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Building Peace and Reconciliation through the Creation of the Ministry of Peace
Zaira Zafarana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
There are many initiatives around the world to create infrastructures for peace. They have even been proposing for a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Peace. Could that be an additional measure to call on States’ accountability as to the implementation of this right and to highlight the good practices already in place?
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United Nations 75th Anniversary Resolution
Florencia Gor, Jeffery Huffines and Fergus Watt | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
12 Oct 2019 – Draft Resolution – Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
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Dr. Ron Melnick | GrassrootsEnvEd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Dr. Ronald Melnick, lead designer of the NTP study of cell phone radiation, discusses the design of the study and its conclusion: “We should no longer assume that any current or future wireless technology, including 5G, is safe without adequate testing.” This video is from the expert forum held on 25 Mar 2019: “Questioning the Safety of Our Children’s Exposure to Wireless Radiation in the Classroom.”
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Farewell to the World Social Forum?
Roberto Savio | Other News - Human Wrongs Watch,
14 Oct 2019
13 Oct 2019 – Looking Back – The first World Social Forum in 2001 ushered in the new century with a bold affirmation: “Another world is possible.” That gathering in Porto Alegre, Brazil, stood as an alternative and a challenge to the World Economic Forum, held at the same time in Davos, Switzerland. The WSF, by contrast, was created as an arena for the grassroots to gain a voice.
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They Call It Multistakeholderism. Where Does That Leave the UN?
Harris Gleckman | PassBlue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Global governance is slipping away from the United Nations. Whether it is in managing the Internet, where the UN offers only an advisory role for governments; or climate change, where the most exciting actions are now corporate-led partnerships outside the UN; or the Gates Foundation-sponsored Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, in a tug of war on who sets health policy in developing countries, the institutional basis for global decision-making is changing—not for the better.
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Ecuador under President Neo-coño Moreno: The IMF’s Deadly “Economic Medicine”, the Weaponization of Neoliberal Reforms
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research,
14 Oct 2019
12 Oct 2019 – A popular insurrection is unfolding against the adoption of sweeping IMF reforms imposed by the government of President Lenin Moreno, aka Neocon Moreno. In March 2019, a 4.2 billion dollar IMF loan was granted to Ecuador: payment for Julian Assange’s arrest.
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On Racism and ‘Wild Beasts’: Why Israel Besieges Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
8 Oct 2019 – The Israeli Apartheid Wall, which is being built largely on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, once more underscores the ugliness of military occupation. As such, it truly epitomizes the nature of Israeli apartheid and also delineates the siege-driven, isolationist mentality that dominates the ruling-class thinking in Israel.
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Uninhabitable: Gaza Faces the Moment of Truth
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
13 Oct 2019 – Israel has ignored warnings by the UN that Gaza is about to become uninhabitable, acting as if Palestinians there can be caged, starved and abused indefinitely. Now crises are unfolding on all fronts – social, economic, political and humanitarian. The Dahiya Doctrine: “We will apply disproportionate force on [any area resisting Israel] and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases. This is not a recommendation. This is a plan.”
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Human Violence: Pervasive, Multi-dimensional and Extinction-threatening
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Perhaps ending human violence is impossible. If that is true, then human extinction is inevitable and it will occur as a result of one cause or another. Moreover, it will happen in the near term. But every person who believes that human violence can be ended, and then takes strategic action to end it, is participating in the most important undertaking in human history: a last ditch strategy to fight for human survival.
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Jayaprakash Narayan (11 Oct 1902 – 8 Oct 1979): Advocate of the Nonviolent Total Revolution
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Jayaprakash Narayan was an Indian social reformer in the struggle for Indian independence led by Mahatma Gandhi and a social reformer after the independence of India. “The problem is to put man in touch with man, so that they may live together in meaningful, understandable, controllable relationships. In short, the problem is to recreate the human community.”
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Hannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
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How Israeli Doctors Enable the Shin Bet’s Torture Industry
Ruchama Marton - +972 Magazine,
14 Oct 2019
7 Oct 2019 – From approving brutal interrogation techniques to writing false medical reports, doctors in Israel have taken an active role in the torture of Palestinian prisoners.
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Why We Need Resistance Studies
Richard Jackson | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
5 Oct 2019 – The challenges we face are daunting. That’s why we need Resistance Studies now more than ever. This could be the Golden Age for the study of resistance. For starters, we are going to need a great deal of nonviolent resistance to cope with the coming climate warming crisis.
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“The Destruction of a Society”: First the U.S. Invaded Iraq — Then We Left It Poisoned
David Masciotra | Salon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Scientist: Bombs, Bullets and Military Hardware Abandoned by U.S. Forces Have Left Iraq “Toxic for Millennia” – The political and moral culture of the United States allows for bipartisan cooperation to destroy an entire country, killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process, without even the flimsiest of justification. Then, only a few years later, everyone can act as if it never happened.
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Brazilian Experts Warn in Open Letter to President Bolsonaro a ‘Genocide Is Underway’ against Uncontacted Tribes
Jessica Corbett – Common Dreams,
14 Oct 2019
7 Oct 2019 – In an open letter to Brazilian society and right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, a group of experts warned that a “genocide is underway” against uncontacted tribes because of Bolsonaro’s efforts to strip away Indigenous peoples’ rights and lands and open up more of the Amazon rainforest to agribusiness and mining.
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Why Trump Is Facing Impeachment
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
There are higher callings than merely winning the presidency for good servants of the empire. But would Trump have been so compliant? Maybe not. So, impeachment is in order to either chasten him to faithful obedience or get rid of him.
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Never My Love (Music Video of the Week)
The Association - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Beauty does not age… forever Now!
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(Français) La Chine Va Faire Trembler le Monde : Des Paysans a l’Intelligence Artificielle
Marc Vandepitte et Ng Sauw Tjhoi | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
8 Oct 2019 – Pour la première fois dans l’histoire récente, un pays pauvre et sous-développé s’est hissé en un rien de temps au rang de superpuissance économique dotée d’un grand impact sur les événements mondiaux. Comment cela fut-il possible, et qu’est-ce que cela signifie pour le reste du monde ? Retour sur 70 années de bouleversements chinois.
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Academic Trends in Higher Education for Tolerance
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Few exceptional persons in every society have been tolerant in all times and at all places. In the past, among them, Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, Buddha and Saint Francis of Assisi were the highest type of exemplary tolerant personalities. They loved even their enemies. But the world needs all the people to be tolerant everywhere for human survival in the age of intolerance.
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Environmentalism According to the Vedic View
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
As everything is created from the Supreme Creator, then we should certainly have a high regard for everything as the expansion of God’s energies. This not only includes all of our fellow humans, but all creatures, as well as all aspects of the planet. We should care for the environment as if it is not ours but God’s property, and in this way assure ourselves that it will continue to provide all of our necessities for many years to come, and into many future generations. This is the Vedic view.
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The Kurdish-Turkish Crisis
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
12 Oct 2019 – Here we are again: a major series of events in the Middle East accompanied by thin and misleading MSM coverage. It is the background, context and interpretation of implications that are distorted and prejudiced; also, spiked with a drizzle of lies. Par for the course.
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The Ecological Force of NON
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
When before Violence/Killing
the prefix NON we pose
A Hat! A Hat! My Kingdom for a Winning Hat!
Joseph Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
What the devil is under those hats?
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Oops!
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
No joke…
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Iran Shows Off New Killer Wheeled Robots Designed to Take on Tanks, Infantry
Sean Gallagher | Ars Technica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
10 Oct 2019 – Heidar 1 Project’s Uncrewed Ground Vehicles Shoot Guns, Roll under Tanks, Blow Up
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The Blinding Light of Jordan Peterson – Popular Sophist Extraordinaire
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
14 Oct 2019 – Peterson is, one could say, an academic reincarnation of Newt Gingrich – a former media darling and Speaker of the House of Representatives, with deep roots in the state of Georgia and its racist and misogynist policies. Gingrich and Peterson are modern American archetypes of linguistic glitter and pontificating sleaze. There is, of course, an important difference between Gingrich and Peterson. Gingrich knew that he was lying. Peterson believes what he says.
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Afghanistan Probe: ‘At Least 60 Civilians’ Killed after US Military Airstrikes on Alleged Drug Labs
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
9 Oct 2019 – “Multiple” airstrikes by the US military on alleged methamphetamine drug labs in a remote area of western Afghanistan earlier this year, killed or injured hundreds of civilians who should not have been treated as military targets, the UN said today.
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(Português) Mark Twain, um Porta-Voz dos Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
“De todas as criaturas, o homem é a mais detestável. De todas, somente ele possui malícia. Ele é o único que causa dor por esporte e com consciência de que isso causa dor. O fato de que o homem sabe distinguir o certo do errado prova a sua superioridade intelectual em relação às outras criaturas. Mas o fato de que ele pode agir erradamente prova a sua inferioridade moral em relação a toda criatura que não pode”.
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(Português) Touro assustado e perseguido pula cerca e invade arquibancada em festival espanhol
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
14 Oct 2019
8 out 2019 – O incidente ocorreu na cidade de Cortes, na região de Navarra, no norte de Espanha. Quatro pessoas ficaram feridas, o touro passa bem.
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Israelis Were ‘Saddened’ to Have to Kill Gaza Protesters, to Avert ‘Bloodbath’
Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
4 Oct 2019 – Have you watched reports of the Chinese government’s response to protesters in Hong Kong? The fact that the violent protesters hurl bricks and molotovs is treated as just another form of protest. Contrast those stories to the sympathetic coverage of Israel killing 200 protesters at the Gaza fence and maiming hundreds of others. American Jews think of Judaism as a universal religion, but for Israelis, Judaism is a Jewish nation centered in Israel whose survival is at stake with the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
→ read full articleThe Climate Crisis (and Other Crises) Require the Transformation of the Basic Cultural Structure of the Modern World (Part 1)
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
It is in the news that millions of people around the world –inspired by a Swedish teenager so honest that looking at a picture of her will cure a headache—have taken to the streets demanding that something must be done. I will use this editorial to offer an answer to the question what must be done: The basic cultural structures of the modern world must be transformed. I will not try to prove this thesis here. I will try to state clearly the thesis to be proven.
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Revealed: The 20 Firms behind a Third of All Carbon Emissions
Matthew Taylor and Jonathan Watts – The Guardian,
14 Oct 2019
9 Oct 2019 – New data from world-renowned researchers reveals how this cohort of state-owned and multinational firms are driving the climate emergency that threatens the future of humanity, and details how they have continued to expand their operations despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet.
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Moving Home, Leaving Home
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
An Englishman had written many years ago that his home was his castle, meaning thereby that he could do what he wanted in his home and no one could enter it without permission.
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Blood on the Stone: An Oxford Detective Story of the 17th Century
Ken Macnab | On Line Opinion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
4 Oct 2019 – Review of Blood on the Stone, an historical novel by Jake Lynch (Unbound, 2019)
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When Breath Becomes Air: A Young Neurosurgeon Examines the Meaning of Life as He Faces His Death
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
As a doctor at age thirty-six, I had had some sense of what patients with life-changing illnesses faced — and it was exactly these moments I had wanted to explore with them. Shouldn’t terminal illness, then, be the perfect gift to that young man who had wanted to understand death? What better way to understand it than to live it? But I’d had no idea how hard it would be, how much terrain I would have to explore, map, settle. I’d always imagined the doctor’s work as something like connecting two pieces of railroad track, allowing a smooth journey for the patient. I hadn’t expected the prospect of facing my own mortality to be so disorienting, so dislocating.
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(Castellano) Las extrañas orquídeas de Perú que parecen monos
Andrea López | Tecnológico de Monterrey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
17 Sep 2019 – Esta curiosa especie habita las montañas y fue descubierta hace menos de quince años.
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Bapu Kuti: Lessons from Gandhi’s Home – Letter to Adolf Hitler
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
“My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth ….” — Gandhi
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Satyagraha for a Sacred Economy
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
2 October, Gandhi’s 150th Birth Anniversary – Satyagraha for Life–Sowing the Seeds of Life and Freedom through the Power of Truth, Creativity and Nonviolence
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India’s Goa ‘All Is Well’ Approach to Life
Charukesi Ramadurai - BBC,
7 Oct 2019
‘Susegad’ – which comes from the Portuguese word ‘sossegado’ for quiet – refers to the laidback attitude of Goans, who seem to live in a perennial state of contentment.
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In Media Newspeak, a ‘Peace Plan’ for Palestine/Israel Is Anything US Proposes
Joshua Cho | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
30 Sep 2019 – The corporate media’s coverage of Kushner’s “Vision for Peace” transmitted the perspective of US official sources, constantly referring unironically to the proposal as a “peace plan,” “peace initiative” or “peace process.” The more difficult and honest approach to reporting—by analyzing the plan on its predictable outcomes, rather than its professed objectives—wasn’t taken, despite the media’s own reporting indicating how the plan could never lead to peace.
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Cuba’s Venceremos Brigade at 50: Challenging Empire, Uplifting Solidarity since 1969
Diana Block | Portside – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
As the U.S. ramps up its global efforts to protect genocidal racial capitalism, it is a crucial time for a new generation to study and learn from Cuba’s 60-year effort to build an alternative socio-economic system.
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At $716 Billion, the US Military Budget Is Bigger Than Those of 144 Countries Combined and Largest Contributor to Climate Change
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
“State sovereignty is a goner. Bankism and Military Capitalism rule the world in all respects now. Militaries are the ultimate manifestation of direct, structural and cultural violence—a cancer that must be extirpated from humanity.”
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The Wounds of War in Afghanistan
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
30 Sep 2019 – Recovering from a broken hip, TRANSCEND member, peace activist Kathy Kelly reflects on her experiences with people disabled and traumatized by war.
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Trump’s Major Crimes
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
1 Oct 2019 – The long-delayed impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump are finally starting, but at present the focus is on a relatively minor crime–the Ukraine/Biden scandal. However, Trump has committed (and is still committing) major crimes and these ought to be in the spotlight. Let us look at a few of them.
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Will Confronting Iran Lead to War or Peace?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
1 Oct 2019 – This is a slightly modified version of an interview published in The Nation on 25 Sep following the 14 Sep attack on Saudi oil facilities. It follows a pattern, with respect to Iran, of accusations, denials, and public uncertainties. This combination of elements, given the leadership in Washington and Tehran, one blustering, the other inflexible, can easily produce an unintended stumble into war.
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The International Day of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
2 Oct 2019 – The International Day of Peace, as officially proclaimed by the UN, is the most universal action for peace in our times, and it contributes to the consciousness from the culture of war to a culture of peace. It would be good to be able to measure the IDP actions each year, to know if they are increasing or not, and to know if this is occurring throughout the world, or more in some regions than in others.
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Action Now: Insights from Greta Thunberg, Krishnamurti and Julian Assange as Leaders of Religions?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
From the psychosocial systemic perspective, naively neglected by environmentalists, Climate Activism can be usefully compared with a new religion — something to believe in urgently, as being vital to the salvation of the planet. Those failing to do so, or acting otherwise, are then necessarily to be condemned.
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Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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(Castellano) Eventos actuales en una perspectiva histórica
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Pretoria: Cyril Ramaphosa, anteriormente presidente de la Unión Nacional de Mineros, y ahora presidente de la República de Sudáfrica, ha estado hablando recientemente mientras dormía: “no entiendo lo que me pasó. No entiendo lo que me pasó. No entiendo lo que me pasó”. Un ratón, que se abrió paso debajo de sus mantas y estaba en condiciones de morder uno de sus dedos de los pies, al escuchar sus gemidos, como el Daily Maverick y el Globe and Mail, y aparentemente por razones similares, decidió no atacar.
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Pathways to Peace
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
I am very hopeful for the future as I believe if we can reject militarism in its entirety as the aberration/dysfunction it is in human history, and all of us who no matter what area of change we work in, can unite and agree we want to see a demilitarized unarmed world. We can do this together. Let us remember in human history, people abolished slavery, piracy, we can abolish militarism and war, and relegate these barbaric ways into the dustbin of history.
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Public Notices/Private Questions/Musical Dreams
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
3 Oct 2019 – Throughout our days we all notice many things that elicit questions that quickly pass through us as in a dream. Here are some questions that I caught on the fly before they melted from my mind, and when I asked myself what the answers were, only songs came to me, songs that didn’t exactly answer the questions but set me to dreaming. This is an invitation to dream along.
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Inside America’s Most Toxic Nuclear Waste Dump, Where 56 Million Gallons of Buried Radioactive Sludge Are Leaking into the Earth
James Pasley | Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
• Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the most polluted area in the United States. Buried beneath the complex is 56 million gallons of radioactive waste that need to be dealt with.
• The reservation produced the plutonium for Fat Man, the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki in Japan, as well as for the United States’ atomic weapon stockpile during the Cold War. {Read on…}
Wall Street Is Killing Local Newspapers
Olivia Snow Smith | Other Words – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
We can’t put a price tag on our free press — but unless we stop them, predatory investors can.
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Progress toward Ukraine, Donbas, Russia Conflict Resolution: Serious Negotiations still needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
3 Oct 2019 – There is a need for dialogue, trust-building, and reconciliation within Ukraine. The same issues as to what “self rule” means in practice is still the crucial issue. Ultimately, all conflicts can end only when there is an agreement about the shape of government and the rules of law under which people agree to live.
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Democrats Praise CIA Whistleblower on Ukraine, Persecute Manning, Assange and Snowden
Andre Damon |WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
30 Sep2019 -When Trump condemned the CIA agent as a “spy,” House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff praised him: “Congress must do all it can to protect this whistleblower and all whistleblowers.” All whistleblowers? Remind Schiff of what he wrote to Obama: “Do not pardon Edward Snowden. The US government must hold him accountable for his actions.”
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UNGA — Meeting Ground for Discussion, Debate and Decisions
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
30 Sep 2019 – The UNGA meets every year in September. The session called Climate Action Summit was chaired by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Unfortunately the economic political system that prevails globally does not allow people and countries to lead simple lives that are non-polluting. We must try to change this paradigm to live in peace and harmony with other peoples, other countries and with our ecosystem.
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(Português) Queimadas na Bolívia Matam 2,3 Milhões de Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
27 de set 2019 – De acordo com informações da Agência France-Presse, os incêndios florestais que atingiram o leste da Bolívia já mataram mais de 2,3 milhões de animais silvestres. Entre as espécies atingidas estão onças-pintadas, pumas e lhamas. A mídia boliviana exibiu carcaças de animais carbonizados em florestas fumegantes.
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Why Haitians Are Protesting En Masse
Jane Regan – Jacobin Magazine,
7 Oct 2019
30 Sep 2019 – Mass protests in Haiti have reached a fever pitch. Their target: the country’s venal political class and its self-serving, US-backed president.
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(Castellano) El Movimiento Climático Mundial está fracasando: ¿Por qué?
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Aunque estoy encantado de que estas campañas hayan logrado finalmente movilizar a un número significativo de personas en torno a la amenaza existencial que la catástrofe climática representa para la vida en la Tierra. Me gustaría plantear brevemente algunas cuestiones para su consideración por parte de cada uno de los que participan en el movimiento climático, así como de los que están considerando la posibilidad de participar.
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60 Minutes Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
No one forgets an encounter with Bianca Saez. When Tara Brown first met her 11 years ago, Bianca was 16 and had the worst case of Tourette Syndrome doctors had even seen. She was a hostage to uncontrollable, violent tics and sudden outbursts of extraordinary expletives. Bianca lived at the mercy of her troubled mind until doctors performed radical brain surgery. Instantly, and for two miraculous weeks, she was free of her Tourette’s. But then, cruelly, infections set in and the operation had to be reversed.
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China “Speed” at 70 Years – And Why You Should Be Curious
Xinhua | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
The Evolving Face of ‘China Speed’
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Those Fancy Tea Bags? Microplastics in Them Are Macro Offenders
Adrienne Matei – The Guardian,
7 Oct 2019
30 Sep 2019 – “The tea bag… is in the process of a large-scale reinvention.” So reads a 2006 New York Times article on the rise of nylon mesh tea bags, an innovation that diversified the tea market. New study finds nylon tea bags leech billions of microplastics into every single cup of tea.
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A Strategy for the Ministry for Peace
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
On 19 Sep 2019 the Association Pope John XXIII of Rimini together with the embassy of the Republic of San Marino organized a panel as a side event to the 42ND Regular Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva: “Building Peace and reconciliation through the creation of a Ministry of Peace”.
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An Open Letter to “Science and Global Security”
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Do Not Succumb to Political Censorship on Syria
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Palestinians Need to Learn from South Africa’s Mistakes
Ramzy Baroud – Al Jazeera,
7 Oct 2019
4 Oct 2019 – Palestinians who look up to post-apartheid South Africa have to critically examine its many failures.
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Why Work to Abolish Nuclear Weapons?
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
We can change the world in important and necessary ways.
We can take a giant step forward for humankind.
We can join with others in demonstrating good stewardship of the planet…
John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that should have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.” —John Lennon
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Work Partnership
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Rufus Jones (1863-1948), the American Quaker who helped found the American Friends Service Committee in 1917, went to England after World War I to help with the reconstruction.
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The PEACE power of NON
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
When to NONviolence we commit
No forms of harm we permit
I’m Not in Love (Music Video of the Week)
10cc - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
The Classic from 1975 — forever fresh, pleasant…
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From Kabul: Youth on the Road to Peace
Dr Hakim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
In September 2019, facing everyday dangers of the war and under constant pressure to view those from other tribes as enemies, young people from each of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces gathered for a three day “On the Road to Peace” conference in Kabul.
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The Silencing of Kashmir: Arundhati Roy on India, Modi, and Fascism
Mehdi Hasan | Deconstructed - The Intercept,
7 Oct 2019
3 Oct 2019 – Modi appears set on ending Jammu and Kashmir’s special semi-autonomous status and bringing it fully under the control of New Delhi, a move that residents of the Muslim-majority region strongly reject. Arundhati Roy, India’s most famous novelist and a passionate voice for Kashmiri self-determination, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the Kashmir crisis and India’s troubling rightward tilt.
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How Communication Shutdown Led to Humanitarian Crisis and Violence in the India-administered Kashmir
Irene Dawa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
3 Oct 2019 – The Kashmir conflict is complex with national and international dynamic. A single solution at one level will not work; rather, having multiple solutions at different actor/levels keeping their interests in mind would include Pakistan, India, China negotiated by the UN at one level (track one), and having Indian government and state based authority negotiated by France for example (track 2) and graft home based solution in consultation with religious, community leaders, scholars and civil society negotiated by representatives of civil society in a neutral country (track 3) that could benefit both New Delhi and the people of Kashmir, would be ideal.
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(Português) Dia Mundial do Vegetarianismo: conheça as vantagens de ser vegetariano
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
7 Oct 2019
Anualmente, no dia 1º de outubro é comemorado o Dia Mundial do Vegetarianismo. Adotar um estilo de vida vegetariano não é apenas totalmente possível, mas também é mais saudável e compassivo. Mesmo para os que não são vegetarianos, a data pode e deve ser celebrada por todos, como um dia em que a carne fique fora do cardápio.
→ read full articleThe Seeds of Vandana Shiva – A Documentary Film
Becket Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
The Remarkable Life Story of an Indian-Gandhian Eco-activist and Agro-ecologist – Trailer of the inspiring life story of Dr. Vandana Shiva and the international movement for an organic and regenerative food system. How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become the world’s most powerful opponent of Monsanto?
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Snowden Knows Exactly Why No One Wants to Be a Whistleblower
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
7 Oct 2019
3 Oct 2019 – Snowden became increasingly alarmed by the vast surveillance state that he was helping to build, but knew that, if he were to follow the formal channels for raising concerns, it wouldn’t end well. “NSA whistleblowers who did go through this process had their lives destroyed,” he said on “Democracy Now!” “They lost their careers, they lost their homes, in some cases they lost their families, because of the stress and retaliation and consequences they face.”
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Antibiotic Resistance: Researchers Have Directly Proven that Bacteria Can Change Shape Inside Humans to Avoid Antibiotics
Katarzyna Mickiewicz – The Conversation,
7 Oct 2019
30 Sep 2019 – This breakthrough could be key in fighting antibiotic resistance.
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At Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a Million-Tonne Headache: Radioactive Water
Karyn Nishimura | Northglen News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
In the grounds of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant sits a million-tonne headache for the plant’s operators and Japan’s government: tank after tank of water contaminated with radioactive elements.
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Playing the Trump Card
Victor Grossman | Berlin Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
29 Sep 2019 – Analysis of the current Trump impeachment investigation in the context of repeated US bullying of other leaders and ruining of other countries’ economies for the personal gain of the ruling class. The whole bloody Ukrainian mess blew up with the well-financed involvement of the Democratic administration, including Joe Biden. Donald Trump is only a late-comer. Of course, such entries fill the annals of both parties.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
The purpose of peace research is to produce intersubjectively communicable and verifiable knowledge according to the general rules of research. Thus, research is incompatible with secrecy, as it has to take place in public space. And one purpose of peace studies is the communication of the findings of peace research, in line with general rules for education, another public space activity.
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Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
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Muhammad Ali – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Insight
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Re-examining Political Silence: New Openings for Research and Practice
Sophia Dingli and Thomas N. Cooke | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Political silence, whether intentional or unintentional, produces uncertainty, in such a way that entangles the recipient of silence in confusion.
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Rwanda: Murder of Dissidents Continues as Migrants Are Shipped in
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
2 Oct 2019 – Sylidio Dusabumuremyi, a member of the Rwandan opposition party, was murdered on Sep 23, the day before Rwandan President Paul Kagame addressed the UNGA. During the same week, 500 African migrants were shipped from Libya to Rwanda, thanks to an agreement between the EU, the AU, and the UNHCR.
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How South Africa Forced Gandhi to Reckon with Racism and Imperialism
Mary Elizabeth King | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
1 Oct 2019 – Born 150 years ago this week [2 Oct], Mohandas K. Gandhi was a polarizing figure during his life and remains a lightning rod for controversy to this day. Gandhi’s perceptions about human sensibilities, social power and political truths began their transformation not in India, but South Africa.
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Nepal Maoist Leaders: The Hague Journey!
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
23 Sep 2019 – Child soldiers are children under the age of 18 who are recruited by armed organizations, state-and-non-state forces. They are trained for informants, spies, porters, messengers, sentries, cooks, and often used for sexual purposes and as human shields. Children are easily trapped appealing for hope of better future and are trouble-free targets for military recruitment owing to their grater defenselessness to influence compared to the grown-ups. Girls are at high risk of rape, other forms of degrading treatment, and those who have had pregnancies or babies are often rejected by their own families or communities.
→ read full articleThe Global Climate Movement Is Failing: Why?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – It has been satisfying to note the response to two recent climate campaigns: the Global Climate Strike by school students inspired by Greta Thunberg and the climate actions by Extinction Rebellion. While delighted that these campaigns have managed to mobilize significant numbers of people, I would like to briefly raise some issues for consideration by each of those involved in the climate movement as well as those considering involvement.
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Dark Clouds and the Human Condition: Youth to the Rescue!
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – If the young and old act together this kind of UN can be nurtured. In the meantime, we should resist the temptation to pretend that this UN of the peoples already exists, but we should never forget that we have it within our potential collective power to make it happen, and by doing, to make the sort of difference that youth are rightfully demanding.
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Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Friday’s [20 Sep] climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War. This does not mean these protests should not have taken place. But such demonstrations need to be grounded in the bitter reality that in the corridors of power we do not count.
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Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
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(Français) L’humanitaire perdu en chemin ?
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
20 septembre 2019 – Dans une tribune d’Alternatives humanitaires, l’écrivain et humanitaire Pierre Brunel s’interrogeait sur ce qui avait peut-être été perdu d’essentiel dans la transformation de l’humanitaire en « industrie mondialisée ». Ce texte, sensible et intelligent, est symptomatique de certains des paradoxes et du hors-champ de l’humanitaire.
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How US “Good Guys” Wiped Out an Afghan Family
Jessica Purkiss and Mateen Arian - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
30 Sep 2019
This week marks a year since Masih Ur-Rahman Mubarez’s entire family was killed. On September 23 2018, his house was hit by an airstrike. Inside were his wife, seven children and four other young relatives. No-one survived. After six months of investigation, Masih finally got some answers. After multiple denials from the US military that they were responsible, or that there had even been an airstrike in the area, we found a vital piece of evidence in the wreckage of his home that proved that denial false.
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What the US Sanctions against Venezuela Have Wrought
Rebecca Hanson and Francisco Sánchez | NACLA - Jacobin Magazine,
30 Sep 2019
22 Sep 2019 – The United States’ sanctions against Venezuela continue to punish ordinary Venezuelans while deepening the country’s political crisis. They need to end. Sanctions will not incentivize politicians to change course because they are not the ones who suffer from them: the victims are the Venezuelan people.
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(Português) Ursos Obrigados a Andar de Skate e Tigres Acorrentados para Tirar Selfies São Explorados pela Indústria do Turismo
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
20 set 2019 – Casos terríveis de animais sendo explorados para agradar turistas por toda a Europa foram filmados por investigadores.
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What is the Kumbha Mela?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
The Greatest Gathering of People in the History of the World
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What Can a University Course Actually Teach Us about Resistance?
Anthony Huaqui | Resistance Studies/Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
18 Sep 2019 – Many scholars debate theories of civil resistance. But a new course of study shows that power and intersectionality are the most important concepts to understand how resistance works.
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The Human and Financial Costs of the Explosive Remnants of War in Afghanistan
Suzanne Fiederlein and SaraJane Rzegocki | James Madison University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – Costs of War – Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University – Afghanistan ranks as one of the most landmine- and unexploded ordnance-impacted countries in the world, even after thirty years of clearance operations supported extensively by the UN and a number of major donors.
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U.N. General Assembly: Can It Provide the Needed Global Leadership?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
27 Sep 2019 – The international relations specialist Stanley Hoffmann once quipped “Goals are easy to describe. What matters more is a strategy for reaching them.” This September the UNGA began with a “Climate Action Summit” to evaluate governmental efforts to meet the challenges of climate change. Government leaders set out what they have done, or plan to do, at the national level but they said relatively little on what they could do together.
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(Português) ONG expõe crueldade que antecede o abate de animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
26 set 2019 – A ONG espanhola Equalia publicou o resultado de uma investigação que mostra a cruel realidade que antecede o abate de cordeiros e ovelhas. No vídeo, é possível ver animais sendo arremessados e recebendo chutes, pisadas, socos e outros tipos de agressões.
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Václav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
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