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The Age of Extinction: ‘Ecocide in Gaza’
Kaamil Ahmed, Damien Gayle and Aseel Mousa | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
29 Mar 2024 – Does Scale of Environmental Destruction Amount to a War Crime? Satellite analysis shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside air and water pollution, Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable.
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Johan Galtung Obituary
Hugh Miall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
The Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, who has died aged 93, was a leading contributor to peace and conflict research. His ideas about positive peace and structural violence have had a global resonance. Now taught in more than 500 universities, the field he helped to establish has become a worldwide endeavour.
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Operation Condor: The Cold War US Conspiracy That Terrorized South America
Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice.
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Cop28 President Says There Is ‘No Science’ Behind Demands for Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels
Damian Carrington and Ben Stockton | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
3 Dec 2023 – The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed. He said a phase-out would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.
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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping Not Attending the Cop28 Climate Meeting in Dubai
Reuters | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
27 Nov 2023 – US President Joe Biden is not attending a gathering of world leaders focused on climate change in Dubai this week. Xi Jinping of China is also not expected to attend. Envoys for Biden and Xi have signaled their close cooperation before the talks.
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Israel Faces Wave of International Condemnation over Hospital Raid
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – The scale and virulence of the global condemnation from Arab and western governments raised questions about how much longer Israel can continue with its offensive. The US distanced itself from the military takeover of the hospital, saying it had not authorised the Israeli decision.
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No Power, Water or Fuel to Gaza Until Hostages Freed, Says Israel Minister
Bethan McKernan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – US secretary of state lands in Tel Aviv after fifth night of bombardment and preparations for ground invasion.
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Leaders of World’s Biggest Polluting Countries Skipping UN Climate Summit
Oliver Milman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023 – Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York today.
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Judge Rules 9/11 Defendant Unfit for Trial after CIA Torture Made Him Psychotic
AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
22 Sep 2023 – A military judge at Guantánamo Bay has ruled a 9/11 defendant incompetent to stand trial after a military medical panel found that the man’s sustained abuse in CIA custody years earlier had rendered him lastingly psychotic.
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Fernando Botero Angulo, Painter and Sculptor (19 Apr 1932 – 15 Sep 2023)
Nick Caistor | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Colombian painter and sculptor of voluminous figures that grace city centres the world over including Paris, Madrid and London. RIP
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‘Occupied by the US’: Wildfires Renew Native Hawaiian Call for Sovereignty
Claire Wang | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – As Disaster Capitalists Descend on Lahaina, Indigenous Hawaiians Fight for Self-Governance
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Fukushima Water Release Fears: Fish with 180 Times over Legal Limit of Radioactive Cesium Caught
Gavin Blair | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – Black rockfish caught close to disaster-hit nuclear power station is one of dozens caught in the past year above the legal safety limit.
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The Orca Uprising: Whales Are Ramming Boats–but Are They Inspired by Revenge, Grief or Memory?
Emma Beddington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – A pod in the strait of Gibraltar has sunk three boats and damaged dozens of others, and their story has captivated the world. What explains this unprecedented behaviour?
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US’ Top Competition Watchdog Opens Investigation into ChatGPT Maker
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – FTC makes move on claims OpenAI has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk.
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Authors File a Lawsuit against OpenAI for Unlawfully ‘Ingesting’ Their Books
Ella Creamer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay allege that their books, which are copyrighted, were ‘used to train’ ChatGPT because the Chatbot generated ‘very accurate summaries’ of the works.
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AI Machines Aren’t ‘Hallucinating’. But Their Makers Are
Naomi Klein | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative Artificial Intelligence will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves
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David Miranda, Campaigner and Former Brazilian Congressman, Dies Aged 37
Tom Phillips | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
15 May 2023
9 May 2023 – Pres. Lula celebrates ‘extraordinary trajectory’ of favela-born politician and Guardian columnist who played key role in Snowden leaks with husband Glenn Greenwald.
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How Facebook and Instagram Became Marketplaces for Child Sex Trafficking
Katie McQue and Mei-Ling McNamara | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex.
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‘Spreading Faster than Ever’: Bangladesh’s Tea Pickers Have World’s Highest Rate of Leprosy
Thaslima Begum and Kaamil Ahmed | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the disease.
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Who Is Jack Teixeira, the Man Arrested over Pentagon Files Leak?
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old air national guardsman suspect in the leak of classified intelligence documents is youthful looking, like his teenage friends in the online group where the documents were leaked. Today the FBI arrested Teixeira and were searching his home.
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Bordeaux City Hall Set on Fire amid Nationwide Protests against French Pension Changes
Kim Willsher | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – Largely peaceful protests are marred by outbreaks of violence as unions claim 3.5 million turned out, while authorities put number at just over 1 million.
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US Banks Want Socialism for Themselves–and Capitalism for Everyone Else
Robert Reich | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail.’
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Shell Makes ‘Obscene’ $40bn Profit—Highest Ever
Alex Lawson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – Sunak government under pressure after gas prices fuel ‘outrageous’ doubling of profits at Anglo-Dutch group
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Look at How the 1% Are Doing Right Now, and Tell Me the System Isn’t Rigged
Nesrine Malik | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
23 Jan 2023 – The world’s super-rich have amassed so much wealth since the pandemic that even a Tory minister can see something is amiss.
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Have We Reached ‘Peak Meat’? Why One Country Is Trying to Limit Its Number of Livestock
Senay Boztas | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
16 Jan 2023 – Dutch farms are feeling the squeeze from EU rules and need to make sweeping changes to the farm system – could a huge producer like the US follow suit?
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Brazil Protests: Lula Vows to Punish ‘Neo-Fascists’ after Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Congress
Tom Phillips and Andrew Downie | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
9 Jan 2023 – President tours scene of riot and orders federal government to take control of policing in capital Brasília as extremists refuse to accept his presidency.
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World Cup Stadium Workers ‘Had Their Money Stolen and Lives Ruined’, Says Rights Group
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – Report on conditions in Qatar alleges labour abuses are widespread and calls on FIFA to set up compensation fund.
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Progressive Democrats Retract Biden Ukraine Letter after Furious Debate
Ed Pilkington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – The chair of the progressive caucus of the US House of Representatives, Pramila Jayapal, has retracted a letter sent by 30 of the members urging Joe Biden to engage in direct talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine following a heated debate within the Democratic party about future strategy over the conflict.
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Putin Grants Russian Citizenship to US Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Pjotr Sauer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – Vladimir Putin signed a decree today granting Russian citizenship to the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, 39, a former intelligence contractor who has been living in Russia since 2013 after leaking secret files that revealed vast domestic and international surveillance operations by the NSA.
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Patagonia’s Billionaire Owner Gives Away Company to Fight Climate Crisis
Erin McCormick | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
15 Sep 2022 – Setting a new example in environmental corporate leadership, the billionaire owner of Patagonia is giving the entire company away to fight the Earth’s climate devastation, he announced yesterday.
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US Asked British Spy Agency to Stop Guardian Publishing Snowden Revelations
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – The US National Security Agency tried to persuade its British counterpart to stop the Guardian publishing revelations about secret mass data collection from the NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, according to a new book.
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Saudi Woman Given 34-Year Prison Sentence for Using Twitter
Stephanie Kirchgaessner | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022 – Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists.
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The Uber Whistleblower: I’m Exposing a System That Sold People a Lie
Paul Lewis, et al. | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – Exclusive: Mark MacGann says he has decided to speak out about firm to ‘right some fundamental wrongs’.
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Impact of Israeli Strike in Gaza Akin to Chemical Weapons, NGO Report Finds
Bethan McKernan and Hazem Balousha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – Shells fired at agrochemical warehouse created toxic plume that has left residents with health problems.
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Israeli Police Attack Funeral Procession for Shot Journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh
Sufian Taha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
13 May 2022 – Israeli forces have attacked a funeral procession for a Palestinian American journalist shot dead this week, kicking and hitting people with batons and causing mourners carrying her coffin to lose balance and drop it to the ground.
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Animal Crossing: World’s Biggest Wildlife Bridge Comes to California Highway
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – Unprecedented overpass will allow fauna of the Santa Monica mountains to safely cross a dangerous 10-lane stretch.
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It’s Time to Ask: What Would a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Look Like?
Anatol Lieven | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The West is morally right to oppose the illegal Russian war and to impose severe sanctions on Russia, but would be morally wrong to oppose an agreement to end the invasion and spare the people of Ukraine terrible suffering. America’s own record over the past generation gives no basis for such self-righteous hyper-legalism.
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They Are ‘Civilized’ and ‘Look Like Us’: The Racist Coverage of Ukraine
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so.
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Switzerland at Risk of EU Blacklist after Credit Suisse Leak
Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
– 21 Feb 2022 –
* Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians.
* What is the Suisse secrets leak and why are we publishing it?
Why Is the White House Stealing $7bn from Afghans?
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Last week, the White House issued an executive order announcing the theft of some $7bn. In a move that can only be described as brazenly immoral and utterly unconscionable, the Biden administration has begun a process to seize the more than $7bn of assets that the Central Bank of Afghanistan has on deposit at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since the Taliban gained control of the war-ravaged country last year, that money has been frozen in place.
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Chemical Pollution Has Passed Safe Limit for Humanity, Say Scientists
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – Study calls for cap on production and release as pollution threatens global ecosystems upon which life depends. Plastics are of particularly high concern along with 350,000 synthetic chemicals including pesticides, industrial compounds and antibiotics.
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The US Military Is Polluting Hawaii’s Water Supply – and Denying It
Wayne Tanaka | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
4 Jan 2022 – The Hawaiian governor issued an emergency order to de-fuel the Red Hill Facility. The US Navy has enlisted top lawyers to make sure its 600m liters of petroleum stay perched above our water supply.
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Rohingya Sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar Genocide
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – Facebook’s negligence facilitated the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar after the social media network’s algorithms amplified hate speech and the platform failed to take down inflammatory posts, according to legal action launched in the US and the UK.
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‘We Have Fallen into a Trap’: Qatar’s World Cup Dream Is a Nightmare for Hotel Staff
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
18 Nov 2021 – I spent weeks waiting at the Kathmandu Airport. Among the returning migrant workers were coffins bearing the bodies of young men who had paid the ultimate price in search of work overseas. They were being flown home from Qatar, host of the 2022 football World Cup.
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New Study Links Major Fashion Brands to Amazon Deforestation
Laura Pitcher | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – LVMH, Zara, Nike and others at risk of contribution to destruction of rainforest based on connections to leather industry.
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Pride and Poverty: Qatar’s World Cup Fever Tempered by Legacy of Labour Abuses
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
18 Nov 2021 – With a Year to Go, the New Stadiums, Hotels and Roads Are Finished and Locals Are Excited, but the Low-Paid Workers Who Built Them Are Ambivalent
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‘I Just Can’t Believe It Exists’: Peter Jackson Takes Us into the Beatles Vault Locked Up for 52 Years
Andy Welch | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
20 Nov 2021 – Ahead of his epic series Get Back, the director reveals the secrets of 60 hours of intimate, unseen footage of the Fab Four – and why it turns everything we know about their final days upside down.
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Criminals
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Indeed!
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Has Interpol Become the Long Arm of Oppressive Regimes?
Josh Jacobs | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
17 Oct 2021 – Once used in the hunt for fugitive criminals, the global police agency’s most-wanted ‘red notice’ list now includes political refugees and dissidents.
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The Amazon Rainforest Is Losing 200,000 Acres a Day–Soon It Will Be Too Late
Kim Heacox | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – Three days before Christmas, 1988, Brazilian rubber tapper and environmental activist Chico Mendes was shot dead by a rancher’s son. Since his murder, nearly 1 million sq km of the Amazon, an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined, have been destroyed: an average of 200,000 acres every day, or 40 football fields per minute.
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CIA Officials under Trump Discussed Assassinating Julian Assange – Report
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – Mike Pompeo and officials requested ‘options’ for killing Assange following WikiLeaks’ publication of CIA hacking tools, report says.
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How the US Created a World of Endless War
Samuel Moyn | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – In 2008, many of Barack Obama’s supporters hoped he would bring the global war on terror to a close. Instead, he expanded it – and his successors have done nothing to change course.
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The Media Is Lambasting Biden over Afghanistan. He Should Stand Firm
Bhaskar Sunkara | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
29 Aug 2021 – The president was right to withdraw the US from Afghanistan – and he’s being skewered for it. Joe Biden did something good – and the media want to kill him for it. He should embrace their scorn and defend his actions to the American people.
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Haiti Needs Help, but ‘Not from Aid Workers Who Never Leave Their SUVs’
Joe Parkin Daniels | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Aug 2021 – Beset by earthquakes, poverty and gang violence, the country is desperate for aid. “Part of the problem is that international folks don’t talk to people on the ground, and that is going to be worse this time because everyone is afraid of the security situation. So you get a lot of white people driving around in their white SUVs, not getting out of their cars, and they’re the ones making the decisions about what Haitians need and where they need it.”
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Bolsonaro’s 1,000Km Amazon Railway Will Cause Climate Chaos–It Must Be Stopped
David Miranda | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – Jair Bolsonaro is determined to expand his exploitation of Brazil’s natural resources. His latest project, one of the most destructive yet, would rapidly deforest large areas of the Amazon, which would wreak havoc on the planet.
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Edward Snowden on Spyware: ‘This Is an Industry That Should Not Exist’ (videos)
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reacts to the Pegasus project disclosures. Plus: Pegasus spyware is capable of bypassing your phone’s security and gaining complete access to your device: emails, messages, GPS location, photos, video, microphone. Widespread abuse of the Pegasus technology by government clients around the world. People who were selected as possible targets include journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders.
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Amazon Rainforest Now Emitting More CO2 than It Absorbs
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
14 Jul 2021 – Cutting emissions more urgent than ever as Amazon rainforest is emitting more than a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, more than it is able to absorb, scientists have confirmed for the first time.
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What Happens at Sun Valley, the Secret Gathering of Unelected Billionaire Kings?
Hamilton Nolan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – We are developing a private class of billionaire kings whose will is omnipotent and untouchable by any democratic force.
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Revealed: Leak Uncovers Global Abuse of Israeli Cyber-Surveillance Weapon
Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Paul Lewis, David Pegg and Sam Cutler | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
18 Jul 2021 – Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by governments using hacking software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak.
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Data, Not Arms, the Key Driver in Emerging US-China Cold War
Robert Reich | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Cybersecurity comes down to which side has access to more information about the other and can utilize it best.
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Illusions of Empire: Amartya Sen on What British Rule Really Did to India
Amartya Sen | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Sen’s counter-history of the institutionalized elite’s delusion that the British Raj was better than French rule, building liberal institutions for the colonized, etc. As a tyrannical blood-sucking alien ruler, Britain did nothing good for the colonized out of the goodness of its heart. Many of the arguments defending the Raj are based on serious misconceptions about India’s past, imperialism and history itself.
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‘Sponsor a Child’ Schemes Attacked for Perpetuating Racist Attitudes
Karen McVeigh | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
31 May 2021 – International child sponsorship schemes have come under attack for perpetuating racist thinking. Using individual children to ‘sell’ schemes to rich donors is similar to ‘poverty porn’ images of past, say experts, as calls grow to decolonise aid.
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People of Conscience: Palestinians Ask You to Boycott Israel
Omar Barghouti | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid struggle, the nonviolent BDS movement needs your support, writes BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti.
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Price of Gold: DRC’s Rich Soil Bears Few Riches for Its Miners – Photo Essay
Moses Sawasawa | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
12 May 2021 – In South Kivu province near the borders of Rwanda and Burundi, Kamituga has mineral resources estimated to be worth $24tn (£17tn) in untapped deposits. Yet the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the lowest levels of GDP per capita in the world and people work in dangerous conditions with little hope of scratching out anything more than a meagre existence from tough and dangerous work.
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‘A United Nations of Crime in Spain’: How Marbella Became a Magnet for Gangsters
Nacho Carretero and Arturo Lezcano | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – The new international crime organisations have made Marbella their centre of operations. And as violence rises, the police lag far behind.
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And the Brand Played on: Bob Dylan at 80
Neil Spencer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
With a slew of books to mark the songwriter’s birthday (24 May 1941) due , we look at the industry that has grown up around the man who forced academia to take pop seriously.
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Climate Emissions Shrinking the Stratosphere, Scientists Reveal
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Humanity’s enormous emissions of greenhouse gases are shrinking the stratosphere, a new study has revealed. Thinning could affect satellites and GPS.
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[10 Years Ago] The Guantánamo Files: Leaks Lift Lid on World’s Most Controversial Prison
David Leigh, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke - The Guardian,
10 May 2021
Article published on TRANSCEND Media Service in 2 May 2011
• Innocent people interrogated for years on slimmest pretexts
• Children, elderly and mentally ill among those wrongfully held
• 172 prisoners remain, some with no prospect of trial or release
• Interactive guide to all 779 detainees
‘We Are Witnessing a Crime against Humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid Catastrophe
Arundhati Roy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
28 Apr 2021 – It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain.
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Among the Covid Sceptics: ‘We Are Being Manipulated, without a Shadow of a Doubt’
Samira Shackle | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – Who are the people who have come to follow wild conspiracy theories about Covid-19? Covid conspiracies are often presented in the form of complex, pseudo-technical documents. Factchecking is of limited use in changing believers’ minds because sources such as the BBC or the Office for National Statistics are seen as part of the lie.
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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Obituary
Stephen Bates | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Philip Mountbatten-Windsor, Duke of Edinburgh, Baron of Greenwich, Earl of Merioneth, born 10 Jun 1921, died 9 Apr 2021. He was the Queen’s husband for 73 years, the longest-serving royal consort in British history, the family’s patriarch, and a well-known figure in public life for two-thirds of a century until his final disappearance into seclusion in 2019.
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Myanmar Military a ‘Terrorist Group’ That Should Face International Court, Advisory Council Says
Ben Doherty | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
29 Mar 2021 – The Myanmar military is a “terrorist group” that should be brought before the ICC and imposed a global sanctions regime, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar says. The council has called for a “three cuts” strategy to combat the Tatmadaw, as the military is known. First, the ICC. Second, an arms embargo. And third, financial sanctions against military officials and military-owned companies.
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Plummeting Sperm Counts, Shrinking Penises: Toxic Chemicals Threaten Humanity
Erin Brockovich | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – The chemicals to blame for our reproductive crisis are found everywhere and in everything. The rapid death and decline of sperm must be addressed, and it must be addressed now.
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Naomi Klein: ‘We Shouldn’t Be Surprised That Kids Are Radicalised’
Patrick Barkham | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
9 Mar 2021 – With ‘How to Change Everything’, the activist has written her first book for young people. She explains how she has been inspired by a new, very young generation of protesters.
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Revealed: 6,500 Migrant Workers Have Died in Qatar as It Gears Up for Soccer World Cup
Pete Pattisson, Niamh McIntyre, et al. | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup 10 years ago. Hocking figure likely to be an underestimate, as preparations for 2022 tournament continue.
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Brazilian Butt Lift: Behind the World’s Most Dangerous Cosmetic Surgery
Sophie Elmirst | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
9 Feb 2021 – The BBL is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure. What is driving its astonishing rise?
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Family of Girl, 12, Forced to Marry Abductor Condemn Pakistan Authorities
Haroon Janjua | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
10 Feb 2021 – The family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after allegedly being kidnapped and forced to marry her abductor, have attacked the authorities for refusing to act.
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G4S Migrant Workers ‘Forced to Pay Millions’ in Illegal Fees for Jobs
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
18 Jan 2021 – Migrant workers working for the British security company G4S in the UAE have collectively been forced to pay millions of pounds in illegal fees to recruitment agents to secure their jobs. Firm faces calls to repay charges for jobs in Gulf states and conflict zones.
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UN Predicts ‘Famine Not Seen in 40 Years’ Due to Pompeo’s Yemen Policy
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – Mike Pompeo’s designation of Houthis as foreign terror group will block food and other aid, senior humanitarian says.
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‘There Is No Noise’: Inside the Controversial Rohingya Bhasan Char Refugee Camp – A Photo Essay
Anonymous, as told to Shafiur Rahman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – Amid concern from charities and NGOs, Bangladesh is relocating Rohingya refugees to a remote island. One resident describes his new life there.
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Billionaires Add $1tn to Net Worth during Pandemic as Their Workers Struggle
Michael Sainato | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – Billionaires in the US have increased their net worth by more than $1tn during the coronavirus pandemic, while many of their US workers have struggled with coronavirus risks in workplaces, for little to no extra pay to work in hazardous conditions.
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After 50 Years, the Pentagon Papers Give Up Their Final Secrets
Edward Helmore | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
10 Jan 2021 – It is to many the greatest journalistic scoop in a generation. Journalist behind scoop reveals how he tricked whistleblower to get copies of explosive Vietnam War reports.
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I’m a Consultant in Infectious Diseases – ‘Long Covid’ Is Not a Mild Illness
Joanna Herman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
27 Dec 2020 – Nine months on from the virus, I am seriously debilitated. This is how the new NHS clinics need to help thousands of us.
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Trump Pardons Blackwater Contractors Jailed for Massacre of Iraq Civilians
Michael Safi | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
23 Dec 2020 – Donald Trump has pardoned four security guards from the private military firm Blackwater who were serving jail sentences for killing 14 civilians including two children in Baghdad in 2007, a massacre that sparked an international outcry over the use of mercenaries in war.
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Trump Is Spending the Last Days of His Presidency on a Literal Killing Spree
Austin Sarat | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – In disregard for political precedent or basic humanity, Trump is turning the anger and resentment which burnishes his brand into a virtually unprecedented string of fast-tracked federal executions before Biden takes office.
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Robodoc: How India’s Robots Are Taking on Covid Patient Care
Kalpana Sunder | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – The pandemic has spurred on robotics companies building machines to perform tasks in hospitals and other industries.
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‘It Affects Everything’: Hawaii Residents Demand Transparency over Pearl Harbor Munitions Storage
Jon Letman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – A munitions storage complex being planned by the US army along the West Loch section of Pearl Harbor near densely populated Hawaiian neighborhoods to help counter Chinese influence in the Pacific is running into local opposition.
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This Is My Message to the Western World – Your Civilisation Is Killing Life on Earth
Nemonte Nenquimo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 – We Indigenous people are fighting to save the Amazon, but the whole planet is in trouble because you do not respect it.
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Vaccine-Derived Polio Spreads in Africa after Defeat of Wild Virus
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – A new polio outbreak in Sudan has been linked to the oral polio vaccine that uses a weakened form of the virus. News of the outbreak comes a week after the World Health Organization announced that wild polio had been eradicated in Africa.
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Dengue Breakthrough after Mosquitoes Laced with Natural Bacteria
Rebecca Ratcliffe | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
27 Aug 2020 – Infecting mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria dramatically reduces their ability to transmit dengue, according to a breakthrough study that could pave the way to eliminating the disease.
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How Philanthropy Benefits the Super-Rich
Paul Vallely | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – There are more philanthropists than ever before. Each year they give tens of billions to charitable causes. So how come inequality keeps rising?
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Facts vs. Feelings: How to Stop Our Emotions Misleading Us
Tim Harford | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
10 Sep 2020 – The pandemic has shown how a lack of solid statistics can be dangerous. But even with the firmest of evidence, we often end up ignoring the facts we don’t like.
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Operation Condor: The Cold War US Conspiracy That Terrorized South America
Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice.
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Covid Vaccine Rush Could Make Pandemic Worse, Say Scientists
Sarah Boseley | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
30 Aug 2020 – The rush to immunise populations against Covid-19 could lead to the rollout of a vaccine that is not very effective and risk worsening the pandemic, leading scientists have said. Experts say strong evidence of efficacy needed to avoid approval of inferior vaccines.
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Palestinians Stage Surprise ‘Thank You’ Event for Banksy in Bethlehem
Jessie McDonald | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Photographs of works go on display in Manger Square to celebrate British street artist’s contribution to diversifying tourism.
→ read full articleModi’s Brutal Treatment of Kashmir Exposes His Tactics – And Their Flaws
Arundhati Roy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
At midnight on 4 August 2019, phones in Kashmir went dead and internet connections were cut. On 5 August 2019, a year ago today, 7 million people were locked into their homes under a strict military curfew. Up to 10,000 people, from young children and teenage stone pelters to former chief ministers and major pro-India politicians, were arrested and put into preventive detention, where many of them still remain. On 6 August, a bill was passed in parliament stripping the state of Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomy and special status enshrined in the Indian constitution. It was stripped of statehood, downgraded into two union territories, Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir. Ladakh would have no legislature and would be governed directly by New Delhi.
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While Israel Celebrates a New Peace Accord, Palestinians Once Again Lose
Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – Who could be against an announcement of peace between two nations formally at war? Netanyahu may have agreed to halt annexation of parts of the West Bank, but the UAE has ensured the occupation itself is normalised. With this deal, it has signalled that Israel can remain an occupier, closing off the possibility of Palestinian self-determination, and still win regional acceptance.
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Shaun Walker | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020 – A funeral, a family, and a journey into a disappearing religion.
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‘Floating Bomb’: How the Beirut Blast Was Predicted
Michael Safi, Andrew Roth and Martin Chulov | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020 – The Lebanese prime minister on Tuesday [4 Aug] blamed the explosion on 2,750-tonne store of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in bombs and fertilisers, stored at the port. Media reports from 2014 claimed a vessel carrying that load was impounded at Beirut’s after making an emergency stop in the city and being denied permission to leave by customs authorities because it was deemed unseaworthy. In a letter published by a journalist, the ship was described as “a floating bomb and the crew is a hostage aboard this bomb.”
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Only Bold State Intervention Will Save Us from a Future Owned by Corporate Giants
Joe Guinan and Martin O'Neill | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
If small businesses fail after Covid-19, the big boys will become even more powerful. A radical 1930s policy could be the answer. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has seen his wealth increase by over US$30bn during the pandemic alone.
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