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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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Jabbercovid from the Jabberplex
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.
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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”.
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(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.
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(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.
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My 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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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 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.
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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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News on TV
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.
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Ethiopia: 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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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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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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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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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 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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Reframing the Imaginable Key to the Future?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
30 Nov 2020 – Clues to the Nature of a Global Reset – The World Economic Forum is proposing a Global Reset (or a Great Reset) as a form of panacea for the crises of global civilization. The complementary World Social Forum has not engendered any consensus on a panacea — other than curtailing those motivated by the World Economic Forum.
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(Italiano) Possiamo “TRASCENDERE” la guerra civile americana?
Diane Pearlman | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
28 Novembre 2020 – Una guerra civile sta crescendo negli Stati Uniti dati gli attacchi alla democrazia senza precedenti del presidente Trump, che sta piantando bombe pronte ad esplodere. Come abbiamo raggiunto il livello patologico della separazione degli opposti? Cosa ha da offrirci adesso il Metodo Transcend?
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(Nederlandse) Wist je dat het IMF pleit voor een coronataks? Dat en andere markante feiten over COVID-19
Marc Vandepitte | De Wereld Morgen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 – In deze rubriek brengt veellezer Marc Vandepitte markante feiten, cijfers of quotes van over heel de wereld die in de andere media weinig of geen aandacht kregen, maar zeker het vermelden waard zijn om de chaotische wereld van vandaag te begrijpen.
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29 November: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
Observed annually, solemnly commemorating the adoption by the Assembly, on 29 November 1947, of resolution 181 (II), which provided for the partition of Palestine into two States.
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Afghanistan: Elegy . . . Unfinished Tapestry?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
I write in sympathy, empathy, compassion, and shared hope.
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Like a Rocket in the Garden: The Unending War in Afghanistan
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault.
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Unspeakable Memories: The Day John Kennedy Died
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – There is a vast literature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who died on this date, November 22, 1963. Unless one is a government disinformation agent or is unaware of the enormous documentary evidence, one knows that it was the U.S. national security state, led by the CIA, that carried out JFK’s murder. Confirmation of this fact keeps arriving in easily accessible forms for anyone interested in the truth.
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Brave Vandana Shiva Speaks Out against the Great Reset
Organic Radicals | SOTT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – Prof. Vandana Shiva has been courageously speaking out against the insidious ‘Great Reset’ being sprung on us by Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and the rest of the global capitalist elite. She warns that “The Great Reset is about maintaining and empowering a corporate extraction machine and the private ownership of life”.
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(Português) Pecuarista que encomendou morte de ativistas da Amazônia continua impune
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
De acordo com o juiz Raimundo Moises Flexa, o pecuarista que está foragido há seis anos agiu com culpabilidade fria, covarde e premeditada.
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Doctors for Assange Statement: Ongoing Torture and Neglect
Doctors for Assange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 – Mr Assange remains confined to Belmarsh prison for journalistic activity that was legal when and where it occurred and remains so as determined the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. He is at risk of dying and a victim of psychological torture according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Experts explained to the court that Mr Assange’s ASD diagnosis statistically places him at a ninefold elevated risk of suicidal ideation.
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Coronavirus Global Data: 63,1M+ Infected; 43,6M+ Recovered; 1,4M+ Deceased
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
*Two Databases Permanently Displayed on TMS*
*Global, Localized, Specific Data Updated in Real Time*
As of 30 Nov 2020 12 pm GMT:
Total Cases: 63,174,127
Recovered: 43,683,981
Cases Closed: 45,151,125
Active: 18,023,002
Deaths: 1,467,144
Total Vaccines in Development: 183
Technological Solutionism Will Not Save Our Food Systems
Carla Ramos Cortés | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – Although most international actors agree that our current food system is broken, not all agree on how this call for ‘food systems transformation’ should go. Now, the COVID public health crisis and its resulting economic devastation have accelerated calls to respond through the ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism through embracing the fourth industrial revolution.
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Tulsi Gabbard Urges Trump to ‘Please Consider’ Pardons for Julian Assange and Edward Snowden
Matt Mathers | Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
29 Nov 2020 – Democrat lawmaker, Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s call comes after Mr Trump pardoned his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who twice admitted lying to the FBI.
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EPA Finds Glyphosate Is Likely to Injure or Kill 93% of Endangered Species
Center for Biological Diversity - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
25 Nov 2020 -The Environmental Protection Agency released a biological evaluation today finding that glyphosate is likely to injure or kill 93% of the plants and animals protected under the ESA. The long-anticipated biological evaluation found that 1,676 endangered species are likely to be harmed by glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and the world’s most-used pesticide. It also found that glyphosate adversely modifies critical habitat for 759 endangered species, or 96% of all species for which critical habitat has been designated.
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The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires. Despotisms fear the truth. They know it is a mortal threat. If we remain determined to live in truth, no matter the cost, we have a chance.
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Beware the Experts!
Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
Opportunities for gaming the system are many. The standard, time-tested techniques of cronyism, mutual back-scratching, feudalism, deception, hyperbole, playing to the gallery … et cetera … run rampant. These techniques are at work incessantly and brazenly, around the world, to further the careers of aggressive and ambitious old-timers, mid-lifers and new entrants.
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Akankha Sutta –> Wishes
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
[1] “If a monk would wish, ‘May I be dear and pleasing to my fellows in the holy life, respected by and inspiring to them,’ then he should be one who brings the precepts to perfection, who is committed to mental calm, who does not neglect jhana, who is endowed with insight, and who frequents empty dwellings.”
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A People’s Vaccine? Drugmakers Set to Profit from COVID Vaccines Made with Publicly Funded Research
Amy Goodlman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – With the world pinning its hopes on a successful coronavirus vaccine to curb the pandemic, corporate watchdogs say much of the research and development of the medicines rely on publicly funded research.
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(Français) Saviez-vous que le FMI plaide pour une taxation corona? Quelques faits marquants à propos du COVID-19
Marc Vandepitte | Investig'Action/De Wereld Morgen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
26 Nov 2020 – Dans cet article Marc Vandepitte, lecteur tous azimuts, présente des faits marquants, des chiffres et des citations du monde entier qui n’ont guère attiré l’attention des autres médias, mais qui méritent certainement d’être mentionnés pour comprendre le monde chaotique d’aujourd’hui.
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What the Leading COVID Vaccine Contenders Still Need to Tell the Public
Rob Verkerk Ph.D | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – Given how much we don’t yet know, it’s unclear why those of us asking for more information about the leading COVID vaccines are being marginalised. We’re simply exercising our right to informed consent.
→ read full articleNagorno-Karabakh: Protecting the Heritage of Humanity
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
On 18 November 2020, the Director General of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay received representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan to discuss the situation in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. The protection of cultural heritage is only one of the many challenges concerning Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian peacekeeping troops, and relations between Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. A situation that merits watching.
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Cuba Successfully Halts Its COVID-19 Outbreak
Dr. Birsen Filip | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
25 Nov 2020 – Broadly speaking, Cuba’s success in terms of containing its COVID-19 outbreak is due in large part to the centrally planned system’s adherence to the principle that free and universal health care is a fundamental human right.
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28 Nov 1946: Hawaii Independence Day
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
November 28th is the most important national holiday in the Hawaiian Kingdom. It is the day Great Britain and France formally recognized the Hawaiian Islands as an “independent state” in 1843, and has since been celebrated as “Independence Day,” which in the Hawaiian language is “La Ku‘oko‘a.”
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A Long-Forgotten CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on Today’s U.S. Politics and Wars
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – The Agency knew that their best asset for selling their wars was Barack Obama — the same reason so many in the security state were eager to get rid of Donald Trump.
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Sidelining Africans, the US Imposes Its Own Choice for UN Envoy to Libya
Maurizio Guerrero | PassBlue - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – “We came, we saw, he died” ha ha ha – thus cackled the unrepentant sponsor of US state terrorism, Hillary Clinton, following the brutal, inhumane murder of Muammar Gaddafi the Libyan revolutionary head of state: supported by Joe Biden, by the way. The US is the last country on earth that should be allowed to impose an envoy on any country, least of all Libya. — Roger Kotila, President DWF
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The Love of Truth and the Truth of Love: Bertrand Russell on the Two Pillars of Human Flourishing
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
“Fanaticism is the danger of the world. It always has been and has done untold harm. I think fanaticism is the greatest danger there is. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.” When asked what, in nearly ninety years of living, he has learned about life that he considers most important to pass on to posterity, Russell offers two things — “one intellectual and one moral.”
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DIWALI — Festival of Lights
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
The festival of Diwali is celebrated on the return of Lord Ram along with wife Sita and brother Lakshman to their kingdom after an exile of 14 years, this year celebrated on 14 Nov, New Moon night. This date is also commemorated as Children’s Day in the anniversary of the first Prime Minister of independent India — Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Study Finds Meatpacking Plants Were Responsible for 8% of Coronavirus Cases in Opening Phase of Pandemic in the US
Cordell Gascoigne | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
27 Nov 2020 – A recent study by Charles Taylor of Columbia University, and Christopher Boulos and Douglas Almond of the University of Chicago, found that outbreaks at meatpacking plants were responsible for 8 percent of all COVID-19 cases in the USA during the early months of the pandemic.
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[Obscenity] World Bank Urges Governments to Guarantee Private Profits even if Investors Fail Contractual Agreements
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 – The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks and international financial institutions to press developing country governments to ‘de-risk’ infrastructure and other private, especially foreign investments. Governments have little choice but to accede to their private partners’ demands. Thus, WB guidance further undermines governments.
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Wars R Us: ‘Understanding the War Industry’
Jeremy Kuzmarov | ConvertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
28 Nov 2020 – Pay no attention to all those nasty left-wing allegations about how military contractors collude and conspire with the Pentagon. Rather than simply having what President Dwight Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex, we actually have a military-industrial-congressional complex, with a media and academic adjunct.
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Rising Hunger in Drought-Stricken Southern Madagascar Forcing Families to Eat Insects: WFP
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
27 Nov 2020 – Hunger is on the rise in southern Madagascar due to consecutive years of drought, affecting half the region’s population, or 1.5 million people, and forcing most families to eat insects, the World Food Programme reported today.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
A mouse ran for her life away from a cat. She saw a cow and begged,
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The Whale Who Sank a Ship and Became a Legend
Ed Fox | Whale and Dolphin Conservation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
On 20th November, 1820, far out in the Pacific Ocean, an enormous male sperm whale turned on a group of American whalers, ramming their ship, the Essex, and sinking it. News of the event shocked the whaling world, and would later inspire Herman Melville to write his great American novel, Moby Dick.
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How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship, Hate Journalism
Joseph Mercola, M.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
27 Nov 2020 – Social media platforms are openly censoring dissenting views about COVID, particularly its origin and treatment, says author Sharyl Attkisson in her new book on media bias and the deterioration of objective journalism.
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Pompeo’s Diabolical Diplomacy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
29 Nov 2020 – This interview, devoted to Pompeo’s three-day visit to Israel and Occupied Palestine, was conducted by Eshrat Mardi and published in the Tehran Times Interview Nov. 28, 2020.
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UN Panel Votes 163-5 in Support of Palestinian Statehood, End of Occupation
Jacob Magid | The Times of Israel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – Draft calling for two-state solution passes General Assembly’s Third Committee in large package of annual pro-Palestinian resolutions that Israel argues shows bias against it.
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Media, Propaganda, Perception and China’s Identity in the 21st Century
Hassanal Noor Rashid | JUST Commentary - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
18 Nov 2020 – Since the advent of the modern media, propaganda and disinformation have been part of the tools used in the eternal contest of public perception. But unlike traditional military power, the ones who carry the fight in this battle of perceptions are not armed soldiers. Ultimately, the layman and everyday people are the ones who propagate much of what goes into the discourse. The casualties are not measured in blood, but in the death of truth, integrity and trust.
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The Real Threat to Democracy Isn’t Julian Assange — It’s the Espionage Case against Him
Andy Bichlbaum | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – We have complicated feelings about Assange. But prosecuting him under the Espionage Act would be a disaster for journalism and democracy. He is currently facing extradition to the US from London, for allegedly violating the U.S. Espionage Act — marking the first time the act has been used to prosecute the publishing of information.
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US Intervenes as Venezuela Prepares for High Stakes Election
Roger Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
26 Nov 2020 – A long list of international figures including Noble Prize winners and former heads of state petitioned the EU:
“This election represents, above all a democratic, legal and peaceful way out of the political and institutional crisis that was triggered in January 2019 by the self-appointment of Juan Guaidó as ‘interim president’ of Venezuela.”
The Sound of Silence (Music Video of the Week)
Simon & Garfunkel | Chinese Boys Band - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
Name of performers unknown—but they are excellent.
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State of the Empire
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
Briefing on the state of the empire, ending on a positive note.
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Iran in the Crosshairs: Tracing Overt and Covert Action
Eric Walberg | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Prof. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, has seriously complicated any efforts to normalize relations with Iran under a new Biden administration. Walberg contrasts the republican and democratic positions toward Iran while tracing key historical and recent events all in an effort to provide deeper insight into understanding Iran and U.S.-led efforts toward destabilization. — Editor
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Venezuela Presents the UNSC Proposal for an International Association against US Sanctions to Stop Crimes against Humanity
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
Venezuela’s ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, intervened on 25 Nov 2020 in the Security Council session to denounce the economic aggression of the U.S. against twenty-nine countries of the world, through misnamed “sanctions,” and proposed an International Alliance to stop the crimes against humanity by the USA in violation of human rights and the UN Charter.
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Human Society and the Biosphere
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
28 Nov 2020 – According to a recent UN report, more than a million species of plants and animals are currently threatened with extinction because of human activities. Rates of extinction today are as much as 1,000 times greater than the normal background rate. What about our own species? Are we too threatened with extinction?
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Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 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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Uganda’s Youth Majority Brave Police Blockades and Bullets to Rally Behind Bobi Wine
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
25 Nov 2020 – US elites may see the writing on the wall in Uganda, where the youth majority population is braving police blockades and bullets to rally behind Bobi Wine. “The dictator is worried about what will happen if he rigs and steals the election this time.”
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I only Wish…That the Truth Has a Tongue
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
All your armies. All your fighters,
All your tanks and all your soldiers,
Against a boy holding a stone,
Remembering JFK: Voices from a Smoldering Grave . . . Memorial Prose Poem
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
I write in memory of a tragic day in history that changed the destiny of the USA and the world. With the assassination of JFK, the path was open for presidential deceit and deception, for abuses of national purpose and moral authority. Say what you will, JFK was our nation’s last hope for principled charismatic leadership capable of inspiring hope and sacrifice for higher purpose.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – Pandemic Challenge to Advertising, Ideology, Religion and Science – There is no lack of strongly articulated concern about misinformation and disinformation, as highlighted by the assertion early in the pandemic by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Donald Trump’s Refusal to Concede the Election Is Something to Be Feared
Stuart Emmrich | Vogue - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
21 Nov 2020 – It’s time to step back and realize we are witnessing something this country has never seen before: a sitting president trying to undo a free and fair election and challenging the very basis of our democracy. Tweets and frivolous lawsuits are one thing (and the Trump team has gone 1 for 32 at last count). But this past week, Donald Trump crossed the line into potentially illegal territory.
→ read full articleCoronavirus Global Data: 59M+ Infected; 40M+ Recovered; 1,3M+ Deceased
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
*Two Databases Permanently Displayed on TMS*
*Global, Localized, Specific Data Updated in Real Time*
As of 23 Nov 2020 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 59,037,722
Recovered: 40,799,651
Cases Closed: 42,194,184
Active: 16,843,538
Deaths: 1,394,533
I Lived through a Stupid Coup–The USA Is Having One Now
Indi Samarajiva | Indica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
11 Nov 2020 – What else do you call Donald Trump refusing to leave, consolidating control of the military, and spreading lies across the media? That, my friends, is just a coup. You take the power, you take the guns, and you lie about it. American commentators say “we’re like the third world now” as if our very existence is a pejorative. You’re no better than us. The third world from the Sun is Earth. You live here too.
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Heart as a Vagabond
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
A person can be a Vagabond
He roams hither and thither