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(Português) Sem o consumo de carnes e laticínios, uso de terra poderia diminuir em mais de 75%
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
17 dez 2018 – Um estudo intitulado “Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers”, publicado na conceituada revista Science, afirma que se a humanidade abdicasse do consumo de carnes e de laticínios, o uso de terra para fins agrícolas poderia diminuir em mais de 75% – o equivalente as áreas dos Estados Unidos, China, União Europeia e Austrália.
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Point of No Return: Erasing the Rohingya
Poppy McPherson, Simon Lewis, Thu Thu Aung, Shoon Naing and Zeba Siddiqui | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
18 Dec 2018 – Having fled waves of violence, more than 900,000 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority now languish in refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. A Reuters investigation has found the Myanmar government is taking steps that threaten to make the purge of the Rohingya permanent.
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Thoreau on Nature as Prayer
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
“In the street and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would in the least redeem it — dining with the Governor or a member of Congress!! But alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even on a black and, to most, cheerless day, like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that the cold and solitude are friends of mine.”
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U.S. Commits to “Indefinite” Occupation of Syria; Controls Region the Size of Croatia
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
15 Dec 2018 – Like the “forever war” in Afghanistan, will we be having the same discussion over the indefinite occupation of Syria stretching two decades from now? A new unusually frank assessment in Stars and Stripes bluntly lays out the basic facts concerning the White House decision to “stay the course” until the war’s close.
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Coordination of Wing Deployment and Folding in Politics
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
13 Dec 2018 | Bird Flight and Landing as Complementary Metaphors of Global Strategic Coherence | Produced on the occasion of the unexpected riots of the Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vests”) throughout France, with images of Paris in flames, symbolically paralleled by a UN Climate Change Summit to implement the Paris Agreement .
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You Have NO Choice
George Carlin | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
George Carlin (12 May 1937 – 22 June 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. This quote is taken from his last stand up routine, “Life Is Worth Losing” (2005).
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(Français) Haiti : Crise et Solution
Fanmi Lavalas | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Il existe une grave crise dans la société haïtienne contemporaine, dans laquelle les masses de notre peuple s’opposent à une oligarchie déterminée à perpétuer un système d’exclusion.
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(Italiano) I Rohingya a Montecitorio
Emanuele Giordana | Lettera22 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Le prove raccolte dal Tribunale Permanente dei Popoli andranno all’Aja alla Corte penale internazionale.
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Fanmi Lavalas | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
There is a grave crisis in contemporary Haitian society, in which the masses of our people are opposing an oligarchy determined to perpetuate a system of exclusion.
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Johnson & Johnson Knew about Carcinogens in Baby Powder for Decades: Reuters
Jessica M. Goldstein | ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
15 Dec 2018 – Was there a carcinogen in the baby powder, all this time? The company reportedly has known about the asbestos in its signature product since the early 1970s.
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(Castellano) En defensa del individuo humano
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Trágicamente, es la más sagrada de las instituciones -la escuela- que yo llamo “prisión para niños”, donde se produce gran parte del daño. Diseñada para aterrorizar a los niños para que obedezcan y se conformen, sobre la base de que “una sola talla sirve para todos”, la escuela destruye las capacidades físicas, sensoriales, intelectuales y emocionales de los niños, produciendo individuos con una capacidad casi nula de sentir algo profundo, pensar creativamente y comportarse poderosamente con integridad.
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Of Cockroaches and Humans
Roberto Savio | IPS - Human Wrongs Watch,
17 Dec 2018
16 Dec 2018 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian Nobel laureate honoured for her work in neurobiology, once gave a splendid conference with the title “The imperfect brain”. There she explained that man has a brain that is not used completely, while the reverse is true for the cockroach.
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US Genocide Resolution Welcome, but Rohingya Need More
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
US will not intercede, and Myanmar’s neighbors see it through economic lens, so international coalition for Rohingya needed.
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A Message to Today’s Young People: Put an End to the Nuclear Weapons Era
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Nuclear weapons were created to kill indiscriminately. That means women, men, children – everyone. Even during war, under the rules of international law, that kind of mass killing is illegal. It is also immoral.
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On the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
10 Dec 2018 – This Declaration was a notable step in the direction of asserting that persons by virtue of their humanness are entitled to protection in the exercise of a broad spectrum of rights, and hence, that sovereignty is subject to certain constraining limitations. Much progress has been made since 1948, although we live in a period of mounting pressure on human rights deriving from a surge of right-wing populism combined with the effects of an insufficiently regulated capitalism.
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Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves? Leo Tolstoy on Why We Drink
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
The cause of the world-wide consumption of hashish, opium, wine, and tobacco, lies not in the taste, nor in any pleasure, recreation, or mirth they afford, but simply in man’s need to hide from himself the demands of conscience. When a man is sober he is ashamed of what seems all right when he is drunk. In these words we have the essential underlying cause prompting men to resort to stupefiers.
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At 70: A Few Problems with the Human Rights Concept
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
10 Dec 2018 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70 today. Thirty fine demands that, if you read them today, leaves a lot to be desired in all four corners of the world, including the Western. While people struggle to get them implemented and struggle against those who violate them, it may also be relevant to discuss the concept as such at an occasion such as this.
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(Português) Todos p’ra Rotunda
Paulo Correia | Ideia Perigosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
9 dez 2018 – Povos da Europa, ergam-se e ajudem-nos! O movimento francês dos « Gilets Jaunes », está a tentar ser descrito pelos meios de comunicação, controlados pelo poder neo-liberal, como um movimento social desordenado, sem voz clara, animado por um bando de extremistas. Mas o que realmente acontece é que, este movimento não é social, mas sim de insurreição. Os média ficaram confusos com o fenómeno e já não sabem como tratar o assunto. Lutemos pelos nossos direitos, por uma vida digna e contra as guerras, pois caso contrário seremos obrigados a combater numa, sabe-se lá porquê! Gilets Jaunes, Coletes Amarelos, Yellow Vests, Chalecos Amarillos – Todos p’ra rotunda!
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Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Stephanie Geller | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) enables full or partial ownership of a business by its employees through a pension plan or trust.
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China’s “Golem Babies”: There Is another Agenda
F. William Engdahl | Journal NEO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Gene Editing and “Genetically Modified Humans”: Just a few engineered organisms could irrevocably alter an ecosystem.
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(Português) Mais de 115 Milhões de Animais São Usados como Cobaias a Cada Ano
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
“Frequentemente, os sintomas e respostas aos tratamentos potenciais observados em outras espécies são diferentes daqueles de pacientes humanos”.
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Meet Antonio C. S. Rosa, Pioneer in Peace Journalism – Be the Change: Enter Peace Journalism (Parts 1 & 2)
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Introducing the TMS editor: Peace Journalism, a new paradigm for journalists covering conflict situations.
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Why It’s so Hard for Most Countries to Be Economically Independent from the West—Look No Further than Brazil
Justin Podur | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Western countries insist both on “free trade” with poor countries and farm subsidies for themselves.
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Merck & Company and Big Pharma’s Nefarious Search for Profits
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
An Example of how a Small-Town German Apothecary Shop Morphed into a Greedy Multinational Corporation that Disregards Ethical Principles
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The Turn towards a Global Police State is Structurally Rooted in Capitalism’s Achilles Heel
William I. Robinson | Films for Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
12 Dec 2018 – A global police state is emerging as capitalism descends into an unprecedented crisis, given the extent of ecological degradation and social deterioration, and the sheer scale of the means of violence deployed around the world. “Global police state” refers to three interrelated developments:
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China – A New Philosophy of Economics
Peter Koenig | Journal NEO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
China’s economic philosophy is a far cry from that of the west.
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America’s Permanent-War Complex
Gareth Porter | The American Conservative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
Nov/Dec 2018 Issue – Eisenhower’s worst nightmare has come true, as defense mega-contractors climb into the cockpit to ensure we stay overextended. The privatization of military and intelligence institutions began even before the end of the Cold War. It is a system of war that powerful arms contractors and their bureaucratic allies may have the ability to maintain indefinitely.
→ read full article(Castellano) El engaño humano y nuestra destrucción de la biósfera: ¡Ni siquiera lo estamos intentando!
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
3 diciembre 2018 – ¿Ha escuchado la expresión “cambio climático”? Esa encantadora expresión que sugiere unas vacaciones en un lugar con un clima más agradable… La extinción nos llama. La elección es suya.
→ read full article(Français) Les Gilets jaunes, révélateur d’un modèle de société en crise
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Déc 2018 – Il est temps de faire un premier bilan et de revenir sur les dessous de cette affaire, à la croisée des enjeux sur le modèle énergétique, l’urgence sociale, le défi climatique ainsi que la géopolitique mondiale.
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Migrants: A UN Conference Undermined by 11th Hour Withdrawals
Thalif Deen | IPS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
7 Dec 2018 – When the long-awaited UN conference focusing on the rights and safety of migrants and refugees takes off in Morocco [10-14 Dec], it will be a rare, if not an unprecedented meeting, for one reason: the withdrawal of at least seven member states almost at the 59th minute of the eleventh hour.
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New Report Provides First Comprehensive Legal Analysis of the Role of Gender in Genocide
Sareta Ashraph & Liz Olson | Global Justice Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
7 Dec 2018 – Today, the Global Justice Center released the first comprehensive legal analysis of the gender-based crimes of genocide. Over the past four years, the world has witnessed at least two genocidal campaigns—against the Yazidis in Iraq and against the Rohingya in Myanmar. Widespread sexual and gender-based violence was central to both, as in the genocides in Darfur, Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Guatemala. The new report, Beyond Killing, details the role that gender plays in the commission of genocide and the role it must therefore play in efforts to prevent and punish it.
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Responding to the Unique Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Jonathan Granoff | Parliament of the World’s Religions – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – “Somehow our politicians and military generals have convinced themselves that nuclear deterrence can safely go on forever. The recent statement from the Parliament of the World’s Religions to eliminate nukes puts the “mutual deterrence” rationalization for security to rest.” — Roger Kotila, President, Democratic World Federalists
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From Central America to Syria: the Conspiracy against Refugees
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
5 Dec 2018 – Watching the ongoing debate between liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding chaotic situation in Central America. In fact, no other country is as accountable as the United States for the ongoing chaos and resulting refugee crisis.
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Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters
Kazu Haga | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
The philosophy of nonviolence and the moral question of violence are often considered too messy or complicated, even by those who do believe it to be a principle. The civil rights movement was led largely by leaders who believed in nonviolence as a moral imperative. It was not only the most effective thing, but also the ‘right’ thing.
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We Need to Talk about Racism in the Aid Sector
Tindyebwa Agaba and Anonymous | Shine A Light – Open Democracy,
10 Dec 2018
Casual racism, implicit bias and jobs offered over beer. Two humanitarian workers reveal the ugly side of the international aid sector.
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G20: You Can Smell Tear Gas in the Streets as the Oil Industry Squabbles
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
4 Dec 2018 – Last week, two important meetings took place—one, in Buenos Aires, of the G20 nations, and two, in Vienna, of the OPEC. The two meetings did not produce any resolution to the major economic challenges in the world. But they did soothe the nerves of financial markets… From the air-conditioned rooms of the oligarchy, we go to the tear gas of the streets.
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Limits of Dissent – Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Even a comparatively honest, Chomskyite journalist like Greenwald is either not willing or not able to tell the whole truth about a paper that has done enormous harm in promoting Perpetual War with endless nonsense about ‘our’ supposed ‘responsibility to protect’ civilians in oil-rich countries like Iraq and Libya. The Guardian has, at last, begun responding to the climate extinction crisis, but it has long downplayed the gravity of the crisis and the truth of corporate denialism, while promoting high status consumerism and fossil fuel advertising.
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(Português) Dezembro é o mês mais violento para os animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
Com a chegada do Natal, mais do que nunca, bebês, pais e mães de outras espécies são servidos sobre uma mesa.
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José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
29 Nov 2018 – As I stared at the picture of seven-year-old Amal Hussain dying of hunger I couldn’t contain my anguish, tears flooding my eyes. Some hours earlier I was wining and dining with friends whom I told about my revulsion at the world’s indifference at the Yemen tragedy, at the hypocrites of the West who shamelessly crawl at the feet of the butcher of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman.
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Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment
Helena Norberg-Hodge | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
The global food system is inefficient, illogical and damaging to the environment. In contrast, small-scale local farming offers both economic and food security with several net benefits to the environment and life on the planet.
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Don’t Let [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Off the Hook for Her Role in the Myanmar Genocide
Khin Mai Aung | Lion’s Roar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Last week, a prominent Buddhist teacher defended Aung San Suu Kyi, the Buddhist Nobel Peace Prize laureate, against criticism that she is party to genocide. Why that defense doesn’t hold up. Suu Kyi lived in Bhutan where her late husband was working as the English tutor for the Bhutanese royal family. This lama moves in that ruling class circle.
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How Big Brother Grips Americans’ Minds to Support Invasions
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
U.S. the World’s Invasion Nation
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India’s Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution Rejects GM Crops
Colin Todhunter | Asia Pacific Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – “Genetically Modified cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops should therefore be banned.”
— M.S. Swaminathan, renowned agricultural scientist/geneticist and the father of the Green Revolution in India
(Português) A Fórmula do Fascismo
Paulo Correia | Ideia Perigosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
18 Nov 2018 – µ – φ = fascismo : A fórmula fundamental do grande capital, aplicada à política de França, a terra da tomada da Bastilha, da Declaração dos Direitos do Homem e do Cidadão e da divisa « Liberté Égalité Fraternité ». Micron (µ) foi eleito com o slogan « nem de esquerda, nem de direita ». Viu-se no que deu.
→ read full articleRationale for an Alternative to the UN Security Council
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – In last month’s blog, I returned to a previous theme of an Alternative UN Security Council. It has been pointed out to me that I did not provide a very explicit rationale about this proposal and why it should be given priority. So let me try to do that now in terms of the following strategy and tactics involved.
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Sorwar Alam | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
9 Dec 2018 – Returning Rohingya refugees is like sending Holocaust survivors to gas chambers, says Myanmar rights activist Maung Zarni.
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Truth, Justice, and Public Good: Simone Weil on Political Manipulation, the Dangers of “For” and “Against,” and How to Save Thinking from Opinion
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
“True attention is a state so difficult for any human creature, so violent, that any emotional disturbance can derail it. Therefore, one must always endeavour strenuously to protect one’s inner faculty of judgment against the turmoil of personal hopes and fears.”
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Genome-Edited Baby Claim Provokes International Outcry
David Cyranoski & Heidi Ledford | Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 – He Jiankui, a genome-editing researcher at the Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen, says that he impregnated a woman with embryos that had been edited to disable the genetic pathway HIV uses to infect cells. The announcement has provoked shock and outrage among scientists around the world.
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Chinese Researcher Claims First Gene-Edited Babies
Marilynn Marchione | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics.
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The Uighurs and China’s Long History of Trouble with Islam
Ian Johnson | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
23 Nov 2018 – While cloaked in the war on terrorism, many of the state’s actions are aimed at Islam itself. This has culminated in the reintroduction of a Mao-era measure: re-education camps. Then, the idea was to punish people who had the wrong class background; now, it is Muslims who have not assimilated enough. At first, reports of this seemed like an impossibility in the twenty-first century. Recently, though, the state has admitted they exist, saying they are needed to control extremism.
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Big Pharma Greed and Bad Government Policy Are Keeping the World from Ending AIDS
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
December 1 marks the 30th World AIDS Day—and despite leaps forward in medicine and awareness in affluent parts of the world, it’s still a big problem elsewhere.
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Academic Withdraws from China-Backed Event for Uyghurs
Sena Guler | Anadolu Agency [Turkey] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
1 Dec 2018 – Human rights activist and intellectual Maung Zarni said he withdrew from a Beijing-sponsored forum in London to protest the detention of a million Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang and until the country reverses its ‘troubling path.’
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The G20 Meeting and U.S./Russia Relations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – What follows are my responses to questions addressed to me by Sputnik News Agency in Moscow. Although the focus was on the ongoing G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, the real concern was the future of U.S./Russia relations and how these relations should be managed to avoid arms races, geopolitical rivalry, and ideological tensions.
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An Open Letter to Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche from a Burmese Buddhist Activist
Maung Zarni and Matthew Gindin | Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
A former ally of Aung San Suu Kyi responds to the Tibetan Buddhist teacher’s support for Myanmar’s controversial leader.
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Why Henry David Thoreau Was Drawn to Yoga
Derek Beres | Big Think – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
20 Nov 2018 – Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau shared a love for the ideas behind works like the Bhagavad Gita, incorporating symbols and metaphors into their own transcendental and nature-based writings—and leading to his time on Walden Pond. Thoreau was drawn to yoga and Hinduism as forms of resistance to mainstream market capitalism.
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Island Style – ‘Oiwi E (Music Video of the Week)
Song Across Hawai'i | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Jack Johnson and dozens of artists joined more than 1,000 Hawai’i keiki (children) in this beautiful medley. Weʻre excited to present our 2nd Song Across Hawaiʻi filmed across many breathtaking Hawai’i locations.
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A Message of Indigenous Resistance and Inspiration from the Amazon
Nemonte Nenquimo | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
29 Nov 2018 – The following piece is quoted directly from the keynote address of Ceibo Alliance co-founder Nemonte Nenquimo, who traveled from her home in the remote Ecuadorian Amazon to present to a live audience at this year’s Bioneers conference in Marin, California.
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A 100% Organic Model Is Possible: The Indian State of Sikkim Shows Us How
Manlio Masucci | LifeGate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
14 Nov 2018 – The Indian state of Sikkim is the first to be certified as fully organic, and is now ready to export its model to the rest of the world. Its delegation told us how all this has been possible.
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Charles Ferguson | Economic Crisis Film – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2010 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary, Inside Job provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia.
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Punctuated Biological and Social Evolution?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – What is the future for humans and the environment? Will average global temperature continue to rise? Have we passed the tipping point? There are now more body mass of humans and domestic vertebrates than all wild vertebrate animals on earth! In a few years there will be more plastic than fish in oceans and most coral reefs could be gone! Is it “natural” that a handful of billionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of humanity (i.e. more than 3.6 billion people)? What hope is left a sustainable earth ecosystem? What does it take to actually change things? Please share your views after you read these and other questions below.
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(Português) Ringo Starr diz que o segredo para se manter jovem e saudável é não consumir carne
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
21 nov 2018 – Aos 78 anos, o ex-baterista dos The Beatles, Ringo Starr, disse em entrevista à revista Rolling Stone que o segredo para se manter jovem e saudável é não consumir carne e se exercitar. Ele abdicou do consumo de carne depois de assistir a uma tourada na Espanha.
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Nicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
“Bravery is always more intelligent than fear, since it is built on the foundation of what one knows about oneself: the knowledge of one’s strength and capacity, of one’s passion.”
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About the Name “Hindu”
Sri Nandanandana das | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
Most scholars feel that the name “Hindu” was developed by outsiders, invaders who could not pronounce the name of the Sindhu River properly. According to Sir Monier Williams, the Sanskrit lexicographer, you cannot find an indigenous root for the words Hindu or India. Neither are these words found in any Buddhist or Jain texts, nor any of the official 23 languages of India. Some sources report that it was Alexander the Great who first renamed the River Sindhu as the Indu, dropping the beginning “S”, thus making it easier for the Greeks to pronounce. This became known as the Indus.
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To Put Humans First
Nadine Murad, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Better World Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – Nadia was named the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. For her invaluable work she was honored with the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
→ read full articleGlobal Governance as a Riddle
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
But is a solution the answer to the question?
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The New New Anti-Semitism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Hiding Israel’s Crimes of State behind False Claims of Victimization
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Italy: A Whole US/NATO Strategic Base
Manlio Dinucci | Pandora TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
In this well documented production, Manlio Dinucci focuses on US-NATO military deployment in Italy and around the world as a Global NATO.
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The Situation of the Rohingya: Is There a Role for the International Court of Justice?
Michael A Becker | European Journal of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 – The fact remains that Myanmar has unequivocally rejected the non-binding conclusions of the Fact-Finding Mission and a dispute about Myanmar’s compliance with the Genocide Convention persists. A case at the ICJ provides a means to resolve that legal dispute, even if addressing the broader challenges faced by the Rohingya is a far more complicated affair. Lasting solutions may require finding ways to persuade those states that are supporting and investing in Myanmar (such as China and Japan) that it is in their own interest to see Myanmar change its ways.
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Complicating the Narrative on Nicaragua
James Phillips | NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Many reports on the situation in Nicaragua have failed to capture the complexity of the crisis, a product of many decades of dictatorship, revolution, youthful hope, counterrevolution, popular empowerment, compromise with hard realities, struggles for national sovereignty, and ongoing U.S. intervention.
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As Facebook Bans Alternative Media to ‘Promote Online Safety,’ They Allowed a Child to Be Sold in a Post
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
While Facebook was actively deleting countless pages for promoting peace and freedom, they allowed an auction to be held in which a child was for sale—for weeks.
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John F. Kennedy 55 Years On: Casting Light on the JFK Assassination, 9/11 and Other 21st Century Crimes
Prof. Graeme McQueen | OffGuardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 – Fifty-five years ago, on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Although there has been a great deal written about this event over the years, I want to draw attention to one exceptionally important article. Vincent Salandria gave this talk in Dallas at the invitation of the Coalition on Political Assassinations.
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(Português) George Harrison: “A coisa que me repeliu em relação a comer carne foi a ideia de matar animais”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
21 nov 2018 – Harrison era vegetariano porque sentia que era contraditório honrar a vida em muitas formas e ainda contribuir com o abate de animais. Era devoto de Krishna e membro da ISKCON-Internatioinal Society for Krishna Consciousness. Compôs seu maior êxito, My Sweet Lord, para Krishna.
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Thanksgiving 2018: Why First Nations Regard USA’s Thanksgiving Day as a National Day of Mourning
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
And Why Minnesota’s Governors Sibley and Ramsey Should Be Tried Posthumously for Crimes against Humanity
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(Français) La formule du grand capital: µ – φ = fascisme
Paulo Correia | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 — µ – φ = fascisme: Ceci est la formule du grand capital appliquée en France, le pays du Peuple qui a su prendre la Bastille, écrire la Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen et de la devise «Liberté Égalité Fraternité».
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Will Reason, Wisdom, and Justice Find Refuge?
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – A spectrum is cycling the globe. Neo fascism has taken over several governments and the imagination of many as well. The last to fall into this state was Brazil. It is urgent to review a not-too-distant past in which this happened and appreciate the resources of resistance and history of an eventual recovery of culture and civilization. Meanwhile, today as yesterday, the media wants to make us believe otherwise.
→ read full articleWhy We Hurt Each Other: Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi on Love, Violence, and the Truth of the Human Spirit
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
The exchange sparked an ongoing correspondence between the two that lasted until Tolstoy’s death — a meeting of two great minds and spirits, eventually collected in Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi and rivaled only by Einstein’s correspondence with Freud on violence and human nature.
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(Français) Nicaragua : fin de régime ?
Bernard Duterme | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
13 nov 2018 – Depuis avril 2018, le Nicaragua traverse une profonde crise de régime. Fortement contesté, le couple régnant – le président Daniel Ortega et la vice-présidente Rosario Murillo, épouse du premier – s’accroche au pouvoir.
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The Dalai Lama on Science and Spirituality
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
“What science finds to be nonexistent we should all accept as nonexistent, but what science merely does not find is a completely different matter.”
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What the Paris Peace Forum Tells Us about France–And about the World
Célia Belin | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
On Sunday 11 Nov, 60 world leaders joined French President Emmanuel Macron in inaugurating the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum, a few hours after commemorating the centenary of the armistice that ended World War I. The American president’s absence at the forum reflects the American unmooring from the world of multilateralism.
→ read full article(Português) Opções para a Economia Popular
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 nov 2018 – Transição da muito pequena à média escala para empreendimentos da economia popular. Pode ser encarado? Que apoios são requeridos? Temos destacado que a economia popular não é um cercado onde deixar encurralados os pobres e marginalizados mas, pelo contrário, pode se transformar em uma das colunas fundantes de um novo rumo e forma de funcionar orientados ao bem-estar geral e o cuidado ambiental.
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Why Are We Allowing Yemen to Starve?
J.P. Linstroth | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 – All of us—all people across the United States and across the globe—should be very concerned about systematic starvation of civilian populations as a war tactic. This needs to stop. There needs to be accountability for such humanitarian atrocities and there needs to be passage of international law to put an end to these military practices. Otherwise, unnecessary and unfortunate suffering as is happening in Yemen will continue.
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Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather without Animals
Lucy Goodchild van Hilten | EcoWatch – Independent Media Institute,
26 Nov 2018
13 Nov 2018 – The future of ethical fashion is here: It’s now possible to grow leather without raising and killing animals.
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Colombia’s Rural Radio Stations Are a Key to Peace
Emma Heidenreich | Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Community radio stations are a hopeful medium for improving the free flow of information in Colombia, especially in the poorest and most remote regions.
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From the Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power to Full Democracies
The Editors | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – Humanity is going through a destructive phase of unbridled concentration of wealth and decisional power; its results have been widely identified and denounced. Even though spaces for resistance and transformation desires germinate, it still remains to be seen how large majorities organize to establish new courses and ways of functioning. Will the notion of full democracy be useful?
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Autonomous Weapons Will Be Tireless, Efficient, Killing Machines—And There Is No Way to Stop Them
Andreas Kirsch | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
The world’s next major military conflict could be over quickly. Our human soldiers will simply not stand a chance. Drones and robots will overrun our defenses and take the territory we are standing on. Even if we take out some of these machines, more of them will soon arrive to take their place, newly trained off our reactions to their last offense.
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UK Commits Extra Military Forces to Ukraine: Irresponsible Policy, Dangerous Repercussions
Arkady Savitsky | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
24 Nov 2018 – A multi-role hydrographic survey ship will be deployed in the Black Sea next year to demonstrate Britain’s support for Ukraine and ensure “freedom of navigation”. In September, Great Britain made known it planned to increase the warships’ presence in the Black Sea. NATO naval presence there is seen as provocative by Russia amid increasing tensions in the Azov Sea.
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John Scales Avery Interviews Binu Mathew
John Scales Avery | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
John Scales Avery: Dear friend and colleague in the peace movement, dear highly respected and admired Editor Binu Mathew, can you tell us what are the influences that led you to become the Editor of Countercurrents.org, one of the world’s most important and influential alternative news websites?
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(Français) De 1945 à aujourd’hui 20-30 millions de personnes tuées par les USA
Manlio Dinucci | Mondialisation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Une étude documente les guerres et les coups d’état effectués par les États-Unis dans plus de 30 pays asiatiques, africains, européens et latino-américains. Elle révèle que les forces militaires USA sont directement responsables de 10-15 millions de morts, provoqués par les plus grandes guerres: celles de Corée et du Vietnam et les deux contre l’Irak.
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Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power
Michael E. Tigar | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
The “Justice Department” appears, by its very nature and practice, to appropriate “justice” as the exclusive property of the federal government. In his brilliantly acerbic collection of essays, Tigar reveals, deconstructs, and eviscerates mythologies surrounding the U.S. criminal justice system, racism, free expression, workers’ rights, and international human rights.
→ read full articleThe International Monetary Fund Flexes Its Muscles in Latin America
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Thanks to the IMF, the pockets of the forgotten from Argentina to Mexico will suffer so that finance is left intact.
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Japan’s Abe Tells Putin He Won’t Let US Troops on Long-Disputed Islands if Russia Returns Them to Japan
Bill Bostock | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – Abe said: “This issue, which has existed for more than 70 years since the end of the war, will be solved by Putin and me, and not left for the next generation. President Putin and I completely shared that strong desire.” But the post-war agreement between Japan and the US could prove problematic, as the US can seek to build military bases in Japan due to the Japan-US Security Treaty and Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement.
→ read full articleOn My 88th Birthday: A Reflection
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
13 Nov 2018 – I post a poem that I wrote earlier today, and read at the end of my talk, perhaps a self-indulgent conceit on my part, but I share it here as a way of thanking so many friends near and far who sent me the most moving birthday greetings throughout the day, which made me feel that we who are supporting the Palestinian struggle are part of a growing community that will prevail at some point, and the two peoples now inhabiting Palestine can finally live in peace, and with dignity and equality.
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Costs of Post-9/11 U.S. Wars to 2019: $5.9 Trillion
Neta C. Crawford | Watson Institute, Brown University - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 -The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post-9/11 war veterans.
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Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
“The institutionalization of the ‘Rwandan genocide’ has been the remarkable achievement of a propaganda system sustained by both public and private power. We’re told that the US failed to stop Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, so we’re now obliged to ‘intervene’ anytime and anywhere another genocide is underway.”
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Forced Return of Rohingya Crime against Humanity
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
15 Nov 1018 – From the Red Cross to the UN High Commission for Refugees, the world is screaming foul at the Bangladesh-Myanmar bilateral repatriation scheme scheduled to begin today. Red Cross’ Robert Mardini based in Myanmar told reporters that “we still believe that the conditions are not right for voluntary, safe, dignified returns …. Nobody can claim today that the security in Rakhine is so well established that people can return safely.”
→ read full article(Italiano) La guerra per por fine alle guerre 100 anni dopo: valutazione e riorientamento della nostra resistenza alla guerra
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
L’autore e commentatore sociale britannico H.G. Wells ha forse coniato l’espressione che rese originariamente popolare la 1ª Guerra mondiale: La guerra che porrà fine alle guerre, secondo il titolo del suo libro basato su articoli scritti durante quel vasto conflitto militare. Por fine alla Guerra non è impossibile; tutt’altro, effettivamente. Ma ci vorrà una quantità fenomenale d’intelligente sforzo strategico, coraggio e dedizione.
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(Português) A Realidade Por Trás dos Testes em Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
“O negócio de criação de macacos foi mais do que duplicado na última década”
→ read full articleThe Filter Bubble: Owen Jones and Con Coughlin
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018 – There is something dreamlike about the system of mass communication sometimes described as ‘mainstream media’. Why are defence editors, defence correspondents, diplomatic editors and the like so often biased in favour of the Western defence and diplomatic establishment they are covering? And why are they allowed to demonstrate this bias without anyone so much as commenting? The filter bubble ensures that these questions can never be asked, much less answered.
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Burmese Activist Speaks Out for the Rohingya
Noriko Okada | NHK World Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 – “Ask yourself, if you saw your wife raped and your father shot dead in front of your eyes, if your little 6-month old boy was burned alive in front of your eyes…would you like to be told that you need to go back?” Those are the words of Maung Zarni, leader of a global network of activists supporting the Rohingya refugees who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh.
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Tchaikovsky on Depression and Finding Beauty amid the Wreckage of the Soul
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
“Life is beautiful in spite of everything! … There are many thorns, but the roses are there too.”
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