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Nicaragua: Advancing Social Equality and Food Sovereignty
Carissa Brands | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
20 Mar 2020 – Other than the economy still recuperating from the attempted coup of 2018, the Nicaraguan people continue their struggle to remain independent and out of the grips of the neoliberal orbit of US imperialism. Despite the crippling effects of US sanctions, the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega has made significant social advances since it came to power in 2007
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(Português) Campanha pede que as pessoas divulguem que os animais domésticos não transmitem Covid-19
Fátima ChuEcco - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
30 Mar 2020
25 Mar 2020 – O Partido pelos Animais português quer ainda que o governo autorize a circulação de pessoas que alimentam animais de colônias ou que são voluntários de abrigos.
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(Italiano) Riflessione di Politica Non Violenta Sulla Pandemia del Coronavirus
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
La scienza occidentale è criticabile perché, nascondendo essa i suoi fondamenti (che in realtà sono divisi in un pluralismo di direzioni), si pone come verità assoluta e inevitabile. Con ciò dà autorità sociale ad una tecnologia che, allettando in continuazione gli uomini con la promessa di sempre sempre maggior benessere, invade la vita umana fino a soffocarla nell’intimo.
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Technology of Death: The Not-so-Shocking Report on Israeli Weapons Exports
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
25 Mar 2020 – The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security, and reconstruction. Thanks to the US, Russian, French, Israeli and other weapons manufacturers, however, it is now the dumping ground for military hardware, an ominous sign for the years ahead.
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(Português) A Praga – Texto Inspirador
Kitty O'Meara - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
“E as pessoas ficaram em casa. E liam livros, prestavam atenção, descansavam, se exercitavam, faziam arte, brincavam, cultivavam jardins cheios de alimentos frescos, e aprendiam novas maneiras de ser e estar, e mantinham-se postas. E ouviam mais profundamente. Alguns meditavam, outros oravam, outros dançavam. Alguns encontraram suas sombras. E o povo começou a pensar de maneira diferente. [Siga lendo, por favor…]
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Nonviolence According to Dharma
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
When understanding Vedic Dharma and the need for us to raise our consciousness, which includes perceiving the Divine in all beings, it should also be clear that we need to observe respect, kindness, non-injury, and nonviolence toward all.
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An Offer and an Appeal to You…
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
We all have interesting and varied sources of information and analysis. One of the most exciting and insightful that I use and enjoy is TRANSCEND Media Service, founded by Professor Johann Galtung, the “Father of Peace Studies” and leader of a multi-national group of distinguished academics and activists working for peace in all its forms. The articles analyse world affairs from a multitude of different approaches. I would like to offer this information source to you and your students. A University Education should challenge students to seek out ideas and to discover new sources. TMS does some of this preparatory work for your students: they can find many unexpected analyses and varying points of view in a single website.
— Robin Edward Poulton ChONM, ChROSC, UNSM, MBIM, MA (Hons St A), MSc (Oxon), PhD (Paris)
Civilized, Barbarians, Savages
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
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COVID-19: Present, Past, and Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – A few days ago when WHO officially declared the COVID-19 a ‘pandemic’ a Rubicon of consciousness and global governance was crossed. Hundreds of millions of individuals around the world are coping physically and mentally with what that word never before used in my lifetime means for themselves and those they care most about. The mental dimensions of self-isolation may turn out to be a big challenge almost as big as the disease itself.
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A COVID-19 Vaccine Quickly and Cheaply
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
16 Mar 2020 – How monoclonal antibody techniques may be used to produce the vaccine, and how gene-splicing may then be used to mass-produce it inexpensively.
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Race
Peter Wade, Audrey Smedley and Yasuko I. Takezawa | Encyclopaedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
29 Jan 2020 – Race, the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences. Genetic studies in the late 20th century refuted the existence of biogenetically distinct races, and scholars now argue that “races” are cultural interventions reflecting specific attitudes and beliefs that were imposed on different populations in the wake of western European conquests beginning in the 15th century.
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Weaponising Mass Distraction from Overpopulation Denial?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
The future may well marvel at the primary strategy advocated globally in response to the coronavirus pandemic, namely social distancing. The question here is the viability of social distancing on a planet on which overcrowding is already widely recognized — but as a purely local challenge. This is most evident in the restriction of access of tourists to popular destinations. The reality of local overcrowding is the theme of a separate argument which notes the total unreality of global implications
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(Português) Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – Uma civilização ou cultura é definida como o conjunto de costumes, tradições, éticas, valores, língua, música, dança, cozinha, vestuário, religião, e organização social e política de um povo, grupo étnico, tribo, ou nação.
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Coronavirus and the World Order
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Coronavirus is posing a global health risk. The World Health Organization has declared it a pandemic. Beyond the health crisis, and the economic costs, the political implications of the pandemic are far-reaching. International relations experts are yet to explore fully its impact on the world order.
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The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift
John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Departing from much previous scholarship, Foster and Clark adopt a materialist and dialectical approach, bridging the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism. The ecological crisis, they explain, extends beyond questions of traditional class struggle to a corporeal rift in the physical organization of living beings themselves, raising critical issues of social reproduction, racial capitalism, alienated speciesism, and ecological imperialism.
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Ecological Reflections on the Corona Virus
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
One Planet, One Health–Connected through Biodiversity: From the forests to our farms to our gut microbiome – We are one Earth Family on one planet , healthy in our diversity and interconnectedness. The planet’s health and our health is non separable .
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Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Brazil Begs for Cuban Doctors–After Expelling Them
Ben Norton | Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – Brazil’s far-right government requested the return of thousands of Cuban doctors to help fight the coronavirus. Months ago, President Jair Bolsonaro smeared the doctors as “terrorists” and expelled them.
→ read full articleObserving Elites Manipulate Our Fear: COVID-19, Propaganda and Knowledge
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
While humans stand on the brink of precipitating our own extinction, virtually everyone remains unaware of the critical nature of our plight. The ongoing human death toll from the activities that are generating this crisis numbers in the many millions each year while the number of species driven to extinction is estimated at 200 per day. In contrast, a virus that is killing a very small proportion of the minuscule number it has infected is causing panic in many countries around the world, devastating the travel and tourism industries while emptying supermarket shelves of food and that apparently most vital of commodities: toilet paper.
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The Coronavirus Is Not the Plague: The Plague Is US
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
21 Mar 2020 – Intuition tells me that although the emperor has no clothes and a vast PSYOPS occupation is now underway, too many are too grown-up to see it. It’s an old story continually updated. Like ‘The Plague. ‘
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Why Sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during a Pandemic Are Cruel
Vijay Prashad and Paola Estrada | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
In the midst of a pandemic, one would expect that all countries would collaborate in every way to mitigate the spread of the virus and its impact on human society. One would expect that a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude would provide the opportunity to suspend or end all inhumane economic sanctions and political blockades against certain countries. Is this not the time for the imperialist bloc, led by the United States of America, to end the sanctions against Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and a series of other countries?
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The Dressed Death Corona
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
The death and nature being close friends
A baton is with one hand and a rope the other
Behind and frontline they march
(Português) Sempre Culpamos Outros Animais Pelas Doenças que Provocamos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
22 Mar 2020 – Semeamos muitas doenças quando nos alimentamos de animais e/ou interferimos em suas vidas; sejam criaturas domesticadas ou silvestres.
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Has the Crash Arrived?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
19 Mar 2020 – The headlines provide abundant details about economic shutdowns in order to slow the spread of the COV-19 virus. But behind the headlines, there is another story more important in the long run: the global economy is a house of cards based on speculation and military spending. It seems likely that the house of cards will come crashing down as a result of the global economic shutdown.
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Relating…?
Banksy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
No comment…
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Jena Declaration: The Concept of Race Is the Result of Racism, Not Its Prerequisite
Jena University | Koozma J. Tarasoff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
It was historically significant that the ‘Jena Declaration’ was endorsed at Jena University, Germany, 100 years after the death of its most famous zoology professor Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) who co-founded scientific racism, which led to eugenics, antisemitism, involuntary sterilizations, racial wars, the racial policy of Nazi Germany, xenophobia, apartheid, etc. Haeckel divided human beings into 10 races, and believed Negroes were savages doomed to extinction and that Whites were the most civilised.
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Trump vs Coronavirus ‘Hoax’
The Recount - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
As another Caesar once said: “But I am as constant as the Northern Star…”
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Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws–A Humanitarian Message
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – U.S. sanctions against Iran continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the U.S. “maximum pressure” policy severely undermines Iranian efforts to cope with the ravages of COVID-19, causing hardship and tragedy while contributing to the global spread of the pandemic. On March 12, Iran’s Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif urged member states of the UN to end the United States’ unconscionable and lethal economic warfare.
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Yanis Varoufakis: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Yanis Varoufakis | DiEM25 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder and MeRA25 MP, on the economic and political impact of the coronavirus.
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Roadside Tea–Chaiwalas
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – Tea is a cheap drink that most Indians relish at home and in restaurants. The word comes from the Chinese term cha from where it is presumed the tea leaves spread to different parts of the world.
→ read full articlePlague – Inspirational
Kitty O'Meara - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and grew gardens full of fresh food, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.” [please read on…]
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IMF Refuses Aid to Venezuela in the Midst of the Coronavirus Crisis
Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado and Zoe PC | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
18 Mar 2020 – The chief of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva’s policy to provide special assistance to countries should have been sufficient for the IMF to provide the assistance that the Venezuelan government had requested. But, very quickly, the Fund declined the request from Venezuela. It is important to underline the fact that the IMF made this denial at a time when the coronavirus had begun to spread in Venezuela.
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The Coronavirus Reader
The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – Info and Insights on the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Coronavirus: Tech Rivals Facebook, Google and Microsoft Release Unprecedented Joint Statement on ‘Fake News’
Rob Waugh | Yahoo News UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Google, Facebook and Microsoft have joined forces to release an unprecedented statement on coronavirus – in the battle against online misinformation. The statement promises that the tech giants are working together, “jointly combating fraud and misinformation about the virus”.
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Too Much Praise
Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Bill was a Christian and wanted a horse. On Craigslist, he found a Christian horse so he went to check it out.
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Questions and Curfews
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
The two choices before us (collectively): We keep the old ways (greed, rampant capitalism and die together) or care for each other and for our planet. Our health and the health of the planet are at stake. This is yet another stark reminder. Let us hope we make the right choices, pressure politicians, and choose life. We cannot act like lemmings going towards the cliff.
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Coronavirus: Global Response Urgently Needed
Jim O'Neill, Robin Niblett and Creon Butler | Chatham House – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
There have been warnings for several years that world leaders would find it hard to manage a new global crisis in today’s more confrontational, protectionist and nativist political environment.
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Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It
Naomi Klein - The Intercept,
23 Mar 2020
16 Mar 2020 – I’ve spent two decades studying the transformations that take place under the cover of disaster. I’ve learned that one thing we can count on is this: During moments of cataclysmic change, the previously unthinkable suddenly becomes reality. In recent decades, that change has mainly been for the worst — but this has not always been the case. And it need not continue to be in the future.
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Pompeo’s Remarks to the Press about the ICC
Michael R. Pompeo, US Secretary of State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 March 2020 – US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo officially trashes ICC and makes threats against ICC staff and their family members.
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Cuba Gives Permission for Cruise Ship Carrying COVID-19 Patients to Dock
Cuba Solidarity Campaign - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
16 Mar 2020 – A British cruise ship carrying five passengers who have tested positive for the coronavirus is to dock in Cuba after being turned away by other countries. The MS Braemar, which is carrying six hundred passengers, most of whom are British, had been stranded at sea for two days while trying to find a country which would allow it to dock.
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Paris Museums Put 100,000 Images Online for Unrestricted Public Use
Jason Kottke - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Paris Musées, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website. Artists with works in the archive include Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, and thousands of others.
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Alex Lockwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Frances, Emily and Amy were all aspiring scientists, looking forward to a future in which they could make a real difference to human health. Testing on animals, they had felt, was a necessary part of their research. These three scientists all slowly came to question the validity of animal testing and now look to share their stories.
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Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning others of them in good time, with apology and charm.”
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Meet the 17-Year-Old Behind a Website Tracking Coronavirus Cases That Is Now a Vital Global Resource
Amy Goodman - Democracy NOW!,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – A teenager’s website tracking coronavirus has become one of the most vital resources for people seeking accurate and updated numbers on the pandemic. The URL is nCoV2019.live. We speak with 17-year-old Avi Schiffmann, a high school junior from Mercer Island outside Seattle, who started the site in late December, when coronavirus had not yet been detected outside of China. Now the site has been visited by tens of millions, from every country on Earth. It tracks deaths, numbers of cases locally and globally, and provides an interactive map, information on the disease, and a Twitter feed. The resource updates every minute or so, and pulls information from the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and elsewhere.
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Socialism at Its Finest after Fed’s Bazooka Fails
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
21 Mar 2020 – In what is being called the worst financial crisis since 1929, the US stock market has lost a third of its value in the space of a month, wiping out all of its gains of the last three years. When the Federal Reserve tried to ride to the rescue, it only succeeded in making matters worse. The government then pulled out all the stops. To our staunchly capitalist leaders, socialism is suddenly looking good.
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American Empire Defined
The Peace Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Then->Colonialism – Now->Military Bases
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Rondo Alla Turca (Music Video of the Week)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson. The video was made at the International Street Pianos Art Installment, “Play Me, I’m Yours.”
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Chinese Swimmer Sun Yang Is Being Falsely Punished
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
19 Mar 2020 – Sun Yang is an Olympic Gold medalist and world record holding swimmer. He was recently ruled to be guilty of an anti-doping rule violation and banned from competing for eight years. The decision was met with shock and anger among his many fans in China; glee and gloating by some western media and swimming competitors. What lies behind this important decision? Has it advanced or undermined the cause of anti-doping? The following article outlines the Sun Yang case and context.
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(Italiano) Dal mare altre brutte notizie per Cina, Usa, Germania e Italia
Jack Cambiaso | IlSussidiario - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – Dopo un mese intero di emergenza da coronavirus il peggio sembra dover ancora arrivare dal punto di vista economico
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Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for ‘Disaster Capitalism’
Marie Solis | Vice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
13 Mar 2020 – Naomi Klein explains how governments and the global elite will exploit a pandemic. “We’re seeing in real time that we are so much more interconnected to one another than our quite brutal economic system would have us believe.”
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Cruelty or Humanity?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020 – This is my foreword to Stuart Rees’ exceedingly important study of the role of cruelty in politics, a mystifying dimension of human experience, which is illuminated by integrating the insights and reflections of poets with the narration of political policies. This fusion gives this book a quality of originality as well of practical relevance.
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(Castellano) Animales transgénicos, otra cruel y vil creación del hombre
Diario Ecologia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
Son diseñados por los hombres para explotar a los animales en pro de su beneficio. Esto es a lo que lleva el consumismo del ser humano y el daño de las industrias al enriquecerse a cualquier costo sin importarles la vida tanto del animal como la del ser humano. Nada en absoluto puede justificar este hecho sumamente cruel y vil.
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A Record of Major High-Rise Fires Worldwide
Chris Sarns | AE911Truth - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
10 Mar 2020 – This article is a record of major high-rise fires around the world over the past 50 years. As the record shows, neither before nor since 9/11 has a steel-frame, fire-protected high-rise experienced a total collapse due to fire — much less a collapse exhibiting all the features of controlled demolition, as was observed in the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on September 11, 2001.
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Reimagining Coronavirus in 3D as a Metaphor of Global Society in Distress
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
16 Mar 2020 – Crowning pattern that connects spiky organisms, satellite constellations, nuclear explosions, and egomania? In a period of widespread concern about the coronavirus, and widespread media response, the concern here is with the possibility of another way of imagining its implication — of relevance to responses of new kind.
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Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
And Ten Steps to Take to Do So – We are like the British at the end of World War II: desperately trying to shore up an empire that we never needed and can no longer afford, using methods that often resemble those of failed empires of the past — including the Axis powers of World War II and the former Soviet Union. There is an important lesson for us in the British decision, starting in 1945, to liquidate their empire relatively voluntarily, rather than being forced to do so by defeat in war, as were Japan and Germany, or by debilitating colonial conflicts, as were the French and Dutch.
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Transformation of War Politics to Politics of Nonviolence
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020 – The book Gandhica focuses on Mahatma Gandhi’s ideal for the science of nonviolence. The book particularly advocates for spherons, partons and Tetranet Thinking as a principal new scientific interpretation and the fundamental social rationale.
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Iran and the ‘US Holy Code Book of Double Standard Morality’
Kristin Young Christman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
What I find most troublesome about Double Standard Morality is that when morality is determined by the identity of the actor and not the act, you’ve got a cruel case of selfish immorality and a dangerous sense of divinely inspired self-righteousness that hamstring our ability to ever achieve understanding and peace with the enemy.
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A Word to TMS Readers and Supporters
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
“It is with great pleasure that I write in praise and support of TMS. I look forward to it each week and enjoy reading the articles by Prof. Johan Galtung, peace educationalist, activists, and others from around the world. My thanks and admiration go to editor Antonio C. S. Rosa for the great efforts that he puts into the weekly production of Transcend Media Service. The publication keeps me in touch with the many people working in various fields and countries–both educating and inspiring me. IT IS IMPERATIVE TO KEEP THIS RELEVANT SERVICE ALIVE. It needs all the help we can give, i.e., writing, FINANCING, solidarity actions. I am also very grateful for the publications of my works on nonkilling, nonviolence, and a world without violence and war. I get encouragement knowing that so many people around the world are working for a world of peace and nonviolence.”
— Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Will Humanity Fail?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
Obviously human beings are being tested: pandemics spreading around the world, coronavirus, the collapse of oil prices that led to financial market collapses, the climate change, the technology gone rampant and killings and nature (5G, chemical and biological weapons), the accelerating risk of nuclear war, and much more. There are bad signs and good signs. Let us give some examples of both and then of areas where we could go either way. Please Join the Discussion and post other good and bad news in comments section.
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Five Things You Should Know Now about the COVID-19 Pandemic
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
16 Mar 2020
On 11 March the World Health Organization upgraded the status of the COVID-19 outbreak from epidemic to pandemic. Here are five important pieces of information on what this means for you and your community.
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(Português) Mark Wahlberg adota dieta à base de vegetais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
“Preciso lhe dizer: me sinto muito bem. O que você coloca no seu corpo vai determinar como você se sente”
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Trump Unleashed
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
No comment required or necessary…
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A Pandemic Is Declared, but Not for the Starving, the Preventable Sick, the Blockaded, the Bombed
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020 – A pandemic has been declared, but not for the 24,600 who die every day from unnecessary starvation, and not for 3,000 children who die every day from preventable malaria, and not for the 10,000 people who die every day because they are denied publicly-funded healthcare, and not for the hundreds of Venezuelans and Iranians who die every day because America’s blockade denies them life-saving medicines, and not for the hundreds of mostly children bombed or starved to death every day in Yemen, in a war supplied and kept going, profitably, by America and Britain. Before you panic, consider them.
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Ancient Greek Wisdom: The Tragedy That Was Athens
Alex Holzman | Philosophy Now - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
The History of Golden Age Athens as a Play with Pericles and Socrates as Its Tragic Heroes
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“Keep It Confidential:” The Secret History of U.S. Involvement in Brazil’s Scandal-Wracked Operation Car Wash
Andrew Fishman, Natalia Viana and Maryam Saleh - The Intercept,
16 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020 – Leaked conversations between Brazilian officials reveal the inner workings of a secretive collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice on a sprawling anti-corruption effort known as Operation Car Wash. The chats, analyzed in partnership with the Brazilian investigative news outlet Agência Pública, show that the Brazilians were extremely accommodating to their U.S. partners, going out of their way to facilitate their involvement in ways that may have violated international legal treaties and Brazilian law.
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War, Profit and the Coronavirus
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – If you want expertise, don’t bother reading any further here. I know as much about coronavirus as any stunned disbeliever with a sudden, irresistible urge to touch his face.
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The Fed’s Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – The next time the country’s largest banks become insolvent, rather than bailing them out it should nationalize them. The banks could then be used to fund infrastructure and other government projects to stimulate the economy, following the model of China.
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Calculating the Incalculable: Thoreau on the True Value of a Tree
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
“What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?”
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The Graveyard Talks Back: Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News
Arundhati Roy | Literary Hub – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
12 Feb 2020 – Text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature Instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge – What is the Role of the Writer in a Time of Rising Nationalism?
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Paul Watson: “If Our Oceans Die, We Die”
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
Cap. Paul Watson is founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He is guided by a singular truth: if the oceans die, we die! Humanity and civilization cannot survive on this planet with a dead ocean, and Captain Watson leads a movement that seeks to inspire passionate people to harness their courage, imagination and resolve to defend life and biodiversity in our oceans.
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Nuremberg and Media
Fritz Pointer | Democratic World Federalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
14 Mar 2020 – Journalists were among those prosecuted for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity during the Nuremberg Trials post WWII. The Nuremberg prosecution argued: “By virtue of its functions, the German Press Division (think ABC, NBC, FOX, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, CBS, NY Times, Washington Post) became an important and unique instrument of the Nazi (think Project For the New American Century – PNAC) conspirators, not only in dominating the minds and psychology of Germans, but also as an instrument of foreign policy and psychological warfare against other nations.”
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What You Need to Know about Handwashing
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
This video answers important questions about hand washing and hand sanitizer.
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Our Vanishing World (Part 6): Oceans
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
15 Mar 2020 – Every person on Earth depends directly on the ocean. It covers 71% of the Earth’s surface and contains about 97% of the Earth’s water. It generates 50 percent of the oxygen we need and is home to up to 80 percent of all life. Yet human activity is destroying it. You can make choices that make a difference. Or leave it to others.
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HOLI—The Festival of Colours
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
13 Mar 2020 – The festival of Holi is one of the most colourful and joyful festivals of India. It is celebrated in the season of spring that is known as Basant in India. It comes at the end of the winter season — which can be quite cold in North India. Although many countries have four seasons in a year, India has six.
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Doctors of Assange Reveal Reports on Mistreatment Have Intensified the Abuse
Angel Fox | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
13 Mar 2020 – Doctors 4 Assange, who are the many doctors who sent a letter to the Home Secretary in Great Britain, tweeted a concerning statement today. According to them, Craig Murray’s reporting on the trial of Assange only escalated his mistreatment
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Ownership Futures: Towards Democratic Public Ownership in the 21st Century
Mathew Lawrence & Thomas M. Hanna | Common Wealth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Feb 2020 -Our current political economic system is in crisis. Forty years of market fundamentalism, privatisation, and unchecked corporate power have led us to the point of ecological collapse, increasing economic and social inequality, and dangerous political instability and backlash. Driven by the system’s failings, and the real pain being felt by workers and communities across the world, the search is on for answers, and alternative approaches and institutions are becoming increasingly popular.
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Toilet Paper Is the People’s Vaccine
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
14 Mar 2020 – The coronavirus panic has resulted in hordes of people running after toilet paper in the USA and Australia. Such actions are the flip side of running with the bulls, except that I suspect those who run with the bulls have some sense of why they do it. I imagine the thrill is a bit different, even if the goal is similar.
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Chelsea Manning Attempted Suicide in Jail, Is Recovering, Lawyers Say
Dell Cameron | Gizmodo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – Imprisoned activist and former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning attempted suicide today in the Alexandria, Virginia, jail where she’s been held for a year following her refusal to testify before a federal grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
Accumulation for its own sake, far from being assumed to be the normal goal for property owners should not be a legitimate goal at all. Markets are created by communities. Property rights are created by communities. They should be regarded as morally legitimate if, when, and to the extent that they function to meet the needs of human communities and of the larger earth community of which we human beings are members.
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Ukraine, Russia, and the USA
Edward Lozansky, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
14 Mar 2020 – Why the Conflict in the Donbass Is Still Far from a Settlement Because of the USA
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Self Compassion
The School of Life – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
It’s all too easy to be extremely tough on ourselves; we need–at points–to get better at self-compassion. Here is an exercise in how to lessen the voices of self-flagellation.
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Consciousness: The Symptom of the Soul
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
How It Interacts with but Is Separate from the Body – An excerpt from The Secret Teachings of the Vedas
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Chelsea Manning Released from Jail after Grand Jury Is Dismissed by US Federal Court
Kevin Reed | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
13 Mar 2020 – Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower who refused to answer questions before a federal grand jury empaneled as part of the US conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was released late yesterday after spending the last year in jail. Manning’s release occurred one day after the courageous fighter for truth attempted suicide in her cell and was hospitalized by prison authorities.
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Linked Dangers to Civilization
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020 – I would like to announce the publication of a book that discusses the most serious dangers which the world faces today. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
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Listen to the Music (Music Video of the Week)
Doobie Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
A Classic of the 70s.
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Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
Two old friends, Ned and John, lived for baseball. Then one day, John died, leaving Ned inconsolable.
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Towards a Mayors’ Security Council
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
1 Mar 2020 – Around the world we see the beginning of failed states, consumed by violence: Libya, Yemen, and a case can be made for Mexico. Johan Galtung has gone so far as to imagine that the United States will split into two countries as the American Empire crumbles. The situation is so serious that UN Secretary-General Guterres devoted his annual press conference on February 4 to the “wind of madness” sweeping the globe. ”
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On Hanging from the Blades of a Bulldozer: Al-Naem Is Every Palestinian
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
27 Feb 2020 – Naem’s death will not end resistance in Gaza, as subsequent events have demonstrated. Instead, it would further accentuate the savagery of Israel as a heartless military occupier in the minds of Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, and anyone who can see through Israeli state-sanctioned lies and propaganda.
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The US Military Is the Largest Institutional Consumer of Fossil Fuels
Global Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
31 Jan 2020 – Since 2001, the US military emitted over 1.2 billion metric tons of greenshouse gases into the atmosphere. 400 million metric tons of that figure is directly related to the wars.
→ read full articleSystematic Global Treachery and Betrayal
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
9 Mar 2020 – In the Light of Donald Trump’s Condemnation of Traitors and Pardoning of the Convicted
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Evasions, Accidents, Engagements, and Fulfillment: An Autobiographical Fragment
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
2 Mar 2020 – This post is something new for me, an autobiographical fragment written at the request of an online listserv as a suggestive model for academics at the start of their careers as diplomatic historians. I publish it here. It was found unsuitable for publication by the group that made the initial solicitation for unspecified reasons.
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Beware the Bipartisan Legion of Doom: Corporate Democrats and Trump’s GOP
Roy Eidelson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
3 Mar 2020 – There is no more daunting and dangerous duo in U.S. politics than the profits-over-people corporate wing of the Democratic Party and the belligerent, bigoted, and brutal Republican Party of Donald Trump.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Thus a person recognises himself/herself by the name given. Imagine if the name is removed from the person, what does the person think or feel?
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Supermassive Black Hole Causes Biggest Cosmic Explosion in Recorded History, Leaving Dent That Could Fit 15 Milky Way Galaxies
Human Wrongs Watch | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
28 Feb 2020 — The biggest cosmic explosion in recorded history was detected about 390 million light years from Earth in a supermassive black hole in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, which made a dent in surrounding space that could fit 15 Milky Way galaxies inside.
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War Is a Racket
Major General Smedley Butler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
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The Haunting Beauty of Snowflakes: Wilson Bentley’s Pioneering 19th-Century Photomicroscopy of Snow Crystals
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Hardly any scientific finding has permeated popular culture more profoundly, transmuted its truth into a more pervasive cliché, or inspired more uninspired college application essays than the fact that no two snowflakes are alike.
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
John Perkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Perkins’ function was to convince the political and financial leadership of underdeveloped countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID. Saddled with debts they could not hope to pay, those countries were forced to acquiesce to political pressure from the United States on a variety of issues. Perkins argues in his book that developing nations were effectively neutralized politically, had their wealth gaps driven wider and economies crippled in the long run.
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‘And Then – Nothing. Silence’: The Deadly Facade of ‘Democracy’
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
19 Feb 2020 – If you were mad enough to judge the state of the world by the daily outpourings of ‘mainstream’ media, you would have no real understanding of the perilous state of the human race. The glaring phenomenon of tightly managed ‘mainstream’ news and permissible commentary – on climate breakdown, capitalism and foreign policy – indicates one inescapable truth: there will not, and cannot, be major changes in society without genuinely public media. Human survival, quite literally, depends upon it.
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Myanmar Court Jails 15 Rohingya for Two Years for Trying to Flee Country
Radio Free Asia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
6 Mar 2020 – A court in Myanmar today sentenced 15 Rohingya Muslims to two years in prison each for attempting to leave the country illegally. Authorities in Minhla township arrested the 15 adults and one child for traveling without official proof of identity or travel documents on Feb. 14.
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Traces of Poison: Israel’s Dark WMD History Revealed
Salman Abu Sitta | Ahram Weekly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Israel, not Iraq, holds that distinction of being the first country in the region to use weapons of mass destruction with genocidal intent. We dig into the dark history.
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The End of the Corporation? Make the Profit-Maximizing Corporation Obsolete
Marjorie Kelly | Transnational Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Marjorie Kelly makes a bold case for “the end of the corporation”—certainly in its dominant form as a profit-extraction machine designed primarily to enrich shareholders. “What must change is the structural design and ownership of the corporation itself. We need to envisage and create an entirely new concept of the company – a just firm – designed from the inside out for a new mandate: to serve broad wellbeing and the public good. The just firm is the only kind that should ultimately be permitted to exist. The time is coming when society must end the corporation as we know it.”
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