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US’ Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – USA’s tortuous efforts to disengage from its destabilizing wars and military occupations in the Greater Middle East.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Born on the island of Martinique under French colonial rule, Frantz Omar Fanon was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring.
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Cry, the Bedeviled Country: I Weep for My Homeland of South Africa, As I Watch Its Disintegration from Afar
Jani Allan | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – Widespread looting and burning has killed over 100, and wrecked factories, shops and homes, with Indian and whites increasingly the target. Is the country I love, where I spent 30 years of my life, spiralling into racial warfare?
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20 Years of U.S. Occupation Was Brutal in Afghanistan—and so Will Be the Exit
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – Alongside the relief of ending the longest war in modern American history, we need to acknowledge the horrors of what we are leaving behind in Afghanistan.
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Probable Impossibilities: Physicist Alan Lightman on Beginnings, Endings, and What Makes Life Worth Living
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
How our cosmic improbability confers dignity and meaning upon our shared existence. Poetic physicist Alan Lightman sieves four centuries of scientific breakthroughs to estimate that even with habitable planets orbiting one tenth of all stars, the faction of living matter in the universe is about one-billionth of one-billionth: If all the matter in the universe were the Gobi desert, life would be but a single grain of sand.
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The Aliens Are Coming to Help
Tom Tomorrow | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Liberals will try to create a scandal out of even the smallest space invasion.
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The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – Today, the people of Haiti are facing down the US-backed dictatorship of the ruling Haitian Tet Kale Party (PHTK) that came to power through the fraudulent election of Michel Martelly in 2010 and maintained its grip on power through the fraudulent election of Jovenel Moise in 2016, what Haitian activists refer to as electoral coup d’etats.
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Covid 19 Crisis: Questions and Motives
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021 – A discourse on Covid 19 and its solutions would benefit from a willingness to listen and even learn from the views of the other. An inclusive rather than an exclusive attitude which accommodates the other would strengthen the discourse. An adherence to scientific methodology would be of immense help. Respect for empirical evidence would also be an asset.
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Afghans Left to Pick up the Pieces of the West’s Failed War
Paul Rogers | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Military leaders in NATO, USA and Britain now accept that they have lost their war with the Taliban. As the Taliban rapidly expand in the shadow of their retreat, has anyone considered the impact on innocent civilians?
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Supreme Court in Mexico Declares Cannabis Prohibition Unconstitutional
Scoop.me | Amerika21 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021 – The Supreme Court of Mexico has ruled that the previously introduced legal ban on the use of cannabis was unconstitutional. The Court judges called the declaration as historic in terms of respect for human rights.
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Eric Enos’ Story of Kaʻala: Hawai’i Taro Farming
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jun 2021 – Eric Enos dives into the Native Hawaiian journey of restoring O’ahu’s taro farms and reviving an essential cultural practice.
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MAGA Goggles!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
5 Jul 2021 – This Modern World
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A Saigon Moment in the Hindu Kush
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – The US is on the verge of its own second Vietnam repeated as farce in a haphazard retreat from Afghanistan. Let’s start with some stunning facts on the Afghan ground.
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Disgusting Perverts or Just Misunderstood? Meet the Zoophiles Who Have Sex with Animals and Want to Be Embraced by Pride
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
6 Jul 2021 – Zoophiles believe it’s acceptable to be intimate with an animal, and want the LGTBQ+ movement to add a Z to its name. RT spoke to one about their secret world, and with members of the ‘furry’ and ‘therian’ communities.
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Ethiopian Conflict and International Law
Ann Garrison interviews Francis A. Boyle | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 -Legal scholar Francis A. Boyle told Ann Garrison that a “Responsibility-to-Protect” intervention in Ethiopia would be illegal and catastrophic.
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A Research Center in the Scandinavian Forest Nourishes Resistance
Stellan Vinthagen | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
6 Jul 2021 – Home to a large library, writers residence and a vast garden, the Irene Community in Sweden welcomes activists and academics to explore nonviolent activism.
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Today’s Science Deniers: What We Owe Galileo after 400 Years
Prof. Susan E. Babbitt | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
On June 22, 1633, a sick and beaten old man, on his knees, had to “abjure, curse and detest” his view that “the earth moves and is not the centre of the world.” It was “one of the most deplorable acts of the Inquisition”, relevant to our times. Galileo’s relevance hits much closer to home.
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US-led NATO in Afghanistan: Crimes against Humanity Call for Accountability
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – After 9/11, America led NATO’s invasion of Afghanistan was a revulsion against truth as it was in complete disconnect to the living consciousness of global community. When falsehood goes unchallenged, it attracts shallow and puppets accomplices into the fold. Pakistan military ruler General Musharraf and many puppet Arab dictators were conveniently hired to promote the bogus war on terrorism.
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COVID World Data: 187,7M Total; 4M Dead; Survival Rate 99.9%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
On 12 Jul 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 187,770,350
Deaths: 4,051,635
Percentage Dead: 0.02%
Survival Rate 99.9%
Active: 17,380,877
Recovered: 171,696,704
Cases Closed: 175,748,339
Total Vaccinated: 1,971,271,992
Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
We Are the Champions (Music Video of the Week)
Freddie Mercury | Queen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Queen Official – From News of the World, 1977 – Winners’ Anthem
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Data, Not Arms, the Key Driver in Emerging US-China Cold War
Robert Reich | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Cybersecurity comes down to which side has access to more information about the other and can utilize it best.
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Feel Her Beauty
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Poem inspired by the Giriraj Govardhan Hill near Vrindavan in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
If media contribute to agenda-setting and the framing of issues in public discourse, then patterns of media representation constitute a significant arena in their own right. The most fundamental distinction in the Peace Journalism model is whether a conflict is reported in a “violence-oriented” manner, in “restricted space and time”, as a series of big bangs – or, on the other hand, “peace and conflict-oriented”, investigating “the formation of the conflict”, with “causes and solutions looked for everywhere, also in history and culture”.
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Why We Should Change How We Talk about Nonhuman Animals
Debra Merskin, Carrie P. Freeman and Alicia Graef | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
We wouldn’t say “it” or “that” when referring to humans, so why would we for other sentient individuals?
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Activism Uncensored: Colombia in Chaos
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Any American correspondent working abroad will tell you: coverage of in-country upheavals are dictated by the nature of the government’s relationship to the United States. If they’re technically allies, protests tend to be portrayed as illegitimate. Hence the dilemma in Colombia. As protests erupt on the streets of a longtime U.S. ally, the Biden administration and the American media wait to see whose side they’re on.
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The Syria Deception: The Public Has Been Hoodwinked Yet Again into Supporting a Criminal War of Aggression—and One That Has Been Effectively Lost
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – United States warmakers have become so skilled at propaganda that not only can they wage a war of aggression without arousing protest; they can also compel liberals to denounce peace activists using language reminiscent of the McCarthy era. Take the case of Syria. The people and groups one would normally count on to oppose wars have been the ones largely defending it.
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Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Unity
Tricontinental - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
5 Jul 2021 – How do you visualise the footprint of Empire? The images in this dossier map some of AFRICOM’s military bases on the African continent – both ‘enduring’ and ‘non-enduring’, as they are officially called. The satellite photos were gathered by data artist Josh Begley, who led a mapping project to answer the question: ‘how do you measure a military footprint?’
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Key Witness Admits Lying about Julian Assange–a Major Blow to U.S. Extradition Case–yet Western Media Ignores This Development
Ron Ridenour | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
12 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Former WikiLeaks volunteer, who became an FBI informant for $5,000, says he fabricated important parts of the accusations in the U.S. indictment.
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Letting Filthy Private Jets Go Tax-Free Shows How the EU Prioritises the Mega-Rich Over the Masses
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – Despite being hugely damaging for the environment, private planes operated by mi(bi)llionaires are to be given carbon tax exemption by hypocritical bureaucrats who tirelessly push a green agenda. It’s Brussels hypocrisy at its finest.
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US Vaccine-Related Deaths Increasing Rapidly
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021 – The latest weekly US VAERS update added a shocking 2,083 post-vaccination deaths – by far the largest weekly increase to date – raising the total of reported post-vaccination deaths to 9,048.
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Three Poems on Grief
Emily Dickinson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
I Measure Every Grief I Meet (1862)
The Looking Back on Grief (1862)
Grief Is a Mouse (1863)
Haiti in Upheaval: President Moïse Assassinated at Home
Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home Wednesday [7 Jul], with police killing four suspects and arresting two others hours later amid growing chaos in a country already enduring gang violence and protests of his increasingly authoritarian rule.
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What Is Wrong With the “Humanitarian Crossing” into Syria?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – There are important facts which western media stories typically leave out or distort. Here are some reasons why the Bab al Hawa border crossing should NOT be renewed. [On 9 Jul the UN Security Council unanimously agreed to a one year extension of the Bab al Hawa crossing. The problems outlined in this article remain true. — RS]
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The Numbers Game
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Numbers or numerals are very important in our lives
Or should we say even before we can draw a line
Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
6 Jul 2021 – Daniel E. Hale, a former Air Force analyst who blew the whistle on the consequences of drone warfare, will appear for sentencing on 27 July. The whistleblower acted on behalf of the public’s right to know what is being done in its name.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 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
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How Not to Cover Critical Race Theory
Julie Hollar | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Fox News and its conservative media allies have turned white rage onto a more actionable target: critical race theory. Though the theory is a longstanding and specific academic lens for understanding systemic racism, the right has transformed it into a catchall for anything that encourages talking about and addressing racism.
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science/technology gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Isaac Asimov (2 Jan 1920 – 6 Apr 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Asimov wrote hard science fiction.
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(Italiano) Teoria critica della razza: osservazioni e lezioni apprese
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Per risolvere il conflitto fra propugnatori e oppositori della Teoria Critica sulla Razza, perciò pare che bisogni procedere in due fasi. La prima immediata e la seconda più a lungo termine. Subito, la teoria dev’essere riformulata in termini comprensibili ai non-accademici chiarendo che il nodo della teoria non è condannare i bianchi per la loro razza o eredità culturale oppure impancarsi a giudizio finale sull’America. Si tratta invece di dimostrare le fonti strutturali delle idee e prassi più benefiche e più distruttive dell’America, e la necessitàdi cambiamenti risoluti in un sistema che genera tali profonde contraddizioni.
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An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.
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(Français) L’acte d’accusation contre Assange repose sur le faux témoignage d’un sociopathe avéré
Caitlin Johnstone | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
28 Juin 2021 – C’est une bombe dans l’affaire Assange. Pour faire extrader le fondateur de WikiLeaks, le gouvernement US l’a notamment accusé de piratage. Or, le témoin-clé de cette accusation vient de retourner sa veste dans un journal islandais. Pire, le témoin en question serait une taupe rémunérée du FBI qui avait été reconnu coupable d’abus sexuels sur mineurs et de détournement de fonds. Il admet maintenant avoir menti. Pour Edward Snowden, cette révélation marque la fin de l’affaire Assange.
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Aloha & Mahalo Haunani-Kay Trask! RIP
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Haunani-Kay Trask, Hawaiian scholar and activist, died in the morning of 3 Jul 2021 on Oahu, Honolulu. She was 71. Tenured as a professor for more than 30 years at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Trask worked in co-founding the contemporary field of Hawaiian Studies.
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U.S. Mass Murder by Economic Warfare Mocks the UN and the Teachings of Jesus
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – The United Nations has not been able to protect socialist countries in Latin America from economic warfare by the U.S. At its worst such aggression could be considered to be indirect mass murder — some say genocide. Cuba and Venezuela have been prime targets.
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Believe Your Eyes: Becoming a Snitch–If You See Something, Say Something
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021 – The reality of snitching on others has been around for a long time. Just think Adolf Hitler’s or Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian police states where free thought and free speech was a punishable crime against the state. The same thing happened in every war that America has ever entered. The corporate propaganda machinery behind all those wars had their ways to ferret out dissenters.
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Declaration of the Crime of Apartheid: Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
9 Jul 2021 – The Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine below is an initiative endorsed by scholars and artists worldwide. Please distribute widely as there is a campaign underway to reach 1,000 signatures. List of the 773 signatories (last update : 8 Jul 2021)
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World Economic Forum Announces Creation of Orwellian ‘Global Coalition for Digital Safety’
Leo Hohmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – The World Economic Forum announced June 29 it will initiate a new “public-private partnership” with Big Tech and governments around the world to identify and uproot all opinions from the Internet that it considers “harmful.” The WEF is one of those elitist organizations that wields enormous influence over the elected leaders of Western nations but which almost nobody in the general population has heard of.
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Fox News’ Anti-Vaccination Hysteria Has Reached a Disturbing New Level
Ryan Bort | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
9 Jul 2021 – Right-wing media is melting down over President Biden’s push to … inoculate people against a virus that has killed more than 600,000 Americans.
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US Imperialism’s Criminal Debacle in Afghanistan
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – US troops pulled out of the sprawling Bagram Air Base at three in the morning last Friday [2 Jul], without notifying the Afghan government forces meant to replace them, and cutting off the power on the way out, an act that triggered an invasion of the base by a small army of looters. This ignoble retreat is a fitting symbol of the debacle wrought by 20 years of US war and occupation in Afghanistan.
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Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Strategically Resisting the New Dark Age: The 7 Days Campaign to Resist ‘The Great Reset’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – Measured by the Christian calendar, the period of about 500 years from the fall of the Roman Empire until the end of the first millennium was a time characterized by economic, intellectual and cultural decline in the European Christian world. In retrospect, it is now referred to as ‘the Dark Age’, even as other cultures, including that of Islam but those in other parts of the world too, thrived during this period.
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Death of Mohammed Yusuf Khan, India Made Him into an Icon: Dilip Kumar
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
The Odyssey of a Peshwarian into a Global Cinematic Giant
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First Flight
RD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
I don’t think I’m ready for that.
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The Failure of “Vaccine Passports”
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
5 Jul 2021 – With vaccine effectiveness down to just 60%, the case for “vaccine passports” implodes.
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Biden’s Failure to End Trump’s War on Cuba Is Threatening Lives
Danny Glover | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Imagine a country developing and producing Covid-19 vaccines enough to cover its entire population, but being unable to inoculate everyone because of a syringe shortage. Cuba has already vaccinated about 2 of its 11 million people, and hopes to have 70 percent of the population vaccinated by August. Yet, because of the 60-year US embargo the country is facing a shortage of millions of syringes. Biden promised to return to Obama’s policies of engagement with Cuba, but the embargo and other Trump-era restrictions remain in place.
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Assange Turns 50 in Jail–A Reminder of a Western Democracy Paradox He Exposed: Non-Freedom Gives a Sense of Freedom
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Today, WikiLeaks co-founder Assange is celebrating his 50th birthday, being held at the Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London as Washington seeks his extradition to the US, where he could be jailed for up to 175 years if found guilty. That reminds us of the dark aspects of the ‘Land of the Free’ and most of Western democracies.
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Settlers, Not Immigrants
Haunani-Kay Trask – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Settlers, not immigrants,
from America, from Asia.
Come to settle, to take.
To take from the Native
that which is Native:
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
“This oration stands with the most inspirational addresses in US history. The erudition, eloquence, and elocution are unmatched. Douglass’ words should bring shame and guilt to those zealots who deny the importance and essential inclusion of Critical Race Theory in US education as it is the authentic history of the USA.”
— Anthony Marsella, Ph.D. – Member of TRANSCEND
A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout after Key Witness against Assange Admits Lying
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – A fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again. A major witness in the US case against Julian Assange has just admitted fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder. These dramatic revelations emerged in an extensive article published on 26 June in Stundin, an Icelandic newspaper.
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Dangerous US NATO Expansion in Norway
GNspace4peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jun 2021 – In recent years, the US and NATO have been militarizing the Arctic through Norway as a means to confront Russia. This militarization is increasing tensions between nuclear-armed nations. As the Arctic melts away, these powerful nations are competing for dominance in the region by establishing new routes, building new military bases and constructing new radars, as less efforts are placed on diplomacy.
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Governance of Pandemic Response by Artificial Intelligence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Control of Human Agents Unconscious of AI-Elaboration of Communication Scripts?
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Lisbon Court Rules Only 0.9% of ‘Verified Cases’ Died of COVID, Numbering 152, Not 17,000 Claimed
Mordechai Sones | America's Frontline Doctors - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
23 Jun 2021 – Following a citizen’s petition, a Lisbon court was forced to provide verified COVID-19 mortality data. According to the ruling, the number of verified deaths from Jan 2020 to Apr 2021 is only 152, not about 17,000 as claimed by government ministries.
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Chris Hedges Speaks on ‘American Sadism’ (video)
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Chris Hedges gave this talk on American Sadism at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on Sunday June 27.
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‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Jul 12-19 Issue – Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen sat for a chat with The Nation. Born in Vietnam and raised in the United States, where his family was resettled as refugees, Nguyen has become an essential literary voice—at once an eloquent champion of the displaced and a trenchant critic of empire.
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Choosing a Material or Spiritual Lifestyle–or a Balance of Both
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Quite often I get questions from young people who may be in college or starting out in their career, regarding the decision of whether they should take up a serious spiritual lifestyle, or remain engaged in material pursuits, such as education, career, family, etc. Often times they are worried that their family will not understand or will wonder what will become of them if they become overly spiritual. Or the family may even become overly upset if they show too much spiritual inclination.
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Haiku on War and Peace
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
8:15 a.m.
August 6, 1945 —
frozen in time
Sadako Peace Day —
we gather to remember
the innocent children
Illusions of Empire: Amartya Sen on What British Rule Really Did to India
Amartya Sen | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Sen’s counter-history of the institutionalized elite’s delusion that the British Raj was better than French rule, building liberal institutions for the colonized, etc. As a tyrannical blood-sucking alien ruler, Britain did nothing good for the colonized out of the goodness of its heart. Many of the arguments defending the Raj are based on serious misconceptions about India’s past, imperialism and history itself.
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Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Claustrophobic
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The Mirror of Enigmas: Chance, the Universe, and the Pale Blues of Knowing Who We Are
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
“There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who s/he is.” It takes a great sobriety of spirit to know your own depths–and your limits. It takes a special grandeur of spirit to know the limits of your self-knowledge.
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U.S. Military: Greatest Polluter on the Planet!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – The U.S. Military is the largest consumer of oil and largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the world. In the name of “defense” the U.S. military is carbon bombing the planet and countries all around the world, including munitions sites this week in Syria and Iraq.
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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates’ Book Is Rubbish!
Russell Brand | Under the Skin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
I spoke with Indian scholar, food sovereignty advocate and environmental activist #VandanaShiva. She speaks about #BillGates’ book and the colonisation of land and food production. However, she provides us with hopeful and powerful words of advice that might help us challenge these Tech Giants and monopolies.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 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
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Scientific American Retracted Pro-Palestine Article without Any Factual Errors
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – After right-wing outrage, the esteemed journal removed an opinion piece expressing solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli bombardment.
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Critical Race Theory: What It Is and What It Isn’t
David Miguel Gray | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor and central figure in critical race theory, said that it “just says, let’s pay attention to what has happened in this country, and how it is continuing to create differential outcomes. … Critical Race Theory … is more patriotic than those who are opposed to it because … we believe in the promises of equality.”
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Native Hawaiian Educator and Activist Haunani-Kay Trask Dies
Anita Hofschneider | Honolulu Civil Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Haunani-Kay Trask, indigenous poet, author, scholar and teacher, a staunch advocate for her Native Hawaiian community, died in Honolulu today at age 71. Trask was known for her powerful speaking and persistent advocacy, her Hawaiian nationalism, and her writings. “We are not American!” she told a crowd on the 100th anniversary of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. “We will die as Hawaiians, we will never be Americans!” RIP
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(Italiano) Pico Fidel: partigiani e ribelli cubani
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
2 Luglio 2021 – “Nella mattinata di sabato 25 novembre 2017, un gruppo di appassionati della montagna e alpinisti torinesi, integrati da giovani della “Brigada Gino Done” e dell’Agenzia per l’interscambio culturale ed economico con Cuba da attivisti del “Circolo Valle Susa dell’Associazione di Amicizia Italia – Cuba”, insieme all’ambasciata di Cuba in Italia si sono inerpicati dal Col del Lys verso la cima del Monte Arpone a 1600 metri di altitudine.
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U.S. Wargames in Nordic Region Aimed at Moscow
Agneta Norberg | Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – The US & NATO are rapidly developing a military encirclement of Russia with heavy emphasis on the Nordic region – the High North. It is a Cuban-missile crisis in reverse. Few in the west know anything about it.
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Yoga Can Be Done by Well-Fed
Surya Nath Prasad and Mira Purn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
A Dialogue between Surya Nath Prasad and Mira Purn on International Day of Yoga, 21 June
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UN Security Council: Key Reform for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – The key is the reform of the United Nations Security Council, which at the present time is controlled by the nuclear powers and unable to act in the Middle East because of alliances with the State of Israel. What we have now is not promoting a culture of peace. What we need is radical change, and the UNSC is a key point to be changed.
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NYTimes Op-Ed Denounces Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden on 50th Anniversary of Publishing the Pentagon Papers
Barbara Koeppel | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – This past June 13th, The New York Times celebrated the 50th anniversary of its publishing the Pentagon Papers. In a special section, “Uncovering the Secret History of the Vietnam War,” it told how a team of 50 reporters, researchers and editors worked on the story for nearly four months, holed up in a “whole group of suites” at a New York City Hilton Hotel—to ensure their secrecy.
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Glyphosate’s Toxic Legacy Exposed: Why This Weedkiller Should Be Banned
Stephanie Seneff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
30 Jun 2021 – When it comes to Monsanto’s controversial herbicide, both the mainstream scientific community and our regulatory establishments have failed us.
→ read full articleApproaching Iran: The Flaws of Imperial Diplomacy in the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
28 Jun 2021 – Biden pledged as a candidate to restore JCPOA, but has so far shown only a limited commitment to rejoin the earlier agreement, and seems to be insisting on a new agreement that is more restrictive of Iran’s nuclear program and its regional political activity. The U.S. Government seems to forget that it was its actions that led to the breakdown of the agreement.
→ read full articleGet back to work!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Why everyone should return to the office now.
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My Lovely Cave
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
This is the Cave that I am living in
This is the Cave I invite you to come within
Changing Ourselves
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Changing others? Changing ourselves! Is it possible to have revolutionary change such as the one needed to change course on climate change or corruption of our political systems? Does that require drastic behavioral change by many individuals ill-structure to do so? Sometimes I think like that and then sometimes I do see drastic changes in individuals that are amazing.
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“Governments are vassals of Bankism and Military Capitalism, the Mafia that controls human affairs through Cyber-information manipulation.”
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Antonio C.S. Rosa, born 1946, is founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS (from 2008), an assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung at the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, and recipient of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s 2017 Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice. He is on the Global Advisory Board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and completed his B.A., M.A., and graduate Ph.D. work in the fields of Communication-Journalism and Political Science-Peace Studies/International Relations at the University of Hawai’i. Originally from Brazil, he lives presently in Porto, Portugal. Antonio was educated in the USA where he lived for 20 years; in Europe-India since 1994.
→ read full articleThe Battle over Critical Race Theory Heats Up: Observations and Lessons Learned
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
To resolve the conflict between the advocates and opponents of Critical Race Theory, it seems that two steps need to be taken, one immediate and the second more long term. Immediately, the theory needs to be restated in terms understandable to non-academics that make it clear that the point of the theory is not to condemn white people because of their race or cultural heritage or to sit in final judgment on America. It is to demonstrate the structural sources of America’s most beneficial and most destructive ideas and practices, and the need for thoroughgoing changes in a system that generates such deep contradictions.
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The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party
Walden Bello | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation. Reflecting on the meaning of the 100th anniversary on 1 Jul 2021 of one of the most important institutions of our time, the Chinese Communist Party, the first thing that entered my head was that the present does change the significance of the past.
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Art versus Drones
Kathy Kelly | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – An exhibit seeks to raise public awareness of the anonymous killing machines. People in many parts of the world can’t speak up. Comparatively, we don’t face torture or death for protesting. We can tell the stories of the people being killed now by our drones, or watching the skies in terror of them.
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Said the Enchantress
Dr Usha Roopnarain - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Don’t open the cupboard, she said to me.
There’s something I don’t want you to see.
Special potions and pills for him.
Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – This is an edited text from the 30 Jun 2021 book launch of Timothy Brennan’s ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ (2021), under the auspices of the Cambridge Centre of Palestinian Studies and moderated by its director, Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool.
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Dr Edward Jenner, the Father of Vaccination, in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Challenges of Fighting Smallpox and SARS Cov-2 Remain Unchanged
→ read full articleCOVID World Data: 184,6M Total; 3,9M Dead; Survival Rate 99.9%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
On 5 Jul 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 184,667,799
Deaths: 3,995,265
Percentage Dead: 0.02%
Survival Rate 99.9%
Active: 11,681,411
Recovered: 168,991,123
Cases Closed: 172,986,388
Total Vaccinated: 1,897,474,080
(Italiano) Armamenti nucleari: scelta suicida per l’umanità e l’ambiente?
Elena Camino e Paolo Candelari | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
30 Giugno 2021 – La bomba atomica che colpì Hiroshima era contenuta in un involucro in acciaio lungo di 3 metri x 70 cm, e pesava circa 4,4 tonnellate. Fu trasportata con un grande aereo, un bombardiere modello Boeing B-29 Superfortress, fu sganciata sulla città ed esplose a circa 600 metri dal suolo. I morti immediati furono circa 80.000, altri morirono nei giorni successivi, e molto altri ancora negli anni.
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China Pulls Itself Out of Poverty 100 Years into Its Revolution
Vijay Prashad and John Ross | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – On 25 Feb China’s President Xi Jinping announced that his country of 1.4 billion people had pulled them out of poverty as it is defined internationally. Since 1981, 853 million Chinese have lifted themselves out of poverty thanks to large-scale interventions from the Chinese state and the Communist Party; according to the data of the World Bank, three out of four people worldwide who were lifted out of poverty live in China.
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What Went Right This Week: A Milestone for Lab-Grown Meat, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 -The world’s first lab-grown meat factory opened, an ‘extinct’ mouse reappeared, and the UK brought forward plans to phase out coal, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
The Chinese Miracle, Revisited
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Chinese Communist Party’s centennial takes place on 1 July at the heart of an incandescent geopolitical equation. China, the emerging superpower, is back to the global prominence it enjoyed throughout centuries of recorded history, while the declining Hegemon is paralyzed by the “existential challenge” posed to its fleeting, unilateral dominance.
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Hawaiʻi 78’ (Music Video of the Week) [Must Watch]
Israel 'IZ' Kamakawiwo'ole | Kokua Films Hawaii – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
44 years ago, history was about to be made ~~ Click on Watch on YouTube
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