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The New Abnormal
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
“Mass shootings and mass burnings. Welcome to the new America.” Gunfire and wildfire. This is a country at war with itself in multiple ways.
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(Italiano) “Nessuno si mise davanti a quei camion” ricorda Liliana Segre
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
La Memoria rende liberi. Contributo per la promozione del Convegno 1938-2018 Ottant’anni dalla promulgazione delle leggi razziali. La difesa della razza e la costruzione del nemico. Firenze 20 novembre 2018
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UNICEF Welcomes Bangladesh Statement That Rohingya Will Not Be Forced to Leave
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on Friday, 16 Nov, welcomed confirmation from the Bangladesh authorities that Rohingya refugees will not be returned to Myanmar against their will, amid reported ongoing rights violations there.
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Thanksgiving Revisited
TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Happy Thanksgiving
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Argentina Goes Back to the IMF, Opening Floodgates for Neoliberal Intervention and Structural Adjustment
Tricontinental Institute for Social Research –TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
13 Nov 2018 – The negotiations with the IMF deepened Argentina’s crisis. The agreements between Macri and the IMF are part of a political intervention masquerading as economic policy. As long as there is a commitment to repay the massive debt to the IMF, it is international capital that will write Argentina’s economic policies—not the people—regardless of who sits in the presidential office.
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Memorial Prose Poem
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (29 May 1917 – 22 Nov 1963)
Remembering JFK: Voices from a Smoldering Grave . . .
Confucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.
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(Italiano) Un mondo senza uccisioni del (l’Impero) USA?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
9 novembre 2018 – Un mondo senza uccisioni US sarebbe un grosso contributo a una pace negativa, al “mondo non omicida” di Glenn Paige; il suo paese, con o senza pena di morte, che smette di uccidere ovunque capiti. Sta arrivando. E in quanto a US e una pace positiva? Potrebbero meno uccisioni US contribuire anche a quello? Anche ciò è in arrivo, come mutamento della mentalità US.
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Statement by UN High Commissioner for Refugees on the Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees to Myanmar
UNHCR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
11 Nov 2018 – Before making a choice of whether to return or not, the refugees reportedly verified by Myanmar as having the right to return should be allowed to visit their places of origin in Rakhine State, or other places to which they might choose to return, so that they themselves can make an independent assessment of whether they feel they can return there in safety and dignity.
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(Italiano) Trascendere le regressioni nell’ordine mondiale
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
“In contrasto con i poteri governativo ed economico — del Principe e del Mercante — c’è un potere immediato e autonomo, talora evidente, talaltra latente: quello della gente. Alcuni ne sviluppano consapevolezza, si associano e agiscono con altri, divenendo così davvero cittadini. Essi e le loro associazioni, quando non cerchino il potere governativo o quello economico, costituiscono il Terzo Sistema”.
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(Français) Le silence des ONG et de l’ONU face au génocide au Yémen
Benallal Mohamed | Alter Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Les arabo-sionistes abandonnent la Palestine pour en finir avec l’axe de la résistance.
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Veterans Day Reflection from 50 Years Ago
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
11 Nov 2018 – Looking back 50 years ago today, I learned two valuable lessons in nonviolence. In Nov 1968, I was teaching at St. Francis School in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. On Veterans Day, two other teachers and myself decided to picket the local Draft Board in protest of the escalating war in Vietnam. We made two strategic mistakes that day:
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42 NGOs Warn That Return of Refugees to Myanmar Now Would Be Dangerous and Premature
ReliefWeb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
9 Nov 2018 – Humanitarian and civil society agencies working in Rakhine State in Myanmar and in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are deeply concerned that the repatriation of refugees will commence in mid-November. The UN has repeatedly stated that conditions in Myanmar are not conducive to return at this time. Refugees continue to flee Myanmar and facilitating repatriation now would be premature.
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Myanmar: UN Human Rights Expert Pleads for Rohingya Returns to Stop, Fears Repeat Abuses May Await
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
6 Nov 2018 – A UN human rights expert has implored Bangladesh to shelve plans to start repatriating Rohingya refugees to Rakhine State this month, saying the Myanmar Government had failed to provide guarantees they would not suffer the same persecution and horrific violence all over again.
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Concentration Camps for Kids: An Open Letter
Alberto Manguel, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, et al. | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
6 Nov 2018 – In Texas, in rows of yellow tents, some 1,600 children ages thirteen to seventeen forcefully taken from their families sleep in lined-up bunks. This generation will be remembered for having allowed for concentration camps for children to be built on “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” This is happening here and now, but not in our names.
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Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon Is Elected the Best Album of All Time
Best Musics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) was voted the best album of all time by Classic Rock readers.
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Swan Lake (Music Video of the Week)
Tchaikovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Princess Odette and her companions have been turned into swans by the evil magician Baron von Rothbart. At night they change back to human form. Prince Siegfried meets Odette at the Lake and is captivated by her. She explains he must swear his undying love to break the spell. He is tricked by the Baron and the spell is now permanent. In the final act they decide to die together. The last minute is precious.
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Dozens of Rohingya Flee Camps by Boat, Reviving Memories of 2015 Tragedy
Ruma Paul and Poppy McPherson | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
8 Nov 2018 – Dozens of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Bangladesh have boarded boats to try to reach Malaysia, officials and aid workers said today, raising fears of a fresh wave of such dangerous voyages after a 2015 crackdown on people smugglers.
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Stop Saying ‘Migrant Caravan’: They’re Asylum Seekers Escaping a Conflict That the US Created
Kelli Korducki | Yahoo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
There is no migrant crisis. There is, however, a refugee crisis. That crisis is the effect of at least a half-century (and, arguably, twice that) of calamitous US political intervention in Central America, and not — as President Trump would have us believe — the inevitable byproduct of “bad hombres” who may as well be “animals.” US-funded military coups, resource exploitation, and American policies of economic neoliberalism in El Salvador have destabilized the entire region, and effectively created a climate where paramilitary-aligned drug cartels can thrive.
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We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage
Christine Kenneally | BuzzFeed News Investigation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive. “If L was caught not paying attention, the nuns would take a needle and regularly prick his fingertips.” Some of the women recognized each other not by name but by number: Thirty-two! Fourteen!
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Central African Republic: Continuing Collapse – Local Peace Building Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – The continuing violence, refugee flows, internally displaced persons and the lack of government services is a good reminder of the difficulties of creating a functioning State with a top-down approach, especially one that begins by training a national army before there is a State to protect.
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(Italiano) Scuola e Cultura. Luogo e Mezzo per Combattere Chiusura, Pregiudizi e Inciviltà
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
La scuola è, per sua natura, il luogo dell’incontro e dell’educazione e a Riace rappresenta senza dubbio un nodo essenziale perché l’integrazione sia resa effettiva attraverso un processo formativo di crescita nella libertà, nel rispetto della dignità personale e della legalità. Italy, Lombardia, Brescia – sabato 10 novembre 2018
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U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Killed over Half a Million People: Study
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
The report published on 3 Nov 2018 by the Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the death toll between 480,000 and 507,000. It states that between 182,272 and 204,575 civilians have been killed in Iraq; 38,480 in Afghanistan; and 23,372 in Pakistan. Nearly 7,000 US troops were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period.
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Vandana Shiva on the Smallholder Farmers Who Feed the World
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Gaia Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Opening of the We Feed the World exhibition in London, 11 Oct 2018.
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Exclusive: ‘Can’t Eat, Can’t Sleep’ – Rohingya on Myanmar Repatriation List
Ruma Paul | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
9 Nov 2018 – “I can hardly sleep at night for fear of getting forcibly repatriated. Since the time I heard that my name is on the list I can’t even eat,” says Amin, 35, who has four daughters, a wife and sister with him in Bangladesh. “Why are they sending us back? They may as well throw us into the sea.”
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Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
When naive people are in trouble and go looking for someone to solve their problems for them, they often get bamboozled by cunning, politically-motivated con men… Adolf Hitler, ever since the 11/11/1918 Armistice that ended WWI, had long been part of the segment of the population that had been justifiably outraged by the terms of the massively unfair Treaty of Versailles.
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Trump Regime Imposes New Illegal Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
6 Nov 2018 – Cuba isn’t a US enemy as explained under the 1917 Trading with the Enemy Act. Neither country declared war on the other. The same applies to Venezuela, Nicaragua, Iran and other countries illegally sanctioned by Washington. Yet the same policies persist. On Thursday [1 Nov], John Bolton announced them on Havana and Caracas.
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The Pentagon’s Cunning Plot to Militarize the Economy
William D. Hartung | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
8 Nov 2018 – Given his erratic behavior, from daily Twitter eruptions to upping his tally of lies by the hour, it’s hard to think of Donald Trump as a man with a plan. But in at least one area — reshaping the economy to serve the needs of the military-industrial complex — he’s (gasp!) a socialist in the making.
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U.S.A. Participation in World War One
Charles F. Howlett, Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace | U.S. Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
A deep analysis into the origins of U.S. involvement in WWI unpacking President Woodrow Wilson’s idealistic justifications for entering it and charting the efforts of European and U.S. peace advocates. It is written for the general public and students, synthesizing the work of many historians.
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Curse of the Gypsies (Parts 1 to 3)
Open Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
This History Channel documentary tells the story of how linguists traced the historical roots and true origin of the Gypsies back to their original homeland looking at the history of the Roma culture over the last thousand years.
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Crucifying Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | Truthdig - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – The media’s refusal to defend the WikiLeaks publisher is a betrayal of press freedom.
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Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight
Aleksandar Hemon | Literary Hub – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
The Problem with Civility – “Only those safe from fascism and its practices are likely to think that there might be a benefit in exchanging ideas with fascists.”
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Dad’s Profession?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
It was the first day of school and the teacher thought she would get to know the kids by asking their names and what their fathers did for a living.
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Israel Settlers Dump Sewage on Palestinian School in Qalqiliya
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
2 Nov 2018 – Israeli settlers dumped their sewage on a Palestinian school in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqilia yesterday. The Azzun Beit Amin School playground was flooded with sewage for the second time in two months as a result of the settlers’ actions. Principal Alaa Marabeh said it would take more than ten days for the sewage water to dry and this has caused a foul smell to spread across the school building and risks damaging the students’ health.
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The Troika of Tyranny: The Imperialist Project in Latin America and Its Epigones
Roger Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are today threatened by US imperialism. The first salvo of the modern Age of Imperialism started back in 1898 when the US seized Cuba along with Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the Spanish-American War. The Age of Imperialism is characterized by the competition of the various imperial powers for dominance. That inter-imperialist rivalry led to World War I.
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International Crime Gangs Amass ‘Staggering’ Profits in Conflict Zones, Expert Tells Security Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
7 Nov 2018 – During yesterday’s briefing to the Security Council, Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, described the problem as a “global and accelerating phenomenon, and a threat to international peace and security,” that, in conflict areas alone, is generating around $31.5 billion in illicit profits.
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Brazil’s Far Right President to Close Palestinian Embassy as Israel Hails His Victory
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
1 Nov 2018 – “Is Palestine a country? Palestine is not a country, so there should be no embassy here,” said Jair Bolsonaro, who won the national election on Sunday [28 Oct]. The right-wing political outsider, who has been portrayed in the West as a far-right nationalist with authoritarian tendencies and fascist inclinations, said: “We do not negotiate with terrorists.”
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(Português) Como Tolstói Influenciou o Vegetarianismo na Rússia
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
“O vegetarianismo, desde que não tenha a saúde como objeto, está sempre associado a um alto ponto de vista moral”.
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How Leo Tolstoy Found His Purpose: The Beloved Author on Personal Growth and the Meaning of Human Existence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
So I too shall be safe in taking for the aim of my existence a conscious striving for the universal development of everything existent. I should be the unhappiest of mortals if I could not find a purpose for my life, and a purpose at once universal and useful… Wherefore henceforth all my life must be a constant, active striving for that one purpose.
→ read full articleThe War to End War 100 Years On: An Evaluation and Reorientation of our Resistance to War
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
British author and social commentator H.G. Wells may have coined the expression that originally popularized World War I as The War that Will End War, as his book, based on articles written during that vast military conflict, was titled. Ending war is not impossible. Far from it, in fact. But it is going to take a phenomenal amount of intelligent strategic effort, courage and commitment.
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Plagued by War and Famine, Yemen Is ‘No Longer a Functioning State,’ Journalist Warns
Terry Gross | U.S. National Public Radio - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Gross writes: “Famine and water shortages are endemic throughout Yemen.”
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Every Bite of Burger Boosts Harmful Greenhouse Gases: UN Environment Agency
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
8 Nov 2018 – Even though meat production is known to be a major contributor to climate change and environmental destruction, worldwide demand for meat continues to rise, said UN environment agency, UNEP, in a statement released today.
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(Italiano) L’orribile Inno Nazionale Italiano
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Riascoltando l’orribile Inno di Mameli (1847), inno nazionale italiano, mi sono ricordato che, anni fa, l’ho riscritto armonizzandolo con la Costituzione e con una mentalità di pace, nello stesso stile buffo del testo tradizionale, ma senza le sue violenze e brutture. Ecco qui:
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A Mother‘s Plea to Save Her Son… Held 8 Years without Charges by UK Government
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
On Nov 3, Christine Assange, mother of Julian Assange, made a deeply moving video with a public appeal to save the life of her son. She says Julian is in immediate critical danger, all alone, sick, and cut off from all contacts including computer, phone, and mail. He deserves all our admiration and gratitude for his courage and bravery in truth telling. He is an inspiration to us all.
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How to Be a Reliable ‘Mainstream’ Journalist
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
8 Nov 2018 – There are certain rules you need to follow as a journalist if you are going to demonstrate to your editors, and the media owners who employ you, that you can be trusted. Being a reliable ‘mainstream’ journalist entails: propagating the myth that ‘we’ are the good guys; conforming to the requirements of wealth and power; keeping one’s head down and never challenging authority; and refraining from any public discussion about these rules.
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Victory of Light over Darkness: The Indian Festival of Diwali
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Diwali or Dipavali (Sanskrit for a row of lamps) is one of the most popular festivals in the Indian month of Kartik — in the solar calendar, between October and mid November on new moon night. The festival signifies victory of Light over Darkness as well as good over evil. The world needs such occasions in this violence-prone troubled contemporary times.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
2 Nov 2018 – As the American empire begins to crash, capitalism becomes desperate and takes off its gloves. We see its fist; all of the characteristics of the culture of war carried to extreme. In fact, that is the simple nature of fascism, the culture of war carried to extreme. Trump in the USA, Erdogan in Turkey, now Bolsonaro in Brazil. The capitalists finance their campaigns in a desperate effort to protect their wealth.
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Global Compact Enabling Complicity in the Ultimate Crime against Humanity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
5 Nov 2018 – Institutionalizing Global Myopia in Anticipation of Excessive Population Growth – Produced in anticipation of the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (Marrakech, 2018)
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Fly on the Wall
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
‘Wish I could be a fly on the wall when X and Y meet one-on-one’. This is an ardent – and not very uncommon – wish among those who must know ‘what is really going on in the world’. But last night a truly mind-boggling event occurred! Your humble correspondent had his ‘fly on the wall’ wish fulfilled! Naturally, what this particular ‘fly on the wall’ witnessed must be reported forthwith – as being of utmost and paramount significance to the future of mankind. Accordingly, this is your mind-boggled correspondent reporting, much more reliably than CNN:
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(Castellano) La psicología del fascismo
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
El continuo aumento del fascismo en todo el mundo está atrayendo cada vez más la atención, sobre todo porque se necesita un mayor control dentro de las sociedades nacionales que durante mucho tiempo se ha visto que lo han rechazado. Algunos estudios recientes nos han recordado las características de los movimientos e individuos fascistas, particularmente cuando se manifiestan entre fascistas políticamente activos.
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(Português) Considerações sobre Hitler e sua ascensão
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
A principal arma de Hitler para ganhar a confiança da população foi a propaganda nazista que se apresentava como uma terceira via e fez uma grande parcela dos alemães considerarem os judeus como inimigos, mas não a princípio com a tentativa de relegá-los como inferiores, como faria mais tarde, mas sim como representantes de algo que, segundo Hitler, estava destruindo o país – os comunistas e os capitalistas.
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Why Do Myanmar Public Hate Rohingya So Much?
Dr. Maung Zarni | Japan National Press Club – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
25 Oct 2018 – During the Q and A at the National Press Club of Japan, the country’s ruling class venue, a Japanese reporter asked me this question in English. She had been to Burma and said she found difficult to understand the palpable and pervasive hatred that Burmese public display towards Rohingyas.
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UN Investigator Says Myanmar Genocide against Rohingya ‘Ongoing’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
25 Oct 2018 – Genocide continues to take place against Muslim-majority Rohingya in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating it has no interest in establishing a fully functioning democracy. UN Security Council urged to take action as ‘most severe’ repression continues.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
A world without US killing would be a major contribution to negative peace, to Glenn Paige’s “non-killing world”. His own country with or without death penalty stopping killing all over. It is coming. What about US and positive peace? Could less US killing also contribute to that? It is also coming, as a change in US mentality. There are many signs in that direction recently, as an expression of Washington now seeing the limits to “politics by military means”.
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Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
→ read full articlePakistan Blasphemy Death Sentence Overturned: A One-time Event or a Trend toward Justice?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
1 Nov 2018 – On 29 October 2018, the Supreme Court of Pakistan reversed the decision of lower courts sentencing to death Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of four for blasphemy. After 3,422 days of imprisonment in solitary confinement, the Supreme Court reversed a 2010 lower court verdict. Asia Bibi is now in seclusion and will probably leave the country as some 60 persons in Pakistan have been murdered since 1990, accused of blasphemy. Her case had drawn attention in Pakistan.
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(Português) Brasil: Grande Frente de Valores Ético-Sociais
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
1 nov 2018 – Estamos vivendo tempos política e socialmente dramáticos. Nunca se viu em nossa história ódio e raiva tão difundidos, principalmente através das mídias sociais. Foi eleito para presidente uma figura amedrontadora que encarnou a dimensão de sombra e do recalcado de nossa história. Ele contaminou boa parte de seus eleitores. Essa figura conseguiu trazer à tona o dia-bólico (que separa e divide) que sempre acompanha o sim-bólico (o que une e congrega) de uma forma tão avassaladora que o dia-bólico inundou a consciência de muitos e enfraqueceu o sim-bólico a ponto de dividir famílias, romper com amigos e liberar a violência verbal e também física.
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Light and Luminosity: The Moon and the Sun in Our Lives
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
During the night, we have moonlight— not as bright as the Sun but soothing and refreshing to us human beings. On a full moon day, the Moon shines brightly and gives us a sense of peace and tranquility. Again on Amavasya (New Moon, when it is visible only in a semi-circumference shape), we feel somewhat forlorn and our sages and religious persons have asked us to be vigilant and sober on that day.
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Will Saudi Arabia Survive Unchanged after Jamal Khashoggi?
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
3 Nov 2018 – Puzzling is the furore caused in Washington and many European capitals kept on the boil by mainstream media suggesting that this incident will not go away without costing Saudi Arabia dear. So, what could be the aftermath of the Khashoggi murder on Saudi Arabia? Top of the list of possibilities is regime change.
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Do the Math
Submitted by Robin Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
A father left 17 camels as inheritance for his three sons. When he passed away, his sons read the will.
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‘101 Years since Balfour, Palestinians Have Not Let Go of Their Rights’
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
2 Nov 2018 – “Although it has been 101 years since the promise was made, the will of the Palestinians has not died down and generation after generation, they have not forgotten their rights and will not let go of their right to their lands,” the forum said in a statement.
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Peace Education: Pedagogy of the Middle Class
Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
When I visited Paulo Freire at his Geneva office in 1975, I asked whether someone like me, concerned about justice issues, ought to leave my comfortable setting with the middle class in Hawai‘i and instead pick up a rifle and join the rebels in Latin America. (It was a hypothetical question.) Without hesitation, he said there are justice issues around you. Do the work where you are. Bloom where you are planted.
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The Roma Community in Romania
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
A CNN team documented the situation of Roma communities in Romania. Depicting tragic life stories, it highlights the public authorities’ failure in tackling Roma marginalization.
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Second Wave of US Sanctions on Iran Starts Today
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
5 Nov 2018 – The US will reimpose today more sanctions lifted under a 2015 nuclear pact world powers struck with Iran. The new wave of sanctions, the second since August, will target Iran’s energy, shipbuilding, shipping, and financial sectors. In all, eight countries will receive temporary waivers to allow them to continue importing Iranian oil after the penalties take effect. The European Union is not one of the recipients, according to Pompeo.
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The Thin Line between Liberalism and Totalitarianism
Helena Rosenblatt | Literary Hub, Princeton University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
29 Oct 2018 – That liberalism owes something to totalitarianism would strike most people today as counter-intuitive, if not preposterous. How could a political belief system so dedicated to the protection of individual rights be indebted to its very opposite? – The 20th-Century Reinvention of a Political Idea
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The Biofuels Deception: Going Hungry on the Green Carbon Diet
Okbazghi Yohannes | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
There is by now no question among informed people that the Earth is undergoing severe climate change—soon to become catastrophic, if humans don’t take drastic measures to stop it. Heroically into the fray steps the biofuel industry, announcing to millions of anxious consumers that this eco-crisis can be averted if only they turn away from fossil fuels, to the saving power of synthetic bioproducts. But, although eliminating fossil fuels is essential, the manufacture of biofuels has far more to do with sating profit-hungry corporations than with saving the Earth.
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro: A Monster Engineered by Our Media
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
30 Oct 2018 – Social media and fake news are apparently the reasons Bolsonaro won at the ballot box. Without the gatekeepers in place to limit access to the “free press” the rabble has supposedly been freed to give expression to their innate bigotry. This is now the default consensus of the corporate media, whether in its rightwing incarnations or of the variety posing on the liberal-left end of the spectrum like the Guardian. The people are stupid, and we need to be protected from their base instincts. Social media, it is claimed, has unleashed humanity’s id.
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Free Rohingya Coalition Condemns Premature Repatriation of Rohingyas
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
1 Nov 2018 – The Free Rohingya Coalition is deeply troubled by yesterday’s announcement by Bangladesh and Myanmar that both countries will begin repatriating Rohingyas in mid-November. We are extremely disturbed that the Government of Bangladesh might be prepared to resort to the unconscionable and internationally illegal practices that characterized previous waves of repatriation.
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UN Rights Chief Warns of Potential ‘Witch-Hunt’ as Tanzanian Official Plans to Track and Arrest LGBT People
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
2 Nov 2018 – Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed apprehension today over a statement earlier this week that a committee would soon be put in place to track and arrest gays, and to encourage member of the public to report people suspected of being gay.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like:
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The Seafloor Is Dissolving Because of Climate Change
Caroline Haskins | Motherboard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
1 Nov 2018 – According to a new study, ocean acidification is setting off a dangerous feedback loop that’s dissolving the very bottom of the ocean. Carbon emissions are acidifying the ocean so quickly that the seafloor is disintegrating.
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Deported Rohingya Men Didn’t Get Myanmar Citizenship as India Claimed and the Supreme Court Believed
Abhishek Dey | Scroll.in – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
Myanmar has issued national verification cards to the seven men deported by India on October 4, which can only get them citizenship if a 1982 law is amended.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11 Nov 1821 – 9 Feb 1881)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time, he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.
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Eugene Victor Debs (5 Nov 1855 – 20 Oct 1926): An Early U.S. Socialist Voice
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
With the increasingly high profile of Senator Bernie Sanders in U.S. politics, the term “Democratic Socialist” has become increasingly used. Thus, it is useful to look at the first person on the U.S. political scene to represent the term.
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More Than 90% of the World’s Children Breathe Toxic Air Every Day
World Health Organization – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
29 Oct 2018 – Every day around 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 years (1.8 billion children), breathe air that is so polluted it puts their health and development at serious risk. Tragically, many of them die: WHO estimates that in 2016, 600,000 children died from acute lower respiratory infections caused by polluted air.
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Why Vote on Tuesday: The Menacing Challenges of Trump and Trumpism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
4 Nov 2018 – World Order in the Age of Trump and Trumpism – This piece is based on a lecture given at West Chester University in Pennsylvania on 24 Oct. I have no great expectations about improvements in American foreign policy of Congress if it is fully or partially controlled by Democratic majorities after the November 6thmidterm elections. Nevertheless, I share the widely held anti-fascist view that any show of opposition to Trump and Trumpism at this time deserves priority on an urgent basis.
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Refugee Child Prodigy from Damascus Plays the Piano for Peace (Music Video of the Week)
Tambi Assad Cimuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
When 15-year-old Tambi Asaad Cimuk walked into a music store last year he had never played the piano before. The teenager, who left everything behind in Syria when his family fled to Turkey two years ago, says he hopes his music will somehow help foster peace. He will perform at Carnegie Hall in January 2015.
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Open Cruelty
Editorial |The News [Pakistan] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
4 Nov 2018 – With the Rohingya set to be sent back to the killing fields of Myanmar, it is stunning how little difference a UN declaration that a genocide was committed against them has made. Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start repatriating Rohingya refugees next month. A list of 8,000 Rohingya refugees has been processed by the Myanmar government and their return has been ‘approved’.
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(Français) Comprendre sur quoi est basé le capitalisme
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
31 Oct 2018 – (…) Toutefois, dira-t-on, les élites occidentales se réunissent quand même de temps en temps dans des clubs de discussion ? Certains sont devenus d’autant plus célèbres qu’ils s’efforçaient de rester discrets : Bilderberg et Trilatérale particulièrement. Oui, elles se réunissent, échangent leurs points de vue et analysent les problèmes économiques ou politiques pouvant nuire à leur domination. Oui, ces rencontres sont aussi l’occasion de rapprocher leurs visions ou de parvenir à des compromis sur certains sujets qui les divisent. Oui, cela permet parfois d’ébaucher des stratégies sur certaines questions. Et donc ce n’est pas négligeable. Mais cela n’en fait pas un gouvernement mondial efficace.
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Trump Mocks Rule of Law by Saying Active-Duty Troops Might Open Fire on Migrants
Dan Froomkin | White House Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
1 Nov 2018 – Donald Trump said today that he is ordering the active-duty U.S. troops he is sending to the southern border to open fire on migrants if they throw rocks. Trump is using the last days before the midterms to conjure up an “invasion” scenario to rile up his political base.
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The Apocalypse Not Now
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
“When they will sell you even your rain,” he said sadly. “They sold me a bill of goods. The American dream! What a bad joke, here I am, a college graduate, not a drunk or drug addict, and I’m living in a tent in the woods in a ravine by a golf course. Some nights I think they make it rain on me for fun, as if to say: here’s your free water, you loser.”
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Western Media Attacks on Critics of the White Helmets
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
29 Oct 2018 – The October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di Giovani titled “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”. The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth. It is an example of western disinformation using subjective attacks on critics and evidence-free assertions aligned with the regime change goals of the West.
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A New Imperial Power?
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
23 Oct 2018 – Is China a new imperial power threatening some of the developing economies in Asia and Africa? This is a perception that is being promoted through the media by certain China watchers in universities and think tanks mainly in the West, various politicians and by a segment of the global NGO community.
→ read full articleThe Psychology of Fascism
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
29 Oct 2018 – The continuing rise of fascism around the world is drawing increasing attention particularly as it takes firmer grip within national societies long seen to have rejected it. Some recent studies have reminded us of the characteristics of fascist movements and individuals, particularly as they manifest among politically active fascists.
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Billionaires Made More Money in 2017 than Any Year in Recorded History
Sophie Weiner | Splinter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
26 Oct 2018 – As most of the world spirals into apocalypse, billionaires are doing much, much better than fine. According to a new report by Swiss bank UBS, 2017 was the best year in recorded history for billionaires, who gained 20 percent more wealth. The amount that the world’s 2,158 billionaires gained last year alone—$1.4 trillion—is greater than the GDP of Spain, Australia, and many other countries.
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(Português) Brasil: democracia ou ditadura de novo tipo? Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Bárbara Schijman | Página/12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
22 out 2018 – Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Coimbra, Portugal) é uma das vozes mais autorizadas dentro da sociologia jurídica e uma referência indiscutível no pensamento político e social contemporâneo. O pesquisador sustenta que o segundo turno representa no Brasil “um autêntico plebiscito sobre se (esse país) deve continuar sendo uma democracia ou passar a ser uma ditadura de novo tipo”. Abaixo, explica por que trabalhadores, jovens, setores médios, afro-americanos, marginalizados, homens e mulheres do povo deram seu voto a um candidato que grita aos quatro ventos e com orgulho que, caso seja presidente, suas políticas não serão justamente a favor deles.
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No More Violence!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
27 Oct 2018 – In recent days, we have learned about the terrorist murders at a Jewish Synagogue, the mailing of package bombs to critics of President Trump, etc. What we haven’t heard as much are the ongoing US wars (is it currently six or seven?) in the Middle East that have resulted in millions killed, wounded or made refugees; covert US “Special Ops” taking place all over the world; and the past US wars and regime changes in Latin America that have created chaos, violence, poverty and a vast number of fleeing refugees and asylum seekers.
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The Diplomacy of Women: Norms into Practice Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
On 31 October 2002, the UN Security Council adopted unanimously a Resolution urging “Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts.”
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Giants: The Global Power Elite
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
Giants – The Global Power Elite by Peter Phillips, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018 – Phillips notes an under-reported study by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide. They culled 43,060 Transnational Companies, the share ownerships interlocking them, and constructed a model showing which companies controlled others. This subset of 1,318 companies collectively own the majority of shares of the world’s large blue chip and manufacturing firms – the “real” economy – representing 60 per cent of global revenues.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Helped Destabilize Honduras. Now Honduran Migrants Are Fleeing Political & Economic Crisis
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
23 Oct 2018 – President Donald Trump is lashing out at the Central American migrant caravan of some 7,000 people making their way through Mexico and toward the U.S. border. On Monday [22 Oct], he claimed without evidence that terrorists and members of the MS-13 gang had infiltrated the group. Trump has doubled down on his threat to cut aid to Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, and called out Democrats over U.S. border policy.
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(Français) Brésil : Le grand capital fait élire un grand cheval…Atroce
Paulo Correia | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
Jair Bolsonaro s’est fait élire hier avec 55% des votes exprimés, au second tour de l’élection présidentielle brésilienne. A l’heure où le Brésil représente une des sociétés les plus violentes et inégalitaires au monde, fruit de 518 ans de colonialisme, esclavagisme et fascisme, un militaire insubordonné surnommé « cavalão » – grand cheval, va sublimer le Brésil dans une parfaite dystopie, où les élites nationales vont pouvoir se maintenir et continuer à se gaver à titre personnel, en échange des gigantesques ressources minérales, pétrolières et forestières – Amazonie – qui s’y trouvent et qui alimentent les monopoles transnationaux.
→ read full articleTranscending World Order Regressions
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
Without even attempting to offer reassurances, Trump champions a law-free sovereignty that is unapologetically dedicated to maximizing its national wealth and influence, backed up by escalating government investments avowedly designed to producing an all-powerful, globally capable military dominance that will last forever.
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The Comprehensive Guide to Sleep Deprivation: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Nathan Sims | YooHealth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
Sleep deprivation can cause a whole range of negative things, from accidents at work to health conditions that can permanently affect you. It is important that you learn how to improve your nighttime schedule if your pattern is way off base. We know it isn’t an easy thing to try and overcome, but with this handy guide, we are here to help you out.
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Big Business Strikes Back: The Class Struggle from Above
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
26 Oct 2018 – Bankers, agro-business elites, commercial mega owners, manufacturing, real estate and insurance bosses and their financial advisers, elite members of the ‘ruling class’, have launched a full-scale attack on private and public wage and salary workers, and small and medium size entrepreneurs (the members of the ‘popular classes’).
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To J. at the Museum
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
The crowds, their heretic sweat,
The still heat of the cloistered dusk,
Wall after wall –
Believe me, I was less than whole –
There’s a Growing International Alliance of Right-Wing Demagogues
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
From Brazil’s Bolsonaro to the Philippines’ Duterte to the leader of them all, Trump.
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Single-Use Plastics Ban Approved by European Parliament
Lucy Purdy | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
25 Oct 2018 – The European parliament has voted for a sweeping ban on a wide range of single-use plastics in a bid to tackle pollution of oceans and waterways.
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Despite Diverted Attention, ‘Ongoing Genocide’ of Rohingya Happening in Myanmar
D. Parvaz | ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
25 Oct 2018 – Over a year after the government of Myanmar started its brutal crackdown against the Muslim minority Rohingya, the killings are continuing. China and Russia are sure to prevent any sanctions or arms embargoes against Myanmar.
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Facebook’s Role in the Genocide in Myanmar: New Reporting Complicates the Narrative
Evelyn Douek | Lawfare – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
22 Oct 2018 – The Fact Finding Mission has called for more work to be done to understand the effects of Facebook on the spread of violence in Myanmar. Reporting shows that Facebook was an “absentee landlord” in Myanmar. It ignored warnings about the abuse of its platform in the country for years and generally has been far too slow to act in the context of horrific crimes.
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(Français) Brésil: l’élection d’un chef de gang d’extrême droite, ouvre la voie à «un nettoyage jamais vu dans l’histoire du Brésil»
Smail Hadj Ali | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
Bolsonaro a été élu ce dimanche avec 56% de voix environ, contre 44% de voix pour Fernando Haddad, à l’heure où ces lignes sont rédigées. Son programme se résume, pour reprendre ses propos, à : « un nettoyage jamais vu dans l’histoire du Brésil ».
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