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UN Agencies Express Outrage over Killing of Palestinian Volunteer Medic in Gaza
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
United Nations officials have expressed their outrage over Friday’s [1 Jun] killing by Israeli security forces of 21-year-old Razan al-Najjar, a Palestinian volunteer medic who was helping the injured along the Gaza border.
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Israel Approves More Than 2,000 Settlement Units in West Bank
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
31 May 2018 – The Israeli government has approved the construction of 2,070 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, local media reported. Since US President Donald Trump came to office, Israel has approved construction of more than 14,000 settlement units.
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37 Million Bees Found Dead after Planting Large GMO Corn Field
Daily Native News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
11 Mar 2018 – Millions of bees dropped dead after GMO corn was planted few weeks ago in Ontario, Canada. The local bee keeper, Dave Schuit who produces honey in Elmwood lost about 37 million bees which are about 600 hives. “Once the corn started to get planted our bees died by the millions,” Schuit said.
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How Long Are We Going to Pretend Palestinians Aren’t People?
Robert Fisk | The Independent – Reader Supported News,
28 May 2018
26 May 2018 – Monstrous. Frightful. Wicked. It’s strange how the words just run out in the Middle East today. Sixty Palestinians dead. In one day. Two-thousand-four-hundred wounded, more than half by live fire. In one day. The figures are an outrage, a turning away from morality, a disgrace for any army to create.
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Meanwhile, in Gaza…
Latuff – MintPress News,
28 May 2018
War Crime of the Century
→ read full articleAudio Interview with Johan Galtung on Peace Journalism
Vatican News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
8 May 2018 – Galtung answers the questions, Why is it so difficult for the media to inform about peace? Why does it appear it to be interested only in war? “It is because they don’t know how to write about it, they don’t even know how to conceptualize peace,” he says.
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‘We Die Anyway, So Let It Be in Front of the Cameras’: Conversations with Palestinians in Gaza
Amira Hass | Haaretz – Reader Supported News,
21 May 2018
19 May 2018 – My friends in Gaza are outraged by Israel’s claim that Hamas rules everything. ‘You people always looked down at us, so it’s hard for you to understand that no one demonstrates in anyone else’s name.’
→ read full articleKiller Media
Latuff – MintPress News,
21 May 2018
Messenger?
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One Killed, ‘700 Palestinians Wounded’ in Seventh Week of Nonviolent Gaza Protests
Jack Khoury | Haaretz – Reader Supported News,
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 – One Palestinian was killed and 700 wounded in unarmed protests today along the Gaza border from live gunfire as thousands of Gazans protest along the border in the seventh consecutive week of the “March of Return.” Three critically wounded, 112 of those wounded were hit by live gunfire. Israeli doctors NGO demands entry to Israel for wounded to prevent amputations.
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‘Peace Journalism’ To Help Build a More Peaceful World
Vatican News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
8 May 2018 – Pope Francis dedicated his Message for World Communications Day 2018 to “peace journalism” and Galtung expressed his gratitude for this. He said he believes that Pope Francis is one of the greatest positive figures of our time and “obviously I am deeply struck by his stance on a concept such as “peace journalism” and find his support a great boost.
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Which Country Dominates the Global Arms Trade?
Tim Bowler - BBC News,
14 May 2018
10 May 2018 – Brutal civil wars in Syria and Yemen, coupled with the return of great power rivalries between the US, Russia and China, have brought the world’s arms trade into sharp focus. It is a thriving global industry with the total international trade in arms now worth about $100bn per year. And it is the United States that is extending its lead as the globe’s number one arms exporter.
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Iran Deal Represents ‘Significant Verification Gain’ – UN Atomic Energy Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
9 May 2018 – Speaking the day after the United States withdrew from an international agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency made it clear that Iran has consistently stuck to its commitments.
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For Rohingya Refugees, Imminent Surge in Births Is Traumatic Legacy of Sexual Violence – Special Report
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 – Late last year, as violent repression in Myanmar sent Rohingyas fleeing to safety in Bangladesh, women from the mainly Muslim minority were subjected to what a United Nations official called “a frenzy of sexual violence”.
→ read full articleMasquerade Helmets
Latuff – MintPress News,
7 May 2018
True Identity…
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Turning on Russia (Part 1)
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould – Consortium News,
7 May 2018
29 Apr 2018 – With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the creation of the so called Wolfowitz Doctrine in 1992 during the administration of George Herbert Walker Bush, the United States claimed the mantle of the world’s first and only Unipower with the intention of crushing any nation or system that would oppose it in the future. The New World Order, foreseen just a few short years ago, becomes more disorderly by the day.
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The Latest Act in Israel’s Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign
Gareth Porter - Consortium News,
7 May 2018
3 May 2018 – Benjamin Netanyahu’s stage performance about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon not only was based on old material, but evidence shows it was fabricated too.
→ read full articleTurning on Russia (Part 2)
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould – Consortium News,
7 May 2018
How Neo-Conservatives, Behind the Scenes, Took Control of U.S. Foreign Policy
→ read full articleNorth Korea’s Suspension of Missile Tests Should Lead to ‘Irreversible’ Commitment to Ban Nuclear Testing – UN-Backed Treaty Body
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
25 Apr 2018 – The world’s nuclear proliferation watchdog has welcomed the announcement by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to suspend its nuclear and missile tests and shut down its Punggye-ri atomic test site.
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North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in at DMZ
VOA News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
Peace in the Making: Historic Third Summit between North and South Korea – Streamed Live 27 Apr 2018
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Saudi Aggression War against Yemen
Yemen News Agency Saba – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
23 Apr 2018 – At least 88 victims of the wedding massacre of the US-backed Saudi-led aggression warplane were killed and injured, which targeted a wedding in al-raqah area at Bani Qais in Hajjah province, a medical official told Saba today.
→ read full articleBloodthirsty
Latuff – MintPress News,
30 Apr 2018
Outlaws above International Law…
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An Alternative Explanation to the Skripal Mystery
Gareth Porter - Consortium News,
30 Apr 2018
An alternative explanation to the mystery surrounding the poisoning of Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter may involve a possibility that neither the British nor Russian governments want to talk about.
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Famed War Reporter Robert Fisk Reaches Syrian ‘Chemical Attack’ Site, Concludes “They Were Not Gassed”
Zero Hedge – MintPress News,
23 Apr 2018
17 Apr 2018 – Not only has the veteran British journalist found no evidence of a mass chemical attack, but he’s encountered multiple local eyewitnesses who say the gas attack never happened. Fisk is the first Western journalist to reach and report from the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack widely blamed on Assad’s forces.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
Two hundred and seven child soldiers have been released by armed groups in South Sudan, part of a series of planned discharges that should see nearly 1,000 children return home over the coming months.
→ read full articlePolitics as Usual
Latuff – MintPress News,
23 Apr 2018
Same old, same old…
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How the US Occupied the 30% of Syria Containing Most of Its Oil, Water and Gas
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
23 Apr 2018
While gaining control of key resources for partitioning Syria and destabilizing the government in Damascus, the U.S.’ main goal in occupying the oil and water rich northeastern Syria is aimed not at Syria but at Iran.
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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Takes on Syrian White Helmets, Thought-Control
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
23 Apr 2018
17 Apr 2018 – Roger Waters, former guitarist for Pink Floyd, spoke out against the Syrian White Helmets during a recent concert in Barcelona, calling the group “fake” and existing for the sole purpose of creating propaganda for a Western audience on behalf of Syrian opposition groups.
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Trump Attacks Syria with Chemical Experts on the Way
Joe Lauria - Consortium News,
23 Apr 2018
13 Apr 2018 – President Trump ordered airstrikes on Syria as a team of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was about to arrive to determine whether a chemical weapons attack had even occurred.
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Pentagon Does Not Have Evidence of Chlorine, Sarin Use in Syria’s Douma–US Defense Secretary Mattis
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – “There have been a number of these attacks. In many cases, you know we don’t have troops, we’re not engaged on the ground there, so I cannot tell you that we had evidence, even though we had a lot of media and social media indicators that either chlorine or sarin were used,” Mattis said, speaking to members of the House Armed Services Committee today.
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Insidious Colonialism
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
16 Apr 2018
4 Apr 2018 – An in-depth consideration of the past sixty years leads me to conclude that what almost came to an end with the independence processes of the twentieth century was a particular form of colonialism, not colonialism as a mode of domination. The form that almost came to an end was what can be termed historical colonialism, which was characterized by foreign territorial occupation. But the mode of colonial domination persisted in other forms.
→ read full articleAt Security Council, UN Chief Pushes for Creation of Body to Determine Perpetrators of Chemical Attacks in Syria
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
13 April 2018 – António Guterres today again called for the creation of an independent panel that could determine who used chemical weapons in Syria, as the absence of such a body increases the risks of a military escalation in a country already riven by “confrontations and proxy wars.”
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Syrian Army Captures British Militants in Eastern Ghouta – Reports
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – According to a report by Al-Mayadeen news channel cited by Fars News, a number of British troops have been captured during the Syrian Arab Army’s operations in Eastern Ghouta. They are believed to be a part of international military forces deployed in the region to launch a ground assault in Damascus in cooperation with the US.
→ read full articleHere We Go Again…
Latuff – MintPress News,
9 Apr 2018
29 Mar 2018 – Trump in Bad Company
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Teaching Evolution in Schools: What Science Explains and What Explains Science
Chaitanya Charan Das | Spiritual Scientist – ISKCON News,
9 Apr 2018
“When evolution becomes an all-explaining truth-claim, it no longer remains a science, but becomes an ideology.” Before examining the tenability of this statement, we need to understand what is implied by the word evolution. It refers to different things in different contexts.
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Death of Marielle Franco Shines Light on the White Collar Criminals Running Brazil
MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Death of the New Republic: White-collar criminals in Brasília are ruling the country. Drug lords, paramilitaries, death squads, military police, and now also the army are terrorizing the population in the slums and the suburbs.
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The World’s Most Dangerous Terrorist Group and Its Leader
Rob Kall – OpEdNews,
9 Apr 2018
24 Mar 2018 – The propaganda efforts of this terrorist group have been so effective that many of its victims actually support it enthusiastically, even while it kills their family members and impoverishes them. But what exactly is terrorism? Wikipedia’s page on terrorism offers this:
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Algorithmic Censorship: Google and Corporate News Giants Forge New Alliance to Defeat Independent Journalism
Elliott Gabriel – MintPress News,
2 Apr 2018
23 Mar 2018 – The “new media” monopolists of Silicon Valley and the once-dominant traditional print media have clearly agreed that the “fake news” frenzy is a convenient pretext to step up their censorship of the internet through new algorithms, allowing them to boost their profit margins and silence opposition through a new framework of “algorithmic censorship.”
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Three Mile Island Accident Deaths, Location: Facts on Nuclear Meltdown’s Anniversary
Elana Glowatz - Newsweek,
2 Apr 2018
28 Mar 2018 – It has been 39 years since a meltdown at Three Mile Island became the most significant nuclear accident in U.S. history. On March 28, 1979, one of the reactors at that power plant partially melted down, releasing radiation and revealing flaws within both the system and in how authorities respond to emergencies.
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Should Israeli Settlers Be Considered Civilians?
Robert Inlakesh – MintPress News,
2 Apr 2018
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
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At Security Council, UN Middle East Peace Envoy Reports on Israel’s Troubling Settlement Expansion
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Reporting that over the past three months, Israel has advanced 22 plans for some 1,200 housing units for one area of the West Bank, a United Nations envoy warned Monday [26 Mar] that such ongoing settlement expansion is eroding the prospect of a two-state solution to the long-standing Middle East conflict.
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Pathways for Peace: A Call to Rethink the Prevention of Violent Conflict in a Turbulent World
Alexandre Marc | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Servive,
2 Apr 2018
26 Mar 2018 – The joint UN–World Bank report, Pathways for Peace, was published on 1 Mar 2018. It is the first report that these two organizations have prepared in concert. It reflects the sense of urgency that many of us feel at organizations with a global reach to find common solutions to address violent conflict in the twenty-first century.
→ read full articleUN Appeals for Support to Tackle ‘Massive’ Health Needs of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
29 Mar 2018 -With relief agencies in Bangladesh struggling to assist more than a million vulnerable Rohingya refugees crowded into makeshift camps, the World Health Organization today appealed for international support to help the cash strapped health sector.
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Trump Supports ‘Space Force’ for War-Making and Dominance in Space
Dennis J Bernstein – Consortium News,
26 Mar 2018
20 Mar 2018 – Calls by Trump for a new ‘Space Force’ could further the potential of an armed showdown between US and foreign powers, such as China and Russia, reports Dennis J Bernstein in this interview with peace activist Bruce Gagnon.
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Krugman: India Has Emerged as a Superpower
Other News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Saturday [17 Mar] said, “What Great Britain achieved in 150 years, India managed in just 30. The progress is extraordinary. This is a very big country, which people at some level have not fully noticed. It has overtaken Japan and is only behind US and China, and is far ahead of any European country. This is a superpower.”
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Now Sec. Defense Mattis Admits There Was No Evidence Assad Used Poison Gas on His People
Ian Wilkie | Other News - Newsweek,
26 Mar 2018
22 Mar 2018 – Lost in the hyper-politicized hullabaloo was the striking statement by Secretary of Defense James Mattis that the U.S. has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people. This assertion flies in the face of the White House Memorandum which was rapidly produced and declassified to justify an American Tomahawk missile strike against the Shayrat airbase in Syria.
→ read full articleFashion USA
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
26 Mar 2018
Tailored
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Solution to School Shootings
Latuff – MintPress News,
26 Mar 2018
It figures…
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Drawing Palestine from Prison: The Artwork of Palestinian Cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh
Ramona Wadi – MintPress News,
19 Mar 2018
“Most artists describe the Palestinian as a hero, even if imprisoned or killed by Israelis. I prefer to convey the message that Palestinians are human beings, so I portray suffering. The hero does not need anyone to stand with him — the hero is strong — but human beings need and demand someone to show solidarity with them.”
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How Exercise in Old Age Prevents the Immune System from Declining
Fergus Walsh – BBC News,
12 Mar 2018
Doing lots of exercise in older age can prevent the immune system from declining and protect people against infections, scientists say.
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The Dirty Secret of How France Exterminates Its Dolphins
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
12 Mar 2018
Sea Shepherd France President Lamya Essemlali launches Operation Dolphin By-Catch to warn the public about the fate of dolphins along the French coast.
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Behind the Scenes in Venezuela
Mark Weisbrot - U.S. News & World Report,
12 Mar 2018
3 Mar 2018 – The Trump administration is intensifying its regime change efforts to potentially include torpedoing Venezuela’s presidential election.
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Monsanto Concealed Effects of Toxic Chemical for Decades, Ohio Attorney General Alleges
Tim Stelloh – NBC News,
12 Mar 2018
6 Mar 2018 – Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday [5 Mar], alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. The company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
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How I Found My Voice as a Pacifist
Joan Baez | The Wall Street Journal – Reader Supported News,
5 Mar 2018
Joan Baez, 77, is a folk singer and guitarist who received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Her latest album is “Whistle Down the Wind” (Razor & Tie). She spoke with Marc Myers.
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Now Mattis Admits There Was No Evidence Assad Used Poison Gas on His People
Ian Wilkie - Newsweek,
19 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – The striking statement by Secretary of Defense James Mattis: the U.S. has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people. This assertion flies in the face of the White House Memorandum to justify an American Tomahawk missile strike against the Shayrat airbase in Syria.
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Syria’s White Helmets Go Global
Caitlin Johnstone – Consortium News,
19 Feb 2018
Syria’s White Helmets have been boosted by the West as a trusted humanitarian organization, but their origins and motives remain murky. Now, the White Helmets effort appears to be spreading to other countries.
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UN Special Envoy Claims [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Could Be Guilty of Crimes against Humanity
Jonathan Miller – Channel 4 News,
19 Feb 2018
14 Feb 2018 – Professor Yanghee Lee, who’s now been barred from Burma, said she’d received many death threats and was even warned of a planned assassination attempt.
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Myanmar Forces and Buddhist Villagers Torched Rohingya Homes, Then Killed
Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski | Reuters – US News & World Report,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – Rohingya trace their presence in Rakhine back centuries. But most people in majority-Buddhist Myanmar consider them to be unwanted Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh. The army refers to the Rohingya as “Bengalis,” and most lack citizenship. In recent years, the government has confined more than 100,000 Rohingya in camps where they have limited access to food, medicine and education. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya have fled their villages and crossed the border into Bangladesh since August.
→ read full articleNATO Allies… (?)
Latuff – MintPress News,
12 Feb 2018
Where (ex) Empires Clash
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Is Bitcoin a True Anti-War Currency?
Wendy McElroy | Bitcoin News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
6 Feb 2018 – It is not common to speak of currency as being pro or anti-war. A freely traded currency is merely an economic tool that facilitates the exchange of goods and services by people whose intentions may be good or evil. All things being equal, the money is morally and politically neutral in whatever form it takes.
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Mass Media for Culture of Peace
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – It has been the dream at CPNN from the beginning that our website and others like us would be able to attract so much readership that the mass media would need to take up the theme of the culture of peace in order to compete with us.
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Livin’ and Dion: Fall River a Perfect Backdrop for Kennedy Response [to Trump’s State of the Union]
Marc Munroe Dion - The Herald News,
5 Feb 2018
27 Jan 2018 – We are the struggle. Fall River is one of those left-behind places, one of those forgotten, unfashionable places, one of those American places that is neither New York City nor some quiet little suburb, nor some farm town. We are not igniting any national trends. Perhaps because of this, when U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III offers the Democrats’ rebuttal to Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday [30 Jan], he will speak from Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School.
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Doping Ban against 28 Russian Athletes Overturned
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – In a decision issued today, the Court for Arbitration for Sport said it “unanimously found” that the evidence presented against 28 athletes were “found to be insufficient to establish” that doping rules were violated. With the decision, the sanctions imposed against the athletes are “annulled” and their individual medal results in the 2014 Sochi Winter Games are “reinstated”.
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Conditions in Myanmar Not Yet Suitable for Rohingya Refugees to Return Safely – UN Agency
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – The necessary safeguards for Rohingyas to return to Myanmar are absent, and there are ongoing restrictions on access for aid agencies, the media and other independent observers, the UN warned today, two months after Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed on a plan for the refugees’ voluntary return to their homes.
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A Rare Glimpse into the Inner Workings of American Empire in the Middle East
Edward Hunt – MintPress News,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – Four former U.S. diplomats provided remarkably candid commentary on recent U.S. involvement in the Middle East, revealing that it is still about oil and regional dominance.
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Real Concerns about Rohingya Repatriation
Julian Francis | BD News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – For the Rohingya refugees there are no declared guarantees. What about their rights to citizenship, security, shelter, food, health, education and to be able to practice their religion? If they agree to move to a “Temporary Transit Camp”, it might turn into a camp for “internally displaced” or a “concentration camp”. Who is going to guarantee what?
→ read full articleOn the Way to Hell…
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
29 Jan 2018
Busy body seeding destruction…
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Robert Parry (24 Jun 1949 – 27 Jan 2018): His Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews
Nat Parry – Consortium News,
29 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 – Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday [27 Jan] evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert’s unwavering commitment to independent journalism.
→ read full articleThe New Thesis Eleven
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
22 Jan 2018
19 Jan 2018 – In 1845, shortly after he published the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Karl Marx wrote his Theses on Feuerbach. The famous thesis eleven, the best known of them all, reads: “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” The word “philosophers” is used here in a broad sense, as referring to the producers of erudite knowledge, which nowadays might include the whole of humanistic and scientific knowledge deemed basic, as opposed to applied knowledge.
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Israel Bans Entry to 25 Organizations Connected with the BDS Movement
Rebecca Vilkomerson | Jewish Voice for Peace - The Dawn News,
15 Jan 2018
On Sunday January 8, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs released a list of 20 international organizations whose members will be prohibited from entering the country because of their support of the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions Movement -BDS- against Israel.
→ read full articleCold War Redux
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
15 Jan 2018
Recycling Old Garbage
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After 1,000 Days of Conflict, Yemen Sliding into ‘Deepening Catastrophe,’ UN Agencies Warn
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
30 Dec 2017 – As the conflict in Yemen passes the grim 1,000-day milestone, the United Nations is warning that if humanitarian workers cannot gain greater access and the violence does not subside, the cost in lives will be incalculable.
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North Korea and South Korea Are Threatening to Seek Peace
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Jan 2018
6 Jan 2018 – Korean Détente Puts Decades of Failed, Corrupt US Policy at Risk – A few gestures of mutual respect between North Korea and South Korea during the first week of January are the best signs of sanity there in decades.
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Peacebuilders: The Making of Mandela
Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison but upon his release, he chose reconciliation over revenge.
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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,
1 Jan 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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Suspected Cholera Cases in Yemen Surpass One Million, Reports UN Health Agency
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
22 Dec 2017 – The total number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has crossed one million, the World Health Organization reported today. “If we cannot bring in medicines and medical supplies, we cannot save lives.”
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Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
25 Dec 2017
Clobbered!
→ read full articleUN Rights Expert ‘Disappointed’ by Myanmar’s Decision to Refuse Visit
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
20 Dec 2017 – The UN expert on the human rights situation in Myanmar today expressed disappointment at the government’s decision to deny her all access to the country. “This declaration of non-cooperation with my mandate can only be viewed as a strong indication that there must be something terribly awful happening in Rakhine, as well as in the rest of the country.”
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The High Cost of Denying Class War
Yanis Varoufakis – Other News,
18 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 – The rise of populism on both sides of the Atlantic is being investigated psychoanalytically, culturally, anthropologically, aesthetically, and of course in terms of identity politics. The only angle left unexplored is the one that holds the key to understanding what is going on: the unceasing class war waged against the poor since the late 1970s.
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Rohingya Crisis Is ‘Very Deliberate Genocide’, Former UN General Romeo Dallaire Says
Dominic Waghorn – Sky News,
18 Dec 2017
The former commander of UN peacekeeping forces in Rwanda says the “will to intervene” on the Rohingya crisis is missing. A world authority on genocide, he said what is happening to Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims is undoubtedly genocide and the international community must intervene to prevent it.
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The Case against Iraqing Iran
David Swanson | World Beyond War – MintPress News,
18 Dec 2017
Planning war and funding war creates its own momentum. Sanctions become, as with Iraq, a stepping stone to war. Cutting off diplomacy leaves few options open. Electoral pissing contests take us all where most of us did not want to be.
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Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
18 Dec 2017
As much as the U.S. mainstream media insists that the Russia-gate scandal is growing, what is undeniably growing is the list of major corrections that news outlets have been forced to issue.
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Careless Disposal of Antibiotics Could Produce ‘Ferocious Superbugs,’ UN Environment Experts Warn
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
5 Dec 2017 – Growing antimicrobial resistance linked to the discharge of drugs and some chemicals into the environment is one of the most worrying health threats today. “The warning here is truly frightening: we could be spurring the development of ferocious superbugs through ignorance and carelessness.”
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Trump’s Jerusalem
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Dec 2017
Idiocy + Power = Disaster
→ read full articleIssue of Jerusalem Must Be Resolved through Direct Negotiations between Parties, UN Chief Stresses
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – “In this moment of great anxiety, I want to make it clear: there is no alternative to the two-state solution. There is no Plan B,” said Mr. Guterres. In his remarks, the UN chief noted that it is only by realizing the vision of two states “living side-by-side in peace, security and mutual recognition, with Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and Palestine, and all final status issues resolved permanently through negotiations,” that the legitimate aspirations of both peoples will be achieved.
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What is Peace Journalism?
Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
Have you noticed that news media always cover war and violence, but rarely peace and reconciliations? Check out a new style of reporting that is emerging, and being used worldwide.
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The Struggle to Eliminate Violence against Women Is Essential to the Culture of Peace
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
1 Dec 2017 – The advance this year of the struggle to eliminate violence against women is an important step forward for the global movement for a culture of peace. Here’s why.
→ read full articleMissile Practice
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
4 Dec 2017
No comment
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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.
→ read full articleReintegration 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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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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The Strength of the Lowly: The Theology of Liberation
Leonardo Boff – Other News,
27 Nov 2017
24 Nov 2017 – When one is asked how the Theology of Liberation is coming along, the answer is found in another question: How are the poor, the oppressed, women, the unemployed, Native peoples, Afro-descendants and others who are excluded treated? How do they enter in the liberating practices of the Christians? It is vital to emphasize that it is not the Theology of Liberation that is important, but the concrete liberation of the oppressed.
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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.
→ read full articleThe 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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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.
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U.S. Congress Approves Defense Bill to Pump $700 Billion into Military
Richard Lardner | Associated Press – PBS News Hour,
20 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 — House Republicans and Democrats joined forces today to decisively approve a defense policy bill that authorizes $700 billion to restock what lawmakers have described as a depleted U.S. military and counter North Korea’s advancing nuclear weapons program.
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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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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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UN Envoy Urges Greater Support for Rohingya Victims of Sexual Violence
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
16 Nov 2017 – “My observations point to a pattern of widespread atrocities, including rape, gang-rape by multiple soldiers, forced public nudity and humiliation, and sexual slavery in military captivity directed against Rohingya women and girls,” UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten said today.
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Afghanistan Opium Production Jumps 87 Per Cent to Record Level – UN Survey
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017 – A profoundly alarming trend in the cultivation and production of opium in Afghanistan reveals an 87 per cent production increase compared to 2016, the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime said today.
→ read full articleSelected Articles: 100 Years Ago – The Russian Revolution
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
November 7th, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of articles, including Eisenstein’s 1928 film, 10 Days that Shook the World.
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