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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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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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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.
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Plague – 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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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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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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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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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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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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Trump Unleashed
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
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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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(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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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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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.
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Systematic 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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NATO’s Arctic War Exercise Unites Climate Change and WWIII
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
NATO will hold war games in Norway’s Arctic Circle in March, where it will be supporting climate change-induced resource extraction and increasing the military tension with Russia.
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Lives in Painting
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a growth to which all nations and ethnic groups have contributed.
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Battling Roundup Weedkiller: ‘Round and Round’ We Go
Katherine Paul | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
21 Feb 2020 – It seems forever that we’ve been trying to get Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller off the market, and out of our food. It’s a battle that’s had more than its share of highs and lows. Where are we today? Fighting a new company—Bayer now owns Monsanto.
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A Perfect Storm on the Horizon
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
2 Mar 2020 – Are the powers, NATO et al., edging towards a World War? One does get the impression that at this time the US and its NATO allies are erring towards the belief that they can win such a war.
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USA Announces New Humanitarian Assistance for Displaced Rohingya
Morgan Ortagus | US State Department - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
5 Mar 2020 – On March 3, the United States announced more than $59 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh and internally displaced Rohingya and members of other affected communities in Burma. This funding will help address the emergency needs of more than 900,000 refugees in Bangladesh, many of whom are Rohingya women and children from Rakhine State, Burma, as well as the needs of Bangladeshi host communities.
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Climate Change and the Sinking Island States in the Pacific
Saber Salem | E-IR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Despite the ever-rising environmental catastrophes that are occurring around the world from destructive hurricanes, cyclones and flooding to sea level rise, coastal erosion, drought, fire, and sea acidification, there are climate change deniers who argue that climate change is not posing the kind of danger that is being put forward.
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The Final Chapter Has Still Not Been Written: Remembering the 2004 Coup in Haiti
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
On February 29, 2004, the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was overthrown by a violent coup. This was the second U.S.-sponsored coup against a popularly elected Aristide government, the first one taking place in 1991 after he had served only eight months in office.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Many of the serious dangers that we face today can be addressed by reforming our economic systems. Greed-sanctioning and growth-worshipping economics, the economics that has led to intolerable economic inequality, must be replaced by steady-state economics, and with the reforms that we can observe in present-day Scandinavia.
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(Français) Les nouvelles orientations de l’impérialisme français en Afrique
Saïd Bouamama | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
2 Mar 2020 – L’annonce, par simple communiqué, daté du 2 février 2020 de l’envoi de 600 militaires français supplémentaires au Sahel a soulevé peu de débats contradictoires et encore moins d’oppositions. Aucune initiative militante n’a accompagné cette annonce.
→ read full articleDistracting Deal
Khalil Bendib | Other Words – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
… of the Century
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My Sweet Lord “Live” (Music Video of the Week)
Federico Perlingieri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
By “Family & Friends” — A Tribute to George Harrison
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(Português) Marreta pneumática: violência por trás do consumo de carne
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
“O pino perfura o osso do crânio e destrói parte do cérebro do animal, deixando-o inconsciente”.
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WHO Expert Explains Why China’s Cases of COVID-19 Are Declining
Julia Belluz | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
4 Mar 2020 – There’s one country in the world that currently has the most knowledge of and experience with Covid-19: China. “It’s all about speed”: the most important lessons from China’s response.
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‘The Most Powerful and Disturbing Book That I Have Ever Read’
Antony Beevor | The Spectator - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women, by Christina Lamb – A Devastating Exposé of the Systematic Use of Rape in War and Ethnic Cleansing
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Coronavirus Update: WHO Chief Calls for Private Sector to Step Up, and, Should You Take That Flight?
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
6 March 2020 – In his daily briefing to the press today, World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that supplies of medicine are at risk of disruption due to the epidemic, given that China – the worst hit nation so far – is a major producer of pharmaceutical ingredients.
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Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
A man came in to give his application to the manager. But the manager asked, “Why is there a four-year gap in your application?”
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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2020
Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.
→ read full articleForeign Correspondence 50 Years Later: A Preface
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
How do events become news? There are enormities of events happening, at any point of observation, by professional journalists, foreign correspondents or not: how come that some are elevated to the level of news? What is news anyhow? Why this predilection for negative news, something bad–to somebody–happening? Why, but then also why not?
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Stop the Extradition of Julian Assange-Defend Freedom of the Press
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
Australian journalist Julian Assange, founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, tried to uphold the right for the public to be informed and tell us the truth, and for so doing he has been persecuted, demonized, suffered character assassination, and hounded like a criminal, by the UK government and media.
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Venezuela Embassy Protectors on Trial
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
29 Feb 2020 – US Government Suppresses Information on Illegal Regime Change Activities
→ read full articleFuture Commemoration of the Trial of Julian Assange
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
The concern is with the accumulation of clues to a dramatic commemoration of the process, inspired by the Passion Plays so widely used with respect to the Trial of Jesus. The focus here is however on identification of dramatic elements and processes which might serve to highlight the passion for truth, most obviously associated with investigative journalism, and to a lesser degree by other disciplines exposed to lesser risk.
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Judge Rules Assange Cannot Sit with Lawyers during Extradition Hearing
Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
28 Feb 2020 – The first week of the extradition hearing in USA v Julian Assange ended yesterday at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court with Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejecting a submission from Assange’s lawyers that he be allowed to sit with them in court.
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(Italiano) Locuste e dollari a centinaia di miliardi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
17 Febbraio 2020 – Nel 1928 Gandhi pronunciò queste profetiche parole: “L’imperialismo economico di una sola minuscola isola-regno (l’Inghilterra) oggi tiene in catene il mondo. Se un’intera nazione con trecento milioni di abitanti ambisse a un simile sfruttamento, il mondo sarebbe divorato come dalla piaga delle cavallette.” Da allora l’impero inglese è stato sostituito da quello USA.
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(Italiano) La scienza dominante ha un’alternativa?
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
Sono passati cinquant’anni da quando ho letto come l’unico discepolo occidentale di Gandhi (oltre Mirabehn), Lanza del Vasto ha interpretato Apocalisse 13, dove due Bestie dominano l’umanità intera. Egli ci ha visto nelle la Scienza e la Macchina. Sono rimasto impressionato dalla fedeltà della sua interpretazione alla mia esperienza interiore di studioso della Fisica; e soprattutto dal segno di servitù che le due Bestie impongono sulla fronte di tutti, pena la morte (sociale) di chi si rifiutasse.
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UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
26 Feb 2020 – The number of new COVID-19, or coronavirus, infections outside China has outpaced those inside the country for the first time, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
→ read full articleJurisdictions of The Hague Court
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
26 Feb 2020 – This state-of-the-art paper is prepared based on archival literature review, exchanging and sharing, Rome Statute defined functions and a practical observation approach rather than theoretical conception. The Hague Court gathers and scrutinizes testimonies, questioning victims and witnesses and analyzes the shreds of evidence of a suspect’s innocent or guilty.
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The Terrorism-Industrial Complex (TIC)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
25 Feb 2020 -As we have a Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) or, rather, a Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex (MIMAC), the last 20 years have permitted the development of the Terrorism-Industrial Complex (TIC) – that is, intimately connected, wealthy elites who have a common interest in thriving and profiting in various ways from the Global War On Terror with a complete contempt for the rest of us, for democracy and security – and don’t mention peace, they don’t know that word.
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(Castellano) Mas Cordura, Menos Violencia, la Organización Ilimitada
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
2 Mar 2020 – La apuesta de este bosquejo es: Si uno comprende que la estructura cultural básica (junto con las leyes de la física, química, biología y otras ciencias naturales — todas ellas resumidas en la ecología) es el poder causal que más determina el rumbo de la historia; entonces uno comprenderá que la metodología de organización ilimitada es una metodología (no la única) apta para cambiar el rumbo de la historia.
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(Castellano) El Nuevo Paradigma Requiere Una Espiritualidad Diferente y Una Ética Propia para Enfrentar los Desastres Ecológicos Actuales y Futuros
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
20 Feb 2020 – Varias amenazas se ciernen sobre el sistema-vida y el sistema-Tierra: el holocausto nuclear; la catástrofe ecológica del calentamiento global y de la escasez de agua potable; la catástrofe económica/social sistémica con la radicalización del neoliberalismo que produce una acumulación extrema a expensas de una pobreza asombrosa; la catástrofe moral con la falta general de sensibilidad hacia las grandes mayorías sufrientes; la catástrofe política con el resurgimiento mundial de la derecha y la corrosión de las democracias.
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The Digestive System Is A Potential Route of 2019-Ncov Infection: A Bioinformatics Analysis Based on Single-Cell Transcriptomes
Hao Zhang, et al. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
31 Jan 2020 – This study has provided the bioinformatics evidence of the potential route for infection of 2019-nCov in digestive system along with respiratory tract and may have significant impact for our healthy policy setting regards to prevention of 2019-nCoV infection.
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