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Trump Regime Escalates Sanctions War on Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
8 Apr 2019 – Sanctions are ineffective as a regime change tool, harming targeted economies and populations, achieving little more. Yet they’re a US favorite, used repeatedly against targeted countries like Venezuela, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and many others.
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Battlefield Libya: Fruits of US-NATO Regime Change
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
10 Apr 2019 – Libya is back in the news, as fighting escalates around the capital, Tripoli. The confusing chaos that has continually engulfed Libya since 2011 is the predictable outcome of a US-led political and military intervention. Other examples showcasing US-led regime change “success” include Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine.
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The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s Is the Story of Our Times
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
A Quasi-Review of, A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, by Lisa Pease
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(Castellano) Por qué fracasan los activistas
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
Los sistemas formales de gobernanza humana en la Tierra -es decir, los gobiernos y las organizaciones intergubernamentales como las Naciones Unidas- están controlados por la élite mundial, que es invisible para la mayoría de las personas, incluidos los activistas, y por lo tanto no es considerada por ellos. Así, por supuesto, es como la élite lo quiere y uno todavía puede encontrar fácilmente cuentas que preguntan si la élite (por el nombre que se le dé) realmente existe e incluso le atribuyen una cualidad mística. Si es que la idea no es simplemente descartada como una “teoría de la conspiración”.
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Syria: Is US Fighting ISIS or Liquidating Assets?
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
28 Mar 2019 – That the “final stronghold” of ISIS resides in US occupied territory in Syria says it all. From US Defense Intelligence Agency memos noting efforts to create a “Salafist” [Islamic] “principality” [State] in eastern Syria precisely where ISIS rose and now clings to its “final stronghold,” to the obvious fact that ISIS’ fighting capacity was only possible through extensive state sponsorship – it was already clear that the US and its partners in regime change against Syria had been using terrorists including ISIS as proxy ground forces.
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The US Just ‘Invaded’ an Island in the East China Sea & No One Noticed
Darius Shahtahmasebi – RT,
8 Apr 2019
29 Mar 2019 – Just recently, the US military launched a full-on invasion of an island in the East China Sea to send a strong message to China, and yet barely any mainstream media outlet has covered the story or its massive implications.
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The New EU Copyright Law Closes the Book on Free Speech Online. That’s a Feature, Not a Bug.
Helen Buyniski - RT,
8 Apr 2019
26 Mar 2019 – The controversial copyright law facing a final vote in the EU parliament is less about copyright than it is about hammering a final nail in the coffin of the freedoms the internet once promised. Yes, Article 13 is that bad.
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War with Russia?
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
3 Apr 2019 – Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are key figures, along with mainstream media parrots, in fueling the new demonization of Russia on behalf of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex. The demonizing of Russia is now as bad as or worse than during the 1950s McCarthy-era and the height of the Cold War. To avoid catastrophic nuclear confrontation with Russia we need dialog and diplomacy, not escalating confrontation.
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US Is Manufacturing a Crisis in Venezuela so that There Is Chaos and ‘Needed’ Intervention
Eva Bartlett – RT,
8 Apr 2019
29 Mar 2019 – Venezuela is America’s current target for mass destabilization in the hope of installing a puppet government. America has for years been waging an economic war against Venezuela, including debilitating sanctions which have dramatically affected the state’s ability to purchase medicines, and even mundane replacement parts needed in buses, ambulances, etc. Alongside the economic war there has been a steady propaganda war, but in recent months, the propaganda has escalated dramatically, from corporate media to US political figures.
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Even for the West Bank, This Is a Shocking Story
Gideon Levy and Alex Levac | Haaretz – Reader Supported News,
1 Apr 2019
A young Palestinian’s attempt to help a stranger shot by Israeli troops costs him his life
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(Français) Bal macabre au Brésil: le clan Bolsonaro, l’extrême droite et les milices
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
14 mars 2019 – Les révélations récentes de la presse brésilienne sur les liens entre le fils aîné du président Bolsonaro et l’une des plus dangereuses organisations criminelles de Rio, soupçonnée notamment de l’assassinat de la jeune conseillère progressiste Marielle Franco, le 14 mars 2018, jettent une lumière crue sur la proximité entre l’extrême droite politique et les milices urbaines qui contrôlent une partie des quartiers périphériques de la ville. Les mesures prises par l’actuel gouvernement offrent à ces groupes paramilitaires de nouvelles marges de manœuvre pour opérer en toute impunité, tandis qu’elles annoncent pour les défenseurs des droits humains, les minorités et les populations marginalisées des heures encore plus sombres.
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The United Kingdom vis-a-vis the European Union
Cristina Cabrejas Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
During the 60’s, France under the leadership of President Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain’s entry as he expressed his concern about Britain diminishing France’s position in the EEC and the influence of the Anglo-American relations in Europe. It would take 24 years after the inception of the EEC, that on January 1st 1973 UK together with Denmark and the Republic of Ireland, that finally Britain joined the European block.
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‘Renouncing Violence’ Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims
Adam Johnson | FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
29 Mar 2019 – A FAIR survey of the phrase “renounce violence” in the New York Times over the past 10 years shows that 95 percent of the time the demand is made of Muslim organizations, people or political parties, the most prominent being the Taliban and Hamas. There are zero instances of anyone in the Times—whether reporters quoting officials or columnists—from March 28, 2009, to March 28, 2019, insisting or suggesting that the United States, Israel or any white-majority country “renounce violence.”
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Truth v. Fiction in Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
25 Mar 2019 – Followers of independent alternative media know Venezuela is the hemisphere’s leading social democracy. It’s not a “dictatorship” as falsely claimed by US hardliners and establishment media. Reality on the ground in Venezuela is a world apart from the fabricated Western narrative—all propaganda all the time, supporting the Trump regime’s coup plot.
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Our Wounded Planet
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
27 Mar 2019 – Should we save the planet or kill the enemy?… I am because you are!
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Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
28 Mar 2019 – Unbowed after over two months of failed efforts to topple Maduro, failure to win over its military or gain popular support, its paramilitary attack scheme and other tactics foiled so far—the Trump regime cyberattacked Venezuela’s electrical power grid for the third time since March 7. This time, preparations were in place to counter further cyberattacks.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues being contested has steadily increased, activists of many types have made insufficient progress on key issues, particularly in relation to ending violence and war (and the threat of nuclear war), stopping the exploitation of many peoples and halting the endless assaults on Earth’s biosphere.
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(Castellano) Banca de élite a sus expensas: Cómo se utilizan los paraísos fiscales secretos para robarle su dinero
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
18 Mar 2019 – Los paraísos fiscales son lugares en todo el mundo donde las personas ricas, los delincuentes y los terroristas, así como los gobiernos y los organismos gubernamentales (como la CIA), los bancos, las empresas, los fondos de cobertura, las organizaciones internacionales (como el Vaticano) y los sindicatos del crimen (como la Mafia), pueden esconder su dinero para evitar la regulación y la supervisión y, muy a menudo, evadir impuestos.
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The Conflict of Our Time: U.S. Imperialism vs the Rule of Law
Nicolas J S Davies | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – The world faces many overlapping crises: regional political crises from Kashmir to Venezuela; brutal wars that rage on in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia; and the existential dangers of nuclear weapons, climate change, and mass extinction. The underlying crisis of legitimacy and authority that makes so many of our problems almost impossible to solve is the conflict between U.S. imperialism and the rule of law.
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Cyberattack Caused Venezuela’s Power Outage
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – On Thursday [7 Mar] at around 5:00PM during the rush hour for maximum effect, a cyberattack on Venezuela’s electrical grid plunged most of the nation into darkness.
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New Film
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
Following its Premiere on 7 March at the London premises of Global Justice Now premises and organised by their youth division Our Future Now, the documentary film PEACE IS POSSIBLE, on the work of HUFUD (Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation), is now available on the Internet.
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Elizabeth Warren Is Right – We Must Break Up Facebook, Google and Amazon
Robert Reich – The Guardian,
18 Mar 2019
10 Mar 2019 – The presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren announced on Friday [8 Mar] she wants to bust up giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon. The titans of the new Gilded Age must be busted and the idea has bipartisan support. It’s time big tech was brought to heel.
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Multilateralism: A Testimony
Ambassador Idriss Jazairy and Roberto Savio| Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
For over 70 years, the UN system has been perceived as the guardian of peace and development in the world. However, multilateralism today is undeniably under strain. The effectiveness of global institutions and of global policymaking is questioned, and alliances are fraying.
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(Português) Apicultores brasileiros encontram meio bilhão de abelhas mortas em três meses
Pedro Grigori | Agência Pública/Repórter Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
• Pesticidas que causaram extermínio no Brasil estão banidos da União Europeia
• Impacto nos polinizadores faz Ibama reavaliar registro de quatro ingredientes ativos
• MPF investiga mortes em 4 estados e no Distrito Federal
Elite Banking at Your Expense: How Secretive Tax Havens Are Used to Steal Your Money
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Tax havens are locations around the world where wealthy individuals, criminals and terrorists, as well as governments and government agencies (such as the CIA), banks, corporations, hedge funds, international organizations (such as the Vatican) and crime syndicates (such as the Mafia), can stash their money so that they can avoid regulation and oversight and, very often, evade tax. According to Nicholas Shaxson: ‘Tax havens are now at the heart of the global economy.’
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A Peek into the Horrific Findings of the UN Report on Israel’s Massacre of Gaza Protesters
Robert Inlakesh – MintPress News,
11 Mar 2019
8 Mar 2019 – The commission found serious human rights violations that may constitute crimes against humanity and called on Israel to “Lift the blockade on Gaza with immediate effect.”
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OPCW Syria Report Cripples Western “Chemical Weapons” Narrative
Tony Cartalucci - Global Research,
11 Mar 2019
4 Mar 2019 – The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has presented its final report regarding an alleged chemical weapons attack on Douma, Syria on April 7, 2018. Despite attempts by the Western media to hail it as “proof” that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in Douma – the report says nothing of the sort. In fact, the report fails to link any of the alleged 43 deaths to apparent chlorine found at the scene of the alleged attack.
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Re-Inhabiting Planet Earth
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
6 Mar 2019 – The atmosphere didn’t catch fire at 5:30 that morning, but Segre’s words remain relevant, sort of like radioactive fallout. They encapsulate what may be history’s ultimate moment of human arrogance: the belief in a sense of separateness from and superiority to nature so thorough that we have, with our monstrous intelligence, the ability and therefore the right to play Bad God and make the whole planet go poof.
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Debunking the Myth That Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitic
Peter Beinart – The Guardian,
11 Mar 2019
7 Mar 2019 – It is a bewildering and alarming time to be a Jew, both because antisemitism is rising and because so many politicians are responding to it not by protecting Jews but by victimising Palestinians. Conflating anti-Zionism with Jew-hatred is a tragic mistake.
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The “Parties” Are Enjoyed by the Wealthy, Not by Popular Sectors
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
21 Feb 2019 – Many countries apply adjustment policies arguing that the State generated a “party” spending income it did not have, which produced serious imbalances. This proposition conceals perverse situations: the “party,” if there was one, was enjoyed by large corporations and wealthy families. Let us be clear: if there were parties, they were just for some; the rest has been submitted to an unbridle process of concentration of wealth and, with that, decisional power as well.
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(Castellano) Una estrategia no violenta para derrotar el intento de golpe de Estado de EE.UU. en Venezuela
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Al pueblo de Venezuela: Una vez más, la élite de los Estados Unidos ha decidido tratar de imponer su voluntad en el pueblo de otra nación, en este caso, y no por primera vez, su país, Venezuela.Por supuesto, este golpe es perfectamente consistente con la política exterior estadounidense de los últimos dos siglos, cuyo enfoque esencial ha sido asegurar su control en áreas geoestratégicas clave del mundo y robar los recursos de naciones extranjeras.
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Pink Floyd’s Waters Slams Venezuela Border Aid Concert
Brian Ellsworth and Sarah Marsh | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters slammed an upcoming “Live Aid”-style concert to raise funds for humanitarian aid for Venezuela, calling the event a U.S.-backed effort to tarnish the socialist government in a video circulating today.
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A World Party
Roberto Savio | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – I have decided that I can be more useful as a practitioner than as a theoretician in the cultured an interesting debate that Paul Raskin has opened on a world political party. But I still remember that during the debate on the New International Information Order in the seventies, the German chairman of the conference observed: “what Roberto had said works in practice. But the question is: would it work in theory”?
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After 18 Years of War, the Taliban Has the Upper Hand in Afghanistan Peace Talks
Bilal Sarwary and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
25 Feb 2019
15 Feb 2019 – For many observers, the negotiations register as a defeat — recognition that the Taliban has not only survived, but will be central to Afghanistan’s future.
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How Much of Venezuela’s Crisis Is Really Maduro’s Fault?
Steve Ellner – Consortium News,
25 Feb 2019
15 Feb 2019 – The Venezuelan opposition frequently argues that neither the sanctions nor depressed international oil prices are to blame for the nation’s economic difficulties, only the mismanagement of the economy. There are several factors for Venezuela’s economic crisis, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to U.S. leaders or following corporate media.
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Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
Disarmament: Alternative to International Security – Screening of the documentary ‘Peace is Possible’, about the work of HUFUD-Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation. London Thursday 7 March, 7 pm. Event organised by Our Future Now, the Youth Network of Global Justice Now.
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Facts Don’t Interfere with Propaganda Blitz against Venezuela’s Elected President
Joe Emersberger | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
12 Feb 2019 – The Miami Herald (2/8/19) reported, “Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro continues to reject international aid.”“ The “Venezuelan leader” is Venezuela’s elected president. In contrast, it referred to Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s “interim president.” Calling for international aid and being democratically elected will do as little to protect Maduro’s government from US aggression as being disarmed of WMD did to prevent Iraq from being invaded—unless there is much more pushback from the US public against a lethal propaganda system.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat a US Military Invasion of Venezuela
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
To the People of Venezuela: Recently I wrote an article explaining how you could defeat, using nonviolent strategy, the US coup attempt that is taking place in your country. I would like to complement that article by now briefly explaining how you can also defeat a military invasion by the United States and any collaborating invaders by using a strategy of nonviolent defense as well.
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(Português) Uma estratégia não violenta para derrotar uma invasão militar dos EUA na Venezuela
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Para o povo da Venezuela: Recentemente eu escrevi um artigo explicando como você poderia derrotar, usando a estratégia não-violenta, a tentativa de golpe dos EUA que está ocorrendo em seu país. Gostaria de complementar esse artigo explicando brevemente como você também pode derrotar uma invasão militar dos Estados Unidos e de qualquer invasor colaborador usando uma estratégia de defesa não-violenta também.
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Real ‘Obscene Masquerade’: How BBC Depicted Staged Hospital Scenes as Proof of Douma Chemical Attack in Syria
Vanessa Beeley – RT,
18 Feb 2019
16 Feb 2019 – An extraordinary turn of events: Riam Dalati is on the BBC production team based in Beirut and an “esteemed colleague” of Quentin Sommerville, the BBC’s Middle East correspondent. Dalati broke ranks with his UK Government-aligned media, on Twitter, to announce that “after almost 6 months of investigation, I can prove, without a doubt, that the Douma hospital scene was staged.”
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(Português) Nos Dá Medo Pensar?
Bertrand Russell | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Fora o pensamento! Voltemos aos fantasmas do preconceito, não estejam a propriedade, a moral e a guerra em perigo! É melhor que os seres humanos sejam estúpidos, amorfos e tirânicos, antes que seus pensamentos sejam livres. Posto que se seus pensamentos fossem livres, seguramente não pensariam como nós. E esse desastre deve se evitar a todo custo. Assim argumentam os inimigos do pensamento nas profundezas inconscientes de suas almas. E assim agem as igrejas, escolas e universidades.
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The Cancer of Bankers
Rudo de Ruijter | Court Fool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
In The magic of bankers you have been able to read how bankers create balances for loans with a simple line of bookkeeping. There is no money involved. The money for the balances doesn’t even exist. This extremely lucrative trick incites the bankers to supply as many loans as possible, but there is more. There are specific growth impulses that make it impossible to stop the growth of the outstanding loans. Not even with regulations. This has tremendous consequences for our society.
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Give a Little Bit (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Hodgson | Supertramp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Faroe Islands: What a night! For the first time ever, Roger Hodgson, legendary singer/songwriter and formerly of Supertramp, gave a concert at 4:00AM! Due to multiple plane delays that were out of his control, he arrived extremely late and people were waiting! The show must go on and on it went!
→ read full article(Português) “Verdades” que São Imposições: O Caso dos Juros das Grandes Corporações
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opininon Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
29 jan 2019 – Em economia há questões apresentadas como “verdades” indisputáveis que, na realidade, servem para impor interesses e privilégios não defensáveis a céu aberto. Um exemplo é como se veem e se apresentam os juros de grandes corporações, como se obtêm e se distribuem. É crítico explicitar o que estiver encoberto para poder considerar novas opções.
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(Castellano) Aprendiendo de Gandhi
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
Aunque creía que la acción personal era muy importante, Gandhi también era un extraordinario estratega político y sabía que tenemos que hacer algo más que transformar nuestras vidas personales. Tenemos que ofrecer oportunidades que obliguen a otros a considerar hacer lo mismo. Gandhi fue asesinado el 30 de enero de 1948. Pero su legado perdura. Usted también puede aprender de él, si lo desea.
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Career War Criminal Elliott Abrams to Lead US on Venezuela
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
11 Feb 2019
4 Feb 2019 – Some say history repeats itself. Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. The January 25 appointment of convicted perjurer Elliott Abrams as the new US Special Envoy on Venezuela is evidence that history just goes on and on and on with ironic cruelty and relentless injustice. That would be especially true if you happen to have the world’s largest proven oil reserve, as Venezuela does.
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World Premiere London, UK
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
Screening of the documentary ‘Peace is Possible’, about the work of HUFUD-Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation. London Thursday 7 March, 7 pm. Event organised by Our Future Now, the Youth Network of Global Justice Now.
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Bertrand Russell | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
Away with thought! Back into the shades of prejudice, lest property, morals, and war should be endangered! Better men should be stupid, slothful, and oppressive than that their thoughts should be free. For if their thoughts were free they might not think as We do. And at all costs this disaster must be averted.” So the opponents of thought argue in the unconscious depths of their souls. And so they act in their churches, their schools, and their universities.
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The Magic of Bankers
Rudo de Ruijter | Court Fool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
If you don’t know how banks work, you will never be able to understand the world.
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US Media Ignore—and Applaud—Economic War on Venezuela
Gregory Shupak | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
6 Feb 2019 – The US media chorus supporting a US overthrow of the Venezuelan government has for years pointed to the country’s economic crisis as a justification for regime change, while whitewashing the ways in which the US has strangled the Venezuelan economy.
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What’s Really Going On in Venezuela
Marc Ash - Reader Supported News,
11 Feb 2019
Since 1999, the US has waged economic warfare against Venezuela in an attempt to destabilize and deconstruct the Socialist Revolution started by former Venezuelan president and close Fidel Castro ally Hugo Chavez. The US wants Venezuela, with its rich oil reserves, to be a compliant client-state. That was what motivated the Cuban Revolution and that is what drives anti-colonialist sentiment in Venezuela today.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the US Coup Attempt in Venezuela
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
To the People of Venezuela – Yet again, the United States elite has decided to attempt to impose its will on the people of another nation, in this case, and not for the first time either, your country Venezuela. Your ongoing resistance to the coup is essential if you are to defeat the coupmakers and defend your elected government. But the chances of success are vastly enhanced if your struggle, and that of your solidarity allies around the world, is focused for maximum strategic impact and designed to spread the cost of doing so. Of course, whether or not you decide to consider and/or adopt my proposed strategy, you have my solidarity.
→ read full article“Truths” That Are Impositions: The Case of Large Corporations’ Profits
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
23 Jan 2019 – In economics, there are issues presented as undisputable “truths” which in reality are used to impose interests and privileges that cannot be defended in open air. An example is how large corporations’ profits are seen and presented, how they are obtained and distributed. It is critical to make explicit what might be concealed to consider new options.
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Mystery of the Venezuelan Gold: Bank of England Is Independent of UK Govt – But Not of Foreign Govt
George Galloway – RT,
4 Feb 2019
20 Jan 2019 – Pirates don’t have to look like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. They can fly the Union Jack rather than the skull and crossbones. They can be called the Bank of England rather than the Jolly Roger.
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‘Moral Disgrace’: EU Parliament Lectures World on Rule of Law, Then Destroys Legality in Venezuela
John Laughland – RT,
4 Feb 2019
1 Feb 2019 – It’s a moral disgrace when the EU Parliament, which lectures the world on the need to respect the rule of law, uses legal language to tell lies about the legality of the situation in Venezuela, and to destroy that legality.
→ read full articleDisarmament, Not Low-Yield Nukes
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
30 Jan 2019 – Seven-plus decades ago, as humanity was ensnarled in a monstrous world war, its instinct to win — to dominate others above all else — achieved ultimate manifestation: the capacity to annihilate all life on Planet Earth. Nuclear weapons are, you might say, the logical outcome of the 10,000-year journey of civilization.
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The CIA Then and Now: Old Wine in New Bottles
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
When the CIA’s dirty tricks were made public in the 1970s, it is not hard to imagine that the intellectual pimps who do their long-range thinking were asked to go back to the drawing board and paint a picture of the coming decades and how business as usual could be conducted without further embarrassment. By that time it had become clear that intellectual or high culture was being swallowed by mass culture and the future belonged to electronic screen culture and images, not words.
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International Appeal: Stop 5G on Earth and in Space
Arthur Firstenberg | Stop 5G – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
We the undersigned scientists, doctors, environmental organizations and citizens urgently call for a halt to the deployment of the 5G (fifth generation) wireless network, including 5G from space satellites. 5G will massively increase exposure to radio frequency radiation on top of the 2G, 3G and 4G networks for telecommunications already in place. RF radiation has been proven harmful for humans and the environment. The deployment of 5G constitutes an experiment on humanity and the environment that is defined as a crime under international law.
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The ‘Venezuelan People’ Are Whoever Agrees with Donald Trump
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
31 Jan 2019 – The latest bizarre episode in the Trump presidency is currently playing out in Venezuela. Just weeks after President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration, Trump officially recognized Juan Guaidó, the 35-year-old head of the National Assembly—a man who has never even run for president—as the rightful head of state.
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Washington Has Appointed a President for Venezuela
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
23 Jan 2018 – After listening since 2016 to the American presstitutes complain, without providing a mere scrap of evidence, of Russia meddling in US elections, a person would think that the last thing Washington would do would be to meddle in other countries’ elections. Washington now has gone far beyond mere meddling. It has declared that the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is no longer the Venezuelan president. President Trump elected by diktat the Venezuelan president: “Today, I am officially recognizing the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the Interim President of Venezuela.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los seres humanos estamos destruyendo la vida en la Tierra, pero nos engañamos a nosotros mismos de que no es así
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
A pesar del hecho obvio de que son los seres humanos los que están infligiendo toda esta violencia, es virtualmente imposible hacer que la gente preste atención a este hecho simple e incontrovertible y preguntarse por qué, precisamente, los seres humanos se están comportando de manera tan violenta y destructiva. ¿Y podemos abordar eficazmente esta causa?
→ read full articleLearning from Gandhi
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
For Gandhi, conflict was a perennial condition. He also viewed it positively and considered it desirable. For him, it is an important means to greater human unity precisely because their shared conflict could remind antagonists of the deeper, perhaps transcendental, unity of life. He viewed violence differently, however: violence was built into social structures and not into people. Gandhi was assassinated on 30 Jan 1948. But his legacy lives on.
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‘Resistance’ Media Side with Trump to Promote Coup in Venezuela
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – After winning re-election in 2018, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela was recently sworn in for a second term. However, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of declaring the elections void. He also arranged to have National Assembly head Juan Guaidó name himself the country’s new leader. This has spurred the Venezuelan right wing onto the streets to try to force Maduro out of office, leading to the deaths of 14 people. On Trump’s support for regime change in Venezuela, the “resistance” media are lining up shoulder to shoulder with the president.
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James W. Douglass Talks about Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth
Introduction by Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948 but the spirit of his nonviolent experiments with truth live throughout the world in individuals and groups. The writer and peace-activist James Douglass, a guide to such experiments with truth and author of many books on nonviolence and the meaning of political assassinations, recently travelled to Gandhi’s home district in India and delivered the following talk. It begins at 26:58 minutes into the video.
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US Regime Change in Venezuela: The Documented Evidence
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – Venezuela faces dangerous destabilization with USA and some allies having recognized opposition figure Juan Guaido as “president” and declaring actual Venezuelan president – Nicolas Maduro – no longer recognized. According to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – the impetus for Washington’s sudden interest in Venezuela is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. Why Venezuela?
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126 Years of Illegal US Occupation of Hawai’i
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
On January 17, 1893 a coup d’état was carried out against Queen Lili’uokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom by foreign business interests with U.S. Marines. An illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i has continued ever since. Today, occupied Hawai’i is home to more than 100 U.S. military installations. Native Hawaiians, 20% of the population, make up the majority of homeless and 60% of the prison population in their own homeland.
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(Castellano) Reflexiones sobre 2018, Pronósticos 2019
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
31 diciembre 2018 – En muchos sentidos es doloroso reflexionar sobre el año 2018, un año de oportunidades vitales perdidas cuando tanto está en juego. Ya sea política, militar, social, económica, financiera o ecológicamente, la humanidad dio algunos grandes pasos hacia atrás mientras dejaba pasar un sinfín de oportunidades para hacer una diferencia positiva en nuestro mundo.
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Response to US Global Bullying: Iran, India Ditch Dollar to Continue Trading Oil despite Sanctions
Darius Shahtahmasebi – RT,
21 Jan 2019
14 Jan 2019 – In an effort to circumvent US-imposed sanctions, India and Iran have reportedly ditched the US dollar and are trading oil in rupees. The reason becomes clear after considering the dynamics at play in the region.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King Day and the Unspeakable
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous,” warned Dr. King, “than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” How true those words. For the government that honors Dr. King with a national holiday killed him. This is the suppressed truth behind the highly promoted day of service. It is what you are not supposed to know. It is what Thomas Merton, as quoted by James W. Douglass, called The Unspeakable.”
→ read full articleHuman Beings Are Destroying Life on Earth but Deluding Ourselves That We Are Not
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
Despite the obvious fact that it is human beings who are inflicting all of this violence, it is virtually impossible to get people to pay attention to this simple and incontrovertible fact and to ask why, precisely, are human beings behaving in such violent and destructive ways? And can we effectively address this cause?
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Liberté, Égalité, Impérialisme! Vive la France in Black Africa! (Part 2)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – Consortium News,
21 Jan 2019
“Hotel Rwanda” is a touchstone of interventionist ideology. Debunking that script helps show why the closure of the assassination case against Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame serves Western interests.
→ read full articleA New Spectre Is Haunting Europe
Roberto Savio | Other News - Human Wrongs Watch,
21 Jan 2019
17 Jan 2019 – After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848; it is the spectre of the failure of neoliberal globalisation, which reigned uncontested following the fall of the Berlin Wall, until the financial crisis of 2009.
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Time for a New Paradigm
Roberto Savio | Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
Foreword to Riccardo Petrella’s In the Name of Humanity – Riccardo is a central point of reference for those who have not yet given up on seeing the governance of globalisation in terms of values and ideals. He has behind him a long series of struggles for a different economy and has denounced the dangers of neoliberal globalisation from the outset. We owe it to him if the theme of “commons” began to be debated, in particular that of water as a public good.
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Nanomaterials Are Changing the World – But We Still Don’t Have Adequate Safety Tests for Them
Shareen Doak, Martina G. Vijver and Martin Clift – The Conversation,
14 Jan 2019
10 Jan 2019 – Nanotechnology and materials are the source of countless innovations, but we don’t accurately know how they are affecting humans and the environment.
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“Evacuate the Coffee”: A White Supremacist Classic
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
9 Jan 2019 – US troops have been dispatched to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the results of presidential balloting are still unknown. Are they there to make sure that Joseph Kabila, the president they installed and kept in power for 18 years, cedes power to former Exxon-Mobil executive Martin Fayula, their new horse to ride?
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Media Worried US Won’t Occupy Syria Forever
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
11 Jan 2019 – In December, President Donald Trump said that he planned to withdraw the US troops from Syria, which number between 2,000 and 4,000. Trump’s claim was widely condemned in corporate media, demonstrating the commentariat’s shared belief in American benevolence toward other peoples, in Washington’s alleged right and duty to decide other countries’ fates, and in the forever war the US supposedly has to wage in the Middle East.
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From Child Refugee in Mozambique to School Principal in the United States
Marta Martinez | UNHCR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
Growing up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bertine Bahige was studying hard to become a doctor. At 13, he had his life figured out. Or so he thought. Resettlement gave Bertine Bahige a new chance in life. The former Congolese refugee would have never imagined he would one day call Wyoming home.
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Study: U.S. Newspapers Are More Than Twice as Likely to Cite Israeli Sources in Headlines than Palestinian Ones
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
14 Jan 2019
12 Jan 2019 – The study analyzed 50 years of news headlines on the Israel-Palestine conflict and found an overwhelming slant toward the Israeli point of view.
→ read full articleWhat Are We Working for “At Eternity’s Gate”?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
Vincent, responding to Gauguin, a former stock broker, when he urged him to paint slowly and methodically, said, “I need to be out of control. I don’t want to calm down.” He knew that to be fully alive was to be vulnerable, to not hold back, to always be slipping away, and to be threatened with annihilation at any moment. When painting, he was intoxicated with a creative joy that belies the popular image of him as always depressed.
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Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
Robert D. Kaplan – The New York Times,
7 Jan 2019
The United States is spending beyond its means on a mission that might only be helping its strategic rivals.
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Christmas Colors Light Up a Diverse Syria as Peace & Stability Return – And the West Barely Noticed
Vanessa Beeley - RT,
7 Jan 2019
31 Dec 2018 – Christmas celebrations have literally radiated out across Syria and western media was curiously silent in the face of such displays of unity and solidarity among Syria’s diverse peoples.
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Liberté, Égalité, Impérialisme! Vive la France in Black Africa! (Part 1)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
2 Jan 2019 — Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s troops most likely shot down a plane carrying two African presidents, igniting genocides that killed millions. Geopolitics trumped international justice again—just in time for Christmas. On December 21, a French court closed the long-running case against Kagame for assassinating Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira.
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Game Theory and Disarmament: Thinking Beyond the Table
Max Willner-Giwerc | E-IR, Northeastern University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
18 Dec 2018 – Game theory and disarmament have a long and rich history together. Though the logic of game theory has been used for millennia, it was not formalized until the violence of World War II, and the nascent field was popularized extensively during the Cold War. Indeed, it was pursued mainly for military purposes, especially to model the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States. These models were studied “exhaustively” during the Cold War, and they led to a rich body of literature and theory that has become integral to economics, philosophy, mathematics, international relations, business, and evolutionary biology.
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Afghanistan in 2019: Fewer US Troops, More CIA Torture and Killings
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
7 Jan 2019
3 Jan 2019 – Perhaps it’s just another sign of American psychic numbing, but the Times story seems to have provoked little response from other media, from politicians of any stripe, or from the public. More American war crimes in some Muslim country? Well, Happy New Year!
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Giuliani Says Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted
Joe Lauria – Consortium News,
7 Jan 2019
31 Dec 2018 – Donald Trump’s lawyer said today that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange should not be prosecuted and he compared WikiLeaks publications to the Pentagon Papers.
→ read full articleReflections on 2018, Forecasting 2019
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant strides backwards while passing up endless opportunities to make a positive difference in our world. Let me, very briefly, identify some of the more crucial backward steps.
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Organ Theft, Staged Attacks: UN Panel Details White Helmets’ Criminal Activities, Media Yawns
Eva Bartlett – RT,
31 Dec 2018
25 Dec 2018 – Utter silence. That is the sound of Western corporate media days after a more than one-hour-long panel on the White Helmets at the United Nations on December 20.
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(Português, Castellano) ‘Peço Silêncio’ – “Pido Silencio”
Pablo Neruda - Revista Prosa Verso e Arte,
31 Dec 2018
“Pido Silencio”, o poema que traduz os sentimentos mais profundos do poeta. Leia e ouça na voz do poeta.
→ read full articleA Spiritual Special Ops Team’s Christmas Gift
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – “It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning, they shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid general applause from all the wits, who believe that it is a joke.” — Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
→ read full article(Castellano) En defensa del individuo humano
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Trágicamente, es la más sagrada de las instituciones -la escuela- que yo llamo “prisión para niños”, donde se produce gran parte del daño. Diseñada para aterrorizar a los niños para que obedezcan y se conformen, sobre la base de que “una sola talla sirve para todos”, la escuela destruye las capacidades físicas, sensoriales, intelectuales y emocionales de los niños, produciendo individuos con una capacidad casi nula de sentir algo profundo, pensar creativamente y comportarse poderosamente con integridad.
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Of Cockroaches and Humans
Roberto Savio | IPS - Human Wrongs Watch,
17 Dec 2018
16 Dec 2018 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian Nobel laureate honoured for her work in neurobiology, once gave a splendid conference with the title “The imperfect brain”. There she explained that man has a brain that is not used completely, while the reverse is true for the cockroach.
→ read full articleIn Defense of the Human Individual
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
12 Dec 2018 – Tragically, it is that most hallowed of institutions – school – which I call ‘prison for children’ where much of the damage is done. Designed to terrorize children into obedience and conformity on the basis that ‘one size fits all’, school destroys the physical, sensory, intellectual and emotional capacities of children churning out individuals with near-zero capacity to feel anything profound, think creatively and behave powerfully with integrity.
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(Português) Relembre grifes e estilistas que abandonaram produtos de origem animal em 2018
Julia Cortezia- ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
17 Dec 2018
15 dez 2018 – Grandes marcas abandonaram peles e pelos em suas futuras coleções em 2018, marcando um grande avanço para a causa animal.
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William Blum (6 Mar 1933 – 9 Dec 2018), Renowned U.S. Foreign Policy Critic, Dead at 85
Chris Agee and Louis Wolf – CovertAction Magazine,
17 Dec 2018
William Blum died in Virginia early this morning on December 9, 2018 after falling in his Washington D.C. apartment and sustaining serious wounds 65 days ago. Blum left the State Department in 1967 and became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first “alternative” newspaper in the capital. In 1969, he wrote and published an exposé of the CIA in which were revealed the names and addresses of more than 200 CIA employees.
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Washington Using Legal Cover to Conceal Economic Banditry
Finian Cunningham - RT,
17 Dec 2018
12 Dec 2018 – The blatant arrest of a Chinese telecoms executive in Canada on behalf of the US is shrouded in obscure legalistic claims. But the bottom line is clear; the US is abusing the legal process to pursue lawless economic interests. Increasingly in the eyes of the world, it is a renegade state which absurdly justifies its criminality with lofty claims of rule of law.
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Revolution in Ukraine? Yes, please! Revolution in France? Rule of law!
Danielle Ryan - RT,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – When violent protests shook Kiev in 2013, Western analysts and leaders quickly threw their support behind the anti-government ‘revolution’ — but after weeks of Yellow Vest protests in France, the reaction has been very different.
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America’s Permanent-War Complex
Gareth Porter | The American Conservative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
Nov/Dec 2018 Issue – Eisenhower’s worst nightmare has come true, as defense mega-contractors climb into the cockpit to ensure we stay overextended. The privatization of military and intelligence institutions began even before the end of the Cold War. It is a system of war that powerful arms contractors and their bureaucratic allies may have the ability to maintain indefinitely.
→ read full article(Castellano) El engaño humano y nuestra destrucción de la biósfera: ¡Ni siquiera lo estamos intentando!
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
3 diciembre 2018 – ¿Ha escuchado la expresión “cambio climático”? Esa encantadora expresión que sugiere unas vacaciones en un lugar con un clima más agradable… La extinción nos llama. La elección es suya.
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Going to the Gym Is a Sign of Being Gay, Says Malaysian Newspaper
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
A Malaysian newspaper has published a gay-spotter’s checklist. It includes things like being a gym member or having a beard as signs of male homosexuality. Hugging, holding hands, being alone and talking disparagingly about men, meanwhile, are a sure-fire way of telling someone is a lesbian, according to the guide.
→ read full articleA World Adrift
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
29 Nov 2018 – As I stared at the picture of seven-year-old Amal Hussain dying of hunger I couldn’t contain my anguish, tears flooding my eyes. Some hours earlier I was wining and dining with friends whom I told about my revulsion at the world’s indifference at the Yemen tragedy, at the hypocrites of the West who shamelessly crawl at the feet of the butcher of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman.
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