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(Italiano) L’India si Allontana dalla Democrazia?
Daniela Bezzi ed Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
17 Febbraio 2021 – L’India–la più grande ‘democrazia’ del mondo–da alcuni decenni è avviata verso pratiche di crescente controllo politico della popolazione. In più ha abbracciato gli orientamenti neoliberisti proposti dalle élites finanziarie dell’economia globale. Da anni si segnala la repressione delle voci libere. Incarcerazione di molti dissidenti – donne e uomini di cultura, ricercatori e ricercatrici, difensori dei diritti umani e ambientali – la mancanza di tutela delle minoranze indigene, la legalizzazione di pratiche distruttive in campo ambientale. L’India si allontana dalla democrazia?
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Critics Must Be Silenced for Billionaires to Keep Profiting from Pandemic
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
16 Feb 2021 – By controlling the media, billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates can prolong a crisis indefinitely while they accumulate unprecedented wealth and power over humanity. The lockdown has netted Bezos $70 billion since its start. Bill Gates, meanwhile, has made $20 billion.
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“To me, peace is something we create and often in new ways, not to be frozen into a handbook of law–although the law could also be useful as one guide among many.”
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University. He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize. Galtung has mediated in over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues, 96 as the sole author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages, including 50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives published by TRANSCEND University Press. His book, Transcend and Transform, was translated to 25 languages. He has published more than 1,700 articles and book chapters and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service.
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Kit Knightly | OffGuardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021 – Ask your friends these questions. It is a rushed and untested vaccine, made using unprecedented technology, with no legal recourse should it do you harm, TO TREAT A VIRUS 99.8% OF PEOPLE WILL SURVIVE. So the question that really matters is: Do you really want, or need, to take that risk?
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How to Understand the [Postjournalism] Rage Economy
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – In “Postjournalism,” media ecologist Andrey Mir analyzes the way the ‘News Economy’ shapes our perceptions of reality.
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The Evolution of Earth’s Tectonic Plates over the Past Billion Years
SciNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
8 Feb 2021 – Researchers released a new model of Earth’s tectonic plates evolution over the last billion years.
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NASA’s Mars Rover Successfully Touches Down on the Red Planet
Denise Chow | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
18 Feb 2021 – NASA kicked off a new era of Mars exploration today with the successful landing of Perseverance, a car-size robotic explorer that will search for traces of ancient life on the planet and collect what could be the first rocky samples from Mars that are sent back to Earth.
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How Do You Say Ku Klux Klan in Hebrew?
Michael Sfard | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – Those subjected to Israel’s occupation have been abandoned to the occupiers’ cruelty, as a result of the weakness of the country’s army, law enforcement and security establishment, which do not provide effective protection. Israeli TV stations barely report it and most Israelis are simply apathetic.
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I Am a Jew and I Want Palestinians Heard in Court
Jews for Justice for Palestinians | The Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
8 Feb 2021 – Why is a court of law important? Because the menace that underpinned the assault of 2014 is still present: the dehumanization of Palestinians. Walled off and vilified, anything can be done to the people of Gaza. A trial will amplify their story of being under intensive attack behind a wall. Let Gazans tell their story.
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Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning others of them in good time, with apology and charm.”
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Tying up with a Tie and Coat
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
16 Feb 2021 – Cultures, cuisines, modes of dress, religions and languages followed colonialism in the last several centuries. The principal colonial powers were Portugal, Spain, France and England. Styles of dress, languages and religion–mainly Christianity–spread to the regions colonised by European powers. A witty remark had been made about this facet of colonialism. The British came and offered the Bible to local peoples in exchange for their lands and revenues.
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Mozart – Piano Concerto #21 (Music Video of the Week)
Yeol Eum Son – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
2011 Tchaikovsky Competition *
Mozart – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 21 *
Yeol Eum Son (South Korea) – An amazingly beautiful performance! *
(Português) Brasil sob Bolsonaro: A Democracia como Farsa e as Instituições como Disfarce
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
17 fev 2021 – É fato confessado pelo ex-chefe supremo das FFAA, Gen.Villas Boâs, que o Alto Comando em 2018 deu um golpe na democracia brasileira, ferindo a Constituição. O sentido era utilizar o juiz Sérgio Moro (exímio na aplicação do law fare) para alijar Lula do pleito presidencial, condenando-o por qualquer crime que fosse, no caso, “por crime indeterminado” e pô-lo na prisão onde ficou por mais de 500 dias. Desta forma abrir-se-ia o caminho para eleição do ex-capitão compulsoriamente reformado por mau comportamento, Jair Bolsonaro. O que de fato ocorreu.
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Designate Myanmar Coup Group as Terrorists
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
21 Feb 2021 – Concerned about another wave bloodbath by Myanmar Tatmadaw or military. They issued a chilling warning to the public, that the coup leaders are going to use lethal force should the protesters take to the streets tomorrow (22 Feb in Myanmar), along with “shoot to kill”, needless to say. Protesters have an overwhelming support of the anti-coup Civil Disobedience Movement. It is all Déjà vu:1962, 1975, 1988, 2007, and now 2021.
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The Reshaping of Global Agriculture: The WEF Agenda behind India’s Modi Government’s “Farm Reform”
F. William Engdahl | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
16 Feb 2021 – In Modi’s India, farmers have been in massive protest since three new farm laws were rushed through Parliament last September. These reforms were motivated by an effort of the World Economic Forum and its New Vision for Agriculture, part of Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset, the corporate side of the UN Agenda 2030.
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To Farm or Not to Farm in Developing Countries
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
19 Feb 2021 – The week has been an interesting one full of global challenges. Recent developments in India, Brazil, Ivory Coast and South Africa with reference to farming trends are becoming a major threat to international food security, empire building of various corporations, as well as the stability of governments, impacting on climate change.
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The Importance of The Hague Court
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021 – The International Criminal Court in The Hague has approved its jurisdiction to investigate Israelis and Hamas members on the suspicion of war crimes! Let’s hope that this decision will begin to provide protection to the defenseless populations living under the Israeli occupation, and that the Israeli army will cease from actions which undermine its status as a legitimate army.
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How One Tiny Country Is Beating the Pandemic and Climate Change
Kate Yoder | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
12 Feb 2021 – The small Himalayan country of Bhutan, mainly known for measuring national happiness instead of GDP, is the only carbon-negative country on the planet. Believe it or not, it has only had one single death from COVID-19. Is that a coincidence?
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(Italiano) Un Bilancio Palestinese: Vittorie Normative, Delusioni Geopolitiche
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
Nei decenni a venire la decisione ICC può risultare il punto di svolta, non così diverso dal Massacro di Sharpeville. Prima dell’alba la notte è più buia. La maggioranza Africana attese allora oltre 30 anni per la propria emancipazione dall’apartheid. I palestinesi hanno già sopportato gli stenti e le umiliazioni della soggiogazione razzista e della supremazia ebraica per più di 70 anni. Quando finirà, e come?
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46 Nursing Home Residents in Spain Die within 1 Month of Getting Pfizer COVID Vaccine
Celeste McGovern | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
16 Feb 2021 – Forty-six nursing home residents who had received their first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccination at the beginning of January had died by the end of the month. Health officials halted administration of the second shot of the vaccine at the nursing home.
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After Pork Giant Was Exposed for Cruel Killings, the FBI Pursued Its Critics
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
17 Feb 2021 – The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says. The FBI asked a series of questions about DxE: How are they funded? Do they run drugs or sell guns to finance their animal welfare activism?
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New Start for Stability in Libya
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
The Libya Political Dialogue Forum on 5 Feb 2021 announced the creation of a new executive authority for all of Libya. To what extent the new interim authority will be able to create public services, limit outside influences and create appropriate forms of government will have to be seen. Libya merits close attention.
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In Furor over Poet with Child Porn Conviction, Prison Abolitionists Debate the Limits of Mercy
Judith Levine | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – Is Poetry magazine “platforming toxicity” or promoting the “practice of freedom”? A bedrock principle of the prison abolitionist movement is that you don’t ask an incarcerated person what they’re in for. It’s more than etiquette.
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What Is Anarchism?
Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
Anarchism is a longstanding political, economic, and social tradition based in struggle against top-down systems and institutions, such as states, capitalism, and racial and gender domination.
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Israel Violates International Law Anew, Again Bombing Syria…To Further Indifference of Western Media
Eva Bartlett | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
16 Feb 2021 – Israeli missiles targeted Syria again yesterday. Usually under the pretense of “targeting Iranian/Iranian-backed militias,” Israel’s strikes violate Syria’s sovereignty and international law. Israel’s military chief of staff boasted about hitting over 500 targets in just 2020 alone. If Israel’s routine bombings of Syria are reported in Western media at all, it is with the usual downplaying of (and normalizing of) Israel’s violations of international law.
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Principles of Nonviolence
Gandhi & Luther King – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
Principles Are Guidelines, Not Laws
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Military Coup: The Myanmar-China Nexus
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
Vietnam, where the US is being welcomed back, is already an illogical development for China. Granted, a thousand years of Chinese colonialism is not easily forgiven by the Vietnamese. But the US damage caused by intensive bombing and harrowing Agent Orange deformities–still persisting many decades after the war–is even more horrifying. Hence, China’s wariness of its borders.
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Is Biden Committing Diplomatic Suicide over the Iran Nuclear Agreement?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
How President Biden is backtracking on his commitment to rejoin the international nuclear agreement with Iran, and how this risks killing the agreement and undermining his broader commitment to diplomacy.
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Richard Falk’s Autobiography, Memoirs
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
“Public Intellectual is officially published on February 15th. The book (Clarity Press) is 465 pages in length, available in either paperback or Kindle formats, and can be obtained from leading booksellers, including Amazon. It attempts to blend my personal and political engagements in an overall search for why I departed from the worldview and commitments of those with whom I shared a class, ethnic, and educational background in urban USA.” — Prof. Richard Falk
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Why the Flu Has ‘Disappeared’
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
7 Feb 2020 – In 2020, after the global coronavirus pandemic began, influenza viruses mysteriously disappeared from global circulation. Some skeptics suspected that influenza was simply reclassified as covid, while many journalists and ‘fact checkers’ claimed influenza was suppressed by supereffective face masks and lockdowns.
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Dynamics of N-fold Integration of Disparate Cognitive Modalities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021 – Faced with multiple crises and conflicts of every kind, the world is witness to appeals for unity on the part of leaders variously embroiled in such crises. Despite the gravitas with which these appeals are framed, they can be increasingly recognized as naive — in the light of past responses to such initiatives. The naivety with regard to simplistic understandings of unity is currently evident in the commentaries evoked.
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The Great Divorce of the Century
David Andersson | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – Millions lost their jobs and their money, some kept their jobs and their money, and others got even more money without doing much. This situation didn’t start with the pandemic, but it became more ‘in your face.’ COVID has pushed the close-knit relationship between work and money towards a bitter divorce.
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653 Deaths + 12,044 Other Injuries Reported Following COVID Vaccine, Latest CDC Data Show
Children's Health Defense Team - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
12 Feb 2021 – The numbers reflect the latest data available as of Feb. 4 from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System website. Of the 653 reported deaths, 602 were from the U.S. The average age of those who died was 77, the youngest was 23.
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Why Politicians and Doctors Keep Ignoring the Medical Research on Vitamin D and Covid
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021 – It is probably not a good idea to write while in the grip of anger. But I am struggling to suppress my emotions about a wasted year, during which politicians and many doctors have ignored a growing body of evidence suggesting that Vitamin D can play a critically important role in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19.
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The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
7 Feb 2021 – A new and rapidly growing journalistic “beat” has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. It is half adolescent and half malevolent. Its primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power.
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Urgent Solidarity with Haiti Is Needed
Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – A long-brewing crisis in Haiti, created through intervention by the United States, United Nations and allied western imperialist countries, has now come to a head. The Biden administration is openly backing a violent, corrupt and fraudulent leader, Jovenel Moïse, and maintaining the policies of previous presidents, including Donald Trump, in Haiti.
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In India, Farmers Are Resisting Narendra Modi’s Propaganda Machine
Ullekh N.P. | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – Hundreds of thousands of India’s farmers have been camping on the roads leading to New Delhi in an unprecedented protest that has lasted more than two months but has not been given attention from the media or Narendra Modi.
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Lives in Mathematics
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
9 Feb 2021 – I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents the lives and work of some of the great mathematicians of history. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
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Trump Acquitted in Senate Impeachment Trial for Second Time
NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – The Senate yesterday acquitted former President Donald Trump in a 57-43 vote in his second impeachment trial. The House impeached Trump last month on a charge of incitement of insurrection in the deadly attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. Seven Republican senators voted in favor of conviction, short of the 67 total votes needed to bar Trump from running for public office again.
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“God does not play dice.”
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
“I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the universe.” It was addressed by Einstein to Max Born (one of the fathers of Quantum Mechanics) in a letter that he wrote to Born in 1926. The reason for the quote is to express how bizarre quantum mechanics is as a theory.
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(Italiano) Estratto del Rapporto OXFAM sul 2020
Miki Lanza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
8 Febbraio 2021 – Il seguente è un mio compendio arbitrario del recentissimo Rapporto OXFAM 2020 sull’andamento essenzialmente economico del mondo, dominato dallo sconvolgimento indotto dalla pandemia Covid-19. Ho tentato di trattenere e trasmettere il nucleo presunto del denso messaggio: ricco di indicazioni, necessariamente eterogenee ed esplicitamente ordinate secondo la mission dell’ente, teso alla sensibilizzazione di dinamiche distorte, ritenute evitabili, innaturali e correggibili con comportamenti basati sull’accorato convincimento di ragionevolezza delle soluzioni immaginate/proposte/attuate sperimentalmente, e quindi di possibile e doverosa estensione.
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The Gamers’ Uprising against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
11 Feb 2021 – A short squeeze frenzy driven by a new generation of gamers captured financial headlines in recent weeks, centered on a struggling strip mall video game store called GameStop. Wall Street may own the country, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fighting back.
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Ending the Other War in Yemen
Brian Terrell | Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
On 4 Feb President Joe Biden announced “we are ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales.” Stating an intention is not fulfilling it and considering Biden’s further pledge, “to continue to support and help Saudi Arabia defend its sovereignty and its territorial integrity and its people,” his use of the word “relevant” to modify “arms sales” could indicate a convenient loophole.
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What Went Right This Week: The Plan to Turn Hills into ‘Batteries’, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
11 Feb 2021 – Engineers hatched a plan to turn UK hills into ‘batteries’, a new drug offered hope in tackling obesity and the welcome side effects of climate action were revealed, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Dam Disaster in India: Over 200 Construction Workers and Villagers Trapped or Dead
Saman Gunadasa | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
On Sunday [7 Feb 2021] morning, part of the glacier at India’s second highest peak, burst. Massive floodwaters and silt gushed downstream virtually wiping out power plants, bridges and tunnels, and cutting off villages. The disaster trapped and killed more than 200 power plant workers and villagers near the Chinese and Tibetan borders in India’s Himalayan region.
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Iran’s Islamic Republic Celebrates Its 42nd Anniversary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
9 Feb 2021 – Iran is in the process of celebrating the 42nd Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that led to the downfall of the Shah of Iran’s dynastic rule and its replacement by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has defied the odds by resisting successfully a variety of attempts to restore the old established order either by an Iraqi encouraged war in the 1980s, destabilization efforts all along pushed by the U.S. and Israel, and an undisguised goal of regime change.
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States Have No Inherent ‘Right to Exist’—but It’s a Media Fixation on Israel/Palestine
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
12 Feb 2021 – No state has an intrinsic “right to exist.” As international relations scholar Scott Burchill points out, there is no abstract “right to exist” in international law, or in “any serious theory of international relations.” Nor is it customary, Burchill explains, for states or sub-state groups to recognize a state’s “right to exist.”
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(Português) Uma Dissertação Histórico-Filosófica sobre Nossa Barbárie
Leonardo Boff | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
10 fev 2021 – Existem inúmeras análises excelentes do antifenômeno Jair Messias Bolsonaro, sociológicas, históricas e econômicas. Acho que devemos cavar mais fundo para capturar o surgimento desse Negativo em nossa história.
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The Corona “Pandemic” Timeline: What Happened in January – March 2020?
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
2 Feb 2021 – Facts corroborated by official statements reveal that the Covid pandemic which served to justify the Lockdown is deceptive to say the least. This article will focus on the Corona Timeline starting in January 2020. These are some of the highlights:
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These Six Global Struggles Show the Power of Nonviolence in Action
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – From India and Palestine to Canada, these ongoing campaigns demonstrate how ordinary people are mobilizing for worker’s rights and an end to war.
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Switzerland Refuses to Approve AstraZeneca Jab and Says ‘New Studies’ Are Needed after France, Germany and Sweden Rejected It for Over-65s
Rachael Bunyan | Mailonline - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Switzerland has refused to approve the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine with regulators raising concerns over insufficient test data and arguing ‘new studies’ are needed. It comes after France, Sweden and Germany advised against administering the jab to those over 65 and Emmanuel Macron claimed it was ‘almost ineffective’ for the age bracket.
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Children's Health Defense Team - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
8 Feb 2021 – In an interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Vandana Shiva warns listeners that if we don’t fight back against Gates and his empire, “They will own everything. You will own nothing … no commons, no public good, no shared values.”
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Why Victoria Nuland Is Dangerous and Should Not Be Confirmed
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
Victoria Nuland has promoted a foreign policy of intervention through coups, proxy wars, aggression, and ongoing occupations. The policy has been implemented with bloody and disastrous results in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine.
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Coronavirus Global Data: 109,4M+ Infected; 2,4M+ Deceased; 81,5M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
On 15 Feb 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 192
Total Cases: 109,445,477
Deaths: 2,412,710
Recovered: 81,542,660
Cases Closed: 84,106,822
Active: 25,338,655
Valentine’s Day
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
Enjoy, have fun this special Day
It is more special — it’s a Sunday
Brazilian Butt Lift: Behind the World’s Most Dangerous Cosmetic Surgery
Sophie Elmirst | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
9 Feb 2021 – The BBL is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure. What is driving its astonishing rise?
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The Invincible Green Stick of Happiness
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman poet Catullus once said, in the depth of a dark winter morning, I decided that I would take a walk in the afternoon, hoping that the sun would then appear, and it did, so I went walking toward the woods through deep white new-fallen snow all around me…
→ read full articleSARS Cov-2 Pandemic in South Africa and the Astra Zeneca Vaccine Fiasco
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
The Sad Odyssey of South Africa Continues for the Rainbow Nation
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Who Are the Ultimate War Profiteers? A U.S. Air Force Veteran Removes the Veil
Christian Sorensen | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
10 Feb 2021 – While war corporations, or so-called “defense contractors,” make billions in profits, Wall Street is the ultimate beneficiary of today’s nonstop wars. The prosaic nature of war profiteering—far from the work of a shadowy cabal—is precisely why the collusion is so destructive and should be outlawed.
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Living by Love [Haiku]
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
30 Jan 2021 – Haiku is my form of lockdown therapy.
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What If Oumuamua Is the Real Deal?
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – If Oumuamua is a real alien craft, then Earthlings are doing some really weird stuff on the scale of alien intelligence. Think about it… If it’s an alien craft or drone there’s no way it entered the sun’s solar system, swooping within 15M miles of Earth, powered by fossil fuels. It is the first known interstellar object in our solar system. It’s estimated to be between 330 and 3,280 feet long and between 115 and 548 feet wide and dark red in color, and it tumbles.
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Anaïs Nin on Inner Conflict, the Interconnectedness of All Things, and What Maturity Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
“We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love — a connection between things.” “Any experience carried out deeply to its ultimate leads you beyond yourself into a larger relation to the experience of others.”
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The Biden Administration’s Continued Push for Julian Assange’s Extradition Is Bad News for Journalism
James Risen | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
11 Feb 2021 – During the course of his career as the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has managed to anger both of America’s major political parties. A successful prosecution of Assange could empower governments to go after journalists for publishing classified information.
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The Saga
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
Following orders… Right!
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Influence of Vaisnavism on Gandhi’s Philosophical Thoughts and Its Relevance in Contemporary Age
Shiuli Kower | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
In this materialistic age, where economics has become all important and nuclear power a must, the post independence generation has begun to consider Gandhi and Vaisnavism totally irrelevant in the present context. They think that Mahatma belongs to a bygone era and his ideas have become absolute. But is really so? Is Gandhi irrelevant today–and all his ideals? Not at all. He is more relevant today and his ideas his thoughts on Vaisnavism is urgently needed by us. In this paper an attempt is made to study the Influence of Vaisnavism on Gandhi, which shall be analyzed.
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Where Did COVID-19 Come From?
Elizabeth Weise and Karen Weintraub | USA TODAY - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
20 Jan 2021 – As the U.S. marks one year since its first case, questions remain about the origin of the coronavirus that causes the disease. The answers matter.
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Abracadabraism™: Not Exactly Lying
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
“Abracadabra,” the magicians’ incantation, is derived from Aramaic and/or Hebrew. “Abra” means “I will create.” “C’dabra” means “as I speak,” as in “God said, ‘Let there be light! And there was light.’” (Genesis 1:3). I think Trump is trying to create reality with his words.
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Clever -> Wise
Rumi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
Real Food for Real Thought
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Walmart among US Retail Giants Selling Beef Linked to Amazon Destruction
Andrew Wasley and Alexandra Heal | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – Walmart, Costco and Kroger are selling Brazilian beef products imported by JBS–the world’s largest meat company–which we previously revealed has been embroiled in a string of deforestation allegations. Campaigners Call for Major Grocers to Cut Ties with Controversial Brazilian Meat Firm JBS
→ read full articleA Palestinian Balance Sheet: Normative Victories, Geopolitical Disappointments
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
In decades to come the ICC decision may turn out to be a turning point not unlike the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. Before dawn, the night is darkest. The African majority waited more than 30 years for their emancipation from apartheid. The Palestinian people have already endured the hardships and humiliations of racist subjugation and Jewish supremacy for more than 70 years. When will it end, and how?
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Protracted Conflict, Elusive Justice: The International Criminal Court Trial of Dominic Ongwen
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
At the age of 9, Dominic Ongwen was captured by the militia of the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda and became a “child soldier”. The Lord’s Resistance Army is a continuation of the Holy Spirit Mobile Force created in 1986 around Alice Auna Lakwena, a woman healer who combined Christian Pentecostal elements, especially the direct intervention of the Holy Spirit, with more traditional African beliefs in charms that can prevent being wounded.
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COVID Fuelling Risk of Recruitment and Use of Children in Armed Conflict, UN and EU Warn on International Day
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
12 Feb 2021 – More children could be pushed into the joining armed forces and armed groups due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, senior United Nations and European Union (EU) officials said on International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, observed yesterday.
→ read full articleInteracting with the Poor
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
While tragedies and trauma cannot be avoided, efforts of scholars, sages and Gurus — Vivekananda, Gandhiji, Prabhupada and others, for physical and spiritual development of people continues unabated. We salute their efforts and encourage other people to join them for a spiritual and peaceful awakening.
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(Italiano) Una società non-razziale (senza razzismo) dev’essere per forza una società sconfinata
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
“Arcobalenismo” è da non confondere con “Non-razzialismo” o “Una società non razziale.” La differenza è che in “una Società Arcobaleno” vivono insieme in pace e armonia persone di diverse razze, mentre in una “Società non-razziale” non esiste razza, si riconosce la verità. Che è che non esiste una tal cosa come la razza. L’umanità è una.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
Country Health Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Welcome to World Life Expectancy. Find info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated daily.
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The Foreign Roots of Haiti’s “Constitutional Crisis”
Mark Schuller | NACLA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – As usual, news on Haiti in the US remains limited except during periods of “crisis.” As if on cue, U.S. media began reporting on Haiti’s “constitutional crisis” this week. The president’s term came to an end, but he refuses to step down. Solidarity is urgent.
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Let the Himalaya’s Chamoli Disaster Be the Final Wake up Call for India
Coalition for Environmental Justice in India-CEJI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
On the morning of 7 Feb 2021, a massive flood crashed down a major tributary of the Ganga. The catastrophic event washed away the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project. As boulders, ice, water and muck surged downstream, it substantially damaged the National Thermal Power Corporation’s Hydropower Project as well. Expedient politics disregards the fact that this is among the most earthquake-prone and ecologically sensitive regions of the world. Up until now, at least 32 people have been confirmed dead and over 170 are missing.
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To Defuse Political Violence across US, Conflict Mediators Apply Lessons from Gang Disputes and Foreign Elections
Joseph G. Bock, Marta Poblet and Per Aarvik | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – After a violent American election season, activists are trying to keep the peace using technologies and techniques more often applied in unstable democracies. Civilian peacekeepers are trying to stop violence before it starts.
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Don’t Stop at Big Tech — We Need to Break Up Big Food Monopolies, Too
Rob Larew and Dr. Diana Moss | Modern Farmer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Some of the largest players in the food and agriculture sectors have been allowed to engage in anticompetitive mergers and practices that are as serious, if not more so, than those of which Big Tech stands accused. A wave of consolidation has given a few large companies control of proprietary, multi-level systems of traits, seeds, agrochemicals and digital technology.
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Remembering George Shultz after 53 Years
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
I recall nostalgically, George’s civility, which according to reports, nevertheless required backbone, resisting the Nixon’s tactics that prefigured Trump’s antic presidency. George impressively stood his ground firmly whenever political leaders asked him to cross his red lines, so unlike the Republicans who inhabit Congress, and toe the Trump line no matter what. [He died on 6 Feb 2021 at the age of 100.]
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The Drain of Wealth: Colonialism before the First World War
Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – The Western European powers appropriated economic surplus from their colonies and this aided their own industrial transition and the diffusion of capitalism to the regions of new European settlement. In the literature on economic growth, however, we find little awareness of the existence of such transfers, let alone their sheer scale. How a substantial part of India’s earnings was appropriated by Britain.
→ read full articleWe Are Human; We Are Free (Music Video of the Week)
Anita McKone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – Songs of Nonviolence
→ read full articleWendel Willkie (18 Feb 1892 – 8 Oct 1944): “We Want Willkie”
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
Wendel Willkie had been a Democrat most of his adult life and was considered as “a wild card” among the Republican elite. Moreover, he had never run for a political office and to start out by wanting to run for President struck some, especially Republican senators and governors, as premature. Willkie was disliked by Democrats as a renegade and by Republicans as an interloper.
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Family of Girl, 12, Forced to Marry Abductor Condemn Pakistan Authorities
Haroon Janjua | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
10 Feb 2021 – The family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after allegedly being kidnapped and forced to marry her abductor, have attacked the authorities for refusing to act.
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The B’Tselem Report on Israeli Apartheid
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – The significance of the B’Tselem Report, which recently concluded that Israel imposes an apartheid regime to sustain Jewish supremacy on both Israel itself and all of the Occupied Palestine.
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Myanmar Coup: What Is Happening and Why?
Alice Cuddy | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
2 Feb 2021 – Myanmar hit headlines around the world on Monday [1 Feb] when its military seized control. The country’s leader, [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of her party are thought to be under house arrest.
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Appeals Are Not Enough
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
“Many of the organizations above make demands of the nuclear states to begin the process of nuclear disarmament. And people are invited to sign appeals to these governments such as the Appeal for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World. But there is no indication that the nuclear powers are listening. We must do more than that.”
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I’m A Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and I Have a Message for President Biden
Ahmed Rabbani | Reprieve/ICH - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – I am in year seven of a hunger strike, protesting the fact that I am held without trial. I am under half of the weight I was when I was first seized in Karachi, and the way it has been going, even while they force-feed me, I will die here in my cell. I have no interest in revenge, but I would like people to know what happened to me and how it has been swept under the carpet.
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Rising?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Vaccine apartheid is being practiced and not just in Palestine (Israeli colonizers get it, Palestinians don’t) but around the world as rich (white ruled) countries who became rich because of a history of colonization and oppression get it while developing/poor countries impoverished by the attacks of the West (like Yemen and Syria) do not.
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COVID and Kids: The Evidence
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
February 2021 – A brief overview of the current scientific evidence regarding COVID-19, children and schools.
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A Coup in Burma: Did Military Seize Power to Avoid ICC Prosecution for Rohingya Genocide?
Amy Goodman and Maung Zarni | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – We speak with Maung Zarni, a Burmese dissident, about the military coup underway in Burma as de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been arrested. The coup unfolded hours before lawmakers were to take their seats in the opening of parliament. “The military decided that they could no longer play this democracy game with Aung San Suu Kyi,” says Zarni.
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The Big Tech Takeover of Agriculture Is Dangerous
Larissa Ambrosano Packer, et al. | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
5 Feb 2021 – It will endanger the livelihood of the world’s small farmers and food workers and completely transform our food systems.
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A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Sea: This Is Apartheid
B'Tselem - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
12 Jan 2021 – More than 14 million people, roughly half of them Jews and the other half Palestinians, live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea under a single rule. The common perception in public, political, legal and media discourse is that two separate regimes operate side by side in this area, separated by the Green Line. One regime, inside the borders of the sovereign State of Israel, is a permanent democracy with a population of about nine million, all Israeli citizens. The other regime, in the territories Israel took over in 1967, whose final status is supposed to be determined in future negotiations, is a temporary military occupation imposed on some five million Palestinian subjects.
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Contrast Today’s Anti-Intellectual Peacelessness: John F. Kennedy’s “Peace Speech” in 1963
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – As the intellectual level of much politics has decreased dangerously, it may be useful to remember politicians who were leaders, visionaries, intellectually alert. We bring you this speech to establish some comparative standard and to ponder: Why is it that politics has become so boring? Why do today’s young people not queue up to participate in their country’s political work?
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Centenary
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
The British empire was complicit with the Zionists in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in these 100 years (and killing over 100,000 natives and injuring nearly a million) and that is precisely why we have 7.5 million displaced or refugee Palestinians and the rest squeezed into 8% of their historic lands and living under racist apartheid policies. The prosperity of the Israeli economy–like that of the US or Australia–is baptized by the blood of the native Palestinians. Lest we forget, the latest “Israeli” nationality law calls the whole land the land of the Jews and only Jews have a right to “self-determination” in this land (Palestine).
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Biden Administration Ends U.S. Support of Saudi-Led Offensive in Yemen
Mark Katkov | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – President Biden announced today that the U.S. will no longer support offensive military operations led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, reversing a policy started by the Obama administration and continued by Trump despite widespread accusations of Saudi war crimes.
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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – The dichotomy between the economic needs of the North American people and their leaders’ redundant and destructive militarism. Will they squander the U.S. only hope for a successful transformation from a decadent and declining empire to a dynamic and prosperous post-imperial future?
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Coronavirus Mutations Update
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
2 Feb 2021 – A brief update on the new coronavirus mutations, including the ‘British’, ‘South African’ and ‘Brazilian’ variants (i.e. N501Y.V1-V3), and evidence of their properties.
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Brazil’s COVID-19 Catastrophe: Nothing Less Than Criminal
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – Brazil will, eventually, defeat this virus. Bolsonaro and his far-right government, however, may not be as lucky.
→ read full articleCoronavirus Global Data: 106,7M+ Infected; 2,3M+ Deceased; 78,4M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
On 8 Feb 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 192
Total Cases: 106,752,707
Deaths: 2,328,807
Recovered: 78,450,304
Cases Closed: 80,925,227
Active: 25,827,480