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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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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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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.

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COVID 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

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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.

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Citizen 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

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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,

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Reality
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2021

When Masks Fall Down

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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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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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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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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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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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Falk, a Citizen Pilgrim
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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Movie Sequel
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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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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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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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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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2021

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944), was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France’s highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award.

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Who Are You
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2021

Who are you is a question often asked
Are you a poet, are you a scholar
Or are you an unknown Rebel or a lawyer
Who changes his clients place — his foyer

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(Italiano) Attacchi giuridici israeliani e diritti palestinesi
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2021

12 Maggio 2021 – I sostenitori dei diritti palestinesi hanno finora rintuzzato bene i tentativi di zittire la propria attività e sopprimere le proprie azioni solidali, con quattro importanti vittorie legali in altrettante distinte giurisdizioni ottenute durante l’ultimo anno.

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Biden’s Foreign Policy and Nuclear Weapons: A Dialogue
Richard Falk and David Krieger | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

5 May 2021 – Biden’s international bipartisan approach risks a renewed arms race in a political and economic atmosphere that makes it unaffordable as well as acutely dangerous. My conversation with David Krieger explores some of the ramifications.

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Prof. Noam Chomsky on Democracy
FORSEA Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

Recorded for the Delegates at the Official Launch of FORSEA, Kuala Lumpur, 16 Feb 2019

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Dan Ellsberg Blows the Whistle Again at Conference to Commemorate His Legacy
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

7 May 2021 – Dan Ellsberg, the legendary whistleblower who has been arrested more than 75 times for protesting the U.S. warfare state, has not mellowed with age. The 90-year-old Pentagon Papers leaker details top secret plans in 1958 to destroy Taiwan and warns that similar discussions are going on in the Pentagon today.

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Origin of Covid–Following the Clues: Did People or Nature Open Pandora’s Box at Wuhan?
Nicholas Wade | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

5 May 2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: The political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstream press seems helpless to dispel. In what follows I will sort through the available scientific facts, which hold many clues as to what happened, and provide readers with the evidence to make their own judgments.

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USA: More Than a Year into the Pandemic, We’re Still Figuring out What Risks We’re Willing to Take
Joel Achenbach | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

3 May 2021 – Risk analysis is not something humans are necessarily good at. We rely on anecdotes more than scientific data. The questions we ask rarely have a simple yes or no answer. Risk tends to be on a sliding scale. Outside of self-isolation, there is no obvious way to drive the risk of viral transmission to zero, nor is risky behavior guaranteed to result in a dire outcome. We have no choice but to live probabilistically.

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No Jab for Me–My 35 Reasons as a North American Physician
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

5 May 2021 – The FDA did not approve Moderna or Pfizer mRNA gene therapeutics they dubbed “vaccines”. It simply authorized them. Fauci confirms. “In the US, the FDA in its ambiguous statement  provided a so-called Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, namely “to permit the emergency use of the unapproved product, … for active immunization…”

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Israeli Man Trying to Take Over Palestinian Home Says ‘If I Don’t Steal It, Someone Else’ Will
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

4 May 2021 – In a glaring example of settler colonialism in action, a video on social media this week shows a Palestinian woman confronting an Israeli man who admits he is trying to steal her family’s home. The house is located in an occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood where Palestinian residents have been ordered to vacate by an Israeli court.

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Vaccines: Right, Wrong, What?
Dan Monroe - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

Please LEAVE YOUR COMMENT/OPINION Below

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United States Withdraws from Afghanistan? Not Really!
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

5 May 2021 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds. Now, 20 years later, the gulf between the Taliban and the others has widened. Appetite for negotiations simply does not exist any longer.

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The “Kill a Leftist” Law
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

7 May 2021 – So now it’ll be legal in some Neolithic U.S. states to run over leftists with your car. What’ll come next? Legalizing pushing people out of airplanes at 35,000 feet? Running over swimmers with boats? Unleashing your rabid dog on people whose political persuasions offend you? There are so many possibilities! It’s already legal for cops to shoot leftists.

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Remembering My Friend General Hendrik Van Der Graaf, Famous UN Peacemaker Who Died on 10 Mar 2021
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

UNIDIR’s General Henny Invented “Weapons-for-Development” – He was a leader in UN and EU peace and disarmament, particularly in reducing the proliferation and illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons.

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[10 Years Ago] WikiLeaks Revelations: A View Deep Inside Guantanamo
John Goetz, Marcel Rosenbach and Britta Sandberg – Der Spiegel, 10 May 2021

Article originally published by TRANSCEND Media Service on 2 May 2011 – The latest documents obtained from WikiLeaks provide an inside view of a highly controversial system: More than 700 classified US government files on the prisoners held at Guantanamo show how lax the American military was in its dealings with the facts. SPIEGEL has analyzed the documents.

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Ads for Profit and Humiliation
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

In this pandemic season, there is suffering everywhere
People are falling ill, trying to get vaccine
Many unable to find hospitals and medicine
A new problem has arisen, unable to get oxygen

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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Andre Gide | Autumn Leaves – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide’s career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

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Time to Talk about That Other Existential Threat to the Planet
Anton Wagner | NOW Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

26 Apr 2021 – A Nanos poll commissioned by a coalition of peace groups suggests Canadians are shaking off their indifference to nuclear war amid the pandemic.

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Rampant Wall Street Speculation: The Fever Chart of a Terminally Diseased System
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

7 May 2021 – The phenomenal rise of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which has risen 11,000 percent since the start of the year, is the expression of a seemingly new principle in the world of speculation—the more intrinsically worthless a so-called “asset” the faster its rise.

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The Right-Wing Outrage Cycle
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

This Modern World – 3 May 2021

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67 Years in the Peace Movement
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

I would like to announce the publication of a book which discusses the things that I have experienced during my 67 years of work in the peace movement. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.

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Are Chemicals Shrinking Your Penis and Depleting Your Sperm? Here’s What the Evidence Really Says
Tim Moss | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

3 May 2021 – A doomsday scenario of an end to human sperm production has been back in the news recently, now with the added threat of shrinking penises. Prof. Shanna Swan, a US epidemiologist who studies environmental influences on human development, recently published a new book called Countdown.

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Coronavirus Global Data: 159M Total; 137,5M Recovered; 3,3M Deceased; 649,8M Vaccinated
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

On 10 May 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 649,854,005
Total Cases: 159,032,809
Recovered: 137,513,459
Deaths: 3,308,358
Cases Closed: 139,915,431
Active: 19,117,378

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Purge Genocide Culprits from Democratic Leadership: Myanmar
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

8 May 2021 – Hesitating to take stand against Rohingya genocide is costing $1B to National Unity Government and blocks its global recognition.

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The Soul-Expanding Value of Difficulty: Rilke on How Great Sadnesses Transform Us and Bring Us Closer to Ourselves
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

“That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.”

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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 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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Joint Analysis across Conflicts
George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

Under some conditions, dialogues between parties in conflict can be facilitated through joint written analysis of the issues produced in systematic ways; a mediation process. Their final text could describe their disagreements. Their joint document is likely to be more helpful than uncoordinated separate statements from them. The availability of the Internet now makes it possible to conduct this sort of cooperation over great distances. Specialists in peace studies could develop skills in facilitating constructive dialogues across conflicts.

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Israeli Apartheid and Palestine Grievances
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

3 May 2021 – Questions from Rodrigo Craveiro from Correio Braziliense, 27 Apr 2021, in response to Report of Human Rights Watch on Israeli Apartheid; it is followed by my responses to questions of Zahra Mirzafarjouyan on behalf of Mehr News Agency in Tehran, addressing some of the underlying causes of Palestinian grievances.

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The Global Fightback against Israeli Lawfare Attacks on Advocacy for Palestinian Rights
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

Supporters of Palestinian rights have been fighting back successfully against efforts to silence their advocacy and suppress their solidarity actions, with major legal victories in four separate jurisdictions over the last year.

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Can Guantánamo Ever Be Shut Down?
Karen J. Greenberg | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

4 May 2021 – Dealing with the Forever Prison of America’s Forever Wars – The Guantánamo conundrum never seems to end. The wrongfulness of indefinite detention as a system created expressly to evade the law — and one that brought ill-repute to the United States globally. Pariah state.

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Israel Is Trying Hard to Erase Jerusalem’s Palestinians
Jalal Abukhater | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

4 May 2021 – And it has made colonial violence a permanent feature of Palestinian lives in the holy city.

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How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden
Gail Tverberg | Our Finite World - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

4 May 2021 – We live in a world where words are very carefully chosen. Companies hire public relations to give just the right “spin” to what they say. Politicians suggest that everything is going well. Newspapers would like their advertisers to be happy. I believe that what has happened in recent years is that the “truth” has become very dark.

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Sunday Morning
Michael David Morrissey – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

I woke up this morning
ashamed
it being Sunday

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Od Ebra do Dunava (Music Video of the Week)
Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

Live in Vilnius, Lithuania (Click on Watch on YouTube)

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Can the Pope End Corruption?
Frank Vogl | The Globalist - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

6 May 2021 – Pope Francis is taking all the right steps to end the deep-rooted corruption in the Vatican. Will he be successful?

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History: The Massacre at My Lai, Vietnam
Seymour M. Hersh | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

14 Jan 1972 – A U.S. Army mass killing and the massacre’s coverup.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Pick Up 600 More Acres in Hawaii
Conor Skelding | New York Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

1 May 2021 – An existing online petition demanding that Zuckerberg stop “colonizing” the Aloha State is now well over 1 million signatures as of today. The couple now owns more than 1,300 acres on Kauai. In 2017, the social-media lord filed suit against native Hawaiians owning tiny parcels around his land to force them to sell their lots so he could “enhance” his privacy.

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The Truth about Loneliness
Radhanath Swami | ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

1 May 2021 – On Valentine’s Day last year, the BBC launched the largest ever Loneliness Experiment with 55,000 people from around the world. They found that loneliness is as bad for our health as having a long-term illness such as diabetes or high blood pressure, or smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It may reduce our life expectancy by up to 8 years.

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What Went Right This Week: Europe’s First 3D-Printed House, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

6 May 2021 – A Dutch couple moved into Europe’s first 3D-printed house, UK windfarms broke records, and music was mooted as a treatment for Alzheimer’s, plus the week’s other positive news. A couple moved in to Europe’s first printed house A retired Dutch couple have become Europe’s first inhabitants of a 3D-printed house. Elize […]

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Covid 19 Crisis in India
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

Resurrection and Rise of Humanity, Community Assistance from Sikhs, Individuals and the Indigent, Corporations/Bollywood Conspicuous Silence

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Systemic Coherence of the UN’s 17 SDGs as a Global Dream
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals, as widely promoted by the UN, can be understood as the culmination of humanity’s best effort to respond in a coherent manner to the longer-term challenges of global governance in this period.

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(Italiano) Giornalismo di pace e libertà di stampa
Gianmarco Pisa | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

Nella ricorrenza del 3 maggio, una riflessione sul rapporto tra giornalismo di pace e libertà di stampa.

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The Ex-Pfizer Scientist Who Became an Anti-Vax Hero
Steve Stecklow and Andrew MacAskill | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

A Skeptic’s Story: Michael Yeadon was a scientific researcher and vice president at drugs giant Pfizer Inc. He co-founded a successful biotech. Then his career took an unexpected turn.

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[10 Years Ago] The Guantánamo Files: Leaks Lift Lid on World’s Most Controversial Prison
David Leigh, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke - The Guardian, 10 May 2021

Article published on TRANSCEND Media Service in 2 May 2011
• Innocent people interrogated for years on slimmest pretexts
• Children, elderly and mentally ill among those wrongfully held
• 172 prisoners remain, some with no prospect of trial or release
• Interactive guide to all 779 detainees

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Will Corporate Greed Prolong the Pandemic?
Lori Wallach and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

6 May 2021 – The shortfall in global COVID-19 vaccine production could be closed if manufacturers around the world were granted access to the necessary technology and knowledge. But first, the US and other key governments must recognize the drug companies’ opposition to this solution for the deadly rent-seeking that it is.

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The U.S. Owes Hawaiians Millions of Dollars Worth of Land but Congress Helped Make Sure the Debt Wasn’t Paid
Rob Perez | ProPublica - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

7 May 2021 – Hawaii’s two elder statesmen — U.S. Sens. Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka — were at the forefront of efforts to ensure that the U.S. compensated Native Hawaiians for ancestral lands taken from them over the years. In a 1995 law, the U.S. promised to pay its land debt to Hawaiians, thousands of whom are waiting for homes. But Congress, including the state’s own delegation, voted to give the land to other parties.

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Meaning of Maybe
Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

Read on…

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It’s Not Assange but the War Criminals He Exposed Who Should Be in Jail
Niall Farrell | Belfast Media - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

5 May 2021 – The Australian Julian Assange and WikiLeaks were a top team of journalists. Both in terms of scoops and global political impact they exposed the barbarism of the 21st century’s “never-ending wars”. “If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started with truth” – Julian Assange

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(Italiano) Applicazioni di Ahimsa–Nonviolenza nel Quotidiano
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 May 2021

30 Aprile 2021 – Il TRANSCEND Peace Development Environment Network ha iniziato con conflitti geopolitici a livello macro e mega; molti ben noti e drammatici. Ma i conflitti nella vita di tutti i giorni, a scuola, nella coppia-famiglia, al lavoro possono essere ancora più drammatici.

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Global Days of Action on Military Spending New Infographic
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 May 2021

27 Apr 2021 – Our campaign has prepared this infographic, which intends to make visible the opportunity cost of global military expenditures (1.98 trillion $). It illustrates current levels of military spending, also divided in shares, and compares them with the cost of human security-oriented programmes.

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Post-Acute Covid: An Update
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 May 2021

29 Apr 2021 – The etiology of “long Covid” has remained rather mysterious, but recent findings by British experts indicate that even a “mild” coronavirus infection may induce micro blood clots and blood vessel inflammation in the lungs. This condition is not visible in standard x-ray and CT scans, but only in specialized lung perfusion and gas exchange scans.

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