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Major War Journalism Papers Urge Trump to Kill Syrians, Risk World War III
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – Clamoring for Catastrophe: President Donald Trump is threatening to escalate the Syrian war, as are France and the United Kingdom, while Israel bombed Syria three days ago. In this context, major “liberal” media outlets are writing that Trump should attack Syria further.
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Eyeless in Gaza
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
14 Apr 2018 – Write down: I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who give them the orders, up to the commander in chief. We don’t belong to the same army, or to the same state. We hardly belong to the same human race.
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Snipers Shooting Unarmed People at 100 Meters Isn’t a ‘Clash’ as War Journalists Make Believe
Adam Johnson | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
9 Apr 2018 – “Clash” is a reporter’s best friend when they want to describe violence without offending anyone in power—in the words of George Orwell, “to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.” It’s predictable, then, that in coverage of Israel’s recent mass shootings in Gaza—which have killed over 30 Palestinians and injured more than 1,100—the word “clashes” is used to euphemize snipers in fortified positions firing on unarmed protesters 100 meters away.
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Ending the Agony: Access to Morphine as Ethical & Human Rights Imperative
UN Human Rights Council | Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
The Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering is a Swiss think-and-do tank putting compassion at the heart of the society of the future. OPIS promotes the ethical principle that nothing matters more than preventing or relieving the physical or emotional suffering of sentient beings, both humans and non-humans, with highest priority given to those suffering most intensely.
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Poison Gas: Weapon of Choice for “False News”
Peter Koenig | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – When such poison gas attacks are mere false flags, or by the new term, “false news”, and are used to provoke war, perhaps an all annihilating war, then humanity has turned to what it never should have become–a lowly-lowly herd of brainless zombies. Is that what we have become, brainless, greedy, selfish beings, no sense of solidarity, no respect for other beings–any living being?
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How to Find Out If Your Facebook Data Was Stolen by Cambridge Analytica
Matt Novak | Gizmodo – TRANSDEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
9 Apr 2018 – Roughly 87 million people had their Facebook data stolen by the political research firm Cambridge Analytica. And starting today, Facebook will finally notify the people who had their information scooped up.
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30 Questions That Facebook Has Yet to Answer
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
16 Apr 2018 – Gaps in the testimony of Mark Zuckerberg at a US Senate hearing? The questions are each introduced as shown below, but are presented separately in much expanded form in the [Go to Original] complete document. This also includes animated mappings of the set of questions as a means of evoking more integrative perspective on the set of questions as a whole.
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Condemning the US-Led Aggression on Syria: In Support of the Syrian People, International Law and True Peacemaking
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
14 Apr 2018 – We do not know who exactly did what in Douma at this point. Only the perpetrators themselves do. Irresponsibly and non-rationally, this US-British-French attack increases markedly the risk of major war that is not based on any legality – not to mention legitimacy and moral considerations. TFF strongly condemns any military action and the rush to war before any independent investigation has been carried out.
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Learn to Be Soft and You Will Be Strong
Joshua Kauffman | Tiny Buddha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
Language is a powerful thing. Though often dismissed as ‘semantics,’ the imagery our words and terminology impart often adds unintended or even misguided connotations to what we intend to say. This is why it is so difficult to speak about spirituality. When we say ‘God’ or ‘salvation’ or even ‘peace,’ those words can bear an unintended doctrinal, political, or social stamp on them that means something very different to the listener than it does to the speaker.
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Toward the Creation of a World Parliament: Strongly Recommended Reading
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
13 Apr 2018 – This is a brief promotional comment to call attention to the publication of a truly outstanding contribution to creative and restorative world order thinking. The book is entitled A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21stCentury by Jo Leinen and Andreas Bummel.
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Red Crescent Says No Evidence of Chemical Attack in Syria’s Douma
Jason Ditz | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
9 Apr 2018 – The Syrian Red Crescent issued a statement today dismissing the allegations of a weekend chemical weapon attack in the city of Douma. The statement insisted their medical personnel in the city had found no evidence any such attack took place.
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(Português) Tom Regan x Peter Singer: abolicionismo e utilitarismo, uma discussão sobre os direitos animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
5 abril 2018 – A rivalidade de Tom Regan e Peter Singer no campo da filosofia moral dos direitos animais surgiu nos anos 80. De um lado, Regan, autor de obras como “The Case for Animal Rights” e “Empty Cages”, com uma perspectiva mais próxima de abolicionismo animal, e “Peter Singer”, autor do clássico “Animal Liberation”, com um posicionamento utilitarista e pragmático que permite concessões no uso de animais em casos específicos.
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Addressing the Systemic Challenge at the Heart of Escalating Inequality and Environmental Destruction
Ted Howard | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – To cite just two figures: in the United States, just 400 people own as much wealth as the bottom 204 million people.1 Globally, just 8 billionaires own as much wealth as 50% of the entire population of our planet.2 And this negative trend – representing a medieval concentration of wealth and power that is deeply problematic for democratic culture – is escalating.
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Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel
Askiah Adam | International Movement for a JUST World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
5 Apr 2018 – Palestine, that enclave of humanity occupied, brutalised and without any form of military defence against aggressors is conveniently perceived as a threat by the Jewish state, Israel, the undeclared, sole nuclear power in West Asia and North Africa. This occupying power is a usurper legitimised by Britain and unconditionally supported and armed by the USA.
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Trump’s Syria “Withdrawal” Was Textbook US Deception
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
8 Apr 2018 – The US media is now priming the global public for US intervention in Syria following alleged “chemical attacks” carried out in the remaining pocket of US-backed militants in Douma, just northeast of Damascus.
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(Ialiano) Striscia di Gaza: La nuova strategia dei palestinesi
Catherine Cornet, | Internazionale – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
5 aprile 2018 – Erano mesi che la società palestinese preparava “la grande Marcia del ritorno”, una manifestazione pacifica rivolta all’opinione pubblica mondiale per riportare l’attenzione sulla causa palestinese. Per l’occasione i palestinesi volevano mostrarsi uniti e pacifici. Il massacro del 30 marzo invece ha fatto vedere in diretta l’uccisione di 17 giovani disarmati e il ferimento di 1.400 persone da parte dei cecchini israeliani.
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(Français) Comment faire des reportages à Gaza
Vijay Prashad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Si vous êtes un journaliste occidental et que vous devez faire un reportage à Gaza, la meilleure chose à faire est de traiter les Palestiniens comme une menace. Leurs corps sont des armes, leur existence est dangereuse. Si un Palestinien est tué par un soldat israélien, le terme le plus approprié pour qualifier cela est “affrontement”. Normalement, des affrontements se produisent lorsque deux forces armées entrent en confrontation.
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Middle East Turmoil: Israeli Massacre, Palestinian Grievances
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
The Middle East Is Heating Up–Again – A Postscript on the Land Day Massacre (‘Great March of Return’)
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New Lows Reached with Drug Ads
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
26 Mar 2018 – .” Creon, AbbVie’s drug to treat the hitherto unknown disease of EPI is priced at over $500 a prescription. Selling obscure diseases to sell obscenely priced drugs is unethical for two reasons. It doesn’t just raise everyone’s health care costs and raise their taxes through government programs. It makes a mockery of the entire health care system by aggressively seeking people who are not sick to “treat” while ignoring millions who really are sick but for whom there is no profit in treating.
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Will ‘Democracy’ Survive? How? Whether? Hard Questions in Dark Times
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
7 Apr 2018 – Global democracy has become, is becoming, a matter of ultimate concern. Issues raised concern transparency, accountability, participation, and responsiveness of global policy processes, and of course, how the global is to be linked with the regional and national so as to pursue the goal of global humane governance: equitable, stable, sustainable, peaceful, compassionate, and above all, mindfulness.
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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
4 Apr 2018 – Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitors but to ensure human and planetary survival.
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Parkinson’s Disease: Causes, Symptoms & Treatments
Rebecca Evans | Geriatric Nursing – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
World Parkinson’s Day for public awareness is on Wed, 11 Apr 2018–on the birthday of James Parkinson, who first mentioned the illness in 1817. Infographic and full article.
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(Português) “Sob a Pata do Boi”, novo documentário mostra o impacto da pecuária no desmatamento da Amazônia
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
29 mar 2018 – O filme, que já entrou em festivais na França e na Eslováquia, mostra que a Amazônia tem hoje 85 milhões de cabeças de gado, três para cada humano. Na década de 1970 a floresta estava intacta e o gado equivalia a um décimo do rebanho da atualidade. Hoje há uma área igual à França desmatada, 66% transformada em pasto.
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Luther King: “Beyond Vietnam”
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Stanford King Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech at Riverside Church, New York, Exactly One Year before He Was Killed on 4 Apr 1968
– 4 Apr 1967: I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea to my beloved nation. This speech is not addressed to Hanoi, to the National Liberation Front, to China or to Russia. Tonight I wish to speak to my fellow Americans… We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action.
Deadly Oil Spill in Eastern Borneo Spreads to the Open Sea
Basten Gokkon | Mongabay [Indonesia] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
5 Apr 2018 – An oil spill in Borneo that began over the past weekend has now spread across an area greater than the city of Paris and is heading out to the open ocean, the Indonesian government says.
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Going Out
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
4 Apr 2018 – Someday it will come for our pale blue dot. The sun is scheduled to lose its fire in about four or five billion years, our lush green earth—or what’s left of it by that time—will grow cold forever. But now it’s just warming up, perhaps in anticipation of its icy future demise. The ice caps are melting, the seas are boiling, and the human species is proliferating.
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Brazil: World Social Forum Concludes in Salvador, Bahia
Comunicação CUT no Fórum | CPNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
18 Mar 2018 – The thirteenth edition of the World Social Forum came to an end on Sat 17 Mar, attracting more than 60,000 people to the various activities and debates held during the five-day event.
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Teaching Evolution in Schools: What Science Explains and What Explains Science
Chaitanya Charan Das | Spiritual Scientist – ISKCON News,
9 Apr 2018
“When evolution becomes an all-explaining truth-claim, it no longer remains a science, but becomes an ideology.” Before examining the tenability of this statement, we need to understand what is implied by the word evolution. It refers to different things in different contexts.
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Yemen the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis, Says UN Chief
António Guterres | The United Nations – Inter Press Service-IPS,
9 Apr 2018
4 Apr 2018 – Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. As the conflict enters its fourth year, more than 22 million people – three-quarters of the population – need humanitarian aid and protection. Some 18 million people are food insecure. And a horrifying 8.4 million of these people do not know how they will obtain their next meal. Millions of Yemenis do not have access to safe drinking water. Last year, 1 million people suffered from watery diarrhea and cholera. Half of all health facilities are shut or not working properly, meaning there is a high risk of another cholera epidemic.
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Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” -– Upton Sinclair, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist American author. His axiom applies to every employee, investor, CEO or board of directors of every polluting, for-profit industry as well as for most of us physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, drug sales reps, journalists, banker-lenders and the employees and CEOs of every company that makes or markets toxic substances, drugs and vaccines.
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Towards a Global Movement against All Violence
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
1 Apr 2018 – The growing mobilizations by teenagers in the US and Palestine remind me of the mobilizations by youth against the War in Vietnam in the 1960’s and by youth against Apartheid in the 1970’s. The time is short. Johan Galtung has repeated his prediction, first made in 2004, that the American Empire cannot be sustained beyond the year 2020.
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Top 10 Most Popular Languages
Matt Rosenberg | ThoughtCo. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
24 Mar 2018 – There are 6,909 languages actively being spoken in the world today, although only about six percent of them have more than a million speakers each. As globalization becomes more common so does the learning of languages.
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Greece, Austria, Portugal among Countries Not to Expel Russian Diplomats
Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
More than 20 countries have aligned with the UK, expelling more than 100 diplomats. It is said to be the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in history. However, some countries refuse to join this remarkable show of solidarity.
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US Nuclear Posturing Has Adversaries Gearing Up, Not Standing Down
David Krieger | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
3 Mar 2018 – The biggest problem with a nuclear deterrent force arises in attempts to determine its effectiveness. How can possessors of nuclear weapons assure that their nuclear weapons are effective in being a deterrent? The answer is that they cannot do so in any physical sense. The nuclear deterrent force relies instead on creating psychological barriers. Since it operates at the psychological level, one can never be sure it is effective. Or, it may only appear to be effective until it fails, and failure could be catastrophic.
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A Song Is Born
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Ahed, the girl covered with blond hair, her blue eyes shining like a lighthouse. Ahed the saint. Ahed the savior. The Palestinian Jeanne d’Arc, the national symbol. The story of Ahed al-Tamimi happened in the West Bank. But it resounded in the Gaza Strip, too. For most Israelis, the Gaza Strip is something else. It is not occupied territory. It does not concern us. But the situation of the Gaza Strip is even worse than straight occupation. The strip is completely surrounded. North and east is Israel, west is the sea, where the Israeli navy shoots at everything except for fishing boats close to the shore. The south belongs to Egypt, which behaves even worse than the Israelis and in close cooperation with them.
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A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’
Michael Cremo [Drutakarma dasa] | New Thinking Allowed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
The nature of a human being, the mind, consciousness, and a Vedic alternative to Darwin’s ‘theory’–not ‘science.’ Very articulate and precise explanations in a way that can be understood by everybody.
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(Italiano) Russia, Russia, Russia: il teatro dell’assurdo USA
Gary Corseri | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
25 marzo 2018 – Il recente articolo di Matt Taibbi di Rolling Stone – v. link in calce – scorre un bel po’ di roba; con completezza, arguzia e chiarezza di pensiero. Per lo più, Taibbi puntualizza quanti guai e quanta confusione siamo riusciti a creare a noi stessi e al nostro mondo dal fatidico 11 settembre.
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Growth at Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection in 2016 Memo—And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Ryan Mac, Charlie Warzel and Alex Kantrowitz | BuzzFeed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
29 Mar 2018 – Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.
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(Français) La politique cubaine de Donald Trump est vouée à l’échec
Salim Lamrani | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Depuis son arrivée à la Maison-Blanche, les relations entre Cuba et les Etats-Unis n’ont cessé de se détériorer en raison de la décision de Donald Trump d’appliquer de nouveau une politique basée sur l’hostilité.
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(Italiano) Segni di Guerra
Edward Curtin | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Per Donald Trump stanno finendo i giorni per atteggiarsi ad anfitrione ora passivo ora aggressive di un gioco televisivo di reality. O licenzia tutti gli apprendisti lievemente esitanti a scatenare una guerra mondiale ben più vasta con una gragnuola di bombe, o sarà sostituito da uno che lo farà.
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Reflections on the “March for our Lives” Movement by an Aging Anti-War Activist
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Exactly 15 Years Ago Duluth Had Mass Rallies and Marches against Organized Gun Violence Similar to the One on Sat 24 Mar 2018
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20,000 Scientists Have Now Signed ‘Warning to Humanity’
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
A chilling research paper —”World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice”—was published in Nov 2017 in the journal Bioscience warning about the fate of humanity. It has received 20,000 signatures and endorsements from scientists from 184 countries and quickly became the largest-ever paper supported by scientists.
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Shifting Systems with Nonviolent Strategy
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
The old adage, we have more power than we think, is true. Our opportunities for successful and effective struggle are numerous. But to access them, we need to use wise analysis and careful strategic planning. We need to understand what the destructive systems require to operate and then we must deny them those resources until the demand for change is met. Simple. Complex. Effective.
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The Banality of Evil: Diverting the Palestinian Struggle
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
28 Mar 2018 – The Banality of Evil: Language Entrapment or Political Malevolence? It seems a language game is being played. Or is it better understood as a political maneuver suffused with bad intentions?
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(Português) Quando Tom Regan pediu ao Papa Francisco para falar sobre a crueldade contra os animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
27 mar 2018 – Falecido no dia 17 de fevereiro de 2017, Tom Regan, um dos mais proeminentes filósofos na luta pelos direitos animais, publicou uma carta aberta em novembro de 2014 pedindo ao Papa Francisco para falar sobre a crueldade contra os animais: Santo Padre, todos os cristãos imploram a você: fale sobre a crueldade contra as criaturas de Deus, anualmente é negado a bilhões os desígnios de Deus, e eles não são tratados nem com a misericórdia de Cristo nem com a compaixão de Deus.
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Pathways for Peace: A Call to Rethink the Prevention of Violent Conflict in a Turbulent World
Alexandre Marc | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Servive,
2 Apr 2018
26 Mar 2018 – The joint UN–World Bank report, Pathways for Peace, was published on 1 Mar 2018. It is the first report that these two organizations have prepared in concert. It reflects the sense of urgency that many of us feel at organizations with a global reach to find common solutions to address violent conflict in the twenty-first century.
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Israel Faces the Demographic Bomb
Gilad Atzmon | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
27 Mar 2018 – I learned a decade ago from the Palestinian ambassador to Britain that while Israel has many bombs, the Palestinians have one bomb, namely the demographic one.
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Who Calls Anyone Civilized?
Cathy Breen | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
31 Mar 2018 – I was in Iraq for the month of October last year. One of the hardest things for me on that trip was the feeling I heard expressed that the country has become invisible. A doctor friend in Baghdad, his hurt palpable, told me he felt as though Iraq has been completely forgotten by the global community. War rages on in Iraq. Young boy Naomi Shihab Nye’s words should help bring us back to ourselves, fifteen years after the onset of the 2003 US-led war against Iraq. “Who calls anyone civilized?”
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The Pentagon’s Scary Plan to Militarize Ocean Life
Maia Danks | Earth Island Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
23 Mar 2018 – The U.S. military has plans to create genetically modified marine organisms that can be used as underwater spies for the military. Fantastic as this idea may seem, the Pentagon’s research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has actually launched a new program that aims to tap into the “natural sensing capabilities” of marine organisms, which are highly attuned to their surroundings, to track enemy traffic undersea.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – Essential Impotence Disguised by Performance and “Being Great Again” – An increasingly prominent feature of national politics and identity is the promise of “being great again”, as variously evident. This is most notable in the nation already esteemed as the most powerful on the planet and has also been taken up in Great Britain, France, and elsewhere.
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A Teachable Moment That Might Go to Waste for Parkland, Florida and the Rest of America
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
The Disastrous Over-Prescription of Psych Drugs at Various Stages of Human Brain Development
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The Reaction against the Reaction: The Voice That Is Raised against the Raised Hand
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
23 Mar 2018 – Yes, they have come back, as if history has not inflicted them a chastisement. They call themselves populists but they are fascists from old and new strains. They are reactionary and popular. Against this movement, as always, what stand up are the voice of reason and the report of the lie that parades in the name of the people. As almost always, the voice of reason is impotent, except as testimony and warning. I want to add my voice to such voice. Against fascism, together with Miguel de Unamuno, we must say: “You will win because you have enough brute force, but you will not convince. To convince you need to persuade and to persuade you need something you lack: reason and right in the fight.”
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Oxford’s Neo-Orientalism: Burma aka Myanmar
C R Abrar | The Daily Star [Bangladesh] - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
28 Mar 2018 – The People’s Tribunal on State Crimes of Myanmar unequivocally termed the atrocities committed by the Burmese government as “genocide”. The UN special rapporteur on human rights situation of the country has clearly stated that such actions bear the “hallmarks of genocide”. Without mincing his words, the French President Macron has expressed his disgust of Myanmar’s genocide. Even the unpredictable British Foreign Secretary termed it as “industrial scale ethnic cleansing”. The Holocaust Museum acknowledged it as a genocide and expressed solidarity with the victims. Nobel laureates Bishop Tutu and Amartya Sen have labelled it as “slow burning genocide.”
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
31 Mar 2018 – I am writing this on Friday night, the eve of Passover. At this moment, all over the world, millions of Jews are gathered around the family table, observing the Seder, reading aloud from the same book: the Haggadah, which tells the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
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Meet the Teenage Feminist Who Has Just Published Her First Book
Naledi Shange | Sowetan Live - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
20 Mar 2018 – Tired of reading about damsels in distress who are saved by knights in shining armour‚ Ripfumelo Nkomo says she started writing her own books shortly after learning to write. The titles of some of her manuscripts are proof of her independent thinking: ‘Queens who Don’t Need Kings‚’ ‘Single Mothers who are Supermoms’ and ‘Everyone is Crazy.’
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Walmart Files Patent for Robot Bees
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
16 Mar 2018 – With the mass die-off of bees spelling trouble for agriculture, the world’s largest retailer has filed patents for the use of “unmanned vehicles,” or drones, to aid with pollination and crop production.
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Losing More People in Gaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
31 Mar 2018 – I am optimistic even though sad. I am sad that the Israeli regime massacred 17 and injured nearly 1500 unarmed Palestinian civilians yesterday instead of letting them go to their homes and lands to honor Land Day.
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TRANSCEND Media Service Celebrates 10 Years as a Site of Reference in Peace Journalism
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
520 Weeks, 25 thousand Posts, 6 thousand Comments. We are proud of our record: never missed a single week! Prof. Johan Galtung’s first Editorial was on 3 Mar 2008. We are ready to carry on for the next 10—and beyond—in our mission to benefit our beleaguered planet’s humanity, fauna & flora by spreading and disseminating our trade mark: Solutions Oriented PEACE JOURNALISM. Thank you, we are in this together.
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The UN: Instrumental or Normative?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Giving the veto power to the five permanent members of the Security Council almost assured that when ideological and geopolitical views clashed, which was virtually all the time, during the first 40 years after 1945, the UN would watch unfolding war-threatening events and violent encounters between ideological adversaries from the sidelines.
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(Français) Poutine, ce punching-ball bien pratique
Nico Hirtt | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
En rattachant la Crimée à la Russie, même après le référendum écrasant de la population locale, Vladimir Poutine s’est, nous dit-on, rendu coupable d’un acte inadmissible dans les relations entre États civilisés : la modification de frontières d’États reconnues par la communauté internationale. Pourtant, ceux qui lui font ce reproche en Occident sont-ils vraiment de bons donneurs de leçons ?
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Johan Galtung’s Positive Peace Concept
Hanno Heynitz | Galtung Institut Germany – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
“Positive Peace” as defined by Prof. Johan Galtung in over 50 years of uninterrupted research, refers to a very specific ‘fait social’ that requires equally specific political measures. This presentation is an effort to make the concepts and specificities underpinning the notion of Positive Peace more widely understood.
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(Português) Breve reflexão contra a vivissecção (experimentação animal)
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
16 março 2018 – A vivissecção passou a ser considerada “prática comum” no mundo ocidental a partir do século 19. Muito tempo se passou, estamos em 2018 e animais continuam sendo torturados e mortos desnecessariamente em nome da ciência. O que ajuda a postergar o banimento dessa prática já considerada obsoleta é o lobby e a politicagem que caminham lado a lado.
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I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
The primary word I–Thou can be spoken only with the whole being. Concentration and fusion into the whole being can never take place through my agency, nor can it ever take place without me. I become through my relation to the Thou; as I become I, I say Thou. All real living is meeting.
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How Low Can the U.S. Go? It’s Not Just Trump!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
21 Mar 2018 – The U.S. now has a lying, racist, warmongering, misogynist, narcissist, megalomaniac, corrupt billionaire businessman, reality TV personality as President. The mask is off. Join hands in solidarity with people in grassroots struggles. Find common ground. And most of all – never give up. No lie can live forever. The arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.
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The Living and the Disappeared: The Unending Battle for Justice in Sri Lanka
Nirmanusan Balasundaram | Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
19 March 2018 – The signing of Memorandum of Understanding between Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam engineered many prospects, promises and hopes about the fate of political prisoners, prisoners of war and the disappeared. For the families of the disappeared, despite darkening clouds, there is a glimpse of hope that their sons and daughters are alive somewhere and they will return home one day.
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Funding Infrastructure: Why China Is Running Circles around America
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
“One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking of highways, pipelines, transmission lines, ports, power stations, fiber optics, and railroads connecting China to Central Asia, Europe and Africa. “It is the largest infrastructure project initiated by one nation in the history of the world and is designed to enable China to become the dominant economic power in the world.”
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(Français) Marielle Castro : “Être une femme noire, c’est résister et se battre tout le temps pour survivre”
Mariana Pitasse | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
18 Mar 2018 – Le 14 mars 2018, la conseillère municipale Marielle Franco a été victime d’une exécution extrajudiciaire à Rio de Janeiro. Peu après avoir entamé son mandat, le 8 mars 2017, l’hebdomadaire Brasil de Fato l’avait interviewée.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
24 Mar 2018 – This week Abbas spoke about the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and called him a “Son of a Dog”. This sounds in Arabic slightly less offensive than in English, but is hardly diplomatic. It is hard to say that Friedman does not deserve it, though I would have wished, as a dog-lover, that Abbas had chosen another animal.
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Now Sec. Defense Mattis Admits There Was No Evidence Assad Used Poison Gas on His People
Ian Wilkie | Other News - Newsweek,
26 Mar 2018
22 Mar 2018 – Lost in the hyper-politicized hullabaloo was the striking statement by Secretary of Defense James Mattis that the U.S. has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people. This assertion flies in the face of the White House Memorandum which was rapidly produced and declassified to justify an American Tomahawk missile strike against the Shayrat airbase in Syria.
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The Health Benefits of Probiotics
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Gut health is a balancing act. Stress, toxins, and a bad diet can upset the balance and throw your whole digestive system into complete chaos. Probiotics are the key to keeping the peace and pushing out the harmful organisms that throw everything off.
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Renaming the 1948 War: Partition, Dispossession, and Fragmentation–On the Politics of Language
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
24 Mar 2018 – Israel has been brilliant over the years in shaping and misdirecting the public discourse on the future of Palestine. Among its earliest achievement along these lines was the crucial propaganda victory by having the 1948 War known internationally as the ‘War of Independence.’ Such a designation erases the Palestinians from political consciousness, and distorts the deeper human and political consequences of the war. Language matters, especially in vital circumstances where there are winners and losers, a reality that applies above all to a war of displacement.
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Analog/Digital International Relations and Global Politics
Oliver P. Richmond | Global Dynamics, Univ. California Santa Barbara – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
25 Jan 2018 – This essay outlines a new, preliminary perspective of global studies resting on analog and digital processes, and discusses their implications for longstanding key debates in the discipline about war and peace, sovereignty, order, and legitimacy. Digital phenomena were initially thought to be a breakthrough for global civil society and rights. However, a brewing ‘counter-revolution’ of what might be now called the ‘ancien regime’ instead points to digital forms of governmentality closely connected to older, analog hierarchies.
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Fifteen Years after the Start of the Iraq War, the U.S. Is at War in at Least Seven Countries
Joshua Keating | Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – According to the unclassified portion of the National Defense Authorization Act report, America is currently at war in seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Niger, and Yemen. But this list is a bit incomplete.
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Mass Protests in Brazil against Death Squad Assassination of Marielle Franco
Miguel Andrade | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
21 Mar 2018 – The brutal execution of Rio de Janeiro city counselor Marielle Franco on March 14 came as a shock for Brazilians but not as a surprise. Known as a participant in black nationalist and feminist politics, she had left a black feminist meeting in downtown Rio on the night she was killed; she had also won support among workers in the northern sector, above all for exposing police violence.
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Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx’s Law of Value
Samir Amin | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism has been able to survive through its genius for disguising corporate profit imperatives as opportunities for individual human equality and advancement. But it was the genius of Karl Marx, in his masterwork, Capital, to discover the converse law of surplus value: behind the illusion of the democratic, supply-and-demand marketplace, lies the workplace, where people trying to earn a living are required to work way beyond the time it takes to pay their wages.
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(Italiano) Non guerra al terrorismo ma dialogo per delle soluzioni
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
9 marzo 2018 – Sono seduto a un tavolo da qualche parte in Afghanistan. Al tavolo ci sono tre taliban; pashtun come la gran parte dei taliban. La mia domanda iniziale è quella standard: “Come sarebbe l’Afghanistan dove vi piacerebbe vivere?”, con domande successive altrettanto standard: “Che cos’è il peggio che vi è capitato?” e “C’è stato un periodo buono in passato?”
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Australia-ASEAN Summit Held amid US-China Tensions
James Cogan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
From March 16 to 18, a second biennial summit between Australia and the Association of South East Asian Nations took place in Sydney. ASEAN is made up of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar (Burma). Each head of government attended the Sydney summit, apart from the volatile, right-wing president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte.
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Hawaii: Training Ground for My Lai Massacre and Catastrophic Nuclear War
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
50th Anniversary: The My Lai Massacre was the deliberate murder by U.S. troops of 504 innocent civilians, including women, children and grandparents in Vietnam on March 16, 1968. Silence is complicity. It’s been said many times, “Prevention is the only solution.”
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March 16, the Blackest Day in Kashmir History
Mohamad Ashraf Khwaja | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
The 16th of March is the blackest day for all Kashmiris. On this day in 1846, an inhuman sale of Kashmir and Kashmiris was made with a person (Gulab Singh) whom Lord Hardinge called ‘the greatest rascal of Asia’ by a nation (Britain) to which Napoleon called ‘the country of shopkeepers’. Ironically, this sordid sale of the transaction was erroneously termed as ‘The treaty of Amritsar’.
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Youth Camps Shape New Generations with Patriotism, Pushups and Prayer
Will Carless | Reveal-The Center for Investigative Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
9 Mar 2018 – Over the past year, photographer Sarah Blesener paid visits to a host of camps aimed at instilling American kids with patriotic pride, military training and religious belief. In rural central Florida, a group of children pray over the breakfast and ask for safety during their upcoming weapons training, during which they will learn how to disarm a knife-wielding attacker, load a rifle and properly handle a handgun.
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(Français) Palestine Occupée: «Nous voyons l’espoir dans leurs yeux»
Mazin Qumsiyeh | The International Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
Président Donald Trump a décidé que la date de transfert de l’ambassade des Etats-Unis à Jérusalem Occupée serait le 15 mai 2018. C’est particulièrement remarquable parce cette date est celle de la commémoration de la Nakba, le jour où contre la volonté de la grande majorité de ses habitants, un Etat juif d’apartheid a été créé par la force des armes en Palestine.
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The 50-Year Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre: How Can Professed Christians Defend Wartime Atrocities?
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
50 years ago today, on March 16,1968, a company of green, battle-untested US Army combat soldiers from the Americal Division, swept into the un-defended Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, rounded up the 500+ unarmed women, children, babies and old men, and efficiently executed almost all of them in cold blood, Nazi-style. No weapons or Viet Cong soldiers were found in the village. The entire killing operation took only 4 hours.
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Myanmar Levels Former Rohingya Villages to Build Camp for Returnees: Maps and Graphics
Irwin Loy | IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
Myanmar has bulldozed entire Rohingya villages to make way for a massive camp at the centre of a stalled plan to house returning refugees, an analysis of new satellite imagery shows.
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Stephen Hawking’s Final Warnings Urged World to Halt Climate Change
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 – Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds on Earth, died peacefully at his home in Cambridge early today at the age of 76. “I am not denying the importance of fighting climate change and global warming, unlike Donald Trump, who may just have taken the most serious, and wrong, decision on climate change this world has seen,” Hawking said last year about the Paris withdrawal.
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Clearing the Radioactive Rubble Heap That Was Fukushima Daiichi, 7 Years On
Tim Hornyak | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
The water is tainted, the wreckage is dangerous, and disposing of it will be a prolonged, complex and costly process.
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The Social and Political Roots of Mass Shootings in America
International Youth and Students for Social Equality | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
14 Mar 2018 – The second fundamental issue bound up with the rampant homicidal violence in American society is the state-sanctioned killing carried out by the US military around the world. The “war on terror,” now in its 18th year, dominates not only the political life of the United States, but its social culture as well.
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Eliminate Nuclear Weapons by Divesting from Them
Robert F. Dodge, MD | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – The just released “Don’t Bank On The Bomb“ report draws attention to the “Hall Of Shame” companies that are either financing or producing nuclear weapons and their components. There are 20 principal companies and 329 significant investors the world over who are financing this work investing over $525 Billion in the last three years.
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Call Me by Your Name: Academy Award-winning Film from Luca Guadagnino
Hiram Lee | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – Call Me by Your Name was one of the more highly regarded films of the past year. It received Academy Award nominations in the categories of Best Picture and Best Actor and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. While the film may have been among the more humanistic works nominated, it is also a strangely unsatisfying work.
(Movie Soundtrack, ‘Mystery of Love,’ on TMS Music Video of the Week)
Ocean Pollution: Simple, Everyday Ways You Can Help Make a Difference
Christopher Adams | ModestFish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
In this article, I’m going to share with you the current state of your ocean (warning: it’s worrying) and what you can do to help protect the reason you’re alive today.
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US State Dept.: “We want elections in Venezuela now, unless we’re not guaranteed a win, in which case they’re illegitimate.”
Ricardo Vaz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
6 Mar 2018 – With presidential elections announced in Venezuela, the US State Department moved quickly to declare that the contest was illegitimate and that its results would not be recognised. But less than a year ago the tune was quite different, as a cursory look through State Department briefings and press releases will show.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
17 Mar 2018 – The thought that Iran could possibly attack a nuclear power like Israel and risk its own annihilation is ludicrous. Iran is the heiress to one of the world’s most ancient civilizations, almost as ancient as Egypt. Compared to it, Jewish civilization is a younger sister. Indeed, many experts believe that the Jewish religion is heavily indebted to the Iranian civilization.
→ read full article(Português) A criação de animais em regime industrial é um dos piores crimes da humanidade
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
16 mar 2018 – O destino dos animais criados em regime industrial é uma das questões éticas mais urgentes do nosso tempo. Dezenas de bilhões de animais sencientes, cada um com sensações e emoções complexas, vivem e morrem em uma linha de produção.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018 – The dysfunctionality of the Gulf Crisis, pitting a coalition of four countries, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt against tiny Qatar, is emblematic of the descent into multi-dimensional chaos, conflict, and coercion that afflicts much of the Middle East. Qatar may be tiny, but it is wealthy and has chosen for itself a somewhat independent path, and for this reason has experienced the wrath of the more reactionary forces operative in the region and world.
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(Français) Une analyse comparative des démocraties étasunienne et cubaine
teleSUR | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Le peuple cubain élit 612 membres à l’Assemblée nationale du peuple ce dimanche 11 mars. Les élections cubaines sont rarement couvertes par les médias occidentaux, tandis que les détracteurs du système économique de l’île insistent sur la nature non démocratique de son gouvernement.
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(Português) Relato de um vegano que pratica musculação
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
11 mar 2018 – Como sou vegano e pratico musculação, me perguntaram o que tenho feito no “cutting”, na fase de queima de gordura. Me alimento e treino – sem aeróbicos, termogênicos ou suplementos pré-treino. Não consumo nem cafeína nem guaraná. Não uso recursos ergogênicos sintéticos.
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A Debate on Peacemaking: Ending Occupation or Apartheid?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
9 Mar 2018 – The core disagreement is whether to retain the emphasis on ending occupation as still the best, and some say, the only path to peace, and my view that a sustainable peace can only be obtained by a process of eliminating the apartheid structure by which Israel currently subjugates the Palestinian people as a whole.
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Stand Up for Justice & Peace, Not War!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
6 Mar 2018 – Both U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are on the ropes, under criminal corruption investigations. What better way to take the focus away from themselves than by waging war, creating national emergencies to solidify their power, and have the finger pointed at someone else rather than themselves.
→ read full article‘Follow Your Bliss’ – The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism to the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown
Editor | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
‘Forget it. Don’t write for the “mainstream”. Don’t write for money. Don’t write for prestige. Just “follow your bliss” by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.’
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(Français) Fausse nouvelle par omission : l’exemple de Haïti
William Blum | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
« Je suis fier d’avoir un président qui dira crûment la vérité dans les négociations » a déclaré Éric Prince sur Breitbart News. « Si le président dit que certains endroits sont des trous à merde, il a raison. » C’est ainsi que M. Éric Prince a rendu hommage à M. Donald Trump. Prince étant bien sûr le célèbre fondateur de Blackwater, l’armée privée qui, en septembre 2007, a ouvert le feu sur une place bondée à Bagdad, tuant 17 civils irakiens et en blessant gravement 20 autres.
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‘Plastic, Plastic, So Much Plastic!’: Diver Films Sea of Trash Off Bali
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
6 Mar 2018 – British diver Rich Horner posted footage of his plastic-infested swim off Bali’s Manta Point on Saturday [3 Mar].
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