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New Report Provides First Comprehensive Legal Analysis of the Role of Gender in Genocide
Sareta Ashraph & Liz Olson | Global Justice Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
7 Dec 2018 – Today, the Global Justice Center released the first comprehensive legal analysis of the gender-based crimes of genocide. Over the past four years, the world has witnessed at least two genocidal campaigns—against the Yazidis in Iraq and against the Rohingya in Myanmar. Widespread sexual and gender-based violence was central to both, as in the genocides in Darfur, Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Guatemala. The new report, Beyond Killing, details the role that gender plays in the commission of genocide and the role it must therefore play in efforts to prevent and punish it.
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Responding to the Unique Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Jonathan Granoff | Parliament of the World’s Religions – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – “Somehow our politicians and military generals have convinced themselves that nuclear deterrence can safely go on forever. The recent statement from the Parliament of the World’s Religions to eliminate nukes puts the “mutual deterrence” rationalization for security to rest.” — Roger Kotila, President, Democratic World Federalists
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DUDH, dude!
Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
Today 10 December is United Nations Day of the Declaration of Human Rights. In French it is called DUDH (Declaration Universal de Droits Humain)
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Baalak Trust — Rehabilitating Lost Children
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
Where do these lost children go? Many of them just roam around aimlessly, lonely, hungry not knowing what to do, where to go. Often they walk up to a railway station or a bus stand where there are large crowds of people and where the lost child will not be pushed away or asked to leave. And where do such children land? In a small factory, or a restaurant to work as child labour, or forced to beg on the streets, or pushed into a brothel if the child is female.
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From Central America to Syria: the Conspiracy against Refugees
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
5 Dec 2018 – Watching the ongoing debate between liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding chaotic situation in Central America. In fact, no other country is as accountable as the United States for the ongoing chaos and resulting refugee crisis.
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Researcher Claims CRISPR-edited Twins Are Born – How Will Science Respond?
Dimitri Perrin and Gaetan Burgio – The Conversation,
10 Dec 2018
27 Nov 2018 – Gene editing technology is revolutionising biology – and now twin human baby girls may be a living part of this story. Today several media outlets report that a team of scientists in China has used CRISPR to modify the DNA of healthy human embryos to genetically “vaccinate” against HIV infection. This is the first reported case of humans born with CRISPR-modifed DNA.
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Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters
Kazu Haga | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
The philosophy of nonviolence and the moral question of violence are often considered too messy or complicated, even by those who do believe it to be a principle. The civil rights movement was led largely by leaders who believed in nonviolence as a moral imperative. It was not only the most effective thing, but also the ‘right’ thing.
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We Need to Talk about Racism in the Aid Sector
Tindyebwa Agaba and Anonymous | Shine A Light – Open Democracy,
10 Dec 2018
Casual racism, implicit bias and jobs offered over beer. Two humanitarian workers reveal the ugly side of the international aid sector.
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Humans
Steve Cutts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
An Animated History of Taker Culture in 4 Minutes
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UNGA President Launches New Initiative to Purge Plastics and Purify Oceans
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
The President of the UN General Assembly launched a new global call to action on Tuesday [4 Dec] to help end the scourge of plastic pollution in the ocean.
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Limits of Dissent – Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Even a comparatively honest, Chomskyite journalist like Greenwald is either not willing or not able to tell the whole truth about a paper that has done enormous harm in promoting Perpetual War with endless nonsense about ‘our’ supposed ‘responsibility to protect’ civilians in oil-rich countries like Iraq and Libya. The Guardian has, at last, begun responding to the climate extinction crisis, but it has long downplayed the gravity of the crisis and the truth of corporate denialism, while promoting high status consumerism and fossil fuel advertising.
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G20: You Can Smell Tear Gas in the Streets as the Oil Industry Squabbles
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
4 Dec 2018 – Last week, two important meetings took place—one, in Buenos Aires, of the G20 nations, and two, in Vienna, of the OPEC. The two meetings did not produce any resolution to the major economic challenges in the world. But they did soothe the nerves of financial markets… From the air-conditioned rooms of the oligarchy, we go to the tear gas of the streets.
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(Português) “É preciso ter a coragem de assumir o sofrimento que causamos aos animais”
Jacinto Antón - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
10 Dec 2018
Filósofa francesa Corine Pelluchon defende que o maltrato aos animais possa ser um sinal precursor da violência contra os seres humanos, especialmente contra os mais frágeis.
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‘There Are No People’: China’s Crackdown in the Uyghur Heartland
Ann Scott Tyson – The Christian Science Monitor,
10 Dec 2018
Ann Scott Tyson found reporting especially challenging in the western region of Xinjiang, where she went to witness the impact of China’s forced ‘reeducation’ of its Uyghur minority. But that work produced a rare and nuanced look at the project’s effect.
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Going to the Gym Is a Sign of Being Gay, Says Malaysian Newspaper
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
A Malaysian newspaper has published a gay-spotter’s checklist. It includes things like being a gym member or having a beard as signs of male homosexuality. Hugging, holding hands, being alone and talking disparagingly about men, meanwhile, are a sure-fire way of telling someone is a lesbian, according to the guide.
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The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness
Frances Moore Lappé – Common Dreams,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – My point is simple. It’s now time to focus on courage. Goodness without courage is no longer good enough.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
9 December was the 70th anniversary of the 1948 Genocide Convention written in light of the events of WWII; the prevention of Genocide has become a world norm. 10 December is the 70th anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has also become a world norm. However, we know that many human rights norms are not being reached and in some cases are deliberately violated. Thus, our task today is to reflect on avenues of action.
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On the DIGNIprominence of Applied Peace Linguistics
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
Among the branches of Applied Linguistics, Peace Linguistics stands out
because much deeper goals a peace linguist locally and globally carries out
(Português) Dezembro é o mês mais violento para os animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
Com a chegada do Natal, mais do que nunca, bebês, pais e mães de outras espécies são servidos sobre uma mesa.
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José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
29 Nov 2018 – As I stared at the picture of seven-year-old Amal Hussain dying of hunger I couldn’t contain my anguish, tears flooding my eyes. Some hours earlier I was wining and dining with friends whom I told about my revulsion at the world’s indifference at the Yemen tragedy, at the hypocrites of the West who shamelessly crawl at the feet of the butcher of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman.
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Here’s Facebook’s Former “Privacy Sherpa” Discussing How to Harm Your Facebook Privacy
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – In a chat seized by U.K. authorities, privacy officer Yul Kwon discussed how Facebook planned to circumvent an Android privacy dialog.
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Seeing Yemen from Jeju
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
4 Dec 2018 – Jeju, a visa-free port, has been an entry point for close to 500 Yemenis who have traveled nearly 5000 miles in search of safety. Traumatized by consistent bombing, threats of imprisonment and torture, and the horrors of starvation, recent migrants to South Korea, including children, yearn for refuge.
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Homeland Security Will Let Computers Predict Who Might Be a Terrorist on Your Plane — Just Don’t Ask How It Works
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – The software, developed under contract, will be given to foreign governments. It is already being tested.
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Why We Are Not Ready for Genetically Designed Babies
Françoise Baylis, Graham Dellaire and Landon J Getz – The Conversation,
10 Dec 2018
27 Nov 2018 – Chinese researcher, Jainkui He claims to have created the world’s first genome-edited twins. Such action would pose unknown risks to the lives of these children and to humanity as a whole.
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Summer of ’42 (Music Video of the Week)
Peter Nero – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
Peter Nero plays his million selling Summer of ’42 in concert.
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Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment
Helena Norberg-Hodge | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
The global food system is inefficient, illogical and damaging to the environment. In contrast, small-scale local farming offers both economic and food security with several net benefits to the environment and life on the planet.
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Don’t Let [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Off the Hook for Her Role in the Myanmar Genocide
Khin Mai Aung | Lion’s Roar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Last week, a prominent Buddhist teacher defended Aung San Suu Kyi, the Buddhist Nobel Peace Prize laureate, against criticism that she is party to genocide. Why that defense doesn’t hold up. Suu Kyi lived in Bhutan where her late husband was working as the English tutor for the Bhutanese royal family. This lama moves in that ruling class circle.
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How Big Brother Grips Americans’ Minds to Support Invasions
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
U.S. the World’s Invasion Nation
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Global Coalition of Scholars Calls for Added Pressure on China over Uygur Internment Camps in Xinjiang
Owen Churchill – China Morning Post,
10 Dec 2018
• A statement delivered on behalf of 278 academics from 26 countries called for the release of detainees and an end to China’s campaign against Muslim minorities
• The group also included an appeal to countries engaged in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Sometimes a Pair of Pants Can Give You Vertigo
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Between my desire for a changed world and the world that seemed to change only for the worse lay the desolation Berger identified. Many people feel it, I know, especially dissidents who fight in various ways against the powerful. But we prefer not to go there, to see what it consists of and how we may transmute it into acts and words that might make a difference.
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The Joke Is on Us
Daily Ros – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
Reality of Perception
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Time Is Running Out on Climate Change, but Geoengineering Has Dangers of Its Own
Catriona McKinnon – The Conversation,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – The realities of climate change look bleak, but is relying on a climate engineering project like solar radiation management the answer?
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Behind the US Attack on Chinese Smartphones
Manlio Dinucci – Global Research,
10 Dec 2018
5 Dec 2018 – After having imposed heavy taxes on Chinese merchandise President Trump accepted a “truce” mainly because the US economy has been struck by Chinese retaliation. While China is building dams, railways and bridges, useful not only for its commercial network, but also for the development of the countries concerned, in the US wars, dams, railways and bridges are the first targets to be destroyed.
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India’s Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution Rejects GM Crops
Colin Todhunter | Asia Pacific Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – “Genetically Modified cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops should therefore be banned.”
— M.S. Swaminathan, renowned agricultural scientist/geneticist and the father of the Green Revolution in India
Sheikh Sayakh Will Go to Prison, the Disgrace to His Judges
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
5 Dec 2018 – Sheikh Sayakh is about to be imprisoned for not accepting the robbery of his lands and the expulsion of his village members by the state of Israel that expelled them in 1952. He returned to his land and reconstructed it. The state demolished the village 130 times trying to expel Sheikh Sayakh and his people from the village. It has now charged and convicted him for invading the very lands it robbed from him.
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(Português) A Fórmula do Fascismo
Paulo Correia | Ideia Perigosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
18 Nov 2018 – µ – φ = fascismo : A fórmula fundamental do grande capital, aplicada à política de França, a terra da tomada da Bastilha, da Declaração dos Direitos do Homem e do Cidadão e da divisa « Liberté Égalité Fraternité ». Micron (µ) foi eleito com o slogan « nem de esquerda, nem de direita ». Viu-se no que deu.
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John Scales Avery Interviews David Krieger from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
“My understanding is that a nuclear war would largely destroy the ozone layer allowing extreme levels of ultraviolet radiation. Additionally, a nuclear war would dramatically lower temperatures, possibly throwing the planet into a new Ice Age. Atmospheric scientists tell us that even a “small” nuclear war between India and Pakistan in which each side used 50 nuclear weapons would block sunlight, shorten growing seasons, causing mass starvation and two billion human deaths.”
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – In last month’s blog, I returned to a previous theme of an Alternative UN Security Council. It has been pointed out to me that I did not provide a very explicit rationale about this proposal and why it should be given priority. So let me try to do that now in terms of the following strategy and tactics involved.
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The Significance of Human Duties and Responsibilities
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
As we observe the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UNGA on the 10th of December 1948, it is imperative that we remind ourselves of the vital importance of Human Duties and Responsibilities in the life of a society. There is a profound link between rights, on the one hand, and duties and responsibilities, on the other. It is a link that is acknowledged in almost every religious philosophy.
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We All Buy Slave-Made Products: Here’s How We Avoid Feeling Guilty
Michal Carrington, Andreas Chatzidakis and Deirdre Shaw – The Conversation,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – Hidden slavery is a growing global problem but we continue to turn a blind eye and embrace a seemingly insatiable demand for fast, cheap goods and services.
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Sorwar Alam | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
9 Dec 2018 – Returning Rohingya refugees is like sending Holocaust survivors to gas chambers, says Myanmar rights activist Maung Zarni.
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Truth, Justice, and Public Good: Simone Weil on Political Manipulation, the Dangers of “For” and “Against,” and How to Save Thinking from Opinion
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
“True attention is a state so difficult for any human creature, so violent, that any emotional disturbance can derail it. Therefore, one must always endeavour strenuously to protect one’s inner faculty of judgment against the turmoil of personal hopes and fears.”
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Genome-Edited Baby Claim Provokes International Outcry
David Cyranoski & Heidi Ledford | Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 – He Jiankui, a genome-editing researcher at the Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen, says that he impregnated a woman with embryos that had been edited to disable the genetic pathway HIV uses to infect cells. The announcement has provoked shock and outrage among scientists around the world.
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Chinese Researcher Claims First Gene-Edited Babies
Marilynn Marchione | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics.
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‘It Is Time for Progressives of the World to Unite’: Sanders-Varoufakis Issue Open Call for New Global Movement
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
30 Nov 2018 – With fascist movements on the rise and controlling the levers of power in the USA and across the world, the U.S.-based Sanders Institute and Europe’s DiEM25—the groups founded by Jane Sanders and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, respectively—announced the launch of Progressive International today with the goal of beating back rightwing forces with an organized “grassroots movement for global justice.”
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19 of 20 World Leaders Just Pledged to Fight Climate Change-Trump Was the Lone Holdout
Rebecca Leber – Mother Jones,
3 Dec 2018
1 Dec 2018 – It is telling that on two of the most contentious topics at the Buenos Aires Group of 20 meeting, the USA eventually joined 19 other world leaders on trade, but when it comes to climate change, President Donald Trump remained firmly alone: “The United States reiterates its decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.”
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The Uighurs and China’s Long History of Trouble with Islam
Ian Johnson | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
23 Nov 2018 – While cloaked in the war on terrorism, many of the state’s actions are aimed at Islam itself. This has culminated in the reintroduction of a Mao-era measure: re-education camps. Then, the idea was to punish people who had the wrong class background; now, it is Muslims who have not assimilated enough. At first, reports of this seemed like an impossibility in the twenty-first century. Recently, though, the state has admitted they exist, saying they are needed to control extremism.
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Big Pharma Greed and Bad Government Policy Are Keeping the World from Ending AIDS
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
December 1 marks the 30th World AIDS Day—and despite leaps forward in medicine and awareness in affluent parts of the world, it’s still a big problem elsewhere.
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Academic Withdraws from China-Backed Event for Uyghurs
Sena Guler | Anadolu Agency [Turkey] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
1 Dec 2018 – Human rights activist and intellectual Maung Zarni said he withdrew from a Beijing-sponsored forum in London to protest the detention of a million Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang and until the country reverses its ‘troubling path.’
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The G20 Meeting and U.S./Russia Relations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – What follows are my responses to questions addressed to me by Sputnik News Agency in Moscow. Although the focus was on the ongoing G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, the real concern was the future of U.S./Russia relations and how these relations should be managed to avoid arms races, geopolitical rivalry, and ideological tensions.
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Why Is Canada Punishing This Brave Woman?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
The Canadian government forced Damian’s mother, Christianne Boudreau, to surrender her Canadian passport. This article examines the strange circumstances and seeming irrationality. Unlike her son, who had been indoctrinated then recruited to join a terrorist group, Christianne Boudreau has worked with other parents internationally to create and promote educational programs to counter extremism. She converted her grief at the loss of Damian to help educate others how to prevent the same thing happening again.
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Israel Seizes More Land Speeding Division of Occupied Palestine
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
28 Nov 2018 – Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked confirmed today during an interview that the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in occupied Palestine will be demolished very soon. The village is situated a few kilometers from the occupied city of East Jerusalem, between two major illegal Israeli settlements, namely Ma’ale Adumim and Kfar Adumim.
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US Mass Mobilizations: Wars and Financial Plunder
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
25 Nov 2018 – This paper will begin by discussing the major wars of our time, namely the two US invasions of Iraq. We will proceed to analyze the nature of the popular response and the political consequences. In the second section we will discuss the economic crises of 2008 -2009, the government bailout and popular response. We will conclude by focusing on the potential powerful changes inherent in mass popular movements.
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(Português) Imagens angustiantes mostram a realidade dos animais criados para indústria de peles
Julia Cortezia - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
3 Dec 2018
Em uma investigação feita pela Humane Society International (HSI), foi revelado as condições em que minks, raposas e cães-guaxinins estão confinados nas fazendas de pele finlandesas.
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230,000 “Jihadists” in 70 Countries: Since 9/11 the Number of Al Qaeda Affiliated Terrorists Has Quadrupled. Study
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
23 Nov 2018 – US taxpayers have already forked over a mind-melting $5.9 trillion to fund the massive and increasingly secretive war – but the noble pursuit of eradicating terrorism has apparently had the opposite effect.
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Human Delusion and Our Destruction of the Biosphere: We Aren’t Even Trying!
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
27 Nov 2018 – Have you heard the expression ‘climate change’? That lovely expression that suggests a holiday in a place with a more pleasant climate… Extinction beckons. The choice is yours.
→ read full articleNo Kidding
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
A man is stopped by the police around 2 a.m. on a Thursday and asked where he is going at that time of night.
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Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
When children waste away to literally nothing while fourteen million people face conflict driven famine, a hue and cry—yes, a caterwaul —most certainly should be raised, worldwide.
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An Open Letter to Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche from a Burmese Buddhist Activist
Maung Zarni and Matthew Gindin | Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
A former ally of Aung San Suu Kyi responds to the Tibetan Buddhist teacher’s support for Myanmar’s controversial leader.
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Why Henry David Thoreau Was Drawn to Yoga
Derek Beres | Big Think – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
20 Nov 2018 – Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau shared a love for the ideas behind works like the Bhagavad Gita, incorporating symbols and metaphors into their own transcendental and nature-based writings—and leading to his time on Walden Pond. Thoreau was drawn to yoga and Hinduism as forms of resistance to mainstream market capitalism.
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Island Style – ‘Oiwi E (Music Video of the Week)
Song Across Hawai'i | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Jack Johnson and dozens of artists joined more than 1,000 Hawai’i keiki (children) in this beautiful medley. Weʻre excited to present our 2nd Song Across Hawaiʻi filmed across many breathtaking Hawai’i locations.
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Tyranny against Humanity: Human Rights and Global Politics
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
27 Nov 2018 – The tyranny of human rights violations – planned and alleged goes unabated across the globe. Late American historian Howard Zinn must have sensed the human cries against the Nature and called “Tyranny is tyranny.”
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A Message of Indigenous Resistance and Inspiration from the Amazon
Nemonte Nenquimo | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
29 Nov 2018 – The following piece is quoted directly from the keynote address of Ceibo Alliance co-founder Nemonte Nenquimo, who traveled from her home in the remote Ecuadorian Amazon to present to a live audience at this year’s Bioneers conference in Marin, California.
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A 100% Organic Model Is Possible: The Indian State of Sikkim Shows Us How
Manlio Masucci | LifeGate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
14 Nov 2018 – The Indian state of Sikkim is the first to be certified as fully organic, and is now ready to export its model to the rest of the world. Its delegation told us how all this has been possible.
→ read full articleInside Job: The 2008 Global Financial Crisis Documentary
Charles Ferguson | Economic Crisis Film – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2010 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary, Inside Job provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia.
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On Sea as on Land: New Russia-Ukraine Tensions Require Mediation and Negotiations in Good Faith
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
30 Nov 2018 – The tensions arise from fears rather than from structures. Russia fears that Ukraine will join NATO. Ukraine fears that its economy will be deeply harmed by Russian economic measures such as making it difficult for cargo ships to use Mariupol port. The times call for creative proposals and open discussions.
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This Is How Capitalism Kills Us
Hamilton Nolan – Splinter News,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 – Capitalism incentivizes the maximization of short-term, private profits. Compensation from investment is supposed to be tied to risk—the higher the risk, the higher the reward. When you have a political system in which it is possible to purchase political power, you can shove your risk off onto the government. It is privatized profit and socialized risk. It is the best deal you can get. It is also, at its core, corrupt, the most inhuman manifestation of crony capitalism.
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Peace Education, Peace Psychology, Peace Linguistics: Toward a Humanity-improving Integration
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Peace Education, Peace Psychology and Peace Linguistics interconnected they are
Their principles and applications will help Humanity go far
Peaceful, nonviolent, nonkilling human beings the world urgently needs
May peace educators, peace psychologists, and peace linguists globally plant PEACE seeds
The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
Brooke Jarvis – The New York Times,
3 Dec 2018
27 Nov 2018 – Insects are the vital pollinators and recyclers of ecosystems and the base of food webs everywhere. We’ve begun to talk about living in the Anthropocene, a world shaped by humans. But E.O. Wilson, the naturalist and prophet of environmental degradation, has suggested another name: the Eremocine, the age of loneliness. ‘We notice the losses, it’s the diminishment we don’t see.’
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Global Catastrophic Risks 2018 Annual Report
Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Thought Leaders Sharing What You Need to Know on Global Catastrophic Risks
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Mexico on the Eve of AMLO – “So Far from God and So Close to the United States”
Roger Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
30 Nov 2018 – Mexico is bucking an international right-wing tide, shifting its government from right to left-of-center with the presidential inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on December 1. Speaking for international capital, The Economist is worried. The other 99% of humanity is hopeful. A cautionary history of this trice conquered land follows.
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Law Group That Helped U.S. Probe Says Rohingyas Victims of Genocide
Sansara Nepal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
30 Nov 2018 – The Washington-based Public International Law and Policy Group, contracted by the State Department to interview Rohingya refugees about atrocities against Muslims in Myanmar, has found in a report to be released on Monday [3 Dec] that the Myanmar military committed crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well as genocide.
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Why We Stopped Trusting Elites
William Davies – The Guardian,
3 Dec 2018
The credibility of establishment figures has been demolished by technological change and political upheavals. But it’s too late to turn back the clock.
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Punctuated Biological and Social Evolution?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – What is the future for humans and the environment? Will average global temperature continue to rise? Have we passed the tipping point? There are now more body mass of humans and domestic vertebrates than all wild vertebrate animals on earth! In a few years there will be more plastic than fish in oceans and most coral reefs could be gone! Is it “natural” that a handful of billionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of humanity (i.e. more than 3.6 billion people)? What hope is left a sustainable earth ecosystem? What does it take to actually change things? Please share your views after you read these and other questions below.
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(Português) Ringo Starr diz que o segredo para se manter jovem e saudável é não consumir carne
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
21 nov 2018 – Aos 78 anos, o ex-baterista dos The Beatles, Ringo Starr, disse em entrevista à revista Rolling Stone que o segredo para se manter jovem e saudável é não consumir carne e se exercitar. Ele abdicou do consumo de carne depois de assistir a uma tourada na Espanha.
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Trump Administration Approves Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Harmful to Whales, Dolphins
Center for Biological Diversity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
30 Nov 2018 — The Trump administration today approved five permits that allow harm to whales, dolphins and other animals so companies can search for oil off the Atlantic Coast using loud seismic airgun blasts.
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Further Complicating the Narrative on Nicaragua
Alejandro Bendaña, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
28 Nov 2018 – The fact that one or another sector of today’s broad opposition to Ortega received USA funding should come as no surprise given the way Washington has always hedged its bets in one country or another. But to extrapolate from there that the protesters, opposition leaders–and many of us participants on the left who continue to regard ourselves as Sandinistas–are all tainted is unfair, condescending and inaccurate. We have lost neither our minds nor our principles.
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Radio Rohingya
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 – In a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazaar, a young Rohingya refugee dreams of giving a voice to his people. “Wherever I go in the camp, everyone is waiting and looking for any news … My people need information. News about not just the camp but also the people we have left behind in Myanmar.”
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Nicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
“Bravery is always more intelligent than fear, since it is built on the foundation of what one knows about oneself: the knowledge of one’s strength and capacity, of one’s passion.”
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The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
Ava Kofman – The Intercept,
3 Dec 2018
25 Nov 2018 – Risky Business – AC Global Risk claims to be able to determine your level of “risk” as an employee or an asylum-seeker based not on what you say, but how you say it.
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About the Name “Hindu”
Sri Nandanandana das | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Most scholars feel that the name “Hindu” was developed by outsiders, invaders who could not pronounce the name of the Sindhu River properly. According to Sir Monier Williams, the Sanskrit lexicographer, you cannot find an indigenous root for the words Hindu or India. Neither are these words found in any Buddhist or Jain texts, nor any of the official 23 languages of India. Some sources report that it was Alexander the Great who first renamed the River Sindhu as the Indu, dropping the beginning “S”, thus making it easier for the Greeks to pronounce. This became known as the Indus.
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The Guardian Ups Its Vilification of Julian Assange
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
28 Nov 2018 – It is welcome that finally there has been a little pushback, including from leading journalists, to the Guardian’s long-running vilification of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. The Guardian story will prepare public opinion for the moment when Ecuador’s rightwing government under President Lenin Moreno forces Assange out of the embassy, having already withdrawn most of his rights to use digital media.
→ read full articleOn the Future of the World: Some Notes
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Two Big Words, “Future” and “World”; one small word, “notes”. To think about a dialectic holon, the world, to speak it, act it. For sure it will act upon us, so let us try a word on us upon it.
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Homo Sapiens?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
What? Excuse me?
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Peace Pagoda: Seeking Bliss and Joy
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Buddhists or not, we approach Lord Buddha for seeking peace, joy and harmony in this violent world. A Buddhist pagoda built with Japanese aid in Darjeeling in the north eastern part of India does not disappoint; it fortifies our faith and fulfils our hopes.
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To Put Humans First
Nadine Murad, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Better World Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – Nadia was named the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. For her invaluable work she was honored with the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Global Governance as a Riddle
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
But is a solution the answer to the question?
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The New New Anti-Semitism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Hiding Israel’s Crimes of State behind False Claims of Victimization
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Haiti: Police Repression Escalates on Anniversary of the Battle of Vertieres
Resumen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Sunday November 18, 2018, was the 215th anniversary of the victory at the battle of Vertieres when Haitians won a decisive battle against French forces in 1803, leading to the declaration of Haitian independence. People all over Haiti marked the occasion with massive protests against the theft of billions of dollars of Petrocaribe funds provided to the Haitian government by Venezuela.
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Italy: A Whole US/NATO Strategic Base
Manlio Dinucci | Pandora TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
In this well documented production, Manlio Dinucci focuses on US-NATO military deployment in Italy and around the world as a Global NATO.
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ASEAN: Trade Wars and ZOPFAN
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
20 Nov 2018 – The current trade war was triggered by Donald Trump raising tariffs on Chinese goods and the Chinese government retaliating. If it is prolonged and escalates, it may generate consequences that will go beyond trade. There may be serious implications for global politics and security. ZOPFAN-Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality’s simple goal is “to keep Southeast Asia free from any form or manner of interference by outside powers.”
→ read full articleTRANSCEND-Galtung Track Record on Conflict Solution/Mediation: 1958-2018
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
The TRANSCEND Method uses dialogues with all parties to identify their goals, testing their legitimacy, and for visions of a new social reality meeting legitimate goals. Diagnoses focus on conflict and trauma, prognoses without or with intervention, therapy on visions of solution and conciliation; proposed, propagated and realized.
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Burma Project – Situation of the Rohingyas in North Arakan State
The Irish Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
The report of the Rohingya project was officially launched on June 16 th, 2010 by Micheál Martin, the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Iveagh House.
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The Situation of the Rohingya: Is There a Role for the International Court of Justice?
Michael A Becker | European Journal of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 – The fact remains that Myanmar has unequivocally rejected the non-binding conclusions of the Fact-Finding Mission and a dispute about Myanmar’s compliance with the Genocide Convention persists. A case at the ICJ provides a means to resolve that legal dispute, even if addressing the broader challenges faced by the Rohingya is a far more complicated affair. Lasting solutions may require finding ways to persuade those states that are supporting and investing in Myanmar (such as China and Japan) that it is in their own interest to see Myanmar change its ways.
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Here’s the Dire Climate Report the Trump White House Didn’t Want You to See
Jake Johnson – Common Dreams,
26 Nov 2018
“The decision to release this damning report when families are beginning to celebrate the holidays and newsrooms are short-staffed is a brazen attempt to bury the truth.”
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Complicating the Narrative on Nicaragua
James Phillips | NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Many reports on the situation in Nicaragua have failed to capture the complexity of the crisis, a product of many decades of dictatorship, revolution, youthful hope, counterrevolution, popular empowerment, compromise with hard realities, struggles for national sovereignty, and ongoing U.S. intervention.
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(Português) George Harrison: “A coisa que me repeliu em relação a comer carne foi a ideia de matar animais”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
21 nov 2018 – Harrison era vegetariano porque sentia que era contraditório honrar a vida em muitas formas e ainda contribuir com o abate de animais. Era devoto de Krishna e membro da ISKCON-Internatioinal Society for Krishna Consciousness. Compôs seu maior êxito, My Sweet Lord, para Krishna.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
-13 Nov 2018-
To be almost 90
And happy
With good health
Feels criminal
John F. Kennedy 55 Years On: Casting Light on the JFK Assassination, 9/11 and Other 21st Century Crimes
Prof. Graeme McQueen | OffGuardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 – Fifty-five years ago, on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Although there has been a great deal written about this event over the years, I want to draw attention to one exceptionally important article. Vincent Salandria gave this talk in Dallas at the invitation of the Coalition on Political Assassinations.
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As Facebook Bans Alternative Media to ‘Promote Online Safety,’ They Allowed a Child to Be Sold in a Post
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
While Facebook was actively deleting countless pages for promoting peace and freedom, they allowed an auction to be held in which a child was for sale—for weeks.
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