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United States Will Bring Assange to US in Chains
Ann Garrison – Consortium News,
26 Nov 2018
It appears increasingly likely WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will wind up in the clutches of the U.S. government.
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(Português) Doenças sexualmente transmissíveis atingem cães e gatos; saiba como tratar
Camila Tuchlinski - O Estado de S.Paulo,
26 Nov 2018
DSTs podem ser transmitidas durante o acasalamento ou um simples passeio no parque.
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Doctors
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
A student had just obtained his doctorate in mathematics and proudly checked into a small village hotel signing as “Dr. Smith”.
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(Français) Nicaragua : fin de régime ?
Bernard Duterme | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
13 nov 2018 – Depuis avril 2018, le Nicaragua traverse une profonde crise de régime. Fortement contesté, le couple régnant – le président Daniel Ortega et la vice-présidente Rosario Murillo, épouse du premier – s’accroche au pouvoir.
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The Dalai Lama on Science and Spirituality
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
“What science finds to be nonexistent we should all accept as nonexistent, but what science merely does not find is a completely different matter.”
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What the Paris Peace Forum Tells Us about France–And about the World
Célia Belin | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
On Sunday 11 Nov, 60 world leaders joined French President Emmanuel Macron in inaugurating the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum, a few hours after commemorating the centenary of the armistice that ended World War I. The American president’s absence at the forum reflects the American unmooring from the world of multilateralism.
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(Português) Opções para a Economia Popular
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 nov 2018 – Transição da muito pequena à média escala para empreendimentos da economia popular. Pode ser encarado? Que apoios são requeridos? Temos destacado que a economia popular não é um cercado onde deixar encurralados os pobres e marginalizados mas, pelo contrário, pode se transformar em uma das colunas fundantes de um novo rumo e forma de funcionar orientados ao bem-estar geral e o cuidado ambiental.
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Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
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System Error: Japan Cybersecurity Minister Admits He Has Never Used a Computer
Justin McCurry – The Guardian,
26 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 – A Japanese minister in charge of cybersecurity has provoked astonishment by admitting he has never used a computer in his professional life, and appearing confused by the concept of a USB drive. Yoshitaka Sakurada, 68, is the deputy chief of the government’s cybersecurity strategy office and also the minister in charge of the Olympic and Paralympic Games that Tokyo will host in 2020.
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Friedrich Engels (28 Nov 1820 – 5 Aug 1895)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Friedrich Engels was a German author, political theorist and philosopher, most well known for his monumental work with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.
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Black Hole Sun (Music Video of the Week)
Norah Jones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Norah Pays Tribute to Chris Cornell at Detroit’s Fox Theatre
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India’s Farmers to March to Parliament to Highlight Agrarian Crisis
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
‘Kisan Mukti March’ to Delhi 28/30 Nov – Rooted in the Testimonies of its Victims
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Why Are We Allowing Yemen to Starve?
J.P. Linstroth | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 – All of us—all people across the United States and across the globe—should be very concerned about systematic starvation of civilian populations as a war tactic. This needs to stop. There needs to be accountability for such humanitarian atrocities and there needs to be passage of international law to put an end to these military practices. Otherwise, unnecessary and unfortunate suffering as is happening in Yemen will continue.
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Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather without Animals
Lucy Goodchild van Hilten | EcoWatch – Independent Media Institute,
26 Nov 2018
13 Nov 2018 – The future of ethical fashion is here: It’s now possible to grow leather without raising and killing animals.
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Johan Galtung and Amy Goodman Talk Peace, Justice, Empire, Occupation
American Friends Service Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
A dialogue between sociologist Johan Galtung, “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” and Amy Goodman of Democracy NOW! Sponsored by the Envision Peace Museum, American Friends Service Committee.
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Colombia’s Rural Radio Stations Are a Key to Peace
Emma Heidenreich | Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Community radio stations are a hopeful medium for improving the free flow of information in Colombia, especially in the poorest and most remote regions.
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Toward a Global Peace Literacy: A Peace Linguist´s Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
One day Peace Literacy will be globalized
The right to be educated for Peace will be recognized
From the Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power to Full Democracies
The Editors | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – Humanity is going through a destructive phase of unbridled concentration of wealth and decisional power; its results have been widely identified and denounced. Even though spaces for resistance and transformation desires germinate, it still remains to be seen how large majorities organize to establish new courses and ways of functioning. Will the notion of full democracy be useful?
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International Conference Against US/NATO Bases Addresses Militarism
Roger Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
On November 16-18, some 300 peace activists representing over 35 countries gathered in Dublin, Ireland for the first International Conference Against US/NATO Military Bases to address this tragic paradox of the technical ability to serve humanity and the political proclivity by the ruling circles in the West to do the opposite. Actions are being planned in Washington, D.C., around the 70th anniversary of NATO on April 4th. Coincidentally that is the date of the assassination of Martin Luther King.
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More Doctors Program: Humanity vs. Fascism in Brazil
The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
17 Nov 2018 – In contrast with its economic potential, Brazil occupies the 125th place in the world health ranking. In 2013, given the precariousness of care in the poorest regions, Dilma Rousseff’s government created the More Doctors Program, based on an agreement with the Pan American Health Organization, and driven above all by Cuba’s response based on solidarity.
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Mahatma Gandhi and His Interest in the Stars
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Gandhi managed to see some of the phenomena of the sky with simple telescopes that people shared with him. This reinforced his love for stargazing and his belief that the sky and its numerous entities were a manifestation of God’s creation. Of course, scientists and astronomers do not agree with this belief; but the joy, the beauty the peace that a night sky bestows is shared by millions of people including the scientists.
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Autonomous Weapons Will Be Tireless, Efficient, Killing Machines—And There Is No Way to Stop Them
Andreas Kirsch | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
The world’s next major military conflict could be over quickly. Our human soldiers will simply not stand a chance. Drones and robots will overrun our defenses and take the territory we are standing on. Even if we take out some of these machines, more of them will soon arrive to take their place, newly trained off our reactions to their last offense.
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UK Commits Extra Military Forces to Ukraine: Irresponsible Policy, Dangerous Repercussions
Arkady Savitsky | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
24 Nov 2018 – A multi-role hydrographic survey ship will be deployed in the Black Sea next year to demonstrate Britain’s support for Ukraine and ensure “freedom of navigation”. In September, Great Britain made known it planned to increase the warships’ presence in the Black Sea. NATO naval presence there is seen as provocative by Russia amid increasing tensions in the Azov Sea.
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Release of Top Secret CIA Document Reveals Deeper Medical Complicity in Torture Program
Physicians for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – The 90-page document provides a chilling account of how CIA health professionals willingly participated in torture. The “Summary and Reflections” of an unnamed chief of CIA Medical Services narrates the decision-making process that led to health professionals signing off on, and participating in, interrogation and detention practices that clearly constituted torture. The document provides a cascade of self-justification and minimization of the risks and harm to detainees.
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John Scales Avery Interviews Binu Mathew
John Scales Avery | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
John Scales Avery: Dear friend and colleague in the peace movement, dear highly respected and admired Editor Binu Mathew, can you tell us what are the influences that led you to become the Editor of Countercurrents.org, one of the world’s most important and influential alternative news websites?
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(Français) De 1945 à aujourd’hui 20-30 millions de personnes tuées par les USA
Manlio Dinucci | Mondialisation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Une étude documente les guerres et les coups d’état effectués par les États-Unis dans plus de 30 pays asiatiques, africains, européens et latino-américains. Elle révèle que les forces militaires USA sont directement responsables de 10-15 millions de morts, provoqués par les plus grandes guerres: celles de Corée et du Vietnam et les deux contre l’Irak.
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Why Is Netanyahu so Desperate for a Ceasefire with Hamas?
Ibrahim Fraihat – Al Jazeera,
26 Nov 2018
20 Nov 2018 – The ceasefire in Gaza has destabilised Netanyahu’s government, yet he has no other choice but to commit to it. Israel will continue to search for a long-term truce with Hamas as long as the project of confronting Iran remains on the table. For this reason, another full-fledged conflict in Gaza in the near future is unlikely. Hamas was victorious.
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Enough Is Enough – End the War in Yemen
Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Laureate – The Washington Post,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – Today, the Yemeni people are suffering from the actions of outsiders. Regional powers have turned the country into an arena for proxy conflicts that have little to do with the actual interests of the Yemeni nation. Large parts of the country have been devastated, including much of its vital infrastructure. Millions are threatened by starvation and disease.
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Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power
Michael E. Tigar | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
The “Justice Department” appears, by its very nature and practice, to appropriate “justice” as the exclusive property of the federal government. In his brilliantly acerbic collection of essays, Tigar reveals, deconstructs, and eviscerates mythologies surrounding the U.S. criminal justice system, racism, free expression, workers’ rights, and international human rights.
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Mainstream Media on Gaza: Israelis Get Killed, but Palestinians Merely ‘Die’
Darius Shahtahmasebi - RT,
19 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 – After a Twitter backlash, the Guardian was forced to amend a brazenly propagandized headline which sought to undermine the basic rights of Palestinians and elevate Israeli soldiers to levels previously thought unimaginable.
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Israel’s $72m ‘War Chest’ to Fight BDS Arrives in Europe
Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo – Al Jazeera,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 – The Israeli war on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement took a serious turn last year when Benjamin Netanyahu dedicated a largesse of about $72m to defeat the civil society-led campaign. But every Israeli attempt to discredit the Palestinian boycott movement is helping it gain more supporters. No amount of money could have saved the racist Apartheid regime in South Africa when it came tumbling down decades ago.
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The International Monetary Fund Flexes Its Muscles in Latin America
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Thanks to the IMF, the pockets of the forgotten from Argentina to Mexico will suffer so that finance is left intact.
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More American Troops to Afghanistan, to Keep the Chinese Out? Lithium and the Battle for Afghanistan’s Mineral Riches
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
19 Nov 2018
18 Nov 2018 – Unknown to the broader public, Afghanistan has significant oil, natural gas and strategic raw material resources, not to mention opium, a multibillion dollar industry which feeds America’s illegal heroin market.
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Japan’s Abe Tells Putin He Won’t Let US Troops on Long-Disputed Islands if Russia Returns Them to Japan
Bill Bostock | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – Abe said: “This issue, which has existed for more than 70 years since the end of the war, will be solved by Putin and me, and not left for the next generation. President Putin and I completely shared that strong desire.” But the post-war agreement between Japan and the US could prove problematic, as the US can seek to build military bases in Japan due to the Japan-US Security Treaty and Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement.
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On My 88th Birthday: A Reflection
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
13 Nov 2018 – I post a poem that I wrote earlier today, and read at the end of my talk, perhaps a self-indulgent conceit on my part, but I share it here as a way of thanking so many friends near and far who sent me the most moving birthday greetings throughout the day, which made me feel that we who are supporting the Palestinian struggle are part of a growing community that will prevail at some point, and the two peoples now inhabiting Palestine can finally live in peace, and with dignity and equality.
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Costs of Post-9/11 U.S. Wars to 2019: $5.9 Trillion
Neta C. Crawford | Watson Institute, Brown University - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 -The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post-9/11 war veterans.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
“The institutionalization of the ‘Rwandan genocide’ has been the remarkable achievement of a propaganda system sustained by both public and private power. We’re told that the US failed to stop Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, so we’re now obliged to ‘intervene’ anytime and anywhere another genocide is underway.”
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Phil Ochs and the Crucifixion of President John F. Kennedy
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Whatever the truth in this age of “not knowing,” I think his story is a parable for our times. Whenever you think you’re getting the straight scoop, think again, and then again. The CIA’s Operation Mockingbird is still singing its siren song to convince us that the crucifixion was a one-time event, when Phil knew otherwise, right from the start and right to the end. I think he tried to warn us and wouldn’t be silenced, even in death.
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(Português) Brasil: Trabalho escravo é um dos motores para o aquecimento global
Jennifer Ann Thomas - Veja,
19 Nov 2018
Bolsonaro afirmou que vai acabar com o Ministério do Trabalho.
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Forced Return of Rohingya Crime against Humanity
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
15 Nov 1018 – From the Red Cross to the UN High Commission for Refugees, the world is screaming foul at the Bangladesh-Myanmar bilateral repatriation scheme scheduled to begin today. Red Cross’ Robert Mardini based in Myanmar told reporters that “we still believe that the conditions are not right for voluntary, safe, dignified returns …. Nobody can claim today that the security in Rakhine is so well established that people can return safely.”
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Donetsk-Luhansk-Ukraine-Russia: Another Round in a Frozen but Deadly Struggle
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
On 11 November, while French President Emmanuel Macron was warning the assembled heads of government in Paris on the dangers of the narrow nationalism which had led to the 1914-1918 war, people in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics of eastern Ukraine were voting in an effort to strengthen narrow nationalism. Since 2014, the eastern, largely Russian-speaking populations of eastern Ukraine have created two republics: Donetsk and Luhansk.
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Dairy Cows Blasted with Flame-Thrower
Vegan News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Help spread the truth about meat & dairy. The old days of family farms are over. Today’s factories are cold, efficient money machines. That’s why we have this continual problem with abuse.
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(Italiano) La guerra per por fine alle guerre 100 anni dopo: valutazione e riorientamento della nostra resistenza alla guerra
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
L’autore e commentatore sociale britannico H.G. Wells ha forse coniato l’espressione che rese originariamente popolare la 1ª Guerra mondiale: La guerra che porrà fine alle guerre, secondo il titolo del suo libro basato su articoli scritti durante quel vasto conflitto militare. Por fine alla Guerra non è impossibile; tutt’altro, effettivamente. Ma ci vorrà una quantità fenomenale d’intelligente sforzo strategico, coraggio e dedizione.
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Multilingualism Today—Educational, Cultural, Historical Facets
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Languages are not just a means of expression – written or oral but also have their distinctive features such as cultures, cuisines and histories. Languages had earlier evolved due to several factors – colonialization by powerful countries, interaction with other language and religious groups, trade and economic relations, and today due to the large scale globalization and the impact of internet and digitization that is taking place.
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‘Dangerous Path for Democracy’ and Dire Threat to Press Freedom: Trump DOJ’s Secret Charges against WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Revealed
Jake Johnson – Common Dreams,
19 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – Free speech advocates and civil libertarians are warning that fundamental press freedoms are under threat after the Trump Justice Department accidentally revealed that secret charges have been filed against journalist Julian Assange. “The notion that the federal criminal charges could be brought based on the publication of truthful information is an incredibly dangerous precedent to set.”
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Criminal War, Poverty at the Heart of European & US Migration Turmoil
Finian Cunningham - RT,
19 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – Europe has certainly adopted more fortress-like controls against would-be refugees. A concomitant rise in anti-immigrant political parties has in turn fueled popular resentment towards EU institutions. But the debate requires much more than “moral appeals.”
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(Português) A Realidade Por Trás dos Testes em Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
“O negócio de criação de macacos foi mais do que duplicado na última década”
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Abolish Militarism and War
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Presented at the International Conference against US/NATO Military Bases, 16-18 Nov 2018, Dublin, Ireland – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization-NATO, which should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, continue to carry out wars and proxy wars in many countries pushing towards the borders of Russia and resurrecting a cold war between the East and West. I believe that NATO should be disbanded and should be made accountable and make restitutions to the millions of people in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and many others it has illegally attacked, invaded, destroyed.
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Cultural Imperialism: Linguistic Perversion and Obfuscation of Empire Building
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – In the contemporary world, western imperialist propagandists, particularly journalists and editors of the mass media, have resorted to perverting everyday concepts and the language of politics. The use and abuse of the language of politics has served to blame victims and to justify imperial aggressors. The consequences are multiple, both in legitimizing war crimes and economic plunder, as well as neutralizing domestic opposition.
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How a Traumatized America Finds Relief in Hate
Abraham Gutman – The Philadelphia Inquirer,
19 Nov 2018
2 Nov 2018 – The connecting line between addiction and hate, according to Dr. Maté, is trauma. “What happened in Pittsburgh is a manifestation of trauma. There is no mass killer who wasn’t a traumatized person.” Trauma is not foreign to Maté. He was born in Budapest to Jewish parents a month before the Nazi occupation of Hungary in 1944.
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The Filter Bubble: Owen Jones and Con Coughlin
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 – There is something dreamlike about the system of mass communication sometimes described as ‘mainstream media’. Why are defence editors, defence correspondents, diplomatic editors and the like so often biased in favour of the Western defence and diplomatic establishment they are covering? And why are they allowed to demonstrate this bias without anyone so much as commenting? The filter bubble ensures that these questions can never be asked, much less answered.
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Iran Honoring Nuclear Deal as New Sanctions Hit, IAEA Report Shows
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – Iran has continued to implement the main nuclear restrictions set by its 2015 deal with major powers even as the United States reimposed sanctions against Tehran, a U.N. atomic watchdog report showed today.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.
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Hymn for the Weekend (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Kick back and simply enjoy…
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Rohingya: Not Willing to Go Home
Mokammel Shuvo , Muhammad Ali Jinnat and Porimol Palma – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
19 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – Repatriation Postponed as Rohingyas Feel Return to Myanmar Still Not Safe – Prof CR Abrar, who teachers international relations at Dhaka University, said it was not surprising. “How can the Rohingya go back to Rakhine where people still face rights abuses and confinement? There is a threat for Rohingyas of being interned in the camps for the rest of their life,” he said. New York-based Human Rights Watch yesterday demanded the authorities halt the repatriation.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
At present, we treat nations as though they were persons: We punish entire nations by sanctions, even when only the leaders are guilty, even though the burdens of the sanctions fall most heavily on the poorest and least guilty of the citizens, and even though sanctions often have the effect of uniting the citizens of a country behind the guilty leaders. Should we not regard sanctions as collective punishment? If we do so, then sanctions are a war crime, under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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Mario D’Andreta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
I conducted an analysis of the globalization discourse of the World Economic Forum Board members by applying the methodological approach of Text Emotional Analysis’ Model of Collusion… On the basis of results, several intervention strategies can be proposed. Their implementation, however, requires an active and accountable involvement of all the interlocutors of the global elite.
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Cruelty, Cruelty, Cruelty: Nauru, Yemen, Gaza
Stuart Rees – New Matilda [Australia],
19 Nov 2018
6 Nov 2018 – Article 5 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights decreed, ‘No-one shall be subjected to torture, or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.’ The Convention on the Rights of the Child had similar aspirations. Those rules and standards seem to have been forgotten or disregarded.
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Burmese Activist Speaks Out for the Rohingya
Noriko Okada | NHK World Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 – “Ask yourself, if you saw your wife raped and your father shot dead in front of your eyes, if your little 6-month old boy was burned alive in front of your eyes…would you like to be told that you need to go back?” Those are the words of Maung Zarni, leader of a global network of activists supporting the Rohingya refugees who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Stalin claimed he was the greatest philosopher of all times. In Moscow in the early 1950s, the following joke circulated among physicists, who have some disdain for chemists:
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Tchaikovsky on Depression and Finding Beauty amid the Wreckage of the Soul
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
“Life is beautiful in spite of everything! … There are many thorns, but the roses are there too.”
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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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Bachelet: Returning Rohingya Refugees to Myanmar Would Place Them at Serious Risk of Human Rights Violations
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
13 Nov 2018 – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today urged the Government of Bangladesh to halt plans for the repatriation of more than 2,200 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, warning that the returns would be in violation of international law and put their lives and freedom at serious risk.
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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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Accountability Alone Will Not Solve Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis
Bill Richardson - TIME,
12 Nov 2018
5 Nov 2018 – At long last, momentum is building to hold the perpetrators of the gruesome atrocities against the Rohingya in Myanmar to account. A U.N.-mandated fact-finding mission concluded that senior military officials should be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. But a singular focus on accountability risks overshadowing the need to bring about tangible improvements in Rohingyas’ lives now.
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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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The Ugly, Messy Truth about Julian Assange and Why You Should Care
Helen Razer – New Matilda [Australia],
12 Nov 2018
4 Nov 2018 – Over the past few days, there has been increased activity around the Ecuadorian embassy in London, sparking fears Julian Assange faces imminent detention by British authorities. Helen Razer weighs in on truth, on Assange, and why you should care about both.
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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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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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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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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!
→ read full articleCentral 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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Meanwhile in Brazil
Latuff – MintPress News,
12 Nov 2018
Fascism anyone?
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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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Are Anti-Gay Witch Hunts Really Protecting ‘African Values’?
Tafi Mhaka – Al Jazeera,
12 Nov 2018
11 Nov 2018 – Homophobia, not homosexuality, is a western import to Africa. “I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this,” Tutu said. Africans should follow the archbishop’s lead.
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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.”
→ read full articleThe Fuehrer Princip (Principle): When Fascism Was/Is Ascendant in the World
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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