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The ‘Desaparecidos’ of Palestine: Gantz Escalates Israel’s War on the Dead
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
On 2 Sep the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army. While in the past, Israel has only kept the bodies of alleged ‘Palestinian attackers’ who belonged to ‘terror groups’, the latest decision would extend the rule to all Palestinians, even those who have no political affiliations.
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Did the US War on Terror Displace 37 Million?
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – The Brown University Watson Institute Costs of War Project put out a report with the astounding figure. Here’s what they got right and what they got wrong.
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The End of Reality?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
So, if you feel you also may be going insane in the present climate of digital screen life, where real is unreal but realer than real, the apparent is cryptic, and up is down, true is false, and what you see you don’t, it has a history. One hundred and thirty-two years ago, Nietzsche added that “something extraordinarily nasty and evil is about to make its debut.” We know it did.
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Pentagon Papers Leaker Daniel Ellsberg Testifies in Assange’s Defense, Says WikiLeaks Exposed ‘War Crimes’ in ‘Public Interest’
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
16 Sep 2020 – Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg – whose ‘Pentagon Papers’ leak exposed illegal US bombing during the Vietnam War – said Julian Assange would not see a fair trial if extradited to the US, comparing the publisher’s case to his own.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
The discourse about, or for, peace has mostly disappeared in research, politics and the media. In foreign and security politics, it does not seem strange that decision-makers never obtain peace advice or consult peace experts. The fantasy-assumption is that if only there is enough military ‘security means’ applied to enough societal problems, peace will automatically come about.
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Africa’s Catastrophic Covid Response
Ian Birrell | UnHerd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about the disease’s impact on Africa were terrifying. The World Health Organisation predicted ten million cases within six months, raising the horrifying prospect of fragile health systems becoming overwhelmed with corpses piled up in hospital corridors.
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(Português) Crise e Mudanças Climáticas: Pássaros Migratórios Caem do Céu sem Vida
Bianca Sales | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 set 2020 – Milhares de pássaros migratórios morreram inexplicavelmente no sudoeste dos Estados Unidos, no que os ornitólogos descrevem como uma tragédia nacional que provavelmente está relacionada à crise climática.
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Gas Companies Are Abandoning Their Wells, Leaving Them to Leak Methane Forever
Mya Frazier | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Gas wells never really die. Just one orphaned site in California could have emitted more than 30 tons of methane. There are millions more like it.
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Face Masks Could Be Giving People Covid-19 Immunity, Researchers Suggest
Georgina Hayes | The Telegraph - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – Mask wearing might also be reducing the severity of the virus and ensuring that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.
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Julian Assange, and Press Freedom, on Trial in London
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Press freedom itself is currently on trial in London, as Julian Assange fights extradition to the U.S. He faces 175 years in prison and his unjust imprisonment would serve as an example to anyone daring to publish leaked information critical of the U.S. government.
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H.G. Wells (21 Sep 1866 – 13 Aug 1946): The Open Conspiracy for Peace
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Herbert George Wells, an active world citizen, is usually known as just H.G. Wells. He was a creator of modern science fiction, a pioneer of women’s rights (though he treated some badly in his many love affairs), a journalist, historian and novelist. Above all he was a social thinker devoted to peace and a stable world order.
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9 Russian Songs You’ve Heard and Don’t Know the Name (Music Video of the Week)
Vinheteiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
In fact, no one knows their names.
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A Providential Last Warning
Vincenzo Balzani | Substantia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Rather than being afraid of the coronavirus, today we must be afraid that once the health emergency is over we will return to the situation we were in before.
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How the West Lost
Anatol Lieven | Prospect Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
After the long stand-off against communism, victory seemed as total as it was sudden. But the west has since fractured and is now losing prestige and influence—does the reversal expose a moral defeat?
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What Now for the Whales of Japan?
Chris Butler-Stroud | Whale and Dolphin Conservation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
News that Shinzo Abe is stepping down as Japan’s prime minister could be another nail in the coffin for the country’s whaling industry. It offers the Japanese government a rare opportunity to press the reset button on a practice which costs it dearly, in subsidies and international reputation.
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Something’s Happening Here
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies: Critical and Lyrical Essays, by Edward Curtin, Atlanta-GA, Clarity Press 2020 – Ed shows us how to connect the dots, to make sense of the Void. How to get beyond the mass-media and social-media deceptions; our defined and confined world and vision. Even, how to make space for the spiritual, mystical and inexplicable. How to find clarity and meaning, sometimes even beauty.
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Prof. Johan Galtung on the Psychology and Theology of Nuclear Weapons: The Human Factor
TalkWorks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Personal interviews with leading thinkers and scholars from diverse fields who are throwing light on the roots of the multifaceted global crisis humanity has created for itself.
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2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 29.2 Million+ Positive; 929 Thousand+ Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
* Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
* Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
The “Inside Job” Hypothesis of the 9/11 Attacks
Prof. Graeme MacQueen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Three days after 9/11 the eminent economist Celso Furtado suggested that it was a provocation carried out by the American far right to justify a takeover. He compared these attacks to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 and the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany. I am not concerned in this article to demonstrate the truth of the “inside job” hypothesis. Ten years of research led me to conclude that it is correct, but in the present paper I am concerned only with the preliminary, but vital, issue of imagination. Those who cannot imagine this hypothesis to be true will leave it unexamined.
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Tech Titans and Censorship—the Same People Profiting from the Quarantine Are Censoring Criticisms of It
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – The same bloated Tech/Data and Telecom Titans now gorging themselves on the corpses of our obliterated middle class are rapidly transforming America’s once proud democracy into a censorship and surveillance police state. They used the lockdown to accelerate construction of their 5G network of satellites, antennae, biometric facial recognition, and “track and trace” infrastructure that they will use to compel obedience and suppress dissent.
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As Pandemic Death Toll Approaches 200,000, American Oligarchs Celebrate Their Wealth
Niles Niemuth | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – According to Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, the super-rich now possess $3.2 trillion, enough to pay for an entire year of public education, health care, nutrition and disaster relief for millions of people.
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Paulo Freire: Popular Participation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
In the Declaration of Principles and Programme of Action adopted by the 1976 World Employment Conference it is stated, “A basic needs-oriented policy implies the participation of the people in making the decisions which affect them through organizations of their own choice.”
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Fibonacci Spiral in 3D Framing Psychosocial Phyllotaxis
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Determining the Golden Angle for Global Governance Uplift – The question here is whether greater insight is to be obtained from representation of the Fibonacci spiral in 3D, as an approximation to the so-called golden spiral. Specifically how might this assist in reconciling distinctions of relevance to psychosocial development — or its progressive constraint.
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Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine
Monica Gandhi, M.D., M.P.H., and George W. Rutherford, M.D. | The New England Journal of Medicine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – As SARS-CoV-2 continues its global spread, it’s possible that one of the pillars of Covid-19 pandemic control — universal facial masking — might help reduce the severity of disease and ensure that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic. If this hypothesis is borne out, universal masking could become a form of “variolation” that would generate immunity and thereby slow the spread of the virus in the United States and elsewhere, as we await a vaccine.
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WHO Mask Study Seriously Flawed
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – The WHO-commissioned meta-study on the effectiveness of facemasks, published in the medical journal The Lancet in June 2020, has been instrumental in shifting global facemask policies during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the meta-study, which claimed a risk reduction of 80% with facemasks, is seriously flawed on several levels and should be retracted.
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American Bloodlands
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – The tinder that could soon ignite widespread violent conflagrations throughout the United States lies ominously stacked around us. Millions of disenfranchised white Americans, who see no way out of their economic and social misery, struggling with an emotional void, are seething with rage against a corrupt ruling class and bankrupt liberal elite that presides over political stagnation and grotesque, mounting social inequality.
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Lanza del Vasto: The Fatal Dynamic of the West
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
From Les Quatre Fléaux, Denoel 1959, pp. 18-24 – These pages appear to be fully realized today, in the Bushian-Trumpian era of world history.The text indicates that today Gandhian nonviolence suggests a historical awareness of times that for others are only dark; the suggestion is due to Tolstoy, Gandhi and the other great masters of nonviolence who have prepared a new civilization, that of the third millennium.
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Two Decades of US “War on Terror” Responsible for Displacing At Least 37 Million People and Killing Up To 12 Million
Jacob Crosse | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – A new report from Brown University estimates the number of people who have fled from US military operations since September 2001 to be as high as 59 million.
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Appropriator Financial Fabric, the Case of BlackRock
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Intricate and extended fabrics of economic organizations that appropriate good part of the surplus generated by the productive effort of humanity proliferate in the world today. These fabrics have their epicenter in central countries but their tentacles reach every place in the world. They are able to leap on profitable opportunities as well as to retract with no losses when circumstances change. The case of the fabric articulated by BlackRock and its impacts.
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Julian Assange, Prometheus Bound
Pepe Escobar | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – This is the tale of an Ancient Greek tragedy reenacted in AngloAmerica. Amid thundering silence and nearly universal indifference, chained, immobile, invisible, a squalid Prometheus was transferred from the gallows for a show trial in a faux Gothic court built on the site of a medieval prison.
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The Lion and the Mouse
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
A lion caught a little mouse and was about to eat it. The mouse begged,
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Arakan Resistance Assist Rohingya in Their Common Quest for Int’l Accountability
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – Arakan Army/ULA emerging as an unseemly ally and collaborator of Rohingya victims seeking justice and a peaceful homeland.
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Hope
Giuseppa Cochiara and Gary Steven Corseri - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Food for the poor,
Water for plants
Rain for arid land.
Trump’s Rushed, Racist Vaccine Strategy Seeks Votes, Not a Cure
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
10 Sep 2020 – Under the World Health Organization, vaccine development is proceeding through a vast, global collaboration. Noticeably absent, however, is the United States. Here, President Donald Trump is intent on releasing a vaccine before the November election, placing his lust for power above the urgent demands of public health. Millions of Americans could be harmed if Trump forces the release of a vaccine before it’s proven to be safe and effective.
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(Português) A Estratégia do Behemoth
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
7 set 2020 – A desordem promovida pelo poder não é nem sequer ou somente um sintoma de incapacidade, mas uma estratégia de destruição das instituições democráticas mediante a confusão e a distração. Depois virá a repressão.
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The Dehumanization Is the Point
Sarit Michaeli | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
4 Sep 2020 – Israeli soldiers placed IEDs at the entrance to a Palestinian village. If only we’ll kill, maim, arrest or demolish enough of their homes, so the logic goes, we’ll finally deter them and make them stop demanding basic rights we take for granted: the right to freedom, livelihood, and dignity.
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(Italiano) Lanza del Vasto: La dinamica fatale dell’Occidente
Antonino Drago - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Da I quattro Flagelli (orig. 1959), SEI, Torino, 1996, cap. V, parr. 18-24 Sessant’anni fa Lanza del Vasto, l’unico discepolo occidentale di Gandhi (a parte Mirabehn) ha scritto queste pagine che appaiono realizzarsi completamente oggi, nell’epoca bushiana-trumpiana della storia del mondo, che qui viene vista come coda finale della parabola della civiltà occidentale, iniziata dai […]
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Stairway to Heaven [Lyrics] (Music Video of the Week)
Led Zeppelin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Enjoy your climb… !
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Rest in Power, Kevin Zeese
Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
7 Sep 2020 – It is with a sad heart that I report the sudden and unexpected death of Kevin Zeese early Sunday [6 Sep] morning. Kevin was working up until the end and died in his sleep of a possible heart attack. There will be an online tribute to Kevin on Saturday, September 19 at 3:00 pm Eastern/12:00 pm Pacific on Zoom.
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Press in His Pocket: Bill Gates Buys Media to Control the Messaging
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – A Columbia Journalism Review expose reveals that, to control global journalism, Bill Gates has steered over $250 million to the BBC, NPR, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, the New York Times, Univision, Medium, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, the Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, Center for Investigative Reporting, Pulitzer Center, National Press Foundation, International Center for Journalists, and a host of other groups. His press bribes have paid off.
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Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Dedicated to the UN International Day of Democracy, 15 September
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It’s Time to Acknowledge Hutu Genocide and Rwandan Occupation of DR Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – Global power elites are silent about Hutu genocide and Rwanda’s ongoing occupation of the Democratic Republic of Congo because it has served their interests for many years. “The truth would embarrass them.”
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Coronavirus Dons a New Crown
Nuruddin Unchwaniwala and Paul Ahlquist | Science Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, which causes COVID-19, belongs to the positive-strand RNA viruses, a large class of viruses that includes Zika, hepatitis C, and chikungunya viruses… RNA replication is a major target of antiviral drugs, including remdesivir, which shows promise for treating COVID-19 patients.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Hvordan vi blir bedratt
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Mange kjenner uttrykket ”verden vil bedras”, gjerne med tillegget ”la den derfor bedras”. Opprinnelsen er tilskrevet den romerske satirikeren Gaius Petronius Arbiter (ca. 27–66), forfatter av novellen Satyricon. Uansett beskriver uttrykket dagens mediesituasjon, der folk flest ikke har annet valg enn å tro på det de hører og ikke vet hva de ikke hører. Mange blir lurt av falske eller villedende historier og akronymer, forkortelser som skjuler virkeligheten for ”uinnvidde”. Forfatteren gir en rekke eksempler på hvordan makthavere skjuler seg bak institusjoner vi ikke har noe forhold til.
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COVID-19 among Children: The Unseen Facts beyond Its Direct Impact
Shree Prasad Devkota and Laxmi Paudyal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – The corona virus was first diagnosed in animals in 1937 and in humans in 1965. Now, the whole world is being affected by this virus and the Corona Virus 2019 has became pandemic. Everyone knows about its direct effect on humans but the fact is that the effects of this disease and its mitigation measures among children are rarely noticed.
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The Mystery of the Kailasa Temple of India
Ancient Architects – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
The enigmatic Kailasa Temple at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India has fascinated researchers for centuries. As the world’s largest monolithic structure, it is without doubt one of the most breathtaking sites on the planet and certainly one of humanity’s greatest architectural achievements.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
We have the privilege of living in a very exciting period in history, saying farewell to nation-states and welcoming civilization-regions. And then always with the possibility of rediscovering, or recreating, a reality of “small is beautiful”, regardless of how much “big is necessary” may be emerging. Exciting!
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Vaccine-Derived Polio Spreads in Africa after Defeat of Wild Virus
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – A new polio outbreak in Sudan has been linked to the oral polio vaccine that uses a weakened form of the virus. News of the outbreak comes a week after the World Health Organization announced that wild polio had been eradicated in Africa.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 6 (final)
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Why had the 1917 Revolution in Russia been followed by the defeats of the working class in Italy, China, Germany and Spain, to name only the most consequential of the political disasters? Why had the Great Depression—the greatest economic breakdown in the history of capitalism—led not to socialism, but, instead, to fascism and war? Why had the workers’ state founded on the basis of the October Revolution degenerated into a monstrous totalitarian regime?
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Truths
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – George Orwell said “in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” So let us all tell the truth:
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‘Ye are Many, They are Few’: Nonviolent Resistance to the Elite’s Covid-19 Coup
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Under cover of this manufactured ‘health crisis’ the global elite is fundamentally reshaping global society to serve its own purpose with millions being marginalized and millions being killed in the process. Fortunately, awareness of what is at stake is now steadily rising. And so is the resistance.
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To the Country
Rubén Darío | Academy of American Poets – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
“To the Country” originally appeared in Prosas Profanas and Other Poems (Nicholas L. Brown, 1922).
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The Current Impasse in Belarus and the Peace Alternative
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – Back in the 1970s, the left and even many liberals were clear that Nixon’s dropping napalm on Vietnamese villages was an abomination. By the 1990s, some thought Bill Clinton’s bombing of Yugoslavia was, perhaps, humanitarian. Fast forward to the present, there is sentiment that the US has a global “responsibility to protect” the less enlightened lands in the name of “democracy.” The fallacy of “humanitarian imperialism – using human rights to sell war.”
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Panic Time
E. Tammy Kim | Columbia Journalism Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists may be the only outlet whose approach to climate change is explicitly existential.
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John Pilger outside the Old Bailey Court on Julian Assange’s Trial
John Pilger | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Veteran investigative journalist and filmmaker John Pilger delivered this speech outside London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court on 7 Sep 2020, the first day of resumed show-trial proceedings for the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. Pilger, along with a number of other journalists and human rights activists, was denied access to the court.
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How Many People Has the Coronavirus Killed?
Giuliana Viglione | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
1 Sep 2020 – Researchers, journalists and politicians turned to calculations of excess deaths. Rather than getting bogged down by cause, the metric compares all deaths in a given week or month with the deaths that statisticians predict would have happened in the absence of the pandemic, usually as an average over the previous five years. It can be challenging to differentiate between people who died of COVID-19 and those who were infected but died from unrelated causes. “That’s going to be a very critical piece of all this. If you have two concurrent conditions, what does it get classified as?”
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Dengue Breakthrough after Mosquitoes Laced with Natural Bacteria
Rebecca Ratcliffe | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
27 Aug 2020 – Infecting mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria dramatically reduces their ability to transmit dengue, according to a breakthrough study that could pave the way to eliminating the disease.
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Gravitational Waves: Astronomers Spot a Black Hole so Massive They Weren’t Sure It Could Exist
Ilya Mandel | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – One of the greatest things about being an astrophysicist is that you keep discovering things you didn’t think were possible. Now two Observatories have discovered their largest black hole yet. It’s important because scientists had in fact doubted whether black holes of this mass could even exist.
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India the Malevolent Republic
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India, by K.S. Komireddi, London, C. Hurst and Co. 2019 – This is a lively analysis of Indian politics since independence.
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TRANSCEND International and the Right Livelihood Foundation Mourn the Passing of 1981 Laureate Mike Cooley (1934 – 4 Sep 2020)
Johan Galtung and Right Livelihood Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
“Dear Mike Cooley–you may no longer be living among us, but you will never leave our minds. You may pass away to some other world, but will keep on living among us as one whose thoughts and dreams, words and actions, are indelible. Thank you, dear Mike.
With Peace and Love, Johan Galtung
TRANSCEND International”
A Conversation at the Edge of the Human Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – I am posting below a long interview with Konrad Stachnio on wide-ranging questions, which stretched by knowledge past its breaking point, especially in assessing where the technological innovations on the horizons will lead us. It is one of 17 conversations published by Clarity Press under the title, Civilization in Overdrive: Conversations at the edge of the Human Future.
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The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange. Whose Side Are You On?
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Sep 2020 – When I first met Julian Assange more than ten years ago, I asked him why he had started WikiLeaks. He replied: “Transparency and accountability are moral issues that must be the essence of public life and journalism.” I had never heard a publisher or an editor invoke morality in this way.
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How Philanthropy Benefits the Super-Rich
Paul Vallely | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – There are more philanthropists than ever before. Each year they give tens of billions to charitable causes. So how come inequality keeps rising?
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Facts vs. Feelings: How to Stop Our Emotions Misleading Us
Tim Harford | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
10 Sep 2020 – The pandemic has shown how a lack of solid statistics can be dangerous. But even with the firmest of evidence, we often end up ignoring the facts we don’t like.
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Here to Help!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Meanwhile, in the good old US of A
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Refuting the Official Narrative: An Essential Reading List of Banned Resources to Better Understand the COVID-19 “Pandemic”
Compiled by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – This short list of important censored-out items has been put together to make more understandable what has been going on behind the scenes of the COVID-19 “pandemic”. This partial list of resources reveals unwelcome truths that are never discussed in the Mainstream Media – which is totally controlled by the despised Wall Street corporations that will benefit most.
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Remembering the 1960’s
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Those of us who lived through that era remember it as a time when the danger of a nuclear war between the USA and the USSR was very real indeed. The world came extremely close to disaster during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In response to the threat of nuclear destruction, millions of people all over the world took to the streets.
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Once Foot Soldiers in Myanmar’s Army, Now Potential Witnesses to Mass Atrocities
Nahlah Ayed | CBC Radio Canada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – Two men deserters from Myanmar’s army are in the custody of the International Criminal Court at The Hague after reporting their participation, under military orders, in the 2017 campaign of killing and rape of countless Rohingya Muslim civilians. They appeared on Bangladesh border in mid-August, sources say.
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Solutions
Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
With a patient in my medical exam room. Me: How old are your kids?
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Imparting Basic Education — Numeracy, Literacy and Other Skills
Ravi P. Bhatia and Ambika Roshan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
One positive feature that has emerged in today’s complex world is that like proper nutrition, a safe and healthy home plus education must be imparted almost with religious fervour and patience, not just the rote form of teaching-learning process, generally observed earlier.
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Normalising the Exceptional as a Serious Security Threat
Rethinking Security network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Jørgen Johansen argues that, like terrorism before it, the Covid-19 pandemic is being used by politicians across the world to normalise exceptional restrictions on basic rights with political consequences that will long outlast the health emergency.
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Peace Is Endangered Not by Chinese Military Expansion but by a Declining US Viewing It as an Existential Threat
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – A report from the US Department of Defense paints China as a rising military power capable of challenging America for global superiority. The reality is that the report is a product of Washington’s nervous psychological state.
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Global Governance after the COVID Pandemic
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
31 Aug 2020 – In making conjectures about global governance in the post-COVID-19 era, it is important to be both cautious and clear. Cautious because there are many uncertainties. Clarity is equally important, especially drawing clear lines between what is expected and feasible, what seems necessary, and what is desirable but not likely attainable.
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Tolstoy and Gandhi: Light as Darkness Approached
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
By 1901 Tolstoy had been excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church — not that he expected much light to come from Church-State relations. The Church did insist that no prayers be said at Tolstoy’s funeral. For Tolstoy as for Gandhi, nonviolence was an expression of ‘soul force’ — the outward expression of the Inner Kingdom.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 3
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
25 Aug 2020 – An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
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Why Covid-19 Is a “Strange Pandemic”
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – Why does covid-19 appear to be a somewhat strange pandemic? It is because of the covid-19 mortality profile, which is almost identical to natural mortality.
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BREAKING: U.S. Court Rules Mass Surveillance Program Revealed by Snowden Was Illegal
Raphael Satter | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – Seven years after Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 4
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
29 Aug 2020 – Trotsky’s miraculous survival of the assassination attempt of May 24, 1940, proved to be only a reprieve. The GPU immediately set into motion an alternate plan. The next attempt would be carried out not by a heavily armed squad of killers, but by a lone assassin.
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2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 27.3 Million+ Positive; 893 Thousand+ Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
Among Friends…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Two elderly ladies had been friends for many decades. Over the years they had shared all kinds of activities and adventures.
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(Français) La bible pour constitution : l’essor de la droite évangélique au Brésil
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
L’arrivée au pouvoir de Jair Bolsonaro est loin d’être le produit d’un malheureux concours de circonstances. Sa victoire à l’élection présidentielle d’octobre 2018 est aussi le résultat d’une puissante lame de fond portée, entre autres, par l’essor spectaculaire des cultes évangéliques dans le pays à partir du dernier quart du 20e siècle. Implantées dans les quartiers populaires, désertés par les pouvoirs publics, leurs églises (pentecôtistes et néo-pentecôtistes principalement) se sont rapidement révélées être de redoutables instruments de socialisation et de propagande politiques au service des élites conservatrices.
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(Français) L’espoir d’un atterrissage en douceur
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1 Sep 2020 – Face aux prévisions pessimistes pour les États-Unis, pouvant aller jusqu’a la guerre civile, de nombreuses initiatives progressistes avancent. C’est la dialectique de l’histoire en action: «when the going gets tough, the tough get going» (quand les temps deviennent durs, les durs avancent.). Et cela fait naître l’espoir que le crash de l’empire pourrait avoir un “atterrissage en douceur.”
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(Português) Degradação Florestal da Amazônia Cresce 465% em Um Ano
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1 set 2020 – De acordo com um levantamento do Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (Imazon), o desmatamento no bioma amazônico aumentou 29% entre agosto de 2019 e julho de 2020. Já a degradação florestal teve aumento de 465% no mesmo período.
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Space Weapons to Counter China, Russia ‘Coming’
Dave Makichuk | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
28 Aug 2020 – To say that officials at the newly established US Space Command face a clear and present danger, is an understatement. USSC major general says new capabilities are on the way to mitigate looming threats.
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Premiere: The War on Journalism — The Case of Julian Assange
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
28 Aug 2020 – Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder and editor Assange’s extradition is being sought in a hearing to begin 7 Sep for publishing documents that exposed U.S. government war crimes and human rights abuses. There is a war on journalism and Julian Assange is at the centre of it. If this precedent is set then what happens to Assange can happen to any journalist. MUST WATCH!
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
USA comes out as the most troubled country, hence very active in equilibrating efforts. Then comes EU, in short the West, followed by India and Russia. Lowest, least worried in this sense, are China and Latin America, quite balanced, one at a higher, the than other at a lower level. We would assume that they will both continue climbing on all dimensions, making themselves heard, but less noisily than the West, Russia and India. Africa is in-between.
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Éminence Grise: Journalism’s ‘Gates Keepers’
Tim Schwab | Columbia Journalism Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
As philanthropists increasingly fill in the funding gaps at news organizations—a role that is almost certain to expand in the media downturn following the coronavirus pandemic—an underexamined worry is how this will affect the ways newsrooms report on their benefactors. Nowhere does this concern loom larger than with the Gates Foundation, a leading donor to newsrooms and a frequent subject of favorable news coverage.
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Can Former Child Soldiers File a Complaint at the International Court against Nepal’s Maoist Leaders?
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
24 Aug 2020 – This state-of-the-art paper is prepared to review the voices of the former child soldiers (under the age of 18) recruited by the Maoist Army during the People’s War (1996-2006) in Nepal. The former child soldiers were used as informers, porters, messengers, cooks, and dancers among others. The United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) verified a few thousands of child soldiers within the Maoist Army. The former child soldiers suffered from all concerned institutions.
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What Is Covid-19, SARS-2? How Is It Tested? How Is It Measured? The Fear Campaign Has No Scientific Basis
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – If the public had been informed that Covid-19 is “similar to Influenza”, the fear campaign would have fallen flat. Covid-19 is a public health concern but it is NOT a dangerous virus.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 5
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
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Operation Condor: The Cold War US Conspiracy That Terrorized South America
Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice.
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Noam Chomsky on COVID-19 and His New Book: Internationalism or Extinction
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Noam Chomsky analyzes the coronavirus pandemic in the context of neoliberal capitalism’s failures, climate change, potential nuclear disaster, and Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.
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A Long Term Covid Response Plan for India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
5 Sep 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a massive toll on the economy: broken supply chains, record unemployment, failing small businesses. Much the same way it is affecting people with pre-existing health conditions more strongly, so is the pandemic-triggered economic crisis exposing vulnerable communities to greater distress.
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UNfold Zero
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
This article is based on an Open Letter I sent to the UNFOLD ZERO membership on 2 Sep 2020. Nuclear Power watches over UN activities and not the other way around. CERN is—officially-–not concerned with nuclear weapons. They only study the atom. And from these 64 years of studying the atom come all the nuclear plants and nuclear weapons in the world!
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COVID-19: Efficient Protection of Contacts Is Simpler Than Imagined
Prof. Felix I. D. Konotey-Ahulu, et al. | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – The Oxford Vaccine for COVID-19 raises the question: “How does this prospective treatment provide efficient protection right now for front line health workers, many of whom are dying despite the stringent protective measures?” Answer: It doesn’t. We need something immediately to stop deaths.
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War Is a Disaster, Not a Game
Pete Shimazaki Doktor and Ann Wright | Honolulu Civil Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – It is hard to argue that war is for the defense of people when modern warfare is notable for indiscriminate killing, albeit often filtered through commercial media and mislabeled by government and military officials as “collateral damage.” Defund militarism and invest in peacemakers if conflict resolution is truly the objective.
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Iran’s Increasing Reliance on China
Niranjan Jose | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Will China’s bruited $400 bn. investment in Iran make Beijing an oil Gulf power?
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Everything Going According to Plan in China
Pepe Escobar | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
24 Aug 2020 – China plans not only in years, but in decades. Five year plans are complemented by ten and 15 year plans. The Belt and Road Initiative is in fact a nearly 40-year plan, designed in 2013 to be completed in 2049. And continuity is the name of the game. The contours of China’s long-term strategy for the new Cold War are quickly coming into view.
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(Italiano) Cappellani militari e obiettori di coscienza: da che parte stare
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Il 19 agosto sera sono rimasto addolorato. Mi preparavo a recitare il rosario del mercoledì assieme a mia moglie quando ho scoperto che esso veniva recitato dalla Diocesi militare, ovvero castrense. La cosa mi fa male perché quella diocesi è esclusiva, riguarda solo dei professionisti.
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Artificial (Un)intelligence: Robot Generals
Michael T. Klare | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
25 Aug 2020 – With Covid-19 incapacitating startling numbers of U.S. service members, the American military is relying more on intelligent robots. Now the Pentagon is seeking to replace not just soldiers and their weapons, but admirals and generals with robotic systems.
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