Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Is India an Apartheid Nation?
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
An Ode to Kashmir Conflict – A Word to Kashmiris
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Walking Blues — Song around the World (Music Video of the Week)
Keb' Mo' | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
8 May 2019 – In honor of blues legend Robert Johnson’s birthday, we share our Song around the World with musicians from six countries. Originally written and recorded by Son House in 1930, Robert recorded his own version in 1936. We started in Patagonia, Argentina and added friends as we traveled to create a blues jam around the world. Enjoy!
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Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”
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Naomi Klein: How Big Tech Plans to Profit from the Pandemic
Naomi Klein | The Intercept/The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
For a few moments during NY governor Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus briefing on Wed 6 May, the grimace was replaced by a smile. The inspiration: a video visit from the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who announced that he will be heading up a panel to reimagine New York state’s post-Covid reality, with an emphasis on permanently integrating technology into every aspect of civic life.
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Why on Earth Is the U.S. Bombing Somalia?
Danny Sjursen | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
15 May 2020 – The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing—and covert raiding—campaign in Somalia amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has provided any explanation for the deadly escalation of a war that Congress hasn’t declared and the media rarely reports. At stake are many thousands of lives.
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Eminent Monsters: A Manual for Modern Torture
Stephen Bennett and Mark Fallon | Christal Frost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
‘Eminent Monsters’ is a documentary focusing on the use of psychological torture that breaks the mind without physical evidence of harm. It is an exposure of the abuse by the governments of Britain and the United States. It has immediate relevance regarding the treatment being meted out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which Professor Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, has described as psychological torture.
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Monologists
Gary Corseri - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
I do not find it profitable to talk to the dead!
They are so single-minded!
They repeat old stories over and over
Until one feels like screaming: “PLEASE MOVE ON!”
Corporate Media Setting Stage for New Cold War with China
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
15 May 2020 – Corporate media are laying the ideological groundwork for a new cold war with China, presenting the nation as a hostile power that needs to be kept in check.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
The United Nations has designated the 16th of May as a day devoted to Living Together in Peace. It therefore seems appropriate to discuss the need for reforming our educational systems so that they will prepare young people for international cooperation and harmony rather than for participation in aggressive wars.
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UN Officials Call for Release of Detained Palestinian Children amid Pandemic
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
11 May 2020 – Three senior United Nations officials in the Middle East are calling for the release of Palestinian children from Israeli-run prisons and detentions centres, saying they are at particular risk of COVID-19 infection.
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The Online Double-bind
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
The Internet is a double-bind because we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t. News, writing, and information of all sorts are now often not available any other way. The era of paper newspapers is coming to an end. This was meant to be. Other sources of fact and fiction have gradually been eliminated, while the content on the Internet has been dramatically increased and progressively censored.
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[Cartoon] Too Much Winning
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
#1… Still
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Civil Society Is the Second Pillar of West African Nation States
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. | Virginia Commonwealth University - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Experience from many African nations – as well as America, Asia and Europe – provides compelling evidence that civil society plays a fundamental role in social progress and in promoting peace and democratic governance. Civil society has organised democratic governance in West African for millennia, and not simply since colonial rule began. Our political science research shows how civil society has been and remains critical to the evolution of West African Nation States – nearly all of which are recent post-colonial creations – and that a Five Pillar conception of the Nation State conforms more closely to West African realities than the traditional Western concept of Executive + Legislative + Judiciary.
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US Blocks UN Global Ceasefire Resolution Objecting Reference to World Health Organization
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
9 May 2020 – International diplomats were stunned and frustrated yesterday night after the U.S. again blocked a UN resolution to call for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic. It objected to any mention of the WHO in the resolution. “It’s bad enough that Trump is responsible for so many deaths in his own country, now he is actively complicit in causing even more across the globe.”
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COVID-19 as a Memetic Disease–An Epidemic of Panic
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Learning from Terrorism, Communism, Fascism and Evil as Pandemics of the Past – There is no denying that COVID-19 is a disease that is causing worldwide fatalities. Less evident is the extent to which it is a memetic disease–and the nature of the fatalities with which that is associated.
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Bobby Sands Died in Prison 39 Years Ago–Julian Assange Is His Modern Equivalent and One Day Will also Be Hailed as a Martyr
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 2020 – The British government allowed IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands to starve to death. It is showing the same lack of judgment on what is right and wrong, by callously letting another political detainee die. On 5 May 1981, Bobby Sands died after refusing food for 66 days at a British Northern Ireland prison. Julian Assange, in extremely poor health, is being held at draconian Belmarsh Prison in London.
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With a Distracted Public, the Pentagon Tries to Get Away with Killing Innocent Civilians
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
8 May 2020 – The United States’ wars continue to rage in the Middle East and Africa against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Trump administration has shown itself to be not just indifferent, but positively encouraging of the killing of civilians in foreign wars. If there is a time to get away with killing people with no fear of accountability, it’s now.
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(Italiano) COVID-19: Infrangere il lockdown, sconfiggere il colpo di mano, evitare l’estinzione
Robert J. Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Usando i propri forum come il Forum Economico Mondiale l’élite globale continua a stringere la sua presa sulla popolazione con la propaganda COVID-19 per alzare la paura della gente mentre s’introducono nuove restrizioni e/o se n’estendono di esistenti per nascondere le molte misure che si vanno prendendo per portare avanti il loro colpo di mano tuttora in corso contro l’umanità.
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The Real Scandal Isn’t What China Did to Us — It’s What We Did to Ourselves
Fareed Zakaria | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
7 May 2020 – The Trump administration is trying to whip the country into an anti-Chinese frenzy because the novel coronavirus might have been accidentally transmitted from a laboratory rather than a wet market. The real scandal is not what China did to us, but what we together are doing to the planet — and what only we together can stop.
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An Ode to Gautam Buddha
Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Yesterday, 6th May night
The moon was shining bright
No clouds or rain to spoil the sight
Suddenly the thought came to me
7th May is Poornima (fullmoon night)
With the full moon the world will celebrate Buddha Poornima
Weapons Don’t Fight Pandemics
Miodrag Soric | DW - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
26 Apr 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic shows that we’ve got our security priorities wrong. Virus outbreaks, after all, cannot be contained by military force. Time for a security rethink. Tanks, fighter planes and aircraft carriers — where many crew members have fallen ill with the coronavirus — are useless against a pandemic. The world’s mightiest army simply will not keep us safe. On the contrary, increased defense spending leads to states diverting money away from health care systems.
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Manlio Dinucci | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
7 Mai 2020 – Chaque minute sont dépensés dans le monde environ 4 millions de dollars à des fins militaires. En 2019 la dépense militaire mondiale a presque atteint les 2.000 milliards de dollars. Ceci signifie qu’aujourd’hui on dépense en armes, armées et guerres plus que ce que l’on dépensait dans la dernière phase de l’affrontement entre USA et URSS et leurs alliances respectives.
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U.S. Policy toward Israel/Palestine in a Deglobalizing World: A Pre-Pandemic Perspective
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
7 May 2020 – The text below is from my presentation at the TRT World Forum, 21-22 Oct 2019. What strikes me now is how different the world seems only six months later due to the surreal impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on all aspects of perception and assessment, the totality of dislocating developments, and the heightening of an existential appreciation of the precariousness of individual and collective experience and of the radical uncertainty clouding our expectations of the future.
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Inside I Cry
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Whenever a Militant kills an army man, I cry
Whenever an Army man kills a militant, I cry
(Français) Le Venezuela inflige une nouvelle défaite à l’Empire… et aux grands médias
Thierry Deronne | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
4 Mai 2020 – Mauvais remake de la Baie des Cochons signé Trump dans son opération caraïbe pour renverser le Président élu Nicolas Maduro : une incursion de paramilitaires venus de Colombie (photo) et munis d’un imposant armement vient d’être mise en déroute par l’armée bolivarienne, le dimanche 3 mai à l’aube, sur les côtes du Venezuela.
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Genetic Engineered Crops in Agriculture
Poison in the Fields – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Genetically manipulated organisms (GMOs) also called “transgenic” are laboratory-created organisms whose characteristics have been altered through insertion of genes from other species. For example, the cold resistant gene of salmon is inserted in potatoes aiming at resistance to frost. Or genes from bacteria into corn to give it resistance to certain pests. These disturbances do not occur in nature, break the natural barriers between species and create many risks.
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Read the Services Agreement between the Venezuelan Opposition and Silvercorp against Maduro
The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
7 May 2020 – This document was provided by Venezuelan opposition officials on the condition that one of the attachments be redacted.
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Venezuela: An Invasion in the Midst of a Pandemic
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Cuba, like Venezuela, is also the victim of all-encompassing economic sanctions initiated and imposed by the US. It is remarkable that in spite of the sanctions, both Cuba and Venezuela have managed to protect their people in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Indeed they have done a million times better than the nation that has punished them with sanctions which incidentally has the highest number of fatalities and infections in the world.
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Death: A Simple Idea with a Powerful Punch
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Since death is one idea that has no history except as an idea and not a reality any of us have experienced, it is the most frightening idea there is and also quite simple. It is the ultimate unknown. It has always haunted human beings, whether consciously or unconsciously. It lies at the root of war, violence, religion, art, love, and civilization.
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Mercenaries behind Failed Venezuela Coup Had Been Trump’s Security
Ben Makuch | Vice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Silvercorp, the mercenary company caught Sunday [3 May 2020] in a bizarre attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government, claims in an Instagram post and promotional video by Jordan Goudreau, a former US special forces soldier, that the company did security for a Trump rally in November 2018.
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What It Takes to Grow Up, What It Means to Have Grown
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
I suspect it is simply a feature of being an adult, what I will call being grown, or a grown person, to have endured some variety of thorough emotional turmoil, to have made your way to the brink, and, if you’re lucky, to have stepped back from it — if not permanently, then for some time, or time to time…
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
The super-rich have become so adept at distracting and dividing the rest of us to keep us mired in clashes over all kinds of injustices—wars, racial oppression, patriarchy, partisanship, environmental degradation–that we often overlook the lust for power and profit at the root of every one of these evils. Hence, our most fundamental task is to make sure nobody is too rich or too poor.
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Swiss Propaganda Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 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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While the World Focuses on COVID-19, Indigenous Peoples in Myanmar Are Being Killed
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
28 Apr 2020 – As large parts of the world’s population are sitting at home in self- and authority-imposed isolation watching the development of the major public health crisis, governments in some countries are taking advantage of the situation and moving on with their repressive agendas cracking down on opposition groups, silencing human rights defenders and independent media, and subjecting entire ethnic groups to brutal military campaigns.
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Thousands Stranded in Bay of Bengal ‘Unable to Come Ashore’
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
6 May 2020 – In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, UN agencies called today for South-East Asian governments to show compassion to boats full of vulnerable people adrift in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. Thousands of lives may be at stake if the stranded people are unable to disembark.
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(Português) Gatinha com Síndrome de Down É Salva por Protetora no Brasil
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
A gatinha foi diagnosticada com uma alteração genética que se assemelha a síndrome de down em seres humanos. Mavis tem alterações físicas como olhos separados, nariz achatado e estrabismo.
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Guaidó Hired Mercenaries for a Terrorist Incursion in Venezuela
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
5 May 2020 – Venezuela’s Communication Minister Jorge Rodriguez today confirmed that Juan Guaido hired mercenaries for a terrorist incursion into his country, which is evidenced in the contract that the opposition lawmaker signed with the U.S.-based private security company Silvercorp.
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What Pandemic? US & Royal Navy Launch Cold War-Style Provocation in Russia’s Arctic Backyard
Nebojsa Malic | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
5 May 2020 – Millions of Americans and Britons losing their livelihoods under Covid-19 lockdowns can rejoice that their navies are open for business, staging a show of force on Russia’s doorstep for the first time since the Cold War. Three guided missile destroyers and a Royal Navy frigate sailed into the Barents Sea yesterday, to “assert freedom of navigation and demonstrate seamless integration among allies.”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
→ read full articleFacts about COVID-19: Apr 25, 2020 Update
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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