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Turkey-Greece Mediterranean Tensions: Track II Efforts Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
4 Sep 2020 – With Turkish war ships in the Mediterranean and the Greek army on alert, the tensions between Greece and Turkey are growing. Greek soldiers on the Greek island of Kastellorico, some two kilometers from the Turkish coast are on alert. Governmental efforts of mediation especially that of the German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass have not produced positive results.
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Three Years since Their Genocide Began, the Rohingya Remain Desperate for Help
Editorial Board | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
13 Aug 2020 – The Rohingya Muslims three years after 750,000 of them were terrorized and torched out of their homes by Myanmar’s security forces and forced into miserable camps in Bangladesh. Using the word ‘genocide’ won’t bring the Rohingya home. But it will serve as a reminder to [Nobel Peace laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi – and to the world – of what happened.
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(Français) Haïti : la terreur s’installe avec la complicité de l’international
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1er septembre 2020 – Le meurtre, vendredi 28 août, du bâtonnier du barreau de Port-au-Prince a provoqué de larges remous en Haïti. Venant s’ajouter à une longue liste d’assassinats, il jette une lumière crue sur l’insécurité et l’impunité, la responsabilité de l’État et la complicité de l’international.
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Shrinking Map of Palestine, Aging Politicians, and More
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
4 Sep 2020 – Yesterday the Palestinian factions (all of them) held a meeting to try to get their act together. The meeting was moderated/led by Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). My suggestion is that the Palestinian people say to these elderly leaders that unless you do this PLO restructuring by a certain date that we will create a new representative PLO ourselves.
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Socio—Politico Jiu-jitsu
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
The world sees differences of various types in races, cultures, behaviour, activities and virtually all aspects that human beings display. Some of these are innate or natural, as are the facial and bodily looks and corresponding behaviour. But some differences are acquired.
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Ambattha Sutta – Pride Humbled
Buddha Sutra - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Now, at that time Pokkharasati had a pupil, the youth Ambattha, who was a student of the Vedas, who knew the mantras, perfected in the Three Vedas, a skilled expounder of the rules and rituals, the lore of sounds and meanings and, fifthly, oral tradition, complete in philosophy and the marks of a great man, admitted and accepted by his master in the Three Vedas with the words, “What I know, you know; what you know, I know.”
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Judaism, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Me
Gershon Baskin | The Jerusalem Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 – For years I have witnessed very violent behavior by settlers and soldiers toward Palestinians. The most violent of these acts were committed by religious settlers. Their hatred is burning in their eyes toward Palestinians, and even more toward Jews who come to show solidarity or protect Palestinians. These behaviors push me to move even further away from Judaism; the religious settlers and the soldiers call me a traitor.
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2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 25.4 Million+ Positive; 850 Thousand+ Dead
Worldometer | Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
USA, Brazil, India with most world infections
Conspiracy Theories about Covid-19 Vaccines May Prevent Herd Immunity
The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
29 Aug 2020 – Do vaccines cause autism? Are politicians scaremongering about COVID-19 to drum up profits for drug firms? Will Bill Gates use injections to implant microchips in your children? The answer to all three questions is no, though scientists once debated the first. Regardless, the polls show that convincing people to take vaccines may be as difficult as producing them in the first place.
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Questioning Covid-19: Why I Will Never Trust the Medical Establishment about Respiratory Disease. My Case History
Anita McKone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – If you are interested in finding out the truth about the Covid19 scare, you can look for information in many areas. Understanding the corporate (profit-driven) and petrochemical-based history of the medical establishment helps…
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Vince Emanuele | In the Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Iraq war veteran Vince Emanuele: “The Marines took it upon themselves to shoot at, beat, rob, rape, kill whoever they wanted to. And that’s being proposed on the news as a few bad apples, an isolated incident.”
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The “Third Way” of the Fake COVID-19 Two-Sided “Debate”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
29 Aug 2020 – Trying to Point out some of the Differences Between – and the Similarities of – the Pro-vaccine, Vaccinology-illiteracy in the Trump Camp and the Pro-vaccine, Vaccinology-illiteracy in the Big Pharma/Big Media/CDC/Fauci/Gates/World Economic Forum/Biden Camp and why Neither of the Two Camps Should be Blindly Supported
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Those Who Protest against the “Official” Covid-19 Narrative Are Categorized as “Psychopaths”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 – “Collective Narcissism” and the “Dark Triad”: Is It a Witch Hunt? – The legitimacy of Wall Street, the World Economic Forum, Big Pharma and the billionaire foundations which ordered the closure of the global economy in March must be forcefully challenged.
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COVID19/Coronavirus Selected Articles
Various Authors | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – The Imposition of Compulsory Vaccination with a Biometric Health Passport?
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Israel Bombs Gaza for Fourth Week despite Mediation
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – Israeli aircraft and tanks launched raids against Gaza early today. Israel has maintained a crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip since 2007, which critics say amounts to collective punishment of the enclave’s two million residents. Egypt also upholds the siege, restricting movement in and out of Gaza on its border. The United Nations has long warned that Gaza would become unlivable by 2020 if the siege wasn’t lifted.
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Facts about Covid-19
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
September 2020 – According to the latest immunological studies, the overall lethality of Covid-19 in the general population ranges between 0.1% and 0.5% in most countries, which is comparable to the medium influenza pandemics of 1957 and 1968.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 1
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
20 Aug 2020 – Eighty years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky—the exiled co-leader of the 1917 October Revolution and founder of the Fourth International—was mortally wounded by an agent of the Soviet Union’s secret police. The murder of Trotsky was the outcome of a massive political conspiracy organized by the regime headed by Stalin.
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Agenda ID2020 of the “One World Order”: The 101 to Understanding Its Implications
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – Agenda ID2020 is hardly mentioned by any media, let alone the mainstream. Agenda ID2020, if carried out, is the ultimate control by a small elite – of the One World Order (OWO), also called the New World Order (NWO) – over the world population. It is a mechanism that would allow controlling every movement of each one of the 7-plus billion people of planet earth, including everyone’s health records, cash flows, bank accounts, as well as our behavior in this ultra-controlled society – which I refrain from calling civilization anymore.
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Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1 Sep 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Srila Prabhupada was an Indian spiritual teacher who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He is among the most prominent Vedic scholars, translators, and teachers of the modern era. Credited with translating and commenting on over 80 volumes of the Vedas, including the Bhagavad Gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, he is regarded as the world’s most prominent contemporary authority on bhakti-yoga.
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Covid Vaccine Rush Could Make Pandemic Worse, Say Scientists
Sarah Boseley | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
30 Aug 2020 – The rush to immunise populations against Covid-19 could lead to the rollout of a vaccine that is not very effective and risk worsening the pandemic, leading scientists have said. Experts say strong evidence of efficacy needed to avoid approval of inferior vaccines.
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In Defence of Conspiracy Theories (and Why the Term Is a Misnomer)
David Coady | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Yesterday’s conspiracy theories often become today’s incontrovertible facts. In the mid-1990s, journalist Gary Webb’s claims that CIA officials conspired with drug dealers to bring cocaine into the US were dismissed as a conspiracy theory. But the claims were true. The net effect of terms such as “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracism” is to silence people who suspect conspiracies may be occurring. These terms serve to herd respectable opinion in ways that suit the interests of the powerful.
→ read full articleCan the U.S. Democracy Be Fixed?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, attention was redirected to the market-driven economy. With the support of both political parties, the U.S. Government focused on making the world safe for predatory capitalism, ‘the Washington consensus’ or more politely, ‘neoliberal globalization.’ This version of Marxist materialism encouraged consumerist orgies and the militarists required an enemy for continuing with wartime military budgets and restoring their self-esteem as guardians of national and global security.
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The Greenland Ice Sheet Has Melted Past the Point of No Return
The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Annual snowfall can no longer replenish the melted ice that flows into the ocean from Greenland’s glaciers. The ice loss is now so great that it has triggered an irreversible feedback loop: the sheet will keep melting even if global warming stopped today. This is bad news for coastal cities, given that Greenland boasts the largest ice sheet on the planet after Antarctica.
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Viruses Have Big Impacts on Ecology and Evolution As Well As Human Health
The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
20 Aug 2020 – In viruses the link between metabolism and genes that binds together all life to which you are related, from bacteria to blue whales, is broken. Viral genes have no cells, no bodies, no metabolism of their own. The tiny particles, “virions”, in which those genes come packaged—the dot-studded disks of coronaviruses, the sinister, sinuous windings of Ebola, the bacteriophages with their science-fiction landing-legs that prey on microbes—are entirely inanimate. An individual animal, or plant, embodies and maintains the restless metabolism that made it. A virion is just an arrangement of matter.
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Dog Smarts
Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Two dog owners are arguing about whose pet is smarter.
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Heated Vaccine Debate: Kennedy Jr. vs Dershowitz
Valuetainment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Historic debate about COVID vaccination between two attorneys: Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. [against] and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz [for].
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Belarus’s Options in the Midst of a Color Revolution
Roger Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Belarus shows that any small state with a mildly socialist system and independent foreign policy invites subversion by the Yankee hegemon and its collaborators. Even if Belarus had met the highest standards of democracy and efficiency, a western-backed color revolution might not have been avoided.
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How Corporate Tyranny Works
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable, find that the institutions of power unite to crucify them.
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Independence of Journalism
Noam Chomsky - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
A truly independent press rejects the role of subordination to power and authority. It casts the orthodoxy to the winds, questions what “right-thinking people will accept without question,” tears aside the veil of tacit censorship, makes available to the general public the information and range of opinions and ideas that are a prerequisite for meaningful participation in social and political life, and beyond that, offers a platform for people to enter into debate and discussion about the issues that concern them.
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Why Does Low Unemployment No Longer Lift Inflation?
The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – The Phillips curve, the logic of which guides central banks today, has become oddly flat.
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Maria Montessori (31 Aug 1870 – 6 May 1952): The Spirit of Education for World Citizenship
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Maria Montessori’s teaching displeased the narrow nationalist leaders in power in the 1930s. The Fascist government of Mussolini closed the Montessori schools in Italy in 1934 as did Hitler in Germany and then in Austria when Hitler’s troops moved into Vienna. The dictators saw that creative thinking among children was a danger to their authoritarian rule.
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Mississippi Goddam (Music Video of the Week)
Nina Simone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
“Hound dogs on my trail
School children sitting in jail
Black cat cross my path
I think every day’s gonna be my last”
55 years later, what have changed in the USA? You be the judge.
Write Your Own Caption
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Hear any bells ringing? Or the sand prevents it?
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There’s a Conspiracy Theory That the CIA Invented the Term ‘Conspiracy Theory’ – Here’s why
Michael Butter | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Conspiracy theories have a long history, but the actual term “conspiracy theory” emerged much more recently. It was only a few decades ago that the term took on the derogatory connotations it has today, where to call someone a conspiracy theorist functions as an insult.
→ read full articleAn Italian Doctor Warns the World Population
Dr. Roberto Petrella - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020
– Statements by the renowned Dr. Roberto Petrella about a new vaccine to be approved by the European Parliament without any opposition.
– Recientes e impactantes declaraciones del reputado doctor Roberto Petrella acerca de la nueva vacuna que está a punto de ser aprobada en el Parlamento Europeo sin ninguna oposición.
– Recenti e sconvolgenti dichiarazioni del celebre dottor Roberto Petrella sul nuovo vaccino che sta per essere approvato al Parlamento Europeo senza alcuna opposizione.
(Português) Macacos acorrentados gritam de dor em experimentos realizados em laboratório alemão
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Ago 2020 – Denúncia: Uma investigação descobriu que macacos, coelhos, gatos e cachorros eram torturados das formas mais terríveis em um laboratório alemão. Após a divulgação das imagens e relatórios apontando as inúmeras irregularidades e violações de leis de bem-estar animal, foi iniciada uma campanha para que o local fechasse definitivamente.
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Palestinians Stage Surprise ‘Thank You’ Event for Banksy in Bethlehem
Jessie McDonald | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Photographs of works go on display in Manger Square to celebrate British street artist’s contribution to diversifying tourism.
→ read full articlePandit Jasraj — Musician Extraordinaire
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Indian classical music both vocal and instrumental can have countless number of varieties. These depend on the gharanas (families or lineages), of the musicians as well as their individual differences.
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How the Shadow of Slavery Still Hangs Over Global Finance
Philip Roscoe | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance. The slave trade pioneered a new kind of finance, secured on the bodies of the powerless. Today, the arcane products of high finance, targeting the poor and troubled as profit opportunities for the already-rich, still bear that deep unfairness.
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‘Chasing the Light’ by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 – Like the wandering and rascally Odysseus upon whom he models his life, Oliver Stone is “double-minded” in the most profound and illuminating ways. The title of his fantastic new memoir is a case in point. “One of the first basic lessons in filming,” he writes, “is chasing the light.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 2
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
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D.H. Lawrence on Trees, Solitude, and How We Root Ourselves When Relationships Collapse
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
“One must possess oneself, and be alone in possession of oneself.”
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What Is Vivisection?
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – if you’re scratching your head and wondering “What is vivisection?” don’t fret—you’re not alone. We’ve broken down everything you need to know about the ruthless, archaic practice.
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The World Cannot Forget the Rohingya
Tun Khin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – This week marks exactly three years since the Myanmar military poured into Rakhine State and launched a vicious operation against the Rohingya people. Thousands of women, men and children were killed, mutilated and raped, whole villages were burned to the ground, and hundreds of thousands fled into neighbouring Bangladesh. Abandoned by the international community, the Rohingya have only one glimmer of hope: international justice.
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Curing Viruses with Hydrogen Peroxide
Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Can a simple therapy stop the pandemic? This article seeks only to describe a therapy that is highly effective, potentially accessible to any person on the planet, exceptionally inexpensive, and easily available without requiring a prescription. I am not trying to convince the reader to just nebulize HP and do nothing else. It is vital to your general health as well as to overcome COVID-19 to take all of the quality supplements available and affordable to you.
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Julian Assange Receives First Visitors in Six Months: “He Is in a Lot of Pain”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – Stella Morris, Assange’s partner and an internationally-respected human rights attorney, was allowed to meet with the WikiLeaks founder earlier this week. It was the first time that Morris and their two young children Gabriel and Max had seen Assange since March 22. The visit is welcome news but it has underscored the brutal conditions in which he is held by the British authorities, despite not having been convicted of any crime.
→ read full articleCovid: Just a “Casedemic”?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
4 Aug 2020 -Many critics believe covid has turned into a mere “casedemic”, as positive tests (“cases”) are rising in many European countries while hospitalizations and deaths stay very low. The reality is that covid is a casedemic on top of a pandemic.
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Oh Palestine!
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Published in Human Liberation (Nakba 48) Vol. 1, No 1, Sep 2005
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United States to Quit World Health Organization: What Does It Mean for the World?
S Faizi | EPW - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
8 Aug 2020 – Although it appears that without the US, WHO would be weakened in terms of its significance and resources at its command, the fact remains that, in reality, it bodes well for the democratic functioning of WHO without the intimidating presence of a global superpower.
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The Japan Shinzo Abe Has Left Behind
Bill Emmott | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – By leaving office now, as modern Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe will set the terms of his departure instead of allowing dagger-wielding rivals to do it for him. He will leave behind a country still struggling with fundamental economic problems, but also more prepared to go its own way in the world.
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12 Years
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
29 Aug 2020 – I returned to Palestine in 2008 (after a quarter of a century in the US) and it is good to reflect on these 12 years. Below this is the message from August 2008 explaining why I came back and what I had planned to do here. Much of course happened in […]
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These Poems
June Jordan | Academy of American Poets - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
These poems
they are things that I do
HCQ and Covid Pathology
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 – In recent weeks, several more prospective and retrospective studies have confirmed the effectiveness of malaria drug HCQ against covid-19, both in primary care and in hospitals, and both in the general population and in nursing homes.
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Humanity’s Magic Number as 1.5?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
24 Aug 2020 – Dimensionless Constant Governing Civilization and Its Potential Collapse – Never in the history of humankind has a number been so widely publicized in so many forms.
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Mali: A History of Military Bullying and Corporate Dependency
Robin Poulton - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – In June 2020, a rumoured plot by Islamist army officers was blocked. Now the army has acted as Mali’s army always does. In the past 140 years, Mali has had just 17 years of civilian rule. Get ready for a new military junta, or maybe an Islamic Republic of Mali under military and Arab Salafist rules.
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From Lockdown to Police State: The “Great Reset” Rolls Out
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – Questioning the unreliability of the tests in a Wired interview, even Bill Gates acknowledged that most US test results are “garbage.” The Polymerase Chain Reaction technology used in the nasal swab test for COVID-19 detection was regarded by its own inventor, Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis, as inappropriate to detect viral infection. “Excess mortality rates are caused by therapy and lockdown while death statistics include diseases redefined as COVID-19 only because of a “positive” test result whose value could not be more doubtful.”
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The Specter of a Fascist Coup by Trump Haunts the US – There’s Worse to Worry about
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – What remains is a political theatre of two neoliberal parties vehemently contesting matters of style and colluding on matters of substance. The two major parties concur: bail out Wall Street, renew the Patriot Act, increase the military budget, modernize the nuclear arsenal, prepare for war with China, pursue regime change in Venezuela, etc.
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The End of American History Begins in America
Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
America’s aggressions around the globe have boomeranged into its domestic affairs. In the 1980s, Francis Fukuyama, a bureaucratic functionary, declared that “history” had ended and USA was the triumphant trophy. Had he inadvertently played a satirical spoof to the end of American history itself?
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Pivot to Peace with China. Sign!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
During the last few months, a systematic Sinophobic (anti-China) policy has been rolled out all over the world by the US and its obedient mainstream media. It is so uniform in content and style that it deserves to be categorized as a ‘campaign.’ It has nothing to do with critical media, questioning and diversity of perspectives. You are being taken for a ride!
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Send in the Clowns for the Circus Is in Town
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Trump, Biden, Pence, Harris, and their clownish sidekicks, Pompeo, Michelle Obama, et al., are performing daily. The Umbrella People run a three-ring circus, and although their clowns pop out of separate tiny cars and, acting like enemies, squirt each other with water hoses to the audience’s delight, raucous laughter, and serious attentiveness, they are all part of the same show, working for the same bosses. Sadly, many people think this circus is the real world and that the clowns are not allied pimps serving the interests of their masters, but are real enemies.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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I’m a Historian–I See Reason to Fear-and to Hope
Joanne Freeman | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 -Historians don’t just study history. We construct it. We puzzle pieces into meanings. Aided by our instincts and experiences, as well as by our research, we make sense of other times, other nations, other peoples. In that sense, the writing of history is always personal.
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This Pandemic Brings Out the Worst in Our CEOs
Jim Hightower | Other Words - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
12 Aug 2020 – Last year, CEOs signed a pledge to be better corporate citizens. Then the pandemic hit. As horrible as the COVID-19 crisis is, it has brought out the best in the American people. But it has also amplified the “me-first” greed of corporate chieftains.
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(Português) Como o Crime Organizado Tem Explorado Benefícios Concedidos a Igrejas para Operar Seus Negócios Ilegais
Rebekah Ward, Beatriz Muylaert, Matthew Albasi e Giannina Segnini | Agência Pública – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
16 ago 2020 – Paraísos de Dinheiro e Fé – Investigação realizada por veículos de dez países descobriu que, amparados nas leis de liberdade de culto, algumas igrejas e líderes religiosos nas Américas abusam da confiança de seus fiéis e cometem crimes como lavagem de dinheiro e fraude.
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Something Remarkable Just Happened This August: How the Pandemic Has Sped Up the Passage to Postcapitalism
Yanis Varoufakis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – @yanisvaroufakis: Financial capitalism has decoupled from the capitalist economy, skyrocketing out of Earth’s orbit, leaving behind it broken lives & dreams. As the UK sinks into the worst recession ever, & US edges toward failed state status, FTSE100 goes up 2% & S&P500 breaks all time record!
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Disinformed to Death
Jonathan Freedland | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
20 Aug 2020 – When a pandemic is raging, it becomes harder to deny that rigorous, truthful information is a mortal necessity. No one need explain the risks of false information when one can point to, say, the consequences of Americans’ coming to believe they can deflect the virus by injecting themselves with bleach. (The fact that that advice came from the podium of the president of the U.S. is one we shall return to.)
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Media Show Little Interest in Israeli Bombing of Gaza
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Israel is bombing Palestine again, although you wouldn’t guess that from watching TV news. For the eleventh straight night, Israeli Defense Force warplanes have been bombing the densely populated Gaza Strip causing considerable damage and forcing the shutdown of the area’s only power plant. But the corporate media, focused on the coronavirus and US elections, have shown little interest in the renewed violence in the Middle East.
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Being Different, Being Unique
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
24 Aug 2020 – A new tendency is being observed in some regions of the world — to become unique, to be different from other people either physically or in some other noticeable manner. In other words, to look different from others. For this purpose sometimes some dubious means are adopted, usually by youngsters, both male and female.
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Conscience in Revolt: Sophie Scholl on Suffering, Strength, and the Deepest Wellspring of Courage
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
“Sympathy is often difficult and soon becomes hollow if one feels no pain oneself.”
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Edward Carpenter (29 Aug 1844 – 28 Jun 1929)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Edward Carpenter was an English writer, educator, pacifist, and socialist reformer. He lived in a homosexual relationship with a farmer at a time when homosexuality was considered a criminal offense. He saw that an awareness of the spiritual dimension of each person was the basis for the healing of the nations.
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Modi’s Brutal Treatment of Kashmir Exposes His Tactics – And Their Flaws
Arundhati Roy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
At midnight on 4 August 2019, phones in Kashmir went dead and internet connections were cut. On 5 August 2019, a year ago today, 7 million people were locked into their homes under a strict military curfew. Up to 10,000 people, from young children and teenage stone pelters to former chief ministers and major pro-India politicians, were arrested and put into preventive detention, where many of them still remain. On 6 August, a bill was passed in parliament stripping the state of Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomy and special status enshrined in the Indian constitution. It was stripped of statehood, downgraded into two union territories, Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir. Ladakh would have no legislature and would be governed directly by New Delhi.
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‘Jurassic Park Experiment’: 750 Million Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes to Be Released in Florida
James Crump | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – US authorities have approved a plan to release more than 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes across the Florida Keys, despite objections from local residents. The project will test whether the altered mosquitoes can work as an alternative to pesticides to control the spread of diseases, such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.
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(Norsk) Politiet skyter, men det er systemet som dreper
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Erkjenne rasisme? Ja! Mindre penger til politiet? Visselig. Men ingenting av dette vil få undertrykte lokalsamfunn dit de ønsker, med mindre USAs kapitalistiske orden blir endret eller rettet mot å tilfredsstille menneskelige behov.
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(Français) Arrêter notre descente dans la tyrannie: vaincre le Coup d’État Covid-19 de l’élite mondiale
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Libertégérie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Le coup d’État de l’élite pour vous refuser vos droits en tant qu’être humain libre et autonome resserre son emprise, inflige une énorme violence psychologique et physique sous une variété stupéfiante de formes à ceux qui sont emprisonnés dans leurs maisons, tue ceux dans toute l’Afrique , Asie et ailleurs incapables de survivre dans une économie mondiale gravement perturbée et accélère la ruée vers l’extinction sur quatre points distincts. Vous pouvez vous soumettre à la tyrannie ou vous pouvez y résister.
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Minimizing Conflicts amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
Ivana Milojević | Journal of Future Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
The critical importance of enhancing our conflict resolution capacities. As COVID-19 races around the world, we can anticipate further increases in conflicts. Indeed, psychologists and humanitarian organizations have already posted some helpful guidelines as to how to defuse intra- and inter-personal conflicts.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
20 Aug 2020 – The elite coup to deny you your rights as a free, autonomous human being tightens its grip, inflicts psychological and physical violence in a variety of forms on those imprisoned in their homes, kills those throughout Africa, Asia and elsewhere unable to survive in the severely disrupted global economy and accelerates the rush to extinction on four separate counts. You can submit to tyranny or you can resist it.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020 – Coronavirus is a conspiracy. Masks are a conspiracy. Mail-in voting is a conspiracy. Seeing a pattern here?
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – On the Frequency and Causes of Prolonged Covid Symptoms – Approximately 10% of people with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection report persistent or recurring Covid symptoms for several weeks or months.
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(Français) Oh Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Association France Palestine Solidarité - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
15 juillet 2005 – Poème écrit par Mazen Qumsieh, Palestinien qui vit aux Etats-Unis et dénonce régulièrement dans ses écrits l’occupation israélienne et ses méfaits en Palestine.
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Richard Z. Cheng, M.D., Ph.D. | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
16 Aug 2020 – Covid-19 has caused more than 700,000 deaths and USD$86 trillion economic losses worldwide in just over half a year! And yet, there are still no specific drugs or treatments that the top medical advisors (medical agencies) in US are willing to recommend. Really? No specific treatments for Covid-19?
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Nuclear Complacency and the Dangerous Drift toward a New Cold War with China
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – I am increasingly worried by the either/or quality of the U.S. November elections that effectively suppresses concerns about a bipartisan drift toward a second cold war focused on China as geopolitical adversary that will be confronted.
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There Is Still Much to Be Learned about the Beirut Explosion
Habib Battah | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – To prevent a tragic repeat, we should not be satisfied with simple, convenient, yet incomplete explanations.
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Nonviolence versus Capitalism
Brian Martin | War Resisters’ International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Nonviolent action is the most promising method for moving beyond capitalism to a more humane social and economic system. Approaches based on using state power—including state socialism and socialist electoralism—have been tried and failed. Dramatic changes are definitely needed because capitalism, despite its undoubted strengths, continues to cause enormous suffering. Nonviolent action as an approach has the capacity to transform capitalism, though there are many obstacles involved.
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Imagine/تخيّل (Music Video of the Week)
Lina Sleibi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Cover by Lina Sleibi – لينا صليبي
Original song by: John Lennon (1971)
Music Arrangement: Mohammed Alhasan
U.S. Patriarchy and the Bomb
Stephanie Hiller - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Choosing nuclear disarmament in a time of pandemic and climate change would be a good place to start, freeing millions of dollars for important, needed programs and repair. It could be the foundation of a truly comprehensive “green new deal.” Giving up nuclear weapons could well be the necessary first step toward the reconstruction of our society on a better foundation, one of love.
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ISE Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – The documentary tells the inside stories that even our once-honorable investigative journalists are not allowed to report on their Big Pharma-controlled mainstream media outlets. It exposes the fact that ALL of the alleged fact checker websites are funded by corporations such as Google and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which are controlling the narrative concerning the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Pakistan and India’s Leaders Mark Freedom from British Colonialism: But Masses Look for Navigational Change
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – In situation of crises, responsible leaders provide assurances and comforts to the masses – would leaders of India and Pakistan come out of the psychologically neurosis box and see the enlightenment of the 21st century of informed humanity and honor the rights of self-determination of the people of Kashmir and let them decide their own future and freedom and once for all rewrite a history of peaceful co-existence and friendship?
→ read full articleTransformation: The Impact of the COVID-19 Plague on Western Political Attitudes
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
A silent revolution in political attitudes is taking place in response to Covid-19. To maintain that the pandemic of 2020 and its aftershocks have very likely inflamed existing social and cultural conflicts by no means forecloses the possibility that, by shaking up existing systems of governance, they have also created new opportunities for effective conflict resolution.
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As Wages Stagnate and Executive Pay ‘Continues to Balloon,’ Report Shows Top CEOs Now Make 320 Times More Than Typical Worker
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – New research from the Economic Policy Institute finds that CEO compensation grew by 1,167% from 1978 to 2019, “far outstripping” the growth of the stock market.
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In Act of High Seas Piracy, US Hijacks Iranian Oil Bound for Venezuela
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 – The US interdiction of oil shipments bound from Iran to Venezuela represents a dangerous escalation, raising the threat of armed conflict. The Department of Justice issued a statement Friday [14 Aug] bragging that “approximately 1.116 million barrels of petroleum” had been stolen “with the assistance of foreign partners.” There has been no indication of what “foreign partners” were involved in this act of piracy, but US officials claim that the seizure did not involve military force.
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Keep It Real
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 – Diana Johnstone has written a compelling and insightful book. It is mostly a review and analysis of significant events from the past 55 years. It concludes with her assessment of different trends that are being debated on the Left today including “identity politics”, Antifa and censorship. This is a book to be read, enjoyed and discussed.
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The Irrelevant UN
Eric Zuesse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – This UN is not the one that had been intended. Today’s UN is an international PR forum for nations. But in the vision of its initiator, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it was supposed to be a functioning international democracy. However, FDR was replaced by Harry S. Truman, who created the imperialism-accepting UN that has since degenerated into the international lawlessness which prevails today
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How to Prevent the Looming Sovereign-Debt Crisis
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate, and Hamid Rashid | Vox EU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
3 Aug 2020 – From Latin America’s lost decade in the 1980s to the more recent Greek crisis, there are plenty of painful reminders of what happens when countries cannot service their debts. This column argues that a global debt crisis today would likely push millions of people into unemployment and fuel instability and violence around the world, and proposes a multilateral sovereign debt buyback facility which could be managed by the IMF.
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Open Letter to the British Government
Lawyers for Assange - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 -152 legal experts and 15 lawyers’ associations have today written to UK Prime Minister accusing government authorities of violating “national and international law”. The international group of legal practitioners, professors, judges, doctors of law and eminent jurists has called to bring an end to Julian Assange’s extradition proceedings, and grant his “long overdue freedom”, on legal grounds.
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A Dear Departure of a Subaltern Revolutionary
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
A Tribute to Pradeep Weerakoon’s Death
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Israel Launches Airstrikes against Gaza and Threatens War
Jean Shaoul | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Israel is preparing for war on the besieged Palestinian enclave, even as it ups the ante against Hezbollah in Lebanon and its primary target, Iran.
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(Português) Artista critica violência por trás do consumo de leite
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 ago 2020 – Quem não conhece a realidade por trás do consumo de leite e derivados pode acreditar que esses produtos que chegam às nossas mãos são produzidos da forma mais pacífica possível.
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Videogame: Nonviolence as War by Other Means
Michael Peck | Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – “Gandhi” is a wargame that inverts Clausewitz’s famous dictum: Instead of war as politics by other means, nonviolence becomes war waged by other means. Players control one of four competing factions: the British Raj; the Indian National Congress; the Muslim League; or the Revolutionaries.
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Wait, How Much Microplastic Is Swirling in the Atlantic?
Matt Simon | Wired - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – Scientists calculate that the top 200 meters of ocean alone contains up to 21 million metric tons of plastic. And that wasn’t even counting microfibers.
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Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – Perceptions Are Driven by Experiences
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