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Earth as a Shithole Planet — from a Universal Perspective?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Understanding Why There Are No Extraterrestrial Visitors – The concern here is to explore the evidence for Planet Earth as a “shithole” planet, as it might be perceived in the light of various criteria. The argument is used as a means of explaining the absence of any overt contact with extraterrestrials.
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(Français) La malhonnêteté des grands médias à l’égard de la Palestine
Mariam Barghouti | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
18 Jan 2018 – La photo de l’adolescent de 16 ans, Fawzi al-Junaidi, les yeux bandés, contusionné, et entouré d’une douzaine de soldats israéliens, a fait le tour des médias sociaux. On a vu en lui un emblème de l’oppression israélienne.
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(Italiano) Leadership cinese sulla riforma ONU
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
12 gennaio 2018 – Una delle più complete proposte di riforma è appena stata emanata per la trattazione all’ONU dal governo della Cina in un documento di 27 pagine. (1) Molte delle proposte sono molto simili ai suggerimenti fatti dall’Associazione dei Cittadini de Mondo.
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2018 Portends Intensification of Syria’s Civil War
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
21 Jan 2018 – Rather than the conventional wisdom of a “wrapping up,” of Syria’s seven years of civil war, this observer calculates that the conflict is on a trajectory to expand during 2018. It’s a truism that the map of the conflict has been redrawn and currently favors the Assad government and its Russian and Iranian allies who rescued the regime over the past three years.
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Monsanto-Bayer “Combination” – Comments Submitted to Competition Commission of India
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – I submit my comments and objections to the proposed combination between Bayer and Monsanto. The first part is substantive objections to the Bayer application in the context of the past and potential violations of the Competition Act, 2002. The Second part is my comments on the general impacts of the Bayer Monsanto merger for farmers rights, food security and sovereignty in India and globally.
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(Norsk) Bør vi innføre et øvre tak på rikdom?
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Tenk deg at trillioner av dollar blir omfordelt og fordelt utover hele økonomien, inkludert til offentlige finanser, for å tilby sterkt tiltrengte tjenester og infrastruktur. Altfor ofte investerer de svært velstående inntektene sine i eksotiske finansielle instrumenter som ikke har noe å gjøre med målbare aktiviteter. Innføring av et øvre tak på formuer kombinert med et solid gulv for livskvalitet ville føre til økt pengesirkulasjon i jobbintensive aktiviteter både i privat og offentlig sektor.
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May Your Home Be Destroyed
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – My first impression of Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) was that he was the exact opposite of Arafat. He looked like a schoolmaster. Arafat was an outgoing type, who liked to embrace and kiss people and to establish close relations from the outset. Abu Mazen was much more reserved and withdrawn. Yet I liked his personality.
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Virginia Woolf (25 Jan 1882 – 28 Mar 1941)
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been what is now termed bipolar disorder, and committed suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791)
Encyclopædia Britannica– TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers.
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Peace and Democratic Multilateralism
Federico Mayor Zaragoza – Wall Street International Magazine,
22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 – The European Center for Peace and Development International Round Table – There are many challenges in the current world that can only be addressed by democratic multilateralism. Zones of conflicts are the places where the competing interests of the great powers and the regional powers clash.
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Nuclear Deterrence, North Korea, and Dr. King
Winslow Myers | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
If we want North Korea to change, we need to examine our own role in the creation of the echo chamber of threat and counter-threat. Dr. King’s death was a mortal blow to our greatness as a nation. He connected the dots between our racism and our militarism.
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The Earth’s Future Will Not Come from Heaven
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Even though it is based on the best scientific minds that have been studying the universe, the situation of planet Earth and her eventual collapse, or qualitative leap to another level of reality, for almost a century, it has not penetrated into either the collective consciousness or the major academic centers.
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Thyroid Gland: Functions, Symptoms, Diet, and Natural Support
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland located at the front of your neck, sort of like an internal bowtie. Part of the endocrine system, your thyroid produces and secretes the hormones T4 and T3. These essential hormones regulate growth, development, and metabolism.
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(Português) Veganismo não é religião
Márcio Linck - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
22 Jan 2018
O que é mais razoável levando em conta que apenas as escolhas individuais não resolvem em sua totalidade os mecanismos de exploração animal e que devemos também atuar de modo coletivo a fim de um dia atingir um ideal 100% “vegano”?
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Life, Death and Politics in Hawaii: 125 Years of Colonial Rule
Andrea Freeman – The Conversation,
22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 – The effects of a political overthrow that happened 125 years ago in Hawaii could not have been felt more vividly this month. The fear and distress that cast a shadow over the Hawaiian Islands on Saturday morning during a false missile alert is part of the legacy of American occupation. The “peaceful” overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom has been anything but, even 125 years later.
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The Fragrance of Loss
Daniel Brick – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Udaya R. Tennekoon is a poet of both lyricism and witness. The lyricism is the voice of his poems, the witness is their subject. ‘The Fragrance of Loss’ by Udaya R. Tennakoon, ISBN: 978-81-8253-056-0, First Edition: 2017
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The US Syria “Strategy” – Recipe for Continued Disaster Even for the US
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
We’ve of course seen it all before. It’s about bases (like, say, Kosovo), about control of resources (like, say, Iraq), about regime change (like, say Saddam Hussein and Moamar Khadafi) and it’s about the exceptionalist belief that God’s own country has God’s mandate to create US Imperial peace everywhere – no matter how many times it has already gone madly wrong and no matter how many innocent people are killed and wounded in the process.
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Couples
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
A man believed his wife was hard of hearing.
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How to Get New Activists to Stay Engaged for the Long Haul
Eileen Flanagan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Deeply engaging newcomers also gives organizers a chance to counter the despair and disempowerment that easily surface when people don’t see immediate results, especially in this political climate. More than in any previous year, I have heard newcomers ask, “What will this action accomplish?” It’s a great question.
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Being Seed Thrown from Universe
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Being seed thrown from universe,
I am like a roaming beam,
I’ll shine a little on the earth
And later will fade in time.
Bruce Lee’s Never before Revealed Letters to Himself about Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being, a sort of “being” vs. having — that is, we do not “have” mind, we are simply mind. We are what we are.
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Italy Embracing Populism Is a Major Headache for Europe
Tom Luongo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – Salvini and Berlusconi, if they win, will have to then sell this idea of Germany using the euro to trap Italy, like Greece in a death spiral, for the next generation if not longer. And it is an easy sell on the campaign trail and will be an even easier sell once elected.
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(Português) O protovegetarianismo na literatura do poeta romano Ovídio
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Ovídio relata que a violência humana contra os animais começou a partir da violência e da morte das “feras selvagens”. E tal ferocidade, também citada no diálogo de Sócrates com Glauco, e registrado por Platão em “A República”, remete à ganância humana, aos homens invadindo áreas naturais cada vez maiores não para satisfazerem suas necessidades básicas, mas sim para lucrarem com suas produções.
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Gilad Atzmon on ‘Jew, Judaism, Jewishness’
Interview with Bill Alford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
The author of the runaway best seller, The Wandering Who?, discusses the three Jewish ID Categories: Religious Jew, Born a Jew, and Politicized Jew–aka Jewishness. What Is Jewishness and what are the relationships between Jews, Judaism, Zionism and Jewishness?
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Be the Change: Enter Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
TRANSCEND Media Service editor Antonio C. S. Rosa talks about Peace Journalism as a new paradigm for journalists reporting on conflicts.
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(Italiano) Liliana Segre è Senatrice a vita
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
21 Gen 2018 – A causa delle leggi razziste Liliana Segre fu deportata ad Auschwitz. Matricola 75190. La Memoria è storia non dimenticata. Liliana, così come le altre e con gli altri Testimoni, ha trovato le parole per dire l’indicibile della deportazione e dei campi di sterminio.
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The Responsibility to Protect the World … from the United States
Ajamu Baraka - CounterPunch,
22 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – One of the most ingenious propaganda weapons ever developed is that the powerful nations of the West—led by the United States—have a moral responsibility to use military force to protect the rights of people being repressed by their governments. This “responsibility to protect” (R2P) always had a dubious legal standing, but its moral justification also required a psychological and historical disengagement from the bloody reality of the 500-hundred-year history of U.S. and European colonialism, slavery, genocide and torture that created the “West.”
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The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry Was Whipped into Industrial Wage Slaves
Yasha Levine | The eXiled – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
“…everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.” “Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society… It is the source of wealth, since without poverty, there could be no labour; there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth.”
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U.S. Commits “Acts of War” against the Hawaiian Kingdom
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 – Today marks 125 years of an Unjust War waged against the Hawaiian Kingdom by the USA. This profound and fundamental fact has been obscured through a deliberate and relentless barrage of denationalization by the US. This process, which is known as Americanization and which is a war crime, has nearly obliterated the national consciousness of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the minds of Hawai‘i’s people.
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Full Spectrum Arrogance: US Bases Spanning the Globe – Map
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
There are 50,000 troops still in Germany, still winning World War II three quarters of a century later. Anytime you have this nation attacking another nation that is a crime that all of us can be united in opposing.
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How the First Lady of Islam Set an Example for the Generations to Come
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – The public perception of Muslim women is one of stubborn stereotypes: supposedly powerless and oppressed, behind walls and veils, demure, voiceless and silent figures, discriminated and bereft of even basic rights.
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Two Koreas Will March Together at the Olympics
Agence France-Presse | PRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 – The two Koreas agreed today to march together under a single flag at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony and field a united women’s ice hockey team for the Games in a further sign of easing tensions on the peninsula.
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Happy New Year of 2018!
Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
The Jerusalem UN Vote
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Trump Regime on the Verge of Okaying Two New Warheads That Could Make Nuclear War More Likely
Timothy Lange | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
16 Jan 2018 – The Trump regime seeks to build two new nuclear weapons, one of which—a low-yield warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles—could make nuclear war more likely, say critics. The other warhead would be developed to be carried by submarine-launched cruise missiles, which haven’t been equipped with nukes since 2010.
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Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (21 Jan 1889 – 10 Feb 1968): The Renewal of Humanity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Sorokin was especially interested in the processes by which societies change cultural orientations, particularly the violent societies he knew, the USSR and the USA. As he wrote renewal “demands a complete change of contemporary mentality, a fundamental transformation of our system of values and the profoundest modification of our conduct towards other men, cultural values and the world at large.
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The Persons Who Changed the Lives of Terrorists and Criminals
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
If the social, religious, political, governmental and non-governmental leaders, rulers, bureaucrats, judges, and several experts and specialists in the United Nations think and realize that they can solve the problem of violence and terrorism, they being elders and guardians must treat the terrorists and perpetrators as part and parcel of the society, and they deserve to be heard and listened.
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Baby Moshe
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
What is special about Moshe? When he was two years old, his parents were among the many people killed in a ghastly terrorist attack in Chabad House (home to the Jewish Community) in Mumbai (Bombay) nine years ago. Baby Moshe could also have been killed except for the astuteness of his Nanny who escaped with him to another building.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Despite understandable degrees of disillusionment, people of good will dedicated to UN ideals should not give up on the Organization or its potentiality, but work harder to make the UN come closer to fulfilling its original promise, needed now more than ever. Justice for the Palestinian people, however long deferred, remains the defining moral prism by which to assess the shifting balance between achieving global justice and bowing to the whims of geopolitics at the UN and elsewhere.
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Is Whistleblowing Worth Prison or a Life in Exile? Edward Snowden Talks to Daniel Ellsberg
Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
22 Jan 2018
The two most famous whistleblowers in modern history discuss Steven Spielberg’s new film, The Post, about Ellsberg’s leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the personal cost of what they did – and if they’d advise anybody to follow in their footsteps.
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Alexandre Marc (19 Jan 1904 – 22 Feb 2000): Con-federalism, Cultural Renewal and Trans-frontier Cooperation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Marc was a complex man, one of the bridges who helped younger persons to understand the debates which surrounded the Russian Revolution, the rise and decline of Fascism and Nazism, and the post-Second World War hopes for a united Europe.
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The 10 Companies That Dominate the Global Arms Trade
Jeff Desjardins | Visual Capitalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – While it is common knowledge that the United States plays a big role in the global arms trade, the numbers are still quite astounding. Of the top ten companies by sales, firms based in the U.S. make up seven of them. Whether it is guns, tanks, jets, missiles, or ships that are on your shopping list, there is a supplier for any weapon your country desires.
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Africa Should Respond to Trump’s Racist Rant by Taking the Moral High Ground
John J Stremlau – The Conversation,
22 Jan 2018
15 Jan 2018 – African governments and non-governmental groups can encourage and cooperate directly with those in Congress, African-Americans and the growing network of civil society groups opposed to Trump. This may bend, or even violate, traditional diplomatic practice. But Trump’s own disregard for international principles and norms justifies using alternative methods and interventions.
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The Kids the World Forgot
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – I spent much of yesterday with some kids the world forgot. Young, remarkably sturdy and resilient, they can often be naïve and almost willfully gullible. They inhabit a world that delights in tripping them up and watching them fall. They are Kabul’s Street Kids.
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A Perfect Marriage: Evangelicals and Conservatives in Latin America
Javier Corralesjan – The New York Times,
22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 — Christians are seducing poor voters and conservative parties. Is that good for democracy and minority rights? Evangelical churches today can be found in almost every neighborhood in Latin America — and they are transforming politics like no other force. They are giving conservative causes, and especially political parties, new strength and new constituencies.
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The Man Who Didn’t Keep the Secret: Interview with Daniel Ellsberg
Stefania Maurizi - La Repubblica,
22 Jan 2018
15 Jan 2018 – In 1971 he made the ethical choice to risk spending the rest of his life in jail to reveal the Pentagon Papers, 7,000 pages of top secret documents exposing the lies and miscalculations at the base of the Vietnam War. At the age of 87, he just published The Doomsday Machine, a memoir that tells another remarkable story: Ellsberg also photocopied secret information on the impact of nuclear war.
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Alan Hart – Peacemaker (17 Feb 1942 – 15 Jan 2018)
Susie Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
16 Jan 2018 – Alan Hart, Our Beloved Father, Passed Away Yesterday at the Age of 75. The human body – his home no more. His energy, essence and spirit – well & free. Alan Hart was engaged with events in the Middle East and their global consequences and terrifying implications for 40 years as a correspondent and as a researcher and author. Also as a participant at leadership level, working to a Security Council background briefing, in the covert diplomacy of the search for peace.
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(Italiano) Via dal nucleare, dalle armi e non solo…
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
22 Jan 2018
Tra pochi giorni [il 16 gennaio alla Cittadella, ndr] sarà inaugurata a Torino la Mostra “Senzatomica – Trasformare lo spirito umano per un mondo libero da armi nucleari”, un’iniziativa ideata e promossa dall’Istituto Buddista Italiano Soka Gakkai con il patrocinio della Città di Torino, del Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, del Comitato Regionale dei Diritti Umani e dell’Università degli Studi di Torino.
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Modern “Politics”: And They Tell Me Not to Spell Out “Sh*t”!
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
They tell me not to spell out “sh*t”!
But, nothing else quite seems to f*t!
They claim some folks will look awry
If I insert the little “i”.
Eating the Earth
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 – We are facing an existential crisis. And it is caused, in large part, by the unsustainable ways in which we feed ourselves. While there is no single solution, by far the biggest one is switching from an animal-based to a plant-based diet. Why? Because a plant-based diet requires less land and fewer resources. When we feed animals on crops, we greatly reduce the number of people that an area of cropland can support.
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Drug-Induced Iatrogenic Disorders – The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US and Britain
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Definition of an “iatrogenic” disorder: A disorder inadvertently induced by a health caregiver because of a surgical, medical, drug or vaccine treatment or by a diagnostic procedure.
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Does the US Military “Own the Weather”? “Weaponizing the Weather” as an Instrument of Modern Warfare?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
22 Jan 2018
8 Jan 2018 – Environmental modification techniques have been available to the US military for more than half a century. The issue has been amply documented and should be part of the climate change debate.
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Reworking the Colonial-Era “Indian Peril”: Myanmar’s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims
Maung Zarni & Natalie Brinham - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Myanmar’s transition from the military dictatorship to the adoption of a Chinese model of great commercial opening with a calibrated political liberalization has one unintended consequence for the military-controlled-government: ugly things get exposed. All of a sudden, the dark secrets of this predominantly Buddhist nation of 51 million people with diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds are laid bare for all to witness.
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Ten Nuclear Wishes for the New Year
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
1. That Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s past will not become any other city’s future.
2. That the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will get at least 50 ratifications and enter into force…
Welcome to the Land of Luther King!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
15 Jan 2018 – I write today to tell you the roots of hate, ignorance and evil endure nurtured by the protective veils of government corruption, cronyism, greed, and religious prejudices sanctioned by dogma and custom. I call upon you today to join Luther King’s call to justice, now more than 50 years old as it still echoes throughout our global age. Listen! Can you hear the cries of the masses around the world leading lives of desperation, lives devoid of hope, lives existing from moment to moment, each breath lacking reflexive assurance the next breath will come bringing temporary solace to an aching body and mind.
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Hawaiian Islands: 125 Years of U.S. Occupation
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
On January 17, 1893 a coup d’état was carried out against Queen Lili’uokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom by foreign resident business interests with the assistance of U.S. Marines from the USS Boston. An illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i has continued ever since.
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Joanna Santa Barbara TRANSCEND Address
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
TRANSCEND International members address present and future members.
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US Ally Uganda Attacks Congo’s Beni Territory
Ann Garrison interviews Boniface Musavuli - CounterPunch,
15 Jan 2018
The Congo crisis is now one of the greatest humanitarian emergencies in the world and the most underreported. An average of 5,500 people a day flees violence and insecurity, even more than in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. Unlike Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, however, the Congo wars are undeclared and there’s no front line.
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China Leading on World’s Clean Energy Investment, Says Report
Jocelyn Timperley | Carbon Brief – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
China is by far the largest force in global clean energy development and its firms are increasingly looking abroad for opportunities, a new report says.
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To Bee or Not to Bee… Again!
Baher Kamal – Wall Street International Magazine,
15 Jan 2018
10 Jan 2018 – At Risk, over 20,000 Species of Bees in Charge of Pollination – Honeybees and wild pollinators play a crucial role in agriculture and food production… however, the current chemical-intensive agriculture model is threatening both, and thereby putting food supply at risk.
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Proper Exercise Can Reverse Damage from Heart Aging
UT Southwestern Medical Center | EurekAlert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
8 Jan 2018 – Exercise can reverse damage to sedentary, aging hearts and help prevent risk of future heart failure – if it’s enough exercise, and if it’s begun in time, according to a new study by cardiologists at UT Southwestern and Texas Health Resources.
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To Liberate Cambodia
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
10 Jan 2018 – Cambodian activists require enormous courage to take nonviolent action as the possibility of violent state repression in response to popular mobilization is a real one. So what can Cambodians do? Fortunately, there is a long history of repressive regimes being overthrown by nonviolent grassroots movements. And nonviolent action has proven powerfully effective in Cambodia with Buddhist monk Maha Gosananda.
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Israel Bans Entry to 25 Organizations Connected with the BDS Movement
Rebecca Vilkomerson | Jewish Voice for Peace - The Dawn News,
15 Jan 2018
On Sunday January 8, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs released a list of 20 international organizations whose members will be prohibited from entering the country because of their support of the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions Movement -BDS- against Israel.
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Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young (Part 1)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
26 Dec 2017 – Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 Jan 1929– 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Luther King was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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Russian-American Relations
ArmyPsyop Scott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Dr. Scott Bennett interviewed on European television discussing the psychological-political-cultural relations between America and Russia, and the deceptions that cripple truth.
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Golden Globes Confusing Cleavage, Hype and Hypocrisy
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Produced on the occasion of media red carpet coverage of Golden Globes 2018 in anticipation of the Oscars 2018. Missing from the feminist declarations and media coverage is any sense whatsoever that there are other forms of “harassment” which may or may not involve women. By framing harassment as being exclusively male-on-female …
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How the Heroin Trade Explains the US-UK Failure in Afghanistan
Alfred W McCoy – The Guardian,
15 Jan 2018
9 Jan 2018 – After fighting the longest war in its history, the US stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How could this be possible? After 16 years and $1tn spent, there is no end to the fighting – but western intervention has resulted in Afghanistan becoming the world’s first true narco-state.
→ read full articleStudent Debt Slavery: Time to Level the Playing Field (Part 2)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
5 Jan 2018 – The lending business is heavily stacked against student borrowers. Bigger players can borrow for almost nothing, and if their investments don’t work out, they can put their corporate shells through bankruptcy and walk away. Not so with students.
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Ellen Augusta Valer de Freitas | Desobediência Vegana - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
15 Jan 2018
Os efeitos da publicidade sobre nossas escolhas são perceptíveis, mas nem sempre são óbvios. Não é somente no ato da aquisição que estamos sucumbindo à influência da mídia, mas muitas vezes junto com o produto compramos ideias, atitudes e não raro há quem defenda-as como parte de sua própria identidade.
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Let the Two-State Solution Die a Natural Death
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
7 Jan 2018 – The proper priority for genuine advocates of peace between Israelis and Palestinians should be centered around apartheid rather than be devoted to reviving an Oslo style ‘peace process’ (always a sham) or proclaiming the goal of an independent and sovereign Palestine as attainable without first dismantling the apartheid structures that subjugate the Palestinian people as a whole so as to maintain the Zionist insistence on Israel as the state of the Jewish people.
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(Português) Pitágoras, o primeiro filósofo grego a reprovar o consumo de carne e a matança de animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
“Enquanto o ser humano for implacável com as criaturas vivas, ele nunca conhecerá a saúde e a paz. Enquanto os homens continuarem massacrando animais, eles também permanecerão matando uns aos outros. Na verdade, quem semeia assassinato e dor não pode colher alegria e amor.” — Pitágoras
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To a Goddess
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Greying gleaming silk the waters of this evening,
Shroud-like mists, their white along the distant line
And closing in
Crying Elephants and Giggling Rats – Animals Have Feelings, Too
Emily Birch – The Conversation,
15 Jan 2018
10 Jan 2018 – Capuchin monkeys understand fairness, sheep recognise their friends, rats make sacrifices for buddies. Yes, animals are sentient. Here’s the science.
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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality. Accordingly, some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow.
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MLK: The Year of “Nonviolence or Non-Existence”
Rev. John Dear | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
It was early 1968. Since the previous spring Martin Luther King, Jr. had been pursuing a course that for many was unthinkable. He had deliberately connected the dots between the movement for civil rights and the struggle to end the war in Vietnam, and had paid the price.
→ read full articleIranian Students Face Kafkaesque Impediments Challenging Iran’s Theocracy
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
11 Jan 2018 – On several occasions, meeting with brilliant, tech-savvy Iranian university students who are thoroughly charming, fearless and outspoken, this observer is presented a very different picture of what Iranians are facing than what is being offered by pro-regimen internet bloggers and water carriers.
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Death at the Gate in Afghanistan
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Kabul, January 2017 – The insurgents whose only weapon is violence are clearly gaining sway here, but the Afghan Peace Volunteers are adamant in their knowledge that violence solves nothing. They struggle daily to practice and teach nonviolence, which their charter maintains “is a [personal] value and a way of living, relating, and acting,” a positive force for change in our own lives and in the life of our planet.
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Yesterday’s ‘Shithole Countries’ Can Become Classy Places, Donald, and Vice Versa
Dave Lindorff | This Can’t Be Happening! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – The Shit’s Everywhere – Donald Trump referred to countries of Africa and the long-suffering island of Haiti as “shitholes.” The truth is that yesterday’s “shithole countries” often become today’s modern success stories. Norway is a case in point.
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The Empire’s “Lefty Intellectuals” Call for Regime Change. The Role of “Progressives” and the Antiwar Movement
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
15 Jan 2018
9 Jan 2018 – The anti-war movement is dead. The war on Syria is tagged as “a civil war”. The war on Yemen is also portrayed as a civil war. While the bombing is by Saudi Arabia, the insidious role of the US is downplayed or casually ignored. Funded by corporate charities, via a network of non-governmental organizations, social activism tends to be piecemeal. The economic crisis is not seen as having a relationship to US led wars.
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Washington Prepares to Deploy “Usable” Nuclear Weapons
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – The US President’s State of the Union address later this month will introduce a significant break with past policy in proposing the development of a new class of low-yield, “usable” nuclear weapons.
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Ecuador Gives Assange Citizenship, Seeks End to Embassy Stay
Alexandra Valencia and Mark Hosenball | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
11 Jan 2018 – Ecuador has given citizenship to Julian Assange as part of its efforts to allow the WikiLeaks founder to leave the country’s London embassy where he has been holed up for more than five years.
→ read full articleBibi’s Son or: Three Men in a Car
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
13 Jan 2018 – NO, I don’t want to write about the affair of Ya’ir Netanyahu. I refuse adamantly. No force in the world will compel me to do so. Yet here I am, writing about Ya’ir, damn it. Can’t resist. And perhaps it is really more than a matter of gossip. Perhaps it is something that we cannot ignore… Tell me who your son is, and I’ll tell you who you are.
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41 Hearts Beating in Guantanamo
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjecting many of them to torture and arbitrary detention… Forty-one hearts still beat in Guantanamo prison cells. That’s forty-one too many.
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Wrongs of Rights Activism around Rohingyas
Maung Zarni – Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
15 Jan 2018
I do not believe in Knights in shining armour or the White Saviours. The survivors have no rescuers. They need to struggle for their own survival and beyond. I am only a supporter who offers them my uncompromising solidarity as a fellow human. This piece, I wrote based on my 30-years of non-stop activism since I joined proudly the Amnesty International campus chapter at the University of California as a youngish graduate student in early 20’s. Now I am almost 54.
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Through the Wall of Fire: Armenia-Iraq-Palestine – From Wrath to Reconciliation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Muriel Mirak-Weissbach in her new book Through the Wall of Fire uses a sequence from Dante’s Divine Comedy to stress the need within the wider Middle East for a fundamental revolution in thinking and a far-reaching shift in moral outlook leading from wrath to reconciliation.
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Martin Luther King’s Revolutionary Dream Deferred
Maj. Danny Sjursen – Truthdig,
15 Jan 2018
13 Jan 2018 – My King is the provocative King, the critic of bigotry but also of capitalism and the Vietnam War. The King, in truth, who has been willfully concealed from view. Read, study, unearth the real King, the radical King, and take up the torch of his fight—a dream deferred—against the three evils still alive and well in the United States: racism, materialism and militarism. The owners of this country are counting on your apathy. Prove them wrong.
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‘Race Law’ Takes Jerusalem a Step Closer to Being a Jewish-Only City
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
3 Jan 2018 – The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and precluding any future peace settlement based on sharing the city between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
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Israel: Criminalizing the Victim
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
8 Jan 2018 – In 1953 the Israeli Knesset (parliament) passed the land purchase law which stipulated, among other things, that lands not used for a certain period of time determined by the law itself were to become “state lands”. People were thus evicted and their lands taken over by the state. This was simply land-grab through legislation. In addition, the state no longer recognizes traditional ownership of land.
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Happy Birthday – Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (Music Video of the Week)
Stevie Wonder – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Pictorial Tribute to Martin Luther King from ‘Happy Birthday’ by Stevie Wonder as part of the campaign to declare MLK’s birthday a national holiday. MLK was born on 15 Jan 1929.
→ read full article“We Still Have a Choice Today: Nonviolent Coexistence or Violent Coannihilation” — MLK
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
“When profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s prophetic words continue to haunt and challenge us. He would be 89 years old today, January 15.
→ read full articleAn Honest Oath
Jonik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
If only… on a honestly corrupted world… of today!
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Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign Reborn
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
15 Jan 2018
Among the landmarks of his activism are the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, ending segregation in public transportation; leading the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech; the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act; and marching with sanitation workers in Memphis, where he declared in his last speech, delivered on the eve of his death, “I’ve been to the mountaintop.”
→ read full articleWe Try To Find Truth
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
We try to find truth,
The truth that is invisible,
Cold War Redux
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
15 Jan 2018
Recycling Old Garbage
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Beyond Fire and Fury: Trump as American as Apple Pie?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Maybe Time to Appreciate the Dish – Produced on the occasion of the response to the critical commentary of Michael Wolff (Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, 2018; Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President, New York Magazine, 3 January 2018)
→ read full articleWhat’s behind the ‘Disappearance’ of 420,000 Palestinians in Lebanon?
Franklin Lamb - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
The first ever official census of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon was finally released on 21 Dec 2017 in Beirut. Hopefully growing pressure from the new generation of young Palestinians vying for leadership positions in the camps and the growing number of young Shia in the region who no longer want to be fodder from their leaders seeking revenge for the events at Karbala 1,500 years ago, can persuade the “Resistance” that true Resistance begins with improving the Palestinian camps and being allowed to seek a job.
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‘Catastrophic’: US Freezes Aid for Palestinian Refugees
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
The United States has frozen US$125 million in funding for a U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinian refugees, Axios news site reported Friday [5 Jan 2017] citing Western diplomats. Many Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon and Jordan stand to suffer as a result of the massive aid cut.
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To Honor Albert Camus on the Day He Died: January 4, 1960
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Albert Camus was criticized by the right, left, and center. His allegiance was to truth, not ideologies. He opposed state murder, terrorism, and warfare from all quarters. An artistic anarchist with a passionate spiritual hunger, an austere and moral Don Juan, this sensual man of conscience and honor earned his reputation by a lifelong literary meditation on death in all its guises.
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Designing a Miracle to Save South Africa
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
3 Jan 2018 – This article is an offer of new ideas, designed to be food for thought for the first group, the questers; to question the certainties of the second group, those on either the right or the left or in the centre who believe the right path is known but just not followed; and to inspire hope and clarity in the third group, those whose emotions are deep but whose thoughts are muddled and incoherent.
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Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
6 Jan 2017 – There have been a number of periods when proposals for new or different United Nations structures were proposed and discussed. One of the most complete reform proposals has just been issued for discussion at the U.N. by the Government of China in a 27-page document. The Chinese proposals merit close attention. Most are not radically new.
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