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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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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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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
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…
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SARS 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
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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.
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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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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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(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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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.
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Anita McKone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – Songs of Nonviolence
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Wendel 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
→ 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
(Italiano) Perché la “rottura” della Gran Bretagna sarebbe un bene sotto tutti gli aspetti
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
I piani escogitati per accelerare la deregolamentazione della finanza, stanno isolando i bancari e gli speculatori dalle conseguenze del rischio. Le proposte per un rogo dei diritti dei lavoratori vengono bocciate per adesso, ma nessun osservatore informato ritiene che queste rimarranno fuori dall’agenda a lungo. I pesticidi che uccidono le api, illegali secondo l’Unione Europea, sono appena stati approvati per l’utilizzo nelle colture inglesi. Che cosa si dovrebbe fare?
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Robinhood Is a Perfect Example of Fintech’s Insidious Power
Timi Iwayemi and Max Moran | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
31 Jan 2021 – This past week we saw a perfect illustration of financial technology’s power. To spite “hedge fund bros,” retail investors led a surge in GameStop’s stock price. “The recent rise of ‘fintech’ is just the latest saga in a centuries-old struggle between democratic accountability and unaccountable private power, with the latter hiding behind promises of technological innovation.”
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A Murderous System Is Being Created Before Our Very Eyes
Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture | Republik - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture – and extradition to the U.S., where he could face up to 175 years in prison for exposing war crimes. For the first time, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, speaks in detail about the explosive findings of his investigation into the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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(Português) Organização Mundial da Saúde Sugere que Governos Incentivem Mais o Consumo de Alimentos de Origem Vegetal
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
31 Jan 2021 – OMS recomenda que os governos ofereçam mais opções em instituições públicas – como creches, escolas, hospitais e lares de idosos.
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Mahatma Gandhi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
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Message to Joe Biden and His Foreign Policy Team: Beware the King Cyrus Fallacy!
Richard Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Will the Biden appointees listen to anti-imperialist voices in both the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as among activists outside the two-party system? Will they recognize and avoid the King Cyrus fallacy? I have little confidence that hardened “national security” officials will do the right thing, but with Mr. Trump gone, hope still flowers. One therefore offers a prayer of sorts: ut imperii cadunt. May the U.S. Empire be dismantled as speedily and peacefully as possible!
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Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – Bill Gates has quietly made himself the largest owner of farmland in the United States. For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible. “Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” — Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case
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(Italiano) Ma che cosa ha visto Shantidas in Gandhi?
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Per rispondere si potrebbero elencare tutte le volte che egli lo descrive.
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National vs. Human Security
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – The sea change — awareness — begins with the realization that security isn’t a linear, one-way process: Round up the bad guys, the troublemakers, the illegals, lock ’em up, get them out of our way and, voila, problem solved, security attained, the good Americans are safe. Trouble’s in a cage! The remarkable, bureaucratic ignorance of this policy transcends the racism that drives it.
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Biden Says Trump Should No Longer Receive Classified Intelligence Briefings
Donald Judd, Kate Sullivan and Phil Mattingly | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – President Joe Biden doesn’t believe former President Donald Trump should receive classified intelligence briefings, as is tradition for past presidents, citing Trump’s “erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.”
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FORSEA Condemns Military Coup in Myanmar
FORSEA-Forces of Renewal for Southeast Asia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – FORSEA, a grassroots network of scholars and activists across Southeast Asia, unequivocally condemns Myanmar military’s coup and the detention of NLD leaders and MP-elects. Myanmar military has been acting without any restraint or consideration for the protection of civil and political rights, nor human rights.
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An Open Letter to President Biden about Guantánamo
Mansoor Adayfi, Moazzam Begg, et al. | The New York Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
29 Jan 2021 – President Bush opened it. President Obama promised to close it, but failed to do so. President Trump promised to keep it open. Now, it is your turn to decide. “We write to you as former prisoners of the United States held without charge or trial at the military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay who have written books about our experiences.”
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The mRNA COVID Vaccine Is Not a Vaccine
Makia Freeman | The Freedom Articles - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
NOT a Vaccine: the mRNA COVID VAX is a chemical pathogen production device and a technocratic, trans-humanistic tool to reprogram your DNA.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 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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Pentagon Goes Rooting for ‘Extremists’ among Its 3.6mn Trained Killers
Helen Buyniski | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – The US military is making a big show of cleansing its ranks of ‘extremism’ – because nothing says tolerance like raining fiery death on innocent strangers at the command of a guy who just stepped down from Raytheon’s board. With “domestic extremists” now officially the enemy du jour in Washington, the top order of business has become finding some.
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How ExxonMobil Uses Divide and Rule to Get Its Way in South America
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Tensions rise between neighboring Guyana and Venezuela over a piece of land that has been disputed since at least 1835. ExxonMobil sits on the sidelines, smiling. The distraction suits the oil giants. They make their money whether there is peace or war.
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Myanmar Military and Its Coup
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – Myanmar’s military staged a coup, detaining the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint early today, just hours before the scheduled start of the first session of the new parliament. With tanks, armored vehicles on streets, military sends message to public: ‘we are still here as arbiters of democracy’.
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Papering Over the Rot
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
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JFK, Allen Dulles, and Indonesia
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
2 Feb 2021 – Before I digress slightly, let me state from the outset that the book by Greg Poulgrain that I am about to review is extraordinary by any measure. The story he tells is one you will read nowhere else, especially in the way he links the assassination of President Kennedy to former CIA Director Allen Dulles and the engineering by the latter of one of the 20th century’s most terrible mass murders. It will make your hair stand on end and should be read by anyone who cares about historical truth.
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Psychologists Should Now Lead the Call to Close Guantánamo
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
“Considering the violence that has happened at Guantánamo, we are sure that after more than nineteen years, you agree that imprisoning people indefinitely without trial while subjecting them to torture, cruelty, and degrading treatment, with no meaningful access to families or proper legal systems, is the height of injustice. That is why imprisonment at Guantánamo must end.” Both the history and the ethics of our profession point the way forward.
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CNA Nursing Home Whistleblower: Seniors Are Dying like Flies after COVID Injections!
Brian Shilhavy | Health Impact News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
26 Jan 2021 – James is a Certified Nursing Assistant and he recorded this video as a whistleblower. He reports that in 2020 very few residents in the nursing home where he works got sick with COVID, and none of them died during the entire year of 2020. However, shortly after administering the Pfizer experimental mRNA injections, 14 died within two weeks, and he reports that many others are near death.
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Covid RNA Vaccines: Close to 1000 Post-Vaccination Deaths
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – Data from vaccine adverse event reporting systems in the US (VAERS), the EU (EUDRA) and the UK (MHRA) indicates that covid RNA vaccinations have already been associated with close to 1000 deaths and several thousand non-trivial ‘adverse events’, including anaphylactic (allergic) shocks, temporary facial paralysis, and, in a few cases, birth defects. These figures may be an underestimate, as vaccine reporting systems typically cover only a fraction of adverse events.
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(Português) Curta-metragem mostra como a Nike financia matança de cangurus
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
“Quero expor a verdade sangrenta que está sendo escondida de consumidores bem-intencionados”, diz Gavin Polone.
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Winning Votes through Identity Politics
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – Donald Trump obtained a little over 74 million votes in the 2020 presidential election losing to Joseph Biden who secured a little over 81 million. What explains Trump’s performance? An analysis may reveal the growing influence of a certain combination of forces that may shape elections in not only the United States but also in other parts of the world in the coming years.
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Creeping Corporate Statism, aka Fascism
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Despite depending on separate news media that purvey different realities, the two corporate parties both serve a corporate dictatorship.
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CASUALESE — Fun and Games
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
I have coined this word to refer to the casual atmosphere and sights that one can witness in some busy places of a city such as a river front, beach, market, railway station, and so on.
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One Art
Elizabeth Bishop – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Alongside classics like Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and Sylvia Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song,” “One Art” remains one of the greatest and most influential villanelles in the English language — sculptural masterworks of creative constraint, in which the virtuosity of language meets an exquisite mathematical precision in nineteen measured lines.
→ read full articleMental Illness
Matt Wuerker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Poor thing…
→ read full articleA Non-racial Society (a Society without Racism) Must Necessarily Be an Unbounded Society
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
“Rainbowism” is contrasted with “Non-racialism” or “A Non-racial Society.” The difference is that in “a Rainbow Society” people of different races live together in peace and harmony, while in a “Non-racial Society” race does not exist; the truth is acknowledged. The truth is that there is no such thing as race. Humanity is one.
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The Reddit Rebellion: Gameplay and Melvin Capital
Glenn Greenwald – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
28 Jan 2021 – One of the most interesting and potentially significant conflicts to happen in some time — not just financially but culturally and politically — deserves serious scrutiny.
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ICC Clears Way for War Crimes Probe of Israeli Actions
Josef Federman | Toronto Star/Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – The International Criminal Court said Friday [5 Feb] that its jurisdiction extends to territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, potentially clearing the way for its chief prosecutor to open a war crimes probe into Israeli military actions. The decision was welcomed by the Palestinians and decried by Israel’s prime minister, who vowed to fight “this perversion of justice.” The U.S., Israel’s closest ally, said it opposed the decision.
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The Coup We Are Not Talking About
Shoshana Zuboff | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
29 Jan 2021 – We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.
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Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
I am in receipt of a 4 Feb 2021 message from His Eminence Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, the Archbishop of Yangon, following a coup in Myanmar. The good Cardinal calls for calm, release of prisoners and urges the West to avoid sanctions against the oppressive military regime of Myanmar. A Time for Reflection
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Write your own legend
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Go figure…
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‘Freedom Is Never Voluntarily Given’: Palestinian Boycott of Israel Is Not Racist, It Is Anti-Racist
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – The boycott movement aims at holding the oppressor accountable as it places a price tag on military occupation and apartheid. Not only is the Palestinian boycott movement not racist, it is essentially a rallying cry against racism and oppression.
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Glyphosate and Roundup Disturb Gut Microbiome and Blood Biochemistry at Doses That Regulators Claim to Be Safe: Study
GM Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
27 Jan 2021 – Glyphosate-based herbicides and Roundup disrupt the human gut microbiome and blood biochemistry even at low doses regulators claim are safe, according to a new study. Imbalances in gut bacteria are linked to cancer, Type 2 diabetes, obesity and depression.
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Smile (Music Video of the Week)
Nat King Cole | Overjazz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Nat King Cole’s Classic from 1954
-Wonderful Lyrics by the great Charlie Chaplin-
Typical…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Rachel Findlay, the founder and director of Nuclear Dialogue, told that she once attended a meeting in Washington and sat next to an American General at dinner.
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Senior Officials Call on Israel to Halt West Bank Demolitions and Respect International Law
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
5 Feb 2021 – Three high-level UN officials today issued a statement calling for Israel to end demolitions in the occupied West Bank, after meeting with members of a Bedouin community ousted from their homes earlier this week in the northern Jordan Valley, while their belongings were “seized or destroyed”.
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It Is Never Too Late
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Sometimes we feel that life has passed us by that it is now too late to do many of the things we wanted to achieve in our life. Such thoughts demoralize us and prevent us from taking the small incremental steps on the path to improvement that may still be possible for us. “It is never too late to be what you might have been” – George Eliot
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Martyr’s Day, 30 January: Thoughts on Mahatma Gandhi
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest proponents of peace and nonviolence, was shot dead by a Hindu bigot on 30 January 1948.
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The Trump-Biden Transition in the Wake of the Capitol Building Riot
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
The Trajectory of Neoliberalism, Trends towards Fascism, and the Resistance to These – Trump may have been booted off the mainstage, but the next act promises to be worse.
→ read full articleWhat Happened to JFK and a Foreign Policy of Peace?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
“President Kennedy’s courageous turn from global war to a strategy of peace provides the why of his assassination. Because he turned toward peace with our enemies, the Communists, he found himself at odds with his own national security state.”
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Interfaith Harmony Week: Chou Tun-yi, a Voice for Our Time
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
The United Nations General Assembly on 20 October 2010 proclaimed the first week of February of each year as the “World Interfaith Harmony Week” among all religions, faiths and beliefs. The General Assembly resolution recognized “the imperative need for dialogue among the different faiths and religions in enhancing mutual understanding, harmony and cooperation among people.”
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Foresight? Foreknowledge? Conspiracy Theorist? Visionary? Prophet?
Bill Gates | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
3 April 2015: The next outbreak? We’re not ready! In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now’s the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training.
→ read full articleAjamu Baraka: We Are Entering a New Totalitarian Era
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
27 Jan 2021 – Ajamu Baraka warns of a new era of totalitarian neoliberalism. “Anybody who is in opposition to the hegemony of the neoliberal project is at some point over the next few years going to experience the heavy hand of the state.”
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Suck It, Wall Street
TK News by Matt Taibbi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
29 Jan 2021 – In a blowout comedy for the ages, finance pirates take it up the clacker. The day-trading followers of a two-million-subscriber Reddit forum called “wallstreetbets” decide to keep short-sellers from laying waste to video game company GameStop, betting it up in defiance of the Street. Worth $6 four months ago, the stock went to $43.03 on Jan 21st, to $147.98 on the 26th, to an incredible $347.51 on January 27th. Short-selling hedge fund Melvin Capital was forced to close out its position at a cost of nearly $3 billion.
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An Open Letter to President Biden…
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
… to Address the Following Requests: 1) Free Julian Assange; 2) Save the Children of Yemen.
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Complex Life Threatened
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
22 Jan 2021 – Throughout the world, scientists are speaking out like never before. They’re talking about an emergency situation of the health of the planet threatening “complex life,” including, by default, human life. It’s scary stuff.
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Mega-Rich Recoup COVID-Losses in Record-Time yet Billions Will Live in Poverty for At Least a Decade
OXFAM - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
25 Jan 2021 – A new global survey of 295 economists from 79 countries, commissioned by Oxfam, reveals that 87 percent of respondents expect an ‘increase’ or a ‘major increase’ in income inequality in their country as a result of the pandemic. Oxfam’s report shows how the rigged economic system is enabling a super-rich elite to amass wealth in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression while billions of people are struggling to make ends meet and how the pandemic is deepening long-standing economic, racial and gender divides.
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(Português) O proto facismo brasileiro e seu ¨Duce” e “Führer” de araque
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
29 jan 2021 – Nosso “Führer/Duce”de araque afirma que o Brasil está em primeiro lugar no mundo no combate ao Corona-vírus quando no ranking internacional figura em último lugar. O ministro das relações exteriores, conhecido terraplanista, considera um louvor ser “pária internacional” e o afirma dentro do próprio prédio do Itamaraty para vergonha da memória de notáveis diplomatas e chanceleres. Se há um poço em nossa história, encontramo-nos no mais profundo, embora o seu “Führer/Duce” tresloucado, acha que estamos no monte das bem-aventuranças.
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(Italiano) Psico-Covidologia: Indurre all’impotenza e allo sfruttamento della paura
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
La paura è nell’aria. Legittimare preoccupazioni sulla morte e sulla malattia può faciltare gli interessi politici e finanziari con la disinformazione, ma anche con censura, capri espiatori, supervisione, manipolando paura e abuso di potere. Le paure possono essere ben fondate o esagerate, minimizzate o negate. Inoltre, noi giudichiamo il livello di paura di chiunque altro come troppo, non abbastanza, o assurdo rispetto al nostro.
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