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The US Needs to Break China’s Siege Mentality
Daniel Larison | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – High-level U.S. and Chinese officials met in the city of Tianjin earlier this week. Combative meetings highlight the urgency for Washington to take small steps toward reducing tensions.
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Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The Story They Want Us to Forget
Bruce Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on 16 July 1945 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. US President Harry Truman ordered the first atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 Aug 1945. On 9 Aug Washington dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki.
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Towards a Science of Misinformation and Deception
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – The Challenge of an Information Pandemic–a COVID19 Infodemic – The study of information has been remarkably clarified by information theory. This is the scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of digital information.
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(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: come appare la pace
Prof. Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Ma il peacebuilding non è sufficiente; abbiamo bisogno pure del peacemaking – una soluzione politica – e il peacekeeping. E qui entra in ballo l’EU: non solo come mediatrice, ma come modello, che sistema brillantemente una Germania che si era resa molo difficile da digerire dai paesi circostanti. Ieri. Come Israele, oggi.
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Why Are We Still at War with Syria?
Ted Snider | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
15 Jul 2021 – While congress continues to ask Biden to justify bombing Syria without congressional approval, the real question is: Why is the US bombing and sanctioning Syria at all?
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Challenging Colonization: Building Sustainable Human and Natural Communities in Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Radical Ecological Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021 – Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people have endured in the past, and continue to engage in, currently. In this article, I want to raise an issue that is not discussed often enough in this massive literature, that of challenging colonization through activities that sustain humans and nature.
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Clash of Paradigms II: The Way Out
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – In this day of zoom communications, there is no backstage. But the UN Food System pre-Summit held at the FAO offices in Rome did bring together a live audience of 500, with the virtual participants numbering 20,000. Allegedly the event, which called itself the Peoples’ Forum, was meant to be inclusive. They claimed to welcome everyone. But not everyone felt included.
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UNFSS – Where Multinationals Continue to Design Our Food Systems and Control Our Diets
Navdanya International | Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – The Pre-Summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) taking place in Rome, as a preparative stage to the New York September Summit, is, as expected, going in the wrong direction. As many civil society members, as well as past and current Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, have denounced, this summit is yet another instrument to reinforce corporate control over food and agriculture, while attempting to restrain civil society’s role in global food governance.
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Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us from the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – On July 14, the EU unveiled sweeping climate change and emissions targets that would mean “the end of the internal combustion engine.” Hemp fuel and other biofuels could quickly reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech climate solutions.
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Court Withdraws Assange’s Ecuadorean Nationality
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – An Ecuadorean court revoked the citizenship of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange without allowing him to participate in the process, his lawyers denounced today. Assange, who currently remains in a U.K. prison, received Ecuadorean citizenship in 2018 despite pressure from former president Lenin Moreno to force him out of the embassy.
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Democracy: Enemy of the Powerful
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – Perhaps the best possible thing we could acknowledge being is a “divided nation.” Failing to do so justifies — or at least avoids noticing — all manner of violent cruelty and repression in the name of so-called democracy, from the jailing of whistleblowers who reveal U.S. war crimes…
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The Collective Suicide Machine
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
26 Jul 2021 – The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the U.S. empire — and nobody will be held accountable. Two decades of combat, one trillion dollars spent, 100,000 troops deployed, high-tech gadgets, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, Reaper and the Global Hawk drones with high-resolution cameras, Special Operations Command, elite rangers, SEALs, black sites, torture, electronic surveillance, satellites, attack aircraft, mercenary armies…
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The Price of Conscience
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced today to 45 months in prison.
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Be like a Pencil
Natarajan Ravendhran, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
A pencil writes, but in fact it is the hand that guides it, and the mind that guides the hand. Similarly,…
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2021, the Year of Israeli Apartheid
Ahmed Abbes and Jonathan Rosenhead | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – More than 1000 academics, artists and intellectuals have signed a “Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine,” in a sign of the growing acceptance of the term in the west.
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Team Hawaiian Kingdom? Activists Want Some U.S. Olympians to Surf for a Different Homeland
Claire Wang | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – After decades of whitewashing, Hawai’i sovereignty activists say, the effort is part of an attempt to reclaim the sport’s cultural and spiritual importance in its place of birth.
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“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
Henry Ford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of industrial mass production.
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As Progressives Call for End to Blockade, Biden Announces More Sanctions against Cuba
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – While President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to reverse the “failed” policies of his predecessor that “inflicted harm on Cubans and their families,” his administration—already under mounting pressure from progressives to deliver on that promise—announced new sanctions against Cuba today.
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Vedic Literature Says Caste by Birth Is Unjust
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
When it comes to the sensitive topic of Varnashrama, the caste system of India, we have seen both pro and con, back and forth, this way and that. The Vedic system of Varnashrama has been mentioned in the Purusha Sukta verses of the Rig-veda but there is no indication that birth is the essential quality for one’s varna. This article contains many quotes from Vedic shastra to clarify what the caste system is actually supposed to be.
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Here Is Why We Are Boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit
Elizabeth Mpofu and Edgardo Garcia | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
25 Jul 2021 – In September this year, the United Nations will host a Global Food Systems Summit in New York. Social movements and scientists are staying out because it represents big agribusiness interests.
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Pegasus and the Threat of Cyberweapons in the Age of Smartphones
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021 – Spyware like Pegasus is dangerous not only because it gives hackers complete control over an infected phone, but also because it introduces the skills and knowledge of nation-states into the civilian sphere.
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The Role of Female Ex-Combatants in Peace Processes
Eloá dos Santos Prado – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Pawn or Queen Pieces in Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Programmes?
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Rethinking the Critical Race Theory Debate
Patrick D. Anderson | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The conspicuous absence of Derrick Bell who levels a class critique against the Black bourgeoisie, whom he sees as having led Black political protest down the wrong path time and time again.
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Culture of War Update
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
1 Aug 2021 – It does not seem likely that the advance in democracy and anti-war consciousness can overthrow the American empire and its culture of war, but like its predecessor, the Soviet Empire, it will eventually collapse from its own contradictions. At that point, the development of democracy and anti-war consciousness will be essential if we are to make a radical change in global governance, a UN based directly on the people and promoting a culture of peace.
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Why Is the Top Chinese Swimmer Not at the Tokyo Olympics?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021 – How Sun Yang Was Eliminated – The FINA Doping Panel was correct and Sun Yang should be competing in the Tokyo Olympics.
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The Insecurity Industry
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
26 Jul 2021 – The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is take it apart simply because it is unsafe to operate. Surgically removing the two or three tiny microphones hidden inside is only the first step of an arduous process.
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O` Buck Moon
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
In your orange light I look at you.
Silently drawn to your beauty,
Unfolding the auburn light, as the young deer grows his antlers.
Journalist Craig Murray Jailed for Eight Months in a Major Assault on Democratic Rights
Robert Stevens | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – Yesterday, Murray was informed that the UK’s Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal for a punitive eight months by a Scottish court. The railroading of Murray into prison is the culmination of a politically motivated witch-hunt. For the last decade, he has been a trenchant defender of Julian Assange.
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The Former Guy
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
19 Jul 2021 – This Modern World
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Why We Need a Movement to Abolish COVID Vaccine Patents Now
Andy Bichlbaum | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
21 Jul 2021 – While the call by activists to waive TRIPS is an important first step to scale up COVID vaccines, it actually needs to be abolished.
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Solidarity with Haiti Will Strengthen the Struggle for Racial Justice Everywhere
Nia Imara | The Progressive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
26 Jul 2021 – While reports on the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse are silent on the history of the United States’ harmful relations with the island nation, solidarity with Haiti is as important as ever.
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South Africa Durban Riots 1949–The Destruction of Cato Manor and Murder of People of Indian Origins
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – History Repeats Itself: The Sad Odyssey of Indian Suburb of Cato Manor–Land Expropriated by the Whites and Destroyed by the Blacks
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Taking Control by Destroying Cash: Beware Cyber Polygon as Part of the Elite Coup
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Anyone who is paying attention to what is taking place in the background is well aware that the life we knew before 2020 has already ended and what is being systematically put in its place as the World Economic Forum implements its ‘Great Reset’ will bear no comparison to any period prior to last year. Of course, those of us who qualify as ‘ordinary people’ have had no say in the shape of what is being implemented.
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How Haunani-Kay Trask Shaped Her Hawai’ian People’s Struggle for Independence
Anne Keala Kelly (Kānaka Maoli) | YES! Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
The Hawaiian movement for self-determination was forever changed by the fierce and unapologetic leadership of the late Haunani-Kay Trask. She modeled for us how to analyze the U.S. overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, our material reality, and American hegemony in the same frame.
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What Went Right This Week: Empathy in English Channel, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021 – A UK charity criticised for rescuing refugees saw a 2,000 per cent increase in donations, a tool was launched to help endangered species, and Montenegro saw its first same-sex marriage, plus more positive news.
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UN: Two Empires Crumbling–and Then What?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
The USA is out of touch. Stop droning, killing; make a beautiful North America with Mexico and Canada. Add it all up: the fall of the US empire is on track. How about Israel? Heading for a cliff of its own making: suicide. Israel is out of touch. A regime change from within is needed.
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Debt to Society
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Good luck!
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The Theory of Everything
Quanta Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
16 Jul 2021 – The Standard Model of particle physics describes how everything in the universe is made of 12 different types of matter particles, interacting with three forces, all bound together by a rather special particle called the Higgs boson. The standard model is the most successful scientific theory ever.
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Chris Hedges and Slavoj Žižek on the Pandemic’s Ramifications (Parts 1 & 2)
On Contact | RT America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
13-15 Jul 2021 – Chris Hedges discusses the social, political, cultural economic ramifications of the pandemic with the philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
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Money-Laundering Ring Pushed $4 Billion through HSBC
Franz Wild and Ben Stockton | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – A string of scandals has unravelled at HSBC since it admitted in 2012 to laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels. Today, under the nose of a court-appointed monitor, HSBC uncovered a $4.2bn money laundering network using client accounts in Hong Kong. There’s no indication the findings were ever reported to the regulators.
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(Français) Haïti : l’assassinat du président « est le marqueur de la privatisation de toutes les institutions publiques »
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
16 juillet 2021 – Le président d’Haïti, Jovenel Moïse, a été assassiné dans la nuit du 6 au 7 juillet. Cet acte jette une lumière crue sur le pouvoir haïtien et sur la complicité internationale dont celui-ci n’a cessé de jouir.
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Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – Hale should be pardoned and released, and the government should pay him restitution.
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How to Defend Yourself against the Powerful New NSO Spyware Attacks Discovered Around the World
Intercept Security Team - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – Even iPhones were vulnerable to the surveillance software, which appears to have been used against activists, journalists, and others.
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Chopin’s Nocturne (Music Video of the Week)
Tiffany Poon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Graceful, Natural, Beautiful – Enjoy!
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How Ben & Jerry’s Has Exposed Israel’s Anti-BDS Strategy
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – By calling an ice cream company ‘terrorist’ for simply adhering to international law, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed the absurdity of the official Israeli strategy to counter the BDS movement.
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(Português) Mais um estudo associa consumo de carne a maior risco de doenças cardíacas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
26 jul 2021 – Um estudo realizado e divulgado na semana passada pela Universidade de Oxford associa o consumo de carne processada e não processada a um maior risco de desenvolvimento de doenças cardíacas, o qual pode variar de 9% a 18% a partir do consumo de mais de 50 gramas de carne por dia.
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Witness to Turbulent U.S. Democracy: The Paradox for Soul Searching of Anglo American Acclaimed Values
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021 – Nancy Pelosi, the US House Speaker wanted an independent and non-partisan congressional investigation into the January 6, 2021 Trump planned mobbed invasion of the US Congressional complex in Washington, D.C. – The Myriad Drama at the US Congressional Committee Hearings
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Defining Refugees in the Era of Climate Displacement
Dewi Zarni | BIMI at UC Berkeley - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – July 28th marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This historic document, signed by 149 nation-states, defines refugees as those with a well-founded fear of persecution if returned to their country of origin on the basis of their “race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.” It also outlines the rights afforded to refugees.
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The Rif Republic: A Self-Proclaimed and Internationally Unrecognized State
Rabah Arkam | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
The Rif Republic (Tagduda n Arrif) in Berber, is a state bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Algeria to the east, the plains separating it from Morocco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Composed of mountains and plains, the Rif stretches for nearly 500 km from Tangier to Berkane and Kebdana (border between Algeria and Morocco).
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COVID World Data: 199M Total; 4,2M Dead; Survival Rate 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
On 2 Aug 2021 12pm GMT:
Percentage Dead: 2%
Survival Rate 98%
Total Cases: 199,051,292
Deaths: 4,241,236
Active: 20,589,343
Recovered: 179,653,493
Cases Closed: 183,894,729
Total Vaccinated: 2,221,330,543
Bolsonaro’s 1,000Km Amazon Railway Will Cause Climate Chaos–It Must Be Stopped
David Miranda | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – Jair Bolsonaro is determined to expand his exploitation of Brazil’s natural resources. His latest project, one of the most destructive yet, would rapidly deforest large areas of the Amazon, which would wreak havoc on the planet.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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Language Skills and Implications
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Being good at languages, spoken or written, is an asset for most people.
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Rwandans Mourn “Mama Rwanda” Esperance Mukashema
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – One of the winners of this year’s ‘Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize’ was Esperance Mukashema, a Tutsi survivor of the Rwandan Genocide who spoke out about the crimes of General Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front army during its four-year war to seize power, which ended in the 1994 genocide.
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About the Pegasus Project
Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
18 Jul 2021 – Journalists from the Pegasus Project – more than 80 reporters from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories with the technical support of Amnesty International’s Security Lab – sifted through these records of phone numbers and were able to take a peak behind the curtain of this surveillance weapon, which had never been possible to this extent before.
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The Many Faces of Regime Change in Cuba
Louis A. Pérez Jr | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
24 Jul 2021 – Cubans confront a host of problems amid a national health emergency — and the Biden administrative is only adding to punitive sanctions with the intent to make everything worse.
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Forensic Methodology Report: How to Catch NSO Group’s Pegasus
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
18 Jul 2021 – NSO Group claims that its Pegasus spyware is only used to “investigate terrorism and crime” and “leaves no traces whatsoever”. This Forensic Methodology Report shows that neither of these statements is true. Amnesty International’s Security Lab has performed in-depth forensic analysis of numerous mobile devices from human rights defenders and journalists around the world. This research has uncovered widespread, persistent and ongoing unlawful surveillance and human rights abuses perpetrated using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.
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Reports on COVID Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Edward Snowden on Spyware: ‘This Is an Industry That Should Not Exist’ (videos)
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reacts to the Pegasus project disclosures. Plus: Pegasus spyware is capable of bypassing your phone’s security and gaining complete access to your device: emails, messages, GPS location, photos, video, microphone. Widespread abuse of the Pegasus technology by government clients around the world. People who were selected as possible targets include journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders.
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New York Times Ad: Let Cuba Live
The People's Forum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – Urgent times call for urgent action. In just two days, over 400 prominent activists, intellectuals, scientists and artists came together to produce an Open Letter to President Biden in the New York Times. This is just the beginning.
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Evo Morales Denounces New U.S.-led Operation Condor
Nan McCurdy and Nora McCurdy | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – Operation Condor was a U.S.-directed secret intelligence program in the 1970s-’80s in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay, which resulted in the torture and “disappearance” of thousands of people. Plan follows precedent of state-sponsored assassination campaign targeting leftists.
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The Ivermectin Debate
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
25 Jul 2021 – Is Ivermectin highly effective or totally useless against covid? And why is there still no agreement on this question?
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Stuck in the Smoke as Billionaires Blast Off
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – Climate inaction was never really about denial. Rich countries just thought poorer countries would bear the brunt of the crisis.
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And Then God Listened (South Africa)
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 –
The past week has been melancholic
Anger, fear, panic has ceased.
How Not to Do Activism
Michael Gecan | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
The calculus of power isn’t defined by hits or clicks or tweets. It is measured in relationships and meaningful reactions over time. While social media can be a useful tool in organizing, it is not a strategy. Real change depends on finding a large group of local leaders, not a single charismatic person.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Who are you is a question often asked
Are you a poet, are you a scholar
Or are you an unknown Rebel or a lawyer
Syrian Civilians Attacked by Terrorists Using US-NATO Weapons
Vanessa Beeley | OffGuardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – Vanessa Beeley in Idlib – Children are being killed, homes are being shelled, and fields scorched, often by Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists armed with US-made weapons or by Turkish artillery. Where’s the outcry in the West against these war crimes?
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Problem?
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
What Problem?
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Building Solidarity with Haiti’s Popular Movement
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
It is imperative that we respect the people’s aspirations for progress and for a just society. It is paramount that we stand in solidarity with the people’s protests demanding a new form of state. The nation deserves a new system that is more in harmony with the dreams of our founders, a new vision of the republic rooted in justice, transparency and participation.
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Disrupting Hate in Education
Emilee Rauschenberger and Katherine Crawford-Garrett | Teachers College Record – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
To effectively interrupt dominant narratives of hate, one must first understand them. This is a central theme of Rita Verma and Michael Apple’s co-edited volume, Disrupting Hate in Education: Teacher Activists, Democracy, and Global Pedagogies of Interruption. Featuring ten empirical chapters—four focused on the U.S. and six set in countries across the globe—the book is a timely text firmly situated in the current political moment.
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Dag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 Apr 1953 to 18 Sep 1961 when he died in a plane crash in the Congo. He was born on 29 July 1905 in Jonkoping, Sweden. An authority on literature whose translations of poetry were widely admired, Dag’s journal of personal and spiritual reflections was published posthumously as Markings in 1963.
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What if Socialism (or Communism) Is a Better Deal for Poor People?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
22 Jul 2021 – China’s outstanding economic successes are the worst thing that has ever happened for American capitalists (who control most of the American government). Their fear is that economies that favor socialism or communism will become attractive to Americans, especially its poor people and the middle classes who would stand to benefit.
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The Pegasus Project Dossier
Forbidden Stories – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 –
*Pegasus: The New Global Weapon for Silencing Journalists
*The Rise and Fall of NSO Group
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(Português) Vegano vence ultramaratona de 217 km nos EUA
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
22 julho 2021 – O corredor vegano Harvey Lewis, de 45 anos, venceu ontem (21 jul) nos EUA a 44ª edição da ultramaratona Badwater 135. Ele concluiu o percurso de 217 quilômetros em 26 horas e cinco minutos, ficando à frente do segundo colocado, o ucraniano Igor Gotsuliak, por quase 30 minutos. Esta é considerada uma das mais difíceis ultramaratonas do mundo.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The Latest Data from Israel and the UK on Covid Vaccine Effectiveness
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The Pegasus Spyware Story Is a Reminder of Why We’re So Attracted to Conspiracy Theories These Days
Charles P Pierce | Esquire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – As a new report demonstrates, we are all relying on technologies that very few of us truly understand.
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Civilizing the Savage
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
21 Jul 2021 – We crossed the Atlantic, encountered a bunch of savages, defeated them, claimed the continent. We won! This is the history I remember learning, as satisfying and stupid as a John Wayne movie.
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“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
Babe Ruth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Over the course of his career, Babe Ruth broke baseball’s most important slugging records including most years leading a league in home runs, most total bases in a season, and highest slugging percentage for a season. In all, Ruth hit 714 home runs—a mark that stood until 1974. Ruth was born on 6 Feb 1895 and was raised in a poor waterfront neighborhood in Baltimore, where his parents owned a tavern. Ruth was one of eight children born to the couple, and one of only two who survived infancy.
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Answering Readers’ Questions
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – …How do we sort True conspiracies from False?
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Hinduism and Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Hinduism, based on Vedanta (Upanishads), is a religion of perpetual verifiable truth. It is a religion of universe and God in man. It is a religion that claims the manifestation of perfection already exists in man. Hinduism is very much peace education.
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‘Biggest Story in the World Right Now’: Humanity Has Flipped Amazon from Carbon Sink to Source
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
14 Jul 2021 – Recent research has elevated concerns about the Amazon putting more CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than it absorbs, but the new findings, published in the journal Nature, were presented as a “first” by scientists and climate reporters. They “show that the uncertain future is happening now.”
→ read full articleCOVID World Data: 194,8M Total; 4,1M Dead; Survival Rate 99.98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
On 26 Jul 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 194,847,492
Deaths: 4,175,435
Percentage Dead: 0.02%
Survival Rate 99.98%
Active: 19,234,754
Recovered: 176,789,190
Cases Closed: 180,964,625
Total Vaccinated: 2,114,425,526
The Covid Deception Exposed
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
21 Jul 2021 – Dr. Robert Malone, who pioneered the mRNA technology, has provided data that clearly show that the countries with the smallest percentage of their population vaccinated have the fewest number of new Covid cases. Countries with the largest percentages of population vaccinated have surging numbers of new Covid cases. How can this be?
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Satellite Mega-Constellations’ Mega-Threats
Miguel Coma | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The Rise of Space Junk and the Fall of Reason – Above our heads, man-made satellites wage war against the stars. On Earth, a handful of CEOs plan to put hundreds of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit—in addition to the 5,000 satellites already launched. Altogether, these satellites will outnumber the stars visible to the naked eye tenfold.
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Bangladesh Seeks Russia’s Help in Resolving Rohingya Refugee Crisis
News Desk | WeeklyBlitz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
20 Jul 2021 – Dhaka has made a proposal to Moscow to take a trilateral initiative among Bangladesh, Russia and Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
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A Sadistic Decision – Damn Them All
Gideon Levy | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – Damn them all. Damn Rafael Gana, the deputy head of the Israel Prison Service, who wrote to the interior minister: “Your request does not meet the prerequisites for consideration.” Damn Katy Perry, the head of the Israel Prison Service, who approved the decision. Damn Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev, the heartless coward, who didn’t lift a finger to change this evil decision.
→ read full articleThree for the Road
CountryLiving – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Why do fathers take an extra pair of socks when they go golfing?
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Possibilities
Wisława Szymborska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
I prefer movies.
I prefer cats.
I prefer the oaks along the Warta.
I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.
The New Cold War on China
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – On March 24, 2021, a high-profile article proclaiming “There Will Not Be a New Cold War” appeared in Foreign Affairs, the flagship publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, the principal think tank for U.S. grand strategy. The author, Thomas Christensen, a professor of international affairs at Columbia University and former […]
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These 3 Deceptively Simple Questions Can Shatter the Mythology That Sanctifies U.S. Imperialism
Matt Mckenna | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The 20th century muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair once opined that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” With this in mind, it is easy to understand why a small but powerful class of war profiteers might not acknowledge or seek to educate the public about the nefarious nature and immorality of U.S. empire.
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Graphene Oxide: A Toxic Substance in the Vial of the COVID-19 mRNA ‘Vaccine’ (w/ Video)
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – We bring to your attention this important interview with Ricardo Delgado Martin, responsible for coordinating the Spanish research team’s analysis of the impacts of graphene oxide nano-particles contained in the vial of the mRNA ‘vaccine.’
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The Soul of an Octopus: How One of Earth’s Most Alien Creatures Illuminates the Wonders of Consciousness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
“While stroking an octopus, it is easy to fall into reverie. To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege… an uplink to universal consciousness.”
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Reflections from Kyoto
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
25 Jul 2021 – Dissonance Searching for Resonance – Last night from Tokyo, Japan those of our troubled, speculative, hopeful, and cynical world who had live-screen accessibility could watch the opening ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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(Castellano) Eduardo Galeano: Mitos, Dios – Lo Valiente, Genuino y Hermoso que la Historia Oficial No Registra
Centro de Educación Popular de Ecuador – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Eduardo Galeano talks about the unofficial history of Latin America. Audiovisual document preserved by Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, a production of CEDEP 1990.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: What Peace Looks Like
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
But peacebuilding is not sufficient; we need also peacemaking–a political solution–and peacekeeping. And here the EU enters: not only as a mediator, but as model, brilliantly accommodating a Germany that had made itself very difficult to digest by surrounding countries. Yesterday. Like Israel. Today.
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Aldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become known especially for his fifth novel, Brave New World, written in 1931. At the age of 14 he lost his mother subsequently becoming ill in 1911, what would leave him virtually blind. As if all of this was not enough, his other brother, Noel, would kill himself in 1914. Huxley would then turn himself to literature.
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The End of the World (as we know it)
Dewi Zarni | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
In many ways, depression is a natural response to the circumstances. My childhood was fundamentally shaped by protests, school projects on global warming, and dinnertime conversations about rising sea levels. Our generation is the first to grow up at a time when the existence of climate change is no longer the subject of debate. We are also the last with any chance of mitigating its effects.
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Love You Anymore (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Bublé – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
[Official Music Video] – Click on Watch on YouTube
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