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(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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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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“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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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.

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World 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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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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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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Mental Illness
Matt Wuerker - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Feb 2021

Poor thing…

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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.

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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 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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A 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 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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Reply to the Message of His Eminence Cardinal Charles Maung Bo to the People of Myanmar and the World Following the Coup
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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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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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-

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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.

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What 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.

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Ajamu 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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Nation-State Attacks
Fernando Velázquez | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

27 Jan 2021 — “You’ve been hacked. It was by a nation-state.” The latest example of this type of cyber attack involved U.S. federal agencies and high-profile companies that were breached via a compromised and weaponized version of a software update from a connected third party.

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US Backs Al-Qaeda in Yemen while Dubbing Its Houthi Enemies ‘Terrorists’
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

12 Jan 2021 – The US State Department designated Yemen’s Houthi movement — the most effective force in fighting al-Qaeda — as a “terrorist” organization. Meanwhile, Washington and Saudi Arabia have supported al-Qaeda.

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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 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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Misinformation Market: The Money-Making Tools Facebook Hands to Covid Cranks
Jasper Jackson and Alexandra Heal | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

31 Jan 2021 – Hundreds of Facebook pages have been making money using the social network’s tools while spreading misinformation about Coronavirus on social media. But so long as you keep using its platform, Facebook doesn’t seem to care. The video opens with a question: “Could this be bio-terrorism?”

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Coronavirus Global Data: 103,6M+ Infected; 2,2M+ Deceased; 75,2M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

On 1 Feb 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 192
Total Cases: 103,594,874
Deaths: 2,239,275
Recovered: 75,216,218
Cases Closed: 77,459,991
Active: 26,134,883

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The End of the Portuguese Dream?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

29 Jan 2021 – According to certain foreign media, the results of the last election spelled the “end of the Portuguese dream”. Until now Portugal had been the only European country without significant far-right forces. Analysis of the Election’s Results in Portugal

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Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?
Ciara Nugent | TIME - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

22 Jan 2021 – One evening in December, Jennifer Drouin, 30, headed out to buy groceries and noticed new price tags. The label by the zucchini said they cost 6¢ extra per kilo for their carbon footprint, 5¢ for the toll the farming takes on the land, and 4¢ to fairly pay workers. The true-price initiative is one of the schemes that Amsterdammers have introduced as they reassess the impact of the existing economic system.

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The Reddit Revolution, GameStop and Melvin Capital
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 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. A remarkable series of events culminated in at least one major Wall Street hedge fund on the verge of insolvency and widespread anxiety and even panic from the titans of the financial system. It was all initiated on a sub-group of Reddit.

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Variations in Canon (Music Video of the Week)
Johann Pachelbel | George Winston – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

One of the greatest masterpieces of Classical Music. Magical piano!

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“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.

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Joe Biden Restores American Aid to the Palestinian Authority
Al Bawaba - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

28 Jan 2021 – After four trying years under Trump, Palestinians have some good news. Biden has ordered a restoration of U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority. While the move is a good sign, it might not be enough to persuade both sides to renegotiate their differences, experts say.

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The Inequality Virus
Esmé Berkhout, et al. | OXFAM - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

25 Jan 2021 – Bringing together a world torn apart by coronavirus through a fair, just and sustainable economy. Over two million people have died, and hundreds of millions of people are being forced into poverty while many of the richest–individuals and corporations–are thriving. Billionaire fortunes returned to their pre-pandemic highs in just nine months.

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G4S Migrant Workers ‘Forced to Pay Millions’ in Illegal Fees for Jobs
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

18 Jan 2021 – Migrant workers working for the British security company G4S in the UAE have collectively been forced to pay millions of pounds in illegal fees to recruitment agents to secure their jobs. Firm faces calls to repay charges for jobs in Gulf states and conflict zones.

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Two Shocking Headlines That Sum Up Covid: Billionaires MADE $3.9 Trillion during the Pandemic, while Workers LOST $3.7 Trillion
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

30 Jan 2021 – The economic impact of Covid-19 on regular folk across the globe is as devastating as the physical toll it has taken, but we can’t just blame the super rich(er) for our woes – the true villains are much closer to home.

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After COVID, Davos Moves to the “Great Reset”
F. William Engdahl | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

27 Jan 2021 – With the USA Biden Presidency, Washington has rejoined the Global Warming agenda of the Paris Accords. With China making loud pledges about meeting strict CO2 emission standards by 2060, now the World Economic Forum is about to unveil what will transform the way we all live in what WEF head Klaus Schwab calls the Great Reset.

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2021 Doomsday Clock Statement: It Is 100 Seconds to Midnight
John Mecklin | Editor - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1 Feb 2021

27 Jan 2021 – The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains.

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329 Deaths + 9,516 Other Injuries Reported Following COVID Vaccine, Latest CDC Data Show
Children's Health Defense Team - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

29 Jan 2021 – The numbers reflect the latest data available as of Jan. 22 from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System website. Of the 329 reported deaths, 285 were from the U.S., and 44 were from other countries. The average age of those who died was 76.5.

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Is Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha Significant in Our Times?
David M. Traboulay | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

This paper was the fruit of two conceptions.  The first was a manuscript of Gandhi’s Satyagraha movement revised at least six times, unfinished.  The other arose from a deep concern over the consequences of terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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(Português) No Corredor
Luana S S | Vegazeta - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

“Fico pensando comigo mesmo como é interessante o fim de ciclos em nossas vidas, como nos causam ansiedade”

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Trump and the Western Press
Prof. Piero P. Giorgi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

While writing on January 27, the day elected in 2005 by the UN General Assembly as the Holocaust Remembrance Day, I will draw a comparison. Historical comparisons are normally weak concerning details, but they are often meaningful about moral conclusions.

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Oxfam: Global Billionaires’ Wealth up $3.9 Trillion during the Pandemic
Jacob Crosse | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

26 Jan 2021 – A new report issued by Oxfam International ahead of this week’s virtual World Economic Forum, which is usually held annually in Davos, Switzerland, underlines the effect of government policies enacted in response to the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic: Inequality Expected to Rise in Every Country “Simultaneously”

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(Italiano) Impronte umane sul pianeta Terra
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

26 Gennaio 2021 -Dagli anni ’80 del secolo scorso a oggi sono stati elaborati numerosi strumenti concettuali per mettere in evidenza il crescente impatto esercitato dalle attività o impronte umane sul pianeta Terra. Questi strumenti sono stati associati a misure quantitative di grandezze fisiche (superficie di un territorio, massa di una sostanza, volume di un gas, ecc.), in modo da renderne più comprensibile il significato. 

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Uprising and the End of the U.S. Empire
Johan Galtung | Free Speech TV/Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

Excerpts from a Lecture in Santa Cruz, California in Feb 2011 by Father of Peace Studies and Mediator Prof. Johan Galtung

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Write your own legend
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

Elitism?

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The Psychology of Nuclear Disarmament: Only a Democratic Federal World Union Is Realistic
Roger Kotila | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

25 Jan 2021 – In international relations, multilateralism refers to an alliance of multiple countries pursuing a common goal. Unfortunately, history shows that agreements based upon treaties are eventually broken or ignored.  Time and time again, particularly with the more powerful, treaties are discarded when seen as inconvenient. 

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Sick!
Pinterest – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

Indeed.

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(Italiano) Sfide per Joe Biden e Kamala Harris
John Scales Avery | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

Dopo le lodi dobbiamo anche notare le sue cattive decisioni. Molte fra le persone scelte per il suo gabinetto o per altre alte funzioni hanno ricevuto gran somme di denaro da megaziende. Molti hanno sostenuto guerra e tortura. Gran parte delle scelte di gabinetto di Biden hanno avuto posti nell’amministrazione Obama: non va abbastanza bene! Gli Stati Uniti devono rinunciare alle proprie guerre esterne aggressive e ai tentativi di raggiungere l’egemonia globale col potere militare!

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(Castellano) Papa Francisco y Gandhi: 5 claves de liderazgo con el ejemplo
Ary Waldir Ramos Díaz | Aleteia - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

«Podría decirse que es la primera vez que un Papa reconoce oficialmente la contribución del método no violento de Gandhi para el cambio político y quizás la primera vez que un no cristiano recibe una mención en una encíclica papal».

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Nonviolence Workshops in Australia
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

With the intention of developing a strategic nonviolent response to the elite coup – aka the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ – nonviolent activists in Melbourne, Australia are conducting workshops to build on existing resistance taking place in that city and elsewhere around the world.

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Why Britain Breaking Up Would Be Good for All Concerned
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

As Noam Chomsky said of Trump – the continual rows, outrage and insults distract attention to the front of stage, while behind the scenes the beneficiaries rub their hands and count the proceeds. Plans are being hatched for the further deregulation of finance, insulating bankers and speculators against the consequences of risk. And bee-killing pesticides, outlawed by the EU, have already been approved for use on British fields. What is to be done?

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Bamboo Tree as Renewable Energy Source
Ariel Bellamy | Earthava - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

Bamboo Tree: Renewable Energy Source and So Much More

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On the Uses of Compassion
Douglas Penick | Literary Hub - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

21 Jan 2021 – Buddhist Traditions in the Mediation of Suffering

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The Boy Whose Head Was Filled with Stars: The Inspiring Illustrated Story of How Edwin Hubble Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Universe
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

The law underlying the universe’s expansion would come to bear Hubble’s name, as would the ambitious space telescope that would give humanity an unprecedented glimpse of a cosmos “so brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.” Hubble’s Law staggers the imagination with the awareness that even our most intimate celestial companion, the Moon, is slowly moving away from us every day, about as fast as your fingernails grow.

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Will Biden End America’s Global War on Children?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

A less publicized Trump policy that actually killed children was the fulfillment of his campaign promises to “bomb the shit out of” America’s enemies and “take out their families.” After devastating U.S. bombardments that killed tens of thousands of civilians and left major cities in ruins, US’ Iraqi allies fulfilled the most shocking of Trump’s threats and massacred the survivors – men, women and children – in Mosul.

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About Suffering: A Massacre of the Innocents in Yemen
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

19 Jan 2021- For more than five years, Yemenis have faced near-famine conditions while enduring a naval blockade and routine aerial bombardment. The war has already caused 233,000 deaths, including 131,000 from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure. Systematic destruction of farms, fisheries, roads, sewage and sanitation plants and health-care facilities has wrought further suffering. We must not turn away. Doing so may help spare the lives of at least some of Yemen’s children.

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Coronavirus Vaccine Update
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

23 Jan 2021 – An Update on Real-World Coronavirus Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety Results

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Vaccines May Not Work as Well against the Coronavirus Variant Detected in South Africa, Research Shows–People May Also Face a Risk of Reinfection
Aylin Woodward | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

22 Jan 2021 – At first, there was little evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines wouldn’t work against the mutated, more infectious versions of the virus that have emerged in the last few months. But preliminary research published this week suggests that a coronavirus variant detected in South Africa in December can partially evade the defenses vaccines build in our bodies’ immune systems.

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Amidst Opposition, the Nuclear Ban Treaty Becomes International Law
Diane Perlman, PhD | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

Today, January 22, 2021, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) finally enters into force. The “Nuclear Ban Treaty” prohibits states parties from developing, testing, stockpiling, manufacturing, possessing, transferring, or threatening to use nuclear weapons. The full text of the Treaty IS HERE.

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Biden Immediately Rolls Back Trump’s Legacy with 17 Executive Orders on Immigration, Climate, COVID
Griffin Connolly | Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

21 Jan 2021 – Core Components of Trump’s Legacy Come Undone with the Stroke of a Pen – Biden signs federal mask mandate, repeals Muslim ban, and rejoins Paris climate agreement.

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Is There an American ‘Deep State’?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

23 Jan 2021 – Trump’s foreign policy was indeed disastrous, but it did somewhat illuminate the anachronistic character of the zombie like ‘bipartisan consensus’ that yet be revived in the course of reaffirming the old Cold War/neoliberal globalization orthodoxy of pre-Trump America.   

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(Italiano) Dalla “non proliferazione” alla proibizione delle armi nucleari
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

Il Trattato di non proliferazione degli armamenti nucleari, risalente al 1968, non ha arginato in modo significativo il fenomeno. Oggi, 22 gennaio 2021, entra in vigore un nuovo trattato per la proibizione delle armi nucleari. Non farà miracoli ma potrà produrre alcuni effetti importanti per un effettivo processo di disarmo nucleare.

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Why We Love War
David R. Loy | Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

22 Jan 2021 – War is hell, and today more than ever. Although high-tech weapons are a videogame for some, they are unbelievably destructive for everyone else. Whatever valor was once associated with hand-to-hand combat has long since disappeared being increasingly difficult to romanticize the death and misery war causes.

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(Português) Brasil: Dois Anos de Desgoverno–A Crise de Legitimidade
Leonardo Boff e Juarez Guimarães – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

21 jan 2021 – A situação do Brasil, assaltado por múltiplas crises, representa um desafio a qualquer analista. No meu entender, um dos melhores e mais argutos é JUAREZ GUIMARÃES, professor de Ciência Política da UFMG. Combina de forma inteligente a análise com a síntese, oferecendo-nos grelhas de interpretação que nos ajudam a entender o intrincado jogo de poderes que se escondem por trás do bolsonarismo. Este na verdade imita de forma cabocla, até nos mínimos detalhes, o trumpismo dos USA.

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We Fell Asleep in One World and Woke Up in Another
Haroon Rashid – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

We fell asleep in one world, and woke up in another.
Suddenly Disney is out of magic,
Paris is no longer romantic,
New York doesn’t stand up anymore,

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An Open Letter to President Biden
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

One of my sad conclusions: the U.S.A’s foreign policy has been a major cause of war in the world since 2001, a source of poverty and misery, a manufacturer of refugees and of terrorists. As an expert on the origins of terrorism, I know that the U.S.A. is a major supporter of terrorism and terrorist organizations.

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(Italiano) Il Martin Luther King Day negli USA e nel mondo di oggi
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

20 Gennaio 2021 – Il 18 gennaio si è celebrato negli USA, come ogni anno dopo il suo assassinio, il Martin Luther King Day, in ricordo della nascita del pastore battista, leader del movimento contro la segregazione razziale, avvenuta il 15 gennaio 1929 (la ricorrenza si celebra sempre il terzo lunedì di gennaio).

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Output
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

One moment insider, the next…

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The Energy Bulletin
Tom Whipple and Steve Andrews | Editors – Post Carbon Institute, 25 Jan 2021

“It may be counterintuitive to say that the oil demand crash and the resulting glut in 2020 could lead to an oil supply crunch in just a few years. Yet, a growing number of experts and international agencies warn that the world could be headed for an oil shortage when oil demand finally recovers from the COVID-inflicted crisis in late 2022 or 2023.”

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