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The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – The symbolic power of Bernie’s old pair of mittens was the work of the “us” in “not me, us.”
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“The best warriors do not use violence. The best tacticians try to avoid confrontation. The best businessmen serve the communal good. The best leaders become servants of their people…”
Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi also known as Lao Tzu. However, the text’s authorship and dates of composition and compilation are debated.
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Are We as Area Studies Scholars Guilty of Negligence in Allowing Genocides to Happen in the Regions We Study?
Michael Charney | FORSEA Forces of Renewal for Southeast Asia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – Foreign scholars CAN help to prevent genocide again. If we’re waiting for policymakers to prevent things on their own and save ourselves the trouble so that we can take a well-funded research trip and sit outside a coffee shop in Naypyitaw or Yangon, why should the rest of the world have any interest in reading anything we have to write? Scholarship and research should mean something.
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Baby I Love Your Way (Music Video of the Week)
Peter Frampton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Live Midnight Special 1975
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The ‘Humanitarian’ Left Still Ignores the Lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to Cheer on More War
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021 – The instinct among parts of the left to cheerlead the right’s war crimes dressed up as liberal “humanitarianism” is alive and kicking even after two decades of the horror shows that followed the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the US and UK; the western-sponsored butchering of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi unleashing a trade in slaves and arms; and the west’s covert backing of Islamic jihadists who proceeded to tear Syria apart.
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Leading UN Member-States Fail to End Rohingya Abuse
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
20 Jan 2021 – With an air of renewed optimism, Bangladesh side has widely reported on the Beijing-brokered meeting yesterday to resuscitate the repatriation process of 1 million Rohingya. However, the China-brokered tripartite meeting will bring no solution for either Bangladesh or Rohingya refugees.
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Corona Mask Mandates: Science or Political Dogma?
Michael J. Talmo | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
When it comes to masks, U.S. government officials have more waffles than a pancake house. Back in March 2020 we were told not to wear masks. Then, starting in April, they do an about-face and for the past several months have been telling us to wear surgical and even cloth masks. But they insisted that the masks won’t protect the people wearing them from COVID-19—only the people they come in contact with. “My mask protects you, your mask protects me” was the mantra.
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This Isn’t Goodbye
Mr. Fish | Scheer Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Troy Revisited – 20 Jan 2021
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Astonishing COVID-19 Testing Fraud Revealed
Joseph Mercola, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
13 Jan 2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how easy it is to manufacture panic. Topping the list of deceptive strategies is the use of a test that falsely labels healthy individuals as sick and infectious. The now infamous RT-PCR test is not designed to be used as a diagnostic tool as it cannot distinguish between inactive viruses and “live” or reproductive ones. This is a crucial point, since inactive and reproductive viruses are not interchangeable in terms of infectivity.
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UN Predicts ‘Famine Not Seen in 40 Years’ Due to Pompeo’s Yemen Policy
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – Mike Pompeo’s designation of Houthis as foreign terror group will block food and other aid, senior humanitarian says.
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Martin Luther King: The Saint Honored by the Government That Shot Him in the Face … A “Forgotten” Extrajudicial Political Assassination [?]
Prof. Graeme MacQueen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 18, was signed into law as a federal holiday in 1983. I do not wish to trivialize this accomplishment: it took great persistence by civil society groups and it had to conquer serious opposition. Yet what it has established is an indigestible paradox in the nation’s list of saints and heroes.
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MLK’s Warning of America’s Spiritual Death
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
From the Archive: A half century ago, The New York Times accused Martin Luther King Jr. of “slander” for decrying the Vietnam War and The Washington Post detected “unsupported fantasies” in his speech, recalled more favorably by Gary G. Kohls–originally published on 19 Jan 2014; slightly edited for time element.
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Update – #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange
Serena, Nicky, Blaž and Tareq | International Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – No doubt you have all closely followed the events surrounding Julian Assange’s court proceedings this week. For those of you who may have not yet had the chance, we wanted to provide you with a brief summary, analysis and some resources.
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“Orders to Kill” Dr. Martin Luther King: The Government That Honors MLK with a National Holiday Killed Him
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
A Review of ‘The Plot to Kill King’ by William Pepper – Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For almost fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government deception to hide the truth.
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(Italiano) Armi nucleari, una follia da fermare adesso
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Dal 22 gennaio 2021, le armi nucleari diventano illegali – Ci sono le volontà, ci sono i mezzi: dobbiamo farcela
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Vaccines Alone Aren’t Enough to Eradicate a Virus – Lessons from History
Caitjan Gainty and Agnes Arnold-Forster | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021- Too much hope is being pinned on the vaccine alone to get us out of the current pandemic. But ‘low-tech’ solutions are needed, too.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Report on the State of Planet Earth at Year’s End 2020
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
The global elite continues to exercise enormous power to determine our fate and only a strategic response has any genuine prospect of defeating the elite coup to defend our identity, freedom and volition. ‘Never send to know for whom the bell tolls.’
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DC Police Arrest 147 White Protesters on Capitol Steps
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
13 Jan 2021 – It was January 10, 2020. We weren’t protesting a stolen election, but a stolen future. I was among those arrested on the last day of Jane Fonda’s four-month DC stint of Fire Drill Fridays, along with Martin Sheen and Joaquin Phoenix.
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US Blacklisting of Houthis ‘Could Tip Yemen into Huge Famine’
BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – The US plan to designate Yemen’s rebel Houthi movement as a terrorist group is likely to trigger a “famine on a scale that we have not seen for nearly 40 years”, the UN’s aid chief has said.
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Coronavirus Global Data: 95,5M+ Infected; 2M+ Deceased; 68,2M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
On 18 Jan 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 192
Total Cases: 95,518,512
Deaths: 2,040,457
Recovered: 68,230,396
Cases Closed: 70,270,853
Active: 25,247,659
In Historic House Vote, Only 10 Republicans Join Democrats to Impeach Trump for Inciting Insurrection
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
13 Jan 2021 – With only a week left in office, President Donald Trump today became the first U.S. president in history to be impeached for a second time when all House Democrats—joined by just 10 Republicans—passed an article charging him with “high crimes and misdemeanors” for inciting a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Biden’s Nominee for CIA Director
John Kiriakou | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – If there must be a CIA, I feel better with Bill Burns being in charge of it.
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Why B’Tselem Is Calling Israel an Apartheid Regime, from the River to the Sea
Orly Noy | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – One of Israel’s top human rights groups recognizes the occupation cannot be viewed in isolation from the goal of Jewish supremacy inside the Green Line. B’Tselem invites the Israeli public and the international community to look at our reality with courage, to internalize its full meaning, and to work to create a different future based on full and equal human rights for all the inhabitants of the country.
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Lawyers
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
A doctor met his lawyer friend at a party and lamented to him that when he was at a party people would ask him for advice on what to do about their illnesses.
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The Correct Response to Fascism Is Not Compromise: QAnon and Hate Speech Need to Be Dealt with Head-On
Robin Edward Poulton - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – After the invasion of – and temporary suspension of – Congress, what is the correct response? As a peace maker, you might think I would opt for compromise, but that is not my position. A surgeon faced with a cancerous tumor does not wait until the tumor gets bigger: he cuts it out as soon as possible, and radiates the surrounding area to ensure the cancer does not grow back. QAnon is a cancer in the American body politic, and it needs to be treated like the Fascist Cancer it has become.
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ACTION ALERT: What Can ‘Now Be Told’ by NYT about Pentagon Papers Isn’t Actually True
Jim Naureckas | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Contrary to what is generally believed, Mr. Ellsberg never ‘gave’ the papers to the Times.” In fact, Ellsberg did give the papers to Sheehan, as the story gets around to revealing 38 paragraphs later: “So he told Mr. Ellsberg that he now needed the documents, not just his notes…. This time, when Mr. Sheehan asked, Mr. Ellsberg consented…. He arranged for Mr. Sheehan to pick up a complete copy of the historical study stowed in an Ellsberg family apartment in Manhattan.”So the big revisionist revelation in the New York Times article turns out to be false.
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“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
Carl Sagan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, poet, and science communicator.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Country Health Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Welcome to World Life Expectancy. Find info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated daily.
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Final Speech from ‘The Great Dictator’
Charlie Chaplin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…”
–The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
The Contagion of Capital
John Bellamy Foster, R. Jamil Jonna and Brett Clark | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
1 Jan 2021 – The U.S. economy and society at the start of 2021 is more polarized than it has been at any point since the Civil War. The wealthy are awash in a flood of riches, marked by a booming stock market, while the underlying population exists in a state of relative, and in some cases even absolute, misery and decline.
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Fifty Years Later: The Significance of the Nuremberg Code
Evelyne Shuster, Ph.D. | The New England Journal of Medicine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion…
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(Italiano) Nella più totale impunità l’emergenza continua nelle carceri indiane
Intervista a Virginius Xaxa di Daniela Bezzi | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Gennaio 2021 – Ci è già capitato più volte di denunciare su questo sito la situazione emergenziale del sistema giudiziario indiano, che sempre più spesso negli ultimi anni, di fronte a qualsiasi forma di dissenso, ha fatto ricorso al cosiddetto UAPA, acronimo che sta per Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
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Tico Tico no Fubá (Music Video of the Week)
Edgar Weissenfels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
A Brazilian song masterfully executed in an organ Wersi-Louvre
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The Future of Vaccines
The Corbett Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
23 Dec 2020 – In his video report, “The Future of Vaccines,” investigative journalist James Corbett reviews how the novel COVID-19 vaccine is paving the way for non-consensual medical experimentation on the general public.
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Anônimo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Sem comentário…
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US Brands Yemen’s Houthi Rebels “Terrorists,” Paving Way for Mass Starvation
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday [11 Jan] that Washington will designate the Houthi rebels, who govern territory containing 70 percent of the Yemeni population, as a “foreign terrorist organization.” This cynical and potentially catastrophic measure is being taken by the ostensibly “lame-duck” secretary of state as part of an unrelenting “maximum pressure” campaign of punishing economic sanctions and continuous military provocations against Iran.
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Smiles — Bewitching, Enticing
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
A smile is a common human facial expression. It can be welcoming; it can be wicked or threatening without any words being spoken. Words depend on the language of the speaker or the listener but a smile needs no words and yet conveys a lot of meaning in whatever situation one is.
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Resistance: Voices of Exiled Writers
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
This is an anthology of poems and short prose texts describing the situations that led to the exile of the writer. The suffering and loss of country, home, family members and friends along with the personal experiences of torture and imprisonment are shared with others through memory.
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Brazil: 6 Patients Die of Asphyxiation as Hospitals in Manaus Run Out of Oxygen
Tomás Castanheira | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
16 Jan 2021 – Amid an explosive growth in COVID-19 hospitalizations, the Brazil’s Amazonian capital, Manaus, is experiencing days of terror with a collapse of the oxygen supply in its hospitals. An entire wing of University Hospital patients died on Thursday [14 Jan] night due to lack of oxygen, six people in total.
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How Sarvodaya Was Founded
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne (called “Ari” by his friends) was a high school physics teacher in Sri Lanka. But he felt that what he had to teach within the prescribed curriculum had little relevance for students’ lives.
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Death by Coincidence?
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – Declarations by health officials and vaccine makers that deaths and injuries following COVID vaccinations are unrelated coincidences are becoming a pattern. They’re also depriving people of the information they need to make informed decisions.
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It’s Time to End the Nuclear Era!
Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Today, 15 Jan 2021, in advance of next week’s two milestones of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on 22 Jan and the 75th anniversary of UN General Assembly Resolution 1(1) two days later, we issued a statement to welcome the new treaty and to remind all states of their 75-year obligation to disarm.
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‘There Is No Noise’: Inside the Controversial Rohingya Bhasan Char Refugee Camp – A Photo Essay
Anonymous, as told to Shafiur Rahman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – Amid concern from charities and NGOs, Bangladesh is relocating Rohingya refugees to a remote island. One resident describes his new life there.
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“Special People”
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
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Nutrition to Treat and Prevent COVID-19
Doctor Y, Andrew W. Saul, and Robert G. Smith | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
17 Jan 2021 – Speaking out on nutritional therapy for COVID-19 is risky for medical doctors. Yet another physician is being threatened by his state licensing board for writing what you are about to read. We are not calling him/her “Doctor Y” on a whim, but rather by necessity.
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America and Turbulent Democracy Look for Change
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
True wisdom needs soul searching and tranquility of human behavior – the manifestations of true wisdom. If Americans are intelligent, they should listen to voices of Reason and Wisdom before it is too late. Its pains, horrors and cruelty are within itself.
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Let´s Celebrate the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Entry into Force Together!
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Dear IPB Family and Friends, on 22 Jan 2021 the world will celebrate the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, supported by over 120 states at the UN in July 2017. On this historic day, we call on our friends and all peace lovers to celebrate this historical step, and deliver this great news with noise and fun in your countries all across the globe, as the road to a world free of nuclear weapons is now wide open!
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WHO: No Guarantee COVID Vaccines Will Prevent People from Being Infected
Joseph Mercola, M.D. | Children's Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – At a virtual press conference held by the World Health Organization on 28 Dec 2020, officials warned there is no guarantee that COVID-19 vaccines will prevent people from being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and transmitting it to other people.
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Billionaires Add $1tn to Net Worth during Pandemic as Their Workers Struggle
Michael Sainato | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – Billionaires in the US have increased their net worth by more than $1tn during the coronavirus pandemic, while many of their US workers have struggled with coronavirus risks in workplaces, for little to no extra pay to work in hazardous conditions.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Ralph Waldo Emerson once noted that ‘The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.’ If we are to prove him wrong, we do not have much time left. This is because Homo Sapiens is a part of the web of life. And we are ruthlessly destroying that web.
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Environmental and Farmers Organizations in Italy Stop Government Attempt to Give Green Light to GMOs and NBTs
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – Twenty six farmers organisations, environmental movements and consumer associations in Italy collectively launched a powerful campaign this week, which prevented the government from passing 4 bills inspired by the agribusiness lobby and proposed by the Minister of Agriculture to permit GMOs and other New Breeding Techniques to enter the country.
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Julian Assange’s Denial of Freedom an Affront to Human Rights
Sara Chessa | Independent Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – JUST TWO DAYS after saying “no” to a U.S. extradition request, Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected Julian Assange’s bail application and sent him back to Belmarsh Prison. Meanwhile, the U.S. Government has confirmed they will appeal the verdict and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Professor Nils Melzer, called again for Assange to be immediately released.
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From “The Ninth Elegy”
Rainer Maria Rilke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Why, if it could begin as laurel, and be spent so,
this space of Being, a little darker than all
the surrounding green, with little waves at the edge
Blocking Twitter & Twitter Blocking Trump: Why We Should Worry
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Should a government have the authority to limit the dissemination by social media of material derogatory to or defamatory of the elected leadership of the country, as well as have a mandate to impose limits on access to sexually explicit material in deference to public morals?
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Why Are People Going Hungry in India Despite a Massive Grain Surplus?
Prabhat Patnaik | Indepedent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – Since late November, braving the bitter cold, hundreds of thousands of farmers have set up protest camps at various points on the borders of India’s capital, New Delhi. Their main demand is the withdrawal of the three farm laws rammed through parliament by the right-wing Narendra Modi government in September.
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Color, COVID and the Coup
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – People of color in the USA are more likely to die of gun violence and to contract COVID-19, and when they do, disproportionately suffer more serious consequences, including death. The violent white supremacist insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th put the ugly realities of racism and inequality in this country in stark relief. Trump’s departure from the Oval Office is only the first step.
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How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler
Glenn Greenwald |– TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.
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Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – New report by rights group B’Tselem will make it harder to smear Israel’s critics as antisemites for arguing that Israel is a racist state. For more than a decade, Israeli politicians and US diplomats from the “peace process industry” warned that, without a two-state solution, Israel is in danger of becoming an “apartheid state”.
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On 22 Jan 2021, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Will Enter into Force
ICAN-International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
To mark the day that nuclear weapons become illegal under international law, ICAN campaigners and other anti-nuclear activists around the world will be hosting a huge range of actions and activities. Find one near you (or online in your timezone) through the map below. And make sure to add yours to the map as well!
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Explaining the United Nations
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
A letter written by a citizen of Kashmir I read recently, addressed to the United Nations Secretary General, urging him to ensure an end to the Kashmir conflict, prompts me to write this piece. The writer stated the end of the conflict was necessary “if war was to be avoided, not only between India and Pakistan, but a war that would extend to various countries”.
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The US Capitol Building Riot and Its Blowback
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – The Only Thing Scarier than QAnon Is the Reaction to It
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How a Lawbreaking International Coalition Failed to Overthrow Venezuela’s Government
Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – Last 15 Jan the newly elected National Assembly took its seats in Venezuela. That day the Lima Group released a statement saying they did not recognize it and called upon countries to “disregard” it and recognize a former member, Juan Guaidó. The Group called for a “transition process” in Venezuela; in other words, the overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution.
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Between Capitalism and Community
Michael A. Lebowitz | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
In this book, Michael Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning Beyond Capital. Karl Marx, in Capital, focused on capital and the capitalist class that is its embodiment. It is the endless accumulation of capital, its causes and consequences, that are central to Marx’s analysis.
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Machiavelli or Gandhi? Chaiwat Satha-anand’s Nonviolence in a Comparative Perspective
Carool Kersten | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
This paper examines the doctrine of non-violence by the Thai political scientist Chaiwat Satha-Anand, based on his thesis, “The Non-Violent Prince”. Chaiwat’s theoretical considerations will be related to the work of the political philosopher Leo Strauss and his doctrine will be contrasted with the Gandhian notion of non-violence through a comparison with the writings of the French Islamologist Louis Massignon.
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The Trump Administration’s Parting Outrage against Cuba
Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
On 11 Jan 2021, in his final days before leaving office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added one parting blow to the series of bludgeons his administration has inflicted on Cuba for four years: putting the island on the list of “state sponsors of terror” that includes only Iran, North Korea and Syria. The designation drew swift condemnation from policymakers and humanitarian groups.
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Trump’s Twitter Ban May Be Justified, but That Doesn’t Mean Tech Giants’ Power Isn’t Scary
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – In the wake of the dramatic storming of the Capitol last week, a host of big media companies, including Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok, have all taken measures against Donald Trump. Making the most headlines, however, was the decision of the president’s favorite medium, Twitter (8 Jan 21), to permanently suspend him “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
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British Judge Keeps Julian Assange in Prison, Despite Denying Extradition Two Days Ago
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
6 Jan 2021 – “As far as Mr. Assange is concerned, this case has not been won,” Judge Vanessa Baraitser declared. She said the United States government “must be allowed to challenge [her] decision.”
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Nobel Nominations – Deadline Jan 31
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – The world needs a less dangerous, non life-threatening, security system and a new, open and realistic thinking about the foul and failed militarized world disorder that we all live under. Nobel saw this in 1895 when he tasked a Norwegian committee with awarding his “prize for the champions of peace”.
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Licensed to Live? Licensed to Lie? Unlicensed to Die?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Implications of Universal Vaccination–Voluntary or Otherwise – The question as to whether vaccination against COVID-19 should be voluntary or mandatory is now widely discussed. Increasingly any questions as to the value or dangers of such vaccination are framed as misinformation — if not deliberate disinformation and a feature of conspiracy theories, necessarily to be deprecated.
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(Português) 10 Estratégias de Manipulação em Massa Utilizadas Diariamente Contra Você
Tales Luciano Duarte | Saia da Caixinha/Yogui.co - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
“Em um estado totalitário não se importa com o que as pessoas pensam, desde que o governo possa controlá-la pela força usando cassetetes. Mas quando você não pode controlar as pessoas pela força, você tem que controlar o que as pessoas pensam, e a maneira típica de fazer isso é através da propaganda (fabricação de consentimento, criação de ilusões necessárias), marginalizando o público em geral ou reduzindo-a a alguma forma de apatia” (Chomsky, N., 1993)
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UK Judge Blocks US Request to Extradite Assange
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – A British judge has ruled that Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges, saying that such a move would be “oppressive” because of the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health.
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Professors-Teachers: Youth Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
The Nobel Peace Prize is important to young people; it is about their future. But they cannot nominate. Therefore, we have launched the Youth nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Individuals or groups aged between 15 and 25 may send us nominations.
→ read full articleCoronavirus Global Data: 90,7M+ Infected <> 1,9M+ Deceased <> 64,8M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
On 11 Jan 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 192
Total Cases: 90,708,118
Deaths: 1,943,544
Recovered: 64,852,338
Cases Closed: 66,795,882
Active: 23,912,236
Money Matters
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
All modern societies are dependent on money in the form of currency — dollars, rubles, Euros, rupees, taka, etc. Dollars are the currency of not only USA, but of other countries also — Australia, New Zealand, Namibia although their value is different from the USD (US dollar).
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A Simple Way to Understand What’s Happening … and What to Do
Richard Heinberg | Post Carbon Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Energy is necessary in order for any organism to do anything whatsoever. For humans, food is energy that powers labor. But, in addition, people long ago learned how to harness energy from fire, water, and wind. Using firewood, paddle wheels, and sails, we built agrarian societies with irrigation systems, cities, cathedrals, mills, and seagoing ships, and created some pretty great art, music, and literature along the way.
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Our Suicidal War against Nature
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Ceasefire in Our Suicidal War against Nature – Here are some quotations from a 2 Dec 2020 article by Justin Rowlatt entitled “Humans waging suicidal war on nature – UN chief Antonio Guterres”:
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Twitter Bans President Trump Permanently
Brian Fung | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said yesterday evening. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter said.
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Pro-Trump Crackpots Invade the Capitol, Beware a Draconian Response
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – How much can we trust corporate media accounts of the Capitol riot on Wednesday, January 6? In no time at all there were claims of Russian involvement. And President-elect Biden has already said he’ll increase budgets for handling domestic terrorism. Will that include the “Black identity extremists” that the FBI identified as a domestic threat in 2019?
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Porn Addiction Coach Reveals the Problem Has ‘Nothing to Do with Sex’ as He Helps Struggling Men Navigate Dependency in Lockdown
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
10 Jan 2021 – The digital revolution and social media explosion have allowed the addiction to flourish. Tim Reigle is helping thousands of men all over the globe break their erotic compulsions and regain control of their lives. The Covid-19 pandemic has birthed many externalities, but one that’s flown under the radar is the explosion in men succumbing to porn.
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Madman Trump’s Last Ditch Options
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – Are Trump’s Most Reckless Actions Yet to Come? Just what we need in the midst of a global pandemic! Iranian officials are aware of intelligence suggesting the Trump administration is engaged in a “plot to fabricate a pretext for war.” Israeli and US nuclear submarines and other warships including the USS Nimitz carrier strike force are in position.
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Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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Pelosi Asks Military to Limit Trump’s Nuclear Authority–Here’s How That System Works
Geoff Brumfiel | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked the Pentagon’s leadership to limit President Trump’s ability to use nuclear weapons during his final days in office. In a letter to her Democratic House colleagues today, Pelosi said that she had spoken with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley.
→ read full articleAlbert Schweitzer (14 Jan 1875 – 4 Sep 1965): Reverence for Life
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
“Just as the rivers are much less numerous than underground streams, so the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what men and women carry in their hearts, unreleased or scarcely released.”
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As Time Goes By – Casablanca (Music Video of the Week)
Herman Hupfeld | USP Filarmonica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
From the classic movie Casablanca released on 17 May 1945
Orquestra Filarmonica of the University of São Paulo
Big Tech and Big Pharma Merge: Oracle Takes Over Vaccine Data World
Jay Hawker | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
6 Jan 2021 – The pandemic handed Oracle CEO Larry Ellison what he’s wanted for decades — the power to curate the vast datasets housing our medical, financial and personal information.
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“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”
Albert Camus, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel. Camus was born in Algeria to French Pieds Noirs parents.
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What is Activism?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
What is activism?
For 30 years, I have asked myself that perennial question.
Now that a New Year has dawned, I must ask and answer it, again.
Activism is Conscience, triggered by acute pain,
The pain of witnessing and living the state of the troubled world.
The Fascinating Story of Placebos – And Why Doctors Should Use Them More Often
Will de Freitas | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
6 Jan 2021 – Every time your doctor tells you that the drug you take has been proved to work, they mean that it has been proved to work better than a placebo.
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(Português) Robbie Williams Adota Dieta à Base de Vegetais Após Consumir Peixes Contaminados
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 jan 2021 – Em dezembro, durante entrevista à Rádio X, o cantor britânico Robbie Williams revelou que a sua principal motivação para adotar uma dieta à base de vegetais foi descobrir uma séria intoxicação por mercúrio. “Eu comia peixe duas vezes por dia e tive a maior intoxicação por mercúrio que o médico já viu”, informou.
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Who to Believe about Venezuela’s Election?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – In early December I traveled to Venezuela to be an election observer at their national assembly election. There were about two hundred international observers, including the Latin American Council of Electoral Experts. I have been an official election observer in Honduras and was an unofficial observer at the 2015 Venezuela national assembly election.
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The 7 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Not the Answer to Solve Climate Change
Mark Z. Jacobson | Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
There is a small group of scientists that have proposed replacing 100% of the world’s fossil fuel power plants with nuclear reactors as a way to solve climate change. Many others propose nuclear grow to satisfy up to 20 percent of all our energy (not just electricity) needs. They advocate that nuclear is a “clean” carbon-free source of power, but they don’t look at the human impacts of these scenarios. Let’s do the math…
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Bethlehem, Biden, and Biology
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – Readers asked me to comment on events in the US (including the storming of Trump supporters. Israeli commentators worried because some Trump supporters waved American flags. And a congresswoman from Florida promised to put the Israeli flag next to the American flag in front of her office. Trump did deliver for Zionism.
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Trump’s Deal on Morocco’s Western Sahara Annexation Risks More Global Conflict
Stephen Zunes | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
15 Dec 2021 – Last week, President Trump formally recognized Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara as part of a deal to get Morocco to normalize relations with Israel. But Morocco’s claim on Western Sahara is rejected by the United Nations, the World Court, the African Union and a broad consensus of international legal scholars that consider the region a non-self-governing territory that must be allowed an act of self-determination. This is why no country had formally recognized Morocco’s takeover — until now.
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Big Pharma’s Finest Hour?
Nick Dearden | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – The roll-out of COVID vaccines gives much-needed hope. But without fundamental reform of the drug industry, inequality and mistrust will cost lives both nationally and globally.
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The Terrorist Attack Is NOT Over
Michael Moore - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
10 Jan 2021 – The terrorist attack is NOT over. Thousands from Wednesday’s [6 Jan] terrorist mob assault on the Capitol have not been arrested and have NOT LEFT the DC area. They are planning more attacks. A poster advertising an “ARMED MARCH ON CAPITOL HILL & ALL STATE CAPITOLS” on January 17th is being displayed all over.
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The Empire Is Not Done with Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – The arrest eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British and U.S. governments, in the seizure of Assange were ominous. They presaged a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially war crimes, carried out by corporate states and the global ruling elite will be masked from the public. They presaged a world where those with the courage and integrity to expose the misuse of power will be hunted down, tortured, subjected to sham trials and given lifetime prison terms in solitary confinement.
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Pashtun Woman: Enduring the Unendurable
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
It is said 90% of the world’s opium is grown in Afghanistan. It is alleged Taliban forces, exacting tolls religious fanaticism, ended opium production, while the presence of United States and NATO occupation increased this percentage. There is too much money to be made by nations and cartels to yield control. Shame!
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New York Times Declines My Rebuttal to Defamatory Op-Ed on COVID Vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
5 Jan 2021 – On Dec. 30, 2020, the New York Times published an opinion piece by my niece, Dr. Kerry Meltzer. Although the piece contained factual errors and defamatory accusations, the Times declined to publish my letter to the editor correcting those false claims.
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Readers Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Piano
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The Fascist Coup of 6 Jan 2021
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – The fascist insurrection in Washington DC—which resulted in the storming of the US Congress, the panicked dispersal of terrified senators and members of the House, the delay of the official validation of Joseph Biden’s Electoral College majority, and even the occupation of the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—is a turning point in the political history of the United States.
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