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Losing More People in Gaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
31 Mar 2018 – I am optimistic even though sad. I am sad that the Israeli regime massacred 17 and injured nearly 1500 unarmed Palestinian civilians yesterday instead of letting them go to their homes and lands to honor Land Day.
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Walmart Files Patent for Robot Bees
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
16 Mar 2018 – With the mass die-off of bees spelling trouble for agriculture, the world’s largest retailer has filed patents for the use of “unmanned vehicles,” or drones, to aid with pollination and crop production.
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Political Mind Games: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What’s Happening, What’s Right, and What’s Possible
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
20 Mar 2018 – In my new book I explain the psychology behind the success of today’s plutocrats in marketing their false claims—and what we can do to counter them. Offering a research-based framework, I show how the 1% exploit five fundamental concerns that govern our daily lives. Political Mind Games was written with a clear purpose: to help inoculate the public against the 1%’s self-serving appeals.
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Explaining to a Blind Person [Jokes to Be Taken Seriously]
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Someone asked Albert Einstein at a party: “Oh, you are Albert Einstein, could you please explain me your relativity theory in three or four sentences?”
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Israel Jails Ahed Tamimi’s Mother for Facebook Live Video of Palestinian Teen Slapping Soldier
Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
26 Mar 2018
Ahed Tamimi was sentenced to eight months in prison on Wed [21 Mar] for slapping an Israeli soldier. Her mother will also be jailed for broadcasting the confrontation, which was streamed live on Facebook, and also sentenced to eight months in prison.
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TRANSCEND Media Service Celebrates 10 Years as a Site of Reference in Peace Journalism
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
520 Weeks, 25 thousand Posts, 6 thousand Comments. We are proud of our record: never missed a single week! Prof. Johan Galtung’s first Editorial was on 3 Mar 2008. We are ready to carry on for the next 10—and beyond—in our mission to benefit our beleaguered planet’s humanity, fauna & flora by spreading and disseminating our trade mark: Solutions Oriented PEACE JOURNALISM. Thank you, we are in this together.
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John Pilger: ‘Skripal Case Is a Carefully Constructed Drama’
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
18 Mar 2018 – Award-winning journalist John Pilger comments on the British government’s accusations against Russia over the poisoning of the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury.
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Triggering War
Prof. Graeme McQueen – Global Research,
26 Mar 2018
18 Mar 2018 – The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on 28 Jun 1914 led to the outbreak of World War I. The Gulf of Tonkin incidents on 2 and 4 Aug 1964 enabled what we call the Vietnam War. Both events were war triggers. Russia-gate, Novichok, Eastern Ghouta, False Flags-War Triggers?
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Trump Supports ‘Space Force’ for War-Making and Dominance in Space
Dennis J Bernstein – Consortium News,
26 Mar 2018
20 Mar 2018 – Calls by Trump for a new ‘Space Force’ could further the potential of an armed showdown between US and foreign powers, such as China and Russia, reports Dennis J Bernstein in this interview with peace activist Bruce Gagnon.
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Open Letter to People of Viet Nam
Veterans for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
The letter below has been written by members of Veterans For Peace’s Vietnam: Full Disclosure Committee. It will be delivered to the people of Viet Nam by members of Veterans For Peace. To be read at the closing of the official ceremony on March 16th at My Lai.
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U.S. Regime Has Killed 20-30 Million People since World War II
James A. Lucas – Global Research,
26 Mar 2018
22 Mar 2018 – We must continue our efforts to develop understanding and compassion in the world. Hopefully, this article will assist in doing that by addressing the question “How many September 11ths has the United States caused in other nations since WWII?” This theme is developed in this report which contains an estimated numbers of such deaths in 37 nations as well as brief explanations of why the U.S. is considered culpable. The causes of wars are complex.
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Why the UK, the EU and the US Gang-Up on Russia
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
20 Mar 2018 – For the greater part of a decade the US, the UK and the EU have been carrying out a campaign to undermine and overthrow the Russia government and in particular to oust President Putin. Fundamental issues are at stake including the real possibility of a nuclear war.
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Sing the Song of Life
Christophe Barbey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
We sing the song of life,
With what we are,
Joy, seeds and fruits;
Israel Arrests over 1,300 Palestinians in Just Two Months
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
18 Mar 2018 – Israeli forces have arrested 1,319 Palestinians in the first two months of 2018, including 274 minors, 23 women, and four journalists, making the total number of Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails 6,500, as of Feb. 28, 2018. Of the 6,500 people detained, 63 were women, with 350 being children and 6 being girls.
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The UN: Instrumental or Normative?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Giving the veto power to the five permanent members of the Security Council almost assured that when ideological and geopolitical views clashed, which was virtually all the time, during the first 40 years after 1945, the UN would watch unfolding war-threatening events and violent encounters between ideological adversaries from the sidelines.
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Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
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(Italiano) Per Nanni Salio. Una vision meditata da Aosta
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Serice,
26 Mar 2018
Dedicato ai lettori di Transcend Media Service – A little tribute for Nanni.
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A Plea to TMS Readers
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Dear TMS Readers,
Our dear friend, brother, colleague, and compañero, Antonio C. S. Rosa, has for many years given selflessly and generously of his time–many many hours every single week–to put together this valuable and highly informative collection of articles and commentary that you can’t find elsewhere. His expenses are minimal but they are real. if you value this resource, please take a moment to donate now, whatever you can spare, and the more of you who give a small amount the greater the collective participation in this peace-building enterprise. Now’s the time to show solidarity not only by sharing ideas but also by sharing the modest means required to keep the TMS platform alive!
— Marilyn Langlois, Member and TMS Writer
Krugman: India Has Emerged as a Superpower
Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Saturday [17 Mar] said, “What Great Britain achieved in 150 years, India managed in just 30. The progress is extraordinary. This is a very big country, which people at some level have not fully noticed. It has overtaken Japan and is only behind US and China, and is far ahead of any European country. This is a superpower.”
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Taibbi: The Legacy of the Iraq War
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
26 Mar 2018
21 Mar 2018 – Fifteen years ago this week, George W. Bush invaded Iraq. It was an awesome drama, made more thrilling by the seemingly obvious craziness of it all. The invasion is no longer just one of the great crimes of this or any age – it’s become a crossroads event in the history of America’s decline.
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Psychiatric Drugs Create Violence & Suicide: School Shootings & Other Acts of Senseless Violence in the USA
Submitted by Gary Kohls, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
March 2018 – De-Mystifying the Uniquely American Epidemic of Mass Shootings – This extensive CCHR-Citizens Commission on Human Rights report is the very best I have read concerning psychoactive drugs and drug-induced violence, suicidality and irrational behaviors.
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(Français) Poutine, ce punching-ball bien pratique
Nico Hirtt | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
En rattachant la Crimée à la Russie, même après le référendum écrasant de la population locale, Vladimir Poutine s’est, nous dit-on, rendu coupable d’un acte inadmissible dans les relations entre États civilisés : la modification de frontières d’États reconnues par la communauté internationale. Pourtant, ceux qui lui font ce reproche en Occident sont-ils vraiment de bons donneurs de leçons ?
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Johan Galtung’s Positive Peace Concept
Hanno Heynitz | Galtung Institut Germany – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
“Positive Peace” as defined by Prof. Johan Galtung in over 50 years of uninterrupted research, refers to a very specific ‘fait social’ that requires equally specific political measures. This presentation is an effort to make the concepts and specificities underpinning the notion of Positive Peace more widely understood.
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The U.S. War in Iraq: 15 Years and Counting… the Dead and Displaced
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
26 Mar 2018
22 Mar 2018 – Fifteen years have passed since President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and a coterie of neoconservatives, enabled by mainstream media cheerleaders, launched the invasion of Iraq with a murderous bombardment of Baghdad they branded “shock and awe.” Far from delivering the promised freedom and democracy and exposing stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, the illegal war killed, wounded and displaced millions of civilians.
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(Português) Breve reflexão contra a vivissecção (experimentação animal)
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
16 março 2018 – A vivissecção passou a ser considerada “prática comum” no mundo ocidental a partir do século 19. Muito tempo se passou, estamos em 2018 e animais continuam sendo torturados e mortos desnecessariamente em nome da ciência. O que ajuda a postergar o banimento dessa prática já considerada obsoleta é o lobby e a politicagem que caminham lado a lado.
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Myanmar Blocks Returning Rohingya with Barbed Wire Fence, Land Mines, Security Forces
ABC RN (Australia) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
22 Mar 2018 – Myanmar is fortifying its border with Bangladesh, where thousands of Rohingya refugees are sheltering after fleeing persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The military has built a new barbed wire fence, installed land mines and placed hundreds of security forces on the shared border.
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Pentagon Trained Syria’s Al Qaeda “Rebels” [Terrorists] in the Use of Chemical Weapons, Confirmed by CNN
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
26 Mar 2018
On 17 March 2018 Russia’s Ministry of Defense stated the following: “We have reliable information at our disposal that US instructors have trained a number of militant groups in the vicinity of the town of At-Tanf, to stage provocations involving chemical warfare agents in southern Syria. … The provocations will be used as a pretext by the United States and its allies to launch strikes on military and government infrastructure in Syria.’ In a bitter irony, Moscow’s allegations directed against the U.S. are confirmed by CNN.
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‘The Global Elite Is Insane’ Revisited
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
21 Mar 2018 – In 2014 I wrote an article titled ‘The Global Elite Is Insane’. I want to elaborate what I explained in the earlier article so that people have a clearer sense of what we are up against in our struggle to create a world of peace, justice and ecological sustainability.
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How Low Can the U.S. Go? It’s Not Just Trump!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
21 Mar 2018 – The U.S. now has a lying, racist, warmongering, misogynist, narcissist, megalomaniac, corrupt billionaire businessman, reality TV personality as President. The mask is off. Join hands in solidarity with people in grassroots struggles. Find common ground. And most of all – never give up. No lie can live forever. The arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.
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I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
The primary word I–Thou can be spoken only with the whole being. Concentration and fusion into the whole being can never take place through my agency, nor can it ever take place without me. I become through my relation to the Thou; as I become I, I say Thou. All real living is meeting.
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The Living and the Disappeared: The Unending Battle for Justice in Sri Lanka
Nirmanusan Balasundaram | Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
19 March 2018 – The signing of Memorandum of Understanding between Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam engineered many prospects, promises and hopes about the fate of political prisoners, prisoners of war and the disappeared. For the families of the disappeared, despite darkening clouds, there is a glimpse of hope that their sons and daughters are alive somewhere and they will return home one day.
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Funding Infrastructure: Why China Is Running Circles around America
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
“One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking of highways, pipelines, transmission lines, ports, power stations, fiber optics, and railroads connecting China to Central Asia, Europe and Africa. “It is the largest infrastructure project initiated by one nation in the history of the world and is designed to enable China to become the dominant economic power in the world.”
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The Water Factor
Baher Kamal – Wall Street Int’l Magazine,
26 Mar 2018
22 Mar 2018 – A new alarm has been now sounded, this time on the occasion of the World Water Day marked today. – Climate Change and Water Crisis: More Poverty, Conflicts and Migration
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(Français) Marielle Castro : “Être une femme noire, c’est résister et se battre tout le temps pour survivre”
Mariana Pitasse | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
18 Mar 2018 – Le 14 mars 2018, la conseillère municipale Marielle Franco a été victime d’une exécution extrajudiciaire à Rio de Janeiro. Peu après avoir entamé son mandat, le 8 mars 2017, l’hebdomadaire Brasil de Fato l’avait interviewée.
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Australia and Singapore Prime Ministers Help Whitewash Myanmar Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
20 Mar 2018 – I just returned from Paris where I had a quite intense 2-day meeting with other fellow activists deeply concerned with the plight of the Rohingyas, a small number of Rohingyas who have resettled there, as well as a very progressive deputee de Paris at the Assemble Nationale and her assistant… “Intense public attention makes it difficult to solve” (Myanmar genocide), so says Singapore Prime Minister.
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Son of a Dog
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
24 Mar 2018 – This week Abbas spoke about the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and called him a “Son of a Dog”. This sounds in Arabic slightly less offensive than in English, but is hardly diplomatic. It is hard to say that Friedman does not deserve it, though I would have wished, as a dog-lover, that Abbas had chosen another animal.
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US Approves US$1 Billion Arms, Missile Deal with Saudi Arabia
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
22 Mar 2018 – Saudi Arabia bought the almost 7,000 TOW missiles – plus an additional 96 for training purposes – for a total of US$670 million. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saudi Arabia is “part of the solution” in Yemen. Despite severe criticism, the Saudi coalition continues to be U.S.-supported, targeting Houthis and causing numerous civilian casualties, a humanitarian catastrophe.
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(Português) Documentário revela como veganismo melhora a performance de atletas
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
O atletas desmistificam a ideia de que o consumo de produtos de origem animal é necessário para um alto rendimento.
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The Geopolitics of Targeting Russia
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
The aim is clear. It is to compel Moscow to submit to the hegemonic power of the Washington elite. Anyone who has a rudimentary understanding of Russian history knows that this will not happen. Russia will continue to resist. And Russian resistance may well hold the key to a different future for humankind.
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The Awkward Advice for Palestinian Participation in the Israeli Jerusalem Municipality Elections
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – As it happens every time when the Israeli municipal elections get closer, one will see voices calling the Palestinians in East Jerusalem to break their boycott to those elections. So far the Palestinian participation in those elections did not exceed one to three percent in all of its rounds. The explanation for this very low turnout by claiming that the East Jerusalem Palestinians are afraid from the PLO and the factions is disrespectful to both the people and the factions.
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The Health Benefits of Probiotics
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Gut health is a balancing act. Stress, toxins, and a bad diet can upset the balance and throw your whole digestive system into complete chaos. Probiotics are the key to keeping the peace and pushing out the harmful organisms that throw everything off.
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Essential Requirement of Qualities in the Rulers and the Servants of People for Good Governance
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
The Role of Universal Peace Education
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Nature vs Nurture
TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
This Video Dispels Every “Nature vs Nurture” Myth You’ve Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.
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Renaming the 1948 War: Partition, Dispossession, and Fragmentation–On the Politics of Language
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
24 Mar 2018 – Israel has been brilliant over the years in shaping and misdirecting the public discourse on the future of Palestine. Among its earliest achievement along these lines was the crucial propaganda victory by having the 1948 War known internationally as the ‘War of Independence.’ Such a designation erases the Palestinians from political consciousness, and distorts the deeper human and political consequences of the war. Language matters, especially in vital circumstances where there are winners and losers, a reality that applies above all to a war of displacement.
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Navroz: Turkish Troops in Afrim – Renewal and Complexity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Navroz, usually celebrated on 21 March in Iran and Central Asia, is the “New Day”, the end of the old year with its hardships and deceptions and the start of the New Year to be filled with hope and optimism. Navroz was marked this year in the Syrian Kurdish area of Afrim by the arrival of Turkish troops and their Syrian allies.
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Israel Has Accelerated Its Annexation of the West Bank from a Slow Creep to a Run
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
18 Mar 2018 – Last week, during an address to students in New York, Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett publicly disavowed even the notion of a Palestinian state. What is needed now is someone to arm-twist the Palestinians. Mike Pompeo’s move from the CIA to State Department, Mr Trump may hope, will produce the strongman needed to bulldoze the Palestinians into submission.
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Analog/Digital International Relations and Global Politics
Oliver P. Richmond | Global Dynamics, Univ. California Santa Barbara – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
25 Jan 2018 – This essay outlines a new, preliminary perspective of global studies resting on analog and digital processes, and discusses their implications for longstanding key debates in the discipline about war and peace, sovereignty, order, and legitimacy. Digital phenomena were initially thought to be a breakthrough for global civil society and rights. However, a brewing ‘counter-revolution’ of what might be now called the ‘ancien regime’ instead points to digital forms of governmentality closely connected to older, analog hierarchies.
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Indian Moneylenders Still Hold the Crown
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
23 Mar 2018 – Almost every farmer in India’s massive rural swathes is tethered, in one way or another, to the sahukar, the Indian variety of the moneylender, the ubiquitous, ravenous loan shark. For centuries, moneylenders have monopolized rural Indian credit markets.
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Preventing for Peace: A Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
When aggression we prevent…
bullying
corruption
crime
Stairway to Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
Led Zeppelin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Original Version from 1971- A True Classic! (With Lyrics)
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Jean Giono (30 Mar 1895 – 8 Oct 1970): The Energies of the Earth
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Jean Giono was one of the most original French advocates of nonviolence. Giono, a pantheist philosopher, novelist of rural life, and in his later days, a moviemaker, had a fame in the wider public even among those who opposed his nonviolence.
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Despite Claims to the Contrary, an Israel-Hezbollah War Is Unlikely for the Foreseeable Future–for These Reasons
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
23 Mar 2018 – In the coming year, but more likely well beyond, Hezbollah and its sponsors in Tehran will be shackled fighting in Syria. A major war with Israel is extremely risky for them. Despite being able to inflict serious damage on Israel, such a war would ignite a fierce Israeli response that could decimate Hezbollah and Iranian forces and bases in Syria and undermine Iran’s regional goals. Iran theocratic leadership is cautious and it’s unlikely that it would take that risk.
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Fashion USA
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
26 Mar 2018
Tailored
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Fifteen Years after the Start of the Iraq War, the U.S. Is at War in at Least Seven Countries
Joshua Keating | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – According to the unclassified portion of the National Defense Authorization Act report, America is currently at war in seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Niger, and Yemen. But this list is a bit incomplete.
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Where Has Water Disappeared? A Looming Crisis
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
24 Mar 2018 – As a result of global warming several glaciers are melting and rising sea levels; many small islands facing the risk of being submerged in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. On the other side, a contrary development: several rivers face depletion of their water in some months since the faster melting results in the river waters flowing into oceans and seas. Another problem: some ponds and lakes are disappearing.
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Latuff – MintPress News,
26 Mar 2018
It figures…
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Mass Protests in Brazil against Death Squad Assassination of Marielle Franco
Miguel Andrade | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
21 Mar 2018 – The brutal execution of Rio de Janeiro city counselor Marielle Franco on March 14 came as a shock for Brazilians but not as a surprise. Known as a participant in black nationalist and feminist politics, she had left a black feminist meeting in downtown Rio on the night she was killed; she had also won support among workers in the northern sector, above all for exposing police violence.
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Ivory up in Flames, but Who Really Noticed? How Messages on Elephant Poaching Might Be Missed
Matthew H. Holden, et al. – The Conversation,
26 Mar 2018
11 Mar 2018 – The destruction of a massive haul of illegal ivory was supposed to send a message to poachers and those who trade in the tusks. Did they notice, or can the ivory be used to help elephant conservation?
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Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx’s Law of Value
Samir Amin | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism has been able to survive through its genius for disguising corporate profit imperatives as opportunities for individual human equality and advancement. But it was the genius of Karl Marx, in his masterwork, Capital, to discover the converse law of surplus value: behind the illusion of the democratic, supply-and-demand marketplace, lies the workplace, where people trying to earn a living are required to work way beyond the time it takes to pay their wages.
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(Deutsch) Den Kaukasus wach küssen – Friedensbildung in einer eingefrorenen Region
Otto Ulrich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Hinter diesem spielpädagogischen Friedensbildungsansatz steht die von Johan Huizinga in seinem 1936 herausgegebenen, hochaktuellen Klassiker „Homo Ludens“ aufgezeigte kulturgeschichtliche Tatsache: durch 6000 Jahre Menschheitsgeschichte war es offenbar das Spiel, das die Transformation, die Übergänge in neue Formen des Zusammenlebens, unter veränderten Rahmenbedingungen, übend und gemeinsam spielend, zumindest erleichtert hat. An diese so starke und unkonventionelle Tradition des Aufbaus von Friedenskapazitäten und Friedensmentalitäten versucht das Projekt: „Peace in Caucasus“ anzuknüpfen.
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(Italiano) Non guerra al terrorismo ma dialogo per delle soluzioni
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
9 marzo 2018 – Sono seduto a un tavolo da qualche parte in Afghanistan. Al tavolo ci sono tre taliban; pashtun come la gran parte dei taliban. La mia domanda iniziale è quella standard: “Come sarebbe l’Afghanistan dove vi piacerebbe vivere?”, con domande successive altrettanto standard: “Che cos’è il peggio che vi è capitato?” e “C’è stato un periodo buono in passato?”
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Australia-ASEAN Summit Held amid US-China Tensions
James Cogan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
From March 16 to 18, a second biennial summit between Australia and the Association of South East Asian Nations took place in Sydney. ASEAN is made up of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar (Burma). Each head of government attended the Sydney summit, apart from the volatile, right-wing president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte.
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The Ocean Currents Brought Us a Lovely Gift Today…
Rich Horner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
British diver Rich Horner posted footage of his swim off Bali’s Manta Point on Sat 3 Mar 2018: “Some plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic cups, plastic sheets, plastic buckets, plastic sachets, plastic straws, plastic baskets, plastic bags, more plastic bags, plastic, plastic, so much plastic!”
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Behind Bars: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty to Aboriginal People with Disabilities—In Their Own Words (Part 2)
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
19 Mar 2018
In Part 2, Michael Brull gives voice to the victims.
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Hawaii: Training Ground for My Lai Massacre and Catastrophic Nuclear War
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
50th Anniversary: The My Lai Massacre was the deliberate murder by U.S. troops of 504 innocent civilians, including women, children and grandparents in Vietnam on March 16, 1968. Silence is complicity. It’s been said many times, “Prevention is the only solution.”
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March 16, the Blackest Day in Kashmir History
Mohamad Ashraf Khwaja | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
The 16th of March is the blackest day for all Kashmiris. On this day in 1846, an inhuman sale of Kashmir and Kashmiris was made with a person (Gulab Singh) whom Lord Hardinge called ‘the greatest rascal of Asia’ by a nation (Britain) to which Napoleon called ‘the country of shopkeepers’. Ironically, this sordid sale of the transaction was erroneously termed as ‘The treaty of Amritsar’.
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International Peace Congress 2018
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
Saturday 7 April Westminster Quaker Meeting House, London
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Youth Camps Shape New Generations with Patriotism, Pushups and Prayer
Will Carless | Reveal-The Center for Investigative Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
9 Mar 2018 – Over the past year, photographer Sarah Blesener paid visits to a host of camps aimed at instilling American kids with patriotic pride, military training and religious belief. In rural central Florida, a group of children pray over the breakfast and ask for safety during their upcoming weapons training, during which they will learn how to disarm a knife-wielding attacker, load a rifle and properly handle a handgun.
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(Français) Palestine Occupée: «Nous voyons l’espoir dans leurs yeux»
Mazin Qumsiyeh | The International Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
Président Donald Trump a décidé que la date de transfert de l’ambassade des Etats-Unis à Jérusalem Occupée serait le 15 mai 2018. C’est particulièrement remarquable parce cette date est celle de la commémoration de la Nakba, le jour où contre la volonté de la grande majorité de ses habitants, un Etat juif d’apartheid a été créé par la force des armes en Palestine.
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The 50-Year Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre: How Can Professed Christians Defend Wartime Atrocities?
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
50 years ago today, on March 16,1968, a company of green, battle-untested US Army combat soldiers from the Americal Division, swept into the un-defended Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, rounded up the 500+ unarmed women, children, babies and old men, and efficiently executed almost all of them in cold blood, Nazi-style. No weapons or Viet Cong soldiers were found in the village. The entire killing operation took only 4 hours.
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Behind Bars: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty to Aboriginal People with Disabilities–Solitary Confinement (Part 3)
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
19 Mar 2018
Part 3 of this special series looks at the use of solitary confinement against disabled Aboriginal prisoners.
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Preventing War and Promoting Peace – A Guide for Health Professionals
Cambridge University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is an interdisciplinary study of how pervasive militarism creates a propensity for war through the influence of academia, economic policy, the defense industry, and the news media.
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No Health But Bombs!
Baher Kamal – Wall Street International Magazine,
19 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 – The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)–2017 Nobel Peace Laureate–along with other civil society organisations, has been relentlessly alerting against what private banks and pension funds have done with your money: financing the production of nukes. At least 1 in 2 of our “Planet-mates” human beings does not know what basic health services are all about.
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(Português) Os zoológicos e sua realidade invisível
Gabriel Bitencourt - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
19 Mar 2018
6 mar 2018 – Recentemente, divulguei o teor de um áudio que havia recebido e que foi gravado no interior do zoológico de Sorocaba. Nele, um dos funcionários contava, e defendia seu ponto de vista, que “dava caldos” – rápidos afogamentos – em macacos para que eles não fugissem da ilhota em que habitam.
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Further Signs of More War: A Most Dangerous Game
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – Donald Trump’s days of playing the passive/aggressive host of a reality-television game show are coming to an end… Today things are far more sophisticated and sinister, with a massive and unrelenting war on truth being waged by the Western corporate media, an arm of the CIA, capitalism’s invisible army. It is a twisted game show with deadly consequences. Its method is Janus-faced.
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The Devil’s Dynamo
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled The Devil’s Dynamo. It is a collection of articles and book chapters that I have written about the way in which military-industrial complexes throughout the world drive and perpetuate the institution of war. A considerable amount of new material has also been added. The book can be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link:
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International Solar Alliance – A Symbol of Hope and Cooperation
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – The inaugural meeting of the Solar Alliance gives us hope that the challenges of environmental pollution, global warming and climate change are being recognized and addressed by many countries. This meeting also encourages the coming together of different nations — developed and developing, to meet common challenges through goodwill and cooperation.
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Australia: Crime Does Pay, the War on Drugs Doesn’t
John Ryan – New Matilda,
19 Mar 2018
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different outcome. John Ryan from the Penington Institute weighs in on Australia’s never-ending, never-winning war on drugs.
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Myanmar Levels Former Rohingya Villages to Build Camp for Returnees: Maps and Graphics
Irwin Loy | IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
Myanmar has bulldozed entire Rohingya villages to make way for a massive camp at the centre of a stalled plan to house returning refugees, an analysis of new satellite imagery shows.
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Mystery of Love (Music Video of the Week)
Sufjan Stevens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
From the Oscar winning movie ‘Call Me by Your Name’ soundtrack. Written and performed by Sufjan Stevens. (TMS Film Review HERE)
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The Season for Nonviolence 2018
Mahatma Gandhi Canadian Foundation for World Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
The Season for Nonviolence is a global grassroots campaign dedicated to raising awareness about the transformative power of nonviolence. It was established by Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, as a yearly event celebrating the philosophies and lives of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Since 1998, the Season has marked the 64 calendar days between the assassination of Gandhi on January 30 and that of King on April 4.
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Cuba a ‘Champion’ of Children’s Rights: UNICEF
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018 – According to UNICEF, 99.5 percent of Cuban children under six years of age attend an early childhood education program or institution. It has declared Cuba a ‘champion’ in children’s rights.
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Stephen Hawking’s Final Warnings Urged World to Halt Climate Change
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 – Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds on Earth, died peacefully at his home in Cambridge early today at the age of 76. “I am not denying the importance of fighting climate change and global warming, unlike Donald Trump, who may just have taken the most serious, and wrong, decision on climate change this world has seen,” Hawking said last year about the Paris withdrawal.
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Clearing the Radioactive Rubble Heap That Was Fukushima Daiichi, 7 Years On
Tim Hornyak | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
The water is tainted, the wreckage is dangerous, and disposing of it will be a prolonged, complex and costly process.
→ read full article“Decline and Fall” of the US Empire – Introduction to the American Edition
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
America itself may look at the map and discover that they are located in North America, with two neighbors, big in population and in land, and conclude that MEX-US-CAN, Mexuscan, makes a lot of sense. At least worth contemplating. Making USA not America First as somebody proclaims while producing America Last. But America Normal.
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(Português) Kuan Yin: Ela que atende aos gritos do mundo e restaura o equilíbrio
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
8 de março, o Dia Internacional da Mulher, é um momento apropriado para se concentrar no impacto destrutivo da violência contra as mulheres. Tal violência é um ataque à sua integridade corporal e à sua dignidade. Precisamos enfatizar a universalidade desta violência, a multiplicidade de suas formas e as formas em que a violência, a discriminação contra as mulheres e o sistema de dominação mais amplo, baseado na subordinação e na desigualdade, estão inter-relacionados.
→ read full articleTrickling Down…
Lindsay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
Practice Makes Perfect…
→ read full article“Bloody Gina” Haspel’s Disqualifying Record of CIA Torture
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
19 Mar 2018
15 Mar 2018 – Haspel’s career at the CIA spans more than three decades. Her work is shrouded in secrecy, but two things are well-known: She ran a CIA “black site” where people were brutally tortured, then she helped cover up the torture through the destruction of videotapes, against presidential orders. These alone should immediately disqualify her for confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
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(Italiano) L’arte della pace. In memoria di Ekkehart Krippendorff
Francesco Comina ed Enrico Peyretti – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
19 Mar 2018
È morto il 27 febbraio 2018, nella “sua” Berlino, Ekkehart Krippendorff, 84 anni, uno dei pionieri degli studi per la pace in Europa. Da cinque anni si era ritirato e non aveva più risposto ai molti inviti che gli venivano anche dall’Italia, sua seconda patria.
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Behind Bars: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty to Aboriginal People with Disabilities–Overcrowding, No Medical Treatment, No Accessibility (Part 4)
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
19 Mar 2018
Part 4 of this special series looks at the conditions prisoners are forced to live in.
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The Social and Political Roots of Mass Shootings in America
International Youth and Students for Social Equality | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 – The second fundamental issue bound up with the rampant homicidal violence in American society is the state-sanctioned killing carried out by the US military around the world. The “war on terror,” now in its 18th year, dominates not only the political life of the United States, but its social culture as well.
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Eliminate Nuclear Weapons by Divesting from Them
Robert F. Dodge, MD | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – The just released “Don’t Bank On The Bomb“ report draws attention to the “Hall Of Shame” companies that are either financing or producing nuclear weapons and their components. There are 20 principal companies and 329 significant investors the world over who are financing this work investing over $525 Billion in the last three years.
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Call Me by Your Name: Academy Award-winning Film from Luca Guadagnino
Hiram Lee | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – Call Me by Your Name was one of the more highly regarded films of the past year. It received Academy Award nominations in the categories of Best Picture and Best Actor and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. While the film may have been among the more humanistic works nominated, it is also a strangely unsatisfying work.
(Movie Soundtrack, ‘Mystery of Love,’ on TMS Music Video of the Week)
Unprostrated
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
I have prostate cancer, but I’m happy. Here’s how… I will ride this out. I will own this disease but I won’t be defined by it: I will not be prostrated by my prostate. I will be gone for a few weeks but when I return, I do solemnly swear I will still be the argumentative old git with whom you are familiar.
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Russia, Russia, Russia: America’s Theater of the Absurd
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 – We need a cultural Renaissance, a global Age of Enlightenment…, but with robots flipping our hamburgers, 60,000 homeless in L.A., an opioid epidemic claiming more American lives every 18 months than our imperial barbarism claimed in Vietnam in 10 years, our prospects are parlous and too dim to discern. And, on top of all that…there’s Russia!
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Ocean Pollution: Simple, Everyday Ways You Can Help Make a Difference
Christopher Adams | ModestFish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
In this article, I’m going to share with you the current state of your ocean (warning: it’s worrying) and what you can do to help protect the reason you’re alive today.
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Statement by the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide about Rohingya Refugees from Myanmar
Office of the UN Secretary-General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
12 March 2018 – “Let us be clear: international crimes were committed in Myanmar. Rohingya Muslims have been killed, tortured, raped, burnt alive and humiliated, solely because of who they are. All the information I have received indicates that the intent of the perpetrators was to cleanse northern Rakhine state of their existence, possibly even to destroy the Rohingya as such, which, if proven, would constitute the crime of genocide.” — Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
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As Syrian War Crimes Tribunals Are Readied, Qassim Soleimani Instructs Assad and Iran’s Militia:
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
“No terrorist bodies; no evidence; no evidence; no crime; no crime; no Tribunals. Disappear terrorist bodies!”
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Standing with Pablo
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
Like the three tenors, like three pillars,
there are three Pablos for peace:
Picasso, Neruda and Peredes.
America’s Shkreli Problem
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
9 Mar 2018 – Martin Shkreli was sentenced today to seven years in prison. The Shkreli personality disorder can be found on Wall Street, in the executive suites of America’s largest corporations, in Hollywood, in Silicon Valley, in our prestigious universities, and in Washington, even in Trump’s White House. Face it: America has a Shkreli problem.
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