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Jerusalem as a Symbolic Singularity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
25 Dec 2017 – Comprehending the dynamics of hyperreality as a challenge to conventional two-state reality. Development of an argument presented previously. Later amendments to that text have been removed from there for presentation below — in the light of decisions by the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly.
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Pentagon Admits Presence of US Troops in Yemen as Cholera Cases Top One Million
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – The Pentagon admitted for the first time this week that it has “conducted multiple ground operations” in Yemen, the impoverished and war-ravaged country whose humanitarian crisis was underscored this week by the Red Cross: the number of cholera cases in Yemen had reached one million, making the ongoing epidemic by far the worst in recorded human history.
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Why Some People Resent “Do-Gooders”
Juliana Breines, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Doing well can be a double-edged sword.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame Is Not Papa Africa Saving Slaves
Ann Garrison and Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – African Union Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat praised Rwanda’s offer “to resettle up to 30,000 African migrants languishing in Libya.” The same story was reported across the Internet and newspapers in the US, Europe, and Africa. Rwandan President Paul Kagame is grandstanding as Papa Africa on the world stage, but nothing could be further from the truth or more preposterous than his proposal. Here are four reasons why.
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UN Rights Expert ‘Disappointed’ by Myanmar’s Decision to Refuse Visit
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
20 Dec 2017 – The UN expert on the human rights situation in Myanmar today expressed disappointment at the government’s decision to deny her all access to the country. “This declaration of non-cooperation with my mandate can only be viewed as a strong indication that there must be something terribly awful happening in Rakhine, as well as in the rest of the country.”
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On Vaccines, Adjuvants and Autoimmunity
Christina England | Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Immunologists Survey the Research and It’s Not Reassuring – “Vaccines and autoimmunity are linked fields,” state the authors from the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases. Just as natural infections can sometimes induce autoimmune disease, so can vaccination induce autoimmunity that “may be severe and fatal.”
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Native Americans’ Capital City: Native Histories of Washington, D.C.
Jason Steinhauer | Library of US Congress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
As a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, historian Joseph Genetin-Pilawa is researching his forthcoming book The Indians’ Capital City: ‘Secret’ Native Histories of Washington, D.C. He sat down with Jason Steinhauer to discuss the facts, myths, and contradictions of Native presence in the nation’s capital.
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Playing the Jerusalem Card in Lebanon with Deft Hypocrisy
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
21 Dec 2017 – Jerusalem just happened to be in the geographical area of the war between Arabs fighting the Byzantines. For a period, Muslims did pray towards Jerusalem because of its connections to Abraham and because Mecca was in pagan hands, but when Jews rejected Prophet Muhammad as the promised messiah, and Mecca was cleared of idols, Muslims largely lost interest in Jerusalem.
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How Patients Who “Kill the Messenger” Are Pharma’s Best Salespeople
Martha Rosenberg - Intrepid Report,
25 Dec 2017
20 Dec 2017 – “Prince was not addicted to pain medication. Prince had a medical condition—chronic pain–which is criminally under-treated. . . . Physical dependence is not addiction.” So reads one of many articles that defend opioids and blame their restrictions for the nation’s opioid crisis. Right.
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Why the Istanbul Declaration Must Succeed
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 – The Istanbul Declaration adopted at an Extraordinary Islamic Summit Conference in Istanbul on the 13th of December 2017 invites “the whole world to recognise East Jerusalem as the occupied capital of the State of Palestine.” It further pledges to ‘mobilize support in the name of entire humanity to strengthen the State of Palestine and its institutions in every field.”
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Oh, God!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
A very good hearted young man came to the gates of heaven. He asked God, “Why have you brought me here so early? I was still in perfect health and wanted to do many more good deeds.”
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“Friendship Party” for Countries That Supported US in UN Israel Vote
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
22 Dec 2017 – Though at first glance it sounds straight out of The Onion, Nikki Haley has formally invited the 64 countries who either voted ‘against’ or abstained (or just didn’t show up) for Thursday’s UN General Assembly vote on the Jerusalem resolution to a “friendship” party. Hours after Haley tweeted “We appreciate these countries for not falling to the irresponsible ways of the UN.”
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Remembering the Christmas Truce of 1914: (And Questioning Christian Participation in Homicide)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
How Soldiers with Newly Attuned Consciences Almost Stopped a War – “…and the ones who call the shots won’t be among the dead and lame; and on each end of the rifle we’re the same.” — John McCutcheon
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Cry, Beloved Country
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – Anyone proposing the death penalty is either a complete fool, an incorrigible cynic or mentally disturbed – or all of these. There is no effective therapy for any of these defects. I wouldn’t even try.
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Edward Snowden’s New App Uses Your Smartphone to Physically Guard Your Laptop
Micah Lee – The Intercept,
25 Dec 2017
22 Dec 2017 – Edward Snowden and a team of collaborators have been working on a new open source Android app called Haven that you install on a spare smartphone, turning the device into a sort of sentry to watch over your laptop. “Haven” guards against so-called evil maid attacks, in which your boot software is surreptitiously modified to defeat encryption.
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The Jerusalem Votes at the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – What discussions gloss over is the degree to which issues of substance prevailed over matters of geopolitical alignment. Not one of America’s closest allies (UK, France, Germany, and Japan) heeded the arguments of Haley and Trump. Every important country in the world backed the GA Resolution on Dec 21 regardless of geography or political orientation (China, Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran).
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2018, America’s New Corporate Tax Cuts, and Future of the World
Irwin Jerome | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – It doesn’t take a mystic to look into a crystal ball. As all the corks of the champagne bottles continue to pop for the prospects of what the new year holds for the ultra-rich .01% and the rest of us, what no doubt now will follow will be a rush amongst the world’s corporate/financial structure to either implement similar corporate tax cuts within their own countries or inspire a new “offshore rush” of the world’s corporate infrastructure to re-locate within the borders of the United States to stick their heads in the pig trough along with all the other greedy ones to partake in the financial feeding frenzy that will ensue.
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Oh Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Il Divo with Katherine Jenkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Il Divo perform “Oh Holy Night” with Katherine Jenkins in “Steppin’ Out”
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The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
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The Seeds of Discontent
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – In India, small and marginal farmers—those who work on less than two hectares (five acres) of land—constitute 80% of all farm households, 50% of rural households and 36% of the total of all households… Within this self-perpetuating cycle of rural misery, wrapping a noose around the neck is the all-too-easy exit for an increasing number of smallholding farmers.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
The cases of Vietnam and Turkey strongly support the central claim here that national reputations of legitimacy should rest on a comprehensive assessment of material, ethical, and spiritual wellbeing of individuals and communities, and no longer be a reflection of geopolitical agendas (with respect to Turkey) and ideological arrogance (with respect to Vietnam).
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Jerusalem Is (Is Not) the Capital of Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
10 Dec 2017 – Donald Trump: “Israel is the only state in the world that is not allowed to locate its capital in a national city of its choice.” It seems like an innocent enough proclamation, and even accurate pushback against global double standards, until one considers the political, moral, and legal dimensions of the actual situation.
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Galtung on Trump’s USA: Demoralization, Destructuration, Deculturation
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Prof. Johan Galtung on the U.S. Empire’s Disintegration
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Winter Solstice: On This Day of the Longest Night . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
In 2017, Winter in the Northern hemisphere begins on Thu 21 Dec at 16:28 UTC. It is the shortest day of the year; it is the day of the longest night. For thousands of years, humans sought understanding of the cosmic wonder of day and night — the endless cycle of sun and moon.
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Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land
Se7en Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – National Geographic Official Video. When photographer Paul Nicklen and filmmakers from conservation group Sea Legacy arrived in the Baffin Islands, they came across a heartbreaking sight: a starving polar bear on its deathbed.
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Global Arms Industry: First Rise in Arms Sales since 2010, Says SIPRI
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
11 Dec 2017 – A new report by SIPRI revealed that despite the slump in global arms industry for five consecutive years, in 2016 arms producers world over saw US$375 billion in profits, with the U.S. weapons industry claiming over half the global sales.
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If You Don’t Own any Bitcoin, Read This
Adam Taggart | Peak Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – Wow. Just….wow. Bitcoin’s price has gone ‘beyond exponential’ this week. Just yesterday, as I started working on this article, it shot up 22% — from $14,000 to $17,000 (hitting an intraday high of over $19,000).
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We Saved Net Neutrality Once. We Can Do It Again
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen - YES! Magazine,
18 Dec 2017
12 Dec 2017 – Democracy lives or dies on the quality of public conversation. Just a few years ago, powerful grassroots pressure rose up to protect a free and open internet.
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Beastly – The Root of All Cruelty?
Paul Bloom – The New Yorker,
18 Dec 2017
Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse.
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Palestine: Towards a Freedom from Funding
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
October 2017 – Thirty years ago I wrote a study about funding, suggesting that Palestine should not accept any funding that is not directed to the development of our economic productivity. The study called for the development of self reliance and for the rejection of any international funding that will be conducted in coordination with the Israeli Civil Administration. I feel that my 1987 message is still generally valid.
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International Migrants Day: 18 December
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Today, there are some 232 million persons who reside and work outside their country of birth. The reasons for migration are diverse − most often economic, but also refugees from armed conflicts and oppression, and increasingly what are called “ecological refugees” − persons who leave their home area due to changing environmental conditions: drought, floods, rising sea levels etc. Global warming is very likely to increase the number of these ecological refugees.
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Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
15 Dec 2017 – The farewell sermon of Prophet Muhammad is one of the most important charters of human rights and symbolizes the inclusive character of Islam. It has great relevance in present times for both Muslims and the humanity at large.
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The State of the Empire in the Age of Trumpism
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
“I hate the US Empire, but I love the US Republic.” For years I have been hearing this mantra from Johan Galtung my dear friend, mentor and colleague. As events unfold, it takes on new meaning.
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Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
16 Dec 2017 – For god’s sake, are they crazy? They congregate in the marketplace, boys of 15, 16 years, take stones and throw them at our soldiers, who are armed to the teeth. The soldiers shoot, sometimes over their heads, sometimes straight at them. Every day there are wounded, every few days there are dead. What for? They do not have the slightest chance of changing the policy of the Israeli occupation. Only very rarely do the boys hit a soldier and cause him a slight injury. Yet they go on. Why?
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It Wasn’t the Threat That Worked, It Was Reduction of Fear
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
U.S. policymakers don’t trust North Korea. But on what basis can North Korea trust the U.S.? What agreement with North Korea has the U.S. ever not violated? … Whichever agreement is under discussion, the same behavior is seen: the U.S. never sees its own violations as wrong.
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An Advent Calendar to Beat the Devil
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our ‘deceivers’ than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced. The Graphic revolution has produced new categories of experience. They are no longer simply classifiable by the old common sense tests of true or false. At no time is this more evident than in the months leading up to Christmas and the holidays.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Someone who farms is a farmer.
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Red Cross Says Life Has Stopped in Myanmar’s Rakhine
Stephanie Nebehay | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 – Life has stopped in its tracks in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state where an estimated 180,000 Rohingya remain, the International Committee of the Red Cross said today. “You get a sense of the two main communities being deeply scared of each other. What surprised me is the fact that not only the Muslim communities are scared, but that the others are actually scared as well.”
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of the Rohingya Muslim population in Myanmar
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein | OHCHR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
5 Dec 2017 – By continuing to dehumanise the Rohingya, the state authorities could fuel even wider levels of violence in the future – drawing in communities from across the region, eventually forcing a confessional confrontation, and destroying whatever it is they may once have hoped for their country. We cannot afford to hear that historical and tragic refrain, one more time, that no one knew it would turn out to be like this — what a lie that would be. I urge the Council to take the appropriate action to stop this madness now.
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Is This Genocide?
Nicholas Kristof - The New York Times,
18 Dec 2017
15 Dec 1017 — “Ethnic cleansing” and even “genocide” are antiseptic and abstract terms. What they mean in the flesh is a soldier grabbing a crying baby girl named Suhaifa by the leg and flinging her into a bonfire. Or troops locking a 15-year-old girl in a hut and setting it on fire. Survivors describe Myanmar soldiers killing men, raping women and burning babies in a Rohingya village.
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Rohingyas Are Survivors, Not Security Threat
Maung Zarni | Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 – Can you imagine BBC, Chatham House, Rand Corporation portraying as potential “Jewish terrorists” the survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruick, Dachau and other world infamous death and labour camps? Of course not! But that is precisely what is now happening to the survivors of my Buddhist country’s genocide, whose name even the entire Catholic Church in Myanmar, and by extension, Pope Francis, have dared not pronounce.
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God’s Oppressed Children
Pankaj Mishra | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Many Indian houses still have a simple pit toilet, which consists of a large hole in the floor. The feces are collected at night by manual scavengers who carry away human shit and whose tools are nothing but a small broom and a tin plate. Most are women. One out of six Indians is a Dalit, untouchable, but for years I neither witnessed nor imagined the life of one, although almost every week small columns in the newspapers reported the murder, rape, and torture of them.
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ICAN Statement on Nobel Peace Prize 2017
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
6 Oct 2017 – The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is a coalition of non-governmental organizations in one hundred countries. By harnessing the power of the people, we have worked to bring an end to the most destructive weapon ever created – the only weapon that poses an existential threat to all humanity.
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Income of World’s Top .001% Skyrockets by 636%: Report
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
The report, which highlights the growing gulf between haves and have-nots, was compiled by five economists, including scholars Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty.
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Put Out the Fire Before It Is Too Late
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
There was a man called Nicolas who was happy in life except for one thing: he and a neighbor distrusted each other. One day, his chicken strayed into the neighbor’s garden.
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Banality of Riches
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
World of Illusion
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How Portuguese Migrants in Angola Navigate Corruption
Lisa Åkesson and Camilla Orjuela – The Conversation,
18 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 – There are always envelopes. And you have to know the people who are responsible for the procurement. Then when you win the contract you share the profit with them. The Angolans only accept companies that give bribes. Other companies will not enter. The Portuguese we spoke to felt that it was morally acceptable to engage in corrupt practices to protect their business interests.
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(Français) Amérique latine : des pouvoirs et des luttes
Bernard Duterme | CETRI Centre Tricontinental – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Décembre 2017 – Entre paix et violence, tournant à gauche puis à droite, les reconfigurations à l’œuvre en Amérique latine détonnent. Contention, répression, dilution… les luttes « progressistes » n’en ont pas fini pour autant de hanter le continent des inégalités extrêmes. Face à la poussée « extractiviste », la protestation ne s’est pas unifiée : appels à la redistribution des bénéfices d’un côté, au respect de l’environnement et des territoires de l’autre.
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Palestine: It Is Time for a New Beginning
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 – Now that the American mask has completely fallen, Palestinians require an urgent rethink in their own political priorities, alliances and national liberation strategy. Business should not go on as usual after Trump accepted Israel’s definition of Jerusalem as its capital.
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Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
15 Dec 2017 – Critics, including myself, regard the initiative as a slap at the Palestinians and a confirmation of Trump’s disregard of international law and morality, and the authority of the UN. The status of Jerusalem is a focal point for the tension between the old geopolitics of hard power realism and the normative geopolitics of soft power new realism.
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U.S.A: FCC Repeals ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules for Internet Providers
Alina Selyukh | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
14 Dec 2017 – U.S. telecom regulators have voted to repeal net neutrality rules, which restrict the power of Internet service providers to influence loading speeds for specific websites or apps. Net neutrality: It’s a principle that Internet providers should be neutral gateways that provide equal access to all legal web content.
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Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Local Currencies
Tad Montgomery | Resilience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
14 Dec 2017 -The world is on fire lately with the exponential growth of Bitcoin and other electronic cryptocurrencies. While some see these as speculative bubbles that are tied to nothing, used on the dark web to ransom hacked computers, and profligate users of electricity, others see Bitcoin and its ilk as our liberation from nation states and their central banks. Both could be true.
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Dirty Vaccines: New Study Reveals Prevalence of Contaminants
Celeste McGovern | Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Every Human Vaccine Tested Was Contaminated by Unsafe Levels of Metals and Debris Linked to Cancer and Autoimmune Disease, New Study Reports
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(Português) Investigação revela a crueldade extrema da indústria da carne de cordeiro
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
12 Dez 2017 – Os ativistas da Animal Equality investigaram um dos cerca de 200 matadouros no país que têm autorização para matar animais sem realizar o atordoamento, uma prática cruel infligida todos os anos contra centenas de milhares de seres inocentes.
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Temples for Spirituality, Harmony and Joy
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 – As is well known India has diversities of virtually all types. As for religions, we have followers of all major world religions — Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and smaller faiths such as Sikhism, Jainism, Judaism, Arya Samaj, Baha’i. Other faiths such as Brahmo Samaj, Dev Samaj, along with their specific deities, rituals and holy books are also present in different regions of the country.
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The Rohingya Crisis Shames the Global Community
Tej Parik – Asia Times,
18 Dec 2017
11 Dec 2017 – The international response to the Rohingya crisis has been high on emotion but depressingly low on action regarding the Myanmar military latest “clearance operations” against the Muslim minority – pillaging villages, burning crops, and shooting civilians on sight. Without reform and rethinking how we react, we’re only doomed to keep repeating the same cycle: condemnation, anger, calls for action, insufficient action, and, then, shame.
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An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried: Working Back from Human Extinction
Debbie Urbanski | Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Human extinction.
The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.
The no-child laws.
The launching of the Colony into space, no final destination in mind, for those able to afford the journey…
Rwanda’s Agricultural Revolution Is Not the Success It Claims to Be
Margot Leegwater, et al. – The Conversation,
18 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 – This article combines the findings of nine academic researchers who conducted in-depth research on the impact of Rwanda’s policies. The research found that Rwanda’s land and agricultural policies diminished land-tenure security, excluded vulnerable groups from taking part in the agricultural programs and caused food insecurity for many small-scale farmers. This challenges the Rwandan government’s position, which portrays the agricultural sector reforms as hugely successful, and claims that these have resulted in poverty reduction and increased agricultural productivity.
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US House Passes Resolution ‘Condemning Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya’
Katherine Gypson – Voice of America,
18 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – The U.S. House of Representatives condemned the “ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya” today, passing a resolution (423-3) “calling for an end to the attacks” against the Muslim minority in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
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Ave Maria (Music Video of the Week)
Daniel Taylor & Les Petits Chanteurs Du Mont-Royal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
A Virtuoso Performs a Classic
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The Case against Iraqing Iran
David Swanson | World Beyond War – MintPress News,
18 Dec 2017
Planning war and funding war creates its own momentum. Sanctions become, as with Iraq, a stepping stone to war. Cutting off diplomacy leaves few options open. Electoral pissing contests take us all where most of us did not want to be.
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Rohingya Crisis Is ‘Very Deliberate Genocide’, Former UN General Romeo Dallaire Says
Dominic Waghorn – Sky News,
18 Dec 2017
The former commander of UN peacekeeping forces in Rwanda says the “will to intervene” on the Rohingya crisis is missing. A world authority on genocide, he said what is happening to Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims is undoubtedly genocide and the international community must intervene to prevent it.
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Corporate Media Allowed Net Neutrality to Die in Silence
Pam Vogel | Media Matters for America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
15 Dec 2017 – The flagship morning news shows on broadcast and cable news covered net neutrality for less than four minutes combined.
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(Português) Mary Midgley: “Os animais são muito mais sutis e complicados do que pensávamos”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Segundo a filósofa britânica, um problema comum por parte de muitos cientistas é que eles ignoram a complexidade psicológica e motivacional que também faz parte dos animais.
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Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
18 Dec 2017
As much as the U.S. mainstream media insists that the Russia-gate scandal is growing, what is undeniably growing is the list of major corrections that news outlets have been forced to issue.
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Dec 18-24, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “ No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.” – Josh McDowell
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Libya: European Governments Complicit in Horrific Abuse of Refugees and Migrants
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
12 Dec 2017 – European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions in Libya, said Amnesty International in a report published today, in the wake of global outrage over the sale of migrants in Libya.
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(Português) Seminário – Rumo a um Mundo Livre de Armas Nucleares: Desafios e Perspectivas
Embaixador Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
Intervenção de Abertura, Ministério das Relações Exteriores, Brasília 7-8 Dez 2017 – Uma visão ampla sobre três principais temas:
• a contribuição do Tratado de Tlatelolco e da ABACC para a segurança da América Latina e do mundo em geral;
• as perspectivas para a Conferência de Exame do Tratado de Não Proliferação de Armas Nucleares, em 2020;
• e o impacto da recente adoção do Tratado de Proibição de Armas Nucleares.
Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
Ludwig van Beethoven was a deaf German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was baptized on Dec 17, 1770 in Bonn, Holy Roman Empire. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.
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Towards a World without Nuclear Weapons: Challenges and Perspectives
Ambassador Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – I was asked to provide a bird’s eye view of the three main topics of this Seminar, namely the contribution of the Treaty of Tlatelolco and ABACC to the security of Latin America and the world, the prospects for the 2020 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and the impact of the recent adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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(Français) La résolution 2250 du Conseil de Sécurité sur «La jeunesse et la paix»
Christophe Barbey - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
La résolution 2250 du Conseil de Sécurité sur « La jeunesse et la paix » Présentation générale et vision future – Genève et Flendruz, novembre 2017
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Amy Biehl
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
Amy Biehl was a young Princeton graduate who went to Capetown, South Africa, in 1992 as a volunteer to work with an NGO to help overcome apartheid.
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A Religion Called Economy
Michele Migliorino | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
4 Dec 2017 – You can see how the Economy Religion destroys everything: forest, seas, living species, ourselves and our infinite cultures existing over the whole planet. By now, realism would tell us that it is time to throw the Economy GOd into the wastebasket history and try to create a society which won’t imply such a despicable waste of energy and resources.
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Violence against Women: Why the UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – In his remarks on the recent International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women UN Secretary-General António Guterres inadvertently demonstrated why well-meaning efforts being undertaken globally to reduce violence against women fail to make any progress in addressing this pervasive crisis.
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Europe Responds: ‘If the law allows this, we need to change the law.’
Cecile S. Gallego – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
11 Dec 2017
28 Nov 2017 – A European Parliament committee has grilled Paradise Papers reporters as members grapple with how to claw back millions being lost to new, elaborate tax-reducing maneuvers.
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Progress toward Nuclear Weapons Abolition
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation was founded in early 1980s on the belief that peace is an imperative of the Nuclear Age, that nuclear weapons must be abolished, and that the people of the world must lead their leaders to achieve these goals. As a founder of the organization, and as its president since its founding, it now seems an appropriate time to look back and reflect on the changes that have occurred over the past 35 years.
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Conservation Goal for the Amazon Exceeded: More than 60 Million Hectares Protected
World Wildlife Fund | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
1 Dec 2017 – The World Wildlife Fund announced today that the Program for Protected Areas of the Amazon, a joint venture with the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment, has reached the goal of protecting at least 60 million hectares. This effort represents the conservation of 15 percent of the biome’s territory in Brazil.
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10 December: Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Eleanor Roosevelt, World Citizen
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – It was Eleanor Roosevelt who helped to craft and then championed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights whose anniversary we celebrate on 10 December.
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Modern Life Styles – Symbols of Consumerism, Self-centeredness and Isolation
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
The world today is a complex amalgam of violence, conflicts on one side and consumerism and rich lifestyles of a section of people on the other. It is also a modern world of social media, internet, mobile phones and consumerist ideologies promoted in newspapers and television.
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Johan Galtung’s Acceptance Speech of the People’s Nobel in Sweden
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
2 Dec 2017 – The People’s Peace Prize According to Nobel’s Will
Celebration-Seminar-Banquet, Orust Peace Movement at Svanvik, Sweden
Palestinians Recognize Texas as Part of Mexico
Alex Huntley | The Beaverton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – In response to Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that he will recognize Texas as a state of Mexico, since it was violently annexed by the United States in the 1840s. He says that this is a new approach to Mexican-US relations, and hopes it will help ease the tension between the two countries over security and immigration.
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The Doomsday Machine in Donald Trump’s Hands
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
11 Dec 2017
Now at 86 years old, Ellsberg is revealing for the first time that the Pentagon Papers were not the first classified documents that he removed from his secure workplace. In his new book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, he details his early years at the Pentagon, and why he took thousands of pages of U.S. nuclear war plans describing the lunacy of the U.S. nuclear war policy over 55 years ago. What he discovered is frighteningly relevant today.
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Symbolic Relocation of United Nations HQ to Jerusalem Vicinity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
11 Dec 2017 – The recently elected President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has made the historic decision to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. This highly controversial initiative offers an unprecedented opportunity to reframe the Middle East peace process and the highly problematic relations between Israel and Palestine, originally engendered by the United Nations in envisaging its own administration of Jerusalem as a corpus separatum.
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After Trump’s Jerusalem Move, Media Worry about ‘Violence’–Not Violation of International Law
Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – The frame that dominated headlines as news of Trump’s announcement broke was not on the meaning of the move but on potential vague “fears of violence” from Palestinians and Muslims throughout the Middle East. This is often the case when it comes to Israel/Palestine: Media focus is on the reaction to injustice, not on the injustice itself. The illegality of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem is rarely mentioned.
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Plunder Capitalism
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
4 Dec 2917 – What we are witnessing is the complete looting of America and the entirety of the West. While the Western World collapses, the insouciant, submissive people sit there sucking their thumbs while they are being ruined. Nothing is left of the West except looters at work. This tax bill is an abomination, an act of brutal plunder. Its sponsors should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail, if not hung from a lamp post.
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A Message from Johan Galtung to the TRANSCEND Network
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
A New Year’s Message
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(Português) Explorados até a morte: galgos são escaldados vivos na China
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
Cães britânicos anteriormente explorados em corridas têm sido vendidos para a China para serem escaldados vivos e consumidos em nome do lucro.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
9 Dec 2017 – The latest decisions of Trump concerning Jerusalem are – to put it mildly – idiotic. Arabs are furious, Israelis don’t really care, America’s Arab stooges, princes and all, are deeply worried. If disturbances erupt, they may well be swept away. Jerusalem is holy to three world religions, and one cannot argue with holiness.
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Trump White House Weighing Plans for Private Spies to Counter “Deep State” Enemies
Matthew Cole and Jeremy Scahill – The Intercept,
11 Dec 2017
5 Dec 2017 – The Trump administration is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal — to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the White House with a global, private spy network that would circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies.
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Brazil, U.S. and 20 Other Countries Carry Out Military Exercise in the Amazon
Gabriel Lemos | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – Military units from 20 countries, including Peru and Colombia, as well as the US, Germany and Japan, participated in military exercises dubbed Amazonlog 2017. Coordinated by the Brazilian military command, they marked the first such international war games in Brazil’s strategically sensitive Amazon region.
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N. Korea Open to Talks if Recognized as Nuclear Power – Russian Delegation to Pyongyang
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
1 Dec 2017 – North Korea is ready to sit at the negotiating table for peace talks if it is recognized as a nuclear power, the Russian delegation to Pyongyang said, adding that the North claims that it was forced to be aggressive and will not stop its nuclear program.
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The Need for a Cultural Shift on Gender-based Violence
Laura Finley, Ph.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
November 25th kicked off the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence. At no time has this work been more necessary than now. From rampant sexual harassment to sexual assault, domestic violence and sexual trafficking, women across the globe and in the U.S face gender-based violence at horrifying rates.
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Both Parties Pushed Trump toward Reckless Action on Jerusalem
Stephen Zunes | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – President Trump announced today that the United States will formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and that the U.S. embassy would be moved to that multi-ethnic and multi-faith city… In the Senate, the bill was cosponsored by such prominent Senate Democrats as Joe Biden and John Kerry and only one Democrat (the late Robert Byrd) voted no. On the House side, just thirty out of 204 Democrats voted no, along with the independent then-Congressman Bernie Sanders.
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Careless Disposal of Antibiotics Could Produce ‘Ferocious Superbugs,’ UN Environment Experts Warn
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
5 Dec 2017 – Growing antimicrobial resistance linked to the discharge of drugs and some chemicals into the environment is one of the most worrying health threats today. “The warning here is truly frightening: we could be spurring the development of ferocious superbugs through ignorance and carelessness.”
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Trump-Mideast: Much More than a ‘Kiss of Death’ to Palestinians
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
11 Dec 2017
7 Dec 2017 – US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital does not represent only a ‘kiss of death’ to the two-State solution, but also a strong blow in the face of 57 Muslim countries, let alone igniting fire in this easily inflammable region, providing more false arguments to criminal terrorist groups to escalate their brutal attacks, in addition to taking a step further in Washington’s new conflict with Iran and the ‘restructuring’ of the Middle East.
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Trump’s Jerusalem
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Dec 2017
Idiocy + Power = Disaster
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Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
There are two aspects of Parsons’ work that merit attention. The first is his role in introducing and championing the work of the German sociologist Max Weber in the USA. The second is helping create transdisciplinarity in area studies.
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(Português) Brian May: “Porcos, bois e cordeiros são criados puramente como mercadorias, prontos para o brutal matadouro”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
O jornal britânico Sunday Express publicou um artigo intitulado Why I have to speak for the Animals (Por que eu tenho que falar pelos animais), assinado por Brian May, guitarrista e compositor da lendária banda de rock Queen, além de astrofísico. May fez duras e contundentes críticas à exploração animal, versando sobre a redução de animais a alimentos, caça e experiências laboratoriais. Abaixo segue o artigo traduzido na íntegra.
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What Libya’s “Slave Auctions” Tell Us about the Humanitarian System
Nanjala Nyabola | IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
The CNN film was a shock. But it’s nothing new: racism is at the heart of the refugee and migrant crisis. It’s Time to Talk about Race and Racism
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Last Straw
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
7 Dec 2017 – Trump’s decision dropped the last fig leaf and added the final straw that will indeed reshape Western Asia and probably the world but not in ways that the Zionists who run the Trump administration planned or wished for. IT IS NOW TIME FOR ACTIONS.
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