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The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon.
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Susan Rice, Scourge of Africa, May Become Secretary of State
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
11 Nov 2020 – Rice has been intimately involved in covering up the deaths of more than six million Congolese, and has cultivated close relations with every US-backed tyrant on the continent. “That’s the kind of ruthless, bloodthirsty, lying, hypocrite she is.”
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Remembering Robert Fisk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
15 Nov 2020 – ‘Remembering Robert Fisk’ is the text of an interview conducted by Daniel Falcone, and published below on Nov. 9, 2020 in Counterpunch. There is one insertion mentioning Seymour Hersh as a fourth journalist in this style of exceptional devotion to the courage and craft of truth telling in place of danger or where transparency is obscured by state secrets.
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The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War
Laura Gottesdiener | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – The debate over Fallujah has centered on the use and impact of toxic material in US weapons, particularly depleted uranium. The discussion has largely overlooked the long-term public health effects of urban warfare on civilian populations and the dangers of politicizing science and medicine in times of military violence abroad.
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Education for Peace and Nonviolence in Times of Crisis
Pía Figueroa | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
21 Nov 2020 – Doris Balvín, senior researcher at the New Civilization Humanist Studies Center in Lima, Peru and a specialist in social ecology, speaks about education for peace and nonviolence in times of social and ecological crisis.
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John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
‘What has changed,’ says Pilger on his return to film his 2002 documentary, ‘is that the Palestinians have fought back. Stateless and humiliated for so long, they have risen up against Israel’s huge military regime, although they themselves have no army, no tanks, no American planes and gunships or missiles… For [them], the overriding, routine of terror, day after day, has been the ruthless control of almost every aspect of their lives, as if they live in an open prison.’
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.
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Elite Australian Troops Unlawfully Killed 39 Afghan Civilians amid a Culture of ‘Blood Lust,’ Report Alleges
Angus Watson, Ben Westcott and Brad Lendon | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – “Blood lust” and “competition killings” were a norm, according to a long-awaited official report. Chief of the Australian Defense Force Gen. Angus Campbell said there had been a “warrior culture” among some members of Australia’s Special Forces serving in Afghanistan.
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(Français) Sucre
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Douce apocalypse dans le sang !
Cauchemar de Stephen King dans le cerveau !
Salves de mortier aux synapses !
Envahisseur de notre abri personnel !
DouxDoux comme les lèvres de Dalila !
White Lies
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
A communist party functionary came home after midnight, and his wife was furious.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] President Obama, Who Promised to Sow Peace, Instead Led the Nation in War
Christi Parsons and W.J. Hennigan | Los Angeles Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Before he took office in 2008, Barack Obama vowed to end America’s military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, but he left a very different legacy. U.S. military have been at war for all eight years of Obama’s tenure, the first two-term president with that distinction. He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.
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Personal Reflections on Exposing the Myths of Money
Hazel Henderson | Ethical Markets - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell was asked on “60 Minutes” the usual dumb question: “Where’s the money coming from?”. Powell responded that the Fed prints its, not just the banknotes, but also digitally in its computer databases and programs. Essentially, the Fed simply moves some of the decimal points! And all central banks empower their commercial banks to create money every time they make a loan or mortgage for a borrower.
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Putting Myanmar Election Results in Perspective
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – Election cycles will neither reverse colonial treatment of non-Burmese population, nor end genocide against Rohingya.
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Gates to a Global Empire
Navdanya international - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Over Seed, Food, Health, Knowledge …and the Earth -The report gathers evidence and throws light on the dangers of philanthrocapitalism, which is boosting the corporate takeover of our seed, agriculture, food, knowledge and global health systems, manipulating information and eroding our democracies. Over the last 30 years it has emerged as a major force, able to derail the international agenda and push our future and the future of our planet towards extinction and ecological collapse.
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Lessons from around the World on Fighting COVID’s Second Wave
Jimmy Whitworth | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – Here’s what the west can learn from South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and more.
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UN Charter’s “Sovereignty” Gives Brazil the Legal Right to Destroy the Lungs of the Earth
Roger Kotila | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – A “new UN” is possible, one given the tools it will need to actually save the world from the harm allowed by selfish sovereignty. After all, why should Brazil, or China, or the USA, or any country have the legal sovereign right to endanger humanity? The Charter’s flaws are serious.
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Kamala and Joe [Satire]
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
‘Kamala, now that we have a moment to ourselves, let me offer you my own personal congratulations for a glorious victory! The victory is as much your doing.’ ‘No, Joe, no! You are too modest! The Glory is all yours!’
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2 Companies Say Their Vaccines Are 95% Effective. What Does That Mean? + More
Children's Health Defense Team | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 -The Defender’s COVID Vaccine NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines on COVID-19 and vaccines.
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An Invitation to Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – The following is the Introduction to my new book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies. I offer it here as an invitation to consider joining me in the book so we may seek together. In putting together this selection of essays, I was reminded of what Albert Camus once wrote: “A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
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Who Pressed the Great Reset Button?
Dr. Joseph Mercola - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – Globalist Technocrats Poised to Press the Great Reset Button – Not one area of life will be left untouched by The Great Reset plan, which aims to reform everything from government, energy and finance to food, medicine, real estate, policing — even how we interact with our fellow human beings.
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A Room, a Bar and a Classroom: How the Coronavirus Is Spread Through the Air
Mariano Zafra and Javier Salas | El País - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
The coronavirus is spread through the air, especially in indoor spaces. Scientists now openly acknowledge the role played by the transmission of aerosols – tiny contagious particles exhaled by an infected person that remain suspended in the air of an indoor environment. How does the transmission work? And, more importantly, how can we stop it? (Read on…)
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Acting Is a Wonderful Way of Avoiding Feeling Despair – A Guide
Louis Kriesberg | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
21 Oct 2020 – So many bad things are occurring every day, it is hard to fight against any one of them, as new ones distract us. Below, I sketch out an approach to taking actions that have a good chance to be effective and satisfying in overcoming objectionable circumstances.
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Is There any Hope for the USA?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – I left the US in 2008 not because of pressure but because I thought I could serve humanity better in Zionist occupied Palestine than in Zionist occupied USA. I hope to die in Canada and atone for my stupidity and culpability in paying taxes to the USA, the most well-oiled killing machine in history, by teaching peace studies and promoting pacifism, which I think is the only force powerful enough to overcome the US’ super weapons.
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How to End the War in Afghanistan
World BEYOND War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – The U.S. war on Afghanistan is in its 19th year. Enough is enough! Ann Wright is the moderator. Panelists are Kathy Kelly, Matthew Hoh, Rory Fanning, Danny Sjursen, and Arash Azizzada.
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Senior Trump Official Says Politicians Get ‘Very Rich’ by Supporting Israel
Amir Tibon | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – Senior U.S. Defense official Douglas Macgregor, who was recently installed at the Pentagon by Trump’s partisan loyalists, has come under fire for saying that American politicians become “very, very rich” by supporting Israel and that the pro-Israeli lobby is trying to drag the United States into war.
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Former President Evo Morales Returns to Bolivia One Year after Being Forced into Exile by Military Coup
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – Twelve months after being driven into exile by right-wing forces, socialist former president Evo Morales was “received by the very social movements who defeated the coup and restored democracy.”
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Navdanya International | Independent Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – IICA announced partnerships with Microsoft, Bayer, Corteva ( subsidiary of DuPont), and Syngenta, all along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We can start to see a repeating pattern with all these alliances in the launching of Ag One. Through the Gates Foundation’s promotion of chemical and genetically modified inputs, they open up isolated or hard to reach markets in Africa, South Asia and Latin America for private corporations to derive profits.
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If the ‘Great Reset’ Really Is so Good for Us, Let’s Hold a Referendum on It, so It Can Have a Democratic Mandate (or Not)
Neil Clark | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – The World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ and associated Fourth Industrial Revolution would, if implemented, mean far deeper changes to our everyday lives than Brexit, yet is being pushed through without any proper debate.
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Crybaby
Joe Kandra, Kathie MM, Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
… throwing a tantrum.
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US State Department’s Attack on the BDS Movement Violates Freedom of Expression and Endangers Human Rights Protection
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – “The Department of State’s targeting of groups advocating for using peaceful means, such as boycotts, to end human rights violations against Palestinians as antisemitic violates freedom of expression and is a gift to those who seek to silence, harass, intimidate and oppress those standing up for human rights around the world.” — AI
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How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
Joseph Cox | Vice/Motherboard - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people’s personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
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Everyone’s Gandhi — A Collection of Gandhi Columns
L Gopalakrishnan | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
It is hoped that the articles and anecdotes will serve a long felt need: to bring the Mahatma closer to us, make him a Father in every sense of the word i.e. every one’s Gandhi. Since Mahatma Gandhi cannot be any one person’s property, there is no copyright of this publication. You are welcome to freely use portions of this book with due acknowledgement. Printed & Published by: Gandhi Peace Foundation
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Friedrich Engels (28 Nov 1820 – 5 Aug 1895)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Friedrich Engels was a German author, political theorist and philosopher, most well known for his monumental work with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.
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A Comic Display of Geopolitical Subservience: Mike Pompeo’s Visit to Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 – On the entirely inappropriate and distasteful visit of the U.S. Secretary of State to Israel for three days. For me the entire event was a grotesque occasion of national embarrassment from start to finish. Even the most dimwitted imperialist would know better than to declare Pompeo’s subservience to Israel in these scary words: “Israel is everything we want the entire Middle East to look like going forward.”
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Robert Fisk of The Independent Has Died and Journalism Is Poorer
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Most of the borders of the modern Middle East were created by the British, French and Americans after WWI, by splitting up the Ottoman Empire. How many people discussing politics and elections in the pubs of US or UK understand that vital fact?
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How a [Nobel Peace Laureate] Human Rights Angel Lost Her Halo
Hannah Beech | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
14 Nov 2020 – Ten years after she left house arrest and vowed to fight for justice, Myanmar’s civilian leader has instead become a jailer of critics and an apologist for the slaughter of minorities.
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(Português) JBS É Acusada de Mentir sobre Comprometimento Contra o Desmatamento
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Nesse ritmo, a ONG prevê que a criação de gado pode provocar um desmatamento equivalente a duas vezes a área da Suécia.
“No ritmo atual de desmatamento, até 2025 – quando a JBS planeja monitorar efetivamente uma pequena parte de sua cadeia de suprimentos na Amazônia – mais de 25 mil quilômetros quadrados terão sido desmatados somente no Cerrado”, avalia.
Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
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What’s Not Being Said about the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. “Human Guinea Pigs”?
F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – he Pharma giant Pfizer has now announced what they claim were spectacular results in initial human tests. They use an experimental technology known as gene editing, specifically mRNA gene-editing, something never before used in vaccines. Before we rush to get jabbed in hopes of some immunity, we should know more about the radical experimental technology and its lack of precision.
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Salute to Gaza – Salam Li Ghazza (Music Video of the Week)
Ahmed Matar | Gaza Youth Choir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Peace to Gaza Peace
سلامٌ لغزة سلامٌ سلام سلامٌ لكل العيون الحزينة تفيضُ دموعها بئساً وعزة سلامٌ سلامٌ لغزة سلام
Can We TRANSCEND the Brewing US Civil War?
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
A civil war is brewing in the US as Trump’s unprecedented assaults on democracy set landmines yet to explode. How did we get to this point of the pathological splitting of the opposites? What does the Transcend Method offer us now?
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Martin Wight (26 Nov 1913 – 15 Jul 1972): Analyst of International Relations Traditions
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Martin Wight was an analyst of approaches to the study and practice of international relations. He taught at the London School of Economics and later at the then newly created University of Sussex. He was a conscientious objector to military service during the Second World War.
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We Need to Rethink the Concept of Genocide
Philippe Sands | Aljazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – Seeing genocide as less exceptional may help us view war crimes and crimes against humanity in a more serious light.
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The New U.S. War on Western Sahara
David Swanson - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – I’m not misusing the word “war” to mean something like the war on Christmas or drugs. I mean war. There is a new U.S. war in Western Sahara, being waged by Morocco with the support of the U.S. military, which unbeknownst to most people in the U.S. arms, trains and funds the militaries of the world, including almost all of the most brutal governments of the world.
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Portuguese Court Rules PCR Tests as Unreliable & Unlawful to Quarantine People
GreatGameIndia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
18 Nov 2020 – A Portuguese appeals court has ruled that PCR tests are unreliable and that it is unlawful to quarantine people based solely on a PCR test. [From TMS Editor: Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a method widely used to rapidly make millions to billions of copies of a specific DNA sample, allowing scientists to take a very small sample of DNA and amplify it to a large enough amount to study in detail.]
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American Presidential Election and Democracy Look for Change, Moral and Intellectual Leadership
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – When false claims challenge the truth, it breeds fearful and ferocious public outcomes. No wonder, why the American masses are more divided today than any time in recent history. American presidential elections failed to produce a viable prospect for the working of democracy.
→ read full articleConflict Resolution and the Gita
Joshua M. Greene (Yogeshvara Dasa) | Integral Yoga Magazine/ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Mediation is a process of conflict resolution in which a trained intermediary assists disputants to arrive at a mutually agreeable settlement. In this intriguing interview by Integral Yoga Magazine, Joshua Greene (Yogeshvara Dasa), a seasoned mediator and instructor of the Gita, evaluates the Bhagavad Gita through the lens of mediation.
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RCEP Augurs Hope
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
18 Nov 2020 – In the mist of the gloom generated by the twin health and economic crises, the birth of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a ray of light. More than a million lives have been lost worldwide as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, there is massive unemployment, and entire societies have been devastated.
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The New Elite: Dark Nights Rising
Thomas Klikauer & Nadine Campbell | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – There is a new elite on the rise.The old elite was defined by leisure and conspicuous consumption . The new elite has to work – mostly in elite professions – to earn money. The new elite’s employment is located in a relatively narrow spectrum of occupations separating the new elite from non-elite. The new elite finds employment mainly in three main categories: CEOs, CFOs, elite law firms.
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Demilitarization Begins at Home
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
In my view, until the American people are fully disarmed as a matter of law, reinforced by political sentiment, it is foolhardy to expect global demilitarization. The same worldview that exaggerates security threats to overinvest in the military, despite abundant evidence of the disastrous failure of militarist foreign policies in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, is what gives political traction to the powerful gun lobby that has a potency with politicians that seems to exceed even what the Zionist lobby is able to achieve.
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Richard Falk, a Citizen Pilgrim in Search of Justice and Peace, Turns 90
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – We are blessed by having a number of peace and future scholars, world-leading in their professions, who have followed world events over many decades and continue to be committed to world order change and public education. I say “blessed” because I assume that the reader share my reverence for high age and the sharing of long life experience as well as the wisdom.
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Varieties of Tone of Voice and Engagement with Global Strategy
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
It has been estimated that 7 percent of meaning is communicated through the spoken word, 38 percent through tone of voice, and 55 percent through body language according to the 7-38-55 rule, which has been variously misinterpreted and subject to criticism, although considerable importance continues to be attached to tone-of-voice (irrespective of any rule and its relevance across cultures).
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Confucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.
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Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading “Capital” in Precarious Times
Andy Merrifield | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so many conjuring tricks, with collusions and conspiracies, fake news and endless sleights of the economic and political hand.
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Assange Legal Team Submits Closing Argument against Extradition to United States
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
10 Nov 2020 – In submission to magistrates’ court in London, attorneys detail the “politically motivated” case the Trump administration pursued against the WikiLeaks founder.
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COVID19 Global: *54,9M+ Infected* *38,2M+ Recovered* *1,3M+ Deceased*
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 Noon GMT:
Total Cases: 54,939,600
Recovered: 38,218,430
Cases Closed: 39,544,735
Active: 15,394,865
Deaths: 1,326,305
Reaching 90 in 2020
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Note from TMS editor: Richard Falk and his friends around the world celebrated his 90th year on 13 Nov 2020.
Happy Birthday dear Richard! Thank you for existing.
(Português) Número de veganos em parte da Europa dobra em quatro anos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
11 nov 2020 – De acordo com uma pesquisa da rede de supermercados Veganz, a soma do número de veganos em sete países subiu para 2,6 milhões em 2020. O maior índice de crescimento foi registrado na Alemanha.
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Keep Crying
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Is crying good for people, we wonder
A child soon after its birth utters a cry
If he doesn’t he gets a nudge to make him cry
New Refugee Flows: Karabakh and Ethiopia
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – The recent armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan and Armenia has led to a flow of refugees toward Armenia and Russia. The world community needs to develop more adequate early warning systems so that preventive action can be undertaken before the outbreak of destructive violence. Peace needs peacemakers; there is a need to train more adequate humanitarian workers.
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A History of the Earth
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
I announce the publication of a new book, in which I have tried to sketch human history, from earliest times until the present, against a cosmic backdrop. Current problems, such as the threats of catastrophic climate change, thermonuclear war, pandemics and large-scale famine are also discussed. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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Now We Have to Fight Trump’s Tin-Pot Coup — and Biden’s Worst Instincts
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – Republicans keep finding new ways to tell us that they don’t believe in democracy, and we should believe them. The chorus of Republican voices echoing manufactured claims of mass election fraud hasn’t petered out yet.
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Jacques Maritain (18 Nov 1882 – 23 Apr 1973): World Citizen Philosopher
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Jacques Maritain was a French intellectual who spent the years of WWII in Princeton, U.S.A. where his friend anti-Nazi German author Thomas Mann also lived. Both were active advocates of world citizenship. In 1945-1948 he was named by Charles De Gaulle as the French Ambassador to the Vatican.
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Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the Anthropocene
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
John Bellamy Foster on how, two hundred years since his birth, Frederick Engels can be seen as one of the foundational ecological thinkers of modern times.
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Questions
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – Many Gaza Palestinians lost hope. Many young people are committing suicide. It is not only a pandemic of a virus but the pandemic of systematic racism and colonialism that spread. While Zionists spread hate and divisiveness to advance its goals around the world (via Hollywood, Bloomberg and Fox News etc), even they are starting to rethink what world are they making and will it be livable even for the billionaires.
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Peace Proved to Be Possible, Even after Thirty Years of Cambodian Civil War
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
As proponents of Peace Journalism in a world of wars and conflicts, a conflict resolution and disarmament success story is a precious commodity. Cambodia at the turn of the Millennium provided such a story.
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National Lawyers Guild Calls Upon State of Hawai‘i to Comply with International Law of Occupation
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – On Monday January 16, 1893, United States Minister intervened in the internal affairs of the Hawaiian Kingdom when he ordered U.S. troops to invade Honolulu and overthrow the Hawaiian Kingdom government in order to replace it with an insurgency he supported. The next day, the insurgents, in the presence of and protected by armed-for-battle U.S. military forces, declared themselves a “provisional government”. Under threat of violence by the U.S. military forces, Queen Lili‘uokalani conditionally surrendered to the United States.
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First Comes a Rolling Civil War
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times/Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
10 Nov 2020 – Biden is on a double precipice of the worst-ever economic depression coupled with imminent explosions of social rage. The massive psyops is ongoing. This is a live exercise. Yet no one knows exactly how it will end.
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Farcical Coverage of Julian Assange’s Farcical Hearing
Joshua Cho | FAIR- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – US corporate media have buried coverage of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in the UK, despite its being the media “Trial of the Century”. But even in the scarce coverage that does exist, one would hardly get the impression that the US and British governments are involved in an illegal conspiracy—in violation of their own laws—to punish Assange for the “crime” of journalism.
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The Big Bang Never Happened but Fusion Will
Jonathan Tennenbaum | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – The Big Bang theory says that our Universe began with a gigantic explosion, about 14 billion years ago. Until recently this theory has been regarded as the foundation of modern cosmology. But not all scientists agree with it and some even say it is completely wrong and contradicted by a growing mountain of evidence.
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Interpreting the U.S. Election Results: Preliminary Observations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – The victory by the Biden/Harris ticket is basically good news for the country and the world, although not as good as expected. And there is some bad news, as well, lurking just beneath the surface. Not only the strength of Trumpism in America, but the likely drift toward the center-right of the Biden presidency.
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Occupation of Palestine? — Not!
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Biden Personally Intervened to Get the Word ‘Occupation’ Removed from the Democratic Party Platform
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Constantly Wrong: The Case against Conspiracy Theories
Kirby Ferguson - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
11 Nov 2020 – Be the judge…
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Bruce Lee on Death and What It Takes to Be an Artist of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
On the bench across from Bruce Lee’s tombstone, these words of tribute appear: “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” The animating ethos of that uncommon life comes newly alive in ‘Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee’ by his daughter, Shannon Lee.
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Making Sense of Hunger Strikes and Symbolic Politics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – My essay speaks to the hunger strikes as political resistance of a sublime character, and at the same time to the selective silence of the Western media when it comes to heroic moments in the Palestinian struggle
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Biden’s Foreign Policy May Be Disappointing & Dangerous
Roger Kotila | DWF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – If we are lucky, Biden will have an “enlightened” moment and try to do some good — like abandon US militarism in favor of a progressive foreign policy. This means that the US government and media will quit pretending that Russia and China (and Muslims) are “enemies.” Fake enemies insure a robust US War Business, but are bad for world peace.
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World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Plan for Big Food Benefits Industry, Not People
Jeremy Loffredo | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
11 Nov 2020 – The Great Reset plan is to transform the global food and agricultural industries and the human diet to reduce food scarcity, hunger and disease, and mitigate climate change. But the real motive is tighter corporate control over the food system by means of technological solutions. “The Great Reset is about maintaining and empowering a corporate extraction machine and the private ownership of life.” — Vandana Shiva
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Is Normalization with Israel without a Resolution for Palestine Justifiable?
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
10 Nov 2020 – Zionism is a strange political beast. Some argue that it is anti-Semitic and white supremacist. Others claim that it is Jewish supremacist. And then there is Christian Zionism. But many of the early leaders of Israel were atheists or agnostics. The certainty is that Zionist Tel Aviv practices apartheid having declared Israel a Jewish state. Palestinians, the indigenous people, are second class citizens.
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Diet Coke Is Poison
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
14 Nov 2020 – Aspartame, which is in thousands of processed food products that are usually labeled “lite” or “diet”, was synthesized in 1965 by a chemist who was trying to create an anti-ulcer drug. But some scientists knew that aspartame was a lethal poison! In a 1996 report compiled from 10,000 consumer complaints obtained during the pre-marketing testing period, the FDA listed 92 aspartame-related symptoms, ranging from seizures to death.
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Elections 2020: Everybody Knows the Fight Was Fixed
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
11 Nov 2020 – Who is winning the battle, the people or the ruling elites? The answer is obvious. It matters not at all whether the president has been Trump or Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush, Barack Obama or George H. W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, or Jimmy Carter. The power of the national security state has grown under them all and everyone is left to moan and groan and wonder why.
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Further Analysis of US Elections
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – In order to understand the deep meaning of the US election results, and to compare them to the electoral situation in France, I have downloaded a series of maps from the Internet showing the relation between voting patterns, poverty and urbanization.
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Votes Have Changed Little in Myanmar since Suu Kyi Assumed State Counsellorship 5 Years Ago
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – Myanmar’s second experiment with the parliamentary democracy is irredeemably flawed: The constitutional framework in which democratic process is located is categorically anti-democratic.
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Will the Biden Team Be Warmongers or Peacemakers?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – The critical choices facing Joe Biden as he makes appointments to his foreign policy team. He will take office amid some of the greatest challenges the human race has ever faced—from extreme inequality, debt and poverty caused by neoliberalism, to intractable wars and the existential danger of nuclear war, to the climate crisis, mass extinction and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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(Italiano) Surplus cognitivo e sobrietà digitale
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – Negli ultimi mesi le restrizioni alla circolazione e ai contatti interpersonali, la chiusura di attività commerciali, uffici e scuole nel tentativo di frenare il dilagare della pandemia da COVID-19 ha spinto un numero crescente di persone ad aumentare (o attivare) modalità di relazione in remoto. Si sono moltiplicate in tutto il mondo le comunicazioni ‘virtuali’.
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Constantly Wrong
Cory Doctorow | Pluralistic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – In “Constantly Wrong,” Kirby Ferguson continues his brilliant mashup video work on conspiracy theories with a new, 47 minute documentary that contrasts real-world conspiracies (crimes) with conspiracy theories.
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(Français) A quelle rupture la crise actuelle du capitalisme appelle-t-elle?
Rémy Herrera | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
16 nov 2020 – L’auteur était invité au PCF pour parler du socialisme. Trois questions étaient posées. Pourquoi une rupture avec le capitalisme? Pourquoi le choix d’une alternative socialiste? Quelles leçons tirer de la Chine, du Vietnam et de Cuba? Des questions intéressantes.
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Earth — Some Unusual Features
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
The Amazon River passes through six different countries in South America — starting from Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil and then it flows into the Atlantic Ocean at three different exit points. The river is one of the longest in the world — about 6,400 km long.
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Vincent—Starry Starry Night (Music Video of the Week)
Don McLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Van Gogh Paintings with Song by Don McLean – An Artistic Jewel
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Tolerating Phases of Bad Fortune
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
By our intelligence and efforts, we can stave off everything undesirable and attain everything desirable. Or so we are taught to believe. The notion that we are the controllers of our life is so central to our worldview that we define our success and even our self-worth in terms of our capacity to mold our circumstances to our will. Given such self-conceptions, uncontrollable situations don’t just frustrate us – they shatter us. No wonder mental health problems have risen with the spread of modernity.
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Vaccination Crazy, Eh! Wot?
F. C. Bush – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Published in the Salt Lake City Telegram – 1923
Submitted by TRANSCEND Member Gary G. Kohls, M.D.
Last
Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Last year I entered a marathon. The race started and immediately I was the last of the runners. It was embarrassing.
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Beware of the Hawk: What to Expect from the Biden Administration on Foreign Policy
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
8 Nov 2020 – Millions of people around the world breathed a sigh of relief with the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. elections. Joe Biden’s victory speech exuded a feeling of optimism in its call for a new era of bipartisanship and decency in politics. However, it is unlikely that decency will prevail in the realm of foreign policy.
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How Frozen Are the OSCE’s Wars?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
6 Nov 2020 – The lack of progress in the UN/OSCE mediation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict indicates that non-governmental networks of conflict resolution must be developed. As Anthony Judge has pointed on TMS, one must choose one’s metaphor or symbol for a political situation with care. The metaphor of the flowing streams coming together in confluence to become a river of consequence may be the appropriate metaphor.
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The UN Institute for Disarmament Research-UNIDIR Is 40 Years Old
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Happy Birthday UNIDIR! Yes, it is 40 years since French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing created it. Disarmament does not just happen! It requires a great deal of hard work and patience as you persuade armed rebels or armed governments to give up their arms, to immobilize them or even destroy them.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11 Nov 1821 – 9 Feb 1881)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time, he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.
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Message to Pax Christi’s ‘Peacemaker of the Year’ Award
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
2020 Pax Christi Peacemaker of the Year Award Presented to Malachy Kilbride – Thank you, Malachy, for your courage in challenging the military industrial complex and speaking up for truth that weapons and war are not acceptable as they kill humans and destroy the environment. US wars displaced 37 million people in the past 19 years according to a new study by Brown.
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(norsk – Norwegian) Hva slags verden er vi på vei inn i?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Jeg vet ikke. Men jeg tror jeg vet noe … I det minste tenker jeg på det, derfor vet jeg trolig noe…
→ read full articleCoronavirus Global Data: 50M+ Infected; 35,8M+ Recovered; 1,2M+ Deceased
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Total Cases 50,781,357
Recovered: 35,813,640
Cases Closed: 37,076,373
Active: 13,704,984
Deaths: 1,262,733
Questioning the Covid-19 Second Wave
Peter Koenig and Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | GRTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
About ten to fifteen percent have slight to more serious symptoms, but do not need hospitalization – and the rest who may be hospitalized is above 75 or 80 years of age almost all of them with one to several comorbidities. Of those who die, most die from a medical pre-condition – coronary disease, diabetes, cancer – with “tested” covid-19, but not ‘from’ covid-19.
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Interview on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 – A momentous test of whether the Trump challenge to constitutional democracy will be decisively repudiated by the American people and whether Republicans will mount a perverse challenge via the judicial system. The system is structurally rigged against democratic values by enabling Trump to be reelected via the anachronistic Electoral College even if he loses the popular vote by 5,000,000 or more.
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