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Conflict Prevention, Mediation: Among ‘Most Important Tools’ to Reduce Human Suffering, Guterres Tells Security Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
12 Jun 2019 – Conflict prevention and mediation are two of “the most important tools at our disposal to reduce human suffering” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council today. “When we act early, and are united, we can successfully prevent crises from escalating, saving lives and reducing suffering – fulfilling the most fundamental mandate of the United Nations”, he continued.
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Nukes and Misdirected “Manhood” in Washington, D.C.
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | DWF News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
12 Jun 2019 – In “Unmaking War, Remaking Men” Dr. Kathleen Barry describes how many men suffer from “core masculinity,” meaning, these men psychologically experience the possession of nuclear weapons and a large military force as increasing their (unconscious) sense of manhood! Do we really want to trust our safety and that of our children to “modernized” nuclear missiles and to more plutonium pits, the triggers for nuclear bombs?
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UN Expert Criticizes States for ‘Ganging Up’ on WikiLeaks’ Assange; Warns against Extradition, Fearing ‘Serious’ Rights Violations
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
On 9 May, the Special Rapporteur visited Mr. Assange with two medical experts who specialize in examining victims of ill-treatment. The team spoke to the prisoner and conducted a thorough medical assessment. “Mr. Assange’s health has been seriously affected by the extremely hostile and arbitrary environment he has been exposed to for many years,” he said. On Thursday [30 May], according to reports, Assange was too ill to appear via video-link from a British prison in a hearing over an extradition request from the US.
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Pretexts for an Attack on Iran
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
27 May 2019
15 May 2019 – Ray McGovern probes the step-up in U.S. belligerence towards a country posing the same non-existent strategic threat as Iraq.
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Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Author and Activist, Dies Aged 48
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
22 May 2019 – Kenyan author and activist Binyavanga Wainaina, winner of the 2002 Caine Prize and once listed as one of Time Magazine’s ‘most influential people’ has died at the age of 48 at a Nairobi hospital following a short illness. Following the passage of a series of anti-gay laws across Africa in 2014, Wainaina publicly announced that he was gay. “I am, for anybody confused or in doubt, a homosexual. Gay, and quite happy,” he tweeted.
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The Florence Declaration: An International Front Calling for NATO-Exit (14 Languages)
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
The Florence Declaration is now available in 14 languages including Chinese. It was drafted by the Italian Committee No War- No NATO and the Centre for Research on Globalization. The Western mainstream media has not covered the Florence event: Disinformation through Omission. Scroll down for links to the translations.
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UN Health Agency Highlights Lifestyle Choices That Can Prevent Onset of Dementia, as Millions More Succumb Each Year
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
14 May 2019 -Key lifestyle choices such as getting regular exercise, not smoking or drinking too much, can reduce the risk of dementia and cognitive decline, the UN health agency said today. Today, around 50 million people globally suffer from dementia and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
14 May 2019 – Myanmar’s military commanders must answer charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in a credible court, a United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) said today, urging the international community to cut off all financial and other support to them.
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U.S. Special Forces School Publishes New Guide for Overthrowing Foreign Governments
Tom O'Connor – Newsweek,
20 May 2019
8 May 2019 – The 250-page study, “Support to Resistance: Strategic Purpose and Effectiveness,” was published earlier this week by the official Joint Special Operations University. Its findings present a comprehensive look at how the U.S. has supported efforts to pressure, undermine and overthrow foreign governments, hoping to provide insight on how best to approach such efforts in the present and future.
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At China’s Belt and Road Forum, Guterres Calls for ‘Inclusive, Sustainable and Durable’ Development
UN News – TRANSEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
26 Apr 2019 – China’s international trade and economic development plan – known as the Belt and Road Initiative – could contribute to a more equitable, prosperous world, and to reversing the negative impact of climate change, Secretary-General António Guterres said today, speaking in Beijing, China.
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Saudi Arabia Beheads 37 People Guilty of ‘Terrorism-Related Crimes’
SBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
24 Apr 2019 – The executions are likely to stoke further regional and sectarian tensions between rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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“Israel” Turns a Historical Palestinian Mosque into a Bar
Quds News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
13 Apr 2019 – The Israeli municipality in Safed has turned Al-Ahmar Mosque into a bar and events hall, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported. It has long been one of the most historical mosques in the Arab city of Safed, northern occupied Palestine, which was occupied by Jewish gangs in 1948.
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Years after She Smells Parkinson’s Disease on Her Husband, Woman Is Now Paving the Way for Early Detection Test
McKinley Corbley | Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
13 Apr 2019 – Milne did not realize that she had been smelling the disease for over a decade until she attended a support group for Parkinson’s patients and found that everyone of them had the smell.
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White House Insider: War with Iran Planned by Trump to Occur in the Fall of 2019
Israel Today News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – President Donald Trump and his inner circle are planning an extensive invasion of Iran, according to a source working in the White House. The plan involves a ground invasion and the use of tactical nuclear weapons, in a campaign planned for the Fall of 2019. Iran will be “wiped off the map” according to the source, and the war effort is expected to cost “two and half times the Iraq War.”
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Margaret Prescod | Pacifica – The Real News Network,
22 Apr 2019
14/16 Apr 2019 (Parts 1 & 2) – An unknown number of Haitians were killed, raped, and burned alive in La Saline, Haiti, home of the African Diaspora liberation. Margaret Prescod talks about what she found.
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US Makes Stuff Up to Grease the Skids for War on Iran
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
22 Apr 2019
19 Apr 2019 – With absolutely zero good reasons for waging war on Iran, the Trump administration goes on making stuff up to lie the country into yet another war. The template looks like the Bush administration’s successful effort to lie the US into the Iraq War, the catastrophic effects of which keep unfolding.
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8 April: The Buddha Siddhartha Gautama Birthday (563–483 BC)
Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
8 Apr 2019 – Today is the anniversary of the Buddha’s birth—born Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, the fourth largest religion in the world.
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Researchers Have Identified How Naval Sonar Is Killing and Beaching Whales
Alex Larson | Sea Voice News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
We have known for a long time that naval sonar has devastating effects on marine life but just exactly how it leads to sickness and death was a mystery till now. In new research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they discovered that the sound emitted by sonar is so intense that marine mammals will swim hundreds of miles, dive deep into the abyss or even beach themselves to flee from the sounds that are literally unbearable to them.
→ read full articleThu, 11 April Brief: Women in Peacekeeping, the Arrests of Assange & Sudan’s Leader, Updates on Libya, Nigeria & Syria
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – Today the Security Council looked at the key role played by women in the UN’s peacekeeping operations. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be exposed to “serious human rights violations”, following his arrest in the United Kingdom, according a UN independent human rights expert. Fighting continues to escalate in Tripoli, Libya, and in Idlib, Syria, and 10,000 conflict-affected people were forcibly relocated in Nigeria and are in dire need of humanitarian aid.
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More of the Same…
Latuff – MintPress News,
15 Apr 2019
Clouts. Right!
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Determined to Save India’s Water Supply, 26-Year-old Has Revived 10 Lakes from a Polluted Mess
McKinley Corbley | Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
7 Apr 2019 – Ramveer Tanwar had just finished his final year at the university in 2013 when he became concerned about the state of Uttar Pradesh. The region had experienced 13 droughts in just 15 years, and the local communities were suffering. The 26-year-old engineer could not bear to see his country’s rivers and lakes plagued by drought and pollution – so he decided to do something about it.
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Vampire
Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Apr 2019
Thirsty…
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UN Agencies Urge Brunei to Repeal New ‘Extreme and Unjustified’ Penal Code
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
4 Apr 2019 – New criminal laws in Brunei that impose the death penalty for same-sex relationships, adultery and childbirth out of marriage, “breach international human rights norms”, and should be suspended or repealed said the heads of two United Nations agencies today.
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Trump Cuts All Direct Assistance to Northern Triangle Countries Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala
Conor Finnegan – ABC News,
1 Apr 2019
30 Mar 2019 – The stunning development came late Friday [29 Mar] night.
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Even for the West Bank, This Is a Shocking Story
Gideon Levy and Alex Levac | Haaretz – Reader Supported News,
1 Apr 2019
A young Palestinian’s attempt to help a stranger shot by Israeli troops costs him his life
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Bloomberg Billionaires Index
Bloomberg News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
As of March 25, 2019: The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. View profiles for each of the world’s 500 richest people, see the biggest movers, and compare fortunes or track returns.
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Study Links Fukushima Disaster to Spike in Infant Heart Surgeries
Lucy Craft – CBS News,
25 Mar 2019
14 Mar 2019 — As Japan marks the eight-year anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that claimed some 22,000 lives, a new study suggests it could still be having a serious impact on the nation’s health. The disaster caused by the killer wave at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been linked by the research to a significant spike in infant heart surgeries.
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Donald Trump Says ISIS Defeated for at Least the Tenth Time
Tom O'Connor - Newsweek,
25 Mar 2019
22 Mar 2019 – President Donald Trump has repeatedly declared victory over the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) throughout his term, even as embattled jihadis continued to put up resistance to U.S.-backed forces.
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Viral Internet Challenge Is Spurring People around the World to Pick up Tons of Trash and Then Snap Photos
McKinley Corbley | Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
13 Mar 2019 – Rather than eating tide pods or spoonfuls of cinnamon, an eco-friendly new social media trend is inspiring people around the world to clean up litter.
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Trump Ally Erik Prince’s Company Expands to another Country Allegedly Committing Human Rights Violations: Myanmar
Cristina Maza - Newsweek,
25 Mar 2019
18 Mar 2019 – A company partially owned by Erik Prince, a former Navy Seal who created the controversial private military company Blackwater, is now heading to Myanmar to protect Chinese construction projects there, according to reports.
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Dozens Killed and Injured by New Airstrikes in Western Yemen, UN Coordinator Condemns ‘Outrageous’ Toll
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – Reports from Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate indicate that scores of civilians have been killed following airstrikes that hit residential areas over the past two days. Medical sources suggest that at least 22 have died, with more than 30 injured during the aerial bombardment.
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UN Rights Expert Calls for End to ‘Purgatory’ of ‘International Inaction’ Facing Myanmar’s Remaining Rohingya
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – A humanitarian crisis fuelled by the suppression of basic human rights is continuing across Myanmar’s Rakhine state, a UN Human Rights Council-appointed expert said today, in an appeal for alleged atrocities there to be referred to the International Criminal Court.
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«Humanitarian» — Really?
Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Mar 2019
Who needs enemies with friends like these?
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A Peek into the Horrific Findings of the UN Report on Israel’s Massacre of Gaza Protesters
Robert Inlakesh – MintPress News,
11 Mar 2019
8 Mar 2019 – The commission found serious human rights violations that may constitute crimes against humanity and called on Israel to “Lift the blockade on Gaza with immediate effect.”
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Meanwhile, in Syria
Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Mar 2019
More of the same
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(Français) Médias: «On produit l’information quasiment comme si on produisait des voitures»
Apocalypse News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Rencontre avec Grégoire Lalieu, journaliste à Investig’Action, qui nous livre sa vision du journalisme de demain !
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Chelsea Manning Jailed for Refusing to Testify Before Grand Jury in Virginia
Pete Williams and Elisha Fieldstadt – NBC News,
11 Mar 2019
8 Mar 2019 – Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was jailed today after refusing to answer questions from a federal grand jury in Virginia looking into the release of documents to WikiLeaks. Manning will remain in custody until she agrees to testify or until the grand jury ends its work.
→ read full articleUncle Sam in Venezuela
Latuff – MintPress News,
4 Mar 2019
No comment…
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Milan Anti-Racism March Draws “Hundreds of Thousands”
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
3 Mar 2019 – Organisers said about 200,000 people turned out to protest against racism in the northern Italian city of Milan in Lombardy, a region where the right-wing populist League party has strong support.
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How Much of Venezuela’s Crisis Is Really Maduro’s Fault?
Steve Ellner – Consortium News,
25 Feb 2019
15 Feb 2019 – The Venezuelan opposition frequently argues that neither the sanctions nor depressed international oil prices are to blame for the nation’s economic difficulties, only the mismanagement of the economy. There are several factors for Venezuela’s economic crisis, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to U.S. leaders or following corporate media.
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Venezuela False Flag Brewing? Under the Cloak of “the Humanitarian Convoy”
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019 – The alleged false flag operation is intended to justify “an outside invasion” of Venezuela by one or more foreign powers. The false flag is slated to result in the deaths of civilians.
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“Largest Land Grab since 1948” — Israel to Expel 36,000 Palestinians from Negev
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
18 Feb 2019
Given the Israeli state’s rejection of their existence, government officials have called the Palestinians living in these villagers “violators” and “squatters” – accusing them of illegally occupying “state lands.”
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Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen Remains the Worst in the World, Warns UN
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
14 Feb 2019 – An estimated 24 million people – close to 80 per cent of the population – need assistance and protection in Yemen, the UN warned today. With famine threatening hundreds of thousands of lives, humanitarian aid is increasingly becoming the only lifeline for millions across the country.
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Career War Criminal Elliott Abrams to Lead US on Venezuela
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
11 Feb 2019
4 Feb 2019 – Some say history repeats itself. Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. The January 25 appointment of convicted perjurer Elliott Abrams as the new US Special Envoy on Venezuela is evidence that history just goes on and on and on with ironic cruelty and relentless injustice. That would be especially true if you happen to have the world’s largest proven oil reserve, as Venezuela does.
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Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Feb 2019
Change not always is an improvement…
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Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich Discuss the Proposal for a Department of Peace
Paul Jay | The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich interviewed by Paul Jay
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When the Vessel Is Sinking
Federico Mayor Zaragoza | Other News – Human Wrongs Watch,
11 Feb 2019
7 Feb 2019 — ‘Suddenly -said Leonardo Da Vinci- there are no poor and rich, no young and old, no white and black on board… only a bunch of passengers toiling, working together to survive, to avoid a shipwreck.’ This is the advice we should convey today through all media so that the “peoples” become aware of the situation humanity is facing for the first time in history.
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Million across Yemen ‘just a Step Away from Famine’, with Food Available but Inaccessible
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
7 Feb 2019 – While nearly 10 million people across Yemen remain “just a step away from famine”, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has spoken of his deep concern that a large food storage depot on the outskirts of the crucial port city of Hudaydah, has been out of bounds since last September.
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Leaked WikiLeaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
11 Feb 2019
7 Feb 2019 – This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by the U.S. government to bend countries to its will.
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What’s Really Going On in Venezuela
Marc Ash - Reader Supported News,
11 Feb 2019
Since 1999, the US has waged economic warfare against Venezuela in an attempt to destabilize and deconstruct the Socialist Revolution started by former Venezuelan president and close Fidel Castro ally Hugo Chavez. The US wants Venezuela, with its rich oil reserves, to be a compliant client-state. That was what motivated the Cuban Revolution and that is what drives anti-colonialist sentiment in Venezuela today.
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US Stops All Aid to Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza
Yolande Knell - BBC News,
4 Feb 2019
1 Feb 2019 – More than US$60m in annual funds for the Palestinian security services has now ended, and – while Israel has backed some previous cuts in US aid for Palestinians – officials have expressed concern about this move. The US has confirmed the step linked to new anti-terrorism legislation.
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Meanwhile, in Palestine aka Israel
Latuff – MintPress News,
4 Feb 2019
More of the same…
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Notre Dame University to Cover Christopher Columbus Murals
NBC News | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 — The University of Notre Dame will cover murals in a campus building that depict Christopher Columbus in America, following criticism that the images depict Native Americans in stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers. The 12 murals created in the 1880s by Luis Gregori were intended to encourage immigrants who had come to the U.S. during a period of anti-Catholic sentiment.
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Environment and Health at Increasing Risk from Growing Weight of ‘E-Waste’
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
24 Jan 2019 – Around 50 million tonnes of electronic waste, or e-waste, is being thrown away each year, according to a new joint United Nations report – which exceeds the combined weight of all the commercial airliners ever made, or alternatively, enough Eiffel Towers to fill the whole of Manhattan.
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Israeli Culture Minister: I’m Happy to Be Fascist
News Punch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
13 Dec 2018 – Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev says she is proud to be “fascist” and considers fascism an integral part of Israeli culture.
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Latuff – MintPress News,
28 Jan 2019
For the Sake of Power
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No Entry into Myanmar for UN Human Rights Expert
John Zaw | UCANews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
15 Jan 2019 – Myanmar has refused a U.N. human rights expert entry as she visits Thailand and Bangladesh investigating abuses against the Rohingya being committed in the country. Myanmar has barred Yanghee Lee from the country since December 2017.
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‘Historic’ Moment: Palestine Takes Reins of UN Coalition of Developing Countries
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
15 Jan 2019 – Acknowledging “a long road ahead” on the United Nations ambitious agenda, Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed today “the historic leadership of the state of Palestine” as the new Chair of the Group of 77’s (G77).
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Liberté, Égalité, Impérialisme! Vive la France in Black Africa! (Part 2)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – Consortium News,
21 Jan 2019
“Hotel Rwanda” is a touchstone of interventionist ideology. Debunking that script helps show why the closure of the assassination case against Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame serves Western interests.
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A New Spectre Is Haunting Europe
Roberto Savio | Other News - Human Wrongs Watch,
21 Jan 2019
17 Jan 2019 – After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848; it is the spectre of the failure of neoliberal globalisation, which reigned uncontested following the fall of the Berlin Wall, until the financial crisis of 2009.
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Time for a New Paradigm
Roberto Savio | Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
Foreword to Riccardo Petrella’s In the Name of Humanity – Riccardo is a central point of reference for those who have not yet given up on seeing the governance of globalisation in terms of values and ideals. He has behind him a long series of struggles for a different economy and has denounced the dangers of neoliberal globalisation from the outset. We owe it to him if the theme of “commons” began to be debated, in particular that of water as a public good.
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Rising Human Trafficking Takes on ‘Horrific Dimensions’: Almost a Third of Victims Are Children
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
7 Jan 2019 – A new UN report published today shows that human trafficking is on the rise and taking on “horrific dimensions”, with sexual exploitation of victims the main driver. Children now account for 30 per cent of those being trafficked, and far more girls are detected than boys.
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Storms and Snow in Lebanon Worsen Plight for Syrian Refugees
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
10 Jan 2019 – Storm-force winds and snow across Lebanon have worsened the plight for tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who’ve been forced from their homes by nearly eight years of conflict, a top UN humanitarian official said today.
→ read full articleUnstoppable?
Latuff – MintPress News,
14 Jan 2019
Evil face of evil empire…
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Amid Troop Build-Up in Rohingya’s Home State, UN Appeals to Myanmar for Peaceful Solution
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
9 Jan 2019 – Major fighting in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state has so far been avoided following clashes between armed separatists and national security forces that are increasing troop numbers there, a top UN humanitarian official there said today.
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Afghanistan in 2019: Fewer US Troops, More CIA Torture and Killings
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
7 Jan 2019
3 Jan 2019 – Perhaps it’s just another sign of American psychic numbing, but the Times story seems to have provoked little response from other media, from politicians of any stripe, or from the public. More American war crimes in some Muslim country? Well, Happy New Year!
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Giuliani Says Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted
Joe Lauria – Consortium News,
7 Jan 2019
31 Dec 2018 – Donald Trump’s lawyer said today that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange should not be prosecuted and he compared WikiLeaks publications to the Pentagon Papers.
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White Helmets: ‘Organ Traders, Terrorists, Looters’
Miri Wood - Syria News,
31 Dec 2018
23 Dec 2018 – The White Helmets fraud responders should have received massive MSM reporting this week, based on the seminar given by the Permanent Missions of the Russian Federation and Syrian Arab Republic, on Thursday 20 December.
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Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
Stan Shabaz | Zinda Magazine – Assyrian International News Agency,
31 Dec 2018
His most famous work, The Prophet, was first published in 1923. He has been described in many ways: “melancholic romantic”, “existentialist of the right wing”, Nietzschean rebel, revolutionary, renegade, poet-philosopher, “the William Blake of the twentieth century”, the “Lebanese prophet of New York”, a “burning genius”, etc. But who was he really?
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Xi Jinping’s Speech on 40th Anniversary of China’s Reforms, Opening Up–Full Text
China News Service | Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Analysis/Highlights by Xinhua
16 Charts by the Singapore Strait Times
– 18 Dec 2018 – Comrades, friends:
Meanwhile, at the US-Mexico Border
Latuff – MintPress News,
24 Dec 2018
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Whatever that means…
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Governments Adopt UN Global Migration Pact to Help ‘Prevent Suffering and Chaos’
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
The Global Compact for Migration was adopted on Monday [10 Dec] by leading representatives from 164 Governments at an international conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, in an historic move described by UN Chief António Guterres as the creation of a “roadmap to prevent suffering and chaos”.
→ read full articleMigrants: A UN Conference Undermined by 11th Hour Withdrawals
Thalif Deen | IPS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
7 Dec 2018 – When the long-awaited UN conference focusing on the rights and safety of migrants and refugees takes off in Morocco [10-14 Dec], it will be a rare, if not an unprecedented meeting, for one reason: the withdrawal of at least seven member states almost at the 59th minute of the eleventh hour.
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UNGA President Launches New Initiative to Purge Plastics and Purify Oceans
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
The President of the UN General Assembly launched a new global call to action on Tuesday [4 Dec] to help end the scourge of plastic pollution in the ocean.
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This Is How Capitalism Kills Us
Hamilton Nolan – Splinter News,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 – Capitalism incentivizes the maximization of short-term, private profits. Compensation from investment is supposed to be tied to risk—the higher the risk, the higher the reward. When you have a political system in which it is possible to purchase political power, you can shove your risk off onto the government. It is privatized profit and socialized risk. It is the best deal you can get. It is also, at its core, corrupt, the most inhuman manifestation of crony capitalism.
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Has America Become a Plutocracy?
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr - Newsweek,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – America has spent $6 trillion on war since 9/11. It can credibly be argued that America is now, officially, a plutocracy. My grandfather, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, warned that America could not be both an imperial nation abroad and a constitutional democracy at home. That unstable configuration, he argued, would diminish the middle class, yield large chasms between rich and poor and erode our constitutional and civil rights.
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New Technology Promises Natural Gas with No Emissions
Alan Neuhauser – US News & World Report,
26 Nov 2018
The development could change the conversation around clean energy.
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United States Will Bring Assange to US in Chains
Ann Garrison – Consortium News,
26 Nov 2018
It appears increasingly likely WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will wind up in the clutches of the U.S. government.
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Dairy Cows Blasted with Flame-Thrower
Vegan News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Help spread the truth about meat & dairy. The old days of family farms are over. Today’s factories are cold, efficient money machines. That’s why we have this continual problem with abuse.
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UNICEF Welcomes Bangladesh Statement That Rohingya Will Not Be Forced to Leave
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on Friday, 16 Nov, welcomed confirmation from the Bangladesh authorities that Rohingya refugees will not be returned to Myanmar against their will, amid reported ongoing rights violations there.
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We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage
Christine Kenneally | BuzzFeed News Investigation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive. “If L was caught not paying attention, the nuns would take a needle and regularly prick his fingertips.” Some of the women recognized each other not by name but by number: Thirty-two! Fourteen!
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U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Killed over Half a Million People: Study
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
The report published on 3 Nov 2018 by the Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the death toll between 480,000 and 507,000. It states that between 182,272 and 204,575 civilians have been killed in Iraq; 38,480 in Afghanistan; and 23,372 in Pakistan. Nearly 7,000 US troops were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period.
→ read full articleMeanwhile in Brazil
Latuff – MintPress News,
12 Nov 2018
Fascism anyone?
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
7 Nov 2018 – During yesterday’s briefing to the Security Council, Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, described the problem as a “global and accelerating phenomenon, and a threat to international peace and security,” that, in conflict areas alone, is generating around $31.5 billion in illicit profits.
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Every Bite of Burger Boosts Harmful Greenhouse Gases: UN Environment Agency
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
8 Nov 2018 – Even though meat production is known to be a major contributor to climate change and environmental destruction, worldwide demand for meat continues to rise, said UN environment agency, UNEP, in a statement released today.
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UN Rights Chief Warns of Potential ‘Witch-Hunt’ as Tanzanian Official Plans to Track and Arrest LGBT People
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
2 Nov 2018 – Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed apprehension today over a statement earlier this week that a committee would soon be put in place to track and arrest gays, and to encourage member of the public to report people suspected of being gay.
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Will Donald Trump Be Breaking the Law with New Asylum Policy? Immigration Experts Question Legality of Proposal
Alexandra Hutzler - Newsweek,
5 Nov 2018
1 Nov 2018 – President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to automatically deny asylum rights and detain migrants entering the United States illegally between the designated ports of entry—his latest response to the migrant caravan approaching the southern border. “These migrants are not legitimate asylum seekers,” Trump said.
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India Unveils World’s Tallest Statue, Twice the Size of the Statue of Liberty
Elisha Fieldstadt and Reuters – NBC News,
5 Nov 2018
31 Oct 2018 – The tallest statue in the world, twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty, honoring Vallabhbhai Patel, India’s first deputy prime minister, was unveiled today. Funds for the $400-million, 597-foot steel and bronze “Statue of Unity,” which used 7,416,080 cubic feet of cement, 25,000 tons of steel and 1,700 tons of bronze, came from the federal government, state-run companies and other institutions.
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Open Cruelty
Editorial |The News [Pakistan] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
4 Nov 2018 – With the Rohingya set to be sent back to the killing fields of Myanmar, it is stunning how little difference a UN declaration that a genocide was committed against them has made. Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start repatriating Rohingya refugees next month. A list of 8,000 Rohingya refugees has been processed by the Myanmar government and their return has been ‘approved’.
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Single-Use Plastics Ban Approved by European Parliament
Lucy Purdy | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
25 Oct 2018 – The European parliament has voted for a sweeping ban on a wide range of single-use plastics in a bid to tackle pollution of oceans and waterways.
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YouTubers Will Enter Politics, and the Ones Who Do Are Probably Going to Win
Ryan Broderick – BuzzFeed News,
29 Oct 2018
A group of twentysomethings leveraged their huge YouTube audiences and actually won seats in Brazil’s federal and state elections. What happens next is anyone’s guess.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
The United Nations specialized agency which coordinates the global postal system, has expressed “regret” over the withdrawal by the United States from the world body’s membership.
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Yemen Is Not a Wedge Issue, It’s an Ongoing Nexus of War Crimes
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
22 Oct 2018
20 Oct 2018 – Political assassination is a common and useful tool for tyrants. The US assassinates people all the time, most ruthlessly by remote drone killings with little care for collateral damage. That’s one reason the US has special forces deployed in more than a hundred countries. This was most recently illustrated by the BuzzFeed News report of American mercenaries assassinating “undesirables” in southern Yemen, the part of Yemen the Saudis are not bombing.
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Latuff – MintPress News,
15 Oct 2018
The Fact of the Matter
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Global Warming Report, an ‘Ear-Splitting Wake-Up Call’ Warns UN Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
A special report on limiting global warming released on Monday [8 Oct] by a UN scientific panel, should be heard around the world as an “ear-splitting wake-up call” said UN chief António Guterres. He said the long-awaited findings show that “climate change is running faster than we are – and we are running out of time.”
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Vatican Conference on Peace Journalism: Empathy, Not Only Sympathy
Francesca Merlo – Vatican News,
15 Oct 2018
13 Oct 2018 – Four peace journalists spoke today in an International Conference on “Peace Journalism”, at the Vatican. Professor Johan Galtung, the creator of the concept and one of the speakers, defines PJ as “editors and reporters making choices – about what to report, and how to report it – that create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value nonviolent responses to conflict.”
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Getting Boring Already
Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Oct 2018
Autistic Crying Wolf
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U.S. Military Project Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn
NBC News | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
4 Oct 2018 – A research arm of the U.S. military is exploring the possibility of deploying insects to make plants more resilient by altering their genes. Some experts say the work may be seen as a potential biological weapon.
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Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Oct 2018
Media No-Show
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US Military Plan to Spread Viruses Using Insects, Which Could Create a ‘New Class of Biological Weapon,’ Scientists Warn
Josh Gabbatiss | The Independent – Reader Supported News,
8 Oct 2018
5 Oct 2018 – Insects could be turned into “a new class of biological weapon” using new US military plans, experts have warned. However, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), which is responsible for developing military technologies in the US, says it is merely trying to alter crops growing in fields by using viruses to transmit genetic changes to plants.
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