Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Did Time Start at the Big Bang? What Happened before the Big Bang?
Matt O’Dowd | PBS Space Time - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Our universe started with the big bang. But only for the right definition of “our universe”. And of “started” for that matter. In fact, probably the Big Bang is nothing like what you were taught. Simply fascinating!
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COVID World Data: 167,5M Total; 148,6M Recovered; 3,4M Deceased; 763,2M Vaccinated
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
On 24 May 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 763,297,443
Total Cases: 167,589,687
Recovered: 148,689,722
Deaths: 3,479,792
Cases Closed: 152,112,777
Active: 15,476,910
Palestine Is Winning the Legitimacy War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – This piece attempts to contextualize the current violence directed against Gaza in earlier Israeli provocations and takes note of Israel’s reliance on excessive force upon a helpless Gazan civilian population of over two million people trapped inside a crowded and unlawfully blockaded enclave. I find it appropriate to recall Gandhi’s famous observation along these lines: “First, they ignore you, then they insult you, then they fight you, then you win.”
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Covid: The Big Picture (May 2021)
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – After more than a year since the beginning of the pandemic, the WHO has finally acknowledged that aerosols are a primary mode of transmission of Sars-CoV-2. Leading aerosol researcher and professor at the University of Colorado, Jose-Luis Jimenez, argues that aerosol transmission may in fact account for 99% of Sars-CoV-2 transmission.
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Unity at Last: The Palestinian People Have Risen
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 May 2021 – Speak up. Speak out. The Palestinians have risen. It is time to rally behind them.
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People of Conscience: Palestinians Ask You to Boycott Israel
Omar Barghouti | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid struggle, the nonviolent BDS movement needs your support, writes BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti.
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China’s Humanitarian Intervention in Gaza May Be Motivated by Its PR War with the US–But That Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t Welcome
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 May 2021 – Beijing’s more conciliatory approach to the mire that is Israel-Palestine relations may be based in self-interest, but unequivocal American support for Israel hasn’t brought peace, so why not try something new?
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Tokyo Doctors Call for Olympics to Be Cancelled over COVID Surge
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
18 May 2021 – A top medical organisation in Japan has thrown its weight behind calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics, saying hospitals are already overwhelmed as the country battles a spike in coronavirus infections less than three months from the start of the Summer Games.
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PI
Wisława Szymborska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
The admirable number pi:
three point one four one.
All the following digits are also initial,
five nine two because it never ends.
Banana
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
What a lovely fruit for digestion
Easily available, cheap and delicious
People eat it for its taste and nutrition
Monkeys love it for the same reason
What Went Right This Week: Redefining the ‘Big Five’, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – The ‘big five’ was rebooted in the name of conservation, the UK unveiled plans to protect peatlands, and multinationals put disability inclusion on the agenda, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Fame or Shame? Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
24 May 2021 – Some years back Norwegian foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg took wise steps to reduce confrontation with Russia through a Barents Council for civilian cooperation. Last week Stoltenberg´s son, Jens, now leader of NATO, dishonored a high-level meeting for civilian corporation in the Arctic Council in Reykjavik by NATO holding a large navy maneuver in that part of the Atlantic. Many countries participated in the tension-building provocation that has become standard Norwegian policy in later years.
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Egypt Opens Rafah Crossing with Gaza Strip to Receive Palestinians Injured in Israeli Aggression
Ahmed Morsy | Ahram online - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 May 2021 – Egyptian authorities today opened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip and received a number of Palestinians injured in an ongoing Israeli aggression on the coastal enclave. The crossing witnessed the arrival of a number of injured Palestinians to receive treatment at Egyptian hospitals.
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The Aryan Invasion of India: History or Politics?
Prof. N.S. Rajaram - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
The evidence of science now points to two basic conclusions: first, there was no Aryan invasion, and second, the Rig-Vedic people were already established in India no later than 4000 BC. How are we then to account for the continued presence of the Aryan invasion version in history books and encyclopedias? Now thanks to the contributions of science we are finally allowed a glimpse into the ancient world of the Vedic Age. The Aryan invasion theory and its creators and advocates are on their way to the dustbin of history.
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Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 May 2021 – Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life. Released by Disrupt Studios on 24 Mar 2021. {Official Trailer | Netflix}
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Israeli Defense Farce
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Antisemitism – 13 May 2021
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 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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Israel Destroyed Offices of More Than 20 Palestinian Media Outlets in Gaza
Shrouq Aila and Anna Therese Day | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
18 May 2021 – The bombing of global media offices in Gaza caused a stir, while few noted the Palestinian journalists left to work with targets on their backs.
→ read full articleThe Accelerating Destruction of Earth’s Biodiversity: When Will We Act?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
As those individuals aware of it will have observed, presumably with deep regret, the latest ‘International Day for Biological Diversity’ passed on 22 May with the bulk of the human population continuing to act in ways that destroy Earth’s biosphere at an ever-accelerating rate. We are on the cliff-edge of extinction. What will you do?
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The Xinjiang Genocide Determination as Agenda
Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
27 Apr 2021 – A Critical Analysis of a Report on China by the Newlines Institute and the Raoul Wallenberg Center – It has been produced with the contributions of, and upon consultation with, numerous independent experts, including 33 who have agreed to be identified publicly, as it is stated.
→ read full articleCovid 19 Pandemic: Body Disposal Crisis–What to Do with Dead People in a Living World? (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
No Place to Die – The pandemic created a new challenge of what to do with dead people in a living world? This is caused by the increasing numbers of deaths, globally, as a direct result of the pandemic.
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Why Big Pharma’s Arguments against Patent Waivers Don’t Add Up
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
18 May 2021 – While President Biden is backing the temporary lifting of COVID-19 vaccine patents, drugmakers are making dire predictions of stifled innovation and eroded public trust. What they really fear is losing profits.
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The Fascinating Memoir of a “Citizen Pilgrim”: Q&A with Richard Falk
Busra Cicek and Daniel Falcone | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
7 May 2021 – Richard Falk, the well-known international relations scholar, taught at Princeton University for four decades. Starting in 2002 he has taught Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Falk is also a chair for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. This lengthy interview is about his latest book, a memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, that explores his career as an academic, activist, rapporteur, political theorist, and professor.
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram Militants: Six Reasons They Have Not Been Defeated
Ishaq Khalid | BBC News, Abuja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – The phrase that Nigerian militant group Boko Haram had been “technically defeated” is ringing increasingly hollow.
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Why Biden Is Right to Leave Afghanistan
Jeremy Scahill | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – When Joe Biden assumed the presidency in January, he embarked on a mission to reverse a slew of policies put in place by former President Donald Trump while leaving untouched the elite foreign policy consensus.
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‘Criminal Complicity’: Outrage as Biden Pushes $735 Million Weapons Sale to Israel amid Gaza Slaughter
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – “Approving more weapons to Israel would add fuel to the fire and would only embolden Israel to continue its bombardments on Gaza.”
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The Infinite Hotel Paradox
Jeff Dekofsky | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Enjoy your stay and good luck with your mind–don’t lose it!
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Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
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Conversation at the Crossroads
Joseph Camilleri talks with Richard Falk and Stuart Rees – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Conversation at the Crossroads have chosen two inspiring books and their celebrated authors for an international event on Tuesday 8 June:
>Public Intellectual-The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim by Richard Falk
>Cruelty or Humanity by Stuart Rees
How America Went from Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done?
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Price of Gold: DRC’s Rich Soil Bears Few Riches for Its Miners – Photo Essay
Moses Sawasawa | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
12 May 2021 – In South Kivu province near the borders of Rwanda and Burundi, Kamituga has mineral resources estimated to be worth $24tn (£17tn) in untapped deposits. Yet the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the lowest levels of GDP per capita in the world and people work in dangerous conditions with little hope of scratching out anything more than a meagre existence from tough and dangerous work.
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‘Almost Divine Power’: The Lawyers Who Sign off Who Lives and Who Dies in Modern War Zones
Craig Jones | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
12 May 2021 – When we think of war, we might think of soldiers on the front line – or those pulling the trigger – as the ones responsible for the death or injuries of those they are targeting. But my research suggests that over the past few decades an unlikely profession has become deeply involved in the conduct of war: lawyers.
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How Billionaire Foundations Fund NGOs to Advance US Foreign Policy Goals
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – US foreign policy is increasingly promoted by billionaire funded foundations. The neoliberal era has created individuals with incredible wealth and through “philanthropy”, they flex their influence. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they universally support U.S. foreign policy and the “free market”. A Case Study from Nicaragua
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How the United States Helps to Kill Palestinians
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – The classic formulation from U.S. officials and commentators is that “Israel has the right to defend itself,” never “Palestinians have the right to defend themselves,” even as the Israelis massacre hundreds of Palestinian civilians, destroy thousands of Palestinian homes and seize ever more Palestinian land. The disparity in casualties in Israeli assaults on Gaza speaks for itself.
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(Português) Enlatados/Embutidos: Cruéis e Nocivas Misturas de Animais Mortos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 maio 2021 – Além de não serem saudáveis e terem o consumo associado pela Organização Mundial da Saúde com um maior risco de câncer e doenças cardíacas, os enlatados/embutidos são misturas de fragmentos de corpos mortos, de carcaças, suprimidas em algo pequeno que representa a inclemente subjugação da vulnerabilidade não humana.
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Palestine/Israel Coverage Presents False Equivalency Between Occupied and Occupier
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
18 May 2021 – Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality.
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Talking Points
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – Draft seven simple talking points:
1) Palestine was colonized and replaced by a colonial settler state called “Israel”. The ideas was simply to take a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious country and transform it to a “Jewish state.” The core of this project (Zionism) is ethnic cleansing which started under British Rule (to fulfill the illegal Balfour declaration).
Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
American Transcendentalism Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Emerson had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adulation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
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‘Choke off Dollars to Myanmar Military to Make a Change’
Mehmet Ozturk, Iftikhar Gilani and Sorwar Alam | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 May 2021 – Activist Zarni Urges Imposition of Strict Sanctions against Myanmar Junta, Which Is Unleashing Terror against People
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Hamas’s Negotiating Demands Seem Reasonable
Marc Ash | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 May 2021 – “That Israeli forces and police agree to never again enter the al-Aqsa mosque, as they did earlier this month, and that Palestinians living in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalem not be evicted by Jewish settlers from homes their families have lived in since the 1950s.”
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“Take These Masks off of My Child”
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – Under the banner of fighting COVID-19 children all over the world are being abused and exploited in ways that would have been unthinkable over a year ago. Unfortunately, most people tend to blindly trust government officials and other so-called experts instead of their own common sense. Nazi Germany was obsessed with racial purity partly due to the pseudoscience of eugenics which was a popular ideology throughout the world at the time.
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Stairway to Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
Led Zeppelin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
The Classic from 1971 – LIVE (Click on Watch on YouTube)
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As Covid Ravages Poor Nations, Pharma Vaccine Profiteering Has Created 9 New Billionaires
Jake Johnson | Common Deams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – A new analysis out today shows that pharmaceutical companies’ control over coronavirus vaccines has produced nine new billionaires since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, which continues to ravage developing nations. “These billionaires are the human face of the huge profits pharmaceutical corporations are making from the monopoly they hold on these vaccines.”
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(Castellano) Marbella, sede global del crimen organizado
Nacho Carretero y Arturo Lezcano | El País – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
25 abr 2021 – Criptomonedas y Kalashnikovs. Drogas, lujo y ajustes de cuentas. Un centenar de grupos criminales conviven en la Costa del Sol entre una violencia cada vez más salvaje. Todos coinciden: “Aquí es donde hay que estar”.
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The “Other Side” of the Story: Combatants for Peace in Palestine/Israel
j.jill | Combatants For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – When we pick up a newspaper or turn on a television news broadcast, more often than not, information focuses on conflict, violence, disaster. Nationally and internationally, it seems an increasing number of broadcasts and publications skew focus and create confusion in groups of people without clarity in distinguishing truth from lies.
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“Tell me how you behave in conflict. I will tell you how much peace culture you have.”
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University. He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize. Galtung has mediated in over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues, 96 as the sole author…
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Bakunin formulated no coherent body of doctrine, and his voluminous and vigorous writings were often left incomplete. Anarchist movements owing allegiance to Bakunin flourished in Italy and especially in Spain, where as late as 1936 the anarchists were the strongest revolutionary party. Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer.
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(Português) Grave Risco para a Terra e a Vida: “A Grande Retomada do Capitalismo” (Great Reset)
Leonardo Boff | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 maio 2021 – Está havendo em todo mundo um grande debate sobre que mundo virá na pós-pandemia. O que causa grave preocupação é “A Grande Reinicialização” (Great Reset),“A Grande Retomada” da ordem capitalista mundial. Essa expressão foi sugerida pelo príncipe Charles juntamente com o Coordenador do Forum Econômico Mundial, Klaus Schwab.
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‘A United Nations of Crime in Spain’: How Marbella Became a Magnet for Gangsters
Nacho Carretero and Arturo Lezcano | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – The new international crime organisations have made Marbella their centre of operations. And as violence rises, the police lag far behind.
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Canadian Journalists Fear Retaliation for Criticizing Coverage of Israeli Attacks on Gaza
Akela Lacy | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – An open letter on media standards in Canada, where some style guides ban the word “Palestine,” garnered over 2,000 signatures.
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To Build the Post-Pandemic Future, We Must Imagine Radical Alternatives
Stellan Vinthagen | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – The pandemic has created an opportunity for activists to move beyond ritualized protest and toward constructive resistance.
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Turn It Off and On Again
William Petersen | Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Whoever said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again…
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And the Brand Played on: Bob Dylan at 80
Neil Spencer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
With a slew of books to mark the songwriter’s birthday (24 May 1941) due , we look at the industry that has grown up around the man who forced academia to take pop seriously.
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U.S. and Its Allies Try to Split the World in Two
Eric Zuesse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – The USA’s response to the increasing economic success of China and other nations that until recent decades were impoverished former colonies is to organize its own allies–especially the English-speaking countries–to become a totally separate global economic trading and military alliance standing against that “third world”–and thereby force all non-aligned nations to have to either choose to be allied with the United States or else.
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Death Row Inmates Sue after They’re Asked to Pick Firing Squad or Electric Chair
Victoria Hansen | All Things Considered, NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – Two death row inmates in South Carolina, now required by law to choose between a yet-to-be-formed firing squad and a 109-year-old electric chair, have decided to sue instead. They call the state’s recently signed legislation unconstitutional because lethal injection was the main method of execution when they were sentenced.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data: 163,7M Total; 143,3M Recovered; 3,3M Deceased; 704,8M Vaccinated
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
On 17 May 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 704,863,727
Total Cases: 163,750,604
Recovered: 143,395,167
Deaths: 3,394,311
Cases Closed: 145,631,454
Active: 18,119,150
World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 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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Covid 19 Pandemic: Scriptural and Historical Perspectives
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
14 May 2021 – The Vengeance of the Lord of Mother Earth – In the present SARS Co-2 pandemic, the situation is no different and is historically reenacting the scenario of the past occurrences of plagues, pandemics and other doomsday warnings of the ancients as well as voices from antiquities.
→ read full articleCitizen Pilgrim: To Be or Not to Be
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim – Conversation with Richard Falk, Noura Erakat, Victoria Brittain and Jeremy Corbyn~
Monday 17 May, 5:30–7:00 PM (GMT-BST), Where: Online
Varoufakis: From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | DiEM25 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Prof. Varoufakis expounds on the thesis that we have made an historic transition from “capitalism’ to a finance-base “post-capitalism” with profound consequences. A fork on the road is approaching: It will take us either into deeper stagnation and environmental degradation or to a society with markets but no capitalism.
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Comparability of “Vaxxing Saves” with “Jesus Saves” as Misinformation?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Problematic Challenge of Global Discernment – The international community strongly deprecates the isolated voices associated with vaccine hesitancy citing possibilities of: autism, vaccine overload, paradoxical vaccine responses, autoimmune triggering, prenatal infection, ingredient concerns, sudden infant death syndrome, and infertility. Reference is to incidence of other vaccines-related injuries (readily dismissed by authorities as rare and negligible)
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Clashes, Scuffles, Conflict – Western Media’s Euphemisms for Israel’s Brutal Violence in Sheikh Jarrah
Belen Fernandez | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – Let’s imagine some creative wartime reporting: “On April 26, 1937, the inhabitants of the Basque town of Guernica ‘clashed’ with German warplanes dropping high explosives and incendiary bombs. The town was pulverised in the course of the ‘scuffle’, and up to 1600 people perished”.
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‘What We’ve Seen in Sheikh Jarrah Is a Microcosm of What We’ve Experienced for the Last 70+ Years’
Janine Jackson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Interview with US Campaign for Palestinian Rights’ Ahmad Abuznaid about Israel/Palestine apartheid for CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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(Português) Poder Político versus Poder Financeiro
Editorial | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
16 maio 2021 – O poder financeiro apoderou-se do leme da marcha da humanidade. Ele tem acumulado tanta riqueza e o consequente poder de decisão que somente Black Rock -o maior fundo global de investimentos- qualifica, por tamanho, como terceiro “país” do mundo, apenas atrás dos Estados Unidos e da China. Isto é inaudito e, a na nossa opinião, inaceitável.
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(Italiano) Fermare la guerra fredda alla Cina e diventare partner – per il bene comune dell’umanità
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 Maggio 2021 – Il conflitto fra USA/Occidente e Cina plasmerà il futuro dell’umanità più che qualunque altro conflitto. Perciò non è una questione bilaterale ma un interesse globale. Credo che fermare la guerra fredda alla Cina dovrebbe essere in cima all’agenda delle istituzioni di ricerca sulla pace che non siano diventate dipendenti dagli stati e/o irreggimentate dagli USA.
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Six More Lawsuits Filed Against Syngenta and Chevron Over Pesticide That Causes Parkinson’s Disease
Carey Gillam | US Right to Know - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
3 May 2021 – More than a dozen similar lawsuits already filed in U.S. courts. First trial set for May 10.
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Second Stage Terror Wars
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 May 2021 – If you wistfully think the corona crisis will soon come to an end, I suggest you alter your perspective. We are in the second phase of a long war of terror waged with two weapons – military and medical – whose propaganda messaging is carried out by the corporate mainstream media in the pursuit of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset. Part one has so far lasted twenty years; part two may last longer. You can be certain it won’t end soon and that the new terrorists are domestic dissidents.
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The (Im)Proper Meshing of the Corporate Media and the Military-Industrial Complex
Helen Johnson | The Miscellany News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
13 May 2021 – This is the fourth article in a five-part series about the military-industrial-media complex. The third article, “The unprecedented consolidation of the modern media industry has severe consequences,” can be found here.
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What the Overlooked History of Post-1960s Organizing Can Teach Activists Today
Shane Burley | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
8 May 2021 – A conversation with the editors of “Remaking Radicalism” — a collection of writings from one of the most underrepresented periods of leftist organizing.
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The Costs of War to U.S. Allies since 9/11
Jason W. Davidson | Watson Institute/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – The US allies in the post-9/11 wars have borne significant human and budgetary costs. They were the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that have grown from the “Global War on Terror.” While the Afghan and Iraqi governments incurred the highest human costs, this research paper focuses on the human and financial contributions of European and other allies of the U.S.
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“The Time Has Come . . .”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
“It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only themselves. It is not the helpless, subject to terror, who initiate terror, but the violent, who with their power. create the concrete situation which begets the ‘rejects of life.’ It is not the tyrannized who initiate despotism, but the tyrants. It is not those whose humanity is denied them who negate humankind, but those who denied that humanity (thus negating their own as well). Force is used not by those who have become weak under the preponderance of the strong, but by the strong who have emasculated them.” (Paulo Freire, 1970)
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Israel, the Big Lie
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
14 May 2021 – Israel is not exercising “the right to defend itself” in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder, aided and abetted by the U.S.
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‘Government Money That’s Gone into Vaccine Development Is Being Privatized by a Handful of Companies’
Janine Jackson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Interview with Knowledge Ecology International’s James Love about Bill Gates and vaccine politics for CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Art against Drones
Kathy Kelly | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 May 2021 – The installation of a drone overlooking people in Manhattan can bring them into the larger discussion. Outside of many military bases safely within the U.S. – from which drones are piloted to deal death over Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Syria and other lands, activists have repeatedly staged artistic events. In 2011, at Hancock Field in Syracuse, thirty-eight activists were arrested for a “die-in” during which they simply lay down, at the gate, covering themselves with bloodied sheets.
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The Ball
Wisława Szymborska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
As long as nothing can be known for sure,
(no signals have been picked up yet),
As long as earth is still unlike
The nearer and more distant planets,
The Council on Foreign Relations, the Biden Team, and Key Policy Outcomes
Laurence H. Shoup | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
1 May 2021 – Laurence Shoup looks at the Council on Foreign Relations to analyze the new Biden administration, its personnel, and the policies it is likely to follow.
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Reality
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
When Masks Fall Down
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The Architecture of a Nonviolent City
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – By replacing systems of violence with practices rooted in nonviolence, social justice movements are creating blueprints for nonviolent cities. For several years, Pace e Bene has organized the Nonviolent Cities Project to help people envision and construct a city rooted in nonviolence, rather than violence.
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(Português) Mazin Qumsiyeh: “Se a Palestina fosse livre, eu estaria a caçar borboletas, não perderia tempo com política”
Ana B. Carvalho | Contacto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Os colonizadores querem uma espécie de sociedade unificada, neste caso a sociedade judaica e isto é também uma monocultura. Neste caso, os sionistas querem tomar a Palestina, que é uma sociedade multiétnica, multicultural e multirreligiosa, e torná-la num Estado de Israel europeizado judeu uniforme. Isto é óbvio”.
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Urgent Appeal to Halt Violence in the Jerusalem-Gaza Area
René Wadlow | Association of World Citizens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
13 May 2021 – The Association of World Citizens, devoted to ending armed conflicts through negotiations in good faith, addresses an Urgent Appeal to all parties to halt violence in the Jerusalem-Gaza area. In this highly inflammatory situation, there can be an escalation to the conflict at any point.
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Between Science and Magic: How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
How a tiny creature faster than the Space Shuttle balances the impossible equation of extreme fragility and superhuman strength.
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News from Palestine: The Messenger Refuses to Be Killed
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
15 May 2021 – The Israeli government has bombed the headquarters of Associated Press and Al Jazeera in Gaza, trying to limit messages from the Palestinian people to describe their suffering. But the messenger refuses to be killed. Here are some of the messages I have received from people in Palestine.
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Mismanagement of the COVID-19 Crisis Increases Food Insecurity in India and Brazil
Ruhi Bhasin | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – The gross mismanagement of the handling of the COVID-19 situation on the ground and lack of action based on scientific data during the pandemic by Brazil, much like in India, has not only led to the loss of lives from the virus on a massive scale but has also led to food insecurity emerging as another factor people have to fight against in order to survive.
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Open Letter to Superstar Rapper J. Cole about Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – I hope you won’t be lending all your brain power, star power, and talent to a public relations coup for the President of Rwanda and his brutal, totalitarian regime. The top headlines, four days away from the Africa League’s debut, are all about you.
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Gaza: IDF Kills Palestinians, Countless Children, by Air Bombardments
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
15 May 2021 – Such State violence must not be accepted by the peoples of the world. We cannot stand by allowing such Israeli inhumanity against Palestinians. Our silence will be shameful in the face of their illegal and brutal murder of Gaza’s children.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
For those who wish to know where Falk stands on political issues today, one can start with Chapter 16 “Intellectually Engaging the World: Fears, Desires, and Hopes.” However, if one is interested in how he got there, it is better to start with the front of the book which details his experiences but also people met, what he did with them at the time and also later. This review starts in the same style.
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There Are Options beyond Savage Capitalism
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Savage capitalism has surpassed the limits of its own sustainability. Important changes are to come. Options are multiple and diverse, including reformed capitalisms and other global and country projects. Despite current junctures, which certainly need attention, it is indispensable to envision the desired future. Let us hope we will not fear to advance towards encouraging courses; they bring sense and meaning to life.
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NATO Enters New Warfighting Domain in Space
Rick Rozoff | Anti-Bellum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – NATO officially declared space its newest operational domain, adding to its other four battlefields: air, land, sea and cyberspace. The thirty-nation military bloc is currently setting up a NATO Space Centre in Germany.
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Steve Brodner | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ starring Joe Biden. Man returns to his roots to find the conversation somewhat problematic.
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Life After an Eating Disorder
Hannah Partos | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 May 2021 – As psychiatrists suggest a surge of eating disorders could be on the horizon, prompted partly by the pandemic, Cara Lisette reflects on what has helped her through her experience.
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Palestinian Refugees Deserve to Return Home. Jews Should Understand.
Peter Beinart | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Why has the impending eviction of six Palestinian families in East Jerusalem drawn Israelis and Palestinians into a conflict that appears to be spiraling toward yet another war? Because of a word that in the American Jewish community remains largely taboo: the Nakba.
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How Chileans Went from Jumping Subway Turnstiles to Rewriting the Constitution {Video}
Jordan Flaherty | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – While most Chileans want deep systemic change, the vote to create a new constitution is a historic moment in the struggle to undo the legacy of Pinochet’s dictatorship.
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Climate Emissions Shrinking the Stratosphere, Scientists Reveal
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Humanity’s enormous emissions of greenhouse gases are shrinking the stratosphere, a new study has revealed. Thinning could affect satellites and GPS.
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Flash Mobs in Myanmar’s Biggest City Avoid Deadly Response
Associated Press AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
6 May 2021 – A flash mob of mostly young people in Myanmar’s biggest city staged a brief protest march today against military rule, the latest in a series of actions aimed at reducing the chances of a deadly response by the authorities. In the five-minute protest in Yangon, about 70 marchers chanted slogans in support of the civil disobedience movement that opposes February’s army coup that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. They then scattered into the downtown crowds.
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Hotel California (Music Video of the Week)
Eagles - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
1994 Live – Greatest Hit from 1976 – Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Grammy Hall of Fame
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Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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As COVID Vaccines Drive Record Profits, CEOs Get Ultra Rich Off Massive Pay Packages, Questionable Stock Sales
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Big Pharma CEOs are making millions off COVID vaccines raising questions over massive pay packages, questionable stock sales and windfall profits made possible by taxpayer funding.
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Dignity
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – The Tormented Dance of the Zionist Colonizer – I was interviewed in many media outlets in the past 48 hours about the events here. My message, beyond telling what is really happening on the ground [Jerusalem bombings, killings by IDF], is simple: This is not a “conflict,” neither it is a border dispute nor a tribal or religious issue. It is simply the last tantrums of the unsettled settler colonial system.
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Fees Must Fall
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
“Fees must fall” is a South African species of a genus found on every continent. The issue is the high price of tertiary education. It is a chant that is easy to repeat, a slogan easy to remember–and a moral demand that deserves to be taken seriously.
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Open Letter to Jordi Calvo & Quique Sánchez and the GCOMS Coordination Team
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Weapons, missiles, explosives, military vehicles (tanks, Apache helicopters, air fighters, warships) and armed forces exist exclusively for staging wars, which kill, destroy and devastate the planet and humanity. We must get rid of this unnecessary and immoral practice. Reducing it is not enough.
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