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The Poisoning of American Political Discourse
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
In What Gore Vidal Calls “The United States of Amnesia”
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U.S., UK, & France Certainly Committed an International War Crime against Syria on 14 April 2018
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – It is now clear that the three Governments fired over a hundred missiles against Syria on no more ‘justification’ than staged videos that had been done by those regimes’ own proxy boots-on-the-ground fighters in Syria.
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Bolivia’s Evo Morales Steps Down: Reaction from Latin America and Beyond
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – A round-up of international reactions to the news of the resignation of Latin America’s longest-serving leader.
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Are the UN and the International Community Both Brain Dead?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – The world has been confronted by the assertion by President Macron that NATO is “brain dead”. Rather than explore the case made with regard to NATO alone, the institutional problem recognized is far more fundamental and general. Given its coincidental timing, the assessment could then be readily dismissed as a riposte to the recent formal withdrawal of the US from the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
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“Peoples’ BRICS” to Be Held Concurrently with BRICS Summit in November
Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
People’s movements, unions, and parties will debate common issues between Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa in Brasília, Brazil, 11 and 12 Nov 2019.
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What’s Joker’s Joke?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
The joker’s joke is no joke at all. It is deadly serious. When Arthur Fleck says, “I used to think my life was a tragedy, but now I realize it’s a comedy,” and unleashes his murderous violent rage with a Joker’s smile, he was turning into those he condemned as his oppressors. Their nihilism became his own; their violence his. The film asks us to contemplate such a marriage of seeming opposites, its dialectic, and not turn away from the faces in the mirror.
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Warning of ‘Untold Human Suffering,’ Over 11,000 Scientists from Around the World Declare Climate Emergency
Julia Conley | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
5 Nov 2019 – More than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries today officially declared a climate emergency and warned of “untold human suffering” if immediate bold action is not taken to stop the warming of the globe. “Scientists have a culture of reticence when it comes to making statements like this, but the emergency is rapidly accelerating, and the scientists are very clear: this is an existential emergency.”
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Did the West Win the Cold War?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – It was assumed and almost never challenged that the outcome of the Cold War was a victory for liberal values, human rights, political democracy, economic growth, and certainly world peace. And since democracies supposedly do not go to war against each other, and if Communism was discredited, then democracy would spread naturally and quickly, and the world would become more peaceful and its people better off.
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Inside a Foie Gras Farm
Animal Equality – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
Animal Equality recently visited a foie gras farm to witness the production of the cruel ‘delicacy’ firsthand. We filmed ducks and geese suffering severely in barren, wire cages and terrified birds struggling while being ruthlessly force-fed with metal tubes. The process of ‘gavage’, or force-feeding, causes much suffering to ducks and geese.
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Deforestation in Brazil Jumped by 80% in One Year: Study
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
7 Nov 2019 – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon region increased by 80 percent in September compared to the same month last year, according to a private study released yesterday stating that 802 square kilometers of forest was lost in the zone. About 14 percent took place in protected conservation areas and 7 percent in Indigenous territories.
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(Português) Em paralelo à Cúpula dos BRICS, Brasil receberá o “BRICS dos Povos” em novembro
Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
Movimentos populares, sindicatos e partidos políticos dos países que formam o Brics – Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul – se reunirão em Brasília nos dias 11 e 12 de novembro para o “BRICS dos Povos”. A data, o local e o nome do evento foram escolhidos para fazer um paralelo à cúpula que reunirá representantes de governos, a qual será realizada dois dias depois, também na capital federal.
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Sierra Club Takes a Commendable Turn on Population, Climate Change, and Inequality
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – The Sierra Club–long a retrograde proponent of saving the planet by driving a Tesla, eating wild caught salmon, and voting blue–took positive environmental leadership with their end of the year issue of the Sierra magazine. Stating it is “time to fix the population fixation,” they examine the interactions of population, climate change, and inequality.
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We Need Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Solve the Climate Crisis
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
The Earth is living, and also creates life. Over 4 billion years the Earth has evolved a rich biodiversity–an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems–that can meet all our needs and sustain life. We can repair the Earth’s ruptured carbon cycle by recarbonizing it with the living carbon of biodiversity.
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Is the Run on the Dollar Due to Panic or Greed?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
7 Nov 2019 – Why are banks no longer lending to each other? Are they afraid that collapse is imminent somewhere in the system, as with the Lehman collapse in 2008? Perhaps, and if so the likely suspect is Deutsche Bank. But it looks to be just another case of Wall Street fattening itself at the public trough.
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UN Member States Overwhelmingly Support End of US Embargo against Cuba
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
For the 28th consecutive year, the UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba. During a vote held on Wednesday [6 Nov], 187 Member States underlined their support for the resolution while Brazil and Israel joined the US in voting no. Two countries—Colombia and Ukraine—abstained.
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Gandhi after His Anniversary
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
Artist Debanjan Roy from Kolkata has depicted Gandhi in a different light. He feels that Gandhi has often been misused by politicians to publicise their own narrow agendas. Roy has depicted Gandhi and his wife Kasturba as a set of Russian dolls. He feels that Gandhi learnt many aspects of his politics from Kasturba. Gandhi was also influenced by his mother Putli Bai — for his religious amity and regular fasting.
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NATO Is Suffering ‘Brain Death’, Argues French President Macron
AFP | France 24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
7 Nov 2019 – French President Emmanuel Macron said he believed NATO was undergoing “brain death”, lamenting a lack of coordination between Europe and the United States and unilateral action in Syria by key member Turkey, in an interview published today.
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Brazil: Lula Is Free!
Ana Paula Vargas and Vijay Prashad | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
9 Nov 2019 – Just before 6 p.m. on 8 Nov, Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked out of prison. Lula was imprisoned in April 2018 on a 12-year sentence. 580 days of prison are now over, as the Federal Supreme Court ruled that inmates who have not yet exhausted their appeals should not be held behind bars. –The Verdict Was Not Directed at Lula, but at the Undemocratic Nature of the Judicial System in Brazil
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Trump’s Worst Impeachable Offense Hurts the Whole World–Climate
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
11 Nov 2019
7 Nov 2019 – You can run from the climate crisis, but you can’t hide. The climate crisis imperils the planet. It is impeachable denying it, the highest of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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A Tight Grip on Our Nuclear Toys
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – The interests of the planet as a whole could easily disappear as anything but idealistic, ignorable abstractions. Disarmament? Give me a break. Not when regional powers are “challenging American hegemony.” Add to this the transnational, corporate interest in militarism. There’s no money in peace, a black hole, the lull between wars. Money doesn’t start to flow until the bullets and the bombs start to fly.
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US Seizure of Oil Fields Escalates Tensions in Syria
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
8 Nov 2019 – The US has deployed hundreds of troops backed by armored vehicles into oil fields located in Syria’s northeastern Deir Ezzor province, where they are reportedly building two new bases… Asked whether the US forces were going to take over all of Syria’s oil fields or only a portion of them, the naval officer suggested that this would be left to “commanders on the ground.”
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11 Nov 1821 – 9 Feb 1881)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time, he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.
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Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Endures Relentless Interrogation
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
30 Oct 2019 – Rwanda’s democratic opposition leader says “there is no space for people to speak freely and peacefully and engage in real democratic process in Rwanda.”
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On Moving to Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
10 Nov 2019 – Over 11years ago, I returned from the US to Palestine and this morning I dug up my message sent august 2008 on ‘Leaving the US for Palestine’ and I share it with you because it still shapes my decisions/my life and could give you food for thought (of course what I proposed to do then did evolve including deciding to write a book on popular resistance, getting arrested/detained many times, and starting the PMNH/PIBS).
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The RCEP Train Left the ASEAN Station Leaving India Behind
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
11 Nov 2019
5 Nov 2019 – Biggest story at the ASEAN Summit was convergence of moves for Asia integration through the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, leaving Delhi out for now.
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Casteism: Is It the Scourge of Hinduism, or the Perversion of a Legitimate Vedic System?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
Casteism in India has gotten a lot of criticism, and rightly so. The way casteism is at present should not even exist. Casteism as we find it today is now nothing more than a misrepresentation and misinterpretation of a legitimate and progressive Vedic system known as varnashrama. However, we need to know the difference between the two, and then get rid of present-day casteism to again utilize the genuine and liberal form of social organization, known as varnashrama.
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‘Our only Aim Is to Go Home’: Rohingya Refugees Face Stark Choice
Sarah Marsh and Redwan Ahmed – The Guardian,
11 Nov 2019
4 Nov 2019 – Life in the world’s largest refugee camp has grown harder in the past few months. With citizenship in Myanmar still denied, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh must either live under severe restrictions or move to an isolated island.
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Choose Your Constitution!
Joe Kandra (cartoonist) and Kathie MM - Engaging Peace,
11 Nov 2019
Then & Now…
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WikiLeaks Reveals OPCW Falsified Reports to Blame Syrian Government Instead of Western Backed-Jihadis!
Federico Pieraccini | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
29 Oct 2019 – A whistleblower from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons delivered to WikiLeaks authentic documents to do with investigations into the Douma bombing in Syria in 2018. The revelations–studiously ignored by the mainstream media–shed a light on the tangled web weaved by the complicit media and the West’s shameless hypocrisy, involving the [Nobel Peace Laureate] OPCW, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange’s illegal detention.
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Wall Street at Record Highs as Global Growth Slows
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
7 Nov 2019 – As Wall Street reaches new highs all three major indexes (the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nadaq) hit records in the past week. While impoverished workers and youth from US, India, Lebanon, Iraq, Chile, Ecuador are told “there is no money” for jobs, wages, schools or health care, trillions are made available to the speculators and big investors to increase their stock portfolios and enlarge their personal fortunes.
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Protests in Haiti Signal Change Needed in US Foreign Policy
Jonathan Molina | The Daily Californian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
There have already been several failed coup attempts against the Maduro government in Venezuela, and all its assets have been frozen. Crippling economic policy against Venezuela has deeply harmed the people that the US claims to protect. If it were to be true to its often-stated goal of advancing democracy and protecting the worlds’ poor, Haiti’s government would be the focus of human rights intervention to defend unarmed civilians against repressive government violence.
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U.S. Global Pirate!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
What is OUR OIL doing under THEIR sand? “We’re keeping the (Syrian) Oil,” says Trump. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney plundered Iraq’s oil. Barack Obama looted the Libyan oil fields.
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The Weighing
Jane Hirshfield – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
The heart’s reasons
seen clearly,
even the hardest
will carry
its whip-marks and sadness
and must be forgiven.
Teach Your Children (Music Video of the Week)
Crosby, Stills & Nash – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
LIVE – From Déjà Vu (1970) – Lyrics
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Ah … The Best People: Ignoring the Need for Environmental Deliverance for Over 50 Years
Marc A. Cirigliano| The Eastern Woodlands Fusion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
The Limits to Growth – Journalism seems to have finally caught up with what the scientists have been telling us for well over five decades about the environment. You come across articles about overpopulation, pollution, resource use and climate change, including human excesses, noticeable changes that affect the day-to-day well-functioning of a society, or the long-term viability of human life as we now know it.
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US and Israel Were Lone Votes against UN Resolutions Opposing Space Arms Race and Nuclear Middle East
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
8 Nov 2019 – The only two countries that voted consistently against UNGA draft resolutions calling for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East and to stop an arms race in outer space.
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(Português) Leonardo DiCaprio elogia documentário vegano que aborda o impacto do consumo de carne no planeta
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
11 Nov 2019
7 nov 2019 – O filme, que tem como objetivo “expor o verdadeiro custo de comer animais”, enfoca questões relacionadas à compaixão, meio ambiente, saúde e economia. O ator o descreveu como “o vídeo que as futuras gerações desejam que todos assistam hoje”.
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Babri Masjid Verdict: My House Demolished, I Go to Court, It Awards the Land to the Demolisher. Is This Justice?
Binu Mathew | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
9 Nov 2019 – Babri Masjid mosque: In a unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court held that the disputed land of Ayodhya must be handed over for the construction of Ram temple. The verdict is not end of the controversial Ayodhya – Ram Janmabhumi dispute. This opens only a new chapter in the Hindu/Muslim relations in India. One can only hope that harmony will prevail.
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Israel Is Silencing the Last Voices Trying to Prevent Abuse of Palestinians
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
10 Nov 2019 – It is a sign of Israel’s overweening confidence in its own impunity that it so openly violates the rights of those whose job it is to monitor human rights. Palestinians, meanwhile, are rapidly losing the very last voices prepared to stand up and defend them against the systematic abuses associated with Israel’s occupation.
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E.F. Schumacher’s “A Guide for the Perplexed”: Mapping the Meaning of Life and the Four Levels of Being
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
How to harness the uniquely human power of “consciousness recoiling upon itself.”
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Bolsonaro Puts Up Brazilian Richest Oil Wells for Sale to Foreign Companies
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – One of them is the Buzios field where there are three of the world’s most productive wells, which are capable of yielding more than 40,000 thousand barrels per day, a productivity level that is greater than that in Saudi Arabia, according to the Petrobras Engineers Association (AEPET).
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Chile: Bachelet Upholds Pinochet’s Call for Oblivion
Ramona Wadi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – What Bachelet describes as a “current crisis” has roots that go deeper into a history which Chilean governments prefer to dissociate from the demonstrations. Neoliberalism in Chile is a brutal ongoing experiment and Bachelet does indeed know better than other diplomats at the UN that the protests must achieve their aim before any so-called dialogue with politicians, whether right-wing or centre-left. However, her role at the UNHRC makes it easy for her to rely on prepared statements.
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(Português) Rainha Elizabeth II Abandona Uso de Casacos de Pele
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
6 nov 2019 – De acordo com o jornal britânico The Mirror, a Rainha Elizabeth II decidiu substituir o uso de peles por peles falsas. A publicação diz que a monarca tem sido criticada há anos por organizações que atuam defesa dos animais por usar casacos com peles reais, justificando que “ela deveria dar o exemplo”.
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How to Crush a Bankers’ Dictatorship: A Lesson from 1933
Matthew Ehret | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
8 Nov 2019 – While everyone knows that the 1929 market crash unleashed four years of hell in America which quickly spread across Europe under the great depression, not many people have realized that this was a controlled blowout. While I’m not arguing that a systemic change is not vital to protect people from the effects of a general meltdown of the $1.2 trillion derivatives bubble sometimes called “the western banking system”, what central bankers are proposing is a poison more deadly than the disease they promise to cure.
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Is There a Place for Ethics in Smart Cities?
Dr Jaspal Kaur Sadhu Singh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
The concern here lies in the question as to whether we are being too hasty in turning to technology to resolve all the problems that plague city-dwellers. “Smart Cities” seem to appeal to the modern sensibilities of progressiveness… Cities need to be sustainable, resilient, economically vibrant, inclusive and democratic. Technology being the mere scaffolding that lifts the structures of our society, cities cannot be built from technology up; they are built from the needs of the humans who reside within them.
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Popular Resistance in Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
“This is a timely and remarkable book written by the most important chronicler of contemporary popular resistance in Palestine. Mazin Qumsiyeh brilliantly evokes the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi, Edward Said, Rachel Corrie and many others, to tell the unvarnished truth about Palestine and Zionist settler colonialism. With its focus on ‘history and activism from below’, this is a work of enormous significance. Developing further his original ideas on human rights in Palestine, media activism, public policies and popular, non-violent resistance, Mazin Qumsiyeh’s book is a must read for anyone interested in justice and how to produce the necessary breakthrough in the Israel-Palestine conflict.” — Prof. Nur Masalha
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
For those of us concerned with the struggle to create cultures of peace or, even, a world culture of peace, there are some fundamental questions to consider including the classic question discussed by two of humanity’s greats, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud–‘Why War?’ Peace entails far more than simply a state without military (including terrorist) violence and war. Beyond these forms of violence, many exponents of peace seek the end of other dimensions of what I call ‘visible’ violence.
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UN Rapporteur Nils Melzer Warns: Julian Assange May Die in British Prison
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
4 Nov 2019 – United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer has issued a chilling warning: If WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is not urgently released from prison and provided the medical care he requires, he may die behind bars in Britain. In accompanying comments to the Associated Free Press, Melzer said that his statement was based on “new medically relevant information.”
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The School of the Americas
Larry Romanoff - Global Research,
11 Nov 2019
Close the School of Americas, November 15-17 at Fort Benning, Georgia – This so-called university, also known as the “School of Dictators”, has produced thousands of dishonorable graduates linked to terror, torture, massacres and military death squads. It is generally considered as America’s main base for its continuing destabilization of Latin America.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
A national epos communicates a national ethos. What is the national US ethos communicated by Herman Melville? Man against Nature is one. Man, humans we would say today, is destined to fight Nature. And destined ultimately to win even if by paying heavy prices.
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Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Movimentos populares, sindicatos e partidos políticos dos países que formam o Brics – Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul – se reunirão em Brasília nos dias 11 e 12 de novembro para o “BRICS dos Povos”. A data, o local e o nome do evento foram escolhidos para fazer um paralelo à cúpula que reunirá representantes de governos, a qual será realizada dois dias depois, também na capital federal.
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Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
A sergeant told Human Rights Watch: “If he’s a good guy, you know, now he’s a bad guy because of the way we treated him.” The violence that brought the Islamic State into being has a long history. The USA created Al Qaeda, ISIS among others and will keep creating such ‘enemies’ so long as its war economy demands it. War on Terror is a marketing stunt to buy/sell death, torture, destruction, evil. Remember karma?
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American Horrors: Regime Change in Iraq to the Rise of ISIS (Podcast)
Jeremy Scahill – Intercepted Podcast,
4 Nov 2019
30 Oct 2019 – Amid the grandstanding and partisan bickering, no one wants to talk about the decades of U.S. policy that helped give rise to ISIS and al-Qaeda. Jeremy Scahill discusses how U.S. policy opened a Pandora’s Box in Iraq and Syria. Islamic studies scholar Amanda Rogers discusses the actual founder of ISIS, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and how ISIS adopted tactics from the U.S. war on terror. War reporter Mike Giglio talks about his time on the ground covering ISIS.
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Baghdadi Story Reveals Divided–and Broken–News Media
Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone,
4 Nov 2019
28 Oct 2019 – Two sets of headlines described the suicide of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. From the Washington Post: Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, Austere Religious Scholar at Helm of Islamic State, Dies At 48. Meanwhile, at FOX News: Al-Baghdadi Kill: How the Daring Military Operation Went Down. If You Have Two Sets of News Media, You Have None
→ read full article“Peoples’ BRICS” to Be Held Concurrently with BRICS Summit in November
Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
People’s movements, unions, and parties will debate common issues between Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa in Brasília, Brazil, 11 and 12 Nov 2019.
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Casting Doubt: Trusting Whistleblowers More Than International Institutions–Syrian Alleged Chemical Weapons Attack on Douma
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Courage Foundation Panel Challenges International Finding of Syrian Responsibility for the 2018 Attack on Douma
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A Conspiracy of Decency
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
We will conspire to keep this blue dot floating and alive,
to keep the soldiers from gunning down the children,
Our Vanishing World (Part 3): Insects
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
About 12,000 years ago, late Stone Age humans precipitated the Neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start of the steady rise to civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is now known as the Holocene Epoch, the geological epoch in which humans still live. However, since the industrial revolution commencing in about 1750, just 270 years ago, humans have been destroying Earth’s biosphere with such tremendous ferocity that the Earth we inherited at the beginning of the Holocene Epoch is vanishing before our eyes. And life is vanishing with it.
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Education and Knowledge Can Stop the Fake “Science” of Multinationals That Is Leading the Planet and Society to Collapse
Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Now that the dominant model is showing its inadequacies and failures, we must necessarily recognize the plurality of knowledge systems and the potential of their integration, which is essential to increase our capacity for survival as a species. Adaptation in times of turbulence requires maintaining high levels of freedom and choice. This requires diversity in all its forms.
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Experts Say Beijing Is NOT Engaged in ‘Debt Trap Diplomacy’, but Anti-China Propaganda Is Relentless
Darius Shahtahmasebi - RT,
4 Nov 2019
30 Oct 2019 – A new report has shed some light on predominantly western critiques of China’s foreign policy strategy, particularly in the Pacific; and it has put to rest an issue which has dominated media discourse for some time now.
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The Meaning of Chile’s Explosion
Camila Vergara – Jacobin Magazine,
4 Nov 2019
29 Oct 2019 – The ongoing popular upheaval in Chile is the product of thirty years of neoliberal oligarchy and half-hearted democratization. To uproot the existing power structure, the country needs a new constitution.
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Pillow Talk
Joe Kandra (cartoonist) and Kathie MM – Engaging Peace,
4 Nov 2019
There you go again…
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The Venice Future Dialogues
Jan Oberg | Oberg Photo Graphics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
26 Oct 2019 – How the Silk Peace Art Road installation stimulates dialogues about the world and what a couple of thousand people from all over that world shared with me… This article is a report of what visitors to my installation in Venice have shared with me about the world, what they fear and hope.
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By Protecting Syria’s Idlib, the US Created a Safe Haven for Baghdadi and ISIS
Dan Cohen | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
29 Oct 2019 – With the [alleged] killing of self-proclaimed ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shoddy narrative pushed by US government officials and regime change propagandists about Idlib was blown to pieces as well. October has been a tough month for the motley crew of self-styled Syria experts and regime-change diehards who spent years cheering on the so-called “moderate rebels.”
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(Français) Haïti: entre complicité et ingérence
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
22 oct. 2019 – Alors qu’Haïti a de nouveau connu plusieurs journées insurrectionnelles, le président Jovenel Moïse s’accroche au pouvoir, semblant bénéficier du soutien des pays occidentaux. De la sorte, ces derniers hypothèquent toute chance de résolution de la crise en cours.
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Johan Galtung—TRANSCEND: Methods and Solutions
AlternateFocus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Galtung’s approach to mediation offers concrete proposals to give all sides the sense that they are winners. In this interview he describes his methodology and offers solutions for peace in areas of conflict (not to confuse conflict with violence, or peace with absence of violence or a ceasefire).
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‘This Charge Is 100% False’: Grayzone Editor Max Blumenthal Arrested Months after Reporting on Venezuelan Opposition Violence
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
28 Oct 2019 – The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution.
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(Italiano) La «Madre terra» trasformata in colonia delle multinazionali
Manlio Masucci | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
24 ottobre 2019 – Viviamo in un’epoca di grande concentrazione economica, dove il capitale, accumulato da un numero ristretto di individui, ha la capacità di ridurre i governi a propri agenti con il fine di alimentare la macchina dello sfruttamento delle persone e del pianeta. Questo sistema, che spesso indossa la maschera bonaria del filantropismo e ama rifarsi il trucco attraverso operazioni di greenwashing, genera crisi economiche, sanitarie, ambientali, politiche.
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The Farewell Sermon of Prophet Muhammad
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Birth Anniversary Tribute, 9-10 Nov 2019 – As you read these lines, 1.6 billion Muslims across the world, from Morocco to Jakarta, will be paying homage to the Prophet Muhammad on his birthday. Here Is His Sermon.
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Street Pianos – Rondo Alla Turca (Music Video of the Week)
the5brownsmusic's channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson. The video was filmed while playing the international street pianos art called “Play Me, I’m Yours.”
→ read full articleHow the US Regime ‘Justifies’ the Theft of Syria’s Oil
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
30 Oct 2019 – Since when does a thief break into your residence in order to “protect” anything? And since when does such a thief have a right to sell your property, or to determine what people (such as “the Syrian Kurds”) will sell it?
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Decisive International Action Needed to End Israeli Occupation: UN Rights Expert
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
23 Oct 2019 – The international community has a responsibility and legal obligation to compel Israel to end its 52 year-long “occu-annexation” of Palestinian territory and remove barriers preventing Palestinian self-determination, a UN independent human rights expert told the General Assembly today.
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Regarding American Decadence: A Revealing President in a New Geopolitical Context
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
30 Oct 2019 – American protectionism under President Donald Trump’s administration is just an exaggerated expression of a process of global power loss and its replacement by a new constellation of blocks organized around specific interests and the power of the strongest within each.
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(Castellano) Parlamento de los Pueblos en Ecuador: Una Minga para Cambiar el País
Raúl Zibechi – La Jornada [Mexico],
4 Nov 2019
26 oct 2019 – Quito. El austero edificio de la CONAIE hierve con centenares de delegados y delegadas de comunidades y pueblos, de barrios populares y sindicatos, para debatir los rumbos del movimiento popular después de doce días de un levantamiento que marca a fuego la historia y la vida política del país andino.
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The Writing of “Silent Spring”: Rachel Carson and the Culture-Shifting Courage to Speak Inconvenient Truth to Power
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
A woman scientist without a Ph.D. or an academic affiliation became the most powerful voice of resistance against ruinous public policy mitigated by the self-interest of government and industry. “It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to have the opportunity to speak out — to many thousands of people — on something so important.”
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Critique of Nonviolent Politics from Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Howard Ryan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Critique of Nonviolent Politics may be the only comprehensive critique of nonviolent theory that has been written. Since 1977, I had been active in the movement against nuclear power and weapons which, in California, focused its protests at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant and at the Lawrence Livermore Labs where nuclear weapons are designed. Nonviolence was the prevailing political theory in the movement, especially in the “direct action” wing which organized mass blockades and occupations at nuclear facilities. Nonviolence informed our tactics and strategies, our group processes, and our general ethos and outlook.
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Israeli Occupation of Palestine: Disinformation, Denials, Distortions, Distractions, and Destruction of Human Rights
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
29 Oct 2019 – I was today again denied entry to my city Jerusalem by the Israeli occupation authorities. If they think that helps intimidate me, this piece and actions to follow will show otherwise. Response? More decent people need to get together, organize, and resist. Join us. Stay Human and act positively for human rights and justice.
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Really?
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Ring any bells? Hint: US foreign policies–farewell to latest evil empire
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Falsified Syria Report: Whistleblower
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
24 Oct 2019 – The information and documents provided by the whistleblower showed that the OPCW had suppressed and distorted its data, analysis and conclusions in order to make it appear that the Syrian government had used banned chemical weapons, when the testing had shown just the opposite. The panel had been requested by the whistleblower himself, who had been outraged by the dishonesty, and who said that other scientists at the organization had been equally upset, but were not yet willing to speak out.
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Britain Obstructs Spanish Investigation into CIA Spying on Julian Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
El País reported on Wednesday [23 Oct] that a request by Spanish judge José de la Mata to interview Assange via videolink had been rejected by the UK. He is investigating a complaint by Assange’s lawyers alleging that UC Global, the private company hired to provide security to Ecuador’s London embassy, illegally surveilled him on behalf of US authorities while he was protected with political asylum inside the building.
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Why Do So Many People Hate the U.S.?
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
1 Nov 2019 – The US illegal invasion of Iraq based on phony claims of weapons of mass destruction by Bush & co. led to the creation of ISIS. It has been endless regime-change wars, torture, rendition, and covert Special Ops in numerous countries. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed; millions wounded and displaced. No wonder so many people around the world hate the U.S. and see America as the greatest threat to peace on earth.
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(Français) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Fabriqué et Tué par la CIA
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
31 Oct 2019 – Maintenant qu’Abou Bakr al-Baghdadi, le dirigeant de l’EI, a été éliminé, beaucoup manifestent leur joie et leur soulagement aux États-Unis et en Occident. Ce qu’ils ne disent pas, c’est que ce groupe terroriste barbare est un produit de leur propre politique étrangère dans la région.
→ read full articleUN Expert’s Call to Stop Israeli Settlement of Palestinian Territories Falls on Deaf Ears
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
27 Oct 2019 – The judge who laid down the legal architecture needed to establish Israel’s settlements has just died. But his legacy has inspired a fresh generation of jurists to create new mechanisms for dispossessing the Palestinians.
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The Lasting Impact of the Islamic State
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Out of chaos come strange leaders. Most often they are re-absorbed into the chaos. Sometimes they rise above the chaos and impose a momentary order. The death of a person, even if in a leadership position, does not kill an ideology. ISIS’ long-range impact can only be met by strong compassion for all and a positive, inclusive intellectual framework.
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(Português) 70 Anos da Declaração Universal de Direitos Humanos 1948-2018
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Lista incompleta… adicione ítens.
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Banana Party–Serving Divinity
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Why do people buy and serve bananas to monkeys? In the Hindu faith, Hanuman, the legendary follower of Lord Ram, looks like a monkey and can even jump over mountains and hills in the service of Ram Bhagwan. It is no surprise that many people who serve bananas to the hordes of monkeys feel that they are serving the brave Hanuman. In many places these animals have become a menace. But how to tackle the problem since faith is involved?
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CIA Death Squads Responsible for Spike in Afghan Civilian Casualties
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
2 Nov 2019 – Civilian casualties have reached a record high in the 18-year-old US war in Afghanistan as the Trump administration has broken off talks with the Islamist insurgents of the Taliban and ordered a sharp escalation in US airstrikes and night raids by CIA-backed death squads. In Afghanistan, as in Syria, Trump’s promise to end Washington’s “forever wars” has amounted to empty demagogy.
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The Metamorphosis of the Deep State
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
2 Nov 2019 – To think that the deep state is government employees just doing their patriotic duty is plain idiocy and plainer propaganda, just as denying its existence was. It is a trick, not the treat it is made to seem.
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(Português) A Vantagem da Imperfeição
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
30 out 2019 – Em tempos em risco de nossa liberdade, é importante pensarmos em sua importância. Nascemos completos mas imperfeitos. Não possuímos nenhum órgão especializado, como a maioria dos animais. Para sobreviver, temos que trabalhar e intervir na natureza. Os mitos esclarecem esta asituação.
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Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
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The Future of Human Rights: Regressive Trends and Restorative Prospects
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
31 Oct 2019 – The main objective of this essay is to sketch the profound challenges to human rights that arise from a series of interrelated and overlapping developments, and to give some sense that to restore and enhance human rights is a difficult undertaking that now seems almost impossible given the ultra-nationalist outlook of the governments of most leading states. Yet the future is uncertain, and will be influenced by what peoples variously situated choose to do or refrain from doing.
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Did This Happen in the Home of Magna Carta?
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
28 Oct 2019 – The worst moment was one of a number of ‘worst’ moments. I have sat in many courtrooms and seen judges abuse their positions. This judge, Vanessa Baraitser – actually she isn’t a judge at all; she’s a magistrate – shocked all of us who were there. Her face was a progression of sneers and imperious indifference; she addressed Julian with an arrogance that reminded me of a magistrate presiding over apartheid South Africa’s Race Classification Board.
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(Português) Paul McCartney protagoniza nova campanha contra testes em animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Em campanha lançada hoje [23 Out] pela PETA, Paul McCartney é o protagonista do vídeo “Looking For Changes”, inspirado na música lançada pelo ex-Beatle em 1993.
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(Português) Foie Gras é Proibido em Nova York por Motivos de Bem-Estar Animal
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
4 Nov 2019
31 out 2019 – O patê de fígado de ganso é obtido por meio de sofrimento e crueldade absurdos com as aves, que são alimentadas à força até que seus fígados atinjam um tamanho bem superior ao normal. Restaurantes e mercearias podem receber uma multa de até 2 mil dólares se infringirem as novas regras vigentes na cidade.
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Caliph Closure: ‘He Died Like a Dog’
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
4 Nov 2019
28 Oct 2019 – The “died as a dog” movie can also be interpreted as the liquidation of a formerly useful asset that was a valued component of the gift that keeps on giving, the never-ending Global War on Terror. Other scarecrows, and other movies, await. Trump’s victory-lap movie version buries the embarrassing story of deploying tanks to ‘protect’ Syrian oilfields.
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In Court: The Annihilation of Julian Assange
Amb. Craig Murray – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
22 Oct 2019 – I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. The campaign of demonisation and dehumanisation against Julian, based on government and media lie after government and media lie, has led to a situation where he can be slowly killed in public sight, and arraigned on a charge of publishing the truth about government wrongdoing, while receiving no assistance from “liberal” society. Unless Julian is released shortly he will be destroyed. If the state can do this, then who is next?
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A Worldwide Revolution Is Underway
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
4 Nov 2019
31 Oct 2019 – Puerto Rico. Hong Kong. Ecuador. Haiti. Lebanon. Iraq. And now, Chile. People are rising up around the world against austerity and corruption, defying police forces. Many share a fierce critique of capitalism. People are flooding the streets, globally, linking the movements against inequality with the fight for a just, sustainable world powered by renewable energy.
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Indicators of Political Will, Remedial and Coping Capacity?
Anthony Judge – Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
28 Oct 2019 – Many issues are now variously highlighted as potential crises — with some framed as extremely urgent. It is curious to note how the emphasis is placed on the need for action but little is said about the capacity to follow through on that need.
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The Olive Tree–Not Just an Ordinary Tree
Mazin Qumsiyeh | DesertPeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
21 Oct 2019 – It is hard to describe to non-Palestinians what the olive tree means to us. My thoughts wonder to the Palestinians who lost their olive groves to the colonial settlement activity (over 1 million trees have been uprooted). The olive harvest is after all a ritual that borders on an act of worship (and maybe it is). Palestinians over the past 5000 years have cultivated olive trees and derived great benefit from these wonderful hardy trees.
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Kashmir: Self-Determination Is the Solution
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
26 Oct 2019 – It appears that the abrogation of Article 370 will only perpetuate the violence and the bloodshed associated with one of the longest political conflicts in modern times.
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