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America’s National Defense Is Really Offense
Philip Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
26 Jan 2018 – Today the Pentagon released an unclassified summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy report. Reading the summary is illuminating, to say the least, and somewhat disturbing, as it focuses very little on actual defense of the realm and relates much more to offensive military action that might be employed to further certain debatable national interests. Occasionally, it is actually delusional, as when it refers to consolidating “gains we have made in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.”
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From Mohandas to Mahatma Gandhi
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
One of the most noted icons of the last century would undoubtedly be Mahatma Gandhi who was assassinated in New Delhi on 30 January 1948. His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi but worldwide he is known just as Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi.
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A Treacherous Crossing
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – The “good guys” shaping and selling U.S. foreign policy and weapon sales exemplify the heartless indifference of the smugglers who gamble human life in exceedingly dangerous crossings.
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(Italiano) Johan Galtung Lectio Magistralis a Brescia
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Johan Galtung, che recentemente ha compiuto 87 anni, dimostra questo principio ogni giorno della sua vita, forte della sua inflessibile autodisciplina intellettuale e di 60 anni di dedizione professionale per la trasformazione dei conflitti. La sua biografia è intensa e interessante ma qui vorrei giusto ricordare 3 episodi.
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(Italiano) Lutti. E’ Morto Gene Sharp
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
E’ morto Gene Sharp (21 gennaio 1928- 28 gennaio 2018), filosofo, politico e intellettuale statunitense. Nell’Universita’ di Harward diresse il Program of Nonviolent Sanctions e fondo’ l’Albert Einstein Istitution. Tra gli altri grandi maestri e autori, e’ sui suoi libri che ci siamo formati nella ricerca della nonviolenza.
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Hannah Beech: “Journos’ Power without Moral Responsibility”
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
4 Feb 2018 – Hannah Beech’s select writings on Wirathu & Rohingyas (New York Times, 1 Feb 2018) have done lasting damage to Myanmar’s inter-communal relations and credibility of Rohingyas’ tales of horror while reinforcing Myanmar military’s popular misinformation against Rohingyas.
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North Korea’s List of U.S. Human Rights Abuses Includes Inequality, Racism and Marijuana Use
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
5 Feb 2018
31 Jan 2018 – Shortly before President Trump used his State of the Union speech to criticize North Korean human rights abuses, Pyongyang released its own criticism of the United States as a “gross violator of human rights.” A summary of a report titled “White Paper on Human Rights Violations in the U.S. in 2017″ was released by the Korean Central News Agency today.
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Mass Media for Culture of Peace
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – It has been the dream at CPNN from the beginning that our website and others like us would be able to attract so much readership that the mass media would need to take up the theme of the culture of peace in order to compete with us.
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The Expert
PMC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
A Window into Corporate Reality
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Nuclear Weapons: An Absolute Evil
Anne Baring – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
“A number of studies by meteorologists and other experts from both East and West predict that use of nuclear weapons would result in fire storms with very high winds and high temperatures. The resulting smoke and dust would block out sunlight for a period of many months. Temperatures in many places would fall far below freezing, and much of the earth’s plant life would be killed. Animals and humans would then die of starvation.”
Nuclear Weapons: An Absolute Evil, by John Scales Avery, Danish Peace Academy, 25 Jan 2018
Clever
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
President Bush was informed that there was a threat of a bird flu epidemic.
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One State or Two States? You’re Asking the Wrong Question
Haggai Matar - +972 Magazine,
5 Feb 2018
What we desperately need now is to go back to the basics and recognize that guaranteeing Palestinians’ rights is the foundation for any political solution.
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The Middle East Peace Process: A Cruel Joke
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – As of now, there is no honest broker and there is no peace process—facts that prolong the Israeli Occupation and further undermine Palestinian hopes for internationally recognized statehood and a better life.
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When Is There Going to Be Accountability for US Wars and Aggression?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
2 Feb 2018 – It’s WMD all over again. Anonymous “US officials” are once again accusing a targeted “regime” of using “chemical weapons” and threatening that the U.S. military may have to “hold it accountable”. Once again, western media is broadcasting these accusations and threats without skepticism or investigation.
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Five More Rohingya Mass Graves Found in Myanmar
Foster Klug | AP - TIME,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Warning: The following story contains graphic descriptions of atrocities.
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It’s Time to Wage War against War Movies That Glorify Outdated Models of Masculinity
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
5 Feb 2018
In the #MeToo era, Hollywood should turn away from war movies like “12 Strong” that send harmful messages about masculinity and violence.
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Hillary Clinton Email Archive
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
2 Feb 2018 – A searchable archive for over 30 thousand emails & email attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was Secretary of State. *Updated*
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Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – Hundreds and thousands of questionable GIGO articles are published annually in professional medical journals which are mailed (or emailed) out to physicians, most of whom are never able to find the time to read and absorb their substance. Most barely have the time to read the conclusions of the abstracts which are conveniently printed at the beginning. Most of us never have the time or inclination to read the published conflicts of interest, which are usually published at the end of the article, usually in fine print.
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North Korean Athletes Arrive in South Korea for Olympics
Hyung-Jin Kim | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — North Korean 32-member delegation of skiers and skaters arrived today at a South Korean airport to participate in the Winter Olympics that has brought a temporary lull in tensions surrounding their country’s nuclear program. The Olympics start on 9 Feb.
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The Top 10 Outrageous Things about ISIS the Western Mainstream Media Ignores
Robert Bridge | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
31 Jan 2018 – The top 10 very strange circumstances that led to the rise of ISIS. It seems to be an appropriate time to reflect upon a set of very strange circumstances that led to the rise of this loathsome terrorist group.
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For Myanmar’s Army, Ethnic Bloodletting Is Key to Power and Riches
Richard C. Paddock – The New York Times,
5 Feb 2018
27 Jan 2018 – Myanmar’s army was born in blood 76 years ago and has been shedding it ever since. Its founders, known as the Thirty Comrades, established the army in 1941 with a ghoulish ceremony in Bangkok, where they drew each other’s blood with a single syringe, mixed it in a silver bowl and drank it to seal their vow of loyalty. It has spent the past seven decades warring with its own people.
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The Ultimate Guide to Butterflies & How to Prevent Their Decline
Clive Harris | DIY Garden! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
15 Jan 2018 – Butterflies and moths have been around for millions of years. They used to be a common sight in gardens, but numbers have declined since the 1940s along with our other native wildlife species such as bees and hedgehogs.
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(Português) Volkswagen obriga macacos a inalar fumaças de diesel
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
A Volkswagen torturou 10 macacos em um teste para enganar as autoridades britânicas alegando que um de seus veículos movidos a diesel produziu emissões menos nocivas.
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Remembering Investigative Journalist Robert Parry
Norman Solomon – The Nation,
5 Feb 2018
What made Bob Parry a trailblazer for independent journalism also made him a bridge burner with the media establishment.
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Volkswagen: The Scandal That Never Ends
Zoya Teirstein | Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
29 Jan 2018 – The German automaker issued yet another apology today, this time for a fraudulent study the company commissioned four years ago.
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Livin’ and Dion: Fall River a Perfect Backdrop for Kennedy Response [to Trump’s State of the Union]
Marc Munroe Dion - The Herald News,
5 Feb 2018
27 Jan 2018 – We are the struggle. Fall River is one of those left-behind places, one of those forgotten, unfashionable places, one of those American places that is neither New York City nor some quiet little suburb, nor some farm town. We are not igniting any national trends. Perhaps because of this, when U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III offers the Democrats’ rebuttal to Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday [30 Jan], he will speak from Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School.
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Before Losing Battle with Cancer, This 27-Year-Old Woman Wrote an Inspiring, Eye-Opening Letter
Holly Butcher – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
3 Jan 2018 – It’s a strange thing to realise and accept your mortality at 26 years young. It’s just one of those things you ignore. That’s the thing about life; it is fragile, precious and unpredictable and each day is a gift, not a given right. I’m 27 now. I don’t want to go. I love my life. I am happy. I owe that to my loved ones. But the control is out of my hands.
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(Português) Será que aos olhos dos animais não somos vistos como assassinos?
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
27 Jan 2018 – Será que o famigerado Assassino do Zodíaco poderia ser considerado um executor que seguia os princípios do “abate humanitário”? Por pior que fossem suas ações, me parece que ele não deixava de ter um código de ética. Afinal, ele matava suas vítimas com tiros cirúrgicos, com precisão letal. Ele não as torturava; não tinha qualquer interesse ordinário ou especial pelo sofrimento; apenas na morte.
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Samba do Brasil (Music Video of the Week)
Bellini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
CARNAVAL – CARNIVAL: 9 to 13 Feb 2018 ~ Paganism par excellence, Brazilian style!
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Gene Sharp, Advocate for Nonviolent Resistance (21 Jan 1928 – 28 Jan 2018)
AP | Deccan Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Sharp died at his Boston home on Sunday [28 Jan], said Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution, founded by Sharp in 1983. Sharp, once referred to as the “Machiavelli of nonviolence,” by the New Statesman, has influenced resistance to regimes around the world, from Eastern Europe, to Iran and Burma.
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The New Cold War Is Happening in Africa
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
31 Jan 2018 – There is a new Cold War that is brewing and the African continent is slated to be its epic center. With China’s impressive rise as an economic superpower and Russia’s re-emergence as a strong military contender, the United States government is giving more attention on Africa.
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Accompanying Honduras
Ken Jones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
3 Feb 2018 – In Honduras, police and military repression, since the fraudulent 2017 elections, has been growing more dire. Ken Jones writes about a fifty-person accompaniment delegation which just returned from Honduras.
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Click, Click… And Screen Light Up Again
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Click, click … And the screen lights up again,
With murders, explosions, and lies.
Doping Ban against 28 Russian Athletes Overturned
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – In a decision issued today, the Court for Arbitration for Sport said it “unanimously found” that the evidence presented against 28 athletes were “found to be insufficient to establish” that doping rules were violated. With the decision, the sanctions imposed against the athletes are “annulled” and their individual medal results in the 2014 Sochi Winter Games are “reinstated”.
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Artificial Intelligence May Have Finally Decoded the Bizarre, Mysterious ‘Voynich Manuscript’
Peter Dockrill | Science Alert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – For centuries, it’s been the book no human can understand, but we may finally now be able to read it – thanks to machines invented a half-millennia after it was written. A code that hasn’t been cracked for 600 years.
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Denying the Obvious: Leftists and Crimestop
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
5 Feb 2018
3 Feb 2018 – It is well known that effective propaganda works through slow, imperceptible repetition. “The slow building up of reflexes and myths” is the way Jacques Ellul put it in his classic, Propaganda. This works through commission and omission.
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“Not Enough!”
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
3 Feb 2018 – The Polish parliament decreed that anyone who uses the words “Polish extermination camps” is committing a crime punishable by three years in prison. The right description, according to the Poles, is “Nazi extermination camps in Poland”. The rectification is quite correct. But in Israel, a storm broke out. What?! The Poles deny the Holocaust?
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Mr. Netanyahu and the Elimination of the Landscape
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
3 Feb 2018 – The calls for the sides to go back to negotiations only while Israel is grabbing Palestine in the ground is certainly a very bad policy. Instead of moving forward it gives “longer time out to Israel” to complete the Israelization process. Further than that association agreements with Palestine, more recognitions of it, and more elevation of it in the international arena is badly needed as a complimentary to building Palestine in the ground and not as a contrary to the latter.
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Johan Galtung: Understanding, Fighting & Overcoming Racism
TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
What does Johan Galtung think about Racism?
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
I feel sad. I feel betrayed. I am in the West, the West is in me. Unrealistic are the present US-EU policies. Whoever moves too far away from reality will be punished: USA by being isolated, EU by warfare turning potential friends into enemies. If they want to go down, continue. Alternative: join the world. So, permit me two wishes, two dreams.
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UN Reviews 206 Firms over Their Links to Israeli Settlements
Jamey Keaten | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — The U.N. human rights office said Wednesday [31 Jan] that 206 companies — mostly Israeli and American — are facing a review of their business practices involving Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
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‘Whitewashing’ Genocide in Myanmar
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act in any meaningful way, thus leaving hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees stranded in border camps between Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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The Role of Media for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – Over the past century the control of information, especially through the mass media, has become the most important characteristic of the culture of war. Why? It is urgent that we continue to develop media for a culture of peace throughout the world, hoping that someday it will obtain an audience as great as that for the culture of war.
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Identity and Peace
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Until the birth of the modern nation state, people lived in tribal groups. Commerce as well as skirmishes would have been common between tribes. In those days the tribe played a crucial role in shaping a child’s identity. In the modern world, economically defined ‘class’ also plays a big role in defining a person’s identity. Therefore we may use the word ‘tribe’ with this broader meaning of ‘identity group’ — subsuming both ‘caste’ and ‘class’.
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Are the Miserable of the Earth Aware of Davos? The Nation of Millions of Jobless Youth (Part 1)
Baher Kamal – Wall Street International Magazine,
29 Jan 2018
25 Jan 2018 – This is not about spoiling your day—not at all. Some unavoidable, pressing questions, however, impose themselves while the world’s business pundits meet (23-26 January 2018) in the icy resort of Davos in Switzerland, pronouncing thousands of ‘politically correct’ words about inequality, gender and the future of the youth.
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The Slow-Burning Genocide in Myanmar Continues – We Cannot Be Passive
Lubka Mieresova | RightsInfo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
As we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January) and remember the millions of people murdered by the Nazi regime, we must also pause and reflect: Slow-Burning Genocide in Myanmar.
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Summary of the 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy
Jim Mattis | US Department of Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Sharpening the American Military’s Competitive Edge
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Are the Miserable of the Earth Aware of Davos? Heinous Inequalities (Part 2)
Baher Kamal – Wall Street International Magazine,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – The richest are accumulating wealth at such an astonishing rate that the world could see its first trillionaire in just 25 years. To put this figure in perspective – you would need to spend 1 million dollars every day for 2738 years to spend 1 trillion dollars, the report alerted.
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How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – In a blatant example of “do as I say, not as I do,” the US government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while imposing huge penalties on banks for accepting it as deposits.
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(Italiano) La macchina dell’apocalisse
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
29 Jan 2018
22 gennaio 2018 – Pensare l’inimmaginabile… Ispirandosi alle nuove macchine da guerra l’intrattenimento del mondo virtuale propone scenari apocalittici, e nessuno si chiede se potrebbero verificarsi davvero. Realtà e fantasia si confondono pericolosamente nella mente della gente, soprattutto dei bambini e dei giovani.
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(Français) Les preuves du crime économique contre le Venezuela
Alfredo Serrano Mancilla | CELAG – Investig’Action,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – Laisser de côté ce que Venezuela confronte aujourd’hui, sous forme d’une multi-agression permanente en matière économique, est un acte d’irresponsabilité délibérée. Ce serait aussi une analyse partielle et biaisée. Ce serait la même chose que d’analyser l’économie mexicaine sans considérer qu’elle a les États-Unis comme voisin du nord.
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Conditions in Myanmar Not Yet Suitable for Rohingya Refugees to Return Safely – UN Agency
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – The necessary safeguards for Rohingyas to return to Myanmar are absent, and there are ongoing restrictions on access for aid agencies, the media and other independent observers, the UN warned today, two months after Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed on a plan for the refugees’ voluntary return to their homes.
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The 2018 US National Defense Strategy in Plain Words: Tragi-Comic!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – This National Defense Strategy is as problematic as it is scary for the American people and the world. God, bless America! But before You do, please save it from itself!
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A Rare Glimpse into the Inner Workings of American Empire in the Middle East
Edward Hunt – MintPress News,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – Four former U.S. diplomats provided remarkably candid commentary on recent U.S. involvement in the Middle East, revealing that it is still about oil and regional dominance.
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(Português) Seda, diamantes e couro produzidos em laboratório são alternativa ética à exploração animal
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
28 jan 2018 – Devido à poluição e aos abusos dos animais na indústria do couro, estima-se que uma grande quantidade de vacas precisaria ser morta para atender a demanda por couro até 2025. Por isso, uma alternativa genuína ao couro no laboratório, salvaria a vida de milhares de animais.
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Real Concerns about Rohingya Repatriation
Julian Francis | BD News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – For the Rohingya refugees there are no declared guarantees. What about their rights to citizenship, security, shelter, food, health, education and to be able to practice their religion? If they agree to move to a “Temporary Transit Camp”, it might turn into a camp for “internally displaced” or a “concentration camp”. Who is going to guarantee what?
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Policy of the Cruel and Absurd: Sleep Deprivation in California’s Prisons
Charlie Hinton, Verbena Lea and Willow Katz | Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
10 Jan 2018 – In prison isolation units throughout California, guards wake prisoners up every 30 minutes under the guise of suicide prevention. These “security/welfare checks” cause ongoing sleep deprivation. The UN and many sleep and mental health experts have long defined sleep deprivation as a form of torture.
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On the Way to Hell…
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
29 Jan 2018
Busy body seeding destruction…
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Keeping Haiti in Perspective
John Carroll, M.D. - CounterPunch,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – What word Trump used to describe Haiti is not important. It is his attitude behind the word. It is the connotation that Haiti is not worth our time. This is the danger. Keeping Haiti in perspective is important. Understanding President Trump’s motives is not difficult. But after that, we need to be careful.
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2018 Doomsday Clock: It Is Now Two Minutes to Midnight
Rachel Bronson, PhD | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
25 Jan 2018 – The year just past proved perilous and chaotic, a year in which many of the risks foreshadowed in our last Clock statement came into full relief. Although the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focuses on nuclear risk, climate change, and emerging technologies, the nuclear landscape takes center stage in this year’s Clock statement.
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Wealth Concentration Continues to Increase
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – As the ‘masters of the universe’ gather for their annual retreat at Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has just published its Inclusive Development Index (IDI) for the second time.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
One thing is wealth, another is life expectancy: Japan and Spain are Nos. 1 and 2, Norway No. 14, USA No. 25. No doubt the Japanese diet based on le cru, not le cuit, and the Spanish Mediterranean diet, also based on the sea, the plains and the mountains, play major roles… A small but important signal from La Nucia in Spain: no more permits to build new houses for some time. La Nucia wants to stop growing. 30,000 inhabitants in 2030 is the limit; with no limitation on restoration, beauty, art, well-being.
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On Longevity: Reflections
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Longevity is a life-lengthening quality
Longevity is a human-dignifying seniority…
North Korea Issues Statement Calling for Breakthrough in Unification
Jason Ditz | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Urges All Koreans to Push Bilateral Cooperation
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Big Pharma Fails to Disclose Antibiotic Waste Leaked from Factories
Madlen Davies and Sam Loewenberg - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
29 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 – Many of the world’s leading drug manufacturers may be leaking antibiotics from their factories into the environment according to a new report from a drug industry watchdog. This risks creating more superbugs. The report surveyed household-name pharmaceutical giants like GSK, Novartis and Roche.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
On the anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, 30 January, we still try to find ways to resolve conflicts peacefully and to deal with violent religious movements and individuals. For Gandhi, the spiritual and political means were interdependent and could not be separated. Today, religious movements are often seen as promoting violence, Islam in the Middle East, Buddhism as an anti-Muslim current in Burma.
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Richest 1 Percent Bagged 82 Percent of Wealth Created Last Year – Poorest Half of Humanity Got Nothing
OXFAM International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth, according to a new Oxfam report released today. The report is being launched as political and business elites gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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The Fragrance of Loss
Mary Barnet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Speaking a language other than his mother tongue Sinhala he sees his journey and arrival into a land that cannot seem to fulfill his dreams. It follows that his poems are those of himself and the other refugees who surround him. The Fragrance of Loss by Udaya R. Tennakoon, Copyright© Udaya R. Tennakoon, ISBN: 978-81-8253-056-0, First Edition: 2017, Cyberwit.net
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Palestine: Jewish Settlers Torch 100 of World’s Oldest Olive Trees
Tabatha Kinder - International Business Times,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – Palestinians report that Israeli settlers have burned down agricultural land including valuable olive trees, while Israeli forces prevented the Palestinian owners from putting out the fires. Olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane are believed to be up to 900 years old and belong to the same lineage as the olive trees among which Jesus Christ prayed the night before his crucifixion.
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(Português) Plutarco e a relação entre a violência e o consumo de carne
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Autor de “De Esu Carnium”, ou “Do Consumo da Carne”, escrito no século I, que integra uma de suas obras mais importantes – “Moralia”, o filósofo platonista, biógrafo e ensaísta grego, que se voltava para a discussão das questões morais, escreveu que o “hábito selvagem” do consumo de carne inclina a mente à brutalidade, ao derramamento de sangue e à destruição.
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In Pursuit of Peace and Justice: 100 Peace & Justice Leaders and Models (List #1)
Anthony J. Marsella and Kathleen Malley-Morrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – The individuals included on our list are from all genders, ages, roles. They are from many nations, ethnocultural groups, and “races.” We sense a rising tide of commitment to peace and justice, and an intolerance of the corruption, cronyism, and asymmetric power sustaining current abuses. We consider our efforts a beginning, and we will continue to publish new lists. This is because the struggle for peace and justice is endless, and each day new people are rising to the call.
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War Pay: Another Good Year for Weapons Makers Is Guaranteed
William D. Hartung - TomDispatch,
29 Jan 2018
11 Jan 2018 – As Donald Trump might put it, major weapons contractors like Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin cashed in “bigly” in his first year in office. They raked in tens of billions of dollars in Pentagon contracts, while posting sharp stock price increases and healthy profits driven by the continuation and expansion of Washington’s post-9/11 wars. But last year’s bonanza is likely to be no more than a down payment on even better days to come for the military-industrial complex.
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Permaculture in New Zealand: Joanna Santa Barbara’s Atamai Village (Part 1)
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Permaculture for Peace: Presenting the Atamai Village Project. Joanna Santa Barbara is a member of TRANSCEND International.
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Trump Asks Museum for Van Gogh, Gets Offered Used Gold Toilet
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
The Guggenheim’s curator said – tongue firmly in cheek – that a satirical piece entitled “America,” a functioning 18kt solid-gold toilet, was available for “long-term loan.”
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Rohingyas, the Refugees Who Don’t Want to Go Home … Yet
Jason Beaubien | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
21 Jan 2018 – This week, Bangladesh had planned to start sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar. Now the deal has been postponed because of logistical problems. The refugees themselves have opposed the plan. “They’ll kill us,” says Sonah Meah, 30. “If I go, they’ll kill me.”
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The Genocide Conspiracy against North Korea: An Open Letter to the International Criminal Court
Prof. Graeme McQueen and Christopher Black – Global Research,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – The American threats against North Korea continue to mount and with them the threat of the genocide of the people of North Korea. The meeting of the USA, Canada and other nations that attacked North Korea in 1950 held in Vancouver on Jan 16, which some hoped would lead to a political solution, instead took on the character of a meeting of criminals who by their presence, agreement and actions made them parties to a conspiracy to commit genocide, a crime under the statute of the International Criminal Court and the Genocide Convention of 1948.
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(Français) La responsabilité de protéger le monde… des États-Unis
Ajamu Baraka | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
L’une des armes de propagande les plus ingénieuses jamais mises au point est que les puissantes nations occidentales dirigées par les États-Unis ont la responsabilité morale d’utiliser la force militaire pour protéger les droits des peuples opprimés par leurs gouvernements. Cette «responsabilité de protéger» (R2P) a toujours eu un statut juridique douteux, mais sa justification morale exigeait aussi un désengagement psychologique et historique de la réalité sanglante des 500 ans d’histoire du colonialisme américain et européen, de l’esclavage, du génocide et de la torture qui ont créé l’ «Occident ».
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I Have a Right (Music Video of the Week)
Sonata Arctica | Nuclear Blast Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
“A song about how we should not pass the burden we get from the past generation on the shoulders of our future offspring. Children’s rights subject. Not the most metal subject ever, I suppose, but then again I think it fits our band well and is pretty universal.” — Tony Kakko, song’s author
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Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
When this honest cop was lying in a pool of his own blood on the night of February 3, 1971, having been shot in the face in a set-up carried out by fellow cops, Frank Serpico heard a voice that said, “It’s all a lie.” In that moment as he fought for his life, he realized a truth he had previously sensed but never fully grasped in its awful reality.
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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” wrote the thirty-year-old Nietzsche.
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Pope Francis | Libreria Editrice Vaticana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 – “I would like to invite everyone to promote a journalism of peace. By that, I do not mean the saccharine kind of journalism that refuses to acknowledge the existence of serious problems or smacks of sentimentalism. On the contrary, I mean a journalism that is truthful and opposed to falsehoods, rhetorical slogans, and sensational headlines. A journalism less concentrated on breaking news than on exploring the underlying causes of conflicts, in order to promote deeper understanding and contribute to their resolution by setting in place virtuous processes. A journalism committed to pointing out alternatives to the escalation of shouting matches and verbal violence.”
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AP Interview: Richardson Resigns from Rohingya Refugee Panel
Foster Klug | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 — Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has resigned from an advisory panel on the massive Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a “whitewash and a cheerleading operation” for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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How Will I Explain Extremist Buddhism to My Children?
Khin Mai Aung | Lion’s Roar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Khin Mai Aung once worried her children would pick up dogmatic views from her husband’s Catholic faith. Now, she struggles to explain to them the terrible violence in Myanmar, her country of birth — incited by members of her own faith, Buddhism.
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How to Read the 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy
Mara Karlin | The Brookings Institution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
21 Jan 2018 – Last week, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis released the 2018 National Defense Strategy. This NDS is a heady attempt to drive the U.S. military faster in the direction it has been heading. China and Russia should read it with a worrying eye (and perhaps a glass of baijiu or vodka).
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Why Fear and Self-hatred Destroy Human Sharing and Solidarity
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 – The lack of solidarity is utterly pervasive and readily evident in our lacklustre official and personal responses to the many ongoing crises in which humanity finds itself. To mention just the most obvious: Every day governments spend $US2 billion on weapons and warfare while a billion people lack the basic resources to live a decent life (and more than 100,000 of these people starve to death)… So what can we do?
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Animals: Endowed with Rights
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 – Whether one acknowledges the dignity of animals depends on that person’s paradigm (vision of the world and values). Two paradigms have been handed down to us. The first understands the human being as part of nature. The second paradigm starts with the idea that the human being is the apex of evolution, and that all things are at his disposal.
→ read full articleJoke or No Joke?
TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Political Discourse 2018
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Here Are All the World Leaders Going to Davos This Week
Alexandra Ma | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – The world’s elite will converge upon the snowy Swiss town of Davos this week for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, a weeklong networking event peppered with talks and presentations.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s True Colors Shine!
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCED Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
25 Jan 2018 – We are witnessing nothing short of the emergence of a cold-hearted and immoral Burmese politician. Suu Kyi’s evident priority to turn the killing fields of Western Burma (stretching over 100 KM in length) into a lucrative opportunity for the local cronies who financially support her and her party is utterly morally repugnant.
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Trump’s Racism toward Haiti Is Not an Aberration
Nia Imara – The Progressive,
29 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 – Trump’s racist comments about Haiti and African countries—made January 11 on the eve of the eighth anniversary of the terrible earthquake in Haiti—were vulgar and unacceptable, but they are not an aberration. Trump’s particularly crude brand of racism is only the most recent manifestation of timeworn, bipartisan discrimination against black and brown people.
→ read full articleThe Jumping Parliament
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
27 Jan 2018 – This is going on now, a rising tide, an Israeli voice that has not been heard for a long time. A voice that has been mute for so many years, the voice of my Israel, the voice of yesterday’s Israel – and hopefully tomorrow’s. There was a time when I could be proud to be an Israeli. Perhaps this time is returning.
→ read full articleOnly Beauty Will Save Our World
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
In this life, where coexists
Eternal love with fatal death,
Network Spherons: The UN of Harmony and Global Peace Replacing the UN of Disharmony
Leo Semashko et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Spheral Structure of the UN Harmony – The UN Sociocybernetic Reform Proposal
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Robert Parry (24 Jun 1949 – 27 Jan 2018): His Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews
Nat Parry – Consortium News,
29 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 – Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday [27 Jan] evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert’s unwavering commitment to independent journalism.
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Blackouts and Flashpoints in 2018
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – The prophets and forecasters for the coming year have already set out their global vision ranging from rising economies to catastrophic global wars.
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How Big Pharma Infiltrated the Boston Museum of Science
Martha Rosenberg – Intrepid Report,
29 Jan 2018
Do you overeat? Did your boyfriend just break up with you? Does no one return your emails? Do you fall asleep at night and wake up in the morning? If so, you may be suffering from mental illness! Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix says Pharma and its operatives.
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How the Establishment Undermines American Democracy
Philip M. Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
18 Jan 2018 – There is a growing consensus among many observers in Washington that the national security agencies have become completely politicized over the past seventeen years and are now pursuing selfish agendas that actually endanger what remains of American democracy.
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Is Anyone on the Side of the Congolese Now?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Has Anyone Ever Been on the Side of the People of Congo? Ann Garrison Speaks to Jean-Claude Maswana
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A Cure for What We Have All Been Taught Was Incurable: Obesity-related Hyperglycemia Ain’t Necessarily “Type 2 Diabetes”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
“The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.”
— Arnold Seymour Relman (1923-2014), Harvard Professor of Medicine and Former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine
(Italiano) Due modi d’essere Occidentali: Cristianesimo e Scienza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
5 gennaio 2018 – Due istituzioni basilari nella storia e nella vita individuale occidentali: il Cristianesimo – che offre Salvezza a coloro che seguono le leggi e i comandamenti, e la Scienza, che offre la Verità a coloro che credono alle leggi scientifiche.
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