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Johan Galtung, a Pioneer: Conceptualizing Peace Journalism
Antonio C. S. Rosa, M.A. | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Before the 19th century, we had “disease journalists” who reported in detail how epidemics were spreading and how people suffered. Today we have “health journalists” who write about current research on new cures and therapies, and inform about healthy lifestyles promoting health as a value. Similarly, the time has come for “peace journalists” to write not only about war, but also about its causes, prevention, and ways to restore peace by nonviolent means and promoting peace as a value. They need not invent themselves solutions to conflicts–in the same way that health journalists need not invent cures for diseases themselves; they ask specialists.
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Saudi Arabia Falls Apart
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Could Khashoggi’s disappearance bring attention back to the devastating Saudi war on Yemen?
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Rebelling Against Extinction
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
19 Oct 2018 – The foremost ambition among graduates in the 1950s and 1960s was, through government or the liberal professions, to serve their country. Today, the notion of public service seems as quaint as a local post office. We expect those who govern us to grab what they can, permitting predatory banks and corporations to fleece the public realm, then collecting their reward in the form of lucrative directorships.
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UN Postal Agency ‘Regrets’ US Withdrawal
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
The United Nations specialized agency which coordinates the global postal system, has expressed “regret” over the withdrawal by the United States from the world body’s membership.
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This Is Not Law Enforcement – It Is a War Crime
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
17 Oct 2018 – This one-sided war that the Israeli army is waging against the Khan Al-Akhmar civilian population includes: widespread land robbery; relentless destruction of houses; establishing settlements on stolen land, then expanding them; deportations; stealing water and quarry sources; preventing the return of Palestinians; preventing unification of families; preventing entry of visitors. These are not connected in any way to national security but with Israel’s project of territorial expansion.
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“Genocide Cards”: Rohingya Refugees on Why They Risked Their Lives to Refuse ID Cards
Natalie Brinham | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
21 Oct 2018 – Wary of the past, Rohingya have frustrated the UN’s attempts to provide them with documentation. “These cards make us into foreigners… We are already citizens of this country.”
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Overthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
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The United States Did It Again: Its Warplanes Use White Phosphorous Munitions in Syria
Peter Korzun | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
14 Oct 2018 – The US-led coalition used white phosphorus munitions against the Syrian province of Deir Ez-Zor on Oct. 13 resulting in civilian casualties. Last month, WP munitions were also used by two US Air Force F-15s in an attack on the town of Hajin in Deir-ez-Zor. Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons “prohibits the use of said incendiary weapons against civilians (already forbidden by the Geneva Conventions) or in civilian areas.”
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(Français) Voici les exigences que l’Equateur impose à Julian Assange pour mettre fin à son isolement
Cassandra Fairbanks | Le Grand Soir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
16 oct 2018 – Bien que de nombreux rapports affirment que les communications de Julian Assange ont été rétablies, elles ne le sont pas encore – et il y aura un régime sévère d’amendes et de sanctions sur ses paroles et ses écrits quand elles le seront.
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“How Fascism Works”: Jason Stanley on Trump, Bolsonaro and the Rise of Fascism across the Globe
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
In his new book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” Yale professor Jason Stanley warns about the dangers of normalizing fascist politics, writing, “What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been.”
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Modern Vet
Caricatura – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
No Comment
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Love Generation (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Sinclar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Enjoy!
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(Português) Se alguém tivesse me falado há 15 anos…
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
16 out 2018 – Se alguém tivesse me falado há 15 anos que chegaria um dia em que os brasileiros votariam em massa em um cara que não apenas vê a ditadura militar como um período lindo, mas que além disso fez apologia à tortura, disse que não veria problema em matar 30 mil pessoas para mudar o Brasil, e que homenageou o maior torturador da história moderna brasileira, eu nunca acreditaria.
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Nonviolent Afghans Bring a Breath of Fresh Air
Dr Hakim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
We acquiesce to continued international arms sales because we are comfortable in our pet beliefs and fixed ideas about defeating ‘terrorists’ through superior warfare. Just as we preserve our fossil-fuel habits despite our awareness of climate science, we ignore U.S. congressionally-mandated evidence that the ‘war against terrorism’ has in fact increased terrorist attacks five-fold.
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69 of the Richest 100 Entities on the Planet Are Corporations, Not Governments, Figures Show
Global Justice Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
17 Oct 2018 – When it comes to the top 200 entities, the gap between corporations and governments gets even more pronounced: 157 are corporations. Walmart, Apple and Shell all accrued more wealth than even fairly rich countries like Russia, Belgium, Sweden.
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US Shutting Down Consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem
Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
18 Oct 2018 – The United States has decided to close its consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem, the State Department announced today, potentially further downgrading relations between the US and the Palestinian government. US claims concerns for ‘efficiency’ but is accused of further siding with Israelis.
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Banned Weapons Used in All US War Theaters
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
18 Oct 2018 – Whenever US forces aggressively attacks countries, dirty war is waged, including use of banned weapons.
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Then vs. Now
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Viewpoints…
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Borges on Turning Trauma, Misfortune, and Humiliation into Raw Material for Art
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
“All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
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An Ode to a Village Postman
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
A village democracy is a microcosm of the national democracy. The villagers themselves are quaint heroes and most bewildering windows with which to view their world. The postman became my lens for gazing the rural horizon. He was an informal rural sociologist and demographer for all visiting government officials.
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Free Speech and Free Press in Saudi Arabia
Sophia George | Free Speech and Free Press around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Saudi Arabia: A country known for its rich resources and massive size ranks 158 on the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, increasing one place from 157 in 2010.
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On Western Civilisation
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
One of the best-known quotes about Western civilisation is the exchange attributed to the Mahatma Gandhi. What did he think of it? he was asked. The great man’s reply – “that would be a good idea” – has passed into legend. An equally famous aperçu from the US writer and political candidate Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man (sic) to understand something”, he wrote, “when his salary depends on his not understanding it”.
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(Français) Brésil: le suprémaciste Steve Bannon, ami public commun de Bolsonaro & Marine Le Pen
Smail Hadj Ali | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Interrogée sur Bolsonaro le jeudi 11 octobre Mme Le Pen a été d’une grande clarté sur ce candidat de l’extrême droite brésilienne : « Dès que quelqu’un dit quelque chose de déplaisant, il est d’extrême droite dans les médias français. Je ne vois pas ce qui en l’occurrence fait de M. Bolsonaro un candidat d’extrême droite”.
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Women’s Critical Role in the Food Chain
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
15 OCTOBER is the U.N. designated INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMEN. It is a day in which to highlight the need to increase food production, especially in those countries that face a persistent food deficit. There is a need to increase production, create better storage methods to prevent post-harvest loss, and improve distribution methods.
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Wasting Food in a Hungry World
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
WORLD FOOD DAY: 16 OCTOBER – India produces enough food to meet the needs of its entire population, and has at its disposal arable land that has the potential to produce food surplus for export. Yet, it is unable to feed millions of its people. It ranks 100th among 119 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2017, where it has consistently ranked poorly.
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Cognitive Embodiment of Nature “Re-cognized” Systemically
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Part III of Collapse and Renaissance of Civilization: Dilemma of Communication and Engagement Understood Otherwise – The argument here is that, rather than depending on authorities anxious to ensure that their particular worldview is faithfully reproduced in any Renaissance (however ineffectually), individuals may in effect be free to adopt and test alternative modalities at will.
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Kavanaugh Hearing on Saturday Night Live with Matt Damon
SNL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Matt Damon Kills It as Kavanaugh – Have a laugh!
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(Français) La solution souffle dans le vent
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
7 octobre 2018 – Je suis tombé sur an article à propos de deux réunions le même jour aux Nations Unies sur les armes nucléaires. Les principaux États nucléaires (États-Unis, France, Royaume-Uni, Chine et Russie) se sont tous rendus à la réunion sur la non-prolifération et ils ont boycotté ainsi la réunion sur le désarmement! Comme l’article le conclut à juste titre, les États nucléaires “n’accordent pas de priorité à leur obligation d’éliminer leurs propres armes de destruction massive, mais se concentrent plutôt sur l’empêchement des autres d’acquérir de telles armes”.
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(Français) Les empreintes digitales de la CIA sont sur l’élection au Brésil
Marcelo Zero | Brasil Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
La montée du fascisme bolsonarien dans la dernière ligne droite de la campagne présidentielle*, suralimentée par une avalanche de fausses informations disséminées sur Internet, n’est pas surprenante. C’est une vieille tactique développée par les agences de renseignement américaines et britanniques dans le but de manipuler l’opinion publique et d’influencer les processus politiques et les élections. Elle a été utilisée en Ukraine, dans le Printemps arabe et au Brésil en 2013. Il y a de la science derrière cette manipulation.
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(Français) Impérialisme et Fascisme
Kurt Gossweiler | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Le fascisme, au même titre que l’impérialisme, est un phénomène international.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
The mass media could mobilize us to action, but they have failed in their duty. Our educational systems could also wake us up and make us act, but they too have failed us. The battle to save the earth from human greed and folly has to be fought in the alternative media. The alternative media, and all who work with them deserve both our gratitude and our financial support. They alone can correct the distorted and incomplete picture of the world that we obtain from the mass media. They alone can show us the path to a future in which our children, grandchildren, and all future generations can survive.
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A Nobel Prize-Winning Cancer Therapy Will Be Unaffordable for Most. Public Pharmaceuticals Can Help Change That.
Dana Brown | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
9 Oct 2018 – Cuba has, perhaps, the most developed public pharmaceutical sector in the world and is actually known for its achievements in biologics. It nationalized the pharmaceutical sector in 1960 and consolidated a number of pharmaceutical manufacturing companies under the auspices of the Ministry of Health. By 2013, the Cuban biotechnology industry held around 1,200 international patents and was marketing pharmaceutical products and vaccines in more than 50 countries.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report #13 (Oct 2018)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
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TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
… and, we promise we are not savages.
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Palestine: Transfer Anxiety and the Anxiety of Alternatives
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018 – A state of anxiety prevails among the Palestinians, a situation that stems from two sources: the first: the escalation and acceleration of the annexation and its procedures, the growing fear of official annexation to Israel and expulsion to abroad; and the second: concern over the vague Palestinian responses to what is happening.
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My Way (Music Video of the Week)
Frank Sinatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
The Voice of the 20th Century – Composition: Paul Anka
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“On Company Business” – A Documentary about the CIA
Kim Scipes | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
30 Sep 2018 – There is a new version of a 1980 film on the CIA called On Company Business. It is a history of the CIA told by men and one woman who have worked there and later turned against it. There is a lot of amazing real-time video included.
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Global Warming Report, an ‘Ear-Splitting Wake-Up Call’ Warns UN Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
A special report on limiting global warming released on Monday [8 Oct] by a UN scientific panel, should be heard around the world as an “ear-splitting wake-up call” said UN chief António Guterres. He said the long-awaited findings show that “climate change is running faster than we are – and we are running out of time.”
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Gutless Wonders
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
A chief aim of political or business propaganda is to put ‘common people’ in doubt about their own judgement – and thereby to make them dependent on the judgement of ‘the elites’. Throughout history, it has been a cunning political and business strategy to induce – through ceaseless propaganda – an inferiority complex amongst ‘common people’.
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Brazil’s Neo-Liberal Fascist Road to Power
James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
10 Oct 2018 – The decisive electoral victory of far-right Brazilian presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro startled politicians and analysts of the traditional parties of the left and right. The possible implications for the present and near future raises a number of fundamental questions whether it represents a ‘model’ for other countries or is the result of the specific circumstances of Brazil.
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Israeli PM’s Wife Goes on Trial in Delivery Meals Case
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara appeared in court today for the first hearing in the fraud trial against her, in which she is alleged to have misused state funds in ordering catered meals.
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Amazon Atlas
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
11 Oct 2018 – Today, WikiLeaks publishes a “Highly Confidential” internal document from the cloud computing provider Amazon. It lists the addresses and some operational details of over one hundred data centers spread across fifteen cities in nine countries. To accompany this document, WikiLeaks also created a map showing where Amazon’s data centers are located. Amazon is the leading cloud provider for the United States intelligence community.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
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The CIA Finger in Brazil’s Elections
Marcelo Zero | Brasil Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
5 Oct 2018 – The growth of Bolsonarian fascism in the final stretch of the election campaign, turbo charged by an avalanche of fake news disseminated on the internet, is not surprising. It is an old tactic developed by American and British intelligence agencies, with the goal of manipulating public opinion and influencing political processes and elections. It was used in the Ukraine, in the Arab Spring and in Brazil in 2013. There is science behind this manipulation.
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Dogs as Teachers
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
If dogs were our teachers, we would learn:
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Trump’s Idea of World Order Endangers the Human Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
This is an interview with Daniel Falcone that was published in slightly modified form in Counterpunch on October 4, 2018. Question: What are your general thoughts on Trump’s recent UN talk and how world opinion received it?
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Transformational Journey – John F. Kennedy’s Turning toward Peace
David T. Ratcliffe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
In 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy gave the commencement address to the graduating class at American University. Saturday Review editor Norman Cousins summed up the significance of that remarkable speech: “At American University on June 10, 1963, President Kennedy proposed an end to the Cold War.” Khrushchev called the American University Address “the greatest speech by any American President since Roosevelt.”
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16 Science-Based Health Benefits of Probiotics
Katie Stone, ND – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Probiotics are a type of beneficial bacteria that live in your gut. They’re actually a very important part of your immune system; 70 percent of your immune system cells reside in your gut! Many of the scientific studies on probiotics show that they can provide positive changes for those with food allergies, behavioral disorders, mood changes, autoimmune disease, arthritis, chronic fatigue, skin disorders, and even cancer. That’s why a probiotic-rich diet is so valuable.
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I Love Therefore I Am!
Koozma J. Tarasoff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
The Evolution of Homo Sapiens
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(Português) Brasil: A democracia diante do abismo
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
10 out 2018 – Há momentos na vida em que temos que escolher de que lado politicamente nos colocamos. Ou do lado da democracia que respeita as liberdades, permite a manifestação dos cidadãos. Ou do lado de quem a nega, exalta a ditadura militar de 1964, magnifica seus torturadores, que, segundo ele, nem deviam torturar, mas simplesmente fuzilar, …
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Buddhist Dhammapada — Seeking Happiness, Nirvana, Enlightenment
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
A collection of verses dealing with various human aspects are contained in a Buddhist collection called Dhammapada. These verses written in Pali language, were compiled about 2,600 years ago, are part of the Buddhist scripture Tipitaka, which literally means three baskets.
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Good Bye, Gandhi!
L K Sharma | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
Writing on Gandhi in an India stricken by faux patriotism and jingoism causes gloom. A poem in Indian English provides an antidote.
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“Pinochet via Fujimori”: Wall Street’s New Man in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro
Brasil Wire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
“No room for feelings” say Wall Street insiders as they back another Neofascist to deliver Neoliberalism, at the point of a gun, in the most resource-rich nation on earth.
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Global Warming of 1.5 °C
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
8 Oct 2018 – An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
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(Português) Como podemos subestimar o sofrimento de um animal reduzido a comida?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
O ser humano é embrutecido pela naturalização do destino terrível dos animais que são colocados à nossa mesa.
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To Fix the Climate Crisis We Must Face Up to Our Imperial Past
Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
8 Oct 2018 – It’s time to join the dots between our overlapping crises of – and shared solutions to – environmental degradation, damaged health, racial oppression and gender injustice.
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Feeding 10 Billion People by 2050 within Planetary Limits May Be Achievable
Stockholm Resilience Centre | Science X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
10 Oct 2018 – A global shift toward healthy and more plant-based diets, halving food loss and waste and improving farming practices and technologies are required to feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050. The study, led by University of Oxford, was published in the journal Nature.
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(Français) «Hollywood Propaganda»: La fabrication du consentement au cinéma
Laurent Dauré | Les Crises – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
8 octobre 2018 – La publication d’Hollywood propaganda de Matthew Alford est assurément la bienvenue, tant les travaux récents sur le pouvoir idéologique du cinéma américain sont rares en français, a fortiori quand il est question de la politique étrangère des États-Unis et des guerres qui lui sont consubstantielles. Pour la première fois un ouvrage analyse de façon approfondie et documentée ce soft power au service de l’hégémonie américaine, passant en revue des dizaines de films sortis depuis le début des années 1990.
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Insightfulness and Palestine
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
14 Oct 2018 – Observing the evolution of the Palestinian solidarity movement and the growing influence of Jewish bodies within this movement has provided me with the opportunity to monitor a spectacular anti-insightful operation. For many years I have wondered why the Palestinian solidarity discourse is uniquely anti-intellectual. It basically jettisons critical thinking and acts instead from a rigid activism manual.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Engaging with Otherness Otherwise? – Part III of ‘Collapse and Renaissance of Civilization: Dilemma of Communication and Engagement Understood Otherwise’
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Rethinking Nuclearism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – More than thirty years ago I applied the term ‘nuclearism’ to the association between the hardware dimensions of the weaponry and their various software dimensions ranging from strategic doctrine to the infatuations of powerful men with their awesome destructive capabilities.
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John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that should have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
—John Lennon
Noam Chomsky: Facebook and Google Pose a Manifest Danger
Jacob Sugarman | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
1 Oct 2018 – In “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” (1988), authors Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky identified what they called the “five filters of editorial bias”: Size, Ownership and Profit Orientation; the Advertising License to Do Business; Sourcing Mass Media News; Flak and the Enforcers; and Anti-Communism.
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U.S. Ends 1955 Treaty with Iran, After U.N. Court Orders a Partial Lift of Sanctions
Bill Chappell | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – The U.N.’s top court gave a partial victory to Iran today saying the U.S. “must remove” sanctions that could stop food, medical supplies and other humanitarian products from entering Iran. In response, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that because of continuing disputes with Iran, “I am therefore announcing today that the United States is terminating the Treaty of Amity with Iran” — referring to the 1955 treaty that laid out economic relations between the two countries.
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India: Why Don’t We Talk More about Mental Health?
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
World Mental Health Day – 10 October 2018
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(Français) Le désespoir de Gandhi et la lutte pour la vérité et l’amour
Robert J Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
«Quand je désespère, je me souviens qu’au cours de toute l’histoire, les moyens de vérité et d’amour ont toujours gagnés. Il y a eu des tyrans et des meurtriers et ils peuvent sembler invincibles, mais à la fin, ils s’effondrent toujours. Pensez-y – toujours.» — M.K. Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi — An Icon of Truth, Amity, Nonviolence and Cleanliness
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The Indian government is active in construction of toilets and encouraging the private corporate sector towards this objective. Several NGOs are also helping in the mammoth task of construction and maintenance of millions of toilets in homes, public places, in schools, etc.
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Suu Kyi and Nobel Laureates
Saudi Gazette – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
8 Oct 2018 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee and Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi were very much in the news last week for two reasons. First, the committee announced this year’s NPP winners: Nadia Murad of Iraq and Denis Mukwege of Congo. Second, the announcement by the Nobel Foundation that Suu Kyi’s Peace Prize will not be withdrawn as demanded by many people around the world including some Nobel Peace Laureates.
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It Is Liberalism That Has Helped Sow the Seeds of Illiberalism
Mike Wayne | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Liberalism has lost its way because it has forgotten its own history, and the left seems similarly blindsided.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate) Aung San Suu Kyi Exclusive Interview
NHK World Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – In an exclusive with NHK in Tokyo today, she said, “I don’t care about the prizes and honors as such. I’m sorry that friends are not as steadfast as they might be. Because I think friendship means understanding, basically, trying to understand rather than to just make your own judgement, but prizes come and prizes go.”
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U.S. Military Project Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn
NBC News | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
4 Oct 2018 – A research arm of the U.S. military is exploring the possibility of deploying insects to make plants more resilient by altering their genes. Some experts say the work may be seen as a potential biological weapon.
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman | Short Documentary
John Perkins | Zeitgeist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Many North Europeans think Greece and Europe are in crisis because the Greeks lived more luxuriously than they could afford. The truth is far from that. I can tell with certainty, Greece is not paying for its thoughtlessness. Greece is under the attack of economic hitmen. And I’m afraid so is the whole Europe, country after country.
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The Suffocation of Democracy
Christopher R. Browning | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
25 Oct 2018 – As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.
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Syria’s No-Fly Zone
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
6 Oct 2018 – There is then no room for doubt that Russia’s promise to bolster the security of her interests in Syria is about accomplishing a no-fly zone over most of Syria, if not all of it.
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Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Hannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
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Five Concrete Measures Can End Rohingya Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Five steps can be taken towards achieving justice, repatriation and the rebuilding of Rohingya communities in Myanmar.
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Global Wealth Concentration: The Global Power Elite Drive Amazon Share Value to a Trillion Dollars
Peter Phillips | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Exciting news for capitalism was the recent achievement of trillion-dollar value for both Amazon and Apple, making them the first corporations to obtain such a lofty status. Amazon’s skyrocketing growth makes its CEO, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person with a $160 billion net worth.
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One Man Could End World Hunger, but He Won’t
Lee Camp | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – We all know the Lex Luthor-looking head of Amazon is the richest human in the world. Did you notice I said Bezos “achieved” a net worth of $150 billion, and that seems like a normal way to phrase it? However, would you say, “Jeffrey Dahmer achieved eating the hearts of 10 different people?” No, that would sound odd to you. Yet having $150 billion is nearly as sociopathic, and still we use terminology as if it’s GREAT!
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How the Tentacles of the US Military Are Strangling the Planet
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
4 Oct 2018 -The overreach of the US military provides incentive for it to treat every conflict as a potential war. The US military has a staggering 883 military bases in 183 countries. In contrast, Russia has 10 such bases – eight of them in the former USSR. China has one overseas military base. These US-NATO bases provide instability and insecurity rather than peace. Tensions abound around them. Threats emanate from their presence.
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America Is on the Road to Becoming a Fascist State
Robert Scheer | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
5 Oct 2017 – In a compelling essay for The New York Review of Books this month, Christopher R. Browning, a leading historian of the Holocaust and Nazism, outlines the frightening parallels between the United States and the Weimar Republic. “No matter how and when the Trump presidency ends,” he writes, “the specter of illiberalism will continue to haunt American politics.”
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Building Resilience Far from Home: Communal Democracy Practices amongst Urban Congolese Refugees in Uganda
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
It is possible for solution to germinate from within by working as one voice despite the differences and challenges; we reconcile and heal. This is the a testimony of resilience by displaced or sometime segregated people showed to us by the Congolese Refugee Community in deep Katwe suburb in Uganda, far from home; the very “Democratic republic of the Congo”.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
“Keshagesh means Greedy Guts. It’s what you call a little puppy who eats his own food and then wants everybody else’s.” –Buffy Sainte-Marie. Selfishness is the common cold we treat with parental guidance and peer pressure. Greed is a cancer that will consume us as a species unless we get serious about implementing effective interventions.
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Symposium on Global Environmental Law
Richard Falk | Univ. of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law & Governance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The symposium aimed to discuss whether and to what extent emerging concepts in global environmental law can help shed new light on the evolution and challenges of environmental law across different levels and sectors.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018 – I came across a piece about two meetings at the UN on the same day concerning nuclear weapons. The major nuclear states (USA, France, UK, China and Russia) all went to a meeting for non-proliferation and boycotted the meeting for nuclear disarmament. As the article correctly concludes, the nuclear states “place very little priority on their obligations to eliminate their own weapons of mass destruction, focusing instead on preventing others from acquiring such weapons.”
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(Português) Segundo estudo da Comissão Europeia, a dieta vegetariana é mais benéfica para o meio ambiente
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
De acordo com o trabalho, uma dieta vegetariana requer cinco vezes menos água do que uma dieta padrão (que inclui o consumo de carne).
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Alexander Yakovlev
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
In 1958, Alexander Yakovlev was among the first thirty Soviet students who received a Fulbright scholarship to study a year in the United States.
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Stairway to Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
Led Zeppelin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
(Lyrics) ~ *Led Zeppelin for life*
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India, in a First, Sends Seven Rohingya for Deportation to Myanmar
Zarir Hussain | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – In violation of international law, India is deporting Rohingyas back to Myanmar with an ongoing genocide. Indian police bussed seven Rohingya Muslims to the border today to be deported to neighboring Myanmar for illegal entry. Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, additional director general of police, said that the seven men would be handed over to Myanmar authorities on Thursday [4 Oct].
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The Invisible Army: Explaining Private Military and Security Companies
Tea Cimini | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Aug 2018 – Recent US administrations, specifically under President Obama, continued to make private military and security companies part and parcel of their military efforts abroad.
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African Feminists Emphasize Key to Global Peace
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
25 Sep 2018 – Peace is quintessentially a woman’s issue, most clearly when the continuum of male violence against women in its private, social and structural dimensions is grasped. “That continuum of violence persists along a scale of force (fist to nuclear bomb); space (the home, the street, the village, the city, the battlefield and the nation); and time (pre-war, wartime and post-war).”
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Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – The United States Government is now treating Ukraine as if it were a NATO member, and on September 27th donated to Ukraine two warships for use against Russia. This is the latest indication that the US is switching to Ukraine as the locale to start World War III. Here is why Syria is no longer the US alliance’s preferred choice as a place to start WW III:
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The Birth of American Empire
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire – A book by Stephen Kinzer
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Military and U.S. Law Enforcement Establishing Joint Communication Network for Biometric Databases
Nicholas West | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – Does anyone remember that it used to be considered a conspiracy theory to warn people about biometric databases? Well, now that it is an accepted reality, we should be looking even farther down the slippery slope for new signposts indicating even greater plans to track, trace and database all human beings.
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The Longevity Poster
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Rhymes for Reflection/Research
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Weaponizing the ‘New Anti-Semitism’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
22 Sep 2018 – This post consists of an opinion piece developed by several members of California Scholars for Academic Freedom.
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Peace Poll Reveals People Think Conflict Prevention Is Better than Cure
Harriet Lamb | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
20 Sep 2018 – Asked where their governments should spend more to promote peace, people gave top ranking to ‘dealing with the reasons why people fight in the first place’. This was strongly followed by ‘teaching peace, tolerance and conflict resolution in schools’. Again, military interventions had the least support.
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International Day of Nonviolence 2 October
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
The International Day of Nonviolence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of nonviolence: “Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man”.
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What Is Freedom?
Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Not many will dispute that ‘freedom’ is one of the more popular words in English language today — in spite of the fact that, as we shall see, this word does not even have a well-defined meaning.
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What Is Genocide?
Prof. Daniel Feierstein | Rohingya Genocide Documentation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Prof. Daniel Feierstein is president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; director of the Centre for Genocide Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; professor in the Faculty of Genocide at the University of Buenos Aires; author of Genocide as a Social Practice: Reorganizing Society Under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas (Rutgers University Press, 2014)
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