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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!
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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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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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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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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Wuauquikuna – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Beautiful, Relaxing Music
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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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What If…?
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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(Italiano) Documentare e divulgare i danni ambientali causati dai conflitti armati
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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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.
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France 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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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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Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
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Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Statement Sep 2020
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
Demanding an end to the dictatorial regime of Jovenel Moise, Fanmi Lavalas calls for a transitional government of broad national unity to address the urgent needs of the population and to create the conditions for truly free and fair elections.
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Human Rights, Terrorism and Organized Crime
Stephen Sefton | Tortilla con Sal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
27 Oct 2020 – One way or another, governments and corporate interests fund their accomplices in the Western human rights industry, universities, and corporate and alternative media. They are all guilty to one degree or another of promoting terrorism and covering up organized crime.
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Global Data on Coronavirus: 46.9+ Million Infected; 1.2+ Million Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
*Two Databases Permanently Displayed on TMS*
*Global, Localized, Specific Data Updated in Real Time*
Arms Race Continues Unabated with Astonishing Weapons
Nadia Batok | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
31 Oct 2020 – There are no signs of a halt to the arms race… on the contrary, production of the most terrifying and lethal weapons continues unabated with the most sophisticated nuclear and hypersonic weapons, cruise and ballistic missiles, supersonic fighter jets, unmanned air vehicles (drones), lasers, robots… all experimenting with hardware and software technologies and digital engineering.
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‘High Time for Accountability’, UN Expert Says as Israel Approves Highest Rate of Illegal Settlements
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – The international community must answer a “grave” breach of international law with “more than mere criticism”, an independent UN expert said on Friday after the Israeli Government announced its approval of nearly 5,000 new settlement homes in occupied Palestinian territory.
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Ending Regime Change –> In Bolivia and the World
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
28 Oct 2020 – Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism and restored it to power.
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Missiles, Needles, Missions, Rifles, Projects, Bullets
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
Transformation of a Civilization of Spikes and Penis Surrogates via Global Reset Mandalas ~~ In a period of crisis, which the conventions of global governance have been unable to address, much is now being made by elites of the need for a “Global Reset”, most notably articulated and promoted by the World Economic Forum and influential institutions at its annual Davos Forum. Use of “reset” is an appealing metaphor for techno-optimists who are typically inspired by familiarity with the ability to reset a computer rendered inoperable by one or more applications.
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Capitalism Is Double-Billing Us: We Pay from Our Wallets only for Our Future to Be Stolen from Us
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
25 Oct 2020 – Externalities may sound like innocuous jargon, but they and the economic system that requires them are killing us, our children and the planet. Focusing on how externalities work and how they have come to dominate every sphere of our lives is to understand how we are destroying our planet – and offer at the same time the waypost to a better future.
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“Nineteen Eighty-Four” or “Brave New World”?
Prof. Ruel F. Pepa | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
Orwell’s and Huxley’s societies are founded on institutionalized dehumanization. We call them societies but can we still attach the term “human” to modify them? In Orwell’s society, human free will is suppressed and denigrated. In Huxley’s, it is obsoletized in the majority of the people who constitute the lower rungs of the caste system. In the final analysis, we question the humanity of a society where human freedom is non-existent for such freedom is the only guarantee that bestows dignity to humanity.
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Crossroads
Louise Glück, Nobel Literature Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer
I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar,
like what I remember of love when I was young —
Robert Fisk: Celebrated Middle East Correspondent Dies Aged 74
The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 -Robert Fisk, a veteran Middle East correspondent for The Independent and the most celebrated journalist of his era, has died on 30 Oct after an illness. He was 74. Fisk was renowned for his courage in questioning official narratives from governments and publishing what he uncovered in frequently brilliant prose. RIP
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Glenn Greenwald – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
29 out 2020 – Hoje enviei minha intenção de demitir-me do The Intercept, que co-fundei em 2013 com Jeremy Scahill e Laura Poitras, bem como de First Look Media. O motivo é que os editores do The Intercept, em violação do meu direito contratual de liberdade editorial, censuraram um artigo que escrevi, recusando-se a publicá-lo a menos que eu removesse todas as seções críticas ao candidato democrata à presidência Joe Biden.
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Bored Panda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
You have been warned…
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Facts about Covid19 – October 2020
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
Fully referenced facts about covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment.
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Medical Ignorance and the Mass Murder of Coronavirus Patients
W. Gifford-Jones, MD | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
20 Oct 2020 – I would not have the knowledge to write this article if one event in my life had not happened. At 74 years of age I nearly died of a serious heart attack. Doctors said I’d be dead in a few years without the help of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Now, 22 years later, the doctors who told me I’d be dead in a few years without cholesterol-lowering drugs are dead, and I’m in my 97th year, still alive.
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David Vine: Tracing America’s Brutal Imperialist History through Its Military Bases
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – A political anthropologist puts a much needed pin to the balloon of American exceptionalism with an invaluable guide to a country that, long before Orwell came along, said war was peace – and interventionism was the highest form of anti-colonialism.
→ read full articleCommunicating with Each Other — People, Birds and Other Creatures
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
People can speak, they can recite poems
Twinkle Twinkle little Star
How I wonder what you are
They can invent new words to tell who they are
Brazilian Armed Forces Conduct Unprecedented Military Exercises Amid US Threats to Venezuela
Gabriel Lemos | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 – Bolsonaro’s Foreign Ministry last Friday [30 Oct] classified as “secret” cables about Pompeo’s trip to Brazil, which took place during war games in Brazil and Colombia. Since coming to power at the beginning of last year, the Brazilian government of fascistic President Jair Bolsonaro has aligned itself with the US regime-change operation in Venezuela.
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Glenn Greenwald: My Resignation from the Intercept
Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from First Look Media. The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
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Same Story, Different Decade: How WHO’s Definition of a Global Pandemic Benefits Big Pharma
Jeremy Loffredo | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – Dormant, or “sleeping contracts,” stipulated that if a global pandemic were to occur, it would trigger them. When WHO declared the H1N1 swine flu a pandemic, only 144 people worldwide had died from the infection. “The WHO had a definition of a pandemic, which it defined as a virus with high mortality and high morbidity. And in 2009 they suddenly dropped those two characteristics.” The declaration of H1N1 as a pandemic launched $18 billion worth of “dormant” GSK flu vaccine contracts.
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Macron’s Attack on Islam Reveals “Intolerance and Hatred,” Says Nobel Peace Laureate Tawakkol Karman
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – The beheading of a teacher in France elicited inflammatory remarks from President Emmanuel Macron, which in turn has been met with an Arab boycott of French goods. “Macron’s attack on Islam reveals intolerance and hatred which is shameful for the head of a state like France,” said Tawakkol Karman.
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Liability-Free COVID Vaccine Makers Seek Additional ‘Free Pass’ from FDA
Jeremy Loffredo | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – The winner of the race for approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine will get a bonus prize — the ability to pull the switch on vaccine production without having to undergo the standard mandatory safety and compliance inspection of its manufacturing facilities.
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The World’s Five Wealthiest Families Control $735 Billion
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
** 5 Richest Families in the World:
Walton US$215 billion
Mars US$120 billion
Koch US$110 billion
Al Saud US$ 95 billion
Ambani US$ 81 billion
** 5 Richest Persons in the World:
Jeff Bezos US$189 billion
Bernard Arnault US$119 billion
Bill Gates US$115 billion
Mark Zuckerberg US$102 billion
Elon Musk US$93 billion
** GRAND TOTAL: US$ 1,239 trillion
Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution
Cira Gilbert and Chris Pascual Marquina | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
With predictable bias, mainstream media focus on violent clashes between opposition and government, coup attempts, hyperinflation, U.S. sanctions, and massive emigration. What is less known, however, is the story of what the Venezuelan people do and think in these times of social emergency.
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2045: A New Rallying Call for Nuclear Abolition
Alyn Ware, Vanda Proskova and Saber Chowdhury | InDepthNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
On 2 Oct 2020, 77 Heads of State addressed a UN meeting on nuclear weapons. One of the proposals was for the elimination of nuclear weapons by 2045, the 100th anniversary of the United Nations and also the 100th anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons.
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The Global Takeover Is Underway
Joseph Mercola, MD - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
23 Oct 2020 – We bring to the consideration of our readers this important and controversial analysis that requires careful debate. The video by the World Economic Forum is one of the architects of the “New Normal” Global Reset. This is what they propose as “Solutions:”
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Cancel Culture: The First 500 Years
Matt Wuerker | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
12 Oct 2020: In Honor of Columbus Day…. Celebrating 500 Years of “Cancel Culture”
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The Neoliberal Capitalist Lockdown: Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
28 Oct 2020 – Although COVID is being blamed, the shutting down of the old economy was already happening as growth was below the minimum tolerable 3% level to maintain the viability of capitalism. “In order to reverse this serious setback [COVID] to development progress and poverty reduction, countries will need to prepare for a different economy post-COVID, by allowing capital, labor, skills, and innovation to move into new businesses and sectors.” — World Bank, Oct 2020 Report
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Defense Industry Market Research & Statistics
ReportLinker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
ReportLinker simplifies how Analysts and Decision Makers get industry data for their business.
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Eisenhower Farewell Address: Warning against ‘Military Industrial Complex’
Ewafa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
17 Jan 1961 – Ike’s prophetic warning about the “unwarranted influence of the Military Industrial Complex.”
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Déjà Vu in France: Change Attitudes
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
1 Nov 2020 – As events unfold in France centering around Islamophobia, there is a feeling of déjà vu. We have witnessed a few times before this sequence of events. There is some provocation or other targeting the Prophet Muhammad initiated by a non-Muslim group or institution. Predictably, Muslims react.
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Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative
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Glenn Greenwald on His Resignation from the Intercept
Reporting by Matt Taibbi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – The Pulitzer winner founded the Intercept to challenge official narratives and protect editorial freedom. When editors abandoned those principles, spiking a controversial story, he was forced to quit.
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Dumping Fukushima’s Water into the Ocean… Seriously?
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – For nearly a decade the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has been streaming radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean as TEPCO struggles to control it. Yet, the bulk of the radioactive water is stored in more than 1,000 water tanks. Japan’s government has made a decision to dump the contaminated water into the Pacific.
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Three Simple Conflict Analysis Tools That Anyone Can Use
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
24 Oct 2020 – To transform conflict in your family, workplace, community, and beyond.
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The Road Not Taken
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – I would like to announce the publication of a new book. It discusses the role of what might be called decision trees in science, in linguistics, in philosophy and literature, and in our daily lives. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link:
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Why Gratitude Is Good for Us – And Five Ways to Practise It This Winter
Lucy Purdy | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
27 Oct 2020 – For many, this coming winter is tinged with sadness or anxiety. Science shows that, while it’s no fix-all, nurturing gratitude can help by shifting our attention to what’s positive.
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The Habit of Passion
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
From the TMS editor: Johan Galtung, my mentor, friend, well-wisher, guide, a great inspirer, just turned 90 years old; he is semi-retired now. I present a text he wrote some time ago and I found in my archives; practical wisdom, optimism, proaction, higher thinking. With my deepest respect and gratitude to Johan for our friendship of 35-years–of uninterrupted learning from my part. — Antonio C. S. Rosa
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Israel’s Army of Archaeological Looters
Dima Srouji | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
1 Oct 2020 – On a recent summer night, equipped with a large flatbed truck and jeeps, Israeli soldiers entered the Palestinian village of Taquu near occupied Bethlehem to remove a Byzantine baptismal stone font. Using archaeology to validate its claim to the land, Israel is displacing artifacts from the occupied West Bank and erasing Palestinian identity.
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Venezuela: Maduro’s Anti-Blockade Law Deepens Debate over Revolution’s Future
Federico Fuentes | Green Left - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly passed a controversial anti-blockade law on October 8. The United States’ sanctions since 2017 have worked to cripple Venezuela’s oil industry, blocked its access to international financial markets and scared off potential investors under threat of financial punishment. It cost its economy upwards of US$116 billion, and contributed to the deaths of more than 40,000 Venezuelans.
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7-Year-Old Plays Paganini Violin Concerto # 1
International Grumiaux Violin Competition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
11 Mar 2019 – Himari Yoshimura, 7-year-old virtuoso child from Japan, wins 1st Grand Prize. The International Grumiaux Competition for Young Violinists is held annually at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in Belgium.
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Social Media’s Erasure of Palestinians Is a Grim Warning for Our Future
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
26 Oct 2020 – There is a growing unease that the decisions taken by social media corporations can have a harmful impact on our lives. Facebook, Google and Twitter are not neutral platforms. They control the digital public square to aid the powerful – and can cancel any of us overnight.
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10 Ways to Call Something Russian Disinformation without Evidence
Reporting by Matt Taibbi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
27 Oct 2020 – The principles of American Newspeak, vol. 1 – How do you call something “Russian disinformation” when you don’t have evidence it is? Let’s count the ways.
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Eugene Victor Debs (5 Nov 1855 – 20 Oct 1926): An Early U.S. Socialist Voice
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
With the increasingly high profile of Senator Bernie Sanders in U.S. politics, the term “Democratic Socialist” has become increasingly used. Thus it is useful to look at the first person on the U.S. political scene to represent the term.
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Edward Snowden Is Granted Permanent Residence in Russia
Pressenza Athens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – Edward Snowden has been living in exile in Russia since 2013 when he disclosed the American secret services’ programs of massive surveillance. The USA has requested his extradition for violating espionage laws. Today’s decision ensures he will not be extradited.
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The Politics of Hunger Strikes
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
28 Oct 2020 – During my six years as UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine, I found disturbing the silence of the Western media about Palestinian hunger strikes, especially when these extreme expressions of nonviolent resistance were in reaction to prison confinement by Administrative Detention decrees, that is, without charges or any show of incriminating evidence.
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Power’s Prophet: Remembering Gene Sharp
Stephen Zunes | The Progressive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
His monograph From Dictatorship to Democracy, translated into dozens of languages, became a handbook for nonviolent revolt.
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Nobel Literature Laureate Albert Camus (7 Nov 1913 – 4 Jan 1960): Stoic Humanist and World Citizen
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2020
Albert Camus was born in Algeria, the son of a French father killed in the First World War when he was only one and an illiterate Spanish mother who raised him while working as a cleaning woman. Camus was intellectually stimulated by his father’s brother who read books of philosophy and was active in the local Masonic lodge.
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(Italiano) Prevenzione dell’estremismo violento o aiuto allo sviluppo dei media?
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Nel far sì che le tematiche di giustizia trovino il loro spazio nelle sfere pubbliche, i media indipendenti che fanno Giornalismo di Pace possono costruire fiducia in comunità che possono proteggerli dalle asserzioni di combattere e distruggere. Possono suggerire al pubblico permettendogli di considerare e avvalorare risposte nonviolente ai conflitti.
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Dystopian Plagues and Fascist Politics in the Age of Trump: Finding Hope in the Darkness
Henry A. Giroux | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
4 Oct 2020 – Reality now resembles a dystopian world that could only be imagined as a harrowing work of fiction or biting political commentary. The works of George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Sinclair Lewis now appear as an understatement in a world marked by horrifying political horizons — a world in which authoritarian and medical pandemics merge.
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UK Massive Syria Propaganda
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
20 Oct 2020 – Dear Antonio, it was satisfying to read Ben Norton’s exposé of the NATO propaganda machine in Syria. How right he is! A recent analysis posted on TMS of press reports in Swiss and Austrian media, showed that 80% come from AP, AFP or Reuters: our ‘free’ press is not free of bias. Thank you to TMS for keeping us all informed about the truth, while Western media supply NATO’s ‘alternative facts’ to the general public.
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On the History of US Military Presence in Hawaii
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Environmental Impact Statement – I submit these areas of concern which should be part of the EIS in this matter.
→ read full articleGlobal Data on Coronavirus: 43.3+ Million Infected; 1.1+ Million Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
*Two Databases Permanently Displayed on TMS*
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Historic Milestone: UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Reaches 50 Ratifications Needed for Entry into Force
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Today, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons reached the required 50 state parties. In 90 days the treaty will enter into force, cementing a categorical ban on nuclear weapons, 75 years after their first use.
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