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Eyeing Landmark Verdict in Roundup Cancer Case, Vietnam Demands Monsanto Be Held Liable over Agent Orange
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams, 3 Sep 2018
“We believe Monsanto should be responsible for compensating Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange for the damages caused by the company’s herbicides.”
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Lydia Mulvany | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2016
These companies used to sell heroin and Agent Orange. Now, they want to form the world’s largest supplier of seeds and pesticides.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Agent Orange, Monsanto, Dow Chemical and Other Ugly Legacies of the Vietnam War
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Nov 2015
The following currently accepted list of diseases that can be caused by exposure to Agent Orange applies to American veterans, but the consequences are a hundred times worse for the Vietnamese people who were sprayed and who are still being exposed to it in the soil for the last 50 years.
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Hai Quang Ho, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2015
Certes, la guerre du Vietnam s’est terminée il y a 40 ans. Mais elle continue à tuer aujourd’hui. Selon la Croix Rouge, 3 à 4 millions de Vietnamiens sont actuellement handicapés ou présentent de graves maladies liées à l’Agent Orange.
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The Advocacy Project – Peace & Collaborative Development Network, 8 Sep 2014
While Le Ba Thuan was recruiting soldiers for the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, he would watch American planes spraying herbicide and try to avoid the contaminated areas. He never quite succeeded and for the past fifty years he has suffered from heart disease, high blood pressure, constant headaches, and skin rashes.
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Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams, 17 Mar 2014
Pending approval of the GE Seeds, Dow prepares to roll out seed-herbicide combination package, spelling ‘catastrophe’ for farms and farmers.
→ read full articleIn Vietnam: Monsanto’s GM Crop Debate Reopens Agent Orange Wounds
An Dien - Thanh Nien News, 13 Feb 2012
No biotech company has yet got the official green light for selling genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but it does not assuage the fears that Vietnam could end up with another tragic legacy from a company that once caused many deaths in the country, environmental activists say. It would be ironic if Vietnam becomes a willing party to a “lethal” product made by the same US company that manufactured Agent Orange, the toxic defoliant used during the Vietnam War, they pointed out.
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Agent Blue Haunts Vietnam War Vets
Mike Tharp | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – This US-manufactured defoliant used in the Vietnam War has no half life: its poison keeps on poisoning forever.
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War, Herbicides and Moral Disengagement
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Aug 2021
On 10 Aug 1961 the U.S. started poisoning the forests and crops of Vietnam with herbicides to deprive the commies of Ho Chi Minh of food and ground cover. Agent Orange Awareness Day was on 10 Aug. I think we should spend the rest of the year honoring War and Dehumanization Awareness Day.
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Military Coup: The Myanmar-China Nexus
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Feb 2021
Vietnam, where the US is being welcomed back, is already an illogical development for China. Granted, a thousand years of Chinese colonialism is not easily forgiven by the Vietnamese. But the US damage caused by intensive bombing and harrowing Agent Orange deformities–still persisting many decades after the war–is even more horrifying. Hence, China’s wariness of its borders.
→ read full articleU.S. Military World’s Largest Polluter – Hundreds of Bases Gravely Contaminated
Whitney Webb – MintPress News, 22 May 2017
Producing more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined, the U.S. Department of Defense has left its toxic legacy throughout the world in the form of depleted uranium, oil, jet fuel, pesticides, defoliants like Agent Orange and lead, among other pollutants.
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Why Are We Being Fed by [Monsanto] a Poison Expert?
The Undercurrent – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jun 2015
Jun 5, 2015 – Is the ‘old’ Monsanto, the one responsible for producing Agent Orange, PCB’s and DDT and a terrible record at covering up and denying the tragedies that have resulted from their use, the same as the ‘new’ Monsanto, the one at the forefront of research in plant gene technology?
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Alejandra Rishton – Iraq Veterans Against the War, 26 Aug 2013
While Vietnam Veterans continue to suffer and die from the effects of Agent Orange poisoning, a new cohort of soldiers returns home from Iraq with Depleted Uranium contamination. Using Depleted Uranium munitions on civilians deprives the women of their most basic humanity by robbing them of their reproductive capabilities.
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Saul Landau – Foreign Policy in Focus, 10 Jun 2013
Obama’s spin language on Syria referring to the use of chemical weapons (calling it a “red line” and “game changer)” sounds like a moral imperative, but it overlooks key facts: the U.S. military used phosphorous bombs in attacks on Fallujah during the Iraq War, and U.S. Air Force planes dropped tons of Agent Orange on Vietnam.
→ read full articleThe Struggle to Reclaim Paradise [Hawai’i]
Imani Altemus-Williams – Waging Nonviolence, 15 Apr 2013
Monsanto has a long history of making chemicals that bring about devastation. The company participated in the Manhattan Project to help produce the atomic bomb during World War II. It developed the herbicide “Agent Orange” used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War, which caused an estimated half-million birth deformities. Most recently, Monsanto has driven thousands of farmers in India to take their own lives, often by drinking chemical insecticide, after the high cost of the company’s seeds forced them into unpayable debt.
→ read full articleBlair, Olympic Deals and the Glimpse of another Britain
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jul 2012
In the New Statesman of 21 June, I reported an urgent appeal to Sebastian Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics Organising Committee, by the Vietnam Women’s Union that he and his IOC colleagues reconsider their decision to accept sponsorship from Dow Chemical, one of the companies that manufactured Agent Orange, a poison used against the population of Vietnam.
→ read full articleHistory Is the Enemy As ‘Brilliant’ Psy-Ops Become the News
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jun 2012
History is buried with the dead and deformed of Vietnam and Bhopal. And history is the new enemy. On 28 May [2012], President Obama launched a campaign to falsify the history of the war in Vietnam. To Obama, there was no Agent Orange, no free fire zones, no turkey shoots, no cover-ups of massacres, no rampant racism, no suicides (as many Americans took their own lives as died in the war), no defeat by a resistance army drawn from an impoverished society.
→ read full articleMonsanto Pays 93 Million to Victims in Settlement
Cassandra Anderson, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2012
February 27, 2012 – Monsanto tentatively agreed to a $93 million settlement with some residents of Nitro, West Virginia. Nitro is a small town that got its name from manufacturing explosives during WWI. It was also the site of a Monsanto chemical plant that manufactured 2,4,5-T herbicide that was half of the Agent Orange recipe. Monsanto has now set a precedent for settling claims, and hopefully some good attorneys will seize the opportunity in order to hold Monsanto accountable.
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Gaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – From Bethlehem
11800 murdered civilians: men, women, 4600 children
But the victim we are told is the villain…
… No point to count the thousands rotting under the rubble
For no one has tools or equipment to go to the trouble
It’s Time to Stop the ‘Insect Apocalypse’
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023
28 Jun 2023 – I was reading about the looming demise of bumble bees thanks to human greed and ignorance and started thinking about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. We ‘should’ have eaten from it!
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The Fifth Estate
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023
Designed with three purposes in mind. First: a coherent overview of US foreign policies covering the wars, military interventions and major doctrines over 245 years. Each entry draws on the work of experts, summarizing major developments, analyzing causes and contexts, and providing links to additional information and resources. The second one…
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Human Destiny in Ukraine
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – To scale the pinnacles of corporate, political or military power in the United States requires certain rigid deficiencies of character, specifically the absence of compassion, decency and humanity. In their personal lives, powerful individuals may possess these qualities, but as an elite class, they lack them utterly.
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The Fabulist Arrogance of US Power
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The U.S. reserves for itself the right to commit crimes all over the world. Yet it also refuses to participate in any war crimes prosecution and even passed a law giving itself the right to invade the International Criminal Court at the Hague should a North American or an ally face justice.
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The Ninth of August: Christians Killing Christians in the Name of Christ
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Aug 2022
On 9 Aug 1945 an all-Christian B-29 bomber crew took off from Tinian Island in the South Pacific, with the blessings of its Catholic and Protestant chaplains. In the plane’s hold was the second of the only two nuclear bombs to ever be used against human targets in wartime.
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Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us
Sue Ann Martinson | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – It’s time to acknowledge how the failure to connect the dots between U.S. imperialism and the growing climate crisis threatens all life on this planet in more ways than one.
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The Global Suicide Budget
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022
In 2021, the human race, in order to keep itself safe, invested $2.1 trillion in the ability to make war — to kill one another, even to end life altogether. We live counter to our deepest values in order to, as Obama put it, “upheld our highest traditions.” Or something like that. The bullets fly in all directions. Sometimes they hit the soul.
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Corporate Coup
Stephanie Hiller - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Nov 2021
7 Nov 2021 – The Corporation Is Devouring Our Food System – It turns out that the path toward the UN Food Summit was littered with clues that a “corporate capture” of the United Nations was indeed in progress.
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These 3 Deceptively Simple Questions Can Shatter the Mythology That Sanctifies U.S. Imperialism
Matt Mckenna | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The 20th century muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair once opined that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” With this in mind, it is easy to understand why a small but powerful class of war profiteers might not acknowledge or seek to educate the public about the nefarious nature and immorality of U.S. empire.
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Napalm Sticks to Kids (Music Video of the Week)
Covered Wagon Musicians | Vietnam War Song Project – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jun 2021
A vivid account of US forces indiscriminately dropping bombs on Vietnam, hitting pregnant women, children, and other civilians. The focus of the song is chemical weapon Napalm B – a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict, dropping 388,000 tons on Indochina between 1963 and 1973.
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Moralizing AI Weaponry
Michael Brenner - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – The Congressional panel, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, recommends that the US military launch a major program to develop autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence software. Panel leader, former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, wants $20-30 billion in the program. Vice-chairman Robert Work said: “It is a MORAL IMPERATIVE to at least pursue this hypothesis,” he said.
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A Brief History of US Military Poisoning of Hawai’i
Ann Wright, Kyle Kajihiro and Jim Albertini | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Dec 2020
U.S. military contamination in Hawai’i comes from the military bases on four of the islands. The island of Kauai has the large Pacific Missile Test Facility. The Big Island of Hawai’i has the massive 130,000 acre firing range. The island of Kahoʻolawe is still contaminated from being bombed for decades. 43,000 active duty military personel, 9,600 Guard and Reserve, 60,000 dependents and 20,000 military employees live in Hawai’i. The military complex population of 132,600 comprises 10% of the 1.4 million population of the state.
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The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War
Laura Gottesdiener | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – The debate over Fallujah has centered on the use and impact of toxic material in US weapons, particularly depleted uranium. The discussion has largely overlooked the long-term public health effects of urban warfare on civilian populations and the dangers of politicizing science and medicine in times of military violence abroad.
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The Corporate Dictatorship of the Very Rich
Nora Fernandez | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Nov 2020
6 Nov 2020 – The wealthy improve their image financing self-serving projects they present as “serving others” but few question their motives or suspect them of hidden agendas. Most take billionaires at face value and forget how they made their fortunes.
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A Photo Gallery of Doomed Children Who Suffered Because of America’s Profitable Wars
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Below is a small handful of the multitude of censored-out and “unpatriotic” war photos that document examples of the “collateral damage” of children, which accompanies America’s wars. These are usually endorsed or at least not significantly opposed by the overwhelming majority.
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Meet the US Veterans Returning to Make Amends in Vietnam
Loretta Graceffo | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 – Forty-five years after the fall of Saigon, U.S. veterans are returning to Vietnam to find peace — and to atone for the damage they left behind.
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Linked Dangers to Civilization
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020 – I would like to announce the publication of a book that discusses the most serious dangers which the world faces today. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2020
Many of the serious dangers that we face today can be addressed by reforming our economic systems. Greed-sanctioning and growth-worshipping economics, the economics that has led to intolerable economic inequality, must be replaced by steady-state economics, and with the reforms that we can observe in present-day Scandinavia.
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Biological Weapons: A Useful and Timely Factual Overview
Larry Romanoff | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2020
7 Feb 2020 – The US government and its many agencies and educational and health institutions have for many decades conducted intensive research into biological warfare, in many cases strongly focused on race-specific pathogens.
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USA Military Veteran Plight: Macro- and Micro-Level Considerations
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2019
The tragic plight of USA military veterans is discussed within the context of four critical and reciprocal macro-level determinants followed by a descriptive equation of micro-level considerations in military veteran quality care.
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We’ve Been Epsteined! The Death of the “Conspiracy Theorist” Label
James Grundvig | Vaxxter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2019
The hairy canard of the CIA’s 1967 “conspiracy theorist” label died a thousand deaths when Epstein had his neck broken. With the murder of Jeffrey Epstein – only press lapdogs believe this narcissist committed suicide – the spin cycle has come to a full stop. The centrifuge is over. No more wet lies to be squeezed out of the bedsheets of pedophile rings or false flag events. I’m sure Epstein helped the hit squad turn off the hallway video cameras, too.
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“The Destruction of a Society”: First the U.S. Invaded Iraq — Then We Left It Poisoned
David Masciotra | Salon – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2019
Scientist: Bombs, Bullets and Military Hardware Abandoned by U.S. Forces Have Left Iraq “Toxic for Millennia” – The political and moral culture of the United States allows for bipartisan cooperation to destroy an entire country, killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process, without even the flimsiest of justification. Then, only a few years later, everyone can act as if it never happened.
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The American Cult of Bombing and Endless Wars
William J. Astore - TomDispatch, 10 Jun 2019
4 Jun 2019 – From Syria to Yemen in the Middle East, Libya to Somalia in Africa, Afghanistan to Pakistan in South Asia, an American aerial curtain has descended across a huge swath of the planet. Its stated purpose: combating terrorism. Its economic benefit: plenty of high-profit business for weapons makers for whom the president can now declare a national security emergency whenever he likes and so sell their warplanes and munitions to preferred dictatorships in the Middle East (no congressional approval required).
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“Now That He Is Safely Dead” – Paying Attention to the Real Voice of Martin Luther King
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – “Now That He Is Safely Dead” is the short but poignant poem that was written by black poet/musician Carl Wendell Hines soon after Malcolm X’s assassination in 1965. The poem has also been appropriately associated with the death of Dr Martin Luther King and his legacy of nonviolent struggle for black liberation, freedom, equality, economic justice and the pursuit of happiness for all.
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Israel Spraying Herbicides inside Gaza Violates Int’l Law, Rights Groups Say
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019
9 Jan 2019 – The Israeli army is continuing to spray dangerous herbicides on agricultural fields inside the Gaza Strip, three years since +972 Magazine first reported on the practice. This week, three Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups sent a letter to Israeli military officials demanding they immediately cease spraying the dangerous chemicals into Gaza.
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Banned Weapons Used in All US War Theaters
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Oct 2018
18 Oct 2018 – Whenever US forces aggressively attacks countries, dirty war is waged, including use of banned weapons.
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World’s Top 5 ‘Most Evil’ Corporations
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Oct 2018
Most companies become successful thanks to their stellar reputations. But not always. The most hated companies trending on the internet.
→ read full articleIdentity in a Global Era: Individual, Collective, National, “Existential” Considerations
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jul 2018
30 Jul 2018 – This paper is an overview of a complex topic, “Identity,” an essential concern in a number disciplines (e.g., anthropology, child development, medicine, politics, psychology, sociology). There is considerable debate within and across the disciplines regarding the nature of identity and its dynamics. This paper summarizes some of the major dimensions.
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How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe: A Special Investigation
Mark Hertsgaard and Mark Dowie – The Nation, 9 Apr 2018
23 Apr 2018 Issue – The disinformation campaign—and massive radiation increase—behind the 5G rollout. As happened earlier with Big Tobacco and Big Oil, the wireless industry’s own scientists privately warned about the risks… The World Health Organization classifies cell-phone radiation as a “possible” carcinogen… “Everyone knows that if your research results show that radiation has effects, the funding flow dries up.”
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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Apr 2018
4 Apr 2018 – Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitors but to ensure human and planetary survival.
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The 50-Year Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre: How Can Professed Christians Defend Wartime Atrocities?
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018
50 years ago today, on March 16,1968, a company of green, battle-untested US Army combat soldiers from the Americal Division, swept into the un-defended Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, rounded up the 500+ unarmed women, children, babies and old men, and efficiently executed almost all of them in cold blood, Nazi-style. No weapons or Viet Cong soldiers were found in the village. The entire killing operation took only 4 hours.
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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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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2017
Nov 20-26, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Logic of Drug Legalization
Jeff Berg - CounterPunch, 20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017 – The Drug Lords of today exist because of the extraordinary profits resulting from criminalization. Estimates run in the half a trillion range globally per year. Why drugs ought to be legalized.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2017
Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.” — Joyce Meyer
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2017
Oct 23-29, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.” — Tupac Shakur
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2017
Oct 16-22, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” — Walter Anderson
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2017
Oct 2-8, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: ”The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.” — Leonardo Boff
→ read full articleReclaiming the Truth about Vietnam
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2017
The first set of words sickened a vast segment of the American public and caused the horror of “Vietnam Syndrome” to cripple and emasculate the military-industrial complex for a decade and a half. Slowly, the powers that be regrouped, redefined how we fought our wars: without widespread national sacrifice or a universal draft; and with smart bombs and even smarter public relations, ensuring that most of the American public could watch our clean, efficient wars in the comfort of their living rooms. What was also necessary was to marginalize the anti-war voices that shut down the Vietnam War.
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Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2017
Siegfried Hecker is the last known American official to inspect North Korea’s nuclear facilities. He says that treating Kim Jong-un as though he is on the verge of attacking the U.S. is both inaccurate and dangerous. Trump made his crass “fire and fury” threat on the eve of the sixty second commemoration of the US nuclear attack on Nagasaki, the nauseating irony seemingly un-noticed by him. Will some adults pitch up on Capitol Hill before it is too late?
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2017
Aug 14-20, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Love is the greatest adventure. Because both life and death are present in it. When you are in love, you may live in a moment and you may die in the next.” – Unknown
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2017
Aug 7-13, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Life asked death, ‘Why do people love me but hate you?’ Death responded, ‘Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth.” – Author unknown
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2017
Jul 31-Aug 6, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2017
Jul 10-16, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2017
Jun 19-25 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall
→ read full articleGenetically Engineered Disappointments
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen – Inter Press Service-IPS, 22 May 2017
16 May 2017 – Advocates of genetically engineered crops have long claimed that it is necessary to raise crop yields and reduce human exposure to agrochemicals. GE promised two major improvements: improving yields affordably to feed the world, and making crops resistant to pests to reduce the use of commercial chemical herbicides and insecticides. There has been little compelling evidence to this effect after two decades.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2017
May 15-21 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightingale
→ read full articleImperialism and the Logic of Mass Destruction
Carl Boggs - CounterPunch, 8 May 2017
From the standpoint of Washington, “rational” pursuits are also imperial pursuits and imperial pursuits generally lead to military pursuits, as history demonstrates. Technowar managers are not especially sensitive to the prospects of massive civilian losses. Normal behavioral assumptions therefore do not apply to U.S. war calculations, whoever occupies the White House.
→ read full articleCorporate Pseudo-Science, Edward Bernays, and the 2017 March for Science
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2017
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of… It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”
— Edward L. Bernays, the Father of Propaganda in America and Sigmund Freud’s nephew, from his seminal book, Propaganda (1928)
An American Century of Carnage: Measuring Violence in a Single Superpower World
John W. Dower - TomDispatch, 3 Apr 2017
The projected bill for just the 30-year nuclear modernization agenda comes to over $90 million a day, or almost $4 million an hour. The $1 trillion price tag for maintaining the nation’s status as “the most powerful nation on Earth” for a single year amounts to roughly $2.74 billion a day, over $114 million an hour. Creating a capacity for violence greater than the world has ever seen is costly — and remunerative. So an era of a “new peace”? Think again.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2017
Mar 27-Apr 2 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Gratitude makes our sense of past, brings peace for today, creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2017
Jan 16-22 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You didn’t want to be my friend in elementary school. You didn’t want to be my friend in junior high school. And you certainly weren’t my friend in high school. Why on Earth do you want to be my Facebook friend today?” – William E Lewis Jr.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2016
Nov 21-27 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.’” – Tom Hanks
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John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2016
28 Oct 2016 – This month, the Pentagon admitted it has used uranium weapons in attacks inside Syria — violating its public promise last year that it would not use DU there, and contradicting the claim that US bombing is done in defense of the Syrian people, according to the Int’l Campaign to Ban Uranium Weapons.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2016
Oct 31- Nov 6 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” – Steve Jobs
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2016
Oct 24-30 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know that we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.” – Mother Teresa
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2016
Oct 17-23 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” – Saint Augustine
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2016
Oct 3-9 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless
→ read full articleMonsanto and the Poisonous Cartel of GMOs in India
Vandana Shiva | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 – Engaged in litigation on many fronts, Monsanto is trying to subvert India’s patent laws: Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, Essential Commodities Act and Competition Act. It is behaving as if there is no Parliament, no democracy, no sovereign laws in India to which it is subject. Or it simply doesn’t have any regard for them.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Aug 2016
Aug 15-21~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “[W]e tend to underestimate the power of one person. One committed, determined person filled with lights can move mountains.” – China Brooks
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Aug 2016
Aug 8-14 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2016
The word “disasters” has become much more than a word as humanity becomes aware of the numerous natural, human-made, and human-facilitated disasters in our times…. Albert Einstein, advised: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them” Albert Einstein is no longer with us, but his words remain, and demand attention. Anything less … a disaster!
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2016
Aug 1-7 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “No matter what challenge is, or setbacks or disappointments that you may encounter along the way, you’ll find you in happiness and success if you have one goal that really is only one. That is this: ‘To fulfill the highest, the most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.’” – Oprah Winfrey’s Harvard Commencement 2013 Inspirational Speech.
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Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2016
California’s “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” is a voter initiative characterized as legalizing marijuana use. But critics warn that it will actually make access more difficult and expensive, squeeze home growers and small farmers out of the market, heighten criminal sanctions for violations, and open the door to patented, genetically modified versions that must be purchased year after year.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2016
Jul 11-17 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Recently, I’ve come to realize; some people have eagle potential, but a chicken mind. They are well equipped to reach maximum levels of success, but they have determined within themselves to stay in a safe place of comfort… The eagle mentality soars high going beyond the call of duty. It does not believe in impossibilities. It defies all reason and logic; taking bold risks without the fear of failure… The eagle realizes if it begins to dive, all it has to do is open its wings and it will fly… The eagle was somewhat sad for the chicken. However, having an eagle’s mentality is to know when to let those who choose to remain in a state of bareness; go… Greatness will take you to places where others do not dare or are not permitted to go. Allow your thoughts to take you to heights of greatness.” – Latrina Johnson
→ read full articleDecades Later, Sickness among Airmen after a Hydrogen Bomb Accident
Dave Philipps – The New York Times, 4 Jul 2016
Fifty Years Later, U.S. Air Force Still in Denial over Palomares Nuclear Accident – In 1966, a B-52 bomber on a Cold War nuclear patrol exploded over Spain, releasing four hydrogen bombs. Fifty years later, Air Force veterans involved with the cleanup are sick and want recognition.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2016
Jun 20-26 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
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Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins | Organic Consumers Association – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 May 2016
24 May 2016 – If Monsanto, the most hated GMO company in the world, joins hands with Bayer, one of the most hated Big Pharma corporations on Earth (whose evil deeds date back to World War I and the Nazi era), the newly formed seed-pesticide-drug behemoth would have combined annual sales of $67 billion.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – Blood on the Tracks: Vietnam Veteran Brian Willson Discusses Memorial Day [30 May] and the American Way Of Life (AWOL)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 May 2016
“We fail our duties as citizens if we remain silent rather than calling our US wars for what they are – criminal and deceitful aggressions violating international and US law to assure control of geostrategic resources, deemed necessary to further our insatiable American Way Of Life.”
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Adam Taylor – The Washington Post, 30 May 2016
26 May 2016 – This week, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, the Japanese city that the United States nearly destroyed with a nuclear bomb in 1945. It’s reasonable to ask, after more than 70 years, why not apologize for Hiroshoma? But what else has America not apologized for? Here are a few ideas.
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2016
May 9–15 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell
→ read full articleDuty to Warn – The Gulf War Syndrome and the Over-looked Aluminum Adjuvanted Vaccine Connection
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Mar 2016
I actually am quite familiar with the situations that colleges are facing when it comes to traumatized or toxified veterans in academia. Not only had I studied posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for several decades as a part of my medical practice and teaching experiences, but I also practiced as a physician at a mental hospital for 2 ½ years in the late 1990s.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jan 2016
Jan 18-24 QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are,
Anything your heart desires will come to you.
If your heart is in your dream,
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star as dreamers do.”
Huge: Monsanto Going to Trial for Crimes against Humanity
Christina Sarich, Natural Society – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Dec 2015
3 Dec 2015 – In The Hague, Netherlands, International Criminal Court. If you’ve been waiting to finally see Monsanto – one of the most hated companies in the world – to pay for its ecocide, knowing harm of human life, and devastation of our pollinators, then you won’t have to wait much longer.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Nov 2015
Nov 23-29 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “When in doubt, tell the truth.” – Mark Twain
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Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Nov 2015
The Papal Bull of 1493 -Inter Caetera- and the concept of Terra Nullius allowed the Catholic Church, and the Empires of the time, to change the destiny of millions of people and their cultures around the world, by allowing Europe to grab what it wanted from faraway lands. Terra Nullius, Latin, meaning ‘empty lands’ or ‘lands that belong to no one’ was a novel concept.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Nov 2015
Nov 16-22 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Life is short; live it. Love is rare; grab it. Anger is bad; dump it. Fear is awful; face it. Memories are sweet; cherish them.” – Anonymous
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Nov 2015
Nov 2-8 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Oct 2015
Oct 26–Nov 1 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.” – Sarah Dessen
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Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Oct 2015
As we celebrate Columbus Day, we can’t help but think about the deep levels of cultural violence in the U.S. But what can be done to change a country dominated by war culture into one of a humanitarian culture?
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Oct 2015
October 19-25 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown
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