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The More Loving One
W. H. Auden | Poets - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
Last Dance (Music Video of the Week)
Donna Summer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
«The Queen of Disco»
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Leonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Leonardo would have been exposed to a vast range of technical skills and had the opportunity to learn drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling.
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Rwanda and Zaire (DRC) 1990 to 1997, Where the US Blocked Real Humanitarian Intervention
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – The cases of Bosnia and Rwanda are the most often cited in arguments for humanitarian war, Bosnia as a case in which the US and NATO intervened, Rwanda as a case in which they did not, but the truth of both histories is disputed.
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Award a Nobel Prize for Peace and Nurture the Killing Fields of Humanity
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
A Trail of Destruction of Two Nobel Laureates in Recent History
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The U.S. Can’t Control the World
Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – China’s Belt and Road Initiative involves countries on every continent and provides opportunity where the western nations offer only debt and subjugation… Any nation that threatens U.S. economic supremacy faces an onslaught of corporate media attacks… China committed itself to buying Iranian oil, an agreement which diminishes the impact of U.S. sanctions… China and Russia supply Venezuela with medical equipment that would otherwise be impossible to obtain under U.S. sanctions.
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“Federal Army for Federal Democracy”: The Dawn of Myanmar’s New Politics
Maung Zarni | FORSEA Forces of Renewal for Southeast Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
9 Apr 2021 – Myanmar’s peoples of all ethnic backgrounds are undergoing a revolutionary process. Ms Suu Kyi may have to be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice: give up her centre stage in order that a revolution can grow and succeed in its revolutionary mission: a federal army and federal democracy. Otherwise, the pursuit of federalism in Myanmar will continue to be the Achilles’ heel for all democrats and federalists, the majority and minorities.
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Corporate Versus Public Control of Science and Technology: Forging a Framework for the 21st Century
Nicholas Freudenberg | STAT News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 – Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” Louis Pasteur said that in 1876. Today it would be more accurate to say that science belongs to the corporations and investors that have the money, power, and savvy to secure patents and bring new developments to global markets, a change that threatens human and planetary health.
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The ICC’s Attempt to Place Israel on Par with Terror Armies
Yaakov Lappin | Jewish News Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – The International Criminal Court’s Feb. 5 decision that it has jurisdiction to investigate alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem represents a milestone in the politicization of international law.
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Drawing Attention to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Carlos Latuff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
History repeating itself…
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From His Solitary Confinement, Marwan Barghouti Holds the Key to Fatah’s Future
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – If imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, becomes the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status quo will change substantially. For Israel, as well as for the current PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, such a scenario is more dangerous than another strong Hamas showing in the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections.
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A Big and a Small Dog
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
A house was burglarized every night. Finally, the home owner had enough. He went to an animal shop and said, “I want to buy the biggest dog you have.”
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Why We Need to Shift from Protest Power to People Power
Stellan Vinthagen | Resistance Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – Nonviolent movements must go beyond marching in the streets in order to build truly transformative change for a post-pandemic future.
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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Obituary
Stephen Bates | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Philip Mountbatten-Windsor, Duke of Edinburgh, Baron of Greenwich, Earl of Merioneth, born 10 Jun 1921, died 9 Apr 2021. He was the Queen’s husband for 73 years, the longest-serving royal consort in British history, the family’s patriarch, and a well-known figure in public life for two-thirds of a century until his final disappearance into seclusion in 2019.
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What Went Right This Week: Britain’s ‘Greenest Day Ever’, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – Britain set a green energy record, bee-friendly face masks launched and seeds were sown for a community farm in Manchester, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Why Ukraine’s Borders Are Back at the Center of Geopolitics
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – On Twitter, President Zelensky used the hashtag #CrimeaIsUkraine to send a clear signal that he is prepared to escalate conflict with Russia over Crimea. He set up a Crimean Platform Initiative to coordinate strategy alongside the USA and NATO to pressure Russia over both Crimea and the conflict in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.
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Queens and Kings
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
The death of Prince Phillip on 9 April 2021 at age 99 has brought out some interesting facts about him and the British monarchy. He was given the title of Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Philip was a nephew of Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, and was well known in India.
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Arguments against Vaccination
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Pure Unadulterated Wisdom
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Nonviolent Intervention and George Floyd
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
There’s no guarantee that third party nonviolent interposition would have saved Floyd’s life. But the empathy and desire were there—why didn’t anyone try? The onlookers were afraid to challenge the armed, aggressive men wearing uniforms of state authority. There are legal penalties for interfering with police activity. In fact, the onlookers at times restrained each other, not wanting anyone else to get hurt.
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How Spain Connected the Far East and the Far West: The Beginning of a New Era
Cristina Cabrejas-Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Magellan and Elcano’s nautical expedition was an extraordinary leap for humankind. Almost two years of a long-haul sail across the unknown oceans changed the history of navigation and, most importantly, it unlocked a whole new world connecting people from the Moluccas in the Far East, across the New World in the Americas with old continent in Western Europe.
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My New Book on Journalism, Exposing Corruption, and the Resulting Risks, Dangers and Societal Changes
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – On Mother’s Day in 2019, I obtained a massive digital archive of chats, documents, audios, videos, and photos from Brazil’s most powerful officials. It of course viscerally reminded me of the first time I was contacted back in 2012 by Edward Snowden. [The hacker] told me that he had reviewed less than ten percent of these materials, but already found acts of such grave deceit and illegality that he was certain it would shake Brazilian politics at its core. The reporting we did changed the country, and our lives.
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Two Years after Assange’s Arrest, Biden Can End Trump’s Assault on Press Freedom
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
11 Apr 2021 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been detained at the high-security Belmarsh prison in London for two years today. Protests and solidarity actions are planned over the course of the week throughout the world and in cities like Boston, Berlin, Brussels, Dresden, Vienna, and Hamburg.
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India Prepares for Kumbha Mela, World’s Largest Religious Gathering, Amid COVID-19 Fears
Tulasi Srinivas | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Massive crowds are expected to gather at Haridwar throughout April 2021 for the religious festival of Kumbha Mela. This year, over a million pilgrims a day will bathe in the sacred River Ganges and over 5 million are expected per day on the most auspicious days – April 12, 14 and 21 – for a total of a 100 million celebrants.
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Hans Küng, Catholic Theologian Critical of the Church, Dies at 93
Douglas Martin | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Hans Küng, a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and priest whose brilliantly disputatious, lucidly expressed thoughts in more than 50 books and countless speeches advanced ecumenism and provoked the Vatican to censure him, died on 6 Apr 2021 in Germany. He was 93.
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Trapped at the Border: Their Fate Is Our Fate
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – You’d think that the “border crisis” begins and ends as a problem for the USA… Something else becomes possible when we begin to realize that unless we change the world, their fate is our fate.
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COVID-19: Pandemic? Or Cult?
Michael J. Talmo | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – For the overwhelming majority of people, COVID-19 is a religion. On faith they believe that vaccines using an experimental mRNA technology never before used on humans, developed in less than a year instead of the normal 5-10 years to evaluate the long-term effects on people’s health, are safe and effective. It’s important to understand that there is a difference between knowing something and believing that you know something. Your brain makes decisions for emotional reasons first, such as being afraid, and then comes up with intellectual reasons to justify that belief.
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A National Security System for Hawai’i Built on Aloha
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Aloha is a cultural foundation of Hawaii, an expression of kindness, inclusiveness, comforting attitude, and loving relationship. Let us step away from that old paradigm of national security being big guns, large number of soldiers, huge ships, and ABC weapons (Atomic, Biological and Chemical). Let us keep an open mind and drop the stumbling blocks of false loyalties to a rogue state which is in constant violation of international law.
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“It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.”
Socrates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Socrates was a scholar, teacher and philosopher born in ancient Greece. His Socratic method laid the groundwork for Western systems of logic and philosophy. He always emphasized the importance of the mind over the human body. This credo inspired Plato’s philosophy of dividing reality into the world of the senses and the world of ideas, the latter being the only important one.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 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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Hans Küng: Towards a Global Ethic
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Hans Küng was a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian who died on 6 Apr 2021 at the age of 93. From the early 1980s he turned his attention to other religions. He wrote a book on Judaism and another on Islam. Then he turned his attention to the religions of Asia, looking for common themes that could provide a bridge.
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‘We Have to Act’: Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever in Recorded History
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide surged past 420 parts per million this past weekend, according to a measurement at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Carbon dioxide isn’t the only greenhouse gas scientists are concerned about. Emissions of methane and sulfur hexafluoride have also spiked to “worrying levels.”
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Some Covid Questions
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
5 Apr 2021 – Some covid-related reader questions and comments SPR has received in recent weeks that may be of interest to a broader audience.
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Urgent Open Letter from Doctors and Scientists to the European Medicines Agency Regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Concerns
Doctors for Covid Ethics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
10 Mar 2021 – We note a wide range of side effects following vaccination of healthy younger individuals with the gene-based COVID-19 vaccines, as well as care homes being struck by COVID-19 within days of vaccination of residents. While these occurrences might have been unfortunate coincidences, we are concerned that there has been inadequate scrutiny of the causes of illness or death and especially so in the absence of post-mortems examinations.
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Collateral Crucifixion – Pressuring for Julian Assange’s Release!
Sabine Bock | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 -The artist duo Captain Borderline has created on the theme of “Collateral Crucifixion” a huge, artistic mural on a complete house facade directly in front of the SPD headquarters, the Willy Brandt House. In conversation with the two artists, they explained to us the reason for creating the revolutionary, crucifix-like work of art.
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Siddhartha Gautama–the Buddha’s Birthday: 8 April (563 – 483 BC)
Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
8 Apr – Today is the anniversary of the Buddha’s birth—born Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, the fourth largest religion in the world.
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Rebuttal Letter to European Medicines Agency from Doctors for Covid Ethics, April 1, 2021
Doctors for Covid Ethics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – Regrettably, your reply of March 23 is unconvincing and unacceptable. We are dismayed that you choose to respond to our request for crucially important information in a dismissive and unscientific manner. Such a cavalier approach to vaccine safety creates the unwelcome impression that the EMA is serving the interests of the very pharmaceutical companies whose products it is your pledged duty to evaluate.
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Covid Update, Spring 2021
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
30 Mar 2021 – An update on virus origin, vaccines, early treatment, masks, long covid, and covid mortality.
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Americans Wake Up! Outlaw Technocrats Are Stealing Our Democracy
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – The pandemic is being used to shift wealth upwards, abolish civil rights and destroy democracy. Government technocrats, billionaire oligarchs, Big Pharma, Big Data, Big Media, the high-finance robber barons and the military industrial intelligence apparatus love pandemics for the same reasons they love wars and terrorist attacks. Catastrophic crises create opportunities of convenience to increase both power and wealth.
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On Anniversary of MLK’s Death, His Words Are ‘More Relevant’ than Ever, His Son Says
Erik Ortiz | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Five decades later, his family says in a new video, he can help “guide humanity in the right direction.”
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Do We Really Want a Second Cold War?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – The protection of human rights is being geopolitically manipulated to mobilize public support for an anti-Chinese foreign policy in the West that risks generating a dangerous geopolitical confrontation. Such a confrontation amounts to war-mongering and diverts U.S. attention from self-scrutiny and global peacebuilding. Whether a second cold war is already underway is a matter of interpretation.
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The European Council against the Trade in Instruments of Torture
Riccardo Noury | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
On 31 Mar the European Council adopted a recommendation, long solicited by Amnesty International and Omega Research Foundation, by which the 47 member states will effectively fight the trade in torture equipment. It provides a total ban to the trading of any instruments aimed to cause pain and requires stricter controls on the trade in police items potentially used to torture.
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The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 – Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the United States’ celebrated civil rights icon. Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For more than fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government disinformation to hide the truth.
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Pity the Nation
Khalil Gibran - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
From ‘The Garden of the Prophet’:
Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion…
Bill Gates & His Fake Solutions to Climate Change
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – This latest report from Navdanya International details the reasons behind Bill and Melinda Gates’ attempts to focus the debate on miraculous technologies and their real interests. While Gates’ many investments are all seemingly justified by a noble humanitarian and environmental cause, the report shows that they actually allow him to impose his techno-solutionist strategies through direct influence over all types of protagonists.
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Antiquities, Monuments, Statues, Heritage Sites and Colonial Legacy versus Divergent Cultures, Philosophies, Ethnic Nationalism and Religious Beliefs
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – A Global Dilemma between Preservation of the Past and the Destruction of Human History – The bottom line is that the oppressed must not transform themselves into the oppressors. This philosophy was espoused by the first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela of South Africa in 1994, in a bloodless transformation of power from the previous oppressive white minority government.
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Analysis–Burma/Myanmar Today
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
24 Mar 2021 – States do not go to war to save humans – only for oil, trade dispute, settling ethnic scores, boundary disputes. We have learned our bitter lessons. We have no interest in Peace Industry, or INGO business or research this or research that crowd. The beauty amidst all these ugly scenarios of Burma is at least the People woke up – that the Wretched of the Earth must band together for their own liberation. No free lunches in international politics. No Messiahs on the horizon.
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Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976): Lessons from a Remarkable Life
Tayo Aluko | Counterfire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Black Lawyer, Singer and Football Player, Paul Robeson’s Extraordinary Life Holds Many Lessons for the Present Day
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I Feel Love (Music Video of the Week)
Donna Summer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
‘The Queen of Disco’ 1977 Classic Hit
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 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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The “Defender-Europe”– US Army Arrives
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – Not everything in Europe is paralyzed by the anti-Covid lockdown: The mammoth annual exercise of the US Army, Defender-Europe, which mobilizes dozens of thousands of soldiers and tanks, has been set in motion. The Defender-Europe 21 not only resumes the 2020 program, but amplifies it.
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Listen to the Women
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – This month the women of the world give us reason to hope for the future. Around the world millions of women risked the Covid pandemic and took to the streets to demand radical change.
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Overcoming Hopelessness
Nick Vujicic | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Nicholas James Vujicic, 39 years old, is an Australian American Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of arms and legs. He has 4 children and is active since 2004. Prepare to cry…
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Canada Does About Face on AstraZeneca Vaccine, Citing Blood Clot Concerns
Megan Redshaw | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
After previously defending AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine, Canadian health officials on Monday [29 Mar] suspended its use in people 55 and under, pending outcome of a detailed risk-benefit analysis. “There is substantial uncertainty about the benefit given the potential risks,” said the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – The refusal — the inability? — of most leaders at the national level to approach humanity’s biggest problems holistically, rather than simply blame them on “the other,” says to me it’s time to begin loosening the certainty that borders are real, that nation states are real. “We’ve defeated freedom’s enemies before, and we will defeat them again.” How could any sane human being imagine that actions built on this kind of thinking could solve, or heal, a complex issue?
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Despite U.S. Dirty Tricks, Bolivia Is Finding a Way to Stay Independent
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
29 Mar 2021 – Bolivia has decided to act against the coup makers. The U.S. government is now using that action to delegitimize the government of President Arce. Platforms such as TMS might turn out to be essential as a conduit for Bolivia to tell its story and not be suffocated by Washington’s information war, a vital part of the regime change strategy.
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The World as It Is–And the World as It Could Be
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
It was the duty of philanthropic Europeans to bring civilization and Christianity to Africa and the Americas. The mood of Europe during this orgy of external cruelty and exploitation was self-congratulatory. Can we not see a parallel with the self-congratulatory mood of the North American people and their allies, who export violence, murder, torture and neocolonialism to the whole world by thinking themselves as “exceptional”? A New Freely Downloadable Book
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Perhaps…
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Pity the Nation (after Khalil Gibran)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
An Ode to USA:
Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Comparable Dynamics of Point, Bullet, Ball and Globe
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Cognitive Significance of Systemic Similarities Conventionally Obscured – The question here is whether the cognitive engagements with a point, a bullet, a ball and the globe have unexplored similarities. These may indeed be limited in many respects, but each may well function as a surrogate for the others in some contexts — which then merit clarification.
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Coronavirus Global Data: 131,9M Total; 106,2M Recovered; 2,8M Deceased; 370,3M Vaccinated
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
On 5 Apr 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 370,325,173
Total Cases: 131,993,089
Recovered: 106,297,908
Deaths: 2,867,681
Cases Closed: 109,165,589
Active: 22,827,500
Two Ambassadors to Syria with Wildly Different Analyses
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
30 Mar 2021 – Grayzone journalist Aaron Mate interviewed two former ambassadors to Syria: UK Peter Ford and U.S. Robert S. Ford. They have a common surname but dramatically different perspectives. The statements and viewpoints of the two diplomats are compared here.
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COVID-19 Vaccines Likened to ‘Software Updates’ for Your Body
Joseph Mercola, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – I’ve discussed why COVID-19 vaccines are in fact gene therapies and not vaccines in several previous articles. However, despite being a recognized form of gene therapy since its inception, vaccine makers are now frantically trying to deny that this mRNA technology is gene therapy because as long as they’re considered “vaccines,” they will be shielded from liability.
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Myanmar Military a ‘Terrorist Group’ That Should Face International Court, Advisory Council Says
Ben Doherty | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
29 Mar 2021 – The Myanmar military is a “terrorist group” that should be brought before the ICC and imposed a global sanctions regime, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar says. The council has called for a “three cuts” strategy to combat the Tatmadaw, as the military is known. First, the ICC. Second, an arms embargo. And third, financial sanctions against military officials and military-owned companies.
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(Français) Écouter les Femmes
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 avril 2021 – Ce mois-ci les femmes du monde nous donnent des raisons d’espérer pour l’avenir. Partout dans le monde, des millions de femmes ont risqué la pandémie de Covid et sont descendues dans la rue pour exiger un changement radical.
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The Disarticulation of Pandemic War Propaganda
Raul Diego | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon.
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‘The Dispossessed’ Is Still One of Sci-Fi’s Smartest Books
Wired - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 – Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1974 novel The Dispossessed depicts a society with no laws or government, an experiment in “nonviolent anarchism.” Science fiction author Matthew Kressel was impressed by the book’s thoughtful exploration of politics and economics.
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Need a Quote from an Official Enemy Denouncing Democracy? Do like the New York Times and Make It Up
Jim Naureckas | FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
You know you’re in for a hard sell when the New York Times (29 Mar 2021) publishes an article under the headline “An Alliance of Autocracies? China Wants to Lead a New World Order.”
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Is Traditional Liberalism Vanishing?
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
3 Apr 2021 – “Mighty Ira,” a documentary about legendary former ACLU chief Ira Glasser, is simultaneously inspiring and unnerving.
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“Attempted Coup” in Jordan: Former Crown Prince Arrested
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
3 Apr 2021 – Jordan’s former Crown prince Hamzah bin Hussein and 20 other prominent members of the ruling elite have been arrested in Amman today, for reportedly being involved in a coup attempt against king Abdullah II. Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a member of the royal family, and Bassem Awadallah, who once ran the royal court are among the detainees.
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What Went Right This Week: ‘Net-Zero’ Netflix, Hydrogen Jets and More Positive News
Sarah LaBrecque and Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – Netflix made an ambitious net-zero pledge, beavers returned to Wales and hydrogen planes were scheduled for takeoff, plus more.
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Another Mecha Suit Massacre — The Right to Bear Laser-Blasting Arms
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Don’t tread on me, unless you’re in a mecha suit.
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“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
—”Letter From Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963 — Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American, Baptist minister, and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 in the USA.
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Google and the CI@: How Independent Are Multinational Giants?
Insight History - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
28 Mar 2021 – How independent are the largest corporations in the world? It is often portrayed that companies such as Google are simply private corporations that have very few connections to the establishment. Yet, as It turns out, there are endless connections between many corporate giants and the military-intelligence complex.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
23 Mar 2021 – My family was forced out of a major town called Lahore that was transferred to the new nation Pakistan. My father taught in a college there, my mother was a teacher of a small school. Our family lost everything — home, occupation, dignity and moved to a small town in India without any guarantee of a stable future.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
As Prof. Noam Chomsky has pointed out, greed and lack of ethics are built into the structure of corporations. By law, the CEO of a corporation must be entirely motivated by the collective greed of the stockholders. He must maximize profits. If s/he abandons this single-minded chase after corporate profits for ethical reasons, or for the sake of humanity or the biosphere or the future, s/he must, BY LAW, be fired and replaced.
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Kosovo Becomes First Muslim Nation to Open Jerusalem Embassy
Michael Daventry | Jewish News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
The Kosovar foreign ministry announced the move in a statement on Sunday [14 Mar 2021], six weeks after it established diplomatic ties with Israel on 1 Feb. It is the second European country and the fourth in the world to open an embassy in Jerusalem.
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Scots Become Automatic Organ Donors under New Law
Joanne Macaulay | BBC Scotland News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
26 Mar 2021 -From today, it is presumed that people have consented to donation unless they have stated otherwise. Everyone in Scotland is now an automatic organ donor.
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Anubuddha Sutta – Understanding
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
The Blessed One said:
“It’s because of not understanding and not penetrating four things that we have wandered and transmigrated on such a long, long time, you and I. Which four?
Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
“As for me, I am rather often uneasy in my mind, because I think that my life has not been calm enough; all those bitter disappointments, adversities, changes keep me from developing fully and naturally in my artistic career.” —Vincent van Gogh
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Covid versus the Flu, Revisited
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
21 Mar 2021 – The legitimacy of comparing covid-19 and “the flu” has been a heatedly debated topic during the current pandemic. To clarify the situation, the above chart shows US influenza and pneumonia mortality by age in previous pandemic years compared to 2020 US excess mortality, which consisted primarily (>75%) of confirmed and suspected covid-19 deaths, according to the CDC.
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Maya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Angelou’s timeless wisdom shines with unparalleled light in a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, in which Angelou explores issues of identity and the meaning of life.
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Jane Goodall (Born 3 Apr 1934)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Animal Rights Activist, Scientist – Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times.
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‘Most Couples May Have to Use Assisted Reproduction by 2045’
Zoë Corbyn | Guardian/Observer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
28 Mar 2021 – Shanna Swan is a professor of environmental medicine and public health studying fertility trends. In 2017 she documented how average sperm counts among western men have more than halved in the past 40 years. She explains how chemicals in plastics are causing our fertility to decline – and what we can do about it.
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Revolutions and Revolutionary Acts
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
23 Mar 2021 – I do not have the moral or intellectual option of telling those on the ground who risk their lives and livelihoods that their resistance is futile. Nor do I share the view that resistance is futile or that another world is not possible. History does not change through normal politics. What Myanmar and her people are undergoing is nothing less than a textbook example of Revolution.
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Jean Giono (30 Mar 1895 – 9 Oct 1970) and the Energies of the Earth
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Jean Giono was one of the most original French advocates of nonviolence. Giono, a pantheist philosopher, novelist of rural life, and in his later days, a movie-maker, had fame in the wider public even among those who opposed his nonviolence.
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther King, Jr - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American, Baptist minister, and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 in the USA.
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The Myanmar Military Is Destroying Its Public Image–Politics Won’t Be the Same
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
26 Mar 2021 -The images from the streets of Myanmar cities tell a brutal story. The sense of rage is palpable. Hundreds of thousands of social media comments and public speeches, group posts, communal discussions and personal conversations attest to the deepening popular anger at the armed forces. It has become customary to refer to the troops as “terrorists” or even as “dogs of war,” an especially harsh term in Myanmar-language discourse.
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The Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel Uses ‘the Law’ to Ethnically Cleanse East Jerusalem
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
24 Mar 2021 – While the Israeli State claims to play an impartial role in this scheme, it is actually the facilitator of the entire process. The final outcome manifests in the ever-predictable scene, where an Israeli flag is triumphantly hoisted over a Palestinian home and a Palestinian family is assigned an UN-supplied tent and a few blankets.
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Institutionalized Greed: Shareholders and Large Investment Funds
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – Behind large corporations, other actors appear that help sustain the concentrating dynamic. They are shareholders and investment funds that, with diverse complicities, seek maximum profits without considering that their decisions affect the entire humanity and the planet. Greed eagerness goes hand in hand with the permanent attempt to cover up the damages it produces.
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Weaponization of Aid Contributes to Death of Yemenis
Rabih Torbay and Zaher Sahloul | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
23 Mare 2021 – Since March 2015, according to the Yemen Data Project, at least 3.6 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict. Horrifically, more than 80 percent of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance. The clock is ticking in Yemen. Yemenis are not just dying, they are left to die.
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An Illustrated Glossary of Political Violence
Emily Hencken Ritter and Christian Davenport | Political Violence at a Glance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
We provide some definitions of various types of political violence; how political conflict and violence scholars define these terms; also visualizations, which help communicate what words can never capture alone. We list and define tactics, a “repertoire” or “menu” items.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Indeed…
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Iran and China Sign 25-Year $400 Billion Cooperation Agreement
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
27 Mar 2021 – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif signed a 25-year comprehensive strategic partnership agreement in Tehran today, marking a milestone in bilateral relations between the two countries. The roadmap provides for comprehensive bilateral collaboration in many sectors.
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Adam Thiam’s Death Reminds Us How Europe Harms Africa
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
25 Mar 2021 – Mali’s greatest journalist and political analyst, Adam Thiam, has died of COVID. I mourn a friend whom I greatly admired.
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When War Becomes Major Business
Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
That Which Unites ‘the Good Guys’ under God and the Dollar
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Biden Continues the U.S. Conflict with China through the Quad
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
16 Mar 2021 – On March 12, the heads of government of four countries, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and the United States President Joe Biden, met for a virtual meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, better known as the Quad. The goal of the Quad is to deepen the military and economic pressure against China.
→ read full articleCoronavirus Global Data: 127,8M Total; 103M Recovered; 2,7M Deceased; 314,7M Vaccinated
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
On 29 Mar 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 314,745,447
Total Cases: 127,863,582
Active: 22,003,561
Recovered: 103,062,358
Cases Closed: 105,860,021
Deaths: 2,797,663
U.S. Joins “Rules-Based World” on Afghanistan
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
The U.S.A. asked the United Nations to lead peace negotiations for Afghanistan. Could U.S. leaders finally be opening a door to the “rules-based world” of the UN and international law, which they claim to uphold but in practice routinely ignore and violate?
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Elections as Religious Rituals: When Political Conflicts Are Also Conflicts of Faith
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
I am certainly not the first commentator to notice that elections in democratic states (and often in non-democracies) bear a strong resemblance to religious rituals. They are meaningful collective events that take place at special times in an atmosphere both solemn and celebratory. Like sacred rites, their validity depends upon strict adherence to formal behaviors, such as casting officially sanctioned ballots in officially sanctioned ways at officially sanctioned places.
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SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
MLK’s speech about Viet Nam a year exactly before he got shot. Consider putting 36 minutes into absorbing this stunning piece of oratory. It’s mixed with news images of the war in VN, archived by Democracy NOW!. An eye-opener. — Eric Herter
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