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Trump Undermines Democracy!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – It’s been a horrific week. The US surpassed 200,000 deaths from the Corona virus, the highest national total in the world by far. The country mourns the passing of Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, while Trump and the Republican Senate rush to replace her with a conservative before the election. Trump is all about Propaganda! He’s been a liar and Conman his entire life!
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A Court Just Slammed the Guantánamo Gate Shut
Linda Greenhouse | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
10 Sep 2020 – The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has just slammed the Guantánamo gate shut. Has anyone noticed? Guantánamo once stirred public passions. Now that the inmate population is down to 40, from the nearly 800 who passed through the prison in its 18-year existence so far, do people still care?
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Fires Turn Brazil’s Tropical Wetlands into Wildlife Death Traps
The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – A group of veterinarians attempts to rescue animals injured by fires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.
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The Ecological Impact of Militarism
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Those who say that there is not enough money to finance the Green New Deal forget the unimaginable amounts of money wasted, or worse than wasted, on militarism. We must divert this vast river of money from its present evil use to the constructive task of saving our planet from the existential threat of catastrophic climate change.
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Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
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Report Documents Criminality and Corruption at Heart of Global Banking System
Barry Grey | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
An explosive report published on 20 Sep by BuzzFeed News documents the role that major US and international banks knowingly play in laundering and circulating trillions of dollars in dirty money from terrorist organizations, drug cartels and assorted international financial criminals. The report is an unanswerable indictment not only of the banks, but also of Western governments and regulatory agencies.
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The Death of Andre Vltchek, a Passionate Warrior for Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
24 Sep 2020 – For decades, Andre Vltchek, an old-school journalist and artist (but a young man) who traveled the world in search of truth and who always stood up straight, tried to revolve the world and encourage people to revolt against injustice. In this age of arm-chair reporters, he stood out for his boldness and indefatigable courage. He told it straight.
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UAE/Bahrain Normalization with Israel: Peace or Geopolitics?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – the willingness to endorse these normalization agreements in the White House setting was a dramatic expression of identification with Trump’s regional diplomacy in the Middle East and a formalized repudiation of Palestinian aspirations for a sustainable peace based on their inalienable right of self-determination.
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Is There any Scientific Proof of the Existence of Higher and Lower Planetary Systems?
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
There are different models of reality. Science is basically a map of reality and that map is meant for a particular perspective. For example, you are in place A and you want to go to place B to meet a friend. Someone gives you a map to get to place B.
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JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank Named in Money Laundering Report
Rob Lenihan | TheStreet - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
21 Sep 2020 – The report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found five global banks moved “staggering sums of illicit cash, including $514 billion from JPMorgan and $1.3 trillion from Deutsche Bank, for shadowy characters and criminal networks that have spread chaos and undermined democracy around the world.”
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The 10 Steps of Strategic Peacebuilding: Create Your Strategy to Build a More Peaceful and Just World
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
The process for developing a peacebuilding strategy that I’ve structured over years working freelance creating strategies for peace with lots of groups.
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The Dark Side of 5G: Military Use
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
18 Sep 2020 – The Sep 12 demonstration “Stop 5G” in Rome rightly focused on the electromagnetic consequences for health and environment, and the decree that prevents mayors from regulating 5G antennas. However, it continues to ignore a fundamental aspect: its military use.
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(Português) A Violência Contra Animais no Cinema
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
17 set 2020 – Pode parecer que não, mas atualmente se usa muito menos animais no cinema do que no passado. Se compararmos a atualidade com o cinema praticado até a década de 1970 a diferença é gritante.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Sep 2020 – According to the latest immunological studies, the overall lethality of Covid-19 in the general population ranges between 0.1% and 0.5% in most countries, which is comparable to the medium influenza pandemics of 1957 and 1968.
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New York Times Releases Sequel of Putin-the-Poisoner: The Incredulous Case of Mr. N
Roger Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – The editorial board declares, “Many questions remain unanswered and are likely to remain so. Chief among them is whether President Vladimir Putin ordered or approved the attempted assassination.” Later in the editorial, this chief question is answered: “Mr. Putin knows what happened, or he can find out,” but “… he continues to hide behind glaringly phony denials.”
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Thought Seed – Sep 2020 Issue
Naresh Jotwani and Bhargav Vyas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Every culture offers, to those who seek, a right way to deal with difficulties. Indian culture is no different. In an attempt to re-discover our own solutions to problems, we have started a monthly letter we call Thought Seed. We are happy to share it with readers of the TMS Weekly Digest.
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U.S. Expands Military Bases in the Eastern Mediterranean and Lures Debt-Weary Greece into Provocative Military Partnership for Geopolitical Control of Region
Andrew Lee | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – Thousands of Greeks have come out to protest the expansion of U.S. military bases in Greece, arguing this will further destabilize the region and perilously enmesh Greece in endless imperialist wars.
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Demystifying Conspiracy Theories, Internet Trolls Disinformation Agents, and the CIA
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – Here is a redo of a column I wrote a few years ago that deals with the ridiculous “Conspiracy Theory” issue. Perhaps parts of it could be utilized by those of us in the Vaccine Truth, 911 Truth, GeoEngineeringWatch.org, 5G Truth movements, each of which have been demonized for telling unwelcome truths that the establishment don’t want expressed.
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For One Who Is Exhausted, a Blessing
John O'Donohue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
You have been forced to enter empty time.
The desire that drove you has relinquished.
Being Useful…
BoredPanda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Right!
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The US Is Using The Guardian to Justify Jailing Assange for Life–Why Is the Paper So Silent?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition to the United States. Assange faces 175 years in a US super-max prison.
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India: What Lies Ahead?
Arundhati Roy | The Paris Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
15 Sep 2020 – Only a year into his second term, through a series of horrifying moves, Modi has changed India beyond recognition. The infrastructure of fascism is staring us in the face, the pandemic is speeding up that process in unimaginable ways, and yet we hesitate to call it by its name. What lies ahead? Reimagining the world. Only that.
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Iconic Deaths and What They Mean: George Floyd and Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – 2020 is a year that will be remembered for its many distinctive features—the global reach and lethality of the COVID pandemic, worldwide protests against racism, and likely, to come, the outcome and aftermath of an American presidential election with likely severe worldwide reverberations. Yet one of the least conceptualized aspects up until now is the occurrence of two very different iconic deaths. By according an iconic status to an individual’s death is to acknowledge its historic impact.
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Study: Inequality Robs $2.5 Trillion from U.S. Workers Each Year
Eric Levitz | Intelligencer--New York magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
14 Sep 2020 – Every few months, some group of socially conscious number crunchers will remind Americans that a tiny elite is binge-eating the nation’s economic pie while the rest of us plebeians fight over table scraps. Journalists will then aggregate eye-popping statistics and edifying charts, progressives will share these over social media, adorned with red-faced (and/or guillotine) emoji — and the moral arc of history will carry on bending toward neofeudalism.
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Strategic Nonviolent Struggle Spreads
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 – Gene Sharp may be looking down from Heaven as four nonviolent struggles go on at the same time in different political-cultural settings: Hong Kong, Thailand, Belarus, and Libya. It is difficult to know from the outside how much these struggles are the result of strategic planning or a spontaneous reaction to events.
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Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
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Is Long COVID just a “Joke”?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 – Many lockdown skeptics assume that post-acute “long COVID” in young and healthy people doesn’t really exist or is insignificant; they assume it must be another media scare tactic to justify lockdowns. But they are wrong: long COVID is real, significant, and entirely expected.
→ read full articleBeware the Transhumanists: How ‘Being Human’ Is Being Re-Engineered by the Elite’s Coup
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
In the elegant words of South African liberation activist Steve Biko: “The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” When he uttered these words before being tortured to death in an Apartheid prison, Biko presumably did not realize the profound meaning they would acquire in 2020. The transhuman mind will be owned and controlled by the oppressor. If we are to avert this fate, we must struggle with clarity and purpose.
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(Português) Setembro Amarelo: Morte de Gatinho Acende Discussão Sobre o Suicídio Animal
Renê Costa | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
27 set 2020 – A consultora empresarial Priscila Nogueira perdeu seu gatinho Samir, após ele se jogar do 6° andar do seu prédio.
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Rūmī (30 Sep 1207 – 17 Dec 1273)
Annemarie Schimmel | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Sufi Mystic and Poet – Rūmī’s use of Persian and Arabic in his poetry, in addition to some Turkish and Greek, has resulted in his being claimed variously for Turkish and Persian literature. The influence of his writings in the Indian subcontinent is also substantial.
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What’s the Difference between ‘Villain’ Assange and ‘Intrepid’ Woodward?
Lee Camp | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – The completely fair super awesome trial of Julian Assange is a beautiful blend of the works of Kafka, Stalin and Joseph Heller. The next time you see a mainstream-media talking-head fawn over Woodward, just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they would be fawning over Assange instead.
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Fascism for Dummies
Joe Kandra, Pat Daniel and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
If you are not worried, you are not paying attention.
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Common Pets and Beyond
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
21 Sep 2020 – All over the world people like to have pets for themselves. Perhaps the most common pets are dogs of various sizes, various breeds and various colours from black to brown to white and other mixed colours.
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Evicting Lote Ocho: How a Canadian Mining Company Infiltrated the Guatemalan State
Max Binks-Collier | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – The 11 women’s accounts of the trauma that the gang-rapes caused them are unfathomable. Five were pregnant at the time; four miscarried, and one, three days from her due date when she was gang-raped, said in a deposition that she gave birth to a stillborn that “was all blue or green.” The women claim to live with chronic pain and ongoing emotional suffering. “Something has entered inside me, and it is a fear. It’s a terror, and it is a physical pain that I live with all the time.”
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US Journalist Andre Vltchek Dies Suspiciously in İstanbul
BIA News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – Andre Vltchek (57), a journalist and author from the US, was found dead in a car this morning in İstanbul. He and his wife had traveled from the Black Sea in a rented and chauffeured car. Vltchek’s body has been taken to the Forensic Medicine Institution for autopsy as a “suspicious death.”
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Just the Two of Us (Music Video of the Week)
Bill Withers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Bill Withers is an American pop/soul singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985.
Kick back and enjoy. Romance.
(Português) Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Siga tranquilamente por entre a agitação e a pressa e lembre-se da Paz que pode haver no silêncio. Procure, o mais que possa, viver em harmonia com as pessoas ao seu redor, sem abrir mão das suas próprias convicções.
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The Dying Planet Report 2020
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
24 Sep 2020 – The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the Living Planet Report 2020, but the report should really be entitled the Dying Planet Report 2020 because that’s what’s happening in the real world. Not much remains alive.
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Selected Articles Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
For your information, education and better judgment:
The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative/Reality
End of US Empire
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – Trump will win and the US is finished as an empire. Many of us had predicted this a while back but the speed of the decay is stunning. But let us not rejoice; let us re-imagine a world of multilateral cooperation, sustainability and equality–and work extra hard to achieve it.
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Julian Assange: Press Shows Little Interest in Media ‘Trial of Century’
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 – Labeled the media “trial of the century,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing is currently taking place in London—although you might not have heard if you’re relying solely on corporate media for news. If extradited, Assange faces 175 years in a Colorado supermax prison, often described as a “black site” on US soil.
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Who Is Behind the Judge Who Is Trying Julian Assange?
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
18 Sep 2020 – Emma Arbuthnot is the chief judge who conducted the trial for the extradition of Julian Assange in London to the USA, where a 175 year prison sentence awaits him for “espionage,” that is, for having published evidence of US war crimes, including videos of civilians’ killings in Iraq and Afghanistan, as an investigative journalist. At the trial, assigned to Judge Vanessa Baraitser, every defense request was denied.
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Strange Celebrations of the UN 75th Anniversary: Leaders Hated and Feared Make False Claims of Global Peace, Security and Justice
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
We continued to experience political deceptions in the name of peace and security, phony wars for peace-making, destruction of human habitats, racial injustice and violations of basic human rights and dignity at every step of the UN ladder of convenience for fair and foul narratives.
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The Cost of Resistance
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – Two of the rebels I admire most, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher, and Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, are in jail in Britain. That should not be surprising. You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response. Julian courageously exposed the lies, deceit, war crimes and corruption of the ruling imperial elites. Roger has helped organized the largest acts of mass civil disobedience in British history.
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2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 31.2 Million+ Positive; 965 Thousand+ Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
* Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
* Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
Trump Induced Normalization Agreements with Gulf Monarchies: Is This What Peace Looks Like?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
18 Sep 2020 – Two interviews based on the normalization agreements between Israel and two Arab countries, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which are being perceived from a variety of angles depending on the agendas of the various political actors. In the present context it seems a win for Israel and Trump, and a loss for the Palestinians and Iran. However,…
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(Italiano) In quale mondo stiamo per entrare?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Abbiamo il privilegio di vivere in un periodo storico molto stimolante, con l’addio agli stati-nazione e l’accoglienza alle regioni-civiltà. E poi sempre con la possibilità di riscoprire, o ricreare, una realtà di “piccolo è bello”, indipendentemente da quanto “grosso è necessario” possa emergere. Emozionante!
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Trosforhold, religioner og fred
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Nedenfor følger en tabell med 15 trosretninger organisert fra mono- via poly- til pan-ateisme. Tabellens fokus er konkrete følger av ulike trosretninger for dagens verden.
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A Photo Gallery of Doomed Children Who Suffered Because of America’s Profitable Wars
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Below is a small handful of the multitude of censored-out and “unpatriotic” war photos that document examples of the “collateral damage” of children, which accompanies America’s wars. These are usually endorsed or at least not significantly opposed by the overwhelming majority.
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A Beautiful Island
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
No man is belonged
A beautiful island
No sea is surrounded
Though an island
(Português) A Fábula da Águia e da Galinha
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Era uma vez um camponês que foi à floresta vizinha apanhar um pássaro, a fim de mantê-lo cativo em casa. Conseguiu pegar um filhote de águia. Colocou-o no galinheiro junto às galinhas. Cresceu como uma galinha.
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Old Enough
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
16 Sep 2020 – You can join the side of murdering dictators and war criminals (monarchs of the Gulf + Netanyahu + Trump) who are waging war on humanity, self-determination, and justice or you find your alternative by WORKING for humanity, self-determination and justice. We must stand with the oppressed people of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Egypt, Palestine and elsewhere. Millions are standing with us against these tyrants. History will judge.
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Tiny Piglet’s Whole World Changes When She Meets This Baby Cow
The Dodo Comeback Kids – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Nobody thought this piglet would survive. But with the help of fruit punch, a baby calf, and an epic road trip, she was able to thrive. Sometimes all it takes is a little love to grow strong.
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UN Assembly Approves Pandemic Resolution; US, Israel Object
Edith M. Lederer | AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a wide-ranging resolution on tackling the coronavirus pandemic on 11 Sep 2020 over objections from the United States and Israel, which protested a successful last-minute Cuban amendment. The world body adopted the resolution by a vote of 169-2.
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How USA and Turkey Plunder and Loot Syria with Impunity
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
15 Sep 2020 – While President Trump lashes out at rioting and looting in Portland and Kenosha, half way around the world, the USA and Turkey are plundering and looting Syria on a vastly greater scale with impunity and little publicity.
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DARPA: The Pentagon’s Mad Scientists at Work
Dave Makichuk | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – You’ve seen the superhero movie scenario before — a mad scientist’s experiment goes terribly wrong, and he or she is transformed into an evil nemesis for the good guys to battle. Ten ‘high-risk high-reward’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency projects that stretch the imagination.
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Nuremberg Tribunal: A Precedent for Victor’s Justice
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
21 Sep 2020 – The specific objectives of the paper are to identify the situations of the investigation, prosecution and punishment to the Nazi war criminals on accountability for justice and to analyse the preference for justice: victors’ justice or victims’ justice. Experiences on Transitional Justice, Human Security, and Human Rights, among others, touched, inspired and motivated the author for this pioneering paper.
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Statement for International Day of Peace, 21 Sep 2020
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Today’s philosophy driving our politics is threefold: unjust economics, the military industrial complex, and the competition leading to war. We need to change our thinking and put people and their needs top of Policy agendas. Now, we need a world free of all weapons, and for us all to work on human security and peacebuilding.
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(Italiano) Speranza
Giuseppa Cocchiara - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Cibo per i poveri,
Acqua per le piante,
Pioggia per l’arida terra.
(Português) Coronavírus Pode Sobreviver na Carne por Três Semanas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 set 2020 – De acordo com um estudo concluído em agosto e publicado por pesquisadores de Singapura e da Irlanda na plataforma de conteúdo científico bioRxiv, o coronavírus (SARS-CoV-2) pode sobreviver em alimentos de origem animal como carne de porco, frango e salmão por três semanas.
→ read full articleJoking with Funny Truths
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
* Good judgment comes from experience; and experience usually comes from bad judgment…
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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Love, Mortality, and Night as an Existential Clarifying Force for the Deepest Truths of the Heart
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
“Day belongs to family quarrels, but with the night he who has quarreled finds love again. For love is greater than any wind of words… Love is not thinking, but being.”
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Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets–Racism, Yes, but What About Militarism and Materialism?
Andrew Bacevich | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
23 Jun 2020 – In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans are finally — or is it once again? — confronting the racism that afflicts this country and extends into just about every corner of our national life. Something fundamental just might be happening. Yet to state the obvious, we’ve been […]
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So Many Hoaxes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
14 Sep 2020 – Current Affairs – This Modern World
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The Human Touch and Its Offshoots
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
15 Sep 2020 – Human beings have different sensations: sight, hearing, smell, sound, and not the least the sensation of touch, a basic need for all people called Sparsh in India. Let’s hope that this pandemic comes to an end soon and we can shake hands or hug each other and restore our need for Sparsh—human touch.
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Covid Winter Outlook
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
19 Sep 2020 – Covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths are now increasing again in many European countries. Many traditional media have lost their credibility by vastly exaggerating the risk of Covid to the general population, but some of the critics have also lost touch with reality by falsely claiming the pandemic was over or by downplaying “long Covid” health issues.
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Swami Agnivesh (21 Sep 1939 – 11 Sep 2020): A Tribute
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Abhorrent institutions and systems have co-existed with religions for millennia. Slavery and racism would be two such examples. Religion should cease to provide the cloak of legitimacy to such blatant wrongdoings including ‘Casino Capitalism’ in our age, Agnivesh insisted. Only then will faith in the Divine, belief in the Almighty, become a conduit for the expression of justice, compassion, love and other such virtues.
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Coronavirus and the Heterogenesis of Ends: Underpinning the Ecological and Health Catastrophe Is a Political Crisis
Donato Bergandi, Fabienne Galangau and Hervé Lelievre | Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
The coronavirus catastrophe’s underlying cause is the political crisis that our democracies are living. The sustainable development model is a smokescreen that will lead not to changes to the economic paradigm but to business as usual. The betrayal of the elites, both political and economic, supported by a system no longer democratic, has exposed the population to this sanitary problem. A deep transformation of our political system is urgently needed.
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Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Washington Bullets is about the bullets sent by various U.S. administrations to crush revolutions, assassinate democratically elected leaders—to destroy hope. Historian and journalist Vijay Prashad delivers a scathing indictment of U.S. imperialism, from the 1953 CIA-sponsored coup in Iran, to the twenty-first-century ousters of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil and Evo Morales in Bolivia.
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Changing the Washington Guard: What a Democratic Sweep in November Portends
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
19 Sep 2020 – Those who complain about Trump’s bungling should understand that the Biden alternative will be a more deadly and efficient rule of capital not only for the US but worldwide. We should be careful about what we wish for.
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The ‘Desaparecidos’ of Palestine: Gantz Escalates Israel’s War on the Dead
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
On 2 Sep the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army. While in the past, Israel has only kept the bodies of alleged ‘Palestinian attackers’ who belonged to ‘terror groups’, the latest decision would extend the rule to all Palestinians, even those who have no political affiliations.
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Did the US War on Terror Displace 37 Million?
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – The Brown University Watson Institute Costs of War Project put out a report with the astounding figure. Here’s what they got right and what they got wrong.
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The End of Reality?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
So, if you feel you also may be going insane in the present climate of digital screen life, where real is unreal but realer than real, the apparent is cryptic, and up is down, true is false, and what you see you don’t, it has a history. One hundred and thirty-two years ago, Nietzsche added that “something extraordinarily nasty and evil is about to make its debut.” We know it did.
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Pentagon Papers Leaker Daniel Ellsberg Testifies in Assange’s Defense, Says WikiLeaks Exposed ‘War Crimes’ in ‘Public Interest’
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
16 Sep 2020 – Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg – whose ‘Pentagon Papers’ leak exposed illegal US bombing during the Vietnam War – said Julian Assange would not see a fair trial if extradited to the US, comparing the publisher’s case to his own.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
The discourse about, or for, peace has mostly disappeared in research, politics and the media. In foreign and security politics, it does not seem strange that decision-makers never obtain peace advice or consult peace experts. The fantasy-assumption is that if only there is enough military ‘security means’ applied to enough societal problems, peace will automatically come about.
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(Português) Crise e Mudanças Climáticas: Pássaros Migratórios Caem do Céu sem Vida
Bianca Sales | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 set 2020 – Milhares de pássaros migratórios morreram inexplicavelmente no sudoeste dos Estados Unidos, no que os ornitólogos descrevem como uma tragédia nacional que provavelmente está relacionada à crise climática.
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Gas Companies Are Abandoning Their Wells, Leaving Them to Leak Methane Forever
Mya Frazier | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Gas wells never really die. Just one orphaned site in California could have emitted more than 30 tons of methane. There are millions more like it.
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Africa’s Catastrophic Covid Response
Ian Birrell | UnHerd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about the disease’s impact on Africa were terrifying. The World Health Organisation predicted ten million cases within six months, raising the horrifying prospect of fragile health systems becoming overwhelmed with corpses piled up in hospital corridors.
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Face Masks Could Be Giving People Covid-19 Immunity, Researchers Suggest
Georgina Hayes | The Telegraph - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – Mask wearing might also be reducing the severity of the virus and ensuring that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.
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Julian Assange, and Press Freedom, on Trial in London
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Press freedom itself is currently on trial in London, as Julian Assange fights extradition to the U.S. He faces 175 years in prison and his unjust imprisonment would serve as an example to anyone daring to publish leaked information critical of the U.S. government.
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H.G. Wells (21 Sep 1866 – 13 Aug 1946): The Open Conspiracy for Peace
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Herbert George Wells, an active world citizen, is usually known as just H.G. Wells. He was a creator of modern science fiction, a pioneer of women’s rights (though he treated some badly in his many love affairs), a journalist, historian and novelist. Above all he was a social thinker devoted to peace and a stable world order.
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9 Russian Songs You’ve Heard and Don’t Know the Name (Music Video of the Week)
Vinheteiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
In fact, no one knows their names.
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A Providential Last Warning
Vincenzo Balzani | Substantia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Rather than being afraid of the coronavirus, today we must be afraid that once the health emergency is over we will return to the situation we were in before.
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How the West Lost
Anatol Lieven | Prospect Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
After the long stand-off against communism, victory seemed as total as it was sudden. But the west has since fractured and is now losing prestige and influence—does the reversal expose a moral defeat?
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What Now for the Whales of Japan?
Chris Butler-Stroud | Whale and Dolphin Conservation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
News that Shinzo Abe is stepping down as Japan’s prime minister could be another nail in the coffin for the country’s whaling industry. It offers the Japanese government a rare opportunity to press the reset button on a practice which costs it dearly, in subsidies and international reputation.
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Something’s Happening Here
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies: Critical and Lyrical Essays, by Edward Curtin, Atlanta-GA, Clarity Press 2020 – Ed shows us how to connect the dots, to make sense of the Void. How to get beyond the mass-media and social-media deceptions; our defined and confined world and vision. Even, how to make space for the spiritual, mystical and inexplicable. How to find clarity and meaning, sometimes even beauty.
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Prof. Johan Galtung on the Psychology and Theology of Nuclear Weapons: The Human Factor
TalkWorks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Personal interviews with leading thinkers and scholars from diverse fields who are throwing light on the roots of the multifaceted global crisis humanity has created for itself.
→ read full article2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 29.2 Million+ Positive; 929 Thousand+ Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
* Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
* Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
The “Inside Job” Hypothesis of the 9/11 Attacks
Prof. Graeme MacQueen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Three days after 9/11 the eminent economist Celso Furtado suggested that it was a provocation carried out by the American far right to justify a takeover. He compared these attacks to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 and the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany. I am not concerned in this article to demonstrate the truth of the “inside job” hypothesis. Ten years of research led me to conclude that it is correct, but in the present paper I am concerned only with the preliminary, but vital, issue of imagination. Those who cannot imagine this hypothesis to be true will leave it unexamined.
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Tech Titans and Censorship—the Same People Profiting from the Quarantine Are Censoring Criticisms of It
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – The same bloated Tech/Data and Telecom Titans now gorging themselves on the corpses of our obliterated middle class are rapidly transforming America’s once proud democracy into a censorship and surveillance police state. They used the lockdown to accelerate construction of their 5G network of satellites, antennae, biometric facial recognition, and “track and trace” infrastructure that they will use to compel obedience and suppress dissent.
→ read full articleAs Pandemic Death Toll Approaches 200,000, American Oligarchs Celebrate Their Wealth
Niles Niemuth | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – According to Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, the super-rich now possess $3.2 trillion, enough to pay for an entire year of public education, health care, nutrition and disaster relief for millions of people.
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Paulo Freire: Popular Participation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
In the Declaration of Principles and Programme of Action adopted by the 1976 World Employment Conference it is stated, “A basic needs-oriented policy implies the participation of the people in making the decisions which affect them through organizations of their own choice.”
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Fibonacci Spiral in 3D Framing Psychosocial Phyllotaxis
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Determining the Golden Angle for Global Governance Uplift – The question here is whether greater insight is to be obtained from representation of the Fibonacci spiral in 3D, as an approximation to the so-called golden spiral. Specifically how might this assist in reconciling distinctions of relevance to psychosocial development — or its progressive constraint.
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Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine
Monica Gandhi, M.D., M.P.H., and George W. Rutherford, M.D. | The New England Journal of Medicine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – As SARS-CoV-2 continues its global spread, it’s possible that one of the pillars of Covid-19 pandemic control — universal facial masking — might help reduce the severity of disease and ensure that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic. If this hypothesis is borne out, universal masking could become a form of “variolation” that would generate immunity and thereby slow the spread of the virus in the United States and elsewhere, as we await a vaccine.
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WHO Mask Study Seriously Flawed
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – The WHO-commissioned meta-study on the effectiveness of facemasks, published in the medical journal The Lancet in June 2020, has been instrumental in shifting global facemask policies during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the meta-study, which claimed a risk reduction of 80% with facemasks, is seriously flawed on several levels and should be retracted.
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American Bloodlands
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – The tinder that could soon ignite widespread violent conflagrations throughout the United States lies ominously stacked around us. Millions of disenfranchised white Americans, who see no way out of their economic and social misery, struggling with an emotional void, are seething with rage against a corrupt ruling class and bankrupt liberal elite that presides over political stagnation and grotesque, mounting social inequality.
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Lanza del Vasto: The Fatal Dynamic of the West
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
From Les Quatre Fléaux, Denoel 1959, pp. 18-24 – These pages appear to be fully realized today, in the Bushian-Trumpian era of world history.The text indicates that today Gandhian nonviolence suggests a historical awareness of times that for others are only dark; the suggestion is due to Tolstoy, Gandhi and the other great masters of nonviolence who have prepared a new civilization, that of the third millennium.
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Appropriator Financial Fabric, the Case of BlackRock
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Intricate and extended fabrics of economic organizations that appropriate good part of the surplus generated by the productive effort of humanity proliferate in the world today. These fabrics have their epicenter in central countries but their tentacles reach every place in the world. They are able to leap on profitable opportunities as well as to retract with no losses when circumstances change. The case of the fabric articulated by BlackRock and its impacts.
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Two Decades of US “War on Terror” Responsible for Displacing At Least 37 Million People and Killing Up To 12 Million
Jacob Crosse | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – A new report from Brown University estimates the number of people who have fled from US military operations since September 2001 to be as high as 59 million.
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Julian Assange, Prometheus Bound
Pepe Escobar | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – This is the tale of an Ancient Greek tragedy reenacted in AngloAmerica. Amid thundering silence and nearly universal indifference, chained, immobile, invisible, a squalid Prometheus was transferred from the gallows for a show trial in a faux Gothic court built on the site of a medieval prison.
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