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Vacationing
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
“How was your vacation in the mountain resort?”
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Peace Journalism in Theory and Practice
Silvia De Michelis | E-IR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
23 Dec 2018 – Peace journalism, as the name suggests, is a form of journalism committed to exploring root causes of conflict in order to “create opportunities for society at large to consider and value nonviolent responses to conflict.” Its history can be tracked back to 1965, when Johan Galtung and Mari Ruge analysed what makes foreign news newsworthy. Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung further developed the notion of peace journalism and argued that the media (war reporting, in particular) predominantly exhibit biases towards violence and rest on the conceptual belief that ‘conflict’ equals ‘war’.
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The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
In this analysis, John Pilger looks back over the Chavez years in Venezuela, including his own travels with Hugo Chavez, and the current US and European campaign to overthrow Nicolas Maduro in a ‘coup by media’ and to return Latin America to the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Kashmir: What Would Gandhi Say?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
1 Mar 2019 – What would Mahatma Gandhi say about the threat of war between India and Pakistan, which has brought the two nations and the world to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe? Throughout the struggle for Indian independence, Gandhi was faced with the serious problem of avoiding conflict between religious groups once independence had been achieved. He made every effort to bridge the rift between the Hindu and Muslim communities.
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Nobel-Winning Physicist Niels Bohr on Subjective vs. Objective Reality and the Uses of Religion in a Secular World
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
“The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won’t get us very far.”
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Prof. Johan Galtung: “I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire.”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
On the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out
2010 Interview Still More Relevant Today
Trump Has Turned Foreign Aid into Shabby Political Theatre
Peter Beaumont - The Guardian,
4 Mar 2019
20 Feb 2019 – Stalled relief supplies for Venezuela at the Colombian border are a stark illustration of Trump’s crudely transactional approach to aid. The flights look something more shabby: a dangerous stunt utilising aid for other purposes, alluded to by UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric: “Humanitarian action needs to be independent of political, military or any other objectives.”
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A Conspiracy of Decency
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
We will conspire to keep this blue dot floating and alive,
to keep the soldiers from gunning down the children;
to make the water clean and clear and plentiful,
How to Prepare for a Global Financial Crash: Rural-Urban Continuum and Electric Vehicles
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
1 Mar 2019 In this blog we have often proposed that the culture of war is not sustainable and that the American empire is destined to crash for the same reasons that the Soviet empire crashed. It can be an opportunity for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace. However, the crash of the American empire may well be accompanied (caused) by a global financial crash with suffering for ordinary people, as it did for the Soviet people 30 years ago.
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Why Myanmar Must Develop an Identity of Inclusion
Khin Mai Aung| Lion’s Roar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
28 Feb 2019 – Report from the International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma, which called attention to the ongoing human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims and other religious minorities in the Buddhist-majority country of Myanmar.
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Migrant Crisis in Europe? Look at Yemen
Helen Lackner | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
More desperate people crossed the Red Sea into Yemen in 2018 than crossed the Mediterranean heading for Europe. Yemen is in the midst of an internationalised civil war and suffering from the world’s worst humanitarian crisis according to the UN’s Secretary General. There has been no outcry about a ‘migrant invasion’ from the Yemeni Minister of the Interior, whether from the internationally recognised government or the Huthi movement that controls the capital Sana’a.
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Why Are We Failing the Mentally Ill?
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Among the many challenges India faces, the most underappreciated is the ongoing mental health crisis. Mental illness is actually India’s ticking bomb.
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The U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It
Adam H Johnson | Truthdig- TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
21 Feb 2019 – No one actually thinks the murderers row of Cold Warriors, Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams and national security adviser John Bolton care at all about the starving people in Venezuela or their plight. No one reading this, be they right, left, center, libertarian or communist, actually buys the prevailing narrative that the U.S. is sending “aid” to Venezuela as a humanitarian gesture.
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(Castellano) Una estrategia no violenta para derrotar el intento de golpe de Estado de EE.UU. en Venezuela
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Al pueblo de Venezuela: Una vez más, la élite de los Estados Unidos ha decidido tratar de imponer su voluntad en el pueblo de otra nación, en este caso, y no por primera vez, su país, Venezuela.Por supuesto, este golpe es perfectamente consistente con la política exterior estadounidense de los últimos dos siglos, cuyo enfoque esencial ha sido asegurar su control en áreas geoestratégicas clave del mundo y robar los recursos de naciones extranjeras.
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(Français) José Martí et l’Anti-Impérialisme Etats-Unien: Une Analyse d’Actualité
Christine Gillard | Journal Notre Amérique – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
20 Fév 2019 – Depuis une dizaine d’années les États-Unis regardent à nouveau vers les pays d’Amérique du sud, attentifs à la remontée des oppositions des droites aux gouvernements progressistes. Cette attention vigilante se traduit par des stratégies d’aide plus ou moins directe aux opposants, ainsi que par le déploiement de forces armées sur les frontières sensibles en s’appuyant sur les pays amis comme la Colombie.
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White Helmets’ Staged Chemical Attack Videos and Other Trends in Modern Propaganda
South Front – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – The scandal regarding the fake hospital video published by the White Helmets as a proof of the Douma chemical attack has reached its peak in the media and has caused reaction on the diplomatic level.
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The French Army Has Killed Hamadoun Kouffa, the Malian Robin Hood
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
How might the Malian government find a way to negotiate with his successors, to avoid genocide or civil war?
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Laughter for All (Financial) Times
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – In these times, when the United States pursues an unprecedented military build-up, promotes coups and trade wars, breaks weapons agreements, organizes the illegal seizure of overseas financial accounts, building barriers and walls along the southern border, Washington can count on the mass media to provide a variety of propaganda messages, ranging from the predictable ‘yellow ’ to the sophisticated ‘serious press’.
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Conference Calls for Action to End Rohingya Genocide
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – On Feb. 8 and 9 at Barnard College in New York City, the Free Rohingya Coalition held an extremely productive conference, drawing an audience of 200 researchers, activists and renowned academics from around 12 countries. Victims demand that ‘Never again!’ must be more than an empty slogan.
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UN Alliance of Civilizations Call for Applications for 2019 Fellowship Programme
UNAOC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
The theme of the Fellowship 2019 is “The role of women in peacemaking and conflict prevention”. Candidates must be able to present professional achievements in these fields and have until Sunday March 10th 2019 to apply.
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Pink Floyd’s Waters Slams Venezuela Border Aid Concert
Brian Ellsworth and Sarah Marsh | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters slammed an upcoming “Live Aid”-style concert to raise funds for humanitarian aid for Venezuela, calling the event a U.S.-backed effort to tarnish the socialist government in a video circulating today.
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What Can Video Games Teach Us about Peace?
Gene Carolan | Raidió Teilifís Éireann [Ireland] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
18 Feb 2019 – More and more games are incorporating nonviolence as a feature and encouraging better social behaviour in the real world.
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(Português) Austrália aprova lei que proíbe testes em animais para produtos cosméticos
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
18 fev 2019 – Empresas livres de crueldade abandonaram os testes em animais, mas ainda são capazes de oferecer produtos de beleza seguros e de qualidade. Com o uso de ingredientes e testes livres de crueldade animal, atendem a enorme e consciente demanda do mercado. Após quase dois anos de discussões sobre o assunto, o Senado australiano aprovou a proibição de testes em animais na indústria cosmética.
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Ram Rajya — Gandhi and His Religious Outlook
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
25 Feb 2019 – The world is celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi this year. On this important occasion, let us remember Gandhi’s belief in the core values of Truth, Nonviolence, Satyagraha, Religious Amity, Harmony, Cleanliness and Love for Nature. He not only believed in these values but consistently acted in consonance with them.
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Artist in Agony: My Step-Father, Stefano
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
My step-father, Stefano, died in my arms at home at age 66. In the days before his death, he said to me: “The great tragedy of life is so few people have an opportunity to develop their talents.” He knew the agony!
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(Português) Número de veganos tem dobrado a cada dois anos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
18 fev2019 – De acordo com a organização britânica The Vegan Society, o número de veganos, ou seja, de pessoas que não consomem produtos de origem animal e que fazem oposição à exploração animal para qualquer fim, tem dobrado a cada dois anos desde 2014. No ano passado, só no Reino Unido, o total de veganos chegou a 600 mil, superando de longe os 300 mil de 2016.
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A World Party
Roberto Savio | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – I have decided that I can be more useful as a practitioner than as a theoretician in the cultured an interesting debate that Paul Raskin has opened on a world political party. But I still remember that during the debate on the New International Information Order in the seventies, the German chairman of the conference observed: “what Roberto had said works in practice. But the question is: would it work in theory”?
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Training in Conflict Transformation, Morocco
The Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
The Cordoba Foundation of Geneva’s work in Morocco has focused on building the capacity of university activists in conflict transformation with the aim of equipping them with the skills to alleviate violence between political groups in university campuses. When we asked these activists how their participation in our workshops changed their awareness about conflict and peace promotion, this is what they said.
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American Mercenaries Arrested in Haiti Go Free
Ezili Dantò – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
21 Feb 2019 – On February 20, 2019, five former American military men and other nationals arrested on 17 Feb got on a specially charted plane and took off for the United States.
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Another Day in Paradise (Music Video of the Week)
Phil Collins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
– Lyrics – Kick back & enjoy…
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The Misuses of Histories and Historiography by the state in Myanmar: The Case of Rakhine and Rohingya
Michael W. Charney | SOAS University of London – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
10 Feb 2019 – I am not a lawyer but a historian so my talk will be a little different than the others we listened to yesterday. While everyone else is looking for solutions, I am not doing that necessarily. Ultimately, some look to find solutions in holding Myanmar to account through international law. That’s what they can do.
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How Much of Venezuela’s Crisis Is Really Maduro’s Fault?
Steve Ellner – Consortium News,
25 Feb 2019
15 Feb 2019 – The Venezuelan opposition frequently argues that neither the sanctions nor depressed international oil prices are to blame for the nation’s economic difficulties, only the mismanagement of the economy. There are several factors for Venezuela’s economic crisis, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to U.S. leaders or following corporate media.
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After 18 Years of War, the Taliban Has the Upper Hand in Afghanistan Peace Talks
Bilal Sarwary and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
25 Feb 2019
15 Feb 2019 – For many observers, the negotiations register as a defeat — recognition that the Taliban has not only survived, but will be central to Afghanistan’s future.
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World Premiere London, UK
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Disarmament: Alternative to International Security – Screening of the documentary ‘Peace is Possible’, about the work of HUFUD-Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation. London Thursday 7 March, 7 pm. Event organised by Our Future Now, the Youth Network of Global Justice Now.
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Facts Don’t Interfere with Propaganda Blitz against Venezuela’s Elected President
Joe Emersberger | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
12 Feb 2019 – The Miami Herald (2/8/19) reported, “Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro continues to reject international aid.”“ The “Venezuelan leader” is Venezuela’s elected president. In contrast, it referred to Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s “interim president.” Calling for international aid and being democratically elected will do as little to protect Maduro’s government from US aggression as being disarmed of WMD did to prevent Iraq from being invaded—unless there is much more pushback from the US public against a lethal propaganda system.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
In Vienna, everything that is not explicitly forbidden is permitted.
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Hate-Fest in Warsaw
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – Warsaw, Poland is where the US just staged an anti-Iranian jamboree of 60 client states that brought derision and scorn from Europeans and much of the Mideast. The point of this exercise was an anti-Iranian coalition for an upcoming attack on Iran planned by President Donald Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. It seems to many that the Israeli tail is again wagging the American dog.
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Venezuela False Flag Brewing? Under the Cloak of “the Humanitarian Convoy”
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – The alleged false flag operation is intended to justify “an outside invasion” of Venezuela by one or more foreign powers. The false flag is slated to result in the deaths of civilians.
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Animals, Workers and Consumers Suffer Under USDA Slaughter Programs
Laura Cascada | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
21 Feb 2019 – The Trump administration is letting slaughter plants kill at increasingly dangerous rates, benefiting only the meat industry at the expense of animals, workers and consumers.
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Death of the Author
Alex Watson | Wall Street International - Human Wrongs Watch,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – On Valentine’s Day 2019, the Elon Musk-sponsored artificial intelligence lab OpenAI made a sensational announcement. It has created a groundbreaking AI system, entitled “GP2”, that is stunningly effective at generating prose news stories and fiction. So impressive were its results that the lab felt compelled to take the unusual step of not releasing it immediately, due to fears of malicious use.
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Carl Sagan on Mystery, Why Common Sense Blinds Us to the Universe, and How to Live with the Unknown
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
“We are bathing in mystery and confusion on many subjects, and I think that will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”
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Israel in Gaza
Sabaaneth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Business as usual… and the world indifferent.
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That Cooler Heads May Prevail
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
25 Feb 2019 – When the drums of war start beating, can cooler heads prevail and negotiations in good faith start? Vijay Mehta has written a useful overview of efforts to create a Department of Peace within governments so that there would be an institutionalized official voice proposing other avenues than war. Such proposals are not new.
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How Come the World Is Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?
Andre Vltchek | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
15 Feb 2019 – In Countries Destroyed by the West, People Should Stop Admiring It – It may sound incredible, but it is true: in countries that have been damaged, even totally robbed and destroyed by the West, many people are still enamored with Europe and North America.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
In such a binational situation, the newly created single state could offer homelands to Jews and Palestinians, while finding a name for the new state that is congenial to both peoples. Maybe this will never happen, but it the most sustainable vision of a peaceful future that responds to decades of diplomatic failure, massive Palestinian suffering and abuse, and recognizes the moral authority and political potency of national resistance and global solidarity, a legislative victory by that unacknowledged Parliament of Humanity.
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QE Forever: The Fed’s Dramatic About-face
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
21 Feb 2019 – Loans create deposits, and deposits make up the bulk of the money supply. Money today is created by banks as a debt on their balance sheets, and more is always owed back than was created, since the interest claimed by the banks is not created in the original loan. Debt thus grows faster than the money supply. When overextended borrowers quit taking out the new loans needed to repay old loans, the gap widens even further.
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Israel Denies Young Palestinian Battling Cancer Exit from Gaza for Treatment
Amjad Yaghi - +972 Magazine,
25 Feb 2019
11 Feb 2019 – The medical care Ahlam Abu Musa needs isn’t available through Gaza’s debilitated health system, but the Israeli army has denied all four of her exit requests.
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A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat a US Military Invasion of Venezuela
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
To the People of Venezuela: Recently I wrote an article explaining how you could defeat, using nonviolent strategy, the US coup attempt that is taking place in your country. I would like to complement that article by now briefly explaining how you can also defeat a military invasion by the United States and any collaborating invaders by using a strategy of nonviolent defense as well.
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A Response to Heikki Patomaki: Is the Time Right for a World Political Party?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – My commentary on an essay by Heikki Patomiki, a leading Finnish scholar, where he explores and cautiously advocates a civil society global effort to establish a world political party in a form appropriate to global conditions and with the overriding goal of the enhancement of the individual and collective wellbeing of humanity.
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Local Reality of Overcrowding — Global Unreality of Overpopulation
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
18 Feb 2019 – A set of seemingly disparate issues are curiously entangled — whilst variously upheld as of both local and global significance. Most obvious are the attractions of migration for the desperate and the divisive impact on local communities — possibly framed as invasion or encroachment.
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Saving the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Only immediate climate action can save the future. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world are on the horizon.
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(မြန်မာ -Myanmar Burmese) နယူးေယာက္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ ပထမေန႔
ေက်ာ္ေအာင္လြင္ - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
09 ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ၊ 2019 -႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမူဆလင္အေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေျပာဆိုၾကတဲ့ ၂ ရက္ၾကာေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတခုကို အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ မေန႔ကစၿပီး က်င္းပေနပါတယ္။ ဒီအခန္းအနားကို ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ဆိုင္ရာအထူး ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ မစၥယန္ဟီးလီက ဗီြဒီယိုကတဆင့္အမွာစကားပါးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး အဓိက ထားၿပီး ေျပာဆိုေနၾကတဲ့ ဒီအခန္းအနားက ထူးျခားခ်က္တခ်ိဳ႕ကို ကိုေက်ာ္ေအာင္လြင္က တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။
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(Português) Uma estratégia não violenta para derrotar uma invasão militar dos EUA na Venezuela
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Para o povo da Venezuela: Recentemente eu escrevi um artigo explicando como você poderia derrotar, usando a estratégia não-violenta, a tentativa de golpe dos EUA que está ocorrendo em seu país. Gostaria de complementar esse artigo explicando brevemente como você também pode derrotar uma invasão militar dos Estados Unidos e de qualquer invasor colaborador usando uma estratégia de defesa não-violenta também.
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(Português) Brasil: Sobe para 169 o número de mortes devido a rutura de barragem em Brumadinho
MadreMedia/Lusa | Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
18 fev 2019 – O número de vítimas mortais devido ao colapso de uma barragem de uma mina de ferro no Brasil subiu a 169, enquanto as autoridades prosseguem as buscas para localizar 141 desaparecidos, informou hoje a Defesa Civil de Minas Gerais.
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Juan Guaidó: The Man Who Would Be President of Venezuela Doesn’t Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On
Roger Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Donald Trump imagines Juan Guaidó is the rightful president of Venezuela but he is a product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s regime change trainers. As Alfred de Zayas, UN rapporteur tweeted, “Article 233 of the Venezuelan constitution is inapplicable and cannot be twisted into legitimizing Guaidó’s self-proclamation as interim President. A coup is a coup.”
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
“This is a new era for the future and for prosperity for all the nations” Yusuf bin Alawi, Foreign Minister of Oman, said optimistically in Warsaw at the 13-14 February 2019 Ministerial Conference to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East. The Warsaw Conference may end up as only a “photo opportunity” and for Warsaw to be center stage for a short time, or we may work to have the Warsaw Process be the real start of a new era.
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UN Official Cites Horrific Crimes against Rohingya
Dildar Baykan | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Rohingya children thrown into fire, member of UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar says.
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Enough of Western Interventions: Let the People of Venezuela Decide
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
13 Feb 2019 – The situation in Venezuela is dire, with children reportedly dying as a result of the lack of medicine and food. The country is also gearing up for a US military intervention and possible civil war. Considering that all such tragic predictions have already been witnessed in Iraq, Syria, Libya and elsewhere, South American leaders and the few sensible voices around the world must move to block any further US meddling, and allow the people of Venezuela, through democratic means, to determine their own future.
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Learning Foreign Languages in India
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
India has much diversity — cultural, linguistic, geographic, religious, political and even from the point of cuisine — the food eaten. Linguistically, India has 22 official languages including Hindi and English. Hindi, as well as its many dialects, has the largest number of speakers and English is being widely used in judiciary, parliament, science and technology, education, etc.
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“Largest Land Grab since 1948” — Israel to Expel 36,000 Palestinians from Negev
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
18 Feb 2019
Given the Israeli state’s rejection of their existence, government officials have called the Palestinians living in these villagers “violators” and “squatters” – accusing them of illegally occupying “state lands.”
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Global Cooperation
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
The first advanced civilizations emerged about 6,000 years ago in the Nile, Euphrates and Yellow River valleys when farmers faced problems that they could not solve alone.
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In Venezuela, White Supremacy Is a Key to Trump’s Coup
Greg Palast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
8 Feb 2019 – This is the story of Venezuela in black and white, the story not told in our establishment media. This year’s so-called popular uprising is, at its heart, a furious backlash of the whiter (and wealthier) Venezuelans against their replacement by the larger Mestizo (mixed-race) poor. Four centuries of white supremacy in Venezuela by those who identify their ancestors as European came to an end with the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez who won with the overwhelming support of the Mestizo majority.
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New Class of Intellectuals Must Engage in Building Policy Framework for a New World System
The Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
12 Feb 2019 – Tricontinental Institute for Social Research releases dossier “The New Intellectual,” emphasizing the need to “develop a theory of the future.”
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Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen Remains the Worst in the World, Warns UN
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
14 Feb 2019 – An estimated 24 million people – close to 80 per cent of the population – need assistance and protection in Yemen, the UN warned today. With famine threatening hundreds of thousands of lives, humanitarian aid is increasingly becoming the only lifeline for millions across the country.
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The Godfather
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
The late author William Blum said:
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Deflagging of Refugee Rescue Ship a ‘Dark Moment’ for Europe
Karen McVeigh – The Guardian,
18 Feb 2019
12 Feb 2019 – The deflagging of the Aquarius, the last migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean, represents a “dark moment” in European history, setting a dangerous precedent for states to flout international humanitarian laws.
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An Appeal to Save Gandhi’s Heritage!
Global Harmony Association - TRANSCEND Media Servie,
18 Feb 2019
To recognize 2019 as Gandhi’s international year of nonviolence in honor of Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary on 2 Oct 2019, and promote nonviolence by all nations and institutions.
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Worshipping the Electronic Image
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
17 Feb 2019 – Our post-literate culture has crippled us intellectually and produced a president whose babble replicates the nonsensical diatribes of the age.
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, Fryderyk was the author of two polonaises (in G minor and B flat major), the first being published in the engraving workshop of Father Cybulski. The prodigy was featured in the Warsaw newspapers, and “little Chopin” became the attraction and ornament of receptions given in the aristocratic salons of the capital.
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(Português) Nos Dá Medo Pensar?
Bertrand Russell | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Fora o pensamento! Voltemos aos fantasmas do preconceito, não estejam a propriedade, a moral e a guerra em perigo! É melhor que os seres humanos sejam estúpidos, amorfos e tirânicos, antes que seus pensamentos sejam livres. Posto que se seus pensamentos fossem livres, seguramente não pensariam como nós. E esse desastre deve se evitar a todo custo. Assim argumentam os inimigos do pensamento nas profundezas inconscientes de suas almas. E assim agem as igrejas, escolas e universidades.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
During the French revolution, a doctor, a lawyer and an engineer were sentenced to be beheaded by the guillotine.
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The Cancer of Bankers
Rudo de Ruijter | Court Fool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
In The magic of bankers you have been able to read how bankers create balances for loans with a simple line of bookkeeping. There is no money involved. The money for the balances doesn’t even exist. This extremely lucrative trick incites the bankers to supply as many loans as possible, but there is more. There are specific growth impulses that make it impossible to stop the growth of the outstanding loans. Not even with regulations. This has tremendous consequences for our society.
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Jair Bolsonaro Praised the Genocide of Indigenous People. Now He’s Emboldening Attackers of Brazil’s Amazonian Communities.
Sam Cowie – The Intercept,
18 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – “The Brazilian cavalry was very incompetent. Competent, yes, was the American cavalry that decimated its Indians in the past and nowadays does not have this problem in their country.” That’s the opinion of Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, expressed on the floor of Congress.
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Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message
Marshall McLuhan – Al Jazeera English,
18 Feb 2019
In the 1960s, way before anybody had ever tweeted, Facebook Live-d or sent classified information to WikiLeaks, one man made a series of pronouncements about the changing media landscape. His name was Marshall McLuhan and you’ve probably heard his most quoted line: “The medium is the message”.
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Internet Trolls, Disinformation Agents and Big Vaccine
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
11 Feb 2019 – An internet troll is a person who starts quarrels or tries to upset people on the internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the troll’s amusement or a specific gain. Sociopathic corporations use the technique to manipulate public opinion.
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Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
14 Feb 2019 – I share this tribute to African American female vocalists on Valentine’s Day because they sing and sang of every meaning of love in one way or another: joys, pleasures, struggles, pain, and recovery. Imagine; two centuries of unparalleled talent as individuals and as a group. I have heard many, and many are new to me. Listening to African American Female Vocalists fashioning a song, watching them command presence, and reading about their lives fills me with appreciation and awe.
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India’s Invisible Water Wizard Conquers the World
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Meeanayak’s silent crusade caught international eyes and he was awarded the Energy Globe World Award 2018 in the category ‘Water’ for his innovative development of the twin ring method of rain water harvesting through bore well recharge at the international award ceremony at Yazd in Iran, on 28th January this year.
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Give a Little Bit (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Hodgson | Supertramp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Faroe Islands: What a night! For the first time ever, Roger Hodgson, legendary singer/songwriter and formerly of Supertramp, gave a concert at 4:00AM! Due to multiple plane delays that were out of his control, he arrived extremely late and people were waiting! The show must go on and on it went!
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
If humans are ever to achieve a stable global society in the future, they will have to become much more modest in their economic behavior and much more peaceful in their politics. For both modesty and peace, Gandhi is a useful source of ideas. The problems with which he struggled during his lifetime are extremely relevant to us in the 21st Century, when both nuclear and ecological catastrophes threaten the world.
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(Português) Atriz Brigitte Bardot disputará vaga no Parlamento Europeu para lutar pelos animais
Redação - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
18 Feb 2019
11 fev 2019 – A atriz e ativista pelos direitos animais Brigitte Bardot, de 84 anos, anunciou que irá disputar uma vaga no Parlamento Europeu, nas eleições que serão realizadas em maio deste ano, pelo Partido Animalista, na França. O objetivo dela é usar a representatividade política para lutar pelos animais.
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Burma: The Subaltern in Search of Speech
Radhika Coomaraswamy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
8 Feb 2019 – I would like to thank Mr. Mawng Zarni and his enthusiasm for bringing me here today to discuss one of the most important issues of our lifetime. I speak today as a member of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar set up in March 2017 after large scale attacks on the Rohingya civilian population in Rakhine state by the Burmese Security Forces, or the Tatmadaw.
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(Português) Tolstói: “Enquanto o sangue descia, o açougueiro acendeu o cigarro”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Quando o boi não caiu onde o açougueiro queria, ele gritou: “Maldito diabo!”
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Venezuela Blitz (Part 1): Tyrants Don’t Have Free Elections
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
5 Feb 2019 – A ‘Propaganda Blitz’ is a fast-moving campaign to persuade the public of the need for ‘action’ or ‘intervention’ furthering elite interests. Affecting great moral outrage, corporate media line up to insist that a watershed moment has arrived – something must be done! A classic propaganda blitz was triggered on January 23, when Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself ‘interim President’.
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Denouncing Socialism, Practicing Fascism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
8 Feb 2019 – With Trump the silences are usually as expressive of his intentions as the incoherent dogmas. Indeed, his Second State of the Union Address (delivered in Congress on February 5, 2019) gives a clear insight into the political mentality of tormentor in chief when it comes to the human condition.
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Europe is in Danger! But Why?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
8 Feb 2019 – Now a hue and cry has gone up that Europe is in danger. The continued existence of Europe’s core ideals –of its very essence– is said to be threatened. The occasion of today’s hue and cry is the possibility that the populist far right might sweep the elections of May 2019. I take this opportunity to question what I take to be the conventional wisdom of the official story.
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Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
9 Feb 2019 – Venezuela’s problems are not the result of the government issuing money and using it to hire people to build infrastructure, provide essential services and expand economic development. If it were, unemployment would not be at 33 percent and climbing. Venezuela has a problem the U.S. does not, and will never have: It owes massive debts in a currency it cannot print itself, namely, U.S. dollars. When oil (its principal resource) was booming, Venezuela was able to meet its repayment schedule.
→ read full articleIndia’s Civil Service Needs to Reinvent Itself
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
The New Public Management (NPM) is a paradigm of hybrid administration that calls for the integration of diverse actors in governance. These actors include the state, market, and civil society where the government is strengthening the political line of command through the privatisation of bureaucracy. The LE decision is being presented as a mini-reform considering the government’s disenchantment with the old public administration.
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Revealed: FBI Investigated Civil Rights Group as ‘Terrorism’ Threat and Viewed KKK as Victims
Sam Levin – The Guardian,
11 Feb 2019
Bureau spied on California activists, citing potential ‘conspiracy’ against the ‘rights’ of neo-Nazis.
→ read full articleWarsaw Process toward a Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Middle East
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
On 13-14 February 2019, there is planned The Ministerial Conference to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East called jointly by the U.S.A. and Poland. Not all “players” of the Middle East drama are invited to Warsaw. Iran and Russia as governments were not invited. Non-State actors such as the Palestinians, the Kurds, the Islamic State and a host of armed militias – all of whom play a current role – will be officially absent.
→ read full articleThoughts on Changing Times, Changing Values
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
When a person has crossed seven decades of his life, he often feels he can be a little indiscreet and talk of situations or events in his life which he has not done so before — at least publicly. There are many regrets in one’s life and a few occasions of feeling a sense of satisfaction. In addition there is a sense of unease at the way the world has shaped politically, economically, socially.
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The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Noam Chomsky – Al Jazeera English,
11 Feb 2019
According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: Ownership, Advertising, the Media Elite, Flak, the Common Enemy
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
1er février 2019 – Au cours des derniers mois, deux élections ont eu lieu: en République Démocratique du Congo et au Venezuela.
→ read full article(Português) Dez Mentiras Sobre a Venezuela que pela Repetição se Tornaram Verdade
Katu Arkonada | La Jornada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
5 fev 2019 – A guerra híbrida que vive a Venezuela tem a desinformação e manipulação midiática como uma de suas principais armas de combate. Lemos e escutamos mentiras de analistas que nunca estiveram na Venezuela e as repetem tantas vezes que se convertem em realidade para a opinião pública.
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(Português) “Verdades” que São Imposições: O Caso dos Juros das Grandes Corporações
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opininon Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
29 jan 2019 – Em economia há questões apresentadas como “verdades” indisputáveis que, na realidade, servem para impor interesses e privilégios não defensáveis a céu aberto. Um exemplo é como se veem e se apresentam os juros de grandes corporações, como se obtêm e se distribuem. É crítico explicitar o que estiver encoberto para poder considerar novas opções.
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(Castellano) Aprendiendo de Gandhi
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
Aunque creía que la acción personal era muy importante, Gandhi también era un extraordinario estratega político y sabía que tenemos que hacer algo más que transformar nuestras vidas personales. Tenemos que ofrecer oportunidades que obliguen a otros a considerar hacer lo mismo. Gandhi fue asesinado el 30 de enero de 1948. Pero su legado perdura. Usted también puede aprender de él, si lo desea.
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Disaster Capitalism in Brazil: Mining Greed Produces a Horrific Death Toll
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
7 Feb 2019 – On January 25, 2019, a dam burst in the town of Brumadinho, north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The dam was built by the iron-ore company Vale to store residue after the iron ore had been extracted. Once the dam began to crumble, it did not take long for its 13 million cubic meters of iron waste to sweep down onto the workers and into their town.
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Career War Criminal Elliott Abrams to Lead US on Venezuela
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
11 Feb 2019
4 Feb 2019 – Some say history repeats itself. Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. The January 25 appointment of convicted perjurer Elliott Abrams as the new US Special Envoy on Venezuela is evidence that history just goes on and on and on with ironic cruelty and relentless injustice. That would be especially true if you happen to have the world’s largest proven oil reserve, as Venezuela does.
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(Português) Por que o Irã está oprimindo cães e seus tutores?
Stanley Coren, Ph.D | Psychology Today - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
11 Feb 2019
4 fev 2019 – Uma série de notícias me chamou a atenção na semana passada, uma vez que indicam crescente hostilidade em relação aos tutores de cães domésticos no Irã. Ela pode ser motivada pela política e não pela religião.
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Julian Assange Is Dying in Darkness while the Washington Post Pats Itself on the Back
Adam Garrie | Eurasia Future – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
5 Feb 2019 – During Sunday’s Super Bowl, viewers witnessed the debut of an advertisement for the Washington Post. The Tom Hanks narrated advertisement paid tribute to Saudi born journalist Jamal Khashoggi. But when it comes to journalists being harmed inside the consulates or embassies of foreign nations, there is one incredibly brave journalist, publisher and peace activist who continues to rot inside the tiny chambers of Ecuador’s Embassy in London: Julian Assange.
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Norway Killing Whales to Feed Animals on Fur Farms
EcoHustler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
Animal welfare nightmare – with no demand for the meat, the Norwegian government has a horrific and perverse way of maintaining its cruel and unnecessary hunts
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