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Rawda and Combatting Terrorism
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
27 Nov 2017 – Terrorist attacks have a long history in Egypt. They have become worse since the overthrow of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Dr. Mohammed Morsi, in 2013. Daesh or groups affiliated to it have been targeting local tribes and Christian churches.
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The Rohingya Tragedy Shows Human Solidarity Is a Lie
Tawakkol Karman – Al Jazeera,
4 Dec 2017
1 Dec 2017 – Nobody argues any more about what is happening in Myanmar. The war being waged on the Rohingya Muslims is a clear example of ethnic cleansing and genocide. The crisis continues to get worse fanned by the Myanmar government’s intolerance and by the fact that the world’s interest in what is happening in Myanmar is just not deep enough.
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Living Alone? You Need to Know These Simple Things
John Hawthorne | Bay Alarm Medical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
While many people enjoy the solitude of living alone, others, who unexpectedly find themselves in an empty home, can face a difficult transition period. Aside from simply missing the company of another human being, living alone means you don’t have another person to help with certain chores.
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Enewetak Atoll, a Tiny Island Used as a Nuclear Dumpsite, Is About to Be Submerged by Water
Joe McCarthy | Global Citizen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
27 Nov 2017 – For more than half a century, the atoll, which is part of the Marshall Islands, has been contaminated by nuclear explosions and waste. The decades ahead could leave it submerged by rising sea levels. In this way, Enewetak “is at the intersection of two of the biggest problems of the last century and this century, nuclear weapons and sea level rise.”
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‘No Such Thing as Rohingya’: Myanmar Erases a History
Hannah Beech – The New York Times,
4 Dec 2017
2 Dec 2017 — He was a member of the Rohingya student union in college, taught at a public high school and even won a parliamentary seat in Myanmar’s thwarted elections in 1990. But according to the government of Myanmar, U Kyaw Min’s fellow Rohingya do not exist.
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NOW IT’S OFFICIAL: FDA Announced That Vaccines Are Causing Autism!
Truth Command – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
18 Nov 2017 – The FDA inadvertently admitted that autism is a potential adverse side-effect of the DTap vaccine in an accompanying online pamphlet. For years, fears over vaccines and the onset of autism have been dispelled by medical professionals, but this has all changed. Could this be one of the biggest u-turns in medical history?
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Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
4 Dec 2017
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(Italiano) È ora di sfidare il sistema bellico
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Si sono osservate dinamiche che conducessero a una grandiosa cospirazione putativa, che coinvolgesse vari soggetti di vari settori – industria, militare, politica e media – attivi a tramare in segreto per sospingerci alla guerra, a prescindere dalle conseguenze, al fine di far soldi? Qui è dove attingiamo ai concetti forniti dalla sociologia per definire la portata dell’attività politica non nelle parole e negli atti di attori identificabili – l’aspetto ‘comportamentale’ – bensì in quanto forza generativa immagazzinata in e attivata da sistemi e strutture.
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History, Education and Conflict
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
We must make our actions as teachers in the classroom coherent, addressing the small conflicts of everyday life in the most effective and least violent manner possible , and as teachers of History, selecting the content, emphasizing moments of creation, understanding, social progress more than wars, confrontation and destruction, and on the other hand to work with this content using methodologies that promote essential personal skills for peaceful citizenship through dialogue, critical analysis, the contrasting of views, freedom of expression, creativity, imagination.
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(Français) Aung San Suu Kyi « est complice d’un génocide »
Agnès Gruda | La Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Visite à Montréal du militant Maung Zarni – “L’ancienne opposante birmane et Prix Nobel de la paix Aung San Suu Kyi n’est pas seulement indifférente au sort des Rohingya, minorité musulmane de l’ouest de la Birmanie. Elle est carrément complice des exactions qui leur sont infligées”.
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The Quality of Mercy
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
21 Nov 2017 – The comfortable nations often authorize the worst atrocities overseas through fear for their own safety, imagining themselves the victims to be protected from crime at all costs. Such attitudes entitle people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen to look in our direction when they ask, “Who are the criminals?”
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Stop Eating Junk News (MUST WATCH VIDEO)
Heba Aly | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Nov 16, 2017 – Over the last decade, we’ve awoken to the fact that junk food hurts us. It’s time for a similar revolution in our news consumption. Much as a nutritionist gives us tools for healthy eating, Heba gives us tools to stop consuming and supporting Junk News [different from Fake News].
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Taking Stock: One Year after Trump
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
20 Nov 2017 – This post addresses the need for dialogue with the political, economic, and cultural ‘other,’ that is, those multitudes acutely alienated from and angry with secular globalism and the Enlightenment legacy often equated with ‘modernity’ and ‘modernization.’ At the core is a search for closure on the nature of reality as well as feelings about equity (given many dimensions of inequality) and ethical innovation (revisionist approaches to gender, sexuality, marriage). Does reason or faith or tradition provide greater closure?
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World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice
Alliance of World Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – We invite all scientists to endorse this global environmental article and engage with a new alliance concerned about global climate and environmental trends. We submit, that in order to prevent widespread misery caused by catastrophic damage to the biosphere, humanity must practice more environmentally sustainable alternative to business-as-usual.
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More Than 15,000 Scientists from 184 Countries Issue ‘Warning to Humanity’
Nicole Mortillaro - CBC News,
27 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – More than 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth. A similar warning was first issued by scientists in 1992.
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The Richest 1% Now Own More than 50% of the World’s Wealth
David Meyer – Fortune,
27 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 – The richest 1% now owns more than half of all the world’s household wealth, according to analysts at Credit Suisse. The Swiss bank released its latest Global Wealth Report today, together with a statement that contained the immortal phrase, “The outlook for the millionaire segment is more optimistic than for the bottom of the wealth pyramid.”
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Memorial Prose Poem
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Remembering JFK: Voices from a Smoldering Grave . . .
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Reintegration or Re-recruitment: Preventing Old Wars from Fueling New Wars
Ochan Hannington | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
When fighters return to civilian life their prospects are limited. Now, experts warn many are being re-recruited into other violent groups. “Whether that is forced recruitment because they live in a really remote location, or incentivized recruitment, that we see so much of in the Central African Republic or the Democratic Republic of the Congo where armed groups become the most viable employment offer in a region.”
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Takes a Populist, Paranoid Turn
David Scott Mathieson – Asia Times,
27 Nov 2017
Myanmar de facto leader conflated illegal migration with terrorism in a keynote speech, adding her voice to the Islamophobia that has justified persecution of the Rohingya.
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More Harm than Good with Climate Geo-Engineering
Tim Radford | Climate News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Geo-engineering might be possible – but so far it doesn’t look practical. Yet another study sees dangers in the technofix. It could create more problems than it could solve.
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(Italiano) Tributo ad Anna Cisero Dati. Staffetta Partigiana. Maestra. Amica. Persempre
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
27 Nov 2017 – Se ne è andata venerdi 24 novembre. Donna, staffetta partigiana, femminista d’antan, attivista dell’UDI (Unione donne italiane), Anna si è battuta per i diritti delle donne e dei lavoratori.
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(Português) Dezembro é o mês mais violento para os animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
24 Nov 2017 – Dezembro é o mês mais violento para os animais. O mês em que é celebrado o Natal, o espírito natalino, um tempo de paz, é marcado por muita violência. Mas como assim? É em dezembro que a demanda por carne chega a ser até dez vezes maior do que em qualquer outro mês. Há muitas encomendas, de animais inteiros, com olhos, com boca, decapitados, eviscerados, fatiados, etc. Vai do gosto e da (in)sensibilidade do freguês.
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Confederation, Autonomy, Renewal, and Reform
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Con-federation and autonomy are broad concepts, capable of covering a multitude of visions extending from very limited local initiatives to complete control over everything other than foreign policy. Autonomy can therefore incorporate all situations between nearly total subordination to the center to nearly total independence. The ways in which the elements and patterns of autonomy are put together requires political imagination, far-sighted political leadership, a willingness to compromise, and constant dialogue.
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My Romance with a Village Postman
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
In a village the postman enjoyed a unique status unrivalled by his urban colleagues. His social perimeter straggled the constellation of villages he covered in his official errands which could be anywhere between 4-5 villages depending on the size of each village. No one could dare challenge his credentials about knowing so much of the realities of rural social life.
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Parallel Universes: Vietnam and Palestine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
26 Nov 2017 – Not surprisingly, my sixth visit to Vietnam stirred many memories, among them, a recognition of the parallels between the Vietnamese and Palestinian experiences. Dreams don’t become the new reality without the dedication of a people brave and creative, and helped by the inspirational effects on friends and supporters. This blessing of empowering and charismatic resilience is the core identity of the Vietnamese and the Palestinian people, their point of most profound convergence.
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I Came to This Violent World
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
I came to this violent world
To live in the glory of love,
Prisons and Policing: Community Control Over Police – A Proposition for the USA
Max Rameau | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
10 Nov 2017 – While it might be fair to say that the police enjoy support among the majority of the white population, the police enjoy no such support among the majority of Black people, who endure more frequent and harsher interactions with cops than whites. This historic moment calls for something more significant than additional training or even civilian oversight boards.
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Starved, ‘Mutilated’ and Blackmailed Migrants Auctioned Off as Slaves by Smugglers in Libya
Lara Rebello – International Business Times,
27 Nov 2017
The migrants are forced to work as slaves after they run out of money to pay the smugglers to find them passage to Europe.
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Nov 27 – Dec 3, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions – especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.” – Debbie Ford
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Myanmar and Bangladesh Strike a Shameful Deal on Rohingya Refugees
Rosa Freedman – The Conversation,
27 Nov 2017
23 Nov 2017 – Many Rohingya people who have fled the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar are now living as refugees in Bangladesh. And now, the two countries have reportedly struck a deal to return them home. Returning Rohingya people to the hands of their persecutors violates international law. This deal comes just days after Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the Srebrenica massacre.
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From Ayurveda to Biomedicine: Understanding the Human Body
Suzanne Newcombe – The Conversation,
27 Nov 2017
20 Nov 2017 – The Ayurvedic body differs significantly from that of European biomedicine, which is based on dissection. The Ayurvedic body is a body of systems. It is conceptualised as being composed of five constituent parts (mahābūta), seven body substances (dhātu) and three regulating qualities (doṣa). According to Ayurvedic theory, by attending to imbalances between these principles in a body, health might be promoted and illness avoided.
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(Italiano) Finirla con il monopolio maschile sulla pace: alle donne ci vogliono altri posti al tavolo
Shaheen Chughtai | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Che siano prese di mira da autori di violenza sessuale, oppresse da estremismi ideologici, o unicamente minacciate dal bombardamento di unità operative nelle maternità ospedaliere, le donne sopportano sovente l’impronta greve dei conflitti. Eppure, quando si tratta poi di negoziati di pace, troppo spesso le donne non hanno un posto al tavolo. La realtà perdurante che gli uomini, in particolare gli uomini in armi, godano di un ruolo pressoché esclusivo nei processi di pace non teme né la logica né l’evidenza.
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What Makes Google’s Eric Schmidt so Afraid? And What Should He Be Afraid of?
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
21 Nov 2017 – This very powerful corporate leader with an open political orientation has decided that the Internet and his hugely dominating search engine,
a) shall cave in to political pressure,
b) de-rank at least these two Russian media organizations because
c) he knows they are “propaganda outlets” (it isn’t discussed at all or compared with US or other countries’ media) and
d) in the name of political correctness it is OK to limit the freedom of opinion-formation.
Myanmar’s Myriad Challenges Don’t Excuse Toxic and Unfounded Racism against Rohingya
Khin Mai Aung | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
20 Nov 2017 – The Rohingya humanitarian crisis has shone a bright and unflattering light on the deep and ugly antipathy within Burma/Myanmar to the Rohingya people. The prevailing perception of the Rohingya as foreign and fundamentally not “Burmese” is misplaced.
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A Memorable and Joyful Experience of Visiting a School for the Tribal Children of Odisha
Dr. Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
27 Nov 2017 – Many countries worldwide – Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, Chile, Brazil and other parts of Africa and Asia have indigenous peoples living in these countries. They have been living in these regions for centuries in their own simple manner close to the Mother earth without exploiting it by using its resources prudently.
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Everything Must Go
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
24 Nov 2017 – Every Friday is a Black Friday, every Christmas a more garish festival of destruction. It is not attitudes that govern our impacts on the planet, but income. The richer we are, the bigger our footprint, regardless of our good intentions. Rich people who see themselves as green consumers mainly focus on behaviours that have relatively small benefits. We need to build a world in which growth is unnecessary, a world of private sufficiency and public luxury.
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Military Industrial Complex: Shadow World Exposes Greed, Profit and the Business of War
Kevin Gosztola – MintPress News,
27 Nov 2017
A new PBS documentary looks deep into the shadowy world of the global arms trade, profit-making from war, and the politicians who sell the interests of their constituents to the highest bidder.
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The FCC’s Order Is Out: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet. We’ve Read It, and Here’s What You Need to Know
Matt Wood and Gaurav Laroia | Free Press – Global Research,
27 Nov 2017
On Wednesday [22 Nov], Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai released his draft order to completely eradicate Net Neutrality.
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(Português) Concepção do ser humano nos limites de uma ecologia integral
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
19 nov 2017 – Em sua encíclica sobre “o Cuidado da Casa Comum” o Papa Francisco submeteu a uma rigorosa crítica o clássico antropocentrismo de nossa cultura a partir de uma visão de uma ecologia integral, cosmocentrada, dentro da qual o ser humano comparece como parte do Todo e da natureza. Isso nos convida a revisarmos nossa compreensão do ser humano nos limites desta ecologia integral.
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How Israel Is ‘Cleansing’ Palestinians from Greater Jewish Jerusalem
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
23 Nov 2017 – Israel is putting in place the final pieces of a Greater Jewish Jerusalem that will require “ethnically cleansing” tens of thousands of Palestinians from a city their families have lived and worked in for generations, human rights groups have warned. Measures aim to annex settlements to city and turn Palestinian areas into no-man’s land.
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Cognitive Osmosis in a Knowledge-based Civilization
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
27 Nov 2017 – A major challenge of the times can be framed metaphorically in terms of consumption, osmosis and circulation. Interface challenge of inside-outside, insight-outsight, information-outformation.
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The TRANSCEND Method: Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means
Johan Galtung | Governance and Social Development Resource Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
The TRANSCEND Method is based on the central thesis that to prevent violence and develop the creative potential of a conflict, there has to be transformation. At the root of the method is the understanding of conflict as incompatible goals, meaning as a problem to be solved; not as incompatible parties (persons, countries etc.), meaning as one or more parties to be controlled (usually not oneself).
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Funding Big Pharma to Help with Millions of Addicts They Created
Martha Rosenberg - AlterNet,
27 Nov 2017
22 Nov 2017 – After decades of expanding opioid use by minimizing the dangers of addiction, Big Pharma will now receive the reward of taxpayer money to undo what it did and reverse the opioid epidemic. Imagine the government giving Big Tobacco our tax dollars to reverse the damage it did pushing cigarettes and you see how obscene this is.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Trump is trumping himself by making America Last, not in the sense of long-lasting, but in the sense of going down. There is something to learn for those receptive to learning, and Islam puts it forcefully: togetherness, and sharing. We would add: as equally as possible. But Trump politics is the opposite of that, and the price is increasing. And so is today also much of Muslim politics, to their detriment.
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(Français) Esclavage en Libye: merci l’OTAN!
Bruno Guigue | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Une découverte, les pratiques esclavagistes filmées par CNN ? On tombe vraiment des nues ? Certainement pas. Le 11 avril 2017, l’Office international des migrations publiait un rapport indiquant que des milliers de migrants transitant par la Libye étaient vendus comme du bétail sur des marchés aux esclaves, avant d’être soumis au travail forcé ou à l’exploitation sexuelle. Cette réalité, tout le monde la connaissait, et personne n’a rien fait.
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Respect Existence or Expect Resistance
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
27 Nov 2017
22 Nov 2017 – “It’s time to resist against state power, it’s time that we take responsibility for our own lives … that we create a world which gives us the power to act, instead of hoping that other people will solve problems.”
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Canção do Mar (Music Video of the Week)
Dulce Pontes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
The Song of the Sea – Beautiful Portuguese Music
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A Terrible Thought
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
25 Nov 2017 – Israel claims to be a “Jewish State”. Jews have been persecuted refugees for centuries. But now the government has decided not only to stem the flow, but to pay to dispose of the refugees who are already here: paying the government of Rwanda 5000 dollars for every refugee they accept from us. The refugees themselves will also get 3500 dollars each if they go voluntarily. If they refuse, they will be put in a real prison indefinitely. Deported? Imprisoned? In a “Jewish” state? Incredible. God save us!
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Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
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Friedrich Engels (28 Nov 1820 – 5 Aug 1895)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Friedrich Engels was a German author, political theorist and philosopher, most well known for his monumental work with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.
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Peddling Poisons, Selling Seeds of Suicide
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
24 Nov 2017 – Over two decades Monsanto has violated laws, deceived Indian farmers by making unscientific and fraudulent claims, extracted super profits through illegal royalty collection by violating India’s Patent and Intellectual Property laws, pushed farmers into debt, and, as a consequence of the debt trap, to suicide. It is time to get unshackled from the Seeds of Suicide and pesticides and pesticide deaths. Through Seeds of freedom and Seeds of Hope we can go forward to GMO free Agroecology.
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(Português) Documentário expõe a barbárie da caça de animais selvagens na África
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Os horrores cometidos por caçadores são expostos em um novo e chocante documentário. No documentário “Trophy”, Philip Glass – um fazendeiro que explora ovelhas no Texas (EUA) – caça animais selvagens, incluindo um leão, um hipopótamo e um elefante na África do Sul
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The Lost Journalistic Standards of Russia-gate
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Nov 2017
20 Nov 2017 – A danger in both journalism and intelligence is to allow an unproven or seriously disputed fact to become part of the accepted narrative where it gets widely repeated and thus misleads policymakers and citizens alike, such as happened during the run-up to war with Iraq and is now recurring amid the frenzy over Russia-gate.
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Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Elitist Civility…
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US Enemy List: Prospects and Perspectives
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
24 Nov 2017 – For almost 2 decades, the US pursued a list of ‘enemy countries’ to confront, attack, weaken and overthrow. This imperial quest to overthrow ‘enemy countries’ operated at various levels of intensity, depending on two considerations: the level of priority and the degree of vulnerability for a ‘regime change’ operation.
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How the Rich Stay Rich
Doug Henwood interviews Brooke Harrington – Jacobin Magazine,
27 Nov 2017
20 Nov 2017 – In early November, over thirteen million documents from the Bermuda-based law firm Appleby were released to the public. Known as the Paradise Papers, these documents detail a vast effort to shield the wealth of some of the world’s richest people from the tax authorities, as well as creditors and estranged family members. A peek inside the world of wealth managers, offshore tax havens, and the uber-wealthy.
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Venezuelan Company Lets 55 Tons of Flour Rot
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
21 Nov 2017 – The Productive Workers Union in Venezuela exposed that 55 tons, or 50,000 kilograms, of corn flour were left to rot by the company Demaseca as part of a boycott to damage the country’s economy.
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Analogy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
The following analogy characterizes the attitude of a typical Trump administration official in relation to the looming energy crisis.
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Between Sinew and Spirit: Are You a Body with a Mind or a Mind with a Body?
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
An Animated Journey to the Center of the Self – “The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use,” computing pioneer Alan Turing wrote as he anguished at the intersection of love and loss. And yet we are creatures of atoms, with spirit and sinew inextricably entwined.
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(Italiano) I big data non indicano niente – se non il disastro
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Il nostro cibo e la nostra agricoltura hanno due futuri diversi. Il primo porta in un vicolo cieco. Un pianeta morto. Diffusione di veleni e di monoculture chimiche. Contadini che si suicidano a causa dei debiti per i semi e i prodotti chimici. Bambini che muoiono per mancanza di cibo. Persone che muoiono di malattie croniche che si diffondono a causa di merci senza contenuto nutritivo o addirittura tossiche vendute come cibo. E devastazioni climatiche che spazzano via le condizioni per la vita dell’uomo sulla Terra. Il secondo porta al ringiovanimento del pianeta…
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Myanmar: Rohingya Trapped in Dehumanizing Apartheid Regime
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
• Rohingya segregated and abused in “open-air prison”
• Two-year investigation reveals root causes of current Rakhine State crisis
• System of discrimination amounts to the crime against humanity of apartheid
70 Years of Broken Promises: The Untold Story of Israel’s Partition Plan
Ramzy Baroud - teleSUR,
27 Nov 2017
Thousands of Palestinians were killed in the rebellion as they continued to reject the prejudicial partition.
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Getting to the Roots of the Problem
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
A man had frequent nightmares. Someone was hiding under his bed what made him wake up sweating and trembling every night.
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Google’s Eric Schmidt Admits Political Censorship of Search Results
Niles Niemuth | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
22 Nov 2017 – Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, confirmed this weekend that the world’s largest Internet company is, in close coordination with the state, manipulating search results to censor sites critical of the US government.
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(Français) Quatre choses à savoir sur la Chine – dans le cadre du XIXème congrès du Parti
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017- La communication médiatique occidentale sur le XIXème congrès du Parti communiste chinois a été affligeante. L’attention a presque exclusivement porté sur les “marionnettes du spectacle”, sur un seul homme et les spéculations à propos de l’hypothétique étendue de son pouvoir. Toutefois ce congrès ne portait pas sur la personne de Xi Jinping mais sur les changements et les défis fondamentaux du plus grand pays au monde. Mais nous n’avons pas appris grand chose à ce sujet, sinon quelques clichés éculés.
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(Italiano) Papa Francesco: il disarmo integrale non è un’utopia
M.Michela Nicolais | Servizio Informazione Religiosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
10 novembre 2017 – Non utopia, ma sano realismo. Così Papa Francesco, ricevendo in udienza i partecipanti al Simposio vaticano, ha definito l’ambizioso obiettivo del disarmo integrale. Le armi nucleari producono “catastrofiche conseguenze umanitarie”, il grido d’allarme contro la “logica della paura”.
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(Français) Les maisons closes du capitalisme
Emir Sader | ALAI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Les mal nommés paradis fiscaux fonctionnent comme des bordels du capitalisme. On y fait des affaires sales, qui ne peuvent être reconnues publiquement, mais qui sont indispensables au fonctionnement du système. Comme les maisons closes dans la société traditionnelle.
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Waves of Genocidal Terror against Rohingyas by Myanmar and the Resultant Exodus Since 1978
Maung Zarni and Natalie Brinham | Middle East Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 – This essay aims to highlight the scope and rhythmic nature of Burma’s persecution of Rohingyas and the devastating impact on the Rohingya population. First, it sets out to describe and help readers understand the evolving pretexts given by the successive Burmese governments and the methods of group destruction and resultant waves — five in total — of the outflow of Rohingyas in large number. Then it attempts to offer an interpretive framework within which this cycle of violence-exodus-lull is best understood.
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The Wall
Doug Rawlings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Vietnam War: what to take away? An admiration for the heroism of Americans and Vietnamese caught up in a grotesque, immoral, unjust war, just trying to survive? Disgust at the venality of the old men in the background pulling the strings? A deep, abiding cynicism as we look into the future of our country? What? I dunno. I wrote The Wall in 1986 after visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC for the first time.
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Failing the People of Syria during Seven Years of Devastation and Dispossession
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – What follows is a wide-ranging interview in November 2017 that that concentrates on the failure of the UN and the world to rescue the people of Syria by a timely and effective humanitarian intervention. The interview is to be published in the Turkish magazine Causcasus International.
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We Need Their Voices Today! (22) And Yours!
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
At a time of crisis, with the future at stake, please don’t be silent. We urgently need your voice today!
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Why Are Police in the USA So Terrified?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017 – For those who follow news in the United States, the routine killing of innocent civilians by the police has become a national crisis despite concerted attempts by political and legal authorities and the corporate media to obscure what is happening. So far this year, US police have killed 1,044 people. In contrast, from 1990 to 2016, police in England and Wales killed just 62 people. So why are the police so violent? you might ask.
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Texas Shooting Shows Once again That Animal Cruelty and Human Cruelty Are Strongly Linked
Martha Rosenberg - CounterPunch,
20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017 – What do Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Devin Kelley the Texas church killer and a host of other killers have in common? They tortured animals and delighted in the pain they inflicted. Why the Texas shooting shows that animal cruelty and human cruelty are linked.
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(Castellano) Los animales, portadores de derechos y deben ser respetados
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
12 nov 2017 – La aceptación o no de la dignidad de los animales depende del paradigma (visión del mundo y valores) que cada cual asume. Hay dos paradigmas que vienen de la más remota antigüedad y perduran hasta hoy.
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What if You Knew Alzheimer’s Was Coming for You?
Pagan Kennedy – The New York Times,
20 Nov 2017
17 Nov 2017 – Simple blood tests may soon be able to deliver alarming news about your cognitive health. 25 to 50 percent of us will show signs of Alzheimer’s by the age of 85. When it comes to dementia, we all should consider ourselves vulnerable. No matter what genes you carry, your odds of developing cognitive problems increase as you age.
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Over 15,000 Scientists Just Issued a ‘Second Notice’ to Humanity. Can We Listen Now?
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
20 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – Reassessing warning issued 25 years ago, the “second notice” to humanity warns of “widespread misery and catastrophic biodiversity loss” unless business-as-usual is upended.
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Kim Petersen – Global Research,
20 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – A comparison with how the UN deals with North Korea vis-à-vis another member state, Israel, is instructive.
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RIP Edward Herman, Who Co-Wrote a Book That’s Now More Important Than Ever
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
20 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 – Edward Herman, the co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of Manufacturing Consent, has died. He was 92. His work has never been more relevant. Manufacturing Consent was a kind of bible of media criticism for a generation of dissident thinkers.
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(Italiano) Per TMS. La sentenza di Piazza della Loggia e il quinquennio 1969-1974 a Collettivamente memoria. Manlio Milani e Silvia Guarneri ad Aosta
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Domani, domenica 19 novembre (ieri per i lettori di TMS) e oggi, lunedì 20 novembre, sempre per i lettori di Transcend Media Service, il progetto culturale “Collettivamente memoria” – tecnicamente anche progetto-intervento – presenta due testimonianze su una vicenda storica che ha riguardato la collettività italiana: la strage di Piazza della Loggia a Brescia avvenuta il 28 maggio 1974.
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PEACE: An Ultimate Planetary Need
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Humanity needs Peace!
Who feeds Peace?
Who is fed Peace? By whom?
How? Where? When? Why?
Prisons and Policing: Beyond the Carceral Logic of Civil Commitment in the USA
Toshio Meronek and Erica R. Meiners | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
10 Nov 2017 – A key component of the current system is its reliance on imprisonment as a response to behaviors and populations which are understood as sources of actual or potential harm. How can a harm reduction lens help us understand why really protecting our communities means imagining alternatives beyond incarceration?
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.
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The Climate Emergency: Two Time Scales
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
20 Nov 2017 – I am working on a book with the title The Climate Emergency: Two Time Scales. A pdf file of a first draft of the book can be freely downloaded. I urge you to download this file and to send the link or file to friends who might be interested. Also, if you have a website, please publish it there. Here are some excerpts from the Introduction:
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Western Intelligence: Saad Hariri Resigned to Avoid His Father’s Fate and Salvage Lebanon
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
16 Nov 2017 – Last week’s resignation of Lebanon’s popular Prime Minister Saad Hariri has fueled a plethora of politically inspired conspiracy theories. Beirut and Washington DC sources have suggested to this observer that Hariri’s thinking and motivation for a quick departure from Lebanon was influenced by reports delivered to him personally from three Western security agencies that have for the past six months been monitoring the movements of certain security agents from Hezbollah.
→ read full articleA History of Idiocy
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
18 Nov 2017 – The older I get, the more convinced I am that sheer stupidity plays a major role in the history of nations. Great Thinkers, compared to whom I am a mere intellectual dwarf, have pursued other factors to explain what has turned history into a mess.
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Democratic Rotation in Office: Political Transcendence and Transformation of Ethno-regional Identities within the 21st Century Nation State
David Tiomajou – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Prof. Tagou brings to the democratic debate bold, interesting and eye-opening proposals: Africa should proudly and positively mold its own model of democracy rooted in its socio-cultural and ethnic pluralistic context. He proposes a model based on Johan Galtung’s concepts of transcendence and transformation of conflicts: Rotative Democracy as mechanism for the election of the President of the Republic.
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America’s Renegade Warfare
Nicolas J S Davies – Consortium News,
20 Nov 2017
Claiming the right to launch preemptive wars and fighting an ill-defined “global war on terror,” the U.S. government has slaughtered vast numbers of civilians in defiance of international law.
→ read full articleOh Life, Unknown Deity
Adolf P. Shvedchikov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Oh life, unknown deity,
You modify your forms but cannot die,
Wandering along the maze of eternity,
Blood Sport: Animal Welfare in Ireland
Pauline Murphy - CounterPunch,
20 Nov 2017
16 Nov 2017 – From January 2018 the use of wild animals in circuses will be forbidden by Irish law. New regulations have been introduced in the Irish Animal Welfare Act to come in line with modern day animal welfare standards. It will see the end of the likes of tethered elephants and caged tigers in circuses across Ireland.
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Alzheimer’s: Time to Take a Closer Look
Meredith Rogers | Geriatric Nurse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
An infographic about this disease that is affecting more and more people around the world every year. Alzheimer’s is a form of dementia. It attacks the area of the brain that has to do with thoughts and language. Alzheimer’s causes problems in an otherwise healthy individual, issue severe enough to interfere with a person’s work and social life.
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With UN Support, More Countries Confronting Threat of Drug-Resistant ‘Superbugs’
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
17 Nov 2017 – Antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals or antiparasitics are widely used in livestock, poultry and aquaculture to treat or prevent diseases. However, their over-use and misuse, such as for “promoting growth” is leading to the emergence of microbes resistant to these drugs, making the diseases they cause impossible to treat. Humans exposed to these antimicrobial resistant pathogens are also affected in the same way.
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Nuclear Disarmament Now a ‘Moral Imperative’ as Pope Francis Rejects Deterrence
Gerard O’Connell | America Jesuit Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
In a landmark statement on nuclear arms on 10 Nov 2017, Pope Francis has categorically condemned not only “the threat of their use” but also “their very possession.” Nuclear weapons, he told participants at a Vatican symposium on “integral disarmament,” exist “in the service of a mentality of fear that affects not only the parties in conflict but the entire human race.”
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Paradise Papers Yet another Example of the Power of Collaboration in Investigative Journalism
Richard Sambrook – The Conversation,
20 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 – Established media organisations are collaborating across borders and with new media to break big stories such as global tax avoidance by the rich and powerful.
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La Cavalerie Legere (Music Video of the Week)
Andre Rieu & Jso – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Rieu at His Best! Enjoy.
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Wealth Inequality ‘Crisis’ as Richest 1 Percent Account for Half the World’s Wealth
Spencer Woodman – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
20 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 – The world’s top 1 percent held 45.5 percent of all household wealth in 2000. Now, they hold 50.1 percent, according to Credit Suisse’s annual Global Wealth Report. The report highlights that Ultra High Net Worth Individuals – people who are worth more than $50 million – as being the driving force behind the gap. This group of wealth holders has grown five-fold since 2000.
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Sea Shepherd and Japanese Whaling: A Message from Captain Paul Watson
Captain Paul Watson | Sea Shepherd Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
The Japanese whaling fleet has left from Japan bound for the waters of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Sea Shepherd Founder, Captain Paul Watson, explains why we will not be sending our ships to Antarctica this season. “To continue would be foolish. We would spend a few million dollars and many months only to have another failure to engage, and if we did by some miracle encounter the fleet, we would be subject to lethal force without support from our own cowardly governments.”
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(Português) “Estar vivo é ser uma alma viva. Um animal – e somos todos animais – é uma alma inserida num corpo”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
17 nov 2017 – Estar vivo é ser uma alma viva. Um animal – e somos todos animais – é uma alma inserida num corpo. Foi precisamente isso que Descartes enxergou e, por razões pessoais, escolheu negar. O animal vive, disse Descartes, da mesma forma que a máquina vive.
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Mass Shooters Are Disproportionately US Veterans
David Swanson – MintPress News,
20 Nov 2017
US Military Veterans Are More than Twice as Likely to Be Mass Shooters – It’s important to answer because it’s important for us to know whether military training is contributing to this epidemic,
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An Escalating Afghan Crisis of ‘Profit’ over ‘Life’
Hakim Young, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – If our ‘thinking as usual’ and ‘business as usual’ continue, we will leave no historical traces at Mes Aynak or Kabul except for mining and digging machines, in a parched desert of war ruins.
→ read full articleWhitewash
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
Clean Coal?
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