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(Português) Governo permite que caçadores brasileiros comprem até 15 armas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
27 maio 2019 – Desde que o Decreto nº 9.785 foi publicado este mês no Diário Oficial da União, mudando as regras sobre armas, caçadores brasileiros passaram a ter o direito de comprar até 15 armas. Segundo o decreto, caçadores registrados no Exército podem adquirir munições em quantidade superior ao limite permitido pelo Exército.
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Are Environmentalists and Climate Scientists in Denial?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
28 May 2019 – Climate Change Recognized as Primarily a Psychological Challenge – The key to any viable strategic response to the planetary environmental tragedy is as much a psychological matter as one of constraining carbon emissions and other excesses.
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Success & Self-Determination
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
1 Jun 2018 – What distinguishes a healthy successful human being (or animal for that matter) from apathetic pathetic creatures who make excuses for their failures in life? Those who succeed are precisely those who have self-confidence to decide to work hard to change their circumstances and not take things for granted.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
1 Jun 2019 – In this month’s bulletin of CPNN we try to identify those to whom we can look for peace leadership in these turbulent times. Let us consider their actions and advice. Let’s listen first to the new generation of youth activists.
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Technotyranny: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
29 May 2019 – Red pill or blue pill? You decide. We are living the prequel to The Matrix with each passing day, falling further under the spell of technologically-driven virtual communities, virtual realities and virtual conveniences managed by artificially intelligent machines that are on a fast track to replacing us and eventually dominating every aspect of our lives. Science fiction has become fact.
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Manufacturing War with Russia
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
3 Jun 2019 – Despite the Robert Mueller report’s conclusion that Donald Trump and his campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential race, the new Cold War with Moscow shows little sign of abating. The demonization of Putin and Russia was designed to poison bilateral relations, boost U.S. war industry profits and make détente impossible.
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Modern Monetary Realism
James K. Galbraith | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
Is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) a potential boon to economic policymakers, or, as Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff recently argued, a threat to “the entire global financial system” and the front line of the “next battle for central-bank independence”?
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Resurrecting the PLO Is Palestine’s Best Response to the ‘Deal of the Century’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
29 May 2019 – Palestinian groups, Fatah, Hamas and others should not confine themselves to merely rejecting the Trump Administration’s so-called ‘Deal of the Century’. Instead, they should use their resistance to the new American-Israeli plot as an opportunity to unify their ranks.
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R2P and the Palestinian Ordeal: Humiliating the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
23 May 2019 – The fact that Gaza has not even been discussed at the UN, despite the prolonged, intense victimization of its vulnerable and impoverished civilian population is one more indication of the primacy of geopolitics and the marginalization of international law and morality. Only civil society activism can keep the torch of justice burning in this global climate.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
27 May 2019 – Produced in the light of concern regarding dissemination of “fake news” undermining elections to the European Parliament, of claims regarding the “fake news” purveyed by those seeking election, and in anticipation of an imminent false flag justification for war.
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The Hellish Cycle
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
15 May 2019 – Indebted, exploited, hunted down, shamed at home… the harsh reality of Southeast Asia’s migrants. The immense human dimension justifies this new attempt to report on an aspect that is deliberately hidden, unwanted to be seen by the new wave of pseudo-politicians in the United States and so far a full dozen of European countries. See what it is about.
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The Balkan Wars Created a Generation of Christian Terrorists
Azeem Ibrahim and Hikmet Karcic | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
24 May 2019 – War radicalized the far-right–and nobody stopped them at home. This failure produced the same kinds of figures and networks of radical extremism on the European right as happened with Islamist terrorism.
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How to Pay for the War
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
16 May 2019 – I’m going to talk about war, not peace, in relation to our work on the Green New Deal—which I argue is the big MEOW—moral equivalent of war—and how we are going to pay for it. So I’m going to focus on Keynes’s 1940 book— How to Pay for the War—the war that followed the Economic Consequences of the Peace.
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Germaine de Staël’s Guide to Haters
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
The First Modern Woman on Meritocracy, the Psychology of Why the Masses Rejoice in Tearing Down Successful Individuals, and the Only True Measure of Genius – “The life of man, so short in itself, is still of longer duration than the judgment and the affections of his contemporaries.”
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Haiti’s Market Women Resist Global Forces
Leslie Mullin | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
April 2019 – Haiti’s market system is at the heart of the nation. It is the backbone of the economy, as well as “the center: social, political and economic life rolled together.” Most trade is in the hands of women. In trying to make a life for themselves, market women confront foreign policy-makers, a hostile government and big business interests out to undermine the economic power represented by these resourceful women traders.
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Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela
Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs | CEPR-Center for Economic and Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
April 2019 – This paper looks at some of the most important impacts of the economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the US government since August of 2017. It finds that most of the impact of these sanctions has not been on the government but on the civilian population.
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Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
25 May 2019 – Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age, by Ellen Brown, Democracy Collaborative (June 1, 2019). Today most of our money is created, not by governments, but by banks when they make loans. This book takes the reader step by step through the sausage factory of modern money creation, explores improvements made possible by advances in digital technology, and proposes upgrades that could transform our outmoded nineteenth century system into one that is democratic, sustainable, and serves the needs of the twenty-first century.
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(Português) Abaixo-assinado com mais de 2,1 milhões de apoios contra Festival de Carne de Cachorro vai ser entregue na Embaixada da China
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
25 de maio de 2019 – No dia 12 de junho, às 11h, o movimento Nação Vegana Brasil vai entregar na Embaixada da China, em Brasília, um abaixo assinado com mais de 2,1 milhões de apoios contra o Festival de Carne de Cachorro. O objetivo é mostrar que o Brasil é contra a realização desse evento e que, além de injustificável, prejudica a imagem internacional dos chineses.
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98.3% of Ghana’s Gold Remains in the Hands of Multinational Corporations
Celina della Croce | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
22 May 2019 – The disproportionate focus on corruption of national leaders distracts from the systemic theft of national wealth by multinational corporations. When local leaders are deemed too much of a threat to multinational corporations’ interests, they are quickly deposed through coups, as we saw in Haiti (2004) and Honduras (2009), or destabilization campaigns, as we see in Venezuela today.
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
Bakunin formulated no coherent body of doctrine, and his voluminous and vigorous writings were often left incomplete. Anarchist movements owing allegiance to Bakunin flourished in Italy and especially in Spain, where as late as 1936 the anarchists were the strongest revolutionary party. Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer.
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There’s Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media than in US Corporate Press
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz – FAIR|Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
20 May 2019 – The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity with the facts in their Venezuela reporting, to the point that coverage of the nation’s crisis has become perhaps the world’s most lucrative fictional genre. Fairy tales about totalitarian state censorship in Venezuela reflect US corporate media regime’s own self-censorship, which is far more efficacious than any so-called “authoritarian” leader could imagine.
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Transition from a Unipolar to a Multipolar Octagonal World
Johan Galtung | World Public Forum, Dialogue of Civilizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University. He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize. Galtung has mediated in over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues, 96 as the sole author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages. He has published more than 1700 articles and book chapters and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service.
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Cuba Develops First Lung Cancer Vaccine
Moustaide | CubaHeal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
11 Dec 2018 – Cimavax-EGF is the first worldwide registered therapeutic vaccine for non-small lung cancer developed in Cuba. It is one of two lung cancer vaccines developed there. Racotumomab is the other one, which became available in January, 2013.
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Escaping Extinction through Paradigm Shift
Nafeez Ahmed | INSURGE Intelligence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
10 May 2019 – The driving motor of this destruction is the ‘endless growth’ paradigm of our current global economy, a paradigm that has seen human populations and cities grow exponentially across the world, in turn driving the exponential growth in consumption of resources, raw materials, food and energy. That accelerating expansion of industrial civilization-as-we-know-it has ravaged natural ecosystems, leading to the decline of numerous species that are critical for the continued healthy functioning of natural services providing food, pollination and clean water that are essential to sustain our own civilization.
→ read full articlePatterning Intuition with the Fifth Discipline
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
Critical Review of the Conclusion of the 5-Fold Patterning Instinct – Review of the concluding section of The Patterning Instinct: a cultural history of man’s search for meaning (2017) by Jeremy Lent.
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Long Life to Their Majesties, the Bees!
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
20 May 2019 – Amazingly organised social communities, bees ensure food chain. ‘Bee’ grateful to them… at least in their World Day! And always remember that they are working to ensure your food, your health and, by the way, alleviate the huge suffering that homo sapiens is causing to Mother Nature!
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(Français) “Notre problème, c’est l’obéissance civile”, par Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn | Les Crises – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
1 May 2019 – “Le problème n’est pas la désobéissance civile. Notre problème, c’est l’obéissance civile.”
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Stop a U.S. War on Iran!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
“Iran and Venezuela are both in the gun sights of U.S. imperialism. Sound the alarm and take action to stop these reckless and disastrous wars before they begin. Military personnel should prepare to refuse illegal orders to commit aggression against nations that are no threat to the U.S.”
— Gerry Condon, President, US Veterans for Peace
(Français) Gaza a fait son choix: toujours elle résistera!
Haidar Eid | The Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
7 Mai 2019 – Nous avions déjà passé des nuits blanches sous les bombardements israéliens – en 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014 et 2018. Samedi [4 Mai], le régime israélien d’apartheid a décidé de lancer une nouvelle campagne meurtrière de bombardement contre l’une des régions les plus densément peuplées de la planète. Encore une fois, les victimes étaient des enfants et des femmes.
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The Art of Being Alone: May Sarton’s Stunning 1938 Ode to Solitude
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
“There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone.”
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The Plot to Kill Venezuela
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
13 May 2019 – Weisbrot and Sachs say that these illegal sanctions “fit the definition of collective punishment,” as laid out in the Hague Convention (1899) and in the Geneva Convention (1949). Tens of thousands of Venezuelans are dead. Tens of thousands more are under threat of death. Yet, no one has stood up against the grave breach of the convention in terms of collective punishment. There is not a whiff of interest in the UN Secretary General’s office to open a tribunal on the accusations of collective punishment against Venezuela.
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Vandana Shiva Talks Poison Cartel, Farmers’ Rights and Ecofeminism
Melissa Pasanen | Seven Days/Navdanya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
3 May 2019 – Dr. Vandana Shiva, 66, the high-profile organic agriculture and environmental activist and author from Delhi, India, has received many awards and accolades over decades of advocacy work spanning organic agriculture, biodiversity, climate change and social justice. Shiva talks about bio-imperialism, the power of women, and bad curry.
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Registration Gives Many Rohingya Refugees Identification for the First Time
Alex St-Denis | UNHCR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
17 May 2019 – More than 270,000 stateless refugees from Myanmar provided with identity cards in an ongoing registration drive.
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Moon Landings: Magnificent and Deviously Contrived Propaganda
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | AULIS Online – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
13 May 2019 – The lunar surface is an extraordinarily hazardous environment. Temperatures fluctuate widely from above boiling point to far below freezing. Radiation abounds. Micrometeorites pummel the terrain ubiquitously. The vacuum of space would suck the life out of an insufficiently insulated liquid – or human being. Watching the Apollo astronauts frolic and cavort on this forbidding surface one would think they hadn’t a care in the world. They played golf. They used the Lunar Rover as a hot rod, and they hopped, skipped and jumped around.
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Remote Island Chain Has Few People — But Hundreds of Millions of Pieces of Plastic
Christopher Joyce | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
16 May 2019 – When a marine biologist from Australia traveled to a remote string of islands in the Indian Ocean to see how much plastic waste had washed up on the beaches, here’s just part of what she found: “373,000 toothbrushes and around 975,000 shoes, largely flip-flops. And that’s only what was on the surface.
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The Problem Is Civil Obedience
Howard Zinn | Zinn Reader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail, that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people are out of power, that the wealth is distributed in this country and the world in such a way as not simply to require small reform but to require a drastic reallocation of wealth. I start from the supposition that we don’t have to say too much about this because all we have to do is think about the state of the world today and realize that things are all upside down.
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When Identity Documents and Registration Produce Exclusion: Lessons from Rohingya Experiences in Myanmar
Natalie Brinham | London School of Economics and Political Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
10 May 2019 – State practices relating to registration and documentation since 1978 have played a significant part in multiple mass state-directed expulsions to Bangladesh . Such practices include the confiscation, destruction, nullification and targeted non-issuance of identity documents. Registration processes have become increasingly repressive, coercive and abusive since the mid-1990s, making survival for Rohingya in Myanmar more and more difficult. This bureaucratic cleansing has produced a steady stream of people out of the country since the 1990s.
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Required Reading on Palestine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel, by Andrew Ross, Verso; 2019 – Andrew: “… it would be no exaggeration to say that the ‘stone men’ of Palestine have built every state in the region except their own.” My final assessment: no matter how much you think you know about Palestine, you do not know enough until you have read this book.
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Futilely Trying to Expose Big Pharma’s Vaccine Cartel with Facts
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
14 May 2019 – Explaining, with easy-to-understand charts, why Autism Spectrum Disorders could soon reach an incidence of 50% among fully-vaccinated children in America (and some of the other half of the over-vaccinated children). They are at risk of developing the already escalating vaccine-induced disorders such as Autoimmune Disorders, Asthma, Allergies, the ASIA Syndrome, Macrophagic Myofasciitis and Type I Diabetes Mellitus.
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Then and Now
Christine Barie and Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
For the record…
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Assange and Beyond: Pray and Weep
Karen Kwiatkowski | LRC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
7 May 2019 – “[Julian Assange] is presently under close observation in prison hospital because he has suffered ‘severe transient psychotic episodes.’ My source(s) indicate these episodes occurred after two sessions of coercive interrogation at the hands of UK and US officials. The source(s) stated the HUMINT interrogators used psychotropic drugs in the course of the sessions.” The agenda is to destroy Assange as a human being, and they may well succeed. In doing this evil deed, in all of our names, America herself – whether we put her first, last, or somewhere in the middle – will have dug her own grave.
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Who to Blame: “Donald Trump” or the “American People”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
9 May 2019 – Donald Trump is the duly elected President of the USA — elected by the American People according to well-defined electoral procedures. It is currently irrelevant whether those procedures are in any way in question. Trump is therefore the legitimate representative of the American People. He is variously acclaimed and recognized as the leader of the world’s greatest superpower.
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Report: Leaked Draft of Trump’s Peace Plan Reveals Creation of ‘New Palestine,’ Promises to Join Israel in Next War in Gaza if Palestinians Reject
Allison Deger | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
7 May 2019 – If the PLO accepts the plan and Hamas or Islamic Jihad in Gaza reject it, the document warns “the U.S. will back Israel to personally harm leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad” in a future escalation, and will hold Hamas’ leadership “responsible in another round of violence between Israel and Hamas.”
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(Italiano) Perché Julian Assange è così importante
David Adams | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
Il controllo dell’informazione è diventato un mezzo cruciale per la cultura dei guerra – esnza il quale non può sostenersi. In passato, solo alcuni dei segreti e delle bugie degli US e dei loro alleati sono state rivelate. Ma grazie a Julian Assange e alla sua organizzazione WikiLeaks, ne abbiamo appreso molti di più negli ultimi pochi anni. Come reagiscono i governi?
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Venezuela’s Crisis: A View from the Communes
Federico Fuentes | Green Left Weekly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
10 May 2019 – Within hours of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó calling for street mobilisations to back his attempted military coup on April 30, his supporters had looted and set fire to the headquarters of the Indio Caricuao Commune. Venezuela’s communes seek to bring together communal councils that encompass 200–400 families in urban areas and 20–50 families in rural areas, to tackle issues such as housing, health, education and access to basic services. Decisions about problems to prioritise and how to tackle them are made in citizens’ assemblies. Grassroots power.
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(Português) Agropecuária é apontada como responsável por 58% das emissões de gases do efeito estufa
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
“Evitar o consumo desses produtos [de origem animal] traz benefícios ambientais muito melhores do que comprar carnes e laticínios sustentáveis”
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(Français) Des mercenaires prêts à intervenir au Venezuela
Gustavo Veiga | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
7 Mai 2019 – Comme si l’ingérence des Etats-Unis, la tentative de coup d’Etat de Juan Guaidó et son opération Liberté ne suffisaient pas, une société mercenaire bien connue apparait désormais comme un acteur possible dans la crise vénézuélienne. Erik Prince et Blackwater, la même société meurtrière qui opéra dans la guerre en Irak…
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‘Primitive People’: The Untold Story of UNHCR’s Historical Engagement with Rohingya Refugees
Jeff Crisp | HPN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
‘These are primitive people. At the end of the day they will go where they are told to go.’ These were the words of a senior UN High Commissioner for Refugees staff member in 1993. The dismissive tone of the statement was emblematic of the organisation’s engagement with the Rohingya, which for many years showed limited respect for their rights and a readiness to abandon UNHCR’s own protection principles.
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What’s Next: War with Venezuela?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
8 May 2019 – Mix a little socialism in with the oil and war may be unavoidable. With our trillion dollar military budget, threatening (and waging) war is pretty much the only thing we know how to do as a nation, and by “we” I mean the ones in control, publicly and/or secretly — the ones whose egos have expanded to the size of the nation, who mean themselves when they say “that’s what the United States will do.”
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5G: The Big Picture
Jeremy Naydler | Take Back Your Power – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
6 Apr 2019 – Acclaimed author and philosopher Jeremy Naydler, Ph.D. is our guide as we explore what a full-scale deployment of 5G may mean for humanity at this critical time… and how we can help create a better alternative. “The irony that the ‘connected’ future is one in which dizzying profits stand to be made from technologies that disconnect us more and more from the real world is entirely missed.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on How a Simple Human Smile Saved His Life
Maria Popova| Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
“Care granted to the sick, welcome offered to the banished, forgiveness itself are worth nothing without a smile enlightening the deed.”
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(Italiano) L’effimera aspettativa di vita delle democrazie autocratiche
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
Le varie democrazie autocratiche ora dominanti il paesaggio politico del mondo sono condannate in quanto forma politica, ma che cosa verrà dopo di esse non si può prevedere. Potrebbe essere un’occasione di celebrazione o di disperazione, o entrambe se società differenti si sposteranno in direzioni opposte, chi verso più profonde democrazie, chi verso una governance fascista.
→ read full articleThe Most Expensive 529 Billion Dollars
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
8 May 2019 – The immense human cost over 260 million migrant workers do pay to rescue their families. Children are being smuggled, sexually abused, maimed, killed for their vital organs, recruited as soldiers or otherwise enslaved. According to the International Labour Organization, forced labour alone (one component of human trafficking) generates an estimated 150 billion dollars in profits per annum.
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Blackwater Founder Calling for 5,000 Mercenaries to Topple Maduro
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
30 Apr 2019 – As if the past months of US push for regime change in Venezuela with officials like Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra conviction infamy at the helm wasn’t bizarre enough, things just got weirder, as Erik Prince has apparently been pitching a plan around Washington to privatize US coup efforts using his latest Blackwater inspired mercenary empire.
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Istanbul Elections: A Turkish Constitutional Crisis? Davutoglu’s Manifesto
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
10 May 2019 – Despite all the deficiencies of Turkish political life and democracy, the most important power is the legitimacy of the elections. The most fundamental value of our political future is the voice of the people, and this will be manifested at the ballot box. Regardless of the excuse given and whatever the rationale, what happened after the March 31st election and the decision of annulment by the High Electoral Council has inflicted damage on these core values.
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D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
7 May 2019 – What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered a new age. You can call it the age of authoritarianism. Or fascism. Or oligarchy. Or the American police state. Whatever label you want to put on it, the end result is the same: tyranny.
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Squamish Company That Sucks Up Carbon Dioxide to Make Fuel Gets $68 Million Investment
Kenneth Chan | Daily Hive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
25 Mar 2019 – A major investment will allow a Squamish-based company to scale its innovative technology of converting carbon dioxide into usable fuels. Carbon Engineering says it will allow the company to commercialize and enter mainstream markets with its fully-demonstrated direct air capture technology of capturing and purifying atmospheric carbon dioxide for under USD$100 per tonne.
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(Italiano) La Liberazione e vecchi e nuovi fascismi
Prof. Amedeo Cottino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
27 Aprile 2019 – Cento anni fa, il 15 aprile a Milano, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti arringa una piccola folla di borghesi, di fascisti, di Arditi. Perché ricordare quel giorno a Milano? Perché, a mio modo di vedere, è rappresentativo delle componenti fondamentali del fascismo: la violenza, il disprezzo per la cultura e l’esaltazione della guerra. Ma è anche l’anno in cui nascono molte di quelle donne e di quegli uomini che faranno l’altra Italia. L’Italia della Costituzione repubblicana.
→ read full articleMetaphorizing Dialogue to Enact a Flow Culture
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
6 May 2019 – Transcending Divisiveness by Systematic Embodiment of Metaphor in Discourse – There is no difficulty in recognizing the extent to which discourse has become problematic, whether in national assemblies, parliaments, or the media (social media or otherwise). The current scene has been described as poisonously divisive.
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A World without Walls
Johan Galtung | Academy for Cultural Diplomacy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
Berlin, Nov 2010 – International Conference on Peacebuilding, Reconciliation and Globalization in an Interdependent World
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(Italiano) La mini naja, che tristezza!
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
30 Aprile 2019 – Ne avevo sentito parlare, ma non ci credevo: invece – spigolando tra i siti web – eccola qui, la notizia: il 27 marzo 2019 la Camera ha dato l’OK al progetto di legge che prevede un servizio militare di sei mesi su base volontaria per i giovani fra i 18 e i 22 anni, distribuiti fra caserma e studio…. Prendere atto dei veri confini – quelli che la natura ci pone – invece di costruire confini fittizi. Si, la mini-Gaia sarebbe fonte di gioia e di ispirazione, e ci farebbe superare la tristezza suscitata dall’idea della vecchia, bellicosa, obsoleta naja.
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Blackwater Founder’s Latest Sales Pitch: Mercenaries for Venezuela
Aram Roston and Matt Spetalnick | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
30 Apr 2019 – Erik Prince, the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater and a prominent supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has been pushing a plan to deploy a private army to help topple Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, four sources with knowledge of the effort told Reuters.
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Top Executives at Major Opioid Company Found Guilty of Criminal Racketeering
German Lopez | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
3 May 2019 – Big Pharma Billionaire Guilty of Bribing Doctors to Prescribe Drug – The verdict could send the former executives to prison for years for their role in the nationwide opioid epidemic.
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These Are the Pitfalls of a Cash-Free Society
Rosamond Hutt | World Economic Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
2 May 2019 – An independent report on cash use published in the UK finds that the rush to embrace digital payments risks leaving the most vulnerable people in society behind. Researchers spoke to central bankers, consumer groups and a cross-party commission in Sweden, the most cashless society in the world. They emphasized the importance of planning now, to include everyone in the digital economy.
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99% of Seabirds Will Have Plastic in Their Guts within Decades
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
In a sweeping 2015 study, researchers calculated that 9 billion tons of the material have been made, distributed and disposed in fewer than 70 years. That’s an astonishing figure, but it’s also one that’s hard to picture.
→ read full articleWhy Julian Assange Is So Important
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
The control of information has become a crucial means for the culture of war – without this control it cannot be sustained. In the past, only a few of the secrets and lies were revealed. But thanks to Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks, we have learned about many more secrets and lies in the past few years. How do governments react?
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The Dawn of the Dependence Economy: Your Attention Was Never the Endgame
Jesse Weaver | One Zero – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
26 Apr 2019 – Planned obsolescence isn’t the most powerful problem a company can generate. The most powerful problem is the “I can’t live without it” problem. If a product replaces a human skill, we become dependent on it, and making us dependent is the ultimate long-term growth strategy. Monopolization isn’t just about pushing out the competition. It’s about monopolizing human capability.
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No Direction Home: The Journey of Frantz Fanon
Adam Shatz | Raritan Quarterly, Rutgers University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
Winter 2019 – Reading Fanon, one sometimes has the impression that mere expository prose cannot do justice to the impulsive movement of his thought. I use the word “movement” advisedly: Fanon did not write his texts; he dictated them while pacing back and forth, either to his wife, Josie, or to his secretary, Marie-Jeanne Manuellan (who has just published a memoir about the experience). This method of composition lends his writings an electrifying musicality: restless, searching, and, as he fell prey to the leukemia that would kill him, otherworldly in its call for a new planetary order, cleansed of racism and oppression.
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(Italiano) L’emergenza climatica
John Scales Avery | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
“Non venite con un discorso, venite con un piano. Questo è quanto la scienza sostiene necessario. E quanto i giovani del globo stanno giustificatamente domandando.” — Segretario Generale ONU Antonio Guterres
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Global Military Spending Has Soared to Its Highest Level in Recorded History
Jessica Corbett | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
1 May 2019 — Global military spending reached its highest level since the records began two decades ago, according to a new analysis released Monday [29 Apr]. At $649 billion, US military spending increased for the first time in 7 years by 4.6% in 2018. The US remained the largest spender in the world, accounting for 36% of global military spending.
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The Business of Cancer
Sonia Poulton | Truth & Integrity Productions – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
14 Apr 2019 – Journalist and Broadcaster Sonia Poulton explores cancer in the UK. She talks with scientists, surgeons, doctors, politicians, academics, campaigners, industry insiders, authors and those on the frontline: the patients, themselves.
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US Takes Back Signature on Arms Trade Treaty
Thalif Deen | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
29 Apr 2019 – The United States dropped a political bombshell when President Donald Trump announced his administration would withdraw from the historic Arms Trade Treaty which the former Obama administration signed in September 2013. The US, in effect, joins three other “rogue states” – North Korea, Iran and Syria – who voted against the treaty along with 23 countries that abstained on the voting, including China, Russia, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.
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Nonviolence or Nonexistence
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
2 May 2019 – The day before he died, Martin Luther King said these words at a packed church in Memphis: “Men for years now have been talking about war and peace. Now no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world, it is nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.”That’s where we are today . . . half a century later!
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Sharing Efforts with Fair Distribution of Results
Editorial | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
29 Apr 2019 – The outrageous concentration of wealth and the consequent decisional power will blow out of proportion more and more. Neither the fiscal restructuring nor the dismantling of the sovereign over-indebtedness should be charged on the most vulnerable: make the great evaders that flight their ill-gotten capitals cope with it.
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(Français) Êtes-vous plutôt tourismophobe ou touristophobe?
Bernard Duterme | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
15 avril 2019 – «Tourismophobie », « touristophobie », les deux néologismes sont apparus ces dernières années dans la foulée d’un autre, le « surtourisme », lui-même avatar 2.0 du « tourisme de masse », boosté par l’explosion des minitrips low-costs et l’« airbnbisation » des centres-villes historiques. Qui est touristophobe, qui est tourismophobe aujourd’hui ? Les critiques du tourisme international publiées par le CETRI le sont-elles ? Focus sur les contours et les raisons d’une aversion… moins récente qu’il n’y paraît.
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The Pentagon’s Long Con
William J. Astore | Bracing Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
30 Apr 2019 – “War is a racket,” wrote General Smedley Butler in the 1930s. Dwight D. Eisenhower warned at the end of his presidency about the military-industrial complex and its misplaced, anti-democratic power. Martin Luther King Jr spoke against militarism and the “spiritual death” he believed Americans were suffering from in the 1960s… The Pentagon will never be forced to make significant reforms until Americans stop believing in (and consenting to) its comforting lies.
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Venezuelan Military Putsch Defeated as Leopoldo Lopez Takes Refuge in Spanish Embassy
Ricardo Vaz | Venezuelanalysis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
30 Apr 2019 – “Interim President” Juan Guaido and right-wing opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez spearheaded an unsuccessful coup attempt in Caracas today. Opposition protesters clashed with security forces while government supporters swiftly mobilized to defend the presidential palace.
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Rachel Carson on Writing and the Loneliness of Creative Work
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in… you will interest other people.”
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Why Ukraine’s Comedian President Is Likely to Be More Joke than Solution
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
26 Apr 2019 – The ordinary Ukrainian people are so sick and tired of the militaristic nationalism as well as endemic corruption in Kiev that they voted for someone, anyone, who appears slightly more reasonable.
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(Italiano) Quando si arriva alla fine della strada è ora di pensare fuori dagli schemi
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
22 Aprile 2019 – il mondo di ieri basato sulla premessa di guadagnarsi da vivere con un lavoro è finito. Finito! Tassare i ricchi per sovvenzionare i poveri – proposta con le migliori intenzioni da qualcuno a sinistra – è impossibile perché se si prova a tassarli, si trasferiscono. Inoltre, nessuno sa davvero quanto denaro è nascosto in fondi fiduciari dei paradisi fiscali sotto nomi fittizi, o quanto ne guizza per il mondo in frazioni di secondo in transazioni speculative mega-milionarie che rendono insignificante l’economia reale.
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US-Backed Saudi Regime Beheads 37 Political Prisoners
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
25 Apr 2019 – The monarchical dictatorship of Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday [23 Apr] that it had carried out another killing spree, publicly executing 37 people. One of the headless corpses was then crucified and left hanging in public as a hideous warning to anyone who would even contemplate opposing the absolute power of the ruling royal family admired by Pres. Trump.
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(Português) A Caminho do Matadouro
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
28 abr 2019 – É difícil imaginar quantas vidas passam por aqui. Indo de um lado para o outro – somente ida, sem volta. Uma prisão sobre rodas, que pouco permite observar o que existe ali fora. Hoje é a sua vez. Amanhã serão outros, e assim por diante.
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(Português) Bolsonaro decreta fim das faculdades de Filosofia e Sociologia no Brasil: “Objetivo é focar em áreas que gerem retorno imediato”
Editorial | Revista Forum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Enquanto os filhos – e ele próprio – são doutrinados pelo “filósofo” Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro decreta fim dos estudos de humanas alegando que a educação deve servir para ensinar “leitura, escrita e a fazer conta e depois um ofício que gere renda para a pessoa”
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(Français) Le Venezuela et la guerre de l’empire contre les Peuples: les vautours du « fracking »
Paulo Correia | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
27 Avr 2019 – L’objectif annoncé des vautours est de venir en « aide humanitaire urgente aux victimes du socialisme chaviste » et d’appliquer massivement dans le sol de la République bolivarienne la technique d’exploitation pétrolière connue sous le terme de « fracking » ».
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Scholastic “Demeaning” of Global Civil Society in a Period of Widespread Crisis
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
28 Apr 2019 – Of particular interest is whether the mass movement of the Sudanese people and the counterrevolutionary dangers posed by the retention of emergency powers by the military entourage surrounding the former dictator will destroy the hopes of the mobilized population as happened in Egypt in seemingly analogous circumstances.
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Genocide Is an Act of State, and Demands a Response by Other States
John Packer | OpenGlobalRights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
24 Apr 2019 – The Myanmar state can and must be held accountable for the genocide being perpetrated against the Rohingya, a point lost in largely illusory efforts to pursue international criminal trials of individuals.
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Annoyed by the Vegan Protestors? Then Imagine This…
Paul Mahony | New Matilda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
16 Apr 2019 – Supporting or opposing the recent vegan protests is partly about perspective, and partly about ethics. There’s a simple ethical test for those complaining about the protests held recently in Melbourne and elsewhere around Australia.
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(Português) Brasil: Com a farra do boi, Semana Santa vira semana de violência contra animais em Santa Catarina
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Nessa violenta “brincadeira”, o animal é alvejado com pedras, paus, objetos cortantes e bombinhas, além de perseguido e mordido por cães.
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Poroshenko Out, Zelensky In. Will Things Change in Ukraine?
Tom Luongo | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
25 Apr 2019 – The incalculable damage that’s been done to the region for cynical geopolitical goals can never be undone but it can stop.
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Notre Dame of Gaza: Our Mosques and Churches Are Also Burning
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
24 Apr 2019 – The Israeli army bombed the historic Al-Omari Mosque in northern Gaza. The ancient mosque dates back to the 7th century and has since served as a symbol of resilience and faith for the people of Gaza. As Notre Dame burned, I thought of Al-Omari too. While the fire at the French cathedral was likely accidental, destroyed Palestinian houses of worship were intentionally targeted. The Israeli culprits are yet to be held accountable.
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Back to Marx: How Can His Work Help Us to Understand Modern Times?
Laurent Etre | l’Humanité – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
The world economic crisis has ended the taboo on referring to Marx. More and more works are being published on the author of Das Kapital, and the press is publishing special sections on him. A discussion with Edgar Morin, the philosopher and sociologist, emeritus research director at the CNRS who holds honorary doctorates from many universities around the world and with André Tosel, the philosopher and specialist in Karl Marx and Marxism, professor at the University of Nice.
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The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children Has Become Big Business in America
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
23 Apr 2019 – Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old. This is America’s dirty little secret.
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Planning Can Save the Planet: China Chooses Renewable Energy
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
23 Apr 2019 – The United States and China are the largest consumers of coal and oil. The choices made by the leaders of the two largest industrialized economies are having an impact on climate and on air quality for everyone. But the decisions being made in these two countries are going in totally different directions. Their choices reveal a lot about the different social and political bases of each country.
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Cuban Five Hero Declares His Solidarity with Julian Assange
Yimel Diaz | Resumen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019 – Hernandez who is currently a Deputy of the Cuban National Assembly and Vice Dean of the Higher Institute of International Relations spent 16 years in U.S. prisons. He commented, through his own experience that if Assange is extradited to the U.S. nothing good will happen to him. “We witnessed how they were always trying to distort the truth as a way of demonizing us.
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(Português) No Uganda Há Uma Mãe Solteira com 38 Filhos para Cuidar e Esta É a Sua História
Pedro Dias | Visão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Mariam Nabatanzi, do Uganda, foi aconselhada pelo médico a não tomar a pílula, graças a uma condição física rara. O resultado foi o nascimento de 44 filhos – seis pares de gémeos, quatro pares de trigémeos e cinco pares de quadrigémeos – de quem cuida sozinha.
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
“Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person.”
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Jailed Myanmar Reuters Reporters, U.S. Border Photographers Win Pulitzer Prizes
Daniel Trotta | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
15 Apr 2019 – Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes today, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.
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Stop the Ongoing U.S. Economic Terrorism against Iran and Help Its People!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
15 Apr 2019 – You have certainly not heard much about this in the West. And it didn’t get a fraction of the media attention (and none of the hundreds of millions of Euro pledges by the perversely rich) that the Notre Dame fire did.
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On Taking Controversial Public Positions: A Reflection
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – I have chosen activism to the end, both continuing with sports to the limit of my ability and to honor the political commitments of a citizen pilgrim (dedicated to a journey to a desired and desirable political community that functions now only as an imaginary, yet has the ambition to become a political project) to the best of my ability.
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