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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
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Dr. Ron Melnick | GrassrootsEnvEd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Dr. Ronald Melnick, lead designer of the NTP study of cell phone radiation, discusses the design of the study and its conclusion: “We should no longer assume that any current or future wireless technology, including 5G, is safe without adequate testing.” This video is from the expert forum held on 25 Mar 2019: “Questioning the Safety of Our Children’s Exposure to Wireless Radiation in the Classroom.”
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United Nations 75th Anniversary Resolution
Florencia Gor, Jeffery Huffines and Fergus Watt | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
12 Oct 2019 – Draft Resolution – Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
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Farewell to the World Social Forum?
Roberto Savio | Other News - Human Wrongs Watch,
14 Oct 2019
13 Oct 2019 – Looking Back – The first World Social Forum in 2001 ushered in the new century with a bold affirmation: “Another world is possible.” That gathering in Porto Alegre, Brazil, stood as an alternative and a challenge to the World Economic Forum, held at the same time in Davos, Switzerland. The WSF, by contrast, was created as an arena for the grassroots to gain a voice.
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They Call It Multistakeholderism. Where Does That Leave the UN?
Harris Gleckman | PassBlue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Global governance is slipping away from the United Nations. Whether it is in managing the Internet, where the UN offers only an advisory role for governments; or climate change, where the most exciting actions are now corporate-led partnerships outside the UN; or the Gates Foundation-sponsored Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, in a tug of war on who sets health policy in developing countries, the institutional basis for global decision-making is changing—not for the better.
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On Racism and ‘Wild Beasts’: Why Israel Besieges Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
8 Oct 2019 – The Israeli Apartheid Wall, which is being built largely on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, once more underscores the ugliness of military occupation. As such, it truly epitomizes the nature of Israeli apartheid and also delineates the siege-driven, isolationist mentality that dominates the ruling-class thinking in Israel.
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Why We Need Resistance Studies
Richard Jackson | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
5 Oct 2019 – The challenges we face are daunting. That’s why we need Resistance Studies now more than ever. This could be the Golden Age for the study of resistance. For starters, we are going to need a great deal of nonviolent resistance to cope with the coming climate warming crisis.
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“The Destruction of a Society”: First the U.S. Invaded Iraq — Then We Left It Poisoned
David Masciotra | Salon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
Scientist: Bombs, Bullets and Military Hardware Abandoned by U.S. Forces Have Left Iraq “Toxic for Millennia” – The political and moral culture of the United States allows for bipartisan cooperation to destroy an entire country, killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process, without even the flimsiest of justification. Then, only a few years later, everyone can act as if it never happened.
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(Français) La Chine Va Faire Trembler le Monde : Des Paysans a l’Intelligence Artificielle
Marc Vandepitte et Ng Sauw Tjhoi | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
8 Oct 2019 – Pour la première fois dans l’histoire récente, un pays pauvre et sous-développé s’est hissé en un rien de temps au rang de superpuissance économique dotée d’un grand impact sur les événements mondiaux. Comment cela fut-il possible, et qu’est-ce que cela signifie pour le reste du monde ? Retour sur 70 années de bouleversements chinois.
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A Hat! A Hat! My Kingdom for a Winning Hat!
Joseph Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
What the devil is under those hats?
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Iran Shows Off New Killer Wheeled Robots Designed to Take on Tanks, Infantry
Sean Gallagher | Ars Technica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
10 Oct 2019 – Heidar 1 Project’s Uncrewed Ground Vehicles Shoot Guns, Roll under Tanks, Blow Up
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(Português) Mark Twain, um Porta-Voz dos Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
“De todas as criaturas, o homem é a mais detestável. De todas, somente ele possui malícia. Ele é o único que causa dor por esporte e com consciência de que isso causa dor. O fato de que o homem sabe distinguir o certo do errado prova a sua superioridade intelectual em relação às outras criaturas. Mas o fato de que ele pode agir erradamente prova a sua inferioridade moral em relação a toda criatura que não pode”.
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Israelis Were ‘Saddened’ to Have to Kill Gaza Protesters, to Avert ‘Bloodbath’
Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
4 Oct 2019 – Have you watched reports of the Chinese government’s response to protesters in Hong Kong? The fact that the violent protesters hurl bricks and molotovs is treated as just another form of protest. Contrast those stories to the sympathetic coverage of Israel killing 200 protesters at the Gaza fence and maiming hundreds of others. American Jews think of Judaism as a universal religion, but for Israelis, Judaism is a Jewish nation centered in Israel whose survival is at stake with the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
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Blood on the Stone: An Oxford Detective Story of the 17th Century
Ken Macnab | On Line Opinion – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
4 Oct 2019 – Review of Blood on the Stone, an historical novel by Jake Lynch (Unbound, 2019)
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When Breath Becomes Air: A Young Neurosurgeon Examines the Meaning of Life as He Faces His Death
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
As a doctor at age thirty-six, I had had some sense of what patients with life-changing illnesses faced — and it was exactly these moments I had wanted to explore with them. Shouldn’t terminal illness, then, be the perfect gift to that young man who had wanted to understand death? What better way to understand it than to live it? But I’d had no idea how hard it would be, how much terrain I would have to explore, map, settle. I’d always imagined the doctor’s work as something like connecting two pieces of railroad track, allowing a smooth journey for the patient. I hadn’t expected the prospect of facing my own mortality to be so disorienting, so dislocating.
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(Castellano) Las extrañas orquídeas de Perú que parecen monos
Andrea López | Tecnológico de Monterrey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
17 Sep 2019 – Esta curiosa especie habita las montañas y fue descubierta hace menos de quince años.
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Satyagraha for a Sacred Economy
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
2 October, Gandhi’s 150th Birth Anniversary – Satyagraha for Life–Sowing the Seeds of Life and Freedom through the Power of Truth, Creativity and Nonviolence
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In Media Newspeak, a ‘Peace Plan’ for Palestine/Israel Is Anything US Proposes
Joshua Cho | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
30 Sep 2019 – The corporate media’s coverage of Kushner’s “Vision for Peace” transmitted the perspective of US official sources, constantly referring unironically to the proposal as a “peace plan,” “peace initiative” or “peace process.” The more difficult and honest approach to reporting—by analyzing the plan on its predictable outcomes, rather than its professed objectives—wasn’t taken, despite the media’s own reporting indicating how the plan could never lead to peace.
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Cuba’s Venceremos Brigade at 50: Challenging Empire, Uplifting Solidarity since 1969
Diana Block | Portside – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
As the U.S. ramps up its global efforts to protect genocidal racial capitalism, it is a crucial time for a new generation to study and learn from Cuba’s 60-year effort to build an alternative socio-economic system.
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At $716 Billion, the US Military Budget Is Bigger Than Those of 144 Countries Combined and Largest Contributor to Climate Change
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
“State sovereignty is a goner. Bankism and Military Capitalism rule the world in all respects now. Militaries are the ultimate manifestation of direct, structural and cultural violence—a cancer that must be extirpated from humanity.”
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Will Confronting Iran Lead to War or Peace?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
1 Oct 2019 – This is a slightly modified version of an interview published in The Nation on 25 Sep following the 14 Sep attack on Saudi oil facilities. It follows a pattern, with respect to Iran, of accusations, denials, and public uncertainties. This combination of elements, given the leadership in Washington and Tehran, one blustering, the other inflexible, can easily produce an unintended stumble into war.
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The International Day of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
2 Oct 2019 – The International Day of Peace, as officially proclaimed by the UN, is the most universal action for peace in our times, and it contributes to the consciousness from the culture of war to a culture of peace. It would be good to be able to measure the IDP actions each year, to know if they are increasing or not, and to know if this is occurring throughout the world, or more in some regions than in others.
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Action Now: Insights from Greta Thunberg, Krishnamurti and Julian Assange as Leaders of Religions?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
From the psychosocial systemic perspective, naively neglected by environmentalists, Climate Activism can be usefully compared with a new religion — something to believe in urgently, as being vital to the salvation of the planet. Those failing to do so, or acting otherwise, are then necessarily to be condemned.
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Inside America’s Most Toxic Nuclear Waste Dump, Where 56 Million Gallons of Buried Radioactive Sludge Are Leaking into the Earth
James Pasley | Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
• Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the most polluted area in the United States. Buried beneath the complex is 56 million gallons of radioactive waste that need to be dealt with.
• The reservation produced the plutonium for Fat Man, the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki in Japan, as well as for the United States’ atomic weapon stockpile during the Cold War. {Read on…}
Wall Street Is Killing Local Newspapers
Olivia Snow Smith | Other Words – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
We can’t put a price tag on our free press — but unless we stop them, predatory investors can.
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Democrats Praise CIA Whistleblower on Ukraine, Persecute Manning, Assange and Snowden
Andre Damon |WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
30 Sep2019 -When Trump condemned the CIA agent as a “spy,” House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff praised him: “Congress must do all it can to protect this whistleblower and all whistleblowers.” All whistleblowers? Remind Schiff of what he wrote to Obama: “Do not pardon Edward Snowden. The US government must hold him accountable for his actions.”
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(Português) Queimadas na Bolívia Matam 2,3 Milhões de Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
27 de set 2019 – De acordo com informações da Agência France-Presse, os incêndios florestais que atingiram o leste da Bolívia já mataram mais de 2,3 milhões de animais silvestres. Entre as espécies atingidas estão onças-pintadas, pumas e lhamas. A mídia boliviana exibiu carcaças de animais carbonizados em florestas fumegantes.
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(Castellano) El Movimiento Climático Mundial está fracasando: ¿Por qué?
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Aunque estoy encantado de que estas campañas hayan logrado finalmente movilizar a un número significativo de personas en torno a la amenaza existencial que la catástrofe climática representa para la vida en la Tierra. Me gustaría plantear brevemente algunas cuestiones para su consideración por parte de cada uno de los que participan en el movimiento climático, así como de los que están considerando la posibilidad de participar.
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China “Speed” at 70 Years – And Why You Should Be Curious
Xinhua | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
The Evolving Face of ‘China Speed’
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Why Work to Abolish Nuclear Weapons?
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
We can change the world in important and necessary ways.
We can take a giant step forward for humankind.
We can join with others in demonstrating good stewardship of the planet…
The Silencing of Kashmir: Arundhati Roy on India, Modi, and Fascism
Mehdi Hasan | Deconstructed - The Intercept,
7 Oct 2019
3 Oct 2019 – Modi appears set on ending Jammu and Kashmir’s special semi-autonomous status and bringing it fully under the control of New Delhi, a move that residents of the Muslim-majority region strongly reject. Arundhati Roy, India’s most famous novelist and a passionate voice for Kashmiri self-determination, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the Kashmir crisis and India’s troubling rightward tilt.
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At Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a Million-Tonne Headache: Radioactive Water
Karyn Nishimura | Northglen News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
In the grounds of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant sits a million-tonne headache for the plant’s operators and Japan’s government: tank after tank of water contaminated with radioactive elements.
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Playing the Trump Card
Victor Grossman | Berlin Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
29 Sep 2019 – Analysis of the current Trump impeachment investigation in the context of repeated US bullying of other leaders and ruining of other countries’ economies for the personal gain of the ruling class. The whole bloody Ukrainian mess blew up with the well-financed involvement of the Democratic administration, including Joe Biden. Donald Trump is only a late-comer. Of course, such entries fill the annals of both parties.
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Re-examining Political Silence: New Openings for Research and Practice
Sophia Dingli and Thomas N. Cooke | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Political silence, whether intentional or unintentional, produces uncertainty, in such a way that entangles the recipient of silence in confusion.
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Rwanda: Murder of Dissidents Continues as Migrants Are Shipped in
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
2 Oct 2019 – Sylidio Dusabumuremyi, a member of the Rwandan opposition party, was murdered on Sep 23, the day before Rwandan President Paul Kagame addressed the UNGA. During the same week, 500 African migrants were shipped from Libya to Rwanda, thanks to an agreement between the EU, the AU, and the UNHCR.
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How South Africa Forced Gandhi to Reckon with Racism and Imperialism
Mary Elizabeth King | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
1 Oct 2019 – Born 150 years ago this week [2 Oct], Mohandas K. Gandhi was a polarizing figure during his life and remains a lightning rod for controversy to this day. Gandhi’s perceptions about human sensibilities, social power and political truths began their transformation not in India, but South Africa.
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Dark Clouds and the Human Condition: Youth to the Rescue!
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – If the young and old act together this kind of UN can be nurtured. In the meantime, we should resist the temptation to pretend that this UN of the peoples already exists, but we should never forget that we have it within our potential collective power to make it happen, and by doing, to make the sort of difference that youth are rightfully demanding.
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Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Friday’s [20 Sep] climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War. This does not mean these protests should not have taken place. But such demonstrations need to be grounded in the bitter reality that in the corridors of power we do not count.
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(Français) L’humanitaire perdu en chemin ?
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
20 septembre 2019 – Dans une tribune d’Alternatives humanitaires, l’écrivain et humanitaire Pierre Brunel s’interrogeait sur ce qui avait peut-être été perdu d’essentiel dans la transformation de l’humanitaire en « industrie mondialisée ». Ce texte, sensible et intelligent, est symptomatique de certains des paradoxes et du hors-champ de l’humanitaire.
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What the US Sanctions against Venezuela Have Wrought
Rebecca Hanson and Francisco Sánchez | NACLA - Jacobin Magazine,
30 Sep 2019
22 Sep 2019 – The United States’ sanctions against Venezuela continue to punish ordinary Venezuelans while deepening the country’s political crisis. They need to end. Sanctions will not incentivize politicians to change course because they are not the ones who suffer from them: the victims are the Venezuelan people.
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What Can a University Course Actually Teach Us about Resistance?
Anthony Huaqui | Resistance Studies/Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
18 Sep 2019 – Many scholars debate theories of civil resistance. But a new course of study shows that power and intersectionality are the most important concepts to understand how resistance works.
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The Human and Financial Costs of the Explosive Remnants of War in Afghanistan
Suzanne Fiederlein and SaraJane Rzegocki | James Madison University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – Costs of War – Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University – Afghanistan ranks as one of the most landmine- and unexploded ordnance-impacted countries in the world, even after thirty years of clearance operations supported extensively by the UN and a number of major donors.
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(Português) ONG expõe crueldade que antecede o abate de animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
26 set 2019 – A ONG espanhola Equalia publicou o resultado de uma investigação que mostra a cruel realidade que antecede o abate de cordeiros e ovelhas. No vídeo, é possível ver animais sendo arremessados e recebendo chutes, pisadas, socos e outros tipos de agressões.
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Do You Hear the People Sing? (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
The emblematic song of the movie and musical ‘Les Miserables’ based on the novel by Victor Hugo [with lyrics]
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Trump Regime Denies Visas to Members of Russian and Iranian UN Delegations
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
27 Sep 2019 – International protocol obliges host country USA to issue visas for delegation members, attending sessions at UN headquarters in New York. But many of Iranian President Rouhani’s aides and Iranian journalists were denied visa permission to attend the General Assembly session. Russia was offended the same way. Reportedly, 10 members of its UN delegation were denied visas.
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(Français) Les Nouveaux Territoires de l’Agrobusiness
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 septembre 2019 – Plus d’une décennie après la crise alimentaire de 2007-2008, l’appel à changer de modèle agricole est resté lettre morte. Mises en cause dans la flambée des prix, les grandes firmes de l’agrobusiness ont poursuivi leur expansion à l’échelle de la planète, imposant leurs modes de production standardisés, socialement excluants et écologiquement destructeurs. Fortes de leur poids économique et de leur capacité d’influence politique, elles ont réussi aussi à imposer leurs priorités sur le terrain du développement durable et de la sécurité alimentaire.
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Washington’s Long War on Syria
Roberto Sirvent | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – Three hostile foreign powers—Israel, Turkey and the United States—occupy parts of Syria in defiance of international law. “Washington seeks to inflame sectarian divisions to prevent Arabs coalescing as an independent political force.”
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China Defies Trump on Iran Big Time with $400 bn Belt-and-Road Investment and 5000 Red Army Troops
Juan Cole | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
9 Sep 2019 – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was in Beijing recently for what turns out to have been the biggest triumph of his career. China has decided it has nothing further to fear from the Trump administration, and has decided to incorporate Iran into its One Belt, One Road plan with investments totaling some $400 billion.
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Spanish Security Firm Spied on Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy for US Intelligence
Kevin Reed | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
28 Sep 2019 – A Spanish defense and security contractor hired to protect the Ecuadorian Embassy in London spied on Julian Assange on behalf of US intelligence while the WikiLeaks’ founder and editor was living there. A report in the Spanish newspaper El País reported early Friday [27 Sep] that it had access to statements and documents that show David Morales, the owner of Undercover Global S.L., handed over audio and video to the CIA of meetings between Julian Assange and his lawyers and collaborators.
→ read full articleLeon Trotsky’s Four Fateful Years in Prinkipo: 1929-1933
David North | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
23 Sep 2019 – Review of the political struggle conducted by Trotsky during his four years on the Turkish island of Prinkipo to oppose the bureaucracy headed by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. Trotsky arrived in Turkey, along with his wife Natalia Sedova, in February 1929 as a political exile, deported by Stalin’s GPU. “Unable to answer Trotsky with principled arguments,” North notes, “Stalin was determined to silence him.”
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The Disaster of Negative Interest Rates
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
29 Sep 2019 – President Trump wants negative interest rates, but they would be disastrous for the U.S. economy; his objectives can be better achieved by other means.
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Climate Change and Consciousness Shift
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – Climate change: It feels like the approaching End Times. But it’s the secular version thereof, which means that humanity is responsible for both its cause and — if possible — its transcendence. All we need to do is change everything about the way the high-tech, global society functions in the next dozen years.
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The Lion and the Three Bulls
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
There is fable attributed to Aesop and others about three bulls and the lion. While there are variations to the story, the moral remains the same. The lion comes to the Red and black bull and says: You are in danger; the white bull stands out and can attract predators which can endanger you, so let me eliminate him. They agreed.
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Another Climate Woe
Bob Neumann | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – The climate scientists and climate freaks are finally being heard and many politicians are ready to take action. It has only taken forty or fifty years of talk and pleading by experts. Then I got to thinking, there is no worldwide leadership or enforcement in the UN. Who will lead? Who will coordinate? Sadly the UN failed its main job since 1945 in preventing wars. We’ve only had 348 wars since 1945. The UN must have prevented or stopped a few wars — I just can’t name one.
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The Deepening Decay of the West – And the Brighter Post-West Future
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – It is entire systems approaching existential breakdown because of their own morally corrupt actions and policies – or system fatique. Two Western societies in contemporary history – a former Empire and the present one – increasingly look like failed states, failed societies, and failing their own ideals and laws. What we see is a decay of morals, an erosion of democracy and a downward spiraling chaos with an end but no solution in sight. The Occident has become an Accident. To itself and to the Rest.
→ read full articleAnnexing the World as the Deal of the Century
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
23 Sep 2019 – Imaginative Global Transformation through Full-Spectrum Dominance by MeToo – Inspired by the proposal for a Deal of the Century regarding the challenge of Palestine-Israel and by Green New Deal initiatives.
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Japan Is Lying about the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, as It Promotes the 2020 Olympic Games
Nuclear News | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
16 Sep 2019 – Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which experienced three massive meltdowns in 2011, is running out of room to store radioactive water. No surprise! But now, what to do about phosphorescent water? The Japanese government is lying and should be held accountable for hoodwinking the world about the ravages of Fukushima, especially with the Olympics scheduled for next year.
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(Italiano) Jai Jagat – Vittoria per tutti
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Jai Jagat è una marcia di 10.000 chilometri che inizierà il 2 ottobre 2019 a Nuova Delhi (India), nel giorno del centocinquantesimo anniversario dalla nascita del Mahatma Gandhi, per concludersi a Ginevra (Svizzera) il 25 settembre 2020, nella giornata dedicata alla pace internazionale.
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Iran: Neither Military Action nor Economic Sanctions
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
21 Sep 2019 – It would be utterly immoral of the United States to launch a military attack upon Iran if it is true that one of the missiles that destroyed an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia on 14 Sep 2019 had a casing bearing a number that suggested that the weapon was manufactured for NATO forces. The picture of the missile was inadvertently supplied to the media by the Saudi Defence Ministry. A theory that has emerged in the wake of the picture is that the assault on the oil refineries in Saudi’s Eastern Province could have been a false flag operation initiated by John Bolton.
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Seeds of Sustenance/Freedom vs. Seeds of Suicide/Surveillance
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Corporations that made war chemicals introduced these chemicals as agrichemicals. In the first Green Revolution they changed the seeds to adapt to chemicals. In the second Green Revolution they tried to own and control the seed itself through genetic engineering and patents. There is now an attempt to introduce the third Green Revolution with total control over the seed through the convergence of industrial breeding and surveillance digital technologies. What is at stake is our biodiversity and our freedom.
→ read full articleDesperate Central Bankers Grab for More Power
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
18 Sep 2019 – Conceding that their grip on the economy is slipping, central bankers are proposing a radical economic reset that would shift yet more power from government to themselves.
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Nelson Mandela’s Inspirational Message
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
The Simplicity of Wisdom [3 min]
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UK “Justice” System Tortures Julian Assange, Treats Fascist Tommy Robinson with Kid Gloves
Thomas Scripps | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – British class justice was on full display last Friday [13 Sep], as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was detained indefinitely at Belmarsh prison, beyond the completion of his sentence, while fascist leader Tommy Robinson was released 10 weeks early from the same jail. Robinson is the founder of the fascist English Defence League and a former British National Party member.
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Chelsea Manning Imprisoned without Charge for Six Months for Refusing to Testify against Julian Assange
Kevin Reed and James Cogan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
21 Sep 2019 – The courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning has now been held in a federal detention center for more than six months. Manning has not been charged with or committed any crime. She was sent to jail for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury that has indicted persecuted Julian Assange, who published the information she leaked exposing rampant US imperialist criminality.
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(Italiano) India tra fame e sete
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
12 Settembre 2019 – I Ghats occidentali ci hanno dato le spezie. E l’Himalaya ci ha dato amaranto, grano saraceno e una grande varietà di altre colture nutrienti. Oggi l’India sta affrontando un’emergenza idrica e un’emergenza nutrizionale. Le due emergenze sono interconnesse. Le origini dell’emergenza che viviamo oggi risalgono a 40-50 anni fa con i «consigli» della Banca Mondiale e con la cosiddetta «rivoluzione verde», che ha distrutto le nostre risorse d’acqua, il nostro suolo, la nostra biodiversità.
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The Freud-Einstein Correspondence of 1932: Theories of War
Norrie MacQueen | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
At the end of 1931 the League of Nations invited Albert Einstein to initiate an exchange of letters with a fellow ‘leader of intellectual thought’ on a subject ‘calculated to serve the common interest of the LN and of intellectual life’. Einstein selected Sigmund Freud as his correspondent and the question he wished to explore with him was, simply and ambitiously, ‘is there any way of delivering mankind from the scourge of war?’
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Chained to Its Past: A German Recipe for Injustice toward the People of Palestine
Hans von Sponeck and Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
17 Sep 2019 – The Bundestag resolution that condemned the BDS Campaign as contributing to a rising threat of antisemitism in Europe is a grave cause of concern. It brands the BDS, a nonviolent Palestinian initiative, anti-Semitic and takes this stand pointing out Germany’s special responsibility toward Jews, without any reference at all to Israel’s prolonged abuse of the most fundamental of human rights, that of self-determination, of the Palestinian people.
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Nuclear Abolition: Q&A with Dr. David Krieger
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
A special dialogue held at Nuclear Age Peace Foundation during our overseas fieldwork on 1 Feb 2019. This session was held between 13 Kansai Soka High School students and Dr. David Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
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The Mysterious Death of the Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning
Dina Temple-Raston | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – Debbie Scroggin and her husband live at the end of a series of gravel roads in a lonesome part of Kansas. It is the kind of place where, Debbie says, “you have to drive 15 minutes to get anywhere.” It was easy to think that someone might come here to either get lost or be forgotten. Scroggin remembers Adrian Lamo arriving on a night train with nothing but a broken suitcase and a hangdog expression.
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Shame on Us
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Shame on us
for silence on Palestine, Kashmir, Amazon, Bahamas, detention centers in US and much more
for letting our neighbor’s homes be demolished
for allowing fascist politicians to take over our countries…
Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
In 150 NYT, CNN and Fox articles, ‘oligarch’ seems reserved for Slavic billionaires.
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(Português) Brasil: Lei da vaquejada sancionada por Bolsonaro entra em vigor
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
18 set 2019 – A lei também beneficia rodeios, atividades como enduro, hipismo rural, provas de velocidade, cavalgada, cavalhada, concurso de marcha, corrida e polo equestre.
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A Think Tank Named PNAC (Project for a New American Century)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019 – Below is a list of 25 of the signatories of a high-powered Right-wing Think Tank that wanted to increase military spending in order to ensure American global hegemony. The PNAC document had a concluding phrase used as evidence that it was ready for a catastrophic event (real OR false flag) that would shake up the citizenry and make them go off to war: “The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”
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Top 100 Polluter Indexes
Political Economy Research Institute | University of Massachusetts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Aug 2019 – The Top 100 Polluter indexes identify the top corporate air and water polluters and top greenhouse gas emitters using the most recent data available from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Who’s Responsible for the Ecocide in the Amazon
Juan Manuel Crespo | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
9 Sep 2019 – There’s a cause for alarm as the world witnesses how the Amazon forests in Brazil, the Bolivian Chiquitanía and the Paraguayan swamps are being ravaged by uncontrolled fires. And it’s not just Bolsonaro, nor is it just Morales or Correa. There is more to it than meets the eye.
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While Britain’s Parliament Is Suspended, Its Arms Fair Is Open for Business
Tim Gee | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
9 Sep 2019 – In any other week, the arrival of the world’s largest arms fair to Britain would have been big news. Thirty-six thousand people are expected to attend the Defense and Security Equipment International fair, which opens on Tuesday [10 Sep]. It is cruelly symbolic that even as the prime minister closes the doors on Parliament, his government opens the doors of the arms fair.
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(Castellano) Liderazgo Político Comparativo: Gandhi vs. Líderes Contemporáneos
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
El 2 de octubre de 2019 se cumple el 150º aniversario del nacimiento de Mohandas K. Gandhi en Gujarat, India. Me gustaría reflexionar sobre el liderazgo visionario que Gandhi ofreció al mundo, comparándolo brevemente con algunos líderes nacionales de hoy en día, e invitarlos a emular el liderazgo de Gandhi.
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«Give Nonkilling a Chance» Book Released in Delhi
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
7 Sep 2019 – Give Nonkilling a Chance: Are Nonkilling Societies Possible? edited by Prof. Anoop Swarup and dedicated to late Prof. Glenn D. Paige, with contributions from across the world, was released at Gandhi Smriti, Delhi on 31 Aug 2019.
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France and Germany Escalate Occupation of Mali and the Sahel
Will Morrow | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019 – The French and German governments are expanding their nearly seven-year-old neo-colonial occupation of Mali and the resource-rich Sahel region of western Africa.
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US Agency Warns of Lung Illness Epidemic among Young People, Attributed to E-Cigarettes
Benjamin Mateus | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
9 Sep 2019 – The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a public warning of a rapidly developing epidemic of severe lung illnesses associated with the smoking of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), also known as “vaping.”
→ read full articlePrinciples for Global Sustainability
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019 – I would encourage you to seek to advance global sustainability by adopting a planetary perspective, doing no harm, engaging in doing good for the planet and its present and future inhabitants, choosing hope, and persevering. If we accept these responsibilities as individuals and work to implement them in our national and international policies, we can turn Earth Day into a year-around commitment to creating a planet we can be proud to pass on to future generations.
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Activists Follow the Money Fueling Amazon Fires
Negin Owliaei Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson | Inequality – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
9 Sep 2019 – Protesters around the World Are Singling Out the Bad Actors Profiting Off
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NRA Sues San Francisco for Declaring It a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”
Elliot Hannon | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
10 Sep 2019 – The National Rifle Association filed suit against the city of San Francisco yesterday after the city declared the gun rights group a “domestic terrorist organization.” The city’s Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the resolution after at least three people were shot and killed at a garlic festival in Gilroy, California.
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British Judge Jails Assange Indefinitely, Despite End of Prison Sentence
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
14 Sep 2019 – In a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange will remain in prison, despite the fact that his custodial sentence for “absconding” bail expires on Sep 22. The ruling is the latest in a series of attacks on Assange’s legal and democratic rights by the British judiciary.
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How Animal Researchers Stay Out of the News
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
10 Sep 2019 – Perhaps you know a lot more about how farm animals are treated on factory farms than dogs, primates and other animals are treated in US labs. It is no coincidence. Exposure of what occurs behind the Plexiglass Curtain would be so damaging to university research contracts that millions are spent to prevent transparency. The animal-research industry is a vast, macabre enterprise.
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The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy [in the USA]
Rick Shenkman | Politico – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
8 Sep 2019 – Human brains aren’t built for self-rule, says Shawn Rosenberg. That’s more evident than ever. People have been saying for two millennia that democracy is unworkable, going back to Plato. The Founding Fathers were sufficiently worried that they left only one half of one branch of the federal government in the hands of the people.
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Conflict Management in Kashmir: State–People Relations and Peace
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Conflict Management in Kashmir: State–People Relations and Peace, by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Cambridge University Press – The book examines the intersections of political violence, deprivation and conflict and explores the prospects of conflict management by studying one of the world’s most multifaceted and complex political turmoils – Kashmir.
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(Português) Porcos: ONG internacional registra em vídeo triste realidade por trás do bacon
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
5 set 2019 – Gaiolas de gestação, expressões viscerais de descontentamento, gritos que parecem de crianças agonizando, incapacidade de se mover e de ter contato íntimo com os próprios filhos; e estresse crônica que culmina em mordidas nas grades de metal. Este é o cenário registrado pela ONG internacional Wake em seu novo vídeo sobre a triste realidade de porcos criados para consumo.
→ read full articleBurning Amazonia, Denying Climate Change, Devastating Syria, Starving Yemen, Ignoring Kashmir
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
5 Sep 2019 – What is suggested is the dependence of human wellbeing on the emergence of a transnational activist movement that demands major structural reforms of world order that seek a favorable resolution of the bio-ethical crisis. If this seems utopian, you are quite right to react as if there is no plausible path leading from here to there. Yet I believe it is more illuminating to insist that activating the utopian imagination is the only source of a transformed realism that is sensitive to the distinctive challenges and opportunities of the 21stcentury.
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(Castellano) Nuestro Mundo que se Desvanece: Glaciares
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
Algo está causando que los glaciares y los campos de hielo de las montañas del mundo se derritan. Y, a pesar de su primer pensamiento, no es la catástrofe climática en curso.
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(Français) Les feux en Amazonie : pour mieux comprendre
Thierry Velu | Groupe de Secours Catastrophe Français – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
Août 27, 2019 – Une forêt humide qui brûle, c’est plutôt étrange. Le président des pompiers humanitaires du GSCF explique que les incendies qui ravagent l’Amazonie révèlent surtout les problèmes liés à la déforestation du poumon vert. Il relève dès lors toute la vacuité des débats du G7, des débats menés par des gouvernements dont le modèle économique encourage la déforestation de l’Amazonie.
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(Italiano) 5G -Una sigla invitante… E dietro?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
22 Agosto 2019 – Nell’urgenza di applicare le ultime novità, si perdono sempre più di vista gli impatti sociali e ambientali, con conseguenze che si stanno evidenziando come sempre più irreversibili. Nonostante l’ottimismo che accompagna lo sviluppo del mondo ICT, anche questo settore tecnologico presenta aspetti ambigui: conseguenze sociali ancora inesplorate, effetti imprevisti sulle possibilità di governance delle comunità umane a tutti i livelli, impatti ambientali e sanitari non misurati…
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Burning Down the House
John Feffer | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
4 Sep 2019 – Doesn’t idiocy ever take a vacation? Three different attempts at national self-destruction by far-right governments–Johnson in the UK, Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Trump in the US– are laying bare their nihilistic roots. Bolsonaro, at least, is only interested in trashing a rainforest (albeit a large one). Boris Johnson is content to trash a country (albeit a rich one). Donald Trump, with that ego of his, aspires to trash an entire planet.
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India Labels 1.9 Million Assam Residents “Foreigners” as Prelude to Their Mass Expulsion
Wasantha Rupasinghe | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
5 Sep 2019 – Almost two million residents of Assam, a state in India’s northeast, have been excluded from the Indian state’s reactionary National Register of Citizens. These de facto “foreigners” are now under threat of being herded into detention centres prior to their mass expulsion.
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It’s Coming Soon: Can the UN Rethink Its Future in a Few Months?
Richard Ponzio and Cristina Petcu | PassBlue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
On 26 Jun 2020 the international community will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter. That doesn’t leave much time to hammer out a “concise, substantive, forward-looking and unifying declaration” that captures member states’ commitment to multilateralism and to the UN before the world leaders’ summit meeting on Sept. 21, 2020 — as the General Assembly resolved this month.
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Peace People Founder Ciaran McKeown Dead at 76
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
It is with deep sadness that I heard of the death of my dear friend and co-peace worker Ciaran McKeown on 1 Sep 2019. When the Peace People started in Aug l976 at the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland, it was Ciaran, a political journalist, who courageously took the peace leadership–giving up his job and becoming a volunteer in spite of the fact that his fifth child was soon due–and joined myself and Betty Williams in co-founding the Peace People. RIP
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Peace as a Profession and New Peace Action Roles
Johan Galtung | PRIO Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
1974 – Today we see relatively clearly that there are liberal and Marxist conceptions of peace, and perhaps we also see more clearly than before that «liberalism vs. Marxism» is a false dichotomy—although we still live under the pressure of the false dichotomies, and particularly in the thinking about peace. Hence, this essay is an effort to try to indicate, at a very simple, common sense level, that both views are fruitful in conceiving of new forms of peace action, and that they in a sense reinforce each other.
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“The ‘Enemy of the State’ Speaks–Irreverent Essays and Interviews:” Maung Zarni on Burma/Myanmar
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
“The Enemy of the State” Speaks: Irreverent Essays and Interviews, by Maung Zarni, Gerakbudaya: 2019 – “Maung Zarni speaks truth to power and his words are powerful because they come from his own lived and personal experience.” — Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Peace Activist and Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment
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The Companies behind the Burning of the Amazon
Glenn Hurowitz, Mat Jacobson, Etelle Higonnet, and Lucia von Reusner | Mighty Earth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
The incentive for the destruction comes from large-scale international meat and soy animal feed companies like JBS and Cargill, and the global brands like Stop & Shop, Costco, McDonald’s, Walmart/Asda, and Sysco that buy from them and sell to the public. It is these companies that are creating the international demand that finances the fires and deforestation.
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(Português) ONG internacional denuncia empresas que financiam queimadas na Amazônia
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
3 set 2019 – Segundo a Mighty Earth, maior incentivo à destruição da Amazônia vem de grandes empresas que atuam na indústria de carne e de soja destinada à alimentação de animais criados para consumo.
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