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Antifa (Music Video of the Week)
Ministry | Nuclear Blast Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Ministry’s official music video from the new album ‘AmeriKKKant’.
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West Asia in Flux: Connecting the Dots
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
18 Feb 2018 – A series of events linked to West Asia in the last nine months has brought to the surface the under-currents and cross-currents in the region’s perennial struggle between occupation and hegemony, on the one hand, and resistance and liberation, on the other. It is crucial to understand how these events are related to one another, to connect the dots, as it were, in our attempt to make sense of what is unfolding in the world’s most strategic – and most dangerous — region.
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Genocide? As Gaza Dries Out, Israel Turns Off Fresh Water Spigot
Darius Shahtahmasebi | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Rather than heeding the warnings from the UN to open up Gaza’s blockade and allow vital aid, what we have witnessed over the course of the last decade is a periodic all-out Israeli assault on Gaza’s vital infrastructure.
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America’s ‘Liberalism’ & Other Inhumane Styles of Governance at Home and Internationally
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
25 Feb 2018 – With apologies for this long post, which attempts to situate the struggle for an ethically and ecologically viable political future for the United States and the world in the overheated preoccupation with Trump and Trumpism, which is itself a distraction from the species challenges confronting the whole of humanity at the present time. Many of us, and I include myself, have allowed the side show to become the main attraction, which is itself a reason for struggle against the enveloping darkness.
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Haiti’s Latest Indignity at the Hands of Dogooders, Oxfam’s Sex Scandal
Mark Schuller – Counter Punch,
26 Feb 2018
International donors had pledged $10 billion for the Haiti response at a March 31, 2010 UN conference. According to the UN Special Envoy’s office, this amount was later upped to $13 billion, while individual donors worldwide contributed just over $3 billion. The 16-billion-dollar question was, often asked, “Where did the money go?”
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Coca-Cola and Nestlé to Privatize the Largest Reserve of Water in South America
Amanda Froelich | Truth Theory – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
5 Feb 2018 – Private companies such as Coca-Cola and Nestlé are allegedly in the process of privatizing the largest reserve of water, known as the Guarani Aquifer, in South America. The aquifer is located beneath the surface of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay and is the second largest-known aquifer system in the world.
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Maung Zarni: Myanmar Feels like a Big Cage for Rohingyas
Rifat Islam Esha – Dhaka Tribune,
26 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018 – Rohingya repatriation to Myanmar from the Myanmar army’s perspective is a tactical retreat in the face of heavy artillery of international condemnations, criticisms and reimposition of sanctions, and it might take around 10-20 years to complete.
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Pentagon to Allow Nuclear Response to Non-Nuclear Attacks
Prof. Marjorie Cohn – Global Research,
26 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – For the first time, the new NPR states that the United States could use nuclear weapons in response to non-nuclear attacks, including cyberattacks, in “extreme circumstances to defend the vital interests of the United States, its allies and partners.” This new strategy opens the door to first-use of nuclear weapons, which is prohibited under international law.
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Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
21 Feb 2018 – The pattern is familiar, corporate predators profiting from natural and other disasters. Free-wheeling capitalism works this way, profiting from mass-privatizations, deregulation, unrestricted market access, along with deep cuts in social spending to help finance plunder.
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Go in Peace!
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
I Love Israel. My comrades and I created it and paid for it with our blood (literally). My heart aches when I see what is happening. But I remain an optimist. I continue to believe that somehow, somewhere, salvation will come. New political forces will emerge and come to the fore. As our Muslim friends would say: inshallah (God willing).
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Multi-phase Weaponisation of Replica Guns for Children
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
A viable alternative to the response of Donald Trump to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (14 Feb 2018) with its focus on arming teachers. What follows is a proposal by the Notional Rifle Association — necessarily more radical than that of our colleagues in the National Rifle Association. It could be considered potentially both more politically feasible and more cost-effective.
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Is Oxford University Complicit in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Genocide Denial?
Maung Zarni | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of Myanmar’s international human rights crimes as designed to tarnish the image of Myanmar, the administration at Oxford University considers this a “public relations” issue.
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(Português) Jan Gerdes, o ex-produtor de leite que transformou a sua fazenda [quinta] em um santuário para os animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
22 fev 2018 – O alemão Jan Gerdes era um típico produtor de leite que via os animais apenas como fonte de renda. Inclusive evitava proximidade para não criar laços com os animais explorados em sua fazenda no Norte da Alemanha. Porém, um dia ele decidiu se questionar sobre o que estava fazendo – se aquilo era, de fato, certo.
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Evolution of Mankind and Civilizations — A Few Tentative Thoughts
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 – The cosmos has billions of galaxies and perhaps trillions of earth-like planets revolving around their stars but astronomers who have been assiduously studying these planets have not been able to find any other planet which supports life on them or at least a form of life consisting of human beings and other living objects such as plants and animals as on earth.
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The Polar Boom: Corporations Flock to Melting Arctic for Oil and Trade Routes
Baher Kamal | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
16 Feb2018 — As the global demand for fossil fuels rises and the Arctic sea ice continues to melt, multinational corporations and governments are deepening efforts to expand oil exploration and trade routes in the region. While corporations see a profit, environmentalists see a crisis.
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Marx’s Analysis of the Laws of Capital and the Share Market Crisis
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
17 Feb 2018 – Down through the years one of the most persistent attacks on Karl Marx by the high priests of bourgeois economics—the ideological guardians of the profit system—has been his contention that, in the final analysis, capitalism depends on the impoverishment of the working class.
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Spherons’ Sociocybernetic MegaScience
Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Global Breakthrough of Policy, Business and Governance to Genetic Structural Harmony of Social Production and Universal Peace. Gene technology, engineering and therapy for pathological societies.
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Syria Conflicts Highlight Violations of Humanitarian International Law
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
21 Feb 2018 – A recent wave of fighting in Syria has highlighted the violations of humanitarian international law. Calls from U.N. officials for at least a month-long truce so that food and medical supplies could reach the civilian population have not been honored. The scale of the violations is such that they can be considered as a deliberate policy and not as events of “collateral damage.”
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The Coming Wars to End All Wars
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
24 Feb 2018 – The Trump and Netanyahu governments have a problem: How to start a greatly expanded Middle-Eastern war without having a justifiable reason for one. No doubt they are working hard to solve this urgent problem. If they can’t find a “justification” (which they can’t), they will have to create one (which they will). Or perhaps they will find what they have already created.
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Why the Experience of Ahed Tamimi Matters So Much
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
13 Feb 2018 – It is now known by virtually everyone that a 16-year-old girl, now 17, named Ahed Tamimi, confronted Israeli soldiers on her family’s land shortly after her cousin, Mohammed, was shot in the face with a rubber bullet, causing a coma. The video of her actions has gone viral, showing the world a courageous young woman engaging in nonviolent acts of resistance, and then a day later in the middle of the night being arrested in her home and then charged with a series of crimes.
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Sounds Familiar… ?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
A man is taking a walk in Central park in New York. Suddenly he sees a little girl being attacked by a pit bull dog. He runs over and starts fighting with the dog.
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In Pursuit of Peace and Justice: 100 Peace & Justice Leaders and Models (List #2)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D., & Kathie Malley-Morrison, Ed.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
14 Feb 2018 – The individuals included on our current list are from all genders, ages, roles. They are from many nations, ethnocultural groups, and “races.” There is a rising tide of commitment to peace and justice; there is an intolerance of the corruption, cronyism, and asymmetric power, sustaining current abuses. There is a new spirit of resistance to the old-world moral order, dominated too long by a limited number of oligarchs and martial nations.
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Nuclear Abolition: A Sisyphean Task?
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
15 Feb 2018 – Nuclear weapons threaten everyone and everything we love and cherish. Why do we accept and tolerate these intolerable weapons? Every thinking person on the planet should stand against these omnicidal weapons and work for their elimination. Nine leaders in nine countries have their fingers on the nuclear button.
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Playing by the Rules? Nuclear Powers Could Learn from Olympic Athletes and Fans
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
Sometimes it is regular people in unlikely places who need to show world leaders the way: ice hockey players or figure skaters here; families attending an international sports event there. People who have an innate sense of fairness and solidarity and are willing to follow sensible rules, as long as they are applied evenly. So instead of the US insisting on North Korea discontinuing its nuclear weapons program, what if the US tried listening to what people want and took a different approach?
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Extinguishing Poverty
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
Final Solution
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The US Needs “Eureka!” Moments Re: ‘Vetting’; ‘Displacement’; ‘Discernment’; ‘Integration’!
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
As with most good, apocryphal stories—the parables in the Bible, for example—there are grains of truth, lessons to be vetted and discerned—pieces to be integrated into the bigger puzzle. Here’s the story/myth: Hiero, the local tyrant, suspects a goldsmith of replacing a measure of gold with silver in a golden crown. Hiero contacts Archimedes to verify his suspicions. But…, how?
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Guam: America’s Best Kept Undemocratic Secret
The Peace Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
US Military Occupation of Guam & Pacific Islands
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World Day of Social Justice: The People’s Revolution Is on the March
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
The United Nations General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/62/10 proclaimed 20 February of each year as the World Day of Social Justice with an emphasis on the reduction of poverty in the spirit of the “People’s Revolution.”
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U.S. Escalates Syrian War
Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
14 Feb 2018 – Having failed in its war of regime change in Syria, the U.S. seizes the nation’s oil fields and slaughters Syrian soldiers, confident that the U.S. public doesn’t give a damn.
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The Berlin Conference on Myanmar Genocide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
26 February 2018 – To Be Webcast LIVE – The conference aims to inform the German civil society and European public about the on-going genocide of Rohingya people in Myanmar/Burma.
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Bisons and Bears
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
In the past, when the main danger bisons faced were predators such as bears, the best protection they had against danger was for them to form a circle, with the strong bulls on the outside and the females and young protected inside. But when hunters with guns arrived, forming a circle was the worst thing they could do. Instead of dispersing and running away, they presented a fixed, easy target and were massacred in large numbers.
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Dr. Young Seek Choue: A Genuine Nominee for Nobel Peace Prize
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
On the 8th anniversary of the death Dr. Young Seek Choue, 18 Feb 2018, the author would like to pay him his sincere and deep tribute by sharing his peace ideas, peace studies and peace activities, and his adherence to meet the criteria laid down in the Nobel’s Will.
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Human Nature and Human Destiny
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018 – When he was between the ages of 11 and 16, Paul Gauguin attended a Catholic boarding school in France. At the school, the Bishop of Orléans himself taught the class in liturgy. The bishop had devised a catechism in which three main questions were asked: “Where does humanity come from? Where is it going? How do we proceed?”
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Derailing Trump Decision Regarding Jerusalem: What Possibilities
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
12 Feb 2018 – The tune heard from the American administration and its envoy, Jason Greenblat, in the last two weeks includes two messages:
1. Any plan that we present will be for implementation and not for negotiations.
2. If the Palestinians want a capital in Jerusalem they should go and build it the same as Israel built its Jerusalem.
Where to Resist?
Richard Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
“I hear a lot from my students about ‘walking the talk,’” Eqbal Ahmad, a Pakistani scholar and anti-war activist said. “But I tell them that you can’t walk the talk without first having the talk. First you decide what’s real and what’s right; then you act on the basis of that understanding. Finally, the results of your action can force you to re-define what’s real and what’s right. That is what we call praxis.”
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Syria’s White Helmets Go Global
Caitlin Johnstone – Consortium News,
19 Feb 2018
Syria’s White Helmets have been boosted by the West as a trusted humanitarian organization, but their origins and motives remain murky. Now, the White Helmets effort appears to be spreading to other countries.
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska | Our Chopin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
On 17 October 1849, Chopin died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendôme. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. In accordance with his will, however, his heart, taken from his body after death, was brought by his sister to Warsaw where it was placed in an urn installed in a pillar of the Holy Cross church in Krakowskie Przedmiscie.
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Winter Olympics – Forging Peace or False Dawn?
Christa Case Bryant and Michael Holtz – The Christian Science Monitor,
19 Feb 2018
9 Feb 2018—If US threats of “fire and fury” do not stop them, try Olympic ice skates. That seems to be the thinking behind South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s eagerness to welcome North Korea to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics – and share the global stage that Seoul has been seeking for more than 15 years. But he is taking a big gamble.
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Smile [lyrics] (Music Video of the Week)
Charles Chaplin | Nat King Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
Soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times. Chaplin composed the music, inspired by Puccini’s Tosca. John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954. Nat King Cole immortalized it. Have a smile. And enjoy!
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UN Special Envoy Claims [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Could Be Guilty of Crimes against Humanity
Jonathan Miller – Channel 4 News,
19 Feb 2018
14 Feb 2018 – Professor Yanghee Lee, who’s now been barred from Burma, said she’d received many death threats and was even warned of a planned assassination attempt.
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Israel Claims to Be a Jewish State and a Democratic State: Legalism vs Justice
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
11 Feb 2018 – The book is an important contribution to an understanding of two dimensions of the Palestinian experience within the state of Israel: first, the reliance on law to ‘legalize’ discrimination, and the accompanying denial of fundamental rights that has resulted; secondly, to develop a distinct Israeli jurisprudence that seeks to legitimize ‘ethnocracy,’ yet disguise this reality by claiming that the nationality laws and regulations distinguishing Jews and non-Jews do not invalidate Israeli claims to be a democracy.
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The Heaven’s Caravan
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
16 Feb 2018 – The Muslim world is in crisis and a biased media has added its own biased colour to it. The negative stereotyping has created an impression that everything Muslim is evil.
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Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
16 Feb 2018 – The unjust incarceration of Dr Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University, demeans and disgraces the French legal system.
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(Français) Les propositions de Varoufakis qui menaient à l’échec
Eric Toussaint | CADTM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
11 Fév 2018 – Dans son dernier livre Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis donne sa version des raisons qui ont conduit à la capitulation honteuse du gouvernement Tsipras en juillet 2015. Il analyse essentiellement la période 2009-2015 tout en faisant des incursions dans des époques plus lointaines.
→ read full articleCelebrating Union of Man and Woman — Marriage Ceremonies Worldwide
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
All communities celebrate marriages in their own individual manner that depends on their cultures, religions, ethnicity and not least, their financial and social status.
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A Trinity Talk with Nobel Peace Laureate &TR Member Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Leeds Trinity University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
11 Dec 2017
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
17 Feb 2018 – Pity the almond tree, especially when it is in full bloom. The bloom of the almond is, in German, Mandelblüt. That is also the name of Israel’s chief legal official, called “the Legal Advisor of the Government”.
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What Is Bitcoin? Everything You Need to Know about Bitcoin, Explained
Daniel Frumkin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
This article will answer the common questions that newcomers have when first learning about Bitcoin. How do blockchains work? What makes Bitcoin valuable? What is decentralization? What is mining? How do you buy Bitcoin? How do you safely store it? How do you send or receive Bitcoin from somebody else? But we won’t just stop there.
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Stemming the Plastic Tide: 10 Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans
Prachi Patel | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – Our seas are choking on plastic. A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 rivers, eight of them in Asia.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
An elderly man went for his annual checkup to the doctor. After examining him, the doctor said, “I have two bad news for you. The first is that you have cancer.”
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A Nasty Business – Why Commercial Whaling Must End
Campaign Whale – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
This report presents a compelling case against any resumption of commercial whaling. Sadly, the slaughter of whales is increasing and there is a real fear that a political compromise will be struck that will allow its resumption. That would be a total disaster for whale conservation efforts. Surely, the whales have suffered enough at our hands.
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Behind Bars: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty to Aboriginal People with Disabilities (Part 1)
Michael Brull – New Matilda,
19 Feb 2018
15 Feb 2018 – The abuse of Aboriginal prisoners with disabilities in Australian jails is confronting, and ongoing. In this special series Michael Brull profiles the shocking revelations uncovered.
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Hope
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
Hope is thing that soils easily,
Something as white dress,
You may spill pomegranate juice
Global Civilization through Interweaving Polyamory and Polyanimosity?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
Loving the World Otherwise Through Contractual Bonding with Any Significant Other – Much is currently made of same-sex marriage as a breakthrough in the legality of consensual bonding between those of the same gender.
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Let’s Speak PEACE: A Plea to All Language Users
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
Let´s speak PEACE wherever we may be
by teaching one another peacefully the world to see
It’s the Rapacity, Stupid!
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018 – A greedy person holds on tight to what he or she has, hoards as much as possible, and is totally given over to the aim of “having more and more things”. Rapacity, on the other hand, refers to a tendency to snatch from others, the tendency being closely related to show of power and enjoyment in power. It may be noted that the words “rape” and “rapine” also derive from the same Latin root.
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Economic Nationalism Is Not Compatible with Globalized Economic Interdependence
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
16 Feb 2018 – In a multi-polar world of today business as usual based on failed premises is not the answer. Economic nationalism did not work in the past. How could we convince ourselves that it would be otherwise in future? We need rapid economic development for prosperity for all citizens. Democracy without economic prosperity of citizen is a mere delusion.
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Wendell Willkie (18 Feb 1892 – 8 Oct 1944): One World
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
In order to show the unity of the American people, Republicans and Democrats, once the US had entered WW II, President Roosevelt asked Willkie to go on a “good will mission” to the Middle and Far East with a stop-over in the USSR to see Joseph Stalin. The result of the trip – a short one by today’s round-the-world standards – was the book One World.
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South Korea Minister Says Military Option ‘Unacceptable’ on North Korea Crisis
Soyoung Kim | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
25 Jan 2018 -“The nuclear issue has to be solved through negotiations and diplomatic endeavors. This idea of a military solution is unacceptable,” Kang Kyung-wha said at a news briefing on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Tax Justice Network Reveals the Ranking of Corrupt Countries: Switzerland, US ‘The Most Corrupt’
Baher Kamal – Wall Street International Magazine,
12 Feb 2018
9 Feb 2018 – A new study by Tax Justice Network has revealed that Switzerland is the world’s most-corrupt country, with a high secrecy score of 76. The US ranks second, while several European countries hold high positions in the list, ahead of many poor, developing nations.
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WATCH: Jellyfish Looks Like Underwater Firework in Rare Footage
E/V Nautilus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
28 Jan 2018 – A stunning luminous jellyfish that resembles an exploding firework and is rarely encountered by humans has been filmed in the Pacific Ocean 4,000 feet underwater off Baja California, Mexico. The team were using their remotely operated vehicle ‘Hercules’ near the Revillagigedo Archipelago looking for crabs when they came across the jellyfish and its dazzling display.
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Today I Said Good Bye to Mom
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Through the transparent cover
With her eyes closed, Mother looked at me
As if she were saying
“Why are you mourning over this biomass in this air-conditioned coffin?
It ain’t me here! Not any more, if ever there was I.”
Letter of Concern to Oxford University Press regarding Dr Jacques Leider and ORE Asian History Series
Noam Chomsky, Johan Galtung, Maung Zarni, et al. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
5 Feb 2018 – Oxford University Press, Myanmar Genocide, & Its Choice of Dr Leider as the Expert on Rohingyas
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With Nuclear Weapons, Evacuation Is Not an Option
David Krieger | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
In our community, we have been living through radical uncertainty from forces of nature. But we also live daily with the radical uncertainty of nuclear survival, which is not a force of nature, but rather a man-made threat. It is a threat entirely of our own making, and it can be remedied by facing it and doing something about it, namely convening the nuclear-armed countries to negotiate the phased, verifiable, irreversible and transparent elimination of these weapons.
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Myanmar Forces and Buddhist Villagers Torched Rohingya Homes, Then Killed
Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski | Reuters – US News & World Report,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – Rohingya trace their presence in Rakhine back centuries. But most people in majority-Buddhist Myanmar consider them to be unwanted Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh. The army refers to the Rohingya as “Bengalis,” and most lack citizenship. In recent years, the government has confined more than 100,000 Rohingya in camps where they have limited access to food, medicine and education. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya have fled their villages and crossed the border into Bangladesh since August.
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Home (Music Video of the Week)
Brian Eno & David Byrne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
A Classic Music-Art from 2008
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It Is Time to End the Child Soldier Stereotype
Tim Molyneux | IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Mon Feb 12 marks the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, known as Red Hand Day. From Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Myanmar and Nigeria, countless children remain trapped in armed conflict.
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz (13 Feb 1911 – 20 Nov 1984): The Fiery Conscience of Our Times
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
As a Marxist, Faiz rejected the notion of “art for art’s sake“. Referring to the poet Keats’s famous lines that beauty is love and love is beauty and a beautiful object is an eternal source of joy, Faiz says that, notwithstanding what Keats may have felt, beauty can only be eternal when it is creative, when it inspires the onlooker’s enthusiasm, thought and action with promoting more beauty.
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Japan Plans to Kill Hundreds of Whales AGAIN – Urge the EU to Refuse Trade Deal until This Ends!
Aleksandra Pajda | One Green Planet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, has made his opinions about Japan’s whale hunts very clear. Abe stated that the country “will pursue all possibilities in order to resume commercial whaling” and he wants Japan to use whale meat, fat, and baleen “just like other marine resources.” His stance on the cruel practice is blatant, and he does not even try to conceal the real nature of the hunts under the typical guise of scientific research.
→ read full articlePerformance of Life
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
The day went, tomorrow’s day hurries…
There is the same smell of roses,
The same scenes of the life are rehearsed
The Fear Driving US Nuclear Strategy
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
The US Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ on 2 February. Several authors have already thoughtfully exposed a phenomenal variety of obvious lies, invented threats, strategic misconceptions and flaws – such as the fallacious thinking behind ‘deterrence’ and significantly increased risk of nuclear war given the delusional ‘thinking’ in the document – as well as the political fear-mongering in the NPR. So what can we do? Well, I would tackle the problem at several levels and I invite you to consider participating in one or more of these.
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How Volkswagen Paid $25 Billion for Dieselgate — And Got Off Easy
Roger Parloff | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
6 Feb 2018 – Volkswagen paid huge government penalties in the U.S., but virtually nothing in Europe. Two things now seem clear: Some very senior officials knew of the wrongdoing — and they’re not likely to face meaningful prison time.
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Pugwash Statement on the U.S. 2018 Nuclear Posture Review
Amb. Sergio Duarte | Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
6 Feb 2018 – The expansion of the role of nuclear weapons risks triggering another round of the nuclear arms race, dramatically increases the risks of their use, and makes the road to a nuclear weapons free world even more difficult. This latest development will serve only to increase the saliency and attractiveness of nuclear weapons, and will certainly not enhance international security, let alone prospects for progress in bilateral and multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation efforts.
→ read full articleWhat the Hell?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
10 Feb 2018 – What the hell am I? An Israeli? A Jew? A peace activist? A Journalist? An author? An ex-combat soldier in the Israeli army? An ex-terrorist? A…? All of these and more. OK. OK. But in what order? Which is the most important component?
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Associated Press Double Standard in Israel-Palestine Reporting
Kathryn Shihadah and Alison Weir | If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Associated Press is one of those news sources we expect to be objective and reliable. But when it comes to the subject of Israel-Palestine, things are not always as they seem.
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Trump-Linked Extremist Settlers Try to Kidnap Palestinian Kids
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
The Yitzhar settlers, who received money from the Kushner foundation directed by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior advisor of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, are considered extreme by Israel itself.
→ read full articleTrickle Down Economics
Lindsay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Explained…
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At Age 101, She’s a World Champ Runner
Chhavi Sachdev | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Man Kaur is 101, but her routine could tire most 20-somethings. Every day she wakes up at 4 a.m., bathes, washes clothes, makes tea, recites prayers. And then she goes to the track for an hour of sprinting practice. And she’s not just doing it for fun.
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Peace and Justice for the Palestinian People: a Conversation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
This is a modified text of an interview conversation with Khourosh Ziabari, initially published on the website of the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence on February 4, 2018.
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(Português) A passionalidade e a autoridade na crítica à exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Realmente não é fácil reconhecer que existe uma desarmonia entre o que você deseja para o mundo e o que o outro deseja, quando este não considera, de fato, que os animais não merecem morrer para serem reduzidos a alimentos e outros produtos. Claro, alguém pode dizer: “Tenho dó dos animais”. Mas se essa pessoa se alimenta deles, há uma evidente inconsonância entre o que ela pensa e faz.
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A Ticking Time Bomb of Mercury Is Hidden Beneath Earth’s Permafrost
Brandon Specktor | Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
According to a new study published 5 Feb 2018 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, there may be more than 15 million gallons (58 million liters) of mercury buried in the permafrost of the Northern Hemisphere — roughly twice as much mercury as can be found in the rest of Earth’s soils, ocean and atmosphere combined. And if global temperatures continue to rise, all that mercury could come pouring out.
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How Rich Are the Rich? If Only You Knew
Gil B. Manzon Jr. – The Conversation,
12 Feb 2018
5 Feb 2018 – Income inequality, the most common way to measure the gap between the rich and the poor, only tells part of the story. Wealth inequality tells the rest.
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A Marxist Reading of George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant with Special Reference to Dual Identity
Mahadev Devkota and Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
7 Feb 2018 – This paper is an attempt to analyze George Orwell’s groundbreaking short story in terms of Marxist perspectives, elucidates the relationship between the Great Britain and the Indian. The former is privileged and grasps the power to define, reconstruct and stereotypes the latter one. Oneof the Orwell’s major concerns during his life was an issue of dual identity, self-contradiction and conflicting feelings towards natives.
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As Iran’s Women Continue to Rise and Fly Their Hijabs… Woe Be Unto the Mullahs
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – Increasingly Iranians are demanding the end to Supreme Leadership and to govern themselves. Under Ali Khamenei’s total control, institutions established at the beginning of the 1979 Revolution to wipe out poverty have turned into conglomerates that own half of Iran’s wealth without a supervisory organization to question their actions.
→ read full articleKoreas’ Olympic Truce: Time for Concerted Non-Governmental Efforts
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – There is a need for a coming together of NGOs that are primarily focused on the resolution of armed conflicts with those groups concerned with the abolition of nuclear weapons. The current Korean tensions are based on the development of nuclear weapons and missile systems and the pressures and threats to prevent their development. The Olympic Truce period should be taken as an opportunity to advance “Track II” efforts.
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NYT Piece on Rohingya Survival Tactics Plays into Military’s Hands
Coconuts Yangon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
5 Feb 2018 – Two days after denying an AP report that Myanmar soldiers massacred the Rohingyas and buried their bodies in at least five mass graves, the Myanmar government is pointing to an essay by New York Times reporter Hannah Beech as evidence that the words of Rohingya refugees cannot be trusted. Shame on the NYT!
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WikiLeaks Exposes How Council on Foreign Relations Controls Most All Mainstream Media
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
29 Jan 2018 – A single organization controls almost everything you see, hear, and read in the media and they’ve been handpicking your leaders for decades.
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Portraits: Peacemakers, Warmongers and People Between
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
This is the sixth collection of poems by David Krieger, an American peace leader and poet who has lived through and been impacted by the events since the Second World War. This unique collection of 70 poems is not just about well known figures but also ordinary folks, the People Between.
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(Português) Conheça histórias emocionantes de animais que demonstram empatia
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Existem inúmeros registros de que os animais demonstram empatia. Às vezes, os animais cuidam um do outro. Em outros, eles mostram sentir tristeza, e, às vezes, até cuidam dos humanos.
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15 Cases: Constructive vs Destructive U.S. Foreign Policies
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
The right column is sadly familiar; add more recent cases. The left column also carries an element of sadness but nothing really radical; more like common sense that could easily be translated into political practice. A theory is something tested along its edges (Quine); what you deduce from the theory–and to me the key “edge”–is its action-consequences.
→ read full articleBrexit and Its Discontents
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
To the extent that grievances over inequalities in Britain drove the Leave vote, they were shooting at the wrong target. The UK cost of living crisis is due not to ‘Brussels’ but the actions of governments the British have elected to power in Westminster. The long-cherished vision of the Brexitollahs is for power to tilt still further in favour of employers and the wealthy.
→ read full articleNATO Allies… (?)
Latuff – MintPress News,
12 Feb 2018
Where (ex) Empires Clash
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World’s Richest 1% Acquired 82% of Wealth in 2017: Oxfam
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
22 Jan 2018 – Nearly 82 percent of global wealth generated last year went to one percent of the population, while the bottom 50 percent saw no increase at all, according to a new Oxfam report that shows the staggering wealth gap between the ultra-rich and the rest of the world. World’s Richest Accumulated US$1 Trillion in 2017
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Permaculture in New Zealand: Joanna Santa Barbara’s Atamai Village (Part 2)
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Permaculture for Peace: Presenting the Atamai Village Project – Joanna Santa Barbara is a member of TRANSCEND International.
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Is Bitcoin a True Anti-War Currency?
Wendy McElroy | Bitcoin News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
6 Feb 2018 – It is not common to speak of currency as being pro or anti-war. A freely traded currency is merely an economic tool that facilitates the exchange of goods and services by people whose intentions may be good or evil. All things being equal, the money is morally and politically neutral in whatever form it takes.
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Remembering Gene Sharp, a Pioneer of People Power
The Editors | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Gene Sharp, who passed away at the age of 90 on Sunday [28 Jan], was not only a key figure in the development of a whole new field of study devoted to helping people realize their own power, he was a key figure in the lives of so many who found inspiration in his work and took it in new directions. It is no exaggeration to say that Waging Nonviolence would not exist were it not for his pioneering research demonstrating the undeniable power and effectiveness of nonviolent struggle.
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“Fake News” Is Fake News
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #155 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – The people who created Facebook and Google must be smart. They’re billionaires. Facebook hired a very large staff of people to read everything posted by users to weed out the fake stuff. That didn’t last too long before the company announced that it wasn’t “comfortable” deciding which news sources are the most trustworthy in a “world with so much division”. We all could have told them that, couldn’t we?
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Gandhi — Challenges and Learnings in South Africa
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Gandhi had thought that he would stay for only a year in South Africa but as it turned out he remained there for 21 years and returned to India in 1914. His stay was a deeply learning experience – it had a profound effect on him in terms of observing the oppression and prejudice suffered by Indians who were working there and the racial incidents that he himself was subject to. He gradually became aware of the behavior of the white rulers towards not only the black populations but also towards Indians and other non-white people.
→ read full articleTry Learning Not to Ride a Bicycle So We Can Save the World
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
“Einstein discovered a law of physical change: the way to convert a single particle of matter into enormous physical energy. Might there not also be, as Gandhi suggested, an equally incredible and undiscovered law of spiritual change, whereby a single person or small community of persons could be converted into an enormous spiritual energy capable of transforming a society and a world? I believe that there is.”
→ read full article2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review Released by Trump Administration
David Krieger and Rick Wayman | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
2 Feb 2018 –The 2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, released today, represents a reckless realignment of an already dangerous U.S. nuclear policy. Trump administration plan calls for smaller nuclear weapons making nuclear war far more likely.
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