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Coping Capacity of Governance as Dangerously Questionable
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Recognizing Assumptions and Unasked Questions when Facing Crisis – The question here is whether the institutions of governance, and those attaching credibility to them, are capable of recognizing that there is every possibility that they are unable to cope. It could be argued that this has long been the case.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – The struggle for a culture of peace could gain much more force if this resolution were used as the basis for analysis and practice by more organizations around the world, but unfortunately it is relatively unknown. The situation reminds me of the use of another landmark UN document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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(Português) E agora, Brasil?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Sul21 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
23 julho 2019 – As palavras que mais ocorrem são estupefacção e perplexidade. O governo brasileiro caiu no abismo do absurdo, na banalização total do insulto e da agressão, no atropelo primário às regras mínimas de convivência democrática, para já não falar das leis e da Constituição. A perplexidade decorre de outra verificação, não menos surpreendente: a aparente apatia da sociedade civil, dos partidos democráticos, dos movimentos sociais, enfim, de todos os que se sentem agredidos por tamanho desconchavo.
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U.N. Urges Sanctions on Myanmar Army Businesses, Says Foreign Partners Could Be Complicit
Angie Teo and Poppy McPherson | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
5 Aug 2019 – United Nations investigators urged world leaders today to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing business with them could be complicit in international crimes.
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March of the Uyghurs
Andre Vltchek | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
21 Jul 2019 – The Uyghurs have managed to create a very old and deep culture. Most of them are good, law abiding citizens of the PRC. Also the great majority of followers of Sunni Islam are peaceful people. This work is addressing terrible problems related to extremism and terrorism, most of them crafted and then fueled by the West and its allies. The goal is to damage China. The victims live in various countries. Again, the West tries to destroy China, using religion and terror.
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Mahathir’s Rohingya Proposal Spurs Mixed Reactions
Riyaz ul Khaliq | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – A recent proposal by Malaysian premier that the Rohingya ethnic minority should be given the chance to form their own state drew cautious reactions from members of the persecuted community.
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Judge’s Ruling Throws Huge Spanner into US Extradition Proceedings against Assange
Tom Coburg | The Canary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
31 Jul 2019 – A US judge has ruled that WikiLeaks was fully entitled to publish the Democratic National Congress (DNC) emails, which means no law was broken. The ruling is highly significant as it could impact upon the US extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as well as the ongoing imprisonment of whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
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How Trees Talk to Each Other
Suzanne Simard | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
“A forest is much more than what you see,” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances. Learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes.
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No ‘Made In Israel’ Label for Settlement Wines: Canada Court
AFP | Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
29 Jul 2019 – A Canadian court today ruled that it was “false, misleading and deceptive” to label wines made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as a “Product of Israel.”
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Protecting Palestinians: Postcolonial Reminiscences
Siba N'zatioula Grovogui | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
The troubling part of the neglect to protect Palestinians today is that the degradation of the lives of Palestinians and the existential threat to the territorial integrity of post-partition Palestine are the direct consequences of actions by the ‘international community,’ including indulging Israeli occupation, and the response of Palestinians to both. The lack of both accountability for the occupation and the denial of rights to protection and self-determination have multiple origins.
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Context Matters Except for the Palestinians
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019 – Palestinians could and should have done better in setting forth their own vision of peace. The extreme one-sidedness of the Trump approach handed Palestinians a golden opportunity to declare as forcibly as possible the urgent and immediate need for a new peace intermediary that was a facilitator, and not a partisan as past American presidents, or an imposer as this one seems to be. The United States had long overplayed its hand as ‘honest broker.’
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‘Elites’ Flock to Google Summit in 114 Private Jets, Mega Yachts to Talk Climate Change
Emily Smith and Ebony Bowden | Page Six – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – The world’s rich and famous have flocked to a posh Italian resort to talk about saving Mother Earth — but they sure are punishing her in the process.
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Unlike South Africa, the World Is Giving Israel a Pass on Apartheid
Amjad Iraqi | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
26 Jul 2019 – A UN Security Council resolution rejecting South Africa’s 1983 constitution shows that there is precedent and necessity to act against Israel’s Nation-State Law.
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The U.S. Military Emits More Greenhouse Gases than Sweden and Denmark
Scotty Hendricks | Big Think – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
• A new study shows how the United States’ Military is the largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world.
• These emissions come from both combat and non-combat operations.
• The use of some of the fossil fuels the military burns to protect the supply of oil creates an interesting paradox.
Dear Wonderful Kids (& Co.)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
4 Aug 2019 – It looks like a funny tale. But it is much more than just that—it is about nothing less than your health. Please read this (and ask your grown-ups to explain and… behave themselves).
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A Brief History of the CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan
Thomas C. Mountain | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – With the CIA’s dirty war in South Sudan winding down, it’s time to take a brief but comprehensive look at the origins and history of this most secret of Pax Americana crimes in Africa. It is in the national interests of the USA to deprive China of access to African energy resources, with the Sudanese oil fields being the only Chinese owned and operated in Africa.
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The Science of Sleep: Dreaming, Depression, and How REM Sleep Regulates Negative Emotions
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
“Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation. Dream images are the product of that creation.”
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It Took a Crisis to Bring Hawaiians Back Together
Trisha Kehaulani Watson | Honolulu Civil Beat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – Some proponents of the Thirty Meter Telescope have commented to me that they wish Hawaiians were putting this kind of energy into nation-building or addressing issues like housing or health. My response is that this is all those things. This is nation-building. Nationhood was never going to emerge from a conference room or hastily written constitution. It was always destined to emerge from crisis. There absolutely needed to be some catalyst that brought Hawaiians together.
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Incentivizing the Cartels: Evan Ratliff’s “The Mastermind”
Antony Loewenstein | Los Angeles Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Le Roux, a 46-year-old ex-computer programmer, said that he had built a mercenary army to overthrow the government of the Seychelles, armed a 200-man militia in Somalia, smuggled methamphetamine out of North Korea, sold missile technology to Iran, and shipped guns out of Indonesia. Asked by the prosecutor what he had trafficked over the years, he said, “Cash, chemicals, drugs and gold.” The weapons, Le Roux said, were sold to “rebels, warlords, criminals — essentially anyone who had money.” The technology-driven cartel model that Le Roux pioneered is only in its infancy. His was a road map for a new kind of organized crime, fully exploiting the power of the Web.
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Can the Department of Defense Win Its Complicated Battle against Climate Change?
Daniel Ross| Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – The world’s biggest institutional user of oil is grappling with the impacts of climate change.
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What Now, Brazil?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
29 Jul 2019 — The words that come to mind the most are astonishment and perplexity. The Brazilian government has slipped into the abyss of absurdity, into an absolute trivialization of abuse and aggression. Not a day goes by that we are not bombarded with bits of news and comments that seem to come out of some ideological sewer overflowing with years or centuries of rancid decay, exuding the most pestilential stench as if it were the very perfume of novelty and candor.
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Wouldn’t Get Fooled Again (Music Video of the Week)
Pete Townshend | The Who – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
A Classic from 1971 whose lyrics are even truer today.
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Julian Assange’s Lawyer Briefs Australian Parliamentarians on His Persecution
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – As many as 30 federal Australian parliamentarians attended a closed-door legal briefing by Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer for Julian Assange, at Canberra’s parliament house yesterday. The MPs included representatives of the conservative parties, Labor and the Greens. The barrister outlined the dire implications for press freedom and democratic rights of the US-led persecution of Assange.
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The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Front Men
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | Children’s Health Defense Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
23 Jul 2019 – The pharmaceutical has a “complex and mutually-dependent” relationship with physician trade groups and physicians. Although the details are not always fully or accurately documented, the funding trail can often provide revealing clues. Thus, the American Academy of Pediatrics, one of the most notorious vaccine industry front groups, receives funding from all four manufacturers of childhood vaccines in the U.S. (Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline).
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Japan Approves First Human-Animal Embryo Experiments
David Cyranoski | Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
26 Jul 2019 – A Japanese stem-cell scientist is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals since a ban on the practice was overturned earlier this year. The research could eventually lead to new sources of organs for transplant, but ethical and technical hurdles need to be overcome.
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Geopolitical Crimes: A Revolutionary Proposal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019 – International criminal law has developed a framework for judging the criminal conduct of states with respect to armed conflict but is silent about even the most severe crimes of diplomacy. It is these ‘geopolitical crimes’ that are more responsible for inflicting mass suffering on civilian populations than are most of the forms of international behavior currently criminalized. I am aware that criminalizing acts of diplomacy is a revolutionary idea, but no less for that, deserving of commentary and debate.
→ read full articleClarifying the Unexplored Dynamics of 12-fold Round Tables
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
29 Jul 2019 – This exploration follows from previous concern that, despite their symbolic importance, little effort has been made to clarify the possible dynamics between people of wisdom variously configured together at an archetypal “round table”. The issue is of continuing importance with respect to 12-person juries and the committees of the wise periodically convened in response to challenges of governance.
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Ike’s Warning about America’s Threat to World Peace: The 15 Biggest Pentagon Contractors That Make up the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Out-of-Control Military Spending Since Eisenhower’s Presidency May be the Primary Reason Why the US National Debt is $23,000,000,000,000 (23 trillion) and Counting.
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The Secret Language of Trees
Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard | TED-Ed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
1 Jul 2019 – Learn how trees are able to communicate with each other through a vast root system and symbiotic fungi called mycorrhizae. Most of the forest lives in the shadow of the giants that make up the highest canopy. These are the oldest trees, with hundreds of children and grandchildren. They check in with their neighbors, share food, supplies and wisdom gained over their lives, all while rooted in place. How do they do this?
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I Was Inside This Family’s Home when Israeli Troops Came to Demolish It
A. Daniel Roth | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 – Spending the night with Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, hoping to stop the bulldozers coming to demolish their homes. ‘Our whole lives are here. Where can we go?’
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Empire’s War under the Radar: Nicaragua
Roger Stoll | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
13 Jul 2019 – Live from Nicaragua: An Uprising or a Coup? authored and published by the Alliance for Global Justice. In April of 2018 armed and unarmed proxies of the US in collaboration with Nicaraguan elites launched a war against the Nicaraguan state and its people. This 270-page ebook, a “Reader,” is offered free and includes essays, investigative journalism, interviews and first-hand accounts of the war. It is a thoughtful and multifaceted collection covering a highly significant event in modern revolutionary and anti-imperialist history.
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The Cheapest Way to Save the Planet Grows Like a Weed
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019 – Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. For skeptics who reject the global warming thesis, reforestation also addresses the critical problems of mass species extinction and environmental pollution, which are well documented. Rather than engaging in endless debates over carbon taxes and Silicon Valley-style technological fixes, we need to be regenerating our soils, our forests and our oceans with nature’s own plant solutions.
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Child Separation & Prison Camps: China’s Campaign against Uyghur Muslims Is “Cultural Genocide”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 – Chinese authorities have been accused of systematically separating Muslim children from their families in the far western region of Xinjiang. According to a new report commissioned by the BBC, China is rushing to build boarding schools where children, mostly from the Uyghur community, are deliberately removed from their families, as well as their language and culture.
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The Puerto Rican People and their Combative Spirit
Carlos Aznarez | Resumen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019 – Current events in Puerto Rico are clear evidence that when people are challenged beyond the limits of their patience they just explode, leading to the possibility of unpredictable consequences.
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Puerto Rico Governor Resigns after Popular Protests
Jerry White | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019 – After two weeks of protests demanding his removal, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation late last night. In a statement posted online, Rosselló said he would step down on August 2. The protests reached their highpoint on 22 Jul when 1 million people participated in the huge procession in San Juan, a substantial portion of the island’s 3.2 million inhabitants.
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Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
“The key is building fires where you can warm yourself as you wait for the tempest to pass.”
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Trump Adds $4.1 Trillion to National Debt. Here’s Where the Money Went
Sibile Marcellus | Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 – Once President Trump signs the budget deal that was passed by the House yesterday and is expected to be approved by the Senate in a few days, he will have added $4.1 trillion to the national debt. It seems that Trump is steadily walking toward a collapse of the US federal debt, which could trigger the fall of the US Empire–by 2020 according to peace/conflict researcher, sociologist Johan Galtung.
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(Italiano) Vivere nella casa comune
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Aristotele aveva definito l’”oikonomia” come l’arte di vivere, differenziandola dalla “crematistica”, l’arte di fare soldi. Oggi l’economia, spiega Vandana Shiva, “è diventata solo una brutale macchina da soldi che sta distruggendo le case dei poveri e la nostra casa comune. È diventata una guerra contro le persone e il pianeta… Anche il significato originale di ricchezza è benessere e felicità, non denaro…
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(Français) Le traité UE-Mercosur, un chèque en blanc pour violer les droits de l’homme et dévaster la planète
Tom Kucharz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Juil 2019 – Acclamé par des dirigeants comme le président espagnol Pedro Sánchez, l’accord commercial entre l’Union européenne et les pays du Mercosur est critiqué pour avoir blanchi l’extrême droite brésilienne ou pour les conséquences dévastatrices du commerce entre les deux régions sur les populations et le climat.
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All the News Is Bad
Francis Gooding | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
How long do we have left, and how bad will it get? David Wallace-Wells opens his book with a short, sharp reality check: ‘It’s worse, much worse, than you think.’ All the news is bad. Marshalling research from across the sprawling field of climate studies, he paints a picture of disastrous change on an almost incomprehensible scale. –>The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells, Allen Lane, 320 pp, Feb 2019
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Fully Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated — A Summary of the Research
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
“How do child health outcomes compare between fully vaccinated and unvaccinated children”? During a Congressional hearing on autism, Dr. Coleen Boyle, the Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, gave evasive answers to lawmakers pressing her on this point. After considerable badgering, she finally stated, “We have not studied vaccinated versus unvaccinated [children].” That was perjury.
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Road Map to a Green New Deal: From Extraction to Stewardship
Mathew Lawrence | Common Wealth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
5 Jul 2019 – The latest report from the UK-based think tank Common Wealth includes “a transatlantic proposal” for making public power ownership a core feature of the Green New Deal. A public buyout of the fossil fuel industry is the timeliest way to bring to heel the industry’s insatiable pursuit of profit at the expense of the planet.
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The US Government Just Officially Recognized the Satanic Temple as a Religion
Matthew Bell | PRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
There’s a new religion in America.
• The Satanic Temple has earned the same tax-exempt status as a church by the IRS.
• The Satanic Temple is growing rapidly, with around 20 chapters across the US, and affiliate groups in Canada, Australia, Germany, and the UK.
• While members of the Satanic Temple see the mythological, and literary, figure of Satan as a symbol of rebellion against tyranny, they do not worship Satan in any way.
Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account in Response to Backlash
Caitlin Johnstone | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 – After a week of vocal protests from online supporters of Julian Assange, Twitter has reversed its unjust removal of the prominent pro-Assange activism account @Unity4J. It cannot be denied that there is pressure being applied to new media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to forcibly marginalize all perspectives which fall outside the ever-shrinking Overton window of approved political discourse.
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NSA Whistleblower Speaks about Julian Assange & the ‘Shadow Government’
Arjun Walia | Collective Evolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
22 Jul 201 – Longtime high-ranking NSA employee William Binney shares his thoughts on the arrest of Julian Assange and who is really in control.
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Non-state Violence and the Right to Protect Oneself against Excessive State Use of Force
Chiara Redaelli | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Positive international law does not recognise a right to rebel or a right to self-defence to groups against state’s excessive use of force. Nevertheless, de lege ferenda we may wonder whether the traditional approach should be revised. The R2P doctrine confirms that the international community considers genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity as particularly heinous. In light of the gravity of these crimes, it is not preposterous to wonder whether they could trigger a right to self-defence, at least under certain circumstances.
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Privatization Increases Corruption
Jomo Kwame Sundaram | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019 – International financial institutions (IFIs) have typically imposed wide-ranging policy reforms – called ‘conditionalities’ – in exchange for country governments to secure access to financial assistance. IFI policy conditionalities, such as the privatization of state-owned enterprises, can create new rentier opportunities, undermining government will and capacity to curb corruption.
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(Português) A Verdadeira História dos Erros Futuros
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Opinion SUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
5 jul 2019 – A verdade de um sistema errado é o erro. Para ser politicamente eficaz, este erro tem de ser incessantemente repetido, amplamente difundido e aceite pela população como a única verdade possível ou credível. É necessário que o que se difunde seja percebido como algo com que naturalmente temos de estar de acordo, que o que se aceita seja aceite para o bem de todos e que, se envolver algum sacrifício, ele seja o preço a pagar por um bem maior no futuro.
→ read full articleEcological Mouthprint versus Ecological Footprint
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 – Learning Action Avoidance from Rabbits in Anticipation of Disaster – Much is now made of assessments of carbon footprint, ecological footprint and climate footprint, and the strategies for their reduction in different situations. There is however a case for exploring the choice of the footprint metaphor given its associations with the most distant part of the human anatomy, however grounded it may be held to be — despite being necessarily left behind.
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Modern Money Theory: How I Came to MMT and What I Include in MMT
L Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
I was asked to give a short presentation at the MMT conference. What follows is the text version of my remarks, some of which I had to skip over in the interests of time. Many readers might want to skip to the bullet points near the end, which summarize what I include in MMT.
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The Joy of Suffering Overcome: Young Beethoven’s Stirring Letter to His Brothers about the Loneliness of Living with Deafness and How Music Saved His Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?” Like Frida Kahlo, Beethoven sublimated a lifetime of unbearable bodily suffering to the irrepressible vitality of his creative spirit. Bedeviled by debilitating physical illness and loss of hearing at the age of twenty-eight, he nonetheless became a servant of joy. Even Helen Keller, herself deaf and blind, conveyed the timeless transcendence of his music in her moving account of “hearing” his Ode to Joy.
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(Français) Dominants des médias, médias dominants et médiatisation de la pensée dominante
Denis Souchon | Le Grand Soir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
16 juillet 2019 – La connaissance des groupes dominants de l’espace médiatique, une arme au service de la lutte de libération et d’appropriation démocratique des médias.
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(Português) 10 Razões para Não Frequentar Touradas
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Por favor, não vá à tourada!
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The Big Lie
Jeff Davis | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
End US terror wars and US drug wars!
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Fighting Climate Change Means Ending War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
17 Jul 2019 – The “world’s greatest democracy” has morphed, over the course of my lifetime, into a money-driven military-industrial monstrosity, waging pointless wars, selling arms to the world, expanding its prison archipelago and generating endless wealth for the powerful — all the while insulated from public scrutiny by the mainstream propaganda industry, which shrugs and calls it all self-defense and situation normal as it serves up endless distractions to Spectator Nation.
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Will The Real Gene Sharp Please Step Forward?
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
16 Jul 201 – Recent criticisms calling the founder of nonviolent theory a Cold Warrior are way off the mark. To rightly evaluate him, we need to understand the role he chose for himself.
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The Ignominious Collapse of the Case against Actor Kevin Spacey
David Walsh | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
19 Jul 2019 – Cape and Islands District Attorney announced that his office was dropping its sexual assault case against prominent actor Kevin Spacey. The prosecution had little choice in the matter since the accuser in the case, William Little, refused to testify 10 days ago. Little, after consulting with his family and legal counsel, pleaded the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination, essentially bringing the pretrial hearing and the entire case to a halt.
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My Browser, the Spy: How Extensions Slurped Up Browsing Histories from 4M Users
Dan Goodin | Ars Technica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
18 Jul 2019 – Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public? Don’t trust extensions.
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Shoot to Maim: The Harvesting of Palestinian Bodies
Ghassan Abu-Sittah | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
After 30 years of working as a Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon with the injuries inflicted by the Israeli war machine on the bodies of Palestinians, I have been driven to try to understand the politics of injuring within the greater context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This journey culminated on the eve of the 14th of May 2018 (the move of the American Embassy to Jerusalem) when, over a period of 4 hours, 3,400 Palestinian demonstrators were wounded by Israeli troops, the majority of whom with high velocity sniper rifles.
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July 1995 Srebrenica Genocide: A Mirror for All Europeans
Dunja Mijatović | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
10 Jul 2019 – This happened with the complicity of a passive international community which knew what was happening but chose to look away. It took its final form in deliberate acts intended to destroy a group of people only because they were Muslims – before the unseeing eyes of those who did not feel concerned.
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Required Reading: Noura Erakat on Palestine and Law
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, by Noura Erakat, Stanford University Press, 2019 – I make no claim to approach this book with an open mind. Making a fuller disclosure, I acknowledge with some pride that I have endorsed Justice for Some even before it was published, and my blurb appears on its back cover.
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(Français) Twitter supprime le compte de l’organisation de défense d’Assange
Mike Head | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
15 juillet 2019 – Jeudi dernier, sans préavis ni explication, Twitter a arbitrairement suspendu le compte de @Unity4J, une plateforme dédiée à la diffusion d’informations et au plaidoyer pour le fondateur de WikiLeaks Julian Assange. Au moment d’écrire ces lignes, le compte a disparu depuis deux jours.
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(Português) Djokovic diz que está se recuperando melhor desde que parou de se alimentar de animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
13 jul 2019 – O célebre tenista sérvio Novak Djokovic, número 1 do ranking mundial, disse esta semana que está se recuperando melhor desde que parou de se alimentar de animais há alguns anos. “Não tenho mais as alergias que eu costumava ter. Gosto disso”
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Scientists Identify Malaria’s Achilles’ Heel
James Ives, Editor | News Medical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
29 Jun 2019 – Scientists have finally found malaria’s Achilles’ heel, a neurotoxin that isn’t harmful to any living thing except Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria.
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Worshipping the Electronic Image
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
15 Jul 2019 – Our post-literate culture has crippled us intellectually and produced a president whose babble replicates the nonsensical diatribes of the age.
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Top Assange Defense Account Deleted by Twitter
Caitlin Johnstone | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
12 Jul 2019 – One of the biggest Twitter accounts dedicated to circulating information and advocacy for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, @Unity4J, has been completely removed from the site. The operators of the account report that they have been given no reason for its removal by Twitter staff, and have received no response to their appeals.
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Does Religion Cause Violence?
William T. Cavanaugh | Harvard Divinity Bulletin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
[A qualifying note from the TMS Editor: The main premise of this essay–acquittal of organized religion–relies heavily on the Abrahamic religions’ (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) interpretations, theologies, doctrines and scriptures; a built-in bias from the author’s Christian background.]
→ read full articleClimate Changed: The U.S. Military Has Spewed $21 Billion in Emissions since 9/11
David R Baker | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
American armed forces–with a globe-spanning array of bases, warships, planes and land vehicles–are the world’s largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases, topping countries including Sweden and Denmark, according to the study from Brown University’s Costs of War project.
→ read full articleA Short History of the High Costs of Military Air Shows
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Part of the process that led many to killing and dying for their nation’s financial elites began with the thrill of experiencing military air shows. America’s soldiers, airmen, seamen and marines have been, in reality, working not for the US constitution to which they pledged allegiance, but rather for a whole host of nefarious special interest groups that stopped supporting them when their broken bodies, their broken brains and the body bags came home under cover of darkness.
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This Dutch City Has Transformed Its Bus Stops into Bee Stops
Michiel de Gooijer | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
8 Jul 2019 – In the Dutch city Utrecht 316 bus stops now have a green roof. They do not only look great, they also help capture fine dust, storage of rainwater and provide cooling in the summertime. From Bus Stops to Bee Stops
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Debunking the Indo-Pacific Myth
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
9 Jul 2019 – The Trump administration is obsessively spinning the concept of a “free and open Indo-Pacific”. Apart from a small coterie of scholars, very few people around the world, especially across the Global South, know what that means. Now everything one needs to know – and especially not know – about the Indo-Pacific is contained in a detailed Pentagon report.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
15 Jul 2019 – Faced with global crises, it is useful to recall the variants of the well-known insight: There Is Always a Well-Known Solution to Every Human Problem — Neat, Plausible, and Wrong. How many of the advocated global strategies can be recognized in that light?
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In Myanmar’s Conflict-Torn Rakhine, Fresh Allegations of ‘War Crimes’
Poppy McPherson and Thu Thu Aung | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
12 Jul 2019 – When 35-year-old Ah Hla showed up to a police station in western Myanmar in late April hoping to see her husband among the prisoners, she didn’t know whether he was alive or dead. “I went there with the hope that I am going to see my husband, but he was not there,” said Ah Hla, who had walked to the police station with a group of relatives of the detained men. When she arrived, police told her that her husband of 15 years had hanged himself in his cell, and that his body had already been disposed of.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Frantz Omar Fanon was a Martinique-born French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and an existentialist humanist concerning the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
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US Duty Free Shop Owners Give Millions to Israeli Settlements
Uri Blau and Josef Federman | Associated Press – ABC News,
15 Jul 2019
1 Jul 2019 – When travelers shop at Duty Free Shops at airports worldwide, they may be paying for more than a bottle of vodka or box of chocolates. The Falic family of Florida, owners of the ubiquitous chain, funds a generous and sometimes controversial philanthropic empire in Israel that runs through the corridors of power and stretches deep into the occupied West Bank. The family supports many far right causes considered extreme even in Israel.
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Planetary Condominium: The Legal Framework for the Common Home of Humanity
Paulo Miguel Ferreira Magalhães, et al. | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Inspired by the thoughts of Garrett Hardin and Elinor Ostrom the submission proposes to legally recognize the Earth System as Natural Intangible Common Heritage of Humankind and scale-up the legal model of condominiums to the global level: A condominium is an object with a unitary structure and common functional systems, with private rights for determined fractions and, simultaneously, common ownership and governance for common structures and functions. Different legal regimes would be able to coexist. A revived UN Trusteeship Council would be the guardian of the new heritage and others global commons, as well as for addressing global catastrophic risks using the planetary boundaries framework as a guidance system.
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Bangladesh Can Make Myanmar Pay for Crimes against Rohingya
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
8 Jul 2019 – Bangladesh simply lacks the resources to cope with the burden of having to shelter and feed 1.2 million Rohingya genocide survivors. It is also unfair to Dhaka to be left to handle a huge refugee burden alone without adequate financial support from the international community. Dhaka should move International Court of Justice to force Myanmar to pay reparations to for hosting victims of genocide.
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Defining Constructive Resistance
Majken Jul Sørensen | Journal of Resistance Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
What does it mean when people start to build the society they desire independently of structures of power?
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150,000,000 More Child-Mothers?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
So far, 650 million women alive today were married as children.
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Against Busyness and Surfaces: Emerson on Living with Presence and Authenticity
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.” — Walt Whitman
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Why Stimulus Can’t Fix Our Energy Problems
Gail Tverberg | Our Finite World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
10 Jul 2019 – Economists tell us that within the economy there is a lot of substitutability, and they are correct. However, there are a couple of not-so-minor details that they overlook: There is no substitute for energy. It is possible to harness energy from another source, or to make a particular object run more efficiently, but the laws of physics prevent us from substituting something else for energy.
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And Ye Shall Inherit the Whirlwind or Learn to Live in Gratitude and Grace (Parts 1 to 3)
Stefan Schindler | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
We are free to become free. This is the lesson taught by Socrates. It is also the essence of Buddhism. The word “Buddha” means “awake.” Awakening, as Plato would say, is recollecting the sanity we were born with. Nietzsche quotes Pindar: “Become who you are.” We are inextricable strands in the holistic web of being and becoming. Said the poet Byron: “Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part of me and of my soul, as I of them?” John Lennon said: “I am the walrus.”
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Land Thieves Ramp up Deforestation in Brazil’s Jamanxim National Forest
Sue Branford and Thais Borges | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
4 Jul 2019 – Deforestation is rising dramatically in Brazil, with satellite data showing the country’s Amazonian region lost more forest in May than during any other month in the past decade.
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Indian Child Lydian Nadhaswaram Plays the Piano Masterfully (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Word in the streets is that Lydian Nadhaswaram is an incarnation of Chopin… Who am I to judge or contradict? Just enjoy…
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(Italiano) Verso il bordo della guerra: Provocare l’Iran per che cosa? Per chi?
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
10 Luglio 2019 – L’intervista seguente con il giornalista iraniano Javad Hieran-Nia è stata pubblicata in Iran su Iran Mehr News e Tehran Times insieme al Middle Scholar’s Statement sulla politica iraniana di Trump.
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In Most of America, It’s Saturday – in Tennessee, It’s a Day to Honor the KKK’s First Grand Wizard
Ryan Koronowski | Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
13 Jul 2019 – Today is “Nathan Bedford Forrest Day” in Tennessee, according to a proclamation signed by Gov. Bill Lee (R). Forrest, for those who may not know their Civil War history, was a Confederate general who was elected to be the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He was also a slave trader and perpetrator of the Fort Pillow Massacre of hundreds of black Union troops.
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R2P-R2K, the Responsibility to Protect and the Right to Know: Reflections on the Question of Palestine
Irene Gendzier | The Beirut Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
What can R2P mean in a period when the most powerful state in the world is one that violates international law with impunity, as in the decision by the U.S. President on March 25, 2019 to legitimize Israel’s control over the Occupied Golan Heights? What, then, does it mean to endorse R2P in Palestine/Gaza in this context? Who has the power to enforce the Responsibility to Protect in an environment defined by Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza?
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Remembering the World Court Advisory Opinion on Israel’s Separation Wall after 15 Years
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
The question that remains is ‘how much longer can the Zionist Project swim against the strong historical current of anti-colonialism?’ The answer in my view depends on whether the global solidarity movement, together with Palestinian resistance, can reach a tipping point that leads Israeli leadership to reconsider its ‘security’ and its future. Such a point was reached in South Africa, admittedly under quite different conditions, but with an analogous sense that the Afrikaner leadership would never give up control without being defeated in a bloody struggle for power.
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(Português) Quando John C. Reilly desistiu de filme por ser contra a morte de um burro
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Reilly estava participando das filmagens em Trollhättan, na Suécia, quando afirmou que não continuaria na produção ao saber que um burro seria assassinado.
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Controlling Deadly Malaria without Chemicals
Jules Bernstein | Univ. of California Riverside – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
28 Jun 2019 – Scientists have finally found malaria’s Achilles’ heel, a neurotoxin that isn’t harmful to any living thing except Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria.
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Consciousness + Institutional Change = Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
2 Jul 2019 – People are taking to the streets to defend human rights and demand democracy around the world. We need more institutional change if we are to harness the consciousness of people in the coming decade when the global financial system has crashed and a window of opportunity opens for us to move from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
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Toward the Brink of War: Provoking Iran for What? For Whom?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
30 Jun 2019 – The following interview with the Iranian journalist Javad Hieran-Nia was published in Iran’s Mehr News and Tehran Times together with Middle Scholar’s Statement on Trump’s Iran Policy.
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Facebucks Are the Last Thing the World Needs
Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
5 Jul 2019 – Is Facebook’s money—Libra—funny money, or a threat to all currencies? Or is it just a giant scam to transfer people’s cash into Facebook? Just what is the social media giant up to?
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Provoking Iran Over and Over: US “Throwing Kitchen Sink” at Islamic Republic
Makia Freeman | The Freedom Articles – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
2 Jul 2019 – Provoking Iran has become a favorite US pastime, it seems. The CIA, along with the Mossad and MI6, just can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to bullying, meddling with and provoking the Persian nation. From Operation Ajax in 1953 to the Iranian Revolution of 1979, from shooting down an Iran Air commercial passenger plane in 1988 to pulling out of JCPOA in 2018 to (last week) violating Iranian air space in 2019, the US government is engaging in extreme provocation of the Islamic Republic in the hopes of getting it to take the bait.
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(Italiano) Lo scarpone militare affonda nel pantano artico
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
25 Giugno 2019 – Military bootprint si può tradurre come ‘impronta dello scarpone militare’ – che richiama il concetto, ormai abbastanza diffuso, di ‘impronta ecologica’ – e in questo caso fornisce un’indicazione (più che una misura) dell’impatto ambientale esercitato dall’apparato militare sul pianeta.
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What Comes after Bahrain?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
6 Jul 2019 – Is There an ‘After’ after the Kushner Show in Bahrain? The growing movement of global solidarity as reinforced by Palestinian acts of resistance to apartheid structures of oppression is the sole basis for a peaceful future for both peoples, Palestinians and Israeli Jews.
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Hundreds of Sharks and Rays Entangled in Plastic Debris, Study Finds
Jordan Davidson | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
5 Jul 2019 – More than a thousand sharks and rays have become entangled in jettisoned fishing gear and plastic debris, a new study has found. The researchers behind the study warn that the plastic trapping the sharks and rays may cause starvation and suffocation.
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Debt-Free Money: A Non-Sequitur in Search of a Policy
L Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
In discussing money, G.F. Knapp (one of the developers of the State Money Approach, adopted by Keynes and by Modern Money Theory) made a useful analogy with the cloakroom token. When you drop off your coat at the cloakroom, the attendant offers you a token, usually with an identification number. The token is evidence of the debt of the cloakroom, which owes you a coat. Some hours later you return with the token. The attendant returns your coat.
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(Français) Assange doit être un hacker: la tribune du rapporteur spécial de l’ONU sur la torture que les médias anglo-saxons ont refusée
Ambassadeur Nils Melzer | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
Cette tribune a été proposée pour publication 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. Aucun n’a répondu positivement. – Je sais, vous pensez peut-être que je me fais des illusions. Comment la vie dans une ambassade avec un chat et un skateboard peut-elle être assimilée à de la torture? …
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US Government Tops All for Creating Refugees
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
30 Jun 2019 – This new report from the United Nations proves that America’s regime-change operations have actually created half of the world’s refugees. It proves that America’s penchant for invading and trying to overthrow the governments that its billionaires want to replace (“regime-change”) has been by far the biggest of all single causes of refugees worldwide, vastly higher than any other government.
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