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The Rich Just Keep on Getting Richer
Mac Hackett | Vice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
16 Jul 2020 -New research has revealed that, despite the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s super-wealthy have continued to get wealthier. The Swiss bank UBS surveyed the family offices of 121 families whose average fortune is £1.25 billion ($1.6 billion) – making them the richest in the world.
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After 40 Years, Researchers Finally See Earth’s Climate Destiny More Clearly
Paul Voosen | Science Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
22 Jul 2020 – The new study is the payoff of decades of advances in climate science, says James Hansen, the famed retired NASA climate scientist who helped craft the first sensitivity range in 1979. “It is an impressive, comprehensive study, and I am not just saying that because I agree with the result. Whoever shepherded this deserves our gratitude.”
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AFRICOM and the Guise of Terrorism
Tunde Osazua | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – If AFRICOM’s mission is to fight terrorism, then why have terror attacks increased five-fold since the US began its military occupation of the continent? “Entities that threaten a liberated, autonomous Africa are the real terrorists, and the United States is the biggest terrorist in the world. AFRICOM’s true purpose is not fighting terrorism.”
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(Português) Jane Goodall Completa 60 Anos de Dedicação aos Primatas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – A primatóloga Jane Goodall, que deixou de comer carne em 1968,está completando 60 anos de atuação em defesa dos primatas. Seu trabalho iniciado em 1960 contribuiu principalmente para o reconhecimento da capacidade de aprendizagem social e raciocínio de chimpanzés e babuínos. Ela tem citado a exploração e o consumo de animais como responsáveis pelo aumento das doenças zoonóticas.
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COVID-19 and China: Lessons and the Way Forward
Editorial | The Lancet - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
25 Jul 2020 – China has largely controlled COVID-19. A country of 1.4 billion people now reports only clusters of cases rather than widespread community transmission. The rest of the world can still learn from China’s successes in bringing its outbreak under control. Tackling a global health emergency like a pandemic requires open collaboration. The lack of global solidarity to address COVID-19 amid geopolitical instability is a threat to us all.
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A Pandemic of Surveillance
J.D. Tuccille | Reason Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
We are increasingly monitored, and COVID-19 health concerns aren’t improving the situation. “Aggressive expansion of surveillance programs without adequate checks could normalize privacy intrusions and create systems that may later be used for various forms of political and social repression,” frets Freedom House.
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Agara Sutta – The Guest House
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
“In a guest house, O monks, people from the east may take lodgings, or people from the west, north or south.
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“Goldman Sachs Is Still Goldman Sachs”: Investment Banks Soar as COVID-19 Rattles Economy
William D. Cohan | Vanity Fair - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
20 Jul 2020 – The investment banks are back, baby! And you can thank for their resurrection the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic instability. Trading and underwriting are up at Goldman and Morgan Stanley, while memories of the 2008 financial collapse fade. “This is not a normal recession,” says Jamie Dimon.
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The Partisan (Music Video of the Week)
Leonard Cohen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
France 1970 Live
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Knowing How Small We Are Helps You/Us Achieve Big Things
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
25 Jul 2020 – Each of us individual human beings is a very small part of a vast universe. We do big things with help, but they are still small things in the universe…..
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UNHCR Welcomes New Ukrainian Statelessness Law Set to End Legal Limbo for Thousands
UN High Commissioner for Refugees - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
17 Jul 2020 – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes a new statelessness law in Ukraine which came into effect this week. The law will give thousands of people who lack a nationality a chance to work legally, study and access healthcare among other rights and opportunities, and will ultimately provide a pathway to citizenship, once they are recognized as stateless.
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This Is What Happens When the War on Terror Is Turned Inward, on the USA
Hamilton Nolan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
24 Jul 2020 – A strange and necessary ingredient of America’s descent towards fascism is that it will have little impact on the majority of people. Trying to determine when we slip into fascism is like staring at a baby to see when it turns into an adult. Once you perceive it, it’s already happened. The trick now is convincing that tranquil majority that their interests are more aligned with the antifa protesters than with the cops in fatigues.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
The essential difference between a confederation and a federation, both of them unions of states, is that a federation has the power to make and to enforce laws that act on individuals, rather than attempting to coerce states. Our present United Nations is a confederation attempting to coerce states with sanctions that are “applied to people collectively and not individually.” The ICC acts on individuals, rather than attempt to coerce states.
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Dag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 Apr 1953 to 18 Sep 1961 when he died in a plane crash in the Congo. He was born on 29 July 1905 in Jonkoping, Sweden. An authority on literature whose translations of poetry were widely admired, Dag’s journal of personal and spiritual reflections was published posthumously as Markings in 1963.
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Thoreau on Knowing vs. Seeing and What It Takes to Apprehend Reality Unblinded by Our Preconceptions
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”
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Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
22 Jul 2020 – This is Kabir’s America. It is our America. And our shame. Robert “Kabir” Luma was 18 when he found himself in the wrong car with the wrong people. He would pay for that misjudgment with 16 years and 54 days of his life, locked away for a crime he did not participate in and did not know was going to take place. Released from prison, he was tossed onto the street, without financial resources and, because of fines and fees imposed on him by the court system, $7,000 of debt. He ended up broke in a homeless shelter in Newark–filthy, infested with lice and bedbugs.
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Renewed Attempt for a Global Pact for the Environment
Paulo Magalhães e Sara Pires | Common Home of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
20 Jul 2020 – What is climate from a legal point of view? After 30 years, there has been no consensus on what that means from a legal standpoint. Common Home of Humanity is assembling an international coalition of leading Earth System scientists, legal experts, economists, sovereign states, NGOs, local authorities and universities, and proposes the recognition of the Earth System as a Common Heritage of Humankind in international negotiations.
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COVID-19 Does Not Exist: The Global Elite’s Campaign of Terror against Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
There is no COVID-19 virus. It does not exist. If you ask any doctor or scientist in the world to show you a scientifically-verified proof that it does exist, they will not be able to show you one. It is therefore clear that everything being done supposedly in the effort to tackle the ‘virus’ is being done for another purpose and COVID-19 is being used to conceal this fact.
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What Caused Americans to Become Nazis
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
26 Jul 2020 – The U.S. does vastly more foreign invasions and political subversions, coups, around the world than any other nation. None of the countries we’ve invaded and overthrown had ever invaded the U.S. — these are all brutal international aggressions, and they have destroyed each of the countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and numerous others.
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A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
Multiple Signers | Harper's Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity.
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Writers’ Open Letter against ‘Cancel Culture’ Is About Stifling Free Speech, Not Protecting It
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – It is easy to agree with the letter’s generalised argument for tolerance and free and fair debate. But the reality is that many of those who signed are utter hypocrites, who have shown precisely zero commitment to free speech, either in their words or in their deeds. Further, the intent of many them in signing the letter is the very reverse of their professed goal: they want to stifle free speech, not protect it.
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Okinawa Shocked at Cluster of Coronavirus Cases on US Military Bases
Julian Ryall | Deutsche Welle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
The governor of Japan’s most southerly prefecture wants a ban on more US troops being sent to the islands. Thirty-two coronavirus cases were confirmed at the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Monday [13 Jul], bringing the total number of cases among troops at installations in the prefecture to 98.
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Nikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with Nikola Tesla, the Serbian scientist and his path breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).
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Learning Now from Gandhi
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
12 Jul 2020 – a faithful and highly accessible presentation of Gandhi’s essential thought and practice as applicable to the rather overwhelming set of circumstances that amount to gathering storm clouds. Such a darkened sky hovering over the present is intended to call to our attention the severe threats to the human and ecological futures all beings on earth confront, whether or not they are aware of these unprecedented dangers.
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A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate
Multiple Signers | The Objective - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
10 Jul 2020 – On Tuesday [7 Jul], 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They write, in the pages of a prominent magazine that’s infamous for being anti-union, not paying its interns, and firing editors over editorial disagreements with the publisher: “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted.”
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Baseball Cap Implications in the Quest for Global Hegemony
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
The existence of “evil” is now widely recognized by world leaders. However, so little is done to explore how the organization of the “demonic forces” might be comprehended — beyond the geometrical allusion to an Axis of Evil. Especially problematic is the degree to which those qualifying others as evil tend to be so qualified. Even more remarkable is the failure to clarify how the “angelic forces” are organized.
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Corruption
Howard Richards - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
16 Jul 2020 – We are not trying to sell you our theory, but we do have a theory. It says that modern western civilization is no longer viable. It says that humanity needs to work together to solve its physical problems drawing on ethics that are not modern, not western, and in some cases have never existed anywhere and will need to be constructed in the future. We call our theory ´unbounded´ and ´realist. ´
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Changing Contours of Education over the Last Few Centuries
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
14 Jul 2020 – The world has seen different forms of learning as well as in the means of acquiring useful skills in society. For instance, in the early Greek system, the objective was to train young children — mainly boys, to become good citizens.
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Trump’s Harsh Sanctions Lead to Iran-China Partnership
Marjorie Cohn | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – China and Iran have drafted a “sweeping economic and security partnership.” China will get a regular supply of Iranian oil for the next 25 years and an expanded role in Iranian banking, ports, railways, telecommunications and other projects. They will also increase their military cooperation. This is the result of Trump’s sanctions against Iran and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, favors the partnership.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Matéria Pública – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
17 jul 2020 – Estamos sendo totalmente transformados. E o mundo está sendo totalmente transformado ao nosso redor. Se você não seguiu cuidadosamente o que está acontecendo, deixe-me destacar alguns desenvolvimentos recentes e o que podemos fazer sobre eles.
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Investigation Exposes Gruelling, Shocking Abuse in Global Leather Trade
PETA UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Shocking ways live animals are shipped globally for leather. A sweeping investigation by journalist Manfred Karremann released by PETA Germany reveals the extreme cruelty endured by animals like cows and sheep in the leather trade. Here is what was found:
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(Italiano) Sotto il tricolore che sventola a Camp Darby
Manlio Dinucci | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
16 Luglio 2020 – Mentre molte attività bloccate dal lockdown stentano a ripartire dopo l’allentamento delle restrizioni, ce n’è una che, non essendosi mai fermata, ora sta accelerando: quella di Camp Darby, il più grande arsenale Usa nel mondo fuori dalla madrepatria, situato tra Pisa e Livorno.
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The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud
Michael Kwet | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
14 Jul 2020 – Microsoft is knee-deep in services for law enforcement, fostering an ecosystem of companies that provide police with software using Microsoft’s cloud and other platforms. The full story of these ties highlights how the tech sector is increasingly entangled in intimate, ongoing relationships with police departments. Microsoft declined to comment.
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Aldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become known especially for his fifth novel, Brave New World, written in 1931. At the age of 14 he lost his mother subsequently becoming ill in 1911, what would leave him virtually blind. As if all of this was not enough, his other brother, Noel, would kill himself in 1914. Huxley would then turn himself to literature.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Born on the island of Martinique under French colonial rule, Frantz Omar Fanon was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring.
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Religious Liberty: Concern and Opportunity for Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
18 Jul 2020 – In an earlier TMS issue, I highlighted two avenues for informing on questions of religious liberty. Today, there is greater use of Track II diplomacy–meetings among relevant people on all sides of a conflict to see what issues might be negotiated. Religious and spiritual bodies have the resources for such Track II efforts. My impression is that they could do more.
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Assange’s Father Speaks Out, Calls Oppression of WikiLeaks Founder a “Great Crime of 21st Century”
Denis Rogatyuk | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – An extended interview with Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, who condemns the US, UK, and Australian governments for their “11 years of ceaseless psychological torture” of the WikiLeaks publisher.
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The Gates Foundation’s “Green Revolution” in Africa: Agribusiness Wins, Small Scale Farmers Lose
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – Ann Garrison interviews Timothy Wise on why US-style corporate agriculture pushed by billionaire Bill Gates has been disastrous for Africa. “The number of hungry people in those 13 countries actually rose by 30% to 131 million people.”
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U.S. Approves $620 Million Missile Upgrade Package for Taiwan
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
10 Jul 2020 – The United States has approved a possible $620 million upgrade package for Patriot surface-to-air missiles to Taiwan, the State Department said, the latest purchase from the United States to deal with a rising threat from China.
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Words of Wonder/Get Up, Stand Up (Music Video of the Week)
Keith Richards, et al. | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
A ‘Song around the World’ featuring Keith Richards [Rolling Stones] with a number of worldwide musicians on his Reggae song, ‘Words of Wonder’. Ending with Bob Marley’s ‘Get Up, Stand Up’. A truly delightful musical experience. Enjoy!
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Human Nature
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
17 Jul 2020 – What is human nature? Are we humans good or evil? To what extent is the character of a person produced by heredity and to what extent by environment? Is competition more central to our existence than cooperation, or is it the other way around? How can a happy, peaceful and stable society be created? Are humans essentially the same as other animals, or are we fundamentally different? Should humans dominate and control nature, or should we be the custodians of nature?
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Defund the Pentagon: The Liberal Case
Sen Bernie Sanders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
16 Jul 2020 – Fifty-three years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. challenged all of us to fight against three major evils: “the evil of racism, the evil of poverty and the evil of war.” If there was ever a moment in American history when we needed to respond to Dr. King’s clarion call for justice and demand a “radical revolution of values,” now is that time.
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‘An Illegitimate Regime’: How a Top Rights Group Shed Israeli Myths to Recognize Apartheid
Amjad Iraqi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – In an exclusive interview, human rights lawyer Michael Sfard explains what led Yesh Din to charge Israel with the crime of apartheid in the West Bank.
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(Português) Pandemia de Covid-19 Provoca Queda Recorde de Poluição Atmosférica
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
19 jul 2020 – A pandemia do novo coronavírus provocou uma queda histórica na emissão de gases, de acordo com novo estudo. As maiores diminuições ocorreram nos Estados Unidos e China, em grande parte devido às viagens e ao uso reduzido de energia, água e gás, porém isso resulta em grande impacto econômico.
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Manhattan Project in Their Own Words: Trinity at 75
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
On July 16, 1945 the first nuclear bomb exploded in New Mexico.The history of the Manhattan Project and the birth of the bomb have been examined and reexamined countless times over the past seven decades—as have the threats they posed to humanity. Though nearly all now are dead, many scientists, soldiers, and family members who attended the birth of the bomb documented their first-hand experiences in the pages of the Bulletin.
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Markets Soar as the Corpses Pile Up
Andre Damon | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 was a disaster: 71,670 new cases of COVID-19, the second-worst day on record. Nearly 1,000 people lost their lives to the disease. With Texas hospitals at 90 percent capacity, mobile morgues are dispatched. In Florida, 54 hospitals have zero available beds in intensive care units. And one third of children who were tested in Florida were positive. Amid this death and economic devastation, the stock markets surged, with the Dow Jones closing up for the fourth day in a row. Goldman Sachs posted one of its most profitable quarters ever, doubling the predictions of analysts.
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EU Legal Action against France, Spain and Sweden a Big Step in Campaign to Stop Death in Nets
Danny Groves | WDC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
3 Jul 2020 – The European Commission has demanded that France, Spain and Sweden take immediate action to prevent the needless deaths of dolphins and porpoises killed every year in fishing nets (known as bycatch).
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Cold War with China and the Thucydides Trap: A Conversation with Richard Falk
Daniel Falcone | Counterpunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – In retracing the collapse of the Soviet Union and China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization, Falk analyses the origins of US resentment towards China’s remarkable market growth that is absent of liberal democratic structures. How a ‘cold war’ with China, an economic rival, is different from 20th century Russian tension, which was largely militaristic and ideological.
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Small Talk…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
… Not So Small
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(Português) PETA Publica Vídeo que Mostra Crueldade por Trás do Couro
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
11 jul 2020 – A organização Pessoas Pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (PETA) publicou esta semana um novo vídeo mostrando a crueldade por trás do couro. As imagens resultam de uma investigação iniciada na Alemanha.
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Sabotage, Sanctions and the Bullying of Iran Is Bound to Backfire on the West
Simon Tisdall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
12 Jul 2020 – The onslaught visited on Tehran by Trump, Israel and other bully boys can only increase tensions in the Middle East. Iran is now moving closer to acquiring a weapons manufacturing capability as a direct consequence of US bad faith.
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Real Economy Plunges but Financial Profits Surge
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
16 Jul 2020 – The four major US banks this week have highlighted the widening dichotomy between the real economy and the financial system. The US is set to record the worst recession since the Great Depression, threatening elevated levels of unemployment well into the future and a wave of bankruptcies. Yet the banks are raking in billions of dollars through speculative operations financed by the massive intervention of the Fed into all corners of the financial markets.
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Deal of the Century
Joe Kandra & Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Rules & Laws vs. Justice …
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The US Military Is Using Online Gaming to Recruit Teens
Jordan Uhl | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – Gamers with the Army, Navy, and Air Force are spending hours on Twitch with children as young as 13. “As we think about how automation and media are changing the way we fight wars, it’s concerning to think that children are being given the impression that the military is like a video game.”
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Nations That Plant Roots of Peace
The Christian Science Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
10 Jun 2020 – More than half the world’s countries have a lower homicide rate than 12 years ago. More than half have cut military spending. In the past five years, deaths from terrorism are down by half.
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Zero COVID-19 Deaths in Vietnam
Christina Potter | Outbreak Observatory - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – Vietnam has been lauded as an emerging COVID-19 success story with the country reporting low counts and no coronavirus-related deaths during the country’s outbreak. We are taking a closer look at the country’s response in order to better understand its success in controlling its epidemic as well as how the country plans to maintain that control in the future.
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‘Cancel Culture’ Cannot Erase a Strong Argument
Robert Jensen | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – In the current squabble on the liberal/progressive/left side of the fence over so-called “cancel culture”—in which one open letter in favor of freedom of expression led to a rebuttal open letter in favor of a different approach to freedom of expression—I can offer a report on the experience of being canceled.
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Revolutions, Revolutionaries, and Me the Facebook Ninja
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – At a tender age, I was turned on by tales of subversion of repressive political authority or defiance of unjust laws and social order. Retroactively, I hold my beloved mother who impressed upon me that revolutions and revolutionaries, not to mention political defiance and civil disobedience, are noble, worthy of giving up one’s life, career, property, family and all the rest.
→ read full articleBeyond Nation States: Time for Europe to Step Up?
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
The unholy alliance, between Little Englander mythology and parasitical profiteering, should be recognised in Brussels as the strategic enemy it always was, to be weakened by all necessary means.
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A Covid-19 Strategy
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
17 Jul 2020 – To beat Covid-19, governments must drop ineffective strategies – including mass testing and tracing, mandatory face masks, lockdowns, or waiting for a hypothetical and experimental vaccine – and instead adopt an early treatment and prophylaxis strategy for people at high risk or high exposure.
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Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Garry Jacobs and Donato Kiniger-Passigli | Other News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – Sixty-five years ago this week, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and nine other Nobel Laureates released a historical document which became known as the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. The Manifesto called for the governments of the world to abolish nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the imminent danger of nuclear warfare and an existential threat to the human race.
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How “Cancel Culture” Repeatedly Emerged in My Attempt to Make a Film About Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
14 Jul 2020 – Growing up as a gay child in South Florida in the late 1970s and into the dark 1980s era of Reagan and AIDS, my childhood hero was the tennis star Martina Navratilova. In 1975, at the age of 18, Navratilova fled Communist Czechoslovakia, leaving her entire family behind in a daring escape, to emigrate to the U.S. In the 1980s, she became one of the only openly gay celebrities in the world, an LGBT and feminist pioneer, and an outspoken political dissident.
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COVID-19: How Can I Cure Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
18 Jul 2020 – With the treatment options available, there is no good reason for most people to even contract COVID-19, and there is certainly no good reason for anyone to die from this virus, much less have a prolonged clinical course of infection with a great deal of needless suffering.
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Coronavirus Warning from Italy: Effects of COVID-19 Could Be Worse Than First Thought
Stuart Ramsay | Sky News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – The long-term effects of COVID-19, even on people who suffered a mild infection, could be far worse than was anticipated, according to doctors in Italy. Psychosis, insomnia, kidney disease, spinal infections, strokes, chronic tiredness and mobility issues are being identified in former coronavirus patients in Lombardy.
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Kindness
Naomi Shihab Nye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
Rozina Ali | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Rumi was born in the early thirteenth century, in what is now Afghanistan and later settled in Konya, in present-day Turkey, with his family. His father was a preacher and religious scholar, and he introduced Rumi to Sufism. Rumi’s works reflected a broader push and pull between religious spirituality and institutionalized faith—though with a wit that was unmatched. “Historically speaking, no text has shaped the imagination of Muslims—other than the Koran—as the poetry of Rumi.”
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Potato Bag Strength
Beverly Gross | Reader's Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
An exercise for people who are out of shape:
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Can Private Finance Really Serve Humanity?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
14 Jul 2020 – The recent explosion of private finance has nursed the hope, dream or illusion that it can be mobilized for the public good, e.g., to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, associated with Agenda 2030. However, such hopes ignore how changes in financial investing have deeply transformed corporations, national economies and prospects for the world economy and social progress.
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Crisis at the Commission: Inside Europe’s Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak
Ben Stockton, Céline Schoen and Laura Margottini | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – While the pandemic is still raging across the world, people are understandably already asking questions about whether the right things were done, at the right time, in the right way. This week our in-depth exposé of Europe’s handling of the coronavirus was published with partners in 14 countries across the continent.
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Worldometer | Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
USA, Brazil and India with more than half of global infections: 12.6 million. ->Database permanently displayed on TMS for the duration of the pandemic. Global, localized and specific data in real time.
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She Waved a Rainbow Flag at Our Cairo Show. Tragedy Followed.
Haig Papazian | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
16 Jul 2020 – Last month, Sarah Hegazi, a 30-year-old Egyptian L.G.B.T.Q. rights activist, took her own life in Canada. That she felt safe enough to honor our music with her bravery is thrilling; that such a simple act forever altered and then ended her life brings me great sorrow.
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(Português) Juiz derruba decreto de Bolsonaro que atribui gestão de florestas ao Ministério da Agricultura
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
9 julho 2020 – O magistrado afirmou que “o meio ambiente é patrimônio comum de toda humanidade” e que “as condutas do Poder Público devem ser direcionadas no sentido da integral proteção desse direito fundamental”
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Scientists Urge WHO to Address Airborne Spread of Coronavirus
James McAuley and Emily Rauhala | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
6 Jul 2020 – In a forthcoming paper titled “It is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Covid-19,” 239 scientists from over 30 countries are urging the World Health Organization to take more seriously the possibility of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus. They cite growing evidence that the virus can spread indoors through aerosols that linger in the air.
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(Italiano) Educazione alla pace e geopolitica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
L’educazione-prassi-teoria di pace è compatibile con la mentalità militare – comunque definita, e ci sono molte culture militari al mondo – o no? Seconda Gran Questione: la pace è compatibile con le civiltà?
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The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
Frederick Douglass | PBS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Kampen mot koronavirus – er vi i ”krig”?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Noen omtaler kampen mot koronavirus som krig, definert som en væpnet konflikt mellom to eller flere parter, enten folkegrupper eller stater. I likhet med væpnede konflikter har koronapandemien også ført til store lidelser, og en rekke land har innført portforbud. Forfatteren analyserer årsaker til den raske, globale spredningen av koronaviruset, og diskuterer muligheter for å skape en mer menneskelig, mindre sårbar verden.
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Palestine and Israel: Mapping an Annexation
Mohammed Haddad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
26 Jun 2020 – What will the maps of Palestine and Israel look like if Israel illegally annexes the Jordan Valley on July 1?
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(Português) Covid-19 Provoca Maior Queda de Consumo de Carne em Décadas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Há indícios de uma mudança estrutural ocorrendo, com milhões consumindo mais proteínas de origem vegetal”
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Colin Dwyer | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – The Brazilian president, who has consistently downplayed the dangers of the virus, revealed his positive test result during nationally televised remarks today. “It came back positive,” he told reporters from behind a mask. He is just the second major world leader, after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to confirm he contracted the virus.
→ read full articleFacts about COVID-19: July 2020 Update
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
10 July 2020 – Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment.
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Key US Allies, Kosovars Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme
Nicolas J S Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
In 2008 an international prosecutor accused U.S.-backed Prime Minister Hashim Thaci of Kosovo of using the U.S. bombing campaign to murder people to sell their internal organs. The charges seemed too ghoulish to be true. But on 24 Jun, Thaci, now President of Kosovo, and nine other former leaders of the CIA-backed Kosovo Liberation Army were indicted for these crimes by a special war crimes court at The Hague.
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Cornel West’s 2017 Harvard Convocation Address
Cornel West | Harvard Divinity School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
First, we normalize mendacity and naturalize criminality. We make our lies look like the normal order of things. Second, we encourage callousness and reward indifference. We make mean-spiritedness look manly and mature. Third, we trump the moral and spiritual dimensions of our lives and world by applauding our short-term gains and superficial successes.
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Open Letter on COVID-19 and Humanitarian Disarmament
IPB International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 -The IPB and GCOMS have signed the following open letter arguing that humanitarian disarmament can lead the way to an improved post-pandemic world and calls on states, international organizations, and civil society to follow its lead to create a “new normal.” It is open for signature by civil society organizations.
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(Italiano) La Sardegna come il Vietnam
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Luglio 2020 – Mi è capitato di recente di scambiare idee e documenti con alcuni amici e amiche sulla ‘questione Sardegna’: di cosa si tratta, almeno per quanto riguarda la nostra conversazione? C’era l’ipotesi di dare una mano a un giovane, laureato in Scienze della Natura, per svolgere una ricerca sulla situazione socio-ambientale dell’isola conseguente alla presenza dell’apparato militare.
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New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears
Lily Hay Newman | Wired - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – The malware known as ThiefQuest or EvilQuest also has spyware capabilities that allow it to grab passwords and credit card numbers.
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Glass Walls (legendado em português)
Paul McCartney – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
[ENG]: A PETA production. Paul demolishes the meat, eggs and milk industry in a detailed and forceful way.
[PORT]: ‘Paredes de Vidro’, produzido pela PETA. Paul expõe de forma detalhada e contundente a indústria de carnes, ovos e leite.
Poems, Pandemics, and Preservation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
3 Jul 2020 – With the help of a friend I taught myself to write poems in a haiku form following classic Japanese guidance. Poetry has long been a place of sanctuary for me, and in recent months it has also offered me the pleasures of ‘lockdown therapy.’ I hope I am not abusing readers by posting a sample, and hoping others will be drawn to join an invisible community of haiku lovers.
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Nature as an Antidote to Depression
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
On the Consolations of Monarchs and of Stars – “It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, the dark threw its patches down upon me also,” Walt Whitman wrote.
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Johan Galtung: Peace and Conflict Studies and COVID-19
Brighten Your Mind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
* The world after COVID-19
* Teaching peace and resolving conflict between individuals
* Teach young children peace
* Keeping children from violence from video-games
* Fall of the U.S. empire, not the U.S. Republic
* Islam in promoting peace and transforming conflicts
* “Peace Journalism” in promoting nonviolence and resolving disputes
* Rising powers
Toward a Global Ethics of Nonviolence
Charles P. Webel and Sofia Khaydari – TRANSCEND Media Servire,
13 Jul 2020
In this paper, from within the framework of Peace and Conflict Studies, we examine the strengths and weaknesses of “Global Ethics” in general and of “Nonviolence” as a core global value and as a conflict transformation strategy in particular. Many peace theories and nonviolent political movements and ideas are examined, ranging theoretically from Kant and liberalism to Gandhi and the Dalai Lama, and empirically from Brian Martin, Gene Sharp, Chenoweth and Stephan, and Steven Pinker, to case studies of Poland, Denmark, the Philippines, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
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Warning of Serious Brain Disorders in People with Mild Coronavirus Symptoms
Ian Sample | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 – UK neurologists publish details of mildly affected or recovering Covid-19 patients with serious or potentially fatal brain conditions.
→ read full articleCoronavirus/COVID-19 Global Database: Over 13M Positive, 570K+ Dead
Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Permanently displayed on TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS for the duration of the pandemic. The dashboard shows global, localized, specific data in real time.
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Bolivia’s Coup-born President Áñez (Who Deposed Evo Morales) Tests Positive for COVID-19
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – Bolivia’s de facto president Jeanine Áñez today announced via her Twitter account that she had tested positive to COVID-19 while other members of her team are infected as well.
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How the House Armed Services Committee, in the Middle of a Pandemic, Approved a Huge Military Budget and More War in Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – The least-discussed Congressional proceedings are often the most consequential — and almost always bipartisan.
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13th Anniversary: Collateral Murder Video & US Military Cover Up
Chris Hedges | On Contact, RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Chris Hedges talks to journalist Dean Yates, who was head of the Reuters’ Baghdad bureau on 12 July 2007, when two of his employees–Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen–were shot and killed by the U.S. Army, which tried to cover up the war crime. The killing of the reporters and others was recorded on the now-infamous video Collateral Murder leaked by Chelsea Manning and released by WikiLeaks.
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Simplicity Revolution
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
World Simplicity Day 12 Jul 2020 – Simplicity Revolution: An ecological and ethical imperative to protect life on earth and ensure justice for all beings. The Corona Lockdown has forced us to shed the clutter and the speed and become an invitation to humanity to differentiate between the essential and non essential. In making us stay home, the crisis creates the possibility of realising that no matter who we are, where we are, we are members of one Earth Family and share a common home, our beautiful Earth.
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The Nutcracker–Waltz of the Snowflakes (Music Video of the Week)
Royal Opera House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
The Royal Ballet performs the Waltz of the Snowflakes in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker accompanied by the London Oratory Junior Choir and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
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Why Do Authoritarians Win?
William E. Scheuerman | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 – Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.
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UNESCO Expresses Deep Regret over Turkey Decision to Change Status of Historic Hagia Sophia
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
10 Jul 2020 – The Turkish President signed a decree today converting the ancient Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a mosque. The majestic building was founded around 1,500 years ago as a cathedral and is widely regarded as the foremost example of Byzantine Christian architecture in the world. Following the rise of the Ottoman Empire, it became a mosque, but in 1934, was designated a secular museum, shared by Christians, Muslims and those of all faiths or none, alike.
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Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Palestine-Israel
Peter Beinart | Jewish Currents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – What makes someone a real Jew today? In Haredi circles it means adhering to religious law. In leftist Jewish spaces, it means championing progressive causes. But in the broad center of Jewish life—where power and respectability lie—being a Jew means, above all, supporting the existence of a Jewish state. In most Jewish communities on earth, rejecting Israel is a greater heresy than rejecting God.
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