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Over 9,000 Palestinians Displaced in a Decade of West Bank Demolitions
Natasha Roth-Rowland | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
24 Dec 2019 – Israel’s demolition regime in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has destroyed over 6,000 Palestinian structures, displacing thousands of Palestinians over the past decade — over half of whom are children and minors.
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NIH Director on Human Gene Editing: ‘We Must Never Allow Our Technology to Eclipse Our Humanity’
Francis S. Collins | Discover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
29 Dec 201 – The year opened with the scientific community scrambling to respond to the news that Chinese researcher He Jiankui had used CRISPR technology to edit the genomes of human embryos. The experiments resulted in the birth of twin girls, the first humans with genetically altered germline cells — which means their genetic changes are heritable and can be passed on to future generations. We consider such experiments both irresponsible and unethical.
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The Stitching-up of Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg
Keith Davis | The Australian Independent Media Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
27 Dec 2019 – So while we sit on our arses and fiddle with our fingers a brave son of Australia is about to be thrown to the wolves. It would pay us well to read, and reflect upon, the following transcript between the President of the United States, his National Security Adviser, and his Attorney General.
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Illegal Tin Mining Leaves Trail of Ruin in Protected Brazilian Rainforest
Ana Ionova | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
30 Dec 2019 – The damage became clear once the rain stopped over Altamira National Forest in northern Brazil. Instead of dense jungle, large patches of bare land now flanked the banks of the rivers in this protected stretch of the Amazon rainforest. “When we got a clean satellite image we just saw devastation,” said one source at a government environmental agency. “We never saw anything like that in Altamira.”
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Trump, Troll-In-Chief, Wags the Impeachment Dog by Going to War with Iran
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – The madman in the White House has been sulking and raging for weeks about his impeachment proceedings, tweeting manically on some days more than 100 times. Trump has abruptly begun trafficking in the sanguinary merchandise of all-out war just at this moment when his throne is on the brink of toppling. Now, by murdering Qasem Soleimani, Trump has brought the United States to the brink of war with Iran.
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War with Iran
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – The assassination of Gen. Soleimani has opened a Pandora’s Box containing existential dangers to the American Empire.
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2020 Vision: A New Year’s Regeneration
Ronnie Cummins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
1 Jan 2020 – The solutions we need are no farther away than the nearest solar panel, wind farm, retrofitted building, bicycle path, electric vehicle, community garden, farmers market, organic farm and holistically-managed ranch. The solutions we need lie at the end of our forks and knives, under the trees that shade us, the carbon-sequestering soil below our feet, the consumer dollars in our wallets and our nearest voting booth.
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Trump’s Ordered Assassinations: Cruel and Inhumane Breach of International Law
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
‘There are those who benefit from war, the militarists, the arms dealers, the corporate media/military industrial complex, but those who really pay for militarism and wars are the people and the tax of the poor. The propaganda and lies of of war are being spread and this time the target is Iran, just like US/UK/NATO carried out wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc. Let us, the people, learn lessons from the past and unite and mobilize calling for no war against Iran. USA troops out of Shannon and out of Iraq! Yes to nonviolence, peace and dialogue! Let the people unite together to stop war, remembering that there is power in truth and love is stronger than hate.’
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We Must Do More to Prevent Nuclear War
John Polanyi, Nobel Chemistry Laureate | THE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
The existing nuclear weapons states have no special right to possess nuclear weapons. Indeed, they should have no such moral right. Although powerful, these existing nuclear powers are vulnerable, being bound together by fragile networks of nuclear obligations. It is our great good fortune – nothing more – that has spared us from nuclear war.
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(Italiano) Che cosa muove l’antisemitismo? Forme fasulle e reali
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
30 Dicembre 2019 – Solo il tribalismo più estremo può spiegare l’etichettatura di coloro che si oppongono al trattamento abusivo di Israele nei confronti del popolo palestinese come “antisemiti”. Consideriamo l’incapacità di Aung San Suu Kyi di condannare l’abuso da parte del Myanmar dei Rohingya come il lancio delle nuvole più scure sul suo Nobel Premio per la Pace. È un insulto agli ebrei e agli altri semiti consentire ai sionisti di imprimere solidarietà alla lotta palestinese per i loro diritti fondamentali come antisemitismo.
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How a Rising Anti-Mining Movement Is Challenging Portugal’s ‘White Gold’ Rush
Marina Martinez | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
19 Dec 2019 – Throughout Portugal, people are organizing to stop a boom in lithium mining, as the government rushes to become Europe’s top supplier of the valuable mineral.
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The Big Change Coming to Just About Every Website on New Year’s Day–Thanks, California!
Aaron Mak | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
30 Dec 2019 – Starting New Year’s Day, you may notice a small but momentous change to the websites you visit: a button or link, probably at the bottom of the page, reading “Do Not Sell My Personal Information.”
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The UN Predicted Gaza Would Be Unlivable by 2020. They Were Right.
Tania Hary | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – Israel is trying to keep Gaza ‘quiet’ by applying new calculations to make life survivable — without allowing the people to truly live. While revelers around the world are making New Year’s resolutions for 2020, in the Gaza Strip, a different kind of assessment is taking place as Palestinians try to determine whether, or how, they can survive.
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Jonas Brothers: Only Human (Music Video of the Week)
The Tonight Show | Jimmy Fallon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
The Jonas Brothers perform “Only Human” for the Tonight Show audience.
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A World Dividing: The International Implications of the Sino-American Rift
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. | Quincy Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
• The U.S.-China trade war is reshaping global politics, creating new patterns of economic integration and alignment.
• By announcing a new era of “great power competition,” the United States is committing a mistake. It should instead focus on solving planet wide problems like climate change and sustaining economic and technological progress. All such challenges require some measure of cooperation with China.
Forgetting 2019
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – At this age, having exhausted prose options, I indulge myself during holidays by sharing poems that seek also your indulgence. I searched 2019 for some glimmers of good news, and felt stymied. Of course here, there, everywhere there were glorious private exceptions.
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Imagining a World without Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
27 Dec 2019 – Anti-capitalists had a miserable year. But so did capitalism. The point is to suggest, just before the New Year, the wondrous possibilities of a truly liberal, post-capitalist, technologically advanced society. Those who refuse to imagine it are bound to fall prey to the absurdity pointed out by my friend Slavoj Žižek: a greater readiness to fathom the end of the world than to imagine life after capitalism.
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(Português) Novo Filme sobre Testes em Animais Está Disponível Online
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
29 dez 2019 – O documentário “Test Subjects”, sobre a realidade dos testes em animais já está disponível no Vimeo para quem quiser assistir online. “Espero que esse filme ajude a desafiar essa crença e lance luz sobre o fato de que testes em animais são ineficazes quando se trata da saúde humana”.
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Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
Stan Shabaz | Zinda Magazine/Assyrian International News Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
His most famous work, The Prophet, was first published in 1923. He has been described in many ways: “melancholic romantic”, “existentialist of the right wing”, Nietzschean rebel, revolutionary, renegade, poet-philosopher, “the William Blake of the twentieth century”, the “Lebanese prophet of New York”, a “burning genius”, etc. But who was he really?
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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task.”
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Afghan Children: Work of Necessity, Work of Choice
Carolyn Coe | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
2 Jan 2020 – If children like himself had a choice, Gul Mohammad thinks it better that they be able to study instead of having to work. He values an education and doesn’t want to join the estimated 1.6 million Afghan addicts. “If I don’t study, I could become like some people who stop studying and become addicts and who can’t find any job to support their families.” He started selling bread in a bakery when he was 8.
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The Fight to Expose Israel’s Arms Sales to the World’s Most Repressive Regimes
Sahar Vardi | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
25 Dec 2019 – In the span of less than 10 years, activists from across the political spectrum went head to head with the Israeli government, trying to bring an end to its arms exports to tyrannical governments worldwide.
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Each New Year
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
another revolution
around the sun
a moment of pause
to take account
(Italiano) Immorale il Possesso di Armi Nucleari
Editoriale | Il Foglio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
«L’uso dell’energia atomica per fini di guerra è immorale, come allo stesso modo è immorale il possesso delle armi atomiche, come ho già detto due anni fa. Saremo giudicati per questo dalle nuove generazioni. Come possiamo parlare di pace mentre costruiamo nuove e formidabili armi di guerra? E mentre giustifichiamo determinate azioni illegittime con discorsi di discriminazione e di odio?» — Papa Francesco
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Billionaires’ Wealth Surged in 2019
Barry Grey | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 – The wealth of the world’s 500 richest people rose 25 percent in 2019, reaching a combined net worth of $5.9 trillion. To place this figure in some perspective, these 500 individuals control more wealth than the gross domestic product of the United States at the end of the third quarter of 2019, which was $5.4 trillion.
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(Castellano) Cada Nuevo Año [Poema]
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
otra revolución
alrededor del sol
un momento de pausa
para considerar
Symbolic Disconnection from the Stars and the Universe?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
30 Dec 2019 – Surreptitious Global Implementation of Full-Spectrum Dominance and Shielding – Produced in Anticipation of the Imminent Launch of a Vast Array of Communications Satellites
→ read full articleCapitalism and Robbery: The Expropriation of Land, Labor, and Corporeal Life
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – It is impossible to understand the totality of capitalist relations apart from the conditions of both exploitation and expropriation, which together generate the ensemble of oppressions that characterize the system. It is here too that we begin to understand the various interlocking aspects of capitalist domination, which require a corevolutionary praxis in response.
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The Infinite Hotel Paradox
Jeff Dekofsky | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
The Infinite Hotel is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. What if it’s completely booked, but one person wants to check in? What about 40? Or an infinitely full bus of people? Jeff Dekofsky solves these heady lodging issues using Hilbert’s paradox. Enjoy our stay!
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Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century
Ron Paul | Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lute’s cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war.
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The People of India Are Taking It to the Streets to Challenge Modi’s Bigoted and Dishonest Government
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019 – Every day and in every part of India, hundreds of thousands of people—mainly young people—gather on the streets to express their anger at the government. Their protests, like those of the protests in Chile, emerged out of one particular grievance but then have cascaded outward.
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Julian Assange “Slowly Dying” and “Often Sedated” at UK Belmarsh Prison
Mike Head | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 -Vaughan Smith is a freelance video news journalist who gave refuge to Assange in 2010. He tweeted that Assange called his family on Christmas Eve: “He told my wife and I how he was slowly dying in Belmarsh where, though only on remand, he is kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and is often sedated.”
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Japan’s Radioactive Water Will Be Released into Ocean or Atmosphere
Dan Robitzski | Futurism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
27 Dec 2019 – Officials overseeing the crumbled remains of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant have a growing problem: they’re running out of space to store its radioactive water. The only options on the table are dumping 1.7 million tons of contaminated water into the ocean, evaporating it so it enters the atmosphere, or a combination of both–in the not-so-distant future.
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WaPo’s Afghan Papers Propagate Colonial Narrative of Noble Intentions Gone Awry
Joshua Cho | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
The Afghanistan Papers should also be considered an excellent case study of contemporary colonial propaganda, and yet another example of corporate media criticizing US wars without opposing US imperialism. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s famous analysis of media coverage of the Vietnam War, in Manufacturing Consent, found that questions of the invasion’s “tactics and costs”—to the US—dominated the debate.
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The Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
28 Dec 2019 – The problem may be that a transition to 100% renewables is the wrong target. Reversing climate change need not mean emptying our pockets and tightening our belts. It is possible to sequester carbon and restore our collapsing ecosystem using the financial resources we already have, and it can be done while at the same time improving the quality of our food, water, air and general health.
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Brazil Amazon Deforestation Climbs more than 100% in November over Same Month Last Year – Government Agency
Marcelo Teixeira | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published today.
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New Russian Nuclear Weapon Can Travel 27 Times the Speed of Sound
Vladimir Isachenkov | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
27 Dec 2019 – A new intercontinental weapon that can fly 27 times the speed of sound became operational today, Russia’s defense minister reported, bolstering the country’s nuclear strike capability. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that he believes “it’s probably a matter of a couple of years” before the U.S. has one.
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Bolivia’s Coup Dictator Seeks to Annihilate Opposition from Exiled
Ramona Wadi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
27 Dec 2019 – In light of what is occurring in Venezuela, the latest imperialist intervention in Bolivia must be exposed as a plan not only to oust Morales, but also as one aimed at regional destabilisation. Deposed President Evo Morales will be working with an international team that includes the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, who in 1998 issued an international arrest warrant for Pinochet.
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EU: China Must Close Its “Re-Education Camps” for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Meps Say
News | European Parliament – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
19 Dec 2018 – MEPs express serious concern about China’s repression of the Uyghurs and call on the Chinese government to close the “re-education camps” in Xinjiang immediately.
• Torture, digital surveillance and arbitrary detentions without any charge
• Harassment of Uyghurs abroad
• Call on Council to adopt targeted sanctions and freeze assets
On the Road to Gaza: The Freedom Flotilla Will Sail Again
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
25 Dec 2019 – What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets? On a daily basis, Gaza is conveyed to us as a bloody image or a dramatic video, none of which can truly capture the everyday reality of the Strip – its formidable steadfastness, the everyday acts of resistance, and the type of suffering that can never be really understood through a customary glance at a social media post.
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China Detaining Millions of Uyghurs? Serious Problems with Claims by US-Backed NGO and Far-Right Researcher ‘Led by God’ against Beijing
Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz.
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Families Fleeing from Guatemala: A Case of Corporate and State Aggression
Marc Pilisuk, Jennifer Rountree and Rebecca Ferencik | Council of Hemispheric Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019 – In its attempt to stem the number of Latin American men, women, and children traveling to the U.S. seeking asylum, the Trump administration has pushed Guatemala and other countries in the region to sign “safe third country” agreements. The U.S. is bound by law to receive asylum seekers and this new agreement is an attempt to avoid this obligation by declaring Guatemala as a safe third country. However, an agreement does not make it so.
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Shelley’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and the Spiritual Value of Vegetarianism
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Since the dawn of our species and its consciousness, we have reverenced other animals and incorporated them into our myths and our metaphors, into the basic fabric of our stories. But we have also eaten them — we may be the storytelling animal, but we are fundamentally animal. “By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth, to give a fair trial to the vegetable system.”
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The Most Important Free Press Stories of 2019
Leonard C. Goodman | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019 -Assange and Manning are being persecuted for speaking truth to power.
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(Italiano) Il nostro mondo che svanisce: fauna e flora selvatica
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
Nel corso della sua storia, la Terra ha vissuto cinque estinzioni di massa. Ora sta vivendo la sesta.
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(Português) Hambúrgueres vegetais salvam 250 mil animais por ano nos EUA
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 dez 2019 – “São 140 mil suínos e 110 mil bovinos por ano sendo ‘salvos do sistema alimentar’’, destaca a WAP-World Animal Protection, que considerou números baseados nas vendas estimadas em restaurantes de fast food nos EUA.
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(Français) De nouveaux documents de WikiLeaks démentent les mensonges sur une attaque chimique en Syrie en 2018
Niles Niemuth | WSWS, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
19 Déc 2019 – Des documents publiés par WikiLeaks le 15 décembre confirment l’existence d’une dissidence importante au sein de l’Organisation pour l’interdiction des armes chimiques (OIAC), l’organisme mondial de surveillance des armes chimiques. Les différences concernent la rédaction d’un rapport public sur l’attaque présumée du 7 avril 2018 à Douma, en Syrie, qui aurait tué 49 personnes et blessées jusqu’à 650.
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Greenland Is Nearing a Climate Tipping Point–How Long Warming Lasts Will Decide Its Fate, Study Says
Bob Berwyn | InsideClimate News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019 – Past meltdowns occurred with temperatures only slightly higher than today’s, suggesting the world is overestimating the ice sheet’s stability, scientists say.
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Why Climate Change Is an Irrelevance, Economic Growth Is a Myth and Sustainability Is Forty Years Too Late
Kevin Casey | Global Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
20 Nov 2019 – As someone who has been exploring the world’s most isolated wilderness regions for nearly half a century, I have some insight into the state of the planet and the human race’s current environmental befuddlement. While it’s reassuring that today’s young people are increasingly aware of the seriousness of their environmental plight, they are protesting up the wrong tree. They should direct their passionate attention to the real enemy – a greedy, arrogant, two-legged species that’s in furious denial and has become far too adept at making excuses for the inexcusable.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Why do we need to do anything? Inspired by the succession of UN Climate Change Conferences (COP). Manifesto:
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Assange Gives Evidence in Spanish Case against Security Contractor
Thomas Scripps | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was brought from Belmarsh Prison yesterday to appear in person at Westminster Magistrates Court and provide video-link witness testimony. The relentless nine-year persecution of Assange—including the flagrant violation of his human rights and the monitoring of his every word and movement while he was supposed to be protected by political asylum—is aimed at terrorising all would-be whistleblowers and journalists into silence.
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Four Criteria for Differentiating Faith-Based Entities
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Religious currents, especially Islamic schools of thought, are often considered as monolithic blocs, and sometimes opposed to each other. In fact, not only do some academic and political elites regard various currents of Islamic thought as a form of extremism, but they also do the same with regard to the practice of religion itself.
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2019 Latin America in Review: Year of the Revolt of the Dispossessed
Roger Harris | COHA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
2019 has not been an entirely bullish year for US imperialism, notwithstanding the hard turns to the right in Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Powerful winds against neoliberalism are gusting in Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, and even in the US “Commonwealth” of Puerto Rico. Regime-change operations failed in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
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Is Growth Passé?
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
9 Dec 2019 – Some suggest that the Paris climate agreement’s target for limiting global warming can be achieved only by stopping economic expansion. But there is ample room to change the quality of growth and significantly reduce its environmental impact without condemning billions of people to lives of deprivation.
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Latin America: The Conservative Offensive and the Return of Class War
Antoine Pelletier interviews Franck Gaudichaud | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Several countries in Latin America are currently experiencing very powerful class conflicts and extremely violent repression on the part of reactionary forces and the state. The following is an overview of the situation in various countries and the dynamics of their struggles.
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Corporate Media Silent on Journalists’ Letter Demanding Freedom for Julian Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
11 Dec 2019 – In a glaring act of political censorship, media corporations in the English-speaking world have maintained a complete silence on a powerful open letter by journalists and media workers issued last weekend demanding the unconditional freedom of Julian Assange. The blackout occurs under conditions where doctors have warned that Assange’s health has deteriorated to the point that he may die in Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison.
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The Hidden Military Use of 5G Technology
Manlio Dinucci | teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – While the earlier technologies were perfected to create ever more advanced smartphones, 5G is designed not only to improve their performance, but mainly to link digital systems which need enormous quantities of data in order to work automatically. The most important 5G applications will not be intended for civil use, but for the military domain.
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Militarism: The Delusion Lives
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019 – The annual defense budget, passed recently by both the House (377-48) and Senate (82-8), came in at $738 billion for 2020, up from last year a sweet $22 billion. War hits the motherlode every year.
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(Français) À Gaza, un artiste sculpte dans la terre la souffrance des Palestiniens
Tomas Statius | Konbini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Des statues en terre cuite grandeur nature à Gaza incarnent la douleur et la souffrance des Palestiniens dans une zone abandonnée en raison des bombardements israéliens.
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Chelsea Manning Must Not Be Forgotten!
Eric London | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019 – Yesterday, December 17, whistleblower Chelsea Manning spent her 32nd birthday alone in a prison cell in Alexandria, Virginia, where she has been locked up for nine months for refusing to testify in a grand jury proceeding against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Sore Sports: Russia Barred from Olympics for Thwarting Washington’s Geopolitical Game Plan?
Robert Bridge | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – Clearly, the motivation here is to humiliate, provoke and punish Moscow by any means available – even on the field of dreams.
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From a Blessing to a Curse: How UN Resolution 2334 Accelerated Israel’s Colonization in the West Bank
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Three years ago, the UNSC passed Resolution 2334. Immediately after its adoption, Israel thumbed its nose at the whole world by announcing plans to construct thousands of new homes in illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Gone are the days of traditional American “peace-making” and its adjoining elaborate discourse centered on a two-state and other make-believe solutions. Now, Israel is single-handedly formulating its own “vision”.
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Photo Essay: 2009 UN Climate Conference through the Lens of Mediators Beyond Borders
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – The 25th meeting of the Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 25, has just ended in Madrid. Ten years ago, I had the privilege of attending COP 15 in Copenhagen with Mediators Beyond Borders. 45,000 people registered. Delegates, negotiators, NGOs, press, and over 1000 youth participated in more than 2000 events over two weeks. Images below
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Should UN Peacekeepers Leave the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Ann Garrison | S. F. Bay Area – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – Since 1996 the history of DRC provinces has been of perpetual Rwandan and Ugandan invasion, occupation and resource plunder, and the UN Organization Stabilization Mission (MONUSCO) has failed to protect the people or the peace. I spoke to Jean-Claude Maswana about why and whether anything can be done. Maswana is a Congolese native and economics professor at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
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The Pentagon’s Disastrous Radioactive Waste Dump in the Drowning Marshall Islands is Leaking into the Pacific Ocean
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
19 Dec 2019 – Neither the Pentagon nor the US Government Will Take any Responsibility for the Crisis – An undesignated US SuperFund site in the middle of the Pacific that will be impossible to remediate even if the recalcitrant and bankrupt US government were inclined to do anything about it. These videos and images will help explain why the US corporate, political, military and religious elites must take responsibility.
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The Real Interest of the United States and Transnational Corporations in Latin America and the Caribbean
Enrique Moreno Gimeranez | Granma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – What are the real interests of the U.S. and corporations in the region? Freedom, democracy, human rights? No. Their goal is to preserve imperialist domination of our natural resources. Our America is again suffering escalating aggression by U.S. imperialism and local oligarchies.
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We’ve Been Epsteined! The Death of the “Conspiracy Theorist” Label
James Grundvig | Vaxxter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
The hairy canard of the CIA’s 1967 “conspiracy theorist” label died a thousand deaths when Epstein had his neck broken. With the murder of Jeffrey Epstein – only press lapdogs believe this narcissist committed suicide – the spin cycle has come to a full stop. The centrifuge is over. No more wet lies to be squeezed out of the bedsheets of pedophile rings or false flag events. I’m sure Epstein helped the hit squad turn off the hallway video cameras, too.
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13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
More Fluid Reflections on Keeping a Solid Center – On October 23, 2006, Brain Pickings was born as a plain-text email to seven friends. It was then, and continues to be, a labor of love and ledger of curiosity, although the mind and heart from which it sprang have changed — have grown, I hope — tremendously.
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Hope Lies in the Streets
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Global finance capital has seized control of the economies of most nation-states. The citizens watch, helplessly, as money and goods are transferred with little regulation across borders, as jobs in manufacturing and the professions are shipped to regions of the global south where most workers are paid a dollar or less an hour and receive no benefits, … Civil disobedience is the last tool we have to prevent corporate tyranny and save the planet.
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India’s Government Is Going to War against Its Own People
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019 – On December 13, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights released a powerful statement that criticized India’s new citizenship law. The UN said that not only does this law violate India’s obligations to conventions, treaties, and compacts that it has signed at the global level, but also that it is in violation of its own Constitution.
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Sackler-Owned Opioid Maker Pushes Overdose Treatment Abroad
Claire Galofaro and Kristen Gelineau | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Big Pharma Empire behind OxyContin Now Selling Overdose Cure – “You’re in the business of selling medicine that causes addiction and overdoses, and now you’re in the business of selling medicine that treats addiction and overdoses?” asked Dr. Andrew Kolodny, an outspoken critic of Purdue who has testified against the company in court. “That’s pretty clever, isn’t it?”
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Keynes Was Wrong – Gen Z Will Have It Worse
Malcolm Harris | MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – The founder of macroeconomics predicted that capitalism would last for approximately 450 years. That’s the length of time between 1580, when Queen Elizabeth invested Spanish gold stolen by Francis Drake, and 2030, the year by which John Maynard Keynes assumed humanity would have solved the problem of our needs and moved on to higher concerns. Instead of never-ending progress, today’s kids face a world on the edge of collapse. What next?
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The Freedom of Lula
Fernando Ayala | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – Political earthquake and great boost for the progressive space of the continent. Lula is a national and continental leader in Latin America. His release has made President Bolsonaro and his justice minister very nervous, who declared: “The majority of the congress can change the law or the Constitution”, referring to the fact that they could re-imprison the former president.
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Peace Linguistics: Contributions of Peacelinguactivist Francisco Gomes de Matos
Jocelyn Wright | Humanising Language Teaching – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
Even before the term peace linguistics was first formally defined in Crystal’s (1999) A Dictionary of Language, this distinguished applied linguist began giving workshops and presentations and publishing academic and creative works educating about and promoting peace. His contributions to this emerging field are noteworthy.
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The “Afghanistan Papers”: The Criminality and Disaster of a War Based upon Lies
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – The documents published by the Washington Post constitute a damning indictment of both major parties as well as the media for lying to the world for two decades. The Post obtained the raw interviews after a three-year Freedom of Information Act court battle. The Obama administration moved to classify the documents after the newspaper sought to obtain them.
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The Stubborn Persistence of the Military-Industrial State: The Pentagon Budget Still Rising, 40 Years Later
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – It is staggering the number of tax dollars that persistently go into what passes for national security in this country, i.e., subsidizing the U.S. military-industrial complex, year in, year out, at levels that should be (but aren’t) beyond belief. In 2019, Pentagon spending is actually higher than it was at the peak of either the Korean or Vietnam wars and may soon be twice the Cold War average.
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UK to Leave European Union at End of January after Johnson Passes Withdrawal Agreement
Robert Stevens | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – MPs have backed Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson Withdrawal Agreement Bill. MPs voted yesterday 358 to 234—a majority of 124. The massive majority vote was the first since Johnson defeated Labour by a landslide in last week’s general election.
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Congress Adopts Defense Bill That Creates Space Force
Joe Gould | Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019 ― Congress has approved a compromise defense policy bill that creates a new Space Force in exchange for establishing paid parental leave for federal workers, as part of $738 billion for the Pentagon for 2020. The Senate overwhelmingly approved the bill Tuesday, 82-8, just days after the House passed it, 377-48. The bill now goes to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature, and he has signaled he will sign the defense policy measure.
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In Final Hours, COP 25 Denounced as ‘Utter Failure’ as Deal Is Stripped of Ambition and US Refuses to Accept Liability for Climate Crisis
Julia Conley | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
14 Dec 2019 – After the talks on the Paris climate agreement went into overtime amid a stalled agreement on wealthy countries reducing their carbon emissions, civil society groups and scientists were shocked by the weak language that emerged from the late-night talks today. “The only thing more disastrous than the state of UN climate negotiations at COP 25 is the state of the global climate.”
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US House Approves Bill for Record Military Spending
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The House of Representatives voted by a huge bipartisan majority, 377–48, to approve the largest US military spending bill in history, providing a record $738 billion for the US war machine. The National Defense Authorization Act passed with 188 Democrats and 189 Republicans supporting it.
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Arctic Report Card 2019: Extreme Ice Loss, Dying Species as Global Warming Worsens
Sabrina Shankman | Inside Climate News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – For indigenous communities on the Bering Sea, a way of life is at risk as climate change hits fish populations and ricochets through ecosystems. When dead salmon wash ashore along the coast, the problem is much bigger than dead fish. It’s a sign of deeper trouble cascading through the Arctic’s ecosystems.
→ read full articleHearing the Variety of Voices in Climate Change Discourse
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – Recognizing the Challenge of Soundscape Comprehension in Controversy and Emergency – Current discourse on any theme is readily recognized as characterized by distinctive “voices” and their associated “tones”. This could be recognized as the primary characteristic of discourse between political parties — between the right and the left — now variously held to be “poisonous” and “toxic”.
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Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize 2020 Deadline: 31 Jan
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Please Nominate for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize – The Nobel Peace Prize Watch – wishing the prize to confer the greatest benefit on mankind (Nobel´s own words) – offers advice and help to get the best candidates nominated and each year submits a screening of all known and qualified candidates to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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(Italiano) In ricordo di un’amica: Anna Bravo
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
9 Dicembre 2019 – Ieri è improvvisamente mancata Anna Bravo. E’ una tristissima notizia, che ci sorprende e ci addolora. Solo la scorsa settimana, aveva invece risposto positivamente all’invito di dialogare con Giuliano Pontara nel convegno Gandhi after Gandhi organizzato dall’Università di Torino, in occasione del centocinquantesimo anniversario della nascita del Mahatma. Anche per questo la notizia della sua morte improvvisa ci ha colpiti in modo particolare.
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Kashmir Is Heading to a Point of No Return
Naveed Mehmood Ahmad | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The crackdown on the mainstream leadership in Jammu and Kashmir and the inability of the present dispensation, to take into confidence the Abdullah’s and the Mufti’s, is deeply problematic. The political doctrine that has been operating in Kashmir since 1947 has now been challenged. A rudderless policy may lead Kashmiri politics to a point of no return, with Khalida Shah recently calling for unity amongst leaders, including the separatists.
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(Français) Des néonazis ukrainiens parmi les manifestants à Hong Kong
Ben Norton | Investig’Action – The Grayzone,
16 Dec 2019
9 Déc 2019 – Dans les médias occidentaux, les manifestations qui embrasent Hong Kong sont présentées comme un combat honorable pour la liberté et la démocratie. Bizarrement, ce mouvement est ardemment soutenu par des figures notoires de l’extrême droite US. Et depuis, les manifestants hongkongais peuvent même compter sur les conseils de néonazis ukrainiens, venus partager leur expérience et leurs tactiques d’insurrection.
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The End of Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of History
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Literature Laureate | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
4 Nov 2019 – For 40 years, elites in rich and poor countries alike promised that neoliberal policies would lead to faster economic growth, and that the benefits would trickle down so that everyone, including the poorest, would be better off. Now that the evidence is in, is it any wonder that trust in elites and confidence in democracy have plummeted?
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix participa de mais uma campanha pró-vegana
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
5 dez 2019 – Joaquin Phoenix está participando de mais uma campanha pró-vegana – desta vez da organização Veganuary, que convida a população a experimentar uma dieta à base de vegetais em janeiro. Ator vegano diz que podemos lutar contra a violência do sistema alimentar optando pelo veganismo.
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Stunning Images Show How Severe Drought Has Changed One of the World’s Largest Waterfalls
Adriana Navarro | MSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019 – Situated across the Zimbabwe and Zambia border, Victoria Falls is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. However, after several months of severe drought, the natural wonder has lost some of its signature majesty, transforming from a thundering cascade plummeting more than 300 feet to a mere whimper of its former grandeur. Photos taken in January and December 2019 show the stark contrast in the condition of the falls before and after the drought.
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Reconciling Ecological Imperatives and the Right to Food at a Time of Bio-Ethical Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Humanity faces an unprecedented challenge in the coming decades that threatens the foundations of life itself, and yet to date societal reactions have been disappointingly weak and evasive, aside from voices in the wilderness. Despite expertly documented studies from the most qualified climate scientists, the overall response of supposedly responsible political and economic elites has been tepid, escapist, and even denialist.
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Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called Paul Volcker “the most effective chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.” But while Volcker, who passed away Dec. 8 at age 92, probably did have the greatest historical impact of any Fed chairman, his legacy is, at best, controversial.
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The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
The U.S./U.K./NATO propaganda outfit Bellingcat, like all effective war-promoting intelligence agency propaganda, needs the support of left-wing intellectuals to give it credence. The CIA recognized this in the 1950s and created multiple methods to get that support, which it has done effectively up to the present day. This left-wing support is necessary to control the thinking of the portion of the population that considers itself “educated” and in the know, who in turn pass on their compromised “knowledge” to others in a sophisticated game of mind control.”
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US Weaponizing Space in Bid to Launch Arms Race
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The US has utilized the 29-nation NATO alliance to rubber-stamp its criminal weaponization of space.
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The Book of Delights: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
“The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study… I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.”
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67 Pictures of Protest That Defined the Decade
Gabriel H. Sanchez | BuzzFeed News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
7 Dec 2019 – From #MeToo and Black Lives Matter to the Arab Spring and Hong Kong protests, here are the tremendous moments in activism that have defined this past decade.
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Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
8 Dec 2019 – Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in the UK and faces extradition to the USA and criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. WikiLeaks’ War Diaries provided evidence that the US government committed war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. We, journalists and journalistic organizations around the globe, express our grave concern for Mr Assange’s wellbeing, for his continued detention and for the draconian espionage charges. This case stands at the heart of the principle of free speech and free press.
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The Rape of India’s Soul
Jayati Ghosh | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – India’s rapid descent into xenophobia, violence, and irrationality. The government is keen to pass a new Citizenship Amendment Bill, which makes Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Parsi, or Christian refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan eligible for Indian citizenship. Muslims are excluded.
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(Français) Journalisme d’information et journalisme d’émotion
Philippe Stroot | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
9 Déc 2019 – Les 48e Assises de l’Union internationale de la presse francophone se sont réunies au Cameroun du 19 au 22 novembre. Plus de 300 journalistes et communicants d’une quarantaine de pays ont abordé le thème du journalisme d’information opposé au journalisme d’émotion, dans la foulée de la publication du livre d’Anne-Cécile Robert, Directrice des relations internationales du Monde diplomatique, intitulé « Stratégie de l’émotion ».
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Russia Banned from Next Olympics and World Cup Soccer
Brian Homewood and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
9 Dec 2019 – Russia was banned today from the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup. The World Anti-Doping Agency concluded that Moscow had planted fake evidence and deleted files linked to positive doping tests in laboratory data that could have helped identify drug cheats. If RUSADA appeals WADA’s punishment, the case will be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” – A Summary of the PNAC
Bette Stockbauer | PNAC Library & Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Blueprint of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony – Comparable to Hitler’s publication of Mein Kampf, ignored until the war was over.
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