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Haiti: Roots of an Uprising
Robert Roth | International Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
On July 6, 2018, Haiti exploded. By the tens of thousands, Haitians poured into the streets of Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise. The contrast could not be more stark — education or militarism, democracy or authoritarian rule, inclusion or exclusion, development or corruption, self-determination or occupation. With the July uprising, the Haitian people have once again made known their choice.
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We Are the Same
Hüsamettin Olgun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
What if each of us listens to a different song
And cherishes a different color;
That wouldn’t be wrong!
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
True to Stephen King’s assertion that “good fiction is the truth inside the lie,” the story sheds light on Dostoyevsky’s personal spiritual and philosophical bents with extraordinary clarity — perhaps more so than any of his other published works. The contemplation at its heart falls somewhere between Tolstoy’s tussle with the meaning of life and Philip K. Dick’s hallucinatory exegesis.
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Child Piano Prodigy: Outstanding Natural Talent! (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
4-Year Old Chinese Boy Plays Piano like a Master
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India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History
Bernard D’Mello | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
India After Naxalbari is about a thread of Indian history that mainstream historians have tended to either ignore or misrepresent. This account puts it squarely into our history books. –Arundhati Roy, author, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Mark Zuckerberg: Protecting Democracy Is an Arms Race – Here’s How Facebook Can Help
Mark Zuckerberg – The Washington Post,
10 Sep 2018
4 Sep 2018 – As we’ve seen from previous elections, misinformation is a real challenge. A big part of the solution is getting rid of fake accounts. And where posts are flagged as potentially false, we pass them to independent fact-checkers — such as the Associated Press and the Weekly Standard — to review. We look proactively for potentially harmful election-related content, such as pages registered to a foreign entity that post divisive content to sow mistrust and drive people apart.
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What Lies Beneath: The US-Israeli Plot to ‘Save’ Gaza
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
5 Sep 2018 – With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden opportunity to redefine what has, for decades, constituted the legal and political foundation for the so-called ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict.’ It aims to create a new reality in which Israel achieves its strategic goals while the rights of Palestinians are limited to mere humanitarian issues.
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Only [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Has the Moral Authority to Bring an End to Genocide of the Rohingya People
Alban Maginness – Belfast Telegraph,
10 Sep 2018
5 Sep 2018 – On August 25, supported by Mairead Maguire, the Nobel Peace laureate, an event entitled Rohingya Genocide Day took place at Belfast City Hall. This quiet, dignified event, organised by the Peace People, drew attention to the truly awful violence perpetrated by Myanmar government military forces against the civilian Muslim minority of Rohingyas.
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Judges Rule ICC Has Jurisdiction over Rohingya Deportations
Mike Corder | AP – The Washington Post,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 — Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled today that the court has jurisdiction to investigate Myanmar forces that have driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homes. The decision opens up the possibility of Myanmar being prosecuted at the Hague-based court even without being a member.
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(Português) Apesar da luta de ativistas, massacre de golfinhos em Taiji no Japão persiste
Julia Cortezia - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
10 Sep 2018
Além de golfinhos, baleias também são mortas e sua carne é comercializada.
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Cyber Risks, the Achilles’ Heel of Cashless Economies
William Davis – Global Research,
10 Sep 2018
5 Sep 2018 – Some are dissatisfied with this state of affairs. In this case, the classical tactic of intimidation becomes the main argument of champions of cashless society. Cash is used by criminals; our children can buy drugs with cash; cash supports the shadow economy and encourages tax evasion – these are just some of these loud statements.
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India’s Missing Women
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
Gender remains a critically important but largely ignored lens to view development issues across the world. Gender inequality is not only a pressing moral and social issue but also a critical economic challenge. India has a larger relative economic value at stake in advancing gender equality.
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Solidarity for Full Employment (whole paper)
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
1. Analysis of the Bottleneck Problem
2. Examples (showing how to solve the bottleneck problem)
3. The Road from Here to There (generalizing from the examples)
4. The Imperative to Maximize Profits (blocks the road from here to there)
5. The Fiscal Crisis of the State (blocks the road from here to there)
6. Unbounded Organization (a way forward)
Eros and Civilization (A Love Story)
Herbert Marcuse | Thomas Altfather Good – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
According to Freud, humans denied their basic impulses in order to build a civilization. They traded happiness for security and it was, by and large, a fair exchange. Freud called this the Reality Principle. Herbert Marcuse argued that a ruling elite has exploited the Reality Principle for personal gain, gradually constructing a stratified society based on the “logic of domination” — the masses are rewarded for their servitude with a relative affluence.
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The Uneven Road to Negotiations in Good Faith to Resolve Armed Conflicts
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – World Citizen Diplomacy is still a new field. As with any new field, there is a process of presenting ideas, of drawing upon different fields of thought, and of distilling experiences. World Citizen Diplomats must learn from government policy-making procedures but must use them creatively, with more sympathy for the people of the country being analyzed and with a broader vision of the healing of the Planet rather than the national interest focus of government policy makers.
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Swami Vivekananda: 125 Years after His Stirring Speech in Chicago, 11 Sep 1893
Dr. Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
One of the greatest seers and philosophers that modern India has produced is undoubtedly Swami Vivekananda. He was lucky to have met Sri Ramakrishna who was impressed by his intelligence and keenness in asking questions of spirituality and divinity. Sri Ramakrishna encouraged the precocious boy, gave him the name Vivekananda and asked him to spread the word of peace, harmony, joy to the world.
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China Offers African Nations $60 Billion in Development with ‘No Strings Attached’
TeleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – China is offering US$60 billion in financial support and a debt write-off to impoverished African nations- no strings attached, Chinese President Xi Jinping said today.
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India Court Legalises Gay Sex in Landmark Ruling
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 – In a historic decision, India’s Supreme Court has ruled today that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence. The ruling overturns a colonial-era law known as section 377. Author and commentator Sandip Roy told the BBC that although the ruling was a cause for celebration, there were still hurdles to overcome, and a need for anti-discrimination laws.
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Myanmar Rejects, Refutes UN Fact-Finding Mission on Rohingya Genocide: You Are Not Fair and Objective
Nay Pyi Taw | Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
Original document, please read.
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(Português) 50 empresas vendem metade dos alimentos do mundo – e elas estão cada vez maiores
Rafael Moro Martins | The Intercept Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
4 Set 2018 – Concentração no Brasil é ainda maior, aponta Atlas do Agronegócio, documento que faz retrato do mercado de alimentos e insumos e agora tem sua primeira edição brasileira.
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(Português) Mercado de substitutos da carne deve valer U$ 5,81 bilhões até 2022
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 set 2018 – Por enquanto, os substitutos da carne baseados em soja estão liderando o mercado, seguido por substitutos à base de trigo e micoproteínas (fungos). A proteína texturizada de soja está em primeiro lugar. No entanto, até 2022, substitutos da carne à base de trigo, como o seitan, devem conquistar.maior participação no mercado
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Heading to the Bank
TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
As only sheep know how…
→ read full articleSolidarity for Full Employment
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
The problems of drug addiction, gangs, crime, ethnic nationalism, racism, sexism, chronic depression, immigration issues, poverty in old age, mental illness, war, inner city schools, taking necessary measures to save the biosphere that cost jobs, and many others will not be reduced to manageable proportions, much less solved, until human life is reorganized so that most people who need decent employment are able to find it. Would you agree? I call employment a bottleneck problem. If it is not solved, many other problems will not be solved either.
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Latin America: Rightwing Interlude and the Death Rattle of Neoliberalism
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
5 Sep 2018 – Beginning in 2015, business writers, neo-liberal economists and politicians in North America and the EU heralded Latin America’s embrace of a ‘new wave of free markets and free elections’. By early 2018 the entire neo-liberal edifice was crumbling, the promises and predictions of a neoliberal success story were forgotten. This paper will discuss the recent rise of a so-called ‘neo-liberal wave’ or right turn and the regimes directing it.
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Why Did “Good Germans” Become Silent about the Holocaust while It Was Happening? … (Part 1)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
… And Why Are Good Americans Silent about the Documentable Facts That Disprove the Official White House Conspiracy Theory about 9/11?
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‘The Onion’ Has Chosen to Publish an Anonymous Op-Ed from Two Sources Close to Trump Who Think Their Dad Is the Best President Ever
The Onion | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 – Today, The Onion is making an unusual editorial decision, and we want to explain why. As turmoil continues to increase within the Trump White House, this essay offers an invaluable high-level perspective into the administration’s inner workings. Due to the sensitive nature of this op-ed, revealing the identities of the writers could jeopardize their positions in the administration. We believe, however, that any issues with the writers’ identities or their motivations for writing this piece are overridden by the necessity of informing the public about what it’s like to work for the president. That is why The Onion has chosen to publish an anonymous op-ed from two sources close to Mr. Trump who think their dad is the best president ever.
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Myanmar Sentences Two Reuters Reporters to Seven Years in Prison for Possessing ‘Official Secrets’
Laignee Barron - TIME,
3 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – Two reporters for the Reuters news agency were each sentenced to seven years in prison by a Myanmar court today for possession of state secrets, a disquieting end to a trial that has lasted more than eight months and brought international censure upon the government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Prohibition of Reference to Overpopulation of the Planet
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Draft Proposal for an International Convention – It can be readily argued that many conventional crises are a consequence of increasing population — unemployment, environmental degradation, access to food and water resources, failing social security services, disease, inaccessibility of education, refugees, security threats, violence, and the like. Such arguments derive primarily from marginal groups and are readily deprecated.
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Exposing the Giants: The Global Power Elite
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
This $41 trillion represents the wealth invested for profit by thousands of millionaires, billionaires and corporations. The seventeen Giants operate in nearly every country in the world and are ‘the central institutions of the financial capital that powers the global economic system’. They invest in anything considered profitable, ranging from ‘agricultural lands on which indigenous farmers are replaced by power elite investors’ to public assets (such as energy and water utilities) to war.
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Nicaragua: A View from the Left
Jeffrey L. Gould | NACLA-North American Congress on Latin America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Making sense of Daniel Ortega’s slow betrayal of the Nicaraguan revolution.
→ read full articleYemen: A New but Difficult Start to Conflict Resolution
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
31 Aug 2018 – Today, the choice–between an end to the armed conflict with negotiations for a renewal of a Yemeni State on the basis of the con-federal system proposed vs. continued fighting in the hope that one faction become a “winner-take-all”–is relatively clear. There is little of what can be called “civil society” in Yemen, but what little exists should have their voices heard in the negotiations.
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Israel Killed 19 Palestinians and Wounded 1,600 in August
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
1 Sep 2018 – Israel’s occupation forces killed 19 civilian Palestinians, including four children, and wounded 1,600 during August, Quds Press reported on Friday [31 Aug]. The killings took place in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem.
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Mystery of Mind, Intelligence and Ego: The Subtle Body
ISKCON Desire Tree – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
The Vedas explain that the soul is covered by two kinds of bodies- the gross material body and the subtle material body. The gross material body is the visible body that we feed and clean and dress and normally identify as ourselves. The subtle material body is an interface between the gross material body and the soul.
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Revisiting the Earth Charter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Ron Engel has articulated an insider review of the Earth Charter so thoughtfully, urbanely, and persuasively that my initial temptation was to restrict my response to a single word: ‘Amen!’ Yet I am familiar enough with the academic ways of gathering diverse voices to explore a topic or to evaluate the scholarship of a distinguished author, as to discard my one-word option.
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(Italiano) I Giganti: l’élite del potere globale
Robert J. Burrowes | Znet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Questi 41 trilioni di dollari rappresentano la ricchezza investito per profitto da migliaia di milionari, miliardari e imprese. I diciassette Giganti operano in quasi ogni paese del mondo e sono “le istituzioni centrali del capitale finanziario che alimenta il sistema economico globale”. Investono in qualsiasi cosa sia considerata redditizia da “terre agricole sulle quali i coltivatori indigeni sono sostituiti da investitori dell’élite del potere” ad attività pubbliche (quali le reti elettriche e idriche).
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As Conflicts Become More Complex, ‘Mediation Is No Longer an Option; It Is a Necessity’, UN Chief Tells Security Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – As war and the mediation of peace have become increasingly complex, innovative thinking is needed to save and improve the lives of millions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council today.
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Films from India: Music, Dance, Entertainment, Nostalgia
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
The Indian film industry is perhaps the most popular in the world with its revenues today exceeding those of Hollywood. It makes movies in several Indian languages— Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu apart from Hindi.
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US Bombs Are Killing Children in Yemen. Does Anybody Care?
Moustafa Bayoumi – The Guardian,
3 Sep 2018
25 Aug 2018 – This is not a column about Donald Trump. It’s also not about Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen or Robert Mueller, and it’s certainly not about Rudolph Giuliani and his way with words. On the contrary, this is a column about the things we are not paying attention to, and why we should. A lot of bad things can happen when people aren’t looking. The lack of outrage at the US’s key role in this humanitarian disaster raises troubling questions.
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Psychiatrist’s Couch
TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
A sick mind with delusions of greatness…
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Leo Tolstoy (9 Sep 1828 – 20 Nov 1910)
Gary Saul Morson - Encyclopædia Britannica,
3 Sep 2018
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most-diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ endure as the summit of realist fiction.
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Why Do They Hate Us? How the West Creates Its Own Enemies
Marco Carnelos | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
From ancient Greece onward, the West has used the Eastern other as an enemy through which to identify itself.
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There Is a Deeper, Darker Agenda Afoot as the US Cuts UNRWA Funding
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
The US State Department said on Friday [31 Aug] it would no longer continue its $360 million annual contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, depriving it of a third of its budget. The move follows an announcement last week that Washington had slashed $200 million from other aid programmes for the Palestinians. Refugees are the final loose end in forcing Palestinians to accept Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ peace plan.
→ read full articleA Serious Warning about the Toxicity of Aluminum-Adjuvanted Vaccines–Especially for Infants and the Elderly
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
“Aluminum has long been identified as a neurotoxic metal, affecting memory, cognition and psychomotor control, altering neurotransmission and synaptic activity, damaging the blood–brain barrier (BBB), exerting pro-oxidant effects, activating microglia and neuroinflammation, depressing the cerebral glucose metabolism and mitochondrial functions, interfering with transcriptional activity, and promoting beta-amyloid and neurofilament aggregation. Aluminum adjuvants are currently used in vaccines against tetanus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, human papillomavirus, haemophilus influenzae B, pneumococcal and meningococcal infections, and anthrax.”
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Israel Advocate Ravich Named to Senior Intelligence Post, Planned US-Israel Cyber Project against BDS
If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
28 Aug 2018 – New deputy chair of the Intelligence Advisory Board, which helps shape U.S. intelligence policy, is Samantha Ravich–an Israel advocate who previously worked for AIPAC spinoff WINEP, was a senior advisor to pro-Israel FDD, senior advisor to the Chertoff Group. See video of her speech at Israel Bonds event, where she describes a cyber project that will combat BDS.
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Tourism, Democracy and Development in Nicaragua
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
25 Aug 2018 – An interview by Tortilla con Sal with Anasha Campbell, co-director of Nicaragua’s Tourist Institute. Tortilla con Sal: How do you feel about activity in Nicaragua’s tourist sector at the moment? What’s your main focus?
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The Rich Will Not Save Us
Rob Meiksins | Nonprofit Quarterly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
27 Aug 2018 – Philanthropic plutocracy is the use of donations from the ultra-wealthy to shift the overall allocation of resources in society. The philanthropy of today’s ultra-wealthy rests on a paradox of wanting to have a positive impact on society’s inequity but using money earned from businesses that take advantage of that very inequity to do so. Stiglitz argues that the rich will continue to use their wealth to maintain their power and that philanthropists are their enablers. Ultimately, it is up to civil society to intervene and build a more just and equitable economy if we want these patterns to change.
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The Paradox of the United Nations: Peace vs. Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
2 Sep 2018 – If we consider the purpose for which the United Nations was formed: “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” it is failing badly. This spring, when we hoped that the UN would convene a High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, the meeting was cancelled due to pressure from the United States and its allies.
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My Reflections on Pope Francis’ Visit to Ireland…
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
… and His Plea for Forgiveness of Victims for Church Clerical Sexual Abuse
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Mankind Must Know: The UN and Global Leaders are a Menace to Peace and Problem-Solving
Mahboob A Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Mankind is constantly victimized by the willful deceit of triumphalism of the few who use extreme rhetoric of peace and harmony but deliver nothing except self-serving fantasies and neglect of prevalent truth.
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What Is Financial Imperialism? Looting Greece
Dr. Jack Rasmus – Global Research,
3 Sep 2018
24 Aug 2018 – This month, August 2018, marks the ‘end’ of the 3rd debt bailout of Greece, 2015-18. If one were to believe the European and US press, Greece has now recovered and emerged from the bailout and its now nearly decade-long debt crisis, and the depression it created. But that conclusion couldn’t be further from the truth.
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(Français) Pourquoi Marx avait raison
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Août 2018 – Karl Marx naissait il y a 200 ans. Peu de penseurs ont autant influencé l’histoire que lui. Sa critique aiguë et radicale du capitalisme est aujourd’hui toujours actuelle : crises économiques, exploitation, les caractéristiques de l’état, la lutte des classes, le rôle de la classe ouvrière, la pensée écologiste, …
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Myanmar: The UN Calls It Genocide—Why Won’t the US?
David Palumbo-Liu – The Nation,
3 Sep 2018
On August 27, 2018, just two days after Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day, the United Nations issued a scathing report, accusing Myanmar’s military, known as the Tatmadaw, of committing crimes against humanity, including murder on a massive scale, torture, rape, enforced disappearance, imprisonment, and sexual slavery.
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US Southern Command Begins Joint Military Exercises in Colombia
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
30 Aug 2018 – In Colombia, 13 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Canada, and England participate today in the 58th edition of the joint military exercises known as “Unitas,” raising concern in neighboring Venezuela.
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(Português) Pesquisa Revela Que Muitos Consumidores Desconhecem a Real Violência por Trás da Carne Que Comem
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Sete de cada dez consumidores que participaram do estudo se mostraram chocados.
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Israel’s Dirty Arms Deals with Myanmar
Haaretz | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – A United Nations report issued this week found that the Myanmar military committed genocide and crimes against humanity, including rape, torture, enslavement, violence against children and the destruction of entire villages, against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. Such reports have not kept the Israeli government from cooperating with those war criminals.
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2018 Freedom Flotilla: A Predictable End to an Unpredictable Journey?
Chris Graham – New Matilda,
3 Sep 2018
29 Jul 2018 – New Matilda editor Chris Graham reports from the Al Awda, a lead ship steaming through the Mediterranean Sea about 24 hours from an attempt to break the Israeli naval blockade on the Palestinian people of Gaza.
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Blackwater Founder Seeks to Privatize Afghan War despite Mercs Getting Butt Kicked in Yemen
F. Michael Maloof – RT,
3 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – Upon departing as commander of US Forces Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson said that America’s military strategy is working. Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater [known as Academi], apparently doesn’t share that view and intends to renew his offer to his friend Donald Trump to replace US military forces with Private Military Contractors, or PMCs.
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Philippines’ Duterte Shops for Arms on Controversial Israel Trip
Oliver Holmes – The Guardian,
3 Sep 2018
2 Sep 2018 – The Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, who once compared himself to Hitler and his bloody war on drugs to the Holocaust, will meet the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday [3 Sep] on a first visit by a Filipino head of state to Israel.
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My Sweet Lord (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
George Harrison’s worldwide hit single from his brilliant All Things Must Pass album. Today, 3 Sep 2018, is celebration of Janmastami, the day Lord Krishna appeared on earth 5,000 years ago. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sweet Lord!
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Our Misbegotten Moon
Emanuel E Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
On the 50th anniversary of that “giant leap for mankind” this coming July 20, 2019, let’s see things for what they are and were: the greatest propaganda stunt of our age. It’s high time we opened our eyes. Since Apollo 17 was reputed to have flown to the moon in 1972 there have been no further manned landings. None. Nobody has gone back. And for good reason: it is not yet possible now, and it was certainly not possible then.
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Leprosy in Social Body
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Leprosy is primarily a disease of the nervous system, which has the effect that patients no longer feel pain.
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There Is a Bitter Legacy in Israel on Its Gaza Evacuation Anniversary
Adnan Abu Amer – Middle East Monitor,
3 Sep 2018
In August 2005, the Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip. Many generals in the Israeli army admit that withdrawing from Gaza represented a real retreat in the face of the resistance. The Palestinians had dared to challenge the state which had maintained its deterrent superiority over regular armies in the region for over half a century. But thirteen years since the disengagement from Gaza, Israel has not enjoyed peace.
→ read full articleHas Microfinance Missed the Mark?
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
30 Aug 2018 – Microfinance continues to thrive despite being under fire from legions of critics. One plausible reason for the lingering faith in the power of microfinance is that it provides a convenient strategy for investors to demonstrate that they are active fighters against poverty and are trying to save the poor while making a substantial amount of money from them. It is built on a false belief that credit is the most vital need of the marginalized.
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(Português) Ex-açougueiro adota veganismo e afirma que a indústria da carne afetou sua saúde mental
Julia Cortezia - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
3 Sep 2018
Fraser Bayley, que hoje é atleta e ativista vegano, conta os problemas que enfrentou nos dois anos em que foi açougueiro.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
“Mob protests in Germany show vigor of far right”, in Chemnitz. Neo-nazis. Nazism was about race–Bolshevism about class. Churchill about both–so it is probably skin color, not religion. As expected. There are difficult, bad times ahead.
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Nicaragua’s Media Uprising Challenges President Ortega
Sasha Chavkin – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ,
3 Sep 2018
As Ortega’s repression grows increasingly brutal, the local media has become more collaborative and independent.
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Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
No legend
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Eyeing Landmark Verdict in Roundup Cancer Case, Vietnam Demands Monsanto Be Held Liable over Agent Orange
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
3 Sep 2018
“We believe Monsanto should be responsible for compensating Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange for the damages caused by the company’s herbicides.”
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‘Myanmar Is like Nazi Germany’
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal – Anadolu Agency (Turkey],
3 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – The atrocities targeting Myanmar’s Rohingya minority are similar to those committed by Nazi Germany, according to a prominent Buddhist human rights activist. Speaking to Anadolu Agency in Kent, the UK, Maung Zarni, a coordinator at the Free Rohingya Coalition, said the international community should act against his country of origin.
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Another Hiroshima Day Has Passed
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
And there are still nuclear weapons in the world.
They are still on hair-trigger alert, weapons
with no concern for you or me or anyone.
Time for Provocative Mnemonic Aids to Systemic Connectivity?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
27 Aug 2018 – The challenge of the “headless hearts” to the “heartless heads” was used in an earlier argument as a means of framing the response to the refugee/migration crisis. The conclusion pointed to the possibility of new mnemonic aids to discourse, as developed here — possibly to be understood as an annex to that argument.
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(Français) La crise des Rohingya, un an après: un massacre planifié
Agnès Gruda | La Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
25 août 2018 – Il y a un an aujourd’hui, des combattants de la minorité musulmane des Rohingya ont tué 12 soldats birmans, donnant le prétexte à une campagne de répression qui a forcé plus de 700 000 personnes à fuir vers le Bangladesh voisin. Alors que la majorité de ces survivants s’entassent dans le plus grand camp de réfugiés de la planète, de plus en plus d’indices montrent que les massacres de l’automne dernier n’avaient absolument rien de spontané. Des similitudes frappantes avec ce qui s’était passé au Rwanda.
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(Italiano) Il neo–fascismo, ondata planetaria
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
13 agosto 2018 – Il fascismo è una derivazione del fondamentalismo portata all’estremo, con ampia tradizione in quasi tutte le culture. L’Occidente come uno dei più violenti fondamentalisti. Immagina che la sua cultura è la migliore del mondo, possiede la religione migliore l’unica vera, la miglior forma di governo, la democrazia, il migliore apparato tecnico scientifico che ha cambiato la faccia del pianeta e che ha dato la capacità di distruggere tutti gli esseri umani e parte della biosfera con le sue armi letali.
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21st Bloody Friday in Gaza
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
21 Aug 2018 – Since March 30, Palestinian Great March of Return demonstrations have been all about contesting Israel’s unlawful blockade of the Strip, along with denying them all their fundamental rights. Israeli forces lethally shot two Palestinians on Friday, injuring at least 270 others, scores from live fire—including 19 children and nine medics targeted for aiding the wounded.
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[TRANSCEND Member] Uri Avnery: The Israeli Peace Activist Who Crossed Enemy Lines and Shaped Generations
Adam Keller - +972 Magazine,
27 Aug 2018
Adam Keller, who spent 50 years working alongside Uri Avnery, remembers the man who hoped for a warm embrace between an Israeli and a Palestinian president.
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A Warning to Wannabe Pro-violence Fascist Tyrants (and Their Cult Followers): Don’t Disregard the “Living by the Sword–Dying by the Sword” Admonition
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Fascism emphasized action and heroism over intellectualism and philosophy. This is why Hitler’s ideal Aryan concept was a strong, handsome, and physically fit person rather than someone with a mind for civics. The other part of fascism was extreme patriotism, which is why each nation/group had its own fascist symbolism and mythology. “Put up your sword; for those who take up the sword will surely die by the sword”: Matthew 26:52
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Law Not War: Listen Very Carefully to Ben Ferencz
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 – Listen to 99-year old Ben Ferencz sharing his crystal clear perception of the human stupidity of war. He is the last surviving Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor and has thought more than probably anyone about the psychology and politics of evil. Ferencz is a staunch believer in abolishing wars as such and, of course, in nuclear weapons abolition.
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The Cell Phone and the Virgin (2018): A Montreal Odyssey
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Curtin’s primary odyssey was to try to unmask the true font of power in the contemporary world. The world had suffered a series of radical breaks with historical continuity and loss of identity with place, starting shortly after Adams was born in the mid-nineteenth century. Space and time had been contracted by the new technology. Adams had contemplated the dynamo. The computerized cell phone was its current symbol, and its evil twin the concentrated power of nuclear weapons. The modern mind had suffered severe dislocation and confusion.
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Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People
John W. Whitehead | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
21 Aug 2018 – These cases are legion. This is what a state of undeclared martial law looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely for not complying with a government agent’s order or not complying fast enough. This isn’t just happening in crime-ridden inner cities. It’s happening all across the country. America has been locked down. This is what it’s like to be a citizen of the American police state.
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Turn It around – Not an Impossible Dream
Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
A compelling mixture of stunning video images and music with an inspirational message of concern and hope for the future of our beloved planet Earth. Can we prevail? Watch and see.
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World Scholars, Artists, Activists Call for Demilitarization of Okinawa
Peace Philosophy Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
… We call on Prime Minister Abe to cancel forthwith the planned base construction for the US Marine Corps at Henoko and to open negotiations with the government of the United States towards drastically reducing, and eventually eliminating, the US military base presence on Okinawa…
(TO SIGNERS: Please email satoko@peacephilosophy.com your name and your brief title/affiliation)
How China’s Mobile Ecosystems Are Making Banks Obsolete
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018 – Giant Chinese tech companies have bypassed credit cards and banks to create their own low-cost digital payment systems.
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How the Media Keep Americans in the Dark about the Slaughter in Yemen
CJ Werleman – American Herald Tribune,
27 Aug 2018
18 Aug 2018 – The US Department of Defense has tried to downplay the United States role in what must surely constitute a war crime and/or a crime against humanity by either arguing it’s still investigating the matter or by disingenuously minimizing its involvement.
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That Facebook Will Turn to Censoring the Left Isn’t a Worry—It’s a Reality
Alan MacLeod | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
22 Aug 2018 – That Facebook’s stated concern about stopping the spread of hate speech is genuine is challenged by the fact that the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party went to Facebook headquarters in Berlin in 2017 to discuss how it could use the platform for recruitment and for micro-targeting in the German elections.
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Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Myth and mysticism are resurgent. Brexit will enable Britons to “take back control”. Corporate tax cuts will lead to “jobs and growth”. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has a “clean bill of health”. Global warming is a “Chinese conspiracy”. None of these claims withstands more than a minute’s informed scrutiny, but that doesn’t dispel them because, as Trump’s lawyer, the former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, told NBC’s Meet The Press recently, “truth isn’t truth”.
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Japan Fleet Kills 177 Whales in Latest Hunt
Science X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
22 Aug 2018 – A fleet of Japanese whaling ships caught 177 minke and sei whales during a three-month tour of the northwestern Pacific. Japan is a signatory to the moratorium on whale hunting, but exploits a loophole which allows whales to be killed in the name of scientific research. It makes no secret of the fact that meat from the expeditions ends up on dinner tables.
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Liberal Internationalism: Peace, War and Democracy
Michael W. Doyle | Nobel Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Peace and democracy are just two sides of the same coin, it has often been said. In a speech before the British parliament in June of 1982, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed that governments founded on a respect for individual liberty exercise “restraint” and “peaceful intentions” in their foreign policy. He then, perhaps unaware of the contrast, announced a “crusade for freedom” and a “campaign for democratic development.”
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Declaration of Solidarity with Rohingya and Call for Myanmar Government to Be Investigated by the ICC
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
One young woman, Fatima (20), told us how Myanmar soldiers entered their village and came into her home. They shot her husband, made her carry her six month- old baby girl down to the lake where they threw the child into the pond and drowned her. They took Fatima back to her home; several soldiers held her down and constantly raped her until she became unconscious. They carried her outside to the field where they left her for dead. She was saved by an elderly Rohingya woman who helped her get across the border into Bangladesh. – Rohingya Genocide Day 25 Aug 2018
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Giving Birth to Happiness
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
As indicated, relatively poor countries of the world are giving birth to many children and it is estimated that on an average a woman gives birth to four or even five children.
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(Français) Comprendre les défis économiques du Venezuela
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
06 Août 2018 – La crise économique que traverse le Venezuela est-elle bien la preuve de la faillite de la révolution bolivarienne? Dans Les 7 péchés d’Hugo Chavez, Michel Collon analysait le défi qui se posait: rééquilibrer une économie basée sur la rente pétrolière et disposant de maigres secteurs agricole et industriel. Contrairement à certaines idées reçues, Chavez ne s’est pas contenté de distribuer l’argent du pétrole aux pauvres à travers des programmes sociaux. L’ancien président avait entrepris de jeter les bases nécessaires au développement d’une véritable économie nationale. Un processus toujours en cours, mais dont le chemin est semé d’embûches.
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The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish
Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – The American millenarian ‘myth’, then and now, was (and is), rooted in the fervent belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States, ‘the New Jerusalem’, to represent humanity’s best hope for a utopian future. This belief in a special destiny has been reflected in a conviction that the United States must lead – or more properly, has the duty to coerce – mankind toward that future. Pre-Socratic values: For the Ancients, the very notion of ‘man’, in that way, did not exist. There were only men: Greeks, Romans, barbarians, Syrians, and so on. This stands in obvious opposition to universal, cosmopolitan ‘man’.
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Distorting Past and Present: Reuters on Nicaragua’s Armed Uprising
Joe Emersberger | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018 – I examined 45 Reuters news articles about the uprising in Nicaragua since April 18, which are widely reprinted throughout English-language Western media as portrayed by corporate journalism. The story conveyed by Reuters is that the Sandinista government is opposed to democracy and human rights in Nicaragua, while the US government supports these things. But a closer look at the picture reveals numerous distortions about Nicaragua’s past and present.
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Facebook Suspended a Latin American News Network and Gave Three Different Reasons Why
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
27 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – Facebook offered a jumble of explanations for why Telesur’s English-language page was suddenly taken down and then reinstated two days later.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Is Most Polished Mouthpiece of Myanmar Military
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
25 Aug 2018 – Free Rohingya Coalition co-founder Maung Zarni, a member of the TRANSCEND Network, says time to reject false messiahs in Myanmar beginning with Aung San Suu Kyi.
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(Português) Um milhão de pessoas assinam petição contra o comércio de carne de cachorro na Coreia do Sul
Bárbara Alcântara - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
27 Aug 2018
21 ago 2018 – Ativistas pelos direitos animais em Seul entregaram pessoalmente a petição, assinada por pessoas em todo o mundo, na residência do Presidente Moon Jae-in. Outros territórios, como Hong Kong, Taiwan, Filipinas, Tailândia e Cingapura já proibiram este comércio.
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Who Is Nikola Tesla?
Nikola Tesla and Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
27 Aug 2018
25 Aug 2018 – Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with Nikola Tesla, the Serbian scientist and his path breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions.
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The Palestinian Cause on World Humanitarian Day – 19 August
Dr Essam Yousef - Middle East Monitor,
27 Aug 2018
24 Aug 2018 – Involvement in humanitarian activities to help the Palestinians can be determined by two things: the effects of the Israeli occupation and colonisation of Palestine, with all its racism and tyranny; or the continued absence of justice despite the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause based on international laws and conventions. The presence of the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa in occupied Jerusalem brings the third aspect into play; the cause carries with it a lot of symbolism across the Islamic world.
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Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
25 Aug 2018 – Headlining “Terrorists readying chemical attack to frame Damascus & provide pretext for US strikes” RT reported on Sat 25 Aug that “The US and its allies are preparing new airstrikes on Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding that militants are poised to stage a chemical weapons attack in order to frame Damascus and provide a pretext for the strikes.”
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(Português) Forças Armadas da Finlândia oferecem refeições vegetarianas em todos os quartéis
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
22 agosto 2018 – As Forças Armadas da Finlândia estão oferecendo refeições ovolactovegetarianas e vegetarianas em todos os quartéis do país. Atualmente, todas as guarnições da Finlândia atendem às necessidades de vegetarianos e veganos.
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Burma/Myanmar: Shameful Anniversary Highlights Lack of Accountability for Atrocities against Rohingya
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018 – World leaders’ failure to act has allowed the Myanmar security forces’ perpetrators of crimes against humanity to remain at large for a year after their murderous campaign against the Rohingya prompted an exodus of epic proportions. More than 700,000 Rohingya women, men, and children fled from northern Rakhine State to neighbouring Bangladesh after 25 August 2017, when the Myanmar security forces launched a widespread as well as systematic assault on hundreds of Rohingya villages.
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