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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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Western Martyrdom
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Fiction of Biblical Proportion: ‘The truth shall set you free.’ Right!!
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Mistakes Were Made
Tom Tomorrow| Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Pandemic Fun Game
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(Italiano) L’Occidente finge di non vedere mentre l’apartheid e altre illegalità d’Israele si sviluppano sempre più
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
1 luglio 2020: un altro tragico punto di svolta per l’Occidente – già decadente – in quanto civiltà. La sua irresponsabilità morale si esprime nel roboante silenzio su questa nettissima vistosa violazione del diritto internazionale e sul male fatto per decenni al popolo palestinese.
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Mafia vs. the People: Who Wins?
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
10 Jul 2020 – The world is changing (coronavirus will accelerate the change) from the neoliberal capitalist world that they easily manipulated to a more caring world based on caring for each other and for the environment. My Jewish and other friends who work against Zionism continue to grow and the number of Zionists continue to shrink. Time to end the charade: free Palestine, free the USA, free the world.
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Vitamin C for the Prevention and Treatment of Coronavirus
Patrick Holford | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – COVID-19, or SARS-CoV-2, is a coronavirus disease, classified as influenza, although coronaviruses can also induce colds, both of which are upper respiratory tract infections. The consequences of infection can be pneumonia, hospitalization in Intensive Care Units and mechanical ventilation. Studies on vitamin C and any of the conditions mentioned above are relevant to decisions as to the suitability of using vitamin C for prevention of COVID-19, as a potential therapy, and for further research.
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Gems from Rumi
Rumi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
No comment…
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Sudan: Female Genital Mutilation Officially a Crime
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
10 Jul 2020 – Sudan’s Sovereign Council ratified today a law criminalizing FGM. As the movement to eliminate it grows, it still is practiced in at least 27 African countries as well as Asia and the Middle East. The practice can cause urinary tract infections, uterine infections, kidney infections, cysts, reproductive issues, and pain during sex. 9 out of 10 Sudanese women have suffered genital cutting.
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On Israel’s Bizarre Definitions: The West Bank Is Already Annexed
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 – The fact is, annexation is not a new Israeli political agenda dictated by political circumstances in Tel Aviv and Washington. Rather, annexation has been the ultimate Israeli colonial objective from the very onset.
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Heart-Centered Rationality and the Peaceable Kingdom
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
The war and suffering endemic in world structure puts prosperity first, with peace (and its appearance like shadows in Plato’s cave) flickering off and on as befits economic boom and bust. Humanity’s survival depends on an inversion of values: peace and prosperity. Peace first. And peace includes redistribution of the world’s wealth.
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Bill Gates — Most Dangerous Philanthropist in Modern History?
Dr. Joseph Mercola - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Bill Gates has been pouring billions of dollars into global health initiatives that stand on shaky scientific and moral ground. His answers to the problems are consistently focused on building corporate profits through chemical agriculture and GMOs, or pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. Rarely, if ever, do we find Gates promoting clean living or inexpensive holistic health strategies.
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Don’t Be Fooled by the Cancel Culture Wars
Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – The cancel culture–the phenomenon of removing or canceling people, brands or shows from the public domain because of offensive statements or ideologies–is not a threat to the ruling class. Hundreds of corporations in the hands of white executives and board members pumped out messages condemning racism after George Floyd was choked to death by police in Minneapolis. But without a concerted assault on corporate power, will do nothing to change the system.
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Post-COVID Prospects Assessed
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 -This text is a slightly edited interview on post-COVID prospects that was published in Mutekabiliyet, a Turkish student online journal, July 3, 2020.
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July in History: Anniversaries of Russell-Einstein Manifesto, ICJ Verdict on Illegality of Nuclear Weapons, State-Terrorist Bombing of Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior
Alyn Ware | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
These three anniversaries provide inspiration to consider the roles of science, law and diplomacy to advance peace, security and nuclear disarmament.
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Today’s Challenges — Mid Day Meals
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
In India, government schools provide mid-day meals to the students who generally come from low income households. Not only do these schools charge no fees, the provision of MDM attracts students to school regularly. With schools shut, the nutrition being provided stopped.
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Cuban Medical Brigade Heads to Azerbaijan
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
12 Jul 2020 – The latest contingent of over 100 medical professionals has departed the island for Azerbaijan to assist health authorities in combating COVID-19.
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Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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The Principle of Nonviolence: A Philosophical Path
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
“The mass media does not inform us of the reasons and stakes of violence, but of the violence itself. It does not arouse public opinion, but public emotion.” An erudite work with rich discussions on the relevance of nonviolence in western political thought, politics, and social psychology.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Any serious study of the relevant scholarly literature reveals at least four possible paths to imminent human extinction, that is, human extinction within five years: nuclear war, the climate catastrophe, the deployment of 5G, and biodiversity collapse.
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Decolonising Peace Journalism – And Putting It to Work in East Africa
Fredrick Ogenga | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Conflict resolution is a recurrent theme in East Africa. This has prompted the need for innovative ways to create lasting consensus in the region as well as across the continent. One of these innovative ways is peace journalism. It can stimulate peaceful resolution of conflict by voicing different conflicting parties and issues in a balanced and objective manner.
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The Sun
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Kim Jong-un announced in a news conference that North Korea would be sending a man to the sun within ten years!
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The West Turns a Blind Eye as Israel’s Apartheid and Other Illegalities Develop Further
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – Another tragic turning point for the – falling – West as civilization. Its moral irresponsibility is expressed by its roaring silence on this crystal clear and gross violation of international law and evil done to the Palestinian people for decades.
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(Norwegian-Norsk) Trosforhold, religioner og fred
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Johan Galtung har i årtier studert hvordan trosforhold og religioner påvirker menneskets tilværelse. Galtungs skille mellom ”harde” og ”myke” varianter av trosretninger og religioner kan bidra til innsikt: Noen retninger bidrar til positiv fred, andre til fysisk og psykisk vold.
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(Italiano) I soldi dell’Unione Europea a sostegno delle industrie di armi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
29 Giugno 2020 – «Nonostante il COVID, si continuano a finanziare le armi»: la segnalazione proviene dall’Associazione War Resisters’ International (WRI), che da quasi cento anni è impegnata a realizzare l’obiettivo di un mondo senza guerra. WRI è una rete globale pacifista e antimilitarista, con più di 90 gruppi affiliati in 40 Paesi.
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(Français) Brésil: Les dessous de l’incendie–la politique amazonienne de Jair Bolsonaro
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Il faut profiter du fait que « la presse internationale se focalise quasi exclusivement sur le covid-19 » pour « faire passer des réformes [infra-légales] et assouplir les règles » en matière de protection et de préservation de l’environnement. Tel est en substance, le propos tenu par Ricardo Salles, ministre de l’environnement de Bolsonaro, filmé à son insu, le 22 avril dernier lors d’un conseil de gouvernement, dans une vidéo abondamment relayée par les médias.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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Reframing the Righteousness Enabling Repetition of the Titanic Disaster
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Comprehension of 144 Distinctions–Mahjong as “Angels” versus “Demons” ~~~The emphasis here is on challenges to the imagination, and the possibilities of enabling other modes of reflection, most notably through the use of visualization technology and mnemonic aids — whose availability and appreciation is now so evident to the young.
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Monitoring Pressures against Religious Freedom
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
3 Jul 2020 – Religious freedom is under pressure today. A worldwide erosion of religious freedom is causing large scale human suffering and grave injustice. In some cases, a religion is closely associated to an ethnic group or a tribal community. It is more inter-ethnic tensions which are the motor of the dispute rather than the core belief system.
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Pandemic Spirals out of Control in South Africa, India, Brazil
Bryan Dyne | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
4 Jul 2020 – The official tallies in each country of daily confirmed coronavirus cases have become exponential, indicating that whatever containment measures were implemented to halt the spread of the virus have essentially collapsed.
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(Italiano) Contrasto allo hate speech online e social network: a che punto siamo?
Enzo Gargano | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
29 Giugno 2020 – Il 22 giugno scorso la Commissione europea ha pubblicato i risultati della sua quinta valutazione del Codice di Condotta introdotto il 31 maggio 2016 proprio grazie alla Commissione europea e a quattro importanti società informatiche (Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter e YouTube), al fine di rispondere alla proliferazione online di discorsi di odio razzista e xenofobo, Da allora, Instagram, Google+, Snapchat, Dailymotion e Jeuxvideo.com hanno aderito al Codice.
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Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence Contribute to Nuclear Risk – SIPRI
Human Wrongs Watch | SIPRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – The authors warn that nuclear-armed states’ competition in military AI and premature adoption of AI in nuclear weapons and related capabilities could have a negative impact on strategic stability and increase the likelihood of nuclear weapon use.
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A Dream Deferred: Healing through Culture, Dialogues & Sharing Our Arts
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
BOUNTYGATE: Scapegoating Systemic Military Failure in Afghanistan
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
5 Jul 2020 – The story of the alleged “bounty scheme” grew up in the context of top U.S. brass blaming Russia for America’s defeat in Afghanistan. Research shows that 99% of Americans never have seen the material in this article. Understandable – it can be highly contagious and carries a high morbidity rate for those with pre-existing biases.
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The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us about the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
“Life [exists] only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in reply.”
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Burundi: Fare Thee Well, President Nkurunziza
Edgar Tabaro | The Observer [Uganda] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
My discussions with President Nkurunziza revealed the disjuncture of the international community from our plight as East Africans. Conflict resolution is not enough. The underlying factors of conflict remain and very often resurgence occurs. We as Africans ought to turn post-conflict societies into productive societies. Less of this, we are pursuing futile efforts.
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New US Indictment of Julian Assange Not Served in UK Courts
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
30 Jun 2020 – In yet another Kafkaesque turn, UK legal proceedings are continuing on the basis of an indictment which has been replaced and therefore has no legal force in the US.
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Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Is peace theory-practice-education compatible with the military mind–however defined, and there are many military cultures in the world–or not? Second Big Question: is peace compatible with the civilizations?
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How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other in the Forest
National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
What do trees talk about? In the Douglas fir forests of Canada, see how trees “talk” to each other by forming underground symbiotic relationships—called mycorrhizae—with fungi to relay stress signals and share resources with one another.
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Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
Tom Tomorrow | This Modern World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
As the pandemic rages on…
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In Letter to the Lancet, Doctors Condemn Torture of Assange and Demand His Release
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
26 Jun 2020 – More than 200 eminent doctors from around the world have reiterated their call for an end to the psychological torture of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange and his immediate release from Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison.
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On the Treatment of COVID-19
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
3 Jul 2020 – Immunological and serological studies show that a large part of the population develops no symptoms or only mild symptoms due to the new coronavirus, while some people may experience a more pronounced or critical course of the disease.
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How We Can Fix This Pandemic in a Month
Damien Downing, MBBS, MRSB | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
22 Jun 2020 – If we act on the data showing that it is highly probable that vitamin D can save lives, we could fix this pandemic in a month, for perhaps $2 per person. There would be no significant adverse effects.
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Deadly Rainbow: Will 5G Precipitate the Extinction of All Life on Earth?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
If 5G is deployed, there will be nowhere on Earth that is safe for humans, insects, birds, animals and plants. We will have fundamentally altered the very conditions that made the evolution of life on Earth possible. An exaggeration? Here is the briefest sample of the damage existing human-generated electromagnetic radiation is causing life on Earth.
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As Pandemic Spread Accelerates, Wall Street Celebrates Biggest Quarterly Surge in More Than 20 Years: Obscene
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 July 2020 – The end of the second quarter, June 30, must surely go down as one of the stranger days in financial history. With the US economy in the grip of the deepest recession since the Great Depression, having experienced an even more rapid contraction than in the 1930s crisis, Wall Street recorded its best quarter for more than 20 years.
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Winds of Change–The Challenge of Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa
Abbas Aroua, et al. | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
One theme is the opposition between traditionalists and modernists, “the conflict between fundamentalists and those who want to bring Islam into the modern age”. A possible approach: social change. The Middle East must be able to temper a spiritual vision in a modern and pragmatic world and rediscover traditional values without “a perpetual and obsessive return to the past”. This book is a worthwhile and welcome contribution to current debates over the future of the MENA region.
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Development Banks Funding Industrial Farms around the World
Andrew Wasley and Alexandra Heal | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – The International Finance Corporation–the commercial lending arm of the World Bank–and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have provided $2.6bn for pig, poultry and beef farming, as well as dairy and meat processing, despite their vast contribution to the oncoming climate catastrophe. The UK government is a major funder of both banks.
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Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution
Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz – Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this “third-world” country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost.
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Italy: Sold to Big Pharma
Dr. Antonietta M. Gatti and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
28 Jun 2020 – Summarizing everything in a few words, Italy was sold to Big Pharma and has become a huge laboratory where experiments are carried out on the population: adults, children, old, healthy, sick people … it makes no difference, we are all guinea pigs. Now the business, and not just an economic one, is to force 60 million Italians to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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(Português) Elefantes são torturados por domadores e têm seus espíritos destruídos
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
26 jun 2020 – Uma investigação feita pela World Animal Protection (WAP) revela os bastidores do treinamento de elefantes explorados para carregar turistas na Tailândia. Vídeos e imagens mostram verdadeiras sessões de tortura e uma prática conhecida como ‘the crush’, na qual elefantes são acorrentados e espetados em áreas sensíveis para que se tornem assustados, submissos e com temor de seus algozes.
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How Technology Literally Changes Our Brains
Ezra Klein | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
On Deep Reading and Digital Thinking – “In the long run, a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act. Or, put more simply: Media work their magic, or their mischief, on the nervous system itself.” — Marshall McLuhan
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Racism and the Culture of War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – To succeed, the struggle against racism needs to be understood in the context of the struggle against the culture of war. The recent uprisings against racist violence by the police is another step towards the radical transformation from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
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(Français) Cinq Questions à Helen la Lime Meagher, Représentante Spéciale du Secrétaire Général de l’ONU en Haïti
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Madame, le 19 juin 2020, à la séance du Conseil de sécurité consacrée au Bureau intégré des Nations unies en Haïti (BINUH), à New York, vous avez fait une déclaration sur votre travail et sur la situation en Haïti.
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The Racist Underpinnings of the American Way of War
Walden Bello | Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars. The political economy of the U.S. is built on two “original sins:” genocide of Native Americans to clear the ground for capitalist relations of production, and slave labor of African Americans. The reproduction and expansion of U.S. capitalism over time have consistently reproduced its racial structures.
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Right, Moral, Ethical… vs Legal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Rule of law? What law?
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Perpetuated Insanity against Besieged Humanity: Racial Injustice, Kashmir and Palestine – Dark Days Ahead
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
There are seeds of unimaginable and destructive Western cultural absolutism that could destroy the sense of time and rational consciousness of living history… Often the extreme Western political propaganda enflames hatred against colored and indigenous people, Islam, and blames Muslims as being “terrorists.”
→ read full articleFacing the New Challenges – The New Lingo
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
These elites care little for other people or the environment and society at large. They exploit the planet’s resources mercilessly, inflicting a terrible cost on our planet that is leading to climate change and global warming. Only a sustained effort at reducing this adverse impact on the planet can now save ‘gennext’ peoples of the world.
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Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza (18 Dec 1964 – 8 Jun 2020)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
24 Jun 2020 – Burundi is Africa’s Syria and Venezuela, a developing nation that dared to defy US dictates under Nkurunziza’s leadership. “His legacy is his effort to reconcile Burundi’s Hutu and Tutsi classes and end the deep-seated, centuries-old hatred between them.”
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Rumi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
No Comment
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Year Six of the War in Yemen
Abubakar Ben Rajeh | Cordoba Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
In March 2020 the war in Yemen enters its sixth year since the Saudi-led Arab Coalition, with the effective participation of the UAE and logistical support by the U.S., launched the military campaign against the Iranian-backed Houthis.
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By Recognising Palestine, Britain Can Help Right the Wrongs of the Balfour Declaration
Avi Shlaim | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
22 Jun 2020 – The theft of Palestinian land is a legacy of British colonialism. The UK must stand in the way of further Israeli annexations.
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USA: Cuban Spies Disguised as Doctors
Roger Stoll | Dissident Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – The EU now excludes travelers from the COVID-ridden U.S., but welcomes those from the virtually COVID-free Cuba. The U.S. tries to convince the world that Cuban doctors are victims of human trafficking, or spies, or both. What perfect disguises: doctors, nurses, epidemiologists, medical technicians. Oh, Cuba, please send us all the spies you can spare. For we are suffering from a severe lack of spies. And we are dying because of it.
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Alert but Not Alarmed: What to Make of New H1N1 Swine Flu with ‘Pandemic Potential’ Found in China
Ian M. Mackay | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – Researchers have found a new strain of flu virus with “pandemic potential” in China that can jump from pigs to humans, triggering a suite of worrying headlines. It’s excellent this virus has been found early, and raising the alarm quickly allows virologists to swing into action developing new specific tests for this particular flu virus.
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Trump’s Record on Foreign Policy: Lost Wars, New Conflicts and Broken Promises
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – The corporate media and much of the public still take Trump at his word when he says he wants to end the endless wars and bring U.S. troops home. But he’s been in office for 3-1/2 years and he hasn’t done it. What is the reality behind the smoke and mirrors?
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Moore’s Planet of the Humans – More Misanthropic than Malthus
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Planet of the Humans is produced and promoted by Michael Moore and is free online. The underlying message of the movie, critiquing the green energy movement, is about the existential threat of human overpopulation. “Without seeing a major die-off in population, there is no turning back,” is anthropologist Steven Churchill’s gloomy prognostication.
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Joe Kandra, Kathie Malley-Morrison and Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
No joke…
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Palestine-Israel: What Needs to Be Done
Haidar Eid | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
19 Jun 2020 – The Israeli government’s goal is clear: establish an apartheid regime through annexing parts of the West Bank, and liquidate the Palestinian cause all together. Palestinians must acknowledge mistakes of the past and not compromise on demanding our full human rights.
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Hubris: Israel’s Endgame in Palestine
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
30 Jun 2020 – The “peace process” has been exposed for what it is – a colonisation operation. This surreal process has long served as a cover up for deep Israeli entrenchment in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Having secured Trump’s approval, Netanyahu will go forward with annexation despite warnings of an international backlash, the demise of the two-state solution, and the erosion of the “democratic Jewish state”.
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The Long Road to Enlightened Development after Covid-19
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – The pandemic has caused unprecedented crisis and disruptions around the world. The political economy is on an unsettling journey headed to an uncertain destination. We will need a calibrated and careful out-of-the-box response to come up with resilient solutions and robust systems that help us ride out the current crisis and protect us from future disasters.
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Global Peace Index 2020
OCHA-United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
11 Jun 2020 – Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008. It is joined at the top of the index by New Zealand, Austria, Portugal, and Denmark.
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Ripple | Playing for Change (Music Video of the Week)
The Grateful Dead | Bill Kreutzmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
We are proud to share with you this Song Around The World in honor of the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary [2015]. After many miles on planes, trains and automobiles we can finally share it with all of you. Enjoy!
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Explainer: What Is the Deadly India-China Border Dispute About?
Helen Davidson and Ben Doherty | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
17 Jun 2020 – At least 20 people have died in clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along the disputed Himalayan border running along the Ladakh area of Kashmir. It is the first fatal clash since 1975 and the most serious since 1967.
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International Criminal Court
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
28 Jun 2020 – I would like to thank Richard Falk for his erudite and intelligent analysis of the workings of the ICC [Editorial TMS 22 Jun 2020]. Personally, I am not as surprised by the workings and politics of the ICC, because I usually give a different interpretation to ‘words’ used by politicians.
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UN Marks 75-Year Milestone Anniversary of Founding Charter
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
26 Jun 2020 – The UN Charter “brought rules and hope to a world in ruins”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a virtual ceremony today, commemorating 75 years since the Organization’s foundational text was signed on 26 Jun 1945.
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United Nations in Muir Woods 75th Anniversary
United Nations Association USA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Seventy-five years ago, in 1945, the first ever conference of the United Nations took place in San Francisco, California. On May 19th the delegates traveled to Muir Woods for a ceremony to honor the recently deceased US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
→ read full article(Satire) The Strange and Curious Case of “Politicianitis”…
Gary Corseri | Dissident Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
It is difficult to say when precisely the phenomenon commenced, but because it was first recorded at a Commencement Ceremony at a very small and unimportant “Liberal Arts” college in the embarrassing “fly-over” part of the country, and somewhat deftly reported by a sophomore reporter for the college newspaper, it was at first entitled “The Commencement Malefaction.”
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UN Chief Urges Israel to Abandon Annexation Plan of West Bank
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres urged Israel today to call off its plans to annex parts of the illegally occupied West Bank, declaring that such a move would be a “most serious violation of international law.”
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
An old grandma brings a bus driver a bag of peanuts every day.
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The Politics of Kneeling: A Tribute to Colin Kaepernick
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – Of course, there have been many Kaepernick moments that stretch back to the era of slavery, and forward to Rosa Parks’ 1956 refusal to go to the back of the bus sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott , King’s 1963 letter from the Birmingham Jail, and the death of George Floyd, some more resonant than others, but none have been enough to remove the dark stains of systemic racism from the fabric of daily life in America, and elsewhere in the world.
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BDS and Its Critics
Stephen Eric Bronner | Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
24 Jun 2020 – No civil society group in the United States has undergone as much censorious repression as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement — better known simply as BDS — and the most radical critic of Israeli policy in Gaza and the West Bank. Twenty-eight states have passed “anti-boycott” legislation condemning BDS.
→ read full articleThe Horrible Costs of a Fake Word
Prof. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
The world has literally ‘lost it’ over the horrible word capitalism. This may seem like an overstatement, but it can be justified easily. Today the global economic system is awash in ‘capital’ worth trillions upon trillions of dollars, but it is not coming to our help. By what twisted economics can this situation be justified? The reality of the word capitalism is ugly but simple. It is GREED – or the worship of Mammon – in a newer disguise.
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My Student Comes Home
Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
29 Jun 2020 – When Lawrence Bell, an orphan living in an abandoned house in Camden, New Jersey, went to prison he was 14-years-old. Barely literate and weighing no more than 90 pounds, he had been pressured by three Camden police detectives into signing a confession for a murder and rape he insisted at his trial he did not commit. It made no difference. He would not be eligible to go before a parole board for 56 years. It was a de facto life sentence.
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Coronavirus Pandemic Disease: The Role of Universal Peace Education in Its Remedy
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
The peoples of the whole world have been in the grip of poverty and inequality, and violence and war, and now they are facing to be the deadly Coronavirus pandemic disease, and currently there is no medicine or vaccine to cure this novel disease except to keep themselves in isolation from others and regular practice of cleanliness to prevent from this deadly disease.
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(Norwegian-Norsk) Rettssaken mot Julian Assange: hvorfor er han viktig for vår framtid?
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
I 2006 opprettet den australske redaktøren Julian Assange WikiLeaks for å publisere hemmeligstemplet materiale og lekkasje fra varslere. Den 18. desember 2018 trykket Klassekampen et utfyllende intervju med Julian Assanges far John Shipton om USAs utleveringskrav og den henlagte voldtektssaken i Sverige. Assange risikerer 175 års fengsel i USA, og professor Jake Lynch forklarer hvorfor Assanges framtid er viktig for oss alle.
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Family Tradition
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
A daughter observed her mother prepare a Christmas ham. Before she put it in a pot in the oven, she cut off a piece on the left and right and threw them into the garbage.
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Short of the Goal
Joe Kandra & Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Yes!
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(Français) Haïti étouffe sous le poids de son oligarchie et des États-Unis
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 juin 2020 – Pays le plus vulnérable du continent américain, Haïti est frappé par le covid-19 alors que la population est en prise avec les cyclones, une pauvreté généralisée, un gouvernement gangréné par la corruption et totalement décrédibilisé. Les derniers mots de Georges Floyd sont devenus sur les réseaux sociaux haïtiens un cri d’alerte : « Ayiti paka respire », Haïti ne peut pas respirer.
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Must the United States Demonise China?
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
26 Jun 2020 – Simply existing as a prosperous power is enough to make China an enemy, which must be isolated, contained, if not destroyed, like a disease. Hong Kong is but another factor in this hegemonic calculus.
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Franz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
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What West Bank Annexation Really Means
Naim Mousa | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
July 1. That is the date by which Netanyahu has promised to complete the annexation of the West Bank. But what does that really mean? Most people think that means he will annex Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho, and the rest of the region. However, nothing can be farther from the truth.
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Saint Ex for the style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. There is no indication that he had read Gibran in Saint Ex’s period in New York. It is more likely that both writers shared a common outlook on life.
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India: “We Live in a Casteist Hindu Nationalist State”–Interview with Arundhati Roy
Dalit Camera | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – Activist and author Arundhati Roy discusses Indian society and the response that George Floyd’s killing has evoked, and the prevalence of racism and casteism in the country. About the pulling down of a statue of a slave trader in the US, she said such a move was impossible in present day India. “We are very far away from the day when statues like these will be removed or pulled down. We are at the stage when they are being installed and celebrated.”
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Failing to Succeed
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
28 Jun 2020 – In a time of quarantine, isolation and anxiety, most literate isolates already have plowed through Decline & Fall, War & Peace, the complete set of Shakespeare’s dramas, and the Iliad. So, now the choice is between you and Paradise Lost – which is not everybody’s cup of tea. Widespread social disorder can be the expression of various conditions: civil war, sectarian strife, economic collapse, natural disasters, external incursions, etc. All of these situations are explicable by the application of some kind of causal logic.
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(Français) Interview d’Evo Morales: La Bolivie sous la dictature, le pouvoir réel des Etats-Unis
Stella Calloni | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
18 Juin 2020 – Un peu plus de six mois après le Coup d’Etat du 10/11 novembre 2019 en Bolivie contre le Président Evo Morales, actuellement réfugié en Argentine, ce dernier nous met en garde sur la situation désastreuse de son pays, soumis à un gouvernement de fait dirigé par la présidente autoproclamée Jeanine Anez qui non seulement réprime la population, provoquant des massacres, pourchassant et emprisonnant les dirigeants et militants politiques, mais détruit aussi de manière systématique le modèle social, économique et les avancées réalisées par le gouvernement renversé du MAS.
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Battleground States
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
26 Jun 2020 – The world that our global empire is swiftly creating, through our devastating oil wars in the Middle East and our arriving cold wars with Russia and China, is a world without winners. We must resist signing contracts with weapon makers profiting from endless immiseration of the Middle East and needless superpower rivalries inviting full nuclear war.
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When Religions Create Divisions and How to Avoid It
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Each religion implies, or comes right out and says, that it is the best or the only way to God. All others are inferior and should be ignored, dominated, pushed away, or even destroyed by force. In this way, a most difficult thing to break down is the barrier between us erected by our religions. A first-class religion is not the one that claims it is the highest religion.
→ read full articleRequiem for Democracy – Brazil’s Darkest Hour
Boaventura De Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
24 Jun 2020 -Once again, after so many other times, Brazil’s wealthy would rather run the risk of descending into dictatorship (if that’s not what they wanted to begin with) rather than have the lower classes express their aspiration to be included in the nation, which the wealthy have always conceived of as their own personal property.
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US Sanctions against International Court Staff a ‘Direct Attack’ on Judicial Independence
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
25 Jun 2020 – The decision by the United States to authorize sanctions targeting staff at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is “a direct attack to the institution’s judicial independence”, UN human rights experts said today.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – A German medical professor claims the Covid-19 infection fatality rate is “five to ten times higher” than the IFR of seasonal influenza. But he makes two classic mistakes. [Read on…]
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