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The Private Wealth within Nations, Now and in the Future
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
29 Jan 2019 – The annual Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report is the gold-standard for estimates of private wealth around the world. The latest is Global Wealth Report 2018. Some aspects of this report raise more questions than answers, but any informed estimations of where things stand economically within the world’s nations and even globally, has to take seriously what it reports. Following are key excerpts from — and my thoughts about these excerpts of — the current report.
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Venezuela – Trump’s New Escape
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – Several Latin American countries are now named by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and National Security Advisor John Bolton as targets for regime change. The most immediate target, Venezuela, is facing a coup and a likely civil war as President Maduro, two months after his re-election, is being replaced by an arbitrarily selected opponent now being recognized by the US.
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“Now That He Is Safely Dead” – Paying Attention to the Real Voice of Martin Luther King
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – “Now That He Is Safely Dead” is the short but poignant poem that was written by black poet/musician Carl Wendell Hines soon after Malcolm X’s assassination in 1965. The poem has also been appropriately associated with the death of Dr Martin Luther King and his legacy of nonviolent struggle for black liberation, freedom, equality, economic justice and the pursuit of happiness for all.
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A Talel of Two Speeches: Marc Lamont Hill on Palestine, Martin Luther King, Jr., on Vietnam
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – In my last post I criticized the news approach of CNN, and by indirection, that of the MSM. I complained that by being Trump-obsessed CNN ever since 2016 helps pacify the American political scene, making us view demagogic politics as nothing more serious than ‘a reality show.’ Beyond the obsession itself, is the inexplicable redundancy in which successive news programs cover the latest episode from virtually identical viewpoints, while ignoring the whole panorama of major developments elsewhere in the world.
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A Morally Right Decision
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
23 Jan 2019 – The decision of the Malaysian government not to allow Israelis to enter the country to participate in the World Para Swimming Championships is both politically correct and morally right. That Malaysia has no diplomatic relations with Israel provides the political rationale for our stand. It is within the context of the BDS movement that we should view our own boycott of Israeli swimmers.
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Why Germany Leads in Renewables: It Has Its Own Green Bank
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
26 Jan 2019 – The leader in renewable energy is Germany, called “the world’s first major renewable energy economy.” Germany has a public sector development bank called KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau or “Reconstruction Credit Institute”), which is even larger than the World Bank. Unlike private commercial banks, KfW does not have to focus on maximizing short-term profits for its shareholders while turning a blind eye to external costs, including those imposed on the environment.
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From Kabila to Tshisekedi and Peacefully! The Congo Holds Its Breath
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – Today at 2 p.m. the members of the Constitutional Court sworn in the fifth President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi. It is a new era for some or continuity for others, but for sure it is a new chapter in Congo’s history. Between the euphoria of joy and consternations, the DRC holds its breath.
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(Português) Oxford e Harvard amam Paulo Freire, o pedagogo que Bolsonaro quer tirar do MEC com um lança-chamas
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado – The Intercept Brasil,
28 Jan 2019
23 Jan 2019 – Paulo Freire e seu método crítico são a principal referência na formação de professores das melhores universidades do mundo.
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Meet the Team behind CNN Brasil: A Businessman Accused of Exploiting Slave Labor and an Executive from a Fox News-style Outlet
Piero Locatelli and Andrew Fishman – The Intercept,
28 Jan 2019
20 Jan 2019 – CNN Brasil is poised to become “Brazil’s Fox News” — in lockstep with Jair Bolsonaro’s right-wing movement.
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Libya: Nightmarish Detention for Migrants, Asylum Seekers
Human Rights Watch | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – European Union policies contribute to a cycle of extreme abuse against migrants in Libya, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today [21 January 2019]. The EU and Italy’s support for the Libyan Coast Guard contributes significantly to the interception of migrants and asylum seekers and their subsequent detention in arbitrary, abusive detention in Libya.
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Saving the Tiller, Securing the Farmer
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
Though agriculture employs 64 percent of the total rural workforce, it produces only 39 percent of the total monetary rural output. Price realisation is poor, and farmers are unable to negotiate fair, self-sustaining prices—largely due to India’s antiquated agricultural market system, which is juxtaposed with high input costs (seeds, labour, equipment, transportation, and so on).
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How Washington’s Devastating “Economic Blockade” of Venezuela Helped Pave the Way for Coup Attempt
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – Venezuela remains in a state of crisis as opposition forces—with the backing of the United States—attempt to unseat the government of Nicolás Maduro. Yesterday Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said the military continues to stand by Maduro. His remarks came one day after President Trump announced that the U.S. would recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s new leader. Guaidó, the new head of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself president on Wednesday [23 Jan] during a large opposition protest. [Read on…]
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State-of-the-art Climate Model Shows How We Can Solve Crisis
University of Technology, Sydney – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – After two years of research and modelling, scientists have come up with a groundbreaking new framework for achieving – and even beating – the target of limiting warming to 1.5°C. The research has been funded by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation as part of its new One Earth initiative.
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(Português) Quem está por trás da chegada da CNN ao Brasil?
Rute Pina | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
16 jan 2019 – Sobrinho do bispo evangélico Edir Macedo, dono da TV Record e da IURD-Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, e empresário mineiro lideram projeto para licenciar marca de TV.
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Is Hawai‘i an Occupied State?
‘Umi Perkins – The Nation,
28 Jan 2019
As the campaign for full independence gains momentum, a new view of Hawaiian history is taking hold.
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Washington Has Appointed a President for Venezuela
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
23 Jan 2018 – After listening since 2016 to the American presstitutes complain, without providing a mere scrap of evidence, of Russia meddling in US elections, a person would think that the last thing Washington would do would be to meddle in other countries’ elections. Washington now has gone far beyond mere meddling. It has declared that the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is no longer the Venezuelan president. President Trump elected by diktat the Venezuelan president: “Today, I am officially recognizing the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the Interim President of Venezuela.
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Open Letter by Over 70 Scholars and Experts Condemns US-Backed Coup Attempt in Venezuela
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
“For the sake of the Venezuelan people, the region, and for the principle of national sovereignty, these international actors should instead support negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opponents.”
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(Castellano) Los seres humanos estamos destruyendo la vida en la Tierra, pero nos engañamos a nosotros mismos de que no es así
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
A pesar del hecho obvio de que son los seres humanos los que están infligiendo toda esta violencia, es virtualmente imposible hacer que la gente preste atención a este hecho simple e incontrovertible y preguntarse por qué, precisamente, los seres humanos se están comportando de manera tan violenta y destructiva. ¿Y podemos abordar eficazmente esta causa?
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Old Is Not Old — Inspiring Stories of Some Elderly Persons
Dr Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
There are many people who are old in years but not really old in the sense that they lie listlessly in their beds and are unable to do anything independently. In this short essay I shall try to relate the names of a few persons who are ninety years or older. One person that I refer to is past his century and is still active.
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The Problem Isn’t Robots Taking Our Jobs. It’s Oligarchs Taking Our Power
Adam Simpson – Common Dreams,
28 Jan 2019
Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can’t shape how technology is used and who profits from it.
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Elliott Abrams, Prominent D.C. Neocon, Named Special Envoy for Venezuela
Nahal Toosi – Politico Magazine,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – Elliott Abrams, a controversial neoconservative figure who was entangled in the Iran-Contra affair, has been named as a Trump administration special envoy overseeing policy toward Venezuela. Abrams’ appointment, announced today by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is something of a surprise.
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Democracy or Extinction
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
22 Jan 2019 – What will it take for governments to take real action on climate? When will they declare an emergency and do what needs to be done? How much concerted, peaceful public action will be required to disrupt the current economic and political system that is driving humanity to the brink of extinction? Meanwhile, climate records continue to tumble. 2018 was the hottest for the world’s oceans since records began in the 1950s, continuing a deeply worrying trend. Moreover, the last five years were the five hottest.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
For Gandhi, conflict was a perennial condition. He also viewed it positively and considered it desirable. For him, it is an important means to greater human unity precisely because their shared conflict could remind antagonists of the deeper, perhaps transcendental, unity of life. He viewed violence differently, however: violence was built into social structures and not into people. Gandhi was assassinated on 30 Jan 1948. But his legacy lives on.
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‘Resistance’ Media Side with Trump to Promote Coup in Venezuela
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – After winning re-election in 2018, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela was recently sworn in for a second term. However, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of declaring the elections void. He also arranged to have National Assembly head Juan Guaidó name himself the country’s new leader. This has spurred the Venezuelan right wing onto the streets to try to force Maduro out of office, leading to the deaths of 14 people. On Trump’s support for regime change in Venezuela, the “resistance” media are lining up shoulder to shoulder with the president.
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At the Funeral
Phoebe Anne Thomas Sorgen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
Viewing his serene face prior to his open casket funeral, three TRANSCEND members chatted softly, sharing fond memories of their beloved Dietrich Fischer.
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Age? . . . Really? Distinctions, Degrees, Nuances
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
28 Jan 2018 – We are more and less than our chronological age! We are, simultaneously, many different ages! Regardless of our chronological age, “distinctions” can be made that position us at younger, older, or “consonant” with our chronological ages as a function of different dimensions of our behavior and existence.
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Romain Rolland (29 Jan 1866 – 30 Dec 1944): The Cosmopolitan Spirit
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
It is as the popularizer and exponent of Gandhi’s thought that Rolland played a crucial role for nonviolent action. Gandhi was the embodiment of many of Rolland’s positions: a non-Leninist opposition to imperialism and a concern for movements of national independence. For Rolland, Gandhian nonviolence symbolized a universal hope and a political alternative to the pervasiveness of force in the West
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(Português) Como os frangos sofrem com o rápido ganho de peso
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
22 jan 2019 – Com o rápido ganho de peso, os animais tendem a sofrer porque seus músculos, ossos e órgãos se desenvolvem muito rápido. Mais de 131 mil toneladas de antibióticos são utilizadas todos os anos na pecuária mundial, o que gera um lucro de cinco bilhões de dólares para a indústria farmacêutica por ano.
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(Português) Chip capaz de imitar órgãos humanos promete pôr um fim nos testes em animais
Yasmin Ribeiro - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
28 Jan 2019
“Ele dá resultados ainda melhores do que antes, é superior aos testes em animais e reflete com mais precisão o que vai acontecer nas pessoas.”
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Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
The Nobel Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
December 11, 1964 – The Quest for Peace and Justice
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Privatization Is at Core of Fascism
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
26 Jan 2019 – The core of fascism is the idea that there is some elite, whether ‘Aryan’ or ‘chosen by God,’ or otherwise, who should run things, and that everyone else exists in order to serve that elite. Inevitably, this official elite consists of the people whom the powers-that-be assign as constituting the owners of almost everything that’s valuable. Increasingly, things become those people’s private possession — even what was formerly a public asset becomes now private.
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James W. Douglass Talks about Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth
Introduction by Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948 but the spirit of his nonviolent experiments with truth live throughout the world in individuals and groups. The writer and peace-activist James Douglass, a guide to such experiments with truth and author of many books on nonviolence and the meaning of political assassinations, recently travelled to Gandhi’s home district in India and delivered the following talk. It begins at 26:58 minutes into the video.
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Oxfam: World’s Richest 26 Own Same Wealth as Poorest Half
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – The world’s 26 richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity, according to Oxfam International, as it urged governments to raise taxes on the wealthy to fight soaring inequality. Billionaires’ fortunes grew by billions daily as poorest saw wealth decline by 11 percent last year.
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Saudi Arabia to Deport 250 Rohingya to Bangladesh: Activists
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
20 Jan 2019 – “These detainees are being treated like criminals,” said the Free Rohingya Coalition.
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UN: 254 Palestinians Killed, 23,000 Injured in Gaza Peaceful Protests
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
22 Jan 2019 – More than 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire and over 23,000 injured since the start of the “Great March of Return” protests in the besieged Gaza Strip on 30 March until the end of last year, UN OCHA revealed in a report yesterday.
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US Regime Change in Venezuela: The Documented Evidence
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – Venezuela faces dangerous destabilization with USA and some allies having recognized opposition figure Juan Guaido as “president” and declaring actual Venezuelan president – Nicolas Maduro – no longer recognized. According to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – the impetus for Washington’s sudden interest in Venezuela is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. Why Venezuela?
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Notre Dame University to Cover Christopher Columbus Murals
NBC News | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 — The University of Notre Dame will cover murals in a campus building that depict Christopher Columbus in America, following criticism that the images depict Native Americans in stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers. The 12 murals created in the 1880s by Luis Gregori were intended to encourage immigrants who had come to the U.S. during a period of anti-Catholic sentiment.
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Pakistan and Bangladesh: Responsible to Disclose the Rohingya Genocide
Aung Aung | AAS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
16 Jan 2019 – Myanmar government is systematically and repeatedly terrorizing the Rohingya minority since 1965.
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Environment and Health at Increasing Risk from Growing Weight of ‘E-Waste’
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
24 Jan 2019 – Around 50 million tonnes of electronic waste, or e-waste, is being thrown away each year, according to a new joint United Nations report – which exceeds the combined weight of all the commercial airliners ever made, or alternatively, enough Eiffel Towers to fill the whole of Manhattan.
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Meu Pedacinho do Céu [My Little Corner of Heaven] (Music Video of the Week)
Waldir Azevedo, Vinicius Sete Cordas, Ivo do Cavaco – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
Players: Vinicius Sete Cordas and Ivo do Cavaco – Brazilian Youth Talent
Homemade Facebook Video
Tales of Torture from Israel’s Prisons
Ramzy Baroud and Abdallah Aljamal – Al Jazeera,
28 Jan 2019
22 Jan 2019 – Earlier this month, Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan announced plans to “worsen” already horrific conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s jails. We asked six former inmates about their experiences.
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Misunderstanding
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
A family with children enjoyed a day at the beach, splashing in the water and building sand castles. Suddenly they saw what looked like an old beggar woman, walking along the beach looking for refuse and putting items in her bag.
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Brazil Dissolves Its Ministry of Culture
Brigit Katz | Smithsonian Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
10 Jan 2019 – In the ten days since he was sworn into office, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has already enacted a rash of measures that have sparked concerns across the globe. His first orders of business were dissolving the country’s ministry of culture and the ministries of sports and social development.
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USDA Allows Animal Neglect and Abuse at Poultry Slaughter Plants
Dena Jones | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
24 Jan 2019 – Horror show: Undercover investigations at poultry slaughter facilities and documented evidence found by USDA inspectors reveals systematic mistreatment of birds destined for slaughter.
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Global Economy on the Brink as Davos Crowd Parties On
Dr. Jack Rasmus – Global Research,
28 Jan 2019
23 Jan 2019 – At Davos, Switzerland every year the global capitalist elite gather to party…and to prepare for the year ahead. This year more than 1500 private jets reportedly fly in. Wealthy celebrities are invited to entertain them after evening dinner and cocktails. But the real networking goes on privately afterwards, in small groups or one on one, among the big capitalists themselves or in private meetings with heads of state, finance ministers, and central bank chairmen.
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Israeli Culture Minister: I’m Happy to Be Fascist
News Punch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
13 Dec 2018 – Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev says she is proud to be “fascist” and considers fascism an integral part of Israeli culture.
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Shutdown!
Latuff – MintPress News,
28 Jan 2019
For the Sake of Power
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No Entry into Myanmar for UN Human Rights Expert
John Zaw | UCANews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
15 Jan 2019 – Myanmar has refused a U.N. human rights expert entry as she visits Thailand and Bangladesh investigating abuses against the Rohingya being committed in the country. Myanmar has barred Yanghee Lee from the country since December 2017.
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CNN Brazil Will Have an Evangelical Pastor, Billionaire Edir Macedo from IURD, as CEO
teleSUR - Human Wrongs Watch,
21 Jan 2019
17 Jan 2019 — Edir Macedo, an evangelist pastor will be the CEO of CNN Brazil. The United States media giant Cable News Network (CNN) will open for the first time in the Latin American country during the first year of the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.
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Detained Journalist for Iran’s Press TV to Appear in US Court: Report
Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
18 Jan 2019 – Press TV says US-born Marziyeh Hashemi was detained by the FBI on unspecified charges and is due to appear in a Washington court today.
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126 Years of Illegal US Occupation of Hawai’i
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
On January 17, 1893 a coup d’état was carried out against Queen Lili’uokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom by foreign business interests with U.S. Marines. An illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i has continued ever since. Today, occupied Hawai’i is home to more than 100 U.S. military installations. Native Hawaiians, 20% of the population, make up the majority of homeless and 60% of the prison population in their own homeland.
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(Castellano) Reflexiones sobre 2018, Pronósticos 2019
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
31 diciembre 2018 – En muchos sentidos es doloroso reflexionar sobre el año 2018, un año de oportunidades vitales perdidas cuando tanto está en juego. Ya sea política, militar, social, económica, financiera o ecológicamente, la humanidad dio algunos grandes pasos hacia atrás mientras dejaba pasar un sinfín de oportunidades para hacer una diferencia positiva en nuestro mundo.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – Discrimination of women is common in all societies – rich western countries or poorer countries of Asia, Africa or Latin America. The level of discrimination of course varies – it can be subtle in the former countries and more pronounced in the latter. Even most religions discriminate against women in some areas or the other. A Church normally would have male pastors or bishops and the Sunday service is generally carried out by men.
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Honest Government Advertisement to Visit Hawai’i
thejuicemedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
The US Government just released this tourism ad for Hawai’i and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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Is U.S. Hubris Taking the World to the Edge?
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
18 Jan 2019 – Another US regime change undertaking is about to begin. Venezuela and its Bolivarian socialist revolution has long irked the United States. A nuclear superpower going rogue is a frightening spectacle. What more when its chief executive appears to be finding it near impossible to assert his authority. Is the world helpless to defend itself against such unpredictable volatility?
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Response to US Global Bullying: Iran, India Ditch Dollar to Continue Trading Oil despite Sanctions
Darius Shahtahmasebi – RT,
21 Jan 2019
14 Jan 2019 – In an effort to circumvent US-imposed sanctions, India and Iran have reportedly ditched the US dollar and are trading oil in rupees. The reason becomes clear after considering the dynamics at play in the region.
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Martin Luther King Day and the Unspeakable
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous,” warned Dr. King, “than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” How true those words. For the government that honors Dr. King with a national holiday killed him. This is the suppressed truth behind the highly promoted day of service. It is what you are not supposed to know. It is what Thomas Merton, as quoted by James W. Douglass, called The Unspeakable.”
→ read full articleHuman Beings Are Destroying Life on Earth but Deluding Ourselves That We Are Not
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
Despite the obvious fact that it is human beings who are inflicting all of this violence, it is virtually impossible to get people to pay attention to this simple and incontrovertible fact and to ask why, precisely, are human beings behaving in such violent and destructive ways? And can we effectively address this cause?
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
20 Jan 2019 – After two months of protests, discussions, and some physical violence beginning on 17 November 2018, the French President Emmanuel Macron has tried to organize a national dialogue from 15 January 2019 to 15 March. It is a difficult task as French political culture is one in which people easily talk but rarely listen.
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Updating an Old One
Phoebe Anne Thomas Sorgen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
An airplane was about to crash. There were 4 passengers, but only 3 parachutes.
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From Barter to Debt: A Brief History
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
In which the brilliant deductive techniques of Sherlock Holmes are applied to the origins of debt, currency and the debt-linked economy.
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Gandhi and Khashoggi: Soldiers of Peace
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – On October 2 was born Mahatma Gandhi. On October 2 was also killed Jamal Khashoggi. There is one common element though 149 years separated both the events–Gandhi and Khashoggi fought injustice through peaceful means. They were harbingers of nonviolent social change but met a violent death.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791)
Encyclopædia Britannica– TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers.
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Trailing the Gods Back Home: An Interview with Dr. Martin Shaw
Myth and Stories – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
Dr. Martin Shaw: Writer, Teacher, Mythologist – It’s about storytelling and the future of the planet. Absolutely brilliant.
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(Português) Um vegetariano evita a morte de até 582 animais por ano, diz estimativa
O Holocausto Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
Professor de engenharia da Universidade Drexel (EUA) fez cálculo sobre os efeitos da eliminação da carne do cardápio. “A forma como um vegetariano salva animais é reduzindo a demanda de carne e fazendo com que menos animais nasçam em uma difícil vida na indústria”, disse Harish.
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‘Historic’ Moment: Palestine Takes Reins of UN Coalition of Developing Countries
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
15 Jan 2019 – Acknowledging “a long road ahead” on the United Nations ambitious agenda, Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed today “the historic leadership of the state of Palestine” as the new Chair of the Group of 77’s (G77).
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Aquarius (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
Overture of film Hair – 21 January First Day of the Sign of Aquarius
The Hippie sub-culture was the major factor in ending the Vietnam War.
NASA Satellite Imagery Reveals Shocking Proof of Climate Engineering
Dane Wigington | GeoEngineering Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
16 Jan 2019 – In regard to difficult to accept and unpleasant truths, a picture is worth a thousand words. The photo images shown below were captured from NASA satellite sources, they are truly alarming. These images provide shocking and undeniable proof of the ongoing global climate engineering/geoengineering/solar radiation management assault on our planet and its life support systems.
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More Than an “Icon:” Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Enduring Legacy
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for Civil Rights and Social Justice. King adhered to Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence. In 1955 he began his struggle to persuade the US Government to declare the policy of racial discrimination in the southern states unlawful. The racists responded with violence to the black people’s nonviolent initiatives. (The Norwegian Nobel Institute)
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Johan Galtung on Peace Economy, Palestine, and More
Al Jazeera | The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
The Founder of Peace Studies discusses Sociocide, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and building economies of peace.
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Prohibition of Reference to Overcrowding
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – Draft Proposal for an International Convention – It can be readily argued that many conventional crises are a consequence of increasing population — unemployment, environmental degradation, access to food and water resources, failing social security services, disease, inaccessibility of education, refugees, security threats, violence, waste, and the like.
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On Influencers as Global Re-commencers: A Peace Linguist´s Plea
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
Influential persons are now called INFLUENCERS
What are some of their distinctive positive traits?
126 Years Ago Today: U.S. Invasion of Hawai‘i
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
16 Jan 2019 – As an independent State, the Hawaiian Kingdom entered into extensive treaty relations with a variety of States establishing diplomatic relations and trade agreements. In 1893 there were only 44 independent and sovereign States, which included the Hawaiian Kingdom, as compared to 197 today. On January 16, 1893, United States troops invaded the Hawaiian Kingdom, which led to a conditional surrender by Her Majesty Queen Lili‘uokalani, the following day. Her conditional surrender read:
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Entering a Major Regional Re-set: The Syria Outcome Will Haunt Those Who Started This War
Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
14 Jan 2019 – The Middle East is metamorphosing. New faultlines are emerging, yet Trump’s foreign policy ‘hawks’ still try to stage ‘old movies’ in a new ‘theatre’.
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What’s Wrong with CNN?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
16 Jan 2019 – CNN presents itself as the most ‘trusted name in news’ available to the TV viewing public. Of course, this claim of integrity is to be greatly valued if the news channel lives up to such a standard when fairly scrutinized.
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US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in 2019
Stephen Lendman | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
17 Jan 2019 – Washington’s hegemonic aims, under Republicans and undemocratic Dems represent the greatest threat to world peace and humanity’s survival.
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Elements of the Democratic Economy: Municipal Enterprise
Stephanie Geller | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
15 Jan 2019 – From public water companies to municipal broadband, millions are served by municipal enterprises that provide important services as a public good instead of as a profit center. This latest entry in the “Elements of the Democratic Economy” series is a primer on the benefits these enterprises offer over the private-sector alternatives. Stay tuned as we uncover more Elements of the Democratic Economy throughout 2019.
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Remembrance – The Dehumanised Human
Media Lens | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
“From infancy, by every possible means–class books, church services, sermons, speeches, books, papers, songs, poetry, monuments– the people are stupefied in one direction: unquestioning patriotism.” — Leo Tolstoy
“The average individual does not permit himself to be aware of thoughts or feelings which are incompatible with the patterns of his culture, and hence he is forced to repress them.” — Erich Fromm
Liberté, Égalité, Impérialisme! Vive la France in Black Africa! (Part 2)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – Consortium News,
21 Jan 2019
“Hotel Rwanda” is a touchstone of interventionist ideology. Debunking that script helps show why the closure of the assassination case against Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame serves Western interests.
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French Court Cancels Monsanto Weedkiller Permit on Safety Grounds
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
15 Jan 2019 – A French court canceled the license for one of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkillers today over safety concerns, placing an immediate ban on Roundup Pro 360 in the latest legal blow to the Bayer-owned business.
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Marie Colvin, Homs and Media Falsehoods about Syria
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
20 Jan 2019 – According to many of her colleagues, Marie Colvin was charming and courageous, ambitious and fun to be with. She had a knack for including personal details, descriptions and emotions that engaged the reader. Unfortunately, Colvin’s reports and interviews from Syria were inaccurate and a huge distortion of the situation. It is useful to examine Colvin’s reporting now, seven years later, because there is a wave of new articles, books and movies about her and how she died in Syria.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
“The question is whether finance will promote economic growth and rising living standards or create unproductive credit and use government to enforce creditor claims by imposing austerity and reducing large swathes of the population to debt peonage.” This précis of the pickle that is our prison was written by Michael Hudson but could have been written by Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich, Bernie Sanders’ advisor Stephanie Kelton, or any of the distinguished scholars which I shall call “the Economists on the side of the Angels.” (EA)
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A New Spectre Is Haunting Europe
Roberto Savio | Other News - Human Wrongs Watch,
21 Jan 2019
17 Jan 2019 – After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848; it is the spectre of the failure of neoliberal globalisation, which reigned uncontested following the fall of the Berlin Wall, until the financial crisis of 2009.
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Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
Kohei Saito’s Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism lays waste to accusations of Marx’s ecological shortcomings. Delving into Karl Marx’s central works, as well as his natural scientific notebooks, Saito also builds on the works of scholars such as John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, to argue that Karl Marx actually saw the environmental crisis embedded in capitalism. Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2018
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A Butterfly
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
One day a small opening appeared on a cocoon. A man sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
14 Jan 2019 – Eliciting Consensus Nationally and Internationally – At the time of writing, the French government of Emmanuel Macron is about to engage in a three month Grand Débat National (January-March 2019). This is being instigated around the country as a means of clarifying issues raised by the remarkable uprising of the Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vests”), widely publicized worldwide.
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1958 TV Show Had Conman ‘Trump’ Selling Mystical ‘Wall’ to Hysterical Townspeople (Must Watch)
Matt Shuham | TPM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
10 Jan 2019 – In 1958, CBS aired an episode of the series “Trackdown” called “The End of the World,” in which a confidence man named Trump attempts to sell a western town a “wall” — in the form of supposedly mystical parasols — to protect them from the fake threat of a meteor shower.
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Small Is Beautiful – A Contemporary Perspective
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
Ernest F. Schumacher, the German born British economist, wrote a collection of essays called Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered in 1973, arguing against the large capitalist economy that ill-treats the earth’s resources resulting in degradation of the earth and depletion of its resources. Small can be Beautiful even today if properly visualized and effectively implemented. Ernest Schumacher’s book is still relevant even after about half a century of its publication.
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(Français) Censure, menaces et stress post-traumatique: le journalisme environnemental sous haute tension
Eric Freedman – The Conversation,
14 Jan 2019
3 Jan 2019 – Couvrir les sujets environnementaux est l’un des exercices les plus périlleux du journalisme. Entre 2005 et 2016, 40 reporters y ont laissé la vie.
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New EU Sanctions on Iran: The Plank in Your Own Eyes
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
9 Jan 2019 – European Union issues sanctions on Iran on January 8, 2019. The move puts the individuals and intelligence unit on the EU terrorist list – freezing their financial assets. It’s a brilliant example of Matthew 7:3-6: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
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Astonishing the Enemy
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
This is a poem about people who challenge us to acknowledge our common humanity—and the way they are too often rejected and ostracized—and even worse. I’m working in quatrains and a quiet rhyme scheme, but more important, a certain tone, an ironic tone that reveals the limitations of the speaker.
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(Português) A Estupidez Social e Ambiental Condena Toda a Vida: Eduardo Gudynas
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
8 jan 2019 – Eduardo Gudynas, uruguaio, é um dos grandes ecólogos mundiais. Está entre os primeiros a formular uma ecologia social.Este artigo é um balanço de 2018 sobre os dramas ecologicosocias que se aproximam, se não mudarmos a nossa relação para com a Mãe Terra -tema central da encíclica do Papa Francisco “sobre o cuidado da Casa Comum – e para com a natureza em geral.
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Fact Check: How Many People Are Enslaved in the World Today?
Monti Datta – The Conversation,
14 Jan 2019
7 Jan 2018 – Estimates of modern slavery vary widely, whether they try to pin down numbers in the U.S., across the globe or just in certain industries.
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Time for a New Paradigm
Roberto Savio | Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
Foreword to Riccardo Petrella’s In the Name of Humanity – Riccardo is a central point of reference for those who have not yet given up on seeing the governance of globalisation in terms of values and ideals. He has behind him a long series of struggles for a different economy and has denounced the dangers of neoliberal globalisation from the outset. We owe it to him if the theme of “commons” began to be debated, in particular that of water as a public good.
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When Bolsonaro and Netanyahu Are ‘Brothers’: Why Brazil Should Shun the Israeli Model
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
9 Jan 2019 – Newly-inaugurated Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, is set to be the arch-enemy of the environment and indigenous and disadvantaged communities in his country and promises to be a friend of like-minded, far-right leaders the world over. A special friendship is blossoming between Bolsonaro and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel exports wars to its neighbors, war technology to the rest of the world, and should not be seen as the model to follow, but rather the example to avoid.
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Nanomaterials Are Changing the World – But We Still Don’t Have Adequate Safety Tests for Them
Shareen Doak, Martina G. Vijver and Martin Clift – The Conversation,
14 Jan 2019
10 Jan 2019 – Nanotechnology and materials are the source of countless innovations, but we don’t accurately know how they are affecting humans and the environment.
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“Evacuate the Coffee”: A White Supremacist Classic
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
9 Jan 2019 – US troops have been dispatched to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the results of presidential balloting are still unknown. Are they there to make sure that Joseph Kabila, the president they installed and kept in power for 18 years, cedes power to former Exxon-Mobil executive Martin Fayula, their new horse to ride?
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Rising Human Trafficking Takes on ‘Horrific Dimensions’: Almost a Third of Victims Are Children
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
7 Jan 2019 – A new UN report published today shows that human trafficking is on the rise and taking on “horrific dimensions”, with sexual exploitation of victims the main driver. Children now account for 30 per cent of those being trafficked, and far more girls are detected than boys.
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An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis
James Baldwin | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
November 19, 1970 – Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can, here in Europe, on radio and television—in fact, have just returned from a land, Germany, which was made notorious by a silent majority not so very long ago. I was asked to speak on the case of Miss Angela Davis, and did so. Very probably an exercise in futility, but one must let no opportunity slide.
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International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma
Columbia University & Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
This conference is designed to call world’s attention to and educate the international public at large about the twofold need for protection and accountability which Rohingya genocide survivors and other ethnic and religious minorities such as Kachin, Shan, Karen, Myanmar Muslims, etc. demand and deserve. 8-9 Feb 2019, Columbia University, Barnard Hall
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