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(Italiano) Prevenzione dell’estremismo violento o aiuto allo sviluppo dei media?
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Nel far sì che le tematiche di giustizia trovino il loro spazio nelle sfere pubbliche, i media indipendenti che fanno Giornalismo di Pace possono costruire fiducia in comunità che possono proteggerli dalle asserzioni di combattere e distruggere. Possono suggerire al pubblico permettendogli di considerare e avvalorare risposte nonviolente ai conflitti.
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Dystopian Plagues and Fascist Politics in the Age of Trump: Finding Hope in the Darkness
Henry A. Giroux | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
4 Oct 2020 – Reality now resembles a dystopian world that could only be imagined as a harrowing work of fiction or biting political commentary. The works of George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Sinclair Lewis now appear as an understatement in a world marked by horrifying political horizons — a world in which authoritarian and medical pandemics merge.
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UK Massive Syria Propaganda
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
20 Oct 2020 – Dear Antonio, it was satisfying to read Ben Norton’s exposé of the NATO propaganda machine in Syria. How right he is! A recent analysis posted on TMS of press reports in Swiss and Austrian media, showed that 80% come from AP, AFP or Reuters: our ‘free’ press is not free of bias. Thank you to TMS for keeping us all informed about the truth, while Western media supply NATO’s ‘alternative facts’ to the general public.
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On the History of US Military Presence in Hawaii
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Environmental Impact Statement – I submit these areas of concern which should be part of the EIS in this matter.
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Global Data on Coronavirus: 43.3+ Million Infected; 1.1+ Million Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
*Two Databases Permanently Displayed on TMS*
*Global, Localized, Specific Data Updated in Real Time*
Historic Milestone: UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Reaches 50 Ratifications Needed for Entry into Force
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Today, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons reached the required 50 state parties. In 90 days the treaty will enter into force, cementing a categorical ban on nuclear weapons, 75 years after their first use.
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(Italiano) Memorie di sogni passati: Hawaii come “Ginevra del Pacifico”
Anthony J. Marsella | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 ottobre 2020 – Buon compleanno, Johan Galtung! Passeranno gli anni, ma non la tua eredità come voce per la pace e la giustizia! Le orme dei tuoi giorni alle Hawaii restano.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences of social and political collapse during the twilight of the Greek and Roman empires, the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, Tsarist Russia, Weimar Germany and the former Yugoslavia. Voices from the past, Aristotle, Cicero, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Roth and Milovan Djilas, warned us.
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‘It Affects Everything’: Hawaii Residents Demand Transparency over Pearl Harbor Munitions Storage
Jon Letman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – A munitions storage complex being planned by the US army along the West Loch section of Pearl Harbor near densely populated Hawaiian neighborhoods to help counter Chinese influence in the Pacific is running into local opposition.
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The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
Gabriel Rockhill | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
16 Oct 2020 – One of the founding myths of the contemporary Western European and American world is that fascism was defeated in WWII by liberal democracies, and particularly by the United States. With the subsequent Nuremburg trials and the patient construction of a liberal world order, a bulwark was erected—in fits and starts, and with the constant threat of regression—against fascism and its evil twin in the East. American culture industries have rehearsed this narrative ad nauseum, brewing it into a saccharine ideological Kool-Aid and piping it into every household, shack and street corner with a TV or smartphone, tirelessly juxtaposing the supreme evil of Nazism to the freedom and prosperity of liberal democracy.
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The COVID Illusion
Michael J. Talmo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
“The Magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.” — Ben Okri. Take a whole bunch of vague symptoms that can be caused by just about anything and that can occur in every human on the planet, put them all into a made-up umbrella term called COVID-19, claim that it’s caused by a virus, real or fake doesn’t matter, include even healthy people with no symptoms as cases, use deeply flawed inaccurate tests, and presto: you have a global pandemic.
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One-On-One+ with Johan Galtung
Al Jazeera | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – On the occasion of Galtung’s 90th birthday tomorrow on UN Day, we bring you a conversation he had ten years ago with Riz Khan at Aljazeera about his life.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report 17 (Oct 2020)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Dear fellow signatories of the Nonviolence Charter, this is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’. And welcome to our most recent signatories and organizations!
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The Public Sector Cannot Solve Our Problems–Their Hands Are Tied
Tshepiso Moahloli via Howard Richards - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
I work for the government and not a single day goes by when I do not hear the same cries of alarm. You are going to scare away investors! Every day we are warned that anything we do for the good of the 99% is going to scare off investors.
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Nobel Prize for a Gene Bomb
Silvia Ribeiro | Ecologist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – Alfred Nobel himself might see the irony. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – named after the inventor of dynamite and founder of one of the largest bomb factories in the world – has been awarded to researchers who developed the genetic engineering technique CRISPR-Cas9, which must not be allowed anywhere near our food systems or into the wider environment.
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#FREEASSANGE: Video Testimony from Yanis Varoufakis
Pressenza IPA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing up to 175 years in prison for publishing truthful information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Countless journalists, legal scholars, and human rights groups have condemned the politically motivated U.S. efforts to prosecute him. Under the campaign 1′ 4ASSANGE we publish short testimonies and start with Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek ex minister of finance and founder of the European political movement DiEM25.
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A Gathering Global Storm
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – This is my chapter contribution to The Great Awakenkng: New Modes of Thinking Amid the Ruins of Capitalism (2020) edited by Anna Grear & Davd Bollier. My text is preoccupied with the decline of the state as an efficient problem-solving instrument in a period where global scale challenges are generating an ethical-ecological-bio crisis.
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Mozart Piano Concerto #3 by Elisha Mysin, 5 Years Old (Music Video of the Week)
Young Talents, Great Geniuses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
28 Mar 2019 – The youngest pianist in Russia does not get his feet to the piano pedals but masterfully performs the most complex musical works. When Elisha Mysin sits at the piano and music begins to flow from his fingers, it is hard to believe that he is just five years old.
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The Suppressed Danish Mask Study
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Media and researchers have been awaiting the publication of a large Danish study on the effect – or lack thereof – of walking with facemasks in public spaces during the corona pandemic. However, it has been rejected by three leading medical journals: The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, and the American Medical Association’s journal JAMA.
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The USA Has No Allies, Only Hostages
Caitlin Johnstone | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
25 Oct 2020 – The US-centralized empire functions like a giant blob that absorbs nations and turns them into imperial client states. Once absorbed, it is rare for a country to escape and rejoin other genuinely sovereign nations. The new president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has told the Spanish international news agency EFE that he intends to restore the nation’s relations with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran.
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Agency’s Response to the New York Times’ Editorial “The Truth about Today’s Anarchists”
Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – At the end of September, after a brief exchange on Twitter about her article “The Truth About Today’s Anarchists” we received an email from Farah Stockman, a member of the New York Times Editorial Board, who asked that we connect her to sources within the anarchist movement for an upcoming of story.
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(Português) Bispos de Angola engrossam denúncia sobre retirada ilegal de dólares da Igreja Universal do país
Gilberto Nascimento | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 out 2020 – Religiosos revelam como funcionava operação da igreja de Edir Macedo para transportar dinheiro em sigilo para África do Sul e Brasil. O dinheiro, fruto de dízimos e ofertas, seguiria de carro, por estradas, e seriam transportados, geralmente, entre 4 milhões e 6 milhões de dólares por viagem. Cédulas seriam escondidas em malas, no forro de veículos e até em pneus.
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The Body Politic Electric: Walt Whitman on Women’s Centrality to Democracy
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
“Have I not said that womanhood involves all? Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than the best womanhood?”
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Syria: Six Million Displaced People Have Returned Home
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – Syrian authorities announced today that six million displaced people had returned home to different parts of the country. The authorities have repaired more than 19.000 houses while supporting waste recycling projects that aim at securing an estimated 18.000 job positions.
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Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative
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Pope Francis Calls for Creation of Civil Union Laws for Same-Sex Couples
Justine Coleman | The Hill - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 Oct 2020 – Pope Francis expressed his clearest support for same-sex civil unions in the documentary “Francesco” that premiered in Rome, straying from the Vatican’s traditional position, the Catholic News Agency reported. He addressed pastoral care for LGBTQ: “homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family.”
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***Thought Seed*** – Oct 2020 Issue
Naresh Jotwani and Bhargav Vyas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Dear Antonio, Greetings from India!
We have started monthly letters named Thought Seed for interested readers. The central theme of these letters is ‘finding the truth of life deep within,’ wherein we also aim to bridge the difficult gap between theory and practice. We wish to appeal equally to atheists and theists. It is a pleasure having it published in TMS as a Letter to the Editor.
American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War against the World
Philip M. Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – The most interesting story carefully hidden by the smoke from civil unrest, plague and personal scandals is the continued march of American militarism. Multi billionaire Elon Musk announced that he and the Pentagon are developing a new 7,500 m.p.h. missile capable of delivering 80 tons of military cargo anywhere in the world in under an hour. A major capability for continued U.S. intervention worldwide.
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Ten Years since WikiLeaks and Julian Assange Published the Iraq War Logs
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – Today marks a decade since WikiLeaks published the Iraq War Logs, the most comprehensive exposure of imperialist criminality and neo-colonial banditry since the Pentagon Papers of the 1970s revealed the scale of American military activities in Vietnam, and perhaps of all time. In minute detail, the logs exposed all of the […]
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The Healthcare System Isn’t Interested in Anything Other Than Covid… Not Even Lung Cancer
Peter Andrews | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 Oct 2020 – A new report has shown how people with lung cancer may have been misdiagnosed as coronavirus sufferers, which is already contributing to avoidable deaths. The obsession with Covid-19 is beginning to take its toll.
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Unfinished
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Reading tributes to the revolutionary hero, Che Guevara, last week at the notable TMS site, I was moved to take another look at a poem I had written shortly after his death, some decades ago. But, when I read it again now, something felt wrong. I had omitted an essential piece of the puzzle of life—the piece that points to revelation and deliverance. Can the reader guess which is the new stanza below…?
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Step by Step
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
25 Oct 2020 – Today is Vijay Dashmi or Dashehra symbolising victory of Good over Evil on the return of Lord Ram from his exile. I am feeling lonely. So I write this small poem.
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Nick Dearden | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020 – To efficiently deal with the pandemic and keep everyone safe, we first need to transform the pharmaceutical industry. TRIPS extended Western-style patent protections across the whole world, allowing the business to sit on patents for a minimum of 20 years, during which time they are able to dictate who can use their creations and at what price.
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At 75 – A U.N. of the Future in a Globalized Democracy
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the world’s most important and visionary organisation, the United Nations. The UN Charter’s Article 1 states that peace shall be brought about by peaceful means. That is a typical Gandhian inspiration – “The means are the goals in-the-making. You cannot use destructive means to achieve constructive goals,” he said. Regrettably, many voices accuse “the UN” of being too expensive, too bureaucratic, too ineffective, too corrupt, too this and that.
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BBC’s Upcoming White Helmets ‘Documentary’ Gears Up to Be a Character Assassination of Those Who Challenge Syria War Narratives
Vanessa Beeley | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – The BBC is preparing an attack against journalists, former diplomats, academics and scientists who challenge the dominant pro-war narratives against Syria underpinned by the pseudo-humanitarian White Helmets.
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STOP HUNGER — Multi-Pronged Dimensions
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
World Food day was observed on 16 October. World Food Programme has won the Nobel Peace Prize for this year for its efforts at combating hunger all over the world by bringing food to millions of people who go to bed hungry and miserable. But its efforts are grossly insufficient keeping in view the dimensions of the hunger problem.
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A Critical U.S. Election
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Why the 2020 Election Is So Important
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Israeli Conscientious Objector Begins Third Stint in Military Prison
Orly Noy | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 Oct 2020 – Israeli conscientious objector Hallel Rabin, 19, began serving a 25-day sentence in military prison today for refusing to join the Israeli army over its policies toward the Palestinians. Military conscription is mandatory for most Jewish Israelis. This is Rabin’s third period of incarceration, while her appeal to the conscientious objectors committee is still pending.
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(Français) Stefania Maurizi: « C’est un incroyable échec du journalisme »
Stefania Maurizi interviewée par Nadja Vancauwenberghe et John Brown | Le Grand Soir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
18 oct 2020 – La journaliste italienne Stefania Maurizi a travaillé pour certaines des plus grandes publications du pays, dont la Repubblica, l’Espresso et, maintenant, Il Fatto Quotidiano. En 2009, elle a commencé à travailler avec Julian Assange et WikiLeaks sur des dossiers secrets concernant la guerre en Afghanistan, les câbles de la diplomatie américaine et les détenus de Guantanamo.
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Fools’ Crusade: Why United States Provocations towards China Will Lead to Disaster
Jeff J. Brown and Jeremy Kuzmarov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
25 Oct 2020 – On July 4, 2020, the U.S. Navy dispatched an unprecedented two aircraft carriers and four other warships to the South China Sea for naval maneuvers in waters claimed by China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo subsequently broke with the official U.S. policy of neutrality in territorial conflicts in the South China Sea and declared that China’s claims to most of the Sea were “completely unlawful,” though most of the disputed territories had been part of China prior to being taken over by Japan in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War.
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A Russia-China Military Alliance Would Be a Bulwark against America’s Global Imperialism. Is It Time for Washington to Panic?
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – Vladimir Putin says it’s ‘quite possible to imagine’ a full-blown defense pact between Moscow and Beijing in the near future. Such a deal would transform the geopolitical balance – and be a big headache for the US and NATO.
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Socialist Luis Arce Wins Bolivian Election
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – A year after former Bolivian president Evo Morales was ousted in a military coup that installed a far-right regime, Morales’ ally Luis Arce declared victory after exit polls showed the socialist candidate with a large advantage over his two main competitors. “Democracy has won,” Arce, who served as Morales’ finance minister, said.
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(Italiano) Una lunatica pazzia: competizione, conflitti e sfruttamento minerario della Luna
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
12 Ottobre 2020 – Stiamo andando sulla Luna. Il nostro successo cambierà il mondo. Queste sono le frasi introduttive di un recente documento pubblicato dall’ Agenzia Spaziale USA: “Con il Programma Artemis, la NASA porterà sul suolo lunare la prima donna e il prossimo uomo entro il 2024, utilizzando tecnologie innovative per esplorare molto più che in passato ampie zone della superficie lunare”.
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(Français) Bolivie : le triomphe du MAS, c’est le triomphe d’un projet collectif des organisations sociales
Denise Godoy | NODAL - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 oct 2020 – Ce dimanche 18 octobre, la Bolivie a enfin tenu ses élections présidentielles. Elles avaient été reportées à trois reprises. Les décomptes indiquent une victoire retentissante de Luis Arce avec plus de 51% des voix. Le journaliste bolivien Julio Peñaloza Bretel explique les raisons de cette victoire historique après le putsch contre Evo Morales s’était lancée dans une campagne acharnée contre le MAS.
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Goldman Sachs Fined $2.9 Billion over Role in 1MDB Corruption Case
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – Goldman Sachs has been fined $2.9 billion the US Department of Justice announced yesterday closing one of the biggest corruption cases in the history of Wall Street. With a July settlement with Malaysian authorities, Goldman Sachs will pay more than $5 billion for its involvement in the 1MDB scandal but it can afford it easily: 2019 revenue: US$ 36.55 billion – Net worth: US$ 64 billion
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US Presidential Campaign Spectacle: Distracts from Essential Issues while Playing the Race Card
Roger Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
So, we have a marvelous symmetry of contention. Republicans accuse Democrats of collusion with Antifa to establish a socialist tyranny. Democrats accuse Republicans of marching to a fascist dictatorship with the Proud Boys.
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Bored Panda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
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Evo Morales’s Party’s Massive Victory Is a Rebuke to US Elites Who Hailed the Coup
Shawn Gude | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – Immediately after last year’s right-wing coup in Bolivia, US elites, including many liberals, celebrated or excused the putsch against Evo Morales. Yesterday’s resounding electoral win for Morales’s party is a rebuke to all of their bloviating nonsense — and a massive triumph for democracy in Bolivia.
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Stop the Massacres in Haiti; End U.S. and UN Support for the Criminal Regime of Jovenel Moise
Haiti Action Committee | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – The human rights crisis under the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise has continued to widen and deepen with the proliferation of “Tonton Macoutes” style death squad repression across the country.
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Belching Cows and Endless Feedlots: Fixing Cattle’s Climate Issues
Henry Fountain | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
The United States is home to 95 million cattle, and changing what they eat could have a significant effect on emissions of greenhouse gases like methane that are warming the world. We traveled to the Texas Panhandle to understand the nation’s immense cattle feedlots.
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Memories of Dreams Past: Hawaii as the “Geneva of the Pacific”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Happy Birthday, Johan Galtung! Years will pass, but your legacy as a voice for peace and justice will not! The footprints of your days in Hawaii remain. “Footprints in Hawaii’s sands, escaping incoming tides–indelible footprints!”
→ read full article2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 40.3+ Million Infected; 1.1+ Million Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
(Français) Les gouvernements occidentaux ont financé un important réseau de propagande en Syrie
Ben Norton | Investig'action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
29 septembre 2020 – Des coupures de renseignement financées par le gouvernement occidental ont formé des dirigeants de l’opposition syrienne, semé des articles dans les médias et dirigé un groupe de journalistes. Une mine de documents divulgués expose le réseau de propagande. Les documents mettent également en lumière le programme britannique de formation et d’armement des groupes rebelles, y compris des jihadistes extrémistes.
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An Environmental Nakba: The Palestinian Environment under Israeli Colonization
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammed A. Abusarhan | Science for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – Prior to the 1948 war and even the Zionist Congress of 1897, Palestine had some thirteen hundred villages and towns, each with a small and manageable population living sustainably with nature. The land was owned or worked by the Palestinian people, who were 85 percent Muslim, 9.2 percent Christian, and 5.3 percent Jewish.1 This structure changed radically when mostly European Jews mobilized for massive migration to Palestine and began to assume colonial control over the land.
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The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy
Michael T. Klare | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
11 Oct 2020 – Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick – We are finding ourselves in an ever more dangerous and insecure world, with the risk of Armageddon lurking just around the corner.
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Anticipation of Judicial Inquisition of Humans by Extraterrestrials
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Potential Consequence of Failure to Adhere to Universal Principles of Intelligent Life – The purpose of this exercise is to reframe the relation of humans to non-human species — as it may be perceived from an extraterrestrial perspective, now or in the future. Humans are naturally skilled in framing their treatment of animals — notably justified by particular interpretations of religious scriptures held to be beyond question, as with interpretations of the Bible regarding human dominion over all animals.
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(Français) Le cas d’extradition d’Assange est une attaque sans précédent contre la liberté de la presse – alors pourquoi les médias n’en parlent pratiquement pas ?
Patrick Cockburn | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
8 Oct 2020 – Le silence des journalistes en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis sur la procédure d’extradition de Julian Assange les rend complices de la criminalisation par le gouvernement américain. Assange et WikiLeaks ont fait tout ce que les journalistes devraient faire en révélant des informations importantes sur les méfaits du gouvernement américain et en les communiquant au public.
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Yanis Varoufakis at the Belmarsh Tribunal: First they came for Assange…
DiEM25 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 – In his speech at The Belmarsh Tribunal, Yanis Varoufakis makes the case that we must move beyond defending Julian Assange, to actively condemning those whose crimes he revealed. Convened by the Progressive International, The Belmarsh Tribunal investigated and evaluated US war crimes in the 21st century — and defended Julian Assange’s right to reveal them.
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Humanity, Compassion, Bravery
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 – Many countries in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America are facing violence and brutality in one form or the other. However, on an optimistic and humane note, a few events are regularly taking place that dispel this negativity along with the abysmal social and psychological conditions we see around us.
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Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative
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After the Fall… What?
EnvisionPeaceMuseum | Johan Galtung & Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Fascism or Blossoming after the Fall of the US Empire?
10 Jul 2012 – Prognosis/Prediction
Americans Are Dying in the Pandemic at Rates Far Higher Than in Other Countries
Jason Beaubien | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 – Overall deaths in the U.S. are more than 85% higher than in places such as Germany, Israel and Denmark adjusting for population size. Deaths in the U.S. are 29% higher than even in Sweden, “which ignored everything for so long,” refusing to order social restrictions and a lockdown. “We have 29% more mortality than we should have if we’d followed Sweden’s path and Sweden virtually did nothing.”
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Japan to Release 1M Tonnes of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water into Pacific Ocean
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
16 Oct 2020 – Nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s government has decided to release over one million tonnes of contaminated water into the sea, media reports said today, with a formal announcement expected to be made later this month.
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Freeing “Hotel Rwanda” Hero Paul Rusesabagina
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – The man portrayed by Don Cheadle in the movie about mass slaughter in Rwanda was kidnapped and jailed by the country’s dictator. Paul Rusesabagina, the real life hero whose story is the basis of the movie “Hotel Rwanda,” was kidnapped in Dubai and illegally rendered to Rwanda to stand trial on terrorism charges.
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Two Massive New Leaks Show Dirty Underbelly of Empire
Lee Camp | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 – Most Americans don’t know reality. They know their personal reality, which is detached from the real one. Shhhh, don’t tell them about the Blue Leaks and the Syria PR Leaks. The mainstream media’s virtual blackout must mean they aren’t supposed to know.
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California
Rafael Campo | Academy of American Poets – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
I wrote this poem to come to terms with some of my own conflicted feelings of shame, complicity, and privilege as I care for people with COVID-19 among my many other patients who continue to live with HIV, and to remember those who did not survive, recognizing my paradoxical power and helplessness as I witness the disproportionate burden of these diseases on people of color.”
→ read full articleActivism Is Our Rent for Living on the Earth
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
The idea of activism – of being a part of some cause that helps makes things better in the world – is increasingly catching on. It has become much cooler than what it was a few decades ago, when greed ruled the roost… When we imbue our activism with the inspiration to harmonize with the whole, our activism makes an enduring difference – in our own lives, in our social circle and in the world at large.
→ read full articleSelectively Unwalking the Path of History
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
I would like to help you out. Which way did you come in? Unwalking the historical path that led us to where we are, we humans should seize the day, carpe diem. We should transition to the day when humans will spend their time doing intrinsically valuable activities (sports, music, science, philosophy, dance, religion, studies, gardening , yoga, etc.) while advanced technology produces more and better goods and services, and creates more surplus to share.
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This Is My Message to the Western World – Your Civilisation Is Killing Life on Earth
Nemonte Nenquimo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 – We Indigenous people are fighting to save the Amazon, but the whole planet is in trouble because you do not respect it.
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Unite against Washington’s ‘Old-Fashioned Cold War Mentality’, Beijing Urges Asian Nations
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – China’s top diplomat has urged neighboring states to guard against Washington’s geopolitical ambitions in Asia and called for regional cooperation to thwart foreign provocations in the South China Sea.
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Nietzsche on the Journey of Becoming and What It Means to Be a Free Spirit
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
“…become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities… acquire power over your aye and no and learn to hold and withhold them in accordance with your higher aims…” “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
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Vitamin C Cuts COVID Deaths by Two-Thirds
Patrick Holford | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 – Twice Nobel Prize winner Dr Linus Pauling proved the power of high dose vitamin C in the 1970’s. It is thanks to him we know about the benefits of high dose vitamin C. The cover of his landmark book “Vitamin C and the Common Cold” has a statement that reads, “It is especially important that everyone know that he can protect himself to a considerable extent against the disease, and its consequences, with this important nutrient, vitamin C.” It’s been 50 years since Pauling proved the anti-viral power of vitamin C. Isn’t it time we took this seriously?
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Why Children, As Well As Adults, Need Stories about Solutions
Jodie Jackson | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Jodie Jackson, author and expert on the psychological impact of the news, has now released a children’s book. She explains how, and why, it is grounded in the principles of positive psychology.
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Home to Roost
Joe Kandra, Pat Daniel and Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Sigh…!
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Leaked Docs Expose Massive Syria Propaganda Operation Waged by Western Gov’t Contractors and Media
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
29 Sep 2020 – Western government-funded intelligence cutouts trained Syrian opposition leaders, planted stories in the media and ran a cadre of journalists. A trove of leaked documents exposes the propaganda network. The documents also shine light on the British program to train and arm rebel groups, including extremist jihadists.
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Working to End Human Violence in the Time of Covid-19
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Can we craft and implement a strategy to end the violence, particularly in each and all of its extinction-threatening dimensions, to ensure that humanity has a chance to thrive on planet Earth indefinitely into the future? Few are asking that question.
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26 Sep: International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
The United Nations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Achieving global nuclear disarmament is one of the oldest goals of the United Nations. It was the subject of the General Assembly’s first resolution in 1946, which established the Atomic Energy Commission, with a mandate to make specific proposals for the control of nuclear energy and the elimination of atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction.
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(Português) Enquanto a Amazônia queima, o que acontece com a biodiversidade?
Liz Kimbroughem (Mongabay) | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
17 out 2020 – Mais de 40% dos incêndios na Amazônia brasileira neste ano estão ocorrendo em florestas, com mais de 4,6 milhões de acres já impactados este ano. Embora longe de serem totalmente estudados, esses incêndios florestais têm grandes repercussões para a flora e fauna.
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Forget About Jewish or Democratic. Is Israel Even an Actual Country?
Yuli Tamir | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 – Based on the accepted definition, a country is a sovereign political organization that controls a defined territory. Its inhabitants are subject to a common authority and are governed by an independent government with the right to establish diplomatic relations or to declare war against other sovereign countries. Israel does not meet these basic conditions.
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Che Guevara Is Assassinated on 9 Oct 1967
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
53 year ago, socialist revolutionary and guerilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, was killed by the Bolivian army. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 and executed him the following day. His hands were cut off as proof of death and his body was buried in an unmarked grave.
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Is the Cuba Blockade a Myth?
Maité Rizo | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
15 Oct 2020 – The Cuban people have lived for almost sixty years with restrictions imposed by the United States government. Many times we do not even notice how much this policy affects us, because in a certain way we get used to so many decades of economic war along with the problems of our country, and because no, it is not all the fault of the blockade. But it exists, and its impact is real.
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The Bolsonaro Thing
Jean Wyllys | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
7 Oct 2020 – Historical facts do not repeat themselves, but they can rhyme, like a poem. The rise of the extreme right in Brazil in the wake of Operation Lava Jato rhymes quite nicely with the rise of the extreme right in Italy after Operation Mani Pulite, which under the “excuse” of eradicating corruption destroyed the political elite with the help of the media, paving the way for the corrupt, authoritarian, and immoral Silvio Berlusconi to become prime minister.
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The Behemoth Strategy
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
In more than one occasion, democracies are taken by assault leveraging on the system’s defects. Their authors take advantage of democratic means to win power and, after conquering it, deny their adversaries all the means that were granted to them. Democracies can well die through democratic means better than by a coup d’état. An analysis of this challenge to the democratic coexistence in global terms, particularly focusing on the electoral process in United States.
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Myanmar: ‘Shocking’ Killing of Children Allegedly Used as Human Shields
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – UN agencies in Myanmar have expressed ‘sadness’ and ‘shock’ over the killing of two boys, allegedly used as human shields by security forces in Rakhine . They were killed in a crossfire between Myanmar’s military and the separatist Arakan Army.
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To Rebel against Necessity and More
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
“I am convinced that it would be a waste of time to show a people of intimidated slaves a different manner of speaking, a different manner of gesticulating; but perhaps it would be worthwhile to show them a different way of living. No word and no gesture can be more persuasive than the life, and if necessary, the death of a man who strives to be free, loyal, just, sincere, disinterested: a man who shows what a man can be.” Che Guevara did that. Now it’s up to us.
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(Português) Lenny Kravitz diz que é vegano e que cultiva a própria comida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
5 out 2020 – Em entrevista publicada pela revista “Men’s Health”, o cantor e compositor estadunidense Lenny kravitz, de 56 anos, disse que se tornou vegano e que cultiva a maior parte da própria comida. Ele mostra o que colheu pela manhã – como fruta-do-conde, limão, abacate, cenoura e alecrim.
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Ye Are Many, They Are Few!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
A New Freely Downloadable Book – I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the question of how oligarchs maintain their grasp on an excessive share of wealth and power when, as Shelley pointed out, the have-nots are many, while the power-holders are few.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ completes 90 years of age. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues.
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Bored Panda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Really?
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Paul Brunton (21 Oct 1898 – 24 Jul 1981): The Spiritual Search
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
The world citizen Paul Brunton was concerned with building intellectual bridges between the West and the spiritual traditions of Asia, in particular India.
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Why the UN Can’t Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
Roger Kotila, PhD | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
15 Oct 2020 – Is the UN’s attempt to eliminate nukes a lesson in futility? It may be, unless we can identify nations that will work with us for the needed Charter Review with the Earth Constitution as a potential guide and model for a “new UN” (this strategy is known as the San Francisco Promise).
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Hymn for the Weekend (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Kick back and simply enjoy…
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On the Coming Decline and Fall of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
[Paper written in 2015] -> Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a complete configuration, articulated in a statement by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the United States Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing”. In other words, direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.
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The Belmarsh Tribunal Put the US on Trial for Crimes Revealed by Assange
DiEM25 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
15 Oct 2020 – As we await the verdict of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, the struggle for his liberation continues. Too often we hear that protests do not succeed. That resistance does not achieve results. With press freedom on trial, the stakes are too high to subscribe to such pessimism.
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The Palestinian Struggle Betrayed
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – The decline of the American Empire is too naked to refute. Millions are unemployed. The economy is in shambles. More than 200,000 Americans are dead and businesses are failing. The United States is in socio-political chaos and unrest is widespread. Are the Palestinians the attempted sacrifice at the altar of a Trump re-election trickery?
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Inspiration, Conspiration, Transpiration, Expiration
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
Towards a Universal Model of Conspiracy Theories – Reference is widely made to the problematic existence of conspiracy theories, variously understood as deriving from fake news. In relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns are raised regarding the epidemic of misinformation. CTs are now held to be especially influential with respect to the US 2020 presidential election.
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Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
70 Per Cent of COVID Cases Located in Just 10 Countries, WHO Reports
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
5 Oct 2020 – While COVID-19 has affected all countries, the pandemic is “uneven”, and it is estimated that 10 per cent of the global population may have been infected with the virus, senior officials with the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
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Nagorno-Karabakh: A Phantom Republic Takes Center Stage
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
9 Oct 2020 – The Phantom Republics is the name given to the States demanding the status of independence after the breakup of the Soviet Union: Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, Transnistea in Moldova, and Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The conflicts in Georgia and Moldova are now “frozen”, but they can “melt” at any time.
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Another Now – An Intimate Introduction
Yanis Varoufakis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis, Bodley Head, Sep 2020, 240 pp. ~~ “Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about – and might yet… — Slavoj Zizek
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