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The “Afghanistan Papers”: The Criminality and Disaster of a War Based upon Lies
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – The documents published by the Washington Post constitute a damning indictment of both major parties as well as the media for lying to the world for two decades. The Post obtained the raw interviews after a three-year Freedom of Information Act court battle. The Obama administration moved to classify the documents after the newspaper sought to obtain them.
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The Stubborn Persistence of the Military-Industrial State: The Pentagon Budget Still Rising, 40 Years Later
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – It is staggering the number of tax dollars that persistently go into what passes for national security in this country, i.e., subsidizing the U.S. military-industrial complex, year in, year out, at levels that should be (but aren’t) beyond belief. In 2019, Pentagon spending is actually higher than it was at the peak of either the Korean or Vietnam wars and may soon be twice the Cold War average.
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UK to Leave European Union at End of January after Johnson Passes Withdrawal Agreement
Robert Stevens | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – MPs have backed Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson Withdrawal Agreement Bill. MPs voted yesterday 358 to 234—a majority of 124. The massive majority vote was the first since Johnson defeated Labour by a landslide in last week’s general election.
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Congress Adopts Defense Bill That Creates Space Force
Joe Gould | Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019 ― Congress has approved a compromise defense policy bill that creates a new Space Force in exchange for establishing paid parental leave for federal workers, as part of $738 billion for the Pentagon for 2020. The Senate overwhelmingly approved the bill Tuesday, 82-8, just days after the House passed it, 377-48. The bill now goes to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature, and he has signaled he will sign the defense policy measure.
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In Final Hours, COP 25 Denounced as ‘Utter Failure’ as Deal Is Stripped of Ambition and US Refuses to Accept Liability for Climate Crisis
Julia Conley | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
14 Dec 2019 – After the talks on the Paris climate agreement went into overtime amid a stalled agreement on wealthy countries reducing their carbon emissions, civil society groups and scientists were shocked by the weak language that emerged from the late-night talks today. “The only thing more disastrous than the state of UN climate negotiations at COP 25 is the state of the global climate.”
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US House Approves Bill for Record Military Spending
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The House of Representatives voted by a huge bipartisan majority, 377–48, to approve the largest US military spending bill in history, providing a record $738 billion for the US war machine. The National Defense Authorization Act passed with 188 Democrats and 189 Republicans supporting it.
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Arctic Report Card 2019: Extreme Ice Loss, Dying Species as Global Warming Worsens
Sabrina Shankman | Inside Climate News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – For indigenous communities on the Bering Sea, a way of life is at risk as climate change hits fish populations and ricochets through ecosystems. When dead salmon wash ashore along the coast, the problem is much bigger than dead fish. It’s a sign of deeper trouble cascading through the Arctic’s ecosystems.
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Hearing the Variety of Voices in Climate Change Discourse
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – Recognizing the Challenge of Soundscape Comprehension in Controversy and Emergency – Current discourse on any theme is readily recognized as characterized by distinctive “voices” and their associated “tones”. This could be recognized as the primary characteristic of discourse between political parties — between the right and the left — now variously held to be “poisonous” and “toxic”.
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Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize 2020 Deadline: 31 Jan
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Please Nominate for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize – The Nobel Peace Prize Watch – wishing the prize to confer the greatest benefit on mankind (Nobel´s own words) – offers advice and help to get the best candidates nominated and each year submits a screening of all known and qualified candidates to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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(Italiano) In ricordo di un’amica: Anna Bravo
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
9 Dicembre 2019 – Ieri è improvvisamente mancata Anna Bravo. E’ una tristissima notizia, che ci sorprende e ci addolora. Solo la scorsa settimana, aveva invece risposto positivamente all’invito di dialogare con Giuliano Pontara nel convegno Gandhi after Gandhi organizzato dall’Università di Torino, in occasione del centocinquantesimo anniversario della nascita del Mahatma. Anche per questo la notizia della sua morte improvvisa ci ha colpiti in modo particolare.
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Kashmir Is Heading to a Point of No Return
Naveed Mehmood Ahmad | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The crackdown on the mainstream leadership in Jammu and Kashmir and the inability of the present dispensation, to take into confidence the Abdullah’s and the Mufti’s, is deeply problematic. The political doctrine that has been operating in Kashmir since 1947 has now been challenged. A rudderless policy may lead Kashmiri politics to a point of no return, with Khalida Shah recently calling for unity amongst leaders, including the separatists.
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(Français) Des néonazis ukrainiens parmi les manifestants à Hong Kong
Ben Norton | Investig’Action – The Grayzone,
16 Dec 2019
9 Déc 2019 – Dans les médias occidentaux, les manifestations qui embrasent Hong Kong sont présentées comme un combat honorable pour la liberté et la démocratie. Bizarrement, ce mouvement est ardemment soutenu par des figures notoires de l’extrême droite US. Et depuis, les manifestants hongkongais peuvent même compter sur les conseils de néonazis ukrainiens, venus partager leur expérience et leurs tactiques d’insurrection.
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The End of Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of History
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Literature Laureate | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
4 Nov 2019 – For 40 years, elites in rich and poor countries alike promised that neoliberal policies would lead to faster economic growth, and that the benefits would trickle down so that everyone, including the poorest, would be better off. Now that the evidence is in, is it any wonder that trust in elites and confidence in democracy have plummeted?
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix participa de mais uma campanha pró-vegana
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
5 dez 2019 – Joaquin Phoenix está participando de mais uma campanha pró-vegana – desta vez da organização Veganuary, que convida a população a experimentar uma dieta à base de vegetais em janeiro. Ator vegano diz que podemos lutar contra a violência do sistema alimentar optando pelo veganismo.
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Stunning Images Show How Severe Drought Has Changed One of the World’s Largest Waterfalls
Adriana Navarro | MSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019 – Situated across the Zimbabwe and Zambia border, Victoria Falls is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. However, after several months of severe drought, the natural wonder has lost some of its signature majesty, transforming from a thundering cascade plummeting more than 300 feet to a mere whimper of its former grandeur. Photos taken in January and December 2019 show the stark contrast in the condition of the falls before and after the drought.
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Paul Volcker’s Long Shadow
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called Paul Volcker “the most effective chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.” But while Volcker, who passed away Dec. 8 at age 92, probably did have the greatest historical impact of any Fed chairman, his legacy is, at best, controversial.
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Reconciling Ecological Imperatives and the Right to Food at a Time of Bio-Ethical Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Humanity faces an unprecedented challenge in the coming decades that threatens the foundations of life itself, and yet to date societal reactions have been disappointingly weak and evasive, aside from voices in the wilderness. Despite expertly documented studies from the most qualified climate scientists, the overall response of supposedly responsible political and economic elites has been tepid, escapist, and even denialist.
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The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
The U.S./U.K./NATO propaganda outfit Bellingcat, like all effective war-promoting intelligence agency propaganda, needs the support of left-wing intellectuals to give it credence. The CIA recognized this in the 1950s and created multiple methods to get that support, which it has done effectively up to the present day. This left-wing support is necessary to control the thinking of the portion of the population that considers itself “educated” and in the know, who in turn pass on their compromised “knowledge” to others in a sophisticated game of mind control.”
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US Weaponizing Space in Bid to Launch Arms Race
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The US has utilized the 29-nation NATO alliance to rubber-stamp its criminal weaponization of space.
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The Book of Delights: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
“The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study… I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.”
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67 Pictures of Protest That Defined the Decade
Gabriel H. Sanchez | BuzzFeed News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
7 Dec 2019 – From #MeToo and Black Lives Matter to the Arab Spring and Hong Kong protests, here are the tremendous moments in activism that have defined this past decade.
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Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
8 Dec 2019 – Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in the UK and faces extradition to the USA and criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. WikiLeaks’ War Diaries provided evidence that the US government committed war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. We, journalists and journalistic organizations around the globe, express our grave concern for Mr Assange’s wellbeing, for his continued detention and for the draconian espionage charges. This case stands at the heart of the principle of free speech and free press.
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The Rape of India’s Soul
Jayati Ghosh | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – India’s rapid descent into xenophobia, violence, and irrationality. The government is keen to pass a new Citizenship Amendment Bill, which makes Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Parsi, or Christian refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan eligible for Indian citizenship. Muslims are excluded.
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(Français) Journalisme d’information et journalisme d’émotion
Philippe Stroot | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
9 Déc 2019 – Les 48e Assises de l’Union internationale de la presse francophone se sont réunies au Cameroun du 19 au 22 novembre. Plus de 300 journalistes et communicants d’une quarantaine de pays ont abordé le thème du journalisme d’information opposé au journalisme d’émotion, dans la foulée de la publication du livre d’Anne-Cécile Robert, Directrice des relations internationales du Monde diplomatique, intitulé « Stratégie de l’émotion ».
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Russia Banned from Next Olympics and World Cup Soccer
Brian Homewood and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
9 Dec 2019 – Russia was banned today from the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup. The World Anti-Doping Agency concluded that Moscow had planted fake evidence and deleted files linked to positive doping tests in laboratory data that could have helped identify drug cheats. If RUSADA appeals WADA’s punishment, the case will be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” – A Summary of the PNAC
Bette Stockbauer | PNAC Library & Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Blueprint of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony – Comparable to Hitler’s publication of Mein Kampf, ignored until the war was over.
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Massive Leak of Data Reveals Money-Hiding Secrets of Superrich—and This Is ‘Only the Beginning’
Eoin Higgins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – A massive trove of documents, data, and recorded phone calls show how British company Formations House works to hide money for the superrich, international fraudsters, the former leader of the Swedish Hells Angels, and the Italian mafia, with the first stories dropping today at midnight.
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(Castellano) Evo Morales: El Indio Fuera de Lugar
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
4 diciembre 2019 – Los dramáticos acontecimientos en Bolivia han seguido un guion imperial que los latinoamericanos empiezan a conocer bien: preparar el cambio de régimen de un gobierno considerado hostil a los intereses de los Estados Unidos (o mejor de las multinacionales norteamericanas). Lo hacen montando un plan doble: anular una victoria electoral “enemiga” y consolidar rápidamente el nuevo régimen que toma medidas que no son propias de un gobierno de transición.
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Europe’s Green Deal
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – The Green Deal announced by the European Commission is a demonstration of European social democracy at work. A mixed economy, combining markets, government regulation, the public sector, and civil society, will pursue a mixed strategy, combining public goals, public and private investments, and public support.
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The Ignoble Fall of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Aung San Suu Kyi
Thalif Deen | IPS - Human Wrongs Watch,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – Appearing before 17 judges of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, became a public apologist for the military government of Myanmar which has long been accused of genocide and forcing over 730,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh since a 2017 crackdown.
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I Will Survive “Live” (Music Video of the Week)
Gloria Gaynor | PBS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Just kick back and ENJOY…
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A Game-Changer in the Fight against Ebola
Sarah Baldwin | Watson Institute, Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 -In modern medicine, physicians and health care practitioners tend to talk about treatments rather than cure. It’s a spectrum. For a disease that had 66 percent mortality that can now be decreased to as low as 10 or 15 percent if you get this treatment early, I have no problem calling that a cure.
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Inequality and Its Many Discontents
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
3 Dec 2019 – Much recent unrest, such as the ‘yellow-vest’ protests in France and the US ‘Abolish the Super-Rich’ campaign, is not against inequality per se, but reflects perceptions of changing inequalities. Most citizens resent when they are not only unacceptably high but also rising. Excessive inequality is widely seen as fundamentally unfair. Even President Obama described “dangerous and growing inequality” as “the defining challenge of our time”.
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(Français) Haïti : « Ce n’est pas une lutte contre le pouvoir ; c’est une lutte contre le système »
Frédéric Thomas interviewe Gilbert Mirambeau Jr. et Pascale Solages | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 décembre 2019 – Entretien avec Gilbert Mirambeau Jr. et Pascale Solages, figures centrales du groupe Nou pap dòmi [Nous ne dormons pas], l’un des fers de lance des manifestations actuelles en Haïti, réalisé à Port-au-Prince par Frédéric Thomas, chargé d’étude au CETRI.
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Comparative Study of Gandhi and Marx
Pragya Markandey | Hidayatullah University, Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
• Gandhian political thought
• Marxian political theory
• Similarities & dissimilarities
What Social Model Are We Heading For? The World Bank’s ‘New Social Contract’
Francine Mestrum | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – In a recent report the World Bank proposes a ’New Social Contract’. After decades of structural adjustments, is it changing its discourse and its practices? This article tries to find out what the financial institution is really up to and whether the new approach can make a positive end to the neoliberal era.
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Move Over, Peak Oil. Scientists Say ‘Peak Livestock’ Must Arrive This Decade to Limit Global Heating
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – “If the livestock sector were to continue with business as usual,” experts warn, “this sector alone would account for 49% of the emissions budget for 1.5°C by 2030.”
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Sociological Problems—Post-Communism: Reload or Revert
Stephan E. Nikolov | Bulgarian Academy of Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Sociological Problems—Post-Communism: Reload or Revert–Case Studies from the Balkans and Central Asia, ed. Stephan E. Nikolov, Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Sociological Association, Vol./mom 51, 2019
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(Français) La fin du néo-libéralisme et la renaissance de l’histoire
Joseph Stiglitz | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
19 novembre 2019 – Pendant 40 ans, les élites des pays riches comme des pays pauvres ont promis que les politiques néolibérales mèneraient à une croissance économique plus rapide, dont les bénéfices ruisselleraient, de sorte que tous, y compris les plus pauvres, seraient mieux lotis. Maintenant que preuve est faite du contraire, faut-il s’étonner que la confiance dans les élites et dans la démocratie se soit effondrée ?
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(Français) Le Pape, la Religion et la Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
2 décembre 2019 – Les initiatives du pape sont particulièrement opportunes, car elles soutiennent ce lien entre le désarmement nucléaire et le développement durable et envoient ce message aux églises catholiques du monde entier et à leurs fidèles qui sont plus d’un milliard.
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Trump Was Right before He Did a 180: NATO Is Obsolete
Medea Benjamin | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
This Cold War relic shouldn’t be reconfigured to maintain U.S. domination in Europe, or to mobilize against Russia or China, or to launch new wars in space. It should not be expanded, but disbanded. Seventy years of militarism is more than enough.
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(Italiano) Pax Gandhiana: La Filosofia Politica del Mahatma Gandhi
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
In un mondo in cui gli studi prevalenti di pace e politica sono dominati da ciò che passa per realismo e ciò che passa per ordine mondiale, l’emerito studioso di Gandhi Anthony Parel ha derivato da un attento studio delle opera di Gandhi una filosofia politica che promette di essere alla lunga più realistica di quella/e dei cosiddetti realisti.
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Beyond Macron’s Subversive NATO Comments: France’s Growing Unease with the Alliance
Hajnalka Vincze | Foreign Policy Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
26 Nov 2019 – Most European governments prefer discreet but concrete steps to appease the United States and to reinforce the U.S.-dominated Alliance. To Paris, this is utterly illogical. But as Robert Cooper had said precisely on the issue of EU autonomy: “The world does not proceed by logic. It proceeds by political choice.” In the French vision, the path of strategic autonomy and away from dependence on les Anglo-Saxons has not yet produced the expected results.
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Ocean Deoxygenation: Everyone’s Problem
Laffoley, D. and Baxter, J. M. | International Union for Conservation of Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
7 Dec 2019 – Abstract: The ocean represents 97% of the physical habitable space on the planet and is central to sustaining all life on Earth. Since 2000 significant and dedicated effort has been directed at raising awareness and understanding of the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions on the ocean. Carbon dioxide emitted by human activities is driving the ocean towards more acidic conditions. Ocean Deoxygenation: Everyone’s Problem–Causes, Impacts, Consequences and Solutions, Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 2019, 562 pp.
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NATO Splits Reveal Alliance Is Redundant
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019 – The 70th anniversary summit-turned-circus this week would seem to be a portent for NATO’s overdue redundancy.
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Millions Die in Congo while the UN ‘Keeps the Peace’
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – The UN Peacekeeping Mission has been in Congo for 20 years without protecting the people or the peace. “Rwanda is responsible for what is going wrong in the peace in Congo!”
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NATO’s Deep Political and Legal Crises: The 2-Percent Goal as Defence Illiteracy
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
The total regular UN budget for the year 2016-17 was US $ 5.6 billion. That is, NATO countries spend 185 times more on the military than all the world does on the UN. Do you find that sane and in accordance with the problems humanity need to solve? This author does not. I stand by the word madness. There exists no rational academic, empirical analysis and no theory that can explain NATO’s military expenditures as rational or in service of the common good of humankind.
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Serena and Venus Williams Included in Top 11 World’s Best Vegan Athletes
Claudiu Pop | Tennis World Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
2 Dec 2019 – Both Serena and Venus Williams were featured in the world’s 11 most successful vegan athletes by Guinness World Records. Veganism has seen increasing popularity among sports figures like Novak Djokovic, Patrick Baboumian, Dana Glowacka, Nate Diaz, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lewis Hamilton and many more great examples.
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Capitalism & Robbery
Editorial | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – Bloomberg insists that we need to get our priorities straight: the economy comes before the earth, capitalism before nature. Yet, it is clear that we are faced with two irreversible crises: one threatening to destabilize the world capitalist economy, the other promising to destroy the planet as a home to humanity. Both represent the culmination of capitalist contradictions and point to the need to transform society. It is the coevolution of economic and ecological contradictions under global monopoly-finance capital that defines the crisis of our times.
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Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History
Anne Goodman | Peace Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
The “culture of peace” may be a phrase that has entered our lexicon only recently, but the concepts behind it are not new. In fact, they are ideas that are particularly familiar to Elise Boulding, and her book, Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History, is both an encapsulation of her life work and a cogent description of the culture of peace.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
2 Dec 2019 – The initiatives of the Pope are especially timely because they support this linkage of nuclear disarmament and sustainable development and they send out this message to the Catholic churches around the world and their more than a billion religious followers.
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Learning from Others: Germans and White Supremacists in South USA
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
8 Dec 2019 – Susan Neiman has written a remarkable book, Learning from Others: Race and the Problem of Evil. We are challenged by Neiman not to consider racism or evil as matters of destiny, but fully subject to the vagaries of human responsibility, which includes the domain of a free society.
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150 Years after Gandhi’s Birth, Authoritarianism in India Must Be Met with Resistance
Matt Meyer and Binalakshmi Nepram | Resistance Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – As we celebrate Gandhi’s legacy, we must also stand in solidarity against ongoing repression in Kashmir and Manipur.
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New IUCN Report on Ocean Oxygen Loss Gives ‘Ultimate Wake-Up Call’ to Act on Climate
Andrea Germanos | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
7 Dec 2019 – A new report on ocean oxygen loss released today calls for a bold action to rein in planet-warming emissions and save the world’s “suffocating seas.” “Decisions taken at the ongoing climate conference will determine whether our ocean continues to sustain a rich variety of life, or whether habitable, oxygen-rich marine areas are increasingly, progressively, and irrevocably lost.”
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Bolivia’s Lithium Is Fair Game in a World Ruled by Spheres of Influence
Joaquin Flores | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – The US approach to overthrowing governments in Latin America and the trail of tears and blood it left in its wake will no doubt be highly motivating to the broad masses of Latin Americans who will support the coming Latin American bloc.
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Meet the Activists Risking Prison to Film VR in Factory Farms
Andy Greenberg | Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
5 Dec 2019 – This animal liberation group actually wants to be put on trial. Their goal: force jurors to wear VR headsets and immerse them in the suffering of animals bound for slaughter.
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Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate Known as the CIA
Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
21 Nov 2019 – Douglas Valentine is an investigator and author with a rare and tenacious approach toward research. His writing results in uniquely incisive and revealing books on the dark side of U.S. intelligence activities and the National Security State. His latest book draws parallels between CIA operations in Vietnam and recent/current operations in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.
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Home (Music Video of the Week)
Talking Heads | David Byrne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
[Naive Melody] – From the movie This Must Be the Place (2011) starring Sean Penn
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UN To Resolve the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
3 Dec 2019 – Can the UN end this humanitarian crisis now that the tragedy is squarely on the lap of this supranational organisation intended to prevent genocides and other crimes against humanity? The example of Palestine tells us to temper our optimism. Evidence is aplenty but if in seven decades the genocide of the Palestinians has been allowed to play out in public, can we expect any better for the Rohingyas?
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Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
5 Dec 2019 – What is a public bank and how does it differ from private banks? I just finished a run of 11 presentations and in-person interviews. Here’s a video from one, a debate with a county official sponsored by the League of Women Voters, and two power points from another, the Soil and Nutrition Conference.
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US Carries out Fresh Massacre in Afghanistan, Killing Entire Family with Drone Strike on 29 Nov
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
3 Dec 2019 – A US drone strike in Afghanistan last Friday [29 Nov] wiped out an entire family after they were leaving a clinic, including a woman who had just given birth to a child.
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Envisaging a Comprehensible Global Brain–as a Playful Organ
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
The argument follows from the controversial assertion recently made by President Macron of France with respect to the “brain death” of NATO and the potential implications for any “global brain”. The question that is obviously raised with respect to the brain metaphor is the nature of the “brain waves” which might be detectable as indicative of life and intelligence in any global collective such as the United Nations or in any “think tank” (originally termed a “brain box”).
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Trump Signs Hong Kong “Democracy” Bill
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
29 Nov 2019 – Entitled the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act”—and passed by the US Congress with only one dissenting voice, making it veto-proof—the legislation has nothing to do with either.
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(Português) O próximo passo de Israel é o verdadeiro perigo contido na decisão dos EUA de normalizar assentamentos ilegais
Ramzy Baroud | Monitor do Oriente Médio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
26 nov 2019 – A decisão dos EUA de desafiar o direito internacional sobre assentamentos não é perigosa porque viola o direito internacional, pois este último quase nunca foi motivo de preocupação para Washington. O perigo está no fato de que a política externa dos EUA em relação à ocupação israelense se tornou um mero carimbo de borracha que permite ao governo de extrema direita de Israel determinar sozinho o destino do povo palestino e plantar as sementes da instabilidade e da guerra no Oriente Médio por muitos anos.
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Health and Human Rights in Gaza: Shame on the World
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 – I take alarmed note of the refusal of the mainstream media to accord attention to the misery so long endured by the people of Gaza. If ever the norm of ‘the responsibility to protect’ was applied according to humanitarian need, Gaza would be at the top of the list, but of course there is no list, and if ever there were one, given the present international atmosphere, Gaza would remain among the unlisted! This neglect of the people of Gaza is so acute as to extend the web of criminal complicity far beyond the borders of Israel.
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Reflecting on Colonization This Thanks-Taking Day
Krystal Two Bulls and James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
28 Nov 2019 – Dear relatives, as a Native American woman, today is not a day of giving thanks. Most of us who were educated in Western schools were taught that today acknowledges the “Native Americans” saving the lives of the “Pilgrims,” by teaching them how to garden and hunt. They then supposedly shared a meal together, which was the predecessor of the Thanksgiving meal most Americans share today. That is not what happened and that is not what today represents for me.
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ICE Arrests 90 More Students at Fake University It Created in Michigan
Niraj Warikoo | Detroit Free Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 – A total of about 250 students have now been arrested since January on immigration violations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of a sting operation by federal agents who enticed foreign-born students, mostly from India, to attend the school that marketed itself as offering graduate programs in technology and computer studies. Attorney: Fake Farmington University Sting by ICE Was Entrapment
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Oikonomia: Bringing the Economy Back to the Earth
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Today’s Big Money is also anti nature. It is based on a paradigm of hyper anthropocentrism; of the continued assumption that nature is dead matter, and domination, conquest and control over the earth through violent tools and technologies is the “civilizing” mission of the men with Big Money. It is based on owing life though patents, privatization and enclosures of the commons, and the hubris of trying to engineer the planet through geo engineering.
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Is Peace Possible?
Charles Webel | UNYP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Most of us think we know what peace is, but people often have very different definitions of this apparently simple word. And although almost everyone would agree that some form of peace—however it is defined—is desir¬able, there are often forceful, even violent, disagreements over how to obtain it. Peace is like the human project itself—a work (and a word) in progress.
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Asia-Pacific: Some Serious Security Challenges
José Ramos-Horta | Nobel Peace Laureate, Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
25 Nov 2019 — This is not a hypothetical nightmare scenario. Extreme forms of corruption, impunity, abuse of power, scandalous social inequalities and offensive ostentation, food insecurity, severe malnutrition, hunger, diminishing agricultural lands and extreme water scarcity. Nations will go to war over fresh water and extreme water scarcity will kill hundreds of millions.
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Oxford Campaign to Defend Julian Assange
Jake Lynch | LRC Oxfordshire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Campaign to Defend Julian Assange Conference, 7 Nov 2019
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Hong Kong Is Scared – of the Rioters
Andre Vltchek | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Now, the citizens of Hong Kong are scared. Not of the “government”, not of the police, or Beijing: they are frightened of the so-called protesters, of ninja-like looking young people with covered faces and metal bars in their hands.
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Israel’s Next Move: The Real Danger in the US Decision to Normalize Illegal Jewish Settlements
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
28 Nov 2019 – The US decision to defy international law on settlements is not dangerous because it violates international law, for the latter has hardly ever been a concern for Washington. The danger actually lies in the fact that US foreign policy regarding the Israeli occupation has become a mere rubber stamp that allows Israel’s extreme right-wing government to determine single-handedly the fate of the Palestinian people and sow the seeds of instability and war in the Middle East for many years to come.
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Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
“In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
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‘My Dream Was Destroyed’: Home Demolitions Soar in East Jerusalem
Judith Sudilovsky | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
25 Nov 2019 – A spike in both home demolitions and settlement building in East Jerusalem is forcing Palestinians out of their houses — and jobs. On 5 Nov Muatasem Abbasi’s home, which he shared with his parents, joined the ranks of the 155 Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem demolished so far this year. The reason: it had been built without a permit. Abbasi, whose home was built in 2011, said they had been trying to get a building permit for years.
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Contra Israeli Apartheid
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – This is a modified version of remarks made at the opening plenary session of the “1st Global Conference on Israeli Apartheid: Dimensions, Repercussions and the Means to Combat It,” 29-30 Nov 2019, Istanbul.
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I Worked at Capital One for Five Years–This Is How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers
Elena Botella | The New Republic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
The subprime lending giant is a textbook case in creating a corporate culture of denial… A publicly traded company wasn’t going to sacrifice a meaningful amount of income to avoid destroying lives—unless the law required it… Virtually everyone I worked with was 45 or younger. Most were under 30.
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Brazil’s President Is Blaming Leonardo DiCaprio for the Amazon Forest Fires
Annabelle Timsit | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – In what activists say is an attempt to direct attention away from his government’s actions, Bolsonaro has repeatedly accused nonprofit organizations of purposefully setting fires in the Amazon. Now President Jair Bolsonaro is blaming another unlikely culprit: American actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio.
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American Exceptionalism Driving World to War – John Pilger
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 – John Pilger gives his wide-ranging views on the systematic deterioration of Western mainstream journalism which has come to function as a nakedly propaganda matrix for power and corporate profit.
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(Português) Indústria da carne é uma das maiores poluidoras do mundo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
27 nov 2019 – “As empresas de alimentos não estão apenas em risco devido à escassez de água, elas também são responsáveis por isso”.
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House of Gods or Plea for Peace
Mitali Chakravarty | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Oh house of Gods! Oh house of Gods!
Temples or Mosques
Churches or Synagogues
Displaced they stand—
Groundswell of Support for WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
30 Nov 2019 – Over the past week, a growing groundswell of opposition to the US-led persecution of Julian Assange has come to the surface of political life internationally. Prominent public figures in Britain, Europe and Australia, including doctors, journalists, politicians and United Nations representatives, have condemned the WikiLeaks founder’s imprisonment in the UK’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison.
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(Castellano) Nuestro Mundo que se Desvanece: Insectos
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
Desde la revolución industrial que comenzó alrededor de 1750, hace sólo 270 años, los seres humanos han estado destruyendo la biosfera de la Tierra con una ferocidad tan tremenda que la Tierra que heredamos al comienzo de la Época Holocena se está desvaneciendo ante nuestros ojos. Y la vida se desvanece con ella.
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A New Cycle of Gaza/Israel Violence
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
22 Nov 2019 – Whether this latest cycle of violence has ended as of now is difficult to assess, and it should not be confused with the violence at the Gaza Fence as a result of weekly demonstrations of Palestinians in the course of the Great March of Return, a civil society initiative that has continued since March 30, 2018, a remarkable exhibition of sumud on the Palestinian side and of excessive lethal force on the Israel side.
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After Evo, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
The overthrow of the elected leader cannot be understood without a glance at the nation’s massive reserves of this crucial mineral.
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Monsanto Is Not Gandhi: Crimes against Nature and Society Are Not “Satyagraha”
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
In June 2019, Monsanto lobbyists announced that farmers will illegally plant Bt Brinjal as a “Satyagraha”. This is outright criminal action. Farmers acting on behest of Monsanto are criminals and will be treated as such.
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Oil Spill Hits 643 Areas in 116 Cities in Northeast and Southeast Brazil
Igor Carvalho | Brasil de Fato – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
19 Nov 2019 – A report by the Brazilian environmental agency shows that 643 areas have been hit by an oil spill that has been washing up thousands of kilometers of the country’s coastline since early September. Oil stains have been found in 116 cities in all northeastern states, as well as Espírito Santo, in the Southeast of Brazil.
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Evil Hour in Honduras: A Banana Republic Lives On
Joseph Grosso | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
23 Nov 2019 – To find callous and hypocritical American statecraft one would have no shortage of choices. From the betrayals of the Kurds, to the support for the House of Saud, including in its brutal war in Yemen, to the billions of dollars pumped into dictatorship in Egypt, to the continual dispossession of the Palestinians. However, in terms of pure cynicism the answer is found closer to home in Central America.
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Et Tu, Macron?
Khalil Bendib | OtherWords – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
RIP Cold War
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(Castellano) En Bolivia como en Palestina
Carlos Aznárez | Resumen Latinoamericano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
20 nov 2019 – Bolivia se está pareciendo a Palestina. Esta dictadura boliviana de hoy, baleando desde helicópteros o tanquetas, torturando y asesinando, tiene además un odio de clase contra quienes gracias a un gobierno popular y revolucionario. En Palestina, el ocupante no solo se apodera de territorios, expulsando a los habitantes nativos, demoliendo sus viviendas y destruyendo sus cultivos, sino que también manifiesta un profundo odio hacia quienes, a pesar de las continuas persecuciones y masacres, mantienen un perfil de resistencia política y sobre todo cultural.
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(Português) Oliveira Mais Antiga de Portugal Nasceu Há 3350 Anos
Carlos Dias | Público [Portugal] - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
Um misto de respeito e perplexidade são inevitáveis quando se observa o sêr vivo mais antigo de Portugal. Foi datado como tendo a espantosa idade de 3350 anos pelo Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e Florestas. É uma oliveira, contemporânea do Faraó Ramsés II e de Moisés (1250 anos a.C.). Continua de pé e a produzir azeitonas.
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China, USA and the Geopolitics of Lithium
F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
18 Nov 2019 – For several years since the global push to develop mass-scale Electric Vehicles, the element Lithium has come into focus as a strategic metal. Demand is enormous in China, in the EU and in the USA at present, and securing control over lithium supplies is already developing its own geopolitics not unlike that for the control of oil.
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(Português) Imagens Expõem Crueldade da Exportação de Gado Vivo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
21 nov 2019 – Depois de um ano de protestos e determinações legais que poderiam ser favoráveis ao fim da exportação de animais vivos no Brasil, imagens chocantes revelam a terrível realidade dos bois transportados em navios para matadouros em países distantes.
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How Western Media Bias Allows Israel to Get Away with Murder in Gaza
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
17 Nov 2019 – Sadly, US bias regarding Palestine has extended to mainstream media in European countries that were, to some degree, fairer, if not somewhat sympathetic, with the Palestinian peoples’ situation.
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How to Save the Planet and Ourselves
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
18 Nov 2019 – Roger Hallam, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, understands corporate power and knows how to fight it. It is up to us to act.
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In Bolivia as in Palestine
Carlos Aznarez | Resumen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
20 Nov 2019 – Bolivia resembles Palestine these days. This unfolding Bolivian dictatorship, which orders its military and police to repress the indigenous-peasant people, are shooting from helicopters or tanks, torturing and murdering. In Palestine, the occupier not only seizes territories, expelling the native inhabitants, demolishing their homes and destroying their crops, but also manifests a deep hatred towards those who, in spite of continuous persecution and massacres, maintain a profile of political and above all cultural resistance.
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Rising Seas Threaten US Pacific Nuclear Dump
John Braddock | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
23 Nov 2019 – According to reports from the Marshall Islands, plutonium is leaking into the Pacific Ocean from a massive concrete bunker the United States built in the 1950s to dispose of nuclear waste. A potential disaster is looming.
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“They’re Killing Us like Dogs” – A Massacre in Bolivia and a Plea for Help
Medea Benjamin | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
22 Nov 2019 – I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of the de facto government that seized control in a coup that forced Evo Morales out of power.
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The Answer Is in the End: George Harrison, a Prophet for Our Time
Ben Jolliffe | Resurgence Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
George Harrison died on 29 November 2001 at the age of fifty-eight. After meeting A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, of which he became an active participant, Harrison turned his devotion to Lord Krishna in 1969.
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Amazon Rainforest Sees Biggest Spike in Deforestation in Over a Decade
Colin Dwyer | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
18 Nov 2019 – Picture, for a second, just how vast New York City is. All told, including Staten Island, the Bronx and every block in between, the massive metropolis takes up more than 300 square miles. Now, try to picture a hunk of land more than 12 times that size. That’s about how much of the Amazon rainforest was destroyed in just the span of a year, according to Brazilian authorities.
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