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“Mysteries of the Sacred Universe” Seminar in New York
Prishni Shutton | ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
29 Jun 2018 – Murali Gopal Das presented a lively seminar at New York City’s Bhakti Center titled “Mysteries of the Sacred Universe.” Murali holds a Ph.D. in physics from Ohio University, has served an internship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, completed his post-doctoral studies at Columbia University, and has taught Sanskrit at the University of Florida. As a member of the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies, he develops courses on Bhakti and Science, including Vedic concepts of cosmography, consciousness, and physics.
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Trial Runs for Fascism Are in Full Flow
Fintan O'Toole – Irish Times,
16 Jul 2018
Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism. People have to be given the taste for savagery. Fascism does this by building up the sense of threat from a despised out-group.
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Puerto Rico: Disaster Colonialism Strikes Again
Judith Mirkinson | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Disaster capitalism? Shock Doctrine? Whatever you want to call it. For Haiti, it was the 2010 earthquake. For Puerto Rico, it’s the recent 2017 mega-hurricane Maria… The lessons already learned by the popular movements in both places will be invaluable. The resistance and organization of the Puerto Rican and Haitian people—and the solidarity that they receive—will have a great impact on the outcome.
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Australia: The Hidden History of the Women Who Rose Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – John Pilger gave this address on the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Parramatta Female Factory, a prison where women convicts from mostly Ireland and England were sent in the early 19th century. Like all colonial societies, Australia has secrets. For a long time, the fact that many Australians came from what was called ‘bad stock’ was a secret.
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“Not Enough!”
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – The State of Israel has no oil wells. It has no gold mines. What has it got? It has the ownership of the remembrance of the Holocaust.
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How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”
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Ducking Hell: The Shocking Video Revealing How We Farm Ducks in Australia
Chris Graham – New Matilda,
16 Jul 2018
Shocking footage of duck farming in Australia has emerged showing day-old ducklings being dropped into an industrial shredder, adult ducks being kicked and thrown around a barn by workers, and ducks which should have been stunned before slaughter hanging by their feet on a conveyor belt while they bleed to death after having their throats slit.
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Between Us, Philosophers…
Dan Piraro | Bizarro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Pure Wisdom
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Tribute to Robert Parry: Investigative Journalist and Patriot
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – Although Robert Parry never became personally famous, many readers will recall news stories he played a key role in bringing to public consciousness. He uncovered the “Iran-Contra scandal” where the US secretly sold weapons to Iran via Israel with profits supporting mercenary “Contras” attacking the Nicaraguan government. He uncovered Lt. Col. Oliver North secretly working at the Reagan White House to supervise support for the Contras. He exposed CIA collusion with criminals sending weapons to the Contras and receiving tons of cocaine on return flights from Colombia and Central America.
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Somewhere in Time (Music Video of the Week)
Maksim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Maksim – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Julian Kershaw
| Somewhere in Time -The Old Woman
Time for Int’l Community to Come Forward for Rohingyas
Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 – The military junta in Myanmar has not only snatched away the citizenship of the Rohingyas in the country’s Rakhine state, but has been perpetuating killing and torture against them for the past four decades. The United Nations and other international institutions have been totally ineffective in addressing the problem, raising questions of their complicity. Bangladesh, however, has displayed a positive moral stance by providing the Rohingyas with shelter.
→ read full articleAmerica Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
9 Jul 2018 – The US Government (with France and a few other US allies) bombs Libya, Syria, etc.; and the US regime refuses to accept any of the resulting refugees — the burdens from which are now breaking the EU, and the EU is sinking in economic competition against America’s international corporations.
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New World Order of Walk-away Wheeling and Dealing
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Creating Strategic Dependency and Vulnerability through Confidence Tricks – Produced on the occasion of the NATO Summit (Brussels, 11-12 July 2018)
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Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Argentina: Over 60 Social Movements Protest US ‘Military Base’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – In Argentina, political parties, social organizations, human rights groups, workers’ unions and Mapuches led a caravan to the site where a U.S. base will be built to demand respect for Argentina’s territorial sovereignty. “The base comes to fulfill a strategic intelligence objective of the U.S. military that seeks to protect their corporate interests.
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(Português) Leonardo DiCaprio junta-se à Sea Shepherd na produção de documentário sobre mamífero marinho mais ameaçado do mundo
Paula Borim - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
16 Jul 2018
As vaquitas são animais marinhos semelhantes ao boto, e atualmente restam apenas 30 delas no planeta.
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(Castellano) Una amenaza, la autodestrucción, y los peligros para la paz
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – Existe una percepción general de que la situación de la humanidad no es buena, pues hay una acumulación de riqueza absurda en pocas manos dentro de un mar de miseria y de hambre… Lo que se está haciendo en Europa contra los refugiados, rechazando su presencia en Italia y en Inglaterra, y peor, en Hungría y en la catoliquísima Polonia, alcanza niveles de inhumanidad.
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Johan Galtung on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Amy Goodman | Envision Peace Museum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Johan Galtung is widely considered the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies.” A Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, Galtung has taught around the world, helped found many institutions dedicated to building peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award. He serves on the advisory board of Envision Peace Museum.
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Bulldozing Palestine, One Village at a Time
Mariam Barghouti – Al Jazeera,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – Israel wants the village of Khan al-Ahmar razed to the ground to cut off Jerusalem from the West Bank. We will continue to stand with their residents because their resistance is part of the greater struggle against the entire framework of Israel’s brutal settler-colonialism.
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Oahu
Maureen Korp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Seeing something there
a glint, quick light rippling
in the tide
BDS Victory: Ireland Approves Bill Boycotting Israeli Settlement Goods
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Ireland becomes the first country to ban trade with Israel’s illegal settlements.
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(Português) Esforço compartilhado por toda a sociedade: hipocrisia e ignomínia
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 julho 2018 – Diante de situações de crise que setores dominantes geraram ou, quando menos, gravemente agigantaram, suas representações políticas convocam com hipocrisia e ignomínia a que a sociedade toda compartilha o esforço de recuperação e desenvolvimento. Enquanto pedem ao povo que aceite os sacrifícios para gerar em conjunto um futuro venturoso, seguem fugindo capitais para guaridas fiscais e impõem planos de resgate e políticas econômicas e culturais que protegem seus privilégios e negócios.
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Security Council Hails ‘Historic and Significant’ Joint Peace Declaration by Ethiopia and Eritrea
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – The United Nations Security Council today described the Joint Declaration, signed by the leaders of Eritrea and Ethiopia, as “a historic and significant” move with “far-reaching consequences” for the whole Horn of Africa region and beyond.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Frantz Omar Fanon was a Martinique-born French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and an existentialist humanist concerning the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
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Meanwhile, Boys in the USA
Pia Guerra | THE NIB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Not an Accident of Nature…
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I Was Robert Mueller’s Undergraduate Thesis Adviser—and What He Wrote Gives Some Hints about What He’ll Do as Special Counsel
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – Rereading Robert Mueller’s Princeton thesis 52 years later with an eye as to how he will perform as Trump’s inquisitor. What makes Mueller’s thesis relevant for today is that the core of his inquiry is how a judge should interpret a legal document.
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Bridging India’s Skill Gap
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Globalization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have increased the pace of change in labour markets, putting a premium on right skills and adaptability. Public policies should now shift to empowering and enabling workers to cope with transition, via income support, and also support incentives and opportunities for deskilling and upgrading skills.
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Buckminster Fuller (12 Jul 1895 – 1 Jul 1983): A World View on Doing More with Less
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
As all the male members of his family, he began university at Harvard but was expelled twice, being more interested in women than in diplomas. He never received a university degree but was self-taught in design, mathematics and architecture. He brought all his ideas together in what he called “The Law of Progressive Order.” Today, he is best known for his geodesic domes.
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“I don’t know why” Says a Rohingya
Dr. Abid Bahar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
“I don’t know why” says a Rohingya.
But I thought I didn’t know the answer to why
But I know, I know why, I know why and why
(Português) Não Tenho Necessidade de Alimentar-me de Animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
1 jul 2018 – Pratico musculação há anos e reconheço que não tenho necessidade de me alimentar de animais e também não tenho necessidade de usar esteroides.
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What Is Cooking?
Dr. Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Cooking for food, cooking for peace, cooking for friendship.
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Trump Beats Up NATO Members in American Protection Racket
Finian Cunningham - RT,
16 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 – The capo-in-chief flew into Brussels beating up on other NATO members with a combination of blackmail and extortion. Trump wants the others to cough up more dough for the “protection” provided to them by the US. The American leader is the linchpin of a racket that ultimately screws the ordinary citizens of Europe and the US.
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Rohingya Cannot Become ‘Forgotten Victims,’ Says UN Chief Urging World to Step Up Support
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Painting a grim picture of villages being burned to the ground and other “bone-chilling” accounts he heard from Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar, the UN chief has called on the world to answer their calls for help with real action.
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Europe’s Iron Curtain: The Refugee Crisis Is about to Worsen
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018 – A recent European Council summit in Brussels was meant to articulate a united policy on the burgeoning refugees and migrant crisis. Instead, it served to highlight the bitter divisions among various European countries. Considering the gravity of the matter, Europe’s self-serving policies are set to worsen an already tragic situation.
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Blindness, End of Cycle, New Courses
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 July, 2018 – Neoliberal domination is approaching the limits of its reproduction. So much has been destroyed with the impious concentration of wealth and decisions that the peoples of the world and the Planet can stand no more. Inequality, poverty, indigence, environmental destruction lead to the implosion of the model of society and world that has been imposed on us.
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The Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Arthur Lyon Dahl, and Maja P.C.E. Groff | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
May 2018 – This proposal builds upon structures for international cooperation existing at least since the creation of the UN. We propose revisions to the UN Charter that provide the legal basis for a new system of global governance, supplemented by other reforms not requiring Charter amendment.
→ read full articleBetween Three Summits: Brussels, England, Helsinki
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
This TMS issue comes in the middle of three summit conferences of significance: a NATO summit held in Brussels, and two bilateral summits: US-UK and US-Russia.
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Professor Tariq Ramadan: Detention without Trial
Elma Berisha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – When Tariq Ramadan, the respected Oxford Professor of Islamic Studies, voluntarily flew from London to Paris to be questioned over rape allegations, which he vehemently denied and for which evidence is yet nowhere to be found, he must have been confident he was not walking in through the iron gates of an Al-Shabab court somewhere in Africa.
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(Italiano) Ventimiglia città aperta. manifestazione internazionale secondo alcuni ValdAostani
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
16 luglio 2018 – Per il riconoscimento della mobilità come diritto inalienabile e “per rivendicare la necessità di un permesso di soggiorno europeo. Per ripensare l’attuale sistema della così detta “accoglienza”. Una mobilitazione contro la tratta e le violenze di genere, contro lo sfruttamento delle persone migranti, per la loro libertà e autodeterminazione.
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Israel Is Bulldozing Khan Al Ahmar – And with It the Two-State Solution
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
8 Jul 2018 – Israel finally built an access road to the West Bank village of Khan Al Ahmar last week, after half a century of delays. But the only vehicles allowed along it are the bulldozers scheduled to sweep away its 200 inhabitants’ homes. If one community has come to symbolise the demise of the two-state solution, it is Khan Al Ahmar.
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U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
Andrew Jacobs – The New York Times,
9 Jul 2018
8 Jul 2018 – American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding…” When that failed, they turned to threats, according to diplomats and government officials who took part in the discussions… The confrontation was the latest example of the Trump administration siding with corporate interests on numerous public health and environmental issues. In the end, it was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure — and the Americans did not threaten them.
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“Slow News” vs “Fast History”
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – This blog last month suggested that history is moving much faster than we think and that the collapse of the American empire is likely to come within the next two years. This leads me to the question: Can the slow development of the culture of peace make it possible for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace when the American empire crashes?
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Rohingya: The History of a Muslim Identity in Myanmar
Jacques Leider | Oxford University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
[FROM TMS EDITOR]: Oxford University Press did not heed the written and verbal protests by some 2,000 scholars, public intellectuals and citizen-activists to not publish this genocide-denying—actually, ideologically genocide-reinforcing–essay by Jacques Leider. Please read the 3 following articles (below) refuting and debunking Leider’s piece—to educate, clarify and elucidate about the ongoing Rohingya genocide in Burma/Myanmar. Another one–will we ever learn?
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Johan Galtung Wishes America a HAPPY INTERDEPENDENCE DAY 2018
Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Video contains excerpt from Rabbi Michael “Tikkun Olam ” Lerner’s Muhammed Ali memorial speech.
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Wider Consequences of U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
7 Jul 2018 – I think the superficial response to this latest de-internationalizing move is the tendency of the Trump Administration to align its policies in conformity with Israeli priorities and preferences, which have long focused on the Human Rights Council as a venue hostile to their policies and practices.
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Imposition vs. Partnership: How to Do Harm in Project Cooperation
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
If you are a donor, you decide the guidelines and the priorities of support unilaterally, and impose them on the donated. This is a neo-colonial way of controlling and dominating, practiced in opposition to the different international documents about the efficiency of funding.
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Engaging Credible Religious Leaders in the Prevention of Violence and Extremism – Our Methodology
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Jun 2018 – This program addresses the transnational phenomenon of extremism using a conflict transformation approach. It aims to the reduce violence in the Sahel region, the Lake Chad area and the Arab world, through the promotion of wasatiya (the “middle way”) and the avoidance of extremes (ghulu), both concepts rooted in Islamic thought and practice. The project comprises two tracks:
→ read full articleIndia’s Thirsty Arguments for Water Woes
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Israel took 70 years to solve its water problem; India won’t need that long, as it can replicate Israeli practices. It needs to summon the political will to act before water runs out. Changing governance, raising money, and experimenting new ideas will all take time and the climatic stresses are mounting fast. The time to act is now.
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Who Gets to Write the Encyclopedia? Rohingya “Expert” Denies Genocide
David Palumbo-Liu | Truthout - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
9 Jul 2018
15 Mar 2018 – A group of academics and human rights workers has issued a strong letter to the Oxford University Press, arguing that its choice of an author to write on the Rohingya is deeply flawed and could have wide-ranging consequences. The Press has commissioned Jacques Leider, whom the letter identifies as the head of the Bangkok-based École française d’Extrême-Orient and an adviser to the Burma military’s Armed Forces Historical Museum, to write the reference article on the Rohingya for its Oxford Research Encyclopedias.
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Gaza Youth Dance the Dabke in the Gaza-Israel Border (Music Video of the Week)
almonivideo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
1 Jul 2018 – A young Palestinian girl and a handful of boys dancing the traditional dabke along the Gaza-Israel border against a backdrop of plumes of smoke. The video manages to encapsulate so much of the story of the occupation and the siege in two-and-a-half minutes: the power dynamics between the occupier and the oppressed.
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Why Unarmed Civilian Protection Is the Best Path to Sustainable Peace
Annie Hewitt | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
6 Jul 2018 – The first image that often comes to mind when one thinks of peacekeeping is that of the blue helmets armed soldiers. There is, however, another model for peacekeeping called unarmed civilian protection, or UCP. It works from the inside and has been proven to save lives, empower communities and can secure strong and lasting peace in areas plagued by violent conflict.
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Myanmar Bombs 60 Churches in 18 Months, Replaces Some with Buddhist Pagodas
Samuel Smith | The Christian Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
3 Jul 2018 – Myanmar’s military forces have destroyed about 60 Christian churches and have turned some of those properties into Buddhist pagodas amid renewed attacks over the last year-and-a-half, an American pastor who recently traveled to the region said.
→ read full articleHaves vs. Have-nots
Latuff – MintPress News,
9 Jul 2018
Might Makes… What?
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Fukushima’s “Hot Particles” Travelled Extreme Distances
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
3 Jul 2018 – “Cesium found 375 miles from Japanese plant,” read the headline in the Japanese daily paper Yomiuri Shimbun. Proponents of nuclear power still get away with denying that inhaled or ingested exposures cause harm. This is because when the cancers begin appearing 10, 15 or 20 years from exposure, no one can to prove they were caused by Fukushima’s hot particles. “Got cancer?” they ask. “Not our fault. Nuclear power is safe.”
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Internationalism and the Colonial Challenges Facing Haiti and Venezuela
Jeanette Charles | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Colonialism explains why UN forces implicated in mass rape, human trafficking rings, and the cholera epidemic continue to occupy Haiti. It is the driving force behind former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s tour throughout the Caribbean, intimidating, threatening, and bribing states to vote at the OAS in favor of foreign intervention in Venezuela. Colonialism has cultivated the root of complex political, economic, and sociocultural relationships between the states, peoples, and grassroots movements of Venezuela and Haiti.
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UN Chief: ‘Unimaginable’ Stories of Killings, Rape from Rohingya Refugees
VOA News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – “Nothing could’ve prepared me for the scale of crisis and extent of suffering I saw today in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. I heard heartbreaking accounts from Rohingya refugees that will stay with me forever,” he wrote calling the Rohingya “one of the most discriminated against and vulnerable communities on Earth.”
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(Português) Exposição da realidade: Apresentador de programa rural afirma que viagens escolares a matadouros são essenciais
Paula Borim - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
9 Jul 2018
Tom Heap afirma que se as crianças pudessem ver a triste origem de seus alimentos de origem animal deixariam de consumí-los.
→ read full articleOld Is Gold
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Today this expression would not be accepted by most people around the world for the simple reason that old may be associated with old age which becomes weak and degraded as the years pass… Let us redefine our concepts of old age and old people. Let us remember some of them for their ingenuity and the joy and harmony that resulted from their works and lives.
→ read full articleBuilding a Greater America
Unknown Author - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
A true visionary…
→ read full articleGreat March of Return and the Unspeakable
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
This wordless borderland
Where love and atrocity meet
Oxford’s Neo-Orientalism: Burma aka Myanmar
C R Abrar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
28 Mar 2018 – The People’s Tribunal on State Crimes of Myanmar unequivocally termed the atrocities committed by the Burmese government as “genocide”. The UN special rapporteur on human rights situation of the country has clearly stated that such actions bear the “hallmarks of genocide”. Without mincing his words, the French President Macron has expressed his disgust of Myanmar’s genocide. Even the unpredictable British Foreign Secretary termed it as “industrial scale ethnic cleansing”. The Holocaust Museum acknowledged it as a genocide and expressed solidarity with the victims. Nobel laureates Bishop Tutu and Amartya Sen have labelled it as “slow burning genocide.”
→ read full articleThe Coming War on China [full film free online]
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
‘The Coming War on China’ is John Pilger’s 60th film. Pilger reveals what the news doesn’t: that the world’s greatest military power, the United States, and the world’s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, are on the road to war. The film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance.
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UN-Burma/Myanmar MOU: Why the Hush Hush?
The Daily Star [Bangladesh] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
9 Jul 2018 – UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee has expressed concern that a memorandum of understanding signed in June between the UN and Myanmar has been kept secret. “While I am not aware of the exact terms of the MoU, I am extremely concerned that it has been kept secret, including by the UN agencies involved, and urge the parties to make it public,” she said.
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Is Oxford University Complicit in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Genocide Denial?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
26 Feb 2018 – Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of Myanmar’s international human rights crimes as designed to tarnish the image of Myanmar, the administration at Oxford University considers this a “public relations” issue.
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Silent Pain: Rohingya Rape Survivors’ Babies Quietly Emerge
The Associated Press – The New York Times,
9 Jul 2018
5 Jul 2018 — She was 13, and she was petrified. Two months earlier, soldiers had broken into her home back in Myanmar and raped her, an attack that drove her and her terrified family over the border to Bangladesh. Ever since, she had waited for her period to arrive. Gradually, she came to realize that it would not. For the girl, a Rohingya Muslim who agreed to be identified by her first initial, A, the pregnancy was a prison she was desperate to escape. The rape itself had destroyed her innocence. But carrying the baby of a Buddhist soldier could destroy her life.
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‘The Law Is What Keeps the Edifice of Occupation from Crashing Down’
Yossi Gurvitz - +972 Magazine,
9 Jul 2018
The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights, by Michael Sfard, Metropolitan Books, 2018, 528 pages. His new book dissects the moral dilemmas of engaging with the occupation’s legal system and its role in making the status quo sustainable.
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‘Have You No Shame?’ Myanmar Is Flogged for Violence against Rohingya
Nick Cumming-Bruce – The New York Times,
9 Jul 2018
4 Jul 2018 — When a senior diplomat from Myanmar told a gathering of the UNHRC today that his country was “committed to the defense of human rights,” he drew an outraged rebuttal from Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, dispensing with the usual diplomatic courtesies. “Have you no shame, sir?” he demanded. “Have you no shame? The claim almost creates its own level of preposterousness,” he said.
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Immigration: Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – “Immigration” has become the dominant issue dividing Europe and the US, yet the most important matter which is driving millions to emigrate is overlooked is wars. In this paper we will discuss the reasons behind the massification of immigration, focusing on several issues.
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How High the Moon? Or the Greatest Deception of Them All…
Emanuel E. Garcia | NEXUS Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
“Fake news” is nothing new. In less glamorous times, perhaps, it was known as subterfuge, lying, deceit, deception, advertising or public relations. One of the advantages of aging is that one may look back and, in so looking back, events which, at the time of perception, seemed perfectly plausible, can be peered at more closely and, can, in fact, be seen for what they really were.
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The Significance of Abu Nuwar Evacuation in Light of the “Ultimate Deal”
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
5 Jul 2018 – Out of 46 Bedouin Communities that Israel is planning to eliminate in area C of West Bank, Abu Nuwar was the first to be evacuated yesterday… There are harder days that yet to come, unless Israel will be isolated as done internationally with the former Apartheid regime in South Africa.
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Dialogue among Civilizations for Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Though human beings evolved from primitive virus to modern Homo sapiens and highly developed scientifically and technologically but still at the primitive stage and barbarous in the sense of behavior and dealing with each other because vested interests in every civilization, misused the fruits of science and technology and used them for their own gains.
→ read full articleSeeking the Root Causes
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Any voluntary action that an individual performs originates as an inner urge. The urge may be “towards” something, or “away from” something; it may also be based on a wrong understanding of reality. These three states of mind can be termed as “craving”, “aversion” and “illusion”, respectively… If the above are generally applicable observations, then they apply even in a conflict situation – to persons engaged in a conflict, to persons who provoke a conflict, and to persons who escape from conflict or hardship.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. Born in 1817, one of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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Seneca on Gratitude and What It Means to Be a Generous Human Being
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
The wise man… enjoys the giving more than the recipient enjoys the receiving… None but the wise man knows how to return a favour. Even a fool can return it in proportion to his knowledge and his power; his fault would be a lack of knowledge rather than a lack of will or desire.
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(Français) Néocolonialisme et “crise des migrants”
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
29 juin 2018 – On dissimule ainsi la cause de fond : le système économique qui dans le monde permet à une minorité restreinte d’accumuler de la richesse aux dépens de la majorité croissante, en l’appauvrissant et en provoquant ainsi l’émigration forcée. Concernant les flux migratoires vers les États-Unis, le cas du Mexique est emblématique.
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(Português) “Aprenda a ficar sozinho. Aprecie a solitude”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Toda pessoa precisa aprender desde a infância como passar tempo consigo mesma. Isso não significa que ela deva ficar [sempre] sozinha, mas que ela não deveria ficar entediada consigo mesma, porque as pessoas que se aborrecem em sua própria companhia parecem estar em perigo, do ponto de vista da autoestima.
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The Rise of a New, Global, Indigenous Left
Ikaika Hussey, Will Caron and Ed Lane | Summit Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Indigenous peoples have, by definition, been around for a long time. But a new generation of connected campaigners has arisen, using technology to apply timeless wisdom to modern problems.
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(Français) Paul Oquist: «Il y a une tentative de coup d’État au Nicaragua»
Alex Anfruns | Journal Notre Amérique – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
4 Juil 2018 – Afin de comprendre comment on en est arrivé là dans un pays qui paraissait épargné il y a encore peu de temps par la violence structurelle qui isole d’autres pays d’Amérique centrale, nous nous sommes entretenus avec le professeur Paul Oquist. Fort d’une longue expérience faite de missions de développement pour les Nations Unies, Oquist est actuellement ministre-secrétaire privé pour les politiques nationales du Nicaragua. – Le Nicaragua Sous le Feu des Projecteurs
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Why SLĀV’s Cancellation Was the Right Decision
Rahul Varma - Montreal Gazette,
9 Jul 2018
Artists have freedom to express truths and ideas, including uncomfortable and provocative ones, but that freedom must be used ethically.
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Why Venezuela Reporting Is So Bad
Joe Emersberger | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – For almost 20 years, the US government has been trying to overthrow Venezuela’s government, and establishment media outlets (state, corporate and some nonprofit) throughout the Americas and Europe have been bending over backwards to help the US do it. Review of Alan MacLeod’s Bad News from Venezuela
→ read full articleDying in Temporariness
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – Temporariness is a well- known Israeli procedure used with the Palestinians. The examples are many: Your presence in East Jerusalem for instance is considered to be temporary, and you will be defined as “A Jordanian Citizen residing permanently in Israel”, or as a “holder” of “Undefined”, or “unclassified” status as it is new added in this year.
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The Psychology of Splitting, Traumatizing, and Abusing Families
Diane Perlman, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Mental health professionals are gravely concerned about the known effects of the cruel and inhumane policy of tearing children away from their parents who have made extraordinary sacrifices to protect them. We are horrified as we helplessly witness our government inflicting psychological damage upon vulnerable people.
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Yemen: Political Stalemate, Mercenaries Prosper, the Population Disintegrates, and Humanitarian Relief Blocked
Rene Wadlow | Foreign Policy News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
29 Jun 2018 – The United Nations Security Council has been discussing the situation in both public and private meetings without any visible impact. Today, the choice between an end to the armed conflict with negotiations for a renewal of a Yemeni State on the basis of the con-federal system proposed and continued fighting in the hope that one faction become a “winner-take-all” is relatively clear.
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How Four Words Changed History
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
2 Jul 2018
Q: “And babies?”
A: “And babies.”
That question, asked half a century ago, “And babies?” was posed by investigative journalist Mike Wallace to Vietnam veteran Paul Meadlo. “And babies,” Meadlo answered. He was an Army private who conducted a raid on a Vietnamese village. What followed came to be known as the My Lai Massacre. Hersh sees parallels with how the press is finally covering the immigrant family separation crisis now. “This could be a turning point,” he said.
The U.S. Withdraws (Again) from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
24 Jun 2018 – This is a slightly edited and corrected version of what was published on TMS last week. I owe particular thanks to my distinguished collaborator, Virginia Tilley, for pointing out several shortcomings and misleading formulations in the earlier version. Of course, the essence of the indictment of the U.S. rationale for withdrawal stands as before.
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On Purpose, in Kabul
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – War profiteers deliver hellish realities and futile prospects, but the Afghan Peace Volunteers have not given up on bettering their country. In recent visits to Kabul, we’ve listened as they consider the longer-term question of how peace can come to an economically devastated country where employment by various warlords, including the U.S. and Afghan militaries, is many families’ only way to put bread on the table.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
30 Jun 2018 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, visited Israel this week. He seems a likable person. He looked like a prince should look, did all the right things, said all the right things, and even ate a watermelon with our mayor on the sandy shore of Tel Aviv.
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Trump, the (Shakespearean) Fool: A New Look at the Dynamics of Trumpism
Rich Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
He is not stupid, diabolical, or mentally out of control. He is not Vladimir Putin’s bitch. He is a foolish man who tends to act without calculating the consequences of his actions; a hothead who disdains polite discourse and loves to violate taboos; an actor who plays a boastful, threatening, oversexed, occasionally (but rarely) warmhearted character called Donald J. Trump in an ongoing reality drama that he seems to identify with reality itself.
→ read full articleSyria and the Diseased, Lying, Condition of America’s ‘News’ Media
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – Both President Trump and former President Obama are commonly said in America’s ‘news’ media to be or to have been “ceding Syria to Russia” or “ceding Syria to Russia and Iran,” or similar allegations. They imply that ‘we’ own (or have some right to control) Syria. That’s not only a lie; it is a very evil and harmful one.
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What the Battle for Hodeidah Means for Yemen’s Children: 8 Things You Need to Know
UNICEF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. More than 22 million Yemenis – that’s three-quarters of the population – need humanitarian assistance and protection. More than 11 million of them are children. The conflict has made Yemen a living hell for its children.
→ read full articleSharing for Peace Making
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Recently an Under Secretary of UN Peace Keeping Force came to New Delhi and gave a brief and sincere talk on the challenges faced by Peace Keepers in many countries of Africa and Asia. One message that he conveyed was that there was always conflict between various parties and how they try to resolve it by sharing.
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Why Do They Flee?
William Blum |The Anti-Empire Report #158 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – The current mass exodus of people from Central America to the United States, with the daily headline-grabbing stories of numerous children involuntarily separated from their parents, means it’s time to remind my readers once again of one of the primary causes of these periodic mass migrations.
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Veteran Socialist Public Official from Portugal Elected to Lead UN Migration Agency
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
29 Jun 2018 – A lawyer and politician from Portugal, with an extensive career in public service, has been elected to head the United Nations migration agency.
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The Shock Troops Who Expelled the Rohingya from Myanmar: Tip of the Spear
A Reuters Investigation by Simon Lewis, Zeba Siddiqui, Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – A Reuters’ investigation provides the first comprehensive account of the precise role played by Myanmar’s 33rd and 99th elite divisions in the savage offensive, and the close ties between the army’s commander in chief and its elite troops. They led a crackdown that forced 700,000 Muslims to flee Myanmar. Here’s how they did it.
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US-NATO Led Wars Have Created a Global Migrant Crisis. Solutions?
J. Michael Springmann – Global Research,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – Migrant Bombs Keep Exploding (Because People Can’t See the Forest for the Trees) – Solutions?
1. Stop the wars generating migrants.
2. End the herding from their home countries to the United States, Canada, and Europe.
3. Rebuild their destroyed nations.
4. Help them go home.
What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal about Facebook
Sahil Chinoy – The New York Times,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – A review of hundreds of Facebook’s patent applications reveals that the company has considered tracking almost every aspect of its users’ lives. One of them describes using forward-facing cameras to analyze your expressions and detect whether you’re bored or surprised by what you see on your feed. Another contemplates using your phone’s microphone to determine which TV show you’re watching. Others imagine systems to guess whether you’re getting married soon, predict your socioeconomic status and track how much you’re sleeping. Read on…
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Reflections on the June 24th Turkish Elections
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – I am sensitive to the inappropriate hubris of Americans traveling the world to impart their views on how other societies should be managed and governed. Such postures of criticism and praise is particularly suspect in this time of Trump where a pre-fascist leadership in the United States pursues policies at home and abroad destructive of elemental rights of its citizens and residents as well adopts as an entirely reckless policy agenda that imperils the ethical, ecological, and economic future of not only the country but the world.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
There are many summit meetings, usually with Trump. “Good chemistry” is not sufficient, nor is it necessary. Peace may come about in spite of, not because of, the summits. Summiteers might come further focusing on “how can we be good to each other” than on “how can we stop being bad”. Positive approach.
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GAZA: Ordeal & Destiny
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
30 Jun 2018 – I post below two items pertaining to Gaza—my short poem, and a collection of responses to the question “What is the Future of Gaza?” by a clever online publication called ‘One Question,’ which true to its name poses a single question to a number of people presumed to have something to say in response.
→ read full articleA Plea to TMS Readers for Peace Journalism-Peace by Peaceful Means
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
In most cases of realities that involve blood, invasion, genocides, war crimes, exploitation, systematic acts of state propaganda, “all sides” and “balance” in journalism, are not simply acts of moral cowardice, but the total absence of intellectual substance. Peace, nonviolence, social justice, are TMS ideologies rooted on basic human rights and needs, non negotiable principles. Think about it and Please Act making your financial contribution TODAY! Thank you.
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