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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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The U.S. Is Determined to Make Julian Assange Pay for Exposing the Cruelty of Its War on Iraq
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
On September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that has nothing to do with the reasons for his arrest from the embassy of Ecuador. On April 11, 2019, the UK Home Office spokesperson said, “We can confirm that Julian Assange was arrested in relation to a provisional extradition request from the United States of America. He is accused in the United States of America of computer-related offenses.”
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US Punishes International Criminal Court for Investigating Potential War Crimes in Afghanistan
Susan M. Akram | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – The Trump administration is taking aim at the International Criminal Court, a global tribunal that investigates and prosecutes war crimes, torture and genocide. Claiming the ICC’s investigation into war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan poses a national security threat, Trump issued an executive order effectively criminalizing anyone who works at the ICC.
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Breaking the News
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
What? Come again?
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Leo Tolstoy (9 Sep 1828 – 20 Nov 1910)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most-diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ endure as the summit of realist fiction.
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For Years, Journalists Cheered Assange’s Abuse. Now They’ve Paved His Path to a US Gulag
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – Court hearings in Britain over the US administration’s extradition case against Julian Assange begin in earnest next week. The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone who cares about our increasingly fragile freedoms. A journalist and publisher has been arbitrarily deprived of his liberty for 10 years and tortured for much of that time through intense physical confinement and endless psychological pressure.
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Wisdom Is…
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Wisdom Is…
available to all, but rare
The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Noam Chomsky | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, corporate/mainstream media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy.
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The Pandemic Has Laid Bare Deep Divisions, but It’s Not Too Late to Change Course
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate | IMF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Around the world, there are marked differences in how the pandemic has been managed, both in terms of how successful countries have been in maintaining the health of their citizens and the economy and in the magnitude of the inequalities on display. There are many reasons for these differences
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(Italiano) L’India, tra COVID, fame, cavallette… e mercato
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Sunita Narain, direttrice di un prestigioso centro di ricerca e divulgazione scientifica indiano, con sede a New Delhi (il Centre of Science and Environment, CSE) ha pubblicato il 10 agosto scorso alcune considerazioni sulla situazione indiana e mondiale relativa alla pandemia da COVID-19.
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Hope for a Soft Landing
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1 Sep 2020 – In the face of pessimistic predictions for the United States, to the point of civil war, there are many progressive initiatives advancing. It’s the dialectics of history in action: “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” And it raises the hopes that the crash of the empire could have a soft landing.
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The $12 Million Weapons Sale from US to the Haiti Police Raises “Troubling Questions”
Jake Johnston and Kira Paulemon | CEPR-Center for Economic and Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
31 Aug 2020 – State Department Awarded Contract to Politically Connected Security Firm
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Up to 90% of U.S. People Who Test Positive for Covid Barely Carry Any Virus & Are Not Contagious. Every Stat about the Disease Is Bogus
Peter Andrews | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – The scale of the pandemic ‘problem’ is actually much smaller than we’ve been led to believe – about a tenth of what all the politicians and media have been using to justify the lockdowns, the quarantines, the mass testing. Some may be shocked that the scale of the problem is so much smaller than assumed.
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James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”
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Portuguese Youth Activists Sue 33 Countries over Climate Crisis
Holly Young | Deutsche Welle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – In the latest example of a wave of climate litigation across the world, six Portuguese young people this week filed a case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, asking for accountability around the climate crisis.
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This Must Be the Place (Music Video of the Week)
Talking Heads / David Byrne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
[Naive Melody] – From the movie This Must Be the Place (2011) starring Sean Penn. Live from ‘Stop Making Sense’
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Children Who Died of Covid-19 Were Already Seriously Ill, New Study Shows
Ross Clark | The Spectator - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
28 Aug 2020 – It has been clear from the start of the Covid-19 crisis that it was a disease with relatively little impact on children. A broad study led by Liverpool University and published in the British Medical Journal today confirms that – and sheds a lot more light on how Covid-19 affects children.
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The OAS Accusation of Electoral Fraud against Evo Morales Is Bullshit — and Now We Have the Data to Prove It
David Rosnick | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
5 Sep 2020 – The day after the Bolivian election, the Organization of American States suggested the result was fraudulent — then took months to provide any proof. Last month, it finally released its data — and researchers at the Center for Economic and Policy Research found a basic coding error that destroys the OAS’s case against Morales.
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Turkey-Greece Mediterranean Tensions: Track II Efforts Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
4 Sep 2020 – With Turkish war ships in the Mediterranean and the Greek army on alert, the tensions between Greece and Turkey are growing. Greek soldiers on the Greek island of Kastellorico, some two kilometers from the Turkish coast are on alert. Governmental efforts of mediation especially that of the German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass have not produced positive results.
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Three Years since Their Genocide Began, the Rohingya Remain Desperate for Help
Editorial Board | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
13 Aug 2020 – The Rohingya Muslims three years after 750,000 of them were terrorized and torched out of their homes by Myanmar’s security forces and forced into miserable camps in Bangladesh. Using the word ‘genocide’ won’t bring the Rohingya home. But it will serve as a reminder to [Nobel Peace laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi – and to the world – of what happened.
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(Français) Haïti : la terreur s’installe avec la complicité de l’international
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1er septembre 2020 – Le meurtre, vendredi 28 août, du bâtonnier du barreau de Port-au-Prince a provoqué de larges remous en Haïti. Venant s’ajouter à une longue liste d’assassinats, il jette une lumière crue sur l’insécurité et l’impunité, la responsabilité de l’État et la complicité de l’international.
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Shrinking Map of Palestine, Aging Politicians, and More
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
4 Sep 2020 – Yesterday the Palestinian factions (all of them) held a meeting to try to get their act together. The meeting was moderated/led by Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). My suggestion is that the Palestinian people say to these elderly leaders that unless you do this PLO restructuring by a certain date that we will create a new representative PLO ourselves.
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Socio—Politico Jiu-jitsu
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
The world sees differences of various types in races, cultures, behaviour, activities and virtually all aspects that human beings display. Some of these are innate or natural, as are the facial and bodily looks and corresponding behaviour. But some differences are acquired.
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Ambattha Sutta – Pride Humbled
Buddha Sutra - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Now, at that time Pokkharasati had a pupil, the youth Ambattha, who was a student of the Vedas, who knew the mantras, perfected in the Three Vedas, a skilled expounder of the rules and rituals, the lore of sounds and meanings and, fifthly, oral tradition, complete in philosophy and the marks of a great man, admitted and accepted by his master in the Three Vedas with the words, “What I know, you know; what you know, I know.”
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Judaism, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Me
Gershon Baskin | The Jerusalem Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 – For years I have witnessed very violent behavior by settlers and soldiers toward Palestinians. The most violent of these acts were committed by religious settlers. Their hatred is burning in their eyes toward Palestinians, and even more toward Jews who come to show solidarity or protect Palestinians. These behaviors push me to move even further away from Judaism; the religious settlers and the soldiers call me a traitor.
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2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 25.4 Million+ Positive; 850 Thousand+ Dead
Worldometer | Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
USA, Brazil, India with most world infections
Conspiracy Theories about Covid-19 Vaccines May Prevent Herd Immunity
The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
29 Aug 2020 – Do vaccines cause autism? Are politicians scaremongering about COVID-19 to drum up profits for drug firms? Will Bill Gates use injections to implant microchips in your children? The answer to all three questions is no, though scientists once debated the first. Regardless, the polls show that convincing people to take vaccines may be as difficult as producing them in the first place.
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Questioning Covid-19: Why I Will Never Trust the Medical Establishment about Respiratory Disease. My Case History
Anita McKone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – If you are interested in finding out the truth about the Covid19 scare, you can look for information in many areas. Understanding the corporate (profit-driven) and petrochemical-based history of the medical establishment helps…
→ read full articleThank You for Your Military Service?… What?
Vince Emanuele | In the Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Iraq war veteran Vince Emanuele: “The Marines took it upon themselves to shoot at, beat, rob, rape, kill whoever they wanted to. And that’s being proposed on the news as a few bad apples, an isolated incident.”
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The “Third Way” of the Fake COVID-19 Two-Sided “Debate”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
29 Aug 2020 – Trying to Point out some of the Differences Between – and the Similarities of – the Pro-vaccine, Vaccinology-illiteracy in the Trump Camp and the Pro-vaccine, Vaccinology-illiteracy in the Big Pharma/Big Media/CDC/Fauci/Gates/World Economic Forum/Biden Camp and why Neither of the Two Camps Should be Blindly Supported
→ read full articleThose Who Protest against the “Official” Covid-19 Narrative Are Categorized as “Psychopaths”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 – “Collective Narcissism” and the “Dark Triad”: Is It a Witch Hunt? – The legitimacy of Wall Street, the World Economic Forum, Big Pharma and the billionaire foundations which ordered the closure of the global economy in March must be forcefully challenged.
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COVID19/Coronavirus Selected Articles
Various Authors | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – The Imposition of Compulsory Vaccination with a Biometric Health Passport?
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Israel Bombs Gaza for Fourth Week despite Mediation
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – Israeli aircraft and tanks launched raids against Gaza early today. Israel has maintained a crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip since 2007, which critics say amounts to collective punishment of the enclave’s two million residents. Egypt also upholds the siege, restricting movement in and out of Gaza on its border. The United Nations has long warned that Gaza would become unlivable by 2020 if the siege wasn’t lifted.
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Facts about Covid-19
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
September 2020 – According to the latest immunological studies, the overall lethality of Covid-19 in the general population ranges between 0.1% and 0.5% in most countries, which is comparable to the medium influenza pandemics of 1957 and 1968.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 1
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
20 Aug 2020 – Eighty years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky—the exiled co-leader of the 1917 October Revolution and founder of the Fourth International—was mortally wounded by an agent of the Soviet Union’s secret police. The murder of Trotsky was the outcome of a massive political conspiracy organized by the regime headed by Stalin.
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Agenda ID2020 of the “One World Order”: The 101 to Understanding Its Implications
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – Agenda ID2020 is hardly mentioned by any media, let alone the mainstream. Agenda ID2020, if carried out, is the ultimate control by a small elite – of the One World Order (OWO), also called the New World Order (NWO) – over the world population. It is a mechanism that would allow controlling every movement of each one of the 7-plus billion people of planet earth, including everyone’s health records, cash flows, bank accounts, as well as our behavior in this ultra-controlled society – which I refrain from calling civilization anymore.
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Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1 Sep 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Srila Prabhupada was an Indian spiritual teacher who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He is among the most prominent Vedic scholars, translators, and teachers of the modern era. Credited with translating and commenting on over 80 volumes of the Vedas, including the Bhagavad Gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, he is regarded as the world’s most prominent contemporary authority on bhakti-yoga.
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Covid Vaccine Rush Could Make Pandemic Worse, Say Scientists
Sarah Boseley | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
30 Aug 2020 – The rush to immunise populations against Covid-19 could lead to the rollout of a vaccine that is not very effective and risk worsening the pandemic, leading scientists have said. Experts say strong evidence of efficacy needed to avoid approval of inferior vaccines.
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In Defence of Conspiracy Theories (and Why the Term Is a Misnomer)
David Coady | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Yesterday’s conspiracy theories often become today’s incontrovertible facts. In the mid-1990s, journalist Gary Webb’s claims that CIA officials conspired with drug dealers to bring cocaine into the US were dismissed as a conspiracy theory. But the claims were true. The net effect of terms such as “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracism” is to silence people who suspect conspiracies may be occurring. These terms serve to herd respectable opinion in ways that suit the interests of the powerful.
→ read full articleCan the U.S. Democracy Be Fixed?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, attention was redirected to the market-driven economy. With the support of both political parties, the U.S. Government focused on making the world safe for predatory capitalism, ‘the Washington consensus’ or more politely, ‘neoliberal globalization.’ This version of Marxist materialism encouraged consumerist orgies and the militarists required an enemy for continuing with wartime military budgets and restoring their self-esteem as guardians of national and global security.
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The Greenland Ice Sheet Has Melted Past the Point of No Return
The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Annual snowfall can no longer replenish the melted ice that flows into the ocean from Greenland’s glaciers. The ice loss is now so great that it has triggered an irreversible feedback loop: the sheet will keep melting even if global warming stopped today. This is bad news for coastal cities, given that Greenland boasts the largest ice sheet on the planet after Antarctica.
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Dog Smarts
Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Two dog owners are arguing about whose pet is smarter.
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Viruses Have Big Impacts on Ecology and Evolution As Well As Human Health
The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
20 Aug 2020 – In viruses the link between metabolism and genes that binds together all life to which you are related, from bacteria to blue whales, is broken. Viral genes have no cells, no bodies, no metabolism of their own. The tiny particles, “virions”, in which those genes come packaged—the dot-studded disks of coronaviruses, the sinister, sinuous windings of Ebola, the bacteriophages with their science-fiction landing-legs that prey on microbes—are entirely inanimate. An individual animal, or plant, embodies and maintains the restless metabolism that made it. A virion is just an arrangement of matter.
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Heated Vaccine Debate: Kennedy Jr. vs Dershowitz
Valuetainment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Historic debate about COVID vaccination between two attorneys: Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. [against] and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz [for].
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Belarus’s Options in the Midst of a Color Revolution
Roger Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Belarus shows that any small state with a mildly socialist system and independent foreign policy invites subversion by the Yankee hegemon and its collaborators. Even if Belarus had met the highest standards of democracy and efficiency, a western-backed color revolution might not have been avoided.
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Independence of Journalism
Noam Chomsky - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
A truly independent press rejects the role of subordination to power and authority. It casts the orthodoxy to the winds, questions what “right-thinking people will accept without question,” tears aside the veil of tacit censorship, makes available to the general public the information and range of opinions and ideas that are a prerequisite for meaningful participation in social and political life, and beyond that, offers a platform for people to enter into debate and discussion about the issues that concern them.
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How Corporate Tyranny Works
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable, find that the institutions of power unite to crucify them.
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Why Does Low Unemployment No Longer Lift Inflation?
The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – The Phillips curve, the logic of which guides central banks today, has become oddly flat.
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Maria Montessori (31 Aug 1870 – 6 May 1952): The Spirit of Education for World Citizenship
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Maria Montessori’s teaching displeased the narrow nationalist leaders in power in the 1930s. The Fascist government of Mussolini closed the Montessori schools in Italy in 1934 as did Hitler in Germany and then in Austria when Hitler’s troops moved into Vienna. The dictators saw that creative thinking among children was a danger to their authoritarian rule.
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Write Your Own Caption
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Hear any bells ringing? Or the sand prevents it?
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Mississippi Goddam (Music Video of the Week)
Nina Simone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
“Hound dogs on my trail
School children sitting in jail
Black cat cross my path
I think every day’s gonna be my last”
55 years later, what have changed in the USA? You be the judge.
There’s a Conspiracy Theory That the CIA Invented the Term ‘Conspiracy Theory’ – Here’s why
Michael Butter | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Conspiracy theories have a long history, but the actual term “conspiracy theory” emerged much more recently. It was only a few decades ago that the term took on the derogatory connotations it has today, where to call someone a conspiracy theorist functions as an insult.
→ read full articleAn Italian Doctor Warns the World Population
Dr. Roberto Petrella - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020
– Statements by the renowned Dr. Roberto Petrella about a new vaccine to be approved by the European Parliament without any opposition.
– Recientes e impactantes declaraciones del reputado doctor Roberto Petrella acerca de la nueva vacuna que está a punto de ser aprobada en el Parlamento Europeo sin ninguna oposición.
– Recenti e sconvolgenti dichiarazioni del celebre dottor Roberto Petrella sul nuovo vaccino che sta per essere approvato al Parlamento Europeo senza alcuna opposizione.
(Português) Macacos acorrentados gritam de dor em experimentos realizados em laboratório alemão
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Ago 2020 – Denúncia: Uma investigação descobriu que macacos, coelhos, gatos e cachorros eram torturados das formas mais terríveis em um laboratório alemão. Após a divulgação das imagens e relatórios apontando as inúmeras irregularidades e violações de leis de bem-estar animal, foi iniciada uma campanha para que o local fechasse definitivamente.
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Palestinians Stage Surprise ‘Thank You’ Event for Banksy in Bethlehem
Jessie McDonald | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Photographs of works go on display in Manger Square to celebrate British street artist’s contribution to diversifying tourism.
→ read full articlePandit Jasraj — Musician Extraordinaire
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Indian classical music both vocal and instrumental can have countless number of varieties. These depend on the gharanas (families or lineages), of the musicians as well as their individual differences.
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‘Chasing the Light’ by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 – Like the wandering and rascally Odysseus upon whom he models his life, Oliver Stone is “double-minded” in the most profound and illuminating ways. The title of his fantastic new memoir is a case in point. “One of the first basic lessons in filming,” he writes, “is chasing the light.
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How the Shadow of Slavery Still Hangs Over Global Finance
Philip Roscoe | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance. The slave trade pioneered a new kind of finance, secured on the bodies of the powerless. Today, the arcane products of high finance, targeting the poor and troubled as profit opportunities for the already-rich, still bear that deep unfairness.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 2
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 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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D.H. Lawrence on Trees, Solitude, and How We Root Ourselves When Relationships Collapse
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
“One must possess oneself, and be alone in possession of oneself.”
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What Is Vivisection?
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – if you’re scratching your head and wondering “What is vivisection?” don’t fret—you’re not alone. We’ve broken down everything you need to know about the ruthless, archaic practice.
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The World Cannot Forget the Rohingya
Tun Khin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – This week marks exactly three years since the Myanmar military poured into Rakhine State and launched a vicious operation against the Rohingya people. Thousands of women, men and children were killed, mutilated and raped, whole villages were burned to the ground, and hundreds of thousands fled into neighbouring Bangladesh. Abandoned by the international community, the Rohingya have only one glimmer of hope: international justice.
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Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Can a simple therapy stop the pandemic? This article seeks only to describe a therapy that is highly effective, potentially accessible to any person on the planet, exceptionally inexpensive, and easily available without requiring a prescription. I am not trying to convince the reader to just nebulize HP and do nothing else. It is vital to your general health as well as to overcome COVID-19 to take all of the quality supplements available and affordable to you.
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Julian Assange Receives First Visitors in Six Months: “He Is in a Lot of Pain”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – Stella Morris, Assange’s partner and an internationally-respected human rights attorney, was allowed to meet with the WikiLeaks founder earlier this week. It was the first time that Morris and their two young children Gabriel and Max had seen Assange since March 22. The visit is welcome news but it has underscored the brutal conditions in which he is held by the British authorities, despite not having been convicted of any crime.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
4 Aug 2020 -Many critics believe covid has turned into a mere “casedemic”, as positive tests (“cases”) are rising in many European countries while hospitalizations and deaths stay very low. The reality is that covid is a casedemic on top of a pandemic.
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Oh Palestine!
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Published in Human Liberation (Nakba 48) Vol. 1, No 1, Sep 2005
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United States to Quit World Health Organization: What Does It Mean for the World?
S Faizi | EPW - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
8 Aug 2020 – Although it appears that without the US, WHO would be weakened in terms of its significance and resources at its command, the fact remains that, in reality, it bodes well for the democratic functioning of WHO without the intimidating presence of a global superpower.
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The Japan Shinzo Abe Has Left Behind
Bill Emmott | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – By leaving office now, as modern Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe will set the terms of his departure instead of allowing dagger-wielding rivals to do it for him. He will leave behind a country still struggling with fundamental economic problems, but also more prepared to go its own way in the world.
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12 Years
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
29 Aug 2020 – I returned to Palestine in 2008 (after a quarter of a century in the US) and it is good to reflect on these 12 years. Below this is the message from August 2008 explaining why I came back and what I had planned to do here. Much of course happened in […]
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These Poems
June Jordan | Academy of American Poets - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
These poems
they are things that I do
HCQ and Covid Pathology
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 – In recent weeks, several more prospective and retrospective studies have confirmed the effectiveness of malaria drug HCQ against covid-19, both in primary care and in hospitals, and both in the general population and in nursing homes.
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Humanity’s Magic Number as 1.5?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
24 Aug 2020 – Dimensionless Constant Governing Civilization and Its Potential Collapse – Never in the history of humankind has a number been so widely publicized in so many forms.
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Mali: A History of Military Bullying and Corporate Dependency
Robin Poulton - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – In June 2020, a rumoured plot by Islamist army officers was blocked. Now the army has acted as Mali’s army always does. In the past 140 years, Mali has had just 17 years of civilian rule. Get ready for a new military junta, or maybe an Islamic Republic of Mali under military and Arab Salafist rules.
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From Lockdown to Police State: The “Great Reset” Rolls Out
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – Questioning the unreliability of the tests in a Wired interview, even Bill Gates acknowledged that most US test results are “garbage.” The Polymerase Chain Reaction technology used in the nasal swab test for COVID-19 detection was regarded by its own inventor, Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis, as inappropriate to detect viral infection. “Excess mortality rates are caused by therapy and lockdown while death statistics include diseases redefined as COVID-19 only because of a “positive” test result whose value could not be more doubtful.”
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The End of American History Begins in America
Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
America’s aggressions around the globe have boomeranged into its domestic affairs. In the 1980s, Francis Fukuyama, a bureaucratic functionary, declared that “history” had ended and USA was the triumphant trophy. Had he inadvertently played a satirical spoof to the end of American history itself?
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The Specter of a Fascist Coup by Trump Haunts the US – There’s Worse to Worry about
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – What remains is a political theatre of two neoliberal parties vehemently contesting matters of style and colluding on matters of substance. The two major parties concur: bail out Wall Street, renew the Patriot Act, increase the military budget, modernize the nuclear arsenal, prepare for war with China, pursue regime change in Venezuela, etc.
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Pivot to Peace with China. Sign!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
During the last few months, a systematic Sinophobic (anti-China) policy has been rolled out all over the world by the US and its obedient mainstream media. It is so uniform in content and style that it deserves to be categorized as a ‘campaign.’ It has nothing to do with critical media, questioning and diversity of perspectives. You are being taken for a ride!
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Send in the Clowns for the Circus Is in Town
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Trump, Biden, Pence, Harris, and their clownish sidekicks, Pompeo, Michelle Obama, et al., are performing daily. The Umbrella People run a three-ring circus, and although their clowns pop out of separate tiny cars and, acting like enemies, squirt each other with water hoses to the audience’s delight, raucous laughter, and serious attentiveness, they are all part of the same show, working for the same bosses. Sadly, many people think this circus is the real world and that the clowns are not allied pimps serving the interests of their masters, but are real enemies.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
→ read full articleI’m a Historian–I See Reason to Fear-and to Hope
Joanne Freeman | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 -Historians don’t just study history. We construct it. We puzzle pieces into meanings. Aided by our instincts and experiences, as well as by our research, we make sense of other times, other nations, other peoples. In that sense, the writing of history is always personal.
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This Pandemic Brings Out the Worst in Our CEOs
Jim Hightower | Other Words - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
12 Aug 2020 – Last year, CEOs signed a pledge to be better corporate citizens. Then the pandemic hit. As horrible as the COVID-19 crisis is, it has brought out the best in the American people. But it has also amplified the “me-first” greed of corporate chieftains.
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(Português) Como o Crime Organizado Tem Explorado Benefícios Concedidos a Igrejas para Operar Seus Negócios Ilegais
Rebekah Ward, Beatriz Muylaert, Matthew Albasi e Giannina Segnini | Agência Pública – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
16 ago 2020 – Paraísos de Dinheiro e Fé – Investigação realizada por veículos de dez países descobriu que, amparados nas leis de liberdade de culto, algumas igrejas e líderes religiosos nas Américas abusam da confiança de seus fiéis e cometem crimes como lavagem de dinheiro e fraude.
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Something Remarkable Just Happened This August: How the Pandemic Has Sped Up the Passage to Postcapitalism
Yanis Varoufakis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – @yanisvaroufakis: Financial capitalism has decoupled from the capitalist economy, skyrocketing out of Earth’s orbit, leaving behind it broken lives & dreams. As the UK sinks into the worst recession ever, & US edges toward failed state status, FTSE100 goes up 2% & S&P500 breaks all time record!
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Disinformed to Death
Jonathan Freedland | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
20 Aug 2020 – When a pandemic is raging, it becomes harder to deny that rigorous, truthful information is a mortal necessity. No one need explain the risks of false information when one can point to, say, the consequences of Americans’ coming to believe they can deflect the virus by injecting themselves with bleach. (The fact that that advice came from the podium of the president of the U.S. is one we shall return to.)
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Being Different, Being Unique
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
24 Aug 2020 – A new tendency is being observed in some regions of the world — to become unique, to be different from other people either physically or in some other noticeable manner. In other words, to look different from others. For this purpose sometimes some dubious means are adopted, usually by youngsters, both male and female.
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