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Trump’s Space Force: Military Profiteering’s Final Frontier
Harvey Wasserman - Reader Supported News,
23 Jul 2018
21 Jul 2018 – Of all the many, many terrible things the Trump Administration is doing, opening space to war will be the most destructive. The heavens are going to be littered with radioactive debris.
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Russiagate
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
17 Jul 2018 – Reality Check for Americans Obsessed with Russia – It’s meant to pump up militarism and weapons sales to benefit arms profiteers. It is ridiculous and very dangerous. I think the growing danger of American fascism and global nuclear confrontation comes as much from anti-Trump folks as pro-Trump folks.
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The March of Folly
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
21 Jul 2018 – It has been said that a clever person is able to extricate himself from a trap into which a wise person would not have fallen in the first place. Stupid people do not extricate themselves. They are not even aware of the trap.
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Physicians for Human Rights Call for Crimes against Humanity Investigation in Myanmar
VOA News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
21 Jul 2018 – A physicians group working with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh says medical and scientific evidence indicates the extent of the violence they suffered at the hands of the Myanmar military and civilians.
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Ireland’s Decision to Advance Boycott Bill Could Be the Tipping Point for Justice for Palestine
Prof. Kamel Hawwash – Middle East Monitor,
23 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – Under pressure from Israel, the Irish Government, which does not support boycotts, postponed an initial attempt to bring the bill to a vote in January of this year. However, on 11 July the “Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018” was debated and passed. The vote was 25 in favour, 20 against and 14 abstaining.
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The Harmony of Languages and Scripts
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
The world is divided into blocs and groupings — the UNO, EU, NATO, SAARC, the Communist bloc, the Mid-East Muslim bloc, trade blocs and others such as the Nuclear group of nations. Each has their specific agendas, their special economies, cultures, strengths, liabilities, etc. But religious leanings and languages also play a dominant role in interaction within the groupings.
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What a Green and Peaceful Future Could Look Like
Paula Tejón Carbajal | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
19 Jul 2018 – We’re experiencing a deep systemic disconnection: an ecological, social and spiritual cultural divide. There’s a discernible disconnect between the infinite growth imperative and the finite resources of planet Earth; between private ownership and the best societal use of property; between GDP and well-being. “We cannot solve problems with the same kind of thinking that created them.” — Albert Einstein
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Your Thoughts Create Your Future
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
One thing I want to do right now before we go any farther is to explain some information that many people can use. This will show how your thinking creates your consciousness and how to help control it. It provides evidence so that you can see how your life unfolds according to what you draw to it, as dictated by your consciousness and thoughts. By taking the responsibility for yourself and your thinking process, you can make your life more positive and uplifting, and reduce or negate the influence of any hurt or negative energies you encounter.
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USA’s Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes and No One Is Talking about It
Lee Camp | DWF News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
20 Jul 2018 – And that’s odd, because we’re technically at war with—let me think—zero countries. So that should mean zero bombs are being dropped, right? Hell no! You’ve made the common mistake of confusing our world with some sort of rational, cogent world in which our military-industrial complex is under control.
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A Reflection on the June 24th Turkish Elections (modified and corrected)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
18 Jul 2018 – This is slightly modified text of an earlier post that seeks to take account of responses from friends, and gave me the opportunity to express these somewhat contrarian views in a clearer way, as well as correct some mistakes. This version will also be published by Sharq Forum in Turkey.
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Immigration: Many Myths and Little Reality
Roberto Savio - Human Wrongs Watch,
23 Jul 2018
According to the latest statistics, the total flow of immigrants so far in 2018 is 50.000 people, compared with 186,768 last year, 1,259,955 in 2016 and 1,327,825 in 2015. The difference between reality and perceptions is so astonishing; we are clearly witnessing one of the most brilliant manipulations in history.
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Ireland Becomes World’s First Country to Divest from Fossil Fuels
Damian Carrington – The Guardian,
23 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – The Republic of Ireland will become the world’s first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies, after a bill was passed with all-party support. It means more than €300m shares in coal, oil, peat and gas will be sold ‘as soon as practicable.’
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The Massacre of Inn Din: How Rohingya Are Lynched and Held Responsible
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
18 Jul 2018 – “In my four years as High Commissioner, I have heard many preposterous claims. That claim is almost in its own category of absurdity. Have you no shame, sir, have you no shame? We are not fools.” — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein to a Burmese official’s claim that his country is not targeting Rohingya in a genocidal campaign but is defending the rights of all its citizen.
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(Castellano) Una Lectura Económica de Los Hechos de los Apóstoles: Taller de Relectura de Pablo de Tarso
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Es necesario construir formas de vida muy distintas de la forma actualmente dominante. Entre las estructuras sociales dominantes que hay que desechar está la que subordina los procesos vitales de la vida a la existencia de ingresos, cuyos montos son fijados por un contrato de trabajo. En el plano científico, el equilibrio general, que nunca ha sido pensado como una realidad, tiene que dejar de ser pensado como un ideal en el cual el producto del trabajador corresponde al sueldo fijado en un contrato libremente negociado a la luz de las fuerzas del mercado.
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(Português) A crise brasileira, parte da crise global
Leonardo Boff | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
12 julho 2018 – Não se pode analisar o Brasil só a partir do Brasil. Nenhum país está fora das conexões internacionais, nem a fechada Coréia Norte, que a planetização inevitavelmente criou. Ademais nosso país é a sexta economia do mundo, coisa que desperta a cobiça das grande corporações que querem vir para cá, não para ajudar no nosso desenvolvimento com inclusão, mas para poder acumular mais e mais, dada a extensão de nosso mercado interno e da superabundância de commodities e de bens e serviços naturais, cada vez mais necessários para sustentar o consumismo dos países opulentos.
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Violent Coup Fails in Nicaragua, US Continues Regime Change Efforts
Kevin Zeese | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
21 Jul 2018 – The violent coup in Nicaragua has failed. This does not mean the United States and oligarchs are giving up, but this phase of their effort to remove the government did not succeed. The coup exposed the alliances who are working with the United States to put in place a neoliberal government that is controlled by the United States and serves the interests of the wealthy. People celebrated the failure of the coup but realize work needs to be done to protect the gains of the Sandinista revolution.
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Dag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo.
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New Import Restrictions Risk Triggering ‘Dramatic Deterioration’ in Gaza, Says UN Humanitarian Coordinator
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
17 Jul 2018 – Following further restrictions on goods and supplies that can be moved across the border of the Gaza Strip, the top United Nations humanitarian official there has called for urgent measures to prevent an already critical humanitarian situation from getting worse.
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The State of Our Oceans in 2018 (It’s Not Looking Good!)
FishLab – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – Recent studies have made startling discoveries. For example, by 2050 there will be more plastics than fish in our oceans by weight. Facts like this have helped to make the public more aware of the harm that our everyday materials can cause. But among all the bad news, there are some success stories. With sensible management, we can undo some of the damage that has already been done.
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Hawaiian Kingdom Files Lawsuit against President Trump in Washington, D.C.
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Petition for an Emergency Writ of Mandamus filed with U.S. Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., against President Trump regarding the prolonged American occupation of the Hawaiian Islands. [David Keanu Sai vs. Donald John Trump et. al, Case: 1:18-cv-01500]
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Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for Our Amusement
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Neocolonialism
Andy Singer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Monroe Doctrine Redux: Equity Balance Fairness… Right?
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Eva Bartlett on Spring/2018 Visit to Syria, Israeli Violence in Gaza
GlobalResearchTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
9 Jul 2018 – GRTV interviews Canadian award-winning journalist Eva Bartlett about her most recent trip to Syria. Eva also recounts her experiences in Gaza and Israel’s most recent attacks on protesters at the Israel-Gaza border wall.
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‘Death Penalty’: Gaza Merchants Suffer as Trade Crossing Shuts
Mersiha Gadzo & Anas Jnena – Al Jazeera,
23 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 – After Israel’s measure, 55 percent of goods can no longer enter the Gaza Strip, exacerbating already dire conditions.
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Peace May Be with You (Music Video of the Week)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter [The Horsemen of the Apocalypse] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Politically Correct Heavy Metal from Germany
Submitted by TMS Webmaster Dr. Malvin Gattinger
What Should We Do Now?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
There is another reason why having to live in one regime of accumulation or another is unsustainable. It is because although the physicists, chemists, and biologists have explained to us very clearly what we must do to save the biosphere, we can’t do it. The causal powers that determine our behaviour are mainly in the social structures. What happens is not what humans want to happen, but what the structures compel. Nobody wants the destruction of the biosphere, but nevertheless we are compelled to destroy the biosphere. It is a systemic imperative to obey the necessity of capital accumulation and to disobey hard science.
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Cutting Greens
Lucille Clifton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Curling them around
I hold their bodies in obscene embrace
thinking of everything but kinship.
The Child and Her Diary
Laila Yaghi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Poems about Palestine
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Five Meat and Dairy Companies Emit More Emissions than Major Oil Companies, Study Finds
Claire Stam | Euractiv – Human Wrongs Watch,
23 Jul 2018
Together, the five largest meat and dairy corporations (JBS, Tyson, Cargill, Dairy Farmers of America and Fonterra) are already responsible for more annual greenhouse gas emissions than ExxonMobil, Shell or BP, a study released on 18 July warns.
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Elaborating a Declaration on Combating Anti-otherness
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Including Anti-Science, Anti-Spiritual, Anti-Women, Anti-Gay, Anti-Socialism, Anti-Animal, and Anti-Negativity
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First Ever: 40 Jewish Groups Worldwide Oppose Equating Antisemitism with Criticism of Israel
Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Jewish Voice for Peace proud to stand in global solidarity against harmful definition of antisemitism and with human rights and freedom to protest
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The Assault on Agnivesh
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
18 Jul 2018 – It is a shame that intolerance and aggressive bigotry of this sort is gathering momentum in parts of India. It has been facilitated according to certain sources by the increasing legitimization of a narrow notion of religious identity which in a sense is a travesty of the universalism and inclusiveness of the Hindu faith.
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Aldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become most specifically known to the public for his novels, and especially his fifth one, Brave New World, written in 1931 and published in 1932, which would delineate what the perfect dictatorship would look like. It would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.
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The US Establishment behind the Helsinki Summit
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – Global Research,
23 Jul 2018
20 Jul 2018 – It will not be the words, but the facts, which will reveal whether the climate of détente of the Helsinki Summit will become reality – first of all with a de-escalation of NATO in Europe, in other words with the withdrawal of forces (including nuclear forces) of the USA and NATO presently deployed against Russia, and the blockage of NATO’s expansion to the East.
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Reality, Perception, Truth
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially were intrigued by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again.
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Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018 – While the world watched and waited with bated breath for the outcome of the substantial global effort – involving over 100 cave divers from various countries, 1,000 members of the Thai Army and 10,000 others in various roles – to rescue a team of 12 young football players and their coach, who were trapped inside a flooded cave in Thailand for 17 days, 850,000 children were killed by human adults in other parts of the world, many of them simply starved to death in Yemen or other parts of Africa, Asia and Central/South America.
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NATO’s Crisis and the Transatlantic Conflict (Part 1)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – On the occasion of the NATO Summit in Brussels and the Putin-Trump meeting in Helsinki. This analysis comes in two parts – one critical and one constructive: This one on “NATO’s crisis and the Transatlantic conflict” and the second on “Make NATO civilian and civilised.”
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Make NATO Civilian and Civilised (Part 2)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
This is the second of two articles about the coming end of NATO as we know it and what can be done.
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Protests Erupting around US RIMPAC War Games Off of Hawaii
Jon Olsen | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 – Hawaiians Are Protesting the RIMPAC War Games and the Continued US Military Occupation of the Kingdom of Hawaii – The RIMPAC war games are igniting protests in Hawaii and once again reminding people that Hawaii is stolen land, a nation taken over illegally and made part of the United States.
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Are the 13 Demands to Qatar a ‘Geopolitical Crime’?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018 – Assessing the international relations and international law Gulf Crisis that was initiated by a coalition of four countries, issuing a set of 13 demands directed at the government of Qatar. This essay evaluates whether the confrontation should be treated as a ‘Geopolitical Crime,” itself an innovative and controversial idea that I developed in a lecture at Queen Mary’s University in London at the end of March, 2018.
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The Gaza Blockade Is Illegal– And So Is the Use of Force to Maintain It
Norman G. Finkelstein | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
7 Jul 2018 – Is it not a tad unseemly, not to say unsettling, for the representative of a respected human rights organization [Human Rights Watch] to coach Israel how to stay within the letter of the law—before resorting to bullets, you must first try “tear gas, skunk water, and rubber-coated steel pellets”—while it’s herding two million people, half of them children, in an unlivable space in which they are slowly being poisoned?
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Oslo: A Peace Proposal or a “Time Out” Till the “Full Victory” of Israel?
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
7 Jul 2018 – These plans show clearly that Israel thinks and behaves on the basis that its task in Palestine is already or almost finished by transforming it to the “Land of Israel” and ending the Palestinian effective resistance. For them it is a matter of time to create Jewish Majority in Palestine in one hand and to expand to the Arab Countries in the other, territorially and economically, by using also the Iranian claimed threat to these countries as a way to pull them towards cooperating with Israel.
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In Thailand, the Kids Are All Right. Elsewhere, Not So Much
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
16 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – In Thailand, the saga of 12 young soccer players and their coach successful rescue was a cause for global celebration. Juxtapose this outpouring of compassion and solidarity with the catastrophe facing millions of children in Yemen, and the ongoing debacle created here in the US by Trump with the forced separation of migrant children from their parents.
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“Mysteries of the Sacred Universe” Seminar in New York
Prishni Shutton | ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
29 Jun 2018 – Murali Gopal Das presented a lively seminar at New York City’s Bhakti Center titled “Mysteries of the Sacred Universe.” Murali holds a Ph.D. in physics from Ohio University, has served an internship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, completed his post-doctoral studies at Columbia University, and has taught Sanskrit at the University of Florida. As a member of the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies, he develops courses on Bhakti and Science, including Vedic concepts of cosmography, consciousness, and physics.
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Trial Runs for Fascism Are in Full Flow
Fintan O'Toole – Irish Times,
16 Jul 2018
Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism. People have to be given the taste for savagery. Fascism does this by building up the sense of threat from a despised out-group.
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Puerto Rico: Disaster Colonialism Strikes Again
Judith Mirkinson | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Disaster capitalism? Shock Doctrine? Whatever you want to call it. For Haiti, it was the 2010 earthquake. For Puerto Rico, it’s the recent 2017 mega-hurricane Maria… The lessons already learned by the popular movements in both places will be invaluable. The resistance and organization of the Puerto Rican and Haitian people—and the solidarity that they receive—will have a great impact on the outcome.
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Australia: The Hidden History of the Women Who Rose Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – John Pilger gave this address on the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Parramatta Female Factory, a prison where women convicts from mostly Ireland and England were sent in the early 19th century. Like all colonial societies, Australia has secrets. For a long time, the fact that many Australians came from what was called ‘bad stock’ was a secret.
→ read full article“Not Enough!”
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – The State of Israel has no oil wells. It has no gold mines. What has it got? It has the ownership of the remembrance of the Holocaust.
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How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”
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Ducking Hell: The Shocking Video Revealing How We Farm Ducks in Australia
Chris Graham – New Matilda,
16 Jul 2018
Shocking footage of duck farming in Australia has emerged showing day-old ducklings being dropped into an industrial shredder, adult ducks being kicked and thrown around a barn by workers, and ducks which should have been stunned before slaughter hanging by their feet on a conveyor belt while they bleed to death after having their throats slit.
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Dan Piraro | Bizarro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Pure Wisdom
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Tribute to Robert Parry: Investigative Journalist and Patriot
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – Although Robert Parry never became personally famous, many readers will recall news stories he played a key role in bringing to public consciousness. He uncovered the “Iran-Contra scandal” where the US secretly sold weapons to Iran via Israel with profits supporting mercenary “Contras” attacking the Nicaraguan government. He uncovered Lt. Col. Oliver North secretly working at the Reagan White House to supervise support for the Contras. He exposed CIA collusion with criminals sending weapons to the Contras and receiving tons of cocaine on return flights from Colombia and Central America.
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Somewhere in Time (Music Video of the Week)
Maksim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Maksim – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Julian Kershaw
| Somewhere in Time -The Old Woman
Time for Int’l Community to Come Forward for Rohingyas
Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 – The military junta in Myanmar has not only snatched away the citizenship of the Rohingyas in the country’s Rakhine state, but has been perpetuating killing and torture against them for the past four decades. The United Nations and other international institutions have been totally ineffective in addressing the problem, raising questions of their complicity. Bangladesh, however, has displayed a positive moral stance by providing the Rohingyas with shelter.
→ read full articleAmerica Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
9 Jul 2018 – The US Government (with France and a few other US allies) bombs Libya, Syria, etc.; and the US regime refuses to accept any of the resulting refugees — the burdens from which are now breaking the EU, and the EU is sinking in economic competition against America’s international corporations.
→ read full articleNew World Order of Walk-away Wheeling and Dealing
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Creating Strategic Dependency and Vulnerability through Confidence Tricks – Produced on the occasion of the NATO Summit (Brussels, 11-12 July 2018)
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Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Argentina: Over 60 Social Movements Protest US ‘Military Base’
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – In Argentina, political parties, social organizations, human rights groups, workers’ unions and Mapuches led a caravan to the site where a U.S. base will be built to demand respect for Argentina’s territorial sovereignty. “The base comes to fulfill a strategic intelligence objective of the U.S. military that seeks to protect their corporate interests.
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(Português) Leonardo DiCaprio junta-se à Sea Shepherd na produção de documentário sobre mamífero marinho mais ameaçado do mundo
Paula Borim - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
16 Jul 2018
As vaquitas são animais marinhos semelhantes ao boto, e atualmente restam apenas 30 delas no planeta.
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(Castellano) Una amenaza, la autodestrucción, y los peligros para la paz
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – Existe una percepción general de que la situación de la humanidad no es buena, pues hay una acumulación de riqueza absurda en pocas manos dentro de un mar de miseria y de hambre… Lo que se está haciendo en Europa contra los refugiados, rechazando su presencia en Italia y en Inglaterra, y peor, en Hungría y en la catoliquísima Polonia, alcanza niveles de inhumanidad.
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Johan Galtung on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Amy Goodman | Envision Peace Museum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Johan Galtung is widely considered the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies.” A Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, Galtung has taught around the world, helped found many institutions dedicated to building peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award. He serves on the advisory board of Envision Peace Museum.
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Bulldozing Palestine, One Village at a Time
Mariam Barghouti – Al Jazeera,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – Israel wants the village of Khan al-Ahmar razed to the ground to cut off Jerusalem from the West Bank. We will continue to stand with their residents because their resistance is part of the greater struggle against the entire framework of Israel’s brutal settler-colonialism.
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Oahu
Maureen Korp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Seeing something there
a glint, quick light rippling
in the tide
BDS Victory: Ireland Approves Bill Boycotting Israeli Settlement Goods
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Ireland becomes the first country to ban trade with Israel’s illegal settlements.
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(Português) Esforço compartilhado por toda a sociedade: hipocrisia e ignomínia
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 julho 2018 – Diante de situações de crise que setores dominantes geraram ou, quando menos, gravemente agigantaram, suas representações políticas convocam com hipocrisia e ignomínia a que a sociedade toda compartilha o esforço de recuperação e desenvolvimento. Enquanto pedem ao povo que aceite os sacrifícios para gerar em conjunto um futuro venturoso, seguem fugindo capitais para guaridas fiscais e impõem planos de resgate e políticas econômicas e culturais que protegem seus privilégios e negócios.
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Security Council Hails ‘Historic and Significant’ Joint Peace Declaration by Ethiopia and Eritrea
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – The United Nations Security Council today described the Joint Declaration, signed by the leaders of Eritrea and Ethiopia, as “a historic and significant” move with “far-reaching consequences” for the whole Horn of Africa region and beyond.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Frantz Omar Fanon was a Martinique-born French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and an existentialist humanist concerning the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Boys in the USA
Pia Guerra | THE NIB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Not an Accident of Nature…
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I Was Robert Mueller’s Undergraduate Thesis Adviser—and What He Wrote Gives Some Hints about What He’ll Do as Special Counsel
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – Rereading Robert Mueller’s Princeton thesis 52 years later with an eye as to how he will perform as Trump’s inquisitor. What makes Mueller’s thesis relevant for today is that the core of his inquiry is how a judge should interpret a legal document.
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Bridging India’s Skill Gap
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Globalization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have increased the pace of change in labour markets, putting a premium on right skills and adaptability. Public policies should now shift to empowering and enabling workers to cope with transition, via income support, and also support incentives and opportunities for deskilling and upgrading skills.
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Buckminster Fuller (12 Jul 1895 – 1 Jul 1983): A World View on Doing More with Less
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
As all the male members of his family, he began university at Harvard but was expelled twice, being more interested in women than in diplomas. He never received a university degree but was self-taught in design, mathematics and architecture. He brought all his ideas together in what he called “The Law of Progressive Order.” Today, he is best known for his geodesic domes.
→ read full article“I don’t know why” Says a Rohingya
Dr. Abid Bahar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
“I don’t know why” says a Rohingya.
But I thought I didn’t know the answer to why
But I know, I know why, I know why and why
(Português) Não Tenho Necessidade de Alimentar-me de Animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
1 jul 2018 – Pratico musculação há anos e reconheço que não tenho necessidade de me alimentar de animais e também não tenho necessidade de usar esteroides.
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Trump Beats Up NATO Members in American Protection Racket
Finian Cunningham - RT,
16 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 – The capo-in-chief flew into Brussels beating up on other NATO members with a combination of blackmail and extortion. Trump wants the others to cough up more dough for the “protection” provided to them by the US. The American leader is the linchpin of a racket that ultimately screws the ordinary citizens of Europe and the US.
→ read full articleWhat Is Cooking?
Dr. Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Cooking for food, cooking for peace, cooking for friendship.
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Rohingya Cannot Become ‘Forgotten Victims,’ Says UN Chief Urging World to Step Up Support
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Painting a grim picture of villages being burned to the ground and other “bone-chilling” accounts he heard from Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar, the UN chief has called on the world to answer their calls for help with real action.
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Europe’s Iron Curtain: The Refugee Crisis Is about to Worsen
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018 – A recent European Council summit in Brussels was meant to articulate a united policy on the burgeoning refugees and migrant crisis. Instead, it served to highlight the bitter divisions among various European countries. Considering the gravity of the matter, Europe’s self-serving policies are set to worsen an already tragic situation.
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Blindness, End of Cycle, New Courses
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 July, 2018 – Neoliberal domination is approaching the limits of its reproduction. So much has been destroyed with the impious concentration of wealth and decisions that the peoples of the world and the Planet can stand no more. Inequality, poverty, indigence, environmental destruction lead to the implosion of the model of society and world that has been imposed on us.
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The Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Arthur Lyon Dahl, and Maja P.C.E. Groff | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
May 2018 – This proposal builds upon structures for international cooperation existing at least since the creation of the UN. We propose revisions to the UN Charter that provide the legal basis for a new system of global governance, supplemented by other reforms not requiring Charter amendment.
→ read full articleBetween Three Summits: Brussels, England, Helsinki
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
This TMS issue comes in the middle of three summit conferences of significance: a NATO summit held in Brussels, and two bilateral summits: US-UK and US-Russia.
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Professor Tariq Ramadan: Detention without Trial
Elma Berisha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 – When Tariq Ramadan, the respected Oxford Professor of Islamic Studies, voluntarily flew from London to Paris to be questioned over rape allegations, which he vehemently denied and for which evidence is yet nowhere to be found, he must have been confident he was not walking in through the iron gates of an Al-Shabab court somewhere in Africa.
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(Italiano) Ventimiglia città aperta. manifestazione internazionale secondo alcuni ValdAostani
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
16 luglio 2018 – Per il riconoscimento della mobilità come diritto inalienabile e “per rivendicare la necessità di un permesso di soggiorno europeo. Per ripensare l’attuale sistema della così detta “accoglienza”. Una mobilitazione contro la tratta e le violenze di genere, contro lo sfruttamento delle persone migranti, per la loro libertà e autodeterminazione.
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Israel Is Bulldozing Khan Al Ahmar – And with It the Two-State Solution
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
8 Jul 2018 – Israel finally built an access road to the West Bank village of Khan Al Ahmar last week, after half a century of delays. But the only vehicles allowed along it are the bulldozers scheduled to sweep away its 200 inhabitants’ homes. If one community has come to symbolise the demise of the two-state solution, it is Khan Al Ahmar.
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U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
Andrew Jacobs – The New York Times,
9 Jul 2018
8 Jul 2018 – American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding…” When that failed, they turned to threats, according to diplomats and government officials who took part in the discussions… The confrontation was the latest example of the Trump administration siding with corporate interests on numerous public health and environmental issues. In the end, it was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure — and the Americans did not threaten them.
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“Slow News” vs “Fast History”
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – This blog last month suggested that history is moving much faster than we think and that the collapse of the American empire is likely to come within the next two years. This leads me to the question: Can the slow development of the culture of peace make it possible for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace when the American empire crashes?
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Rohingya: The History of a Muslim Identity in Myanmar
Jacques Leider | Oxford University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
[FROM TMS EDITOR]: Oxford University Press did not heed the written and verbal protests by some 2,000 scholars, public intellectuals and citizen-activists to not publish this genocide-denying—actually, ideologically genocide-reinforcing–essay by Jacques Leider. Please read the 3 following articles (below) refuting and debunking Leider’s piece—to educate, clarify and elucidate about the ongoing Rohingya genocide in Burma/Myanmar. Another one–will we ever learn?
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Johan Galtung Wishes America a HAPPY INTERDEPENDENCE DAY 2018
Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Video contains excerpt from Rabbi Michael “Tikkun Olam ” Lerner’s Muhammed Ali memorial speech.
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Wider Consequences of U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
7 Jul 2018 – I think the superficial response to this latest de-internationalizing move is the tendency of the Trump Administration to align its policies in conformity with Israeli priorities and preferences, which have long focused on the Human Rights Council as a venue hostile to their policies and practices.
→ read full articleImposition vs. Partnership: How to Do Harm in Project Cooperation
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
If you are a donor, you decide the guidelines and the priorities of support unilaterally, and impose them on the donated. This is a neo-colonial way of controlling and dominating, practiced in opposition to the different international documents about the efficiency of funding.
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Engaging Credible Religious Leaders in the Prevention of Violence and Extremism – Our Methodology
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Jun 2018 – This program addresses the transnational phenomenon of extremism using a conflict transformation approach. It aims to the reduce violence in the Sahel region, the Lake Chad area and the Arab world, through the promotion of wasatiya (the “middle way”) and the avoidance of extremes (ghulu), both concepts rooted in Islamic thought and practice. The project comprises two tracks:
→ read full articleIndia’s Thirsty Arguments for Water Woes
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Israel took 70 years to solve its water problem; India won’t need that long, as it can replicate Israeli practices. It needs to summon the political will to act before water runs out. Changing governance, raising money, and experimenting new ideas will all take time and the climatic stresses are mounting fast. The time to act is now.
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Who Gets to Write the Encyclopedia? Rohingya “Expert” Denies Genocide
David Palumbo-Liu | Truthout - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
9 Jul 2018
15 Mar 2018 – A group of academics and human rights workers has issued a strong letter to the Oxford University Press, arguing that its choice of an author to write on the Rohingya is deeply flawed and could have wide-ranging consequences. The Press has commissioned Jacques Leider, whom the letter identifies as the head of the Bangkok-based École française d’Extrême-Orient and an adviser to the Burma military’s Armed Forces Historical Museum, to write the reference article on the Rohingya for its Oxford Research Encyclopedias.
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Gaza Youth Dance the Dabke in the Gaza-Israel Border (Music Video of the Week)
almonivideo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
1 Jul 2018 – A young Palestinian girl and a handful of boys dancing the traditional dabke along the Gaza-Israel border against a backdrop of plumes of smoke. The video manages to encapsulate so much of the story of the occupation and the siege in two-and-a-half minutes: the power dynamics between the occupier and the oppressed.
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Why Unarmed Civilian Protection Is the Best Path to Sustainable Peace
Annie Hewitt | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
6 Jul 2018 – The first image that often comes to mind when one thinks of peacekeeping is that of the blue helmets armed soldiers. There is, however, another model for peacekeeping called unarmed civilian protection, or UCP. It works from the inside and has been proven to save lives, empower communities and can secure strong and lasting peace in areas plagued by violent conflict.
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Myanmar Bombs 60 Churches in 18 Months, Replaces Some with Buddhist Pagodas
Samuel Smith | The Christian Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
3 Jul 2018 – Myanmar’s military forces have destroyed about 60 Christian churches and have turned some of those properties into Buddhist pagodas amid renewed attacks over the last year-and-a-half, an American pastor who recently traveled to the region said.
→ read full articleHaves vs. Have-nots
Latuff – MintPress News,
9 Jul 2018
Might Makes… What?
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Fukushima’s “Hot Particles” Travelled Extreme Distances
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
3 Jul 2018 – “Cesium found 375 miles from Japanese plant,” read the headline in the Japanese daily paper Yomiuri Shimbun. Proponents of nuclear power still get away with denying that inhaled or ingested exposures cause harm. This is because when the cancers begin appearing 10, 15 or 20 years from exposure, no one can to prove they were caused by Fukushima’s hot particles. “Got cancer?” they ask. “Not our fault. Nuclear power is safe.”
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Internationalism and the Colonial Challenges Facing Haiti and Venezuela
Jeanette Charles | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Colonialism explains why UN forces implicated in mass rape, human trafficking rings, and the cholera epidemic continue to occupy Haiti. It is the driving force behind former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s tour throughout the Caribbean, intimidating, threatening, and bribing states to vote at the OAS in favor of foreign intervention in Venezuela. Colonialism has cultivated the root of complex political, economic, and sociocultural relationships between the states, peoples, and grassroots movements of Venezuela and Haiti.
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UN Chief: ‘Unimaginable’ Stories of Killings, Rape from Rohingya Refugees
VOA News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – “Nothing could’ve prepared me for the scale of crisis and extent of suffering I saw today in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. I heard heartbreaking accounts from Rohingya refugees that will stay with me forever,” he wrote calling the Rohingya “one of the most discriminated against and vulnerable communities on Earth.”
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(Português) Exposição da realidade: Apresentador de programa rural afirma que viagens escolares a matadouros são essenciais
Paula Borim - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
9 Jul 2018
Tom Heap afirma que se as crianças pudessem ver a triste origem de seus alimentos de origem animal deixariam de consumí-los.
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