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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 Coronavirus Map
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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Coronavirus Global Data: 72,7M+ Infected; 1,6M+ Deceased; 50,9M+ Recovered
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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Relativity Theory
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.
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Coronavirus 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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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The 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.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
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.
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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
Rohingya Coerced into Going to Remote Island, Refugees and Aid Workers Say
Poppy McPherson and Ruma Paul | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – Refugees and humanitarian workers said today that some of the thousands of Rohingya being shipped to a remote island had been coerced, despite government assertions that none would be forced to go.
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The Slow-motion Assassination of Julian Assange
Kim Petersen | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – There is an attempt to use the machinery of the state to beat down a man in the darkness of Belmarsh prison and a British kangaroo court in London. Big media, however, has marginalized coverage of the Assange case even though the outcome is bound to have an enormous impact on journalism. The WikiLeaks publisher was targeted for exposing the war crimes of the US government.
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No Escape from Our Techno-Feudal World
Pepe Escobar | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – The Digital Age was crucially associated with right-wing ideology from the very start. The incubation was provided by the Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF), active from 1993 to 2010 and conveniently funded, among others, by Microsoft, At&T, Disney, Sony, Oracle, Google and Yahoo. In 1994, PFF held a ground-breaking conference in Atlanta that eventually led to a seminal Magna Carta: literally, Cyberspace and the American Dream: a Magna Carta for the Knowledge Era, published in 1996, during the first Clinton term.
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Vaccines: Successes and Controversies
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
December 2020 – Documentaries about the biggest successes and the most controversial aspects of vaccines.
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Anthony Judge | TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – The divisive nature of public discourse, most obviously between political opponents, could now be seen as characterized by repeated attempts to “take a jab at each other”. Rather than any reference to the “chattering classes”, the associated processes might now be caricatured as a feature of the “jabbering classes” — with the military-industrial and medical-industrial complexes usefully caricatured as forming a “jabberplex”.
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Corrupt Science and Elite Power: Your Techno-Slavery Is Now Imminent
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – Given that the fundamental aim of the coup is to substantially reduce the human population and keep those still alive, subject to permanent surveillance as well as mind and behavioural control, as ‘techno-slaves’ to the global elite, the time to resist is now.
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Australian War Crimes Report: A Damning Indictment of the Barbarity in Afghanistan
Socialist Equality Party (Australia) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – Despite six volumes of redactions—blacking out the specific and gruesome details—the official report released last week on the atrocities committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan is a devastating indictment of all the governments and ruling establishments, from Washington to London and Canberra, involved in this criminal war conducted by US imperialism.
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The Post Covid World, the WEF’s Diabolical Project: “Resetting the Future of Work Agenda” – after “the Great Reset”. A Horrifying Future
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
25 Nov 2020 -The World Economic Forum has just published a so-called White Paper, entitled “Resetting the Future of Work Agenda – in a Post-Covid World” – “Covid-19 – The Great Reset” by Klaus Schwab, founder and CEO. They call “Resetting the Future” a White Paper, meaning it’s a draft of sorts to measure people’s reactions. It reads indeed like an executioner’s tale. Many people may not read it – have no awareness of its existence. If they did, they would go up in arms and fight this latest totalitarian blueprint, offered to the world by the WEF.
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The Psychosis of Hegemony
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
4 Dec 2020 – So pervasive is this consensus that the foreign affairs community has developed something that approximates herd immunity to critical thinking. Political elites, think tankers, and consultancy gurus all sing in chorus from the same hymnal. Such differences as exist are barely noticeable variations on the fundamentally same threat assessments or on tactics for countering those alleged threats.
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In Closing Argument for Assange’s Extradition, Prosecutors Cast WikiLeaks as Criminal Enterprise
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – In the closing argument for the extradition os Julian Assange, Crown Prosecution Authority lawyers cast WikiLeaks as an ideologically entity in the “business of encouraging individuals to hack into computers.” Prosecutors further allege Assange encouraged the “mass and indiscriminate theft of a vast number of documents,” maintaining WikiLeaks “cannot be compared to the New York Times.”
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How to Conduct Your Own Conflict Analysis
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Making conflict analysis simple – There are many people and groups out there who are working to transform violent conflict, uproot some injustice, or address some social issue. It’s challenging work! And I know from experience that putting together a nice, clear conflict analysis can be incredibly useful to find strategic, effective ways to transform the issues you’re engaging with.
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Why the Fed Needs Public Banks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – The Fed’s policy tools – interest rate manipulation, quantitative easing, and “Special Purpose Vehicles” – have all failed to revive local economies suffering from government-mandated shutdowns. The Fed must rely on private banks to inject credit into Main Street, and private banks are currently unable or unwilling to do it. The tools the Fed actually needs are public banks, which could and would do the job.
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Peace Is Possible
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
The following is an open letter I sent from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the International Peace Bureau in Berlin, Germany, following their request for a donation on “Giving Tuesday” (1st December)
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A Little Bit Nazi
Mitchell Abidor | Jewish Currents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – The image has become a familiar one: A group of young Israelis is visiting Auschwitz, many of them wrapped in the Israeli flag. “I think,” one of the students says, “that in order to survive we need to be a little bit Nazi, too . . . we have to be able to kill mercilessly. We don’t stand a chance if we’re too soft. . . It’s hard to distinguish civilians from terrorists. A boy who’s just a boy today could become a terrorist tomorrow. It’s us or them. We won’t let this happen again.” The reasoning is Nazi—literally the same reasoning to which the Nazis resorted to explain the slaughter of Jewish children.
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Contradictions Emerge Amid the Race to Develop a COVID-19 Vaccine
Benjamin Mateus | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – Both Pfizer, a pharmaceutical giant, and the start-up firm Moderna have used essentially the same biochemical process, involving messenger RNA (mRNA) to develop a new vaccine against coronavirus.
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Sri Lanka: Still Fire under the Ashes
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
In 1987, there was a 13th amendment to the Constitution which allows for the creation of “provincial councils”. In practice these provincial councils have not been able to function as avenues for popular aspirations. However, the structure exists. The hope is that wise leadership will manifest itself in these provincial councils and thus prevent a new round of violence based on desperation.
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“Global Policeman”: Why Is the US in the South China Sea?
Andrew Korybko | OneWorld - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – The USA regards itself as the “global policeman”, hence its arrogant actions, but it was never deputized by the international community to fulfill such a role. Rather, it’s more like a dangerously delusional role player .
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Crisis and Predation: India, COVID-19, and Global Finance
Research Unit for Political Economy | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Nov 2020 issue – With the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent
lockdown on an already depressed economy, dealing a body blow to the majority of India’s billion-plus population. Yet the Indian government’s spending to cushion the lockdown’s economic impact ranked among the world’s lowest in GDP terms, resulting in unprecedented unemployment and hardship.
Dorothy Day, Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, Was a Radical Activist
Lexi McMenamin | TeenVogue - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
30 Nov 2020 – Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement, lifelong radical and anarchist, and prolific journalist, died on November 29, 1980, at age 83 — 40 years ago this week. Until her final days, Day was a committed advocate for social justice and pacifism.
→ read full articleContesting Aspects of COVID-19
Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative–not on the streets but confined to human dwellings.
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Warp Speed Ahead: COVID-19 Vaccines Pave the Way for a New Frontier in Surveillance
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – Like it or not, the COVID-19 pandemic with its veiled threat of forced vaccinations, contact tracing, and genetically encoded vaccines is propelling humanity at warp speed into a whole new frontier—a surveillance matrix—the likes of which we’ve only previously encountered in science fiction.
→ read full articleImportance of the “Practice-Research-Training” Nexus in Peacebuilding
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Peacebuilding, the equivalent of medicine in “social health”, benefits highly from this scheme to improve its approaches and tools and to be more effective and impactful. In fact, the development of peace studies in the last seven decades was grounded on the “practice-training-research” triad.
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“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Mark Twain - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced,” and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dai cicloni alla cattura dell’anidride carbonica… e ritorno. Aprire gli occhi sul mondo come ‘mercato’
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dicembre 2020 – Bisogna che ci rendiamo conto degli effetti globali delle nostre scelte (individuali, ma anche collettive, dai cicloni all’estrazione artificiale dell’anidride carbonica) e che ci impegniamo – come cittadini – a smascherare i persistenti tentativi di trasformare il mondo in un mercato.
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Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche on Love, Perseverance, and the True Mark of Greatness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity. What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
→ read full article(Português) O Cotidiano, a Fantasia e o Carisma
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dez 2020 – Nós viemos do útero comum donde vieram todas as coisas, da Energia de Fundo, daquele oceano sem margens, do big bang, do bóson Higgs que originou o top-quark, o tijolinho material mais primordial do edifício cósmico, passando por todas as fases da evolução até chegarmos ao computador atual e à inteligência artificial. E somos filhos e filhas da Terra. Melhor, somos a Terra que anda e dança, que freme de emoção e pensa, que quer e ama, que se extasia e adora o Ser que faz ser todos os seres.
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Anniversary of the Genocide Convention: 9 December 1948
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
The Genocide Convention is a landmark in the efforts to develop a system of universally accepted standards which promote an equitable world order for all members of the human family to live in dignity. Four articles are at the heart of this Convention and are here quoted in full to understand the process of implementation
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Robodoc: How India’s Robots Are Taking on Covid Patient Care
Kalpana Sunder | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – The pandemic has spurred on robotics companies building machines to perform tasks in hospitals and other industries.
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2020 on Track to Be One of Three Warmest Years on Record
World Meteorological Organization - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – 2011-2020 will be the warmest decade on record, with the warmest six years all being since 2015, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Ocean heat is at record levels and more than 80% of the global ocean experienced a marine heatwave at some time in 2020.
→ read full articleMy Way… OUT(ch)!
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Parody: When Trump Does Sinatra…
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The Philanthro-Capitalist Empire of Bill Gates
Manlio Masucci | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Nov 2020 – To continue to impose the old and failed policies of neoliberalism through new narratives, new make-up, new promises. Capitalism has been able to wear many masks throughout its history, but philanthropy is certainly one of the most vicious and dangerous. Especially when behind the veil of donations and aid there are powerful economic entities capable of directly influencing policies of the world’s rulers.
→ read full articleHoly Spoiler
Dietrich Fischer –TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Jesus recently walked into a bar somewhere in the Western World. He approached three sad‑faced gentlemen at a table, and greeted the first one:
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – Donald Trump was the messenger from hell when it came to a falling empire on a failing planet. Whether, on such a changing world, the next empire or empires, China or unknown powers to come, can rise in the normal fashion remains to be seen. As does whether, on such a planet, some other way of organizing human life, some potentially better, more empathetic way of dealing with the world and ourselves will be found.
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(Italiano) Attenzione agli Esperti!
Naresh Jotwani | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
4 Dicembre 2020 – Il mondo–o almeno larga e predominante parte di esso!–è incredibilmente gestita da cosiddetti “esperti”, ogni tanto soprannominati giustamente come “tecnocrati”. I loro ambiti di “competenza” sono molti, e la loro lista sta crescendo sempre più costantemente.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Everyone likes to watch News on TV channels
But what type of News depends on the Channels
The Year of the Cat (Music Video of the Week)
Al Stewart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Live – 1976 Classic. Enjoy!
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Why the Military Lies
Lt. Col. Danny Davis | Committee for the Republic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
17 Nov 2020 – Lt. Col. Danny Davis was a hero and then became a whistleblowing legend by exposing the lies the military has told and continues to peddle. The costs have been steep: trillions of dollars squandered on fool’s errands; the killing, maiming or displacement of millions; and the awakening of hatreds or revenge against the United States that make all citizens potential targets.
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Marcuse Today
Ronald Aronson and Jesper Munk Jakobsen | The Transnational/Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
23 Nov 2020 – When Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man appeared fifty years ago, it was a revelation. To many of us who were becoming the New Left, Marcuse reflected and explained our own feeling of suffocation, our alienation from an increasingly totalitarian universe that trumpeted its freedom at every moment.
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A New Level, a Historic Step Forward
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – For the first time there are so many virtual events for the culture of peace free and open to the public that we have begun listing them on CPNN. This makes possible a new step forward in the development of a global movement for the culture of peace.
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Listening to the Silence with Don DeLillo
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
5 Dec 2020 – In 1997, Don DeLillo, the author of seventeen novels, published what many consider his masterpiece, Underworld. It was a prophetic book in many ways, especially with its focus on the World Trade Towers and the way the book’s cover, front and back, pictured the towers shrouded in smoke or clouds with what seemed like a large bird approaching it at its upper floors.
→ read full articleEthiopia: Civil War and Nation Building in the 21st Century
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – In light of the Ethiopian central government’s military clash with regional forces in Tigray province, Ann Garrison speaks with a member of the Oromo people, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia.
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State Surveillance Exponential Expansion through Advanced Wireless Technologies
Jack Rasmus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
A Short Comment on a Big Danger – Not only would the government know your geographical location via the GPS signal to your cellphone. They’d know what you are doing. And with whom. A political gathering would allow them to see all the owners of other cellphones in the vicinity of a protest or demonstration. How many are gathering at a particular street or location. The direction they might be heading. Or whether there’s an organization meeting in a hall or room and who (with a cellphone as well) might be attending.
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Consciousness: The Symptom of the Soul
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
How It Interacts with but Is Separated from the Body
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NATO to Plan Invasion of China
Eric Zuesse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – Funding both sides in a war isn’t unusual for billionaires, because protection money is sometimes a necessary expense in a business — especially in an international one.
All of these people need to stay on the ‘good’ side of NATO, because, if they fail to do that, then they might lose everything, and they know it. Donating to the Atlantic Council buys not only a type of insurance policy, but a tax-write-off, and also prestige.
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Locked in and Locked out: The Impact of Digital Identity Systems on Rohingya Populations in Myanmar
Natalie Brinham, et al. | Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion/UN Special Rapporteur on Racism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
November 2020 – This paper sheds urgent light on how the digitization of identity stands to worsen the human rights situation for the Rohingya, who the global community has failed time and time again. It also centres Rohingya perspectives on the action necessary to ensure that technological innovation does not become a cover for severe discriminatory exclusion on the basis of ethnicity and religion.
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Ten Years Since WikiLeaks Published the US Diplomatic Cables
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
28 Nov 2020 – Today is the tenth anniversary of “Cablegate” when WikiLeaks, leading a group of partner media organisations, began reporting on the contents of hundreds of thousands of leaked United States government diplomatic cables. The documents revealed the vast scope and global reach of US imperialism’s criminal conspiracies and the brutality and corruption of governments the world over.
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