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USA Dominant again in Arms Sales: Selling Death
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
25 May 2021 – When it comes to trade in the tools of death and destruction, no one tops the United States of America. Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and others are again profiting at the expense of so many of the rest of us. And Again… and Again… and Again
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“Today We Are Nazis,” Says Member of Israeli Jewish Extremist Group
Ali Abunimah and Tamara Nassar | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
19 May 2021 – Israeli Jewish extremists used instant messaging services to organize armed militias to attack Palestinian citizens of Israel. “We are no longer Jews today,” one user wrote in a Telegram group titled “People from Holon, Bat Yam and Rishon Lezion go out to bring war.” “Today we are Nazis.” “No one in the authorities could claim that they did not know,” HaBloc said.
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The Real Crimes of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi and the Farce of Her Trial
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
28 May 2021 – Suu Kyi Being Charged under Same Draconian Law She Defended while in Power – There is absolutely no question about the farcical nature of this trial of the deposed Myanmar state counselor by the regime that has committed — and continues to commit — all the gravest crimes in international law.
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The Zionists on the Defensive
Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – Israel’s Friends Overwhelm Capitol Hill – Yes folks, there is an international conspiracy and it is all about “protecting” Israel. It operates through front and lobbying groups that uniquely promote the interests of a foreign country, Israel, even when those interests do serious damage to the host country where the lobbyists actually live.
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Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 May 2021 – Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life. Released by Disrupt Studios on 24 Mar 2021. {Official Trailer | Netflix}
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The Fascinating Memoir of a “Citizen Pilgrim”: Q&A with Richard Falk
Busra Cicek and Daniel Falcone | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
7 May 2021 – Richard Falk, the well-known international relations scholar, taught at Princeton University for four decades. Starting in 2002 he has taught Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Falk is also a chair for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. This lengthy interview is about his latest book, a memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, that explores his career as an academic, activist, rapporteur, political theorist, and professor.
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“Tell me how you behave in conflict. I will tell you how much peace culture you have.”
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
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…
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The Costs of War to U.S. Allies since 9/11
Jason W. Davidson | Watson Institute/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – The US allies in the post-9/11 wars have borne significant human and budgetary costs. They were the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that have grown from the “Global War on Terror.” While the Afghan and Iraqi governments incurred the highest human costs, this research paper focuses on the human and financial contributions of European and other allies of the U.S.
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The Architecture of a Nonviolent City
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – By replacing systems of violence with practices rooted in nonviolence, social justice movements are creating blueprints for nonviolent cities. For several years, Pace e Bene has organized the Nonviolent Cities Project to help people envision and construct a city rooted in nonviolence, rather than violence.
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The “Kill a Leftist” Law
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
7 May 2021 – So now it’ll be legal in some Neolithic U.S. states to run over leftists with your car. What’ll come next? Legalizing pushing people out of airplanes at 35,000 feet? Running over swimmers with boats? Unleashing your rabid dog on people whose political persuasions offend you? There are so many possibilities! It’s already legal for cops to shoot leftists.
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Purge Genocide Culprits from Democratic Leadership: Myanmar
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
8 May 2021 – Hesitating to take stand against Rohingya genocide is costing $1B to National Unity Government and blocks its global recognition.
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(Italiano) Applicazioni di Ahimsa–Nonviolenza nel Quotidiano
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
30 Aprile 2021 – Il TRANSCEND Peace Development Environment Network ha iniziato con conflitti geopolitici a livello macro e mega; molti ben noti e drammatici. Ma i conflitti nella vita di tutti i giorni, a scuola, nella coppia-famiglia, al lavoro possono essere ancora più drammatici.
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Creativity Is Our Superpower — 13 Stories of Inventive Nonviolence
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
21 Apr 2021 – This collection of stories from the news showcases the incredible versatility, imagination, and super creativity of nonviolence in action.
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The Largest Assessment of Global Groundwater Wells Finds Many Are at Risk of Drying Up
Harrison Tasoff | University of California Santa Barbara - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
23 Apr 2021 – UC Santa Barbara assistant professors Debra Perrone and Scott Jasechko have compiled the most comprehensive assay of groundwater wells to date, spanning 40 countries that collectively account for half of all global groundwater pumping. Their study offers an unprecedented account of the world’s groundwater resources.
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‘We Are Witnessing a Crime against Humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid Catastrophe
Arundhati Roy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
28 Apr 2021 – It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain.
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Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
18 Apr 2021 – We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is also involved.
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The Tiredness Virus
Byung-Chul Han | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
12 Apr 2021 – Covid-19 is a mirror that renders more visible the pathological symptoms that already existed before the pandemic. The idleness imposed on us during lockdown has made us tired. Some people claim that we might rediscover the beauty of leisure, that life might decelerate. In fact, time during the pandemic is ruled not by leisure and deceleration but by tiredness and depression. Why do we feel so tired?
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Talking of Pandemics…
Rob Rogers | Counterpoint – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
No comment.
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Imagine a Culture of Peace: The U.S. Is a War Culture, but That Can Change
Michael D. Knox | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
23 Apr 2021 – War is glorified in the United States. Imagine a change in our culture so momentous that Americans who stand for peace are celebrated rather than denounced as unpatriotic, anti-military, or un-American. Imagine…
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Rights Experts Condemn UK Racism Report Attempting to ‘Normalize White Supremacy’
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – UN independent human rights experts today denounced a government-backed report into racism in the United Kingdom, saying that it further distorted and falsified historical facts, and could even fuel racism and racial discrimination.
→ read full articleApplications of Ahimsa-Nonviolence in Daily Life
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
The TRANSCEND Peace Development Environment Network started with geopolitical macro and mega conflicts; many well known and dramatic. But conflicts in daily life, at school, in couples-family, at work may be even more dramatic; at the micro level within the persons involved, between them, in the context, and at the meso level of social groups.
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The Doomsday Glacier Lives up to Its Billing
Robert Hunziker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
20 Apr 2021 – The 21st century serves as an inflection point of acceleration of climate instability caused by human-generated greenhouse gases, as CO2 emissions increase well beyond the rate of the prior century.
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တရက်ဆိုတာမြန်မာပြည်သူတွေရဲ့အသက်ပါ A Typical Day in the Life of People in Myanmar under Terrorist Siege
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – A thoughtful but painful comment on the situation in Myanmar written by an anonymous Burmese Facebook user. English Translation by Maung Zarni
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“Federal Army for Federal Democracy”: The Dawn of Myanmar’s New Politics
Maung Zarni | FORSEA Forces of Renewal for Southeast Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
9 Apr 2021 – Myanmar’s peoples of all ethnic backgrounds are undergoing a revolutionary process. Ms Suu Kyi may have to be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice: give up her centre stage in order that a revolution can grow and succeed in its revolutionary mission: a federal army and federal democracy. Otherwise, the pursuit of federalism in Myanmar will continue to be the Achilles’ heel for all democrats and federalists, the majority and minorities.
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Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976): Lessons from a Remarkable Life
Tayo Aluko | Counterfire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Black Lawyer, Singer and Football Player, Paul Robeson’s Extraordinary Life Holds Many Lessons for the Present Day
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Analysis–Burma/Myanmar Today
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
24 Mar 2021 – States do not go to war to save humans – only for oil, trade dispute, settling ethnic scores, boundary disputes. We have learned our bitter lessons. We have no interest in Peace Industry, or INGO business or research this or research that crowd. The beauty amidst all these ugly scenarios of Burma is at least the People woke up – that the Wretched of the Earth must band together for their own liberation. No free lunches in international politics. No Messiahs on the horizon.
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Socialist!
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Perhaps…
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Revolutions and Revolutionary Acts
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
23 Mar 2021 – I do not have the moral or intellectual option of telling those on the ground who risk their lives and livelihoods that their resistance is futile. Nor do I share the view that resistance is futile or that another world is not possible. History does not change through normal politics. What Myanmar and her people are undergoing is nothing less than a textbook example of Revolution.
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The Myanmar Military Is Destroying Its Public Image–Politics Won’t Be the Same
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
26 Mar 2021 -The images from the streets of Myanmar cities tell a brutal story. The sense of rage is palpable. Hundreds of thousands of social media comments and public speeches, group posts, communal discussions and personal conversations attest to the deepening popular anger at the armed forces. It has become customary to refer to the troops as “terrorists” or even as “dogs of war,” an especially harsh term in Myanmar-language discourse.
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When War Becomes Major Business
Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
That Which Unites ‘the Good Guys’ under God and the Dollar
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The Ideology of Late Imperialism
Prof. Zhun Xu | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
1 Mar 2021 – The Return of the Geopolitics of the Second International
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Myanmar’s Once Nationalist Military Has Just Lost the Nation
Maung Zarni | Politics Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
15 Mar 2021 – Whatever the outcome of the violent confrontation between civil society and the military will be, one thing is certain: the Burmese military has lost the nation irretrievably.
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China-backed Junta’s Murder and Violence Aggravates Myanmar Economy
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
16 Mar 2021 – While the ongoing confrontation between Myanmar society and the criminal junta negatively impacts Myanmar’s economy, China is also responsible. Its short-sighted, human-rights-indifferent approach to pursuing its interests, is further aggravating the economic and political conditions with potentially dire consequences for all.
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PRIO [Founded by Johan Galtung]: Silently Disciplining Research
Prof. Ola Tunander | PRIO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
1 Mar 2021 – Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars, seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions. The example presented here is from the Institute for Peace Research in Oslo (PRIO). A researcher is said to seek objectivity and truth. But he or she learns to select their research topics and arrive at conclusions in accordance with what the authorities and management expect. In today’s societal discourse, freedom of speech seems to be reduced to the right to offend other people’s ethnicity or religion.
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60 Years of Int’l Impunity for Myanmar Military’s Mass Murder
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
11 Mar 2021 – Until Feb. 1 Coup, West and Rest Were Coasting Bogus Narrative of ‘Fragile Democratic Transition’ with Suu Kyi at Its Helm
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Q: “If conflict is an inherent aspect of life, how do we know when we’ve achieved positive peace?”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
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
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We Should Call the Myanmar Coup Regime a Terrorist Group
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021 – Myanmar today has become a textbook example of failed and collapsed state with the national armed forces, having morphed into gangs of heavily armed terrorists, still commanding the air force and navy. Myanmar’s military regime should no longer be treated as a state actor. They are terrorists, no less.
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Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Working
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Correct?
Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Or did you?
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United States Counterterrorism Operations, 2018-2020
Watson Institute/Brown University | Costs of War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Feb 2021 – From 2018 to 2020, the United States government undertook what it labeled “counterterrorism” activities in 85 countries. The map illustrates countries in which the U.S. government conducted operations it explicitly described as counterterrorism, in an outgrowth of President George W. Bush’s “Global War on Terror.”
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War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence chairman Eric Schmidt–technical advisor to Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, which he was formerly CEO of: “Never before in my lifetime have I been more worried that we will soon be displaced by a rival or more aware of what second place means for our economy, our security, and the future of our nation.”
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Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
No comment…
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International Women’s Day 8 Mar 2021
Achim Steiner | UNDP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
This year’s International Women’s Day is like no other. As countries and communities start to slowly recover from a devastating pandemic, we have the chance to finally end the exclusion and marginalization of women and girls. But to do that, we need immediate action.
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Nine Things That Need to Happen for New Inclusive Myanmar
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – Yesterday, millions of Myanmar’s people took to the streets in open defiance of the officially televised threats of a brutal crackdown by the Tatmadaw or military usurpers who thwarted their democratic aspirations with a pre-dawn coup of 1 Feb. Myanmar undergoing societally revolutionary moment with emerging new popular consciousness.
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How Do You Define Peace?
Johan Galtung | Al Jazeera/The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
April 2012 – Is US global dominance in decline? We discuss the future of geopolitics with Prof. Johan Galtung.
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“To me, peace is something we create and often in new ways, not to be frozen into a handbook of law–although the law could also be useful as one guide among many.”
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
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, including 50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives published by TRANSCEND University Press. His book, Transcend and Transform, was translated to 25 languages. He has published more than 1,700 articles and book chapters and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service.
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Designate Myanmar Coup Group as Terrorists
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
21 Feb 2021 – Concerned about another wave bloodbath by Myanmar Tatmadaw or military. They issued a chilling warning to the public, that the coup leaders are going to use lethal force should the protesters take to the streets tomorrow (22 Feb in Myanmar), along with “shoot to kill”, needless to say. Protesters have an overwhelming support of the anti-coup Civil Disobedience Movement. It is all Déjà vu:1962, 1975, 1988, 2007, and now 2021.
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Dam Disaster in India: Over 200 Construction Workers and Villagers Trapped or Dead
Saman Gunadasa | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
On Sunday [7 Feb 2021] morning, part of the glacier at India’s second highest peak, burst. Massive floodwaters and silt gushed downstream virtually wiping out power plants, bridges and tunnels, and cutting off villages. The disaster trapped and killed more than 200 power plant workers and villagers near the Chinese and Tibetan borders in India’s Himalayan region.
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These Six Global Struggles Show the Power of Nonviolence in Action
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – From India and Palestine to Canada, these ongoing campaigns demonstrate how ordinary people are mobilizing for worker’s rights and an end to war.
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Switzerland Refuses to Approve AstraZeneca Jab and Says ‘New Studies’ Are Needed after France, Germany and Sweden Rejected It for Over-65s
Rachael Bunyan | Mailonline - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Switzerland has refused to approve the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine with regulators raising concerns over insufficient test data and arguing ‘new studies’ are needed. It comes after France, Sweden and Germany advised against administering the jab to those over 65 and Emmanuel Macron claimed it was ‘almost ineffective’ for the age bracket.
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What If Oumuamua Is the Real Deal?
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – If Oumuamua is a real alien craft, then Earthlings are doing some really weird stuff on the scale of alien intelligence. Think about it… If it’s an alien craft or drone there’s no way it entered the sun’s solar system, swooping within 15M miles of Earth, powered by fossil fuels. It is the first known interstellar object in our solar system. It’s estimated to be between 330 and 3,280 feet long and between 115 and 548 feet wide and dark red in color, and it tumbles.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
Following orders… Right!
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COVID Fuelling Risk of Recruitment and Use of Children in Armed Conflict, UN and EU Warn on International Day
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
12 Feb 2021 – More children could be pushed into the joining armed forces and armed groups due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, senior United Nations and European Union (EU) officials said on International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, observed yesterday.
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A Coup in Burma: Did Military Seize Power to Avoid ICC Prosecution for Rohingya Genocide?
Amy Goodman and Maung Zarni | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – We speak with Maung Zarni, a Burmese dissident, about the military coup underway in Burma as de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been arrested. The coup unfolded hours before lawmakers were to take their seats in the opening of parliament. “The military decided that they could no longer play this democracy game with Aung San Suu Kyi,” says Zarni.
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A Murderous System Is Being Created Before Our Very Eyes
Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture | Republik - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture – and extradition to the U.S., where he could face up to 175 years in prison for exposing war crimes. For the first time, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, speaks in detail about the explosive findings of his investigation into the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – Myanmar’s military staged a coup, detaining the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint early today, just hours before the scheduled start of the first session of the new parliament. With tanks, armored vehicles on streets, military sends message to public: ‘we are still here as arbiters of democracy’.
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Senior Officials Call on Israel to Halt West Bank Demolitions and Respect International Law
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
5 Feb 2021 – Three high-level UN officials today issued a statement calling for Israel to end demolitions in the occupied West Bank, after meeting with members of a Bedouin community ousted from their homes earlier this week in the northern Jordan Valley, while their belongings were “seized or destroyed”.
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Complex Life Threatened
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
22 Jan 2021 – Throughout the world, scientists are speaking out like never before. They’re talking about an emergency situation of the health of the planet threatening “complex life,” including, by default, human life. It’s scary stuff.
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Uprising and the End of the U.S. Empire
Johan Galtung | Free Speech TV/Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
Excerpts from a Lecture in Santa Cruz, California in Feb 2011 by Father of Peace Studies and Mediator Prof. Johan Galtung
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Brainwashed to Violence
Kristin Young Christman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
If brainwashed to commit violence, your conscience doesn’t prick when you kill.
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Leading UN Member-States Fail to End Rohingya Abuse
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
20 Jan 2021 – With an air of renewed optimism, Bangladesh side has widely reported on the Beijing-brokered meeting yesterday to resuscitate the repatriation process of 1 million Rohingya. However, the China-brokered tripartite meeting will bring no solution for either Bangladesh or Rohingya refugees.
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Twitter Bans President Trump Permanently
Brian Fung | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said yesterday evening. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter said.
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Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
What is activism?
For 30 years, I have asked myself that perennial question.
Now that a New Year has dawned, I must ask and answer it, again.
Activism is Conscience, triggered by acute pain,
The pain of witnessing and living the state of the troubled world.
The 7 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Not the Answer to Solve Climate Change
Mark Z. Jacobson | Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
There is a small group of scientists that have proposed replacing 100% of the world’s fossil fuel power plants with nuclear reactors as a way to solve climate change. Many others propose nuclear grow to satisfy up to 20 percent of all our energy (not just electricity) needs. They advocate that nuclear is a “clean” carbon-free source of power, but they don’t look at the human impacts of these scenarios. Let’s do the math…
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Trump’s Deal on Morocco’s Western Sahara Annexation Risks More Global Conflict
Stephen Zunes | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
15 Dec 2021 – Last week, President Trump formally recognized Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara as part of a deal to get Morocco to normalize relations with Israel. But Morocco’s claim on Western Sahara is rejected by the United Nations, the World Court, the African Union and a broad consensus of international legal scholars that consider the region a non-self-governing territory that must be allowed an act of self-determination. This is why no country had formally recognized Morocco’s takeover — until now.
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Vaccination No Guarantee of Coronavirus Eradication: WHO Officials
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
In the final World Health Organization COVID-19 press conference of the year, on 28 December, senior officials warned that the virus is “not necessarily the big one”, and that there is a real chance of another, more serious pandemic spreading across the world.
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US Must Remove Sanctions and Allow Syria to Rebuild – UN Expert
UN Human Rights Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
29 Dec 2020 – “The sanctions violate the human rights of the Syrian people, whose country has been destroyed by almost 10 years of ongoing conflict,” said Douhan, UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights.
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Bias, Racism and Lies: Facing Up To the Unwanted Consequences of AI
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
30 Dec 2020 – Powerful digital tools using artificial intelligence software are helping in the fight against COVID-19, and have the potential to improve the world in many other ways. However, it’s becoming clear that its misuse can lead to serious harm, leading the UN to call for strong, international regulation of the technology.
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Biden & CIA Death Squads
Finian Cunningham | Information Clearing House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – CIA-backed death squads are running amok in Afghanistan, murdering civilians and terrorizing the population. When Joe Biden becomes president in three weeks, he should prioritize ending this “Murder Inc.” A newly published investigative report has uncovered a systematic assassination program conducted by the CIA in several provinces across Afghanistan.
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India’s Pandemic of Violence against Women
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
28 Dec 2020 – An increase in violence against women in India during the global COVID-19 outbreak has been described by the United Nations as a “shadow pandemic”.
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Going Underground | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
19 Dec 2020 – John Pilger discusses the devastating impact of Covid-19 in the UK, rising poverty and militarism, the Western logic for the new Cold War with China, the victory of Joe Biden over Donald Trump, why not much will change in the White House, the Yemen War, the survival of Venezuela despite crippling international sanctions, mainstream journalism vs. real journalism–and more.
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#ForceTheVote: The Debate on Medicare for All That Is Dividing the American Left
Nuno Ramalho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
A debate is currently trending amongst the American political left: a new strategy to force a vote on Medicare for All in the House of Representatives. The main argument proposed by the #ForceTheVote movement is that the present sociopolitical context is the right moment for a vote on Medicare for All. The US is in the middle of a deadly pandemic where over 324K have died of Covid-19, some 15 million have lost their health care coverage, and many more are on the brink of homelessness.
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Desert Locust ‘Re-Invasion’ Threatens Millions across Horn of Africa
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – New Desert Locust swarms are forming in the Horn of Africa, threatening agricultural livelihoods and the food security of millions of people, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today-
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Leading Scholars’ Consensus Was Clear: Neither ICJ nor ICC on Their Own Will Deliver Rohingyas from Hell
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
On 15 December 2020, a group of leading scholars and experts from Canada, USA, and Ireland involved in the global campaign to end Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingyas held a legal roundtable, jointly organised by the Free Rohingya Coalition and FORSEA.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Original Version)
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a milestone document drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world. The Declaration was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.
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The COVID-19 Vaccine; Is the Goal Immunity or Depopulation?
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
4 Dec 2020 – This is the state of affairs in America today. All real power has been conceded to a globalist oligarchy that operates behind the curtain of corrupt government officials and public health experts. This begs the question of whether the hoopla surrounding the Coronavirus emerged as a spontaneous and appropriate reaction to a lethal and fast-spreading pandemic or whether the hysteria has been greatly exaggerated to implement a transformational political-social agenda.
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Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
4 Dec 2020 – Myanmar is witnessing world’s longest ‘peace talks’ and continuation of longest-running ethnic wars.
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Dystopian “Great Reset”: “Own Nothing and Be Happy”, Being Human in 2030
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Driven by the vision of its influential CEO Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum is the main driving force for the dystopian ‘great reset’, a tectonic shift that intends to change how we live, work and interact with each other. The Great Reset entails a transformation of society resulting in permanent restrictions on fundamental liberties and mass surveillance as entire sectors are sacrificed to boost monopoly and hegemony.
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Crisis and Predation: India, COVID-19, and Global Finance
Research Unit for Political Economy | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Nov 2020 issue – With the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent
lockdown on an already depressed economy, dealing a body blow to the majority of India’s billion-plus population. Yet the Indian government’s spending to cushion the lockdown’s economic impact ranked among the world’s lowest in GDP terms, resulting in unprecedented unemployment and hardship.
Robodoc: How India’s Robots Are Taking on Covid Patient Care
Kalpana Sunder | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – The pandemic has spurred on robotics companies building machines to perform tasks in hospitals and other industries.
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Marcuse Today
Ronald Aronson and Jesper Munk Jakobsen | The Transnational/Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
23 Nov 2020 – When Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man appeared fifty years ago, it was a revelation. To many of us who were becoming the New Left, Marcuse reflected and explained our own feeling of suffocation, our alienation from an increasingly totalitarian universe that trumpeted its freedom at every moment.
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Locked in and Locked out: The Impact of Digital Identity Systems on Rohingya Populations in Myanmar
Natalie Brinham, et al. | Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion/UN Special Rapporteur on Racism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
November 2020 – This paper sheds urgent light on how the digitization of identity stands to worsen the human rights situation for the Rohingya, who the global community has failed time and time again. It also centres Rohingya perspectives on the action necessary to ensure that technological innovation does not become a cover for severe discriminatory exclusion on the basis of ethnicity and religion.
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29 November: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
Observed annually, solemnly commemorating the adoption by the Assembly, on 29 November 1947, of resolution 181 (II), which provided for the partition of Palestine into two States.
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[Obscenity] World Bank Urges Governments to Guarantee Private Profits even if Investors Fail Contractual Agreements
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 – The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks and international financial institutions to press developing country governments to ‘de-risk’ infrastructure and other private, especially foreign investments. Governments have little choice but to accede to their private partners’ demands. Thus, WB guidance further undermines governments.
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Rising Hunger in Drought-Stricken Southern Madagascar Forcing Families to Eat Insects: WFP
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
27 Nov 2020 – Hunger is on the rise in southern Madagascar due to consecutive years of drought, affecting half the region’s population, or 1.5 million people, and forcing most families to eat insects, the World Food Programme reported today.
→ read full articleThe Sound of Silence (Music Video of the Week)
Simon & Garfunkel | Chinese Boys Band - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
Name of performers unknown—but they are excellent.
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Venezuela Presents the UNSC Proposal for an International Association against US Sanctions to Stop Crimes against Humanity
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
Venezuela’s ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, intervened on 25 Nov 2020 in the Security Council session to denounce the economic aggression of the U.S. against twenty-nine countries of the world, through misnamed “sanctions,” and proposed an International Alliance to stop the crimes against humanity by the USA in violation of human rights and the UN Charter.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.
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Putting Myanmar Election Results in Perspective
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – Election cycles will neither reverse colonial treatment of non-Burmese population, nor end genocide against Rohingya.
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The New Elite: Dark Nights Rising
Thomas Klikauer & Nadine Campbell | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – There is a new elite on the rise.The old elite was defined by leisure and conspicuous consumption . The new elite has to work – mostly in elite professions – to earn money. The new elite’s employment is located in a relatively narrow spectrum of occupations separating the new elite from non-elite. The new elite finds employment mainly in three main categories: CEOs, CFOs, elite law firms.
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Votes Have Changed Little in Myanmar since Suu Kyi Assumed State Counsellorship 5 Years Ago
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – Myanmar’s second experiment with the parliamentary democracy is irredeemably flawed: The constitutional framework in which democratic process is located is categorically anti-democratic.
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(norsk – Norwegian) Hva slags verden er vi på vei inn i?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Jeg vet ikke. Men jeg tror jeg vet noe … I det minste tenker jeg på det, derfor vet jeg trolig noe…
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A Structural Theory of Imperialism
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
This theory takes as its point of departure two of the most glaring facts about this world: the tremendous inequality, within and between nations, in almost all aspects of human living conditions, including the power to decide over those living conditions; AND the resistance of this inequality to change. The world consists of Center and Periphery nations; and each nation, in turn, has its centers and periphery.
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UN and Partners Express Regret over US Departure from Paris Climate Accord
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
4 Nov 2020 – Today the US formally withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a decision originally announced three years ago. The UN climate change secretariat has underlined its commitment to work with stakeholders in the US and beyond, to accelerate climate action, in line with an historic treaty on limiting global warming and curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
→ read full articleHallelujah (Music Video of the Week)
Wuauquikuna – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Beautiful, Relaxing Music
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A Troubling Discovery in the Arctic
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
7 Nov 2020 – The satellite call referenced a sleeping giant that has enough carbon firepower to adversely impact the world’s climate system. The expedition discovered methane (CH4) that had been securely frozen in shallow subsea permafrost waters forever, and ever, and ever, now “stirring.” Colloquially, “The Monster of the North awakened.”
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‘High Time for Accountability’, UN Expert Says as Israel Approves Highest Rate of Illegal Settlements
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – The international community must answer a “grave” breach of international law with “more than mere criticism”, an independent UN expert said on Friday after the Israeli Government announced its approval of nearly 5,000 new settlement homes in occupied Palestinian territory.
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Macron’s Attack on Islam Reveals “Intolerance and Hatred,” Says Nobel Peace Laureate Tawakkol Karman
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – The beheading of a teacher in France elicited inflammatory remarks from President Emmanuel Macron, which in turn has been met with an Arab boycott of French goods. “Macron’s attack on Islam reveals intolerance and hatred which is shameful for the head of a state like France,” said Tawakkol Karman.
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The Neoliberal Capitalist Lockdown: Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
28 Oct 2020 – Although COVID is being blamed, the shutting down of the old economy was already happening as growth was below the minimum tolerable 3% level to maintain the viability of capitalism. “In order to reverse this serious setback [COVID] to development progress and poverty reduction, countries will need to prepare for a different economy post-COVID, by allowing capital, labor, skills, and innovation to move into new businesses and sectors.” — World Bank, Oct 2020 Report
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Dumping Fukushima’s Water into the Ocean… Seriously?
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – For nearly a decade the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has been streaming radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean as TEPCO struggles to control it. Yet, the bulk of the radioactive water is stored in more than 1,000 water tanks. Japan’s government has made a decision to dump the contaminated water into the Pacific.
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