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The Art of the Deal, Pentagon-Style: Wars without Victories, Weapons without End
William J. Astore | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – The Self-Defeating Military – But there is a “war” that the military-industrial complex truly is winning handily, even overwhelmingly, and that’s the one for money and power within and across American society. Put differently, when it comes to winning hearts and minds, the military fails spectacularly overseas but succeeds brilliantly here in the “homeland.”
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(Castellano) Los humanos aman la violencia: Gandhi y el Foro Económico Mundial
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
Al conmemorar el 72º aniversario del asesinato de Mohandas K. Gandhi ocurrido el 30 de enero de 1948. Como él, que hilaba los paños de su propia ropa, señaló hace más de 100 años: «La Tierra provee lo suficiente para las necesidades de cada persona, pero no para la codicia de cada persona». Esto es algo que los asistentes al Foro Económico Mundial no pueden entender ya que están demasiado dañados psicológicamente. ¿Y tú?
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Deconstructing the Deal: A Breakdown of Trump’s Plan
Chloé Benoist, Mohamed Hassan and Daniel Hilton | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – After a two-year wait for Donald Trump’s Middle East plan to address the Israel-Palestine conflict – framed by the businessman-turned-president as a deal – we now know what it contains. What is proposed exactly and what remains unclear?
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Our Collective Survival
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – I have never become more worried than now about the future. Here I speak not just of the future of the 13 million Palestinians (7.5 million refugees or displaced) but the future of humanity as a whole. Let me just list nine factors that makes you pose and wonder.
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Trump/Netanyahu Diplomacy: Orientalism by any Other Name
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
1 Feb 2020 – This so-called contribution to ‘peace’ requires Palestine to give up its most fundamental rights, and accept a permanent condition of subjugation and victimization. It is framed in such a one-sided pro-Israel manner as if designed to ensure its instant and overwhelming rejection by Palestinian government representatives and by Palestinian public opinion.
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The United States of America’s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
3 Feb 2020 – While truth-tellers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning sit inside jail cells and Edward Snowden lives in exile in Russia, the American people hole up in an illusionary dwelling constructed to reduce them to children afraid of the truth. Or is it the dark? It has become a more sophisticated haunted doll’s house, an electronic one with many bells and whistles and images that move faster than the eye can see. We now inhabit a digital technological nightmare controlled by government and corporate forces intent on dominating every aspect of people’s lives.
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Curbing the Coronavirus–While Targeting China
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – We are inundated with an avalanche of information on the novel coronavirus infection. Within this avalanche, there is a lot of “news” that is clearly false.
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Mysterious Complementarity between Capitalism and Arsenalism
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – The discourse between those in favour of capitalism and those critical of it is now a characteristic of those concerned with social progress in general. The criticism of alternatives variously proposed could be said to follow a similar pattern. Both “sides” are comfortable with their understanding of the appropriateness of their own perspective and the dangerously misinformed inefficacy of the other — readily extended to framing what is opposed as fundamentally “evil”.
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Why NATO Doesn’t Target Russia? Nepal Is the New Enemy, Stupid!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – About 37,000 soldiers from 18 countries are to participate in the U.S.-run manoeuver dubbed Defender Europe 2020 in May and June. And just how do they get away with deceiving the world with their militarised mantra about stability, security and peace – no matter it is always about more weapons and offensive military strength – virtually without any important (if they are) mainstream media reporting it, not to mention ask questions about it?
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US Deploys New Low-Yield Nuclear Submarine Warhead
William M. Arkin and Hans M. Kristensen | Federation of American Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – The US Navy has now deployed the new W76-2 low-yield Trident nuclear submarine warhead. Each W76-2 is estimated to have an explosive yield of about five kilotons. The remaining 18 missiles on each submarine like the Tennessee carry either the 90-kiloton W76-1 or the 455-kiloton W88. Each missile can carry up to eight warheads under current loading configurations.
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Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
“Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.”
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The Psychiatric Drug-Induced Suicide of Robin Williams–Six Years Later
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
And the Perils of Being a Drugged-Up Insomniac Celebrity Who Gets Sucked into Mainstream Psychiatric Care – The Parallel Paths of Artistic Geniuses like Hemingway, Robin Williams, Michael Jackson and Prince – 59 years ago (July 2, 1961) an American literary icon, Ernest Hemingway, committed suicide after being discharged from a psychiatric ward at the Mayo Clinic.
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Libya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – Six years after the catastrophic NATO war on Libya, it remains a country torn into shreds: two governments in place—one in Tripoli and one in Tobruk—and a civil war that has too many factions to name; several foreign countries intervene for their own narrow ends making peace impossible. Last year, it became clear that the already chaotic Libya would slip into disaster.
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The American Life Is Killing You
Erik Rittenberry | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
1 Feb 2020 – We the people of the United States have been led far away from the vibrant American spirit of Emerson, Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. As Thoreau well understood, “Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.” We prize HAVING over BEING, material possessions over experiences. We have contempt for nature these days and are too engrossed in the mechanical ways of living to truly FEEL what it means to be alive on this planet.
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Biological Weapons: A Useful and Timely Factual Overview
Larry Romanoff | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
7 Feb 2020 – The US government and its many agencies and educational and health institutions have for many decades conducted intensive research into biological warfare, in many cases strongly focused on race-specific pathogens.
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(Português) Djokovic: “Atribuo grande parte do meu sucesso à minha dieta”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
30 Jan 2020 – Djokovic já havia revelado que se sente mais saudável, com mais energia, dorme melhor e se recupera melhor desde que adotou uma dieta á base de plantas.
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Making the Earth Charter Happen: A Necessary Utopia
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
7 Feb 2020 – Twenty years ago Kamla Chowdhry, one of the founding members of the Earth Charter Commission asked, “How can we ensure that ethical and spiritual values get a fair hearing with the economist, technologist, and the industrialist? How do we weld economics with ethics, and have a technology with a human face?” Answering those questions remains central to our efforts today for a more just, sustainable and peaceful world.
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AI And Predictive Justice in Our Courts: Paying Heed to Exigencies of the Responsibilities and the Risks
Dr Jaspal Kaur Sadhu Singh | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – The point of this exercise was to determine whether the judge was more precise judging the accused as “high risk” or whether the machine would be a better judge of that. The machine won, man lost. The steps taken to introduce Artificial Intelligence in the administration of justice is commendable. However, on the backfoot of the challenges of predictive justice, we cannot defend to the hilt its efficiency and shrug our responsibilities without a tenable assessment of the risks.
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Fragmented Society
Alberto Binder | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
13 Jan 2020 – We want to demonstrate a complex phenomenon that produces the “fragmentation” of most social groups that are treated and treat each other as “discriminated minorities,” that measures or makes it difficult the “constitution” of a “majority” and, thus, produces the political effect of making those majorities have an absolute impossibility of acquiring political hegemony and little possibility of producing social policies.
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Turning Despair into Hope
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
30 Jan 2020 – Toward a new Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Human rights have ceased to be a conditionality in the context of international relations; individuals and peoples have, at best, been reduced to objects of human rights rhetoric. The global social division of fear and hope is so unequal that a number of phenomena that used to be unthinkable less than thirty years ago now strike us as being the ordinary features of a new normal.
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Crisis and Opportunity: The ‘Deal of the Century’ Challenge for Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed ‘Deal of the Century’, in Washington on Jan 28. Standing triumphantly beside Trump was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is the Palestinian leadership’s greatest challenge. Will it move forward with a Palestinian-centric strategy or persist in the same place, regurgitating old language and reminiscing of the good old days?
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Gandhi: The First Peace Journalist
Steven Youngblood | The Peace Journalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
6 Feb 2020 – When asked to describe Mahatma Gandhi, most would say he was an Indian independence leader, human rights defender, and spiritual guide. However, “People don’t think of him as a journalist” even though “he was a journalist from an early age, and died as a journalist.”
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Who’s a Big Boy Now?
Joe Kandra and Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
Sigh!
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Trump Attempting to Consolidate the Balfour Declaration
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
3 Feb 2020 – That Palestinians are already protesting against the Vision is a clear signal that the people are far from enthusiastic despite the attempt to bribe them with US$50 billion over ten years to develop the Palestinian economy and rebuild its infrastructure destroyed by Israeli bombing. One million jobs are promised. Iran is clearly against it. Russia’s negative attitude to Trump’s deal is no secret.
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UN Rapporteur Nils Melzer Exposes British Government Attempts to Obstruct His Defence of Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – At a meeting in London’s St. Pancras New Church on Monday [3 Feb] night, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer provided new information about the efforts of the British government and the establishment media to hinder his defence of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Melzer revealed he had “been asking the BBC for an interview for nine months.” He had offered to appear on the “Hard Talk” program to discuss Assange’s case, but had been rebuffed with the claim that it would not be “newsworthy.”
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Can the U.S. and Iran Avoid a Disastrous Collision?
Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
3 Feb 2020 – Russia and China have limited capacity to beat the U.S. sanctions. So has India, the other big buyer of Iranian oil. All countries have problems in paying Iran except through barter deals. This is impossible in the modern era without duplicating the existing global financial infrastructure independent of the United States. The U.S. exercises a stranglehold on the world’s financial structure, and this gives the U.S. sanctions international teeth.
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Goodbye to All That: The UK after Brexit
John Feffer | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – If I were the EU, I’d be wiping my hands, sighing in relief, and slamming the door after the UK’s long-delayed departure. Britain had been a noisy, pushy houseguest for 47 years, and it was only growing ruder. Even as it steps out the door it’s trying to negotiate the terms: all rights with no responsibilities. Brexit could see the UK eventually lose Scotland, Northern Ireland, and a great deal of its prosperity.
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Mexico’s President AMLO Shows How It’s Done
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
8 Feb 2020 – While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country. At a press conference on Jan. 6, he said the neoliberal model had failed; private banks were not serving the poor and people outside the cities, so the government had to step in.
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U.S. Marches toward Police State amid Cheers!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – Impeached U.S. President, Donald J. Trump, gave his 1 hour and 18 minute “State of the Union” speech today. And they cheered and they cheered! They cheered – Republicans and Democrats alike, when Trump spoke about his regime change campaigns against Cuba, Venezuela and other countries. They cheered when Trump introduced CIA Venezuela coup puppet man, Juan Guaido. They cheered when Trump boasted about spending $2.2 TRILLION on the U.S. military in the 3 years since he became president… (Read on)
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi le budget militaire gonflé menace de faire tomber l’empire américain
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
1 fév. 2020 – Le budget militaire américain n’est pas payé par les bénéfices des exportations américaines. En fait, les États-Unis importent régulièrement plus qu’ils n’exportent et accusent un déficit qui, pour l’année 2019, était supérieur à un billion de dollars. Comme nous l’avons vu, le budget militaire en représente près de 75%.
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The Decline of International Law: Reflections of a True Believer
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
27 Jan 2020 – There is widespread agreement that international law is experiencing a sharp decline in relevance when it comes to foreign policy, especially in the eye of the public. At first glance, this seems surprising. The impression of decline derives from high profile issues of governments acting without regard for international law, especially in the area of peace and security.
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The Disaster of Utopian Engineering
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
28 Jan 2020 – Neoliberalism, the latest utopian project, aims at concentrating wealth in the hands of the few while reducing the many to peonage.
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On the Eve of the Release of Trump’s ‘Deal–Farce of the Century’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
28 Jan 2020 – Interview by Rodrigo Craveiro from the Brazilian daily Correio Braziliense –
Craveiro: Why are Palestinian leaders rejecting to talk with president Trump about this new peace plan?
CIA Used Prisoner as ‘Training Prop’ for Torture, Psychologist Testifies
Sacha Pfeiffer | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
23 Jan 2020 – A man accused of helping finance the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was subjected to “excessive” abuse at the hands of CIA interrogators who used him as a training tool for employees learning the agency’s torture techniques, according to testimony from James Mitchell , the psychologist who helped design the torture program.
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Finland Is Now Being Run by Five Parties Led by Women under 35
Anne Kauranen | Reuters – National Post [Canada],
3 Feb 2020
10 Dec 2019 – Thirty-four-year-old Social Democrat Sanna Marin took office in Finland today as the world’s youngest serving prime minister, heading a coalition with four other parties led by women, all but one of them under 35.
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Worst Locust Swarm to Hit East Africa in Decades Linked to Climate Crisis
Olivia Rosane | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
27 Jan 2020 – East Africa is facing its worst locust infestation in decades, and the climate crisis is partly to blame. The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization said that Ethiopia and Somalia had not seen a swarm this bad in 25 years, while Kenya was facing its largest infestation in 70 years.
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Maneuvering Hell for Our Advantage
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – When the mainstream media writes about war, even critically, the image that often comes to mind for me is an infant wrapped in plastic. That infant is naked reality, a.k.a., the present moment, suffocating and screaming for its life; the plastic smothering it are the journalistic euphemisms by which murder and terrorism turn into abstract acts of national necessity.
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Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
13 Jan 2020 – Understanding what happens requires passing through information barriers that real power establishes to ignore or obscure facts; they only inform about what is functional to their interests. But that is not enough, we also need to work on our capacity for interpreting what happens because they have colonized our minds brutally, formatting subjectivities to numb and tie down free wills.
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(Português) De onde vêm os golfinhos dos parques aquáticos?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
Depois de capturados, os golfinhos são enviados para os intermediários e depois vendidos para empresas que os exploram como entretenimento para turistas. Aqueles que morrem durante a captura são vendidos como carne para consumo.
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Growth
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
YES!
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Why the Bloated Military Budget Threatens to Bring Down the American Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
1 Feb 2020 – The American military budget is not paid from the profits of American exports. In fact the US regularly imports more than it exports and runs a deficit which for the year 2019 was more than $1 trillion dollars. As we have seen the military budget accounts for almost 75% of this.
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Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
12 Jan 2020 – Between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Ukraine can become a banana republic. Only Europe is capable of a serious and responsible strategic attitude. For that, it has an historic example that, bridging the gap, can be useful: Finland. But also it is possible that the ongoing revolution in various parts of the world gets ahead of all the models.
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The Outbreaks of both the Wuhan Coronavirus and SARS Likely Started in Chinese Wet Markets
Aylin Woodward | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
1 Feb 2020 – The coronavirus spreading in China and the SARS outbreak of 2003 both are from the coronavirus family, and both likely started in wet markets. At such markets, outdoor stalls are squeezed together to form narrow lanes and put people and live and dead animals — dogs, chickens, pigs, snakes, civets, and more — in constant close contact. That makes it easy for a virus to jump from animal to human.
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India’s Supreme Court Greenlights Modi Government’s Internet Shutdown in Kashmir
Wasantha Rupasinghe | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
28 Jan 2020 – In a January 10 ruling, India’s Supreme Court gave Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government the greenlight to continue their now almost six-month long shutdown of internet access in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash. How Close Did They Come to Disaster?
Gregory Cohen | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
30 Jan 2020 – Two defunct satellites passed within metres of one another, prompting renewed focus on the dangers of space debris. But with many satellites treated as military secrets, how do we track the hazards?
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Mahatma Gandhi on Conversion
Swami Aksharanandaji | Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
“I disbelieve in the conversion of one person by another. My effort should never to be to undermine another’s faith. This implies belief in the truth of all religions and, therefore, respect for them. It implies true humility.” (Young India: April 23, 1931)
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Private Equity Firm to Purchase the Assets of the .ORG Domain Registry for $1 Billion
Kevin Reed | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
27 Jan 2020 – A public demonstration took place on 24 Jan in front of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to demand a halt to the sale of the .ORG domain registry to the private equity firm Ethos Capital for $1.135 billion. The conversion of .ORG into a for-profit is an attack on public access to news, information and digital media. Among the threats are higher domain registration fees, censorship-for-hire schemes, selling browsing data and diminished technical maintenance and support.
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How the Myth of the Alpha Male Has Hijacked Modern Masculinity
Lizzy Francis | Fatherly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
14 Jan 2020 – In “Are Men Animals?” anthropologist Matthew Gutmann explores how modern ideas of masculinity repress and harm men.
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Contesting Nuclearism: Management or Transformation? An Urgent Challenge
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – This essay calls attention to the generally unappreciated tensions between managing nuclear weapons and eliminating them altogether. It stresses the crucial point that management inevitably produces a structure of ‘nuclear apartheid’ that is to some extent ‘legalized’ by way of the Nonproliferation Treaty of 1961, and depends for implementation, not on law, but on geopolitical muscle, including war. This geopolitical pattern of NPT enforcement has been mainly undertaken by the United States, but is generally supported by most of the other nuclear weapons states.
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(Italiano) L’arrivo dell’Apocalisse: tra una manciata di secondi…
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
23 Gennaio 2020 – Il messaggio che oggi è stato comunicato ai governanti e alle società civili di tutto il mondo è drammatico: mancano 100 secondi a mezzanotte, l’umanità non è mai stata così vicina all’autodistruzione!
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The Business Party Syndicate
James McFadden | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 – Each year Leftist Democrats, Socialists and Radicals are asked to hold their noses and vote for the lesser-of-two-evils. This is a false choice because we live in a rigged One-Party state – a plutocracy run by the Business Party, a Syndicate with Democratic and Republican wings. “Syndicate” is the proper word for our corrupt One-Party system.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2020–Nomination Info in English, Français, Deutsch, Русский, Castellano, Svenska–Deadline: 31 Jan
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Please nominate for the 2020 Nobel Prize – Information below in English, French, German, Russian, Castellano and Swedish
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(Italiano) Chiamata alle armi, la NATO mobilitata su due fronti
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
27 Jan 2020
14 Gennaio 2020 – NATOME: così il presidente Trump, che si vanta del proprio talento nel creare acronimi, ha già battezzato lo spiegamento della Nato in Medio Oriente. La pianificazione della Defender Europe 20, precisa il Pentagono, resta però immutata. In altre parole, 30.000 soldati Usa si eserciteranno a difendere l’Europa da una aggressione russa, scenario che mai potrebbe verificarsi anche perché nello scontro si userebbero non carri armati ma missili nucleari.
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Embracing Islamic Terrorism
Chris Kanthan | Nation of Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Ever wonder why we never go to war against or impose sanctions on these sponsors of terrorism? Heck, we don’t even condemn them! Terrorism is the problem. Fear is the reaction. Government is the solution.
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One World Digital Dictatorship
Soren Korsgaard | Crime and Power – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
5 Jan 2020 – The accelerating movement by both Western-style democracies and one-party states towards world-wide ongoing digital disempowerment and digital imprisonment of humanity involving mass data collection on everyone, mass surveillance, facial recognition-based tracking, cryptocurrency-based cashless societies, and social credit-based disempowerment. A Must Read.
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Lions Are Starving to Death in Sudanese Park and a Global Campaign Has Begun to Rescue Them
Jisha Joseph | Upworthy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – Although the images spread like a wildfire across social media feeds around the world with the hashtag #SudanAnimalRescue, it was already too late for at least one lioness, which died Monday [20 Jan].
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Secret Wars, Forgotten Betrayals, Global Tyranny, Runway Budget. Who Is Really in Charge of the U.S. Military?
Cynthia Chung | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
19 Jan 2020 – Trump, who is under attack from all sides within his own country, is not in a position to hold the CIA or the Pentagon accountable for their past and future crimes.
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UN Biodiversity Chief: Humans Risk Living in an ‘Empty World’ with ‘Catastrophic’ Consequences
Jordan Davidson | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020 – Talk is cheap, says the acting executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, who begged governments around the world to make sure that 2020 is not another year of conferences and empty promises, but instead is the year to take decisive action to stop the mass extinction of wildlife and the destruction of habitat-sustaining ecosystems.
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Bernie, Biden, and My Father
Roy Eidelson | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 Jan 2020 – Bernie has the highest favorability ratings of all the primary candidates and the latest national polls show him beating Trump in the general election. Democratic socialism really just means ensuring fair treatment and decent and fulfilling lives for all Americans, not just the privileged few.
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A Critical Analysis of Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict Resolution and Way Ahead
Jagmeet Bawa and Harpreet Singh | International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Present study tries to focus on the overall conflict resolution philosophy given by Mahatma Gandhi as an alternative path towards the eradication of conflicts. This study deals with three things; Gandhian philosophy of conflict resolution, critical evaluation of the Gandhian theory of conflict resolution and study comes out with a universal and holistic way out for the resolution of conflicts.
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Never the Pentagon: How the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away with Murder in Contract after Contract
Mandy Smithberger | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 Jan 2020 – As the latest Pentagon budget shows, no matter the revelations, there will be no reckoning when it comes to this country’s endless wars or its military establishment — not at a moment when President Donald Trump is sending yet more U.S. military personnel into the Middle East and has picked a new fight with Iran. No less troubling: how few in either party in Congress are willing to hold the president and the Pentagon accountable for runaway defense spending or the poor performance that has gone with it.
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The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 Jan 2020 – Even when critical of US actions, media commentary on recent US bombings and assassinations in the Middle East is premised on the assumption that the US has the right to use violence (or the threat of it) to assert its will, anytime, anywhere. Conversely, corporate media coverage suggests that any countermeasure—such as resistance to the US presence in Iraq—is inherently illegitimate, criminal and/or terroristic.
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ICJ Interim Genocide Ruling on Myanmar Vindicates Rohingya
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
24 Jan 2020 – Rohingya around the world yesterday shared a pervasive sense of vindication after four-decades of policy-inflicted sufferings at the hands of Myanmar state which has systematically sought to destroy their identity and physical existence in the country. Historic decision of World Court makes voice of Rohingya Muslims eventually heard.
→ read full articleThe International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Rohingyas
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
26 Jan 2020 – The ICJ Order to the Government of Myanmar to protect the Rohingya community from “physical destruction” and to prevent all acts within Article 11 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide including killing members of the group and imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group” is a decision of tremendous significance.
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In the Name of ‘Israel’s Security’: Retreating US Gives Israel Billions more in Military Aid
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – Despite the fact that the US is retreating from the region, lacking strategy and future vision, lawmakers in Washington are congratulating themselves on passing yet another generous aid package to Israel. In their confused thinking, a ‘secured’ Israel is the only guarantor of US dominance in the Middle East. That is a theory that has been proven false, time and time again.
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Read the Luanda Leaks Documents
Will Fitzgibbon and Mago Torres | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
19 Jan 2020 – We’ve published emails, contracts, organizational charts, meeting videos, loan agreements and more from our investigation into Isabel dos Santos.
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(Português) Entenda as Causas e as Consequências dos Incêndios na Austrália
Bruna Araújo | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
21 jan 2020 – O prejuízo para a fauna e flora são inestimáveis. Estudos afirmam que mais de 1 bilhão de animais foram mortos.
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What if Competition Isn’t as “Natural” as We Think?
John Favini | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
23 Jan 2020 – Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology, which might just help liberate our collective imagination in time to better address the climate [and other] crises.
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It’s all in the Timing
Joe Kandra and Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Mind control…?
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Watch Before It Gets Deleted
Mike Prysner | Iraq War Veteran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
27 Sep 2019 – Speaking Truth to Power from the Inside – BRAVO!
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Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
24 Jan 2020 – We live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world became people’s “window on the world.” An electronic nothingness replaced reality as people gleefully embraced digital wraparound apparitions. These days people still move about in the physical world but live in the electronic one. The result is mass hallucination.
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Closer than Ever: It Is 100 Seconds to Midnight
John Mecklin | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
Doomsday Clock Statement – 23 Jan 2020 – Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that undercuts society’s ability to respond. The international security situation is dire, not just because these threats exist, but because world leaders have allowed the international political infrastructure for managing them to erode. (Read on…)
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(Italiano) Camminare in pace per la pace
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
15 Gennaio 2020 – A Madrid, il 2 Ottobre 2019, in occasione della Giornata Internazionale della Nonviolenza, un centinaio di marciatori, provenienti da vari continenti si sono dati appuntamento al Km Zero della Puerta del Sol di Madrid per la partenza. Il programma prevede che si percorrano territori in Africa, America, Oceania, Asia, Europa, per tornare a Madrid l’8 Marzo, giornata internazionale della donna.
→ read full article(Português) ONU: Mudanças climáticas podem ser ainda piores para o mundo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
24 jan 2020 – “O mundo está ‘condenado’ diante das mudanças climáticas, a menos que os principais países industrializados reduzam suas emissões de gases de efeito estufa”, disse ontem (23) o secretário-geral da ONU, António Guterres, a líderes empresariais no Fórum Econômico Mundial em Davos, na Suíça.
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These Chains Will Be Broken: New Book Delivers Resistance Message from Palestinian Prisoners to the World
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020 – Today, Clarity Press announced the launch of These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Ramzy Baroud and The Palestine Chronicle Editorial Team with a foreword by Khalida Jarrar, Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and an Afterword by Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.
→ read full articleWhat the Right Wing in Latin America Means by Democracy Is Violence
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights—a body of the pro-U.S. Organization of American States—reported in December 2019 that there have been a series of massacres conducted by the armed forces of the current interim government in Bolivia. The use of the word “massacre” in this report is significant; these were not clashes or conflicts, but the targeted murder of civilians who supported MAS and Morales.
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‘We Apologize’ for Trump’s Reckless Aggression, US Peace Advocates Say in Open Letter to Iranian People
Eoin Higgins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
24 Jan 2020 – Letter from activist group CodePink: “As Americans committed to peace and the safety of all people, we, the undersigned, apologize for the actions of our reckless, hate-filled president,” the letter says, “and pledge to do everything we can to stop Trump’s aggression, remove the crippling sanctions you are suffering under, and resume a process of diplomacy with your country.”
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An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Disaster as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
“The constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times.”
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Ancient Never-Before-Seen Viruses Discovered Locked up in Tibetan Glacier
Laura Geggel | Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau has hosted a party for some unusual guests: an ensemble of frozen viruses. Scientists recently took a look at two ice cores from this melting Tibetan glacier, revealing the existence of 28 never-before-seen virus groups unknown to modern science.
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(Português) PETA e Greenpeace São Classificados como Grupos Terroristas no Reino Unido
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
17 jan 2020 – A organização Pessoas Pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (PETA), Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd e Stop The Cull, que atuam em defesa dos animais e do meio ambiente, foram incluídas em uma lista de grupos terroristas no Reino Unido, de acordo com edição de hoje (17) do jornal inglês The Guardian.
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Crowdsourcing Just Punishment for Julian Assange
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
In a period of so-called just war, with which forms of “just torture” are increasingly evident, the concern in what follow is how best to reflect the highest democratic principles in those countries most inspired by the highest Christian values — and most implicated in the outcome of the trial of Julian Assange for having spoken truth to power.
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Reconciling Dr. King’s 1968 Dream and Our 2020 Nightmare
Bob Hennelly | Salon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
12 Jan 2020 – Debt servitude, endless wars, and our economic turmoil was all prophesied by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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(Français) La Chine et la Destinée du Monde
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
13 janvier 2020 – Si l’on veut en croire ce qui s’écrit à droite comme à gauche, pour la Chine, la messe est dite ! Le pays aurait capitulé et serait devenu capitaliste, quoi que le régime chinois lui-même puisse prétendre. C’est précisément cette opinion quasi unanime, que les économistes Rémy Herrera et Zhiming Long combattent avec verve dans leur livre ‘La Chine est-elle capitaliste?’.
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Facing the Global Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
16 Jan 2020 – This is an amplified version of an interview published on 7 Jan in the online journal, Global Policy. As the interview was conducted in Dec 2019, it fails to address the various disruptive consequences of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, including the violation of Iraqi sovereignty, Baghdad being the site of the drone attack, as well as the risks of war arising from an escalating tit-for-tat cycle of actions and reactions.
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Growing Gardens of Diversity Weaving Gardens of Love
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – Diversity is the Hindustan Way. In these times of limitless greed and manufactured division and hate, we resist by living and thinking through, and with, our diversities as one humanity on one planet. We grow gardens of Diversity. We weave garlands of love.
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Smart Power & the Human Rights Industrial Complex
Patrick Henningsen | UK Column – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Human rights in the West: does the reality live up to the rhetoric? Billionaire philanthropists, political luminaries and transnational corporations, all work for social justice, forging a better, fairer and more accountable world…. Along with military invasions and missionaries, NGOs help crack countries open like ripe nuts, paving the way for exploitation and extraction. If the international community is to go beyond neocolonialist paradigms, it will need to place compassion ahead of policy, and humanity ahead of profits. Only then can the reality live up to the rhetoric.
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Brazil: Bolsonaro Leads 2019 Record for Attacks on the Press
teleSUR | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 — The far-right former Capitan accounted for three out of five press attacks in 2019.
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Myanmar Continues to Make Mistakes of the Past
Maung Zarni | Free Rohingya Coalition – Asia Times,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – January 4 marked the 72nd anniversary of Myanmar’s independence from Britain. The story of Myanmar today is a textbook example of a multi-ethnic country where the spectacular failures on the part of the successive breeds of the ruling nationalists have created the very real conditions for ethnic balkanization, something the Burmese nationalists say they are most concerned about.
→ read full articleIran: What Next?
Jeremy Scahill | Intercepted – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – The Trump administration’s assassination of Iranian military official Qassim Suleimani in Iraq was an act of aggression and an offensive act of war. What the latest developments mean for Iran and the U.S. and how tensions have rapidly escalated since Donald Trump came to office? Will Trump’s current posture hold, or will he order more violence?
→ read full articleHow Democracies Die
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
13 Jan 2020 – The United States’ descent toward tyranny mirrors the experience of Germany and Italy in the 1930s.
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Iran Jet Disaster Setup
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich and Finian Cunningham | Sputnik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – The 19-second video published by the New York Times last week showing the moment an Iranian missile hit a passenger jet has prompted much social media skepticism. Questions arise about the improbable timing and circumstances of recording the precise moment when the plane was hit.
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Grace under Fire: Getting Arrested with Jane Fonda
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – Following Jane Fonda’s 11th weekly Fire Drill Friday rally on the Capitol, we marched over the Hart Senate Office Building where 138 of us risked arrest and spent the rest of December 20 celebrating Jane Fonda’s 82nd birthday in a very cold warehouse, hosted by friendly DC police officers.
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The Man Who Murdered Rosa Luxemburg
Klaus Gietinger | Jacobin Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – On January 15, 1919, the leaders of the German revolution were murdered by far-right soldiers enraged by the rising socialist movement. The man who masterminded the killings was Waldemar Pabst — a fanatical nationalist officer whose paramilitaries became the rank and file for Nazism.
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(Português) Insecta Aposta em Sandálias de “Couro de Abacaxi”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 jan 2020 – Nova coleção da marca é baseada na tecnologia Piñatex, tecido criado a partir de fibras de abacaxi e que imita o couro.
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2020 U.S. Presidential Elections: Reflections outside the Box
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – Four Reflections on What Would Help Democrats Defeat Trump
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JPMorgan Chase Records the Biggest Profit of any Bank in US History
Gabriel Black | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
18 Jan 2020 – JPMorgan Chase made $36.4 billion in 2019, the biggest annual profit of any bank in American history. The six largest US banks revealed that they saved a combined $32 billion from Trump’s corporate tax cut. JPMorgan’s profit is more than half the education budget of the US federal government.
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The Prosecution of Julian Assange, the Destruction of Legality and the Rise of the National Security State
Richard Hoffman | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – It is worthwhile to consider briefly the lawless character of Assange’s persecution by Britain, the United States and Sweden. Since the beginning, Assange has been subjected to endless procedural abuses and political interference in the legal process. Virtually every customary precept, practice and procedural protection, which an accused is traditionally afforded, has been discarded in the effort to railroad him. The disintegration of the democratic system and the rise of the national security state are hallmarks of the deepening crisis of imperialism.
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Why Myanmar’s Genocide Denial Will Come Back to Haunt It
Maung Zarni | Free Rohingya Coalition/The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 – As the International Criminal Court proceeds with its own separate investigation into Myanmar’s crimes against the Rohingya, it is imperative that the prosecutor name Aung San Suu Kyi, along with the generals, as partners in crime. The international community must stand firm in holding her to account.
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A Hundred Reasons That Make Vaccine Hesitancy Logical and Compatible with the Actual Science of Vaccinology
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Even if Big Pharma’s Investors/Wall Street and the Pseudo Scientists at the CDC and AAP Complain – On Aluminum-adjuvanted Vaccines, Autoimmunity, Alzheimer’s Dementia and Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Under US Pressure, Social Media Companies Censor Critical Content and Suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian Accounts
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
12 Jan 2020 – As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that conflicts with Washington’s pro-war narrative. We spoke to several people silenced in these social media purges.
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