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The Accelerating Destruction of Earth’s Biodiversity: When Will We Act?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
As those individuals aware of it will have observed, presumably with deep regret, the latest ‘International Day for Biological Diversity’ passed on 22 May with the bulk of the human population continuing to act in ways that destroy Earth’s biosphere at an ever-accelerating rate. We are on the cliff-edge of extinction. What will you do?
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Conversation at the Crossroads
Joseph Camilleri talks with Richard Falk and Stuart Rees – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Conversation at the Crossroads have chosen two inspiring books and their celebrated authors for an international event on Tuesday 8 June:
>Public Intellectual-The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim by Richard Falk
>Cruelty or Humanity by Stuart Rees
Palestine/Israel Coverage Presents False Equivalency Between Occupied and Occupier
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
18 May 2021 – Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality.
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Hamas’s Negotiating Demands Seem Reasonable
Marc Ash | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 May 2021 – “That Israeli forces and police agree to never again enter the al-Aqsa mosque, as they did earlier this month, and that Palestinians living in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalem not be evicted by Jewish settlers from homes their families have lived in since the 1950s.”
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(Castellano) Marbella, sede global del crimen organizado
Nacho Carretero y Arturo Lezcano | El País – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
25 abr 2021 – Criptomonedas y Kalashnikovs. Drogas, lujo y ajustes de cuentas. Un centenar de grupos criminales conviven en la Costa del Sol entre una violencia cada vez más salvaje. Todos coinciden: “Aquí es donde hay que estar”.
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‘A United Nations of Crime in Spain’: How Marbella Became a Magnet for Gangsters
Nacho Carretero and Arturo Lezcano | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – The new international crime organisations have made Marbella their centre of operations. And as violence rises, the police lag far behind.
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‘What We’ve Seen in Sheikh Jarrah Is a Microcosm of What We’ve Experienced for the Last 70+ Years’
Janine Jackson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Interview with US Campaign for Palestinian Rights’ Ahmad Abuznaid about Israel/Palestine apartheid for CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Second Stage Terror Wars
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 May 2021 – If you wistfully think the corona crisis will soon come to an end, I suggest you alter your perspective. We are in the second phase of a long war of terror waged with two weapons – military and medical – whose propaganda messaging is carried out by the corporate mainstream media in the pursuit of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset. Part one has so far lasted twenty years; part two may last longer. You can be certain it won’t end soon and that the new terrorists are domestic dissidents.
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‘Government Money That’s Gone into Vaccine Development Is Being Privatized by a Handful of Companies’
Janine Jackson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Interview with Knowledge Ecology International’s James Love about Bill Gates and vaccine politics for CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Open Letter to Superstar Rapper J. Cole about Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – I hope you won’t be lending all your brain power, star power, and talent to a public relations coup for the President of Rwanda and his brutal, totalitarian regime. The top headlines, four days away from the Africa League’s debut, are all about you.
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There Are Options beyond Savage Capitalism
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Savage capitalism has surpassed the limits of its own sustainability. Important changes are to come. Options are multiple and diverse, including reformed capitalisms and other global and country projects. Despite current junctures, which certainly need attention, it is indispensable to envision the desired future. Let us hope we will not fear to advance towards encouraging courses; they bring sense and meaning to life.
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Palestinian Refugees Deserve to Return Home. Jews Should Understand.
Peter Beinart | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Why has the impending eviction of six Palestinian families in East Jerusalem drawn Israelis and Palestinians into a conflict that appears to be spiraling toward yet another war? Because of a word that in the American Jewish community remains largely taboo: the Nakba.
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Life After an Eating Disorder
Hannah Partos | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 May 2021 – As psychiatrists suggest a surge of eating disorders could be on the horizon, prompted partly by the pandemic, Cara Lisette reflects on what has helped her through her experience.
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How Chileans Went from Jumping Subway Turnstiles to Rewriting the Constitution {Video}
Jordan Flaherty | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – While most Chileans want deep systemic change, the vote to create a new constitution is a historic moment in the struggle to undo the legacy of Pinochet’s dictatorship.
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Open Letter to Jordi Calvo & Quique Sánchez and the GCOMS Coordination Team
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Weapons, missiles, explosives, military vehicles (tanks, Apache helicopters, air fighters, warships) and armed forces exist exclusively for staging wars, which kill, destroy and devastate the planet and humanity. We must get rid of this unnecessary and immoral practice. Reducing it is not enough.
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Dan Ellsberg Blows the Whistle Again at Conference to Commemorate His Legacy
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
7 May 2021 – Dan Ellsberg, the legendary whistleblower who has been arrested more than 75 times for protesting the U.S. warfare state, has not mellowed with age. The 90-year-old Pentagon Papers leaker details top secret plans in 1958 to destroy Taiwan and warns that similar discussions are going on in the Pentagon today.
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Declaration for the Transition to a Culture of Peace in the XXI Century
David Adams, Federico M. Zaragoza and Roberto E. M. Caballero | Transition to a Culture of Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
1 May 2021 – We will be circulating the Declaration as widely as possible for signatures and dissemination, and a website is in preparation for this. Below is the short English version.
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Killing Democracy Once and for All: The Global Elite’s Coup d’état That Is Destroying Life as We Know It
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
1 May 2021- Whatever victories have apparently been achieved in the long struggle to achieve political representation, human rights, dignity, economic justice, cultural and gender identity, ecological sustainability and other causes dear to the hearts of those who have struggled, the elite (local, national or global) has always retained control and merely surrendered the minimum necessary to keep the bulk of the human population submissive.
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About Vedic Prophecies
Bhaktitirtha Swami - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
Several years ago I got a very desperate call from one of the directors of the NBC Television Network program on “Prophecies.” They requested information on our Vedic tradition for their program. They were particularly interested in millennium prophecies. I explained to the director the difference between assorted types of psychics and clairvoyance in contrast to one who is connected with a transcendental heritage.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Den globale elitens statskupp
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
15. Mars 2021 – Over hele verden forsøker internasjonale organisasjoner som Verdens helseorganisasjon (WHO), regjeringer og private medier, som opptrer som agenter for den globale eliten, å innføre tiltak for verdens befolkning mot det ikke-eksisterende viruset kalt SARS-CoV-2.
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Between Us
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
26 Apr 2021 – He was sick of people, especially those he saw in masks because of their obsessive fear of death… He said to Billy Bush, “Thank you, it took me a while, but between us, that sure explains the masked desperadoes running in packs. But I won’t tell them, for as you told me long ago, they prefer their illusions.”
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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend.”
Albert Camus, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second youngest recipient in history. Camus was born in Algeria to French Pieds Noirs parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighborhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel.
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Our Own Wisdom Is Telling Us to Evolve
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – Let’s use up the planet and bless the future with its corpse. Those words could well be the core slogan of mainstream politicians and their media cohorts, with the purpose of the election process (you know, democracy) being, simply, to choose the specific ways in which we continue exploiting the planet and ignoring the consequences.
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The Doomsday Glacier Lives up to Its Billing
Robert Hunziker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
20 Apr 2021 – The 21st century serves as an inflection point of acceleration of climate instability caused by human-generated greenhouse gases, as CO2 emissions increase well beyond the rate of the prior century.
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Biden Is Not Ending the Afghanistan War, He Is Privatizing It
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – Special Forces, Pentagon Contractors and Intelligence Operatives Will Remain – The meaninglessness of the announcement becomes apparent when we consider that the Pentagon employs more than seven contractors for every serviceman or woman in Afghanistan.
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Colombia: An Ideal U.S. Client-State in the Western Hemisphere
Angelo Cardona | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
16 Apr 2021 – Colombia has been living with one of the longest armed conflicts in the world. A peace agreement to end the more than 50-year-old armed civil war was signed in Havana, Cuba, in 2016. Despite this historic event, violence continues in the country relentlessly. Washington has long helped fuel the devastating conflict that goes back to the era of La Violencia in World War II.
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The Man They Call Tiger: The Diplomat Who Stood up to America’s Bullies Becomes China’s New and Unlikely Hero
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021 – Yang Jiechi’s outburst against the US at a high-level meeting in Alaska last month has been widely praised and elevated the career bureaucrat to the status of national deity.
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Cold War on Trial: Truth Commission Details Horrible Crimes Akin to Native American Genocide and Slavery
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – With a new Cold War heating up between the U.S. and Russia and China, Witness for Peace Southwest, Addicted to War and CodePink organized a Truth Commission on the original Cold War on March 21st, which brought together the testimony of historians, activists and others who lived through the period.
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Rwanda and Zaire (DRC) 1990 to 1997, Where the US Blocked Real Humanitarian Intervention
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – The cases of Bosnia and Rwanda are the most often cited in arguments for humanitarian war, Bosnia as a case in which the US and NATO intervened, Rwanda as a case in which they did not, but the truth of both histories is disputed.
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The U.S. Can’t Control the World
Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – China’s Belt and Road Initiative involves countries on every continent and provides opportunity where the western nations offer only debt and subjugation… Any nation that threatens U.S. economic supremacy faces an onslaught of corporate media attacks… China committed itself to buying Iranian oil, an agreement which diminishes the impact of U.S. sanctions… China and Russia supply Venezuela with medical equipment that would otherwise be impossible to obtain under U.S. sanctions.
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How Spain Connected the Far East and the Far West: The Beginning of a New Era
Cristina Cabrejas-Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Magellan and Elcano’s nautical expedition was an extraordinary leap for humankind. Almost two years of a long-haul sail across the unknown oceans changed the history of navigation and, most importantly, it unlocked a whole new world connecting people from the Moluccas in the Far East, across the New World in the Americas with old continent in Western Europe.
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Hans Küng, Catholic Theologian Critical of the Church, Dies at 93
Douglas Martin | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Hans Küng, a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and priest whose brilliantly disputatious, lucidly expressed thoughts in more than 50 books and countless speeches advanced ecumenism and provoked the Vatican to censure him, died on 6 Apr 2021 in Germany. He was 93.
→ read full articleTrapped at the Border: Their Fate Is Our Fate
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – You’d think that the “border crisis” begins and ends as a problem for the USA… Something else becomes possible when we begin to realize that unless we change the world, their fate is our fate.
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Americans Wake Up! Outlaw Technocrats Are Stealing Our Democracy
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – The pandemic is being used to shift wealth upwards, abolish civil rights and destroy democracy. Government technocrats, billionaire oligarchs, Big Pharma, Big Data, Big Media, the high-finance robber barons and the military industrial intelligence apparatus love pandemics for the same reasons they love wars and terrorist attacks. Catastrophic crises create opportunities of convenience to increase both power and wealth.
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On Anniversary of MLK’s Death, His Words Are ‘More Relevant’ than Ever, His Son Says
Erik Ortiz | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Five decades later, his family says in a new video, he can help “guide humanity in the right direction.”
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The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 – Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the United States’ celebrated civil rights icon. Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For more than fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government disinformation to hide the truth.
→ read full articleEnding the Endless War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – The refusal — the inability? — of most leaders at the national level to approach humanity’s biggest problems holistically, rather than simply blame them on “the other,” says to me it’s time to begin loosening the certainty that borders are real, that nation states are real. “We’ve defeated freedom’s enemies before, and we will defeat them again.” How could any sane human being imagine that actions built on this kind of thinking could solve, or heal, a complex issue?
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Myanmar Military a ‘Terrorist Group’ That Should Face International Court, Advisory Council Says
Ben Doherty | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
29 Mar 2021 – The Myanmar military is a “terrorist group” that should be brought before the ICC and imposed a global sanctions regime, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar says. The council has called for a “three cuts” strategy to combat the Tatmadaw, as the military is known. First, the ICC. Second, an arms embargo. And third, financial sanctions against military officials and military-owned companies.
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Need a Quote from an Official Enemy Denouncing Democracy? Do like the New York Times and Make It Up
Jim Naureckas | FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
You know you’re in for a hard sell when the New York Times (29 Mar 2021) publishes an article under the headline “An Alliance of Autocracies? China Wants to Lead a New World Order.”
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“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
—”Letter From Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963 — Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American, Baptist minister, and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 in the USA.
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther King, Jr - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American, Baptist minister, and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 in the USA.
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An Illustrated Glossary of Political Violence
Emily Hencken Ritter and Christian Davenport | Political Violence at a Glance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
We provide some definitions of various types of political violence; how political conflict and violence scholars define these terms; also visualizations, which help communicate what words can never capture alone. We list and define tactics, a “repertoire” or “menu” items.
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Institutionalized Greed: Shareholders and Large Investment Funds
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – Behind large corporations, other actors appear that help sustain the concentrating dynamic. They are shareholders and investment funds that, with diverse complicities, seek maximum profits without considering that their decisions affect the entire humanity and the planet. Greed eagerness goes hand in hand with the permanent attempt to cover up the damages it produces.
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Dirty Business as Usual: New CIA Director Burns Confirmed by Unanimous Vote in Senate
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – William J. Burns became the first former diplomat to become CIA director. As a diplomat, he supported U.S. military interventions in Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria and is now stoking the coals against Russia and China.
→ read full articleUrgent Message to ALL Peace Activists
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Rusi – Land Warfare Conference 2021 – In the wake of the UK’s Integrated Review, the conference will provide a forum for the British Army and its allies to discuss how they can integrate their efforts as they modernise their forces for a new era of great power competition.
→ read full articleMedia Pseudo-Debates and the Silence of Leftist Critics
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
19 Mar 2021 – The Incompetent, Negligent, Mishandling, Miscalculating Elite Blunderers – You’ve heard of them, no doubt, the U.S. rulers who can’t rule too well and are always getting surprised by events or fed bad advice by their underlings. Their “mistakes” are always well intentioned. They stumble into wars through faulty intelligence…
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On 10th Anniversary of the U.S.-NATO Attack on Libya: Powerful Perpetrators Have Yet to Face Justice
Jeremy Kuzmarov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
19 Mar 2021 – In this day ten years ago, the Obama administration launched air strikes over Libya under NATO’s banner. Three powerful American women—Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice—pushed Obama into destroying the wealthiest, healthiest and happiest nation in Africa.
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Prof S. Jeyapragasam (1949-2018):There Is a Thread You Follow–Identity, Journey and Destiny
Paul Schwartzentruber – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Tribute to a Gandhian teacher, scholar and philosopher, Prof. S. Jeyapragasam (1949-2018). The elegantly written essay beautifully framed with the notion of our “irresolvable singularity of possibility” has both breadth and depth that takes us on our journey to discover our Universal. It’s a rare homage to an authentic Gandhian philosopher, teacher, scholar and activist.
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There Are Options beyond Savage Capitalism
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – Savage capitalism has surpassed the limits of its own sustainability. Important changes are to come. Options are multiple and diverse, including reformed capitalisms and other global and country projects. It is indispensable to envision the desired future. Let us hope we will not fear to advance towards encouraging courses; they bring sense and meaning to life.
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U.S. Military Turns Somalia into a Failed State for Shell and Exxon-Mobil to Steal Its Oil
Nick Alexandrov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
15 Mar 2021 – “U.S. foreign policy in Somalia has always sided with the wrong side.” That’s how a young Somali historian studying for his doctorate at Oxford summarized Washington’s legacy there. Petroleum industry analysts call Somalia “promising,” “one of the last truly unexplored oil frontiers.” Shell and ExxonMobil paid Mogadishu $1.7 million in 2019 for 30-year rights to offshore blocks.
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A Place the World Has Forgotten: Inside the Horror Show of Northern Uganda
Otim Tonny | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
17 Mar 2021 – The Lord’s Resistance Army began as an evolution of the ‘Holy Spirit Movement’—a rebellion against president Museveni’s oppression of northern Uganda, led by Alice Lakwena. When she was exiled, Joseph Kony took over, changing the name of the group to the Lord’s Resistance Army. As the group lost regional support, he quickly started a trend of self-preservation by stealing supplies and abducting children to fill his ranks.
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Brazil’s Lula Launches Comeback — as the Judge Who Locked Him Up Falls from Grace
Alexandre de Santi and Rafael Moro Martins | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
15 Mar 2021 – By ending Lula’s political ban and trying the ex-judge Sergio Moro for bias, the Supreme Court shook up Brazilian politics.
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UN Rebuke of US Sanctions on Venezuela Met with Stunning Media Silence
John McEvoy | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
10Mar 2021 – By omitting the devastating impact of sanctions, corporate media attribute sole responsibility for economic and humanitarian conditions to the Venezuelan government, thereby using the misery provoked by sanctions to validate the infliction of even more misery. US and European officials have long admitted that the sanctions regime against Venezuela is collective punishment by design.
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Fukushima Meltdowns Turn Ten, Still Getting Worse
William Boardman | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
9 Mar 2021 – Fukushima Daiichi’s multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns started ten years ago. They are not over. They are not even close to over. Nuclear disasters don’t ever end. The radioactive danger slowly decays over decades, during which it needs constant safety management. Fukushima continues to be a low-level nuclear disaster, as it has been for ten years.
→ read full articleDefeating the Global Elite’s Coup d’état: The Great Reset
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
The elite coup now rapidly gathers pace, at enormous cost to the human population and our prospects for survival.
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What’s Behind the Biden Administration’s New $100 Billion Nuclear Missile System?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
9 Mar 2021 – One of the more important tasks that the Biden administration will undertake this year will be to review the Pentagon’s nuclear weapons budget and modernization strategy. Massive popular pressure—like that organized by the 1980s nuclear freeze movement—is needed to stop more waste, fraud and abuse.
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The Sovietization of the American Press
Reporting by Matt Taibbi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
12 Mar 2021 – The transformation from phony “objectivity” to open one-party orthodoxy hasn’t been an improvement.
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Why Is Brazil Such a Basket Case?—The Role of U.S. Covert Action
Aidan O’Brien | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
6 Mar 2021 – Covid-19, murder, evangelical Christianity, crime, environmental destruction, drugs, shantytowns, inequality, corruption, doesn’t matter what you pick, Brazil is a world leader in them all—and more.
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NASA: Applause for Perseverance Ignores Plutonium Bullet We Dodged
Karl Grossman | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
25 Feb 2021 – With all the media hoopla last week about the Perseverance rover, frequently unreported was that its energy source is plutonium—considered the most lethal of all radioactive substances (half-life of 24,100 years)—and nowhere in media was the NASA projection that there were 1-in-960 odds of an accidental release of the plutonium on the mission.
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Why I Support an International Treaty to Ban Weaponized Drones and Drone Surveillance
Kathy Kelly | Covert Action Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
28 Feb 2021 – At a time in my life when I barely knew drones existed, a young Lebanese mother mourning the death of her six-year-old daughter, Zainab, helped me understand how monitoring by drones terrified her and her neighbors. It was the summer of 2006, during a war referred to as the Israeli-Hezbollah war.
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Kizito Mihigo and the Struggle for Rwandan Truth and Reconciliation
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
17 Feb 2021 – A year ago Rwandan gospel singer Kizito Mihigo tried to flee Rwanda by crossing into Burundi. He had already spent four years in prison for recording a song in which he dared to say that the Rwandan Genocide was a tragedy for both major ethnicities, Hutu and Tutsi “Police apprehended Kizito at the Burundian border and days later reported that he’d hung himself in jail.”
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US’ Attempts to Wall Itself Off from Terror Unleashed by Years of Its Brutal Intervention in Guatemala Are Cruel and Immoral
Daniel Kovalik | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
24 Feb 2021 – One thing Americans fail to understand is that wars and military interventions against other countries have profound effects that can last for many decades. The effects do not simply end with the signing of a peace treaty or the withdrawal of troops. There may be no better example of this than the case of US intervention in Guatemala beginning almost 70 years ago.
→ read full articleThe Pine-eyed Boy Escapes from the Belly of the Dark Night in the Fish’s Tale
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
24 Feb 2021 – We are now living in a world where freedom has been replaced by dim grim grimaces of widespread depression and resignation as the shroud of solicitous neofascism descends upon us. Human freedom is under widespread assault. Free speech is being attacked. Censorship is widespread and growing. Flesh and blood life is being sucked into a whirlpool of “a universe of disembodied data.”
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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
Martin Luther King, Jr | Nobel Peace Prize acceptance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for Civil Rights and Social Justice. King adhered to Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence. In 1955 he began his struggle to persuade the US Government to declare the policy of racial discrimination in the southern states unlawful. The racists responded with violence to the black people’s nonviolent initiatives. (The Norwegian Nobel Institute)
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US Bombs Syria & Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on “U.S. locations” in Iraq, another nation the U.S. invaded and is illegally occupying. It is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. The U.S. is always necessarily the aggressor.
→ read full articleRusesabagina’s Show Trial and Shooting Deaths of a Rwandan Dissident and an Italian Ambassador
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
24 Feb 2021 – Is there any limit to how far the West will go to cover for Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s Crimes? “With every war, kidnapping, and murder on foreign soil, Kagame’s critics ask if he’s finally gone too far, while the US is still Rwanda’s top bilateral donor.”
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Fossil Fuel Apologists Crafted Lies Now Heard on Fox, Blaming Wind Power for Texas Blackouts
Robert Mackey | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
17 Feb 2021 – Republicans failed to ensure that the Texas power grid could withstand a cold snap, so the party’s broadcast arm recycled lies about wind energy to deflect blame on to Democrats.
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‘We Have to Live till We Die’ Is the Covid-Era Inspiration We All Need
Slavoj Žižek feat. Rammstein | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – Is there a more sobering lesson than being humiliated and reduced to near-impotence by a virus, a primitive self-reproductive mechanism which some biologists don’t even count as a form of life? No wonder that calls for a new ethic of modesty and global solidarity abound. But is this the true lesson to be learned here? What if the problem with living in the shadow of a pandemic is exactly the opposite: not death but life, a strange life that drags on, allowing us neither to live in peace nor to quickly die?
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The Once-Proud New Yorker Soils Itself in Radioactive Offal
Harvey Wasserman | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
21 Feb 2021 – Graced by its signature brand of droll, sophisticated cartooning, the magazine’s exquisitely edited screeds have reliably delivered profound analyses of the world’s most pressing issues. But in a breathless, amateurish pursuit of atomic energy, the editorial staff has leapt into a sad sinkhole of radioactive mediocracy.
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Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – To denounce censorship, as they have done, is admirable. But now Greenwald, Taibbi, and Hedges need go up to the forbidden gate with the sign that says – “This far and no further” – and jump over it. That’s where the true stories lie. That’s when they’ll see the worms squirm.
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Ending Corporate Tyranny: Solutions to the Plague That Afflicts Us All
Michael Diamond | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
18 Feb 2021 – We are succumbing to an array of physical illnesses and mental declines on a planet that will soon be uninhabitable. This reign of destruction has been brought about by individuals and corporations that seek gain at the expense of our health. This must be stopped.
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Critics Must Be Silenced for Billionaires to Keep Profiting from Pandemic
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
16 Feb 2021 – By controlling the media, billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates can prolong a crisis indefinitely while they accumulate unprecedented wealth and power over humanity. The lockdown has netted Bezos $70 billion since its start. Bill Gates, meanwhile, has made $20 billion.
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How to Understand the [Postjournalism] Rage Economy
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – In “Postjournalism,” media ecologist Andrey Mir analyzes the way the ‘News Economy’ shapes our perceptions of reality.
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The Importance of The Hague Court
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021 – The International Criminal Court in The Hague has approved its jurisdiction to investigate Israelis and Hamas members on the suspicion of war crimes! Let’s hope that this decision will begin to provide protection to the defenseless populations living under the Israeli occupation, and that the Israeli army will cease from actions which undermine its status as a legitimate army.
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Israel Violates International Law Anew, Again Bombing Syria…To Further Indifference of Western Media
Eva Bartlett | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
16 Feb 2021 – Israeli missiles targeted Syria again yesterday. Usually under the pretense of “targeting Iranian/Iranian-backed militias,” Israel’s strikes violate Syria’s sovereignty and international law. Israel’s military chief of staff boasted about hitting over 500 targets in just 2020 alone. If Israel’s routine bombings of Syria are reported in Western media at all, it is with the usual downplaying of (and normalizing of) Israel’s violations of international law.
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“God does not play dice.”
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
“I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the universe.” It was addressed by Einstein to Max Born (one of the fathers of Quantum Mechanics) in a letter that he wrote to Born in 1926. The reason for the quote is to express how bizarre quantum mechanics is as a theory.
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States Have No Inherent ‘Right to Exist’—but It’s a Media Fixation on Israel/Palestine
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
12 Feb 2021 – No state has an intrinsic “right to exist.” As international relations scholar Scott Burchill points out, there is no abstract “right to exist” in international law, or in “any serious theory of international relations.” Nor is it customary, Burchill explains, for states or sub-state groups to recognize a state’s “right to exist.”
→ read full articleThe Invincible Green Stick of Happiness
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman poet Catullus once said, in the depth of a dark winter morning, I decided that I would take a walk in the afternoon, hoping that the sun would then appear, and it did, so I went walking toward the woods through deep white new-fallen snow all around me…
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Who Are the Ultimate War Profiteers? A U.S. Air Force Veteran Removes the Veil
Christian Sorensen | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
10 Feb 2021 – While war corporations, or so-called “defense contractors,” make billions in profits, Wall Street is the ultimate beneficiary of today’s nonstop wars. The prosaic nature of war profiteering—far from the work of a shadowy cabal—is precisely why the collusion is so destructive and should be outlawed.
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What If Oumuamua Is the Real Deal?
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – If Oumuamua is a real alien craft, then Earthlings are doing some really weird stuff on the scale of alien intelligence. Think about it… If it’s an alien craft or drone there’s no way it entered the sun’s solar system, swooping within 15M miles of Earth, powered by fossil fuels. It is the first known interstellar object in our solar system. It’s estimated to be between 330 and 3,280 feet long and between 115 and 548 feet wide and dark red in color, and it tumbles.
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To Defuse Political Violence across US, Conflict Mediators Apply Lessons from Gang Disputes and Foreign Elections
Joseph G. Bock, Marta Poblet and Per Aarvik | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – After a violent American election season, activists are trying to keep the peace using technologies and techniques more often applied in unstable democracies. Civilian peacekeepers are trying to stop violence before it starts.
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A Murderous System Is Being Created Before Our Very Eyes
Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture | Republik - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture – and extradition to the U.S., where he could face up to 175 years in prison for exposing war crimes. For the first time, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, speaks in detail about the explosive findings of his investigation into the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – Bill Gates has quietly made himself the largest owner of farmland in the United States. For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible. “Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” — Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case
→ read full articleNational vs. Human Security
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – The sea change — awareness — begins with the realization that security isn’t a linear, one-way process: Round up the bad guys, the troublemakers, the illegals, lock ’em up, get them out of our way and, voila, problem solved, security attained, the good Americans are safe. Trouble’s in a cage! The remarkable, bureaucratic ignorance of this policy transcends the racism that drives it.
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The mRNA COVID Vaccine Is Not a Vaccine
Makia Freeman | The Freedom Articles - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
NOT a Vaccine: the mRNA COVID VAX is a chemical pathogen production device and a technocratic, trans-humanistic tool to reprogram your DNA.
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Pentagon Goes Rooting for ‘Extremists’ among Its 3.6mn Trained Killers
Helen Buyniski | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – The US military is making a big show of cleansing its ranks of ‘extremism’ – because nothing says tolerance like raining fiery death on innocent strangers at the command of a guy who just stepped down from Raytheon’s board. With “domestic extremists” now officially the enemy du jour in Washington, the top order of business has become finding some.
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JFK, Allen Dulles, and Indonesia
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
2 Feb 2021 – Before I digress slightly, let me state from the outset that the book by Greg Poulgrain that I am about to review is extraordinary by any measure. The story he tells is one you will read nowhere else, especially in the way he links the assassination of President Kennedy to former CIA Director Allen Dulles and the engineering by the latter of one of the 20th century’s most terrible mass murders. It will make your hair stand on end and should be read by anyone who cares about historical truth.
→ read full articleCreeping Corporate Statism, aka Fascism
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Despite depending on separate news media that purvey different realities, the two corporate parties both serve a corporate dictatorship.
→ read full articleAjamu Baraka: We Are Entering a New Totalitarian Era
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
27 Jan 2021 – Ajamu Baraka warns of a new era of totalitarian neoliberalism. “Anybody who is in opposition to the hegemony of the neoliberal project is at some point over the next few years going to experience the heavy hand of the state.”
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Complex Life Threatened
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
22 Jan 2021 – Throughout the world, scientists are speaking out like never before. They’re talking about an emergency situation of the health of the planet threatening “complex life,” including, by default, human life. It’s scary stuff.
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US Backs Al-Qaeda in Yemen while Dubbing Its Houthi Enemies ‘Terrorists’
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
12 Jan 2021 – The US State Department designated Yemen’s Houthi movement — the most effective force in fighting al-Qaeda — as a “terrorist” organization. Meanwhile, Washington and Saudi Arabia have supported al-Qaeda.
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“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.
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Two Shocking Headlines That Sum Up Covid: Billionaires MADE $3.9 Trillion during the Pandemic, while Workers LOST $3.7 Trillion
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
30 Jan 2021 – The economic impact of Covid-19 on regular folk across the globe is as devastating as the physical toll it has taken, but we can’t just blame the super rich(er) for our woes – the true villains are much closer to home.
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The Psychology of Nuclear Disarmament: Only a Democratic Federal World Union Is Realistic
Roger Kotila | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
25 Jan 2021 – In international relations, multilateralism refers to an alliance of multiple countries pursuing a common goal. Unfortunately, history shows that agreements based upon treaties are eventually broken or ignored. Time and time again, particularly with the more powerful, treaties are discarded when seen as inconvenient.
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Nonviolence Workshops in Australia
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
With the intention of developing a strategic nonviolent response to the elite coup – aka the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ – nonviolent activists in Melbourne, Australia are conducting workshops to build on existing resistance taking place in that city and elsewhere around the world.
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Bamboo Tree as Renewable Energy Source
Ariel Bellamy | Earthava - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
Bamboo Tree: Renewable Energy Source and So Much More
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10 Things You Need to Know about the Experimental COVID Vaccines
Makia Freeman | The Freedom Articles - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – The COVID vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna are called mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccines – a completely new type of vaccine that has never been licensed or used on humans before. Traditional vaccines introduce pieces of a weakened virus to stimulate an immune response. mRNA vaccines inject molecules of synthetic genetic material from non-humans sources into your cells, thus hijacking your genes and permanently reprogramming them. These newly created proteins are not regulated by your DNA and are thus completely foreign to your body.
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Nuclear Weapons Are Finally Outlawed, Next Step Is Disarmament
Robert Mardini | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021 – More than 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world’s first multilateral agreement banning nuclear weapons finally enters into force today.
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(Italiano) La distruzione di biodiversità della Terra
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Ralph Waldo Emerson una volta predisse che «La fine della razza umana sarà che finirà per morire di civiltà». Se dobbiamo dimostrare che aveva torto, non ci resta molto tempo. Questo perché Homo Sapiens è una parte del tessuto della vita. E noi lo stiamo scelleratamente distruggendo quel tessuto.
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MLK’s Warning of America’s Spiritual Death
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
From the Archive: A half century ago, The New York Times accused Martin Luther King Jr. of “slander” for decrying the Vietnam War and The Washington Post detected “unsupported fantasies” in his speech, recalled more favorably by Gary G. Kohls–originally published on 19 Jan 2014; slightly edited for time element.
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