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The Jury Has Been Out on Vaccines: Harm to the Brain, Immune System, Limbic System, Life
Paul Haeder | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Two Rabbits, Twenty-Eight Days of Testing, and a 91-Year Old Salt Called Aluminum Hydroxide Captured in New Documentary
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Addressing Violence and Extremism: The Importance of Terminology
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Jan 2018 – In recent years, “countering/combating violent extremism” or “preventing violent extremism” has become a must in most peace building programs. Yet, the fast-growing interest in this topic belies the fundamental problem of the lack of a clear and broadly accepted definition of the VE concept. This paper aims to contribute to a more accurate definition of the terms used in the context of extremism and violence, to attempt a descriptive model of the extremization process, and to discuss the various approaches to de-extremization.
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Google’s Alliance with the Military: The Ruling Class Responds to Social Unrest in America
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 – Last week, Google confirmed that it has provided artificial intelligence software to assist the United States military and intelligence apparatus in analyzing data as part of its drone war and assassination program in the Middle East and beyond.
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The Great Conspiracy
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 – In the Autumn of 1948, after some eight months of continuous fighting, I was promoted to the lofty rank of corporal. After taking part in a crash course for squad leaders, I was allowed to choose my new soldiers – new immigrants from Poland or Morocco.
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Symbolizing Collective Remembering Otherwise
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Encompassing the Headless Hearts and Heartless Heads through Their Dynamic Entanglement
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If You Want Peace, Don’t Focus on the Violence and the Evil Guy
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
A Personal Pledge Provoked by the Debates about Syria – About 95% of all debates about conflicts and war that we see in politics, mainstream media, the Internet and social media focus on the violence, who uses more or less of it and who is, therefore, the evil party.
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(Italiano) 15 casi di politica estera USA costruttiva / distruttiva
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Una teoria è qualcosa verificabile lungo i suoi margini (Quine), quel che se ne deduce; e per me il “margine” fondamentale è l’azione implicata e le sue conseguenze.
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He Predicted the 2016 Fake News Crisis – Now He’s Worried about an Information Apocalypse
Charlie Warzel | BuzzFeed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
“What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did?”
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Resource Sovereignty: Venezuela, Africa, and the Global South
Ann Garrison interviews Maurice Carney | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
“The Congolese people in particular and Africans in general need to learn from their brothers and their sisters in the Global South.”
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Book Launch: Revisiting the Vietnam War-The Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk, edited by Stefan Andersson
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Revisiting the Vietnam War: The Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk, edited by Stefan Andersson, Cambridge University Press, 2017 – Why the Legal and Political Debate on the Vietnam War Still Matters
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How I Found My Voice as a Pacifist
Joan Baez | The Wall Street Journal – Reader Supported News,
5 Mar 2018
Joan Baez, 77, is a folk singer and guitarist who received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Her latest album is “Whistle Down the Wind” (Razor & Tie). She spoke with Marc Myers.
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Wake Up and Stop Rohingya Abuses
The Daily Star, Bangladesh | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
27 Feb 2018 – No one would realise better than a woman how it feels when a child is snatched away from the arms of a mother and slaughtered, a man is murdered before the eyes of his wife, or a girl is raped. That is what happened to countless Rohingya women back in Rakhine State of Myanmar.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
3 Mar 2018 – The flood of corruption affairs that is now engulfing the Netanyahu family and its assistants and servitors does not seem to diminish his popularity among those who call themselves “the People”. On the contrary, according to the opinion polls, the voters of the other nationalist parties are rushing to the rescue of “Bibi”.
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(Italiano) Pace e giustizia per il popolo Palestinese: una conversazione
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
La crisi umanitaria a Gaza è entrata nell’11° anno di un assedio crippling di Israele che rende le condizioni di vita dei palestinesi via via più complicate. Il blocco di quella che si definisce popolarmente “la prigione all’aperto più grande al mondo” vuol dire disoccupazione crescente, accesso intermittente ad acqua pura, un’economia sballata e infrastrutture carenti e mancanza di fondi che rendono la popolazione di due milioni vulnerabile alle forti piogge e a fenomeni meteorologici estremi.
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Guns and Liberty
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Guns do not protect us from tyranny. They are an instrument of tyranny.
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Zadie Smith on Optimism and Despair
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
“Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.”
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End U.S. Addiction to Killing!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
The U.S. empire has become a culture of mass violence that has been building layer upon layer, from the massacres of Native Americans, the killing of unarmed African Americans, to the millions killed in wars for resources disguised as freedom and democracy. Now the chickens are coming home to roost with the killing of our own children.
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(Français) Néolibéralisme(s) : discours, appropriations, adaptations des organisations internationales
Cédric Leterme | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Ni dogme homogène imposé mondialement par les « élites », ni « fourre-tout » idéologique sans consistance, le néolibéralisme doit plutôt être appréhendé comme un projet de classe mis en œuvre de manière diverse, en fonction de contextes particuliers. Le rôle des organisations internationales rend compte de cette pluralité de néolibéralismes.
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Why the UK Has No Guns
Tobias Stone | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
The UK is far from perfect, and has its own problems with crime. Knife crime and occasional gun crime make the headlines, especially in parts of London. But since banning guns in 1997 it has become incredibly rare to be injured by a firearm, let alone to be killed by one. Average criminals do not use guns because they risk both a mandatory 5 year prison sentence, and being shot. Civilians don’t need guns to protect themselves, and the police are mainly unarmed too.
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(Français) Haïti : le cercle vicieux de la vulnérabilité
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
La répétition des catastrophes qui frappent Haïti a de quoi décourager. Mais il n’y a là aucune malédiction. C’est la vulnérabilité du pays qui est en cause, et celle-ci n’est pas le fruit de la fatalité, mais d’une situation sociale et de choix politiques.
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Five Reasons That Anarchism Would Be an Improvement in Human Governance
Gary ‘Z’ McGee | Waking Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
The problem, the crux, the fly in the ointment: most people are not courageous enough, and most people don’t want to learn anything that attacks their all-too-precious worldview. Yes, the very worldview that is keeping people indebted to an immoral, unhealthy, unsustainable, unjust system of human governance is precisely the worldview that the majority of people are clinging to. Indeed, most people, even though they would probably say otherwise, would rather be kissed with a lie than slapped with the truth.
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(Castellano) El miedo que impulsa la estrategia nuclear estadounidense
Robert Burrowes | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
El 2 de febrero 2018, el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos publicó su última ‘Revisión de la Postura Nuclear 2018’. Varios autores ya han expuesto de manera cuidadosa un número increíble de mentiras obvias, amenazas inventadas, fallas e ideas erróneas estratégicas, como el pensamiento falaz detrás de la “disuasión” y el riesgo significativamente mayor de guerra nuclear dado el “pensamiento” delirante en el documento, así como el miedo político en la NPR.
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Genocide? As Gaza Dries Out, Israel Turns Off Fresh Water Spigot
Darius Shahtahmasebi | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Rather than heeding the warnings from the UN to open up Gaza’s blockade and allow vital aid, what we have witnessed over the course of the last decade is a periodic all-out Israeli assault on Gaza’s vital infrastructure.
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America’s ‘Liberalism’ & Other Inhumane Styles of Governance at Home and Internationally
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
25 Feb 2018 – With apologies for this long post, which attempts to situate the struggle for an ethically and ecologically viable political future for the United States and the world in the overheated preoccupation with Trump and Trumpism, which is itself a distraction from the species challenges confronting the whole of humanity at the present time. Many of us, and I include myself, have allowed the side show to become the main attraction, which is itself a reason for struggle against the enveloping darkness.
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Antifa (Music Video of the Week)
Ministry | Nuclear Blast Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Ministry’s official music video from the new album ‘AmeriKKKant’.
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Coca-Cola and Nestlé to Privatize the Largest Reserve of Water in South America
Amanda Froelich | Truth Theory – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
5 Feb 2018 – Private companies such as Coca-Cola and Nestlé are allegedly in the process of privatizing the largest reserve of water, known as the Guarani Aquifer, in South America. The aquifer is located beneath the surface of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay and is the second largest-known aquifer system in the world.
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Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico
Stephen Lendman | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
21 Feb 2018 – The pattern is familiar, corporate predators profiting from natural and other disasters. Free-wheeling capitalism works this way, profiting from mass-privatizations, deregulation, unrestricted market access, along with deep cuts in social spending to help finance plunder.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
I Love Israel. My comrades and I created it and paid for it with our blood (literally). My heart aches when I see what is happening. But I remain an optimist. I continue to believe that somehow, somewhere, salvation will come. New political forces will emerge and come to the fore. As our Muslim friends would say: inshallah (God willing).
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Multi-phase Weaponisation of Replica Guns for Children
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
A viable alternative to the response of Donald Trump to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (14 Feb 2018) with its focus on arming teachers. What follows is a proposal by the Notional Rifle Association — necessarily more radical than that of our colleagues in the National Rifle Association. It could be considered potentially both more politically feasible and more cost-effective.
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Is Oxford University Complicit in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Genocide Denial?
Maung Zarni | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of Myanmar’s international human rights crimes as designed to tarnish the image of Myanmar, the administration at Oxford University considers this a “public relations” issue.
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(Português) Jan Gerdes, o ex-produtor de leite que transformou a sua fazenda [quinta] em um santuário para os animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
22 fev 2018 – O alemão Jan Gerdes era um típico produtor de leite que via os animais apenas como fonte de renda. Inclusive evitava proximidade para não criar laços com os animais explorados em sua fazenda no Norte da Alemanha. Porém, um dia ele decidiu se questionar sobre o que estava fazendo – se aquilo era, de fato, certo.
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The Polar Boom: Corporations Flock to Melting Arctic for Oil and Trade Routes
Baher Kamal | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
16 Feb2018 — As the global demand for fossil fuels rises and the Arctic sea ice continues to melt, multinational corporations and governments are deepening efforts to expand oil exploration and trade routes in the region. While corporations see a profit, environmentalists see a crisis.
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Marx’s Analysis of the Laws of Capital and the Share Market Crisis
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
17 Feb 2018 – Down through the years one of the most persistent attacks on Karl Marx by the high priests of bourgeois economics—the ideological guardians of the profit system—has been his contention that, in the final analysis, capitalism depends on the impoverishment of the working class.
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Why the Experience of Ahed Tamimi Matters So Much
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
13 Feb 2018 – It is now known by virtually everyone that a 16-year-old girl, now 17, named Ahed Tamimi, confronted Israeli soldiers on her family’s land shortly after her cousin, Mohammed, was shot in the face with a rubber bullet, causing a coma. The video of her actions has gone viral, showing the world a courageous young woman engaging in nonviolent acts of resistance, and then a day later in the middle of the night being arrested in her home and then charged with a series of crimes.
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Nuclear Abolition: A Sisyphean Task?
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
15 Feb 2018 – Nuclear weapons threaten everyone and everything we love and cherish. Why do we accept and tolerate these intolerable weapons? Every thinking person on the planet should stand against these omnicidal weapons and work for their elimination. Nine leaders in nine countries have their fingers on the nuclear button.
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Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
14 Feb 2018 – Having failed in its war of regime change in Syria, the U.S. seizes the nation’s oil fields and slaughters Syrian soldiers, confident that the U.S. public doesn’t give a damn.
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Smile [lyrics] (Music Video of the Week)
Charles Chaplin | Nat King Cole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
Soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times. Chaplin composed the music, inspired by Puccini’s Tosca. John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954. Nat King Cole immortalized it. Have a smile. And enjoy!
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska | Our Chopin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
On 17 October 1849, Chopin died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendôme. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. In accordance with his will, however, his heart, taken from his body after death, was brought by his sister to Warsaw where it was placed in an urn installed in a pillar of the Holy Cross church in Krakowskie Przedmiscie.
→ read full articleIsrael Claims to Be a Jewish State and a Democratic State: Legalism vs Justice
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
11 Feb 2018 – The book is an important contribution to an understanding of two dimensions of the Palestinian experience within the state of Israel: first, the reliance on law to ‘legalize’ discrimination, and the accompanying denial of fundamental rights that has resulted; secondly, to develop a distinct Israeli jurisprudence that seeks to legitimize ‘ethnocracy,’ yet disguise this reality by claiming that the nationality laws and regulations distinguishing Jews and non-Jews do not invalidate Israeli claims to be a democracy.
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(Français) Les propositions de Varoufakis qui menaient à l’échec
Eric Toussaint | CADTM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
11 Fév 2018 – Dans son dernier livre Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis donne sa version des raisons qui ont conduit à la capitulation honteuse du gouvernement Tsipras en juillet 2015. Il analyse essentiellement la période 2009-2015 tout en faisant des incursions dans des époques plus lointaines.
→ read full articlePity the Almond Tree
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
17 Feb 2018 – Pity the almond tree, especially when it is in full bloom. The bloom of the almond is, in German, Mandelblüt. That is also the name of Israel’s chief legal official, called “the Legal Advisor of the Government”.
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Stemming the Plastic Tide: 10 Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans
Prachi Patel | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – Our seas are choking on plastic. A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 rivers, eight of them in Asia.
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Global Civilization through Interweaving Polyamory and Polyanimosity?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
Loving the World Otherwise Through Contractual Bonding with Any Significant Other – Much is currently made of same-sex marriage as a breakthrough in the legality of consensual bonding between those of the same gender.
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South Korea Minister Says Military Option ‘Unacceptable’ on North Korea Crisis
Soyoung Kim | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
25 Jan 2018 -“The nuclear issue has to be solved through negotiations and diplomatic endeavors. This idea of a military solution is unacceptable,” Kang Kyung-wha said at a news briefing on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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With Nuclear Weapons, Evacuation Is Not an Option
David Krieger | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
In our community, we have been living through radical uncertainty from forces of nature. But we also live daily with the radical uncertainty of nuclear survival, which is not a force of nature, but rather a man-made threat. It is a threat entirely of our own making, and it can be remedied by facing it and doing something about it, namely convening the nuclear-armed countries to negotiate the phased, verifiable, irreversible and transparent elimination of these weapons.
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Myanmar Forces and Buddhist Villagers Torched Rohingya Homes, Then Killed
Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski | Reuters – US News & World Report,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – Rohingya trace their presence in Rakhine back centuries. But most people in majority-Buddhist Myanmar consider them to be unwanted Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh. The army refers to the Rohingya as “Bengalis,” and most lack citizenship. In recent years, the government has confined more than 100,000 Rohingya in camps where they have limited access to food, medicine and education. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya have fled their villages and crossed the border into Bangladesh since August.
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It Is Time to End the Child Soldier Stereotype
Tim Molyneux | IRIN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Mon Feb 12 marks the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, known as Red Hand Day. From Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Myanmar and Nigeria, countless children remain trapped in armed conflict.
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Japan Plans to Kill Hundreds of Whales AGAIN – Urge the EU to Refuse Trade Deal until This Ends!
Aleksandra Pajda | One Green Planet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, has made his opinions about Japan’s whale hunts very clear. Abe stated that the country “will pursue all possibilities in order to resume commercial whaling” and he wants Japan to use whale meat, fat, and baleen “just like other marine resources.” His stance on the cruel practice is blatant, and he does not even try to conceal the real nature of the hunts under the typical guise of scientific research.
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How Volkswagen Paid $25 Billion for Dieselgate — And Got Off Easy
Roger Parloff | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
6 Feb 2018 – Volkswagen paid huge government penalties in the U.S., but virtually nothing in Europe. Two things now seem clear: Some very senior officials knew of the wrongdoing — and they’re not likely to face meaningful prison time.
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Pugwash Statement on the U.S. 2018 Nuclear Posture Review
Amb. Sergio Duarte | Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
6 Feb 2018 – The expansion of the role of nuclear weapons risks triggering another round of the nuclear arms race, dramatically increases the risks of their use, and makes the road to a nuclear weapons free world even more difficult. This latest development will serve only to increase the saliency and attractiveness of nuclear weapons, and will certainly not enhance international security, let alone prospects for progress in bilateral and multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation efforts.
→ read full articleWhat the Hell?
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
10 Feb 2018 – What the hell am I? An Israeli? A Jew? A peace activist? A Journalist? An author? An ex-combat soldier in the Israeli army? An ex-terrorist? A…? All of these and more. OK. OK. But in what order? Which is the most important component?
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Associated Press Double Standard in Israel-Palestine Reporting
Kathryn Shihadah and Alison Weir | If Americans Knew – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Associated Press is one of those news sources we expect to be objective and reliable. But when it comes to the subject of Israel-Palestine, things are not always as they seem.
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Peace and Justice for the Palestinian People: a Conversation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
This is a modified text of an interview conversation with Khourosh Ziabari, initially published on the website of the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence on February 4, 2018.
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At Age 101, She’s a World Champ Runner
Chhavi Sachdev | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Man Kaur is 101, but her routine could tire most 20-somethings. Every day she wakes up at 4 a.m., bathes, washes clothes, makes tea, recites prayers. And then she goes to the track for an hour of sprinting practice. And she’s not just doing it for fun.
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(Português) A passionalidade e a autoridade na crítica à exploração animal
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Realmente não é fácil reconhecer que existe uma desarmonia entre o que você deseja para o mundo e o que o outro deseja, quando este não considera, de fato, que os animais não merecem morrer para serem reduzidos a alimentos e outros produtos. Claro, alguém pode dizer: “Tenho dó dos animais”. Mas se essa pessoa se alimenta deles, há uma evidente inconsonância entre o que ela pensa e faz.
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A Ticking Time Bomb of Mercury Is Hidden Beneath Earth’s Permafrost
Brandon Specktor | Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
According to a new study published 5 Feb 2018 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, there may be more than 15 million gallons (58 million liters) of mercury buried in the permafrost of the Northern Hemisphere — roughly twice as much mercury as can be found in the rest of Earth’s soils, ocean and atmosphere combined. And if global temperatures continue to rise, all that mercury could come pouring out.
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WikiLeaks Exposes How Council on Foreign Relations Controls Most All Mainstream Media
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
29 Jan 2018 – A single organization controls almost everything you see, hear, and read in the media and they’ve been handpicking your leaders for decades.
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Is Bitcoin a True Anti-War Currency?
Wendy McElroy | Bitcoin News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
6 Feb 2018 – It is not common to speak of currency as being pro or anti-war. A freely traded currency is merely an economic tool that facilitates the exchange of goods and services by people whose intentions may be good or evil. All things being equal, the money is morally and politically neutral in whatever form it takes.
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Permaculture in New Zealand: Joanna Santa Barbara’s Atamai Village (Part 2)
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Permaculture for Peace: Presenting the Atamai Village Project – Joanna Santa Barbara is a member of TRANSCEND International.
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Remembering Gene Sharp, a Pioneer of People Power
The Editors | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
Gene Sharp, who passed away at the age of 90 on Sunday [28 Jan], was not only a key figure in the development of a whole new field of study devoted to helping people realize their own power, he was a key figure in the lives of so many who found inspiration in his work and took it in new directions. It is no exaggeration to say that Waging Nonviolence would not exist were it not for his pioneering research demonstrating the undeniable power and effectiveness of nonviolent struggle.
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“Fake News” Is Fake News
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #155 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – The people who created Facebook and Google must be smart. They’re billionaires. Facebook hired a very large staff of people to read everything posted by users to weed out the fake stuff. That didn’t last too long before the company announced that it wasn’t “comfortable” deciding which news sources are the most trustworthy in a “world with so much division”. We all could have told them that, couldn’t we?
→ read full article2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review Released by Trump Administration
David Krieger and Rick Wayman | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
2 Feb 2018 –The 2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, released today, represents a reckless realignment of an already dangerous U.S. nuclear policy. Trump administration plan calls for smaller nuclear weapons making nuclear war far more likely.
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America’s National Defense Is Really Offense
Philip Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
26 Jan 2018 – Today the Pentagon released an unclassified summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy report. Reading the summary is illuminating, to say the least, and somewhat disturbing, as it focuses very little on actual defense of the realm and relates much more to offensive military action that might be employed to further certain debatable national interests. Occasionally, it is actually delusional, as when it refers to consolidating “gains we have made in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.”
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(Français) Que la solution à deux États meure de mort naturelle!
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – Investig’Action,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – Il soutient que les défenseurs sincères de la paix entre les Israéliens et les Palestiniens devraient accorder la priorité à combattre l’apartheid plutôt que de vouloir ranimer un « processus de paix » style Oslo (toujours une imposture) ou de proclamer que l’objectif d’une Palestine indépendante et souveraine est réalisable sans d’abord démanteler les structures d’apartheid, qui asservissent le peuple palestinien dans son ensemble, afin de préserver l’exigence sioniste qui veut qu’Israël soit l’état du peuple juif (plutôt que de lui procurer un foyer à l’intérieur d’un État légitime et normal dont les fondements sont l’égalité ethnique et religieuse, les droits de l’homme, et les principes laïcs.
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Five More Rohingya Mass Graves Found in Myanmar
Foster Klug | AP - TIME,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Warning: The following story contains graphic descriptions of atrocities.
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The Middle East Peace Process: A Cruel Joke
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – As of now, there is no honest broker and there is no peace process—facts that prolong the Israeli Occupation and further undermine Palestinian hopes for internationally recognized statehood and a better life.
→ read full articleGIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out): A Reality That Is Running Rampant in the For-Profit Medical Literature Industry
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – Hundreds and thousands of questionable GIGO articles are published annually in professional medical journals which are mailed (or emailed) out to physicians, most of whom are never able to find the time to read and absorb their substance. Most barely have the time to read the conclusions of the abstracts which are conveniently printed at the beginning. Most of us never have the time or inclination to read the published conflicts of interest, which are usually published at the end of the article, usually in fine print.
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North Korean Athletes Arrive in South Korea for Olympics
Hyung-Jin Kim | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — North Korean 32-member delegation of skiers and skaters arrived today at a South Korean airport to participate in the Winter Olympics that has brought a temporary lull in tensions surrounding their country’s nuclear program. The Olympics start on 9 Feb.
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The Top 10 Outrageous Things about ISIS the Western Mainstream Media Ignores
Robert Bridge | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
31 Jan 2018 – The top 10 very strange circumstances that led to the rise of ISIS. It seems to be an appropriate time to reflect upon a set of very strange circumstances that led to the rise of this loathsome terrorist group.
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The Ultimate Guide to Butterflies & How to Prevent Their Decline
Clive Harris | DIY Garden! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
15 Jan 2018 – Butterflies and moths have been around for millions of years. They used to be a common sight in gardens, but numbers have declined since the 1940s along with our other native wildlife species such as bees and hedgehogs.
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Volkswagen: The Scandal That Never Ends
Zoya Teirstein | Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
29 Jan 2018 – The German automaker issued yet another apology today, this time for a fraudulent study the company commissioned four years ago.
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(Português) Será que aos olhos dos animais não somos vistos como assassinos?
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
27 Jan 2018 – Será que o famigerado Assassino do Zodíaco poderia ser considerado um executor que seguia os princípios do “abate humanitário”? Por pior que fossem suas ações, me parece que ele não deixava de ter um código de ética. Afinal, ele matava suas vítimas com tiros cirúrgicos, com precisão letal. Ele não as torturava; não tinha qualquer interesse ordinário ou especial pelo sofrimento; apenas na morte.
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Gene Sharp, Advocate for Nonviolent Resistance (21 Jan 1928 – 28 Jan 2018)
AP | Deccan Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Sharp died at his Boston home on Sunday [28 Jan], said Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution, founded by Sharp in 1983. Sharp, once referred to as the “Machiavelli of nonviolence,” by the New Statesman, has influenced resistance to regimes around the world, from Eastern Europe, to Iran and Burma.
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The New Cold War Is Happening in Africa
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
31 Jan 2018 – There is a new Cold War that is brewing and the African continent is slated to be its epic center. With China’s impressive rise as an economic superpower and Russia’s re-emergence as a strong military contender, the United States government is giving more attention on Africa.
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Artificial Intelligence May Have Finally Decoded the Bizarre, Mysterious ‘Voynich Manuscript’
Peter Dockrill | Science Alert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – For centuries, it’s been the book no human can understand, but we may finally now be able to read it – thanks to machines invented a half-millennia after it was written. A code that hasn’t been cracked for 600 years.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
3 Feb 2018 – The Polish parliament decreed that anyone who uses the words “Polish extermination camps” is committing a crime punishable by three years in prison. The right description, according to the Poles, is “Nazi extermination camps in Poland”. The rectification is quite correct. But in Israel, a storm broke out. What?! The Poles deny the Holocaust?
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UN Reviews 206 Firms over Their Links to Israeli Settlements
Jamey Keaten | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 — The U.N. human rights office said Wednesday [31 Jan] that 206 companies — mostly Israeli and American — are facing a review of their business practices involving Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
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‘Whitewashing’ Genocide in Myanmar
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
30 Jan 2018 – Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act in any meaningful way, thus leaving hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees stranded in border camps between Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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The Role of Media for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
1 Feb 2018 – Over the past century the control of information, especially through the mass media, has become the most important characteristic of the culture of war. Why? It is urgent that we continue to develop media for a culture of peace throughout the world, hoping that someday it will obtain an audience as great as that for the culture of war.
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The Slow-Burning Genocide in Myanmar Continues – We Cannot Be Passive
Lubka Mieresova | RightsInfo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
As we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January) and remember the millions of people murdered by the Nazi regime, we must also pause and reflect: Slow-Burning Genocide in Myanmar.
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Summary of the 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy
Jim Mattis | US Department of Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Sharpening the American Military’s Competitive Edge
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How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – In a blatant example of “do as I say, not as I do,” the US government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while imposing huge penalties on banks for accepting it as deposits.
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(Français) Les preuves du crime économique contre le Venezuela
Alfredo Serrano Mancilla | CELAG – Investig’Action,
29 Jan 2018
23 Jan 2018 – Laisser de côté ce que Venezuela confronte aujourd’hui, sous forme d’une multi-agression permanente en matière économique, est un acte d’irresponsabilité délibérée. Ce serait aussi une analyse partielle et biaisée. Ce serait la même chose que d’analyser l’économie mexicaine sans considérer qu’elle a les États-Unis comme voisin du nord.
→ read full articleThe 2018 US National Defense Strategy in Plain Words: Tragi-Comic!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018 – This National Defense Strategy is as problematic as it is scary for the American people and the world. God, bless America! But before You do, please save it from itself!
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Real Concerns about Rohingya Repatriation
Julian Francis | BD News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – For the Rohingya refugees there are no declared guarantees. What about their rights to citizenship, security, shelter, food, health, education and to be able to practice their religion? If they agree to move to a “Temporary Transit Camp”, it might turn into a camp for “internally displaced” or a “concentration camp”. Who is going to guarantee what?
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Policy of the Cruel and Absurd: Sleep Deprivation in California’s Prisons
Charlie Hinton, Verbena Lea and Willow Katz | Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
10 Jan 2018 – In prison isolation units throughout California, guards wake prisoners up every 30 minutes under the guise of suicide prevention. These “security/welfare checks” cause ongoing sleep deprivation. The UN and many sleep and mental health experts have long defined sleep deprivation as a form of torture.
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2018 Doomsday Clock: It Is Now Two Minutes to Midnight
Rachel Bronson, PhD | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
25 Jan 2018 – The year just past proved perilous and chaotic, a year in which many of the risks foreshadowed in our last Clock statement came into full relief. Although the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focuses on nuclear risk, climate change, and emerging technologies, the nuclear landscape takes center stage in this year’s Clock statement.
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North Korea Issues Statement Calling for Breakthrough in Unification
Jason Ditz | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Urges All Koreans to Push Bilateral Cooperation
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(Português) Plutarco e a relação entre a violência e o consumo de carne
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Autor de “De Esu Carnium”, ou “Do Consumo da Carne”, escrito no século I, que integra uma de suas obras mais importantes – “Moralia”, o filósofo platonista, biógrafo e ensaísta grego, que se voltava para a discussão das questões morais, escreveu que o “hábito selvagem” do consumo de carne inclina a mente à brutalidade, ao derramamento de sangue e à destruição.
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Permaculture in New Zealand: Joanna Santa Barbara’s Atamai Village (Part 1)
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Permaculture for Peace: Presenting the Atamai Village Project. Joanna Santa Barbara is a member of TRANSCEND International.
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Rohingyas, the Refugees Who Don’t Want to Go Home … Yet
Jason Beaubien | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
21 Jan 2018 – This week, Bangladesh had planned to start sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar. Now the deal has been postponed because of logistical problems. The refugees themselves have opposed the plan. “They’ll kill us,” says Sonah Meah, 30. “If I go, they’ll kill me.”
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(Français) La responsabilité de protéger le monde… des États-Unis
Ajamu Baraka | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
L’une des armes de propagande les plus ingénieuses jamais mises au point est que les puissantes nations occidentales dirigées par les États-Unis ont la responsabilité morale d’utiliser la force militaire pour protéger les droits des peuples opprimés par leurs gouvernements. Cette «responsabilité de protéger» (R2P) a toujours eu un statut juridique douteux, mais sa justification morale exigeait aussi un désengagement psychologique et historique de la réalité sanglante des 500 ans d’histoire du colonialisme américain et européen, de l’esclavage, du génocide et de la torture qui ont créé l’ «Occident ».
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I Have a Right (Music Video of the Week)
Sonata Arctica | Nuclear Blast Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
“A song about how we should not pass the burden we get from the past generation on the shoulders of our future offspring. Children’s rights subject. Not the most metal subject ever, I suppose, but then again I think it fits our band well and is pretty universal.” — Tony Kakko, song’s author
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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” wrote the thirty-year-old Nietzsche.
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AP Interview: Richardson Resigns from Rohingya Refugee Panel
Foster Klug | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 — Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has resigned from an advisory panel on the massive Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a “whitewash and a cheerleading operation” for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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How to Read the 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy
Mara Karlin | The Brookings Institution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
21 Jan 2018 – Last week, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis released the 2018 National Defense Strategy. This NDS is a heady attempt to drive the U.S. military faster in the direction it has been heading. China and Russia should read it with a worrying eye (and perhaps a glass of baijiu or vodka).
→ read full articleMessage of His Holiness Pope Francis for World Communications Day
Pope Francis | Libreria Editrice Vaticana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 – “I would like to invite everyone to promote a journalism of peace. By that, I do not mean the saccharine kind of journalism that refuses to acknowledge the existence of serious problems or smacks of sentimentalism. On the contrary, I mean a journalism that is truthful and opposed to falsehoods, rhetorical slogans, and sensational headlines. A journalism less concentrated on breaking news than on exploring the underlying causes of conflicts, in order to promote deeper understanding and contribute to their resolution by setting in place virtuous processes. A journalism committed to pointing out alternatives to the escalation of shouting matches and verbal violence.”
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How Will I Explain Extremist Buddhism to My Children?
Khin Mai Aung | Lion’s Roar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Khin Mai Aung once worried her children would pick up dogmatic views from her husband’s Catholic faith. Now, she struggles to explain to them the terrible violence in Myanmar, her country of birth — incited by members of her own faith, Buddhism.
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Here Are All the World Leaders Going to Davos This Week
Alexandra Ma | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – The world’s elite will converge upon the snowy Swiss town of Davos this week for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, a weeklong networking event peppered with talks and presentations.
→ read full articleThe Jumping Parliament
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
27 Jan 2018 – This is going on now, a rising tide, an Israeli voice that has not been heard for a long time. A voice that has been mute for so many years, the voice of my Israel, the voice of yesterday’s Israel – and hopefully tomorrow’s. There was a time when I could be proud to be an Israeli. Perhaps this time is returning.
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