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Israel: Profile of a Terror State
Donald Monaco | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
23 May 2021 – Historical Analysis – Israel’s crimes against the people of Palestine reveal a record of barbarism and cruelty unmatched in the modern world except for the unrivaled chronical of suffering resulting from murderous wars perpetrated by U.S. imperialism in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Nicaragua, and beyond.
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‘The Savage Punishment of Gaza’: Israel’s Latest Assault on Palestine’s Open Prison
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – Recent media coverage of Israel incursions into Gaza has been full of the usual deceptions: Israel is ‘responding’ or ‘reacting’ to Palestinian ‘provocation’ and ‘escalation’; Palestinian rockets ‘killed’ Israelis, but Palestinians ‘have died’ from unnamed causes; Israel has ‘armed forces’ and ‘security forces’, but Hamas has ‘militants’. Reality: 248 Palestinians were killed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza, including 66 children. Palestinian rocket fire killed 12 in Israel, including one child.
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“Fact-Checking” Takes another Beating
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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(Italiano) L’Osservatorio democratico sulle nuove destre
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
28 maggio 2021 – Azione antifascista Brescia ha invitato Saverio Ferrari in piazza Loggia a Brescia.
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That Inconvenient Insurrection
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
This Modern World – 24 May 2021
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Double Ticket
Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
My dad is so cheap…
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Abhaya Sutta – Fearless
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
Then Janussoni the Brahman went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, exchanged courteous greetings with him. After an exchange of friendly greetings and courtesies, he sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: “I am of the view and opinion that there is no one who, subject to death, is not afraid or in terror of death.”
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COVID World Data: 171M Total; 3,5M Deceased; 156,7M Cases Closed
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
On 31 May 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 171,085,015
Deaths: 3,557,998
Percentage Deaths: 0,02%
Active: 17,572,234
Recovered: 153,388,508
Cases Closed: 156,784,988
Total Vaccinated: 833,613,855
Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
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To Be Young Is to Be Healthy Forever
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
28 May 2021 – The author tries to find the answer of the question: “What Does It Mean to Be Young in an Aging World?” in the answers of three questions of Prince Siddhartha Gautama (before he became Buddha): “Why does a man become old?” “Why does a man become sick?” And “why does a man die?”
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How the USA Does Regime-Change Propaganda
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
* In the case of Saddam Hussein, it was by lying about “WMD” and about Saddam’s being behind Al Qaeda.
* In the case of Muammar Qaddafi, it was by lying about Qaddafi’s being hated (instead of supported) by most Libyans.
* In the case of Bashar al-Assad, it was by lying about Assad’s being hated (instead of supported) by most Syrians.
* In the case of Xi Jinping, it is by lying about Xi’s being a dictator.
* In the case of Vladimir Putin, it is by lying about Putin’s being a dictator.
(Português) Pizza Hut Entra em Lista de Empresas que Mais Financiam Tortura de Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
29 May 2021- A Humane League, dos EUA, divulgou um relatório com uma lista de cadeias de pizzarias que mais têm financiado a crueldade contra os animais. Um dos destaques é a rede Pizza Hut que “incentiva o abuso e tortura de animais por meio de sua cadeia de abastecimento”.
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The Zionists on the Defensive
Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – Israel’s Friends Overwhelm Capitol Hill – Yes folks, there is an international conspiracy and it is all about “protecting” Israel. It operates through front and lobbying groups that uniquely promote the interests of a foreign country, Israel, even when those interests do serious damage to the host country where the lobbyists actually live.
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The Real Crimes of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi and the Farce of Her Trial
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
28 May 2021 – Suu Kyi Being Charged under Same Draconian Law She Defended while in Power – There is absolutely no question about the farcical nature of this trial of the deposed Myanmar state counselor by the regime that has committed — and continues to commit — all the gravest crimes in international law.
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Fairness, Justice, Solidarity, Not Even Mercy or Compassion?
Editorial | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
18 May 2021 – No person, no economic group, no country could have accumulate so excessively wealth and decisional power just with their own effort. Always, openly or concealed, they have done it taking advantage of other persons, other economic groups, other countries. It is impossible to explain not moderate but enormous inequalities without considering some degree, some modality of appropriating what others had generated.
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Gaza Lives Erased: Israel Is Wiping Out Entire Palestinian Families on Purpose
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
20 May 2021 – The numerous incidents of killing entire families in Israeli bombings in Gaza – Parents and children, babies, grandparents, siblings – attest that these were not mistakes. The bombings follow a decision from higher up, backed by the approval of military jurists.
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Many Civilian Airplanes Hijacked by States before Lukashenko’s
Petri Krohn | Moon of Alabama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
24 May 2021 – While the incident unfolded yesterday I amused myself with reading the know-nothing responses from several European prime ministers and officials.
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A New Different Cold War, an Old Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
30 May 2021 – This text is based on responses to questions posed by C.J. Polychroniou, a skilled interpreter of the global scene and noted author and interviewer.
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Covid 19 Pandemic: Body Disposal Crisis–What to Do with Dead People in a Living World? (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – Towards an Eternal Presence – Death and dying, as well as mechanism of body disposal have been a challenge for humanoids since genesis of man, as related in the scriptures of Abrahamic faiths.
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Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”
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From No to Know
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
Not knowing a word of the lingo
Necessary to be admitted to this school…
Global Humanity Paralyzed by COVID-19 Pandemic and Politics of Conflicts Looks for Change and Unity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
22 May 2021 – COVID-19 Pandemic Deserves Critical Thinking and Human Unity
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The Social Responsibility of Scientists
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
26 May 2021 – I would like to announce the publication of a book that discusses the duty of scientists and engineers in trying to prevent the catastrophes that currently threaten human society and the biosphere. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research and The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative–not on the streets but confined to human dwellings.
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“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
Roy T. Bennett | The Light in the Heart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
Roy T. Bennett is the author of The Light in the Heart. He loves sharing positive thoughts and creative insight that has helped countless people to live a successful and fulfilling life. He hopes that his writing will help you become what you are capable of becoming.
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Manufacturing Consent for War: 70 Years of CIA Coups, Assassinations, False Flag Operations and Mass Murder
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
21 May 2021 – A Review of Vijay Prashad’s book, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, with foreword by Evo Morales (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020).
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‘Rule-Based-International-Order’: A New Metaphor for U.S. Geopolitical Primacy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
The implication of this ‘rules-governed’ world is that the USA plays by the rules whereas our adversaries do not. But Snowden revealed that the US has invested more than any other government in intrusive surveillance. Its record of manipulating foreign elections is notorious being a well-known part of the CIA’s portfolio. It has projected more deadly force outside its borders than any other state in last 75 years and has intervened repeatedly in disrupting democracies, blocking and sanctioning their governments if they refuse U.S. tutelage.
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The Emperor’s New Rules
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – For Secretary Blinken, the concept of a “rules-based order” seems to serve mainly as a cudgel with which to attack China and Russia. At a May 7 UN Security Council meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that instead of accepting the already existing rules of international law, the United States and its allies are trying to come up with “other rules developed in closed, non-inclusive formats, and then imposed on everyone else.”
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Encoding Coherent Topic Transformation in Global Dialogue
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
24 May 2021 – Few would question the importance of dialogue in this period of global crises and poisonous divisiveness. There are of course many approaches to dialogue although it is less evident how their insights translate into the challenges of inter-national, inter-faith, inter-cultural, inter-sectoral, and inte-disciplinary dialogue in practice. There are many calls for dialogue as a substitute for conflict. There is however a sense in which the appreciation of dialogue is somewhat superficial — reinforced by exercises in which it only takes token and symbolic form as a feature of public relations.
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Did Time Start at the Big Bang? What Happened before the Big Bang?
Matt O’Dowd | PBS Space Time - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Our universe started with the big bang. But only for the right definition of “our universe”. And of “started” for that matter. In fact, probably the Big Bang is nothing like what you were taught. Simply fascinating!
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COVID World Data: 167,5M Total; 148,6M Recovered; 3,4M Deceased; 763,2M Vaccinated
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
On 24 May 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 763,297,443
Total Cases: 167,589,687
Recovered: 148,689,722
Deaths: 3,479,792
Cases Closed: 152,112,777
Active: 15,476,910
Palestine Is Winning the Legitimacy War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – This piece attempts to contextualize the current violence directed against Gaza in earlier Israeli provocations and takes note of Israel’s reliance on excessive force upon a helpless Gazan civilian population of over two million people trapped inside a crowded and unlawfully blockaded enclave. I find it appropriate to recall Gandhi’s famous observation along these lines: “First, they ignore you, then they insult you, then they fight you, then you win.”
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Covid: The Big Picture (May 2021)
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – After more than a year since the beginning of the pandemic, the WHO has finally acknowledged that aerosols are a primary mode of transmission of Sars-CoV-2. Leading aerosol researcher and professor at the University of Colorado, Jose-Luis Jimenez, argues that aerosol transmission may in fact account for 99% of Sars-CoV-2 transmission.
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Unity at Last: The Palestinian People Have Risen
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 May 2021 – Speak up. Speak out. The Palestinians have risen. It is time to rally behind them.
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People of Conscience: Palestinians Ask You to Boycott Israel
Omar Barghouti | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid struggle, the nonviolent BDS movement needs your support, writes BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti.
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China’s Humanitarian Intervention in Gaza May Be Motivated by Its PR War with the US–But That Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t Welcome
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 May 2021 – Beijing’s more conciliatory approach to the mire that is Israel-Palestine relations may be based in self-interest, but unequivocal American support for Israel hasn’t brought peace, so why not try something new?
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Tokyo Doctors Call for Olympics to Be Cancelled over COVID Surge
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
18 May 2021 – A top medical organisation in Japan has thrown its weight behind calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics, saying hospitals are already overwhelmed as the country battles a spike in coronavirus infections less than three months from the start of the Summer Games.
→ read full articleBanana
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
What a lovely fruit for digestion
Easily available, cheap and delicious
People eat it for its taste and nutrition
Monkeys love it for the same reason
PI
Wisława Szymborska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
The admirable number pi:
three point one four one.
All the following digits are also initial,
five nine two because it never ends.
What Went Right This Week: Redefining the ‘Big Five’, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – The ‘big five’ was rebooted in the name of conservation, the UK unveiled plans to protect peatlands, and multinationals put disability inclusion on the agenda, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Fame or Shame? Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
24 May 2021 – Some years back Norwegian foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg took wise steps to reduce confrontation with Russia through a Barents Council for civilian cooperation. Last week Stoltenberg´s son, Jens, now leader of NATO, dishonored a high-level meeting for civilian corporation in the Arctic Council in Reykjavik by NATO holding a large navy maneuver in that part of the Atlantic. Many countries participated in the tension-building provocation that has become standard Norwegian policy in later years.
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Egypt Opens Rafah Crossing with Gaza Strip to Receive Palestinians Injured in Israeli Aggression
Ahmed Morsy | Ahram online - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 May 2021 – Egyptian authorities today opened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip and received a number of Palestinians injured in an ongoing Israeli aggression on the coastal enclave. The crossing witnessed the arrival of a number of injured Palestinians to receive treatment at Egyptian hospitals.
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The Aryan Invasion of India: History or Politics?
Prof. N.S. Rajaram - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
The evidence of science now points to two basic conclusions: first, there was no Aryan invasion, and second, the Rig-Vedic people were already established in India no later than 4000 BC. How are we then to account for the continued presence of the Aryan invasion version in history books and encyclopedias? Now thanks to the contributions of science we are finally allowed a glimpse into the ancient world of the Vedic Age. The Aryan invasion theory and its creators and advocates are on their way to the dustbin of history.
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Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 May 2021 – Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life. Released by Disrupt Studios on 24 Mar 2021. {Official Trailer | Netflix}
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Israeli Defense Farce
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Antisemitism – 13 May 2021
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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Israel Destroyed Offices of More Than 20 Palestinian Media Outlets in Gaza
Shrouq Aila and Anna Therese Day | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
18 May 2021 – The bombing of global media offices in Gaza caused a stir, while few noted the Palestinian journalists left to work with targets on their backs.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
As those individuals aware of it will have observed, presumably with deep regret, the latest ‘International Day for Biological Diversity’ passed on 22 May with the bulk of the human population continuing to act in ways that destroy Earth’s biosphere at an ever-accelerating rate. We are on the cliff-edge of extinction. What will you do?
→ read full articleCovid 19 Pandemic: Body Disposal Crisis–What to Do with Dead People in a Living World? (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
No Place to Die – The pandemic created a new challenge of what to do with dead people in a living world? This is caused by the increasing numbers of deaths, globally, as a direct result of the pandemic.
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The Xinjiang Genocide Determination as Agenda
Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
27 Apr 2021 – A Critical Analysis of a Report on China by the Newlines Institute and the Raoul Wallenberg Center – It has been produced with the contributions of, and upon consultation with, numerous independent experts, including 33 who have agreed to be identified publicly, as it is stated.
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Why Big Pharma’s Arguments against Patent Waivers Don’t Add Up
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
18 May 2021 – While President Biden is backing the temporary lifting of COVID-19 vaccine patents, drugmakers are making dire predictions of stifled innovation and eroded public trust. What they really fear is losing profits.
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The Fascinating Memoir of a “Citizen Pilgrim”: Q&A with Richard Falk
Busra Cicek and Daniel Falcone | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
7 May 2021 – Richard Falk, the well-known international relations scholar, taught at Princeton University for four decades. Starting in 2002 he has taught Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Falk is also a chair for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. This lengthy interview is about his latest book, a memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, that explores his career as an academic, activist, rapporteur, political theorist, and professor.
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram Militants: Six Reasons They Have Not Been Defeated
Ishaq Khalid | BBC News, Abuja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – The phrase that Nigerian militant group Boko Haram had been “technically defeated” is ringing increasingly hollow.
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Why Biden Is Right to Leave Afghanistan
Jeremy Scahill | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – When Joe Biden assumed the presidency in January, he embarked on a mission to reverse a slew of policies put in place by former President Donald Trump while leaving untouched the elite foreign policy consensus.
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The Infinite Hotel Paradox
Jeff Dekofsky | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Enjoy your stay and good luck with your mind–don’t lose it!
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‘Criminal Complicity’: Outrage as Biden Pushes $735 Million Weapons Sale to Israel amid Gaza Slaughter
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – “Approving more weapons to Israel would add fuel to the fire and would only embolden Israel to continue its bombardments on Gaza.”
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Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
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Conversation at the Crossroads
Joseph Camilleri talks with Richard Falk and Stuart Rees – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Conversation at the Crossroads have chosen two inspiring books and their celebrated authors for an international event on Tuesday 8 June:
>Public Intellectual-The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim by Richard Falk
>Cruelty or Humanity by Stuart Rees
How America Went from Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done?
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Price of Gold: DRC’s Rich Soil Bears Few Riches for Its Miners – Photo Essay
Moses Sawasawa | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
12 May 2021 – In South Kivu province near the borders of Rwanda and Burundi, Kamituga has mineral resources estimated to be worth $24tn (£17tn) in untapped deposits. Yet the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the lowest levels of GDP per capita in the world and people work in dangerous conditions with little hope of scratching out anything more than a meagre existence from tough and dangerous work.
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‘Almost Divine Power’: The Lawyers Who Sign off Who Lives and Who Dies in Modern War Zones
Craig Jones | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
12 May 2021 – When we think of war, we might think of soldiers on the front line – or those pulling the trigger – as the ones responsible for the death or injuries of those they are targeting. But my research suggests that over the past few decades an unlikely profession has become deeply involved in the conduct of war: lawyers.
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How Billionaire Foundations Fund NGOs to Advance US Foreign Policy Goals
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – US foreign policy is increasingly promoted by billionaire funded foundations. The neoliberal era has created individuals with incredible wealth and through “philanthropy”, they flex their influence. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they universally support U.S. foreign policy and the “free market”. A Case Study from Nicaragua
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How the United States Helps to Kill Palestinians
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – The classic formulation from U.S. officials and commentators is that “Israel has the right to defend itself,” never “Palestinians have the right to defend themselves,” even as the Israelis massacre hundreds of Palestinian civilians, destroy thousands of Palestinian homes and seize ever more Palestinian land. The disparity in casualties in Israeli assaults on Gaza speaks for itself.
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Palestine/Israel Coverage Presents False Equivalency Between Occupied and Occupier
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
18 May 2021 – Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality.
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(Português) Enlatados/Embutidos: Cruéis e Nocivas Misturas de Animais Mortos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 maio 2021 – Além de não serem saudáveis e terem o consumo associado pela Organização Mundial da Saúde com um maior risco de câncer e doenças cardíacas, os enlatados/embutidos são misturas de fragmentos de corpos mortos, de carcaças, suprimidas em algo pequeno que representa a inclemente subjugação da vulnerabilidade não humana.
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Talking Points
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – Draft seven simple talking points:
1) Palestine was colonized and replaced by a colonial settler state called “Israel”. The ideas was simply to take a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious country and transform it to a “Jewish state.” The core of this project (Zionism) is ethnic cleansing which started under British Rule (to fulfill the illegal Balfour declaration).
Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
American Transcendentalism Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Emerson had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adulation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
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‘Choke off Dollars to Myanmar Military to Make a Change’
Mehmet Ozturk, Iftikhar Gilani and Sorwar Alam | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 May 2021 – Activist Zarni Urges Imposition of Strict Sanctions against Myanmar Junta, Which Is Unleashing Terror against People
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Hamas’s Negotiating Demands Seem Reasonable
Marc Ash | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 May 2021 – “That Israeli forces and police agree to never again enter the al-Aqsa mosque, as they did earlier this month, and that Palestinians living in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalem not be evicted by Jewish settlers from homes their families have lived in since the 1950s.”
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“Take These Masks off of My Child”
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – Under the banner of fighting COVID-19 children all over the world are being abused and exploited in ways that would have been unthinkable over a year ago. Unfortunately, most people tend to blindly trust government officials and other so-called experts instead of their own common sense. Nazi Germany was obsessed with racial purity partly due to the pseudoscience of eugenics which was a popular ideology throughout the world at the time.
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Stairway to Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
Led Zeppelin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
The Classic from 1971 – LIVE (Click on Watch on YouTube)
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As Covid Ravages Poor Nations, Pharma Vaccine Profiteering Has Created 9 New Billionaires
Jake Johnson | Common Deams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – A new analysis out today shows that pharmaceutical companies’ control over coronavirus vaccines has produced nine new billionaires since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, which continues to ravage developing nations. “These billionaires are the human face of the huge profits pharmaceutical corporations are making from the monopoly they hold on these vaccines.”
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(Castellano) Marbella, sede global del crimen organizado
Nacho Carretero y Arturo Lezcano | El País – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
25 abr 2021 – Criptomonedas y Kalashnikovs. Drogas, lujo y ajustes de cuentas. Un centenar de grupos criminales conviven en la Costa del Sol entre una violencia cada vez más salvaje. Todos coinciden: “Aquí es donde hay que estar”.
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“Tell me how you behave in conflict. I will tell you how much peace culture you have.”
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University. He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize. Galtung has mediated in over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues, 96 as the sole author…
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The “Other Side” of the Story: Combatants for Peace in Palestine/Israel
j.jill | Combatants For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – When we pick up a newspaper or turn on a television news broadcast, more often than not, information focuses on conflict, violence, disaster. Nationally and internationally, it seems an increasing number of broadcasts and publications skew focus and create confusion in groups of people without clarity in distinguishing truth from lies.
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(Português) Grave Risco para a Terra e a Vida: “A Grande Retomada do Capitalismo” (Great Reset)
Leonardo Boff | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 maio 2021 – Está havendo em todo mundo um grande debate sobre que mundo virá na pós-pandemia. O que causa grave preocupação é “A Grande Reinicialização” (Great Reset),“A Grande Retomada” da ordem capitalista mundial. Essa expressão foi sugerida pelo príncipe Charles juntamente com o Coordenador do Forum Econômico Mundial, Klaus Schwab.
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Bakunin formulated no coherent body of doctrine, and his voluminous and vigorous writings were often left incomplete. Anarchist movements owing allegiance to Bakunin flourished in Italy and especially in Spain, where as late as 1936 the anarchists were the strongest revolutionary party. Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer.
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‘A United Nations of Crime in Spain’: How Marbella Became a Magnet for Gangsters
Nacho Carretero and Arturo Lezcano | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – The new international crime organisations have made Marbella their centre of operations. And as violence rises, the police lag far behind.
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Canadian Journalists Fear Retaliation for Criticizing Coverage of Israeli Attacks on Gaza
Akela Lacy | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – An open letter on media standards in Canada, where some style guides ban the word “Palestine,” garnered over 2,000 signatures.
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To Build the Post-Pandemic Future, We Must Imagine Radical Alternatives
Stellan Vinthagen | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – The pandemic has created an opportunity for activists to move beyond ritualized protest and toward constructive resistance.
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And the Brand Played on: Bob Dylan at 80
Neil Spencer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
With a slew of books to mark the songwriter’s birthday (24 May 1941) due , we look at the industry that has grown up around the man who forced academia to take pop seriously.
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William Petersen | Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Whoever said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again…
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Eric Zuesse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – The USA’s response to the increasing economic success of China and other nations that until recent decades were impoverished former colonies is to organize its own allies–especially the English-speaking countries–to become a totally separate global economic trading and military alliance standing against that “third world”–and thereby force all non-aligned nations to have to either choose to be allied with the United States or else.
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Death Row Inmates Sue after They’re Asked to Pick Firing Squad or Electric Chair
Victoria Hansen | All Things Considered, NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – Two death row inmates in South Carolina, now required by law to choose between a yet-to-be-formed firing squad and a 109-year-old electric chair, have decided to sue instead. They call the state’s recently signed legislation unconstitutional because lethal injection was the main method of execution when they were sentenced.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data: 163,7M Total; 143,3M Recovered; 3,3M Deceased; 704,8M Vaccinated
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
On 17 May 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 704,863,727
Total Cases: 163,750,604
Recovered: 143,395,167
Deaths: 3,394,311
Cases Closed: 145,631,454
Active: 18,119,150
World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
14 May 2021 – The Vengeance of the Lord of Mother Earth – In the present SARS Co-2 pandemic, the situation is no different and is historically reenacting the scenario of the past occurrences of plagues, pandemics and other doomsday warnings of the ancients as well as voices from antiquities.
→ read full articleCitizen Pilgrim: To Be or Not to Be
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim – Conversation with Richard Falk, Noura Erakat, Victoria Brittain and Jeremy Corbyn~
Monday 17 May, 5:30–7:00 PM (GMT-BST), Where: Online
Varoufakis: From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | DiEM25 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Prof. Varoufakis expounds on the thesis that we have made an historic transition from “capitalism’ to a finance-base “post-capitalism” with profound consequences. A fork on the road is approaching: It will take us either into deeper stagnation and environmental degradation or to a society with markets but no capitalism.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Problematic Challenge of Global Discernment – The international community strongly deprecates the isolated voices associated with vaccine hesitancy citing possibilities of: autism, vaccine overload, paradoxical vaccine responses, autoimmune triggering, prenatal infection, ingredient concerns, sudden infant death syndrome, and infertility. Reference is to incidence of other vaccines-related injuries (readily dismissed by authorities as rare and negligible)
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Clashes, Scuffles, Conflict – Western Media’s Euphemisms for Israel’s Brutal Violence in Sheikh Jarrah
Belen Fernandez | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – Let’s imagine some creative wartime reporting: “On April 26, 1937, the inhabitants of the Basque town of Guernica ‘clashed’ with German warplanes dropping high explosives and incendiary bombs. The town was pulverised in the course of the ‘scuffle’, and up to 1600 people perished”.
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‘What We’ve Seen in Sheikh Jarrah Is a Microcosm of What We’ve Experienced for the Last 70+ Years’
Janine Jackson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Interview with US Campaign for Palestinian Rights’ Ahmad Abuznaid about Israel/Palestine apartheid for CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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(Português) Poder Político versus Poder Financeiro
Editorial | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
16 maio 2021 – O poder financeiro apoderou-se do leme da marcha da humanidade. Ele tem acumulado tanta riqueza e o consequente poder de decisão que somente Black Rock -o maior fundo global de investimentos- qualifica, por tamanho, como terceiro “país” do mundo, apenas atrás dos Estados Unidos e da China. Isto é inaudito e, a na nossa opinião, inaceitável.
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(Italiano) Fermare la guerra fredda alla Cina e diventare partner – per il bene comune dell’umanità
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 Maggio 2021 – Il conflitto fra USA/Occidente e Cina plasmerà il futuro dell’umanità più che qualunque altro conflitto. Perciò non è una questione bilaterale ma un interesse globale. Credo che fermare la guerra fredda alla Cina dovrebbe essere in cima all’agenda delle istituzioni di ricerca sulla pace che non siano diventate dipendenti dagli stati e/o irreggimentate dagli USA.
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Six More Lawsuits Filed Against Syngenta and Chevron Over Pesticide That Causes Parkinson’s Disease
Carey Gillam | US Right to Know - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
3 May 2021 – More than a dozen similar lawsuits already filed in U.S. courts. First trial set for May 10.
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Second Stage Terror Wars
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 May 2021 – If you wistfully think the corona crisis will soon come to an end, I suggest you alter your perspective. We are in the second phase of a long war of terror waged with two weapons – military and medical – whose propaganda messaging is carried out by the corporate mainstream media in the pursuit of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset. Part one has so far lasted twenty years; part two may last longer. You can be certain it won’t end soon and that the new terrorists are domestic dissidents.
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The (Im)Proper Meshing of the Corporate Media and the Military-Industrial Complex
Helen Johnson | The Miscellany News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
13 May 2021 – This is the fourth article in a five-part series about the military-industrial-media complex. The third article, “The unprecedented consolidation of the modern media industry has severe consequences,” can be found here.
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What the Overlooked History of Post-1960s Organizing Can Teach Activists Today
Shane Burley | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
8 May 2021 – A conversation with the editors of “Remaking Radicalism” — a collection of writings from one of the most underrepresented periods of leftist organizing.
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The Costs of War to U.S. Allies since 9/11
Jason W. Davidson | Watson Institute/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – The US allies in the post-9/11 wars have borne significant human and budgetary costs. They were the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that have grown from the “Global War on Terror.” While the Afghan and Iraqi governments incurred the highest human costs, this research paper focuses on the human and financial contributions of European and other allies of the U.S.
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