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The Assange Prosecution: A Haunting Reminder of What Happened in My Espionage Act Case
Jeffrey Sterling | The Dissenter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – Jeffrey Sterling, a CIA whistleblower, responds to how his case has been invoked by prosecutors to help them win the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition.
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Walt Whitman on What Makes a Great Person and What Wisdom Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
“The past, the future, majesty, love — if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.”
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Teaching Evolution in Schools: What Science Explains and What Explains Science
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
An Indian Union Minister of State recently triggered a furor by stating that evolution is unproven scientifically and shouldn’t be taught in schools.
Before examining the tenability of this statement, we need to understand what is implied by the word evolution. It refers to different things in different contexts.
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(Italiano) Siamo nel 2020, l’anno del coronavirus. Che cosa vorresti fare?
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
L’anno 2020 volge al termine, memorabile per i suoi incessanti riflettori sul coronavirus. Riflettendo sugli ultimi 12 mesi, immaginate cosa potreste fare se foste in una posizione di grande potere e influenza. Gli scenari offerti sono due, i quali hanno diversi obiettivi di fondo. Lo Scenario Global PowerElite, orientato a proteggere i diritti dei super-ricchi per continuare ad accumulare sempre più ricchezze. L’altro è lo Scenario One Earth Family, volto a garantire che ogni essere umano possa vivere in dignità e armonia con la terra. Inizierò io questo esercizio; poi toccherà a te.
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The Planet’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Just when it seemed that Joe Biden’s coming administration couldn’t be more of a horror show, he’s likely to appoint another monster from the deep, violent know-it-all Samantha Power to head the US Agency for International Development; a perfect position to wield foreign aid as a cudgel for beating foreign heads of state till they bow to US empire.
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#ForceTheVote: The Debate on Medicare for All That Is Dividing the American Left
Nuno Ramalho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
A debate is currently trending amongst the American political left: a new strategy to force a vote on Medicare for All in the House of Representatives. The main argument proposed by the #ForceTheVote movement is that the present sociopolitical context is the right moment for a vote on Medicare for All. The US is in the middle of a deadly pandemic where over 324K have died of Covid-19, some 15 million have lost their health care coverage, and many more are on the brink of homelessness.
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Spy Companies Using Channel Islands to Track Phones around the World
Crofton Black | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Surveillance firms can track the location of mobile phone users, intercept their messages and calls and access their sensitive data, thanks to vulnerabilities in how phone networks communicate with each other, our story shows. Experts told us the Channel Islands are an easy route in. We found evidence of surveillance attempts in more than 60 countries.
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Community Champions Law to Castrate Pedophiles in Nigerian State
Nosmot Gbadamosi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Despite criticism from rights groups, families of young rape victims in Kaduna state say they support the new law.
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The SolarWinds Hack Is Unlike Anything We Have Ever Seen Before
Josephine Wolff | Future Tense/Slate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – The SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign has apparently targeted a dizzying number of government and private organizations: the State, Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Energy departments; Microsoft; the cybersecurity firm FireEye; the National Institutes of Health; and the city network of Austin, Texas, just to name a few. It launched in the spring of this year, and it will likely last for years.
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The Wisdom of Johan Galtung, Father of Peace and Conflict Studies
True Heroes Films - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
True Heroes Films – 5 min. with Galtung
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A Pandemic of ‘Russian Hacking’
Ray McGovern and Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
19 Dec 2020 – The hyperbolic, evidence-free media reports on the “fresh outbreak” of the Russian-hacking disease seems an obvious attempt by intelligence to handcuff President-elect Joe Biden into a strong anti-Russian posture. Neither the actor, nor the motive, nor the damage done is known for certain in this latest scare story.
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Benjamin Franklin was a British-American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
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Literati
Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Government spokesman announcing a new tax regulation:
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
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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“L’effondrement”, the French Series That Stages the Collapse of Society
Daniel Ruiz, PhD | Scienza & Pace Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – The Collapse is a French television series inspired by the theses of the new academic subject of Collapsology, the transdisciplinary study of the risks of collapse of the industrial civilization. The word Collapsology was coined by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens in their essay: How Everything Can Collapse (2015). But the scientific modelling of the anthropogenic destruction of the biosphere dates back to 1972 with The Limits to Growth of the Club of Rome.
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Forests and Climate Change in Canada
Dr. Bill Bhaneja | Pilgrims - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
‘Carbon sink’ is a phenomenon similar to what one may describe as nature’s breathing – the forests/trees absorb CO2 from atmosphere and release Oxygen; however, during forest fires or decay, this process is reversed. A forest then starts lowering its carbon sink capacity, emitting a large amount of stored carbon sending it billowing into the air.
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Move of Rohingya Refugees Poses Environmental and Human Rights Concerns
Tina Gerhardt | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – On December 4, about 1,600 Rohingya traveled across the Bay of Bengal in seven navy boats from Chattogram to Bhasan Char. Bangladesh plans to move 100,000 families to the island. The move poses serious concerns, both with regard to the environment and human rights.
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Trump Is Spending the Last Days of His Presidency on a Literal Killing Spree
Austin Sarat | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – In disregard for political precedent or basic humanity, Trump is turning the anger and resentment which burnishes his brand into a virtually unprecedented string of fast-tracked federal executions before Biden takes office.
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Climate Chaos amidst the Pandemic: 5 Years after Paris
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
17 Dec 2020 – It’s been five years since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed to avert global climate chaos. World leaders, though, are primarily focused on COVID-19 with over 1.6 million people worldwide dead and over 74 million reported. These twin crises demand a global, collective coordinated response, with equitable, free distribution of coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, and a vigorous, just green recovery.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
This Modern World – Life in the Stupidverse
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(Italiano) partigianiditalia.it Una nuova fonte per la storia della Resistenza italiana
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
19 Dic 2020 – Archivi, storie, memorie. Identità. Il nuovo portale www.partigianiditalia.beniculturali.it, attivo dal 15 dicembre 2020, è il luogo virtuale e reale dove ritrovare le storie anche personali delle partigiane e dei partigiani d’Italia.
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Biden’s Cabinet Selections: What’s at Stake?
Marc Pilisuk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
17 Dec 2020 – Many of the democratic voters who helped sweep Biden into office are concerned with what will happen during his tenure. The concerns break down into whether Biden who has long been a player in policies that have contributed to inequality, favored a corporate and banking sector and engaged in costly militarism will be significantly changed.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Look at and listen in to three spheres of contemporary Western society: politics, research and media. The word “peace” and related words, such as the UN Charter norm of “making peace by peaceful means”, nonviolence, negotiations, have disappeared. And with the words, the discourse. And with the discourse the interest, the education and expertise, the focus, the awareness, and the strategies.
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How U.S. Government Paid-Off Its Super-Rich in Order to Pass Its Coronavirus-Relief Laws
Eric Zuesse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
On December 14th, two excellent news-reports were belatedly published about some of the massive corruption that was behind the initial U.S. federal coronavirus-relief law, the CARES Act, and about U.S. Senators of both Parties now intending to include such corruption in the next one. In an aristocracy, everything is just a racket. Even a covid-19 relief bill is.
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The Controversial Covid RT-PCR Test: What Do We Know?
Mark Taliano | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – We know that the PCR tests being used are not “fit for purpose”, that they are for Research Use Only. They are not meant to be used as diagnostic tools, and the late inventor of the RT-PCR instruments was very clear about this.
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Tackling the Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The “American System” Solution
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest problems.
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COVID-19 Vaccines Are Coming, but They’re Not What You Think
Graeme Wood and David A. Spiegel | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
These novel approaches could fail in many ways.
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Taxes All the Way
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
All of us are taxed in one way or another
There is the Income Tax even if you hardly earn
There is the Sales Tax if you buy anything
Desert Locust ‘Re-Invasion’ Threatens Millions across Horn of Africa
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – New Desert Locust swarms are forming in the Horn of Africa, threatening agricultural livelihoods and the food security of millions of people, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today-
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The Biodiversity Paradigm: Building Resilience for Human and Environmental Health
Ruchi Shroff & Carla Ramos Cortés | Springer Link – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
11 Nov 2020 – It is a well-established fact that biodiversity is pivotal to human and planetary health. This paper looks through an ecological sciences perspective at the interconnections and interrelations between human health and Earth’s health. But regardless of the wide recognition of the benefits of biodiversity, we are seeing a political and economic landscape which actively runs contrary to and further erodes diversity in favor of the globalized industrial food system, seed uniformity and further centralization through false tech solutions.
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USA at Crossroads: Presidential Election and the Clash of Democracy
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – “We have let the government’s evil-doing, its abuses, power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny go on for too long. We are approaching a reckoning. This is the point, as the poet W. B. Yeats warned, when things fall apart and anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
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How Gulf States Became Business Partners in Israel’s Occupation
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – Since signing the Abraham Accords, the UAE and Bahrain have been actively colluding with Israel’s settler movement and military authorities.
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The Return of Nature and Marx’s Ecology
Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – John Bellamy Foster talks about the paths great ecosocialist thinkers traveled, the most prominent debates in Marxist ecological thought, and the urgent need to transcend the conditions that threaten our planet.
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The Great Delusion
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
20 Dec 2020 – The real lesson we should learn from the rise of a demagogue such as Trump and a pandemic that our for-profit health care industry proved unable to contain is that we are losing control as a nation and as a species. Joe Biden and the systems managers of the deep state and empire are returning to power. Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and Christian fascists are sullenly preparing to leave office.
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Christmas Truce of 1914, World War I – For Sharing, For Peace
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Peace at the war front on Christmas day during World War I. A real story. An inspiration. Made in partnership with The Royal British Legion, it commemorates the extraordinary events of Christmas Day, 1914, when the guns fell silent and two armies met in no-man’s land, sharing gifts – and even playing football together.
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Leading Scholars’ Consensus Was Clear: Neither ICJ nor ICC on Their Own Will Deliver Rohingyas from Hell
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
On 15 December 2020, a group of leading scholars and experts from Canada, USA, and Ireland involved in the global campaign to end Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingyas held a legal roundtable, jointly organised by the Free Rohingya Coalition and FORSEA.
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O Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Francesco Parrino – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Piano Cover: A Christmas Song – Merry Christmas to you.
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Wall Street Vultures Are Ready to Get Rich from Water Scarcity
Nick Martin | The New Republic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
9 Dec 2020 – The basis of all human life is now officially on the market. Call it the No Future futures index.
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Major Japan Life Insurers Shun Investing in Nuke Weapon-Linked Firms
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
13 Dec 2020 – Four major Japanese life insurers do not invest in or extend loans to producers of nuclear weapons or companies related to them, as part of their efforts toward socially responsible investing. They manage a combined US$ 1.45 trillion in assets.
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The Most Lethal Virus Is Not Covid–It Is War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – John Pilger describes the invisible weapon of past and current wars, and the threat of nuclear war, under cover of the Covid pandemic. This is propaganda, aided by censorship by omission.
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Coronavirus Global Data: 77,2M+ Infected; 1,7M+ Deceased; 54,1M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
As of 21 Dec 2020 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 184
Total Cases: 77,223,121
Deaths: 1,700,679
Recovered: 54,129,897
Cases Closed: 55,830,576
Active: 21,717,206
Israel’s Isolation of Palestinian Child Prisoners Amounts to Torture
Defense for Children International-Palestine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – Israeli authorities routinely detain Palestinian children in isolation solely for interrogation purposes, a practice that amounts to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, says the 73-page report, “Isolated and Alone: Palestinian children held in solitary confinement by Israeli authorities for interrogation,” released today.
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The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads for Children
Andrew Quilty | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be USA’s Exit Strategy from Its Longest War
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New World Order? Oligarchs Discuss How Legal System Could Use Brain Mapping against You
Joseph Mercola, M.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
12 Sep 2020 – If brain mapping becomes mainstream, it could have major implications for the legal system. Even if a person chooses not to confess, their brain could be tapped to do it for them.
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CHD Article on Beneficiaries of COVID Pandemic Accepted by Peer-Reviewed Journal
Children's Health Defense Team - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – An article by Children’s Health Defense on how the pandemic facilitated a financial, tech, biopharmaceutical and military-intelligence push for centralized, technocratic control has been accepted by the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research.
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PCR Test for Coronavirus Questioned by Prominent Scientists
Barbara Cáceres | National Vaccine Information Center - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – 22 scientists with specialties in microbiology, virology, molecular genetics and molecular biology, immunology, pharmacology and other science fields, found “severe errors” in design and methodology of the RT-PCR which “render the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test useless.”
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The Zero Covid Countries
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – How did some countries manage to achieve a very low covid-19 prevalence?
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Country Health Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Welcome to World Life Expectancy. Find info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated daily.
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The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
8 Dec 2020 – Writing about “The Great Reset” is not easy. It has turned into a viral conspiracy theory purporting to expose something no one ever attempted to hide, most of which is not really happening anyway, some of which actually should. A viral conspiracy theory blends together legitimate critiques with truly dangerous anti-vaccination fantasies and outright coronavirus denialism.
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(Italiano) L’importanza del collegamento “Pratica, Ricerca, Addestramento” nel peacebuilding
Abbas Aroua | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dicembre 2020 -All’interno di un buon ospedale universitario, non si può immaginare l’assenza di uno dei tre pilastri della sanità e del suo corretto funzionamento: pratica, addestramento e ricerca in campo medico così come nelle discipline sanitarie. Svariati ambiti dell’attività umana – come il peacebuilding – seguono lo stesso schema per ottimizzare l’accumulo di sapere, la condivisione e gestione di conoscenze, anche pratiche.
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The Wayseer Manifesto
Garret John – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Attention all you rule-breakers, you misfits & troublemakers, all you free-spirits & pioneers… Everything the establishment has told you is wrong with you – is actually what’s right with you…
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Envisaging the AI-enhanced Future of the Conferencing Process
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – Meeting Design through Interactive Incorporation of Participants and Content – Whereas virtual gatherings were relatively exotic in 2019, they have become commonplace (if not essential) in 2020.
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In Bipartisan Vote: US House Approves Record $741 Billion Military Spending Bill
WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
The overwhelming bipartisan vote by the House of Representatives Tuesday [8 Dec] to approve the largest military budget in American history demonstrates the reality. Democrats and Republicans are supposedly at each other’s throats over an array of social and political issues, but they are entirely in agreement on funding the world’s largest and most lethal, destructie military machine–including the climate.
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U.S. National Lawyers Guild Condemns U.S. Illegal Occupation of Hawaii
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
On 28 Nov 1843, the United Kingdom and France jointly recognized the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign and independent State, which was followed by formal recognition by the United States on 6 Jul 1844. By 1893, when it was overthrown, the Hawaiian Kingdom maintained over 90 legations (embassies) and consulates throughout the world.
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Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
As of 14 Dec 2020 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 184
Total Cases: 72,710,142
Deaths: 1,620,243
Recovered: 50,922,559
Cases Closed: 52,542,802
Active: 20,501,317
The United States of America Is a Military ‘Democracy’
John Stanton | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020 – What is the point of the United States spending 1.2 trillion dollars on national security/defense when its healthcare system, critical infrastructure (bridges, sewage pipes, roads, etc.), small to mid-sized businesses, and social safety nets—even the constitutional order— are collapsing? Maybe it is all part of the plan.
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Murdering Nuclear Scientists Does Not Prevent Proliferation–A Nuclear Free Middle East Does
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Interview published in the Tehran Times on 2 Dec 2020. Fakhrizadeh’s assassination cannot be legally and politically justified by any acceptable theory governing the use of force in international relations and has very negative implications as an international precedent.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – Or What It Means to Fall on a Failing Planet
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Original Version)
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a milestone document drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world. The Declaration was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.
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Ethics for the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
In all terrestrial organisms, information is transmitted between generations by means of the genetic code; and genetic evolution takes place through natural selection acting on modifications of this code. In human cultural evolution, information is also transmitted between generations by means of language and writing. This second mode of evolution gave our species enormous adaptive advantages.
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Qatar: Between the Scylla of Coercion and the Charybdis of Accommodation: An Inquiry into Sub-Regional Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020 – Qatar is caught between seeking the end of the coercive diplomacy led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE and not wanting to end its necessary cooperation with Iran, especially with respect to large maritime natural gas deposits. The efforts at accommodation can turn out to be either a lessening of a confrontational approach to Iran or its intensification.
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‘Buy It or Else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Strategy to Force Farmers to Buy GMO Seeds and Pesticides
Johnathan Hettinger | Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
4 Dec 2020 – Internal company records show the companies knew their weedkiller, sprayed on GMO soybeans, would drift onto neighboring fields, devastate non-GMO organic crops, and that crop damage would be extensive. They sold it anyway.
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“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
Charles Mackay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, remembered mainly for his book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
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The Death of Emmett Till (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Dylan, Nobel Literature Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
“Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago,
When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door.
This boy’s dreadful tragedy I can still remember well,
The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till.
A Brief History of US Military Poisoning of Hawai’i
Ann Wright, Kyle Kajihiro and Jim Albertini | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
U.S. military contamination in Hawai’i comes from the military bases on four of the islands. The island of Kauai has the large Pacific Missile Test Facility. The Big Island of Hawai’i has the massive 130,000 acre firing range. The island of Kahoʻolawe is still contaminated from being bombed for decades. 43,000 active duty military personel, 9,600 Guard and Reserve, 60,000 dependents and 20,000 military employees live in Hawai’i. The military complex population of 132,600 comprises 10% of the 1.4 million population of the state.
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Is Philanthro-Capitalism Endangering Sustainable Development?
Navdanya International | LifeGate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
26 Oct 2020 – The latest report by Navdanya International aims to investigate the role and actions of one of the most influential private foundations – the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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(Português) O que é ser, de fato, pró-vida?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 dez 2020 – Magali Cunha é jornalista e professora universitária e escreve com paixão e com-paixão pelas vítimas das continuadas violência aos direitos humanos, especialmente, de inocentes crianças das periferias de nossas cidades. Neste dia 10 celebramos 72 da proclamação solene da Declaração dos Direitos Humanos da ONU
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Abandoning Afghanistan
Mort Rosenblum | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
6 Dec 2020 – Nineteen years and only Allah knows how many lives later – perhaps 500,000 – that still stands. And now Donald Trump has chosen to cut and run, leaving Joe Biden with an ungodly mess in a collapsed state of hapless victims ruled by violent factions that see the USA as a bitter enemy.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
When a woman says she’ll be ready to go out in five more minutes, (…)
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EU Summit: Billions for the Banks, Nothing for Workers
Peter Schwarz | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
12 Dec 2020 – European Central Bank extended its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme until the end of March 2022 and expanded it by €500 billion. This is the greatest redistribution of wealth in history, for the huge sums of money will ultimately have to be paid back by the working class in the form of cuts in social programmes and wages. The stock exchanges are jubilant.
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Vincent van Gogh on Art and the Power of Love in Letters to His Brother
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done! Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.
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The End of U.S. History Begins in the USA
Prof. Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
America’s aggressions around the globe have now come full circle and boomeranged into its domestic affairs.
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(Italiano) Fuori la guerra dalla storia
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dicembre 2020 -«Sono sempre dell’opinione che ripudiare la guerra e quindi avere una politica estera favorevole alla trattativa e ridurre le spese per gli armamenti siano le migliori prevenzioni della catastrofe bellica, opinione che la diffusione delle armi di distruzione di massa non fa che confermare.
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Contemporary Times — Women in the Forefront
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – All sort of issues and challenges confront society. These also lead to opportunities to offset the difficulties. Women being an integral part of society are confronting various problems and finding suitable solutions. These are of various types — social, economic, political and of course domestic and looking after children and elderly relatives.
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Net Worth of US Billionaires Has Soared by $1 Trillion to Total of $4 Trillion Since Pandemic Began
Americans for Tax Fairness and The Institute for Policy Studies | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dec 2020 – The collective wealth of America’s 651 billionaires has jumped by over $1 trillion since roughly the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to a total of $4 trillion at market close on Monday, December 7, 2020. Wealth increase in 9 months exceeds $908 billion cost of Covid relief package GOP has stalled as too costly.
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(Italiano) Gli invisibili… in India e nel mondo …diventano coro
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
9 Dicembre 2020 – In una recente video-intervista realizzata dal Direttore dell’Istituto di Ricerca Sociale Tricontinental e giornalista Vijay Prashad sulla rivista on-line Newsclick, la scrittrice e attivista Arundhati Roy – commentando il fatto che il Primo Ministro Modi ha annunciato il lockdown dicendo ‘avete quattro ore di tempo per chiudervi dentro’ – osservò: “Il Primo Ministro si comporta come se i suoi cittadini fossero forze ostili, che necessitano l’imboscata, che devono essere colti di sorpresa, di cui non ci si può fidare.”
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‘I Can’t Fall Asleep’: The Trauma of Israeli Raids on Palestinian Homes
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – A new report by human rights groups highlights the arbitrary nature and psychological harm of the Israeli army’s home invasions on Palestinian families.
→ read full articleCoronavirus Protocols as Tools of Repression
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dec 2020 – Covid-19 is a convenient excuse for governments to ban or restrict activities they don’t like. State measures to control coronavirus undoubtedly have great potential for justifying state repression and surveillance. “It’s beyond the Patriot Act authors’ wildest dreams.” In Africa, it’s been crudely weaponized to suppress elections, as witnessed in Uganda and Ethiopia.
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Global Arms Industry: Sales by the Top 25 Companies up 8.5%–Big Players Active in Global South
SIPRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – Sales of arms and military services by the sector’s largest 25 companies totalled US$361 billion in 2019, 8.5 per cent more than in 2018. The largest companies have a geographically diverse international presence. This is according to new data released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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Media Fuels Economic War on Nicaragua with False ‘Conflict Beef’ Story
John Perry | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)/Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Liberal media outlets are aiding a US economic war on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, calling for a boycott of “conflict beef” based on deeply flawed opposition accusations.
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The War on Cuba Documentary Tells the Story of the U.S. Embargo
Julia Thomas | NACLA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – The Belly of the Beast collective explains how they are creating responsible media about Cuba and depicting the impacts of U.S. policy.
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Living Rights: Making Human Rights Come Alive
Diane Perlman, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
I am pleased to announce the publication of Living Rights: Making Human Rights Come Alive–Activity Book and Journal on Amazon as an Ebook and Print on Demand, just in time for Human Rights Day, December 10.
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Partly Truth and Partly Fiction – Totally Genius: Kris Kristofferson
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
While great songs usually take but a few minutes to travel from the singer’s mouth to the listener’s ears, they keep echoing for a long time, as if they had taken both singer and listener on a circular journey out and back, and then, in true Odyssean fashion, replay the cyclic song of the shared poetic mystery that is life and death, love and loss, the going up and coming down, the abiding nostalgia for a future home.
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(Italiano) La sofferenza degli animali selvatici e il dilemma dei vegani
Jordi Casamitjana | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dicembre 2020 – L’etica vegana è per definizione anti-specista, così la definisce la Vegan Society. Per cui lo sfruttamento degli animali è inammissibile in tutte le sue forme, non solo quelle relative all’alimentazione. I vegani non hanno ancora raggiunto un accordo sul come affrontare la sofferenza degli animali selvatici, non sottoposti al diretto controllo degli esseri umani.
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The Empty-Headed League
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
More intelligent dialogues…
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The U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Displaced 37 Million People
David Vine | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – Our goal is to shed light on the 19-year-long “war on terror.” Our study focuses on the eight countries where the U.S. government bears significant responsibility for wars it has launched (Afghanistan and the overlapping war in Pakistan triggered by invading Afghanistan, and Iraq); escalated as a major combatant (Libya and Syria); or intensified through drone strikes, battlefield advising, logistical support, weapons sales, and other military aid (Yemen, Somalia, and the Philippines).
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Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany–False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test
F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dec 2020 – The widely-praised German model of the Angela Merkel regime to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is now engulfed in a series of potentially devastating scandals going to the very heart of the testing and medical advice being used to declare draconian economic shutdowns and next, de facto mandatory vaccinations.
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix e cineasta russo lançam filme sobre sensibilidade dos animais que comemos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
12 dez 2020 – Lançado ontem (11) na plataforma de streaming Film Forum, “Gunda” é um filme de 93 minutos pautado na sensibilidade, consciência e nas relações dos animais que reduzimos a alimentos e outros produtos.
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The COVID-19 Vaccine; Is the Goal Immunity or Depopulation?
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
4 Dec 2020 – This is the state of affairs in America today. All real power has been conceded to a globalist oligarchy that operates behind the curtain of corrupt government officials and public health experts. This begs the question of whether the hoopla surrounding the Coronavirus emerged as a spontaneous and appropriate reaction to a lethal and fast-spreading pandemic or whether the hysteria has been greatly exaggerated to implement a transformational political-social agenda.
→ read full articleIt’s 2020. What Would YOU Do?
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Reflecting on the past 12 months, imagine what you would do if you were in a position of great power and influence. Two scenarios are offered, each with different underlying goals. The ‘Global Power Elite scenario’ is geared toward protecting the right of the super-rich to continue amassing ever more riches, and the ‘One Earth Family scenario’ is aimed at ensuring every human being can live in dignity and harmony with the earth.
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Myanmar’s Perennial Ceasefire Talks
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
4 Dec 2020 – Myanmar is witnessing world’s longest ‘peace talks’ and continuation of longest-running ethnic wars.
→ read full articleThe Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – No one can, or should, take them seriously. They stand for nothing. They fight for nothing.
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Why Are Palestinians Being Forced to Prove Their Humanity?
Mohammed El-Kurd | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – What is happening has a clear name: ethnic cleansing. Over the last few months, the Israeli Court of Jerusalem has ruled to displace at least 12 Palestinian families in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah — including mine. Our homes, at any minute, might be taken by squatters backed by police. If your oppressor is the judge, to whom do you complain?
→ read full articleUniversal Declaration of Human Rights (Updated and Amended Version)
Diane Perlman Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – December 10 is Human Rights Day, the 72nd Anniversary of the UDHR. The world has changed in ways not imagined in 1948. Language is inserted in bold to reflect these times, plus ten new rights are added. This version derives from the original, with language synthesized from four versions of the UDHR.
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To Force Climate Action, We Need More Than Just Protests
Edward Carver | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020 – Two years ago, the Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion both captured media attention through bold direct action. Since then, Sunrise has combined protest with political work challenging fossil-fuel interests. XR and other groups tepid about electoral politics should do the same.
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(Italiano) In compresenza. Con la compagna Lidia Menapace
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
12 Dec 2020 – MenaPACE.
Un cognome, una garanzia: una realtà.
E’ stato così.
Quanta pace ha costruito e ha profuso Lidia, donna, partigiana, intellettuale, militante necessaria.
Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.
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Dystopian “Great Reset”: “Own Nothing and Be Happy”, Being Human in 2030
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Driven by the vision of its influential CEO Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum is the main driving force for the dystopian ‘great reset’, a tectonic shift that intends to change how we live, work and interact with each other. The Great Reset entails a transformation of society resulting in permanent restrictions on fundamental liberties and mass surveillance as entire sectors are sacrificed to boost monopoly and hegemony.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
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.
→ read full articleCoronavirus Global Data: 67,9M+ Infected; 1,5M+ Deceased; 47M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
As of 8 Dec 2020 12am GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 184
Total Cases: 67,938,973
Deaths: 1,550,263
Recovered: 47,022,267
Cases Closed: 48,572,530
Active: 19,366,443