Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix é preso durante protesto em Washington
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
12 jan 2020 – O ator vegano Joaquin Phoenix, que recentemente recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Ator no 77º Globo de Ouro por sua interpetração em “Coringa”, foi preso na última sexta-feira (10) logo após discursar em protesto em Washington DC contra as mudanças climáticas.
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For Western Press, the Only Coup in Venezuela Is against Guaidó
Lucas Koerner | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – The international corporate media have entered crisis mode following the replacement of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as head of the country’s National Assembly. In headline after headline, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro “Takes Over”, “Claims Control of” or “Seizes” parliament, and “Ousts” Guaidó in the process. However, the elementary if inconvenient fact is that Guaidó failed to secure the necessary votes from his own coalition’s deputies to continue as president of the legislature.
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The Current U.S. Approach to Nuclear Weapons Can Only Lead to Armageddon
Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – The U.S. is returning to its post-World War II U.S. vision of a Pax Americana. This is embedded in its nuclear doctrine, its strategic vision of controlling all theaters of war, and defining its competition in regional theaters as “revisionist powers.” That the U.S. and its leaders do not understand the world would not have mattered so much in an earlier era. Today, any war, let alone a nuclear one, will inevitably have global consequences. Arms Control Provides the Only Path to Peace
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(Français) Le Schéma de la Pensée de L’Encyclique Laudato Sii du Pape François
Antonino Drago - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Le schéma de la pensée de la Laudato Sii du pape François n’est pas le classique de la doctrine sociale de l’Église : les textes sacrés, interprétés par le Magistère, prescrivent aux fidèles de précis comportements. Ce schéma est appelé intégriste, car il fait descendre du haut de principes et de normes l’entière comportement des membres de l’institution ecclésiale.
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Activism, Nonviolence, Direct Action: Strategy, Tactics, Organizing
Glen Perusek | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – The word “strategy” is overused and is often confused with tactics. This is a problem not just for organized labor and progressive movements; it is also endemic in business and many other realms of organized activity. This seems odd, given that the literature on strategy and tactics is thousands of years old. This article draws on some of that classical literature.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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India: A Dangerous New Low in State-Sponsored Hate
Harsh Mander | The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
7 Jan 2020 – In Uttar Pradesh, police bias and the scale of violence against the minorities are plumbing new depths. It may not be an exaggeration to say that the Chief Minister has declared war on the minority communities of his State, inciting and encouraging his police forces to unleash upon them an unlawful and brutal reign of terror.
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Alan Turing: Gay Man Who Saved the World yet Died in Disgrace
Craig A. James | Church and State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Alan Turing was the inventor of the modern digital computer, laying down the mathematical foundation for all computer science. In World War II, his genius at breaking Nazi secret codes saved the world from Nazi domination– not figuratively, but in actuality. But in 1954 homosexuality was illegal in England; Turing was given a choice between imprisonment and chemical castration. He committed suicide. If Turing hadn’t been homosexual, his name might be a household word like Einstein, Newton and Galileo.
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From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 Jan 2020 – The allegation is that he targeted US troops or “contractors”—i.e., mercenaries—stationed not at home, but in a region on the other side of the world that the US illegally attacked and has occupied for most of this century. “Soleimani provided effective military resistance to foreign occupying forces,” though, sounds very different from “killed hundreds of Americans.”
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Nonkilling Paradigm
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
21 Dec 2019 – Springer academic publishers has just released The Nonkilling Paradigm: For World Peace and Enlightenment by Dr. Katyayani Singh and Dr. Anoop Swarup. The book addresses the human civilizational ethos and explores the concept of the nonkilling paradigm concerning human dignity, human rights, affirmative nonkilling, positive peace and the advancement of human existence.
→ read full articleThe Propaganda Multiplier: How Global News Agencies and Western Media Report on Geopolitics
A Study by Swiss Propaganda Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
2016 / 2019 – It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris. The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.
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India’s New Citizenship Act Legalizes a Hindu Nation
Anil Varughese | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
India’s recently passed Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 is a frontal assault on the idea of India as a secular, pluralist democracy. The new law makes religious affiliation one of the grounds for citizenship, violating the basic structure of the Indian constitution.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2020–Nomination Info in English, Français, Deutsch, Русский, Castellano, Svenska–Deadline: 31 Jan
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Please nominate for the 2020 Nobel Prize – Information below in English, French, German, Russian, Castellano and Swedish
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Diane Perlman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Is there a way to create a new reality that addresses the interests of major parties? The TRANSCEND Method is based on the central thesis that to prevent violence and develop the creative potential of a conflict, there has to be transformation. Normal conflicts are complex and involve many actors, goals and issues.
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Total Plan of Structural Transformation for Eradicating Conflicts in Africa
Daisuke Nojima – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Usually Japanese people would dream a dream, “Yume”, on the second night of a new year, in order to forecast fortune of the year, and would talk its content to family and friends. And, “Yume” also means ideal future plan of a person. So, let me indicate my own idea of solution for major conflicts in African continent. Here is simply a “Yume” also, if you might regard this as too unrealistic or just dreamy, please be generous.
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Richard Falk at the First Global Conference on Israeli Apartheid
If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
29 Nov 2019 – “The policies and practices used by Israel to exercise control over the Palestinian people constitute apartheid under international criminal law. Perceiving the conflict through the prism of occupation rather than apartheid blocks all efforts to achieve a sustainable and just peace while giving Israel time needed to turn the occupation into a full-fledged annexation.”
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Pity the Nation (after Kahlil Gibran)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
TMS Promotion: We need someone to Double the Donations received in a given period–Please Come Forward!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Let’s talk. Thank you! OUR HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR WORK!
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34,000 Haitians Still Displaced 10 Years on from Quake
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – In the camps, the head of the IOM’s mission in Haiti reported that there was no electricity for most of the day, access to waters if difficult, there are areas that are very overcrowded, overpopulated. They are not either willing or do not have the possibility to move out of the displacement site, while some are even doing construction, trying to settle in these areas.
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A Call to US Catholics: Let Us End Our Complicity in War
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – United States wars have literally set the Middle East on fire. Several million people in the Middle East and North Africa have been killed, and tens of millions maimed, traumatized, and made into refugees. Catholic taxpayers should make every effort to avoid paying for war and weapons. Rather, embrace Jesus, who calls us to love our enemies, put up the sword, and take up the cross.
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Over 1 Billion Animals Feared Dead in Australian Bushfires
Brittney Deguara | Stuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – It’s estimated over a billion animals have now died in the bushfires ravaging Australia. The original, conservative estimate of half a billion animal deaths in the state of New South Wales was recently raised by University of Sydney ecologist Chris Dickman.
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UN – Iran – USA
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
I hope the world will wake up and destroy, bankrupt the Death Industry thus frustrating the ambitions and immorality of many politicians, diplomats and bankers, helping all working in the Military Industry to find other jobs.
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No Joke
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
YES!
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The Fed Protects Gamblers at the Expense of the Economy
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – This does not serve the real economy, in which products, services and jobs are created. However, the Fed is trapped into this speculative monetary expansion to avoid a cascade of defaults of the sort it was facing with the long-term capital management crisis in 1998 and the Lehman crisis in 2008. The repo market is a fragile house of cards waiting for a strong wind to blow it down, propped up by misguided monetary policies that have forced central banks to underwrite its highly risky ventures.
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Robotics and Artbeings — Fact or Fiction
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 Jan 2020 – One has heard of Robots that can perform many tasks which humans can, and sometimes even better. Now there are reports of building artificial men and women — not robots, but human beings look-alikes, similarly dressed, that can speak some languages. What was the basic idea of inventing such artbeings (artificial human beings) has not been made clear.
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Fragmentation in the Axis of Resistance Led to Soleimani’s Death
Elijah J Magnier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
5 Jan 2020 – Iran invested 40 years building the “Axis of the Resistance”. It cannot remain idle, faced with the assassination of the Leader of this axis. Would a suitable price be the US exit from Iraq and condemnation in the Security Council? Would that, together with withdrawal from the nuclear deal, be enough for Iran to avenge its General? All sides, friend and foe, are awaiting its response.
→ read full articleThe Pattern of Thought of the Encyclic Laudato Sii of Pope Francis
Antonino Drago - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
The pattern of thought of Pope Francis’ Encyclic Laudato Sii is not the classical one of the social doctrine of the Church, for which the sacred texts, interpreted by the Magisterium prescribe the precise behavior to a faithful. This pattern of though is called integralist, because it brings down from the top of principles and norms the right behavior of the members of the Church institution.
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The Context That Goes Unmentioned in Coverage of the Soleimani Assassination
Rob Lipton | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – There are two primary issues I want to look at: how this event is playing out in the mainstream media (MSM), and the coverage (or lack thereof) of Israeli state actors, U.S. based support, and individual Trump supporters who pushed for and/or were instrumental in implementing this blatant act of war.
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Overcoming Evil: Interview with Noam Chomsky on the Future of Humanity
Thomas Pogge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
3 Nov 2019 – Interview with Noam Chomsky on the Targets, Prospects and Tactics of Political Action Today
→ read full articleImagine… {A moving parody of Lennon’s legendary song}
Canny AI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Imagine All the Politicians…
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(Português) Mais de Três Mil Golfinhos Sofrem em Cativeiro no Mundo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 jan 2020 – Há 3.029 golfinhos mantidos em cativeiros e usados como atrações em 54 países, e confinados em espaços até 200 mil vezes menores que seu habitat.
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Myanmar’s For-Profit Genocide
Wendy Bone | The Investigative Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – Brutal operations against the Rohingya minority and stealing their land in Rakhine are crimes under international law — violations supported by Myanmar’s military business ties, foreign companies and arms deals.
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Olympic Committee Bans Athletes from Making Political Protests during 2020 Games
Joe Jurado | The Root – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
10 Jan 2020 – Any Olympic athlete thinking of taking a knee or raising a fist in Tokyo during the 2020 Olympic Games may have to think twice. The International Olympic Committee released new guidelines on 9 Jan that specify what protests will not be accepted. Mainly, all of them.
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‘If You Are Wondering Who Benefits’: Weapons Makers See Stocks Surge as Trump Moves Closer to War with Iran
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Almost immediately after the United States assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike on 2 Jan, major American weapons manufacturers and defense contractors—from Northrop Grumman to Lockheed Martin to Raytheon—saw their stocks surge as investors sensed the growing likelihood of another war in the Middle East.
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Changing Perceptions on Homosexuality
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Until the mid-1970s, Swedish law defined homosexuality as a disease.
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Attacks on Iran–Past and Present
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
On Fri 3 Jan 2020, progressives in the United States and all peace-loving people throughout the world were horrified to learn that Donald Tromp had added to his long list of crimes and imbecilities by ordering the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, who is a hero in his own country, Iran.
→ read full articleA World without the Nation-State
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
2 Jan 2020 – The state is a culture of war. In this case the state is the United States and their culture of war is shown in their role in the overthrow of President Morales of Bolivia (precisely because he was promoting a culture of peace) and their threat to punish Julian Assange (precisely because he revealed the secrets of their culture of war.) Not to mention that the states of the world are unable to seriously attack the problem of global warming, and the USA is the worst in this regard.
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A New Decade
Mazin Qumsiyeh– TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
2 Jan 2020 – We entered 2020, a year that heralded an unlivable situation in Gaza according to the UN and a new decade that many are predicting will radically transform the world (either make it or break it on many fronts from world peace to climate change). Freedom is never given to oppressed people from outside. It must be generated by resistance and via pressure primarily from inside (outside help is welcome as with BDS just like in South Africa).
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Why US Assassinated General Qassem Soleimani
PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
The Pentagon said US President Donald Trump had ordered Gen. Soleimani’s assassination on 3 Jan. All US attempts to isolate Iran by abrogating the nuclear deal “and imposing stringent, unwarranted and illegal economic sanctions on Iran have failed dismally,” and the attempt to destabilize the Islamic Republic “internally have also recently been met with defeat.”
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Militarism: Social Cancer–Cold, Sobering Reality of Undeniable Facts
Fred Dubee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
1 Jan 2020 – As we start the New Year, it might be worthwhile having a glimpse of what might be assumed to be priorities of one nation and think a bit about the implications for the rest of the world. Numbers don’t lie.
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Unlawful Dog and Monkey Suffering Uncovered at German Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Cruelty Free International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES – Dogs left bleeding and dying, and monkeys being routinely abused has lifted the lid of secrecy on regulatory safety testing. This abuse and the unimaginable suffering of cats, dogs and monkeys are unlawful. Yet this is the reality of laboratory life for animals.
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(Castellano) Bolivia: Por Hablar de Golpe de Estado Te Catalogan como ‘Sedicioso’ y Te Persiguen Penalmente
Alex Anfruns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
28 Dic 2019 – En Bolivia hay que tener cuidado con lo que se dice y se hace, si no quiere que un juez le acuse de “sedición y terrorismo” para meterle entre rejas. Fue el caso de periodistas argentinos y venezolanos que visitaron el país para informar sobre las masacres.
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Over 9,000 Palestinians Displaced in a Decade of West Bank Demolitions
Natasha Roth-Rowland | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
24 Dec 2019 – Israel’s demolition regime in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has destroyed over 6,000 Palestinian structures, displacing thousands of Palestinians over the past decade — over half of whom are children and minors.
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Nepal: Inaugural Issue of “Social Inquiry” Published
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – The editorial board delightfully announces the publication of the opening issue of ‘Social Inquiry: Journal of Social Science Research,’ a biannual journal published by Sustainable Development and Empowerment Forum, Kathmandu, Nepal. The Editorial Board with its National and International Advisory Boards comprises research scholars, professors and veteran professionals with national and global repute.
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(Português) Retrospectiva 2019: Um Ano de Reflexão, Retrocessos e Resiliência
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
O ano de 2019 impressionou pela quantidade de perdas e grandes tragédias.
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NIH Director on Human Gene Editing: ‘We Must Never Allow Our Technology to Eclipse Our Humanity’
Francis S. Collins | Discover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
29 Dec 201 – The year opened with the scientific community scrambling to respond to the news that Chinese researcher He Jiankui had used CRISPR technology to edit the genomes of human embryos. The experiments resulted in the birth of twin girls, the first humans with genetically altered germline cells — which means their genetic changes are heritable and can be passed on to future generations. We consider such experiments both irresponsible and unethical.
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Everybody’s Watching You: The Intercept’s 2019 Big Brother/Surveillance Technology Coverage
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
27 Dec 2019 – A look back at The Intercept’s must-read technology stories from 2019.
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The Sham of Corporate Social Responsibility
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – Boeing recently fired CEO Dennis Muilenburg in order “to restore confidence in the Company moving forward.” Restore confidence? Muilenburg’s successor will be David Calhoun, who allowed Muilenburg to remain CEO after the first 737 Max crash and the jetliner posed an unacceptable risk of accident. It caused the deaths of 346 people. Muilenburg raked in $30 million in 2018. He could walk away from Boeing with another $60 million.
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The Stitching-up of Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg
Keith Davis | The Australian Independent Media Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
27 Dec 2019 – So while we sit on our arses and fiddle with our fingers a brave son of Australia is about to be thrown to the wolves. It would pay us well to read, and reflect upon, the following transcript between the President of the United States, his National Security Adviser, and his Attorney General.
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World Peace Is a Possibility
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Being on this planet is similar to being on a plane going from one place to another. We are all transients sharing a flight, which is temporary. We may not have the best seats for the moment, but we will soon be landing somewhere else. So why should we engage in quarreling over temporary seats?
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Illegal Tin Mining Leaves Trail of Ruin in Protected Brazilian Rainforest
Ana Ionova | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
30 Dec 2019 – The damage became clear once the rain stopped over Altamira National Forest in northern Brazil. Instead of dense jungle, large patches of bare land now flanked the banks of the rivers in this protected stretch of the Amazon rainforest. “When we got a clean satellite image we just saw devastation,” said one source at a government environmental agency. “We never saw anything like that in Altamira.”
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Trump, Troll-In-Chief, Wags the Impeachment Dog by Going to War with Iran
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – The madman in the White House has been sulking and raging for weeks about his impeachment proceedings, tweeting manically on some days more than 100 times. Trump has abruptly begun trafficking in the sanguinary merchandise of all-out war just at this moment when his throne is on the brink of toppling. Now, by murdering Qasem Soleimani, Trump has brought the United States to the brink of war with Iran.
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2020 Vision: A New Year’s Regeneration
Ronnie Cummins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
1 Jan 2020 – The solutions we need are no farther away than the nearest solar panel, wind farm, retrofitted building, bicycle path, electric vehicle, community garden, farmers market, organic farm and holistically-managed ranch. The solutions we need lie at the end of our forks and knives, under the trees that shade us, the carbon-sequestering soil below our feet, the consumer dollars in our wallets and our nearest voting booth.
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War with Iran
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – The assassination of Gen. Soleimani has opened a Pandora’s Box containing existential dangers to the American Empire.
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Trump’s Ordered Assassinations: Cruel and Inhumane Breach of International Law
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
‘There are those who benefit from war, the militarists, the arms dealers, the corporate media/military industrial complex, but those who really pay for militarism and wars are the people and the tax of the poor. The propaganda and lies of of war are being spread and this time the target is Iran, just like US/UK/NATO carried out wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc. Let us, the people, learn lessons from the past and unite and mobilize calling for no war against Iran. USA troops out of Shannon and out of Iraq! Yes to nonviolence, peace and dialogue! Let the people unite together to stop war, remembering that there is power in truth and love is stronger than hate.’
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(Italiano) Che cosa muove l’antisemitismo? Forme fasulle e reali
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
30 Dicembre 2019 – Solo il tribalismo più estremo può spiegare l’etichettatura di coloro che si oppongono al trattamento abusivo di Israele nei confronti del popolo palestinese come “antisemiti”. Consideriamo l’incapacità di Aung San Suu Kyi di condannare l’abuso da parte del Myanmar dei Rohingya come il lancio delle nuvole più scure sul suo Nobel Premio per la Pace. È un insulto agli ebrei e agli altri semiti consentire ai sionisti di imprimere solidarietà alla lotta palestinese per i loro diritti fondamentali come antisemitismo.
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We Must Do More to Prevent Nuclear War
John Polanyi, Nobel Chemistry Laureate | THE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
The existing nuclear weapons states have no special right to possess nuclear weapons. Indeed, they should have no such moral right. Although powerful, these existing nuclear powers are vulnerable, being bound together by fragile networks of nuclear obligations. It is our great good fortune – nothing more – that has spared us from nuclear war.
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The Big Change Coming to Just About Every Website on New Year’s Day–Thanks, California!
Aaron Mak | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
30 Dec 2019 – Starting New Year’s Day, you may notice a small but momentous change to the websites you visit: a button or link, probably at the bottom of the page, reading “Do Not Sell My Personal Information.”
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How a Rising Anti-Mining Movement Is Challenging Portugal’s ‘White Gold’ Rush
Marina Martinez | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
19 Dec 2019 – Throughout Portugal, people are organizing to stop a boom in lithium mining, as the government rushes to become Europe’s top supplier of the valuable mineral.
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The UN Predicted Gaza Would Be Unlivable by 2020. They Were Right.
Tania Hary | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – Israel is trying to keep Gaza ‘quiet’ by applying new calculations to make life survivable — without allowing the people to truly live. While revelers around the world are making New Year’s resolutions for 2020, in the Gaza Strip, a different kind of assessment is taking place as Palestinians try to determine whether, or how, they can survive.
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Jonas Brothers: Only Human (Music Video of the Week)
The Tonight Show | Jimmy Fallon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
The Jonas Brothers perform “Only Human” for the Tonight Show audience.
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A World Dividing: The International Implications of the Sino-American Rift
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. | Quincy Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
• The U.S.-China trade war is reshaping global politics, creating new patterns of economic integration and alignment.
• By announcing a new era of “great power competition,” the United States is committing a mistake. It should instead focus on solving planet wide problems like climate change and sustaining economic and technological progress. All such challenges require some measure of cooperation with China.
Forgetting 2019
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – At this age, having exhausted prose options, I indulge myself during holidays by sharing poems that seek also your indulgence. I searched 2019 for some glimmers of good news, and felt stymied. Of course here, there, everywhere there were glorious private exceptions.
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(Português) Novo Filme sobre Testes em Animais Está Disponível Online
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
29 dez 2019 – O documentário “Test Subjects”, sobre a realidade dos testes em animais já está disponível no Vimeo para quem quiser assistir online. “Espero que esse filme ajude a desafiar essa crença e lance luz sobre o fato de que testes em animais são ineficazes quando se trata da saúde humana”.
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Imagining a World without Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
27 Dec 2019 – Anti-capitalists had a miserable year. But so did capitalism. The point is to suggest, just before the New Year, the wondrous possibilities of a truly liberal, post-capitalist, technologically advanced society. Those who refuse to imagine it are bound to fall prey to the absurdity pointed out by my friend Slavoj Žižek: a greater readiness to fathom the end of the world than to imagine life after capitalism.
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The Plot Thickens
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Betrayals galore…
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The Searching Life and Enigmatic Death of Albert Camus
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Albert Camus’ search ended sixty years ago on January 4, 1960, the day he died. Although he had already written The Stranger, The Rebel, The Plague, and The Fall, and had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he felt his true work had barely begun.
→ read full articleRing any Bells?
David G. Brown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Right!
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Gods of Good Tidings
Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Oh Gods of Good Tidings
Why create these Weather Rings
Russia basking in a Summer Show
Inviting us all to its Warm Glow
India back in a Winter Fury
Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
Stan Shabaz | Zinda Magazine/Assyrian International News Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
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?
→ read full articleStudying the Scope of STEM and Other Subjects in Our Academia
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Academic institutions —schools, colleges, universities offer various subjects for study and research. These subjects are generally grouped in broad categories such as Arts, Languages, Humanities, Commerce and Economics, Sciences, Mathematics, etc. These categories are broadly self explanatory; however, some subjects such as Geography, Sociology may be taught as parts of Humanities or Arts or even Science. A new combination that has recently emerged is called STEM.
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New Year 2020: A Prayer for Peace and Religious Harmony
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
1 Jan 2020 – As I am thinking about the New Year, I am thinking about peace, about how to make the world a peaceful place to live and thrive. The passing year was not that peaceful. There were violent incidents all over the world. There were violent incidents within states, there was also violence based on the exclusionary approach to particular people.
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Varieties of Violence: Structural, Cultural, and Direct
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
6 Jan 2020 – Terrorists, serial killers, domestic murderers — their ghoulish deeds fill our news and popular entertainment, interspersed with wars, riots, and brutal repressions. Violence surrounds us. Where does it come from? The answer propagated by the mass media is that violence is human nature. It’s just the way people are. Peace researcher Johan Galtung denies that human nature condemns us to violence.
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Maurice Béjart (1 Jan 1927 – 22 Nov 2007): Starting off the Year with a Dance
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
Maurice Béjart was an innovative master of modern dance. In a world where there is both appreciation and fear of the mixing of cultural traditions, he was always a champion of blending cultural influences. He was a world citizen and an inspiration to all who work for a universal culture.
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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task.”
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Afghan Children: Work of Necessity, Work of Choice
Carolyn Coe | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
2 Jan 2020 – If children like himself had a choice, Gul Mohammad thinks it better that they be able to study instead of having to work. He values an education and doesn’t want to join the estimated 1.6 million Afghan addicts. “If I don’t study, I could become like some people who stop studying and become addicts and who can’t find any job to support their families.” He started selling bread in a bakery when he was 8.
→ read full articleOn Curves, Their Interrelations, and History
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
This essay is focused on concrete curves, and on concrete actors like USA, EU, Russia, China. And on interrelations of several curves.
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The Fight to Expose Israel’s Arms Sales to the World’s Most Repressive Regimes
Sahar Vardi | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
25 Dec 2019 – In the span of less than 10 years, activists from across the political spectrum went head to head with the Israeli government, trying to bring an end to its arms exports to tyrannical governments worldwide.
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Each New Year
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
another revolution
around the sun
a moment of pause
to take account
(Français) Paroles sur les Crises au Mali et les Limites de la Démocratie
Dr Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Expériences et Analyses Pour Favoriser la Paix – Le Mali est victime d’un Choc des Corporations – Extrait Du Livre
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(Italiano) Immorale il Possesso di Armi Nucleari
Editoriale | Il Foglio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
«L’uso dell’energia atomica per fini di guerra è immorale, come allo stesso modo è immorale il possesso delle armi atomiche, come ho già detto due anni fa. Saremo giudicati per questo dalle nuove generazioni. Come possiamo parlare di pace mentre costruiamo nuove e formidabili armi di guerra? E mentre giustifichiamo determinate azioni illegittime con discorsi di discriminazione e di odio?» — Papa Francesco
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Billionaires’ Wealth Surged in 2019
Barry Grey | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 – The wealth of the world’s 500 richest people rose 25 percent in 2019, reaching a combined net worth of $5.9 trillion. To place this figure in some perspective, these 500 individuals control more wealth than the gross domestic product of the United States at the end of the third quarter of 2019, which was $5.4 trillion.
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(Castellano) Cada Nuevo Año [Poema]
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
otra revolución
alrededor del sol
un momento de pausa
para considerar
“Cost”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Subjective, intuitive, artistically scholarly, sophisticated…. Artists inhabit a world all of their own only accessible to the initiated, at times. Poets, particularly, seem to possess that especial quality of being able to transform the trivial into sublime–and vice versa. Playing with reality and irrealities as playthings. Not merely words or semantics but ideas, thoughts, perceptions, visions, consciousness. — TMS Editor
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Symbolic Disconnection from the Stars and the Universe?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
30 Dec 2019 – Surreptitious Global Implementation of Full-Spectrum Dominance and Shielding – Produced in Anticipation of the Imminent Launch of a Vast Array of Communications Satellites
→ read full articleCapitalism and Robbery: The Expropriation of Land, Labor, and Corporeal Life
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – It is impossible to understand the totality of capitalist relations apart from the conditions of both exploitation and expropriation, which together generate the ensemble of oppressions that characterize the system. It is here too that we begin to understand the various interlocking aspects of capitalist domination, which require a corevolutionary praxis in response.
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The Infinite Hotel Paradox
Jeff Dekofsky | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
The Infinite Hotel is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. What if it’s completely booked, but one person wants to check in? What about 40? Or an infinitely full bus of people? Jeff Dekofsky solves these heady lodging issues using Hilbert’s paradox. Enjoy our stay!
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Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century
Ron Paul | Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lute’s cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war.
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The People of India Are Taking It to the Streets to Challenge Modi’s Bigoted and Dishonest Government
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019 – Every day and in every part of India, hundreds of thousands of people—mainly young people—gather on the streets to express their anger at the government. Their protests, like those of the protests in Chile, emerged out of one particular grievance but then have cascaded outward.
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Julian Assange “Slowly Dying” and “Often Sedated” at UK Belmarsh Prison
Mike Head | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 -Vaughan Smith is a freelance video news journalist who gave refuge to Assange in 2010. He tweeted that Assange called his family on Christmas Eve: “He told my wife and I how he was slowly dying in Belmarsh where, though only on remand, he is kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and is often sedated.”
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Japan’s Radioactive Water Will Be Released into Ocean or Atmosphere
Dan Robitzski | Futurism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
27 Dec 2019 – Officials overseeing the crumbled remains of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant have a growing problem: they’re running out of space to store its radioactive water. The only options on the table are dumping 1.7 million tons of contaminated water into the ocean, evaporating it so it enters the atmosphere, or a combination of both–in the not-so-distant future.
→ read full articleDear NATO Member
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
As you know, wars are fought not by the wordsmiths and their paymasters – but rather by simple-minded folk who must somehow be “driven to war”. So every “civilizational narrative” has two major strands coded within it – “master-speak” and “mass-speak”. The former is centred on “self-interest”, while the latter speaks to “duty and love of country.”… You heard “experts” at the summit talking about “new threats” facing NATO. In the hugely lucrative business of “threats”, eggheads can always be found to write up impressive “threat analyses” to suit any given agenda. Sadly, no political leader dares to question the eggheads.
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(Português) Poema de Ano Novo
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Quando o Ano Novo começa,
é natural que a Deus se peça
Saúde, Paz e Prosperidade
WaPo’s Afghan Papers Propagate Colonial Narrative of Noble Intentions Gone Awry
Joshua Cho | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
The Afghanistan Papers should also be considered an excellent case study of contemporary colonial propaganda, and yet another example of corporate media criticizing US wars without opposing US imperialism. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s famous analysis of media coverage of the Vietnam War, in Manufacturing Consent, found that questions of the invasion’s “tactics and costs”—to the US—dominated the debate.
→ read full articleThe Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 – The problem may be that a transition to 100% renewables is the wrong target. Reversing climate change need not mean emptying our pockets and tightening our belts. It is possible to sequester carbon and restore our collapsing ecosystem using the financial resources we already have, and it can be done while at the same time improving the quality of our food, water, air and general health.
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Media’s Deafening Silence on Latest from WikiLeaks about the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fake Douma Report Blaming Syria
Caitlin Johnstone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 – “Media Silence on This Story Is Its Own Scandal”- WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the OPCW adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year which resulted in airstrikes upon that country from the US, UK and France.
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Brazil Amazon Deforestation Climbs more than 100% in November over Same Month Last Year – Government Agency
Marcelo Teixeira | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published today.
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New Year
Ravi Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
On this cold day in the North
And warm days in the South
We celebrated the day of joy and mirth
2019 Bloomberg Billionaires Index [Absent: Mike Bloomberg]
Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
29 Dec 2019 – View profiles for each of the world’s 500 richest people, see the biggest movers, and compare fortunes or track returns. Details about the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire’s profile page. [From TMS Editor: Does anyone know why Mike Bloomberg is not in his own list? According to Forbes he ranks #20 with US$ 22 billion.]
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Myanmar: UN Expert Calls for Tolerance and Safety from Reprisals after Online Threats to Activists
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – The UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has condemned online threats against activists campaigning for justice and accountability, urging the Government and social media firms to do more to protect campaigners. “The online threats, including those targeting prominent activists Dr. Maung Zarni and Mr. Nay Say Lwin of the Free Rohingya Coalition are deeply concerning,” Lee said.
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