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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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(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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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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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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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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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.
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…
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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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The US Just Left the Paris Climate Agreement
Umair Irfan | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
4 Nov 2020 – The United States left the Paris climate agreement today, making the US the only country in the world to back out of the accord. But the next occupant of the White House will be the far bigger determinant of the future of international action on climate change. Pulling out of the accord was one of President Donald Trump’s signature campaign promises in 2016.
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(Français) Quelques Commentaires sur l’Election Nationale Anglo-américain
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
En 2017, j’avais comparé la base electorale de Trump à celle de Marine Le Pen en France. Aujourd’hui je pourrais également faire la comparaison à celles de nombreux autres démagogues à travers le monde: Au Brésil, en Turquie, en Russie, aux Philippines, en Hongrie, etc.
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Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now
Margaret Spillane | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
3 Nov 2020 – In Costa Gavras’ classic antifascist thriller, Z teaches us that the moment of reckoning constitutes not the end of the story, but the beginning. Whatever the outcome of the 2020 election, the corrupt interests that have profited from the catastrophes of the past four years will still be securely in place.
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Free Online Books on Serious Global Problems
John Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Some of my books on the serious global problems that we face today are available for downloading free of charge from the following links.
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US Mercenary Exposes Trump Administration Links to Abortive Venezuela Invasion
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
3 Nov 2020 – Senior Trump administration officials were in on the planning of and offered assistance to the abortive May 3, 2020, invasion of Venezuela carried out by a mercenary band that included at least two former US special forces operatives, according to a lawsuit filed in Miami, Florida, last Friday [30 Oct].
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The Parallel Universe of Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
28 Oct 2020 – Nuclear weapons are now (or soon will be) . . . good Lord, illegal. Armageddon is against the law! Well, sort of. Indeed, no nuke-armed nation has, as far as I can tell, anything but contempt for this infringement on its right to blow up the world. War and peace, it seems, exist in parallel universes.
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A Structural Theory of Imperialism
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
This theory takes as its point of departure two of the most glaring facts about this world: the tremendous inequality, within and between nations, in almost all aspects of human living conditions, including the power to decide over those living conditions; AND the resistance of this inequality to change. The world consists of Center and Periphery nations; and each nation, in turn, has its centers and periphery.
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How the Wealthy World Has Failed Poor Countries during the Pandemic
Peter S. Goodman | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
1 Nov 2020 – Despite pledges for debt relief and expanded programs, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have delivered meager aid, say economists. Even where money is provided by the IMF, in many cases it is used not to finance health and other necessary measures, but to pay off private-sector lenders.
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Israeli Army Razes Entire Village in Occupied West Bank
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
4 Nov 2020 – Bulldozers and diggers demolish Palestinian village of Khirbet Humsa, leaving 74 people, including 41 minors, homeless. The bulldozers and diggers also demolished sheds used as livestock enclosures, portable toilets, water containers and solar panels, on top of confiscating vehicles and tractors belonging to some of the residents.
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The Corporation – Feature Film
Encore - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Based on Joel Bakan’s bestseller, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, this 26-award-winning documentary explores a corporation’s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. 150 years ago, a corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic, and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, a corporation is today’s dominant institution. Charting the rise of such an institution aimed at achieving specific economic goals, the documentary also recounts victories against this apparently invincible leviathan.
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Imperial Overstretch Arrives: Anglo Americans Do Not Need the U.S. Empire
Philip M. Giraldi | Information Clearing House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
6 Nov 2020 – While it has been useful to consider how things might change, possibly for the worse, one must also recognize that much of what happens in the U.S. and in its far-flung empire operates by virtue of its own internal dynamics and rules, something that is often referred to as the “Deep State” or perhaps more accurately as the Establishment.
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Johan Galtung: Peace and Conflict Studies and COVID-19/لقاء خاص مع مؤسس علوم السلام يوهان غالتونغ
Brighten Your Mind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
4 Jul 2020 – Norwegian scientist and founder of Peace and Conflict Studies, Johan Galtung touches on a number of important points. – تموز (يوليو) 2020 – يتطرق العالم النرويجي ومؤسس دراسات السلام والصراع ، يوهان غالتونغ ، إلى عدد من النقاط المهمة.
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Velimir Khlebnikov (9 Nov 1885 – 28 Jun 1922): The Futurian and World Citizen
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Velimir Khlebnikov was a shooting star of Russian culture in the years just prior to the start of the First World War. He was part of a small creative circle of poets, painters and writers who wanted to leave the old behind and set the stage for the future. They called themselves “The Futurians”.
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Grand Illusions
Pankaj Mishra | The New York Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 issue – Today, those who insisted that there was no practical alternative to Western-style liberal democracy and capitalism have no concepts with which to explain how China, a Communist-ruled country, became central to global networks of trade and finance. It’s time to abandon the intellectual narcissism of cold war Western liberalism.
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Films and Society
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Films are popular all over the world even in these days of TV and social media. While some films do show violence, they also promote healthy attitudes and harmony as indicated.
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Do-It-Yourself Funnies
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 – This Modern World
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New Documents Show Mueller Investigation Unable to Concoct Charges against Assange and WikiLeaks
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
6 Nov 2020 – Previously redacted portions of the Mueller report into supposed Russian interference in the US, released this week, have shown that despite every effort, the Justice Department was unable to concoct evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on the part of WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. The revelations demonstrate that the US state has been seeking to manufacture a criminal prosecution of Assange for years, in response to his exposure of its war crimes and corruption.
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U.S. Presidential Elections: The Triumph of Neo-Tribalism
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Tribalism is what happens when competing social groups identify themselves as peoples or “nations,” with each group embracing a narrative that expresses a commonly accepted version of its history, grievances and destiny. Political party affiliation is now as strong as religious identity. “You’re not going to change your religion if somebody tells you that Moses didn’t actually have the Ten Commandments.” It also helps to explain why conflicts formerly framed as differences over public policy tend to be reframed in terms of the defense of some threatened way of life.
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The Mask of Anarchy
Percy Bysshe Shelley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Written on the occasion of the Peterloo Massacre at Manchester, 1819. Cavalry soldiers slashed down at a crowd of 60,000 citizens with their sabres, including women and children who were peacefully assembled to ask for better representation in Parliament and were suffering from unemployment and famine due to the Corn Laws. Shelley’s call for nonviolent resistance to tyranny was an inspiration to Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi.
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Assu Sutta – Tears
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
At Savatthi. There the Blessed One said: “From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating and wandering on.
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Inequality Is Not Inevitable
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
The underlying source of the problem: political inequities and policies that have commodified and corrupted our democracy. It is only engaged citizens who can fight to restore a fairer America. Widening and deepening inequality is not driven by immutable economic laws, but by laws we have written ourselves.
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“Sugar”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Sweet apocalypse in the blood!
Stephen-King nightmare in the brain!
Mortar rounds at synapses!
Invader of our personal stash!
SweetSweet as Delilah’s lips!
Some Comments on the US National Election
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
5 Nov 2020 – Back in 2017, I compared Trump’s appeal to that of Marine Le Pen in France. Today I could also compare his appeal to many other demagogues that are thriving around the world in Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Philippines, Hungary, etc.
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The Corporate Dictatorship of the Very Rich
Nora Fernandez | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
6 Nov 2020 – The wealthy improve their image financing self-serving projects they present as “serving others” but few question their motives or suspect them of hidden agendas. Most take billionaires at face value and forget how they made their fortunes.
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COVID and Its Man-Made Gigantic Collateral Damage: The Great Reset – A Call for Civil Disobedience
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
3 Nov 2020 – The going narrative in the west is: “Covid is on the Rise – we are entering the second wave – we must protect our people.” The offered recipe is testing-testing-testing – it is the instrument for increasing “cases”. The more you test, the more cases you have. Is that so difficult to understand?
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UN and Partners Express Regret over US Departure from Paris Climate Accord
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
4 Nov 2020 – Today the US formally withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a decision originally announced three years ago. The UN climate change secretariat has underlined its commitment to work with stakeholders in the US and beyond, to accelerate climate action, in line with an historic treaty on limiting global warming and curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Trump’s Normalization of Israel Spreads to Africa
Patrick Gathara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
31 Oct 2020 – Trump’s ‘normalization’ deals are hurting not only Palestinians, but all who hope for a moral international order. “No peace is possible with violent racists who abuse the weak under the protection of the army’s rifles”.
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Fukushima, the Nuclear Pandemic Spreads
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research/Il Manifesto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
5 Nov 2020 – Japan will release over a million tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. The power plant was built 4 meters above sea level with five-meter-high breakwater dams, in a tsunami-prone area with waves 10-15 meters high. A Tsunami struck on March 11, 2011, submerging the power plant and causing the core of three nuclear reactors to melt.
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Wuauquikuna – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Beautiful, Relaxing Music
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Trust Us, Men: Move the Phone from Your Front Pocket
Robert Calandra | Medical Daily - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 – When they aren’t using it, most guys drop their cellphone into a front pocket of their pants. It’s convenient and, really, where else can you put it? But some research suggests that stashing your phone so close to particularly vital and valued organs may not be the safest place.
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Escalating the Demographic War: The Strategic Goal of Israeli Racism in Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
4 Nov 2020 – Israeli racism is the core of a sophisticated plan that aims at the political marginalization and economic strangulation of Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority within a constitutional, thus ‘legal’, framework.
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Rohingya Refugees Are Being Ignored
Jeremy Corbyn | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 – Those of us that spoke up for Aung San Suu Kyi when she was under house arrest will also speak up for the Rohingya people. There are approximately one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who have been driven out of their homes in Myanmar. The world must better support the Rohingya, and address the politics of why they have sought refuge in the first place.
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Why Do Most People Believe Propaganda and False Flag Attacks?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – At a time in human history when so much is at stake, why is it so difficult to engage most people in anything resembling a thoughtful investigation, consideration and analysis of what is taking place? Why is it that more people do not question what they are told, what they read and what they are shown? In short, why is it that most people do not seek out the evidence for themselves rather than simply believing what is presented to them?
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A Troubling Discovery in the Arctic
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
7 Nov 2020 – The satellite call referenced a sleeping giant that has enough carbon firepower to adversely impact the world’s climate system. The expedition discovered methane (CH4) that had been securely frozen in shallow subsea permafrost waters forever, and ever, and ever, now “stirring.” Colloquially, “The Monster of the North awakened.”
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Comedy Central - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Where have I seen a similar scene before?
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Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative
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The Science of How Alive You Really Are: Alan Turing, Trees, and the Wonder of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
We are, then, built of living bricks, but of living bricks set in dead mortar. We saw that the great trees, complex and long lived, have more wood and bark and other dead substances in them than the shrubs, herbs, and grass. These in turn are less alive than the lowly water plants and yeasts and molds which have no wood or bark at all. The same is true of animals. The jelly-fishes and infusoria have neither skin, hair, bones, nails, nor blood, and are pretty much all alive. So the more a creature’s life is worth, the less of it is alive.
→ read full articleFrance and Muslims Live on One Earth: From Animosity to Politics of Reason
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron – What He Said and What He Meant? Politics is a game of pretension, saying something and meaning something else. Macron appears to be no exception in a hybrid political culture of uncanny coincidence to blame Islam for the criminal acts of one individual.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
This Observatory was born in 2018 with the aim of increasing the awareness and understanding of the human and environmental consequences of military activities and to challenge the idea that the environment is a ‘silent victim’ of armed conflict. The CEOBS site makes the results of his research available to scholars, politicians, activists, journalists interested in the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts. CEOBS collaborates with international institutions, civil societies, universities etc.
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Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored by The Intercept
Glenn Greenwald | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – I am posting here the most recent draft of my article about Joe and Hunter Biden — the last one seen by Intercept editors before telling me that they refuse to publish it absent major structural changes involving the removal of all sections critical of Joe Biden, leaving only a narrow article critiquing media outlets.
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Bolivia’s President-Elect Luis Arce Attacked with Dynamite
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
On 5 Nov 2020 night, the Movement Towards Socialism spokesperson Sebastian Michel denounced that Bolivia’s President-elect Luis Arce was attacked with dynamite while he was in a meeting at the party’s headquarters in La Paz city. No injuries reported.
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The Circular Economy: What Is It, Why Is It Important and How Can We Embrace It?
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
3 Nov 2020 – The principle of circular economics twists the planet trashing linear model into a loop by eliminating rubbish entirely or treating it as a resource. The virtues of going round in circles: Nature is a circular economy in action. Nothing goes to waste. Plants flourish, fade and die, and become compost and food for other creatures.
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Anglo American Requiem
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
5 Nov 2020 – Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the rich and hostile to the poor and minorities, the capitalist democracy offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse. $1.51 billion for the Biden campaign and $1.57 billion for the Trump campaign — to make us think there are choices. There are not. The empty jousting between a bloviating Trump and a verbally impaired Joe Biden is designed to mask the truth. The oligarchs always win. The people always lose. It does not matter who sits in the White House. America is a failed state.
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(Português) Queimadas na Amazônia Crescem 225% em Outubro
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
6 nov 2020 – O Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais registrou 25% mais incêndios em out. 2020 do que em out. 2019 no Pantanal. No Brasil, as queimadas são mais utilizadas como meio de “limpar” uma área desmatada para dar lugar a atividades agropecuárias.
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Three Short Films–Including ‘The Present’–about the Brutality of Israeli Checkpoints
Joanne Laurier | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
5 Nov 2020 – Oppression of the Palestinians, child hunger, and the COVID-19 pandemic are dealt with in two short films and an hour-long documentary currently screening at international film festivals or available online.
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