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Battle of the Heavyweights
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
A pic is worth a thousand Twitters…
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Since I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Back
Barton Gellman | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Jun 2020 issue – “What time exactly does your clock say?” asked the voice on the telephone, the first words Edward Snowden ever spoke to me aloud. I glanced at my wrist—3:22 p.m. “Good. Meet me exactly at four. I’ll be wearing a backpack.” The rendezvous point Snowden selected on 5 Dec 2013 was a casino hotel called the Korston Club in Moscow. After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.
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How We Became Refugees: The Day My Grandfather Lost His Village in Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
15 May 2020 – Starting on March 27, 1948, a beautiful, small Palestinian village called Beit Daras, came under Zionist militias attacks. With little means – a few old rifles and kitchen knives – the Badrasawis fought back, repelling the first raid and the second. The final attack on the peaceful village followed a scorched-earth military strategy, leaving in its wake scores of dead and wounded, and the entirety of the village on the run. Among the thousands of ethnically-cleansed Palestinians in Beit Daras, a family of six, including an infant, salvaged a few old blankets and some supplies and went searching for a safe place, with the hope that they would return home in a few days. Their nearly one hundred descendants are yet to return to Beit Daras, 72 years later.
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Prostitution, the Sex Trade, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melissa Farley | Logos Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Spring 2020 – The pandemic reveals the exploitation and violence in all forms of prostitution, including sugar daddy/sugar baby prostitution, cell phone/escort prostitution, massage parlor prostitution, street prostitution, webcam prostitution (Moran & Farley, 2018; Farley, 2016). A San Francisco group mainstreaming prostitution as work admitted, “People who are doing street-based sex work may not be able to stop doing sex work to survive,”
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(Italiano) La Guerra [Non Santa] a Papa Francesco
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Qui raccolgo alcune osservazioni da varie persone attente, su questa vera e propria “guerra al papa”, condotta da determinate forze. L’accusa a Francesco di non essere vero cristiano e papa è falsa e malevola, perché – con la pazienza di non abbandonare nessuno, di stare in mezzo al gregge, di farsi anche condurre, di avere l’odore del gregge – egli procede davvero al fedele compimento graduale, per processi e non strappi, del vangelo di Gesù nel mondo di oggi.
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Studies on COVID-19 Lethality
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
20 May 2020 – In response to the very broad international interest in our work, SPR has been renamed into Swiss Policy Research. A new and comprehensive overview of Studies on Covid-19 lethality is now published, including a section on hospitalization rates. A new update on medical and political developments will follow shortly.
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“America Exists Today to Make War”
Lawrence Wilkerson | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
“America exists today to make war. How else do we interpret 19 straight years of war and no end in sight? It’s part of who we are. It’s part of what the American Empire is,” says Wilkerson. “We are going to cheat and steal to do whatever it is we have to do to continue this war complex. That’s the truth of it. And that’s the agony of it.” — Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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Despite the Danger of COVID-19, the US Military Continues War Practice in Europe and Pacific and Plans for More in 2021
Ann Wright | OpEd News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
19 May 2020 – During the COVID-19 pandemic, not only will the U.S. military have the largest maritime military maneuvers in the world, with Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) coming to the waters off Hawaii August 17-31, 2020 bringing 26 nations, 25,000 military personnel, up to 50 ships and submarines and hundreds of aircraft in midst of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, but the U.S. Army is having a 6,000-person war game in June 2020 in Poland.
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US Withdraws from Open Skies Treaty, Heightening Danger of War with Russia
Clara Weiss | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
22 May 2020 – The treaty, signed in 1992 after the dissolution of the USSR, has been in full force since 2002. It has been ratified by 34 states, including almost all NATO and EU members, Russia and most countries of the former Soviet Union. The US withdrawal from Open Skies, which will take effect within six months, comes amidst growing tensions with Russia.
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Better World Info: Extensive COVID-19 Resource
Dr Stute, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
I invite all TMS readers to visit our specialized online directory of the novel coronavirus pandemic. This is an outstanding medical resource updated daily by myself. Here you can find reliable information which will help you in your professional and day-to-day life.
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Mango Trees
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
A very old man was planting mango trees. Someone asked him,
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The Price of America’s Quest for an External Enemy
Morgan Godvin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
22 May 2020 The US spent so much fighting phantom enemies and creating the myth of good versus evil that it ignored the real threat.
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The Elite’s COVID-19 Coup: Fighting for Our Humanity, Our Liberty and Our Future
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
On 26 March 2020, the World Intellectual Property Organisation granted Microsoft a world patent. Titled ‘1. WO2020060606 – Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data’, this patent gives Microsoft (that is, Bill Gates) extraordinary power over our lives. It is dramatically changing the meaning of being human. Firstly, it is redefining us as ‘mines’ for data – robbing us of our autonomy, our sovereignty, and control over our bodies and minds.
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Racism & Bias at the Court of Arbitration for Sports: The Sun Yang Decision
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
20 May 2020 – Over the past 5 years, the sport’s “anti doping movement” has been distorted into a political tool to attack Russia and now China. This article reveals the bias behind the decision to ban Chinese athlete Sun Yang for eight years. For example, the president of the panel tweeted against a “yellow faced Chinese monster!” and secretly mocked the athlete’s mother in the hearing. I hope the facts presented here help get a new fair hearing for Sun Yang.
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How Does the US Rally Support for Wars That Kill Millions of Innocent People Worldwide?
Robert Fantina | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
21 May 2020 – These wars have killed millions of innocent men, women and children around the world. Yet more often than not they have been based on weak evidence, questionable motives, and outright lies. Why, then, do large portions of the public staunchly support the US troops? Why are so many Americans satisfied with the U.S. bombings of Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other Middle Eastern countries, knowing that this is creating starvation and refugee crises of catastrophic proportions?
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Let me suggest, first, that there is a plausible explanation at the heart of our failure to live out the best of human nature, and that the current pandemic shows how crucial it is to change it. And, second, that the smartest of the business leaders are realizing that their own fate and the fate of all of us depends on replacing the essence of capitalism with an ethics of solidarity.
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Trump Administration Quietly Adds Foreign Arms Sale to List of “Essential Work”
Taylor Barnes | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
19 May 2020 – Buried on the 18th page of a recently updated federal government memo defining which workers are critical during the Covid-19 pandemic is a new category of essential workers: defense industry personnel employed in foreign arms sales. The original March memos made no mention of the lucrative foreign arms sales that U.S. companies make in the order of $180 billion a year.
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Republican Party’s Corona Big Book
Brett O’Donnel | O’Donnell & Associates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
17 May 2020 – The book was assembled by Brett O’Donnell, who has worked for and is close to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It is basically a script for what Republican Senate candidates are to say. O’Donnell currently serves as a message and media strategist for numerous members of congress and for profit and nonprofit corporations. The Republican Party is using the text to deflect their failed COVID-19 leadership. They believe that if you create a set of lies, muddle them in a conspiracy theory, and have every Republican repeat them over and over, they can succeed in framing the political conversation. — Rolf Melheim
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Max Müller – A Scholar Extraordinaire
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Although being German, Müller spent a considerable period of his life in England. He taught at Oxford University and was admired for his knowledge of classical Indian texts including the Upanishads and Vedas. He had access to several scholarly Sanskrit works that the East India Company had brought from India.
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Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2020
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
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Why East Beat West on COVID-19
Andrew Salmon | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
15 May 2020 – Perhaps the most startling trend visible in the global Covid-19 pandemic is the vast differential separating East Asia from the West when it comes to the disease’s impact. Very clearly, East Asian nations of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam have done better than the West on virus management. Why?
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The Little Prince and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Le Petit Prince was first written in 1943 in French with original drawings by the author himself and translated into many languages becoming the most translated book in the French language. As the publisher writes, it is a work of timeless charm and transparency. It is a moral fable of the troubled times during the WWII as well as a spiritual autobiography of Antoine St Exupéry himself.
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Eliciting Insight from Mandala-Style Logos in 3D
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Interactive Engagement with Mandalas and Yantras in Virtual Reality
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In South Korea and China, Loosening Restrictions Brings Coronavirus Resurgence
NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – South Korea is grappling with its largest infection clusters after social distancing restrictions were loosened this month. In Wuhan, China, authorities announced yesterday they will test the city’s entire population of 11 million after new cases cropped up. Both countries are responding to the resurgence of cases with aggressive contact tracing.
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COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth about ‘First’ and ‘Third’ World Competence
Steven Friedman | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 Maio 2020 – One of the planet’s – and Africa’s – deepest prejudices is being demolished by the way countries handle COVID-19.
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My Earth Journey
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
At the peak of the Corona Pandemic and in the midst of the Lock Down, on 26 March, Microsoft was granted the World Patent # WO 2020/060606 by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Just as our Biodiversity and Indigenous knowledge were “mined” — for patenting and Biopiracy, there is now an attempt to mine and pirate the data from our bodies and minds, without our permission and consent. Our humanity and autonomy are being stolen. We are being reduced to “users” of the “machines” which are extracting our humanity and our information to build the next stage of the mechanical, money machine.
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The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism
Walden Bello | Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them? In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging.
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(Português) O COVID-19: Ou Cooperamos ou Não Teremos Futuro Nenhum
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
17 maio 2020 – De aqui por diante devemos decidir: Ou obedecemos à nossa natureza essencial, a cooperação, no nível pessoal, local, regional, nacional e mundial, mudando a forma de habitar a Casa Comum ou comecemos a nos preparar para o pior, num caminho sem retorno.
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Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic, Sanctions on Iran, and the Maladies of World Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
12 May 2020 – The U.S. depends primarily on its military capabilities to punish and coerce those states that it regards as hostile to its global ambitions. Iran (and Venezuela) is the current leading example, as victimized by ‘the maximum pressure’ approach based on threats and punitive sanctions. In contrast, China has brilliantly extended its influence and increased its prosperity by reliance mainly on non-military instruments of expansion including trade, investment, and foreign assistance. The two global states exemplify an encounter between hard and soft power foreign policies.
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From Plague to Plaque?
Peter Nias – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – We say ‘never again’ while remembering awful events in human history. But do we really mean it, and try our hardest? Unfortunately, it seems to take at least two world-level disasters for humanity to seriously do something about it.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with COVID-19 Severity and Mortality
Katie Weisman | Children’s Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
12 May 2020 – 100% of ICU patients less than 75 years old had Vitamin D insufficiency. It is a potential game-changer; vitamin D from sunshine is free and regular exposure for 20 minutes a day will provide about 1000 IU for who exposes 30% of body surface.
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Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid to Invade Venezuela Count as Mercenaries
Joshua Cho | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
11 May 2020 – In recent reports regarding the Bay of Pigs–style invasion the term “mercenary” was accompanied by scare quotes, as if these men could only be seen that way from the perspective of an Official US EnemyTM (whose perspective is always illegitimate in the eyes of corporate media). It is clear that the men behind the La Guaira invasion aren’t described as mercenaries because the US government and media alike favor regime change in Venezuela.
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Enlightened Leaders…
Zeng | Cartoon Arts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Boring Blame Game Goes on…
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Comprehensive World Food Policy
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
In a 12-May-2020 report the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization warned that the COVID-19 impact would increase by some 15 million the 820 million persons who the FAO estimates are the daily victims of hunger.
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Bolivia: The Open Veins Are Bleeding Six Months after the Coup
Verónica Zapata | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
On 10 Nov 2019 a violent coup d’état took place in Bolivia navigated by the U.S. and with the backing of the armed forces, the police and paramilitary groups forcing Evo Morales to resign at gunpoint. The objective was to regain control of lithium and to erase a government with an indigenous face that for the first time since the genocidal conquest of America had come to power.
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The Lessons We Learned from the Tiny Coronavirus SARS-Cov-2
Prof. Piero P. Giorgi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
During the Second World War the population spent hours in air raid shelters; some people prayed, others complained, some played the harmonica. And everyone thought: we will do it, and after this great fear everything will return as before. And so it did. That was bad, very bad.
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Venezuela Reveals Proof of Guaidó’s Involvement in Foiled Plot
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
17 May 2020 – Venezuela revealed today more links of lawmaker Juan Guaidó with the foiled May 3 plot through mercenaries hired by Silvercorp USA. Five days before the raid, a Florida law firm representing Silvercorp sent a letter to Guaidó to remind them that they owed an initial payment of US$1.5 million.
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(Português) Brasil Caminha para Recorde de Desmatamento da Amazônia
David Arioch | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
14 maio 2020 – Entre agosto de 2019 e abril de 2020 o desmatamento na Amazônia totalizou 5.666 km² – quase o mesmo que a soma da extensão desmatada em 2018 e 2019 no mesmo período. Considerado isoladamente, o desmatamento no mês de abril é igualmente assustador: aumento de 64% em relação ao mesmo mês de 2019.
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(Italiano) Ascolta tua madre: nessuno dovrebbe essere troppo ricco o troppo povero
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
I super-ricchi sono diventati così esperti a distrarre e dividere il resto di noialtri da tenerci impantanati in beghe per ogni tipo d’ingiustizia—guerre, oppressione razziale, patriarcato, partigianeria, degrado ambientale –al punto di perdere spesso di vista la smania di potere e di profitto alla radice di ciascuno di questi mali. Quindi, nostro dovere fondamentale è far sì che nessuno sia troppo ricco p troppo povero.
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Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen
Michael LaForgia and Walt Bogdanich | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
16 May 2020 – President Trump sees arms deals as jobs generators for firms like Raytheon, which has made billions in sales to the Saudi coalition. The Obama administration initially backed the Saudis too, but later regretted it as thousands died.
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Netanyahu Sworn in as Israeli PM, Vows West Bank Annexation
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
17 May 2020 -“It’s time to apply the Israeli law and write another glorious chapter in the history of Zionism,” Netanyahu said. The Israeli Knesset swore in today a new government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who will alternate leadership with his former rival Benny Gantz, in a deal that could see the annexation of the Palestinian West Bank.
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(Français) 100 Ans de Honte : L’annexion de la Palestine a Commencé a San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
18 Mai 2020 – Porté par le soi-disant accord du siècle de Donald Trump, Benyamin Netanyahou se prépare à annexer de nouveaux territoires palestiniens. L’histoire se répète-t-elle? Il y a cent ans déjà, les représentants de quelques puissants pays se sont réunis dans une ville endormie de la Riviera italienne pour sceller le sort des vastes territoires confisqués à l’Empire ottoman après sa défaite lors de la Première Guerre mondiale.
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Gangster Geopolitics and Israel’s Annexation Plans
Richard Falk | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – The Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank shows a shocking disregard for international law.
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See inside ‘Wet Markets’ Operating NOW, Where Diseases like COVID-19 Originate
PETA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
8 Apr 2020 – Why on Earth are these markets still open? Help prevent the next global pandemic: http://petauk.org/pandemic. New investigative footage reveals blood, rotting flesh, terrified cats and frogs, and other deplorable sights at Asian “wet markets”, which are STILL open.
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What You Need to Know about the ICC Investigation of Israeli War Crimes in Occupied Palestine
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
On April 30 Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, released a 60-page document diligently laying down the legal bases for the decision, concluding that “the Prosecution has carefully considered the observations of the participants, and remains of the view that the Court has jurisdiction over the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
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[Satire] Now Is the Time to Cherish the Little Things, by Jeff Bezos
Jeremy Beiler | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – If you’re still going a little stir-crazy, why not stay in a different one of your houses every night of the week? We’ve all got to get creative here. Though it’s true that the pandemic has brought the world to its knees, it also has the power to bring us together, and in little, unseen ways it can even make us billions more dollars than we were making before.
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U.S. Uses “Humanitarian Intervention” to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests
Roger Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
No More War, By Dan Kovalik, 2020, New York: Skyhorse Publishing –> The book focuses on the one nation in recent times that has been continuously engaged in wars of aggression. In fact, that nation has been engaged in wars or military occupations in all but five years since its founding in 1776.
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15 May–International Conscientious Objectors’ Day
Lewis Randa | Engaging Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Although conscientious objection to war is not a hot media topic today, respect, admiration, and appreciation for COs are expressed (mostly distally) around the world.
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Walking Blues — Song around the World (Music Video of the Week)
Keb' Mo' | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
8 May 2019 – In honor of blues legend Robert Johnson’s birthday, we share our Song around the World with musicians from six countries. Originally written and recorded by Son House in 1930, Robert recorded his own version in 1936. We started in Patagonia, Argentina and added friends as we traveled to create a blues jam around the world. Enjoy!
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Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”
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Is India an Apartheid Nation?
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
An Ode to Kashmir Conflict – A Word to Kashmiris
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Naomi Klein: How Big Tech Plans to Profit from the Pandemic
Naomi Klein | The Intercept/The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
For a few moments during NY governor Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus briefing on Wed 6 May, the grimace was replaced by a smile. The inspiration: a video visit from the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who announced that he will be heading up a panel to reimagine New York state’s post-Covid reality, with an emphasis on permanently integrating technology into every aspect of civic life.
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Why on Earth Is the U.S. Bombing Somalia?
Danny Sjursen | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
15 May 2020 – The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing—and covert raiding—campaign in Somalia amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has provided any explanation for the deadly escalation of a war that Congress hasn’t declared and the media rarely reports. At stake are many thousands of lives.
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Eminent Monsters: A Manual for Modern Torture
Stephen Bennett and Mark Fallon | Christal Frost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
‘Eminent Monsters’ is a documentary focusing on the use of psychological torture that breaks the mind without physical evidence of harm. It is an exposure of the abuse by the governments of Britain and the United States. It has immediate relevance regarding the treatment being meted out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which Professor Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, has described as psychological torture.
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Monologists
Gary Corseri - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
I do not find it profitable to talk to the dead!
They are so single-minded!
They repeat old stories over and over
Until one feels like screaming: “PLEASE MOVE ON!”
Corporate Media Setting Stage for New Cold War with China
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
15 May 2020 – Corporate media are laying the ideological groundwork for a new cold war with China, presenting the nation as a hostile power that needs to be kept in check.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
The United Nations has designated the 16th of May as a day devoted to Living Together in Peace. It therefore seems appropriate to discuss the need for reforming our educational systems so that they will prepare young people for international cooperation and harmony rather than for participation in aggressive wars.
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UN Officials Call for Release of Detained Palestinian Children amid Pandemic
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
11 May 2020 – Three senior United Nations officials in the Middle East are calling for the release of Palestinian children from Israeli-run prisons and detentions centres, saying they are at particular risk of COVID-19 infection.
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[Cartoon] Too Much Winning
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
#1… Still
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The Online Double-bind
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
The Internet is a double-bind because we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t. News, writing, and information of all sorts are now often not available any other way. The era of paper newspapers is coming to an end. This was meant to be. Other sources of fact and fiction have gradually been eliminated, while the content on the Internet has been dramatically increased and progressively censored.
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Civil Society Is the Second Pillar of West African Nation States
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. | Virginia Commonwealth University - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Experience from many African nations – as well as America, Asia and Europe – provides compelling evidence that civil society plays a fundamental role in social progress and in promoting peace and democratic governance. Civil society has organised democratic governance in West African for millennia, and not simply since colonial rule began. Our political science research shows how civil society has been and remains critical to the evolution of West African Nation States – nearly all of which are recent post-colonial creations – and that a Five Pillar conception of the Nation State conforms more closely to West African realities than the traditional Western concept of Executive + Legislative + Judiciary.
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US Blocks UN Global Ceasefire Resolution Objecting Reference to World Health Organization
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
9 May 2020 – International diplomats were stunned and frustrated yesterday night after the U.S. again blocked a UN resolution to call for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic. It objected to any mention of the WHO in the resolution. “It’s bad enough that Trump is responsible for so many deaths in his own country, now he is actively complicit in causing even more across the globe.”
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COVID-19 as a Memetic Disease–An Epidemic of Panic
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Learning from Terrorism, Communism, Fascism and Evil as Pandemics of the Past – There is no denying that COVID-19 is a disease that is causing worldwide fatalities. Less evident is the extent to which it is a memetic disease–and the nature of the fatalities with which that is associated.
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Bobby Sands Died in Prison 39 Years Ago–Julian Assange Is His Modern Equivalent and One Day Will also Be Hailed as a Martyr
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 2020 – The British government allowed IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands to starve to death. It is showing the same lack of judgment on what is right and wrong, by callously letting another political detainee die. On 5 May 1981, Bobby Sands died after refusing food for 66 days at a British Northern Ireland prison. Julian Assange, in extremely poor health, is being held at draconian Belmarsh Prison in London.
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With a Distracted Public, the Pentagon Tries to Get Away with Killing Innocent Civilians
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
8 May 2020 – The United States’ wars continue to rage in the Middle East and Africa against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Trump administration has shown itself to be not just indifferent, but positively encouraging of the killing of civilians in foreign wars. If there is a time to get away with killing people with no fear of accountability, it’s now.
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(Italiano) COVID-19: Infrangere il lockdown, sconfiggere il colpo di mano, evitare l’estinzione
Robert J. Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Usando i propri forum come il Forum Economico Mondiale l’élite globale continua a stringere la sua presa sulla popolazione con la propaganda COVID-19 per alzare la paura della gente mentre s’introducono nuove restrizioni e/o se n’estendono di esistenti per nascondere le molte misure che si vanno prendendo per portare avanti il loro colpo di mano tuttora in corso contro l’umanità.
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The Real Scandal Isn’t What China Did to Us — It’s What We Did to Ourselves
Fareed Zakaria | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
7 May 2020 – The Trump administration is trying to whip the country into an anti-Chinese frenzy because the novel coronavirus might have been accidentally transmitted from a laboratory rather than a wet market. The real scandal is not what China did to us, but what we together are doing to the planet — and what only we together can stop.
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An Ode to Gautam Buddha
Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Yesterday, 6th May night
The moon was shining bright
No clouds or rain to spoil the sight
Suddenly the thought came to me
7th May is Poornima (fullmoon night)
With the full moon the world will celebrate Buddha Poornima
Weapons Don’t Fight Pandemics
Miodrag Soric | DW - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
26 Apr 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic shows that we’ve got our security priorities wrong. Virus outbreaks, after all, cannot be contained by military force. Time for a security rethink. Tanks, fighter planes and aircraft carriers — where many crew members have fallen ill with the coronavirus — are useless against a pandemic. The world’s mightiest army simply will not keep us safe. On the contrary, increased defense spending leads to states diverting money away from health care systems.
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Manlio Dinucci | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
7 Mai 2020 – Chaque minute sont dépensés dans le monde environ 4 millions de dollars à des fins militaires. En 2019 la dépense militaire mondiale a presque atteint les 2.000 milliards de dollars. Ceci signifie qu’aujourd’hui on dépense en armes, armées et guerres plus que ce que l’on dépensait dans la dernière phase de l’affrontement entre USA et URSS et leurs alliances respectives.
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U.S. Policy toward Israel/Palestine in a Deglobalizing World: A Pre-Pandemic Perspective
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
7 May 2020 – The text below is from my presentation at the TRT World Forum, 21-22 Oct 2019. What strikes me now is how different the world seems only six months later due to the surreal impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on all aspects of perception and assessment, the totality of dislocating developments, and the heightening of an existential appreciation of the precariousness of individual and collective experience and of the radical uncertainty clouding our expectations of the future.
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Inside I Cry
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Whenever a Militant kills an army man, I cry
Whenever an Army man kills a militant, I cry
Genetic Engineered Crops in Agriculture
Poison in the Fields – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Genetically manipulated organisms (GMOs) also called “transgenic” are laboratory-created organisms whose characteristics have been altered through insertion of genes from other species. For example, the cold resistant gene of salmon is inserted in potatoes aiming at resistance to frost. Or genes from bacteria into corn to give it resistance to certain pests. These disturbances do not occur in nature, break the natural barriers between species and create many risks.
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(Français) Le Venezuela inflige une nouvelle défaite à l’Empire… et aux grands médias
Thierry Deronne | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
4 Mai 2020 – Mauvais remake de la Baie des Cochons signé Trump dans son opération caraïbe pour renverser le Président élu Nicolas Maduro : une incursion de paramilitaires venus de Colombie (photo) et munis d’un imposant armement vient d’être mise en déroute par l’armée bolivarienne, le dimanche 3 mai à l’aube, sur les côtes du Venezuela.
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Read the Services Agreement between the Venezuelan Opposition and Silvercorp against Maduro
The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
7 May 2020 – This document was provided by Venezuelan opposition officials on the condition that one of the attachments be redacted.
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Venezuela: An Invasion in the Midst of a Pandemic
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Cuba, like Venezuela, is also the victim of all-encompassing economic sanctions initiated and imposed by the US. It is remarkable that in spite of the sanctions, both Cuba and Venezuela have managed to protect their people in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Indeed they have done a million times better than the nation that has punished them with sanctions which incidentally has the highest number of fatalities and infections in the world.
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Death: A Simple Idea with a Powerful Punch
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Since death is one idea that has no history except as an idea and not a reality any of us have experienced, it is the most frightening idea there is and also quite simple. It is the ultimate unknown. It has always haunted human beings, whether consciously or unconsciously. It lies at the root of war, violence, religion, art, love, and civilization.
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Mercenaries behind Failed Venezuela Coup Had Been Trump’s Security
Ben Makuch | Vice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Silvercorp, the mercenary company caught Sunday [3 May 2020] in a bizarre attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government, claims in an Instagram post and promotional video by Jordan Goudreau, a former US special forces soldier, that the company did security for a Trump rally in November 2018.
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What It Takes to Grow Up, What It Means to Have Grown
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
I suspect it is simply a feature of being an adult, what I will call being grown, or a grown person, to have endured some variety of thorough emotional turmoil, to have made your way to the brink, and, if you’re lucky, to have stepped back from it — if not permanently, then for some time, or time to time…
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Swiss Propaganda Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 2020 – Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
The super-rich have become so adept at distracting and dividing the rest of us to keep us mired in clashes over all kinds of injustices—wars, racial oppression, patriarchy, partisanship, environmental degradation–that we often overlook the lust for power and profit at the root of every one of these evils. Hence, our most fundamental task is to make sure nobody is too rich or too poor.
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While the World Focuses on COVID-19, Indigenous Peoples in Myanmar Are Being Killed
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
28 Apr 2020 – As large parts of the world’s population are sitting at home in self- and authority-imposed isolation watching the development of the major public health crisis, governments in some countries are taking advantage of the situation and moving on with their repressive agendas cracking down on opposition groups, silencing human rights defenders and independent media, and subjecting entire ethnic groups to brutal military campaigns.
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Thousands Stranded in Bay of Bengal ‘Unable to Come Ashore’
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 2020 – In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, UN agencies called today for South-East Asian governments to show compassion to boats full of vulnerable people adrift in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. Thousands of lives may be at stake if the stranded people are unable to disembark.
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(Português) Gatinha com Síndrome de Down É Salva por Protetora no Brasil
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
A gatinha foi diagnosticada com uma alteração genética que se assemelha a síndrome de down em seres humanos. Mavis tem alterações físicas como olhos separados, nariz achatado e estrabismo.
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Guaidó Hired Mercenaries for a Terrorist Incursion in Venezuela
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
5 May 2020 – Venezuela’s Communication Minister Jorge Rodriguez today confirmed that Juan Guaido hired mercenaries for a terrorist incursion into his country, which is evidenced in the contract that the opposition lawmaker signed with the U.S.-based private security company Silvercorp.
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What Pandemic? US & Royal Navy Launch Cold War-Style Provocation in Russia’s Arctic Backyard
Nebojsa Malic | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
5 May 2020 – Millions of Americans and Britons losing their livelihoods under Covid-19 lockdowns can rejoice that their navies are open for business, staging a show of force on Russia’s doorstep for the first time since the Cold War. Three guided missile destroyers and a Royal Navy frigate sailed into the Barents Sea yesterday, to “assert freedom of navigation and demonstrate seamless integration among allies.”
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COVID-19: Cuba’s People-before-Profit Approach Pays Off as Capitalism Proves a Bitter Pill for the US
Pablo Vivanco | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
28 Apr 2020 – Havana has punched above its weight for decades when it comes to health. But never have the differences between its socialist system and the market-based system of its strongest detractor, America, been so apparent.
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Mystery of Snails with Iron Shells That Survive Inside White-Hot Volcanoes
Michael Havis | Mirror - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
9 May 2020 – A team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has decoded the genome of the volcano-dwelling scaly-foot snail, which can live in remarkably hot temperatures.
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Letter from Myanmar: What Comes after Militant Buddhism?
Krithika Varagur | New Statesman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 2020 – The rise of Buddhist nationalism has led to some of the worst inter-faith violence the country has ever seen. But some monks are leading the charge against the most intolerant preachers.
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10 May 1740: South Carolina Passes Negro Act Codifying White Supremacy
Equal Justice Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
The law prohibited enslaved African people from growing their own food, learning to read, moving freely, assembling in groups, or earning money. It also authorized white owners to whip and kill enslaved Africans for being “rebellious.”
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Can We Achieve Nuclear Adulthood?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 2020 – What we urgently need now is a rethinking of the entire concept of security. All we’ve been hearing is talk about weapons, missiles and airstrikes. Is it not clear by now that wars and the arms race cannot solve today’s global problems? War is a sign of defeat, a failure of politics.
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Unlocking the Potential of Communities in Responding to Gender-Based Violence during COVID-19
Irene Dawa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Following the declaration by the World Health Organisation of COVID-19 as a pandemic on 21 Mar 2020, the world came to the realization that its existence was threatened by a virus more serious than imagined. Since then the disease has swept swiftly across all the continents causing untold suffering and the shutdown of the entire globe.
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The Brave New World of Bill Gates and Big Telecom
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
8 May 2020 – Next time you buy a “smart” device, remember the device is not the product—you are.
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Military Spending on the Rise while Health Budgets Remain Insufficient in Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Peace Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
27 Apr 2020 – With the release of SIPRI’s newest report, showing global military spending in 2019 at a new high of US$1,917 billion, the International Peace Bureau is calling for an end to the military spending pandemic, starting with an annual reduction of military expenditure of 10% and a complete ban on nuclear weapons.
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Guantanamera (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song Around The World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
We started the song with Carlos Varela in Havana and it features over 75 Cuban musicians around the world, from Havana and Santiago to Miami, Barcelona and Tokyo. We recorded and produced this track with Jackson Browne, who explains that “traveling with Playing For Change across Cuba was one of the most rewarding and inspiring musical experiences of my life.”
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Baby Boomers for Biden Recant Left Legacy
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Former members of the leading Vietnam War-era peace organization in the US, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), recently circulated an open letter warning today’s young activists to – as the adage goes – do as I say and not as I did. Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, these former leaders led the way in opposing the ravages of US imperialism and exposing what they called the “death culture.” Today, they are admonishing the new generation not to follow in their footsteps, but to go all out for what they call the “capitalist democrat” Joe Biden.
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Meet the US Veterans Returning to Make Amends in Vietnam
Loretta Graceffo | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 – Forty-five years after the fall of Saigon, U.S. veterans are returning to Vietnam to find peace — and to atone for the damage they left behind.
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Coronavirus Found In Semen of Young Men with COVID-19
Peter Ellis, Mark Wass and Martin Michaelis | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
7 May 2020 – The study involved 38 patients undergoing treatment for severe COVID-19 disease. Fifteen of the patients provided a semen sample during the acute phase of their illness and 23 shortly after recovering. In four of the 15 patients with acute disease and in two of the 23 recovering patients, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was found in the semen samples.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: A Plea to Pause and Ponder
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
1 May 2020 – A Sharing by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, president of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST)
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