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COVID-19: Cuba’s People-before-Profit Approach Pays Off as Capitalism Proves a Bitter Pill for the US
Pablo Vivanco | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
28 Apr 2020 – Havana has punched above its weight for decades when it comes to health. But never have the differences between its socialist system and the market-based system of its strongest detractor, America, been so apparent.
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Mystery of Snails with Iron Shells That Survive Inside White-Hot Volcanoes
Michael Havis | Mirror - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
9 May 2020 – A team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has decoded the genome of the volcano-dwelling scaly-foot snail, which can live in remarkably hot temperatures.
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Letter from Myanmar: What Comes after Militant Buddhism?
Krithika Varagur | New Statesman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 2020 – The rise of Buddhist nationalism has led to some of the worst inter-faith violence the country has ever seen. But some monks are leading the charge against the most intolerant preachers.
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10 May 1740: South Carolina Passes Negro Act Codifying White Supremacy
Equal Justice Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
The law prohibited enslaved African people from growing their own food, learning to read, moving freely, assembling in groups, or earning money. It also authorized white owners to whip and kill enslaved Africans for being “rebellious.”
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Can We Achieve Nuclear Adulthood?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 2020 – What we urgently need now is a rethinking of the entire concept of security. All we’ve been hearing is talk about weapons, missiles and airstrikes. Is it not clear by now that wars and the arms race cannot solve today’s global problems? War is a sign of defeat, a failure of politics.
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Unlocking the Potential of Communities in Responding to Gender-Based Violence during COVID-19
Irene Dawa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Following the declaration by the World Health Organisation of COVID-19 as a pandemic on 21 Mar 2020, the world came to the realization that its existence was threatened by a virus more serious than imagined. Since then the disease has swept swiftly across all the continents causing untold suffering and the shutdown of the entire globe.
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The Brave New World of Bill Gates and Big Telecom
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
8 May 2020 – Next time you buy a “smart” device, remember the device is not the product—you are.
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Military Spending on the Rise while Health Budgets Remain Insufficient in Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Peace Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
27 Apr 2020 – With the release of SIPRI’s newest report, showing global military spending in 2019 at a new high of US$1,917 billion, the International Peace Bureau is calling for an end to the military spending pandemic, starting with an annual reduction of military expenditure of 10% and a complete ban on nuclear weapons.
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Guantanamera (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song Around The World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
We started the song with Carlos Varela in Havana and it features over 75 Cuban musicians around the world, from Havana and Santiago to Miami, Barcelona and Tokyo. We recorded and produced this track with Jackson Browne, who explains that “traveling with Playing For Change across Cuba was one of the most rewarding and inspiring musical experiences of my life.”
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Baby Boomers for Biden Recant Left Legacy
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Former members of the leading Vietnam War-era peace organization in the US, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), recently circulated an open letter warning today’s young activists to – as the adage goes – do as I say and not as I did. Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, these former leaders led the way in opposing the ravages of US imperialism and exposing what they called the “death culture.” Today, they are admonishing the new generation not to follow in their footsteps, but to go all out for what they call the “capitalist democrat” Joe Biden.
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Meet the US Veterans Returning to Make Amends in Vietnam
Loretta Graceffo | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 – Forty-five years after the fall of Saigon, U.S. veterans are returning to Vietnam to find peace — and to atone for the damage they left behind.
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Coronavirus Found In Semen of Young Men with COVID-19
Peter Ellis, Mark Wass and Martin Michaelis | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
7 May 2020 – The study involved 38 patients undergoing treatment for severe COVID-19 disease. Fifteen of the patients provided a semen sample during the acute phase of their illness and 23 shortly after recovering. In four of the 15 patients with acute disease and in two of the 23 recovering patients, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was found in the semen samples.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: A Plea to Pause and Ponder
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
1 May 2020 – A Sharing by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, president of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST)
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Feedback
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
My old aunts would come and tease me at weddings,
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Trump Must Be Defeated!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
There is so much wrong with Donald Trump that one hardly knows where to start. He is a bully, braggart, narcissist, racist, misogynist, habitual liar, and tax evader, in addition to being demonstrably ignorant. He has contempt for both domestic and international law, as well as for the US Constitution. However, it is Trump’s climate change denial, withdrawal from the Paris agreement, and sponsorship of fossil fuels that pose the greatest threats to the future of human society and the biosphere.
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The Problem with Stories about Dangerous Coronavirus Mutations
Ed Yong | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 2020 – There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months.
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Unity in Diversity
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
A Picture Is Worth 8 Billion Words–Or as many God Manifestations
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COVID19 and the U.S. Left: An Ignored Civil Rights Crisis
Michael Lesher | ZNet - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
5 May 2020 – Dissecting the left-right inverse polarization of responses to COVID-19 lockdowns.
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May Day Message
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
1 May 2020 – We are witnessing 3 pandemics simultaneously: The Corona Pandemic, the Hunger Pandemic, and the Pandemic of Destruction of Livelihoods. We are One Humanity on One Planet. Autonomy, meaning, dignity, work, freedom, democracy are our birthright.
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Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 Mar 1883)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
In 1845 Marx was expelled from France by Guizot. He fled with Friedrich Engels to Brussels where they stayed for three years with intermittent trips to England to visit Engels’ family who had cotton-spinning interests in Manchester. While in Brussels Marx wrote a piece against the idealistic socialism of P.J. Proudhon called The Poverty of Philosophy. He also worked on his materialist conception of history, and developed the manuscript that would come to be named The German Ideology when it was published after his death.
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Should Plastic Producers Pay for Recycling?
The Story of Stuff Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Why are taxpayers responsible for recycling costs if we didn’t make this mess in the first place?
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Acknowledging Disorientation after COVID-19: Beyond Horizons of Fear and Doubt
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
3 May 2020 – More than earlier crises of my lifetime, including the Great Depression, World War II, 9/11, the COVID-19 pandemic illuminates as never before, how precarious and uncertain is the future wellbeing, and possibly survival, of the human species. The concreteness, immediacy, and haunting uncertainties of the pandemic is quite terrifying on its own, but its heuristic pedagogy seems applicable to a range of potentially catastrophic threats of global scope, most obviously climate change, biodiversity, nuclear weaponry.
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Organizing the Future of Humanity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
The Commission for the Human Future convened an expert roundtable of Australian scientists, business leaders, public servants and academics which has called for the world’s nations to come together to develop a strategy for human survival. Critical Dimensions to Be Born in Mind
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Myanmar: “Possible War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Ongoing in Rakhine and Chin States”
UN Human Rights Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
29 April 2020 – “While the world is occupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Myanmar military continues to escalate its assault in Rakhine State, targeting the civilian population,” said Yanghee Lee, who is concluding her tenure as UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
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Cuba’s COVID-19 Medical Brigades Are Not Medical Diplomacy but International Solidarity at Its Finest
Bill Hackwell | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
26 Apr 2020 – On the growing number of Cuban medical brigades fighting the Coronavirus pandemic around the world.
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Happy Birthday, Mumia!
Workers World Philadelphia Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
A global audience watched a virtual press conference on 23 Apr 2020 focused on journalist and Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal–on death row for 38 years on spurious charges by a kangaroo court–and why he should be immediately released from prison. Speakers from the U.S. and around the world participated.
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(Português) Consumidores estão optando por alimentos livres de crueldade animal
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
4 maio 2020 – “Saúde, preocupação com os animais e razões ambientais contribuem para impulsionar essa tendência ascendente”.
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Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: The Fed’s Generous New Rules
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
2 May 2020 – The banks are making extremely well in this crisis. The Federal Reserve has dropped interest rates to 0.25%, eliminated reserve requirements, and relaxed capital requirements. Banks can now borrow effectively for free. Following the playbook of the 2008-09 bailout, they can make the funds available to their Wall Street cronies to buy up distressed Main Street assets at fire sale prices, while continuing to lend to credit cardholders at 21%.
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Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 Aug 1941): The Local and the Universal
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
In a period of rapid change as we face today, it is often difficult to find the right balance between the cultural contributions and needs of the local, the national, and the universal. One way of finding this balance is to look at the life and work of others, who earlier confronted the same challenges. One such person was the poet, writer and cultural reformer Rabindranath Tagore.
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Sri Aurobindo — Philosopher, Nationalist, Spiritual Leader
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
A philosopher, a yogi, a linguist, a nationalist, a writer, a poet and a recognised spiritual person, these are some of the qualities of a person named Aurobindo (1872-1950) who was born in Calcutta, Bengal and died in the French colony of Pondicherry in South India.
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(Italiano) Viaggi e salvataggi. Aspetti sociali e ambientali dei viaggi in aereo
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Il trasporto aereo per passeggeri è solo uno delle tante attività industriali che sono state colpite in questo periodo di grandi cambiamenti. A differenza di altri settori, qui i singoli cittadini sono elementi direttamente coinvolti: le scelte personali possono pesare in modo significativo, modificando le scelte aziendali e orientando le politiche governative.
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Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Message on Coronavirus Pandemic
Fanmi Lavalas | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
23 Apr 2020 – Fanmi Lavalas sends greetings to Haitians here and abroad during this coronavirus pandemic and takes this opportunity to be in solidarity with all the victims and their families. After the earthquake, hurricanes and floods, the coronavirus pandemic has hit the country at a time when misery, hunger, insecurity and unemployment are already disastrous.
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Trump and Biden Trade Hit Pieces – Distinctions without a Difference
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
25 Apr 2020 – This season’s sequel to the Game of Thrones features reality TV star and current occupant of the Oval Office versus the former Senator from MBNA and two-term VP. The narrower the distinctions between Democrats and Republicans, the more vociferous they get in inflating those distinctions, as if a distinction were really a difference.
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The World Is on Lockdown. So Where Are All the Carbon Emissions Coming from?
Shannon Osaka | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
27 Apr 2020 – Pedestrians have taken over city streets, people have almost entirely stopped flying, skies are blue for the first time in decades, and global CO2 emissions are on-track to drop by… about 5.5 percent. Wait, what? Appreciate the bluer skies and fresher air, while you can. But the emissions drop from the pandemic should be a warning, not a cause for celebration: a sign of how much further there is to go.
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Oppression Is Bad for Your Health
Kristin Young Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
It has been downright creepy. Why? Because it is such an illogical reaction to a virus that kills – not 50%, not 25%, but an estimated 1 – 3% of those who contract it. When I checked online in mid-March, I found that, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 80% of patients who contracted the coronavirus COVID-19 had only mild symptoms.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Dog life…
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Conflict Resolution through Ho’oponopono
Jacob Devaney and Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
The ancient Hawaiian method of Conflict Transformation presented by Jacob Devaney and Puanani Burgess.
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Global Economy: Oil vs COVID-19
Prof. Cyrus Bina | New Cold War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
22 Apr 2020 – How can oil prices become negative, and what does this mean for the global economy? World oil expert Cyrus Bina explains the current new turn of the global economy and the role that oil is playing in it.
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Poem Beginning with a Line from Neruda
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
“Puedo escribir versos mas tristes esta noche.”—Neruda
(Tonight I can write sadder verses.)
Because the moon has disappeared…from grief.
Because the children weep for their parents.
Because memories are whitewashed… and stolen.
Because words have lost their meaning.
Standing on the Shoulders of Solitude: Newton, the Plague, and How Quarantine Fomented the Greatest Leap in Science
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” In the 1650s, the penumbra of plague slowly began eclipsing Europe. Italy fell first, soon Spain, then Germany, then Holland.
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(Português) A Dor dos Animais pela Lente de Andrew Skowron
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
29 abr 2020 – Por meio da fotografia, quero mostrar o que é invisível para a sociedade – as relações entre os animais, sua capacidade de sentir, o respeito que eles merecem. Minhas imagens mostram suas existências, que foram degradadas e reduzidas a produtos, bens comuns.
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New Zealand Has ‘Effectively Eliminated’ Coronavirus — Here’s What They Did Right
Aaron Gulley | National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 – The island nation chose strict lockdowns and austerity. What’s next?
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Buddhism and Its Vedic Connections
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Many people may know about Buddhism, but few seem to understand its connections with the Vedic Culture and how many of its aspects originate in the Vedic philosophy. It was several hundred years before the time of Lord Buddha that his birth was predicted in the Srimad-Bhagavatam.
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Time to Repatriate Humanity
Wael Qarssifi | Malay Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 – It is rather disappointing and shocking in 2020 to read that a Malaysian writer and journalist is asking the Rohingyas — the most persecuted minority in the world — to be thankful for not being put on an island camp, and using factual errors and xenophobic remarks to provoke the Malaysian public against one of the most deprived communities in the world.
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A Beacon in India’s Deep Hinterland
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
In the last two decades, the gender landscape in rural India has been greening, and women are now on the cusp of a powerful social and political revolution. The harbinger of this change is a unique policy experiment in village-level governance, the Panchayat Raj Act, which has brought transformative results for the weakest of the weak: the village women.
→ read full articleCOVID-19: Breaking the Lockdown, Defeating the Coup, Averting Extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Using its fora such as the World Economic Forum and its agents (particularly the World Health Organization, the pharmaceutical industry, governments, the medical industry and corporate media) the global elite continues to tighten its grip on the human population, bombarding us with COVID-19 propaganda to heighten people’s fear while introducing new and/or extending existing restrictions to conceal the many measures being taken to execute their ongoing coup against humanity.
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Portugal Leads the Way: How European Countries Fared in Their Treatment of Refugees
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
28 Apr 2020 – Although one of the poorest European countries, Portugal has decided to legalize all of its undocumented refugees and migrants, therefore, providing them with the same medical attention and support as its own citizens. Neglecting the refugees while fighting to halt the spread of the coronavirus is as foolish as it is inhumane. The last few months have taught us that provisional and self-centered strategies do not apply in the cases of global healthcare crises.
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Soul Rebel (Music Video of the Week)
Song around the World | Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Bob Marley once said, “One good thing about music is that when it hits you feel no pain.” Another good thing about music is that it touches our souls and lifts our spirits. Connecting people is one thing, but connecting souls is a whole different level. Enjoy Bunny Wailer, Manu Chao and Bushman singing the Wailer’s classic, Soul Rebel, with musicians around the world.
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My Priorities or Yours?
Joe Kandra and Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Good old US of A
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On ‘The Plague’ by Albert Camus
Tony Judt | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Camus’s insistence on placing individual moral responsibility at the heart of all public choices cuts sharply across the comfortable habits of our own age. His unwavering grasp of the difference between good and evil, despite his compassion for the doubters and the compromised, for the motives and mistakes of imperfect humanity, casts unflattering light upon the relativizers and trimmers of our own day. And his controversial use of a biological epidemic to illustrate the dilemmas of moral contagion succeeds in ways the writer could not have imagined.
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(Italiano) Come collaborare con il nemico… ce lo spiega Adam Kahane
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
24 Aprile 2020 – Vi voglio presentare un personaggio che ha dedicato il suo lavoro e la sua vita al cambiamento e ai metodi per conseguirlo in contesti diversi.
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Clean Air in Europe during Lockdown ‘Leads to 11,000 Fewer Deaths’
Jonathan Watts | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 – The improvement in air quality over the past month of the coronavirus lockdown has led to 11,000 fewer deaths from pollution in Europe, a study has revealed. It also finds less asthma and preterm births.
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Global Military Expenditure Sees Largest Annual Increase in a Decade Reaching US$ 1.917 Trillion in 2019
SIPRI-Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
27 April 2020 – Total global military expenditure rose to US$ 1.917 trillion in 2019, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The total for 2019 represents an increase of 3.6 per cent from 2018 and the largest annual growth in spending since 2010. The five largest spenders in 2019, which accounted for 62 per cent of expenditure, were the United States, China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic as Opportunity in the Midst of Suffering: For a Future of Global Solidarity
Dr. Evelin Lindner | Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
2 Apr 2020 – Where do we stand, as humankind? We have dug ourselves into a multitude of perilous crises, both despite and because of what we call progress or economic growth. In service of profit, we practice strategies of development that shred our social fabric while simultaneously plundering our planet – fuelling a toxic combination of sociocide and ecocide that leads to intractable cycles of systemic humiliation. The coronavirus pandemic is one manifestation of this dire predicament.
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Malaysia Cites Covid-19 for Rounding Up Hundreds of Rohingya Migrants
Kaamil Ahmed | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
2 May 2020 – In move condemned by UN, refugees including Rohingya detained amid rise in xenophobia.
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Running of the Bulls: Pamplona’s San Fermin Cancelled over Coronavirus
Fiona Govan | The Local - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020 – Spain’s most famous running of the bulls fiesta has been cancelled this year due to the coronavirus. Acting Mayor Ana Elizalde announced that the festival could not be carried out with social distancing measures in place. She was unable to say whether it might be held at a later date, given the unpredictability of the coronavirus health crisis.
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Earth Day Communiqué
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 April 2020 – The health emergency we face as a global community is strictly connected to the health emergency the Earth is facing. This Earth Day over 500 organisations, movements and leaders from over 50 countries call for integrated action putting the health and wellbeing of all peoples and the planet at the centre of government and institutional policy, community building and civic action.
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Conflict Irresolution: U.S.-Taliban Peace Deal
Cristina Cabrejas-Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
23 Apr 2020 – At a time when the international community had high hopes for conflict resolution and a first glimpse of peace victory, all is left is an agreement of conflict irresolution and defeat.
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Swiss Propaganda Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
25 Apr 2020 – Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment.
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Positives of Corona Virus
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
27 Apr 2020 – Ever since the world became familiar with the new pandemic named Coronavirus or COVID-19 about two months back, we have seen so many of its tragic features. But we hope the pandemic comes to an end soon and that the lessons learnt by people and the peace and harmony displayed are retained by humanity.
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I Think I Shall Never See… (Earth Day Poem)
Adwik Roshan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
I Think I shall never see
A creation as lovely as a tree
As it dances in the wind,
Moving back and forth in glee
Alternating between Complementary Images of Coronavirus
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
27 Apr 2020 – The response to the coronavirus, COVID-19 and the pandemic is variously framed in terms of threat, fear, surprise, panic, evil, pestilence, and the like. There is a case for exploring the set of such images as a source of insight in its own right.
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Light a Candle
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020 – Israel has over 13,000 COVID-19 cases and close to 200 deaths. Yet, the Israeli regime keeps thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in crowded prisons (and using them as guinea pigs to test drugs to profit its pharmaceutical industry). The regime shuts down a Palestinian clinic in occupied East Jerusalem (Silwan) that is fighting the pandemic.
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Oil Plunges below Zero for First Time in Unprecedented Wipeout
Catherine Ngai, Olivia Raimonde and Alex Longley | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
20 Apr 2020 – Of all the wild, unprecedented swings in financial markets since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, none has been more jaw-dropping than today’s collapse in a key segment of U.S. oil trading:
* U.S. crude trades at lowest level in data going back to 1946.
* Crude in U.S. trades more than $40 below zero at lowest level.
Singapore’s Spike in Coronavirus Cases Shows the Road to Recovery Will Be a Bumpy Ride
Pushan Dutt | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
23 Apr 2020 -Singapore was widely praised as one of the countries that reacted quickly and effectively to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. But subsequent spikes show how long and bumpy the road to recovery from coronavirus will be. Lockdowns will have to be lifted cautiously and new waves of infection are likely.
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Coronavirus Advice
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
Digniview
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Gates’ Globalist Vaccine Agenda: A Win-Win for Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Children's Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
9 Apr 2020 – Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vaccination ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control of global health policy. Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems to be fueled by a conviction to save the world with technology.
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Self-Extinction of Neoliberalism? Don’t Bet on It
Gilbert Achcar | New Politics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
24 Apr 2020 – The magnitude of the ongoing economic disaster is such that it has revived and boosted the hope that it will lead to a major global shift in economic policies and priorities. Naomi Klein quotes from one of the key contributors to the neoliberal shift–Milton Friedman: “Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.” She quotes it approvingly: “Friedman, one of history’s most extreme free market economists, was wrong about a whole lot, but he was right about that. In times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas suddenly become possible.”
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‘No Evidence’ That Recovered COVID-19 Patients Cannot Be Reinfected, Says WHO
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
25 Apr 2020 – The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that there is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.
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(Italiano) Aosta 25 aprile 2020. Lettura collettiva, sincrona e nonviolenta dei Principi fondamentali della Costituzione Italiana
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
25 APRILE 2020 – Dal vivo e dal palco dell’autorevolezza della Costituzione della Repubblica italiana è stata effettuata la lettura collettiva, sincrona e nonviolenta, dei Principi fondamentali della Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana.
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‘Closing Borders Is Ridiculous’: The Epidemiologist behind Sweden’s Controversial Coronavirus Strategy
Marta Paterlini | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020 – As much of Europe imposed severe restrictions on public life last month to stem the spread of the coronavirus, one country stood out. Anders Tegnell talks about the nation’s ‘trust-based’ approach to tackling the pandemic.
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Vulture Capitalism
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
27 Apr 2020
As It Is…
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(Português) O Golpe COVID-19 das Elites Contra uma Humanidade Aterrorizada: Resistindo Poderosamente
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
27 Apr 2020 – Eu expliquei anteriormente como a infecção por COVID-19 está sendo usada para nos assustar a nos submeter impotentemente ao mais recente passo da elite global para assumir um controle muito maior de nossas vidas e como aqueles que podem perceber isso e desejam resistir a isso podem fazê-lo efetivamente.
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(Português) COVID-19 Força Cancelamento da “Corrida de Touros” da Festa de San Fermín na Espanha
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
24 abr 2020 – De acordo com a PETA, a famosa “Corrida de Touros” realizada anualmente em Pamplona como parte da Festa de San Fermín foi cancelada este ano. Agora a PETA está aproveitando a ocasião para tentar motivar o poder público a cancela-la para sempre.
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Are We before the Possible ‘Awakening’ of Mankind?
Juana Pérez Montero | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – A door has been opened and it is worthy to work on a new impulse for the humanization of the world. If we can be silent in this isolation, perhaps we will advance towards the awakening of the human being, towards the arrival of the Winged Lion.
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Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary, Earth Day 2020
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020 – A documentary that dares to say what no one else will in this Earth Day: We are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road–selling out the green movement to wealthy and corporate interests.
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From Trump to Erdoğan, Men Who Behave Badly Make the Worst Leaders in a Pandemic
Simon Tisdall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
26 Apr 2020 – Around the world, authoritarian leaders are exploiting, exacerbating or grossly mishandling the response to the pandemic, placing selfish interest ahead of public good. Their behaviour is frequently appalling. They are a modern incarnation of TS Eliot’s “hollow men”. Sex is relevant, in that female leaders are generally thought to be behaving better.
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Banking on Climate Breakdown
Brendan Montague | The Ecologist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
23 Apr 2020 – Banks must stop funding climate breakdown-driving fossil fuels as the world recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. Barclays and HSBC must address their role in funding the climate crisis and contribute to delivering a sustainable recovery from the impacts of COVID-19, announces new report from a coalition of NGOs.
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Banksy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
Symbolic …
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Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
The Great Gray Hope has bowed out of the presidential primary race, leaving tottering Joe Biden as the last Democrat standing. What Bernie Sanders accomplished electorally was remarkable, revealing both how far a progressive can venture and the limits proscribing further advancement to the left within the Democratic Party.
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From Emergency to Emergence
David Korten | YES! Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
23 Apr 2020 – The COVID-19 emergency has exposed our societies’ failure to address the needs of billions of people. Simultaneously, we are witnessing a fundamental truth about human nature: There are those among us eager to exploit the suffering of others for personal gain. We can be reassured, however, by how few of them there are. Their actions contrast starkly with the far greater numbers at all levels of society demonstrating their willingness, even eagerness, to cooperate, share, and sacrifice for the well-being of all.
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Pentagon Brass Can Kiss My Ass
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
22 Apr 2020 – The coronavirus-stricken crew of the USS Roosevelt would be more useful making N-95 masks, building housing for people living on the streets, and tilling community gardens to prepare for supply chain collapse. Why don’t we just bring them all home? What the hell is our Coast Guard doing off the coast of Iran anyway? Who’s protecting New Jersey?
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Can a Virus Undermine Human Rights?
Olivier Nay | The Lancet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
20 Apr 2020 – Can exceptionality jeopardise some democratic principles in the long term? Could the epidemic lead to a reduction of individual rights after the peak of the crisis? How can humans think about health crisis management systems that protect society without undermining individual freedom?
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Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
The powerful ‘ruling elites’ of one country very often have better ties with the ‘ruling elites’ of another country, than with the average folk of their own country. ‘Birds of a feather fly together’ is the rule. No ‘special one’ wishes to be seen to be close to the average Joe or Jane. Therefore social, business and political ties are far stronger among ‘ruling elites’ across countries, than across the deep ‘economic schism’ in one country.
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W.H.O and China: A Case of Geo-Political Misdirection
Hassanal Noor Rashid | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
20 April 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has been a real roller-coaster ride as far as geo-politics is concerned. In times of peace there are politicians, but in times of crisis, the true leaders emerge.
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Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 Apr 1955): Evolution toward World Unity
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
Pierrre Teihard de Chardin, the French paleontologist, after a lifetime of study of the evolution of the human species concluded that humanity was entering a new age with a higher, peaceful and more responsible sense of the unity of the world community. Optimism and evolution are the two themes that Teilhard de Chardin leaves with us. He insisted at looking at the human population as one global family, developing a network of mutual support − recognizing the need of global solidarity.
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Celebrating the 125-Year-Old Legacy of Healthcare Work of Missionaries in Central India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
Central India has been one of the most fertile belts for several unique experiments undertaken by missionaries in the field of education and healthcare. The result is a network of several well-known schools, colleges and hospitals that have woven themselves into the social landscape of the region. They have also become a byword for quality and affordable services delivered to all sections of the society.
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Second Wave of Locusts in East Africa Said to Be 20 Times Worse
Samuel Okiror | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020 – UN Warns of ‘Alarming and Unprecedented Threat’ to Food Security and Livelihoods in the Region – A second wave of desert locusts is threatening east Africa with estimates that it will be 20 times worse then the plague that descended two months ago.
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21st Century Crusaders
Rolf Odd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
8 Apr 2020 – The Ideology of the Modern Crusaders–Old Testament Warriors or Déjà-vu All Over Again
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Redemption Song (Music Video of the Week)
Playing for Change | Song around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
This is a version of Redemption Song performed around the world in honor of Bob Marley’s birthday [6 Feb 1945]. We have reunited Bob with his son Stephen and the support of the entire planet. There is a feeling of rising above the past and moving forward with love in our hearts and hope in our eyes.
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The Psychology of the COVID-19 Coup: The Elite, Their Victims and Those Who Resist
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
It is interesting to observe the vast number of fearfully submissive people who are willing to accept, or even ask for, greater constraints on our rights, freedom and economic security, ostensibly to ‘protect’ them from a virus. Sadly, too, the fear of these people plays a critical collaborative role in advancing the elite coup. These lives, if lost or marginalized while suiting some elite depopulation agenda, will be a stark but ugly reminder that COVID-19 was never about a virus but about our fear.
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Victory in Brazil: Evangelical Missionaries Barred from Uncontacted Tribes’ Land
Survival International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
17 Apr 2020 – In a landmark ruling, a Brazilian judge has blocked evangelical missionaries from making contact with uncontacted tribes in the Javari Valley, home to the greatest concentration of such peoples anywhere on Earth.
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What Would and Should a Post-Pandemic World Look Like?
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 – Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a general feeling that the world is at an historical turning point, that nothing will ever be the same again. A post-American, post-liberal world order awaits us. But what shape will it take?
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Remembering Carl Sagan on Earth Day
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
22 Apr 2020 – The excerpt below is from Carl Sagan’s book, Pale Blue Dot, and it was inspired by an image recorded by Voyager-1 on 14 Feb 1990. As the spacecraft was leaving the solar system for its no-return outer-space exploration trip, NASA technicians redirected the camera for a last photo of Planet Earth behind. Voyager was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away when it captured this unique, historical, unflattering portrait of the world. Among light rays from the Sun, our Earth appears as a tiny, almost invisible point of light 0.12 pixel in size in the beam to the right of the frame. The landmark photo was by Sagan’s request.
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Prophets of Instability
Rick Perlstein | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
How Finance Broke the Modern Corporation – What are corporations for? In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman gave a blunt answer: profit. Almost two decades earlier, Karl Polanyi had a different answer. Who was right?
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Why the West Hates Sandinista Nicaragua
Stephen Sefton | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
In Nicaragua’s case, Western media and NGOs have comprehensively distorted and repeatedly lied about the country’s extraordinary achievement of containing the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 20 Apr 2020, there were 10 confirmed cases and two deaths in a population of 6.5 million.
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Julia Roberts as Mother Nature Speaking
Conservation International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Julia Roberts Just Made a Most Powerful Video
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Trump Halts US Funding for World Health Organization as COVID-19 Pandemic Spreads throughout USA
Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Noah Higgins-Dunn | CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
14 Apr 2020 – The U.S. will suspend funding to the WHO while it reviews the agency’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s unclear exactly what mechanism Trump intends to use to withhold WHO funding, much of which is appropriated by Congress.
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(Português) Verdade Absoluta: O Que É? ou Quem É?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Os cientistas concordam que todo o tempo, toda a história e toda a criação começam a partir de um único ponto. E esse ponto teria de ser a Verdade última ou Absoluta. Então o que é exactamente a Verdade Absoluta? Como é que recuamos no tempo e no espaço para encontrar a fonte original de tudo? Mesmo que pesquisemos a Bíblia, o Corão, os escritos judeus, ou mesmo os textos sikh, zoroastrianos ou budistas, encontraremos informação limitada sobre o que é a Verdade Absoluta. E esqueçam a dependência da ciência moderna, eles ainda estão à procura e têm muitas teorias diferentes para oferecer.
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(Castellano) La Granja del Dr Frankenstein
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Documentary on the Use of Genetic Engineering in Animals
Documental sobre el Uso de la Ingeniería Genética en Animales