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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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(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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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.
→ read full articleOxfam: 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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Write your own legend
Pawel Kuczynski – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
Elitism?
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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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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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(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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(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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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.
→ read full articleWhy 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,
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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Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
One moment insider, the next…
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(Italiano) Per la Pace Perpetua– Zum ewigen Frieden [Immanuel Kant]
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Ritrovato nel 2021, questo testo viene lasciato nella forma che ebbe nel 1988. I riferimenti all’attualità sul problema pace sono superati solo in parte: nelle questioni maggiori, i principi filosofici di Kant valgono oggi come allora. Testo ancora ricco di contributo filosofico alla pace.
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10 Things You Need to Know about the Experimental COVID Vaccines
Makia Freeman | The Freedom Articles - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – The COVID vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna are called mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccines – a completely new type of vaccine that has never been licensed or used on humans before. Traditional vaccines introduce pieces of a weakened virus to stimulate an immune response. mRNA vaccines inject molecules of synthetic genetic material from non-humans sources into your cells, thus hijacking your genes and permanently reprogramming them. These newly created proteins are not regulated by your DNA and are thus completely foreign to your body.
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America’s Biggest Owner of Farmland Is Now Bill Gates
Ariel Shapiro | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – Bill Gates, the fourth richest person in the world, has been quietly snatching up 242,000 acres of farmland across the U.S. — enough to make him the top private farmland owner in America.
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Cuba Will Produce 100 Million Doses of Its COVID-19 Vaccine
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
20 Jan 2021 – This year, Cuba will produce 100 million doses of its new Soberana 02 coronavirus vaccine to meet its internal demand and those of other countries, a leading Cuban scientist reported today.
→ read full articleCoronavirus Global Data: 99,8M+ Infected; 2,1M+ Deceased; 71,8M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
On 25 Jan 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 192
Total Cases: 99,839,954
Deaths: 2,140,489
Recovered: 71,842,179
Cases Closed: 73,983,874
Active: 25,856,080
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791)
Encyclopædia Britannica– TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. With Haydn and Beethoven he brought to its height the achievement of the Viennese Classical School. Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers.
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‘A Ghastly Future’? Israeli Apartheid, Biden, Starmer, Assange and Mass Extinction
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
20 Jan 2021 – ‘Paying attention fully to what is around us and in front of us, even though it hurts, is to be fully alive. Once we accept that anxiety and grief will be constant companions in this struggle, we can respond accordingly. We can help each other stay fully present, we can try to reduce harm, save what we can and plant some seeds for what might come next.’ A good start would be to reject the corporate media.
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What Went Right This Week: US Climate Action, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – US president Joe Biden signed executive orders aimed at tackling the climate crisis, the Dominican Republic approved a bill to end child marriage and jaguars roamed Argentina’s wetlands for the first time in 70 years, plus more positive news.
→ read full articleChallenges for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Having praised Joe Biden for his good decisions, we must also notice his bad ones. Many of those who he chose for his cabinet, or for other high offices, have received large amounts of money from corporations. Many have supported war and torture. The United States must renounce it aggressive foreign wars and its attempts to achieve global hegemony through military power
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Conversing with Each Other — People, Birds and Other Creatures
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
People can speak, they can recite poems
Twinkle Twinkle little Star
How I wonder what you are
They can use words to tell who they are
The Black January of Agribusiness: GMOs Rejected over Three Continents
Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
19 Jan 2021 – It is a black January for agribusiness lobbyists and stakeholders. Mexico, Peru and Tanzania closed the doors to GMOs, while the Italian government was pushed, by a pervasive civil society campaign, not only to confirm the ban to the old generation of GMOs but also to new generations, including New Breeding Techniques (NBTs).
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Puzzles of Birthdays
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
I have often felt puzzled by this western custom of blowing out the flame of the candles. In India, it is traditionally good to light a candle on Diwali or some happy occasion, not to de-light a candle or diya (earthen lamp).
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Trump Pardons Bannon, Grants Clemency to Reactionaries and Criminals
Jacob Crosse | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – President Donald Trump ended his presidency by granting clemency to 144 individuals, including one of his top fascist advisers, Stephen Bannon. On his way out of the White House, Trump issued 74 pardons and commuted the sentences of 70 others.
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Why We Need to Move Closer to King’s Understanding of Nonviolence
Kazu Haga | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Nonviolence is not simply the absence of violence, but about taking a proactive stand against violence and injustice, and working to repair the harm.
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The New Normal
True Sceptics | happen.network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – A great documentary that investigates The Fourth Industrial Revolution, what the 1% has to gain and the rest of us are about to lose.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 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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Nuclear Weapons Are Finally Outlawed, Next Step Is Disarmament
Robert Mardini | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021 – More than 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world’s first multilateral agreement banning nuclear weapons finally enters into force today.
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Biden Orders US to Rejoin Paris Agreement on Climate Change
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
20 Jan 2021 – U.S. President Joe Biden today signed an executive order returning the United States to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. “We are going to combat climate change in a way we have not done so far,” he said.
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Why Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Their Countries from COVID-19 Must Be Investigated
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – It is time to impanel a citizens’ tribunal to investigate the utter failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, and others to break the chain of the infection of COVID-19. The tribunal would provide the ICC with a firm foundation to do a forensic investigation of this crime against humanity. We should all be outraged. But, outrage is not a strong enough word.
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(Italiano) La distruzione di biodiversità della Terra
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Ralph Waldo Emerson una volta predisse che «La fine della razza umana sarà che finirà per morire di civiltà». Se dobbiamo dimostrare che aveva torto, non ci resta molto tempo. Questo perché Homo Sapiens è una parte del tessuto della vita. E noi lo stiamo scelleratamente distruggendo quel tessuto.
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The U.S.’s Idea of Diplomacy with Ecuador Is a Multibillion-Dollar Loan Trap
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021 – The deal with Ecuador is not seen as a one-time arrangement to “eject” China from the hemisphere. If Arauz becomes the next president of Ecuador, he will face the challenge of this U.S.-imposed conflict against China as one of his first obstacles. President Moreno and former president Trump have already begun the sabotage.
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Meet the 50 Doctors, Scientists and Healthcare Entrepreneurs Who Became Pandemic Billionaires in 2020
Giacomo Tognini | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Forbes found 50 new billionaires in the healthcare sector in 2020. The most notable newcomers of the year are the scientists behind two vaccines for the coronavirus — one developed by Pfizer and German biotech firm BioNTech, the other by Moderna — who have seen their net worths skyrocket since Jan 2020.
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What Did Lanza del Vasto See in Gandhi in the Year of His Conversion to Nonviolence (1937)?
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Graduated in philosophy, he had not chosen any social role. Poet and artist, he went from one job to another, without binding himself to anyone, or to one of the various women he knew, or to a definitive project. In the 1930s he decided to be a vegetarian, out of the horror he always had for killing animals, anti-fascist for the tacky arrogance of the fascist dictatorship, and anti-militarist because he was always opposed to killing another man (to the point of declaring himself to his mother conscientious objector, among the first ones in Italy).
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Monarch Butterfly Population Moves Closer to Extinction
Olga R. Rodriguez | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
19 Jan 2021 -The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted precipitously to a record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to extinction, researchers announced today.
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(Italiano) I vescovi cattolici chiedono al Regno Unito di “abbandonare il proprio arsenale nucleare”
Peter Kearney | Pax Christi International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
19 Gennaio 2021 – Una dichiarazione congiunta dei vescovi cattolici di Inghilterra, Galles e Scozia ha chiesto al governo britannico di “abbandonare il proprio arsenale nucleare” e di sostenere il Trattato sulla proibizione delle armi nucleari, che entrerà in vigore venerdì 22 gennaio 2021.
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The Fire Sermon (Adittapariyaya Sutta)
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying at Varanasi in Gaya, at Gaya Head, with 1,000 monks. There he addressed the monks:
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Brainwashed to Violence
Kristin Young Christman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
If brainwashed to commit violence, your conscience doesn’t prick when you kill.
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The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – The symbolic power of Bernie’s old pair of mittens was the work of the “us” in “not me, us.”
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Are We as Area Studies Scholars Guilty of Negligence in Allowing Genocides to Happen in the Regions We Study?
Michael Charney | FORSEA Forces of Renewal for Southeast Asia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – Foreign scholars CAN help to prevent genocide again. If we’re waiting for policymakers to prevent things on their own and save ourselves the trouble so that we can take a well-funded research trip and sit outside a coffee shop in Naypyitaw or Yangon, why should the rest of the world have any interest in reading anything we have to write? Scholarship and research should mean something.
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“The best warriors do not use violence. The best tacticians try to avoid confrontation. The best businessmen serve the communal good. The best leaders become servants of their people…”
Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi also known as Lao Tzu. However, the text’s authorship and dates of composition and compilation are debated.
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Baby I Love Your Way (Music Video of the Week)
Peter Frampton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Live Midnight Special 1975
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The ‘Humanitarian’ Left Still Ignores the Lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to Cheer on More War
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021 – The instinct among parts of the left to cheerlead the right’s war crimes dressed up as liberal “humanitarianism” is alive and kicking even after two decades of the horror shows that followed the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the US and UK; the western-sponsored butchering of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi unleashing a trade in slaves and arms; and the west’s covert backing of Islamic jihadists who proceeded to tear Syria apart.
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Leading UN Member-States Fail to End Rohingya Abuse
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
20 Jan 2021 – With an air of renewed optimism, Bangladesh side has widely reported on the Beijing-brokered meeting yesterday to resuscitate the repatriation process of 1 million Rohingya. However, the China-brokered tripartite meeting will bring no solution for either Bangladesh or Rohingya refugees.
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Corona Mask Mandates: Science or Political Dogma?
Michael J. Talmo | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
When it comes to masks, U.S. government officials have more waffles than a pancake house. Back in March 2020 we were told not to wear masks. Then, starting in April, they do an about-face and for the past several months have been telling us to wear surgical and even cloth masks. But they insisted that the masks won’t protect the people wearing them from COVID-19—only the people they come in contact with. “My mask protects you, your mask protects me” was the mantra.
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This Isn’t Goodbye
Mr. Fish | Scheer Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Troy Revisited – 20 Jan 2021
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Astonishing COVID-19 Testing Fraud Revealed
Joseph Mercola, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
13 Jan 2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how easy it is to manufacture panic. Topping the list of deceptive strategies is the use of a test that falsely labels healthy individuals as sick and infectious. The now infamous RT-PCR test is not designed to be used as a diagnostic tool as it cannot distinguish between inactive viruses and “live” or reproductive ones. This is a crucial point, since inactive and reproductive viruses are not interchangeable in terms of infectivity.
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UN Predicts ‘Famine Not Seen in 40 Years’ Due to Pompeo’s Yemen Policy
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – Mike Pompeo’s designation of Houthis as foreign terror group will block food and other aid, senior humanitarian says.
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Martin Luther King: The Saint Honored by the Government That Shot Him in the Face … A “Forgotten” Extrajudicial Political Assassination [?]
Prof. Graeme MacQueen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 18, was signed into law as a federal holiday in 1983. I do not wish to trivialize this accomplishment: it took great persistence by civil society groups and it had to conquer serious opposition. Yet what it has established is an indigestible paradox in the nation’s list of saints and heroes.
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MLK’s Warning of America’s Spiritual Death
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
From the Archive: A half century ago, The New York Times accused Martin Luther King Jr. of “slander” for decrying the Vietnam War and The Washington Post detected “unsupported fantasies” in his speech, recalled more favorably by Gary G. Kohls–originally published on 19 Jan 2014; slightly edited for time element.
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Update – #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange
Serena, Nicky, Blaž and Tareq | International Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – No doubt you have all closely followed the events surrounding Julian Assange’s court proceedings this week. For those of you who may have not yet had the chance, we wanted to provide you with a brief summary, analysis and some resources.
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“Orders to Kill” Dr. Martin Luther King: The Government That Honors MLK with a National Holiday Killed Him
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
A Review of ‘The Plot to Kill King’ by William Pepper – Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For almost fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government deception to hide the truth.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Dal 22 gennaio 2021, le armi nucleari diventano illegali – Ci sono le volontà, ci sono i mezzi: dobbiamo farcela
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Report on the State of Planet Earth at Year’s End 2020
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
The global elite continues to exercise enormous power to determine our fate and only a strategic response has any genuine prospect of defeating the elite coup to defend our identity, freedom and volition. ‘Never send to know for whom the bell tolls.’
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Vaccines Alone Aren’t Enough to Eradicate a Virus – Lessons from History
Caitjan Gainty and Agnes Arnold-Forster | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021- Too much hope is being pinned on the vaccine alone to get us out of the current pandemic. But ‘low-tech’ solutions are needed, too.
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DC Police Arrest 147 White Protesters on Capitol Steps
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
13 Jan 2021 – It was January 10, 2020. We weren’t protesting a stolen election, but a stolen future. I was among those arrested on the last day of Jane Fonda’s four-month DC stint of Fire Drill Fridays, along with Martin Sheen and Joaquin Phoenix.
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US Blacklisting of Houthis ‘Could Tip Yemen into Huge Famine’
BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – The US plan to designate Yemen’s rebel Houthi movement as a terrorist group is likely to trigger a “famine on a scale that we have not seen for nearly 40 years”, the UN’s aid chief has said.
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Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
On 18 Jan 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 192
Total Cases: 95,518,512
Deaths: 2,040,457
Recovered: 68,230,396
Cases Closed: 70,270,853
Active: 25,247,659
In Historic House Vote, Only 10 Republicans Join Democrats to Impeach Trump for Inciting Insurrection
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
13 Jan 2021 – With only a week left in office, President Donald Trump today became the first U.S. president in history to be impeached for a second time when all House Democrats—joined by just 10 Republicans—passed an article charging him with “high crimes and misdemeanors” for inciting a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Biden’s Nominee for CIA Director
John Kiriakou | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – If there must be a CIA, I feel better with Bill Burns being in charge of it.
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Why B’Tselem Is Calling Israel an Apartheid Regime, from the River to the Sea
Orly Noy | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – One of Israel’s top human rights groups recognizes the occupation cannot be viewed in isolation from the goal of Jewish supremacy inside the Green Line. B’Tselem invites the Israeli public and the international community to look at our reality with courage, to internalize its full meaning, and to work to create a different future based on full and equal human rights for all the inhabitants of the country.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
A doctor met his lawyer friend at a party and lamented to him that when he was at a party people would ask him for advice on what to do about their illnesses.
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The Correct Response to Fascism Is Not Compromise: QAnon and Hate Speech Need to Be Dealt with Head-On
Robin Edward Poulton - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – After the invasion of – and temporary suspension of – Congress, what is the correct response? As a peace maker, you might think I would opt for compromise, but that is not my position. A surgeon faced with a cancerous tumor does not wait until the tumor gets bigger: he cuts it out as soon as possible, and radiates the surrounding area to ensure the cancer does not grow back. QAnon is a cancer in the American body politic, and it needs to be treated like the Fascist Cancer it has become.
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ACTION ALERT: What Can ‘Now Be Told’ by NYT about Pentagon Papers Isn’t Actually True
Jim Naureckas | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Contrary to what is generally believed, Mr. Ellsberg never ‘gave’ the papers to the Times.” In fact, Ellsberg did give the papers to Sheehan, as the story gets around to revealing 38 paragraphs later: “So he told Mr. Ellsberg that he now needed the documents, not just his notes…. This time, when Mr. Sheehan asked, Mr. Ellsberg consented…. He arranged for Mr. Sheehan to pick up a complete copy of the historical study stowed in an Ellsberg family apartment in Manhattan.”So the big revisionist revelation in the New York Times article turns out to be false.
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Final Speech from ‘The Great Dictator’
Charlie Chaplin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…”
–The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)