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Immanuel Wallerstein: An Obituary
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Portside – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
5 Sep 2019 – Acclaimed Marxist sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, author of numerous works on capitalism as a world-system, died on 31 Aug at the age of 88. His death is an irreparable loss for the social sciences. He was unquestionably the most remarkable American sociologist of the twentieth century, and the one with greater international projection. RIP
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How Movements Build Strength through Training
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
22 Aug 2019 – Training for movements is not unlike training for athletic competition: Pain is inevitable. It’s the conditioning of mind, body and heart that makes winning possible.
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The Rise of a New Climate Activism
Sophie Yeo | The Ecologist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
3 Sep 2019 – Climate activism isn’t new, but the last year has seen a resurgence in attention devoted to the subject. For many campaigners, who have grown weary of watching their warnings fall on deaf ears, it has felt like hope has arrived at last.
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Leo Tolstoy (9 Sep 1828 – 20 Nov 1910)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most-diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ endure as the summit of realist fiction.
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What Really Happened in Zimbabwe
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
8 Sep 2019 – Yesterday the New York Times carried several very long articles about former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe who had just died, saying that he was a “tyrant” and that he “presided over the decline of one of Africa’s most prosperous lands.”
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We Are All Indigenous
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
Can we flip the faux-humanity of Bolsonaro on its head and declare: We want to integrate ourselves into an indigenous global understanding. Doing so involves more than just scientific expertise; it involves transforming our way of life — beyond television, beyond the Internet, beyond domination and exploitation — to an ever-present awareness of the planet we inhabit. Can we set aside our technology and start learning to listen to it?
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Imagining Toroidal Life as a Sustainable Alternative
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
From Globalization to Toroidization or Back to Flatland? Much is made of the fundamental shift in historical perspective from living on a Flat Earth to dwelling on a rotating sphere — a globe revolving around the Sun. The argument here endeavours to clarify the manner in which the toroidal form can be used in support of imaginative insight of strategic relevance — for the individual, if not for the collective.
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This Time, the World Is Watching in Kashmir
Shubh Mathur | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
22 Aug 2019 – How India is shooting itself in the foot by taking over Kashmir at gunpoint; it has set itself up to reap the whirlwind. This time, the world will be watching.
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(Italiano) Russia e Stati Uniti tentano di legittimare i “killer robots”
Rete Italiana per il Disarmo | Campaign to Stop Killer Robots – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
22 ago 2019 – La Russia e gli Stati Uniti stanno continuando la loro battaglia persa contro l’ormai inevitabile Trattato internazionale riguardante le armi letali autonome (LAWS), i cosiddetti “killer robots”. La maggior parte degli Stati che partecipano ai colloqui diplomatici sui sistemi letali di armi autonome hanno infatti espresso il proprio forte desiderio di negoziare un nuovo Trattato per rispondere alle crescenti preoccupazioni su questa tipologia di armi.
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Trump Moves to Allow Logging in the World’s Largest Intact Temperate Rainforest
Kyla Mandel | Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
28 Aug 2019 – As Brazil’s Amazon burns, Trump is taking aim at one of the largest expanses of temperate rainforest. Yesterday, he instructed the agriculture secretary to allow logging in the 16.7 million acre Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, the nation’s largest national forest.
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Report: Seoul International Conference on Protection of Rohingya Survivors and Accountability for Genocide
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
30 Aug 2019 – The Seoul International Conference focused on the illegal and barbaric uses of sexual violence and rape of target victim population as a matter of strategy and policy by genocidal and militaristic regimes, past and present, in Asian region, from the WWII-era Fascist Japan, Suharto’s Indonesia and General Yaya Khan’s West Pakistan in the civil war in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) to Pol Pot’s Cambodia of the late 1970’s to present-day Myanmar. The conference attracted 150 activists, engaged scholars and experts from 12 different countries, far and near.
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(Français) C’est qui, ça?
Erik Rydberg | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
29 Août 2019 – Difficile d’imaginer un cas plus inouï que celui de Julian Assange. Il concerne tout le monde. Et tout le monde, ou presque, s’en fout. D’abord, on arrête les Juifs, puis les rouquins, comme on dit… De mémoire de, je ne pense pas avoir assisté à un scandale à ce point aussi intégralement étouffé.
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Protectors of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science
Julianne Tveten | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
27 Aug 2019 – Thousands of Native Hawaiians and their supporters have been congregating since July 15 at the base of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano and mountain on the island of Hawaii… While proposals to compromise might appear fair, protectors say, they dismiss the historical context in Hawaii of colonialism and the usurpation of Indigenous land that continues today. Thus, these suggestions elide the stark power asymmetry between historically disenfranchised and marginalized Native Hawaiians and the billion-dollar, state-backed TMT project.
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What Good Is a New Cold War without a New Arm$ Race?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
7 Aug 2019 – “Trump is pursuing probably the most aggressive foreign policy that any US president has pursued in a long time… Before leaving office, President Obama announced a trillion-dollar nuclear weapons upgrade… Putin has vowed not to let the arms race bankrupt the Russian Federation as it did the Soviet Union.”
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Speaks at SIPRI – And the Media Don’t Get It
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
On 21 Aug 2019, Iran’s foreign minister, Dr. Javad Zarif, gave a speech at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI. The media coverage of his visit to Sweden was yet another illustration of the ‘free’ Western media’s freedom to be ignorant, selective and biased – and that ‘omission,’ at least as much as ‘fake,’ is a huge problem for media consumers’ chances to understand international affairs.
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As Jakarta Sinks, Indonesia Announces Location of New Capital City
Matt Stieb | Intelligencer – New York Magazine,
2 Sep 2019
26 Aug 2019 – Jakarta, the soon-to-be-former capital of Indonesia, is an imperfect city to point to as an early mark of climate change. The megalopolis of 10 million people is sinking, yes, but most of that descension can be traced back to human activity.
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(Português) Amazônia Abriga Mais da Metade das Espécies Terrestres de Animais e Plantas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
24 ago 2019 – A Amazônia abriga a maior área de floresta tropical remanescente em nosso planeta. Com quase o dobro do tamanho da Índia, essas florestas desempenham um papel vital na regulação do clima global e na prestação de outros serviços, como a purificação da água e a absorção de carbono.
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Reconstructing Nonviolence: A New Theory and Action for a Post-Secular Society
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Nonviolent methods of action have been a powerful tool since the early 20th century for social protest and revolutionary social and political change, and there is diffuse awareness that nonviolence is an efficient spontaneous choice of movements, individuals, and whole nations. Yet from a conceptual standpoint, nonviolence struggles to engage with key contemporary political issues: the role of religion in a post-secular world; the crisis of democracy; and the use of supposedly ‘nonviolent techniques’ for violent aims.
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We Aren’t Terrified Enough about Losing the Amazon
James Temple | MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
26 Aug 2019 – With fires raging in the Brazilian Amazon this year, media reports have resurfaced a scary scenario known as “the Amazon dieback.” Scientists aren’t sure if there’s a tipping point, or how close we are to it – but it would be “absolutely catastrophic” if we cross it.
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Portugal as a Strategic Target
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 — A series of recent events has unveiled increasingly disturbing signs that far- right internationalism is turning Portugal into a strategic target. For the far right, it is the weak link through which it can carry out its attack on the European Union.
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The Key to a Sustainable Economy Is 5,000 Years Old
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
30 Aug 2019 – We are again reaching the point known as “peak debt,” when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot be paid. Student debt, credit card debt, auto loans, business debt and sovereign debt are all higher than they have ever been. As economist Michael Hudson writes, “Debts that can’t be paid won’t be paid.” The question, he says, is ‘how’ they won’t be paid.
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The World Is Burning!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
28 Aug 2019 – The heart wrenching fires in the Amazon. Africa, Australia, the US continent, Europe, etc. and increasingly right here in Hawaii are not “wild” fires. – Humanity Is on the Path toward Global Destruction through Climate Disaster and/or Nuclear War
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Exile from Exarchia: An Anarchist Enclave in Athens Opened Its Doors to Refugees
Julia Rampen | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
22 Aug 2019 – When refugees started arriving on Greek shores in large numbers, the anarchists opened their doors. — Until the Authorities Had Enough
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How Van Gogh Found His Purpose: Heartfelt Letters to His Brother on How Relationships Refine Us
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
“Does what goes on inside show on the outside? Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney.”
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Clinical Psychologist Lissa Johnson: They Are Trying to Break Assange “Physically and Psychologically”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
28 Aug 2019 – Australian clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson has been an outspoken defender of Julian Assange. Earlier this year she wrote an extensive five-part investigative series titled “The Psychology of Getting Julian Assange.” Johnson provided the following responses to a series of questions earlier this week.
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For Millions of Dogs, South Korea Is Hell on Earth
Nina Jackel | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Summer in South Korea brings the brutal, barbaric Boknal “dog eating days,” when more than a million dogs are tortured and slaughtered for meat.
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Wildfires Rage throughout the Amazon Rainforest
Bryan Dyne | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Satellite imagery reveals that at least a quarter of the Amazon rainforest is on fire or covered in soot and ash across the four Brazilian Amazonian states: Amazonas, Rondônia, Mato Grosso and Pará. Cities across the region were blanketed with smoke, including Brazil’s largest city São Paulo where wildfire smoke blotted out the Sun and brought nighttime lighting hours early.
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‘The World Never Learns’, Rohingya Pay the Price
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
25 Aug 2019 – Today, Rohingya communities and their international supporters commemorate the 2nd anniversary of what is widely acknowledged as a textbook genocide commissioned by the UN member state of Myanmar. ‘Without UN, external intervention, Rohingya will remain most persecuted, vulnerable population’.
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Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer and Dale Jamieson | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
19 Aug 2019 – Recent updates, suggesting that climate change and its impacts are emerging faster than scientists previously thought, are consistent with observations that we and other colleagues have made identifying a pattern in assessments of climate research of underestimation of certain key climate indicators, and therefore underestimation of the threat of climate disruption.
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US Reprehensibly Inciting New Global Arms Race
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Russia and China are right to condemn the testing this week of an INF-busting new ground-based cruise missile off the coast of California under the usual cynical guise of “defense”. It was reportedly a Tomahawk-type nuclear-capable warhead, but the Pentagon said it was conventionally armed.
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(Français) Google est ton ami… Ou pas, en fait
Philippe Huysmans | Le Vilain Petit Canard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
18 août 2019 – Tous les éditeurs de médias alternatifs pourraient vous le dire, Google pratique une censure féroce, sous couvert de lutter contre les « fake news ». Ce n’est même plus un secret de polichinelle, chacun peut bien le voir. Voici presque trois ans, un ami qui se trouve être aussi un éditeur de presse m’avait demandé si je serais prêt à écrire un bouquin sur le sujet.
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Altered States of Consciousness: The Neuropsychology of How Time Perception Modulates Our Experience of Self, from Depression to Boredom to Creative Flow
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
“The brain does not simply represent the world in a disembodied way as an intellectual construct… Our mind is body-bound. We think, feel, and act with our body in the world. All experience is embedded in this body-related being-in-the-world.”
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Will Trump’s War-Mongering Lead to War with Iran?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
12 Aug 2019 – This is an edited version of an interview on 11 Aug 2019 by Iranian journalist Nozhan Etezad and published in Iran News. It addresses various aspects of the troubled recent Iran/U.S. relationship.
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Behind a Made-For-TV Hong Kong Protest Narrative, Washington Is Backing Nativism and Mob Violence
Dan Cohen | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
17 Aug 2019 – Hong Kong’s increasingly xenophobic protests are devolving into chaos with help from US government regime-change outfits and a right-wing local media tycoon with close ties to hardliners in Washington.
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Hawai’i: Mauna Kea Is only Latest Thing They Want to Take, ‘We Will Not Give It to Them’
Anne Keala Kelly | Indian Country Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
21 Jul 2019 – Mauna Kea is a 13,800-foot high mountain on Hawai‘i Island, and considered the most sacred site to Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, the Native Hawaiian people. Named after Wākea, Father Sky, it is home to a number of religious deities, and is a traditional burial ground for the most revered ali‘i (royalty) and kahuna (priests). So far, Hawaiians have managed to stop all efforts to begin construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope through legal challenges and civil disobedience.
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Hong Kong, Kashmir: A Tale of Two Occupations
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
Much to the distress of neocons and humanitarian imperialists, there won’t be a bloody mainland China crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong – a Tiananmen 2.0. Why? Because it’s not worth it. While China identified “Occupy Hong Kong” as a mere Western-instilled and instrumentalized plot, India, for its part, decided to go for Full Occupy in Kashmir. Welcome to the Kashmiri Intifada.
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Speaking for the Silenced: The Holy Inquisition in Portugal
Richard Zimler | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
Prisoners in Inquisitorial prisons who refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah and make a full confession of their Jewish practices would be burnt at the stake in a public ceremony known as an auto-da-fé, meaning act of faith. In 1560, Portugal imposed this same religious dictatorship in Goa, where tens of thousands of converted Hindus and their descendants were arrested and tortured – and hundreds burnt alive – by the Inquisition from 1560 to 1820. The Inquisition was also a diabolically effective money-making scam, since all the assets of its victims were confiscated and given to the Church.
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(Português) 12 mil pessoas participam da Marcha dos Direitos Animais em Londres
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
19 ago 2019 – De acordo com a organização Surge, 12 mil pessoas, principalmente ativistas veganos, participaram da Marcha dos Direitos Animais ((The Official Animal Rights March) no último sábado (17) em Londres, quando os participantes marcharam do Hyde Park até a Praça do Parlamento. O evento contou com discursos de ativistas como Earthling Ed e James Hoot. A iniciativa foi da Surge e da Animal Rebellion.
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Are We Really Listening when We Ask Marginalized Voices to Speak?
Sean Chabot | Resistance Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
15 Aug 2019 – For scholars and activists to truly support marginalized peoples, we need to prioritize their words, stories and truths — not our interpretation of them. Most students of resistance struggles pay close attention to the stories and words of oppressed people confronting oppressive authorities. We want to respect the marginalized in our research and try our best to write about them in empowering ways. But as Ivan Illich said to American students eager to serve poor Mexicans in 1968: “To hell with good intentions.”
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We Are in a War Situation with China!
John Pilger | Going Underground – RT,
26 Aug 2019
22 Aug 2019 – John Pilger describes the current state of global affairs as in a state of world war, warning that the ‘coming war on China’ he warned about has now arrived. He also discusses the Hong Kong protests and US involvement in the unrest, the collapse of the INF Treaty and the beginning of a new arms race with Russia in Washington’s goal to break up the Russian Federation under Putin. He slams sanctions on Venezuela and Iran and also updates us on the condition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, after he visited him recently in UK’s Belmarsh prison.
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Lessons from Einstein for Scientists Today
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
The year 2005 also marked the 50th anniversary of Einstein’s death and of the issuing of his last public appeal, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. It is an appropriate time to consider what lessons we might draw from Einstein’s life that would benefit those engaged in scientific activities today.
→ read full articleParticipatory Evolution
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
The core paradox of nonviolent protest against such legally sanctioned immoralities is that, if you block a driveway with your body or simply cross a bridge, you’re depending on the humanity of those you confront, who are armed with the weapons they hold or the vehicles they are driving, to keep them from acting on their anger and harming or killing you. Is this not the essence of courage? You are bringing nothing but yourself, empowered solely by the force of moral compassion — the way the world should be — to a confrontational demand for change.
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Imagining a Free Palestine Should Be Commonplace—That’s Why I Wrote the Novel ‘Siegebreakers’
Justin Podur | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
The siege of Gaza is crushing the people who live under it, and it is crushing all of our imaginations. I wrote Siegebreakers because I can’t liberate Gaza or Palestine, but I can dream about it. I wanted it to be a proximate dream, a dream of the next step from now, not a distant dream that depends on too many unpredictable things going right.
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Ernst Jünger, Total Mobilisation and the Work of War
Bogdan Costea and Kostas Amiridis | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
The relationship between war, destruction, organisation and technology. Jünger argued that entering the realm of total organisation, that is, organisation which claims its ground to be scientific, calculated, planned, rationally-administered and technological, destruction is subtly appropriated into, and thought of, as a process of production. Jünger understood war as an increasingly ‘necessary’ and permanent requirement of the politics of peace and freedom.
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G7: An Obsolete, Useless Talking Shop
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Russia’s exclusion from the G8 has been a political punishment to bolster a propaganda narrative for undermining and isolating Russia. This is again why the G7 is no longer a viable forum for its stated purpose of advancing the global economy. “Russia should be at the negotiating table,” said Trump, in a rare moment of lucidity.
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The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
Seth Donnelly | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
“We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. “Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues,” reports the World Bank. And “How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?” inquires The Economist magazine. Seth Donnelly answers: “It didn’t!” In fact, according to Donnelly’s The Lie of Global Prosperity, virtually nothing about these glad tidings proclaiming plummeting global poverty rates is true.
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Global Coherence by Interrelating Disparate Strategic Patterns Dynamically
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Any 16-fold pattern is a provocative challenge to comprehension, given the constraints on human capacity with respect to the complexity of any such pattern as a whole. This is especially the case when such a pattern is used by the United Nations to frame an overriding strategic preoccupation for global governance — with an explicit call for widespread credibility.
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How the Western Media Support State Terror – While Millions Die
Matthew Alford, Florian Zollman, Alan Macleod, Jeffery Klaehn and Daniel Broudy | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Issue Aug/Sep 2019 – Five academics examine our media’s coverage of foreign affairs, in a piece censored (and then rejected) by a leading liberal publication.
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What Is Empathy?
Dr Brené Brown | RSA Short – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
What is the best way to ease someone’s pain and suffering? We can only create a genuine empathic connection if we get in touch with our own fragility. Dr Brené Brown is a researcher, professor and author who has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame.
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The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming: Here Are Five Lessons We Must Learn
Robert Walker | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
15 Aug 2019 – In a recent report, scientists warn of a precipitous drop in the world’s insect population due to human activity—and that spells trouble for humans. We need to pay close attention, as over time, this could be just as catastrophic to humans as it is to insects.
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Seesaws at Trump’s US-Mexico Border Fence
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Children-teachers Defy Evil-minded Structures and Policies – Seesaw connections installed along the steel border fence between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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Banning U.S. Congresspersons from Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
18 Aug 2019 – The decision to ban, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two sitting members of the U.S. House of Representatives, disgraces the leaders of both the United States and Israel, confirms the illegitimacy of both political parties by their tepid responses, and confirms once more the unhealthy relationship that has evolved between Trump and Netanyahu, these two most reactionary of political figures, and badly reflects on the political atmosphere in the countries they represent.
→ read full articleQuotes from Courageous Anti-Authoritarians, Anti-Imperialists, Anti-Corporatists, Anti-Militarists and Anti-Fascists through History
Compiled by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
These quotes are intended to inspire and give courage to the cloud of witnesses who are seeking justice, peace and prosperity and environmental and human rights for the impoverished, the outcasts, the bullied, the displaced, the victimized and the enslaved. Use them early and often.
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Killing Julian Assange Slowly
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
14 Aug 2019 – Since April 11 when unlawfully dragged from Ecuador’s London embassy to captivity, Assange has languished under draconian conditions in a UK dungeon at the behest of the Trump regime, wanting him tried in the US for the “crime” of truth-telling journalism. More on this below.
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Hundreds of Zoos and Aquariums Accused of Mistreating Animals
Rachel Fobar | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
15 Aug 2018 – In a new report, an animal welfare group has flagged hundreds of zoos affiliated with the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums for mistreating animals, including making big cats perform in gladiator-style shows, elephants play basketball, and diapered chimpanzees ride scooters.
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Brazil’s Pres. Bolsonaro Threatens Journalist Glenn Greenwald, Ratchets up Fascist Rants
Miguel Andrade | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
The Justice Ministry issued on July 25 Ordinance 666 for deportation within 48 hours of ‘suspects’ of terrorism, human-, drug-, or arms-trafficking, and child pornography. The government organized a “national security” scare, prompting calls for Greenwald’s deportation. There have been further allegations that Greenwald acted in collaboration with “Russian intelligence.” Greenwald, a US citizen, is married to Congressman Miranda, of the PSOL, with whom he is raising two adopted Brazilian children.
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Sri Lanka: Starving Elderly Elephant’s Emaciated Body in Buddhist Festival
Joe Roberts | Metro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
13 Aug 2019 – This starving 70-year-old elephant is made to walk miles every night so people can feel ‘blessed’ at a religious festival, an activist has claimed.
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Listen to People of Jammu & Kashmir: End ‘Reign of Occupation and Terror’
National Alliance of People’s Movements | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) unequivocally condemns the indefensible and totalitarian move of the BJP-led NDA Govt. to repeal Article 370 of the Constitution by way of a Presidential Order and introduce a Bill for bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, not only without but seemingly in violation of the consent of the people and key political actors of the state.
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Washington Intensifies Its Collective Punishment of Venezuelans
Kevin Young | NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
14 Aug 2019 – On August 5, the Trump administration issued an executive order escalating its sanctions against Venezuela. The order froze all Venezuelan government assets in the United States and threatened third parties around the world with punitive action if they trade with the Venezuelan government. Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive.
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The World Is Uniting for International Law, against US Empire
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
11 Aug 2019 – “We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures.” That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies who have embarrassed themselves by recognizing the phony “interim president” Juan Guaido are saying the US has gone too far.
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Borders and Belonging: Toni Morrison’s Prescient Wisdom on the Refugee Struggle, the Violence of Otherness, and the Meaning of Home
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
“It may be that the most defining characteristic of our times is that, again, walls and weapons feature as prominently now as they once did in medieval times.”
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Portugal: A New Home for Those Who Fear Hong Kong’s Fate?
Raquel Carvalho | This Week in Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
• Growing frustration over extradition bill and worries over erosion of city’s freedoms have seen a surge in number of Hongkongers considering migration
• For those who want access to Europe, Portugal is increasingly seen as a gateway – either through family ties in Macau or investment
(Português) Série Fotográfica Expõe Barbárie do Abate de Porcos no Mundo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
15 ago 2019 – Uma série fotográfica idealizada pela fotojornalista canadense Jo-Anne McArthur expõe a barbárie do abate de porcos no mundo. Ela publicou no site do projeto We Animals uma compilação de fotografias ambientadas nos matadouros da Tailândia e de Taiwan. Chocante!
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Kashmir: A Coup against the Constitution and the Kashmiris
People's Union for Civil Liberties | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – The PUCL condemns the abrogation of key portions of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and the bifurcation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and taking away its statehood. While the deed by itself is deceitful, the manner in which it was done is even more so.
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Why Krishna Comes to This World
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | ISKCON – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
August 1973 at the Bhaktivedanta Manor, in the countryside near London. Several thousand guests (including the Indian High Commissioner) listen to Swami Prabhupada speak about the day Lord Krsna made His appearance on earth 5,000 years ago – CELEBRATED ON 23-24 AUGUST 2019.
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(Français) Comment les médias occidentaux soutiennent le terrorisme d’Etat qui fait des millions de victimes
Florian Zollman, Alan Macleod, Jeffery Klaehn, Daniel Broudy and Matthew Alford | Peace News – Le Grand Soir,
19 Aug 2019
21 juillet 2019 – Quatre universitaires examinent la couverture médiatique des affaires étrangères dans un article censuré (puis refusé) par une grande publication libérale.
→ read full articleNeoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – America’s chief competitor in the trade war is obviously China, which subsidizes not just worker costs but the costs of its businesses. The government owns 80% of the banks. Typically, if the businesses cannot repay the loans, neither the banks nor the businesses are put into bankruptcy. The non-performing loans are just carried on the books or written off. No private creditors are hurt, since the creditor is the government, and the loans were created on the banks’ books in the first place (following standard banking practice globally).
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(Italiano) Il segreto Nato online: le 150 bombe in Europa
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
12 Aug 2019
9 Agosto 2019 – Che gli Stati uniti mantengano bombe nucleari in cinque paesi della Nato – Italia, Germania, Belgio, Olanda e Turchia – è provato da tempo (in particolare dalla Federazione degli scienziati americani). La Nato però non l’ha mai ammesso ufficialmente. Qualcosa tuttavia è andato storto.
→ read full articleKapu Aloha Needed Now More Than Ever to Free Us from Our Addiction to War & Violence
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019 – Kapu Aloha is a solemn Hawaiian pledge and commitment to live aloha (love and nonviolence) even under the most adverse circumstances. The U.S. spends 32 million dollars per minute on war – every minute of every hour of every day of the year. The U.S., which represents only 5% of the world’s population, has 45% of the world’s guns. There are 390 million guns in the U.S., more guns than people. This includes 15-20 million military assault weapons, the kind used in the recent mass killings in El Paso and Dayton.
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(Português) A Naturalização do Horror no Brasil
Frei Betto | Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
10 ago 2019 – Em 1934, o embaixador José Jobim (assassinado pela ditadura em 1979) publicou o livro Hitler e os Comediantes onde descreve a ascensão do líder nazista e a reação do povo alemão diante de seus abusos. Não se acreditava que ele haveria de implantar um regime de terror. E sabemos todos que deu no que deu. Estou convencido de que Bolsonaro sabe o que quer, e tem projeto de longo prazo para o Brasil. Adota uma estratégia bem arquitetada. Enumero 10 táticas mais óbvias.
→ read full article(Français) La résolution des Nations Unies pour la culture de la paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
1er août 2019 – La lutte pour une culture de la paix pourrait gagner beaucoup plus de force si cette résolution était utilisée comme base d’analyse et de pratique par plus d’organisations dans le monde, mais malheureusement, elle est mal connue. La situation me rappelle l’utilisation d’un autre document historique des Nations Unies, la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme.
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(Français) Le Traité FNI enterré, les nouveaux euromissiles arrivent
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – Investig’Action,
12 Aug 2019
5 Août 2019 – Conclu en 1987 par Gorbatchev et Reagan pour éliminer les misses nucléaires à portée courte et intermédiaire, le traité FNI est désormais enterré. Après avoir accusé la Russie de l’avoir violé sans apporter la moindre preuve, les États-Unis y mettent un terme sans ambages. Ce qui place l’Europe dans une situation périlleuse.
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Trump Regime Aims to Starve Venezuelans into Submission
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – The Trump regime is waging all-out war by other means on Iran and Venezuela, heading toward a similar policy against China. Their latest shoe to drop against Venezuela occurred Wednesday [7 Aug] when a vessel carrying 25,000 tons of soy cake was illegally seized in the Panama Canal. The ship is “being kept in the Panama Canal due to the criminal blockade imposed by” the Trump regime, explained Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.
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Rohingya Poets Turn Words into Art of Resistance
Natalie Brinham, Yuriko Cowper-Smith, and Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – Rohingya poets featured in an anthology, I am Rohingya, write with an urgency and passion of genocide survivors. They reclaim their experience, their group identity and their agency from the victimhood that has framed their existence for so long.
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(Italiano) Ai confini dell’estrattivismo: il saccheggio del patrimonio spirituale
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
29 Luglio 2019 – Secondo la versione inglese di Wikipedia (che qui traduco in italiano) “estrattivismo si riferisce al processo di rimozione di grandi quantità di materiali grezzi o naturali, soprattutto per destinarli all’esportazione. La maggior parte delle risorse estratte viene esportata perché vi è una mancanza di domanda nei paesi di origine.”
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Very revealing and interesting experiment… In Spanish but Understandable.
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(Português) Desflorestação da Amazónia brasileira cresce 278% num ano
MadreMedia | Lusa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 ago 2019 – A desflorestação da Amazónia brasileira atingiu 2.254,8 quilómetros quadrados (km2) em julho, um número 278% superior ao mesmo período de 2018, referem as últimas estimativas do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), atualizadas na terça-feira [6 ago].
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New York Area Fire Commissioners Make History, Call for New 9/11 Investigation
Ted Walter | Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
On July 24, 2019 — nearly 18 years after the horrific attacks that traumatized a nation and changed the world forever — the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District, just outside of Queens, New York, became the first legislative body in the country to officially support a new investigation into the events of 9/11. The resolution, drafted and introduced by Commissioner Christopher Gioia, was unanimously approved.
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Toni Morrison on the Power of Language: Her Spectacular Nobel Acceptance Speech after Becoming the First African American Woman Awarded the Accolade
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
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Neoliberalism, Neofascism & Trumpism – Racist Alliance of Mob & Capital
Dr Gideon Polya | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
4 Aug 2019 – Philosopher Hannah Arendt found common causes of genocidal Western European imperialism on 5 continents and genocidal 20th century fascism as an alliance between the mob and capital, with a commonality in this union of extreme nationalism, lying, rapacity, atrocity-justifying racism and anti-humanism. Today American Trumpism is ferociously anti-intellectual, anti-humanist, nationalist and racist, with genocidal Trump threats to “totally destroy” or “obliterate”.
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Israel’s War on Innocence: Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Courts
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – Ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli military and police is so widespread and systematic that videos and reports of their arrests are almost a staple on social media platforms concerned with Palestine and Palestinian rights. The sad reality is that Muhammad Elayyan, 4, and Qais Obaid, 6, and many children like them, have become a target of Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Eat Less Meat: UN Climate Change Report Calls for Change to Human Diet
Quirin Schiermeier | Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019 – The report on global land use and agriculture from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon.
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As India and Pakistan – And America and Iran – Go Toe-To-Toe, Now Is the Time to Recall the Scorched Corpses of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Robert Fisk | The Independent – Microsoft News,
12 Aug 2019
8 Aug 2019 – This week marks only the 74th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over the past few days, I’ve had to look hard to find a headline about the two Japanese cities. But, especially in the Middle East and what we like to call south-east Asia, we should be remembering these gruesome anniversaries every month. Hiroshima was atomic-bombed 74 years ago on Tuesday; Nagasaki 74 years ago on Friday. Given the extent of the casualty figures, you’d think they’d be unforgettable.
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Tulsi Gabbard Has Done the Unpardonable: Criticized US Global Hegemony
David Bromwich | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
3 Aug 2019 – The Times’ yellow journalism half disguised as human interest, with a few random points of political information. Headline: “Unorthodox Campaign Shows Isolationism May Have a Hold.” Opening sentence: “Tulsi Gabbard is running for president of a country that she believes has wrought horror on the world.”
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Why Native Hawaiians Are Fighting to Protect Maunakea from a Telescope
Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Pundits have said the Native Hawaiian resistance to the Thirty Meter Telescope project is a conflict between science and culture. But the protectors are not against science; they just believe the telescope does not belong on Maunakea’s sacred lands. The mountain is among the most sacred sites in Hawaiian cosmology.
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The Politics and Potential of the Green New Deal
Johanna Bozuwa | Progressive Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
10 Jul 2019 – The Green New Deal “is not, and cannot be, simply about reducing carbon emissions. It must be ambitious enough to construct entirely new national institutions, reorganize sectors of our society, transform extractive industry into real wealth creation for communities, and rigorously rewrite the rules of the game for business and the economy at large.”
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Leo Tolstoy on Kindness and the Measure of Love
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. Kindness is for your soul as health is for your body: you do not notice it when you have it.”
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Burning Down the House
Alan Weisman | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
August 15, 2019 Issue – Environmental writers today have a twofold problem. First, how to overcome readers’ resistance to ever-worsening truths, especially when climate-change denial has turned into a political credo and a highly profitable industry with its own television network. Second, in view of the breathless pace of new discoveries, publishing can barely keep up. I’m not the only writer to wonder whether books are still an appropriate medium to convey the frightening speed of environmental upheaval.
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(Português) Criação de Animais em Regime Industrial É Um dos Piores Crimes da Humanidade
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 ago 2019 – O destino dos animais criados em regime industrial é uma das questões éticas mais urgentes do nosso tempo. Dezenas de bilhões de animais sencientes, cada um com sensações e emoções complexas, vivem e morrem em uma linha de produção. A marcha do progresso humano está repleta de animais mortos.
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The Paradox of Mortality: Death and Perpetual Denial
Devaleena Kundu | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Literary discourses often seek to explore the emotional motley experienced by individuals while encountering death and dying. Representations by literary artists offer a virtual space wherein readers partake of the conclusive episode in a character’s lived experience. However, does a reader in the process imagine and accept his/her own cessation? Or does it always have to be an “other” being at whose death we are present as voyeurs? Freud in his 1918 work “Reflections on War and Death” observed: “We cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we find that we survive ourselves as spectators.”
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Meet Antonio C. S. Rosa: Pioneer in Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Peace Journalism, a New Paradigm for Journalists Covering Conflict Situations: Meet the man behind TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE-TMS
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Washington Orders International Embargo on Venezuela, Threatens Invasion
Andrea Lobo | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday [6 Aug] freezing “all property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States.” The move is the culmination of a series of increasingly severe sanctions and marks a new stage in the US coup operation against the Government of Nicolás Maduro.
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John Pilger Warns: “Do Not Forget Assange. Or You Will Lose Him”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – In a tweet that has been shared more than 10,000 times, Pilger wrote: “Do not forget Julian #Assange. Or you will lose him. I saw him in Belmarsh prison and his health has deteriorated. Treated worse than a murderer, he is isolated, medicated and denied the tools to fight the bogus charges of a US extradition. I now fear for him. Do not forget him.”. Christine Assange, Julian’s mother, responded to Pilger’s update with a series of tweets.
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London International Arms Fair
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Sands Films Studio, in Rotherhithe, is hosting a series of alternative events to compete with the International Arms Fair 2019 taking place at ExCeL. In one venue, various expressions of protest and opposition to the Arms Fair and all other such Death Fairs anywhere in the world. Series of Alternative Events: Sep 10-14, 2019
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How to Shift to a More Plant-Based Diet, without the Guilt
Leslie Crawford | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Wellness activist Kathy Freston takes a compassionate, no-guilt and shame-free approach to omnivores who try to reduce their meat consumption, but who may not be on board the vegan train.
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Terrorism American Style
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
The 19-year-old opened fire on innocent people at the outdoor Gilroy Garlic Festival in California on Sun 29 Jul 2019, killing three people and wounding 12 others, according to Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee.
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Google’s Extravagant Climate Change Camp Mocked as Party for ‘Entitled Fools’
Ebony Bowden | Page Six – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – Google’s carbon-spewing climate change conference at an Italian resort has been widely slammed as a tone-deaf party for the elite A-listers who jetted there. “Is there anything more hypocritical than a bunch of rich people flying their private jets across the world to sit on yachts and discuss the future of our planet?” reflected the general reaction online to this week’s Google Camp event in Sicily.
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(Français) Démasquer la torture exercée sur Julian Assange
Nils Meltzer | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
La tribune libre ci-dessous a été proposée par le professeur Nils Melzer, Rapporteur spécial des Nations unies sur la torture, pour être publiée à l’occasion de la Journée internationale pour le soutien aux victimes de la torture, le 26 juin 2019, au Guardian, au Times, au Financial Times, au Sydney Morning Herald, à The Australian, au Canberra Times, au Telegraph, au New York Times, au Washington Post, à Reuters et à Newsweek. Tous ont refusé de la publier.
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Gun Violence in 2019: There Have Been 251 Mass Shootings in the U.S. in 216 Days
Daniel Politi | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
It was a particularly deadly 24 hours in the USA as a shooting spree early Sunday [4 Aug] morning in Dayton, Ohio, which left at least 10 dead, including the gunman, took place less than a day after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and killed at least 20 people. The violence in Dayton, which took place on the 216th day of the year, marked the 251st mass shooting of 2019, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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