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Beyond 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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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Jul 2020 – Sixty-five years ago this week, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and nine other Nobel Laureates released a historical document which became known as the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.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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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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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.
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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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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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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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.
→ read full articleCoronavirus/COVID-19 Global Databases: 23.6 Million+ Positive; 812 Thousand+ Dead
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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(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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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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(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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(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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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.
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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”
→ 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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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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(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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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.
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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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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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
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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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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Rumi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
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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.
→ read full articleJuly 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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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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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.
→ read full articleContemplating Human Extinction Terrifies Most People: A Strategy for Survival
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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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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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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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?
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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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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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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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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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
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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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