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How the Establishment Undermines American Democracy
Philip M. Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
18 Jan 2018 – There is a growing consensus among many observers in Washington that the national security agencies have become completely politicized over the past seventeen years and are now pursuing selfish agendas that actually endanger what remains of American democracy.
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Is Anyone on the Side of the Congolese Now?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
Has Anyone Ever Been on the Side of the People of Congo? Ann Garrison Speaks to Jean-Claude Maswana
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A Cure for What We Have All Been Taught Was Incurable: Obesity-related Hyperglycemia Ain’t Necessarily “Type 2 Diabetes”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
“The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.”
— Arnold Seymour Relman (1923-2014), Harvard Professor of Medicine and Former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine
(Italiano) Due modi d’essere Occidentali: Cristianesimo e Scienza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
5 gennaio 2018 – Due istituzioni basilari nella storia e nella vita individuale occidentali: il Cristianesimo – che offre Salvezza a coloro che seguono le leggi e i comandamenti, e la Scienza, che offre la Verità a coloro che credono alle leggi scientifiche.
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Earth as a Shithole Planet — from a Universal Perspective?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Understanding Why There Are No Extraterrestrial Visitors – The concern here is to explore the evidence for Planet Earth as a “shithole” planet, as it might be perceived in the light of various criteria. The argument is used as a means of explaining the absence of any overt contact with extraterrestrials.
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(Français) La malhonnêteté des grands médias à l’égard de la Palestine
Mariam Barghouti | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
18 Jan 2018 – La photo de l’adolescent de 16 ans, Fawzi al-Junaidi, les yeux bandés, contusionné, et entouré d’une douzaine de soldats israéliens, a fait le tour des médias sociaux. On a vu en lui un emblème de l’oppression israélienne.
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(Italiano) Leadership cinese sulla riforma ONU
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
12 gennaio 2018 – Una delle più complete proposte di riforma è appena stata emanata per la trattazione all’ONU dal governo della Cina in un documento di 27 pagine. (1) Molte delle proposte sono molto simili ai suggerimenti fatti dall’Associazione dei Cittadini de Mondo.
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(Italiano) Scenari di pace per il 2018
Angela Dogliotti | Gennaio 2018 Editoriale #01 – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
22 Jan 2018
6 gennaio 2018 – Il 2018 si apre su uno scenario inquietante: crescenti diseguaglianze, squilibri, guerre, in un contesto di forte competizione per il controllo economico e politico mondiale tra Occidente e nuove potenze emergenti a Oriente; scarsità delle risorse e cambiamenti climatici che acuiscono le crisi, rivelando la fragilità di sistemi sociali e modelli di sviluppo intrisi di violenza diretta, strutturale, culturale, e insostenibili dal punto di vista ambientale.
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May Your Home Be Destroyed
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – My first impression of Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) was that he was the exact opposite of Arafat. He looked like a schoolmaster. Arafat was an outgoing type, who liked to embrace and kiss people and to establish close relations from the outset. Abu Mazen was much more reserved and withdrawn. Yet I liked his personality.
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Nuclear Deterrence, North Korea, and Dr. King
Winslow Myers | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
If we want North Korea to change, we need to examine our own role in the creation of the echo chamber of threat and counter-threat. Dr. King’s death was a mortal blow to our greatness as a nation. He connected the dots between our racism and our militarism.
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Thyroid Gland: Functions, Symptoms, Diet, and Natural Support
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland located at the front of your neck, sort of like an internal bowtie. Part of the endocrine system, your thyroid produces and secretes the hormones T4 and T3. These essential hormones regulate growth, development, and metabolism.
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The US Syria “Strategy” – Recipe for Continued Disaster Even for the US
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
We’ve of course seen it all before. It’s about bases (like, say, Kosovo), about control of resources (like, say, Iraq), about regime change (like, say Saddam Hussein and Moamar Khadafi) and it’s about the exceptionalist belief that God’s own country has God’s mandate to create US Imperial peace everywhere – no matter how many times it has already gone madly wrong and no matter how many innocent people are killed and wounded in the process.
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How to Get New Activists to Stay Engaged for the Long Haul
Eileen Flanagan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Deeply engaging newcomers also gives organizers a chance to counter the despair and disempowerment that easily surface when people don’t see immediate results, especially in this political climate. More than in any previous year, I have heard newcomers ask, “What will this action accomplish?” It’s a great question.
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Bruce Lee’s Never before Revealed Letters to Himself about Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being, a sort of “being” vs. having — that is, we do not “have” mind, we are simply mind. We are what we are.
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(Português) O protovegetarianismo na literatura do poeta romano Ovídio
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Ovídio relata que a violência humana contra os animais começou a partir da violência e da morte das “feras selvagens”. E tal ferocidade, também citada no diálogo de Sócrates com Glauco, e registrado por Platão em “A República”, remete à ganância humana, aos homens invadindo áreas naturais cada vez maiores não para satisfazerem suas necessidades básicas, mas sim para lucrarem com suas produções.
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Be the Change: Enter Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
TRANSCEND Media Service editor Antonio C. S. Rosa talks about Peace Journalism as a new paradigm for journalists reporting on conflicts.
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The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry Was Whipped into Industrial Wage Slaves
Yasha Levine | The eXiled – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
“…everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.” “Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society… It is the source of wealth, since without poverty, there could be no labour; there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth.”
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Full Spectrum Arrogance: US Bases Spanning the Globe – Map
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
There are 50,000 troops still in Germany, still winning World War II three quarters of a century later. Anytime you have this nation attacking another nation that is a crime that all of us can be united in opposing.
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Two Koreas Will March Together at the Olympics
Agence France-Presse | PRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
17 Jan 2018 – The two Koreas agreed today to march together under a single flag at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony and field a united women’s ice hockey team for the Games in a further sign of easing tensions on the peninsula.
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Trump Regime on the Verge of Okaying Two New Warheads That Could Make Nuclear War More Likely
Timothy Lange | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
16 Jan 2018 – The Trump regime seeks to build two new nuclear weapons, one of which—a low-yield warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles—could make nuclear war more likely, say critics. The other warhead would be developed to be carried by submarine-launched cruise missiles, which haven’t been equipped with nukes since 2010.
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The 10 Companies That Dominate the Global Arms Trade
Jeff Desjardins | Visual Capitalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – While it is common knowledge that the United States plays a big role in the global arms trade, the numbers are still quite astounding. Of the top ten companies by sales, firms based in the U.S. make up seven of them. Whether it is guns, tanks, jets, missiles, or ships that are on your shopping list, there is a supplier for any weapon your country desires.
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The Kids the World Forgot
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – I spent much of yesterday with some kids the world forgot. Young, remarkably sturdy and resilient, they can often be naïve and almost willfully gullible. They inhabit a world that delights in tripping them up and watching them fall. They are Kabul’s Street Kids.
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Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
Definition of an “iatrogenic” disorder: A disorder inadvertently induced by a health caregiver because of a surgical, medical, drug or vaccine treatment or by a diagnostic procedure.
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Time to Call out US Militarism for What It Is: The Key Threat to America’s Security
Dave Lindorff | This Can't Be Happening! – Nation of Change,
15 Jan 2018
The evidence clearly shows that national security is far better achieved by intelligent diplomacy than by war.
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Hawaiian Islands: 125 Years of U.S. Occupation
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
On January 17, 1893 a coup d’état was carried out against Queen Lili’uokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom by foreign resident business interests with the assistance of U.S. Marines from the USS Boston. An illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i has continued ever since.
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Joanna Santa Barbara TRANSCEND Address
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
TRANSCEND International members address present and future members.
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China Leading on World’s Clean Energy Investment, Says Report
Jocelyn Timperley | Carbon Brief – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
China is by far the largest force in global clean energy development and its firms are increasingly looking abroad for opportunities, a new report says.
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Proper Exercise Can Reverse Damage from Heart Aging
UT Southwestern Medical Center | EurekAlert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
8 Jan 2018 – Exercise can reverse damage to sedentary, aging hearts and help prevent risk of future heart failure – if it’s enough exercise, and if it’s begun in time, according to a new study by cardiologists at UT Southwestern and Texas Health Resources.
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Israel Bans Entry to 25 Organizations Connected with the BDS Movement
Rebecca Vilkomerson | Jewish Voice for Peace - The Dawn News,
15 Jan 2018
On Sunday January 8, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs released a list of 20 international organizations whose members will be prohibited from entering the country because of their support of the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions Movement -BDS- against Israel.
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Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young (Part 1)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
26 Dec 2017 – Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.
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Golden Globes Confusing Cleavage, Hype and Hypocrisy
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Produced on the occasion of media red carpet coverage of Golden Globes 2018 in anticipation of the Oscars 2018. Missing from the feminist declarations and media coverage is any sense whatsoever that there are other forms of “harassment” which may or may not involve women. By framing harassment as being exclusively male-on-female …
→ read full articleStudent Debt Slavery: Time to Level the Playing Field (Part 2)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
5 Jan 2018 – The lending business is heavily stacked against student borrowers. Bigger players can borrow for almost nothing, and if their investments don’t work out, they can put their corporate shells through bankruptcy and walk away. Not so with students.
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(Português) Por que você ainda usa produtos testados em animais?
Ellen Augusta Valer de Freitas | Desobediência Vegana - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
15 Jan 2018
Os efeitos da publicidade sobre nossas escolhas são perceptíveis, mas nem sempre são óbvios. Não é somente no ato da aquisição que estamos sucumbindo à influência da mídia, mas muitas vezes junto com o produto compramos ideias, atitudes e não raro há quem defenda-as como parte de sua própria identidade.
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Let the Two-State Solution Die a Natural Death
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
7 Jan 2018 – The proper priority for genuine advocates of peace between Israelis and Palestinians should be centered around apartheid rather than be devoted to reviving an Oslo style ‘peace process’ (always a sham) or proclaiming the goal of an independent and sovereign Palestine as attainable without first dismantling the apartheid structures that subjugate the Palestinian people as a whole so as to maintain the Zionist insistence on Israel as the state of the Jewish people.
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(Português) Pitágoras, o primeiro filósofo grego a reprovar o consumo de carne e a matança de animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
“Enquanto o ser humano for implacável com as criaturas vivas, ele nunca conhecerá a saúde e a paz. Enquanto os homens continuarem massacrando animais, eles também permanecerão matando uns aos outros. Na verdade, quem semeia assassinato e dor não pode colher alegria e amor.” — Pitágoras
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MLK: The Year of “Nonviolence or Non-Existence”
Rev. John Dear | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
It was early 1968. Since the previous spring Martin Luther King, Jr. had been pursuing a course that for many was unthinkable. He had deliberately connected the dots between the movement for civil rights and the struggle to end the war in Vietnam, and had paid the price.
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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality. Accordingly, some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow.
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Death at the Gate in Afghanistan
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
Kabul, January 2017 – The insurgents whose only weapon is violence are clearly gaining sway here, but the Afghan Peace Volunteers are adamant in their knowledge that violence solves nothing. They struggle daily to practice and teach nonviolence, which their charter maintains “is a [personal] value and a way of living, relating, and acting,” a positive force for change in our own lives and in the life of our planet.
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Yesterday’s ‘Shithole Countries’ Can Become Classy Places, Donald, and Vice Versa
Dave Lindorff | This Can’t Be Happening! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – The Shit’s Everywhere – Donald Trump referred to countries of Africa and the long-suffering island of Haiti as “shitholes.” The truth is that yesterday’s “shithole countries” often become today’s modern success stories. Norway is a case in point.
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Washington Prepares to Deploy “Usable” Nuclear Weapons
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – The US President’s State of the Union address later this month will introduce a significant break with past policy in proposing the development of a new class of low-yield, “usable” nuclear weapons.
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Ecuador Gives Assange Citizenship, Seeks End to Embassy Stay
Alexandra Valencia and Mark Hosenball | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
11 Jan 2018 – Ecuador has given citizenship to Julian Assange as part of its efforts to allow the WikiLeaks founder to leave the country’s London embassy where he has been holed up for more than five years.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
13 Jan 2018 – NO, I don’t want to write about the affair of Ya’ir Netanyahu. I refuse adamantly. No force in the world will compel me to do so. Yet here I am, writing about Ya’ir, damn it. Can’t resist. And perhaps it is really more than a matter of gossip. Perhaps it is something that we cannot ignore… Tell me who your son is, and I’ll tell you who you are.
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‘Race Law’ Takes Jerusalem a Step Closer to Being a Jewish-Only City
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2018
3 Jan 2018 – The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and precluding any future peace settlement based on sharing the city between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
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Beyond Fire and Fury: Trump as American as Apple Pie?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Maybe Time to Appreciate the Dish – Produced on the occasion of the response to the critical commentary of Michael Wolff (Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, 2018; Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President, New York Magazine, 3 January 2018)
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Help Secure a New Prize for Nobel Peace in 2018!!!
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Deadline for Nobel Nominations for 2018: BY JAN 31 – Our efforts to make the peace prize serve the visionary peace idea of Alfred Nobel continue.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
6 Jan 2018 – I AM angry with the Mizrahi elite. Very angry indeed. Mizrah is the Hebrew word for East. Eastern Jews are those who lived for many centuries in the Islamic world. Western Jews are those who lived in Christian Europe.
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The Culture of War Is Hiding in Plain Sight: It Is the State
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
The state devotes its resources and is more or less controlled, overtly or covertly, by the military throughout the world. This is not new but has been true throughout history. If peace is to be obtained, it cannot be based on the state. Can the state be replaced? Yes!
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Endings and Beginnings: A Commentary on 2017 to 2018
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
1 Jan 2018 – The bad news is that the world crisis worsened during 2017, largely due to the inept and anachronistic orientation exhibited by the Trump presidency. His influence was an immense distraction from facing challenges that required urgent and creative national and global attention, including climate change, biodiversity, global migration, Middle East turmoil, nuclearism, and scandalous levels of income and wealth inequalities.
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Duke University Bamboozled by a Sociopathic Corporate Mining Giant’s Gift of Money to Help It Exploit the Indigenous People of Peru
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
3 Jan 2017 – Below are two articles that nicely illustrate the cunning methods that ALL multinational mining, exploration, drilling, energy extractive or oil transporting corporations use to try to sanitize what in reality are greedy designs to enrich corporate stakeholders by raping, stealing, exploiting and permanently polluting the land, water and air that really has always belonged to the indigenous people and who simply want to protect what has always been theirs.
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Meet Antonio C. S. Rosa: Pioneer in Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
“TMS HAS INTEGRITY”: Meet the man behind TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS
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Putin Foresaw Death of US Global Power
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Like a good wine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s famous speech delivered in Munich 10 years ago regarding global security has been rewarded with time. A decade on, the many facets contained in that address have only become all the more enhanced and tangible.
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Welcome to Kabul
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
31 Dec 2017 – It is a dream come true being back among friends in Kabul! Streams of dented Toyotas (They are all Toyotas!) with windscreens cracked like bolts of lightning still jockey for position on roads where traffic lights and common sense hold little sway.
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Concentration Camps for African Migrants Blocked from Entering Europe Are Popping Up Across Libya
Vijay Prashad | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
“The Europeans want to move their southern border from the northern edge of the Mediterranean Sea to the southern rim of the Sahara Desert.”
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China’s Ban on Elephant Ivory Sales Goes into Effect Sun Dec 31
Karen Graham | Digital Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
China, the world’s largest importer and end user of elephant tusks, has banned the sale of ivory with the law taking effect on 31 Dec 2017. The ivory trade is responsible for the deaths of nearly 30,000 elephants every year in Africa.
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Trump “Defends” the Right to Protest in Iran, Criminalizes Protest in Washington
E.P. Milligan | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
8 Jan 2018 – Trump’s self-righteous claims to defend the right to protest in Iran are sheer hypocrisy. The first act of his administration was a police crackdown against people who protested his inauguration day. Police deployed weapons on at least 191 occasions, fired 74 sting ball grenades, a total of 230 people were arrested. The first round of trials collapsed late last year, with the jury acquitting all of the defendants. One hundred and eighty-eight defendants still await trial, many facing up to 50 years in prison.
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(Português) Retrospectiva 2017 – Será que o ano foi bom para os animais?
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
31 dez 2017 – Será que 2017 foi bom para os animais? Matamos mais de 56 bilhões de animais terrestres em 2017, contabilizando apenas os animais executados em matadouros; e mais de um trilhão de animais marinhos, ou seja, sem contar os animais de água doce.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! To All Our Readers, Friends, Supporters
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
On behalf of Prof. Johan Galtung and all of us at TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, I express the sincere desire that 2018 be much better than 2017 to all of you—it will not be that difficult insofar the World is concerned. Thank you for your support, …
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Stepping Stones to Change in Afghanistan
Carolyn Coe | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Amrullah has studied nonviolence at the Street Kids School, in Kabul, Afghanistan, for almost three years. The school, with 94 students this year, is a project of the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APVs) at the Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre. There, the students also gain literacy and math skills, supplementing their lessons at the government schools.
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(Français) Tuer la biosphère pour accélérer l’extinction humaine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Prepare for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Il y a plusieurs années au Cameroun, un pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, un rhinocéros noir occidental a été tué. C’était le dernier de son genre sur Terre.
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The Evolution of the Refugee Crisis
Erik Berglöf | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
The 2015 refugee crisis is still a raw issue for millions of Europeans, and continues to serve as fodder for populist and nationalist movements. But, in reality, the situation has started to improve dramatically in many host countries, and it is now incumbent on European leaders to ensure that the trend continues.
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An Appeal to the TRANSCEND Membership by TMS Editor Antonio C. S. Rosa
Sebastian Eck, Antonio C. S. Rosa | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
“Dear colleagues, dear friends, dear TRANSCEND members, let’s grow younger. Let us bring together competent young people from across the world for Nonviolence, Mediation, and Peace Journalism.”
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Trapped
Thomas Lamadieu | Roots Art – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Lamadieu takes photos of buildings then uses the sky as his canvas.
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(Português) Mastite e a Exploração de Vacas
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
27 dez 2017 – Você percebe mais uma vez como estamos imersos em uma cultura especista, que encara os animais não humanos como nada mais do que produtos, quando cientistas ligados à saúde animal apontam como principal prejuízo da mastite, uma grave inflamação das glândulas mamárias, a queda na produção de leite da vaca.
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How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda
Lauren Etter, Vernon Silver and Sarah Frier |Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
21 Dec 2017 – Zuckerberg’s social network is a politically agnostic tool for its more than 2 billion users, he has said. What he hasn’t said is that his company actively works with political parties and leaders including those who use the platform to stifle opposition with the aid of “troll armies” that spread misinformation and extremist ideologies.
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Religion – A Source of Conflict or the Path to Peace? Its Role in Preventing Violence
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
A constant and widespread communication process on religious reflection, inclusion and participation should prevail as a showpiece for conflict prevention, resolution and resilience. Doing good and promoting peaceful behaviour is not enough. Extensive inclusive participation and communication on the subject matter must be undertaken in order to provide a counter-weight to toxic conversations, the spreading of violence and extremism.
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Stress Test: Democracy Confronts Climate Change
Gus Speth | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
29 Dec 2017 – Can American democracy rise to the climate occasion? Unprecedented measures must be put in place both to move completely out of fossil fuels by mid-century and also to pursue far-reaching and costly adaptation.
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Trump, the UN, and the Future of Jerusalem
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
31 Dec 2017 – The wider implications of the UN reaction to Trump’s Dec 6 decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and to follow this by relocating the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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Nativity: Rev Kevin Annett, the United Church of Canada, and the “Little Matter of Genocide”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
25 Dec 2017 – The “little matter of genocide”, about which the United States of America shares considerable guilt, is the century-long history of abuse, rape and murder of tens of thousands of Canada’s aboriginal children in church-run Indian residential schools (known as mission schools in the US), a subject on which Kevin is an acknowledged world expert.
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Reconciling Symbols of Islam, Judaism and Christianity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
31 Dec 2017 – Catalytic Methodology for Effective Interfaith Dialogue – Importance of the highest degree is attached by their respective believers to the symbols of the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths. Their mutual hostility over millennia is focused by and through those symbols. They are displayed and brandished on ever possible occasion.
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US Nuclear Tests Killed Far More Civilians Than We Knew
Tim Fernholz | Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
21 Dec 2017 – When the US entered the nuclear age, it did so recklessly. New research suggests that the hidden cost of developing nuclear weapons were far larger than previous estimates, with radioactive fallout responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973.
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Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
Stan Shabaz | Zinda Magazine – Assyrian International News Agency,
1 Jan 2018
His most famous work, The Prophet, was first published in 1923. He has been described in many ways: “melancholic romantic”, “existentialist of the right wing”, Nietzschean rebel, revolutionary, renegade, poet-philosopher, “the William Blake of the twentieth century”, the “Lebanese prophet of New York”, a “burning genius”, etc. But who was he really?
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Runaway Train towards Full Digitization of Money and Labor
Peter Koenig | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
28 Dec 2017 – The other day I was in a shopping mall looking for an ATM to get some cash. There was no ATM. Cash machines gradually but ever so faster disappear, not only from shopping malls, also from street corners. This new cashless money model is progressively but brutally introduced to the Swiss and Europeans at large as they are not told what’s really happening behind the scene.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
30 Dec 2017 – Nobody described the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict better than the historian Isaac Deutscher. A man lives in a house that catches fire. To save his life, he jumps out of the window. He lands on a passer-by in the street below and injures him grievously. Between the two a bitter enmity arises. Who is to blame?
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(Português) Síndrome das Pernas Inquietas: Doença causa “alfinetadas” a noite inteira e não tem cura
Nuno de Noronha | SAPO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
27 Dez 2017 – A Síndrome das Pernas Inquietas é uma doença crónica e progressiva com impacto importante na qualidade de vida das pessoas. Alguns descrevem-na como uma espécie de “agonia nas pernas”, “comichão nos ossos” ou “alfinetadas”, explica o médico pneumologista Bruno Santos.
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How Pharma Uses the Charge of ‘Stigma’ to Sell Psychiatric Drugs
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
28 Dec 2017 – Do you overeat? Did your boyfriend just break up with you? Does no one return your emails? Do you fall asleep at night and wake up in the morning? If so, you may be suffering from mental illness! Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, says Pharma, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix.
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Alternative Dispute Resolution or Legalism? Conflict Transformation!
Theresa Sing | Galtung Institut — Transcend Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Under the umbrella term Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), discourses around mediation and other non-judicial approaches to conflict resolution have been constrained by a predominantly legal narrative ultimately founded on an ‘either-or’ dichotomy between status quos instead of allowing a third way resting on a ‘both-and’ approach.
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The Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on Mortality
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
When Christopher died of bovine tuberculosis in 1930 Alan fell to pieces. He was able to collect himself only through work, by burrowing so deep into the underbelly of mathematics that he emerged almost on the other side, where science and metaphysics meet. Sorrow had taken him on a crusade to make sense of reality. He wanted to understand how he could remain so attached to someone who no longer existed materially but who felt so overwhelmingly alive in his spirit.
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The “Merchants of Death” Survive and Prosper
Lawrence Wittner | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
In mid-1930s, an exposé of the international arms trade had a major impact. Convinced that military contractors were stirring up weapons sales and war for their own profit, many people grew critical of these “merchants of death.” Today, some eight decades later, their successors, now more politely called “defense contractors,” are alive and well.
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(Italiano) Lo stato dell’Impero nell’era del trumpismo
Diane Perlman | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
“Odio l’Impero USA, ma amo la Repubblica USA”. Sento da anni questo mantra da Johan Galtung, mio caro amico, mentore e collega. Con lo svolgersi degli avvenimenti, acquisisce nuovo significato.
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Galtung on Trauma, Drama: What Does North Korea Really Want?
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Prof. Johan Galtung, founder of Peace Studies, offers actionable nonviolent and dialogical solutions.
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Mediation Perspectives: Peace, Conflict and Mediation in Islam
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Religions promote peace and provide moral guidance and legal injunctions to restrict and moderate the use of violence. Followers of a religion can comply with these guidelines or transgress against them as such followers are neither angels nor devils. Instead, they are human beings with all the complex aspirations to peace and temptations to violence that the human condition entails. In that respect, Islam is no exception.
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Led by U.S. Weapons Makers, Global Arms Sales Soared in 2016: Analysis
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
With U.S. weapons companies claiming more than half of global sales, and despite five previous years of decline, arms producers around the world raked in $375 billion in profits.
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Syria Solidarity Movement Statement: US Coalition Out of Syria Now!
Paul Larudee | Syria Solidarity Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
22 Dec 2017 – Both great powers, Russia and the USA, recently claimed victory over the Islamic State (aka Daesh, ISIS, ISIL) in Syria, but only one did the right thing in response. President Putin of the Russian Federation flew to Syria to announce deep cuts to its troop and equipment commitments in Syria.
→ read full articleJerusalem as a Symbolic Singularity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
25 Dec 2017 – Comprehending the dynamics of hyperreality as a challenge to conventional two-state reality. Development of an argument presented previously. Later amendments to that text have been removed from there for presentation below — in the light of decisions by the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly.
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Pentagon Admits Presence of US Troops in Yemen as Cholera Cases Top One Million
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – The Pentagon admitted for the first time this week that it has “conducted multiple ground operations” in Yemen, the impoverished and war-ravaged country whose humanitarian crisis was underscored this week by the Red Cross: the number of cholera cases in Yemen had reached one million, making the ongoing epidemic by far the worst in recorded human history.
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Why Some People Resent “Do-Gooders”
Juliana Breines, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Doing well can be a double-edged sword.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame Is Not Papa Africa Saving Slaves
Ann Garrison and Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – African Union Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat praised Rwanda’s offer “to resettle up to 30,000 African migrants languishing in Libya.” The same story was reported across the Internet and newspapers in the US, Europe, and Africa. Rwandan President Paul Kagame is grandstanding as Papa Africa on the world stage, but nothing could be further from the truth or more preposterous than his proposal. Here are four reasons why.
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On Vaccines, Adjuvants and Autoimmunity
Christina England | Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Immunologists Survey the Research and It’s Not Reassuring – “Vaccines and autoimmunity are linked fields,” state the authors from the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases. Just as natural infections can sometimes induce autoimmune disease, so can vaccination induce autoimmunity that “may be severe and fatal.”
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Native Americans’ Capital City: Native Histories of Washington, D.C.
Jason Steinhauer | Library of US Congress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
As a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, historian Joseph Genetin-Pilawa is researching his forthcoming book The Indians’ Capital City: ‘Secret’ Native Histories of Washington, D.C. He sat down with Jason Steinhauer to discuss the facts, myths, and contradictions of Native presence in the nation’s capital.
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In 2017, the World Let another ‘Genocide’ Unfold
Ishaan Tharoor | The Washington Post – Chicago Tribune,
25 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 – The volume of utterly horrifying stories emerging from Myanmar can feel overwhelming. Since late August, more than 626,000 ethnic Rohingya have fled a systematic campaign of attacks by the Burmese military and local militias— the most rapid exodus of a community since the Rwandan genocide.
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“Friendship Party” for Countries That Supported US in UN Israel Vote
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
22 Dec 2017 – Though at first glance it sounds straight out of The Onion, Nikki Haley has formally invited the 64 countries who either voted ‘against’ or abstained (or just didn’t show up) for Thursday’s UN General Assembly vote on the Jerusalem resolution to a “friendship” party. Hours after Haley tweeted “We appreciate these countries for not falling to the irresponsible ways of the UN.”
→ read full articleCry, Beloved Country
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – Anyone proposing the death penalty is either a complete fool, an incorrigible cynic or mentally disturbed – or all of these. There is no effective therapy for any of these defects. I wouldn’t even try.
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Remembering the Christmas Truce of 1914: (And Questioning Christian Participation in Homicide)
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
How Soldiers with Newly Attuned Consciences Almost Stopped a War – “…and the ones who call the shots won’t be among the dead and lame; and on each end of the rifle we’re the same.” — John McCutcheon
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The Jerusalem Votes at the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – What discussions gloss over is the degree to which issues of substance prevailed over matters of geopolitical alignment. Not one of America’s closest allies (UK, France, Germany, and Japan) heeded the arguments of Haley and Trump. Every important country in the world backed the GA Resolution on Dec 21 regardless of geography or political orientation (China, Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran).
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2018, America’s New Corporate Tax Cuts, and Future of the World
Irwin Jerome | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
23 Dec 2017 – It doesn’t take a mystic to look into a crystal ball. As all the corks of the champagne bottles continue to pop for the prospects of what the new year holds for the ultra-rich .01% and the rest of us, what no doubt now will follow will be a rush amongst the world’s corporate/financial structure to either implement similar corporate tax cuts within their own countries or inspire a new “offshore rush” of the world’s corporate infrastructure to re-locate within the borders of the United States to stick their heads in the pig trough along with all the other greedy ones to partake in the financial feeding frenzy that will ensue.
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The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
→ read full articleJerusalem Is (Is Not) the Capital of Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
10 Dec 2017 – Donald Trump: “Israel is the only state in the world that is not allowed to locate its capital in a national city of its choice.” It seems like an innocent enough proclamation, and even accurate pushback against global double standards, until one considers the political, moral, and legal dimensions of the actual situation.
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Galtung on Trump’s USA: Demoralization, Destructuration, Deculturation
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Prof. Johan Galtung on the U.S. Empire’s Disintegration
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If You Don’t Own any Bitcoin, Read This
Adam Taggart | Peak Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017 – Wow. Just….wow. Bitcoin’s price has gone ‘beyond exponential’ this week. Just yesterday, as I started working on this article, it shot up 22% — from $14,000 to $17,000 (hitting an intraday high of over $19,000).
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Red Cross Says Life Has Stopped in Myanmar’s Rakhine
Stephanie Nebehay | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 – Life has stopped in its tracks in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state where an estimated 180,000 Rohingya remain, the International Committee of the Red Cross said today. “You get a sense of the two main communities being deeply scared of each other. What surprised me is the fact that not only the Muslim communities are scared, but that the others are actually scared as well.”
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