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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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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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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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Ending the Endless War
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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Socialist!
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 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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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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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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Moving On and On
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 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 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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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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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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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Indeed…
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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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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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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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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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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
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.
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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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10 Women’s Peace Networks
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
And How They Are Changing the World
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Six Days in Fallujah: Another Video Game That Refuses to Question US Militarism?
Emad Ahmed | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
26 Mar 2021 – First announced in 2009 before being dropped, the Konami video game offering serves as a perfect mixture of ignorance and imperialist propaganda.
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The Evil within Us
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – Millions of largely white Americans, hermetically sealed within the ideology of the Christian Right, yearn to destroy the ‘Satanic’ forces they blame for the debacle of their lives. And one such evangelical just killed eight people in Atlanta.
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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Losing a Friend
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”
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Demolitions of Palestinian Houses Continue
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
New report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territories published on Mar 16 revealed that the monthly average of demolition of Palestinian houses by the occupying Israeli authorities has increased by 65% in 2021 as compared to 2020. In the month of February alone, at least 305 Palestinians, including 172 children, lost their homes and were displaced.
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Hate Crime, Xenophobia, Racism, Sinophobia, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism: Call It What You Will, a Crime Has Been Committed
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
I am of the opinion that human beings, from the time of evolution, were hunters and hoarders to ensure their individual survival, instead of ensuring the good of others and the community as a whole.
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Erasing Women from Science? There’s a Name for That
Jess Romeo | JSTOR Journal Storage – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
20 Mar 2021 – If you base your understanding of science history on what the textbooks tell you, you might believe that up until about a hundred years ago, Marie Curie was one of the only women in science to have achieved anything notable. Countless women scientists have been shunted to the footnotes, with credit for their work going to male colleagues. This is called the Matilda Effect.
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COVID-19 Vaccinations Are Proof of Israel’s Medical Apartheid
Diana Buttu | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
23 Mar 2021 – In Israel, more than five million people, or more than half the population, have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and case numbers are dropping. But the coronavirus does not stop at checkpoints. As an occupier, Israel must provide medical supplies to Palestinians and adopt measures to combat the disease there.
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Peaceful Societies Are Not Utopian Fantasy–They Exist
Douglas P. Fry and Geneviève Souillac | The Bulletin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – The ancestral tribes of the Iroquois lived in constant fear of each other and constructed high stockades around their villages for protection. Then, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca transformed themselves into a union of cooperating neighbors.
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We Are Human, We Are Free—Building Worldwide Nonviolent Resistance to The Great Reset
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
26 Mar 2021 – In late 2020 Robert J. Burrowes and I were asked by some Melbourne activists protesting against the lockdowns and Covid vaccinations to help them develop more effective strategy. Many of the protesters were new to activism, and those with an inclination towards following a nonviolent approach wanted education in this area.
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Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change (FREE eBook!)
Michael E. Tigar | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
In his first U.S. Supreme Court case—at the age of 28—Tigar won a unanimous victory that freed thousands of Vietnam War resisters from prison. He led the legal team against the Pinochet regime for a 1976 Washington, DC car bombing and prosecuted Pinochet for torture and genocide. Tigar has been counsel to Angela Davis, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), the Chicago Eight, and leaders of the Black Panther Party, to name only a few.
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Holi: Indian Festival of Colours 28-29 March
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Is it too cold at this time of the Year
Do not worry; the winter season is all but over
This is the day of Full Moon
This is the day of the Indian festival Holi
Lula Is Back, and Brazil Is Facing a Perfect Storm
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
25 Mar 2021 – The annulment of the corruption convictions against former President Lula threw the country into unprecedented political chaos. Pres. Bolsonaro camp, which has long treated the Supreme Court as an enemy, presented the decision as proof that the Court is defending criminals and corrupt politicians like Lula for political reasons.
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COVID-19 and the Economic Agenda
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate | Columbia News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
25 Mar 2021 – While we celebrate the United States’ emergence from the pandemic and the economic recovery, poorer countries face dimmer prospects. They don’t have access to COVID-19 vaccines or to the resources to reignite their economies. Many are burdened by debts that were barely manageable before the pandemic, but are crushing them now. What advanced countries should do to help the developing world recover from the pandemic and its economic aftermath.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 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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Leaked Photographs Expose Dismal Conditions in US Child Immigration Detention Center
Trévon Austin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
23 Mar 2021 – Leaked photos from a facility in Texas released Sunday [21 Mar] by US Representative Henry Cuellar, gave the first glimpse of the crowded conditions for children detained at the US-Mexico border. Children can be seen cramped in enclosed spaces, many lying on mats with Mylar blankets. Amid an increase in COVID-19 infections, the crowding makes social distancing impossible.
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Virtual Nonviolence? Civil Disobedience and Political Violence in the Information Age
Andrew Calabrese | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Nonviolent civil disobedience is a vital and protected form of political communication in modern constitutional democracies. Reviews the idea of both demonstrating its continued relevance, and providing a basis for considering its uses as an information-age strategy of radical activism.
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La Vida Tombola–Feat. Diego Maradona (Music Video of the Week)
Manu Chao | Nacional Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
From the Latin Grammy-winning album – Filmed in Buenos Aires ~~ Lyrics in English and Castellano
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Dirty Business as Usual: New CIA Director Burns Confirmed by Unanimous Vote in Senate
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – William J. Burns became the first former diplomat to become CIA director. As a diplomat, he supported U.S. military interventions in Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria and is now stoking the coals against Russia and China.
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Propaganda by Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela and the UK
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
29 Mar 2021 – We live in a war-like society that supports and is in league with the world’s number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate media propaganda plays a key role in keeping things that way. Ten years ago this month, the US, UK and France attacked oil-rich Libya under the fictitious cover of ‘humanitarian intervention’. In this era of Permanent War, potential nuclear Armageddon and climate breakdown, the enormous cost to victims of UK and Western state-corporate policy around the world is incalculable.
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European Union Screams at Eritrea
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
24 Mar 2021 – The European Union (EU) came out “screaming on the Internet” this week, with all-caps, boldface typography, in a video cloaking its latest imperial moves in comically phony human rights sanctimony.
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Myanmar’s Protesters Have Achieved Significant Victories–Now Is the Time to Double Down on Nonviolent Resistance
Maria J. Stephan | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
24 Mar 2021 – The military’s brutal attack on peaceful protesters has understandably sparked calls for armed insurgency. But such a move could set the movement back. The most effective antidote to dictatorship is organized and disciplined nonviolent resistance, including mass non-cooperation.
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A Locust Plague Hit East Africa–The Pesticide Solution May Have Dire Consequences
Tristan McConnell | National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
24 Mar 2021 – Heavy use of a broad-spectrum pesticide seems to have slowed the desert locust invasion. What the repercussions of that approach are isn’t yet clear. So far, a ground and air spraying campaign over eight East African countries, coordinated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, has staved off the worst.
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Urgent Message to ALL Peace Activists
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Rusi – Land Warfare Conference 2021 – In the wake of the UK’s Integrated Review, the conference will provide a forum for the British Army and its allies to discuss how they can integrate their efforts as they modernise their forces for a new era of great power competition.
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Syria: The Price of Resistance
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
20 Mar 2021 – Few nations in recent decades have been targeted by a superpower the way the USA has subjected Syria to various forms of attack. Apart from military assaults and acts of political subversion aimed at overthrowing the government in Damascus, the US has also imposed crippling economic sanctions upon Syria.
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Palestinian Balance Sheet: Normative Victories, Geopolitical Disappointments
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
21 Mar 2021 – . It seems to me that Israeli leaders understand that South African racism collapsed largely because it lost the Legitimacy War. Maybe some Israeli leaders are beginning to grasp the writing on the wall. The ICC decision may turn out to be a turning point not unlike the Sharpeville Massacre of 1965. This may be so even, as is likely, not a single Israeli is ever brought to justice before the ICC.
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Quad Summit Consolidates US-Led Military Bloc to Prepare for War against China
Peter Symonds | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
The first leaders’ summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad, online on Friday [12 Mar], has raised the stakes in the US-led war drive against China. The summit not only issued a formal statement, but Biden and the prime ministers of India, Australia and Japan put their names to an opinion piece published prominently in the Washington Post on Sunday[14 Mar].
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Media Pseudo-Debates and the Silence of Leftist Critics
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
19 Mar 2021 – The Incompetent, Negligent, Mishandling, Miscalculating Elite Blunderers – You’ve heard of them, no doubt, the U.S. rulers who can’t rule too well and are always getting surprised by events or fed bad advice by their underlings. Their “mistakes” are always well intentioned. They stumble into wars through faulty intelligence…
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The New Medical-Industrial Complex
Arnold S. Relman, M.D. | The New England Journal of Medicine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
This new “medical-industrial complex” may be more efficient than its nonprofit competition, but it creates the problems of overuse and fragmentation of services, overemphasis on technology, “cream-skimming,” and undue influence on national health policy. Closer attention and careful study are necessary to ensure that it puts the interests of the public before those of its stockholders.
→ read full articleTranscending Psychosocial Polarization with Tensegrity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – Biomimetic Clues to Collective Resilience and Unshackling Knowledge – This exploration follows from the preoccupation with the current level of poisonous polarization of psychosocial dynamics. Given the tensions between one or more polarized perspectives, reference is made to the potential role of tensegrity structures. “Tensegrity” being a combination of “tension” and “integrity”. Integrity of any kind — institutional, academic, or personal.
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Jokerman (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Dylan Cover by John Cruz | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Filmed on the beautiful island of Oahu, Honolulu-Hawai’i, we hope this soulful rendition touches your heart as much as it did ours. Turn it up and let the music take you to a peaceful place–like the wonderful Kapiolani Park, by Diamond Head Volcano, where John is performing.
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Lula in a Wilderness of Mirrors in Brazil
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
17 Mar 2021 – Still in the legal woods and not daring to project as a revolutionary leader, Lula should nonetheless never be underestimated. His best bet will be to hit the road, unleash the battered working masses in the streets, energize them, talk to them, listen to them. And act like the true leader of the Global South he never ceased to be.
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20+ Countries Suspend Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine, but Regulators Insist ‘Benefits Outweigh Risks’
Megan Redshaw | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
16 Mar 2021 – More than 20 countries have either suspended or said they will delay Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccinations based on reports of deaths or injuries — in most cases related to blood clots — in healthy people who received the vaccine.
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(Português) Desafios para Educação Face às Mudanças na Vida e na Humanidade
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
17 mar 2021 – A intrusão do coronavírus desde 2019, afetando pela primeira vez todo o planeta e cada uma das pessoas, não nossos animais domésticos como gatos e cachorros, tem um significado que é importante decifrar. Nada na natureza e em Gaia, nossa Mãe Terra, é sem propósito. Que lição devemos aprender com esta pandemia?
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On living
Seneca – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
More wisdom
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Rich Countries Signed Away a Chance to Vaccinate the World
Selam Gebrekidan and Matt Apuzzo | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
21 Mar 2021 – Despite warnings, American and European officials gave up leverage that could have guaranteed access for billions of people. That risks prolonging the pandemic.
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Our Four Nations Are Committed to a Free, Open, Secure and Prosperous Indo-Pacific Region
Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Scott Morrison and Yoshihide Suga | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
13 Mar 2021 – Joe Biden is president of the United States. Narendra Modi is prime minister of India. Scott Morrison is prime minister of Australia. Yoshihide Suga is prime minister of Japan.
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On 10th Anniversary of the U.S.-NATO Attack on Libya: Powerful Perpetrators Have Yet to Face Justice
Jeremy Kuzmarov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
19 Mar 2021 – In this day ten years ago, the Obama administration launched air strikes over Libya under NATO’s banner. Three powerful American women—Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice—pushed Obama into destroying the wealthiest, healthiest and happiest nation in Africa.
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(Castellano) Brasil: La Mentira como Forma de Acción Política
Fernando De la Cuadra | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
22 feb 2021 – Es bastante conocida la frase difundida por el ministro de Propaganda nazista del Tercer Reich, Joseph Goebbels: “Una mentira mil veces repetida, se transforma en verdad”. O también aquel eslogan que difundía frecuentemente: “Miente, miente, miente que algo quedará, cuanto más grande sea una mentira más gente la creerá”.
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Nuclear Fusion and the Great Global Gamble
Stu Campana | Alternatives Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Isaac Newton risked his sight for science; what will we risk for renewable energy? There have always been a few willing to risk their own careers on a gamble like nuclear fusion, but now the whole world is inching closer to going all in.
→ read full articleThe Use and Outcomes of Complementary and Alternative Medical Systems in the Fight against COVID-19 Pandemic
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Global and South African Perspectives: A Holistic Approach
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Aaugh! A Brief List of Official Russia Claims That Proved to Be Bogus
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – The Director of National Intelligence releases a report, and the press rushes to kick the football again: Konstantin Kilimnik, a “Russian influence agent” (whatever that means), used “prominent U.S. persons” and “media conduits” to “launder their narratives” to American audiences. Maybe it’s time to start asking for proof in these episodes?
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 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 articleIn the Eyes of the Beholder
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
“What are you looking at?”
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Kindness Rewarded
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Around the year 1900, an elderly couple from New York entered a hotel in Philadelphia late at night during a heavy storm, asking if they could get a room.
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Prof S. Jeyapragasam (1949-2018):There Is a Thread You Follow–Identity, Journey and Destiny
Paul Schwartzentruber – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Tribute to a Gandhian teacher, scholar and philosopher, Prof. S. Jeyapragasam (1949-2018). The elegantly written essay beautifully framed with the notion of our “irresolvable singularity of possibility” has both breadth and depth that takes us on our journey to discover our Universal. It’s a rare homage to an authentic Gandhian philosopher, teacher, scholar and activist.
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Plummeting Sperm Counts, Shrinking Penises: Toxic Chemicals Threaten Humanity
Erin Brockovich | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – The chemicals to blame for our reproductive crisis are found everywhere and in everything. The rapid death and decline of sperm must be addressed, and it must be addressed now.
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Corporate, Mainstream Media Journalists Double Down on Lies about Russia
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
17 Mar 2021 – Journalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie all over Twitter – Eager to obtain vindication for the pre-election falsehood they spread about the Hunter Biden story, journalists falsely claim that the CIA blamed Russia for it.
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Capital, Science, Technology
Raúl Delgado Wise and Mateo Crossa Niell | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
1 Mar 2021 – The Development of Productive Forces in Contemporary Capitalism – How capitalism has become a parasitic entity with an essentially rentier and speculative function. Underlying this is an institutional framework that favors the private appropriation and the concentration of the products of general intellect.
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