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India’s Civil Service Needs to Reinvent Itself
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

28 Jun 2018 – The Indian Civil Service represents the crème de la crème of the country’s university graduates who form the backbone of the country’s administration. “The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.” — Brooks Atkinson

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Eight Ethical Questions about Exploring Outer Space That Need Answers
Benjamin Sachs – The Conversation, 2 Jul 2018

27 Jun 2018 – Valuing space: Should we care about the universe beyond how it affects us as humans? That is the big question – call it question #1 of extraterrestrial environmental ethics, a field too many people have ignored for too long. I’m one of a group of researchers at the University of St Andrews trying to change that.

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Walk or Die: Algeria Abandons 13,000 Refugees in the Sahara
Al Jazeera News– TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Associated Press report details witness accounts of migrants and refugees from Africa left to die in the Sahara Desert.

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Hermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Rebellion against established structures, the quest for personal values and a religious impulse are all elements in Siddhartha, published in 1922, perhaps his most widely-read book. It is not clear that Hesse found the harmony of enlightenment in his own life. In his last major work The Glass Bead Game (1943) he describes what might be an ideal Buddhist monastery devoted to the discovery, preservation and dissemination of knowledge.

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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi’s Lies, Distortions Hinder International Accountability
Dr. Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

24 Jun 2018 – Myanmar’s leader is at it again: using her Office’s Facebook, she is peddling lies that are easily exposed. Her growing list of provable distortions and denials must not go unchallenged.

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Trump & Human Rights
Latuff – MintPress News, 2 Jul 2018

Of course…

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Thomson Reuters Defends Its Work for ICE, Providing “Identification and Location of Aliens”
Sam Biddle – The Intercept, 2 Jul 2018

27 Jun 2018 – The company is under pressure from Privacy International for its nearly $30 million in ICE contracts via two subsidiaries. The spokesperson declined to comment on whether Thomson Reuters would pursue further business with an agency involved in separating children from their parents.

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Violence in Nicaragua: US-Orchestrated Coup Attempt?
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

19 Jun 2018 – The pattern is familiar. Ongoing violence in Nicaragua has the earmarks of another US-staged color revolution attempt. Dirty US imperial hands operate everywhere, sovereign independent states their prime targets, wanting governments not subservient to US interests forcefully toppled, pro-Western puppet regimes replacing them.

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Patrice Lumumba (2 Jul 1925 – 17 Jan 1961)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Lumumba was a man of strong character who intended to pursue his policies regardless of the enemies he made within his country or abroad. Because of its wealth, size, and proximity to white-dominated southern Africa, Lumumba’s opponents feared the consequences of a radicalized Congo. Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.

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Little Panic: A Literary Laboratory Exploring What It Is Like to Live in the Stranglehold of Anxiety and What It Takes to Break Free
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

“This terrible truth binds us all: fear there’s a single, unattainable, correct way to be human.”

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Giuseppe Garibaldi (4 Jul 1807 – 2 Jun 1882): Godfather of Transnational Democratic Politics
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice, now France, often called the hero of two worlds because of his efforts for independence in Latin America and then Europe, is in many ways inventor of transnational democratic politics.

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From America’s War on Poverty to a War on the Poor
Anna Roth – East Bay Times, 2 Jul 2018

27 Jun 2018 – Fifty years ago, President Johnson waged an ambitious war on poverty. Today, the government has shifted priorities. For our leaders to dismiss one-fifth of Americans as a drag on the economy is egregious and irresponsible. These are hard-working, contributing people, subject to an economic system that creates a chasm between the haves and have-nots.

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Peace as the Business of the Future
Sawssan Abou-Zahr | Peace Insight – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

21 Jun 2018 – “The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World without War” was written by Scilla Elworthy, the founder of Peace Direct. It is “for those who feel powerless in the face of what they see in the news, for those who want to step out of helplessness and find out how they can apply their personal skills to do something about the challenges facing us”. It offers a roadmap to building peace with ourselves and with others, though it is intended for a bigger picture, one of peace among nations and within them.

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Why Is Macedonia Changing Its Name?
Dimitar Bechev – Al Jazeera, 2 Jul 2018

A resolution of the Macedonia name dispute is the good news the Balkans badly needed.

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Myanmar/UN Memorandum of Understanding on Rohingya Repatriation
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Secret MOU endorsed by UN Secretary General putting Myanmar wolves in charge of Rohingya chickens. This document belongs to 1 million Rohingyas. CIRCULATE it wide and far. Study it closely. Write about it publicly.

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Migration Crisis Is One of Mismanagement: The Figures
Nikolaj Nielsen and Damiano Bacci | EUobserver - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

The article gives the basic data on people trying to enter the EU over the last few years and the very marked decrease in the number of those who come over the Mediterranean. The peak point was the latter half of 2015 when about 1,2 million sought asylum in Europe having fled, it should be remembered, predominantly from countries ravaged by Western NATO/EU members’ military interventions.

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Heroism
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

An oil well caught fire.

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Waiting as an Experience of Fundamental Significance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

2 Jul 2018 – Commentary on Web Resources on Types of Waiting and Anticipation – It could be readily assumed that waiting is an incidental process, experienced by all in some way, but incidental to the reality of meaningful life in any society.

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Facts about What Is Happening in Nicaragua and a Challenge to “Left Intellectuals”
Jorge Capelán | Correo de Nicaragua - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

1 Jun 2018 – Author and Editor’s Note: The following text was originally written to counteract a propaganda campaign launched in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavian countries by toxic soft coup operators against the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua. Until very recently, Nicaragua was an exemplary country in Central America, one of the most violent regions in the world.

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Time for Accountability in Burma/Myanmar: Military Responsibility for Crimes against Humanity in Rakhine State
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

27 Jun 2018 – Soldiers killed women, men, and children; raped and committed other sexual violence against women and girls; hauled men and boys to detention sites, where they tortured them; and burned homes, shops, and mosques across several hundred villages. The report examines in detail the military’s atrocities, which amount to crimes against humanity under international law.

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A New Data Breach May Have Exposed Personal Information of Almost Every American Adult
Mike Murphy, Editor | Market Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Wired reported Wednesday [27 Jun] that Exactis, a Palm Coast, Fla.-based marketing and data-aggregation company, had exposed a database containing almost 2 terabytes of data, containing nearly 340 million individual records, on a public server. That included records of 230 million consumers and 110 million businesses.

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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: Awaiting Good Faith
Robert F. Dodge, MD | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

50 years ago on July 1, 1968 the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed. This landmark nuclear arms control treaty brought the world’s nuclear powers together with the ultimate goal of eliminating nuclear weapons by engaging in good faith efforts toward that end. Unfortunately, there was no enforcement mechanism.

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Franz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.

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Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee Brings UN Human Rights Council Up to Date on Human Rights in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

27 Jun 2018 – Mr. President, I note the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently signed between the Myanmar Government, UNHCR and UNDP in early June to assist the process of repatriation from Bangladesh. It is disconcerting that the MoU remains not publicly available and there has not been transparency about its terms. I am dismayed about the fact that the parties to the MoU, including the United Nations agencies involved in this process, have apparently failed to recognise Rohingya living in Bangladesh as refugees and as Rohingya. Most frightful still is the fact that the Rohingya refugees have not been included in any of the discussions around this MoU nor consulted in relation to the repatriation process as a whole. I would like to ask your Excellencies, how can the process of repatriation be voluntary with the people who the process is for excluded from it? How can you be sure that any return is based on individual informed consent? Let’s stop for a moment and ask ourselves what “voluntary, dignified, safe, and sustainable” returns really mean, and whether that is achievable in the current framework.

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Moscow Nights – Podmoskovnye Vechera (Music Video of the Week)
Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

We salute Russia for a wonderful Football World Cup.
Red Square Concert – The Russian Classic best known outside the country.

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Are al-Qaeda Affiliates Fighting Alongside U.S. Rebels in Syria’s South?
Sharmine Narwani – The American Conservative, 2 Jul 2018

25 Jun 2018 –Russian-brokered reconciliation talks in southern Syria fell apart when Western-backed militants rejected a negotiated peace. Al-Qaeda’s Syrian franchise—the Nusra Front—appears to be deeply entrenched alongside these U.S.-backed militants in key, strategic towns and villages scattered throughout the south. If forced to choose, Israel prefers the presence of terrorist groups to Iranian influence.

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Johan Galtung on Present Russia/Norway Conflict
Synöve Faldalen | Arctic Meeting Point – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Peace Seminar organized by Arctic Meeting Point in Tromsø, Norway on 12 Apr 2018. Interview conducted by Synöve Faldalen, director of SABONA-TRANSCEND in Daily Life, a Conflict Resolution method for school children conceived by Johan Galtung.

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Deepwater Horizon Disaster Altered Building Blocks of Ocean Life
Oliver Milman – The Guardian, 2 Jul 2018

28 Jun 2018 – The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster may have had a lasting impact upon even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found – amid warnings that the oceans around America are also under fresh assault as a result of environmental policies under Donald Trump.

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AI-Supported Global Governance through Bottom-Up Deliberation
Soushiant Zanganehpour | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Introducing new technologies and institutions in order to decentralize global governance to participatory and deliberative models. Recognizing the limitations of nation-states in creating solutions to adequately govern global commons, which are often perceived as counter-productive to national interests, this proposal suggests combining a blockchain based global identity system with an AI-based collaboration platform to fuel citizen collaboration and ideation around policies and budget suggestions, as the entry point for decentralized citizen participation in governance.

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The End of Globalization
Paul Mason – New Statesman, 2 Jul 2018

28 Jun 2018 – Trump and the dangerous new era of trade and tech wars. The Trump administration intends to paralyse the rules-based trade system and construct an alternative order with itself at the centre, as the great borrower and consumer on unequal terms. And such is the support for protectionism and economic nationalism among the US middle class, it is hard to see a future president reversing the direction of trade policy.

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(Português) A Língua Portuguesa
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

A língua portuguesa vai além: SER ou ESTAR para o BEM

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‘Space Force’: Trump Orders New Branch of US Military
David Smith – The Guardian, 25 Jun 2018

Trump claims plan will keep US ahead in space race, prompting fears over militarisation of space. We must have American dominance in space, he says.

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The U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

22 Jun 2018 – By purporting to punish the Human Rights Council, the Trump presidency, representing the U.S. Government, is much more punishing itself, as well as the peoples of the world. We all benefit from a robust and legitimated institutional framework for the promotion and protection of vital human rights. The claim of an anti-Israeli bias in the HRC, or UN, is bogus, the daily violation of the most basic rights of the Palestinian people is a tragic reality.

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Hungering for Nuclear Disarmament
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

19 June 2018 – In the state of Georgia’s Glynn County Detention Center, four activists await trial stemming from their nonviolent action, on April 4, 2018, at the Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay. In all, seven Catholic plowshares activists acted that day, aiming to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares.” This week, five people have gathered for a fast and vigil, near the Naval Base, calling it “Hunger for Nuclear Disarmament.”

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Could “Tough Love” Salvage Lebanon?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

22 Jun 2018 – Increasingly these days on Beirut’s streets of Hamra and across much of Lebanon one hears a Sanskrit like mantra that: “Lebanon was never a real country, it is not now a real country and will not be a real country during the lifetimes of its current citizenry.” It’s become a bit of a truism worth some contemplation… The observer avers that salvaging Lebanon is worth a try. But time is running short.

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“They’re Different from Us”: The Profiteers of Prejudice
Roy Eidelson | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

18 Jun 2018 – The 1% could use their influence to challenge bigotry. Too often they don’t. If we want to focus on the kind of differences that truly matter, we should turn our attention to the striking divergences between the documented policy preferences of the 1% compared to the rest of us.

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Slow Suicide and the Abandonment of the World
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

21 Jun 2018 – I believe the story has it that when he was in jail for refusing the poll tax that supported slavery and the Mexican-American war, Thoreau was visited by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, who asked him, “Henry, what are you doing in there?” To which Thoreau responded, “Ralph, what are you doing out there?” Today, however, most folks don’t realize that being outside their cells is being in them, and such imprisonment is far from principled. That’s not a text message they’re likely to receive.

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Group of 7 Dwarfs: Future-blind and Warning-deaf
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

Self-Righteous Immoral Imperative Enabling Future Human Sacrifice – Produced on the occasion of the Informal “mini-summit” on migration and asylum convened by the European Commission in anticipation of a meeting of the European Council to discuss migration issues (June 2018)

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The Multidimensional USA
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

The history of USA begins from the rebellion against the British in 1775 which culminated in the declaration of full independence of 13 states on July 4, 1776.

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How a Mumbai Couple Is Transforming Lives of the Other 90%
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Servivce, 25 Jun 2018

21 Jun 2018 – When you flick back through history, you will find that a burst of creativity occurs when people start believing that the search for solutions to complex problems has come to an end. This explosion is fate’s way of reminding us that there is always something just over the curve of innovation.

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Open Letter to Amnesty International by a Former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience
Camilo E. Mejia | International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity to the Peoples – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

13 Jun 2018 – Through this letter I express my unequivocal condemnation of Amnesty International with regards to the destabilizing role it has played in Nicaragua, my country of birth. Camilo E. Mejia, Iraq war veteran, resister, and conscientious objector (2003-2004). Amnesty International prisoner of conscience (June 2004). Born in Nicaragua, citizen of the world.

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So We’re Gonna Pretend These Refugees Aren’t a Result of Our Actions in Central America?
Patience John | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

Just a bit of denial that our government’s actions in the home countries of these refugees did not create the current situation? We created these huddled masses, now we refuse to let them breath free. Take a look at the map:

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Trump Is Here to Stay and Change the World
Roberto Savio | Human Wrongs Watch – Other News, 25 Jun 2018

18 Jun 2018 – Donald John Trump, 45th and current president of the United States, has been seen in many illustrious circles as an anomaly that cannot last. Well, it is time to look at reality… This is not new in history. Hitler and Mussolini were at first elected, and today many “men of providence” are lining up.

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Ignorance about Man, the Only Reason; Universal Peace Education, the Only Prevention of Torture
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

On UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June

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Norman Cousins (24 Jun 1915 – 30 Nov 1990): A Pioneer of Track II Diplomacy
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

Track I is official government to government diplomacy among instructed representative of the State. Track II is a non-official effort, usually by a non-governmental organization or an academic institution. Track II talks are discussions held by non-officials of conflicting parties in an attempt to clarify outstanding disputes and to explore the options for resolving them in settings that are less public or less sensitive than those associated with official negotiations.

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North Korea: What Price Peace?
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

19 Jun 2018 – The United States foreign policy is one of perpetual war. Where its soldiers are not on the ground, proxy armies are used to destabilise countries, as in Libya and Syria. To be wholeheartedly optimistic about Korea is difficult, if not impossible especially when NATO military forces are building up along the Russia-Europe border, replete with military exercises which grow in intensity with every passing year.

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Standing with Rohingya Women
Nobel Women's Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

20 Jun 2018 – This five minute film follows our delegation to Bangladesh with Nobel Peace Laureates Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi, and Mairead Maguire who visited the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar to investigate the violence against Rohingya women— including high levels of sexual violence.

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UN Chief Calls for ‘Solidarity, Compassion and Action’ on World Refugee Day
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

20 Jun 2018 – With more than 68 million people worldwide displaced due to conflict or persecution — roughly equivalent to the population of Thailand— the head of the United Nations has called for unity and solidarity as a first step to support them.

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We Are the World, We Are the Children (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

A Constellation of Stars Singing Michael Jackson’s Classic

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Rohingya People and Ethnic Cleansing
Mohammed Rafique – The Irish Times, 25 Jun 2018

21 Jun 2018 – We have been expelled from our country. We are the victims of major human rights abuses. We have been stripped of our nationality. The government of Myanmar, under the directorship of Aung San Suu Kyi, is attempting to obliterate us through what the UN has referred to as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”.

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Free Julian Assange!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

We owe Julian Assange our deepest thanks for his courage and being prepared to tell the truth even at risk of his own liberty and life. We can all, especially the media, and governments, refuse to be silent in face of such injustice and persecution of a man whose only crime was telling the truth to stop the wars and save lives.

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Antoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

Saint Ex for the style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. There is no indication that he had read Gibran in Saint Ex’s period in New York. It is more likely that both writers shared a common outlook on life.

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Reflections on the Donald Trump/Kim Jong-un Singapore Summit
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Peace Studies Prof. Lee Jae-bong – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

Interview with Lee Jae-bong, Professor of Peace Studies at Wonkwang University, South Korea, in the early afternoon of June 12, 2018 while the United States-North Korean Summit was taking place in Singapore.

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UN Envoy to Myanmar: Perpetrators of Rohingya Attacks Must Be Held Accountable
AFP – The Daily Mail, 25 Jun 2018

21 Jun 2018 – The new UN envoy for Myanmar told authorities in Naypyidaw during her first visit that credible measures were needed to establish accountability for the violence that engulfed Rakhine state and drove 700,000 Rohingya from their homes, a UN statement said today.

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Roseanne, Racism, and the Problem of False Dichotomies
Richard Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

It is difficult to talk sensibly and accurately about the role of racism and xenophobia in Trumpland… Rosa Luxemburg was right. A century after her death, the choice that confronts us still is “Socialism or Barbarism.”

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Blood Sutra: Whatever Happened to Buddhism, Religion of Peace and Compassion?
Paul Fuller – South China Morning Post, 25 Jun 2018

The emergence of radical groups like the MaBaTha that promote a Buddhism based on racial and national identity is fuelling violence across the region.

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Yemen
Latuff – MintPress News, 25 Jun 2018

Advancing American/Saudi Interests in the Region

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The PROJECT 100 Years of Peace (1918-2018/19)
Angela Dogliotti Marasso – Centro Studi Sereno Regis, 25 Jun 2018

Ideas, Actions and Lives to Build Up Peace – For years here at the Centro Studi Sereno Regis we have felt the need for a new narration: human history, which from elementary school to university is told as a series of wars, has actually flourished and been built in times of peace too. This project invites to look at history in a different way. It tells a History not yet told and offers new horizons.

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Stop the Wars to End the Refugee Crisis
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

19 Jun 2018 – European politicians should confront the question honestly: what are the reasons for millions of people leaving their homes? They must then fashion equally honest and humane solutions. Put simply, they need to stop the wars to end the refugee crisis. Look at the facts.

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Two Souls
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

“As long as in the heart, within, a Jewish soul is yearning…” thus starts the official translation of Israel’s national anthem. But is there a Jewish Soul? Is it different from the souls of other people? And if so, what is the difference?

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Never Call Kim Jong Un Crazy Again
Stephen M. Walt – Foreign Policy, 25 Jun 2018

After the Singapore summit, it isn’t just wrong to say the North Korean leader is irrational — it’s dangerous.

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Thousands of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips into Themselves – Here’s Why
Moa Petersén – The Conversation, 25 Jun 2018

20 Jun 2018 – For many people, the idea of carrying a microchip in their body feels more dystopian than practical. This phenomenon reflects Sweden’s unique biohacking scene. If you look underneath the surface, Sweden’s love affair with all things digital goes much deeper than these microchips.

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Nobel Peace Laureate Suu Kyi Says Outside Hate Narratives Driving Myanmar Tension
The Associated Press – The New York Times, 25 Jun 2018

21 Jun 2018 — Myanmar’s security forces have been accused of rape, killing, torture and the burning of Rohingya homes. The UN and the USA have described the army crackdown as “ethnic cleansing.” The government has denied the accusations. Rohingya Muslims have long been denied citizenship and other basic rights in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.

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UN and the Four-Word Mantra for Myanmar Genocide Survivors
Maung Zarni – Prothom Alo [Bangladesh], 25 Jun 2018

19 Jun 2018 – “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind,” George Orwell observed, in the middle of the 20th century. Let’s take a look at the four adjectives that have come to be the pillars of UN policy mantra.

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Status
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

When relations between the Soviet Union and China soured in the early 1960s, Khrushchev met Chu En Lai and told him,

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Over 10,000 Migrant Children Are Now in US Government Custody at 100 Shelters in 14 States
Michelle Mark – Business Insider, 25 Jun 2018

The policy means that migrant parents who cross the border with their children are forcibly separated while they await criminal prosecution.

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Ali Is on the Grill!’ Israeli Settlers Celebrate Burning of Palestinian Baby
Jonathan Ofir | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

21 Jun 2018 – There’s something particularly disturbing about celebrating the burning alive of a baby. This is precisely what Israeli Jewish settlers were doing yesterday, outside the court in Lod. “’Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill!” they chanted, in reference to the 18-month old baby Ali Dawbsheh, who was burnt alive by Jewish terrorists in the West Bank town of Duma.

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A Plea to TMS Readers
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

Dear TMS Readers, our dear friend, brother, colleague, and compañero, Antonio C. S. Rosa, has for many years given selflessly and generously of his time–many many hours every single week–to put together this valuable and highly informative collection of articles and commentary that you can’t find elsewhere. His expenses are minimal but they are real. if you value this resource, please take a moment to donate now, whatever you can spare, and the more of you who give a small amount the greater the collective participation in this peace-building enterprise. Now’s the time to show solidarity not only by sharing ideas but also by sharing the modest means required to keep the TMS platform alive!

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George Orwell (25 Jun 1903 – 21 Jan 1950)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

George Orwell was a novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.

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Danilo Dolci (28 Jun 1924 – 30 Dec 1997)
EDDILI – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

Danilo Dolci was son of a devout Slav mother and a sceptical Italian father. He originally studied architecture in Rome, Milan, Switzerland, and also trained as an engineer. On Dec 30, 1997 Danilo Dolci “the Sicilian Ghandi”, winner of the Lenin peace prize (despite being explicitly catholic, non-communist), and twice a nominee for the Nobel peace prize, died at the age of seventy-three, of heart failure.

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21st Century Fascism: Trump Style (Part 1)
Steven Jonas | OpEdNews – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

Just because there are elections and an elected government, don’t think that there cannot be fascism. One needs only to look at the Nazi German example.

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Helen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.

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Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2018

How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love. One of the most basic beliefs we carry about ourselves has to do with how we view and inhabit what we consider to be our personality. The consequences of believing that intelligence and personality can be developed rather than being immutably ingrained traits are remarkable

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Trump Administration Pulls US out of UN Human Rights Council
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

19 Jun 2018 – The United States announced today it was leaving the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it “an organization that is not worthy of its name.” It was the latest withdrawal by the Trump administration from an international institution.

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(Italiano) A Bordo dell’Aquarius c’è Anche Paolo di Tarso
Rosanna Virgili | Viandante – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

13 giugno 2018 – Il Cardinal Bassetti qualche giorno fa a Roma ha chiesto espressamente ai cattolici di non aver paura di occuparsi di politica, anzi, di impegnarsi con sentimenti di carità e con spirito di servizio in questo compito moralmente ineludibile per loro.

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Why TMS Weekly Digest was delivered 2 days later this week
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

TMS came out late this week for two reasons:

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“Agricultural Terrorism” and the “Right of Retaliation”
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

A path of change is not an easy thing to do, but it is possible with patience, persistence and strong follow-up. Besides struggling in the academic and the conceptual levels. It is required that instead of focusing solely on the top down internationalization through diplomacy, other option will need to focus on bottom up processes of comprehensive non violent struggle.

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UN General Assembly Adopts Text Urging Greater Protection for Palestinians and Deploring Israel’s ‘Excessive’ Use of Force
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

13 Jun 2018 – In an emergency meeting today the UNGA adopted an Arab-sponsored resolution calling for greater protection for Palestinians and deploring any use of “excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate” force by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians, particularly in Gaza.

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Time Is Running Out
Prof. Peter Asaro | Campaign to Stop Killer Robots - Yahoo! News, 20 Jun 2018

The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Weapons

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Trump and Jong-un, USA-North Korea, War and Peace: A Gandhian Phase in International Politics
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

13 Jun 2018 – Mahatma Gandhi must be turning in his grave, smiling. It is the Gandhian spirit that worked a sort of miracle in Singapore! Gandhi rightly said, ‘there is no path to peace, peace is the path.’ It is only in peaceful environment that positive peace can be realized.

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Appeasement as Global Policy
James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

The world is riven with class conflicts in Latin America, political conflicts between the Anglo-Americans and Russians, and economic conflicts between Washington against Europe and Asia. The conflicts have called into question the capacity of ruling elites to promote growth, to secure international stability and to foster global as co-operation.

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India’s First Urban Women Collective’s Long Road to Empowerment
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

I vividly remember my moment of epiphany. It was a balmy afternoon in early 1996 in Warora, a small township in northern Maharashtra. I was posted as a manager of the local branch of my bank, the State Bank of India.

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China’s Spiritual and Political Relationship with India
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

China and India have had a long and enduring relationship for centuries. The interaction between the two was both economic and spiritual in nature through the spirit of Buddhism. More recently the relationship has taken a political and military colour especially after the 1962 attack by China on India and the relationship has become sour due to military, economic and political factors.

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The Siamese Twins
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

16 Jun 2018 – After commenting on most of the episodes on the first Israeli Prime Ministers in Raviv Drucker’s TV series “The Captains”, I must come back to the one whose episode I have not yet covered: Yitzhak Rabin.

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‘True’ Peace Requires Standing Up for Human Rights, Says UN Chief Guterres
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

13 June 2018 – Achieving peace involves more than “laying down weapons”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said today, calling for intensified efforts to address the root causes of conflict.

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Authorship
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

During the German occupation of France, a German soldier entered Picasso’s studio and saw a small reproduction of his painting “Guernica”.

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Acculturation and Human Relationships: Essential Encounters of “Cultural Constructions of Reality”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

Acculturation is the key to understanding the dynamics and consequences of all human relationships. Acculturation, is in my opinion the most important “concept” for understanding the nature, meaning, and outcome of human being encounters and interactions, and perhaps, in a way yet to be determined, also for animal species.

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Psychiatric Drugs for Kids—A Big Pharma Revenue Stream
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

Millions of children who were once just considered too active are now diagnosed with ADHD, conduct disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, mixed manias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, pervasive development disorders, irritability, aggression and personality disorders and given drugs. Children who were once considered shy or moody are now diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, mood disorders, social phobia, anxiety, borderline disorders, assorted “spectrum” disorders and even schizophrenia.

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(Português) Justine Butler: “Por que o leite é uma questão feminista”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

“Ficamos indignadas com histórias de estupro e gravidez forçada, mas essas são práticas comuns na moderna pecuária leiteira”

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Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Raping, Torturing and Killing our Children
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

Let me illustrate and explain the nature and extent of this secret war and what we can do about it. .. We can acknowledge the painful truth that we inflict enormous violence on our children (which then manifests in a myriad complex ways) and respond powerfully to that truth. Or we can keep deluding ourselves and continue to observe, powerlessly, as the violence in our world proliferates until human beings are extinct.

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Scapegoating Iran
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

The wars in the Middle East are the worst strategic blunders in American history. But don’t expect U.S. politicians and generals to accept responsibility for the mess when they can blame it on Iran.

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Yemen: Understanding the Conflict
Kelly McFarland – The Conversation, 20 Jun 2018

Yemen’s civil war is a stew of local and foreign interests, from Washington, Saudi Arabia to Iran. And the latest battle may cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians, if not millions.

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The Great March of Return: The Gaza Sniper Massacre
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

10 Jun 2018 – The Gaza Sniper Massacre in response to the Great Return March is one more milestone in Palestinian resistance and yet another frightening episode in the Israeli apartheid narrative of cruel and excessive violence, a shameful sequel of crimes for which there exists no adjudicative tribunal available to the victimized party to pursue justice.

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Trump Vows to End “Provocative” War Games on Korean Peninsula after Historic Summit with Kim Jong-un
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have wrapped up a historic summit pledging to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, with President Trump announcing the end of U.S.-South Korean war games. The summit marked the first-ever meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.

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Scoring Goals for Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

On the Occasion of 2018 Football World Cup in Russia

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Morbid Researchers Imagine a ‘Best-Case Scenario’ for Nuclear War, and the Results Are Grim
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

13 Jun 2018 – New research published today in the peer-reviewed journal Safety suggests no nation should possess more than 100 nuclear warheads. This is the maximum number, beyond which the blowback from a nuclear strike will affect the aggressor nation in the form of environmental, socioeconomic, and agricultural devastation, in addition to serious losses of life at home—even in the event the enemy doesn’t retaliate with its own nuclear missile strike.

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The International Community Should Not Stand by as Israel Abuses Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

13 Jun 2018 – What is taking place in Palestine is not a ‘conflict’. We readily utilize the term but, in fact, the word ‘conflict’ is misleading. It equates oppressed Palestinians with Israel, a military power that stands in violation of numerous United Nations Resolutions.

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Affirming the Normative Imagination (up to a point!)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

16 Jun 2018 – This little essay is but a sketch drawn to help me address the often questionable enterprise of a memoir, presented as a sort of reflective selfie to invoke an idiom of our age. I would benefit from comments and criticisms, and promise on my part to listen attentively.

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Quotable Quotes about Psychiatric Pseudoscience
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

“While there has been “no shortage of alleged biochemical explanations for psychiatric conditions…not one has been proven. Quite the contrary. In every instance where such an imbalance was thought to have been found, it was later proven false … No claim for a gene for a psychiatric condition has stood the test of time, in spite of popular misinformation.” — Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, US psychiatrist, Harvard University Medical School and author of “Prozac Backlash”

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A Mile in Their Shoes
Kathy Kelly - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018

This past Friday [8 Jun 2018], Hazara girls joined young Pashto boys to sing Afghanistan’s national anthem as a welcome to Pashto men walking 400 miles from Helmand to Kabul calling on warring parties in Afghanistan to end the war. At rest stops, they must tend to their torn and blistered feet.

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