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The Rentier Resurgence and Takeover: Finance Capitalism vs. Industrial Capitalism
Michael Hudson - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
Marx and many of his less radical contemporary reformers saw the historical role of industrial capitalism as being to clear away the legacy of feudalism – the landlords, bankers and monopolists extracting economic rent without producing real value. But that reform movement failed. Today, the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector has regained control of government, creating neo-rentier economies.
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The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth. The vast majority of our mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering comes from the violent collision between our expectations and reality. As we dust ourselves off amid the rubble, bruised and indignant, we further pain ourselves with the exertion of staggering emotional energy on outrage at how reality dared defy what we demanded of it.
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Dr Maung Zarni Shares His Expert View of the Burmese Military
FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – Zarni argues that contrary to the view of western journalists and Burma experts, which promotes the empirically false conception of the Tatmadaw as “the glue” that keeps the country’s ethnic groups together, the Tatmadaw has been the single most divisive and destabilising institution in the diverse ethnic nations that formed a voluntary Union of Burma in the last days of the British rule post-WWII.
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Coronavirus Global Data: 147,8M Total; 125,8M Recovered; 3,1M Deceased; 554,9M Vaccinated
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
On 26 Apr 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 554,941,466
Total Cases: 147,884,279
Recovered: 125,870,008
Deaths: 3,124,698
Cases Closed: 128,580,042
Active: 19,304,237
World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 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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Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
18 Apr 2021 – We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is also involved.
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How Venezuela Is Rebuilding Its Industrial Base, One Volunteer at a Time
Leonardo Flores | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
22 Apr 2021 – An organization of 2,270 volunteer workers is helping Venezuela boost its industrial capacity, devastated by years of U.S. economic sanctions.
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The Story of Plastic (Animated Short)
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – The Story of Plastic pulls back the curtain on the plastic pollution headlines, revealing the true causes and consequences of the global plastics crisis.
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An Afghanistan Veteran Looks Back on the “First Postmodern War”
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – Adrian Bonenberger, author of Afghan Post and veteran of two tours, reflects on the withdrawal announcement, the MRAP boondoggle, and reporting fraud.
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Particle Mystery Deepens, as Physicists Confirm That the Muon Is More Magnetic Than Predicted
Adrian Cho | Science Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – A potential chink in physicists’ understanding of fundamental particles and forces now looks more real. New measurements confirm a fleeting subatomic particle called the muon may be ever so slightly more magnetic than theory predicts, a team of more than 200 physicists reported this week.
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China: Key Player in a New World Game
Hazel Henderson | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
Today, our 21st Century global economy is no longer dominated by the USA, but is again a multi-polar world. According to The Economist, March 20, 2021, China now makes 22% of global manufactured exports and 15 of China’s tech firms are worth over $50 billion each. China is the world’s largest goods-trading partner of 64 countries versus 38 for the USA.
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Paulo Freire’s Brazil: ‘Return to Grassroots Popular Education’
Paolo Vittoria | Il Manifesto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – We spoke with Frei Betto, the Dominican friar, liberation theologian, educator and political militant. ‘September will mark the 100th anniversary of Freire’s birth, and it is only right to recall how popular education, which he introduced, still has the potential to make the oppressed into social and political protagonists.’
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Our Own Wisdom Is Telling Us to Evolve
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – Let’s use up the planet and bless the future with its corpse. Those words could well be the core slogan of mainstream politicians and their media cohorts, with the purpose of the election process (you know, democracy) being, simply, to choose the specific ways in which we continue exploiting the planet and ignoring the consequences.
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Brazil: Supreme Court Upholds Bias of Judge Who Convicted Lula
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
22 Apr 2021 – Today, a vote by Brazil’s Supreme Court was ratified by seven votes to two the bias of Judge Sergio Moro, who convicted former Brazilian President Lula da Silva for alleged corruption. As a result, Lula definitively recovers all his political rights.
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Living Ecologically Is Illegal
Mark Ruffalo & Melissa Troutman | YES! Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
Spring 2021 – The concepts of respect, honor, and love seem simple enough, so why is it so hard to live in harmony with Nature? Well, for starters, it’s illegal. Corporations are People. Nature is Property. The Rights of Nature movement offers a solution.
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The Tiredness Virus
Byung-Chul Han | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
12 Apr 2021 – Covid-19 is a mirror that renders more visible the pathological symptoms that already existed before the pandemic. The idleness imposed on us during lockdown has made us tired. Some people claim that we might rediscover the beauty of leisure, that life might decelerate. In fact, time during the pandemic is ruled not by leisure and deceleration but by tiredness and depression. Why do we feel so tired?
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Malagueña Salerosa (Music Video of the Week)
Chingon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
Live at ‘Kill Bill 2’ Premiere – Directed by Quentin Tarantino, with Uma Thurman and David Carradine in leading roles.
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Climate Crisis, Diet/Obesity, Covid-19: Eat Correctly, Save the Planet and Self
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
A Cauldron of Evil Affecting Humanoids – We are facing an existential threat. If we continue along our current path, scientists say that the consequences will be devastating, having implications on where we live, how we grow food and other services vital to our well-being. A 2°C increase could mean more heat waves, a ten-fold increase in Arctic ice-free summers and a complete wipe-out of the world’s coral reefs, home to millions of species.
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China’s Treatment of Uighurs Is ‘Crimes against Humanity’: Report
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – China is committing crimes against humanity in its treatment of the Uighur ethnic minority and other Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, with Beijing responsible for “policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other offenses”, Human Rights Watch has said in a new report.
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In Our Hurry to Conquer Nature and Death, We Have Made a New Religion of Science
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – We are not conquerors of our bodies, of the planet, of the universe – and if we imagine we are, we will soon find out that the battle we’re waging is one we can never hope to win.
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Imagine a Culture of Peace: The U.S. Is a War Culture, but That Can Change
Michael D. Knox | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
23 Apr 2021 – War is glorified in the United States. Imagine a change in our culture so momentous that Americans who stand for peace are celebrated rather than denounced as unpatriotic, anti-military, or un-American. Imagine…
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Talking of Pandemics…
Rob Rogers | Counterpoint – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
No comment.
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The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katherine Gun’s Courage of Conscience
Stefan Schindler | Engaging Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – The prosecution would be forced to reveal the Anglo-American “dirty tricks” to drum up support for the Iraq war. On the first day of the trial, the prosecution dropped all charges. Katherine Gun’s memo caused the U.N. Security Council to deny approval for the war, depriving Bush and Blair of the U.N. blessing they were hoping for.
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(Italiano) Lettura dei Principi fondamentali della Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana – Proposta del progetto culturale collettivamente memoria
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
25 Apr 2021 – Ora e sempre RESISTENZA
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Rights Experts Condemn UK Racism Report Attempting to ‘Normalize White Supremacy’
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – UN independent human rights experts today denounced a government-backed report into racism in the United Kingdom, saying that it further distorted and falsified historical facts, and could even fuel racism and racial discrimination.
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UN’s Most Powerful Political Body Remains Paralyzed Battling a U.S.-scripted New Cold War
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021 – A new Cold War – this time, between the US and China —is threatening to paralyze the UN’s most powerful body. The sharp divisions between China and Russia, on one side, and the Western powers on the other, are expected to continue, triggering the question: Has the Security Council outlived its usefulness or has it lost its political credibility?
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The Unraveling of the American Empire
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. US leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.
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Prayers from Millions
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
Today is Ram Navmi (April 21)
Festival celebrated feebly in pain
Lord Ram the epitome of Truth, Kindness, Compassion
O Ram, listen to the millions of prayers
Applications of Ahimsa-Nonviolence in Daily Life
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
The TRANSCEND Peace Development Environment Network started with geopolitical macro and mega conflicts; many well known and dramatic. But conflicts in daily life, at school, in couples-family, at work may be even more dramatic; at the micro level within the persons involved, between them, in the context, and at the meso level of social groups.
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Mahatma Gandhi – Dying for Freedom (Documentary)
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
Historical Documentary by Deutsche Welle
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Why “Securing Democracy” Will Be Taught in Journalism Schools
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
24 Apr 2021 – Review: Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil – Haters gonna hate, but Glenn Greenwald’s latest is a field guide to bringing home (another) scoop of a lifetime.
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18-Year-Old Undergoes 3 Brain Surgeries from Blood Clots after J&J Vaccine
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – Emma Burkey, 18, a high school senior from Nevada, who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID vaccine on April 1, suffered seizures and underwent three brain surgeries to repair blood clots she developed about a week after receiving the vaccine.
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Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 Apr 1955): Evolution toward World Unity
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
Pierrre Teihard de Chardin, the French paleontologist, after a lifetime of study of the evolution of the human species concluded that humanity was entering a new age with a higher, peaceful and more responsible sense of the unity of the world community. Optimism and evolution are the two themes that Teilhard de Chardin leaves with us. He insisted at looking at the human population as one global family, developing a network of mutual support − recognizing the need of global solidarity.
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Vaccine Makers Destroy COVID Vaccine Safety Studies
Joseph Mercola, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
20 Apr 2021 – Makers of COVID-19 vaccines are now destroying long-term safety studies by unblinding their trials and giving the control groups the active vaccine, claiming it is “unethical” to withhold an effective vaccine. In so doing, they make it virtually impossible to assess any long-term safety and effectiveness, and the true benefit versus cost.
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Afghanistan 2022: Peace without Reconciliation Will Be a Salvaging Operation for Biden
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr2021 – What can President Biden’s team and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken salvage from the promised withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan? American dreams of ‘democracy’ produced the Afghan nightmare President Biden wants to terminate in September 2021. Can he replace the nightmare with something that resembles peace, based on realism?
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The Doomsday Glacier Lives up to Its Billing
Robert Hunziker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
20 Apr 2021 – The 21st century serves as an inflection point of acceleration of climate instability caused by human-generated greenhouse gases, as CO2 emissions increase well beyond the rate of the prior century.
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Saber Rattling and Tension Reduction in Ukraine
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
The Ukraine-Donbass-Russia crisis is a call to us in the non-governmental world to be able to move quickly and in a somewhat coordinated way.
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The State of Human Trafficking in Bangladesh
Dr. Rashida Khanam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
“Almost 10 million Bangladeshi migrants work across the world. A UNICEF report states that, approximately 400 women and children in Bangladesh are victims of trafficking every month. According to a report, approximately 3,000,000 Bangladeshi children and women have been trafficked out of the country in the last 10 years. A Pakistan based organization, Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid’s report shows nearly 200,000 Bangladeshi women and girls were sold in Pakistan. The statistics highlight how grave the human trafficking situation is in Bangladesh…”
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Most Famous Man Who Ever Lived
Stephen Knapp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
One day many years ago at a school in South London a teacher said to the class of 5-year-olds, “I’ll give £20 to the child who can tell me who was the most famous man who ever lived.”
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Why Is the EU Helping to Label Israel Criticism as Antisemitism?
Amb. Ilan Baruch | +972 Mag - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – By adopting the IHRA definition, the EU is playing into the agendas of Israel advocacy groups that undermine civil society work against the occupation.
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I Wake to the Possible
Marge Piercy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
Today for the first time in four
years, I go to the computer
without dread about what new
horror is done or pending.
Shocking Omissions: ‘Capitalism’s Conscience–200 Years of The Guardian’ – John Pilger and Jonathan Cook Respond
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
‘One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive him of the profitable position by which he maintains his family; a third, because he desires to attain reputation and authority, and then use them in the service of mankind; a fourth, because he does not wish to destroy old sacred traditions; a fifth, because he has no desire to offend people; a sixth, because the expression of the truth would arouse persecution, and disturb the excellent social activity to which he has devoted himself.’ (Tolstoy, ‘What Then Must We Do?’, Green Classics, 1991, p.118)
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Reflections on Genocide as the Ultimate Crime
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
26 Apr 2021 – The misuse of the word genocide is disdainful toward relatives of the victims of the Armenian massacres, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide – and as well a disservice to both history, law, and the prudent conduct of international relations. We already knew that we were adrift in an ocean of fake news. It is far more dangerous to discover that we are also at risk of being immersed in the turbulent waters of “fake law”. We must push back with a sense of urgency. Such a development is not tolerable.
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Saber Rattling Along the Frontiers of Ukraine
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
16 Apr 2021 – The question that faces us as peace-builders is “What can we do?” It is certain that the French and German diplomats are already aware of the dangers of the situation, but it is useful that non-governmental voices be heard. Are there avenues for Track II exchanges or non-governmental mediation efforts?
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Remembering Ramsey Clark
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
12 Apr 2021 – Ramsey Clark was a great man, and it was my privilege to work with him closely on several occasions. His death is a time to mourn, but it is also a time to remember who he was and why his life mattered in profound ways to so many people.
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တရက်ဆိုတာမြန်မာပြည်သူတွေရဲ့အသက်ပါ A Typical Day in the Life of People in Myanmar under Terrorist Siege
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – A thoughtful but painful comment on the situation in Myanmar written by an anonymous Burmese Facebook user. English Translation by Maung Zarni
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Brazilian Supreme Court Confirms Annulment of All Charges against Lula
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – Brazil’s Supreme Court today ratified the decision to annul the sentences against former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. As a result, Lula will recover all of his political rights and be able to run, if he and his party so choose, in the country’s 2021 upcoming presidential elections.
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Slaughter Central
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – The United States as a Mass-Killing Machine – By the time you read this, it will already be out of date. With so much all-Anglo American weaponry in this world, there’s no way to keep up. Anglo America is the emperor of weaponry. The top five arms makers on the planet — Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and General Dynamics — are all located in the United States.
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Raul Castro Steps Down as Head of Communist Party Ending an Era in Cuba
Andrea Rodríguez | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
17 Apr 2021 – Raul Castro said yesterday he is stepping down as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership that began with his brother Fidel and country’s 1959 revolution. The 89-year-old Castro made the announcement in a speech at the opening of the eighth congress of the ruling party.
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Ramsey Clark, One of the Greatest
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
On the 9th of April 2021, Ramsey Clark passed away in the States. He was ninety four. The former US Attorney-General had spent decades in the struggle for human rights. In this short tribute, I have chosen to highlight some of his outstanding achievements. At some point in the future, one hopes that some better qualified person will analyse in depth his impact upon American society and global politics.
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Meta-pattern via Engendering and Navigating “Pantheons” of Belief?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Conventionally a pantheon is the particular set of all gods of any individual polytheistic religion, mythology, or tradition. There are an estimated 4,200 different religions in the world, although these may be variously clustered. However, in an extensively secularized global civilization of considerable complexity, “pantheon” may in practice have other meanings — as with “religion” and “god”. Religion may then be extended to mean a pattern of fundamental beliefs. Any such religion may then be recognized as having one or more gods — and perhaps many.
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Reclaim the Seed
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
3 Decades of Seed Satyagraha & Defense of Seed Freedom
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Covid Vaccine Safety Update
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
17 Apr 2021 – University of Oxford: Covid vaccines are generally effective, but they are not mature medical products meeting the highest medical safety standards. There are already more than 5,000 post-vaccination deaths reported in the US and in Europe, but given underreporting the real figure may be significantly higher. In Israel, an unexplained increase in all-cause mortality after the vaccination campaign has been registered.
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U.S. Joins Past Empires in Afghan Graveyard
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – President Biden announced a removal of all U.S. troops by September 11, but he failed to include some important details.
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Biden Is Not Ending the Afghanistan War, He Is Privatizing It
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – Special Forces, Pentagon Contractors and Intelligence Operatives Will Remain – The meaninglessness of the announcement becomes apparent when we consider that the Pentagon employs more than seven contractors for every serviceman or woman in Afghanistan.
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Israel Rejects ICC Investigation: What Are the Possible Future Scenarios?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – While Palestinians remain cautious about the future of the investigation, hope is slowly rising that, this time around, things may be different and that Israeli war criminals will eventually be held accountable for their crimes. Time will tell.
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Lawyers Signal More Lawsuits Likely against Syngenta, Alleging Paraquat Causes Parkinson’s Disease
Carey Gillam | U.S. Right to Know - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
9 Apr 2021 – A move by lawyers to consolidate at least 14 lawsuits filed by eight different law firms in six different federal courts is a “telling sign” more lawsuits will be filed against the company over claims its weedkiller, Paraquat, causes Parkinson’s Disease.
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For Activists in Myanmar: A Nonviolence Manual in Burmese
Metta Center for Nonviolence | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – In the spirit of solidarity and support with activists resisting the coup in Myanmar, the Metta Center offers a Burmese translation of Steps of Nonviolence.
→ read full articleFratelli Tutti and the Great Reset
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Pope Francis on 3 Oct 2020 released his latest encyclical letter, Fratelli Tutti. Less than four months previously, Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret launched ‘Covid-19: The Great Reset’ at Davos–the World Economic Forum. In some ways their authors might appear to share a common worldview.
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(Français) Le néo-colonialisme, la suprématie blanche et le défi de la Chine
Franklin Frederick | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
12 Avr 2021 – Un récent article de l’Atlantic Council, influent think tank occidental, fait une référence sans détour à la guerre froide pour définir la politique à mener à l’égard de la Chine. Franklin Frederick remonte pour nous les racines de ce cercle d’influence. Elles prennent leur source dans une idéologie raciste et réactionnaire qui fait consensus auprès de l’élite impérialiste.
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(Italiano) A quando un nuovo patto tra scienza e società?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Aprile 2021 – A quando un nuovo patto tra scienza e società? Un’analisi di Elena Camino sulle presunte politiche ambientali dell’Unione Europea.
→ read full articleThe New Pandemic of Disease and Death: Global Obesity 2021, in Company of Covid-19
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021- Obesity is not just a condition but is now officially classified as a disease, like Heart or Lung Disease and is therefore medically managed. It may be classified into two broad categories of types: Lifestyle Obesity and Pathological Obesity. Obesity and Covid Concurrently: Guaranteed Death
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The Journalist and the Whistleblower
James Risen | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – As the government attacks press freedom, reporters must consider their responsibility to sources — and each other.
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Colombia: An Ideal U.S. Client-State in the Western Hemisphere
Angelo Cardona | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
16 Apr 2021 – Colombia has been living with one of the longest armed conflicts in the world. A peace agreement to end the more than 50-year-old armed civil war was signed in Havana, Cuba, in 2016. Despite this historic event, violence continues in the country relentlessly. Washington has long helped fuel the devastating conflict that goes back to the era of La Violencia in World War II.
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Spring
Emily Dickinson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period
Denis Halliday: A Voice of Reason in an Insane World
Nicolas Davies interviews Denis Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021 – I asked Denis what North Americans should understand about the real-world impacts of “maximum pressure” sanctions like the sanctions on Iraq that he resigned from the UN over in 1998, and we went on to discuss UN Security Council reform, the prospects for peace in Afghanistan and the roles of the UN and the United States in the world.
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The Joy of Volunteering
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
In kindergarten, our teacher once asked us if we would like to help our janitor carry a pile of firewood into the basement of our school building, where she needed it to heat the building early every winter morning. We all enthusiastically agreed. We stood in line, waiting for our turn, and each one said, […]
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The Man They Call Tiger: The Diplomat Who Stood up to America’s Bullies Becomes China’s New and Unlikely Hero
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021 – Yang Jiechi’s outburst against the US at a high-level meeting in Alaska last month has been widely praised and elevated the career bureaucrat to the status of national deity.
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Hindi Film Songs: Beautiful, Romantic, Nostalgic
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
As most Indians know, Hindi film songs are popular all over the country and in several foreign lands. On pattern with Hollywood, Hindi films are often described as Bollywood films. There are many similarities between the two forms of motion pictures — romance, adventure, background music, etc., but in one sphere they totally differ from each other.
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NATO Initiates Full Withdrawal from Afghanistan
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – The allies of NATO yesterday agreed to pull out all of their armed forces from Afghanistan after the U.S. announced that its troops would leave the country by Sept. 11. After two decades of unsuccessful military intervention, they recognized that there is no military solution to the challenges Afghanistan faces.
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What Went Right This Week: ‘The Right to Disconnect’, Plus more Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – The ‘right to disconnect’ campaign gathered momentum in the UK, France moved to ban short-haul flights and indigenous Brazilians won a landmark court case, plus the week’s other positive news.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
→ read full articleCoronavirus Global Data: 142,1M Total; 120,8M Recovered; 3M Deceased; 500,6M Vaccinated
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
On 19 Apr 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 500,608,509
Total Cases: 142,102,302
Recovered: 120,840,208
Deaths: 3,035,109
Cases Closed: 123,694,123
Active: 18,408,179
How Law Made Neoliberalism
Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski and David Singh Grewal | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.
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Russia’s Ukraine Maneuvers Are a Response, Not a Provocation
Leonid Ragozin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – Over the past few weeks, Russia has been amassing troops at the Ukrainian border, triggering alarm in Kyiv and European Union capitals. The Ukrainian government’s push for NATO membership could provoke a dangerous escalation of the Ukrainian conflict.
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A Call for Solidarity with Haiti
Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
17 Mar 2021 – This statement, written by Haiti Action Committee and signed by over 60 organizations, commemorates the 10th anniversary of the return to Haiti of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and First Lady Mildred Aristide. It calls for support of the resistance by the Haitian people to the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise, and provides concrete ways for progressive-minded people to take action in solidarity with Haiti.
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Danser Encore (Music Video of the Week)
HK saltimbank – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Clip tourné à Avignon – Cloître des Carmes, 2020
Clip shot in Avignon – Carmelite Cloister, 2020
As Biden Plans Withdrawal, Analysis Shows Afghan War Cost At Least 241,000 Lives and $2.26 Trillion
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
16 Apr 2021 – “Ending the war as soon as possible is the only rational and humane thing to do,” said a co-director of the Costs of War Project.
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Youth Summit against NATO
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
The International Peace Bureau Would Like to Introduce the First Youth Summit against NATO – Webinar, Sat 24 Apr 2021, 5 to 7pm
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The Middle East: Geopolitical Battleground
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
18 Apr 2021 – Questions posed on the basis of my memoir, ‘Public Intellectual,’ by an Egyptian journalist. The interview covers several distinct issues that involve interpretations of major foreign policy concerns in the Middle East.
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The Kafkaesque Nightmare of Attorney Steven Donziger, a Literal Prisoner of the Chevron Corporation
Luke Savage interviews Steven Donziger | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – When human rights lawyer Steven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Chevron, the company set out to destroy his life. After 20 months of house arrest on the orders of a Chevron-linked judge, his Kafkaesque story is a window into the corrupt US legal system. Chevron is using sixty law firms and two thousand lawyers against Donziger.
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US Intelligence Community Warns of Devastating Long-Term Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic
Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – The fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is poised to fracture societies worldwide, increase instability across the globe and reshape political and economic realities for years to come, the US intelligence community warned in a stark report laying out the top security concerns facing the country.
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular and controversial playwrights in London; sentenced to prison for the ‘crime’ of being homosexual.
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‘Tragic Combination’: Millions Go Hungry amid Brazil COVID Crisis
Sam Cowie | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
11 Apr 2021 – As Brazil’s COVID-19 crisis gets worse by the week with record-high death tolls, packed hospitals and climbing caseloads, another crisis is unfolding: hunger and food insecurity.
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Meanwhile in Australia
Lindsay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
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How to See Mars through a Telescope
Adam Kirk | Love the Night Sky - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Mars became a hot topic thanks to NASA’s Perseverance Rover landing there last February. My guide to finding and seeing Mars with a telescope has loads of real images of the red planet, a full-screen star map, tables showing when it’s best to take a look, and detailed but easy-to-understand guidance on seeing Mars from your own backyard.
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Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
There was a simple and humble Brahmana, a Hindu priest, who lived in Mathura, India. Once he had the chance to go visit the Pope at the Vatican in Rome.
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Cold War on Trial: Truth Commission Details Horrible Crimes Akin to Native American Genocide and Slavery
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – With a new Cold War heating up between the U.S. and Russia and China, Witness for Peace Southwest, Addicted to War and CodePink organized a Truth Commission on the original Cold War on March 21st, which brought together the testimony of historians, activists and others who lived through the period.
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“Regime” and “CCP”: Propaganda Tools for Dissociating a Targeted Nation from Its Government
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
9 Apr 2021 – Have you ever seen a mainstream news report containing the phrase “the French regime”? How about “the British regime” or “the Australian regime”? Ostensibly the word simply means “a form of government” or “a government in power.” In theory its meaning is closer to “a bad or authoritarian government”, and in practice by the western media it means “a government which disobeys the dictates of Washington”.
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Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Celebrates His 90th Birthday
Deutsche Welle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
2 Mar 2021 – Mikhail Gorbachev turned 90 today, with several world leaders sending well-wishes to the former leader of the Soviet Union and secretary-general of the Communist Party. He is considered by some as one of the greatest reformers of the 20th century — but remains a controversial figure at home.
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Ramsey Clark, Attorney General Who Became a Critic of U.S. Policies, Dies at 93
Emma Brown | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Ramsey Clark, the U.S. attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson who redefined himself as a relentless critic of American foreign policy and as a courtroom defender of figures such as former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, died April 9 at his home in New York City. He was 93.
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Among the Covid Sceptics: ‘We Are Being Manipulated, without a Shadow of a Doubt’
Samira Shackle | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – Who are the people who have come to follow wild conspiracy theories about Covid-19? Covid conspiracies are often presented in the form of complex, pseudo-technical documents. Factchecking is of limited use in changing believers’ minds because sources such as the BBC or the Office for National Statistics are seen as part of the lie.
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Biden’s Aggressive Foreign Policy
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Richard Nephew, the advisor on sanctions in Biden’s State Department, is the author of a 2017 book entitled “The Art of Sanctions: A View of the Field”. He brags of the pain and suffering caused by US sanctions imposed on Iran, Venezuela and other countries. But according to international law, sanctions may not be imposed by individual countries, but only by the Security Council.
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Dandi March
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty four-day march lasted from 12 Mar to 6 Apr 1930 as a direct action campaign.
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The Empires of Gates- Interview with Vandana Shiva, Ph.D.
Joseph Marcola interviews Vandana Shiva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Mar 2021 – Vandana Shiva discusses the importance and benefits of regenerative agriculture and a future Regeneration International project that we’ll be collaborating on. She says, “… if In the next decade we don’t protect what has to be protected … and take away the sainthood from this criminal, they will leave nothing much to be saved.”
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Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
On 12 Apr 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 438,133,814
Total Cases: 136,740,332
Recovered: 109,974,123
Deaths: 2,951,424
Cases Closed: 112,925,547
Active: 23,814,785
We, the People, the Humanity and Our Entangled Future in Global COVID-19 Pandemic
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – Looking Beyond the Erroneous Logic of Contemporary Professional Intellect and Political Leaderships – Are we living in an era of false truth, feigned piety and alternate transient facts of human affairs? To answer a rational question, we need to look for critical thinking of our own lives being managed by distorted narratives coming from those who cannot even think for themselves in political governance.
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How Significant Is the $400 Billion Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between China and Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
This post consists of my responses to questions posed by the Iranian journalist Javad Heiran-Nia, Questions on the China/Iran Agreement (4 April 2021). The agreement, officially known as Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, was signed formally just a few weeks before it was announced that so-called ‘indirect talks’ between Iran and the U.S. were taking place in Vienna.
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Children's Health Defense Team | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – Research on SARS-CoV-2 RNA by scientists at Harvard and MIT has implications for how mRNA vaccines could permanently alter genomic DNA, according to Doug Corrigan, Ph.D., a biochemist-molecular biologist who says more research is needed.
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The Vaccine Passport and the Dynamics of Domination
Diane Perlman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
These lucrative, patented, experimental synthetic gene injectables are not technically vaccines. I call them VINOs – “Vaccines in Name Only.” Those who opt out of this unapproved experiment are demonized and pathologized as threats to humanity. Coercive VPP’s are promoted by Big Tech and Big Pharma, not health providers.
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