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The Living and the Disappeared: The Unending Battle for Justice in Sri Lanka
Nirmanusan Balasundaram | Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

19 March 2018 – The signing of Memorandum of Understanding between Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam engineered many prospects, promises and hopes about the fate of political prisoners, prisoners of war and the disappeared. For the families of the disappeared, despite darkening clouds, there is a glimpse of hope that their sons and daughters are alive somewhere and they will return home one day.

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Funding Infrastructure: Why China Is Running Circles around America
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

“One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking of highways, pipelines, transmission lines, ports, power stations, fiber optics, and railroads connecting China to Central Asia, Europe and Africa. “It is the largest infrastructure project initiated by one nation in the history of the world and is designed to enable China to become the dominant economic power in the world.”

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(Français) Marielle Castro : “Être une femme noire, c’est résister et se battre tout le temps pour survivre”
Mariana Pitasse | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

18 Mar 2018 – Le 14 mars 2018, la conseillère municipale Marielle Franco a été victime d’une exécution extrajudiciaire à Rio de Janeiro. Peu après avoir entamé son mandat, le 8 mars 2017, l’hebdomadaire Brasil de Fato l’avait interviewée.

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Australia and Singapore Prime Ministers Help Whitewash Myanmar Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

20 Mar 2018 – I just returned from Paris where I had a quite intense 2-day meeting with other fellow activists deeply concerned with the plight of the Rohingyas, a small number of Rohingyas who have resettled there, as well as a very progressive deputee de Paris at the Assemble Nationale and her assistant… “Intense public attention makes it difficult to solve” (Myanmar genocide), so says Singapore Prime Minister.

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Son of a Dog
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

24 Mar 2018 – This week Abbas spoke about the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and called him a “Son of a Dog”. This sounds in Arabic slightly less offensive than in English, but is hardly diplomatic. It is hard to say that Friedman does not deserve it, though I would have wished, as a dog-lover, that Abbas had chosen another animal.

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US Approves US$1 Billion Arms, Missile Deal with Saudi Arabia
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

22 Mar 2018 – Saudi Arabia bought the almost 7,000 TOW missiles – plus an additional 96 for training purposes – for a total of US$670 million. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saudi Arabia is “part of the solution” in Yemen. Despite severe criticism, the Saudi coalition continues to be U.S.-supported, targeting Houthis and causing numerous civilian casualties, a humanitarian catastrophe.

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(Português) Documentário revela como veganismo melhora a performance de atletas
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

O atletas desmistificam a ideia de que o consumo de produtos de origem animal é necessário para um alto rendimento.

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The Geopolitics of Targeting Russia
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

The aim is clear. It is to compel Moscow to submit to the hegemonic power of the Washington elite. Anyone who has a rudimentary understanding of Russian history knows that this will not happen. Russia will continue to resist. And Russian resistance may well hold the key to a different future for humankind.

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The Awkward Advice for Palestinian Participation in the Israeli Jerusalem Municipality Elections
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

19 Mar 2018 – As it happens every time when the Israeli municipal elections get closer, one will see voices calling the Palestinians in East Jerusalem to break their boycott to those elections. So far the Palestinian participation in those elections did not exceed one to three percent in all of its rounds. The explanation for this very low turnout by claiming that the East Jerusalem Palestinians are afraid from the PLO and the factions is disrespectful to both the people and the factions.

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The Health Benefits of Probiotics
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

Gut health is a balancing act. Stress, toxins, and a bad diet can upset the balance and throw your whole digestive system into complete chaos. Probiotics are the key to keeping the peace and pushing out the harmful organisms that throw everything off.

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Essential Requirement of Qualities in the Rulers and the Servants of People for Good Governance
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

The Role of Universal Peace Education

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Navroz: Turkish Troops in Afrim – Renewal and Complexity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

Navroz, usually celebrated on 21 March in Iran and Central Asia, is the “New Day”, the end of the old year with its hardships and deceptions and the start of the New Year to be filled with hope and optimism. Navroz was marked this year in the Syrian Kurdish area of Afrim by the arrival of Turkish troops and their Syrian allies.

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Nature vs Nurture
TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

This Video Dispels Every “Nature vs Nurture” Myth You’ve Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

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Renaming the 1948 War: Partition, Dispossession, and Fragmentation–On the Politics of Language
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

24 Mar 2018 – Israel has been brilliant over the years in shaping and misdirecting the public discourse on the future of Palestine. Among its earliest achievement along these lines was the crucial propaganda victory by having the 1948 War known internationally as the ‘War of Independence.’ Such a designation erases the Palestinians from political consciousness, and distorts the deeper human and political consequences of the war. Language matters, especially in vital circumstances where there are winners and losers, a reality that applies above all to a war of displacement.

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Israel Has Accelerated Its Annexation of the West Bank from a Slow Creep to a Run
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

18 Mar 2018 – Last week, during an address to students in New York, Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett publicly disavowed even the notion of a Palestinian state. What is needed now is someone to arm-twist the Palestinians. Mike Pompeo’s move from the CIA to State Department, Mr Trump may hope, will produce the strongman needed to bulldoze the Palestinians into submission.

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Analog/Digital International Relations and Global Politics
Oliver P. Richmond | Global Dynamics, Univ. California Santa Barbara – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

25 Jan 2018 – This essay outlines a new, preliminary perspective of global studies resting on analog and digital processes, and discusses their implications for longstanding key debates in the discipline about war and peace, sovereignty, order, and legitimacy. Digital phenomena were initially thought to be a breakthrough for global civil society and rights. However, a brewing ‘counter-revolution’ of what might be now called the ‘ancien regime’ instead points to digital forms of governmentality closely connected to older, analog hierarchies.

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Indian Moneylenders Still Hold the Crown
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

23 Mar 2018 – Almost every farmer in India’s massive rural swathes is tethered, in one way or another, to the sahukar, the Indian variety of the moneylender, the ubiquitous, ravenous loan shark. For centuries, moneylenders have monopolized rural Indian credit markets.

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Preventing for Peace: A Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

When aggression we prevent…
bullying
corruption
crime

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Stairway to Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
Led Zeppelin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

Original Version from 1971- A True Classic! (With Lyrics)

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Jean Giono (30 Mar 1895 – 8 Oct 1970): The Energies of the Earth
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

Jean Giono was one of the most original French advocates of nonviolence. Giono, a pantheist philosopher, novelist of rural life, and in his later days, a moviemaker, had a fame in the wider public even among those who opposed his nonviolence.

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Despite Claims to the Contrary, an Israel-Hezbollah War Is Unlikely for the Foreseeable Future–for These Reasons
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

23 Mar 2018 – In the coming year, but more likely well beyond, Hezbollah and its sponsors in Tehran will be shackled fighting in Syria. A major war with Israel is extremely risky for them. Despite being able to inflict serious damage on Israel, such a war would ignite a fierce Israeli response that could decimate Hezbollah and Iranian forces and bases in Syria and undermine Iran’s regional goals. Iran theocratic leadership is cautious and it’s unlikely that it would take that risk.

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Fifteen Years after the Start of the Iraq War, the U.S. Is at War in at Least Seven Countries
Joshua Keating | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

19 Mar 2018 – According to the unclassified portion of the National Defense Authorization Act report, America is currently at war in seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Niger, and Yemen. But this list is a bit incomplete.

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Where Has Water Disappeared? A Looming Crisis
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

24 Mar 2018 – As a result of global warming several glaciers are melting and rising sea levels; many small islands facing the risk of being submerged in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. On the other side, a contrary development: several rivers face depletion of their water in some months since the faster melting results in the river waters flowing into oceans and seas. Another problem: some ponds and lakes are disappearing.

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Mass Protests in Brazil against Death Squad Assassination of Marielle Franco
Miguel Andrade | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

21 Mar 2018 – The brutal execution of Rio de Janeiro city counselor Marielle Franco on March 14 came as a shock for Brazilians but not as a surprise. Known as a participant in black nationalist and feminist politics, she had left a black feminist meeting in downtown Rio on the night she was killed; she had also won support among workers in the northern sector, above all for exposing police violence.

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Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx’s Law of Value
Samir Amin | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism has been able to survive through its genius for disguising corporate profit imperatives as opportunities for individual human equality and advancement. But it was the genius of Karl Marx, in his masterwork, Capital, to discover the converse law of surplus value: behind the illusion of the democratic, supply-and-demand marketplace, lies the workplace, where people trying to earn a living are required to work way beyond the time it takes to pay their wages.

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(Deutsch) Den Kaukasus wach küssen – Friedensbildung in einer eingefrorenen Region
Otto Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Mar 2018

Hinter diesem spielpädagogischen Friedensbildungsansatz steht die von Johan Huizinga in seinem 1936 herausgegebenen, hochaktuellen Klassiker „Homo Ludens“ aufgezeigte kulturgeschichtliche Tatsache: durch 6000 Jahre Menschheitsgeschichte war es offenbar das Spiel, das die Transformation, die Übergänge in neue Formen des Zusammenlebens, unter veränderten Rahmenbedingungen, übend und gemeinsam spielend, zumindest erleichtert hat. An diese so starke und unkonventionelle Tradition des Aufbaus von Friedenskapazitäten und Friedensmentalitäten versucht das Projekt: „Peace in Caucasus“ anzuknüpfen.

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(Italiano) Non guerra al terrorismo ma dialogo per delle soluzioni
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

9 marzo 2018 – Sono seduto a un tavolo da qualche parte in Afghanistan. Al tavolo ci sono tre taliban; pashtun come la gran parte dei taliban. La mia domanda iniziale è quella standard: “Come sarebbe l’Afghanistan dove vi piacerebbe vivere?”, con domande successive altrettanto standard: “Che cos’è il peggio che vi è capitato?” e “C’è stato un periodo buono in passato?”

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Australia-ASEAN Summit Held amid US-China Tensions
James Cogan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

From March 16 to 18, a second biennial summit between Australia and the Association of South East Asian Nations took place in Sydney. ASEAN is made up of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar (Burma). Each head of government attended the Sydney summit, apart from the volatile, right-wing president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte.

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The Ocean Currents Brought Us a Lovely Gift Today…
Rich Horner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

British diver Rich Horner posted footage of his swim off Bali’s Manta Point on Sat 3 Mar 2018: “Some plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic cups, plastic sheets, plastic buckets, plastic sachets, plastic straws, plastic baskets, plastic bags, more plastic bags, plastic, plastic, so much plastic!”

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Hawaii: Training Ground for My Lai Massacre and Catastrophic Nuclear War
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

50th Anniversary: The My Lai Massacre was the deliberate murder by U.S. troops of 504 innocent civilians, including women, children and grandparents in Vietnam on March 16, 1968. Silence is complicity. It’s been said many times, “Prevention is the only solution.”

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March 16, the Blackest Day in Kashmir History
Mohamad Ashraf Khwaja | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

The 16th of March is the blackest day for all Kashmiris. On this day in 1846, an inhuman sale of Kashmir and Kashmiris was made with a person (Gulab Singh) whom Lord Hardinge called ‘the greatest rascal of Asia’ by a nation (Britain) to which Napoleon called ‘the country of shopkeepers’. Ironically, this sordid sale of the transaction was erroneously termed as ‘The treaty of Amritsar’.

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International Peace Congress 2018
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

Saturday 7 April Westminster Quaker Meeting House, London

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(Français) Palestine Occupée: «Nous voyons l’espoir dans leurs yeux»
Mazin Qumsiyeh | The International Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

Président Donald Trump a décidé que la date de transfert de l’ambassade des Etats-Unis à Jérusalem Occupée serait le 15 mai 2018. C’est particulièrement remarquable parce cette date est celle de la commémoration de la Nakba, le jour où contre la volonté de la grande majorité de ses habitants, un Etat juif d’apartheid a été créé par la force des armes en Palestine.

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Youth Camps Shape New Generations with Patriotism, Pushups and Prayer
Will Carless | Reveal-The Center for Investigative Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

9 Mar 2018 – Over the past year, photographer Sarah Blesener paid visits to a host of camps aimed at instilling American kids with patriotic pride, military training and religious belief. In rural central Florida, a group of children pray over the breakfast and ask for safety during their upcoming weapons training, during which they will learn how to disarm a knife-wielding attacker, load a rifle and properly handle a handgun.

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The 50-Year Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre: How Can Professed Christians Defend Wartime Atrocities?
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

50 years ago today, on March 16,1968, a company of green, battle-untested US Army combat soldiers from the Americal Division, swept into the un-defended Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, rounded up the 500+ unarmed women, children, babies and old men, and efficiently executed almost all of them in cold blood, Nazi-style. No weapons or Viet Cong soldiers were found in the village. The entire killing operation took only 4 hours.

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Preventing War and Promoting Peace – A Guide for Health Professionals
Cambridge University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is an interdisciplinary study of how pervasive militarism creates a propensity for war through the influence of academia, economic policy, the defense industry, and the news media.

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Further Signs of More War: A Most Dangerous Game
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

19 Mar 2018 – Donald Trump’s days of playing the passive/aggressive host of a reality-television game show are coming to an end… Today things are far more sophisticated and sinister, with a massive and unrelenting war on truth being waged by the Western corporate media, an arm of the CIA, capitalism’s invisible army. It is a twisted game show with deadly consequences. Its method is Janus-faced.

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International Solar Alliance – A Symbol of Hope and Cooperation
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

19 Mar 2018 – The inaugural meeting of the Solar Alliance gives us hope that the challenges of environmental pollution, global warming and climate change are being recognized and addressed by many countries. This meeting also encourages the coming together of different nations — developed and developing, to meet common challenges through goodwill and cooperation.

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The Devil’s Dynamo
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

19 Mar 2018 – I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled The Devil’s Dynamo. It is a collection of articles and book chapters that I have written about the way in which military-industrial complexes throughout the world drive and perpetuate the institution of war. A considerable amount of new material has also been added. The book can be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link:

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Myanmar Levels Former Rohingya Villages to Build Camp for Returnees: Maps and Graphics
Irwin Loy | IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

Myanmar has bulldozed entire Rohingya villages to make way for a massive camp at the centre of a stalled plan to house returning refugees, an analysis of new satellite imagery shows.

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The Season for Nonviolence 2018
Mahatma Gandhi Canadian Foundation for World Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

The Season for Nonviolence is a global grassroots campaign dedicated to raising awareness about the transformative power of nonviolence. It was established by Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, as a yearly event celebrating the philosophies and lives of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Since 1998, the Season has marked the 64 calendar days between the assassination of Gandhi on January 30 and that of King on April 4.

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Mystery of Love (Music Video of the Week)
Sufjan Stevens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

From the Oscar winning movie ‘Call Me by Your Name’ soundtrack. Written and performed by Sufjan Stevens. (TMS Film Review HERE)

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Cuba a ‘Champion’ of Children’s Rights: UNICEF
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

12 Mar 2018 – According to UNICEF, 99.5 percent of Cuban children under six years of age attend an early childhood education program or institution. It has declared Cuba a ‘champion’ in children’s rights.

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Stephen Hawking’s Final Warnings Urged World to Halt Climate Change
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

14 Mar 2018 – Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds on Earth, died peacefully at his home in Cambridge early today at the age of 76. “I am not denying the importance of fighting climate change and global warming, unlike Donald Trump, who may just have taken the most serious, and wrong, decision on climate change this world has seen,” Hawking said last year about the Paris withdrawal.

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Clearing the Radioactive Rubble Heap That Was Fukushima Daiichi, 7 Years On
Tim Hornyak | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

The water is tainted, the wreckage is dangerous, and disposing of it will be a prolonged, complex and costly process.

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“Decline and Fall” of the US Empire – Introduction to the American Edition
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

America itself may look at the map and discover that they are located in North America, with two neighbors, big in population and in land, and conclude that MEX-US-CAN, Mexuscan, makes a lot of sense. At least worth contemplating. Making USA not America First as somebody proclaims while producing America Last. But America Normal.

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(Português) Kuan Yin: Ela que atende aos gritos do mundo e restaura o equilíbrio
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

8 de março, o Dia Internacional da Mulher, é um momento apropriado para se concentrar no impacto destrutivo da violência contra as mulheres. Tal violência é um ataque à sua integridade corporal e à sua dignidade. Precisamos enfatizar a universalidade desta violência, a multiplicidade de suas formas e as formas em que a violência, a discriminação contra as mulheres e o sistema de dominação mais amplo, baseado na subordinação e na desigualdade, estão inter-relacionados.

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Trickling Down…
Lindsay – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

Practice Makes Perfect…

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The Social and Political Roots of Mass Shootings in America
International Youth and Students for Social Equality | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

14 Mar 2018 – The second fundamental issue bound up with the rampant homicidal violence in American society is the state-sanctioned killing carried out by the US military around the world. The “war on terror,” now in its 18th year, dominates not only the political life of the United States, but its social culture as well.

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Eliminate Nuclear Weapons by Divesting from Them
Robert F. Dodge, MD | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

19 Mar 2018 – The just released “Don’t Bank On The Bomb“ report draws attention to the “Hall Of Shame” companies that are either financing or producing nuclear weapons and their components. There are 20 principal companies and 329 significant investors the world over who are financing this work investing over $525 Billion in the last three years.

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Call Me by Your Name: Academy Award-winning Film from Luca Guadagnino
Hiram Lee | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

19 Mar 2018 – Call Me by Your Name was one of the more highly regarded films of the past year. It received Academy Award nominations in the categories of Best Picture and Best Actor and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. While the film may have been among the more humanistic works nominated, it is also a strangely unsatisfying work.
(Movie Soundtrack, ‘Mystery of Love,’ on TMS Music Video of the Week)

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Unprostrated
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

I have prostate cancer, but I’m happy. Here’s how… I will ride this out. I will own this disease but I won’t be defined by it: I will not be prostrated by my prostate. I will be gone for a few weeks but when I return, I do solemnly swear I will still be the argumentative old git with whom you are familiar.

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Russia, Russia, Russia: America’s Theater of the Absurd
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

14 Mar 2018 – We need a cultural Renaissance, a global Age of Enlightenment…, but with robots flipping our hamburgers, 60,000 homeless in L.A., an opioid epidemic claiming more American lives every 18 months than our imperial barbarism claimed in Vietnam in 10 years, our prospects are parlous and too dim to discern. And, on top of all that…there’s Russia!

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Ocean Pollution: Simple, Everyday Ways You Can Help Make a Difference
Christopher Adams | ModestFish – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

In this article, I’m going to share with you the current state of your ocean (warning: it’s worrying) and what you can do to help protect the reason you’re alive today.

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As Syrian War Crimes Tribunals Are Readied, Qassim Soleimani Instructs Assad and Iran’s Militia:
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

“No terrorist bodies; no evidence; no evidence; no crime; no crime; no Tribunals. Disappear terrorist bodies!”

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Statement by the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide about Rohingya Refugees from Myanmar
Office of the UN Secretary-General – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

12 March 2018 – “Let us be clear: international crimes were committed in Myanmar. Rohingya Muslims have been killed, tortured, raped, burnt alive and humiliated, solely because of who they are. All the information I have received indicates that the intent of the perpetrators was to cleanse northern Rakhine state of their existence, possibly even to destroy the Rohingya as such, which, if proven, would constitute the crime of genocide.” — Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide

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Standing with Pablo
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

Like the three tenors, like three pillars,
there are three Pablos for peace:
Picasso, Neruda and Peredes.

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America’s Shkreli Problem
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

9 Mar 2018 – Martin Shkreli was sentenced today to seven years in prison. The Shkreli personality disorder can be found on Wall Street, in the executive suites of America’s largest corporations, in Hollywood, in Silicon Valley, in our prestigious universities, and in Washington, even in Trump’s White House. Face it: America has a Shkreli problem.

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The Bitter Taste of Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

I roll in an unknown way,
Trying to find a place for peace,

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US State Dept.: “We want elections in Venezuela now, unless we’re not guaranteed a win, in which case they’re illegitimate.”
Ricardo Vaz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

6 Mar 2018 – With presidential elections announced in Venezuela, the US State Department moved quickly to declare that the contest was illegitimate and that its results would not be recognised. But less than a year ago the tune was quite different, as a cursory look through State Department briefings and press releases will show.

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(Português) A criação de animais em regime industrial é um dos piores crimes da humanidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

16 mar 2018 – 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.

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Porton Down – A Gruesome Secretive Past. Britain’s Chemical Weapons Facility
TruePublica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

16 Mar 2018 – It is home to two UK Government facilities: a site of the Ministry of Defence’s Science and Technology Laboratory known for over 100 years as one of the UK’s most secretive and controversial military research facilities. The laboratory was to conduct research and development of chemical weapons agents used in the First World War such as chlorine, mustard gas, and phosgene.

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The Fake Enemy
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

17 Mar 2018 – The thought that Iran could possibly attack a nuclear power like Israel and risk its own annihilation is ludicrous. Iran is the heiress to one of the world’s most ancient civilizations, almost as ancient as Egypt. Compared to it, Jewish civilization is a younger sister. Indeed, many experts believe that the Jewish religion is heavily indebted to the Iranian civilization.

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The Gulf Crisis Reassessed
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

12 Mar 2018 – The dysfunctionality of the Gulf Crisis, pitting a coalition of four countries, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt against tiny Qatar, is emblematic of the descent into multi-dimensional chaos, conflict, and coercion that afflicts much of the Middle East. Qatar may be tiny, but it is wealthy and has chosen for itself a somewhat independent path, and for this reason has experienced the wrath of the more reactionary forces operative in the region and world.

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Thirsty Crops Drain India Dry
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

World Water Day: 22 March 2018 – Water is a crucial part of all societies as it has myriad uses. In India, however, it is of much more importance as over 600 million people make a living off the land. Realising its predicament decades ago, Israel studied the “water equation” and made itself all but independent from Mother Nature. Israel took 70 years to solve its water problem; India won’t need that long, as it can emulate Israeli advances.

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Mathematical LAB of Peace from Spherons’ Structural Harmony
Dr. Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

Thermodynamic / Stochastic Population Model Based on the GHA International Statistical Research

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Stephen Hawking, Renowned Scientist, Dies at 76
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018

14 Mar 2018 – Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died, according to a family spokesman. He was 76.

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(Français) Une analyse comparative des démocraties étasunienne et cubaine
teleSUR | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

Le peuple cubain élit 612 membres à l’Assemblée nationale du peuple ce dimanche 11 mars. Les élections cubaines sont rarement couvertes par les médias occidentaux, tandis que les détracteurs du système économique de l’île insistent sur la nature non démocratique de son gouvernement.

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(Português) Relato de um vegano que pratica musculação
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

11 mar 2018 – Como sou vegano e pratico musculação, me perguntaram o que tenho feito no “cutting”, na fase de queima de gordura. Me alimento e treino – sem aeróbicos, termogênicos ou suplementos pré-treino. Não consumo nem cafeína nem guaraná. Não uso recursos ergogênicos sintéticos.

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In Pursuit of Peace and Justice: 100 Peace & Justice Leaders and Models (List #3)
Anthony J. Marsella and Kathleen Malley-Morrison – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

Like other prior published Lists, the individuals cited on this List come represent a variety of demographic markers including gender, ethnicity, race, age, nation, religion, and life- style persuasion. By accessing the URL accompanying the person’s name, you can read of their peace and justice activism and advocacy.

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A Debate on Peacemaking: Ending Occupation or Apartheid?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

9 Mar 2018 – The core disagreement is whether to retain the emphasis on ending occupation as still the best, and some say, the only path to peace, and my view that a sustainable peace can only be obtained by a process of eliminating the apartheid structure by which Israel currently subjugates the Palestinian people as a whole.

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On Track for Extinction: Can Humanity Survive?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

8 Mar 2018 – The climate is not the only imminent threat to human survival. With an insane leadership in the White House we are faced with the prospect of nuclear war. And even if the climate and nuclear threats to our survival are removed, there is still a substantial range of environmental threats: rainforest destruction, the ongoing dumping of Fukushima radiation into the Pacific Ocean, extensive contamination from military violence…

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Stand Up for Justice & Peace, Not War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

6 Mar 2018 – Both U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are on the ropes, under criminal corruption investigations. What better way to take the focus away from themselves than by waging war, creating national emergencies to solidify their power, and have the finger pointed at someone else rather than themselves.

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The Physics of Consciousness (Part 1)
John Hagelin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

Dr. John Hagelin explains the physics of consciousness.
Consciousness & Superstring Unified Field Theory – How Knowledge Is Lost – The Observer

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‘Follow Your Bliss’ – The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism to the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

‘Forget it. Don’t write for the “mainstream”. Don’t write for money. Don’t write for prestige. Just “follow your bliss” by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.’

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(Français) Fausse nouvelle par omission : l’exemple de Haïti
William Blum | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

« Je suis fier d’avoir un président qui dira crûment la vérité dans les négociations » a déclaré Éric Prince sur Breitbart News. « Si le président dit que certains endroits sont des trous à merde, il a raison. » C’est ainsi que M. Éric Prince a rendu hommage à M. Donald Trump. Prince étant bien sûr le célèbre fondateur de Blackwater, l’armée privée qui, en septembre 2007, a ouvert le feu sur une place bondée à Bagdad, tuant 17 civils irakiens et en blessant gravement 20 autres.

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The Centrality of East Jerusalem
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

11 Mar 2018 – The Palestinian National Struggle 1967–1987

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Teen Solidarity against the Merchants of Death
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

1 Mar 2018 – The U.S. military remains in Afghanistan because it wants to eventually control mineral wealth and other resources. But right now, weapon manufacturers like General Atomics and Boeing — which supply the U.S. base in Kandahar with drones, missiles and bombs — are profiting from the perpetuation of war. This profit gives them common cause with arms manufacturers like Sturm Ruger and Sig Sauer earning millions from equipping U.S. police forces as well as deranged killers in U.S. classrooms.

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‘Plastic, Plastic, So Much Plastic!’: Diver Films Sea of Trash Off Bali
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

6 Mar 2018 – British diver Rich Horner posted footage of his plastic-infested swim off Bali’s Manta Point on Saturday [3 Mar].

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Scandal
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

So yes, the occupation corrupts and continues to corrupt. You won’t see civil society organizations fighting against this official corruption. Nor will you see popular protests against this ongoing scandal. And the lonely few who are still outraged by this scandalous behavior are, here in Israel, called leftist extremists and traitors…

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Syrian Sentinels Are Daily Risking Their Lives to Save Fellow Citizens
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

7 Mar 2018 – Despite the danger, Syrian civilian Sentinels now regularly appear and risk being killed by insisting that the food and medicines convoys be allowed into Eastern Ghouta. This courage is spreading among the Syrian population to aid their neighbors and families as well as total strangers.

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The Physics of Consciousness (Part 2)
John Hagelin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

Dr. John Hagelin explains the physics of consciousness.
Consciousness & Superstring Unified Field Theory – How Knowledge Is Lost – The Observer

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The Jury Has Been Out on Vaccines: Harm to the Brain, Immune System, Limbic System, Life
Paul Haeder | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

Two Rabbits, Twenty-Eight Days of Testing, and a 91-Year Old Salt Called Aluminum Hydroxide Captured in New Documentary

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Schooling
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

A young cowboy from Wyoming went off to college, but half way through the semester, he had foolishly squandered all his money. He called home.

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The Dirty Secret of How France Exterminates Its Dolphins
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service~, 12 Mar 2018

Sea Shepherd France President Lamya Essemlali launches Operation Dolphin By-Catch to warn the public about the fate of dolphins along the French coast.

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Compassion, Perspicacity and Power
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

Coercion implies the absence of compassion, and usually also at least some lack of perspicacity. “Leaders” and their “inner circle” tend to take the position that any feeling or view which is judged to be at variance with “collective goals and values” needs to be suppressed – or even perhaps “rooted out”. Within an individual’s psyche, power generates ambition and rapacity.

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Addressing Violence and Extremism: The Importance of Terminology
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

Jan 2018 – In recent years, “countering/combating violent extremism” or “preventing violent extremism” has become a must in most peace building programs. Yet, the fast-growing interest in this topic belies the fundamental problem of the lack of a clear and broadly accepted definition of the VE concept. This paper aims to contribute to a more accurate definition of the terms used in the context of extremism and violence, to attempt a descriptive model of the extremization process, and to discuss the various approaches to de-extremization.

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Google’s Alliance with the Military: The Ruling Class Responds to Social Unrest in America
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

10 Mar 2018 – Last week, Google confirmed that it has provided artificial intelligence software to assist the United States military and intelligence apparatus in analyzing data as part of its drone war and assassination program in the Middle East and beyond.

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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. “God does not play dice.”

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New Fires Relight in Eastern Congo
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

7 Mar 2018 – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights gave a cry of alarm of dangerous and worsening armed conflicts in which violations of human rights were an important factor. Along with Syria, Yemen, Myanmar, he cited the continued violence in the Kasai of the eastern Congo and the re-ignited armed conflict in the Ituri area, also in eastern RDC near Lake Albert, facing Uganda.

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New Momentum to India’s Financial Inclusion
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

8 Mar 2018 – Financial inclusion should not end with just opening accounts. The customer must make this account his financial diary and conduct transactions which can grow into a credit history. Or else all these accounts would remain deadweight. What needs to be done is to make more and more of these accounts actively transactional.

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A Stream of Consciousness about Stream of Time
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

This essay about time is actually about human dignity. We are not drifting along something called time willy-nilly, like falling down pulled by something called gravity. Time is change; being masters of much change relevant to us we can create new contexts and call that moving forward in time, and recreate old contexts and call that moving backward in time.

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Slipping Onward
Susanne Still - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

When I hadn’t heard from Susanne for a few months last September, I sent an e-mail. In late February I learned from her husband, Andrew, that she had passed away soon after being diagnosed with cancer at age 61. He has shared Susanne’s last poem with me, and given permission to share it here.

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Amazing Grace (Music Video of the Week)
Il Divo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

Il Divo at the Magnificent Coliseum in Rome

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The Great Conspiracy
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

10 Mar 2018 – In the Autumn of 1948, after some eight months of continuous fighting, I was promoted to the lofty rank of corporal. After taking part in a crash course for squad leaders, I was allowed to choose my new soldiers – new immigrants from Poland or Morocco.

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The End of Dueling
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

During medieval times, it was a sign of honor and courage for men to challenge a rival to a duel by sword, typically someone who was in love with the same woman.

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Symbolizing Collective Remembering Otherwise
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018

Encompassing the Headless Hearts and Heartless Heads through Their Dynamic Entanglement

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If You Want Peace, Don’t Focus on the Violence and the Evil Guy
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

A Personal Pledge Provoked by the Debates about Syria – About 95% of all debates about conflicts and war that we see in politics, mainstream media, the Internet and social media focus on the violence, who uses more or less of it and who is, therefore, the evil party.

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(Italiano) 15 casi di politica estera USA costruttiva / distruttiva
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Una teoria è qualcosa verificabile lungo i suoi margini (Quine), quel che se ne deduce; e per me il “margine” fondamentale è l’azione implicata e le sue conseguenze.

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He Predicted the 2016 Fake News Crisis – Now He’s Worried about an Information Apocalypse
Charlie Warzel | BuzzFeed – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

“What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did?”

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