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Blindness, End of Cycle, New Courses
Opinion Sur | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
12 July, 2018 – Neoliberal domination is approaching the limits of its reproduction. So much has been destroyed with the impious concentration of wealth and decisions that the peoples of the world and the Planet can stand no more. Inequality, poverty, indigence, environmental destruction lead to the implosion of the model of society and world that has been imposed on us.
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The Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Arthur Lyon Dahl, and Maja P.C.E. Groff | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
May 2018 – This proposal builds upon structures for international cooperation existing at least since the creation of the UN. We propose revisions to the UN Charter that provide the legal basis for a new system of global governance, supplemented by other reforms not requiring Charter amendment.
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“Slow News” vs “Fast History”
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – This blog last month suggested that history is moving much faster than we think and that the collapse of the American empire is likely to come within the next two years. This leads me to the question: Can the slow development of the culture of peace make it possible for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace when the American empire crashes?
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Rohingya: The History of a Muslim Identity in Myanmar
Jacques Leider | Oxford University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
[FROM TMS EDITOR]: Oxford University Press did not heed the written and verbal protests by some 2,000 scholars, public intellectuals and citizen-activists to not publish this genocide-denying—actually, ideologically genocide-reinforcing–essay by Jacques Leider. Please read the 3 following articles (below) refuting and debunking Leider’s piece—to educate, clarify and elucidate about the ongoing Rohingya genocide in Burma/Myanmar. Another one–will we ever learn?
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Wider Consequences of U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
7 Jul 2018 – I think the superficial response to this latest de-internationalizing move is the tendency of the Trump Administration to align its policies in conformity with Israeli priorities and preferences, which have long focused on the Human Rights Council as a venue hostile to their policies and practices.
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Engaging Credible Religious Leaders in the Prevention of Violence and Extremism – Our Methodology
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Jun 2018 – This program addresses the transnational phenomenon of extremism using a conflict transformation approach. It aims to the reduce violence in the Sahel region, the Lake Chad area and the Arab world, through the promotion of wasatiya (the “middle way”) and the avoidance of extremes (ghulu), both concepts rooted in Islamic thought and practice. The project comprises two tracks:
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Who Gets to Write the Encyclopedia? Rohingya “Expert” Denies Genocide
David Palumbo-Liu | Truthout - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
9 Jul 2018
15 Mar 2018 – A group of academics and human rights workers has issued a strong letter to the Oxford University Press, arguing that its choice of an author to write on the Rohingya is deeply flawed and could have wide-ranging consequences. The Press has commissioned Jacques Leider, whom the letter identifies as the head of the Bangkok-based École française d’Extrême-Orient and an adviser to the Burma military’s Armed Forces Historical Museum, to write the reference article on the Rohingya for its Oxford Research Encyclopedias.
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Why Unarmed Civilian Protection Is the Best Path to Sustainable Peace
Annie Hewitt | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
6 Jul 2018 – The first image that often comes to mind when one thinks of peacekeeping is that of the blue helmets armed soldiers. There is, however, another model for peacekeeping called unarmed civilian protection, or UCP. It works from the inside and has been proven to save lives, empower communities and can secure strong and lasting peace in areas plagued by violent conflict.
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Myanmar Bombs 60 Churches in 18 Months, Replaces Some with Buddhist Pagodas
Samuel Smith | The Christian Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
3 Jul 2018 – Myanmar’s military forces have destroyed about 60 Christian churches and have turned some of those properties into Buddhist pagodas amid renewed attacks over the last year-and-a-half, an American pastor who recently traveled to the region said.
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Fukushima’s “Hot Particles” Travelled Extreme Distances
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
3 Jul 2018 – “Cesium found 375 miles from Japanese plant,” read the headline in the Japanese daily paper Yomiuri Shimbun. Proponents of nuclear power still get away with denying that inhaled or ingested exposures cause harm. This is because when the cancers begin appearing 10, 15 or 20 years from exposure, no one can to prove they were caused by Fukushima’s hot particles. “Got cancer?” they ask. “Not our fault. Nuclear power is safe.”
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Internationalism and the Colonial Challenges Facing Haiti and Venezuela
Jeanette Charles | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Colonialism explains why UN forces implicated in mass rape, human trafficking rings, and the cholera epidemic continue to occupy Haiti. It is the driving force behind former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s tour throughout the Caribbean, intimidating, threatening, and bribing states to vote at the OAS in favor of foreign intervention in Venezuela. Colonialism has cultivated the root of complex political, economic, and sociocultural relationships between the states, peoples, and grassroots movements of Venezuela and Haiti.
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How High the Moon? Or the Greatest Deception of Them All…
Emanuel E. Garcia | NEXUS Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
“Fake news” is nothing new. In less glamorous times, perhaps, it was known as subterfuge, lying, deceit, deception, advertising or public relations. One of the advantages of aging is that one may look back and, in so looking back, events which, at the time of perception, seemed perfectly plausible, can be peered at more closely and, can, in fact, be seen for what they really were.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. Born in 1817, one of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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Seneca on Gratitude and What It Means to Be a Generous Human Being
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
The wise man… enjoys the giving more than the recipient enjoys the receiving… None but the wise man knows how to return a favour. Even a fool can return it in proportion to his knowledge and his power; his fault would be a lack of knowledge rather than a lack of will or desire.
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(Français) Néocolonialisme et “crise des migrants”
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
29 juin 2018 – On dissimule ainsi la cause de fond : le système économique qui dans le monde permet à une minorité restreinte d’accumuler de la richesse aux dépens de la majorité croissante, en l’appauvrissant et en provoquant ainsi l’émigration forcée. Concernant les flux migratoires vers les États-Unis, le cas du Mexique est emblématique.
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(Português) “Aprenda a ficar sozinho. Aprecie a solitude”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Toda pessoa precisa aprender desde a infância como passar tempo consigo mesma. Isso não significa que ela deva ficar [sempre] sozinha, mas que ela não deveria ficar entediada consigo mesma, porque as pessoas que se aborrecem em sua própria companhia parecem estar em perigo, do ponto de vista da autoestima.
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The Rise of a New, Global, Indigenous Left
Ikaika Hussey, Will Caron and Ed Lane | Summit Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Indigenous peoples have, by definition, been around for a long time. But a new generation of connected campaigners has arisen, using technology to apply timeless wisdom to modern problems.
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(Français) Paul Oquist: «Il y a une tentative de coup d’État au Nicaragua»
Alex Anfruns | Journal Notre Amérique – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
4 Juil 2018 – Afin de comprendre comment on en est arrivé là dans un pays qui paraissait épargné il y a encore peu de temps par la violence structurelle qui isole d’autres pays d’Amérique centrale, nous nous sommes entretenus avec le professeur Paul Oquist. Fort d’une longue expérience faite de missions de développement pour les Nations Unies, Oquist est actuellement ministre-secrétaire privé pour les politiques nationales du Nicaragua. – Le Nicaragua Sous le Feu des Projecteurs
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Why Venezuela Reporting Is So Bad
Joe Emersberger | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – For almost 20 years, the US government has been trying to overthrow Venezuela’s government, and establishment media outlets (state, corporate and some nonprofit) throughout the Americas and Europe have been bending over backwards to help the US do it. Review of Alan MacLeod’s Bad News from Venezuela
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Yemen: Political Stalemate, Mercenaries Prosper, the Population Disintegrates, and Humanitarian Relief Blocked
Rene Wadlow | Foreign Policy News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
29 Jun 2018 – The United Nations Security Council has been discussing the situation in both public and private meetings without any visible impact. Today, the choice between an end to the armed conflict with negotiations for a renewal of a Yemeni State on the basis of the con-federal system proposed and continued fighting in the hope that one faction become a “winner-take-all” is relatively clear.
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The U.S. Withdraws (Again) from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
24 Jun 2018 – This is a slightly edited and corrected version of what was published on TMS last week. I owe particular thanks to my distinguished collaborator, Virginia Tilley, for pointing out several shortcomings and misleading formulations in the earlier version. Of course, the essence of the indictment of the U.S. rationale for withdrawal stands as before.
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Princely Visits
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
30 Jun 2018 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, visited Israel this week. He seems a likable person. He looked like a prince should look, did all the right things, said all the right things, and even ate a watermelon with our mayor on the sandy shore of Tel Aviv.
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Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – Both President Trump and former President Obama are commonly said in America’s ‘news’ media to be or to have been “ceding Syria to Russia” or “ceding Syria to Russia and Iran,” or similar allegations. They imply that ‘we’ own (or have some right to control) Syria. That’s not only a lie; it is a very evil and harmful one.
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Why Do They Flee?
William Blum |The Anti-Empire Report #158 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – The current mass exodus of people from Central America to the United States, with the daily headline-grabbing stories of numerous children involuntarily separated from their parents, means it’s time to remind my readers once again of one of the primary causes of these periodic mass migrations.
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USA: Doctor Giving Migrant Kids Psychotropic Drugs Lost Certification Years Ago
Aura Bogado | Reveal – Center for Investigating Report,
2 Jul 2018
25 Jun 2018 – The psychiatrist who has been prescribing powerful psychotropic medications to immigrant children at a federally funded residential treatment center in Texas has practiced without board certification to treat children and adolescents for nearly a decade, records show.
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Reflections on the June 24th Turkish Elections
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – I am sensitive to the inappropriate hubris of Americans traveling the world to impart their views on how other societies should be managed and governed. Such postures of criticism and praise is particularly suspect in this time of Trump where a pre-fascist leadership in the United States pursues policies at home and abroad destructive of elemental rights of its citizens and residents as well adopts as an entirely reckless policy agenda that imperils the ethical, ecological, and economic future of not only the country but the world.
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GAZA: Ordeal & Destiny
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
30 Jun 2018 – I post below two items pertaining to Gaza—my short poem, and a collection of responses to the question “What is the Future of Gaza?” by a clever online publication called ‘One Question,’ which true to its name poses a single question to a number of people presumed to have something to say in response.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi’s Lies, Distortions Hinder International Accountability
Dr. Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
24 Jun 2018 – Myanmar’s leader is at it again: using her Office’s Facebook, she is peddling lies that are easily exposed. Her growing list of provable distortions and denials must not go unchallenged.
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Violence in Nicaragua: US-Orchestrated Coup Attempt?
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
19 Jun 2018 – The pattern is familiar. Ongoing violence in Nicaragua has the earmarks of another US-staged color revolution attempt. Dirty US imperial hands operate everywhere, sovereign independent states their prime targets, wanting governments not subservient to US interests forcefully toppled, pro-Western puppet regimes replacing them.
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Little Panic: A Literary Laboratory Exploring What It Is Like to Live in the Stranglehold of Anxiety and What It Takes to Break Free
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
“This terrible truth binds us all: fear there’s a single, unattainable, correct way to be human.”
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Peace as the Business of the Future
Sawssan Abou-Zahr | Peace Insight – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – “The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World without War” was written by Scilla Elworthy, the founder of Peace Direct. It is “for those who feel powerless in the face of what they see in the news, for those who want to step out of helplessness and find out how they can apply their personal skills to do something about the challenges facing us”. It offers a roadmap to building peace with ourselves and with others, though it is intended for a bigger picture, one of peace among nations and within them.
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Migration Crisis Is One of Mismanagement: The Figures
Nikolaj Nielsen and Damiano Bacci | EUobserver - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
The article gives the basic data on people trying to enter the EU over the last few years and the very marked decrease in the number of those who come over the Mediterranean. The peak point was the latter half of 2015 when about 1,2 million sought asylum in Europe having fled, it should be remembered, predominantly from countries ravaged by Western NATO/EU members’ military interventions.
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Waiting as an Experience of Fundamental Significance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – Commentary on Web Resources on Types of Waiting and Anticipation – It could be readily assumed that waiting is an incidental process, experienced by all in some way, but incidental to the reality of meaningful life in any society.
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Facts about What Is Happening in Nicaragua and a Challenge to “Left Intellectuals”
Jorge Capelán | Correo de Nicaragua - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
1 Jun 2018 – Author and Editor’s Note: The following text was originally written to counteract a propaganda campaign launched in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavian countries by toxic soft coup operators against the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua. Until very recently, Nicaragua was an exemplary country in Central America, one of the most violent regions in the world.
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A New Data Breach May Have Exposed Personal Information of Almost Every American Adult
Mike Murphy, Editor | Market Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Wired reported Wednesday [27 Jun] that Exactis, a Palm Coast, Fla.-based marketing and data-aggregation company, had exposed a database containing almost 2 terabytes of data, containing nearly 340 million individual records, on a public server. That included records of 230 million consumers and 110 million businesses.
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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: Awaiting Good Faith
Robert F. Dodge, MD | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
50 years ago on July 1, 1968 the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed. This landmark nuclear arms control treaty brought the world’s nuclear powers together with the ultimate goal of eliminating nuclear weapons by engaging in good faith efforts toward that end. Unfortunately, there was no enforcement mechanism.
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Johan Galtung on Present Russia/Norway Conflict
Synöve Faldalen | Arctic Meeting Point – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Peace Seminar organized by Arctic Meeting Point in Tromsø, Norway on 12 Apr 2018. Interview conducted by Synöve Faldalen, director of SABONA-TRANSCEND in Daily Life, a Conflict Resolution method for school children conceived by Johan Galtung.
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AI-Supported Global Governance through Bottom-Up Deliberation
Soushiant Zanganehpour | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Introducing new technologies and institutions in order to decentralize global governance to participatory and deliberative models. Recognizing the limitations of nation-states in creating solutions to adequately govern global commons, which are often perceived as counter-productive to national interests, this proposal suggests combining a blockchain based global identity system with an AI-based collaboration platform to fuel citizen collaboration and ideation around policies and budget suggestions, as the entry point for decentralized citizen participation in governance.
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The U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
22 Jun 2018 – By purporting to punish the Human Rights Council, the Trump presidency, representing the U.S. Government, is much more punishing itself, as well as the peoples of the world. We all benefit from a robust and legitimated institutional framework for the promotion and protection of vital human rights. The claim of an anti-Israeli bias in the HRC, or UN, is bogus, the daily violation of the most basic rights of the Palestinian people is a tragic reality.
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“They’re Different from Us”: The Profiteers of Prejudice
Roy Eidelson | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
18 Jun 2018 – The 1% could use their influence to challenge bigotry. Too often they don’t. If we want to focus on the kind of differences that truly matter, we should turn our attention to the striking divergences between the documented policy preferences of the 1% compared to the rest of us.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Self-Righteous Immoral Imperative Enabling Future Human Sacrifice – Produced on the occasion of the Informal “mini-summit” on migration and asylum convened by the European Commission in anticipation of a meeting of the European Council to discuss migration issues (June 2018)
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Open Letter to Amnesty International by a Former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience
Camilo E. Mejia | International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity to the Peoples – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018 – Through this letter I express my unequivocal condemnation of Amnesty International with regards to the destabilizing role it has played in Nicaragua, my country of birth. Camilo E. Mejia, Iraq war veteran, resister, and conscientious objector (2003-2004). Amnesty International prisoner of conscience (June 2004). Born in Nicaragua, citizen of the world.
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So We’re Gonna Pretend These Refugees Aren’t a Result of Our Actions in Central America?
Patience John | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Just a bit of denial that our government’s actions in the home countries of these refugees did not create the current situation? We created these huddled masses, now we refuse to let them breath free. Take a look at the map:
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Trump Is Here to Stay and Change the World
Roberto Savio | Human Wrongs Watch – Other News,
25 Jun 2018
18 Jun 2018 – Donald John Trump, 45th and current president of the United States, has been seen in many illustrious circles as an anomaly that cannot last. Well, it is time to look at reality… This is not new in history. Hitler and Mussolini were at first elected, and today many “men of providence” are lining up.
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Stop the Wars to End the Refugee Crisis
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
19 Jun 2018 – European politicians should confront the question honestly: what are the reasons for millions of people leaving their homes? They must then fashion equally honest and humane solutions. Put simply, they need to stop the wars to end the refugee crisis. Look at the facts.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
“As long as in the heart, within, a Jewish soul is yearning…” thus starts the official translation of Israel’s national anthem. But is there a Jewish Soul? Is it different from the souls of other people? And if so, what is the difference?
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Ali Is on the Grill!’ Israeli Settlers Celebrate Burning of Palestinian Baby
Jonathan Ofir | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
21 Jun 2018 – There’s something particularly disturbing about celebrating the burning alive of a baby. This is precisely what Israeli Jewish settlers were doing yesterday, outside the court in Lod. “’Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill!” they chanted, in reference to the 18-month old baby Ali Dawbsheh, who was burnt alive by Jewish terrorists in the West Bank town of Duma.
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21st Century Fascism: Trump Style (Part 1)
Steven Jonas | OpEdNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Just because there are elections and an elected government, don’t think that there cannot be fascism. One needs only to look at the Nazi German example.
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Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love. One of the most basic beliefs we carry about ourselves has to do with how we view and inhabit what we consider to be our personality. The consequences of believing that intelligence and personality can be developed rather than being immutably ingrained traits are remarkable
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(Italiano) A Bordo dell’Aquarius c’è Anche Paolo di Tarso
Rosanna Virgili | Viandante – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
13 giugno 2018 – Il Cardinal Bassetti qualche giorno fa a Roma ha chiesto espressamente ai cattolici di non aver paura di occuparsi di politica, anzi, di impegnarsi con sentimenti di carità e con spirito di servizio in questo compito moralmente ineludibile per loro.
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Why TMS Weekly Digest was delivered 2 days later this week
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
TMS came out late this week for two reasons:
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Prof. Peter Asaro | Campaign to Stop Killer Robots - Yahoo! News,
20 Jun 2018
The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Weapons
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
16 Jun 2018 – After commenting on most of the episodes on the first Israeli Prime Ministers in Raviv Drucker’s TV series “The Captains”, I must come back to the one whose episode I have not yet covered: Yitzhak Rabin.
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Psychiatric Drugs for Kids—A Big Pharma Revenue Stream
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Millions of children who were once just considered too active are now diagnosed with ADHD, conduct disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, mixed manias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, pervasive development disorders, irritability, aggression and personality disorders and given drugs. Children who were once considered shy or moody are now diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, mood disorders, social phobia, anxiety, borderline disorders, assorted “spectrum” disorders and even schizophrenia.
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(Português) Justine Butler: “Por que o leite é uma questão feminista”
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
“Ficamos indignadas com histórias de estupro e gravidez forçada, mas essas são práticas comuns na moderna pecuária leiteira”
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Scapegoating Iran
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
The wars in the Middle East are the worst strategic blunders in American history. But don’t expect U.S. politicians and generals to accept responsibility for the mess when they can blame it on Iran.
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The Great March of Return: The Gaza Sniper Massacre
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
10 Jun 2018 – The Gaza Sniper Massacre in response to the Great Return March is one more milestone in Palestinian resistance and yet another frightening episode in the Israeli apartheid narrative of cruel and excessive violence, a shameful sequel of crimes for which there exists no adjudicative tribunal available to the victimized party to pursue justice.
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Morbid Researchers Imagine a ‘Best-Case Scenario’ for Nuclear War, and the Results Are Grim
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018 – New research published today in the peer-reviewed journal Safety suggests no nation should possess more than 100 nuclear warheads. This is the maximum number, beyond which the blowback from a nuclear strike will affect the aggressor nation in the form of environmental, socioeconomic, and agricultural devastation, in addition to serious losses of life at home—even in the event the enemy doesn’t retaliate with its own nuclear missile strike.
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The International Community Should Not Stand by as Israel Abuses Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018 – What is taking place in Palestine is not a ‘conflict’. We readily utilize the term but, in fact, the word ‘conflict’ is misleading. It equates oppressed Palestinians with Israel, a military power that stands in violation of numerous United Nations Resolutions.
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Affirming the Normative Imagination (up to a point!)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
16 Jun 2018 – This little essay is but a sketch drawn to help me address the often questionable enterprise of a memoir, presented as a sort of reflective selfie to invoke an idiom of our age. I would benefit from comments and criticisms, and promise on my part to listen attentively.
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William James on Consciousness and the Four Features of Transcendent Experiences
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
“Our normal waking consciousness… is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different… No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.”
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
9 Jun 2018 – It’s frightening. Unprincipled psychologists, in the service of a malignant regime, use sophisticated techniques in order to control the mind of a person from afar. During the last few weeks we have been seeing a perfect example of this mechanism. The events on the Gaza Strip border have activated a mechanism of brainwashing that dictatorial regimes in the world can only envy.
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Toward Benign Global Leadership in a Post-Trumpist World Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
7 Jun 2018 -Possible future geopolitical relationships that might provide beneficial global leadership, much needed if current world order challenges are to be met this side of catastrophe… A first step in the right direction is a recognition of the vital role that could be played by greater trust in what might be called ‘the public imagination.’
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(Français) Le courage des Palestiniens finira-t-il par provoquer une intervention internationale ?
Rick Sterling | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Au bout de 70 ans, le conflit israélo-palestinien n’est toujours pas résolu. Les hostilités couvent pendant quelques années, puis éclatent à nouveau en de nouveaux massacres et de nouvelles violences.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
7 Jun 2018 – Wherever we turn, people are angry. In France and United States where I live, voters are angry and turn their anger against immigrants and people of color. And they vote for the Front National and for Donald Trump. And the struggle in the US between students protesting school massacres, gun sales and the National Rifle Association is fueled by anger on both sides. We are going through an especially dangerous period of history, and we need to analyze its causes and possible solutions.
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Celebrate World Meat Free Week – For a Healthy Planet and a Healthy You!
Dawn Bickett | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
This week [11-17 Jun] is World Meat Free Week!
Eat Less Meat, More Plants, Tell Your Friends
Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who revolutionized science and coined the word “philosopher.”
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Palestine Is Not Occupied, It Is Colonized
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Israel has already, and repeatedly, violated most conditions of what constitute an ‘Occupation’ from an international law perspective.
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The West Is Turning a Blind Eye to the Gaza Massacre
Jeremy Corbyn | Facebook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
5 Jun 2018 – The UK Government’s decision not to support either a UN Commission of Inquiry into the shocking scale of killings of civilian protesters in Gaza, or the more recent UN resolution condemning indiscriminate Israeli use of force – and calling for the protection of Palestinians – is morally indefensible.
→ read full articleCognitive Implication of Globality via Temporal Inversion
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Embodying the Future through Higher Derivatives of Time – Illusory projection along the arrow of time? There is a widespread, if not dominant, strategic concern with the future and its prospects. This naturally takes a variety of forms.
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Seymour Hersh on Spies, State Secrets, and the Stories He Doesn’t Tell
Elon Green | Columbia Journalism Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
4 Jun 2018 – “The CIA Is Filled with Criminals” – When a reporter has covered 50 years of American foreign policy disasters, the last great untold story may be his own.
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Saving Seeds at Home
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Growing Club – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Seed saving is one of the important skills that has been lost of the last century, and Dr. Shiva’s work to preserve heirloom seed varieties, encourage organic farming, and create food sovereignty is some of the most important work of our time. We hope you enjoy this video and will start saving seeds at home yourself.
→ read full articleAbraham, Martin and John
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
… and Bobby and Malcolm and John Lennon and Paul Wellstone and Mohandas and Jesus, and the Multitude of Other Progressive Leaders That Have Been Assassinated over the Decades [by Deep State Conspirators]
→ read full articleA Truly Global Partnership – Helping the UN to Do Itself Out of a Job
Natalie Samarasinghe | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
The model proposed brings businesses, NGOs and young people into UN governance structures. Concurrently, the UN would transfer its development-related tasks to these stakeholders, who would bid competitively for contracts. As a result, the UN could redirect its limited resources to crucial tasks such as conflict resolution, which cannot be easily performed by others.
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Stopping Terrorism!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
One year’s U.S. military budget of 330 billion dollars (now 686 billion dollars) is equal to more than $18,000 an hour (now $36,000 an hour) for every hour since Jesus Christ was born.
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“Sympathy Is Not Enough”
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun2018 – Nadia Murad’s words contained a single message: “Sympathy is not enough. Sympathy does not create change. We need action.” Her manner as a speaker was exceptionally calm, her intonation almost without inflection. Her words were enveloped in an aura of resignation and despair, but her talk avoided the shocking details of her experience, the details where horror resides.
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Canadian Doctor: Israeli Soldiers Shot Me in Both Legs as I Was Treating Injured Protesters in Gaza
Tarek Loubani | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
On Monday May 14, while treating patients with gunshot wounds in Gaza during the Great March of Return, Canadian physician Tarek Loubani was shot in both legs by Israeli forces. One medic on his team, Musa Abuhassanin, was killed while attempting to providing care Palestinian protesters.
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(Castellano) Teoría del conflicto y aniquilación de la biosfera
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza Int’l Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Me gustaría explicar el origen psicológico de este conflicto aniquilador de la biosfera y cómo este origen ha nutrido los aspectos increíblemente destructivos del capitalismo (y del socialismo, para el caso) desde el principio. También me gustaría explicar qué podemos hacer al respecto.
→ read full articleStrong as Death
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
2 Jun 2018 – Oh, Gaza. Strong as death is love. Truth is that the Israeli army has no answer to non-violent resistance. In such a campaign, all the cards are in the hands of the Palestinians. World public opinion condemns Israel and praises the Palestinians. Therefore, the army’s reaction is to open fire, in order to induce the Palestinians to start violent actions. With these the army knows how to deal. Non-violent resistance is a very difficult method. It demands enormous willpower, strict self-control and moral superiority.
→ read full articleConsequences of the Crash of the American Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – In last month’s article, I mentioned the prediction of Johan Galtung that the American empire cannot last more than another two years. Is that likely, and if so, what will be the consequences? Having witnessed the crash of a previous empire, I think is likely.
→ read full articleVisualization Technology Enabling Integrative Conference Comprehension
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – Global Articulation of Future-Oriented Technology Analysis – Much is made of the future role of technology and artificial intelligence, especially in their relation to the evolution of the internet. Far less is made of their role in the organization of knowledge and, more particularly, in enabling higher degrees of comprehension.
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On the Liberation of the Yarmouk Refugee Camp from ISIS: Syrian and Palestinian Struggles Indivisible
Ken Stone | Syria Solidarity Movement – Global Research,
4 Jun 2018
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), allied Palestinian militias, and the government of Syria deserve high praise for the recent liberation of Yarmouk refugee camp from ISIS.
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Need More Proof of Genocide in Myanmar? It’s Being Born Right Now
Jack Packer | National Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
29 May 2018 – Nine months since the violent attacks of Aug. 25, 2017, and thereafter forced 700,000 Rohingya to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, the first of thousands of pregnancies as a result of rape are coming to term.
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Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Urges Trial of Myanmar Leader, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
Sena Guler | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
31 May 2018 – Shirin Ebadi reminds de facto leader of Myanmar the moral and legal responsibility of Rohingya genocide. “I wish that Aung San Suu Kyi, as the leader of the party in power, and the Myanmar generals are tried in an international and impartial court for the accusations of committing genocide in Myanmar.”
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How and Why the US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
3 Jun 2018 – This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the US and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had suddenly turned rabidly hostile toward Russia in February 2014.
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8 Things I Learned about Palestine while Touring 8 Western Nations
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
30 May 2018 – Interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world and gained a good perspective on the ideas, perceptions, and attitudes of people in government, media, academia and civil society.
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The Art of War: Italian ‘Sovereignty’ from Brussels, but not from Washington
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
29 May 2018 – In the week in which Europe was debating the “Italian question” bitterly, the 1st Armoured Brigade of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division landed in Antwerp (Belgium) to be deployed at five NATO bases in Poland close to Russian territory. As Steve Bannon encouraged Italians and Europeans to “recover their sovereignty” from Brussels, what about “putting an end to the rules coming from Washington?”
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Kiev Murder Stunt Was Absurd, but Even More So Was Western Media’s Reaction to It
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – The credibility of the Kiev regime imploded emphatically this week; but so too of Western governments and news media. Western propaganda as peddled by governments, their secret services and dutiful corporate media should be in the spotlight of world scrutiny. Not further perverse allegations against Russia.
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The Best Kept Secret on Saving the World
Bob Hanson | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
I’m betting you have never heard of the World Constitution and Parliament Association, which has been working since 1958 to come up with a better way to run the world… The U.N. has probably prevented many international conflicts and has done yeoman duty in terms of refugees and humanitarian relief. However, it has failed in the task it was created for in 1945….ending war.
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(Português) Dia Nacional dos Direitos Animais homenageia os 100 bilhões de animais mortos nos matadouros anualmente
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
No domingo, 3 junho 2018, 32 grandes cidades, incluindo Nova York, Paris, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Saigon, Manila, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Perth e Montreal, celebram o Dia Nacional dos Direitos Animais.
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Israel and Palestine: A Story of Modern Colonialism
Daniel Avelar and Bianca Ferrari | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
The foundations of Israel are rooted in a colonial project that has modernized its face but continues to subject Palestinians to military occupation, land dispossession and unequal rights.
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How Long Are We Going to Pretend Palestinians Aren’t People?
Robert Fisk | The Independent – Reader Supported News,
28 May 2018
26 May 2018 – Monstrous. Frightful. Wicked. It’s strange how the words just run out in the Middle East today. Sixty Palestinians dead. In one day. Two-thousand-four-hundred wounded, more than half by live fire. In one day. The figures are an outrage, a turning away from morality, a disgrace for any army to create.
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.
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Palestinian Children Arrested, Brutalized by the Israel Defense Forces-IDF
Breaking the Silence | In the Now – RT,
28 May 2018
Activist & former IDF soldier Nadav Bigelman breaks the silence. Between 500 and 700 Palestinian children are detained every year by the IDF. Around 8,000 Palestinian children have been arrested and prosecuted in Israeli military courts in the last 14 years.
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Drug Users Got Exploited – Disabled Patients Got Hurt – One Woman Benefited from It All
Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter | Reveal – Center for Investigative Reporting,
28 May 2018
21 May 2018 – Recovery Connections put people to work for free as caregivers for elderly and disabled patients. They were hardly trained, and disasters happened all the time. The rehab participants changed diapers, bathed patients and sometimes dispensed the same medications that landed them in rehab in the first place. Some participants sucked fentanyl patches to get high; others drank morphine from syringes. And seven different times, they were accused of sexually assaulting patients. The rehab’s founder, Jennifer Warren, built up the program for her own personal gain.
→ read full articleWhat Is Behind Amnesty’s Burmese Military-Friendly Report?
Shafiur Rahman | Bloomberg, Quint – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
25 May 2018 – Maung Zarni, a Buddhist and a leading advocate of the Rohingya cause, was concerned about how the interviews were conducted and which authorities acted as gatekeeper. “Who selected the victims in Sittwe, Rakhine for their researchers? Who arranged the interviews (bringing Hindu victims from the highly restricted Northern Rakhine to Sittwe, central Rakhine)? Who gave Amnesty International travel permission to visit Rakhine?”
→ read full articleIsrael’s Premature Celebration: Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
23 May 2018 – ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’, White House officials announced, paying no heed to the ludicrousness of the statement when understood within the current context. Peaceful protesters were not threatening the existence of Israel; rock-throwing kids were not about to overwhelm hundreds of Israeli snipers, who shot, killed and wounded Gaza youngsters with no legal or moral boundary whatsoever.
→ read full articleThe Luck of the Gambler
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
26 May 2018 – We all know the picture from the books and the movies: a gambler sits at the roulette table in a casino. He has luck. A lot of luck. In front of the gambler the pile of chips is growing. Higher and higher. Every spin of the roulette wheel adds to the heap. Binyamin Netanyahu resembles this man. He has luck. A lot of luck. It is uncanny.
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Media Delegitimize Venezuelan Elections amid Complete Unanimity of Outlook
Alan MacLeod | Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
23 May 2018 – Despite an opposition boycott making the result predictable, Maduro received the vote of 28 percent of the eligible electorate, around the same as Barack Obama received in 2008 and more than he got in 2012, or Trump in 2016. Ignoring this, Reuters (5/20/18) claimed poor Venezuelans were voting for Maduro because they believed they were going to “win a prize.”
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On Israel and Palestine
Zoltán Grossman | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
21 May 2018 – We’re often told that the Israel-Palestine “conflict” is “complex,” and we need to be “even-handed” and “balanced” in the way we “promote dialogue,” since there’s “blame on both sides.” I couldn’t agree more.
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