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For God’s Sake!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

A wife invited some people to dinner.

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The West Is Turning a Blind Eye to the Gaza Massacre
Jeremy Corbyn | Facebook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

5 Jun 2018 – The UK Government’s decision not to support either a UN Commission of Inquiry into the shocking scale of killings of civilian protesters in Gaza, or the more recent UN resolution condemning indiscriminate Israeli use of force – and calling for the protection of Palestinians – is morally indefensible.

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Cognitive Implication of Globality via Temporal Inversion
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

Embodying the Future through Higher Derivatives of Time – Illusory projection along the arrow of time? There is a widespread, if not dominant, strategic concern with the future and its prospects. This naturally takes a variety of forms.

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Seymour Hersh on Spies, State Secrets, and the Stories He Doesn’t Tell
Elon Green | Columbia Journalism Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

4 Jun 2018 – “The CIA Is Filled with Criminals” – When a reporter has covered 50 years of American foreign policy disasters, the last great untold story may be his own.

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Stand by Me (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

This Ben E. King classic features musicians around the world recorded by the Playing For Change team during their travels. This song continues to remind us that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people.

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Right-Wing Politics and Climate Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

Conflicts and famine are interlinked. The struggle for food produces conflicts; famine is often used as an instrument of war. Food aid, when available, is often deliberately blocked or destroyed by warring factions. While making many parts of the world uninhabitable, long-term climate change will make other regions more suitable for human habitation and agriculture. For example, farming will become more possible in Siberia, Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska and Patagonia. A humane response to the refugee crisis could include the generous opening of these regions to refuges.

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Saving Seeds at Home
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Growing Club – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

Seed saving is one of the important skills that has been lost of the last century, and Dr. Shiva’s work to preserve heirloom seed varieties, encourage organic farming, and create food sovereignty is some of the most important work of our time. We hope you enjoy this video and will start saving seeds at home yourself.

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Rohingya Say Myanmar Targeted the Educated in Genocide
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

5 Jun 2018 — Mohammed Hashim hid in the hills and watched as his brother begged for his life, his arms bound behind his back as soldiers marched the 35-year-old teacher away. It was the last time he saw him alive. Soldiers targeted the educated, Rohingya teachers, elders and religious leaders said, so there would be no community leaders left willing to speak up against the pervasive abuse.

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Statement on UN-Myanmar Deal on Rohingya Return
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

7 June 2018 – The Free Rohingya Coalition is gravely concerned about the non-inclusive, non-transparent nature of UN agencies signing a repatriation deal with Myanmar.

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Abraham, Martin and John
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

… and Bobby and Malcolm and John Lennon and Paul Wellstone and Mohandas and Jesus, and the Multitude of Other Progressive Leaders That Have Been Assassinated over the Decades [by Deep State Conspirators]

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William Butler Yeats (13 Jun 1865 – 28 Jan 1939): The Transition to Aquarius
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, and his close colleague George Russell, who published under the name of AE, are the modern European poets most conscious of the transition within astrological cycles from the Piscean Period to the Age of Aquarius.

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Digging Deeper in Afhanistan
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

5 Jun 2018 – Ongoing battles between militants, government forces, and international allies have destroyed much of Kabul’s water infrastructure, forcing people to drill their own wells. The current population, estimated around 4.5 million, is expected to reach 9 million by 2050. The estimated groundwater potential is enough to supply only 2 million inhabitants with water.

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A Truly Global Partnership – Helping the UN to Do Itself Out of a Job
Natalie Samarasinghe | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

The model proposed brings businesses, NGOs and young people into UN governance structures. Concurrently, the UN would transfer its development-related tasks to these stakeholders, who would bid competitively for contracts. As a result, the UN could redirect its limited resources to crucial tasks such as conflict resolution, which cannot be easily performed by others.

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What Ramadan Teaches Me Every Year!
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

Religious fasting traditions- from Ramadan to Ekadasi to Yom Kippur and Lent -are meant to relieve believers from many avoidable mundane compulsions, helping them replenish their spirituality, remember the poor, give up bad habits, make amends for moral deficiencies and get closer to their faith. The most prominent among these spiritual fasting customs is Ramadan.

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UN Agencies Express Outrage over Killing of Palestinian Volunteer Medic in Gaza
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

United Nations officials have expressed their outrage over Friday’s [1 Jun] killing by Israeli security forces of 21-year-old Razan al-Najjar, a Palestinian volunteer medic who was helping the injured along the Gaza border.

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Stopping Terrorism!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

One year’s U.S. military budget of 330 billion dollars (now 686 billion dollars) is equal to more than $18,000 an hour (now $36,000 an hour) for every hour since Jesus Christ was born.

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The Blatant Conspiracy behind Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

June 5 is the 50th anniversary of RFK’s assassination. To honor such a man requires that we discover and speak the truth about those who killed him. The propaganda that he was killed by a crazed young Arab needs exposure. Robert Kennedy, like his brother John, was a great danger to those virulent forces of war and oppression within his own government, and he died opposing them as a true patriot.

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Divide and Rule: Balkanizing the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ann Garrison – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

30 May 2018 – The Democratic Republic of Congo is rarely if ever at the top of the Western headlines, but heads of state and so-called experts have long made proposals to carve out new, smaller, more homogeneous nations in Congo’s resource-rich eastern provinces. I spoke with Congolese scholar and activist Boniface Musavuli about the plans.

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“Sympathy Is Not Enough”
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

1 Jun2018 – Nadia Murad’s words contained a single message: “Sympathy is not enough. Sympathy does not create change. We need action.” Her manner as a speaker was exceptionally calm, her intonation almost without inflection. Her words were enveloped in an aura of resignation and despair, but her talk avoided the shocking details of her experience, the details where horror resides.

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Canadian Doctor: Israeli Soldiers Shot Me in Both Legs as I Was Treating Injured Protesters in Gaza
Tarek Loubani | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

On Monday May 14, while treating patients with gunshot wounds in Gaza during the Great March of Return, Canadian physician Tarek Loubani was shot in both legs by Israeli forces. One medic on his team, Musa Abuhassanin, was killed while attempting to providing care Palestinian protesters.

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(Castellano) Teoría del conflicto y aniquilación de la biosfera
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza Int’l Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Me gustaría explicar el origen psicológico de este conflicto aniquilador de la biosfera y cómo este origen ha nutrido los aspectos increíblemente destructivos del capitalismo (y del socialismo, para el caso) desde el principio. También me gustaría explicar qué podemos hacer al respecto.

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Syrian Students: We Pray the “Mother” of Our Revolution Is Scylla (Part 2)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

1 Jun 2018 – Were one to credit the notion that Bashar Assad, Ali Khamenei, Hassan Nasrallah, some Gulf countries, Israel, the USA and several countries in the West, among others, are Stepmothers of ISIS and coddled them to varying degrees since the March 2011 Syrian Revolution—Well, who’s the Mother?

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Aluminium— the Villain of Environmental Degradation
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Aluminum is causing not only environmental degradation but also leading to unspeakable misery among the indigenous peoples of India and of other countries. How is this so? Bauxite mining for the extraction of Aluminium metal has one of the most serious impacts both for the people it displaces and the degradation of the soil.

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Authoritarians, Plutocrats and the Fight for Racial Justice
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Trump’s belligerent stance toward dissent provides context for the National Football League’s decision last week: players on the field will now be required to stand during the national anthem. Trump was quick to publicly endorse the change: “You have to stand proudly for the national anthem or you shouldn’t be playing, you shouldn’t be there, maybe you shouldn’t be in the country.”

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Burmese Human Rights Activist Maung Zarni: ‘Amnesty International Has Blood on Its Hands’
France 24 – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

31 May 2018 – We speak to Maung Zarni, a human rights campaigner and academic, one week after Amnesty International published a report detailing a massacre carried out by Rohingya militants where nearly 100 Hindus were killed. Zarni vocally criticizes Amnesty, saying the report whips up anti-Rohingya sentiment, not just in Myanmar but across Southeast Asia.

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Strong as Death
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

2 Jun 2018 – Oh, Gaza. Strong as death is love. Truth is that the Israeli army has no answer to non-violent resistance. In such a campaign, all the cards are in the hands of the Palestinians. World public opinion condemns Israel and praises the Palestinians. Therefore, the army’s reaction is to open fire, in order to induce the Palestinians to start violent actions. With these the army knows how to deal. Non-violent resistance is a very difficult method. It demands enormous willpower, strict self-control and moral superiority.

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(Português) A Arte da Guerra: «Soberania» de Bruxelas, não de Washington?
Manlio Dinucci – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

4 junho 2018 – Na semana em que a Europa se debatia arduamente sobre a “questão italiana”, desembarcava em Antuérpia (Bélgica), a 1ª Brigada Blindada da 1ª Divisão de Cavalaria dos EUA, ao mesmo tempo em que Steve Bannon incitava os italianos e os europeus a “reconquistar a sua soberania” que se encontra na posse de Bruxelas. E sobre um «basta de ordens que chegam de Washington»?

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Consequences of the Crash of the American Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

1 Jun 2018 – In last month’s article, I mentioned the prediction of Johan Galtung that the American empire cannot last more than another two years. Is that likely, and if so, what will be the consequences? Having witnessed the crash of a previous empire, I think is likely.

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Growing into Silence
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Perhaps the walks I stole,
Ever slower, perhaps
The far fold where there is
Neither sea nor sky,

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The Theft of Palestine in Action
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

28 May 2018 – The last two weeks’ developments in and for/against Palestine, were intensive in a way that included all the components of what was going on since the second half of the nineteenth century: the process of the displacement of the Palestinians and their replacement by colonial settlers.

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Visualization Technology Enabling Integrative Conference Comprehension
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

1 Jun 2018 – Global Articulation of Future-Oriented Technology Analysis – Much is made of the future role of technology and artificial intelligence, especially in their relation to the evolution of the internet. Far less is made of their role in the organization of knowledge and, more particularly, in enabling higher degrees of comprehension.

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Shangri-La: Strategic Concerns Never Grow Old
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

In 1933 James Hilton, a British novelist published Lost Horizons. In the novel, he set the scene in a lost valley on the frontier of Tibet, hidden away from the world where everyone was happy and never grew old. He gave the name Shangri-La to this valley. Shangri-La was a slight transformation of the more often-used name Shambhala of the Tibetan Buddhists and those in India and China who are in contact with Tibetan traditions.

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Need More Proof of Genocide in Myanmar? It’s Being Born Right Now
Jack Packer | National Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

29 May 2018 – Nine months since the violent attacks of Aug. 25, 2017, and thereafter forced 700,000 Rohingya to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, the first of thousands of pregnancies as a result of rape are coming to term.

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Muslim Zakat: Reigniting the Fire of Camaraderie
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

4 Jun 2018 – The idea that helping others is part of a meaningful life has been around for thousands of years. For Muslims, charity is a central aspect of their faith and practice. In Islam, a culture of giving is interwoven into the fabric of its forms of worship. Helping the poor is a religious mandate.

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Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Urges Trial of Myanmar Leader, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
Sena Guler | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

31 May 2018 – Shirin Ebadi reminds de facto leader of Myanmar the moral and legal responsibility of Rohingya genocide. “I wish that Aung San Suu Kyi, as the leader of the party in power, and the Myanmar generals are tried in an international and impartial court for the accusations of committing genocide in Myanmar.”

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How and Why the US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

3 Jun 2018 – This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the US and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had suddenly turned rabidly hostile toward Russia in February 2014.

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By the Art of the Brush
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Directive senselessness, determined inattentive faces
Look! Closely!
And beyond

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Specially Organised Retreat for TRANSCEND and Galtung-Institut Members in Nilgiris Hills, South India
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Vithal Rajan, a TRANSCEND and Galtung-Institut member and an old friend of Johan Galtung, will help organise your stay on concessional terms, and guide your visits to nearby historic and cultural places, and wildlife reserves in Tamilnadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Karnataka states of India.

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Lawyers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, an honest lawyer and an old drunk are walking down the street together when they simultaneously spot a hundred dollar bill.

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8 Things I Learned about Palestine while Touring 8 Western Nations
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

30 May 2018 – Interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world and gained a good perspective on the ideas, perceptions, and attitudes of people in government, media, academia and civil society.

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The Art of War: Italian ‘Sovereignty’ from Brussels, but not from Washington
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

29 May 2018 – In the week in which Europe was debating the “Italian question” bitterly, the 1st Armoured Brigade of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division landed in Antwerp (Belgium) to be deployed at five NATO bases in Poland close to Russian territory. As Steve Bannon encouraged Italians and Europeans to “recover their sovereignty” from Brussels, what about “putting an end to the rules coming from Washington?”

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From the History of Physics to the Discovery of the Foundations of Science
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

By considering these two dichotomies as the foundations of the physical theories, the choices upon them fashion four models of scientific theory, called through their most representative theories: Newtonian, Carnotian, Lagrangian, Descartesian.

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Prof. Johan Galtung: Why Humankind Will Not Relinquish Nuclear Weapons
TALKWORKS Films – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Talking about Nuclear [Dis]Armament

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Cry Me a River – V for Vendetta (Music Video of the Week)
Julie London – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Song immortalized by the landmark movie, V for Vendetta. A classic!
“A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.” – V.

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Kiev Murder Stunt Was Absurd, but Even More So Was Western Media’s Reaction to It
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

1 Jun 2018 – The credibility of the Kiev regime imploded emphatically this week; but so too of Western governments and news media. Western propaganda as peddled by governments, their secret services and dutiful corporate media should be in the spotlight of world scrutiny. Not further perverse allegations against Russia.

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Red Red Carpet
Chappatte – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Zionist Royalty

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World Affairs and Insanity as Entertainment: Are We at the End of Human Morality?
Mahboob A Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

To enhance global peace and to undo the continuing bogus war on terrorism, there is an urgent need for teamwork by all concerned across the globe. The teamwork if undertaken with unbiased mind and without pre-conceived notions could usher sustainable change and a new beginning between those who claim to be at peace and somewhat superior than the ordinary folks and those who are fighting reactionary wars of freedom against insanity and catastrophic devastation of the human habitats.

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The Best Kept Secret on Saving the World
Bob Hanson | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

I’m betting you have never heard of the World Constitution and Parliament Association, which has been working since 1958 to come up with a better way to run the world… The U.N. has probably prevented many international conflicts and has done yeoman duty in terms of refugees and humanitarian relief. However, it has failed in the task it was created for in 1945….ending war.

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Israel Approves More Than 2,000 Settlement Units in West Bank
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

31 May 2018 – The Israeli government has approved the construction of 2,070 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, local media reported. Since US President Donald Trump came to office, Israel has approved construction of more than 14,000 settlement units.

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India Rejects US Sanctions, Continues Venezuela, Iran Trade
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

India will continue to trade with Venezuela and Iran despite U.S. sanctions, according to an announcement by Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, on Monday [28 May]. “We don’t make our foreign policy under pressure from other countries.”

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Costa Rica Prospers without a Military
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

While other Central American countries have long suffered from war and military coups and squandered much of their resources on the military, Costa Rica has enjoyed peace, stable democracy, and comparative prosperity. Its per capita income is double that of its Central American neighbors.

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(Português) Dia Nacional dos Direitos Animais homenageia os 100 bilhões de animais mortos nos matadouros anualmente
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

No domingo, 3 junho 2018, 32 grandes cidades, incluindo Nova York, Paris, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Saigon, Manila, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Perth e Montreal, celebram o Dia Nacional dos Direitos Animais.

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37 Million Bees Found Dead after Planting Large GMO Corn Field
Daily Native News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

11 Mar 2018 – Millions of bees dropped dead after GMO corn was planted few weeks ago in Ontario, Canada. The local bee keeper, Dave Schuit who produces honey in Elmwood lost about 37 million bees which are about 600 hives. “Once the corn started to get planted our bees died by the millions,” Schuit said.

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Pilger: Palestine Is Still the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

Watch the John Pilger Film That Defied a Campaign to Ban It and Told a Timeless Truth

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Israel and Palestine: A Story of Modern Colonialism
Daniel Avelar and Bianca Ferrari | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

The foundations of Israel are rooted in a colonial project that has modernized its face but continues to subject Palestinians to military occupation, land dispossession and unequal rights.

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Children for Peace
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

A Multidimensional View

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Meanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

The world may be losing a peace opportunity in the USA-North Korea conflict. With NK nuclear-tipped missiles capable of reaching mainland USA something close to “balance of power” had been obtained, by many seen as the key to peace via “mutual and balanced” disarmament even to “general and complete disarmament”.

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UN Peacekeeping: Are There Other Avenues for Armed Conflict Resolution?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

29 May 2018 is the 70th anniversary of UN peacekeeping. Today, some 100,000 UN peacekeepers are deployed in 14 peacekeeping missions. There are two major issues concerning UN peacekeeping forces.

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Scourging Yemen
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

On March 22, 2018, Amnesty International called for an end to the flow of arms to the Saudi-led coalition attacking Yemen. “There is extensive evidence that irresponsible arms flows to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition have resulted in enormous harm to Yemeni civilians but this has not deterred the USA, the UK and other states, including France, Spain and Italy, from continuing transfers of billions of dollars’ worth of such arms.”

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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.

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Conference on Situation of Rohingyas in Bangladesh & Myanmar (Text in English & Français)
France-Bangladesh Friendship Group – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Date and Time: Fri 1 June 2018, 8:30h–19:15h CEST – FREE
Location: Assemblée Nationale 75007 Paris France

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(Castellano) Mundial 2018 Rusia: De la fiesta del fútbol a la fiesta de la educación para la no violencia y la tolerancia
Dra. Alicia Cabezudo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Tal como sucede en el futbol, los gobiernos deben disponer de un “buen equipo” en el que cada actor político contribuya desde su “posición” a la necesaria y acuciante construcción de un “resultado” armónico, equilibrado y justo para toda la ciudadanía, “jugando limpio, respetando los derechos de todos(as) y construyendo lecciones vitales de no violencia, reconciliación, trabajo y eficacia en el desarrollo del compromiso asumido.” Que así sea en el fútbol y en la vida de los pueblos del mundo entero.

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The Multiple Stepmothers of Daesh [ISIS] in Syria (Part I)
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Well dear reader, if Bashar Assad, Ali Khamenei and Hassan Nasrallah, among others are Stepmothers of ISIS. Who’s the Mother?

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Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.

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Deconstructing Power (Part 4)
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

28 May 2018 – The exploration of “power” made so far has been general. It is applicable to any human society, irrespective of time and place. We shall focus now on the specifics of the exciting but alarming situation prevalent today.

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War
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

What more can be said of war
That has not already been said,
That has not already been written,
That has not already been sung in song,
Recited in verse, shared in epic tales?

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What Is Behind Amnesty’s Burmese Military-Friendly Report?
Shafiur Rahman | Bloomberg, Quint – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

25 May 2018 – Maung Zarni, a Buddhist and a leading advocate of the Rohingya cause, was concerned about how the interviews were conducted and which authorities acted as gatekeeper. “Who selected the victims in Sittwe, Rakhine for their researchers? Who arranged the interviews (bringing Hindu victims from the highly restricted Northern Rakhine to Sittwe, central Rakhine)? Who gave Amnesty International travel permission to visit Rakhine?”

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Israel’s Premature Celebration: Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

23 May 2018 – ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’, White House officials announced, paying no heed to the ludicrousness of the statement when understood within the current context. Peaceful protesters were not threatening the existence of Israel; rock-throwing kids were not about to overwhelm hundreds of Israeli snipers, who shot, killed and wounded Gaza youngsters with no legal or moral boundary whatsoever.

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The Message of Ramadan
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

28 May 2018 – This is the holy month when Muslims, about one fifth of the world’s population, undergo a rigorous fast (not even a drop of water or spittle passes their throats). From dawn to dusk each day this month, Muslims do not eat, drink, smoke, use perfume or apply leeches and abstain from conjugal relations.

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Why I Stopped Being a Zionist
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

The breaking point for me in relation to Zionism came in the beginning of 1997. The Israeli army demolished the houses and evacuated Palestinian-Bedouin inhabitants of the Jahalin tribe in order to expand the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. This was during the period of the Oslo peace process.

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What Is Structural Violence? What Does It Mean?
The Audiopedia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Structural violence is a term commonly ascribed to Johan Galtung, which he introduced in the article “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research” (1969). It refers to a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs…

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The Luck of the Gambler
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

26 May 2018 – We all know the picture from the books and the movies: a gambler sits at the roulette table in a casino. He has luck. A lot of luck. In front of the gambler the pile of chips is growing. Higher and higher. Every spin of the roulette wheel adds to the heap. Binyamin Netanyahu resembles this man. He has luck. A lot of luck. It is uncanny.

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500 Years Is Long Enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

I would like to tell you something about human depravity and illustrate just how widespread it is among those we often regard as ‘responsible’ and am going to use the Democratic Republic of the Congo as my example. As I illustrate and explain what has happened to the Congo and its people during the past 500 years, I invite you to consider my essential point.

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Media Delegitimize Venezuelan Elections amid Complete Unanimity of Outlook
Alan MacLeod | Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

23 May 2018 – Despite an opposition boycott making the result predictable, Maduro received the vote of 28 percent of the eligible electorate, around the same as Barack Obama received in 2008 and more than he got in 2012, or Trump in 2016. Ignoring this, Reuters (5/20/18) claimed poor Venezuelans were voting for Maduro because they believed they were going to “win a prize.”

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On Israel and Palestine
Zoltán Grossman | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

21 May 2018 – We’re often told that the Israel-Palestine “conflict” is “complex,” and we need to be “even-handed” and “balanced” in the way we “promote dialogue,” since there’s “blame on both sides.” I couldn’t agree more.

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Beware the So-Called Mental Health “De-Stigmatization” Campaigns such as Make It OK and NAMI, for They Are Front Groups for Big Pharma
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Why doesn’t that surprise anybody? The norm for all capitalist enterprises is to make money by hook or by crook. With a seemingly altruistic agenda of understanding and compassionately dealing with unfortunate people that are somehow different than the rest of us, the fact is that the campaign is all about marketing a product rather than ending the “stigma” of so-called “mental illnesses”.

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Ushering in a New Era of Peace and Feminist Future
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Seoul International Women‘s Peace Symposium, South Korea National Assembly

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Max Müller and the Indian Connection
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Although Max Müller was a German, he spent a considerable period of his life in England, taught at Oxford University, and was admired for his knowledge of classical Indian texts including the Upanishads and Vedas. He had access to several scholarly Sanskrit words that the East India Company had brought from India.

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Journalists as Peacebuilders
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

A Rhymed Reflection

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Operazione Colomba
Nonviolent Peace Corps of the Association Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Descriptive Document on the Phenomenon of “Hakmarrja” and “Gjakmarrja” to Raise Awareness among Albanian and International Institutions

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Khamenei, in Reply to Trump, Gives Europe 6-Point Ultimatum on Nuclear Deal
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

24 May 2018 – A set of ultimatums of this sort signals that Khamenei wants out of the JCPOA, since he surely knows that Europe is highly unlikely to acquiesce in his demands. He clearly has decided that Europe cannot be depended upon to buck Trump.

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The Continuing Cost of War
Arnie Alpert | American Friends Service Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

23 May 2018 – Fifty-one years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King warned that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” The loss of lives, lasting trauma, and the diversion of resources from our communities.

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Conflict Theory and Biosphere Annihilation
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

I would like to explain the psychological origin of this biosphere-annihilating conflict and how this origin has nurtured the incredibly destructive aspects of capitalism (and socialism, for that matter) from the beginning. I would also like to explain what we can do about it.

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(Português) Jess Strathdee, a mulher que se tornou vegana depois de trabalhar em uma fazenda de produção de leite
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

“Vi mães que deram à luz na neve ou durante tempestades e foram privadas de seus bebês”.

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Expert Justification
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

A tourist’s car broke down in a small village.

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Life Management
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

A professor gave a lecture on time management. He filled a mason jar with a dozen fist-sized rocks, until no more would fit. He asked his students, “Is this jar full?”

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Hey Brother (Music Video of the Week)
Avicii – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

Tim Bergling (8 Sep 1989 – 20 Apr 2018), better known by his stage name DJ Avicii was a Swedish musician, DJ, remixer and record producer. Bergling began his career at age 16 posting his remixes in online forums of electronic music. Knowledge about the circumstances of Avicii’s death and surrounding events may change rapidly as more facts come to light. Avicii was 28 years old. (Wikipedia 23 Apr 2018)

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Onuma-san’s World
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

International Law in a Transcivilizational World, by Onuma Yasuaki, Cambridge University Press, 2017 – This text was published in May 2018 in the Yale Journal of International Law.

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The Truth behind Israel’s Killing of Palestinians
Rising Up – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 May 2018

16 May 2018 – Nearly 60 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire on May 14th at the Gaza border in the latest and bloodiest instance of violence since mass protests began weeks ago. Tens of thousands of Palestinians intending to mark Nakba Day had gathered to protest the collective imprisonment they face under a decades-long Israeli siege. Among the victims were an 8-month old child and a doctor…

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I Live in Gaza and I Want You to Know Why We’re Protesting
Intimaa Alsdudi | Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

18 May 2018 – Gaza is the biggest open-air prison on earth. Nearly two million people are denied the basic freedom of movement. Ninety-seven percent of the water here is undrinkable. The unemployment rate is 44 percent. That is why we have been protesting since March 30. Two-thirds of Palestinians in Gaza are refugees from lands stolen by Israel in 1948.

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Transforming World Order?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

20 May 2018 – Review of an important critical study of the deplorable conditions of law and politics in the current global setting. The author grounds his diagnosis and proposals on a philosophical interpretation of this subject-matter, but the radical vision although appealing gives little attention to how such a vision can become a political project, and so this learned text creates an impression of apolitical utopianism.

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Pope Francis Tells Gay Abuse Victim: ‘God Loves You Just the Way You Are’
James Macintyre | Christian Today – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

21 May 2018 – A victim of clerical sex abuse has said Pope Francis told him God made him gay, that his sexuality ‘does not matter’ and that God and the pope love him as he is. Juan Carlos Cruz revealed what he said were details of the private conversation he had with Francis last week about the abuse he suffered at the hands of a prominent Chilean priest, Fernando Karadima.

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New Data Offers Insights into the Dynamics of Nonviolent Resistance
Jonathan Pinckney and Erica Chenoweth | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

12 May 2018 – Despite a growing literature on nonviolent resistance, many of these questions remain unresolved. In the absence of systematic study, the lessons of prominent nonviolent resistance movements can often be misinterpreted or misunderstood.

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GAZA: Grief, Horror, Outrage, Remembering
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

15 May 2018 – How can one not feel intense grief for the young Palestinians who out of despair and fury joined the Great March of Return, and so often found death and severe injury awaiting them as they approached the border unarmed!!? The feeble Israeli claims of its right of self-defense or attributing Palestinian martyrdom to Hamas are as shallow and lacking in credibility as to discredit further rather than provide justifications for this exhibition of homicidal violence on a massive scale not as isolated incident but as a series of arrogant reenactments.

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Why The Non-Armed Palestinian Struggle Is Also “Illegitimate”?
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

15 May 2018 – Till Nine PM yesterday evening, the death toll among Gaza Palestinians participating in the Marches reached the number of 55 (increased to 58 by 1:26 am this morning), in addition to 2410 injured. How come these killings and injuries just in one day are merely practiced in the framework of “Israel right to defend itself”?

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Signs of End of the Civilization and Signs of Its Rejuvenation
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

15 May 2018 – There are many signs of end of the civilization and signs of its rejuvenation. These difficult times do test people’s souls and minds and while we find those who fail the test (Netanyahu, Trump, Hagee, Bin Salman, etc), we do find so many that pass it and light the way for us.

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12 Features Zionist Israel Shares with Nazi Germany
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

The souls of the nearly 6-millions Jewish victims of the Holocaust must not be at rest, I can imagine, as long as the Zionists continue on with its version of Final Solution with respect the Palestinians. They would feel extremely pained that the State built on their ashes, tales of pains and horrors has morphed into, or simply conceived along the lines of the Third Reich of Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler and Eichman.

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70 Years Ago Today Palestine Was Stolen
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

15 May 2018 – NAKBA or CATASTROPHE DAY is being remembered today in Palestine. The March of Return, which has been going on for over a month, culminates in its commemoration. The Nakba began when Palestinians were robbed of their homeland; when the genocide began; and, will not stop until the land is ethnically cleansed by the thieving multi-national Zionists ensconced in Tel Aviv.

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Have Recent Events Sounded the Death Knell for Iran’s Regional Project?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

The people in this region, and beyond, are becoming tired of Iran’s project and its cost in human lives and treasury, not least of whom are the civilian populations of Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon not to mention Russian officials and elements of the Assad regime.

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Gaza Killings: Names and Faces of Those Killed by Israeli Forces This Week
Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

Eight-month-old Laila is youngest Palestinian killed in Gaza on Monday 14 May, the deadliest day since 2014 war. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Gaza Ministry of Health released the names of 59 Palestinians killed:

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