Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Imposition vs. Partnership: How to Do Harm in Project Cooperation
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
If you are a donor, you decide the guidelines and the priorities of support unilaterally, and impose them on the donated. This is a neo-colonial way of controlling and dominating, practiced in opposition to the different international documents about the efficiency of funding.
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Engaging Credible Religious Leaders in the Prevention of Violence and Extremism – Our Methodology
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Jun 2018 – This program addresses the transnational phenomenon of extremism using a conflict transformation approach. It aims to the reduce violence in the Sahel region, the Lake Chad area and the Arab world, through the promotion of wasatiya (the “middle way”) and the avoidance of extremes (ghulu), both concepts rooted in Islamic thought and practice. The project comprises two tracks:
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India’s Thirsty Arguments for Water Woes
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Israel took 70 years to solve its water problem; India won’t need that long, as it can replicate Israeli practices. It needs to summon the political will to act before water runs out. Changing governance, raising money, and experimenting new ideas will all take time and the climatic stresses are mounting fast. The time to act is now.
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Gaza Youth Dance the Dabke in the Gaza-Israel Border (Music Video of the Week)
almonivideo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
1 Jul 2018 – A young Palestinian girl and a handful of boys dancing the traditional dabke along the Gaza-Israel border against a backdrop of plumes of smoke. The video manages to encapsulate so much of the story of the occupation and the siege in two-and-a-half minutes: the power dynamics between the occupier and the oppressed.
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Why Unarmed Civilian Protection Is the Best Path to Sustainable Peace
Annie Hewitt | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
6 Jul 2018 – The first image that often comes to mind when one thinks of peacekeeping is that of the blue helmets armed soldiers. There is, however, another model for peacekeeping called unarmed civilian protection, or UCP. It works from the inside and has been proven to save lives, empower communities and can secure strong and lasting peace in areas plagued by violent conflict.
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Myanmar Bombs 60 Churches in 18 Months, Replaces Some with Buddhist Pagodas
Samuel Smith | The Christian Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
3 Jul 2018 – Myanmar’s military forces have destroyed about 60 Christian churches and have turned some of those properties into Buddhist pagodas amid renewed attacks over the last year-and-a-half, an American pastor who recently traveled to the region said.
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Fukushima’s “Hot Particles” Travelled Extreme Distances
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
3 Jul 2018 – “Cesium found 375 miles from Japanese plant,” read the headline in the Japanese daily paper Yomiuri Shimbun. Proponents of nuclear power still get away with denying that inhaled or ingested exposures cause harm. This is because when the cancers begin appearing 10, 15 or 20 years from exposure, no one can to prove they were caused by Fukushima’s hot particles. “Got cancer?” they ask. “Not our fault. Nuclear power is safe.”
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Internationalism and the Colonial Challenges Facing Haiti and Venezuela
Jeanette Charles | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Colonialism explains why UN forces implicated in mass rape, human trafficking rings, and the cholera epidemic continue to occupy Haiti. It is the driving force behind former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s tour throughout the Caribbean, intimidating, threatening, and bribing states to vote at the OAS in favor of foreign intervention in Venezuela. Colonialism has cultivated the root of complex political, economic, and sociocultural relationships between the states, peoples, and grassroots movements of Venezuela and Haiti.
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UN Chief: ‘Unimaginable’ Stories of Killings, Rape from Rohingya Refugees
VOA News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – “Nothing could’ve prepared me for the scale of crisis and extent of suffering I saw today in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. I heard heartbreaking accounts from Rohingya refugees that will stay with me forever,” he wrote calling the Rohingya “one of the most discriminated against and vulnerable communities on Earth.”
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Old Is Gold
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Today this expression would not be accepted by most people around the world for the simple reason that old may be associated with old age which becomes weak and degraded as the years pass… Let us redefine our concepts of old age and old people. Let us remember some of them for their ingenuity and the joy and harmony that resulted from their works and lives.
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Building a Greater America
Unknown Author - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
A true visionary…
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Great March of Return and the Unspeakable
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
This wordless borderland
Where love and atrocity meet
Oxford’s Neo-Orientalism: Burma aka Myanmar
C R Abrar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
28 Mar 2018 – The People’s Tribunal on State Crimes of Myanmar unequivocally termed the atrocities committed by the Burmese government as “genocide”. The UN special rapporteur on human rights situation of the country has clearly stated that such actions bear the “hallmarks of genocide”. Without mincing his words, the French President Macron has expressed his disgust of Myanmar’s genocide. Even the unpredictable British Foreign Secretary termed it as “industrial scale ethnic cleansing”. The Holocaust Museum acknowledged it as a genocide and expressed solidarity with the victims. Nobel laureates Bishop Tutu and Amartya Sen have labelled it as “slow burning genocide.”
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John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
‘The Coming War on China’ is John Pilger’s 60th film. Pilger reveals what the news doesn’t: that the world’s greatest military power, the United States, and the world’s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, are on the road to war. The film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance.
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UN-Burma/Myanmar MOU: Why the Hush Hush?
The Daily Star [Bangladesh] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
9 Jul 2018 – UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee has expressed concern that a memorandum of understanding signed in June between the UN and Myanmar has been kept secret. “While I am not aware of the exact terms of the MoU, I am extremely concerned that it has been kept secret, including by the UN agencies involved, and urge the parties to make it public,” she said.
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Is Oxford University Complicit in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Genocide Denial?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
26 Feb 2018 – Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of Myanmar’s international human rights crimes as designed to tarnish the image of Myanmar, the administration at Oxford University considers this a “public relations” issue.
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Immigration: Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions
Prof. James Petras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – “Immigration” has become the dominant issue dividing Europe and the US, yet the most important matter which is driving millions to emigrate is overlooked is wars. In this paper we will discuss the reasons behind the massification of immigration, focusing on several issues.
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How High the Moon? Or the Greatest Deception of Them All…
Emanuel E. Garcia | NEXUS Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
“Fake news” is nothing new. In less glamorous times, perhaps, it was known as subterfuge, lying, deceit, deception, advertising or public relations. One of the advantages of aging is that one may look back and, in so looking back, events which, at the time of perception, seemed perfectly plausible, can be peered at more closely and, can, in fact, be seen for what they really were.
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The Significance of Abu Nuwar Evacuation in Light of the “Ultimate Deal”
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
5 Jul 2018 – Out of 46 Bedouin Communities that Israel is planning to eliminate in area C of West Bank, Abu Nuwar was the first to be evacuated yesterday… There are harder days that yet to come, unless Israel will be isolated as done internationally with the former Apartheid regime in South Africa.
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Dialogue among Civilizations for Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Though human beings evolved from primitive virus to modern Homo sapiens and highly developed scientifically and technologically but still at the primitive stage and barbarous in the sense of behavior and dealing with each other because vested interests in every civilization, misused the fruits of science and technology and used them for their own gains.
→ read full articleSeeking the Root Causes
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Any voluntary action that an individual performs originates as an inner urge. The urge may be “towards” something, or “away from” something; it may also be based on a wrong understanding of reality. These three states of mind can be termed as “craving”, “aversion” and “illusion”, respectively… If the above are generally applicable observations, then they apply even in a conflict situation – to persons engaged in a conflict, to persons who provoke a conflict, and to persons who escape from conflict or hardship.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. Born in 1817, one of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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Seneca on Gratitude and What It Means to Be a Generous Human Being
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
The wise man… enjoys the giving more than the recipient enjoys the receiving… None but the wise man knows how to return a favour. Even a fool can return it in proportion to his knowledge and his power; his fault would be a lack of knowledge rather than a lack of will or desire.
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(Français) Néocolonialisme et “crise des migrants”
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
29 juin 2018 – On dissimule ainsi la cause de fond : le système économique qui dans le monde permet à une minorité restreinte d’accumuler de la richesse aux dépens de la majorité croissante, en l’appauvrissant et en provoquant ainsi l’émigration forcée. Concernant les flux migratoires vers les États-Unis, le cas du Mexique est emblématique.
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(Português) “Aprenda a ficar sozinho. Aprecie a solitude”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Toda pessoa precisa aprender desde a infância como passar tempo consigo mesma. Isso não significa que ela deva ficar [sempre] sozinha, mas que ela não deveria ficar entediada consigo mesma, porque as pessoas que se aborrecem em sua própria companhia parecem estar em perigo, do ponto de vista da autoestima.
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The Rise of a New, Global, Indigenous Left
Ikaika Hussey, Will Caron and Ed Lane | Summit Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Indigenous peoples have, by definition, been around for a long time. But a new generation of connected campaigners has arisen, using technology to apply timeless wisdom to modern problems.
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(Français) Paul Oquist: «Il y a une tentative de coup d’État au Nicaragua»
Alex Anfruns | Journal Notre Amérique – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
4 Juil 2018 – Afin de comprendre comment on en est arrivé là dans un pays qui paraissait épargné il y a encore peu de temps par la violence structurelle qui isole d’autres pays d’Amérique centrale, nous nous sommes entretenus avec le professeur Paul Oquist. Fort d’une longue expérience faite de missions de développement pour les Nations Unies, Oquist est actuellement ministre-secrétaire privé pour les politiques nationales du Nicaragua. – Le Nicaragua Sous le Feu des Projecteurs
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Why Venezuela Reporting Is So Bad
Joe Emersberger | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – For almost 20 years, the US government has been trying to overthrow Venezuela’s government, and establishment media outlets (state, corporate and some nonprofit) throughout the Americas and Europe have been bending over backwards to help the US do it. Review of Alan MacLeod’s Bad News from Venezuela
→ read full articleDying in Temporariness
Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – Temporariness is a well- known Israeli procedure used with the Palestinians. The examples are many: Your presence in East Jerusalem for instance is considered to be temporary, and you will be defined as “A Jordanian Citizen residing permanently in Israel”, or as a “holder” of “Undefined”, or “unclassified” status as it is new added in this year.
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The Psychology of Splitting, Traumatizing, and Abusing Families
Diane Perlman, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Mental health professionals are gravely concerned about the known effects of the cruel and inhumane policy of tearing children away from their parents who have made extraordinary sacrifices to protect them. We are horrified as we helplessly witness our government inflicting psychological damage upon vulnerable people.
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Yemen: Political Stalemate, Mercenaries Prosper, the Population Disintegrates, and Humanitarian Relief Blocked
Rene Wadlow | Foreign Policy News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
29 Jun 2018 – The United Nations Security Council has been discussing the situation in both public and private meetings without any visible impact. Today, the choice between an end to the armed conflict with negotiations for a renewal of a Yemeni State on the basis of the con-federal system proposed and continued fighting in the hope that one faction become a “winner-take-all” is relatively clear.
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The U.S. Withdraws (Again) from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
24 Jun 2018 – This is a slightly edited and corrected version of what was published on TMS last week. I owe particular thanks to my distinguished collaborator, Virginia Tilley, for pointing out several shortcomings and misleading formulations in the earlier version. Of course, the essence of the indictment of the U.S. rationale for withdrawal stands as before.
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On Purpose, in Kabul
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – War profiteers deliver hellish realities and futile prospects, but the Afghan Peace Volunteers have not given up on bettering their country. In recent visits to Kabul, we’ve listened as they consider the longer-term question of how peace can come to an economically devastated country where employment by various warlords, including the U.S. and Afghan militaries, is many families’ only way to put bread on the table.
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Princely Visits
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
30 Jun 2018 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, visited Israel this week. He seems a likable person. He looked like a prince should look, did all the right things, said all the right things, and even ate a watermelon with our mayor on the sandy shore of Tel Aviv.
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Trump, the (Shakespearean) Fool: A New Look at the Dynamics of Trumpism
Rich Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
He is not stupid, diabolical, or mentally out of control. He is not Vladimir Putin’s bitch. He is a foolish man who tends to act without calculating the consequences of his actions; a hothead who disdains polite discourse and loves to violate taboos; an actor who plays a boastful, threatening, oversexed, occasionally (but rarely) warmhearted character called Donald J. Trump in an ongoing reality drama that he seems to identify with reality itself.
→ read full articleSyria and the Diseased, Lying, Condition of America’s ‘News’ Media
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – Both President Trump and former President Obama are commonly said in America’s ‘news’ media to be or to have been “ceding Syria to Russia” or “ceding Syria to Russia and Iran,” or similar allegations. They imply that ‘we’ own (or have some right to control) Syria. That’s not only a lie; it is a very evil and harmful one.
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What the Battle for Hodeidah Means for Yemen’s Children: 8 Things You Need to Know
UNICEF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. More than 22 million Yemenis – that’s three-quarters of the population – need humanitarian assistance and protection. More than 11 million of them are children. The conflict has made Yemen a living hell for its children.
→ read full articleSharing for Peace Making
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Recently an Under Secretary of UN Peace Keeping Force came to New Delhi and gave a brief and sincere talk on the challenges faced by Peace Keepers in many countries of Africa and Asia. One message that he conveyed was that there was always conflict between various parties and how they try to resolve it by sharing.
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Veteran Socialist Public Official from Portugal Elected to Lead UN Migration Agency
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
29 Jun 2018 – A lawyer and politician from Portugal, with an extensive career in public service, has been elected to head the United Nations migration agency.
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Why Do They Flee?
William Blum |The Anti-Empire Report #158 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – The current mass exodus of people from Central America to the United States, with the daily headline-grabbing stories of numerous children involuntarily separated from their parents, means it’s time to remind my readers once again of one of the primary causes of these periodic mass migrations.
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The Shock Troops Who Expelled the Rohingya from Myanmar: Tip of the Spear
A Reuters Investigation by Simon Lewis, Zeba Siddiqui, Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – A Reuters’ investigation provides the first comprehensive account of the precise role played by Myanmar’s 33rd and 99th elite divisions in the savage offensive, and the close ties between the army’s commander in chief and its elite troops. They led a crackdown that forced 700,000 Muslims to flee Myanmar. Here’s how they did it.
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Reflections on the June 24th Turkish Elections
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – I am sensitive to the inappropriate hubris of Americans traveling the world to impart their views on how other societies should be managed and governed. Such postures of criticism and praise is particularly suspect in this time of Trump where a pre-fascist leadership in the United States pursues policies at home and abroad destructive of elemental rights of its citizens and residents as well adopts as an entirely reckless policy agenda that imperils the ethical, ecological, and economic future of not only the country but the world.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
There are many summit meetings, usually with Trump. “Good chemistry” is not sufficient, nor is it necessary. Peace may come about in spite of, not because of, the summits. Summiteers might come further focusing on “how can we be good to each other” than on “how can we stop being bad”. Positive approach.
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GAZA: Ordeal & Destiny
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
30 Jun 2018 – I post below two items pertaining to Gaza—my short poem, and a collection of responses to the question “What is the Future of Gaza?” by a clever online publication called ‘One Question,’ which true to its name poses a single question to a number of people presumed to have something to say in response.
→ read full articleIndia’s Civil Service Needs to Reinvent Itself
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
28 Jun 2018 – The Indian Civil Service represents the crème de la crème of the country’s university graduates who form the backbone of the country’s administration. “The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.” — Brooks Atkinson
→ read full articleA Plea to TMS Readers for Peace Journalism-Peace by Peaceful Means
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
In most cases of realities that involve blood, invasion, genocides, war crimes, exploitation, systematic acts of state propaganda, “all sides” and “balance” in journalism, are not simply acts of moral cowardice, but the total absence of intellectual substance. Peace, nonviolence, social justice, are TMS ideologies rooted on basic human rights and needs, non negotiable principles. Think about it and Please Act making your financial contribution TODAY! Thank you.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi’s Lies, Distortions Hinder International Accountability
Dr. Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
24 Jun 2018 – Myanmar’s leader is at it again: using her Office’s Facebook, she is peddling lies that are easily exposed. Her growing list of provable distortions and denials must not go unchallenged.
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Walk or Die: Algeria Abandons 13,000 Refugees in the Sahara
Al Jazeera News– TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Associated Press report details witness accounts of migrants and refugees from Africa left to die in the Sahara Desert.
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Hermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Rebellion against established structures, the quest for personal values and a religious impulse are all elements in Siddhartha, published in 1922, perhaps his most widely-read book. It is not clear that Hesse found the harmony of enlightenment in his own life. In his last major work The Glass Bead Game (1943) he describes what might be an ideal Buddhist monastery devoted to the discovery, preservation and dissemination of knowledge.
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Violence in Nicaragua: US-Orchestrated Coup Attempt?
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
19 Jun 2018 – The pattern is familiar. Ongoing violence in Nicaragua has the earmarks of another US-staged color revolution attempt. Dirty US imperial hands operate everywhere, sovereign independent states their prime targets, wanting governments not subservient to US interests forcefully toppled, pro-Western puppet regimes replacing them.
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Patrice Lumumba (2 Jul 1925 – 17 Jan 1961)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Lumumba was a man of strong character who intended to pursue his policies regardless of the enemies he made within his country or abroad. Because of its wealth, size, and proximity to white-dominated southern Africa, Lumumba’s opponents feared the consequences of a radicalized Congo. Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.
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Little Panic: A Literary Laboratory Exploring What It Is Like to Live in the Stranglehold of Anxiety and What It Takes to Break Free
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
“This terrible truth binds us all: fear there’s a single, unattainable, correct way to be human.”
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Giuseppe Garibaldi (4 Jul 1807 – 2 Jun 1882): Godfather of Transnational Democratic Politics
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice, now France, often called the hero of two worlds because of his efforts for independence in Latin America and then Europe, is in many ways inventor of transnational democratic politics.
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Peace as the Business of the Future
Sawssan Abou-Zahr | Peace Insight – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – “The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World without War” was written by Scilla Elworthy, the founder of Peace Direct. It is “for those who feel powerless in the face of what they see in the news, for those who want to step out of helplessness and find out how they can apply their personal skills to do something about the challenges facing us”. It offers a roadmap to building peace with ourselves and with others, though it is intended for a bigger picture, one of peace among nations and within them.
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Migration Crisis Is One of Mismanagement: The Figures
Nikolaj Nielsen and Damiano Bacci | EUobserver - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
The article gives the basic data on people trying to enter the EU over the last few years and the very marked decrease in the number of those who come over the Mediterranean. The peak point was the latter half of 2015 when about 1,2 million sought asylum in Europe having fled, it should be remembered, predominantly from countries ravaged by Western NATO/EU members’ military interventions.
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Myanmar/UN Memorandum of Understanding on Rohingya Repatriation
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Secret MOU endorsed by UN Secretary General putting Myanmar wolves in charge of Rohingya chickens. This document belongs to 1 million Rohingyas. CIRCULATE it wide and far. Study it closely. Write about it publicly.
→ read full articleHeroism
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
An oil well caught fire.
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Waiting as an Experience of Fundamental Significance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – Commentary on Web Resources on Types of Waiting and Anticipation – It could be readily assumed that waiting is an incidental process, experienced by all in some way, but incidental to the reality of meaningful life in any society.
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Time for Accountability in Burma/Myanmar: Military Responsibility for Crimes against Humanity in Rakhine State
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – Soldiers killed women, men, and children; raped and committed other sexual violence against women and girls; hauled men and boys to detention sites, where they tortured them; and burned homes, shops, and mosques across several hundred villages. The report examines in detail the military’s atrocities, which amount to crimes against humanity under international law.
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Facts about What Is Happening in Nicaragua and a Challenge to “Left Intellectuals”
Jorge Capelán | Correo de Nicaragua - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
1 Jun 2018 – Author and Editor’s Note: The following text was originally written to counteract a propaganda campaign launched in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavian countries by toxic soft coup operators against the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua. Until very recently, Nicaragua was an exemplary country in Central America, one of the most violent regions in the world.
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A New Data Breach May Have Exposed Personal Information of Almost Every American Adult
Mike Murphy, Editor | Market Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Wired reported Wednesday [27 Jun] that Exactis, a Palm Coast, Fla.-based marketing and data-aggregation company, had exposed a database containing almost 2 terabytes of data, containing nearly 340 million individual records, on a public server. That included records of 230 million consumers and 110 million businesses.
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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: Awaiting Good Faith
Robert F. Dodge, MD | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
50 years ago on July 1, 1968 the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed. This landmark nuclear arms control treaty brought the world’s nuclear powers together with the ultimate goal of eliminating nuclear weapons by engaging in good faith efforts toward that end. Unfortunately, there was no enforcement mechanism.
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Franz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
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Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee Brings UN Human Rights Council Up to Date on Human Rights in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – Mr. President, I note the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently signed between the Myanmar Government, UNHCR and UNDP in early June to assist the process of repatriation from Bangladesh. It is disconcerting that the MoU remains not publicly available and there has not been transparency about its terms. I am dismayed about the fact that the parties to the MoU, including the United Nations agencies involved in this process, have apparently failed to recognise Rohingya living in Bangladesh as refugees and as Rohingya. Most frightful still is the fact that the Rohingya refugees have not been included in any of the discussions around this MoU nor consulted in relation to the repatriation process as a whole. I would like to ask your Excellencies, how can the process of repatriation be voluntary with the people who the process is for excluded from it? How can you be sure that any return is based on individual informed consent? Let’s stop for a moment and ask ourselves what “voluntary, dignified, safe, and sustainable” returns really mean, and whether that is achievable in the current framework.
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Moscow Nights – Podmoskovnye Vechera (Music Video of the Week)
Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
We salute Russia for a wonderful Football World Cup.
Red Square Concert – The Russian Classic best known outside the country.
Johan Galtung on Present Russia/Norway Conflict
Synöve Faldalen | Arctic Meeting Point – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Peace Seminar organized by Arctic Meeting Point in Tromsø, Norway on 12 Apr 2018. Interview conducted by Synöve Faldalen, director of SABONA-TRANSCEND in Daily Life, a Conflict Resolution method for school children conceived by Johan Galtung.
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AI-Supported Global Governance through Bottom-Up Deliberation
Soushiant Zanganehpour | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Introducing new technologies and institutions in order to decentralize global governance to participatory and deliberative models. Recognizing the limitations of nation-states in creating solutions to adequately govern global commons, which are often perceived as counter-productive to national interests, this proposal suggests combining a blockchain based global identity system with an AI-based collaboration platform to fuel citizen collaboration and ideation around policies and budget suggestions, as the entry point for decentralized citizen participation in governance.
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(Português) A Língua Portuguesa
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
A língua portuguesa vai além: SER ou ESTAR para o BEM
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The U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
22 Jun 2018 – By purporting to punish the Human Rights Council, the Trump presidency, representing the U.S. Government, is much more punishing itself, as well as the peoples of the world. We all benefit from a robust and legitimated institutional framework for the promotion and protection of vital human rights. The claim of an anti-Israeli bias in the HRC, or UN, is bogus, the daily violation of the most basic rights of the Palestinian people is a tragic reality.
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Hungering for Nuclear Disarmament
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
19 June 2018 – In the state of Georgia’s Glynn County Detention Center, four activists await trial stemming from their nonviolent action, on April 4, 2018, at the Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay. In all, seven Catholic plowshares activists acted that day, aiming to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares.” This week, five people have gathered for a fast and vigil, near the Naval Base, calling it “Hunger for Nuclear Disarmament.”
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Could “Tough Love” Salvage Lebanon?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
22 Jun 2018 – Increasingly these days on Beirut’s streets of Hamra and across much of Lebanon one hears a Sanskrit like mantra that: “Lebanon was never a real country, it is not now a real country and will not be a real country during the lifetimes of its current citizenry.” It’s become a bit of a truism worth some contemplation… The observer avers that salvaging Lebanon is worth a try. But time is running short.
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“They’re Different from Us”: The Profiteers of Prejudice
Roy Eidelson | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
18 Jun 2018 – The 1% could use their influence to challenge bigotry. Too often they don’t. If we want to focus on the kind of differences that truly matter, we should turn our attention to the striking divergences between the documented policy preferences of the 1% compared to the rest of us.
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Slow Suicide and the Abandonment of the World
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
21 Jun 2018 – I believe the story has it that when he was in jail for refusing the poll tax that supported slavery and the Mexican-American war, Thoreau was visited by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, who asked him, “Henry, what are you doing in there?” To which Thoreau responded, “Ralph, what are you doing out there?” Today, however, most folks don’t realize that being outside their cells is being in them, and such imprisonment is far from principled. That’s not a text message they’re likely to receive.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Self-Righteous Immoral Imperative Enabling Future Human Sacrifice – Produced on the occasion of the Informal “mini-summit” on migration and asylum convened by the European Commission in anticipation of a meeting of the European Council to discuss migration issues (June 2018)
→ read full articleThe Multidimensional USA
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
The history of USA begins from the rebellion against the British in 1775 which culminated in the declaration of full independence of 13 states on July 4, 1776.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Amnesty International by a Former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience
Camilo E. Mejia | International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity to the Peoples – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018 – Through this letter I express my unequivocal condemnation of Amnesty International with regards to the destabilizing role it has played in Nicaragua, my country of birth. Camilo E. Mejia, Iraq war veteran, resister, and conscientious objector (2003-2004). Amnesty International prisoner of conscience (June 2004). Born in Nicaragua, citizen of the world.
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So We’re Gonna Pretend These Refugees Aren’t a Result of Our Actions in Central America?
Patience John | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Just a bit of denial that our government’s actions in the home countries of these refugees did not create the current situation? We created these huddled masses, now we refuse to let them breath free. Take a look at the map:
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Ignorance about Man, the Only Reason; Universal Peace Education, the Only Prevention of Torture
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
On UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June
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Norman Cousins (24 Jun 1915 – 30 Nov 1990): A Pioneer of Track II Diplomacy
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Track I is official government to government diplomacy among instructed representative of the State. Track II is a non-official effort, usually by a non-governmental organization or an academic institution. Track II talks are discussions held by non-officials of conflicting parties in an attempt to clarify outstanding disputes and to explore the options for resolving them in settings that are less public or less sensitive than those associated with official negotiations.
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North Korea: What Price Peace?
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
19 Jun 2018 – The United States foreign policy is one of perpetual war. Where its soldiers are not on the ground, proxy armies are used to destabilise countries, as in Libya and Syria. To be wholeheartedly optimistic about Korea is difficult, if not impossible especially when NATO military forces are building up along the Russia-Europe border, replete with military exercises which grow in intensity with every passing year.
→ read full articleStanding with Rohingya Women
Nobel Women's Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
20 Jun 2018 – This five minute film follows our delegation to Bangladesh with Nobel Peace Laureates Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi, and Mairead Maguire who visited the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar to investigate the violence against Rohingya women— including high levels of sexual violence.
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UN Chief Calls for ‘Solidarity, Compassion and Action’ on World Refugee Day
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
20 Jun 2018 – With more than 68 million people worldwide displaced due to conflict or persecution — roughly equivalent to the population of Thailand— the head of the United Nations has called for unity and solidarity as a first step to support them.
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We Are the World, We Are the Children (Music Video of the Week)
TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
A Constellation of Stars Singing Michael Jackson’s Classic
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Free Julian Assange!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
We owe Julian Assange our deepest thanks for his courage and being prepared to tell the truth even at risk of his own liberty and life. We can all, especially the media, and governments, refuse to be silent in face of such injustice and persecution of a man whose only crime was telling the truth to stop the wars and save lives.
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Saint Ex for the style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. There is no indication that he had read Gibran in Saint Ex’s period in New York. It is more likely that both writers shared a common outlook on life.
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Reflections on the Donald Trump/Kim Jong-un Singapore Summit
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Peace Studies Prof. Lee Jae-bong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Interview with Lee Jae-bong, Professor of Peace Studies at Wonkwang University, South Korea, in the early afternoon of June 12, 2018 while the United States-North Korean Summit was taking place in Singapore.
→ read full articleRoseanne, Racism, and the Problem of False Dichotomies
Richard Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
It is difficult to talk sensibly and accurately about the role of racism and xenophobia in Trumpland… Rosa Luxemburg was right. A century after her death, the choice that confronts us still is “Socialism or Barbarism.”
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Stop the Wars to End the Refugee Crisis
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
19 Jun 2018 – European politicians should confront the question honestly: what are the reasons for millions of people leaving their homes? They must then fashion equally honest and humane solutions. Put simply, they need to stop the wars to end the refugee crisis. Look at the facts.
→ read full articleTwo Souls
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
“As long as in the heart, within, a Jewish soul is yearning…” thus starts the official translation of Israel’s national anthem. But is there a Jewish Soul? Is it different from the souls of other people? And if so, what is the difference?
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
When relations between the Soviet Union and China soured in the early 1960s, Khrushchev met Chu En Lai and told him,
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Ali Is on the Grill!’ Israeli Settlers Celebrate Burning of Palestinian Baby
Jonathan Ofir | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
21 Jun 2018 – There’s something particularly disturbing about celebrating the burning alive of a baby. This is precisely what Israeli Jewish settlers were doing yesterday, outside the court in Lod. “’Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill!” they chanted, in reference to the 18-month old baby Ali Dawbsheh, who was burnt alive by Jewish terrorists in the West Bank town of Duma.
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A Plea to TMS Readers
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Dear TMS Readers, our dear friend, brother, colleague, and compañero, Antonio C. S. Rosa, has for many years given selflessly and generously of his time–many many hours every single week–to put together this valuable and highly informative collection of articles and commentary that you can’t find elsewhere. His expenses are minimal but they are real. if you value this resource, please take a moment to donate now, whatever you can spare, and the more of you who give a small amount the greater the collective participation in this peace-building enterprise. Now’s the time to show solidarity not only by sharing ideas but also by sharing the modest means required to keep the TMS platform alive!
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George Orwell (25 Jun 1903 – 21 Jan 1950)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
George Orwell was a novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.
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Danilo Dolci (28 Jun 1924 – 30 Dec 1997)
EDDILI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Danilo Dolci was son of a devout Slav mother and a sceptical Italian father. He originally studied architecture in Rome, Milan, Switzerland, and also trained as an engineer. On Dec 30, 1997 Danilo Dolci “the Sicilian Ghandi”, winner of the Lenin peace prize (despite being explicitly catholic, non-communist), and twice a nominee for the Nobel peace prize, died at the age of seventy-three, of heart failure.
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Helen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
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21st Century Fascism: Trump Style (Part 1)
Steven Jonas | OpEdNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Just because there are elections and an elected government, don’t think that there cannot be fascism. One needs only to look at the Nazi German example.
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Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love. One of the most basic beliefs we carry about ourselves has to do with how we view and inhabit what we consider to be our personality. The consequences of believing that intelligence and personality can be developed rather than being immutably ingrained traits are remarkable
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Trump Administration Pulls US out of UN Human Rights Council
Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
19 Jun 2018 – The United States announced today it was leaving the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it “an organization that is not worthy of its name.” It was the latest withdrawal by the Trump administration from an international institution.
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(Italiano) A Bordo dell’Aquarius c’è Anche Paolo di Tarso
Rosanna Virgili | Viandante – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
13 giugno 2018 – Il Cardinal Bassetti qualche giorno fa a Roma ha chiesto espressamente ai cattolici di non aver paura di occuparsi di politica, anzi, di impegnarsi con sentimenti di carità e con spirito di servizio in questo compito moralmente ineludibile per loro.
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Why TMS Weekly Digest was delivered 2 days later this week
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
TMS came out late this week for two reasons:
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