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Kellen Squire was a blue collar disillusioned Republican and a new Dad. Chris Blask had just sold a cyber-security company and was similarly impressed with what Obama had to say. The Hillary Clinton/ Obama wars is where Kellen and Christopher first came into contact with each other… Podcast – 53 minutes.
(Jerusalem) – Senior Israeli officials who unlawfully called for use of live ammunition against Palestinian demonstrations who posed no imminent threat to life bear responsibility for the killings of 14 demonstrators in Gaza and the injuring of hundreds on March 30, 2018, Human Rights Watch on 3 April 2018 said.
2 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service
Johan Galtung
As usual, many truths emerge, very much worth knowing.
Thus, Paul Street “Notes on Terminology” (CounterPunch 13 Mar 2018) demands frank, not sanitized use of words: climate crisis, not “change” (like opioid crisis, not change); corporate-capitalist-state media, not “mainstream media”, reminiscent of us calling Pravda and Izvestia Soviet-state media.
A key difference: they acknowledged official censors; US media pretend to be free (meaning self-censored?).
School “massacres” not “shootings”. Oil “Spill” understates, how about Oil Spew–? “US War in Vietnam” was “US war in Southeast Asia,” not only in one country.
1776 against London was not an “American Revolution” but a “Counter-Revolution” against slave liberation and indigenous power in their own lands.
Photo from WFP
2 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — Giant corporations are raking in record profits, while millions of Americans remain scarred by the Great Recession and a recovery that has left them behind.
Mammoth defense contractors push for more of everything military, while programs for the poor are on life support.
Global polluters are blocking effective responses to climate change, while the disenfranchised suffer disproportionately from environmental disasters and devastation.
Influential voices ridicule those who are disadvantaged by prejudice, by discrimination, and by dwindling resources.
All the while, our middle class is shrinking, imperiled, and insecure. This is not the America most of us want.
Kate, Maddie, Mimi and Ella’s story is part of the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) series: “i am a migrant“.* Their country of origin is the United States and Congo and they currently lives in Cambodia – 14,418 kms from home.
Kate, Maddie, Mimi and Ella. Photo IOM
2 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service – If being born is the beginning of life, ageing or becoming old is metaphorically speaking, walking into the sunset of life. This sunset, unlike the phenomenon of the sun setting at dusk is not a beautiful sight but an occasion for anxiety and worry as to what will happen at the time of death.
So, most people around the world would like to live as long as they can and to postpone death. This is not unusual. Biologically all living beings – human, animal, bird, have this inbuilt nature or feeling of protecting life.
Due to this innate nature, human beings have the urge to postpone if not altogether defeat death. This is so except in the case of a small section of people who commit suicide or take the decision of voluntarily giving up life in a dignified manner.
2 Apr 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service – We may soon be witnessing those powerful politicians fizzling out. Trump is seen as “unleveled”, “incompetent”; Netanyahu is framed as “corrupt”; and Rajoy for pillaging the state to support his party. However, true or not, the real reasons are their failed policies.
Johan Galtung
Trump is used by the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, AIPAC, to define Israel’s Arab-Persian enemies as US enemies, and by others to turn him from deep friend to shallow foe of Russia. Risky.
Netanyahu’s Genesis 15:18 Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates is deemed indefensible with too vulnerable supply lines by Mossad-IDF. They “handle” Gaza in their belligerent way, but not 15:18. Risky.
Rajoy did not manage Catalunya: much violence, little negotiation with City No. 2, Barcelona, culturally superior to Madrid. He has been long in power; people get tired of him, but tends to hang on. Risky.
That raises the question of their likely successors.
A 52-year conflict that left 220,000 dead and uprooted the lives of over eight million people in Colombia came to an end in July 2017. FAO is helping Colombia to implement the brokered peace by providing assistance in the areas of land rights and rural development. ©Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos for FAO
“The anniversary of my brother’s death is on the 26 of July. He was killed 27 years ago,” says Robinson Salas. Robinson is one of the millions of people who had been displaced from their homes and their lands by the armed conflict between the Government of Colombia and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebel group.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 