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US Takes Back Signature on Arms Trade Treaty
Thalif Deen | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
29 Apr 2019 – The United States dropped a political bombshell when President Donald Trump announced his administration would withdraw from the historic Arms Trade Treaty which the former Obama administration signed in September 2013. The US, in effect, joins three other “rogue states” – North Korea, Iran and Syria – who voted against the treaty along with 23 countries that abstained on the voting, including China, Russia, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.
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Nonviolence or Nonexistence
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
2 May 2019 – The day before he died, Martin Luther King said these words at a packed church in Memphis: “Men for years now have been talking about war and peace. Now no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world, it is nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.”That’s where we are today . . . half a century later!
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Sharing Efforts with Fair Distribution of Results
Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
29 Apr 2019 – The outrageous concentration of wealth and the consequent decisional power will blow out of proportion more and more. Neither the fiscal restructuring nor the dismantling of the sovereign over-indebtedness should be charged on the most vulnerable: make the great evaders that flight their ill-gotten capitals cope with it.
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#MeToo!
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
Solidarity anyone?
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National Campaign for Peace Education Launched in Cameroon
Global Campaign for Peace Education – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
On 6 Mar 2019, Cameroon Peace Foundation Association, in collaboration with the Global Campaign for Peace Education, launched a National Campaign for Peace Education in Buea. The Campaign brought together religious leaders, lecturers, teachers and police officers.
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(Français) Êtes-vous plutôt tourismophobe ou touristophobe?
Bernard Duterme | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
15 avril 2019 – «Tourismophobie », « touristophobie », les deux néologismes sont apparus ces dernières années dans la foulée d’un autre, le « surtourisme », lui-même avatar 2.0 du « tourisme de masse », boosté par l’explosion des minitrips low-costs et l’« airbnbisation » des centres-villes historiques. Qui est touristophobe, qui est tourismophobe aujourd’hui ? Les critiques du tourisme international publiées par le CETRI le sont-elles ? Focus sur les contours et les raisons d’une aversion… moins récente qu’il n’y paraît.
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The Pentagon’s Long Con
William J. Astore | Bracing Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
30 Apr 2019 – “War is a racket,” wrote General Smedley Butler in the 1930s. Dwight D. Eisenhower warned at the end of his presidency about the military-industrial complex and its misplaced, anti-democratic power. Martin Luther King Jr spoke against militarism and the “spiritual death” he believed Americans were suffering from in the 1960s… The Pentagon will never be forced to make significant reforms until Americans stop believing in (and consenting to) its comforting lies.
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Venezuelan Military Putsch Defeated as Leopoldo Lopez Takes Refuge in Spanish Embassy
Ricardo Vaz | Venezuelanalysis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
30 Apr 2019 – “Interim President” Juan Guaido and right-wing opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez spearheaded an unsuccessful coup attempt in Caracas today. Opposition protesters clashed with security forces while government supporters swiftly mobilized to defend the presidential palace.
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Rachel Carson on Writing and the Loneliness of Creative Work
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in… you will interest other people.”
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Tragic End for a Gentle Giant: Elephant Struggles against Its Chains Before It Collapses and Dies at Indian National Park, Prompting Allegations of Neglect
James Tweedie – Daily Mail,
6 May 2019
• Heartbreaking video shows the beast of burden tugging at its chains then falling
• Elephant handlers said they asked for a vet for the sick animal but no help came
• The elephant, named Drona, had twice taken pride of place in a religious parade
Why Ukraine’s Comedian President Is Likely to Be More Joke than Solution
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
26 Apr 2019 – The ordinary Ukrainian people are so sick and tired of the militaristic nationalism as well as endemic corruption in Kiev that they voted for someone, anyone, who appears slightly more reasonable.
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(Português) Elefante luta contra suas correntes antes de desmaiar e morrer em parque nacional indiano
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
29 Abr 2019 – Desrespeitados, agredidos e cruelmente acorrentados esses animais tem mortes tristes e solitárias, a maioria das vezes antes da previsão natural de vida de um elefante em estado selvagem, presos eles morrem afastados dos seus iguais e de seu habitat. Esse é o caso de Drona, um elefante indiano de 37 anos que teve sua morte documentada em um vídeo triste e chocante.
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(Italiano) Quando si arriva alla fine della strada è ora di pensare fuori dagli schemi
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
22 Aprile 2019 – il mondo di ieri basato sulla premessa di guadagnarsi da vivere con un lavoro è finito. Finito! Tassare i ricchi per sovvenzionare i poveri – proposta con le migliori intenzioni da qualcuno a sinistra – è impossibile perché se si prova a tassarli, si trasferiscono. Inoltre, nessuno sa davvero quanto denaro è nascosto in fondi fiduciari dei paradisi fiscali sotto nomi fittizi, o quanto ne guizza per il mondo in frazioni di secondo in transazioni speculative mega-milionarie che rendono insignificante l’economia reale.
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US-Backed Saudi Regime Beheads 37 Political Prisoners
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
25 Apr 2019 – The monarchical dictatorship of Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday [23 Apr] that it had carried out another killing spree, publicly executing 37 people. One of the headless corpses was then crucified and left hanging in public as a hideous warning to anyone who would even contemplate opposing the absolute power of the ruling royal family admired by Pres. Trump.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
What more is needed, beyond “dialogue of civilizations”? Like for man-woman: creating something new. A real dialogue goes beyond getting to know each other to mutual learning, beyond mutual learning to mutual visions, and beyond that to mutual practice.
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The Complete Mercenary [Terrorist?]: How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback
Matthew Cole – The Intercept,
6 May 2019
3 May 2019 – Erik Prince now offers a complete mercenary supply chain: anything from military hardware to social media manipulation in partnership with Project Veritas.
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These 28 Companies Are Building Nuclear Weapons
ICAN- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
2 May 2019 – ICAN and its partner organisation Pax have released a report with full profiles of 28 companies connected to the production of nuclear weapons.
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On Peace vs. Love
Radhanath Swami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
Instead of fighting for peace, we have to find peace within ourselves first. Love is a positive expression of the heart. Love means sacrifice—sacrificing even our own peace for the pleasure of the beloved.
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(Português) A Caminho do Matadouro
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
28 abr 2019 – É difícil imaginar quantas vidas passam por aqui. Indo de um lado para o outro – somente ida, sem volta. Uma prisão sobre rodas, que pouco permite observar o que existe ali fora. Hoje é a sua vez. Amanhã serão outros, e assim por diante.
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(Português) Ex-Presidente Brasileiro Lula da Silva Dá Sua 1ª Entrevista da Prisão
TV Folha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
26 abril 2019 – Subtitles in English – O ex-presidente Lula afirmou hoje, em entrevista exclusiva concedida à Folha e ao jornal El País, que o Brasil está sendo governado por “um bando de malucos”. Depois de uma batalha judicial na qual a entrevista chegou a ser censurada pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal, o petista enfim concedeu a entrevista.
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(Português) Bolsonaro decreta fim das faculdades de Filosofia e Sociologia no Brasil: “Objetivo é focar em áreas que gerem retorno imediato”
Editorial | Revista Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Enquanto os filhos – e ele próprio – são doutrinados pelo “filósofo” Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro decreta fim dos estudos de humanas alegando que a educação deve servir para ensinar “leitura, escrita e a fazer conta e depois um ofício que gere renda para a pessoa”
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(Castellano) El vídeo de la entrevista de EL PAÍS a Lula da Silva
El País – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
27 Abr 2019 – Adelanto de la entrevista realizada de manera conjunta por EL PAÍS con el diario brasileño Folha de São Paulo al expresidente de Brasil Lula da Silva, la primera desde su entrada en prisión. El que un día fue presidente de Brasil no está pasando por su mejor época. Aún condenado durante 8 años y 10 meses por lavado de dinero y corrupción e imputado en otros seis procesos judiciales, Lula da Silva se mantiene fuerte y firme en sus convicciones.
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(Italiano) Per TMS. 25 aprile 2019. aosta. collettivamente memoria e il dovere di non collaborare
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Dedicato alle lettrici e ai lettori di Transcend Media Service – Extraits da una censura
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Doctoral Thesis on Nonkilling Mechanisms by TRANSCEND Member Joám Evans Pim at Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Evans defended the role of restraint mechanisms for the prevention of potentially lethal aggression as an evolutionary driver for the development and complexification of hominin communicative abilities, including articulated language and symbolic cultural practices.
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(Français) Le Venezuela et la guerre de l’empire contre les Peuples: les vautours du « fracking »
Paulo Correia | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
27 Avr 2019 – L’objectif annoncé des vautours est de venir en « aide humanitaire urgente aux victimes du socialisme chaviste » et d’appliquer massivement dans le sol de la République bolivarienne la technique d’exploitation pétrolière connue sous le terme de « fracking » ».
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Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 Apr 1955): Evolution toward World Unity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Pierrre Teihard de Chardin, the French paleontologist, after a lifetime of study of the evolution of the human species concluded that humanity was entering a new age with a higher, peaceful and more responsible sense of the unity of the world community. Optimism and evolution are the two themes that Teilhard de Chardin leaves with us. He insisted at looking at the human population as one global family, developing a network of mutual support − recognizing the need of global solidarity.
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Event Horizon Telescope Animated Movie
ehtelescope – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an international collaboration aiming to capture the first image of a black hole by creating a virtual Earth-sized telescope. This short animated movie explains some of the nuts and bolts behind this ambitious endeavour.
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Historical Misrepresentation of a “Union of International Associations”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Scholastic “Demeaning” of Global Civil Society in a Period of Widespread Crisis
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The War Has Started
Luis Henrique Beust – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
The War has started
But life goes on:
(This conclusion is pathetic and painful,
Yet so, so true…)
(Português) Experimento Cruel: Cientistas exploram macacos e colocam genes humanos nos animais
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Macacos foram explorados e submetidos a experimentos cruéis por cientistas chineses do Instituto de Zoologia de Kunming, que injetaram genes humanos nos cérebros desses animais com a intenção de torná-los mais inteligentes. O estudo foi publicado no jornal National Science Review.
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Assange – A Dangerous Precedent
Courtenay Barnett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
As defence Attorney and a human rights activist I am acutely aware of the importance of legal protection for the right to speak via the media, both print and electronic, to bring public attention to matters of administrative, governmental and other official wrongdoings.
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Does the Overthrow of el-Bashir in Sudan Signal a Second Arab Spring?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
28 Apr 2019 – Of particular interest is whether the mass movement of the Sudanese people and the counterrevolutionary dangers posed by the retention of emergency powers by the military entourage surrounding the former dictator will destroy the hopes of the mobilized population as happened in Egypt in seemingly analogous circumstances.
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Genocide Is an Act of State, and Demands a Response by Other States
John Packer | OpenGlobalRights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
24 Apr 2019 – The Myanmar state can and must be held accountable for the genocide being perpetrated against the Rohingya, a point lost in largely illusory efforts to pursue international criminal trials of individuals.
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(Português) Amor em Tempos de Ira e de Ódio
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
25 abr 2019 – Vivemos no Brasil bolsonariano e no mundo afora tempos de ira e de ódio, fruto do fundamentalismo e da intolerância como se viu em Siri Lanka onde centenas de cristãos foram assassinados no momento em que celebravam a vitória do amor sobre morte na festa de ressurreição. Este cenário macabro nos faz renovar a esperança de que, apesar de tudo, o amor é mais forte do que a morte.
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Reflections on Government Change, Reform, Renewal (Part 2)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Suggested Topics for Discussion, Dialog and Debate
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Tackling the ‘Impossible’: Ending Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
24 Apr 2019 – Anyone who pays attention to the subject of violence in any detail soon discovers that plenty of people are interested in tackling this problem, even if it is ‘impossible’. Moreover, of course, at least some people recognize that while we must tackle each manifestation of violence, understanding the cause of violence is imperative if we are to successfully tackle its many manifestations at their source. To do all of this effectively, however, is a team effort. And hopefully, one day, this team will include all of us.
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At China’s Belt and Road Forum, Guterres Calls for ‘Inclusive, Sustainable and Durable’ Development
UN News – TRANSEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
26 Apr 2019 – China’s international trade and economic development plan – known as the Belt and Road Initiative – could contribute to a more equitable, prosperous world, and to reversing the negative impact of climate change, Secretary-General António Guterres said today, speaking in Beijing, China.
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Annoyed by the Vegan Protestors? Then Imagine This…
Paul Mahony | New Matilda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
16 Apr 2019 – Supporting or opposing the recent vegan protests is partly about perspective, and partly about ethics. There’s a simple ethical test for those complaining about the protests held recently in Melbourne and elsewhere around Australia.
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International Organizations and Global Civil Society – Histories of the Union of International Associations
Edited by Daniel Laqua, Wouter Van Acker and Christophe Verbruggen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
The Union of International Associations (UIA) was founded in 1910, aiming to coordinate the relations and interests of international organizations across the world. Its long history makes it a prism through which to study the field of international organizations and its dynamics.
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Remembering the Revelations of US Torture at Abu Ghraib
Muhammad Hussein – The Middle East Monitor,
29 Apr 2019
28 Apr 2019 – The infamous Abu Ghraib prison complex in Iraq was revealed to be the centre of an extensive network run by the US military. The full extent of what went on was leaked to a shocked world on 28 April 2004, a year after the invasion. Abuse and torture of largely innocent civilian Iraqi detainees at the hands of American soldiers were common.
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(Português) Brasil: Com a farra do boi, Semana Santa vira semana de violência contra animais em Santa Catarina
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Nessa violenta “brincadeira”, o animal é alvejado com pedras, paus, objetos cortantes e bombinhas, além de perseguido e mordido por cães.
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Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 Mar 1883)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
In 1845 Marx was expelled from France by Guizot. He fled with Friedrich Engels to Brussels where they stayed for three years with intermittent trips to England to visit Engels’ family who had cotton-spinning interests in Manchester. While in Brussels Marx wrote a piece against the idealistic socialism of P.J. Proudhon called The Poverty of Philosophy. He also worked on his materialist conception of history, and developed the manuscript that would come to be named The German Ideology when it was published after his death. This paper argues that the nature of an individual is dependent upon the material conditions that determine his production.
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Poroshenko Out, Zelensky In. Will Things Change in Ukraine?
Tom Luongo | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
25 Apr 2019 – The incalculable damage that’s been done to the region for cynical geopolitical goals can never be undone but it can stop.
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UNESCO Brisbane Declaration – Freedom of Information: The Right to Know
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
We, the participants at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day conference in Brisbane, Australia, 3 May 2010:
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Where the Silk Roads Meet the Mighty Mekong
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
26 Apr 2019 – Sleepy, landlocked Laos is undergoing rapid changes as China builds connections to mainland Southeast Asia… It’s this extremely complex, fragile, social and environmental system that from 2021 will have to learn to coexist with the era of the high-speed naga.
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Anti-Semitism and Jewish Self-Determination
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Is There a Jewish Right of Self-Determination?
Self-Determination on What Territory?
Self-Determination for Whom and for What?
Sri Lanka and New Zealand: The Real Link
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
24 Apr 2019 – There are voices — among them from the Sri Lankan government — that are saying that the carnage in Sri Lanka was revenge by a local extremist Muslim group, the National Thowheeth Jama’ath for the massacre of Muslim worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand by a White supremacist on the 15th of March 2019.
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Giving Birth
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Garbage In…
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All about That Bass (Music Video of the Week)
PostmodernJukebox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Delightful!
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Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
The rise of autocratic leaders via democratic procedures is an outcome that can be either reversed or accentuated. The various autocratic democracies now dominating the political landscape of the world are doomed as a political form, but what will come after them cannot now be foreseen. It could be either an occasion for celebration or despair, or both if different societies move in opposite directions, some toward a deeper democracies, some toward fascist governance.
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A New Middle East: The Long Awaited Independence
Cristina Cabrejas-Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
26 Apr 2019 – For centuries, Western powers have essentially blocked any attempts to make the Middle East a self-sufficient region. A powerful Middle East gave rise to a declined Europe through scientific discoveries, providing the foundations of the industrial revolution. The Middle East is rising again, hopefully to end centuries of foreign dependency and false protection retaking the lead of further scientific advancement.
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‘We Are Hostages’: Indigenous Mapuche Accuse Chile and Argentina of Genocide
Mat Youkee – The Guardian,
29 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019 – Representatives of South America’s indigenous Mapuche people have petitioned the International Criminal Court to take action against the governments of Chile and Argentina for acts of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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A Step Forward in the U.N.’s Efforts against Rape as a Weapon of War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
On Tuesday, 23 April 2019, the United Nations Security Council voted resolution N° 2467 concerning the use of rape as a weapon in times of armed conflict. The new resolution introduced by Germany contained two new elements, both of which were eliminated in the intense negotiations in the four days prior to the vote of 13 in favor and two abstentions, those of Russia and China.
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Notre Dame of Gaza: Our Mosques and Churches Are Also Burning
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
24 Apr 2019 – The Israeli army bombed the historic Al-Omari Mosque in northern Gaza. The ancient mosque dates back to the 7th century and has since served as a symbol of resilience and faith for the people of Gaza. As Notre Dame burned, I thought of Al-Omari too. While the fire at the French cathedral was likely accidental, destroyed Palestinian houses of worship were intentionally targeted. The Israeli culprits are yet to be held accountable.
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Back to Marx: How Can His Work Help Us to Understand Modern Times?
Laurent Etre | l’Humanité – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
The world economic crisis has ended the taboo on referring to Marx. More and more works are being published on the author of Das Kapital, and the press is publishing special sections on him. A discussion with Edgar Morin, the philosopher and sociologist, emeritus research director at the CNRS who holds honorary doctorates from many universities around the world and with André Tosel, the philosopher and specialist in Karl Marx and Marxism, professor at the University of Nice.
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The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children Has Become Big Business in America
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
23 Apr 2019 – Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old. This is America’s dirty little secret.
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Of Godmen, Godwomen, and Ordinary Individuals
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
The society being what it is–disparities between the rich elite and the impoverished poor, the new liberal economic system that promotes degradation of our planet, the political and religious conflicts that are resulting in crimes and bombings–it is difficult to act sanely and with compassion and justice towards all forms of life. But let us not feel hopeless and dejected. Let us not just adore, admire the modern forms of Godmen and Godwomen.
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Consciousness: The Symptom of the Soul
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
The current idea that the mind is part of the brain is held not only by many biologists, neurologists, etc., but by others in all branches of science, including physics, computer science, and psychology. We might, however, point out a number of problems with this current thinking. Let us suggest that it is just as reasonable to consider an alternative view, and that the Vedic concept is actually more consistent and does not have as many problems as their concept has.
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Thanksgiving
TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
How nice!
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Planning Can Save the Planet: China Chooses Renewable Energy
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
23 Apr 2019 – The United States and China are the largest consumers of coal and oil. The choices made by the leaders of the two largest industrialized economies are having an impact on climate and on air quality for everyone. But the decisions being made in these two countries are going in totally different directions. Their choices reveal a lot about the different social and political bases of each country.
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The PA Is Taking Sides in a Diplomatic Game That Spells Disaster for Palestinians
Ramona Wadi – The Middle East Monitor,
29 Apr 2019
26 Apr 2019 – The excessive focus on US President Donald Trump’s forthcoming “deal of the century” is already marginalising the Palestinians. Pitting the US plan against the two-state compromise has created another diplomatic battlefield in which the only losers continue to be the people of Palestine.
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Saudi Arabia Beheads 37 People Guilty of ‘Terrorism-Related Crimes’
SBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
24 Apr 2019 – The executions are likely to stoke further regional and sectarian tensions between rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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(Português) No Uganda Há Uma Mãe Solteira com 38 Filhos para Cuidar e Esta É a Sua História
Pedro Dias | Visão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Mariam Nabatanzi, do Uganda, foi aconselhada pelo médico a não tomar a pílula, graças a uma condição física rara. O resultado foi o nascimento de 44 filhos – seis pares de gémeos, quatro pares de trigémeos e cinco pares de quadrigémeos – de quem cuida sozinha.
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Cuban Five Hero Declares His Solidarity with Julian Assange
Yimel Diaz | Resumen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019 – Hernandez who is currently a Deputy of the Cuban National Assembly and Vice Dean of the Higher Institute of International Relations spent 16 years in U.S. prisons. He commented, through his own experience that if Assange is extradited to the U.S. nothing good will happen to him. “We witnessed how they were always trying to distort the truth as a way of demonizing us.
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
“Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person.”
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Genetically Modified Babies: The Genetic Editing of Human Life Is “Big Business”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
29 Apr 2019
28 Apr 2019 – The experiment raises important scientific and ethical issues. Human embryos are not commodities. The Chinese government immediately opened an investigation; Dr He Jiankui was fired by his University in January 2019. Despite government regulations and ethical issues, there are powerful corporate interests involved in the development and patenting of genetic editing of life forms including Dr. He’s findings on “genetically modified babies”.
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Jailed Myanmar Reuters Reporters, U.S. Border Photographers Win Pulitzer Prizes
Daniel Trotta | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
15 Apr 2019 – Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes today, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.
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2019 World Press Freedom Index – A Cycle of Fear
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
The 2019 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows how hatred of journalists has degenerated into violence, contributing to an increase in fear. The number of countries regarded as safe, where journalists can work in complete security, continues to decline, while authoritarian regimes continue to tighten their grip on the media.
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Stop the Ongoing U.S. Economic Terrorism against Iran and Help Its People!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
15 Apr 2019 – You have certainly not heard much about this in the West. And it didn’t get a fraction of the media attention (and none of the hundreds of millions of Euro pledges by the perversely rich) that the Notre Dame fire did.
→ read full articleDefending Julian Assange -> Defending the Truth
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Because of my own longstanding interest in developing thoughtfully-designed nonviolent strategies in our struggle to make our world one of peace, justice and ecological sustainability, let me suggest a strategic way forward that will honor the courage of Julian and Chelsea by maximizing the impact of their truth-telling on the longer-term struggles just mentioned while also taking separate action to provide some additional pressure to assist them in the short and medium terms.
→ read full articleAssange Arrest (Part 1): ‘So now he’s our property.’
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
16 Apr 2019 – If ‘journalism’ meant what it is supposed to mean– acting as the proverbial ‘fourth estate’ to challenge power and to keep the public informed – then Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would be universally lauded as paragons. So would Chelsea Manning, the brave former US Army whistleblower who passed on to WikiLeaks more than 700,000 confidential US State Department and Pentagon documents, videos and diplomatic cables about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Compassion over Killing Investigation: Nestlé’s Nightmare
The Lives of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
6 Apr 2019 – A new undercover investigation by Compassion over Killing reveals the hidden truth behind Nestle’s dairy products.
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On Taking Controversial Public Positions: A Reflection
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – I have chosen activism to the end, both continuing with sports to the limit of my ability and to honor the political commitments of a citizen pilgrim (dedicated to a journey to a desired and desirable political community that functions now only as an imaginary, yet has the ambition to become a political project) to the best of my ability.
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Is the American Psychological Association Addicted to Militarism and War?
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
19 Apr 2019 – On the morning of September 11, 2001, the APA sprang into action and worked with the American Red Cross to provide psychological support to families of the victims and to rescue workers. The APA also ensured that the Bush Administration would view the association as a valued partner in the military and intelligence operations central to the new “war on terror.” These two responses are clearly very different from each other.
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It Is Time We Stop Treating Poor as Guinea Pigs
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
India has long been a testing ground for several western products, particularly in agriculture and medicine. Although imported programmes have the benefit of supplying ‘pre-tested’ models, they are inherently risky because they may not take root in the local culture when transplanted. Home-grown models have greater chances of success. The millions of households who constitute the rural poor are a potential source of great knowledge and creativity.
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The Public Banking Revolution Is Upon Us
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – As public banking gains momentum across the country, policymakers in California and Washington State are vying to form the nation’s second state-owned bank, following in the footsteps of the highly successful Bank of North Dakota, founded in 1919.
→ read full articleAssange Arrest (Part 2): ‘A Definite Creep, a Probable Rapist’
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – As discussed in Part 1, the nub of this ‘mainstream’ scorn was the belief that Assange’s concerns about extradition were a cowardly excuse for fleeing possible sex crimes – fears of extradition were a nerdish, paranoid fantasy. It is a bitter irony, then, that Assange is currently trapped in the high-security Belmarsh Prison, which has been described as ‘Britain’s Guantanamo Bay’.
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Why Israel Has No ‘Right to Exist’
Jeremy R. Hammond | Foreign Policy Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
15 Mar 2019 – Zionists taking it upon themselves to try to defend Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people frequently level the charge that its critics are attempting to “delegitimize” the self-described “Jewish state”. Israel, they counter, has a “right to exist”. But they are mistaken. This is not to single out Israel. There is no such thing as a state’s “right to exist”, period.
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The Good Friday Agreement
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Former US Senator George Mitchell played a crucial role as mediator in helping bring about a peace settlement between representatives of the Northern Irish Protestants and Sinn Fein.
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Is Africa on Trial by the ICC?
Global Policy Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
27 Mar 2019 – There are 15 cases currently before the International Criminal Court, and all of them are against Africans. Some critics argue that the Court was designed to target leaders who offend powerful western interests. They say that had Robert Bales, the US soldier who shot 17 Afghan civilians, been African, his commander in chief would surely be charged by the Court. Others defend the Court, arguing that every person facing charges, African or not, needs to be held accountable for their human rights violations. This pair of BBC articles looks at the issue from both sides.
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Yemen and World Law: Building from Current Violations
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
The aggression against Yemen has created a moral vacuum, an area devoid of the most basic human values both within Yemen and in the countries attacking it.
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The 2016 Coup in Brazil: The Door to Disaster
Dilma Rousseff | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
17 Apr 2019 – The Ex-President of Brazil Looks into the Country’s Political Scenario Today – Three years ago today, Brazil’s lower house, chaired by a congressman who was convicted of corruption, started impeachment proceedings against me. The coup resulted in unprecedented social and economic calamity in Brazil. Rights the people have historically accomplished are being annihilated. Civilizing advances achieved in the democratic period after the military dictatorship are being dilapidated.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
According to a recent United Nations report, extreme weather events displaced 2 million people during 2018. While no single event can be unambiguously attributed to anthropogenic climate change, scientists believe the increasing frequency of extreme weather events is definitely linked to global warming. The same is true of their increasing severity. “Don’t come with a speech, come with a plan. This is what science says is needed. It is what young people around the globe are rightfully demanding.” – UN Sec. Gen. António Guterres
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Glyphosate Worse Than We Could Imagine
F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
14 Apr 2019 – Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children’s urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It’s everywhere, in brief.
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Between Yes and No, Heaven and Earth with Albert Camus on a Spring Morning
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – For a writer to fight injustice to the exclusion of creating beauty and living passionately contradicts the deepest desires of the human heart. Albert Camus taught us this. The love of life must inform the rebel’s resistance to injustice… You are right, Albert, “We must simultaneously serve suffering and beauty.”
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Easter Sunday at St James Church in Delhi
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
21 Apr 2019 – Today is Easter Sunday, the most holy day of the Christian Church calendar. Being a Hindu, somehow there was an urge in me to participate in this auspicious event.
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ICC Will Not Investigate U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
The International Criminal Court announced Friday [12 Apr 2019] it was refusing to pursue an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the USA in Afghanistan.
— “The ICC is bowing to President Trump’s pressure campaign. With this decision it sends a dangerous message: that bullying wins and that the powerful won’t be held to account.” (Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights)
(Castellano) Defendiendo a Julian Assange -> Defendiendo la Verdad
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Debido a mi propio interés de larga data en desarrollar estrategias no violentas cuidadosamente diseñadas en nuestra lucha por hacer de nuestro mundo un mundo de paz, justicia y sostenibilidad ecológica, permítame sugerir una forma estratégica de avanzar que honre el coraje de Julian y Chelsea maximizando el impacto de su relato de la verdad en las luchas a más largo plazo que se acaban de mencionar, al tiempo que se toman medidas por separado para ejercer una presión adicional para ayudarles en el corto y mediano plazo.
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“Israel” Turns a Historical Palestinian Mosque into a Bar
Quds News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
13 Apr 2019 – The Israeli municipality in Safed has turned Al-Ahmar Mosque into a bar and events hall, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported. It has long been one of the most historical mosques in the Arab city of Safed, northern occupied Palestine, which was occupied by Jewish gangs in 1948.
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Years after She Smells Parkinson’s Disease on Her Husband, Woman Is Now Paving the Way for Early Detection Test
McKinley Corbley | Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
13 Apr 2019 – Milne did not realize that she had been smelling the disease for over a decade until she attended a support group for Parkinson’s patients and found that everyone of them had the smell.
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(Castellano) El Final del Camino
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
No hay soluciones económicas (es decir, no hay soluciones pro-vida) porque la economía vive y se mueve y tiene su ser dentro del marco del derecho de propiedad y del derecho contractual tal como se lo desarrolló primero en el Imperio Romano, después en los estados sucesores del Imperio Romano durante el período moderno temprano. La ley europea fue impuesta a los habitantes de las Américas, África y Asia por la fuerza. (Consultar Patriarcado y acumulación a escala mundial de María Mies)
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The ICC Was Wrong to Deny Prosecution Request for Afghan Probe
Mark Kersten – Al Jazeera,
22 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019 – Judges at the International Criminal Court have denied a request to open an investigation into atrocities committed in Afghanistan. US officials will never end up before ICC judges, but speaking truth to power could still boost the court’s credibility.
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Why the Assange Arrest Should Scare Reporters
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
22 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – The WikiLeaks founder will be tried in a real court for one thing, but for something else in the court of public opinion. His indictment falls just short of a full frontal attack on press freedoms.
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What Matters Is Our Consciousness
Radhanath Swami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
The famous writer Paulo Coelho once said, “There is always a gap between our intention and action.” This holds true in our lives. How we present things or in what ways we present is definitely important and critical, but if we deeply analyze the matter, it’s the intention or consciousness behind it that matters.
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White House Insider: War with Iran Planned by Trump to Occur in the Fall of 2019
Israel Today News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – President Donald Trump and his inner circle are planning an extensive invasion of Iran, according to a source working in the White House. The plan involves a ground invasion and the use of tactical nuclear weapons, in a campaign planned for the Fall of 2019. Iran will be “wiped off the map” according to the source, and the war effort is expected to cost “two and half times the Iraq War.”
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(Italiano) 70 anni di NATO. Di guerra in guerra. Un convegno di denuncia e proposta
Angela Dogliotti ed Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
22 Apr 2019
11 Aprile 2019 – La militarizzazione dell’Europa prodotta dalla NATO coinvolse in modo particolare l’Italia, che fin dal 1951 «ospitò» basi statunitensi sul suo territorio. Secondo l’art. 5 della NATO ogni decisione doveva essere presa solo con l’unanimità dei partecipanti: di fatto, nei primi anni nessun Paese espresse dissenso o pose il veto alle proposte della NATO, e dagli anni 2000 è entrato in vigore il «silenzio assenso», a testimoniare la totale mancanza di autonomia degli Stati membri e la sudditanza di fronte alle scelte statunitensi.
→ read full articleSpecial Report: Massacres in Haiti
Margaret Prescod | Pacifica – The Real News Network,
22 Apr 2019
14/16 Apr 2019 (Parts 1 & 2) – An unknown number of Haitians were killed, raped, and burned alive in La Saline, Haiti, home of the African Diaspora liberation. Margaret Prescod talks about what she found.
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Why Can’t the World’s Greatest Minds Solve the Mystery of Consciousness?
Oliver Burkeman – The Guardian,
22 Apr 2019
Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots. The answer might lie with the spiritualists.
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Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture (Music Video of the Week)
Boston Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
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(Português) Multinacional decide libertar cães usados em testes de agrotóxicos exigidos pela Anvisa
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
12 abr 2019 – Segundo a Humane Society International, os animais que sobrevivessem às experiências seriam sacrificados.
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