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Requisite 20-fold Articulation of Operative Insights?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
22 Oct 2018 – Produced on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Club of Rome – Checklist of Web Resources on 20 Strategies, Rules, Methods and Insights
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The International Court of Justice Reaffirms the Protection of Humanitarian Goods in Times of Sanctions and Boycotts
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
17 Oct 2018 – The 15-member Court published its unanimous decision on 3 Oct 2018 stating that the U.S. “must remove” sanctions that could stop food, medical supplies, humanitarian products and products needed for civil aviation.
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Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab World Needs Most Is Free Expression
Jamal Khashoggi – The Washington Post,
22 Oct 2018
17 Oct 2018 – A note from Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor: I received this column the day after Jamal was reported missing in Istanbul. The Post held off publishing it because we hoped Jamal would come back to us so that he and I could edit it together. Now I have to accept: That is not going to happen. This is the last piece of his I will edit for The Post. This column perfectly captures his commitment and passion for freedom in the Arab world. A freedom he apparently gave his life for.
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Trump Says US Will Withdraw from Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia
Julian Borger and Martin Pengelly – The Guardian,
22 Oct 2018
21 Oct 2018 – Experts warn of ‘most severe crisis in nuclear arms control since the 1980s’ as Trump confirms US will leave INF agreement. “We’ll have to develop those weapons,” the president told reporters in Nevada after a rally. “We’re going to terminate the agreement and we’re going to pull out.”
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Israeli Bulldozers Enter Palestinian Village Khan Al-Ahmar Ahead of Demolition
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
16 Oct 2018 – Israeli forces have entered Khan al-Ahmar today, a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, with heavy equipment and at least three bulldozers. The village with a mere population of 180 people is situated a few kilometers from Jerusalem between two major illegal Israeli settlements, Maale Adumim and Kfar Adumim. At least seven people were injured and four others were detained after resisting Israeli forces arriving in Khan al-Ahmar.
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UN Security Council to Hear on Oct. 24 from UN Fact-Finding Mission on Rohingya
Coconuts Yangon | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
19 Oct 2018 – The UN Security Council is scheduled to hear a briefing next week from the head of a UN fact-finding mission that has accused Myanmar’s military of atrocities against Muslim Rohingya, diplomats said yesterday. Nine countries including the United States, Britain and France requested the briefing that is likely to be opposed by China, which has friendly ties with Myanmar’s military.
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The Loss of Two Unsung Heroes of International Relations: A Tale of Two ‘Bobs’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
21 Oct 2018 – Two giants of International Relations scholarship died, leaving behind a corpus of work and a legacy of influence. I was fortunate to have enjoyed the friendship of both Robert Gilpin and Robert W. Cox, learning from both of these masters of the field despite their seemingly divergent worldviews.
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Yale Prof Sees Fascism Creeping In U.S.
Thomas Breen – New Haven Independent,
22 Oct 2018
The genocide of racial, sexual and religious minorities may not currently be underway in this country, but the fascist politics and rhetoric that always precede such atrocities have already taken root. So argues Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley in a study of the historic signs of fascist politics and their current manifestations in contemporary political movements in Hungary, Poland, Myanmar, and the United States.
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Transition from a Unipolar to a Multipolar Octagonal World
Johan Galtung | Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, was awarded among others the 1987 High Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize. Galtung has mediated in over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues, 96 as the only author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages. He has published more than 1500 articles and book chapters and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service.
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The Analects of Confucius
Robert Eno | Indiana University Bloomington – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
The Analects of Confucius is an anthology of brief passages that present the words of Confucius and his disciples, describe Confucius as a man, and recount some of the events of his life. The book may have begun as a collection by Confucius’s immediate disciples soon after their Master’s death in 479 BCE.
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A Genocide Incited on Facebook, with Posts from Myanmar’s Military
Paul Mozur – The New York Times,
22 Oct 2018
15 Oct 2018 — They posed as fans of pop stars and national heroes as they flooded Facebook with their hatred. One said Islam was a global threat to Buddhism. Another shared a false story about the rape of a Buddhist woman by a Muslim man. The Facebook posts were not from everyday internet users. Instead, they were from Myanmar military personnel who turned the social network into a tool for ethnic cleansing, according to former military officials, researchers and civilian officials in the country.
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This Is Neoliberalism: Introducing the Invisible Ideology (Part 2)
BarakalypseNow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Neoliberalism is an economic ideology that exists within the framework of capitalism. Over four decades ago, neoliberalism becomes the dominant economic paradigm of global society. In this video, we’ll trace the history of neoliberalism, starting with a survey of neoliberal philosophy and research.
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St Stephen’s College — A Distinguished Academic Institution of Delhi University with a Glorious Past
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Like some other prestigious academic institutions of the World — Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, Sorbonne and others, St Stephen’s College in India enjoys a well-deserved reputation. Nobel Literature laureate Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi are associated with the College as are the former President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, and the former President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
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Slavery Was Never Abolished – It Affects Millions, and You May Be Funding It
Catherine Armstrong – The Conversation,
22 Oct 2018
17 Oct 2018 – Slavery still exists and it happens in plain sight. The modern day estimate for the number of men, women and children forced into labour worldwide exceeds 40m. Today’s global slave trade is so lucrative that it nets traffickers more than US$150 billion each year.
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Brazil: Even These Rough Winds Will Lead Us to a Safe Harbor
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
15 Oct 2018 – The Brazilian people are still being birthed. We inherited Brazil the Enterprise, with an enslaving elite and destitute masses. But from the core of the masses, leaders and social movements with consciousness and organization were born. Their dream? To reinvent Brazil. The process began from below and no longer can be stopped, either by the successive coups, such as the civic-military one of 1964, and the parliamentary-juridical-mass communications-media coup of 2016.
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Yemen on Brink of ‘World’s Worst Famine in 100 Years’ if War Continues
Hannah Summers – The Guardian,
22 Oct 2018
15 Oct 2018 – Yemen could be facing the worst famine in 100 years if airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition are not halted, the UN has warned. Famine could overwhelm country in next three months, with 13 million people at risk of starvation.
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Leaked: Here Are the Demands Ecuador Has Given Julian Assange in Order to End His Isolation
Cassandra Fairbanks | The Gateway Pundit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
15 Oct 2018 – Despite numerous reports claiming that the communications of Julian Assange have been restored, they are not yet — and there will be a severe regime of penalties and sanctions on his speech and writing when they are.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
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Belt and Road Counterpart of Sustainable Development Goal 2030
Anup Paudel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
18 Out 2018 – Two grand agenda developed since 2013 in the world. The agenda is globally known as, “United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goal” and” Belt and Road” Initiative. The United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda is a plan for people and globe.
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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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Modern Vet
Caricatura – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
No Comment
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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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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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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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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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Then vs. Now
TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Viewpoints…
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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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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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Yemen Is Not a Wedge Issue, It’s an Ongoing Nexus of War Crimes
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
22 Oct 2018
20 Oct 2018 – Political assassination is a common and useful tool for tyrants. The US assassinates people all the time, most ruthlessly by remote drone killings with little care for collateral damage. That’s one reason the US has special forces deployed in more than a hundred countries. This was most recently illustrated by the BuzzFeed News report of American mercenaries assassinating “undesirables” in southern Yemen, the part of Yemen the Saudis are not bombing.
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(Português) Estudo: Mais de 90% do sal no mundo contém microplásticos
Julia Cortezia - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
22 Oct 2018
19 out 2018 – Um estudo descobriu que mais de 90% de sal analisado continha microplásticos. Ele foi conduzido pelo Greenpeace East Asia e pelo professor Kim Seung-Kyu na Universidade de Incheon e publicado na revista científica Environmental Science & Technology.
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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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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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TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
… and, we promise we are not savages.
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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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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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Iranian-Saudi Detente Could Transform the Region but US Power Is There to Prevent It
Finian Cunningham – RT,
15 Oct 2018
10 Oct 2018 – The rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has for decades roiled the Middle East with sectarian conflict, instability and war. Thinking about how the region would look if these two powerhouses normalized relations is intriguing. But, sadly, such an outcome is unrealistic. American power and Saudi rulers are a symbiotic scourge on the region, which, shamefully, will never permit restoration of relations with Iran. Peaceful relations may only come when American and Saudi power are democratized.
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(Português) Filmagem denuncia bezerros criados em pequenas gaiolas e cobertos de fezes
Julia Cortezia - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
15 Oct 2018
Por trás da indústria de laticínios: filmagens de fazenda da Califórnia mostram como animais estão sendo criados no local – condições desumanas
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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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“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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As Interventions Go…
Latuff – MintPress News,
15 Oct 2018
The Fact of the Matter
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Vatican Conference on Peace Journalism: Empathy, Not Only Sympathy
Francesca Merlo – Vatican News,
15 Oct 2018
13 Oct 2018 – Four peace journalists spoke today in an International Conference on “Peace Journalism”, at the Vatican. Professor Johan Galtung, the creator of the concept and one of the speakers, defines PJ as “editors and reporters making choices – about what to report, and how to report it – that create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value nonviolent responses to conflict.”
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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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The Pentagon’s Insect Army
Manlio Dinucci – Global Research,
15 Oct 2018
10 Oct 2018 – Swarms of insects, transporting genetically modified infectious viruses, attack the agricultural crops of a country and destroy its food production – this is not a science-fiction scenario, but a plan that is actually being prepared by DARPA, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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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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Roche Presents Reasons to Hope for Peace in the World: Herr Lectures
Ashli Barrett – The Lacombe Globe [Canada],
15 Oct 2018
11 Oct 2018 – It may be easy to get jaded by happenings around the world but Douglas Roche, an author, former parliamentarian and senator, and UN Disarmament Committee chair, believes there are signs more peaceful times are ahead.
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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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Stop Measuring Obesity with a Ruler: We’ve Discovered a Far Better Predictor of Health
Tim Spector – The Conversation,
15 Oct 2018
11 Oct 2018 – For over a century, we have relied on a simplistic measure to determine if someone is a “healthy” weight or not. This is the body mass index, the ratio of a person’s weight to the square of their height. The limits of this ratio are clearly demonstrated by professional rugby players; most of whom would be classified as “overweight”, despite having less than 10% body fat.
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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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The World Decries Myanmar’s Rohingya Abuses – Myanmar’s Reply: Denial, Defiance and Propaganda
Shibani Mahtani – The Washington Post,
15 Oct 2018
9 Oct 2018 — The Myanmar government and military has held firm to the explanation that their operation in Rakhine state was provoked by Rohingya militant attacks on police posts, but reports from both the United Nations and State Department indicate a degree of premeditation and coordination.
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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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[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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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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Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Oct 2018
Autistic Crying Wolf
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