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Noam Chomsky Reveals How the Old-School ‘Propaganda Model’ Still Works to Manufacture Consent in the Information Age
Alex Henderson – AlterNet 20 Jun 2019 – Noam Chomsky, now 90, has witnessed many technological changes over the years. The leftist academic started his career in the days of 78s and black-and-white films, and he is still keeping busy in an era of digital communications,… »
Refugees Are Finding Their Own Solutions – But Are Taking Great Risks in the Process
By Dr Jeff Crisp | Refugee Law Initiative 19 Jun 2019 – Many of the world’s 25 million refugees are confronted with the prospect of a life in limbo. They are unable to go back to their own country because of continued persecution or violence there. They do not have the… »
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 Aug 1941): The Local and the Universal
By René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service “The darkness of egoism which will have to be destroyed is the egoism of the Nation. The ideal of India is against the intense consciousness of the separateness of one’s own people from others, which inevitably leads to ceaseless… »
NATO at 70: An unlawful organisation with serious psychological problems
By Jan Oberg he North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, celebrated its 70th Anniversary on April 4, 2019. Some of us don’t see anything worth celebrating about an incredibly expensive, dangerous and harmful alliance which should have been closed down exactly 30 years ago. Why 30 years ago? Because in… »
Cracks Found in Nuclear Reactor That Could Lead to the Full Evacuation of Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh Live – TRANSCEND Media Service The Hunterston B reactors in Ayrshire are the oldest in Europe, and dangerous cracks have been found. 8 Mar 2019 – Bottom of FormThe two reactors at Hunterston B nuclear power plant near Ardrossan are 43 years old – the… »
Jan 15: Martin Luther King (birth) day
Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech NOBEL LAUREATES, 28 Jan 2019 The Nobel Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service December 11, 1964 The Quest for Peace and Justice It is impossible to begin this lecture without again expressing… »
Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report 12 (April 2018)
By Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service Dear fellow signatories of the Nonviolence Charter, How are you all? And welcome to our most recent signatories and organizations! This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to… »
The Geopolitics of Targeting Russia
By Chandra Muzaffar, The escalation of tensions between the United States, Britain and France, on the one hand, and Russia, on the other, should not surprise anyone. In the last few years, the US leadership and mainstream British media have presented Russia as a major threat to global peace and… »
Nobel Women Peace Laureates Call for an End to Rohingya Genocide
As three Nobel peace laureates—Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland – conclude their visit to Bangladesh on the six-month anniversary of the current Rohingya crisis, the three women are calling for an immediate end to the “genocide” of the Rohingya people. This… »
Brexit and Its Discontents
By Jake Lynch, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”. Of the many people down the years who’ve delightedly come across this well-known aphorism by the anthropologist, Margaret Mead, the vast majority have surely read it… »
Film: The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons
2nd World March for Peace and Nonviolence
Milagro Sala
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
