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Bolivia Coup Led by Christian Fascist Paramilitary Leader and Millionaire–with Foreign Support
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition.
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Vaxxed II: The People’s Truth
Official Trailer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
October 2019 – Executive Producer: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The team travels over 50,000 miles in the USA and around the world. Interviews of parents and doctors exposed the vaccine injury epidemic and asked the question on every parent’s mind, “Are vaccines really as safe and effective as we’ve been told?”
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The Lonely Genius Arthur Eddington Who Confirmed Einstein’s Relativity
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
Eddington never married, never had another intimate bond. He lived out his days with his sister, Winifred, who also never married. I picture him Turing-like — in his genius, in his misapprehended awkwardness, in his loneliness and heartbreak. That invisible private side to the public genius is what Gaiman takes up in his poem, celebrating what he calls these “twin suns” of Eddington’s life, the public self and the private self, of genius and loneliness, of intellectual heroism and emotional heartbreak, that shine in varying degrees on every human life.
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(Italiano) LIBERATI ma NON LIBERI. Dedicato a Liliana Segre
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
Dal giorno della Memoria alla memoria di tutti i giorni. Questo il passaggio di consapevolezza collettiva che auspicava il maestro e amico Italo Tibaldi. Deportato politico – un triangolo rosso – a sedici anni, sopravvissuto al campo di Mauthausen-Ebensee, liberato (ma mai più libero), ”tornato” a casa, Italo ha passato tutto il resto della sua (R)esistenza successiva a ricostruire la Transportliste dei 44.000 donne e uomini Italiani deportati nei campi nazisti.
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A Brief Account of «the Destruction of the Indians» in Brazil
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – Due to the white invader’s diseases, against which the Indigenous people had no immunity: flu, chickenpox, measles, malaria and syphilis; to the Cross and the sword; the degradation of their lands, making hunting and farming impossible; because of slavery; the wars officially declared by Don João VI on May, 1808, against the Krenak in the Rio Dulce Valley; the systematic humiliation and denial of their identity… the five million indigenous were reduced to the current 930.000.
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Rwanda Exports 2,163 kg of Gold, UAE Imports 12,539 kg of It (!?)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
13 Nov 2019 – The final 2019 UN Group of Experts Report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo confirms that Congo’s eastern neighbor Rwanda remains a haven for smuggling Congolese minerals. “Earlier UN reports said that during the Second Congo War of 1998 to 2003, President Paul Kagame’s government created a ‘Congo Desk’ to organize the illegal exploitation of Congo’s natural resources.”
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(Português) Brutalidade: Touro é cruelmente esfaqueado diversas vezes por toureiro na Espanha
Eliane Arakaki - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
18 Nov 2019
15 nov 2019 – Após serem torturados, feridos, provocados e espetados por lanças de ferro e madeira, os animais exaustos e indefesos são alvos de inúmeras facadas até à morte.
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UN Envoy’s Grim Warning over Assange’s Life in British Prison
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
8 Nov 2019 – A UN expert in torture diagnosis has issued a stark warning that Australian whistleblower Julian Assange is in danger of dying from extreme prison conditions in Britain. It is testimony to the rank hypocrisy of British and American governments that lecture others around the world about democracy, human rights and international law. One can only imagine the hysterical outcry among Western governments and media if somehow Assange was being detained in a Russian, Chinese or Iranian prison.
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Imagine (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
John Lennon’s last live performance on 18 April 1975 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel for a gala called ‘A Salute to Sir Lew Grade: The Master Showman.’
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Former Israel Commander Says Israel’s ‘Unjust’ War in Palestine Fuels ‘Anti-Semitism around the World’
Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
5 Nov 2019 – Last week a former Israeli security official urged American Jews to restrain Israel’s “unjust” war in Palestine because it fuels anti-Semitism around the world. The statement is remarkable because that view is generally seen as anathema: saying that Israel’s actions have any role in the growth of anti-Semitism.
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The Berlin Wall and General Pyrrhus
Victor Grossman | Berlin Bulletin, Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
9 Nov 2019 – East Germans soon learned that freedom of the press was for those who owned the presses, that freedom of speech helped most those who ruled over studios and cable connections. Most tellingly, they learned very quickly that those 100 West-marks were soon spent and new ones, for all those glistening commodities and travels, had somehow to be earned, while over 95 % of the industry they had built up was taken over by Westerners.
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Dangers and Questions of the Zuckerberg Era
Roberto Savio | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
14 Nov 2019 — The Internet brought us from the Gutenberg Era to the Zuckerberg Era… Secret algorithms form profiles of each and every one of us…The Chinese government has already given every citizen a digital number, where all their ‘good’ and ‘bad’ behaviours converge… London town now has 627,000 surveillance cameras, one for every fourteen citizens; in Beijing it’s one for every seven…
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CIA Manual: Instructions for Guerrilla/Urban Terror Activities
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
10 Feb 2006 – The following document contains excerpts of an instruction manual provided by the CIA for guerrilla fighters. It includes detailed methods of gaining support through propaganda and selective violence. [Replace Guerrilla with Urban Terrorism and fast forward to Hong Kong, Venezuela, Bolivia].
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Becoming 89
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
— Istanbul, 13 Nov 2019 [From TMS editor: Richard was born on 13 Nov 1930]
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Change of Players, Change of Game: How States Got Left Behind on Climate Change
Charlotte Hulme | E-IR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
5 Nov 2019 – Climate change may be a unique transnational risk, but how non-national actors are responding to it offers general lessons for our understanding of global politics.
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The Coup That Ousted Morales
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
In this regard, just before he was ousted, Morales, it is reported, decided to partner with Chinese firms to develop Bolivia’s lithium deposits since Western mining companies were not prepared to comply with the terms that the Bolivian government laid out. For Morales, the exploitation of lithium had to benefit the Bolivian people before anyone else. Western companies and the US elite saw the Bolivian president as a hurdle. They were convinced that Morales had to go.
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Cultural History
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
Human nature has two sides: It has a dark side, to which nationalism and militarism appeal; but our species also has a genius for cooperation, which we can see in the growth of culture. Our modern civilization has been built up by means of a worldwide exchange of ideas and inventions. A New Freely Downloadable Book
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Bolivia in Crisis: How Evo Morales Was Forced Out
Angus McNelly – The Conversation,
18 Nov 2019
12 Nov 2019 – Evo Morales has left Bolivia on a plane for Mexico, a day after he resigned as president. Morales and his vice-president, Álvaro García Linera, stood down from office on November 10, following a ‘suggestion’ by the head of the military, Williams Kaliman.
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How the Hand of Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep into Our Lives
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted. Israeli software used on Palestinians is producing new cyber weapons that are rapidly being incorporated into global digital platforms.
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Hollow Promises of a Better Life: Modern-Day Slavery
Kyodo News | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
15 Nov 2019 – Despite the fact that slavery has long been abolished it continues to blight our world, destroying the lives of tens of millions of people. The Global Slavery Index 2018 estimates there to be 40.3 million slaves in the world. Like many of the issues facing humanity, it demands a coordinated consistent approach, cooperation and commitment, not just among governments, but between nongovernmental organizations and multinational corporations.
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Top Bolivian Coup Plotters Trained by US Military’s School of the Americas, Served as Attachés in FBI Police Programs
Jeb Sprague | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
13 Nov 2019 – The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country’s elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
An immediate payoff for peace is that once one analyses the main causes at work in history as structures, not as people, one should (if one is logical) tone down one’s anger. The world works the way it does because its main dynamics (capital accumulation, war) and other principal dynamics were socially constructed during long centuries when none of our contemporaries had yet been born. Another immediate payoff for peace is guidance on how to do peace-making.
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Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm’s Lithium Deal
Eoin Higgins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – “Bolivia’s lithium belongs to the Bolivian people. Not to multinational corporate cabals.”
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Lawless
Anonymous – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
A young lawyer is working late one night when his door opens and in walks Satan himself.
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Confucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.
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The War in Syria
Prof. Richard Falk | TRT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
24 Oct 2019 – Richard Falk is a member of the TRANSCEND Network, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, Distinguished Research Fellow, UC Santa Barbara, author of 40 books, and a speaker and activist. In 2008, the UN Human Rights Council appointed Falk to a six-year term as a UN Special Rapporteur on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.” His most recent book is Achieving Human Rights (2009).
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Some Challenges, Some Thoughts on Life and Death
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
The Hindu treatise Bhagwad Gita says that everything happens for a good reason. It adds that ‘One who has taken birth is sure to die, but after death one is certain to be born again’. With this knowledge, one should not grieve too much at the death of any dear one. Let us live peacefully, harmoniously, meaningfully in the life that we are born in.
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Scent of Musk: The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s
Timofey Neshitov and Daniel Etter – Der Spiegel,
18 Nov 2019
12 Nov 2019 – So far, no cure has been found for Parkinson’s. It is only possible to treat the symptoms. But a nurse in Scotland can smell the disease before it is diagnosed, and researchers are hoping she can help on the search for a breakthrough.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.
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What You Need to Know about the Bombings in Gaza
Mike Merryman-Lotze | American Friends Service Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
On Nov. 12, 2019 the Israeli military assassinated Baha Abu al-Ata, a leading member of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, and his wife—sparking more violence in Gaza. Shortly after the killing, Islamic Jihad fired rockets into Israel. In response, Israel has launched extensive bombing attacks on Gaza, killing at least 34 Palestinians and injuring many others. One Israeli has been injured as a result of Palestinian rockets fire.
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Israel Killed 222 Gaza Protestors Since 2018. Only One Soldier Has Been Indicted
Eyal Sagiv | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – As Othman Hiles began climbing the Gaza fence, an Israeli soldier opened fire and killed the unarmed 14-year-old. The soldier’s sentence? Community service.
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Revealed: Danger and Squalor for Cleaners Who Remove Human Waste by Hand
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
13 Nov 2019 – Highlighting the dangers for the millions of people who clean toilets, sewers and septic tanks, ahead of World Toilet Day on 19 Nov, the World Health Organization (WHO) insisted that while the workforce performs an essential public service, their own health is compromised and they are often shunned.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
→ read full articleEnding Violence, Exploitation, Ecological Destruction and War: Creating a Culture of Peace
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.
→ read full article(Português) Em paralelo à Cúpula dos BRICS, Brasil receberá o “BRICS dos Povos” em novembro
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.
→ read full articlePillow 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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