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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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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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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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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.
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Distracting 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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Four-Year Gap
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.
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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
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Future 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).
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Jurisdictions 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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Staatenlos—Stateless
Michael David Morrissey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
Renouncing citizenship is not easy, either, and it has become expensive. A fee of $450 was introduced in 2010, and raised in 2014 to $2350. You have to have filed faithfully to the IRS every year and prove you have been in full “compliance” for at least the past five years, regardless of whether you earned any of your income in the US. If not, or if you are worth more than $2 million, you will have to pay an “expatriation tax.”
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Were He Alive Today, Socrates Would Die of Sadness
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
19 Feb 2020 – We are living times of the post: post-modern, post-capitalist, post-neoliberal, post-communism, post socialism, post-democracy, post-religious, post-Christian, post-human and, very recently, post-truth. Practically everything has its “post”. This fact only shows that we have not yet found the term that defines our times, and we are prisoners of the old. However, here and there signs appear that a fitting name is about to come. In other words, we do not know yet how to define our times.
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The Zionist Colonization of Palestine
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
24 Feb 2020 – For more than a century Zionists and, later, Israelis have pursued a project to seize and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land.
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David Ray Griffin’s The Christian Gospel for Americans: A Systematic Theology
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
There are very few writers who have done more to try to open the public’s mind to the evil nature of the American empire than David Ray Griffin. His series of books on the false flag attacks of September 11, 2001 will endure for a long time, and they will one day, when it is safe to do so, be recognized as seminal texts exposing the traitorous conspiracy of elements within the Unites States’ government to launch the endless so-called war on terror.
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A Difficult Peace
Sean Reynolds | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
25 Feb 2020 – The path we must follow within the U.S. seems also to be the sole survivable path the U.S. has left that it can follow abroad – to somehow redress those of our neighbors’ real grievances to which their undeniable failings should never have blinded us; to build a movement for species survival which no-one will join if we won’t share our wealth and our power; and to empower those who, like Iran, we’re most inclined to condemn – in the desperate hope of forging a difficult peace.
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Profiting From Loss: How Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements Continues Unchecked
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
18 Feb 2020 – After lengthy delays, the United Nations finally published a database last week of 112 businesses that have been profiting from Israel’s illegal annexation and settlement activity in the West Bank. UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing and exposing the hypocrisy of western states.
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Conspiracy Theories, Fake News & Information Warfare
Uriel Araujo | OneWorld – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
18 Feb 2020 – The problem is that, in everyday usage, “conspiracy theorist” (just like “populist” or “terrorist”) may refer to anyone. Such labels are often employed as an accusatory category. Just like witchcraft and witches in many societies, a “conspiracy theorist” is always the Other, always someone else.
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World Game
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
Buckminster Fuller, the US architect, designer and philosopher, designed a “world game,” in which the players assume the role of heads of state, and their goal is to meet the needs of their people for food, housing and education.
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The Paradox of America’s Endless Wars
William J. Astore | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
25 Feb 2020 -The Iraq War soon joined the Afghan invasion of 2001 as a quagmire and disaster, yet the antiwar movement died down as U.S. leaders worked to isolate Americans from news about the casualties, costs, calamities, and crimes of what was by then called “the war on terror.” And in that they succeeded. Even though the U.S. now lives in a state of perpetual war, for most Americans it’s a peculiar form of non-war.
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix produz documentário sobre a senciência dos porcos
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
25 fev 2020 – O documentário foi lançado no último domingo (23 fev) em Berlim, na Alemanha.
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History of the Science-Religion Interaction in the West
Howard J. Resnick, Ph.D. (Hridayananda das Goswami) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
My argument is that, given all the facts, it is not possible to be a fully rational materialist; and it is equally impossible to be a rational religious fanatic – religious fanaticism being clearly irrational. We need to get away from fanaticism – whether it pretends to be science or religion.
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Netanyahu Pledges to Build 3,500 Illegal Homes in Key West Bank Area
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
25 Feb 2020 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced today his plans to authorize the construction of some 3,500 new illegal homes for Jewish settlers in one of the most sensitive areas of the occupied West Bank. If fully implemented, the plan would effectively split the West Bank in half and separate East Jerusalem from Palestinians.
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Dwarka, Krishna’s Lost City Discovered–Rare Photos
The Historical India | Ancient Astronaut Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
As time marches on, archaeologists all over the world have been discovering ancient cities that were once thought to be myths or legends: Troy, Xanadu, Helike, Great Zimbabwe, Leptis Magna, Heracleion, La Ciudad Blanca, Iram of the Pillars, Musasir, and Urkesh are but just a few. And it seems there is no end to the list of the lost-found cities of the ancient world. Among them, Krishna’s Lost City of Dwarka is perhaps the most profound.
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Does Dominant Science Have an Alternative?
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
The alternative science does not give up reason; it wants to reduce its maximum social expression, the scientific institution, to a pluralist enterprise including also the scientific alternative undergone to both mankind’s ethics and peaceful relations with nature.
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Leaving Home, Changing Home
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
All over the world it is quite common to move from one’s home and change to another home or residence. There are varied reasons for this change — moving from a village to a town for education, for the purposes of getting a job, for escaping from riots or violence near one’s home.
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Former UN Climate Chief Calls for Civil Disobedience
Jeff McMahon | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
24 Feb 2020 – In a book out tomorrow, the woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement calls for civil disobedience to force institutions to respond to the climate crisis.
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(Português) Vida de boi, do pasto para a pista da morte
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
Um bovino, dos milhões que são abatidos por mês no Brasil para serem reduzidos a pedaços de carne, tem uma vida realmente curta.
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UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
27 Feb 2020 – The Human Rights Council today held an interactive dialogue with UN rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, on the root causes of violations and abuses suffered by the Rohingya mainly-Muslim minority and other minorities in Myanmar. She said the Government now has a historic opportunity to counteract systematic violations, “by bringing its people together, as one”.
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How Sanders Wins and Governs–Winning and Losing in 2020
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
24 Feb 2020 – Anyone sensitive to the American political scene has become aware of an emerging collision between surging citizen support for Bernie Sanders and the lamentations of portfolio (stocks & bonds) driven Democrats who purport to question Sanders’ electability, and even if they now most reluctantly acknowledge the robustness of his electoral challenge to Trump, contend that he will be never be able to govern given his left agenda and considering the likely embitterment of the DNC establishment.
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Trump’s Pardons of Rod Blagojevich and Others Meant to Convince America Corruption Is OK
Barbara McQuade – NBC News,
2 Mar 2020
20 Feb 2020 – The list of 11 lucky Americans granted clemency read like a who’s who of the rich and the famous — former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr., Wall Street financier Michael Milken and former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik among them. Many of the offenders who received pardons or commutations of their sentences were convicted of crimes relating to fraud and corruption.
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George Harrison (25 Feb 1943 – 29 Nov 2001)
Biography Online - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
George Harrison was a British guitarist, singer, songwriter and film producer. As a member of the Beatles, he achieved international fame and renown. In addition to music, Harrison was interested in Hindu spirituality. After meeting A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, of which he became an active participant, Harrison turned his devotion to Lord Krishna and became a devotee of the Hare Krishna Movement in 1969.
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An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action
John Perkins | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who did not “play the game” were assassinated or overthrown. He brings us up to date about the way the economic hit man system has spread from developing countries to the US, Europe, and the rest of the world and offers a strategy for turning this around.
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Risks to Health and Well-Being from Radio-Frequency Radiation Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices
Anthony B. Miller et al. | Frontiers in Public Health - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
Novel 5G technology is being rolled out in several densely populated cities, although potential chronic health or environmental impacts have not been evaluated. The range and magnitude of potential impacts of 5G technologies are under-researched, although important biological outcomes have been reported with millimeter wave-length exposure. These include oxidative stress and altered gene expression, effects on skin and systemic effects such as on immune function. Acceleration of bacterial and viral replication, and other endpoints indicate the potential for novel as well as more commonly recognized biological impacts from this range of frequencies, and highlight the need for research.
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Turkey Now Claims Syria’s Idlib Province as Turkish Territory
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
On February 26th, Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s President, told his Islamist political party that Idlib, which is the most heavily jihadist of all of Syria’s provinces and the province where Syria had been sending jihadists who had been defeated but not killed by the Syrian army elsewhere in the Syrian war, is now permanently under Turkey’s protection, and belongs to Turkey — Turkish territory.
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Evangelicals for Trump
Khalil Bendib | Other Words - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
No comment…
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Hawai’i Aloha | Song across Hawai’i (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
An Epic Hawai’ian Song Straight from the Hearts of the Singers – Recorded live across 27 locations, this is Hawai’i’s most widely known and loved song, used to close important gatherings of all sizes. It is a song of unity and Aloha ‘Aina (Aloha for one’s birthplace, land and home).
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Gandhi’s Killer Evokes Admiration as Never Before
Sameer Yasir – The New York Times,
2 Mar 2020
4 Feb 2020 – As Hindu nationalism continues its march across India, a cult of personality is rising around Nathuram Godse, the Hindu extremist who killed Gandhi. “Our hero stopped Gandhi’s poison from spreading in this pure land,” Ms. Pandey, who runs the Meerut chapter of Hindu Mahasabha said. “If I was born before Godse, I would have shot Gandhi myself.”
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NATO: From Covert Sponsor to Artillery Provider for Terrorists in Syria
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
28 Feb 2020 – NATO member Turkey was recently caught out providing artillery support for terror groups in Syria’s Idlib province. As Syria’s endgame closes, the protagonists and their proxies are coming more clearly into focus. NATO’s covert shadowy connection with the jihadist insurgents it has sponsored for regime change is being flushed out as the Syrian army and its Russian ally home in on the last stand of the terror groups.
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Persistence of Coronaviruses on Inanimate Surfaces and Their Inactivation with Biocidal Agents
G. Kampf, et al. | Journal of Hospital Infection – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
6 Feb 2020 – Currently, the emergence of a novel human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has become a global health concern causing severe respiratory tract infections in humans. Human-to-human transmissions have been described with incubation times between 2-10 days, facilitating its spread via droplets, contaminated hands or surfaces. We therefore reviewed the literature on all available information about the persistence of human and veterinary coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces as well as inactivation strategies with biocidal agents used for chemical disinfection, e.g. in healthcare facilities.
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Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
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Julian Assange Must Be Freed, Not Betrayed
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
On 24 FEBRUARY, Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange FACES A COURT to decide WHETHER OR NOT HE IS TO BE EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES and a living death.
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Bernie Sanders to Skip AIPAC Conference on Political Reasons
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
23 Feb 2020 – The Vermont senator made it clear that he will not attend the AIPAC event for political, not agenda-related, reasons. “I remain concerned about the platform that AIPAC offers to leaders who express intolerance and oppose the basic rights of Palestinians. For that reason, I will not be attending your conference.”
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Extradition and Trial of Julian Assange
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
19 Feb 2020 – The following items have been progressively accumulated as an addendum to an earlier document elaborated as a speculative dramatisation of the legal process against Julian Assange in several Christian countries. Given the probability of his extradition, trial and conviction in the USA, a further document was produced to offer Christians the possibility of collectively determining his punishment — in the spirit of that dramatisation.
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Marchers Support Assange ahead of London Extradition Hearing
Jill Lawless | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
22 Feb 2020 – Hundreds of supporters of Julian Assange marched through London today to pressure the U.K. government not to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States in hearing due to begin in a London court on Monday 24 Feb. Famous backers, including Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, editor in chief of WikiLeaks Kristinn Hrafnsonn, Assange’s father John Shipton, Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters, and Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde joined the crowd.
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Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in Belmarsh high-security prison in the United Kingdom and faces extradition to the United States and criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. He risks up to 175 years imprisonment for his part in making public the leak of US military documents from Afghanistan and Iraq, and a trove of US State Department cables.
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West Point Prof Pens Blistering Takedown of U.S. Military Academies
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos | The American Conservative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
17 Feb 2020 – What do you call a civilian law professor who, after successfully filing for federal whistleblower status to keep his job teaching at West Point Military Academy, proceeds to write a bombshell book about the systematic corruption, violence, fraud, and anti-intellectualism he says has been rampant at the historic institution for over a hundred years?
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Large Parts of China Relax Coronavirus Curbs, Many Places Report Zero New Cases
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
24 Feb 2020 – Figures released by the national health authority today showed 24 out of China’s 31 provinces and regions – including Beijing, Shanghai and populous provinces such as Henan and Anhui – reported zero cases of new infections on Feb. 23, the best showing since it began publishing nationwide figures on Jan. 20. Yesterday, Sunday, President Xi hailed the positive trend, and urged businesses to resume work and safeguard jobs.
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Tariq Ali Speaks Out on Assange’s Case and US Wars
AcTVism Munich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
In this 4 Feb 2020 speech in a public rally for Julian Assange at the Royal National Hotel in London, author, writer, filmmaker and public intellectual Tariq Ali speaks about Julian Assange and contextualizes his case by focusing on U.S. wars pointing out the double standards observed when it comes to the application of international law. Ali emphasizes the importance of collective action around the plight of Julian Assange.
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(Français) Le sort de Snowden, Manning, Harrison et Assange devrait susciter la même indignation mondiale que celle de Mandela
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
13 Fév 2020 – L’association Carta Academica a remis le 29 janvier à Bruxelles ses premiers Academic Honoris Causa à Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden et Sarah Harrison. Durant la cérémonie, le philosophe Geoffroy de Lagasnerie a expliqué qu’ils incarnent tous les quatre ce que Derrida appelle le « destin de l’humanité ».
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Weaponizing Lawfare in the Philippines
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
22 Feb 2020 – Rodrigo Duterte, despite leaving by now a long trail of blood-stained abuse, retains an approval rating of more than 80%. As in the United States, we ask the question that prompted the leading thinkers in ancient Athens to abandon democracy—‘how can we trust the citizenry if they are drawn to support demagogues whose policies are self-destructive for the political community?” If not, the people, then whom? Surely, not the financial oligarchs. Plutocracy is not the answer.
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Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – Trump issued 11 pardons on Tuesday [18 Feb], expunging the lawbreaking records of billionaire financier Michael Milken, the “junk bond king,” and billionaire real estate magnate Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., former owner of the San Francisco 49ers. He also pardoned former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, convicted of tax fraud and perjury, and commuted the 14-year jail term of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, impeached and then convicted on multiple corruption counts, including attempting to sell the Senate seat of Barack Obama after Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008.
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(中文 – Chinese) 世卫组织总干事在慕尼黑安全会议上的讲话
世卫组织总干事谭德塞博士 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
此时此刻，需要事实，而非恐惧。
此时此刻，需要理性，而非谣言。
此时此刻，需要团结，而非污名化。
World-Wide Journalists Condemn Court Action against Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – 1242 journalists from 99 countries (as of 21 Feb 2020 10:30 a.m. GMT) have released a joint statement today in defence of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, in the lead up to proceedings in a UK court to extradite him to the United States to face the espionage charges. The court case begins on 24 February.
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Munich Conference Reveals East-West Divide
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
24 Feb 2020
19 Feb 2020 – Few postmodern political pantomimes have been more revealing than the hundreds of so-called “international decision-makers,” mostly Western, waxing lyrical, disgusted or nostalgic over “Westlessness” at the Munich Security Conference.
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How COVID-19 Spreads
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
17 Feb 2020 – Current understanding about how the virus that causes coronavirus disease spreads is largely based on what is known about similar coronaviruses. On 11 Feb the WHO announced an official name for the disease that is causing the current outbreak of coronavirus disease, COVID-19. CDC will be updating our website and other CDC materials to reflect the updated name.
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More than 1300 #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange
JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
24 Feb 2020 – More than 1300 #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange and demand that #Assange be released immediately from #prison, that the #UK government and judiciary refuse to permit a politically-motivated #extradition, and that the #US government drop the charges of #espionage.
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Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
Money-on-tap gives them virtually unlimited purchasing power – and purchasing power is power. They buy the most expensive manpower and assets that money can buy, in effect behaving like “Sultans” of all that they survey. Almost anything can be purchased for a price, after all. Thus money-on-tap is the latest innovation to create the illusion of “conquering the world”.
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Portugal: Parliament Approves the ‘Death with Dignity’–Euthanasia Right
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – Despite protests from fundamentalist religious groups, Portugal’s Parliament today took the first step in favor of the decriminalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill people. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has also to approve the law.
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“War Is a Racket”
Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his extensive military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit, profiteering from warfare. He made a nationwide U.S. tour in the early 1930s giving this speech.
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Australia World’s Leading Polluter of Greenhouse Gas Per Capita
Dr Gideon Polya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
18 Feb 2020 – The Australian Government’s backing of new coal mines, new gas exploitation, new highways, two new gas-fired power stations, and new coal-fired power stations flies in the face of science and of an ever-worsening Climate Emergency reflected in catastrophic bushfires and apocalyptic wild life loss. Unfortunately the fossil fuel Lobby has the political upper hand, most notably in climate criminal America under climate change denialist Donald Trump and in its pro-coal, pro-gas lackey Australia.
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How India’s Modi Is Playing on Trump’s Ego to His Advantage
M.K. Bhadrakumar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
Trump’s remarks on his India visit Feb 24-25: “We’re not treated very well by India, but I happen to like Prime Minister Modi a lot. And he told me we’ll have 7 million people between the airport and the event. And the stadium, I understand, is sort of semi under construction, but it’s going to be the largest stadium in the world. So it’s going to be very exciting. But he says between the stadium and the airport, we’ll have about 7 million people. So it’s going to be very exciting. I hope you all enjoy it.”
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Mistrial Is another Blow to U.S. Coup in Venezuela–Our Work Continues
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
16 Feb 2020 – Last week, we along with Adrienne Pine and David Paul were unsuccessfully prosecuted by the Trump administration for our protection of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC from April 10 to May 16, 2019. The jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision and so we remain innocent of the charge of interfering with the protective functions of the US Department of State. The judge declared a mistrial.
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teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States because it would have a chilling effect on press freedom, a European human rights chief said today. The Council of Europe is the continent’s leading human rights organization, with 47 member states including Britain, all of which are signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights.
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(Português) Ética e Espiritualidade face aos desastres ecológicos atuais
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
15 fev 2020 – As grandes chuvas com inundações desastrosas que afetaram muitas cidades do Brasil e paralelamente os incêndios fenomenais na Austrália, seguidos imediatamente de inesperadas inundações, constituem sinais inequívocos da Terra de que nela algumas mudanças importantes estão ocorrendo. É praticamente consenso de que estas mudanças para pior se devem à ação irresponsável dos seres humanos (a era do antropoceno).
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What You Need to Be Warm
Neil Gaiman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
A baked potato of a winter’s night to wrap your hands around or burn your mouth.
A blanket knitted by your mother’s cunning fingers. Or your grandmother’s.
Compassion
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
Mother Teresa was bandaging an old man with an advanced stage of leprosy.
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COVID-19 at Munich Security Conference
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | WHO Director-General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
15 Feb 2020 – Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous… The greatest enemy we face is not the virus itself; it’s the stigma that turns us against each other. We must stop stigma and hate! … It’s easy to blame. It’s easy to politicize. It’s harder to tackle a problem together, and find solutions together… We will all learn lessons from this outbreak. But now is not the time for recriminations or politicization. This is a time for facts, not fear. This is a time for rationality, not rumours. This is a time for solidarity, not stigma.
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(Português) Harrison Ford Muda Alimentação pelo Bem do Planeta
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 fev 2020 – Durante sua participação no programa The Ellen DeGeneres Show, o ator Harrison Ford disse que decidiu fazer mudanças na sua alimentação pelo bem do planeta. O anúncio foi feito um ano após ele criticar líderes mundiais que ignoram o impacto das mudanças climáticas. Ford revelou que já não consome mais nenhum tipo de laticínios ou carne, com exceção de peixe, e que tem priorizado os vegetais.
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Another Brick in the Wall (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
The official video for Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd taken from the album ‘The Wall’ originally released in 1979.
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Cartoon: 2020 Senate Republican Class Photo
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
Republican Democracy
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Can Dems Be Part of the Solution at AIPAC?
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
23 Feb 2020 – A coalition of progressive organizations is pressuring Democratic candidates to boycott the AIPAC-American Israel Public Affairs Committee Conference in Washington, March 1–3, 2020. Skipping AIPAC would be a huge mistake and a loss for the candidates, the party, our democracy, and AIPAC.
→ read full articleRocky and Ravi — Stories of People and Films
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
17 Feb 2020 – When a child is born in some rural or less urbanised part of India, the parents, grandparents or some Guru in whom the family has faith, give the baby a name that they feel is appropriate to their God, season or nakshatra—-the position of some planets.
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The United States Is Formally Accused of Crimes against Humanity at the International Criminal Court
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020 – Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza arrived in The Hague (Netherlands) today to file a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the United States and its sanctions. Arreaza: ‘US Coercive Measures Are Mass Destruction Weapons.’
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Wall Street Celebrates Milken Pardon
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – The decision by Donald Trump to pardon the financial criminal Michael Milken is being celebrated on Wall Street and for good reason. He was a pioneer of the methods and financial mechanisms that have led to the greatest accumulation of wealth by the financial oligarchy ever seen in history, at the expense of the jobs and social conditions of broad sections of the working class.
→ read full articleCollected Essays, Volume V
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
A New Freely-Downloadable Book – The book contains articles on the serious problems that are facing the world today.
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The Shocking Death of Rwandan Gospel Singer and Dissident Kizito Mihigo
Ann Garrison | San Francisco Bay View – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
19 Feb 2020 – The West’s major media, New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, the BBC, etc. have reported on the shocking death of Kizito Mihigo, a gospel singer and political dissident in the tiny Sub Saharan African country of Rwanda. But will it do anything to erode the West’s support for Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the tyrant and war criminal who no doubt ordered his execution? Probably not, because Kagame is their gateway to the riches of the Congo.
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Who Is Right, Lyn or Pam? Using Conflict Resolution Scenario Methods to Resolve an Organisational Conflict
Ivana Milojević | Journal of Futures Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
11 Feb 2020 – Lyn and Pam (names have been changed) are co-workers in an Australian organisation. They are in the middle of a conflict that has been brought to their director’s attention. The director is not sure whether to engage with this conflict, as it appears rather trivial. Like most people do when it comes to conflicts, the director is hoping that the quarrel will dissipate and disappear on its own. Also like most people, she habitually uses a style of conflict resolution that she learned in her family of origin; she applies it to all conflicts, regardless of the context.
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As Usual, Western Media Grossly Distort Syria’s Conflict
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
21 Feb 2020 – It is by now untenable for Western corporate media to spin the fictional narrative about “moderate rebels” fighting against a “cruel dictatorship”. The dominant component is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly Al Nusra Front, an offshoot of Al Qaeda, like Islamic State. Unable any longer to launder the bloody image of the terrorists and retail them as “moderate rebels”, the mainstream media are now laying on the “humanitarian emotion” as a way to undermine the sovereign right of the Syrian Army to defeat and rid the country of the terror scourge.
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Duterte Does the Right Thing for a Change
Walden Bello | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
19 Feb 2020 – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s termination of a key military pact with the United States, the Visiting Forces Agreement, which governed the deployment of US troops in the country, has evoked varied responses. He might be the devil incarnate, but Duterte is beginning the process of ending over 120 years of colonial subjugation.
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COVID-19 Contagion: Reality and Myth
Catherine Offord | The Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
21 Feb 2020 – Scientists’ Latest Understanding of the Facts, the Suspicions, and the Discounted Rumors of SARS-CoV-2’s Transmission from Person to Person
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