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America Is on the Road to Becoming a Fascist State
Robert Scheer | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
5 Oct 2017 – In a compelling essay for The New York Review of Books this month, Christopher R. Browning, a leading historian of the Holocaust and Nazism, outlines the frightening parallels between the United States and the Weimar Republic. “No matter how and when the Trump presidency ends,” he writes, “the specter of illiberalism will continue to haunt American politics.”
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Symposium on Global Environmental Law
Richard Falk | Univ. of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law & Governance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The symposium aimed to discuss whether and to what extent emerging concepts in global environmental law can help shed new light on the evolution and challenges of environmental law across different levels and sectors.
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(Português) Segundo estudo da Comissão Europeia, a dieta vegetariana é mais benéfica para o meio ambiente
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
De acordo com o trabalho, uma dieta vegetariana requer cinco vezes menos água do que uma dieta padrão (que inclui o consumo de carne).
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The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018 – I came across a piece about two meetings at the UN on the same day concerning nuclear weapons. The major nuclear states (USA, France, UK, China and Russia) all went to a meeting for non-proliferation and boycotted the meeting for nuclear disarmament. As the article correctly concludes, the nuclear states “place very little priority on their obligations to eliminate their own weapons of mass destruction, focusing instead on preventing others from acquiring such weapons.”
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India, in a First, Sends Seven Rohingya for Deportation to Myanmar
Zarir Hussain | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – In violation of international law, India is deporting Rohingyas back to Myanmar with an ongoing genocide. Indian police bussed seven Rohingya Muslims to the border today to be deported to neighboring Myanmar for illegal entry. Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, additional director general of police, said that the seven men would be handed over to Myanmar authorities on Thursday [4 Oct].
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US Military Plan to Spread Viruses Using Insects, Which Could Create a ‘New Class of Biological Weapon,’ Scientists Warn
Josh Gabbatiss | The Independent – Reader Supported News,
8 Oct 2018
5 Oct 2018 – Insects could be turned into “a new class of biological weapon” using new US military plans, experts have warned. However, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), which is responsible for developing military technologies in the US, says it is merely trying to alter crops growing in fields by using viruses to transmit genetic changes to plants.
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The Invisible Army: Explaining Private Military and Security Companies
Tea Cimini | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Aug 2018 – Recent US administrations, specifically under President Obama, continued to make private military and security companies part and parcel of their military efforts abroad.
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African Feminists Emphasize Key to Global Peace
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
25 Sep 2018 – Peace is quintessentially a woman’s issue, most clearly when the continuum of male violence against women in its private, social and structural dimensions is grasped. “That continuum of violence persists along a scale of force (fist to nuclear bomb); space (the home, the street, the village, the city, the battlefield and the nation); and time (pre-war, wartime and post-war).”
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Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – The United States Government is now treating Ukraine as if it were a NATO member, and on September 27th donated to Ukraine two warships for use against Russia. This is the latest indication that the US is switching to Ukraine as the locale to start World War III. Here is why Syria is no longer the US alliance’s preferred choice as a place to start WW III:
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The Birth of American Empire
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire – A book by Stephen Kinzer
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Military and U.S. Law Enforcement Establishing Joint Communication Network for Biometric Databases
Nicholas West | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
2 Oct 2018 – Does anyone remember that it used to be considered a conspiracy theory to warn people about biometric databases? Well, now that it is an accepted reality, we should be looking even farther down the slippery slope for new signposts indicating even greater plans to track, trace and database all human beings.
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Weaponizing the ‘New Anti-Semitism’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
22 Sep 2018 – This post consists of an opinion piece developed by several members of California Scholars for Academic Freedom.
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Peace Poll Reveals People Think Conflict Prevention Is Better than Cure
Harriet Lamb | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
20 Sep 2018 – Asked where their governments should spend more to promote peace, people gave top ranking to ‘dealing with the reasons why people fight in the first place’. This was strongly followed by ‘teaching peace, tolerance and conflict resolution in schools’. Again, military interventions had the least support.
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What Is Genocide?
Prof. Daniel Feierstein | Rohingya Genocide Documentation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Prof. Daniel Feierstein is president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; director of the Centre for Genocide Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; professor in the Faculty of Genocide at the University of Buenos Aires; author of Genocide as a Social Practice: Reorganizing Society Under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas (Rutgers University Press, 2014)
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Ottawa Creating New Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security
Morgan Lowrie | The Canadian Press – CTV News,
1 Oct 2018
22 Sep 2018 – Canada will create a new ambassador position dedicated to women, peace and security, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said today. She made the announcement at a meeting of female foreign affairs ministers in Montreal.
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(Português) O Eclipse da Ética na Atualidade
Leonardo Boff | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
28 Set 2018 – A meu ver, dois fatores atingiram o coração da ética: o processo de globalização e a mercantilização da sociedade. A justiça não vale apenas entre os humanos mas também para com a natureza e a Terra que são portadores de direitos e por isso devem ser incluídos em nosso conceito de democracia sócio-ecológica.
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(Português) O Sofrimento Animal na Indústria do Café de Civeta
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
25 set 2018 – Kopi luwak ou café de civeta é o café mais caro do mundo, mas o que chama a atenção sobre esse produto é que a sua fabricação está associada à morte e captura de milhares de civetas, mamíferos noturnos que são nativos da Ásia e da África. Os grãos de café de civeta são comercializados livremente na internet, inclusive em sites como Amazon, Ali Baba e Mercado Livre.
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The Child Abuse Contrarian
David Armstrong | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Michael Holick, a renowned scientist turned expert witness, relies on his own controversial theory to help alleged abusers avoid prison and regain custody of the babies they were accused of harming.
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Are Sanctions against Myanmar’s Military Enough?
Azaera Amza | TRT World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
In one year, over 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, but the weight of the international response to their persecution has been dubious.
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Bolton’s Red Sky Worldview: ICC, International Law, and Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Bolton’s Game: Not Sovereignty, Not International Law—Clearing the Path for U.S., Geopolitical Primacy
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An Antidote to White Male Capitalist Culture: Adrienne Rich on the Liberating Power of Storytelling and How Reading Emancipates
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
“The decline in adult literacy means not merely a decline in the capacity to read and write, but a decline in the impulse to puzzle out, brood upon… argue about, turn inside-out in verbal euphoria, the ‘incomparable medium’ of language…”
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Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
A Photo Gallery of What Happens When State Governing Bodies Allow Foreign or Out-of-State Corporations to Build Dangerous, Environment- and Water-(polluting) Businesses in Water-rich Environments
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No More Concentration of Wealth and Decisional Power
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
Some argue that this process is here to stay, as it was believed by those minorities that imposed empires and dictatorships. They forget that history shows the fall and disappearance of practically every system that believed to be permanent. Such could be the destiny of this destructive phase of ruthless financial capitalism.
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Revealed: Documents Show BP Quietly Paid Just $25 Million to Mexico after the Worst Oil Spill of the Century
Nathaniel Janowitz | BuzzFeed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
28 Sep 2018 — After the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010, BP paid out more than $60 billion in the US. More than eight years later, Mexico quietly settled with the oil giant for $25 million.
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Comparing Cryptocurrency against the Entire World’s Wealth in One Graph
Raul Amoros | Howmuch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
What if you tried to imagine the vale of the entire world’s gold ($7.8T)? It’s also hard to imagine all the world’s physical money ($34.4T), defined as anything that can be used as a medium of exchange in the world. That’s separate and distinct from all the stock markets’ value ($67.5T), much less the theoretical value of money in the world ($86.5T), which include the funds people keep in their bank accounts.
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Activists: US Stance on Rohingya Not Strong Enough
William Gallo | VOA News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
The State Department report makes no determination that any of the violence amounts to genocide or crimes against humanity, and it recommends no specific action. “This is extremely disappointing for those of us who have no other country to look to do something humane and compassionate and principled,” said Maung Zarni.
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Imminent Collective Communication “Info-death”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Much is currently made of an impending collapse, whether the focus is on that of the economic system (as some kind of replica of 1929 or 2008), of the ecosystem (notably as a consequence of climate change), or of overpopulation and other post-peak implications (notably the exhaustion of non-renewable energy resources), as can be variously recognized.
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
William A. Schabas | UN Library of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
The text of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948. After obtaining the requisite twenty ratifications required by article XIII, the Convention entered into force on 12 January 1951.
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Global Nonkilling Index Launched
Bill Bhaneja | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
‘This index reflects an advanced method of indexing peace by looking at “killing” beyond traditional murder rates, to includes suicide, capital punishment, and battlefield death rates… Because a nonkilling index provides a better correlation to peace in a broader context than simple murder rates, the adoption of a nonkilling index, such as proposed in this article, will hopefully encourage the collection of more data on killing in any form every year by the World Health Organization and others’.
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What Does a Nuclear Bomb Explosion Feel Like?
Motherboard | Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – On the International Day against Nuclear Tests, August 29, we met up British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like to experience a nuclear bomb explosion up close.
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Is Genocide a Controversial International Crime?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Why ‘Genocide’ is still a Controversial Crime? In this strikingly original, strange, and brilliant book, Philippe Sands raises a haunting question among a tangle of other intriguing issues discussed throughout East-West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.
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A Well-Founded Fear of Environment: International Resistance to Climate Refugees
Nicole Spadotto | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
5 Aug 2018 – Ultimately, the climate refugee norm is stalled due to competing discourses surrounding environmental and migration remedies.
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“The Present Crisis of Western Democracy Is a Crisis of Journalism”
Eduardo Suárez | Nieman Foundation at Harvard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
What Walter Lippmann’s early writings say about some of journalism’s most urgent contemporary challenges
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When Pharmaceutical, Vaccine and Medical Device Corporations Rule the World’s Healthcare Industries
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
“Corporations should not be involved in any aspect of the democratic process. They should not be involved in education at any level. They should not be involved in health care. They should not be involved in the administration of social services. They should not be involved in the administration of justice. WHY? Because they are incapable of understanding and conforming to higher human aspirations and needs. Better to leave these areas to government, and to non-profit organizations, both of which are administered by humans in the human interest.”
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(Français) L’ONU s’attaque à l’armée birmane et à Aung San Suu Kyi (Nobel de la paix Laureae)
Dorian Malovic | La Croix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Dans son rapport final publié mardi 18 septembre, l’ONU exhorte au retrait de l’armée de la vie politique, et cite six hauts responsables de l’armée, demandant qu’ils soient poursuivis pour « génocide », « crimes contre l’humanité » et « crimes de guerre » envers les Rohingyas.
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Turkey: Lawyer Files Criminal Complaint against Myanmar
Diyarbakir | Anadolu Agency – Hürriyet Daily News,
24 Sep 2018
20 Sep 2018 – A Turkish lawyer filed a criminal complaint today against several Myanmar officials on charges of committing genocide against Rohingya Muslims and crimes against humanity in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
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(Português) Fazenda de café certificada pela Starbucks é flagrada com trabalho escravo
Daniela Penha | Repórter Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Ação resgatou 18 trabalhadores de propriedade mineira que tinha dois dos mais importantes selos de boas práticas do mundo. Embora sua certificadora tenha aprovado a fazenda, a Starbucks nega ter comprado o produto.
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CIA, KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual
Whale | Internet Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
This 127-page report, classified Secret, was drafted in July 1963 as a comprehensive guide for training interrogators in the art of obtaining intelligence from “resistant sources.” KUBARK–a CIA codename for itself–describes the qualifications of a successful interrogator, and reviews the theory of non-coercive and coercive techniques for breaking a prisoner. Some recommendations are very specific.
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Human Rights, State Sovereignty, and International Law: An Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
20 Sep 2018 – The interview below conducted by my friend, journalist and author C.J. Polychroniou was initially published in the Global Policy Journal, on 11 Sep 2018, the 17thanniversary of the World Trade Center attacks and the 45thanniversary of the Pinochet coup in Chile that assassinated the elected president of the country Salvador Allende.
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Human Rights & Humanitarian Law: Genocide
Jean Paul Sartre | Tamil Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
Jean Paul Sartre’s Statement at the Second Session of the Bertrand Russell International War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam held in Denmark in November 1967 remains, almost 40 years later, an inspiring appeal to the conscience of humanity – inspiring not only because of the force of its reason but also because it reveals Sartre’s passionate commitment to justice.
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Slave Labor Found at Starbucks-Certified Brazil Coffee Plantation
Daniela Penha | Repórter Brasil, Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
18 Sep 2018 – Brazil Labor Ministry investigators have raided the Córrego das Almas farm in Piumhi, in rural Minas Gerais state, and rescued 18 workers who were laboring on coffee plantations in conditions analogous to slavery.
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Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love. That is why geometrically speaking the circle is a one. Everything comes to you from the other. You have to be able to reach the other. If not you are alone…
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(Português) Jumentos, uma vida de exploração que agora termina no matadouro
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
21 set 2018 – Hoje, caminha-se para um novo nível de objetificação desnecessária de mais uma espécie animal. O jumento já não é apenas um animal explorado como meio de mão de obra, mas também reduzido a fonte de alimento.
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Why Israel Demolishes: Khan Al-Ahmar as Representation of Greater Genocide
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
19 Sep 2018 – Like vultures, Israeli soldiers descended on Khan Al-Ahmar, on Sep. 14, recreating a menacing scene with which the residents of this small Palestinian village, located East of Jerusalem, are all-too-familiar. The strategic location of Khan Al-Ahmar makes the story behind the imminent Israeli demolition of the peaceful village unique amid the ongoing destruction of Palestinian homes and lives throughout besieged Gaza and Occupied West Bank.
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Northern Ireland: Squandering a Future
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
I want to challenge everyone to look at their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews and question: how big is their division? Gone are the days of fear and threat. So where does the problem lie? I believe the problem lies in the older generations who have suffered terribly on all sides through violence and fear. My generation has a responsibility not to restrain the youth by our bigotry and division.
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Imprisonment, Torture and Rape: Why Myanmar Must Be Referred to the ICC
Shirin Ebadi and Tawakkol Karman | Both Nobel Peace Laureates – CNN,
24 Sep 2018
18 Sep 2018 – Today, the investigation led by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar presented its findings to the Human Rights Council. The mission’s exhaustive report defines human rights violations and abuses as “shocking for their horrifying nature and ubiquity.”
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(Português) “Ilegítimo” e “perigoso”: EUA ameaçam juízes do Tribunal Penal Internacional
Jornal Económico | Lusa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
11 set 2’018 – “Se o Tribunal for contra nós, Israel ou outros aliados, não ficaremos calados”, afirmou John Bolton, conselheiro de segurança nacional dos EUA, no seu primeiro discurso formal desde que chegou ao cargo, em abril passado. Os Estados Unidos, acrescentou, “proibirão a entrada de juízes e procuradores” no território nacional.
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(Français) Education aux médias et théories du complot: des capsules difficiles à avaler
Michèle Janss | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – Le centre de ressources en communication et éducation aux médias en Communauté Française de Belgique a créé 14 capsules vidéo destinées à aider les enseignants dans l’éducation aux médias et aux théories du complot. Pensant y trouver une abondante documentation, j’ai très vite abandonné l’idée d’utiliser cet outil.
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(Português) O Golpe de Pinochet Contra Allende no Chile: Uma Virada Internacional
Osvaldo A. Coggiola | Jornal da USP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
10 set 2018 – A 11 de setembro de 1973, as Forças Armadas chilenas, encabeçadas pelo general Augusto Pinochet, derrubaram mediante a força o governo socialista no Chile. A queda e morte de Salvador Allende foi a ‘dobradiça’ entre duas etapas da história da esquerda internacional. A última delas já entrou, como se sabe, em forte crise, que ainda não desfraldou todas as suas contradições e potencialidades, dramáticas no caso brasileiro.
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(Français) Le renversement d’Allende au Chili, raconté par Washington
Hernando Calvo Ospina | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Le 11 septembre 1973, Salvador Allende, président démocratiquement élu du Chili, mourait pendant un coup d’État militaire ourdi et financé depuis les États-Unis. La répression fit 3 800 morts ou disparus (évaluation minimale) et plus de 37 000 torturés. Des centaines de milliers de Chiliens furent contraints à l’exil. Une aube noire se leva sur le Chili de Pinochet…
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Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
14 Sep 2018 – Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could. They can create money at will, and they have declared their “independence” from government. They have become rogue players in a game of their own.
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Decoding the Pipes/Trump/Kushner ‘Deal of the Century’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
True, Oslo diplomacy was a failure that worked to the political benefit of Israel, and was rightly abandoned. But the Trump response to this failure amount to the criminalization of diplomacy that violates the most basic precepts of international law, as spelled out in the UN Charter. It amounts to waging an aggressive war against a vulnerable and helpless people. If the UN and the leading governments watch this dismal spectacle in stony silence it can only be fervently hoped that the peoples of the world will recognize the need for radical reform to avoid a catastrophic future, not just for the Palestinians, but for all of humanity.
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Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
The Trump administration announced Monday [10 Sep] that it would retaliate against the International Criminal Court, a judicial panel established under the auspices of the UN, if the ICC took any action against US military or civilian officials over charges of war crimes in Afghanistan. The announcement was made by National Security Advisor John Bolton.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Seervice,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – In this time of Trump and Trumpism, we should seize the opportunity to celebrate the luminous presence of Serena Williams in our midst: a champion, a warrior for women and against racism, a woman of great charm and warmth, and a beacon of decency.
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Sabra and Shatila: New Revelations
Seth Anziska | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
17 Sep 2018 – Sifting through Foreign Ministry files, I stumbled upon the minutes of a September 17 [1982] meeting between Israeli and American officials that took place in the midst of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. The startling verbatim exchange between Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and US diplomat Morris Draper clearly demonstrated how the slaughter of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of south Beirut was prolonged by Draper’s acquiescence in the face of Sharon’s deceptive claim of “terrorists” remaining behind.
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Are You Political?
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
“I’m Not Political” – From 1942 to 1944, transport trains delivered Jews and others to Auschwitz gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed en masse. In Hawaii, Camp H.M. Smith is headquarters of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command covering more than 50% of the earth. U.S. nuclear submarines and strategic nuclear bombers are based on Oahu. The Pohakuloa Training Area is a training ground for nuclear war and military human experimentation. Are You Political?
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The Veiled Danger of the ‘Dead’ Oslo Accords
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
12 Sep 2018 – Yossi Beilin is back. This unrepentant Israeli ‘peacemaker’ is like the mythical phoenix, continually resurrecting from its ashes. In a recent article in Al-Monitor, Beilin wrote in support of the idea of a confederation between Israel and Palestine. Bizarrely, Beilin is promoting a version of an idea that was pushed by Israel’s extremist Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman.
→ read full article(Português) Respeito, Tolerância, Diálogo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
2 set 2018 – Há pessoas que estão sempre buscando salvadores, heróis, gurus ou pessoas que, numa idealização romanesca, concordem com elas em tudo, ou as representem em tudo.
→ read full articleWhy Do “Good Americans” Believe the “Big Lies”, just like Their “Good German” Counterparts in the 1930s and 40s? (Part 2)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 – Why do so many average American citizens prefer to think that our government, our Congress, our Presidents, our Vice Presidents, our CIA, our FBI, our major media, etc. would be telling the truth about the events that allowed thousands of pseudo-patriotic (or cognitively impaired) scoundrels to lead America into a series of military misadventures that have already cost both current and future American taxpayers uncountable trillions of scarce dollars, not to mention the current perpetual war quagmire and planetary pollution that has no visible end, as long as there are profits to be made from war?
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The Story of Stuff
Annie Leonard | The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
→ read full articleDemonization of Russia in a New Cold War Era
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – Inventing a foe to sell military ambitions: still the most dangerous of games. In examining the future, we must look to the past.
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Oslo Accords: The Morning After
Edward Said | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Edward Said wrote in Oct 1993 a remarkably accurate portrayal of the level of capitulation that was done via the so-called Oslo Accords. This piece is remarkable and still worth reading. Oslo II of 1994 was even worse and we saw the ramification of all of this in the past 25 years. No wonder the Trump administration cut all aid to Palestinians except the money for the “Vichy style” Palestinian Authority security services–the Dayton Forces.
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The Constitutional Turn: Liberty and the Cooperative State
Dan Hind | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
7 Sep 2018 – A provocative essay that challenges readers to think beyond the politics of revolution and redistribution to consider what deep democracy actually means. It stands “for making the state a site for radical reform.” To do that, however, “we need to develop a constitutional imagination” based on direct citizen engagement in the political economy.
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Investigation Exposes Animal Abuse at US Supplier to World’s Largest Meat Company
Reynard Loki | Mercy For Animals - Independent Media Institute,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – An undercover investigator with Mercy for Animals witnessed extreme animal abuse at Tosh Farms in Kentucky, where workers ripped out the testicles of piglets without providing any pain relief, and smashing their heads against the ground to kill them. Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions and images of animal abuse.
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On Qatar and Gulf Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – This is a slightly modified text of an interview by the Tunisian journalist Awatef Ben Ali on behalf of the Qatar newspaper, Al Sharq, August 26, 2018.
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How Today’s American Plutocrats Are Not so Different from the Czars
Jack Balkwill | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – Serfdom was prevalent during the reign of the Russian Czars. Almost 80% of the Russian people were either peasants or serfs. Today we have wage slaves to replace the peasants, obligated to work so that the modern Romanovs, our ruling plutocrats, may live in similar splendor. Today, the richest 10% of American families are worth a combined $51 trillion, equal to 75% of total household wealth. To put that figure in perspective, US GDP totaled only $18.5 trillion in 2016.
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(Français) Autour de la tentative d’assassinat du président Maduro: Comprendre les mécanismes d’une guerre non-conventionnelle
Misión Verdad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
7 Sep 2018 – Les enquêtes menées par les services officiels vénézuéliens sur l’attentat manqué contre la vie du président Maduro le 4 août dernier suivent leurs cours. A ce stade des recherches, les preuves accumulées et les protagonistes dûment identifiés permettent déjà de définir les contours de l’opération terroriste/mercenaire qui a pu se développer dans le pays avec les résultats que l’on connaît ; elles permettent également d’anticiper et d’évaluer les mesures cruciales et nécessaires à prendre pour la sécurité du pays.
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Can’t We Just Leave Syria Alone?
Ron Paul | Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – The U.S. Is Defending al-Qaeda in Idlib – Assad was supposed to be gone already. President Obama thought it would be just another “regime change” operation and perhaps Assad would end up like Saddam Hussein or Yanukovych. Or maybe even Gaddafi. The US spent billions to get rid of him and even provided weapons and training to the kinds of radicals that attacked the United States on 9/11.
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Uprising and the End of Empire
Johan Galtung | Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
Peace mediator Johan Galtung gives his analysis of the uprisings in the Arab world as an indicator the era of Western domination in the region is coming to an end.
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Mass Atrocities and Western Imperialism: Evaluating “Responsibility to Protect”
Laura Ningelgen | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 – Amidst unimaginable human rights violations in countries such as Syria, Yemen and Myanmar, the international community is faced with a moral predicament how to react. In 1999, Kofi Annan stressed the responsibility to protect citizens of states, meaning that even though states are sovereign, they do not have a free ride to endorse or accept the suffering or killing of civilians. The concept of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P), authorised after the UN World Summit 2005 attempted to resolve the contradiction between individual human rights and sovereignty.
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Syria & Russia Accuse U.S. Coalition, ‘White Helmets’, of Preparing Chemical Weapons Attacks in Idlib
Eric Zuesse | Off Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
8 Sep 2018 – The Governments of Syria and Russia claim to have proofs that the U.S. coalition that has invaded and now occupies Syria has prepared chlorine and sarin gas attacks for Idlib and other areas where Syria and Russia are trying to destroy all jihadists — prepared attacks designed to be blamed against Syria’s Government.
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Nuclear Abolition: The Road from Armageddon to Transformation
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – The sunlight-blocking dust generated by the detonation of, say, 300 thermonuclear weapons in a war between the US and Russia could trigger a new Ice Age, dropping global temperatures to the lowest levels in 18,000 years, and leaving civilization utterly destroyed. Those who would survive the blast, heat, and radiation of nuclear war would live in a nuclear winter of freezing temperatures and perpetual darkness. The survivors would likely envy the dead.
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Haiti: Roots of an Uprising
Robert Roth | International Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
On July 6, 2018, Haiti exploded. By the tens of thousands, Haitians poured into the streets of Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise. The contrast could not be more stark — education or militarism, democracy or authoritarian rule, inclusion or exclusion, development or corruption, self-determination or occupation. With the July uprising, the Haitian people have once again made known their choice.
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The Tip of the Radiation Disaster Iceberg
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – The World Nuclear Association says its goal is “to increase global support for nuclear energy” and it repeatedly claims on its website: “There have only been three major accidents across 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of operation in 32 countries.” … Some of the world’s other major accidental radiation releases indicate that the Big Three are just the tip of the iceberg.
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The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
True to Stephen King’s assertion that “good fiction is the truth inside the lie,” the story sheds light on Dostoyevsky’s personal spiritual and philosophical bents with extraordinary clarity — perhaps more so than any of his other published works. The contemplation at its heart falls somewhere between Tolstoy’s tussle with the meaning of life and Philip K. Dick’s hallucinatory exegesis.
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India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History
Bernard D’Mello | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
India After Naxalbari is about a thread of Indian history that mainstream historians have tended to either ignore or misrepresent. This account puts it squarely into our history books. –Arundhati Roy, author, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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What Lies Beneath: The US-Israeli Plot to ‘Save’ Gaza
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
5 Sep 2018 – With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden opportunity to redefine what has, for decades, constituted the legal and political foundation for the so-called ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict.’ It aims to create a new reality in which Israel achieves its strategic goals while the rights of Palestinians are limited to mere humanitarian issues.
→ read full articleJudges Rule ICC Has Jurisdiction over Rohingya Deportations
Mike Corder | AP – The Washington Post,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 — Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled today that the court has jurisdiction to investigate Myanmar forces that have driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homes. The decision opens up the possibility of Myanmar being prosecuted at the Hague-based court even without being a member.
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Eros and Civilization (A Love Story)
Herbert Marcuse | Thomas Altfather Good – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
According to Freud, humans denied their basic impulses in order to build a civilization. They traded happiness for security and it was, by and large, a fair exchange. Freud called this the Reality Principle. Herbert Marcuse argued that a ruling elite has exploited the Reality Principle for personal gain, gradually constructing a stratified society based on the “logic of domination” — the masses are rewarded for their servitude with a relative affluence.
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Myanmar Rejects, Refutes UN Fact-Finding Mission on Rohingya Genocide: You Are Not Fair and Objective
Nay Pyi Taw | Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
Original document, please read.
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(Português) 50 empresas vendem metade dos alimentos do mundo – e elas estão cada vez maiores
Rafael Moro Martins | The Intercept Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
4 Set 2018 – Concentração no Brasil é ainda maior, aponta Atlas do Agronegócio, documento que faz retrato do mercado de alimentos e insumos e agora tem sua primeira edição brasileira.
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(Português) Mercado de substitutos da carne deve valer U$ 5,81 bilhões até 2022
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 set 2018 – Por enquanto, os substitutos da carne baseados em soja estão liderando o mercado, seguido por substitutos à base de trigo e micoproteínas (fungos). A proteína texturizada de soja está em primeiro lugar. No entanto, até 2022, substitutos da carne à base de trigo, como o seitan, devem conquistar.maior participação no mercado
→ read full articleWhy Did “Good Germans” Become Silent about the Holocaust while It Was Happening? … (Part 1)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
… And Why Are Good Americans Silent about the Documentable Facts That Disprove the Official White House Conspiracy Theory about 9/11?
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‘The Onion’ Has Chosen to Publish an Anonymous Op-Ed from Two Sources Close to Trump Who Think Their Dad Is the Best President Ever
The Onion | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
6 Sep 2018 – Today, The Onion is making an unusual editorial decision, and we want to explain why. As turmoil continues to increase within the Trump White House, this essay offers an invaluable high-level perspective into the administration’s inner workings. Due to the sensitive nature of this op-ed, revealing the identities of the writers could jeopardize their positions in the administration. We believe, however, that any issues with the writers’ identities or their motivations for writing this piece are overridden by the necessity of informing the public about what it’s like to work for the president. That is why The Onion has chosen to publish an anonymous op-ed from two sources close to Mr. Trump who think their dad is the best president ever.
→ read full articleProhibition of Reference to Overpopulation of the Planet
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Draft Proposal for an International Convention – It can be readily argued that many conventional crises are a consequence of increasing population — unemployment, environmental degradation, access to food and water resources, failing social security services, disease, inaccessibility of education, refugees, security threats, violence, and the like. Such arguments derive primarily from marginal groups and are readily deprecated.
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Nicaragua: A View from the Left
Jeffrey L. Gould | NACLA-North American Congress on Latin America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Making sense of Daniel Ortega’s slow betrayal of the Nicaraguan revolution.
→ read full articleRevisiting the Earth Charter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Ron Engel has articulated an insider review of the Earth Charter so thoughtfully, urbanely, and persuasively that my initial temptation was to restrict my response to a single word: ‘Amen!’ Yet I am familiar enough with the academic ways of gathering diverse voices to explore a topic or to evaluate the scholarship of a distinguished author, as to discard my one-word option.
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(Italiano) I Giganti: l’élite del potere globale
Robert J. Burrowes | Znet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Questi 41 trilioni di dollari rappresentano la ricchezza investito per profitto da migliaia di milionari, miliardari e imprese. I diciassette Giganti operano in quasi ogni paese del mondo e sono “le istituzioni centrali del capitale finanziario che alimenta il sistema economico globale”. Investono in qualsiasi cosa sia considerata redditizia da “terre agricole sulle quali i coltivatori indigeni sono sostituiti da investitori dell’élite del potere” ad attività pubbliche (quali le reti elettriche e idriche).
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Why Do They Hate Us? How the West Creates Its Own Enemies
Marco Carnelos | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
From ancient Greece onward, the West has used the Eastern other as an enemy through which to identify itself.
→ read full articleA Serious Warning about the Toxicity of Aluminum-Adjuvanted Vaccines–Especially for Infants and the Elderly
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
“Aluminum has long been identified as a neurotoxic metal, affecting memory, cognition and psychomotor control, altering neurotransmission and synaptic activity, damaging the blood–brain barrier (BBB), exerting pro-oxidant effects, activating microglia and neuroinflammation, depressing the cerebral glucose metabolism and mitochondrial functions, interfering with transcriptional activity, and promoting beta-amyloid and neurofilament aggregation. Aluminum adjuvants are currently used in vaccines against tetanus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, human papillomavirus, haemophilus influenzae B, pneumococcal and meningococcal infections, and anthrax.”
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The Rich Will Not Save Us
Rob Meiksins | Nonprofit Quarterly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
27 Aug 2018 – Philanthropic plutocracy is the use of donations from the ultra-wealthy to shift the overall allocation of resources in society. The philanthropy of today’s ultra-wealthy rests on a paradox of wanting to have a positive impact on society’s inequity but using money earned from businesses that take advantage of that very inequity to do so. Stiglitz argues that the rich will continue to use their wealth to maintain their power and that philanthropists are their enablers. Ultimately, it is up to civil society to intervene and build a more just and equitable economy if we want these patterns to change.
→ read full articleThe Paradox of the United Nations: Peace vs. Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
2 Sep 2018 – If we consider the purpose for which the United Nations was formed: “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” it is failing badly. This spring, when we hoped that the UN would convene a High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, the meeting was cancelled due to pressure from the United States and its allies.
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(Français) Pourquoi Marx avait raison
Marc Vandepitte | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Août 2018 – Karl Marx naissait il y a 200 ans. Peu de penseurs ont autant influencé l’histoire que lui. Sa critique aiguë et radicale du capitalisme est aujourd’hui toujours actuelle : crises économiques, exploitation, les caractéristiques de l’état, la lutte des classes, le rôle de la classe ouvrière, la pensée écologiste, …
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(Português) Pesquisa Revela Que Muitos Consumidores Desconhecem a Real Violência por Trás da Carne Que Comem
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Sete de cada dez consumidores que participaram do estudo se mostraram chocados.
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Israel’s Dirty Arms Deals with Myanmar
Haaretz | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – A United Nations report issued this week found that the Myanmar military committed genocide and crimes against humanity, including rape, torture, enslavement, violence against children and the destruction of entire villages, against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. Such reports have not kept the Israeli government from cooperating with those war criminals.
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Time for Provocative Mnemonic Aids to Systemic Connectivity?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
27 Aug 2018 – The challenge of the “headless hearts” to the “heartless heads” was used in an earlier argument as a means of framing the response to the refugee/migration crisis. The conclusion pointed to the possibility of new mnemonic aids to discourse, as developed here — possibly to be understood as an annex to that argument.
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(Français) La crise des Rohingya, un an après: un massacre planifié
Agnès Gruda | La Presse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
25 août 2018 – Il y a un an aujourd’hui, des combattants de la minorité musulmane des Rohingya ont tué 12 soldats birmans, donnant le prétexte à une campagne de répression qui a forcé plus de 700 000 personnes à fuir vers le Bangladesh voisin. Alors que la majorité de ces survivants s’entassent dans le plus grand camp de réfugiés de la planète, de plus en plus d’indices montrent que les massacres de l’automne dernier n’avaient absolument rien de spontané. Des similitudes frappantes avec ce qui s’était passé au Rwanda.
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21st Bloody Friday in Gaza
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
21 Aug 2018 – Since March 30, Palestinian Great March of Return demonstrations have been all about contesting Israel’s unlawful blockade of the Strip, along with denying them all their fundamental rights. Israeli forces lethally shot two Palestinians on Friday, injuring at least 270 others, scores from live fire—including 19 children and nine medics targeted for aiding the wounded.
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A Warning to Wannabe Pro-violence Fascist Tyrants (and Their Cult Followers): Don’t Disregard the “Living by the Sword–Dying by the Sword” Admonition
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Fascism emphasized action and heroism over intellectualism and philosophy. This is why Hitler’s ideal Aryan concept was a strong, handsome, and physically fit person rather than someone with a mind for civics. The other part of fascism was extreme patriotism, which is why each nation/group had its own fascist symbolism and mythology. “Put up your sword; for those who take up the sword will surely die by the sword”: Matthew 26:52
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Law Not War: Listen Very Carefully to Ben Ferencz
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 – Listen to 99-year old Ben Ferencz sharing his crystal clear perception of the human stupidity of war. He is the last surviving Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor and has thought more than probably anyone about the psychology and politics of evil. Ferencz is a staunch believer in abolishing wars as such and, of course, in nuclear weapons abolition.
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