universitário e pesquisador,ocupa a vice-presidência do Comitê Consultivo do Conselho de Direitos Humanos da ONU. O texto nos ajuda a entender a real situação dramática do mundo, especialmente para os pobres e os que passam fome permanentemente. Ou somos nós que mudaremos essa ordem canibal do mundo, ou ninguém o fará.
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UN Expert Criticizes States for ‘Ganging Up’ on WikiLeaks’ Assange; Warns against Extradition, Fearing ‘Serious’ Rights Violations
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
On 9 May, the Special Rapporteur visited Mr. Assange with two medical experts who specialize in examining victims of ill-treatment. The team spoke to the prisoner and conducted a thorough medical assessment. “Mr. Assange’s health has been seriously affected by the extremely hostile and arbitrary environment he has been exposed to for many years,” he said. On Thursday [30 May], according to reports, Assange was too ill to appear via video-link from a British prison in a hearing over an extradition request from the US.
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In Memory of Binyavanga Wainaina, a Literary Gangster
Christine Mungai – Al Jazeera,
3 Jun 2019
Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina died on May 21, 2019 after a short illness. He inspired me and a whole generation of Kenyans to put pen to paper. He publicly came out as gay in 2014, in a country where homosexuality is criminalised, becoming the only openly gay public figure that I know of in this country. Rest in Peace.
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Enrolling Winnie-the-Pooh’s Companions in Climate Change Discourse
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
29 May 2019 – Produced in commemoration of the recent destruction of the Hundred Acre Wood — and in anticipation of further environmental challenges.
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U.S. Government Seeks NGO Help for Removing Iran from Syria
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
29 May 2019 – The U.S. Department of State is offering a grant of $75 million to non-government-organizations to help it to further meddle in Syria. Americans have intoxicated themselves for two and a half years on the vapors emanating from the alleged Russian ‘interference’ in the 2016 election affair–never proven. The strongest odor, if one bothers to inhale, is from the stench of hypocrisy.
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Agony of No Return
Preeti Tej Singh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
strike me down
with a blow
pull me down
to shreds
for i hate to see
Speeding into the Void of Cyberspace as Designed
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
While Internet billionaires like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg slam government surveillance, talk up freedom, and embrace Snowden and crypto privacy culture, their companies still cut deals with the Pentagon, work with the NSA and CIA, and continue to track and profile people for profit. It is the same old split-screen marketing trick: the public branding and the behind-the-scenes reality.
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Findings of Torture: The UN Rapporteur and Julian Assange
Dr. Binoy Kampmark – Global Research,
3 Jun 2019
1 Jun 2019 – Another crude and sad chapter, yet more evidence of a system’s vengeance against its challengers. While some in the cynical, narcissistic press corps still find little to comment his case, the movement to highlight his fate, and the extra-territorial vengeance of the United States, grows. Often reviled and dismissed as ineffectual if not irrelevant, the United Nations has offered Assange some measure of protection through its articulations and findings.
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What Greed Has Done
Chris Hedges | Bill Moyers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
1 May 2019 – Real Journalism (Must Watch): Bill Moyers interviews former correspondent of New York Times Chris Hedges about his new book, Days of Destruction–Days of Revolt, on the destruction of America’s manufacturing base and the effect that unfettered and unregulated capitalism has had on the poor and vulnerable.
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Court Docs: Monsanto Paid Chemical Industry Front Group to Claim Cancer-Causing Weedkiller ‘Safe’ and Attack Its Critics
Bill Walker | Environmental Working Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
29 May 2019 – Emails show that in February 2015, Monsanto was working with ACSH to prepare for the expected fallout from a pending report on the safety of glyphosate by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
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Open Letter to UN SG Concerning Iran
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
27 May 2019 – The repeated threats of war against and sanctions on Iran contain very dangerous dynamics – for Iran, the region and the world – that could easily spin out of control. The situation is such that the UN Secretary-General must be urged to take action in accordance with the UN Charter.
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Sri Lanka: How the UN Failed Tamil Civilians in 2009
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Al Jazeera,
3 Jun 2019
And how the legacy of this failure is still endangering lives in Sri Lanka and beyond. Today, May 18, 2019, marks one decade since the armed conflict in Sri Lanka came to a brutal end.
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After Neoliberalism
Joseph E. Stiglitz | Nobel Laureate Economic Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
30 May 2019 – For the past 40 years, the United States and other advanced economies have been pursuing a free-market agenda of low taxes, deregulation, and cuts to social programs. There can no longer be any doubt that this approach has failed spectacularly; the only question is what will – and should – come next.
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(Português) Pelo de Cânhamo É Alternativa Vegana ao Pelo de Origem Animal
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais | Stylo Urbano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
A empresa ucraniana DevoHome, fabricante de tecidos à base de fibra de cânhamo, desenvolveu um inovador pelo de cânhamo como alternativa natural e vegana ao pelo verdadeiro e pelo sintético à base de petróleo. O material é feito de 50% de cânhamo e 50% de viscose.
→ read full articleAbuses Show Assange Case Was Never About Law
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
27 May 2019 – It is astonishing how often one still hears well-informed, otherwise reasonable people say about Julian Assange: “But he ran away from Swedish rape charges by hiding in Ecuador’s embassy in London.” That short sentence includes at least three factual errors. In fact, to repeat it, as so many people do, you would need to have been hiding under a rock for the past decade – or, amounting to much the same thing, been relying on the corporate media for your information about Assange.
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The Perils of Financialization
Lyndsey Jefferson and Matthew Oxenford | Chatham House – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
28 May 2019 – The enduring risks of the financial sector in the global economy and how the mistakes of the 2008 financial crisis continue to resonate. Financialization – it’s a bit of a buzzword, but what does it actually mean? In the most general sense, it means that financial services are taking up a larger and larger portion of the global economy. There are really two different types of financialization if you want to talk about this broadly.
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US Blockade Deprives Venezuelan Cancer Patients of Treatment
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
31 May 2019 – The U.S. blockade is putting the lives of hundreds of chronically ill patients at risk, the Latin American Foundation of Human Rights (Fundalatin) denounced today. Without a way to pay for state-funded treatments, patients — both young and old — are being refused medical attention around the world.
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Big Pharma and Organized Crime–They Are More Similar than You May Think
Carolanne Wright | Wake up World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
If you believe pharmaceutical corporations hold the health of the general public in high regard, it’s time to reconsider. The industry is filled with examples of wrongful death, extortion, fraud, corruption, obstruction of justice, embezzlement, fake journals, harassment and hit lists that would make even the most hardened Mafia godfather blush. Big Pharma has been fined billions by the U.S. Department of Justice, but these enormous fines don’t curb the corruption, it’s just looked upon as “the cost of doing business,” similar to paying the utilities.
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Marxist Economic Theory Easily Explained
Richard Wolff | The Jimmy Dore Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum. In 1988 he co-founded the journal Rethinking Marxism. In 2010, Wolff published Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It, also released as a DVD.
→ read full articleCreationism versus Redemptionism: How a Money-Issuer Really Lends and Spends
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
I will examine three analogous questions (each of which has the same answer):
1. Does the government need to receive tax revenue before it can spend?
2. Does the central bank need to receive reserve deposits before it can lend?
3. Do private banks need to receive demand deposits before they can lend?
How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Confidence: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Self-Esteem
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
“I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood.”
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