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What Is Critical Race Theory?
Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021

And why are racists afraid of it? The culture of settler-colonial peoples coming from across the world and overpowering the original inhabitants of a territory to form a state around themselves has enduring and insurmountable maladies and misanthropies. They act as the native inhabitants of the lands they violently conquered and brand those who come after them as “immigrants”.

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Conspiracy: Theory and Practice
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021

29 Jun 2021 – Toward a Taxonomy of Conspiracies – The truest conspiracies meet with the least opposition. Conspiracy practices — the methods by which true conspiracies such as gerrymandering, or the debt industry, or mass surveillance are realized — are almost always overshadowed by conspiracy theories: those malevolent falsehoods that in aggregate can erode civic confidence in the existence of anything certain or verifiable. In my life, I’ve had enough of both the practice and the theory.

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Myanmar’s Twin Curse of Murderous Military and Cultist Opposition
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021

29 Jun 2021 – The last few days saw heated debates and name-calling between national minority activists who are completely fed up with the ethnic majoritarian colonial mentality, and the political practices of majoritarian democrats who treat Aung San Suu Kyi’s words like Holy Scripture. This is her lasting gift to Myanmar and her dark legacy from which society will reel for decades.

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Nikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021

Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with the Serbian scientist and his path-breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).

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(Français) Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU: Une Réforme Clé Pour Une Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021

1er juillet 2021 – La clé est la réforme du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies, qui est actuellement contrôlé par les puissances nucléaires et incapable d’agir au Moyen-Orient en raison d’alliances avec l’État d’Israël. Ce que nous avons maintenant, ce n’est pas la promotion d’une culture de paix. Ce dont nous avons besoin, c’est d’un changement radical, et le CSNU est un point clé à changer.

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(Castellano) Brasil: El Desenmascaramiento de un Gobierno Embustero Genocida Y Corrupto
Fernando De la Cuadra | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021

29 juin 2021 – En las últimas semanas, el gobierno Bolsonaro viene acumulando evidencias de corrupción en diversos ámbitos del quehacer nacional. De hecho, el ministro de (la destrucción del) medioambiente, Ricardo Salles, tuvo que renunciar debido a los procesos por los que está siendo sometido en la justicia por favorecimiento ilícito y por la exportación irregular de maderas a Estados Unidos y Europa.

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Beyond Passive Victims and Agentic Survivors: Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Anne-Kathrin Kreft and Philipp Schulz | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021

3 Apr 2021 – The words of a woman living in Colombia who was raped by armed actors; and of a male survivor of sexual violence from Uganda, who was raped by Ugandan government soldiers. Today both are local activists working closely with victim-survivors of (conflict-related) sexual violence. In Colombia the word ‘victim’ is widely used whereas in Uganda ‘survivor’ is the preferred term.

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The Most Dangerous Censorship
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

22 Jun 2021 – Think about it: if the suppression is happening in your own home, if you’re suppressing your own speech, who will know? And how can you ever call for help?

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Transcending War: Everyone Wins
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

23 Jun 2021 – When will we as a nation admit it? Barbara Lee was right. She was the only member of Congress to vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force back in 2001, following the 9/11 disaster, which allowed George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan. A year later she voted against a second AUMF that launched the invasion of Iraq and Bush’s alleged Global War on Terror, a.k.a., our endless war to pummel evil into dust and sweep it out of the universe.

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‘7 Days Campaign to Resist The Great Reset’ Now Launched
Robert J. Burrowes & Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

‘We Are Human We Are Free’ announces the launch of the ‘7 Days Campaign to Resist The Great Reset’. This worldwide nonviolent resistance movement is a strategy to resist the achievement of elite control through implementation of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’.

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The USA Has Very Little to Gain by Overdemonizing China
Michael E. O’Hanlon | The Brookings Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

The recent bipartisan push in the United States to be tough on China seems to be confirming the adage: If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing. While the Biden administration suggests that we compete against Beijing in some realms, cooperate with it in others and confront the Chinese where we must, Washington seems all too willing to overemphasize this last leg of the policy triad.

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Antoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Saint Ex’s style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. His outlook was basically that of the Stoics: the common nature of all humans whatever the cultural differences, harmony with Nature, and calm in the face of danger.

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Brazil: Bolsonaro Government Has Brought Death to Indigenous People
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

28 Jun 2021 – The contempt that the current president shows for indigenous peoples is notorious. He considers them sub-people and in 2018 stated quite clearly: “Our project for the Índios is to make them equal to us”. And said further: “There is not going to be a centimeter demarcated for indigenous reserve or for quilombolas”.

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Culture as Combat: Palestinian Voices
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Festivals, Museums and Awards – In stirring opening remarks at the international 2021 mega-conference, Palestine Writes, Susan Abulhawa asserts that “… this festival is meant to expand Palestine’s cultural imprint in the world.”

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Covid Vaccination versus Viral Challenge in Low-Risk Children and Young Adults
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

22 Jun 2021 – Given the risks of covid vaccines, health authorities may want to consider the possibility of voluntary, medically supervised viral challenges in low-risk children and young adults.

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A Tear and a Smile
Khalil Gibran – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart
For the joys of the multitude.

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Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country- Hollywood in South Africa: 1951 and Bollywood Has Come As Well
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

The Challenges of Filming in Different Eras and Regimes

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US Blocks Websites Linked to Iranian Government
FRANCE 24/AFP - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

23 Jun 2021 – US law enforcement seized the websites of two Iranian state-controlled news groups, Press TV and Al-Alam, and of the Al-Masirah TV channel of Yemen’s Huthis, statements posted on the websites showed Tuesday [22 Jun].

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Have We Learned Nothing? Biden Backs Mass Murder in the Middle East
Connor Freeman | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

18 Jun 2021 – The Gaza Strip, measures only 25 miles long and five miles wide. It is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Since 2007, Israel has imposed a full blockade on Gaza from the air, land, and sea. The two million Palestinians living there are trapped in an open air prison where food, potable water, electricity, medicine, building materials, etc. are severely restricted by the Israeli authorities.

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What Went Right This Week: England’s New Beauty Spots, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

24 Jun 2021 – England was promised four new areas of outstanding natural beauty, Wales shelved plans to build more roads, and Guinea stamped out Ebola, plus the week’s other positive news.

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G-7 Aftermath: Western Leaders in Search of New Animosities
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

24 Jun 2021 – Has civilization taught us to be friendlier towards one another? Asked Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher and intellectual. The G-7 used to be G-8 inclusive of Russia, but it shrunk to being the “West and America First” and anything else is a matter of opinion to be relevant for global peace and harmony.

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It’s Apartheid, Say Israeli Ambassadors to South Africa
Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel | GroundUp - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

8 Jun 2021 – During our careers in the foreign service, we both served as Israel’s ambassador to South Africa. In this position, we learned firsthand about the reality of apartheid and the horrors it inflicted. But more than that – the experience and understanding we gained in South Africa helped us to understand the reality at home.

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How Biden Helped Hardliner Raisi Win Iran Election
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

23 Jun 2021 – How President Biden’s failure to quickly rejoin the nuclear agreement with Iran helped a hard-liner win the presidential election. The U.S. on a path toward war with Iran unless Biden promptly rejoins the JCPOA.

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Why War?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

I would like to announce the publication of a book that discusses the reasons why the institution of war continues to threaten human civilization and the biosphere, as well as the steps that might be taken to rid the world of war. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.

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Giuseppe Garibaldi (4 Jul 1807 – 2 Jun 1882): Godfather of Transnational Democratic Politics
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice, now France, often called the hero of two worlds because of his efforts for independence in Latin America and then Europe, is in many ways inventor of transnational democratic politics.

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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.

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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative

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“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread.”
Anatole France – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Anatole France, full name François-Anatole Thibault (16 Apr 1844 – 12 Oct 1924), was a French poet, journalist and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He wrote the quoted phrase in his 1894 novel, The Red Lily.

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Russia: The Doukhobor 1895 Arms Burning Is Relevant Today
Koozma J. Tarasoff | Spirit-Wrestlers - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

28 Jun 2021 – 126 years ago today, one-third of the Doukhobors in the Russian Caucasus joined in a daring protest of burning guns — all their killing weapons. The significance of the Burning of Arms event is enormous then and now.  Why?

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Danilo Dolci (28 Jun 1924 – 30 Dec 1997)
EDDILI – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Alone he stood, faced by hostility of the church, the government, the landowners, and the mafia. Surely, only with a flame of faith in his heart he could face hatred, corruption, brutality, indifference, poverty, dereliction and despair. But he did face them and achieved his victories. He lived on the same level of those he was trying to help, working at grassroots level.

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The Basket of Light
Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

She walks with a basket on her head
Smiling, but her basket is empty, although she carries the king of thermal energy
Luminating galactic, she does not realise this dispensary of light
O! if only she knows, he shines heavenly so bright!

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Under Pandemic, UN Votes to Condemn Cruel and Illegal U.S. Blockade of Cuba—but There Is a Twist
Chris Agee | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

24 Jun 2021 – 184 Countries Vote in the UN to Condemn U.S. Blockade of Cuba—As Usual, Two Countries Vote Against: the U.S. and Israel. While Conditions in Cuba Under the Blockade are Worsening, Cuba’s Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industry May Help Them Out of the Pandemic

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Divisions over Russia Policy Erupt Inside EU at Brussels Summit
Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

On Thursday [24 Jun], EU heads of state met for a two-day summit in Brussels that endorsed EU policy on the pandemic, while clashing bitterly on foreign policy, especially Russian. The EU issued an initial summit communiqué whitewashing its pandemic policies in Orwellian terms.

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America’s Decadent Militarism and the F-35 in Two Minutes
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Project On Government Oversight POGO – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Aside from the fact that the F-35 is the plane that can’t fly right (see the 2-minute video below), it is a symbol of America’s decadent militarism — the country’s love affair with its deadly War Business and its defiance of the original purpose for the United Nations to “end the scourge of war.”

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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode, Le Déserteur, composed by Boris Vian in 1954. The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (over 170 books in his 90 years, +++).

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Sharing Scientific Knowledge
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

The nonviolent tradition of Shelly, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela is international. Culture is cooperative. It is not competitive. Global cultural cooperation can lead us to a sustainable and peaceful society. Our almost miraculous modern communications media, if properly used, can give us a stable, prosperous and cooperative future society.

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US Jews Are Turning against Zionism in a ‘Surge’ — Pro-Israel Voices Lament
Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

19 Jun 2021 – In recent days, four pro-Israel writers have lamented that American Jews are turning against Zionism in the wake of the latest Gaza attack. Two speak of a “surge in anti-Zionism” among Jews.

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Farewell to Anti-Virus Guru John Mcafee
Damian Wilson | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

24 Jun 2021 – The Wild, High-Living, Paranoid, Millionaire Genius I Was Glad to Call My Neighbour – The suicide of tech entreprenuer John McAfee in his Spanish prison cell, as he awaited deportation to the USA over tax fraud, draws a curtain on the madcap escapades of the most colourful character I’ve ever come across.

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Myanmar Anti-Coup Opposition’s Happy Birthday Parties for Aung San Suu Kyi Do Not Augur Well for the Country’s Future
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

24 Jun 2021 – The mass hysteria around Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday is the clearest indication of deeply entrenched cultist neo-totalitarian thoughts, mental habits and political behaviour among Ms Suu Kyi’s populist base. It confirms how indifferent this base is to the democratic ethos, international law, and normative principles of human rights.

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Anubuddha Sutta – Understanding
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

The Blessed One said: “It’s because of not understanding and not penetrating four things that we have wandered and transmigrated on such a long, long time, you and I. Which four?

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Geneva Summit: Low Expectations, Modest Results, Glimmers of Hope
Edward Lozansky | The Washington Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

24 Jun 2021 – U.S. political circles and the media: this summit is a huge mistake because it will allow President Putin to appear as an equal partner of the U.S. president. The Hill’s headline screamed that “Biden loses to Putin at Geneva summit just by showing up.” Hudson Institute portrayed it as “Biden’s gift to Putin” because it will lead to “empowering Russia, undermining the EU, a threat to the NATO alliance.”

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20 Factories Destroyed, 5,000 Jobs Lost Due to Israel’s Offensive on Gaza
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

19 Jun 2021 – Al-Amasi indicated that the economy was the main target for the Israeli attacks, pointing to the demolition of the offices of big companies located in the high-rise buildings destroyed during the offensive.

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Ethiopians Go to the Polls Even After the US Tells Them Not to
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

23 Jun 2021 – Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia are now alarming US political and military elites by forming an alliance and threatening to chart an independent path in the Horn of Africa. Many Ethiopians expressed enthusiasm for what they consider the country’s first real, competitive election.

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Seeing Is Believing
Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

— Which is closer, China or the moon?

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(Português) Até Quando Aceitaremos Tanta Crueldade Contra os Animais?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

24 jun 2021 – Afinal, um pintinho que passa pelo processo de debicagem é uma criança de outra espécie. Jamais aceitaríamos qualquer mutilação contra crianças humanas, mas não vemos problema nessa imposição a quem não é humano. A sociedade diz que é adequado fazer isso em prol da manutenção da produção de ovos.

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Patrice Lumumba (2 Jul 1925 – 17 Jan 1961)
Encyclopedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Lumumba was a man of strong character who intended to pursue his policies regardless of the enemies he made within his country or abroad. Because of its wealth, size, and proximity to white-dominated southern Africa, Lumumba’s opponents feared the consequences of a radicalized Congo. Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.

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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 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 to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”

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Statement of the World Emergency COVID19 Pandemic Ethics
Prof. Darryl Macer, et al. | WeCope Committee/ Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

As an independent, multidisciplinary, and cross-cultural committee comprised of ethicists from cultures and nations across the world, we offer the following statement and recommendations on Ethical Values and Principles for Healing Society in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis. We hope that this joint statement will widen the scope of reflections both within and between communities and nations and will help share a mutual vision for a healing society by elucidating ethical values and principles that can assist in making better societies.

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Socialism Has a PR Problem—One That Can Be Solved
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

25 Jun 2021 – Even as openly socialist candidates are winning political power, the right is working hard to equate socialist governance with repressive regimes.

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Six Rules to Survive an Autocracy with Dignity
Alejandro Bendaña | Havana Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Institutions Are Useless to You, Be Outraged, Don’t Make Compromises, Remember the Future

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(Italiano) 25 giugno 1946 – 25 giugno 2021. 75 anni. E’ viva la Costituzione
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Nel 75mo anniversario della prima seduta dell’Assemblea Costituente, si è svolta a Brescia, venerdì 25 giugno 2021, la manifestazione denominata E’ viva la Costituzione. A coronamento di un percorso realizzato da Manifesto Costituente – gruppo informale di circa 50 associazioni del territorio bresciano – ri-unitesi attorno alla Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana. Nel segno dell’antifascismo, per ribadirne l’attualità, sollecitarne l’attuazione completa e, il 25 giugno, per celebrarne il portato culturale, politico e sociale. 

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Meanwhile, Somewhere on Earth
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Trade Mark

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Apartheid by Stealth
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

20 Jun 2021 – Israeli apartheid continues its brutal abuse of Palestinians even after the bombing of Gaza stops and Palestine disappears from Western TV screens.

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Key Witness in Assange Case Admits to Lies in Indictment
Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson and Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson | Stundin - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

26 Jun 2021 – A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.

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Hermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Rebellion against established structures, the quest for personal values and a religious impulse are all elements in Siddhartha, published in 1922, perhaps his most widely-read book. It is not clear that Hesse found the harmony of enlightenment in his own life. In his last major work The Glass Bead Game (1943) he describes what might be an ideal Buddhist monastery devoted to the discovery, preservation and dissemination of knowledge.

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Existing and Resisting in the Nuclear Submarine Capital of the World
Frida Berrigan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

25 Jun 2021 – Or How to Deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas – In New London, Connecticut, where potential world killers are built, we manage our discomfort by being a small, but visible “No.”

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Brazil: Poll Shows Lula Would Crush Bolsonaro in Presidential Election
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

25 Jun 2021 – The former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leads the polls for voting intentions in the country for the 2022 elections with an advantage of 49 percent, 26 points above Jair Bolsonaro, according to a survey released today.

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Legacy of Western Scientists
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Max Planck, Marie Curie, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, C V Raman (of India), Stephen Hawking are some well known scientists who have made immeasurable contributions to various fields of science, mainly Physics and Astronomy. Some unusual topics they have worked on include : Big Bang Theory, Black Holes, Speed of Light, Special Relativity, Energy-Mass relationships E = mc2.

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COVID World Data: 181,9M Total; 3,9M Dead; Percentage Dead: 0.02%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

On 28 Jun 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 181,933,945
Deaths: 3,940,603
Percentage Dead: 0,02%
Active: 16,864,765
Recovered: 166,433,947
Cases Closed: 170,374,550
Total Vaccinated: 1,796,972,595

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Franz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.

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(Italiano) Peacebuilding: in quale direzione?
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

Benché i discorsi su una “Nuova Guerra Fredda” siano troppo drammatici, ci sono reali tensioni strutturali in atto da tempo e non facilmente superabili. I recenti avvenimenti in Medio Oriente, il futuro dell’Afghanistan e il suo effetto sull’area più vasta Pakistan-India-Iran, il futuro delle due Coree – sono tutte tematiche fondamentali relative all’equilibrio di forze a livello regionale e mondiale.

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The Real B3W-NATO Agenda
Pepe Escobar | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

16 Jun 2021 – The NATO summit communiqué concise low down: Russia is an “acute threat” and China is a “systemic challenge”. NATO, of course, are just a bunch of innocent kids building castles in a sandbox. Those were the days when Lord Hastings Lionel Ismay, NATO’s first secretary-general, coined the trans-Atlantic purpose: to “keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”

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Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China
Bernie Sanders | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

17 Jun 2021 – The challenges that the US faces today—climate change, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, economic inequality, terrorism, corruption, authoritarianism—are shared global challenges. They cannot be solved by any one country alone. They require increased international cooperation—including with China, the most populous country on earth. Don’t Start Another Cold War!

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Divide & Rule: The Plan of the 1% to Make You DISPOSABLE
Vandana Shiva | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

16 Mar 2021 -TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers’ rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the Navdanya Trust.

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(Italiano) Il G7 è stato un flop. Per il semplice motivo che la Cina può far saltare il Qe perenne
Mauro Bottarelli | Money - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

14 giugno 2021 – Il G7 è stato un totale fallimento. Al netto di un generico richiamo ai diritti umani, nulla di fatto. Non a caso, gli Usa hanno emanato un comunicato a parte. In compenso, il tallone d’Achille di Stati Uniti e Ue è platealmente emerso.

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The Covid Vaccine Is Causing the Covid Variants
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

15 Jun 2021 – The so-called Covid variants, officially designated as mutations, are being used to extend the British lockdown. However, Dr. Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and former director of the Retrovirology Lab at the Pasteur Institute, reports that in fact it is the vaccinations that are producing the variants.

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To Save Planet, Solve Twin Crises of Climate Change and Species Loss Together, Say UN Scientists
Reynard Loki | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

16 Jun 2021 – Some climate solutions can actually harm biodiversity. But there are synergistic solutions that can tackle both issues.

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Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

15 Jun 2021 – Yesterday’s summit showed how the “North Atlantic” Treaty Organization has decided it has an extremely expansive global mission.

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Symbolic Insignia Indicative of Global Health
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

21 Jun 2021 – Immunity Passports, Travel Worthiness and Certificates of Wholth – Recommendations, development and implementation of some form of “immunity passport” are ever more widely evident, potentially to be required for entry to public buildings, health facilities, public transport, educational institutions, or to obtain employment.

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The Latest on Covid Vaccine Adverse Events
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

15 Jun 2021 – Please note: SPR only covers vaccine-related issues that are of global importance.

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NATO Declares China as Global Security Challenge
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

The NATO summit in Brussels on 14 Jun 2021 reminds us of what a hoax the USA had perpetrated on the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 by assuring him that the western alliance would expand “not one inch eastward” once Moscow allowed German Unification and disbanded the Warsaw Pact.

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Helen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.

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Tools for Repression in Myanmar Expose Gap between EU Tech Investment and Regulation
Zach Campbell and Caitlin L. Chandle | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

14 Jun 2021 – Inside the interrogation room of a Myanmar detention center, what Myat remembers most clearly is looking up from the floor and everything being green. “When they first caught me, about 30 police just beat me up quite badly. They also dragged me on the road for about 100 meters and I think I lost consciousness,” Myat said. “But somehow I wasn’t bleeding, so they kept beating me until I bled.” Europe is developing phone-cracking technology with a company that has exported to violent, authoritarian regimes.

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Banks Increased Deforestation-Linked Investments by $8B during Covid-19: Report
Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

15 Jun 2021 – A new analysis of financial data by Forests & Finance, a coalition of NGOs, has found that weak policies and continued major investments in forest-risk sectors are driving deforestation in Southeast Asia, Latin America and West and Central Africa.

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(Italiano) Coronavirus: l’Arca di papa Francesco
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

Sin dall’inizio ha battuto e ribattuto che “tutto non deve tornare come prima, alla normalità”. Coronavirus: l’Arca di papa Francesco.

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Chan Chan (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

Buena Vista Social Club Project – The Best of Traditional Cuba to the World
*Click on Watch on YouTube*

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Latest CDC VAERS Data for 12- to 17-Year-Olds Include 7 Deaths, 271 Serious Adverse Events Following COVID Vaccines
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

18 Jun 2021 – VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 358,379 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 5,993 deaths and 29,871 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and June 11, 2021.

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George Orwell (25 Jun 1903 – 21 Jan 1950)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

George Orwell was a novelist, essayist and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) the latter a profound anti-Utopian novel that examines the dangers of totalitarian rule and surveillance state. Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.

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Endogenous Racism against People of African Origins–Tulsa and Sharpeville: Parallels in History (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

16 Jun 2021 – Historically, the month of June in the Gregorian calendar is significantly important in terms of liberation of the Black people, globally. The United States Congress approves a bill, marking “Juneteenth: June 19th, a federal holiday, formally marking the end of slavery, and reflects the story of pain, separation, human bondage and highlights the bigotry of African chiefs who sold their own subjects to white colonial slavers for a few trinkets.

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Capital and the Ecology of Disease
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

June 2021 – The dominant view is that the COVID-19 crisis is simply an external, “black swan” event, a rare, unpredictable, and unlikely to be repeated occurrence that has entered from outside the system. The world capitalist economy, we are informed, was fundamentally sound prior to the advent of this unforeseen exogenous shock, and it will revive quickly once the SARS-CoV-2 virus is under control. This received view, however, is incorrect on all counts.

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Reconsidering Authority: The Pandemic and the Resurgence of Collectivism
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

Economic democracy and cultural federalism: both are much-needed features of a political system now confronting increasing demands for more effective authority, more active mass participation, and the satisfaction of basic human needs. Defusing socioeconomic taboos makes it possible for people to freely consider what systems of production and consumption suit them best.

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Lend Self-Destructive U.S. a Hand
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

The new orchestrated China Cold War Agenda is suicidal for the US. That, instead of a policy of strategic cooperation, trust and peacebuilding, will be destructive to the whole world. Humanity’s extremely urgent problems cannot be solved with a Cold War between its two most influential powers. It must be stopped now. Particularly by those who love the USA. And can lend it a hand.

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Alan Turing (23 Jun 1912 – 7 Jun 1954)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, educator, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. The famed code-breaking war hero, now considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, was criminally convicted to chemical castration and harshly treated under the U.K.’s homophobic laws. He committed suicide.

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The Failure of PCR Mass Testing
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

19 Jun 2021 – Since March 2020, SPR has warned that PCR mass testing in the general population (“test, test, test”) is a huge mistake. The issue never was that PCR tests didn’t work or that the Drosten PCR paper was “peer-reviewed” in just one day. The issue is that PCR tests cannot determine an acute infection, ongoing infectiousness, and actual disease, especially if ct values are not taken into account.

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EU Approves COVID Passport: Here’s How It Works—and Why the U.S. Doesn’t Have One
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

The European Commission on June 14 formally signed legislation to create the EU Digital COVID Certificate. The regulation will take effect July 1 and expire in 12 months. Member States are required to start issuing the first certificates within six weeks of the July 1 start date, if they haven’t done so by then.

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Creating Enemies: China Reacts to NATO Targeting It
Rick Rozoff | Anti-Bellum - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

15 Jun 2021 – After months of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg mercilessly – tediously – denouncing Russia and China ahead of yesterday’s summit, the communiqué issued after it finally raised China’s ire. It was the first time the 30-nation military bloc so overtly directed harsh language of that nature at China in an official publication.

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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 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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The Pentagon Papers at 50: Press Freedom and Whistleblowers Still at Risk
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

17 Jun 2021 -Legendary whistleblower Dan Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers fifty years ago, a courageous act of truth-telling for which he later faced life in prison. He hasn’t stopped since. Last May, just weeks after turning 90 years old, Ellsberg made yet another disclosure of classified national security information.

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The Ganges Is Returning the Dead. It Does Not Lie.
Om Gaur | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

17 Jun 2021 – The Ganges, or Ganga, is the holiest of India’s rivers, and most Hindus believe that dipping their body in it will purify their soul. But when the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit this spring, the river also became Exhibit A for the Modi administration’s failures and deceptions.

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Ouch!
Amber Guetebier | Red Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

What did the left eye say to the right eye?

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How Mobsters Control U.S., UK, and the Netherlands
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

20 Jun 2021 – “Mobsters” are whatever the law says they are, but in some countries they are, in fact, simply the nation’s wealthiest people, who can and do pay whomever they have to pay (“consigliere”) in order to get the law to mean what they want it to mean. In other words: sometimes a mobster is anyone who no matter how harmful to society, can become and remain enormously wealthy and never go to prison for it, nor be executed for it.

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Don’t Look Away
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

A world that profits from human slaughter!
It happens in plain sight,

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(Português) 2020: Desmatamento no Brasil equivale a uma área nove vezes maior que a cidade de São Paulo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

11 jun 2021 – O desmatamento nos seis biomas brasileiros cresceu 13,6% em 2020, atingindo 13.853 quilômetros quadrados (1.385.300 hectares), uma área nove vezes maior que SP. Desse total, 61% estão na Amazônia. É o que mostra uma análise inédita de 74.218 alertas de desmatamento no país inteiro, publicada hoje pelo Projeto MapBiomas.

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The FBI’s Mafia-Style Justice: To Fight Crime, the FBI Sponsors 15 Crimes a Day
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

17 Jun 2021 – Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government—purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure—has come about as a threat manufactured by our own government. Think about it. Cyberwarfare. Terrorism. Bio-chemical attacks. The nuclear arms race. Surveillance. The drug wars. Domestic extremism. The COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jean-Paul Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

Sartre was offered, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 for his autobiography, ‘Words,’ though he subsequently rejected the award based on his own notions of his integrity as a writer.

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(Italiano) Un processo di conquista rovesciato per un’alternativa
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

18 Giugno 2021 – A proposito de L’invasione zapatista è iniziata! di Jérôme Baschet del 20/5/2021 pubblicato sul nostro sito e al cercare di impostare un processo di conquista rovesciato per un’alternativa, condivido con l’autore che “questo viaggio significa sfumare una storia che ha assegnato posizioni profondamente radicate e inequivocabili al conquistatore e al vinto. Ma significa soprattutto sbloccare la possibilità di una storia alternativa.”

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Why Democracies in G7 & NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

15 Jun 2021 – Instead of a world in which other countries emulate or fall victim to USA’s failed experiment in extreme neoliberalism, the key to a peaceful, sustainable and prosperous future for all the world’s people, including North Americans, lies in working together, learning from each other and adopting policies that serve the public good and improve the lives of all, especially those most in need. There’s a name for that. It’s called democracy.

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What Went Right This Week: A Soaring Conservation Success, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

17 Jun 2021 – Scotland celebrated a conservation success story, the real winner of the Euros was revealed, scientists found a novel use for plastic…

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The Same Shady People Own Big Pharma and the Media
Joseph Mercola, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

15 Jun 2021 – What does The New York Times and a majority of other legacy media have in common with Big Pharma? Answer: They’re largely owned by BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world. Moreover, it turns out these two companies form a secret monopoly that own just about everything else you can think of too.

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