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On Dogs & Buildings
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Quite right…
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‘A New Hawaiian Renaissance’: How a Telescope Protest Became a Movement
Michelle Broder Van Dyke – The Guardian,
19 Aug 2019
17 Aug 2019 – On Hawaii’s Big Island, a protest against a $1.4bn observatory on Mauna Kea, a mountain considered sacred by many Native Hawaiians, is entering a second month. In that time, the protest site has swelled from a few hundred to several thousands, attracted celebrity visitors, and built a community of Native Hawaiians who see it as a pivotal moment.
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Listen to People of Jammu & Kashmir: End ‘Reign of Occupation and Terror’
National Alliance of People’s Movements | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) unequivocally condemns the indefensible and totalitarian move of the BJP-led NDA Govt. to repeal Article 370 of the Constitution by way of a Presidential Order and introduce a Bill for bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, not only without but seemingly in violation of the consent of the people and key political actors of the state.
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The World Is Uniting for International Law, against US Empire
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
11 Aug 2019 – “We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures.” That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies who have embarrassed themselves by recognizing the phony “interim president” Juan Guaido are saying the US has gone too far.
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Washington Intensifies Its Collective Punishment of Venezuelans
Kevin Young | NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
14 Aug 2019 – On August 5, the Trump administration issued an executive order escalating its sanctions against Venezuela. The order froze all Venezuelan government assets in the United States and threatened third parties around the world with punitive action if they trade with the Venezuelan government. Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive.
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Borders and Belonging: Toni Morrison’s Prescient Wisdom on the Refugee Struggle, the Violence of Otherness, and the Meaning of Home
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
“It may be that the most defining characteristic of our times is that, again, walls and weapons feature as prominently now as they once did in medieval times.”
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Portugal: A New Home for Those Who Fear Hong Kong’s Fate?
Raquel Carvalho | This Week in Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
• Growing frustration over extradition bill and worries over erosion of city’s freedoms have seen a surge in number of Hongkongers considering migration
• For those who want access to Europe, Portugal is increasingly seen as a gateway – either through family ties in Macau or investment
(Português) Série Fotográfica Expõe Barbárie do Abate de Porcos no Mundo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
15 ago 2019 – Uma série fotográfica idealizada pela fotojornalista canadense Jo-Anne McArthur expõe a barbárie do abate de porcos no mundo. Ela publicou no site do projeto We Animals uma compilação de fotografias ambientadas nos matadouros da Tailândia e de Taiwan. Chocante!
→ read full articleFrom Legitimacy Wars to the Politics of Impossibility: Horizons of Hope
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
The Palestinian people are being cruelly pushed hard against walls of submission by violence and threats, which amounts to what has become ‘a lost cause’ somewhat along the lines of Tibet, Western Sahara, and the fates that have befallen most indigenous peoples. This is what Trump is promoting as ‘the deal of the century’ and seems to be what the Arab dynastic autocrats would like to see happen so that they can get on with their business of confronting Iran and keeping their own peoples forever captive.
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A Man of Courage
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Paul Findley, one of the most remarkable Congressmen that the US House of Representatives had produced since the Second World War, passed away on the 9th of August 2019. He was 98 years old.
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Kashmir: A Coup against the Constitution and the Kashmiris
People's Union for Civil Liberties | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – The PUCL condemns the abrogation of key portions of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and the bifurcation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and taking away its statehood. While the deed by itself is deceitful, the manner in which it was done is even more so.
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Why Krishna Comes to This World
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | ISKCON – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
August 1973 at the Bhaktivedanta Manor, in the countryside near London. Several thousand guests (including the Indian High Commissioner) listen to Swami Prabhupada speak about the day Lord Krsna made His appearance on earth 5,000 years ago – CELEBRATED ON 23-24 AUGUST 2019.
→ read full articleThe Likely Outcome of Narendra Modi’s Unconstitutional Seizure of Kashmir
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
17 Aug 2019 – There can be no honest legal question about the unConstitutionality of what Modi has been doing to J&K since 5 Aug—Modi’s traitorism to India’s Constitution. The question is whether India’s ‘news’-media will start to publicize this important fact. The Government hopes that enough J&K Muslims will evacuate so as to enable Hindus ‘democratically’ to impose an apartheid anti-Muslim regime. The whole of Kashmir is, at the moment, a prison, under military control.
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Here Are Five Lies about Iran That We Need to Refute to Stop another Illegal War
Mehdi Hasan – The Intercept,
19 Aug 2019
14 Aug 2019 – The Trump administration is lying about Iran and its nuclear program. The media has to debunk this false drumbeat for war.
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(Français) Comment les médias occidentaux soutiennent le terrorisme d’Etat qui fait des millions de victimes
Florian Zollman, Alan Macleod, Jeffery Klaehn, Daniel Broudy and Matthew Alford | Peace News – Le Grand Soir,
19 Aug 2019
21 juillet 2019 – Quatre universitaires examinent la couverture médiatique des affaires étrangères dans un article censuré (puis refusé) par une grande publication libérale.
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Living on Bridges: Dialoguing on Peace, Cultural Violence, Education, Art
Gary Corseri, Pilar Viviente and some esteemed friends,
19 Aug 2019
Pilar: Tech grows faster than human consciousness. We are already living on bridges… and the great challenge of the 21st Century is to be conscious of these bridges, to contribute to these bridges, to amplify the human areas of the bridges.
Gary: Since childhood, I’ve heard the phrase, “building bridges.” You suggest that our technology has helped us to build more and more—but we really haven’t learned how to live upon those bridges. And that’s a great challenge for our modern Artists.
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(Português) Ursos arranham e batem as patas contra as paredes de cativeiro em zoo
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Ursos aflitos podem ser vistos se balançando para frente e para trás e se batendo contra as paredes de concreto do recinto onde ficam aprisionados, em um vídeo comovente feito em zoológico na Tailândia.
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Deforestation, Chipko Movements: Role of Countless Women
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
All over the world forests are being cut or destroyed for development or for infrastructure purposes. Roads, dams, railway lines are being constructed or mining activities occurring in forest lands; making furniture or ladders or various other items are also obtained from trees.
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Trump Imposes Economic Embargo against Venezuela
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019 – US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing an economic embargo against Venezuela, in the latest move against President Nicolas Maduro and his government. First-ever expanded sanctions against a western hemisphere government in over 30 years similar to those faced by Cuba.
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Our Vanishing World (Part 1): Rainforests
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
But the Amazon is huge, you might say: Does it matter if we destroy some of it for soy and cattle farming? Well, one recent study suggested that deforestation of 20–25% of the Amazon would be the tipping point beyond which it would cease to be a functioning rainforest ecosystem and this, as you might expect, would be catastrophic. Moreover, recent severe droughts appear to be ‘the first flickers of this ecological tipping point’ suggesting that it is already imminent.
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EU Opposes US Total Embargo against Venezuela
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – The European Union said today that it rejected new moves by the White House to impose a total blockade on Venezuela. “We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures,” said EU spokesperson Carlos Martin Ruiz de Gordejuela.
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Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – America’s chief competitor in the trade war is obviously China, which subsidizes not just worker costs but the costs of its businesses. The government owns 80% of the banks. Typically, if the businesses cannot repay the loans, neither the banks nor the businesses are put into bankruptcy. The non-performing loans are just carried on the books or written off. No private creditors are hurt, since the creditor is the government, and the loans were created on the banks’ books in the first place (following standard banking practice globally).
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International Humanitarian Law, Constant Challenges, NGO Responses
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
12 August is the anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions in 1949. The 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Protocols Additional are central instruments of International Humanitarian Law. The Geneva Conventions are also often called the Red Cross Conventions.
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(Italiano) Il segreto Nato online: le 150 bombe in Europa
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
12 Aug 2019
9 Agosto 2019 – Che gli Stati uniti mantengano bombe nucleari in cinque paesi della Nato – Italia, Germania, Belgio, Olanda e Turchia – è provato da tempo (in particolare dalla Federazione degli scienziati americani). La Nato però non l’ha mai ammesso ufficialmente. Qualcosa tuttavia è andato storto.
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The Indian Government Is Revoking Kashmir’s Special Status. Here’s What That Means
Billy Perrigo – TIME Magazine,
12 Aug 2019
5 Aug 2019 – India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which returned to power after elections in May with an increased majority, has long called for the revocation of Article 370 of India’s constitution, which guarantees Kashmiri autonomy. Now, the party seems to be trying to make this long-held ambition become reality. Here’s what to know about the situation in Kashmir and what it means for the world.
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“That Was Then, This Is Now.” “Oh, yeah?” The Problem of Anti-Relativism in Political Morality
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Anti-relativist thinking insists that certain values approved by the speaker are constant and unchangeable. This means that behaviors that we now believe are wrong were ‘always’ unacceptable, and should always have always been recognized as such. Anti-relativism’s opposite, moral relativism, can be summed up in the phrase, “Other times, other customs.” Historical eras, social conditions, and cultural environments change, altering commonly accepted definitions of right and wrong.
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Kapu Aloha Needed Now More Than Ever to Free Us from Our Addiction to War & Violence
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019 – Kapu Aloha is a solemn Hawaiian pledge and commitment to live aloha (love and nonviolence) even under the most adverse circumstances. The U.S. spends 32 million dollars per minute on war – every minute of every hour of every day of the year. The U.S., which represents only 5% of the world’s population, has 45% of the world’s guns. There are 390 million guns in the U.S., more guns than people. This includes 15-20 million military assault weapons, the kind used in the recent mass killings in El Paso and Dayton.
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(Português) A Naturalização do Horror no Brasil
Frei Betto | Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
10 ago 2019 – Em 1934, o embaixador José Jobim (assassinado pela ditadura em 1979) publicou o livro Hitler e os Comediantes onde descreve a ascensão do líder nazista e a reação do povo alemão diante de seus abusos. Não se acreditava que ele haveria de implantar um regime de terror. E sabemos todos que deu no que deu. Estou convencido de que Bolsonaro sabe o que quer, e tem projeto de longo prazo para o Brasil. Adota uma estratégia bem arquitetada. Enumero 10 táticas mais óbvias.
→ read full article(Français) La résolution des Nations Unies pour la culture de la paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
1er août 2019 – La lutte pour une culture de la paix pourrait gagner beaucoup plus de force si cette résolution était utilisée comme base d’analyse et de pratique par plus d’organisations dans le monde, mais malheureusement, elle est mal connue. La situation me rappelle l’utilisation d’un autre document historique des Nations Unies, la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme.
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(Français) Le Traité FNI enterré, les nouveaux euromissiles arrivent
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – Investig’Action,
12 Aug 2019
5 Août 2019 – Conclu en 1987 par Gorbatchev et Reagan pour éliminer les misses nucléaires à portée courte et intermédiaire, le traité FNI est désormais enterré. Après avoir accusé la Russie de l’avoir violé sans apporter la moindre preuve, les États-Unis y mettent un terme sans ambages. Ce qui place l’Europe dans une situation périlleuse.
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India Moves to Strip Kashmir of Autonomy, Potentially Setting Up Conflict in Disputed Territory
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
12 Aug 2019
5 Aug 2018 – Early morning today, the Indian government announced a change to its constitution, revoking the autonomy of the disputed northern state of Jammu and Kashmir and potentially setting the stage for a major new conflict. The change opens the door to a situation similar to Chinese policy in Tibet and Xinjiang and Israeli policy in the West Bank, allowing the Indian government to move huge numbers of settlers into Kashmir, the country’s only Muslim-majority region, thereby forcibly transforming its demographics.
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White Supremacy
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
5 Aug 2019 – White Supremacism is a belief that whites are superior to others and have a right to dominate them. There were elements of such thinking in a “manifesto” posted online allegedly written by the suspected killer, a 21-year-old white who justified his massacre as a response “to the Hispanic invasion of Texas” and making references to Christchurch (New Zealand) where a white gunman killed 51 mosque worshippers in March.
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Peace Journalism for the Koreas Negotiations
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
What can the Peace Journalism playbook contribute? How can readers and audiences be prompted and equipped to consider and value nonviolent responses to the still-unresolved conflict on the Korean peninsula, with all its potential dangers? Look past slogans from both ‘sides’ to focus on the goals of the conflict parties, for one.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
According to some scholars, mindfulness is a type of meditation that allows a person to focus intensely on some physical activity such as breathing, which results in de-stressing the mind and body. It also acts as a suitable medication. Many persons who have followed these guidelines for de-stressing themselves admit that they have been quite effective.
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Trump Regime Aims to Starve Venezuelans into Submission
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – The Trump regime is waging all-out war by other means on Iran and Venezuela, heading toward a similar policy against China. Their latest shoe to drop against Venezuela occurred Wednesday [7 Aug] when a vessel carrying 25,000 tons of soy cake was illegally seized in the Panama Canal. The ship is “being kept in the Panama Canal due to the criminal blockade imposed by” the Trump regime, explained Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.
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(Português) Vacas e Bois São Amarrados e Içados por Guindaste nas Ruas do Paquistão
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Imagens fortes divulgadas recentemente mostram vacas e bois sendo içados de grandes alturas até o chão, numa operação arriscada e improvisada pelos agricultores paquistaneses, que mantêm seu rebanho no telhado em Karachi. Nas fotos pode-se ver homens sobre os animais enquanto eles são movimentados por um guindaste, presos a cordas e mal acomodados, eles pousam no chão muitas vezes de forma abrupta e mal planejada, causando sofrimento aos animais.
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Rohingya Poets Turn Words into Art of Resistance
Natalie Brinham, Yuriko Cowper-Smith, and Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – Rohingya poets featured in an anthology, I am Rohingya, write with an urgency and passion of genocide survivors. They reclaim their experience, their group identity and their agency from the victimhood that has framed their existence for so long.
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(Português) Desflorestação da Amazónia brasileira cresce 278% num ano
MadreMedia | Lusa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 ago 2019 – A desflorestação da Amazónia brasileira atingiu 2.254,8 quilómetros quadrados (km2) em julho, um número 278% superior ao mesmo período de 2018, referem as últimas estimativas do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), atualizadas na terça-feira [6 ago].
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(Italiano) Ai confini dell’estrattivismo: il saccheggio del patrimonio spirituale
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
29 Luglio 2019 – Secondo la versione inglese di Wikipedia (che qui traduco in italiano) “estrattivismo si riferisce al processo di rimozione di grandi quantità di materiali grezzi o naturali, soprattutto per destinarli all’esportazione. La maggior parte delle risorse estratte viene esportata perché vi è una mancanza di domanda nei paesi di origine.”
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Very revealing and interesting experiment… In Spanish but Understandable.
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New York Area Fire Commissioners Make History, Call for New 9/11 Investigation
Ted Walter | Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
On July 24, 2019 — nearly 18 years after the horrific attacks that traumatized a nation and changed the world forever — the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District, just outside of Queens, New York, became the first legislative body in the country to officially support a new investigation into the events of 9/11. The resolution, drafted and introduced by Commissioner Christopher Gioia, was unanimously approved.
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Toni Morrison on the Power of Language: Her Spectacular Nobel Acceptance Speech after Becoming the First African American Woman Awarded the Accolade
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
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Neoliberalism, Neofascism & Trumpism – Racist Alliance of Mob & Capital
Dr Gideon Polya | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
4 Aug 2019 – Philosopher Hannah Arendt found common causes of genocidal Western European imperialism on 5 continents and genocidal 20th century fascism as an alliance between the mob and capital, with a commonality in this union of extreme nationalism, lying, rapacity, atrocity-justifying racism and anti-humanism. Today American Trumpism is ferociously anti-intellectual, anti-humanist, nationalist and racist, with genocidal Trump threats to “totally destroy” or “obliterate”.
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The Right Has Power in Latin America, but No Plan
Alexander Main – Jacobin Magazine,
12 Aug 2019
3 Aug 2019 – Across Latin America, the Right has swept to power. But its achievements pale in comparison to the Pink Tide — and it has no compelling vision for how to address the region’s challenges.
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Israel’s War on Innocence: Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Courts
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – Ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli military and police is so widespread and systematic that videos and reports of their arrests are almost a staple on social media platforms concerned with Palestine and Palestinian rights. The sad reality is that Muhammad Elayyan, 4, and Qais Obaid, 6, and many children like them, have become a target of Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Global Peace and Human Security: India and Pakistan Itching for Showdown on Kashmir
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – History made India and Pakistan enemies and geography made them neighbors. The State of Jammu and Kashmir is at the heart of all political and strategic problems which characterize the nature of relationships between the two nuclear rivals. This week, Indian parliament using a legal stipulation of its own paperwork has changed the status of Kashmir without any consent or reference to the people of Kashmir.
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As India and Pakistan – And America and Iran – Go Toe-To-Toe, Now Is the Time to Recall the Scorched Corpses of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Robert Fisk | The Independent – Microsoft News,
12 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019 – This week marks only the 74th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over the past few days, I’ve had to look hard to find a headline about the two Japanese cities. But, especially in the Middle East and what we like to call south-east Asia, we should be remembering these gruesome anniversaries every month. Hiroshima was atomic-bombed 74 years ago on Tuesday; Nagasaki 74 years ago on Friday. Given the extent of the casualty figures, you’d think they’d be unforgettable.
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Frequencies That Can Kill, Heal, and Transcend
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
There are all kinds of frequencies and vibrations all around us. There are frequencies we see (such as light waves), hear (sound waves), or feel, and others that are beyond our ability to sense, such as gamma rays, infrared, or radio and television frequencies.
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Eat Less Meat: UN Climate Change Report Calls for Change to Human Diet
Quirin Schiermeier | Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019 – The report on global land use and agriculture from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon.
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Tulsi Gabbard Has Done the Unpardonable: Criticized US Global Hegemony
David Bromwich | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
3 Aug 2019 – The Times’ yellow journalism half disguised as human interest, with a few random points of political information. Headline: “Unorthodox Campaign Shows Isolationism May Have a Hold.” Opening sentence: “Tulsi Gabbard is running for president of a country that she believes has wrought horror on the world.”
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A Dreaming Stranger on a Train
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
“Perhaps that’s what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that’s what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I’m neither one side nor the other, I’m in the middle, I’m the partition, I’ve two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that’s what I feel, myself vibrating, I’m the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don’t belong to either.” — Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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Why Native Hawaiians Are Fighting to Protect Maunakea from a Telescope
Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Pundits have said the Native Hawaiian resistance to the Thirty Meter Telescope project is a conflict between science and culture. But the protectors are not against science; they just believe the telescope does not belong on Maunakea’s sacred lands. The mountain is among the most sacred sites in Hawaiian cosmology.
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Leo Tolstoy on Kindness and the Measure of Love
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. Kindness is for your soul as health is for your body: you do not notice it when you have it.”
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The Politics and Potential of the Green New Deal
Johanna Bozuwa | Progressive Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
10 Jul 2019 – The Green New Deal “is not, and cannot be, simply about reducing carbon emissions. It must be ambitious enough to construct entirely new national institutions, reorganize sectors of our society, transform extractive industry into real wealth creation for communities, and rigorously rewrite the rules of the game for business and the economy at large.”
→ read full articleBenefits of Equality
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Warren Buffet famously remarked, “There’s class warfare, all right. But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” However, the evidence presented by Hobson, Hanauer and Wilkinson shows conclusively that no one wins in a society where inequality is too great, and everyone wins when incomes are more evenly distributed.
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Fidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba, transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
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Burning Down the House
Alan Weisman | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
August 15, 2019 Issue – Environmental writers today have a twofold problem. First, how to overcome readers’ resistance to ever-worsening truths, especially when climate-change denial has turned into a political credo and a highly profitable industry with its own television network. Second, in view of the breathless pace of new discoveries, publishing can barely keep up. I’m not the only writer to wonder whether books are still an appropriate medium to convey the frightening speed of environmental upheaval.
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(Português) Criação de Animais em Regime Industrial É Um dos Piores Crimes da Humanidade
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 ago 2019 – O destino dos animais criados em regime industrial é uma das questões éticas mais urgentes do nosso tempo. Dezenas de bilhões de animais sencientes, cada um com sensações e emoções complexas, vivem e morrem em uma linha de produção. A marcha do progresso humano está repleta de animais mortos.
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The Paradox of Mortality: Death and Perpetual Denial
Devaleena Kundu | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Literary discourses often seek to explore the emotional motley experienced by individuals while encountering death and dying. Representations by literary artists offer a virtual space wherein readers partake of the conclusive episode in a character’s lived experience. However, does a reader in the process imagine and accept his/her own cessation? Or does it always have to be an “other” being at whose death we are present as voyeurs? Freud in his 1918 work “Reflections on War and Death” observed: “We cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we find that we survive ourselves as spectators.”
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Ravel’s Bolero–Flash Mob (Music Video of the Week)
Societat Musical d'Algemesí – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Flash Mob Performed by Banda Simfònica d’Algemesí at Plaça del Mercat, Algemesí,Valencia, Spain
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Meet Antonio C. S. Rosa: Pioneer in Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Peace Journalism, a New Paradigm for Journalists Covering Conflict Situations: Meet the man behind TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE-TMS
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Washington Orders International Embargo on Venezuela, Threatens Invasion
Andrea Lobo | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday [6 Aug] freezing “all property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States.” The move is the culmination of a series of increasingly severe sanctions and marks a new stage in the US coup operation against the Government of Nicolás Maduro.
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{What War on Drugs?} US Protection of Afghan Opiates Has Killed 5.2 Million People since 9-11
Gideon Polya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
11 Aug 2019 – US-imposed Opiate Holocaust
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More British Complicity Exposed in Latest ‘CIA Torture Unredacted’ Report
TruePublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
4 Aug 2019 – The latest report about kidnappings, rendition, ‘black sites’ and torture is a remarkable piece of investigative work. It provides us with nothing less than a litany of shocking evidence and testimony and at 403 pages it makes for truly grim reading. This article is made up of a very brief set of extracts from the just-released CIA Torture Unredacted report.
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John Pilger Warns: “Do Not Forget Assange. Or You Will Lose Him”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – In a tweet that has been shared more than 10,000 times, Pilger wrote: “Do not forget Julian #Assange. Or you will lose him. I saw him in Belmarsh prison and his health has deteriorated. Treated worse than a murderer, he is isolated, medicated and denied the tools to fight the bogus charges of a US extradition. I now fear for him. Do not forget him.”. Christine Assange, Julian’s mother, responded to Pilger’s update with a series of tweets.
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IPCC Special Report: Climate Change and Land
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019 – An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.
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London International Arms Fair
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Sands Films Studio, in Rotherhithe, is hosting a series of alternative events to compete with the International Arms Fair 2019 taking place at ExCeL. In one venue, various expressions of protest and opposition to the Arms Fair and all other such Death Fairs anywhere in the world. Series of Alternative Events: Sep 10-14, 2019
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Ipsis Literis
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I Can’t Support an Ideology Grounded in Jewish Privilege and Persecution of Palestinians
Alice Rothchild – The Seattle Times,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – A central debate within the U.S. Jewish community involves Zionism and its relationship to Judaism. In my recent contribution to the anthology, “Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation,” I became aware that the ideology of Jewish nationalism and the policies of the Israeli government have corrupted my concept of Judaism and its central religious and cultural values.
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How to Shift to a More Plant-Based Diet, without the Guilt
Leslie Crawford | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Wellness activist Kathy Freston takes a compassionate, no-guilt and shame-free approach to omnivores who try to reduce their meat consumption, but who may not be on board the vegan train.
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(Italiano) Da Monte Sole a Sant’Anna di Stazzema. Una camminata per la pace 6/7-12 agosto 2019
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Camminare come azione nonviolenta. Come atto agito in consapevolezza: fra storia e memoria. Anche atto politico. Atteggiamento a pensiero e impatto anche nonviolento: portatore di Nonviolenza.
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Rohingya in India: No Direction Home
Soumya Shankar – Caravan Magazine [India],
12 Aug 2019
How the world’s largest democracy treats the world’s most persecuted minority.
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The Schoolteacher and the Genocide
Sarah A. Topol – The New York Times Magazine,
12 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019 – He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.
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Terrorism American Style
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
The 19-year-old opened fire on innocent people at the outdoor Gilroy Garlic Festival in California on Sun 29 Jul 2019, killing three people and wounding 12 others, according to Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee.
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Brazil Supreme Court Minister Rules to Protect Press Freedom for Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept
Trevor Timm – The Intercept,
12 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019 – In a crucial victory for press freedom in Brazil, the Supreme Court has barred the Bolsonaro administration and Justice Minister Sergio Moro from investigating The Intercept Brasil and journalist Glenn Greenwald for its reporting on unethical and potentially illegal conduct involving Moro.
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Google’s Extravagant Climate Change Camp Mocked as Party for ‘Entitled Fools’
Ebony Bowden | Page Six – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – Google’s carbon-spewing climate change conference at an Italian resort has been widely slammed as a tone-deaf party for the elite A-listers who jetted there. “Is there anything more hypocritical than a bunch of rich people flying their private jets across the world to sit on yachts and discuss the future of our planet?” reflected the general reaction online to this week’s Google Camp event in Sicily.
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(Français) Démasquer la torture exercée sur Julian Assange
Nils Meltzer | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
La tribune libre ci-dessous a été proposée par le professeur Nils Melzer, Rapporteur spécial des Nations unies sur la torture, pour être publiée à l’occasion de la Journée internationale pour le soutien aux victimes de la torture, le 26 juin 2019, au Guardian, au Times, au Financial Times, au Sydney Morning Herald, à The Australian, au Canberra Times, au Telegraph, au New York Times, au Washington Post, à Reuters et à Newsweek. Tous ont refusé de la publier.
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(Italiano) Dissacrare i confini, costruire contatti
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Oggi – nell’incontro dei popoli, nel comune rischio dei danni ambientali irreparabili, e delle guerre alimentate dai suprematismi e dal libero criminale mercato di armi, e dalla proliferazione e non proibizione anche di quelle total-distruttive – l’opera politica e civile più necessaria è abbassare i confini escludenti, gettare ponti di conoscenza, di riconoscimento e di accoglienza solidale, tra le culture, tra le persone, perché il destino umano è sempre più comune, inseparabile. A questo argine universale alla disumanizzazione, è nostro dovere, e anche sana convenienza, obbedire attivamente.
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Cuban Compassion: Training Doctors for a Pacific Island Nation Running Out of Time
Robert Huish and Sharon McLennan – The Conversation,
5 Aug 2019
11 Jul 2019 – Cuba is offering a compelling example of how we can take care of each other during the climate crisis with its work training doctors on Kiribati, a nation that is being devastated by climate change.
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Killer Clowns
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – Everywhere the killer clowns are taking over. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Scott Morrison, Rodrigo Duterte, Matteo Salvini, Recep Erdogan, Viktor Orban and a host of other ludicrous strongmen – or weakmen as they so often turn out to be – dominate nations that would once have laughed them off stage.
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto on Nuclear Weapons
Pugwash University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
‘A War with H Bomb Might Possibly Put an End to the Human Race.’
– London, 9 Jul 1955 – In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft.
Gun Violence in 2019: There Have Been 251 Mass Shootings in the U.S. in 216 Days
Daniel Politi | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
It was a particularly deadly 24 hours in the USA as a shooting spree early Sunday [4 Aug] morning in Dayton, Ohio, which left at least 10 dead, including the gunman, took place less than a day after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and killed at least 20 people. The violence in Dayton, which took place on the 216th day of the year, marked the 251st mass shooting of 2019, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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Coping Capacity of Governance as Dangerously Questionable
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Recognizing Assumptions and Unasked Questions when Facing Crisis – The question here is whether the institutions of governance, and those attaching credibility to them, are capable of recognizing that there is every possibility that they are unable to cope. It could be argued that this has long been the case.
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Lifeboat Earth: Is China or the Green New Deal the Answer to Climate Change?
John Feffer - TomDispatch,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – At its best, the earth was once likened to a spaceship that sails through the heavens with a crew working together for the common good. Thanks to climate change, this metaphor no longer works. Our planet is now more like a lifeboat that’s sprung a major leak. People onboard are beginning to panic and the clock is ticking. It is, however, the perfect environment to test out the best way to deal with life-and-death situations.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – The struggle for a culture of peace could gain much more force if this resolution were used as the basis for analysis and practice by more organizations around the world, but unfortunately it is relatively unknown. The situation reminds me of the use of another landmark UN document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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(Português) E agora, Brasil?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Sul21 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
23 julho 2019 – As palavras que mais ocorrem são estupefacção e perplexidade. O governo brasileiro caiu no abismo do absurdo, na banalização total do insulto e da agressão, no atropelo primário às regras mínimas de convivência democrática, para já não falar das leis e da Constituição. A perplexidade decorre de outra verificação, não menos surpreendente: a aparente apatia da sociedade civil, dos partidos democráticos, dos movimentos sociais, enfim, de todos os que se sentem agredidos por tamanho desconchavo.
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In Joyful Act of Resistance, Pink Seesaws Installed at US-Mexico Border Fence
Jenna McGuire – Common Dreams,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – Two California professors built three pink seesaws on the U.S.-Mexico border to allow families to play together and to bring “joy, excitement, and togetherness” to both sides of the divide. “We are all connected.”
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Sur Baher Home Demolitions Illustrate a Vicious Spiral of Oppression in Palestine
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
28 Jul 2019 – Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions. The more the West represses criticism, the more Israel luxuriates in its impunity.
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U.N. Urges Sanctions on Myanmar Army Businesses, Says Foreign Partners Could Be Complicit
Angie Teo and Poppy McPherson | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
5 Aug 2019 – United Nations investigators urged world leaders today to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing business with them could be complicit in international crimes.
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China Sees New Era of ‘Shared Destiny’ with US No Longer in the Driving Seat
Darius Shahtahmasebi - RT,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – The release of China’s white paper on defense demonstrates an increasingly confident and more assertive China. “Asia-Pacific countries are increasingly aware that they are members of a community with shared destiny” is perhaps the single-most important sentence of the entire white paper. China is hinting that the region shares the destiny of what will become “the end of a US-led alliance system.”
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March of the Uyghurs
Andre Vltchek | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
21 Jul 2019 – The Uyghurs have managed to create a very old and deep culture. Most of them are good, law abiding citizens of the PRC. Also the great majority of followers of Sunni Islam are peaceful people. This work is addressing terrible problems related to extremism and terrorism, most of them crafted and then fueled by the West and its allies. The goal is to damage China. The victims live in various countries. Again, the West tries to destroy China, using religion and terror.
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“Omnipresent Surveillance:” Dystopian Society in Our Global Era
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Imposing Authoritarian Control, Domination, and Rule: Strategies, Methods, Techniques, Tactics
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Mahathir’s Rohingya Proposal Spurs Mixed Reactions
Riyaz ul Khaliq | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – A recent proposal by Malaysian premier that the Rohingya ethnic minority should be given the chance to form their own state drew cautious reactions from members of the persecuted community.
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Untitled…
Michael de Adder – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
… and legend unnecessary. Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder was dropped after creating this drawing.
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US Withdraws from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019 – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced today that the United States has abandoned the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) signed with Russia. The United States will no longer be prohibited from having ground-launched intermediate-range missiles.
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Judge’s Ruling Throws Huge Spanner into US Extradition Proceedings against Assange
Tom Coburg | The Canary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
31 Jul 2019 – A US judge has ruled that WikiLeaks was fully entitled to publish the Democratic National Congress (DNC) emails, which means no law was broken. The ruling is highly significant as it could impact upon the US extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as well as the ongoing imprisonment of whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
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How Trees Talk to Each Other
Suzanne Simard | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
“A forest is much more than what you see,” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances. Learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes.
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Lives in Economics
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019 – I would like to announce the publication of a book describing the lives of some of the people who have contributed importantly to economic thought. Their lives can help us today, as the world faces a crisis that has both economic dimensions. The book can be freely downloaded here.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Remote Control
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Tulsi Gabbard vs Google Goliath
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – The Tulsi Gabbard presidential campaign has filed a major law suit against Google. This article outlines the main points of the law suit and evidence the social media giant Google has quietly acquired enormous influence on public perceptions and has been actively censoring alternative viewpoints.
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