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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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Communicating 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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Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
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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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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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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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.
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Global 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*
*Global, Localized, Specific Data Updated in Real Time*
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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(Italiano) Memorie di sogni passati: Hawaii come “Ginevra del Pacifico”
Anthony J. Marsella | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 ottobre 2020 – Buon compleanno, Johan Galtung! Passeranno gli anni, ma non la tua eredità come voce per la pace e la giustizia! Le orme dei tuoi giorni alle Hawaii restano.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences of social and political collapse during the twilight of the Greek and Roman empires, the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, Tsarist Russia, Weimar Germany and the former Yugoslavia. Voices from the past, Aristotle, Cicero, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Roth and Milovan Djilas, warned us.
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‘It Affects Everything’: Hawaii Residents Demand Transparency over Pearl Harbor Munitions Storage
Jon Letman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – A munitions storage complex being planned by the US army along the West Loch section of Pearl Harbor near densely populated Hawaiian neighborhoods to help counter Chinese influence in the Pacific is running into local opposition.
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The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
Gabriel Rockhill | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
16 Oct 2020 – One of the founding myths of the contemporary Western European and American world is that fascism was defeated in WWII by liberal democracies, and particularly by the United States. With the subsequent Nuremburg trials and the patient construction of a liberal world order, a bulwark was erected—in fits and starts, and with the constant threat of regression—against fascism and its evil twin in the East. American culture industries have rehearsed this narrative ad nauseum, brewing it into a saccharine ideological Kool-Aid and piping it into every household, shack and street corner with a TV or smartphone, tirelessly juxtaposing the supreme evil of Nazism to the freedom and prosperity of liberal democracy.
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The COVID Illusion
Michael J. Talmo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
“The Magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.” — Ben Okri. Take a whole bunch of vague symptoms that can be caused by just about anything and that can occur in every human on the planet, put them all into a made-up umbrella term called COVID-19, claim that it’s caused by a virus, real or fake doesn’t matter, include even healthy people with no symptoms as cases, use deeply flawed inaccurate tests, and presto: you have a global pandemic.
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One-On-One+ with Johan Galtung
Al Jazeera | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – On the occasion of Galtung’s 90th birthday tomorrow on UN Day, we bring you a conversation he had ten years ago with Riz Khan at Aljazeera about his life.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report 17 (Oct 2020)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Dear fellow signatories of the Nonviolence Charter, this is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’. And welcome to our most recent signatories and organizations!
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The Public Sector Cannot Solve Our Problems–Their Hands Are Tied
Tshepiso Moahloli via Howard Richards - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
I work for the government and not a single day goes by when I do not hear the same cries of alarm. You are going to scare away investors! Every day we are warned that anything we do for the good of the 99% is going to scare off investors.
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#FREEASSANGE: Video Testimony from Yanis Varoufakis
Pressenza IPA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing up to 175 years in prison for publishing truthful information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Countless journalists, legal scholars, and human rights groups have condemned the politically motivated U.S. efforts to prosecute him. Under the campaign 1′ 4ASSANGE we publish short testimonies and start with Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek ex minister of finance and founder of the European political movement DiEM25.
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Nobel Prize for a Gene Bomb
Silvia Ribeiro | Ecologist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – Alfred Nobel himself might see the irony. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – named after the inventor of dynamite and founder of one of the largest bomb factories in the world – has been awarded to researchers who developed the genetic engineering technique CRISPR-Cas9, which must not be allowed anywhere near our food systems or into the wider environment.
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A Gathering Global Storm
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – This is my chapter contribution to The Great Awakenkng: New Modes of Thinking Amid the Ruins of Capitalism (2020) edited by Anna Grear & Davd Bollier. My text is preoccupied with the decline of the state as an efficient problem-solving instrument in a period where global scale challenges are generating an ethical-ecological-bio crisis.
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The USA Has No Allies, Only Hostages
Caitlin Johnstone | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
25 Oct 2020 – The US-centralized empire functions like a giant blob that absorbs nations and turns them into imperial client states. Once absorbed, it is rare for a country to escape and rejoin other genuinely sovereign nations. The new president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has told the Spanish international news agency EFE that he intends to restore the nation’s relations with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran.
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Mozart Piano Concerto #3 by Elisha Mysin, 5 Years Old (Music Video of the Week)
Young Talents, Great Geniuses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
28 Mar 2019 – The youngest pianist in Russia does not get his feet to the piano pedals but masterfully performs the most complex musical works. When Elisha Mysin sits at the piano and music begins to flow from his fingers, it is hard to believe that he is just five years old.
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The Suppressed Danish Mask Study
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Media and researchers have been awaiting the publication of a large Danish study on the effect – or lack thereof – of walking with facemasks in public spaces during the corona pandemic. However, it has been rejected by three leading medical journals: The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, and the American Medical Association’s journal JAMA.
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Agency’s Response to the New York Times’ Editorial “The Truth about Today’s Anarchists”
Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – At the end of September, after a brief exchange on Twitter about her article “The Truth About Today’s Anarchists” we received an email from Farah Stockman, a member of the New York Times Editorial Board, who asked that we connect her to sources within the anarchist movement for an upcoming of story.
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(Português) Bispos de Angola engrossam denúncia sobre retirada ilegal de dólares da Igreja Universal do país
Gilberto Nascimento | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 out 2020 – Religiosos revelam como funcionava operação da igreja de Edir Macedo para transportar dinheiro em sigilo para África do Sul e Brasil. O dinheiro, fruto de dízimos e ofertas, seguiria de carro, por estradas, e seriam transportados, geralmente, entre 4 milhões e 6 milhões de dólares por viagem. Cédulas seriam escondidas em malas, no forro de veículos e até em pneus.
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The Body Politic Electric: Walt Whitman on Women’s Centrality to Democracy
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
“Have I not said that womanhood involves all? Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than the best womanhood?”
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Syria: Six Million Displaced People Have Returned Home
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – Syrian authorities announced today that six million displaced people had returned home to different parts of the country. The authorities have repaired more than 19.000 houses while supporting waste recycling projects that aim at securing an estimated 18.000 job positions.
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Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative
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***Thought Seed*** – Oct 2020 Issue
Naresh Jotwani and Bhargav Vyas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Dear Antonio, Greetings from India!
We have started monthly letters named Thought Seed for interested readers. The central theme of these letters is ‘finding the truth of life deep within,’ wherein we also aim to bridge the difficult gap between theory and practice. We wish to appeal equally to atheists and theists. It is a pleasure having it published in TMS as a Letter to the Editor.
Pope Francis Calls for Creation of Civil Union Laws for Same-Sex Couples
Justine Coleman | The Hill - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 Oct 2020 – Pope Francis expressed his clearest support for same-sex civil unions in the documentary “Francesco” that premiered in Rome, straying from the Vatican’s traditional position, the Catholic News Agency reported. He addressed pastoral care for LGBTQ: “homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family.”
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American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War against the World
Philip M. Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – The most interesting story carefully hidden by the smoke from civil unrest, plague and personal scandals is the continued march of American militarism. Multi billionaire Elon Musk announced that he and the Pentagon are developing a new 7,500 m.p.h. missile capable of delivering 80 tons of military cargo anywhere in the world in under an hour. A major capability for continued U.S. intervention worldwide.
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Ten Years since WikiLeaks and Julian Assange Published the Iraq War Logs
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – Today marks a decade since WikiLeaks published the Iraq War Logs, the most comprehensive exposure of imperialist criminality and neo-colonial banditry since the Pentagon Papers of the 1970s revealed the scale of American military activities in Vietnam, and perhaps of all time. In minute detail, the logs exposed all of the […]
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The Healthcare System Isn’t Interested in Anything Other Than Covid… Not Even Lung Cancer
Peter Andrews | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 Oct 2020 – A new report has shown how people with lung cancer may have been misdiagnosed as coronavirus sufferers, which is already contributing to avoidable deaths. The obsession with Covid-19 is beginning to take its toll.
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Unfinished
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Reading tributes to the revolutionary hero, Che Guevara, last week at the notable TMS site, I was moved to take another look at a poem I had written shortly after his death, some decades ago. But, when I read it again now, something felt wrong. I had omitted an essential piece of the puzzle of life—the piece that points to revelation and deliverance. Can the reader guess which is the new stanza below…?
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Step by Step
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
25 Oct 2020 – Today is Vijay Dashmi or Dashehra symbolising victory of Good over Evil on the return of Lord Ram from his exile. I am feeling lonely. So I write this small poem.
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Nick Dearden | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020 – To efficiently deal with the pandemic and keep everyone safe, we first need to transform the pharmaceutical industry. TRIPS extended Western-style patent protections across the whole world, allowing the business to sit on patents for a minimum of 20 years, during which time they are able to dictate who can use their creations and at what price.
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At 75 – A U.N. of the Future in a Globalized Democracy
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the world’s most important and visionary organisation, the United Nations. The UN Charter’s Article 1 states that peace shall be brought about by peaceful means. That is a typical Gandhian inspiration – “The means are the goals in-the-making. You cannot use destructive means to achieve constructive goals,” he said. Regrettably, many voices accuse “the UN” of being too expensive, too bureaucratic, too ineffective, too corrupt, too this and that.
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BBC’s Upcoming White Helmets ‘Documentary’ Gears Up to Be a Character Assassination of Those Who Challenge Syria War Narratives
Vanessa Beeley | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – The BBC is preparing an attack against journalists, former diplomats, academics and scientists who challenge the dominant pro-war narratives against Syria underpinned by the pseudo-humanitarian White Helmets.
→ read full articleSTOP HUNGER — Multi-Pronged Dimensions
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
World Food day was observed on 16 October. World Food Programme has won the Nobel Peace Prize for this year for its efforts at combating hunger all over the world by bringing food to millions of people who go to bed hungry and miserable. But its efforts are grossly insufficient keeping in view the dimensions of the hunger problem.
→ read full articleA Critical U.S. Election
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Why the 2020 Election Is So Important
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Israeli Conscientious Objector Begins Third Stint in Military Prison
Orly Noy | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 Oct 2020 – Israeli conscientious objector Hallel Rabin, 19, began serving a 25-day sentence in military prison today for refusing to join the Israeli army over its policies toward the Palestinians. Military conscription is mandatory for most Jewish Israelis. This is Rabin’s third period of incarceration, while her appeal to the conscientious objectors committee is still pending.
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(Français) Stefania Maurizi: « C’est un incroyable échec du journalisme »
Stefania Maurizi interviewée par Nadja Vancauwenberghe et John Brown | Le Grand Soir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
18 oct 2020 – La journaliste italienne Stefania Maurizi a travaillé pour certaines des plus grandes publications du pays, dont la Repubblica, l’Espresso et, maintenant, Il Fatto Quotidiano. En 2009, elle a commencé à travailler avec Julian Assange et WikiLeaks sur des dossiers secrets concernant la guerre en Afghanistan, les câbles de la diplomatie américaine et les détenus de Guantanamo.
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Fools’ Crusade: Why United States Provocations towards China Will Lead to Disaster
Jeff J. Brown and Jeremy Kuzmarov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
25 Oct 2020 – On July 4, 2020, the U.S. Navy dispatched an unprecedented two aircraft carriers and four other warships to the South China Sea for naval maneuvers in waters claimed by China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo subsequently broke with the official U.S. policy of neutrality in territorial conflicts in the South China Sea and declared that China’s claims to most of the Sea were “completely unlawful,” though most of the disputed territories had been part of China prior to being taken over by Japan in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War.
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Socialist Luis Arce Wins Bolivian Election
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – A year after former Bolivian president Evo Morales was ousted in a military coup that installed a far-right regime, Morales’ ally Luis Arce declared victory after exit polls showed the socialist candidate with a large advantage over his two main competitors. “Democracy has won,” Arce, who served as Morales’ finance minister, said.
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A Russia-China Military Alliance Would Be a Bulwark against America’s Global Imperialism. Is It Time for Washington to Panic?
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – Vladimir Putin says it’s ‘quite possible to imagine’ a full-blown defense pact between Moscow and Beijing in the near future. Such a deal would transform the geopolitical balance – and be a big headache for the US and NATO.
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(Italiano) Una lunatica pazzia: competizione, conflitti e sfruttamento minerario della Luna
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
12 Ottobre 2020 – Stiamo andando sulla Luna. Il nostro successo cambierà il mondo. Queste sono le frasi introduttive di un recente documento pubblicato dall’ Agenzia Spaziale USA: “Con il Programma Artemis, la NASA porterà sul suolo lunare la prima donna e il prossimo uomo entro il 2024, utilizzando tecnologie innovative per esplorare molto più che in passato ampie zone della superficie lunare”.
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(Français) Bolivie : le triomphe du MAS, c’est le triomphe d’un projet collectif des organisations sociales
Denise Godoy | NODAL - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 oct 2020 – Ce dimanche 18 octobre, la Bolivie a enfin tenu ses élections présidentielles. Elles avaient été reportées à trois reprises. Les décomptes indiquent une victoire retentissante de Luis Arce avec plus de 51% des voix. Le journaliste bolivien Julio Peñaloza Bretel explique les raisons de cette victoire historique après le putsch contre Evo Morales s’était lancée dans une campagne acharnée contre le MAS.
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Goldman Sachs Fined $2.9 Billion over Role in 1MDB Corruption Case
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – Goldman Sachs has been fined $2.9 billion the US Department of Justice announced yesterday closing one of the biggest corruption cases in the history of Wall Street. With a July settlement with Malaysian authorities, Goldman Sachs will pay more than $5 billion for its involvement in the 1MDB scandal but it can afford it easily: 2019 revenue: US$ 36.55 billion – Net worth: US$ 64 billion
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US Presidential Campaign Spectacle: Distracts from Essential Issues while Playing the Race Card
Roger Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
So, we have a marvelous symmetry of contention. Republicans accuse Democrats of collusion with Antifa to establish a socialist tyranny. Democrats accuse Republicans of marching to a fascist dictatorship with the Proud Boys.
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Bored Panda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
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Evo Morales’s Party’s Massive Victory Is a Rebuke to US Elites Who Hailed the Coup
Shawn Gude | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – Immediately after last year’s right-wing coup in Bolivia, US elites, including many liberals, celebrated or excused the putsch against Evo Morales. Yesterday’s resounding electoral win for Morales’s party is a rebuke to all of their bloviating nonsense — and a massive triumph for democracy in Bolivia.
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Stop the Massacres in Haiti; End U.S. and UN Support for the Criminal Regime of Jovenel Moise
Haiti Action Committee | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – The human rights crisis under the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise has continued to widen and deepen with the proliferation of “Tonton Macoutes” style death squad repression across the country.
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Belching Cows and Endless Feedlots: Fixing Cattle’s Climate Issues
Henry Fountain | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
The United States is home to 95 million cattle, and changing what they eat could have a significant effect on emissions of greenhouse gases like methane that are warming the world. We traveled to the Texas Panhandle to understand the nation’s immense cattle feedlots.
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Memories of Dreams Past: Hawaii as the “Geneva of the Pacific”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Happy Birthday, Johan Galtung! Years will pass, but your legacy as a voice for peace and justice will not! The footprints of your days in Hawaii remain. “Footprints in Hawaii’s sands, escaping incoming tides–indelible footprints!”
→ read full article2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 40.3+ Million Infected; 1.1+ Million Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
(Français) Les gouvernements occidentaux ont financé un important réseau de propagande en Syrie
Ben Norton | Investig'action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
29 septembre 2020 – Des coupures de renseignement financées par le gouvernement occidental ont formé des dirigeants de l’opposition syrienne, semé des articles dans les médias et dirigé un groupe de journalistes. Une mine de documents divulgués expose le réseau de propagande. Les documents mettent également en lumière le programme britannique de formation et d’armement des groupes rebelles, y compris des jihadistes extrémistes.
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An Environmental Nakba: The Palestinian Environment under Israeli Colonization
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammed A. Abusarhan | Science for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – Prior to the 1948 war and even the Zionist Congress of 1897, Palestine had some thirteen hundred villages and towns, each with a small and manageable population living sustainably with nature. The land was owned or worked by the Palestinian people, who were 85 percent Muslim, 9.2 percent Christian, and 5.3 percent Jewish.1 This structure changed radically when mostly European Jews mobilized for massive migration to Palestine and began to assume colonial control over the land.
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The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy
Michael T. Klare | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
11 Oct 2020 – Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick – We are finding ourselves in an ever more dangerous and insecure world, with the risk of Armageddon lurking just around the corner.
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Anticipation of Judicial Inquisition of Humans by Extraterrestrials
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Potential Consequence of Failure to Adhere to Universal Principles of Intelligent Life – The purpose of this exercise is to reframe the relation of humans to non-human species — as it may be perceived from an extraterrestrial perspective, now or in the future. Humans are naturally skilled in framing their treatment of animals — notably justified by particular interpretations of religious scriptures held to be beyond question, as with interpretations of the Bible regarding human dominion over all animals.
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(Français) Le cas d’extradition d’Assange est une attaque sans précédent contre la liberté de la presse – alors pourquoi les médias n’en parlent pratiquement pas ?
Patrick Cockburn | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
8 Oct 2020 – Le silence des journalistes en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis sur la procédure d’extradition de Julian Assange les rend complices de la criminalisation par le gouvernement américain. Assange et WikiLeaks ont fait tout ce que les journalistes devraient faire en révélant des informations importantes sur les méfaits du gouvernement américain et en les communiquant au public.
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Yanis Varoufakis at the Belmarsh Tribunal: First they came for Assange…
DiEM25 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 – In his speech at The Belmarsh Tribunal, Yanis Varoufakis makes the case that we must move beyond defending Julian Assange, to actively condemning those whose crimes he revealed. Convened by the Progressive International, The Belmarsh Tribunal investigated and evaluated US war crimes in the 21st century — and defended Julian Assange’s right to reveal them.
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Humanity, Compassion, Bravery
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 – Many countries in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America are facing violence and brutality in one form or the other. However, on an optimistic and humane note, a few events are regularly taking place that dispel this negativity along with the abysmal social and psychological conditions we see around us.
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After the Fall… What?
EnvisionPeaceMuseum | Johan Galtung & Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Fascism or Blossoming after the Fall of the US Empire?
10 Jul 2012 – Prognosis/Prediction
Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative
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Americans Are Dying in the Pandemic at Rates Far Higher Than in Other Countries
Jason Beaubien | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 – Overall deaths in the U.S. are more than 85% higher than in places such as Germany, Israel and Denmark adjusting for population size. Deaths in the U.S. are 29% higher than even in Sweden, “which ignored everything for so long,” refusing to order social restrictions and a lockdown. “We have 29% more mortality than we should have if we’d followed Sweden’s path and Sweden virtually did nothing.”
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Japan to Release 1M Tonnes of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water into Pacific Ocean
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
16 Oct 2020 – Nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s government has decided to release over one million tonnes of contaminated water into the sea, media reports said today, with a formal announcement expected to be made later this month.
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Freeing “Hotel Rwanda” Hero Paul Rusesabagina
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – The man portrayed by Don Cheadle in the movie about mass slaughter in Rwanda was kidnapped and jailed by the country’s dictator. Paul Rusesabagina, the real life hero whose story is the basis of the movie “Hotel Rwanda,” was kidnapped in Dubai and illegally rendered to Rwanda to stand trial on terrorism charges.
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Two Massive New Leaks Show Dirty Underbelly of Empire
Lee Camp | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 – Most Americans don’t know reality. They know their personal reality, which is detached from the real one. Shhhh, don’t tell them about the Blue Leaks and the Syria PR Leaks. The mainstream media’s virtual blackout must mean they aren’t supposed to know.
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Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
The idea of activism – of being a part of some cause that helps makes things better in the world – is increasingly catching on. It has become much cooler than what it was a few decades ago, when greed ruled the roost… When we imbue our activism with the inspiration to harmonize with the whole, our activism makes an enduring difference – in our own lives, in our social circle and in the world at large.
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California
Rafael Campo | Academy of American Poets – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
I wrote this poem to come to terms with some of my own conflicted feelings of shame, complicity, and privilege as I care for people with COVID-19 among my many other patients who continue to live with HIV, and to remember those who did not survive, recognizing my paradoxical power and helplessness as I witness the disproportionate burden of these diseases on people of color.”
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