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Media Show Little Interest in Israeli Bombing of Gaza
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Israel is bombing Palestine again, although you wouldn’t guess that from watching TV news. For the eleventh straight night, Israeli Defense Force warplanes have been bombing the densely populated Gaza Strip causing considerable damage and forcing the shutdown of the area’s only power plant. But the corporate media, focused on the coronavirus and US elections, have shown little interest in the renewed violence in the Middle East.
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Conscience in Revolt: Sophie Scholl on Suffering, Strength, and the Deepest Wellspring of Courage
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
“Sympathy is often difficult and soon becomes hollow if one feels no pain oneself.”
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Edward Carpenter (29 Aug 1844 – 28 Jun 1929)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Edward Carpenter was an English writer, educator, pacifist, and socialist reformer. He lived in a homosexual relationship with a farmer at a time when homosexuality was considered a criminal offense. He saw that an awareness of the spiritual dimension of each person was the basis for the healing of the nations.
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Modi’s Brutal Treatment of Kashmir Exposes His Tactics – And Their Flaws
Arundhati Roy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
At midnight on 4 August 2019, phones in Kashmir went dead and internet connections were cut. On 5 August 2019, a year ago today, 7 million people were locked into their homes under a strict military curfew. Up to 10,000 people, from young children and teenage stone pelters to former chief ministers and major pro-India politicians, were arrested and put into preventive detention, where many of them still remain. On 6 August, a bill was passed in parliament stripping the state of Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomy and special status enshrined in the Indian constitution. It was stripped of statehood, downgraded into two union territories, Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir. Ladakh would have no legislature and would be governed directly by New Delhi.
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(Norsk) Politiet skyter, men det er systemet som dreper
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Erkjenne rasisme? Ja! Mindre penger til politiet? Visselig. Men ingenting av dette vil få undertrykte lokalsamfunn dit de ønsker, med mindre USAs kapitalistiske orden blir endret eller rettet mot å tilfredsstille menneskelige behov.
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‘Jurassic Park Experiment’: 750 Million Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes to Be Released in Florida
James Crump | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – US authorities have approved a plan to release more than 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes across the Florida Keys, despite objections from local residents. The project will test whether the altered mosquitoes can work as an alternative to pesticides to control the spread of diseases, such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.
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(Français) Arrêter notre descente dans la tyrannie: vaincre le Coup d’État Covid-19 de l’élite mondiale
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Libertégérie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Le coup d’État de l’élite pour vous refuser vos droits en tant qu’être humain libre et autonome resserre son emprise, inflige une énorme violence psychologique et physique sous une variété stupéfiante de formes à ceux qui sont emprisonnés dans leurs maisons, tue ceux dans toute l’Afrique , Asie et ailleurs incapables de survivre dans une économie mondiale gravement perturbée et accélère la ruée vers l’extinction sur quatre points distincts. Vous pouvez vous soumettre à la tyrannie ou vous pouvez y résister.
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Minimizing Conflicts amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
Ivana Milojević | Journal of Future Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
The critical importance of enhancing our conflict resolution capacities. As COVID-19 races around the world, we can anticipate further increases in conflicts. Indeed, psychologists and humanitarian organizations have already posted some helpful guidelines as to how to defuse intra- and inter-personal conflicts.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
20 Aug 2020 – The elite coup to deny you your rights as a free, autonomous human being tightens its grip, inflicts psychological and physical violence in a variety of forms on those imprisoned in their homes, kills those throughout Africa, Asia and elsewhere unable to survive in the severely disrupted global economy and accelerates the rush to extinction on four separate counts. You can submit to tyranny or you can resist it.
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Post-Acute Covid (“Long Covid”)
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – On the Frequency and Causes of Prolonged Covid Symptoms – Approximately 10% of people with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection report persistent or recurring Covid symptoms for several weeks or months.
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The Conversation
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020 – Coronavirus is a conspiracy. Masks are a conspiracy. Mail-in voting is a conspiracy. Seeing a pattern here?
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(Français) Oh Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Association France Palestine Solidarité - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
15 juillet 2005 – Poème écrit par Mazen Qumsieh, Palestinien qui vit aux Etats-Unis et dénonce régulièrement dans ses écrits l’occupation israélienne et ses méfaits en Palestine.
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Preliminary Report of Chinese High Dose Vitamin C for Covid-19 Treatment Studies
Richard Z. Cheng, M.D., Ph.D. | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
16 Aug 2020 – Covid-19 has caused more than 700,000 deaths and USD$86 trillion economic losses worldwide in just over half a year! And yet, there are still no specific drugs or treatments that the top medical advisors (medical agencies) in US are willing to recommend. Really? No specific treatments for Covid-19?
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Nuclear Complacency and the Dangerous Drift toward a New Cold War with China
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – I am increasingly worried by the either/or quality of the U.S. November elections that effectively suppresses concerns about a bipartisan drift toward a second cold war focused on China as geopolitical adversary that will be confronted.
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There Is Still Much to Be Learned about the Beirut Explosion
Habib Battah | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – To prevent a tragic repeat, we should not be satisfied with simple, convenient, yet incomplete explanations.
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Nonviolence versus Capitalism
Brian Martin | War Resisters’ International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Nonviolent action is the most promising method for moving beyond capitalism to a more humane social and economic system. Approaches based on using state power—including state socialism and socialist electoralism—have been tried and failed. Dramatic changes are definitely needed because capitalism, despite its undoubted strengths, continues to cause enormous suffering. Nonviolent action as an approach has the capacity to transform capitalism, though there are many obstacles involved.
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Imagine/تخيّل (Music Video of the Week)
Lina Sleibi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Cover by Lina Sleibi – لينا صليبي
Original song by: John Lennon (1971)
Music Arrangement: Mohammed Alhasan
U.S. Patriarchy and the Bomb
Stephanie Hiller - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Choosing nuclear disarmament in a time of pandemic and climate change would be a good place to start, freeing millions of dollars for important, needed programs and repair. It could be the foundation of a truly comprehensive “green new deal.” Giving up nuclear weapons could well be the necessary first step toward the reconstruction of our society on a better foundation, one of love.
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ISE Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – The documentary tells the inside stories that even our once-honorable investigative journalists are not allowed to report on their Big Pharma-controlled mainstream media outlets. It exposes the fact that ALL of the alleged fact checker websites are funded by corporations such as Google and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which are controlling the narrative concerning the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Pakistan and India’s Leaders Mark Freedom from British Colonialism: But Masses Look for Navigational Change
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – In situation of crises, responsible leaders provide assurances and comforts to the masses – would leaders of India and Pakistan come out of the psychologically neurosis box and see the enlightenment of the 21st century of informed humanity and honor the rights of self-determination of the people of Kashmir and let them decide their own future and freedom and once for all rewrite a history of peaceful co-existence and friendship?
→ read full articleTransformation: The Impact of the COVID-19 Plague on Western Political Attitudes
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
A silent revolution in political attitudes is taking place in response to Covid-19. To maintain that the pandemic of 2020 and its aftershocks have very likely inflamed existing social and cultural conflicts by no means forecloses the possibility that, by shaking up existing systems of governance, they have also created new opportunities for effective conflict resolution.
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As Wages Stagnate and Executive Pay ‘Continues to Balloon,’ Report Shows Top CEOs Now Make 320 Times More Than Typical Worker
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – New research from the Economic Policy Institute finds that CEO compensation grew by 1,167% from 1978 to 2019, “far outstripping” the growth of the stock market.
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In Act of High Seas Piracy, US Hijacks Iranian Oil Bound for Venezuela
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 – The US interdiction of oil shipments bound from Iran to Venezuela represents a dangerous escalation, raising the threat of armed conflict. The Department of Justice issued a statement Friday [14 Aug] bragging that “approximately 1.116 million barrels of petroleum” had been stolen “with the assistance of foreign partners.” There has been no indication of what “foreign partners” were involved in this act of piracy, but US officials claim that the seizure did not involve military force.
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The Irrelevant UN
Eric Zuesse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – This UN is not the one that had been intended. Today’s UN is an international PR forum for nations. But in the vision of its initiator, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it was supposed to be a functioning international democracy. However, FDR was replaced by Harry S. Truman, who created the imperialism-accepting UN that has since degenerated into the international lawlessness which prevails today
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How to Prevent the Looming Sovereign-Debt Crisis
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate, and Hamid Rashid | Vox EU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
3 Aug 2020 – From Latin America’s lost decade in the 1980s to the more recent Greek crisis, there are plenty of painful reminders of what happens when countries cannot service their debts. This column argues that a global debt crisis today would likely push millions of people into unemployment and fuel instability and violence around the world, and proposes a multilateral sovereign debt buyback facility which could be managed by the IMF.
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Keep It Real
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 – Diana Johnstone has written a compelling and insightful book. It is mostly a review and analysis of significant events from the past 55 years. It concludes with her assessment of different trends that are being debated on the Left today including “identity politics”, Antifa and censorship. This is a book to be read, enjoyed and discussed.
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Open Letter to the British Government
Lawyers for Assange - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 -152 legal experts and 15 lawyers’ associations have today written to UK Prime Minister accusing government authorities of violating “national and international law”. The international group of legal practitioners, professors, judges, doctors of law and eminent jurists has called to bring an end to Julian Assange’s extradition proceedings, and grant his “long overdue freedom”, on legal grounds.
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A Dear Departure of a Subaltern Revolutionary
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
A Tribute to Pradeep Weerakoon’s Death
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Israel Launches Airstrikes against Gaza and Threatens War
Jean Shaoul | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Israel is preparing for war on the besieged Palestinian enclave, even as it ups the ante against Hezbollah in Lebanon and its primary target, Iran.
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(Português) Artista critica violência por trás do consumo de leite
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 ago 2020 – Quem não conhece a realidade por trás do consumo de leite e derivados pode acreditar que esses produtos que chegam às nossas mãos são produzidos da forma mais pacífica possível.
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Wait, How Much Microplastic Is Swirling in the Atlantic?
Matt Simon | Wired - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – Scientists calculate that the top 200 meters of ocean alone contains up to 21 million metric tons of plastic. And that wasn’t even counting microfibers.
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Videogame: Nonviolence as War by Other Means
Michael Peck | Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – “Gandhi” is a wargame that inverts Clausewitz’s famous dictum: Instead of war as politics by other means, nonviolence becomes war waged by other means. Players control one of four competing factions: the British Raj; the Indian National Congress; the Muslim League; or the Revolutionaries.
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Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – Perceptions Are Driven by Experiences
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US Decision to File New Charges against Julian Assange ‘Astonishing and Potentially Abusive’
Charlie Jones | Computer Weekly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – Lawyer for WikiLeaks founder slams US decision to serve a second indictment at the 11th hour alleging that Assange conspired with hackers, as a potential abuse of process.
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Apple Surpasses $2 Trillion, Doubling in Value in Two Years–It’s Insane!
Mitchell Feierstein | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 – Amid the Worst Depression Ever, It Will End Badly – As the stock prices of the big five technology companies rise beyond irrational valuations, something is wrong. The coming stock crash and economic depression will be swift, severe and devastating.
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Something’s Rotten in the Corporate States of America
Robert Scheer interviews Barbara Freese | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – A new book by Barbara Freese explores eight stories about the unfettered corporate greed that has corrupted modern society and led to an astounding loss of life.
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Did Israel Attack Beirut with a Modified Nuclear Missile?
Roger Kotila - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 – Beirut politicians are sending out confusing messages as to what happened, and why. They may be afraid to admit that Israel is responsible for this (world) crime because Lebanon would lose desperately needed funds from the US and Israel to rebuild Beirut. If Israel was behind the deadly attack, there is little that the UN can do. Israel is protected by the U.S. no matter what crimes it commits.
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Gandhi Himself
Center Peace Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
All said…
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China and the Decline of US Power
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
23 Aug 2020 – In examining the interface between the US and China, I shall begin with those areas of conflict where the latter has surpassed the former. This will be followed by reflections on manifestations of US power which are not as formidable as they are made out to be. Conclusions will be drawn from these two categories on the emerging pattern of global power.
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(Português) Tecido Financeiro Apropriador: O Caso da BlackRock
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
11 ago 2020 – Têm-se desenvolvido no mundo intrincados e extensos tecidos de organizações econômicas que se apropriam de boa parte do excedente gerado pelo esforço produtivo da humanidade. Esses tecidos têm seu epicentro em países centrais, mas seus tentáculos atingem todo o mundo. Conseguem abalançar-se sobre oportunidades de lucrar e também de retrair-se sem perdas quando as circunstâncias mudam. O caso do tecido articulado pela BlackRock e seu impacto.
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(Italiano) Staffetta per la Pace 2020. Da Montesole a Sant’Anna di Stazzema. 7-12 agosto 2020
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
16 ago 2020 – «Conoscere la storia, entrare dentro la storia e capire le dinamiche del passato, della guerra, della Resistenza, delle stragi e rapportarle al tempo presente come ispirazione, come mònito, come motivo di meditazione». Questo lo scopo dichiarato della staffetta per la Pace 2020, autogestita, svoltasi dal 7 al 12 agosto 2020,
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Sustaining the Quest for Sustainable Answers on COVID-19
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – Beyond the Divisive Preoccupation with Unquestionable Assertions and Unanswered Questions – The early months of 2020 have seen no lack of questions and answers with respect to the coronavirus pandemic. Especially problematic is the process whereby discourse in this regard has been characterized by misinformation of every kind — and from every authority.
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Does Coronavirus Linger in the Body? What We Know about How Viruses in General Hang on in the Brain and Testicles
William Petri | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
31 Jul 2020 – An unanswered question is the extent to which the virus can “hide out” in recovered individuals. If it does, could this explain some of the lingering symptoms of COVID-19 or pose a risk for transmission of infection to others even after recovery? I am a physician-scientist of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, where I care for patients with infections and conduct research on COVID-19. Here I will briefly review what is known today about chronic or persistent COVID-19.
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Oliver Stone: It Doesn’t Matter Who’s US President, the Military-Industrial Complex Must Be Funded!
Going Underground | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
5 Aug 2020 – We speak to one of the greatest film directors in the world Oliver Stone. He discusses his new book ‘Chasing the Light’ which details his life directing and involvement in iconic films such as Salvador, Scarface and Midnight Express, why it was hopeless for Donald Trump to change a system ran by the military-industrial complex, and much more!
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Marines to Test ‘Super Powered’ Exoskeleton Suit
Dave Makichuk | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
30 Jul 2020 – By the end of the year, the US Marines will have a Guardian XO Alpha full-body robotic exoskeleton that allows one person to do the work of four to 10 people, depending on the task. The wearable suit can do hours of physical labor that would otherwise be impossible for a Marine to do alone, lifting and moving up to 200 pounds of gear repeatedly for eight hours straight.
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Beethoven on Creative Vitality and Resilience in the Face of Suffering
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
“Day by day I am approaching the goal which I apprehend but cannot describe.” He would go on to cultivate a lifestyle regimen that sustains a superhuman vitality, to embody the crucial difference between genius and talent, and to believe that music saved his life.
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Edmond Privat (17 Aug 1889 – 18 Aug 1962): The Inner Light
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
It was natural for Privat, a citizen of Geneva, to be drawn to the efforts of the League of Nations. He served from 1923 to 1927 as the vice-delegate for Iran. Privat is an important symbol of those who worked between the two World Wars for new positive attitudes and strong inter-governmental structures that would create a climate of peace. The tasks still face us today.
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As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections a Third Time, Media Continue to Ignore Coup
Bryce Greene | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020 – When a country’s military oust a sitting president by force, that is a military coup. Referring to it simply as a “resignation”–as in the Washington Post’s 11/10/19–fails to capture the nature of the overthrow. Describing Morales’ ouster as merely happening “amid widespread unrest” is a way of telling readers: “This sort of thing happens all the time in this part of the world. No need to look into it.”
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Still Hanging Over Us
Joe Kandra, Kathie MM and Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Like a curse!
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Bolsonaro and WHO United in the Same Fight?
Maria Antonietta Bàlzola, M.D. | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020 – Jair Bolsonaro, just like Trump, claims that there is no epidemic from COVID-19 and shows himself smiling as he swallows chloroquine, thus projecting the image of a good-tempered and decidedly stupid despot. A lot of people make a simple reasoning: if he takes chloroquine, it must certainly be a stupid thing to do.
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While Israel Celebrates a New Peace Accord, Palestinians Once Again Lose
Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – Who could be against an announcement of peace between two nations formally at war? Netanyahu may have agreed to halt annexation of parts of the West Bank, but the UAE has ensured the occupation itself is normalised. With this deal, it has signalled that Israel can remain an occupier, closing off the possibility of Palestinian self-determination, and still win regional acceptance.
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Interpreting the UAE/Israel Agreement on Suspending Annexation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
16 Aug 2020 – Responses to interview questions from Javad Heiran-Nia, an Iranian journalist, on the UAE/Israel Normalization/Annexation Agreement of Aug. 13, 2020.
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Arthur Waley (19 Aug 1889 – 27 Jun 1966): Ways of Thought in Ancient China
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Arthur Waley was an important cultural bridge-builder between China and the West. He was a translator of Chinese and Japanese poetry and philosophical texts, especially the Taoist classic Tao Te Ching attributed to Lao Tsu.
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Ernest Wamba dia Wamba (1942 – 15 Jul 2020): A Healer from Within
Jacques Depelchin | Africa Is a Country - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
A brother, comrade, philosopher, historian, thinker, healer, and dreamer left us physically. But he is still there to help us navigate through the times, assuming we realize how he understood the senselessness of the managers of a dominant system that presumes it must control and own everything.
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The Return of Anonymous
Dale Beran | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
11 Aug 2020 – The infamous hacker group reemerges from the shadows. At the end of May, as protests against the police killing of George Floyd got under way, reports started to circulate that they were back.
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Trump’s Tantrum against TikTok Is No Laughing Matter
Ari Paul | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
5 Aug 2020 – President Donald Trump has made it clear he would like to ban the video-making app TikTok. Despite being mostly used by younger users to make music or comedic videos, the White House says it is worried about the platform, as the New York Times (8/1/20) explained, “because of the app’s Chinese ownership.”
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Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020 – Regardless of the outcome, the election will not stop the rise of hypernationalism, crisis cults and other signs of an empire’s terminal decline.
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Were There Two Buddhas?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
We will look at the evidence that seems to indicate that there was first the Avatara Buddha, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu who appeared near 1800 BCE, and then there was another person who became known as Gautama called Buddha, born around 560 BCE.
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(Português) Até Quando Nos Alimentaremos de Violência?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
23 jul 2020 – Até o final do dia estarão mortos no Brasil não menos do que 80 mil bois, 131 mil porcos e 16,7 milhões de frangos. Chegamos a esses números calculando os mais recentes dados trimestrais da pecuária no país coletados pelo IBGE. Imagine quanto sangue é derramado para que possamos nos alimentar de carne. Seríamos capazes de encher quantas piscinas?
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Celebrating 20 Years of Peace Mask Project: An Interview with Director Kya Kim
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Kya Kim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Many peacebuilding efforts understand the value of art and symbolism in their work, but not many have artists on staff. With 20 years of experience, I believe we have a tool that is easily adaptable and can work in a variety of cultural and environmental contexts. We have seen how the Peace Mask making workshops bring people together through the heart rather than the mind and create a harmonizing experience and atmosphere for participants.
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(Português) Extinção de Abelhas Causam Escassez das Principais Culturas de Alimentos
Maria Luiza Santos | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
8 ago 2020 – A falta de abelhas em áreas de agricultura está limitando o suprimento de algumas plantações de alimentos, segundo um novo estudo feito nos EUA que segure que o declínio desses polinizadores pode causar sérias ramificações para a segurança alimentar global.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
What is an anti‑Communist?
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Are Worst-Case Climate Scenarios Less Likely, as Media Reports of a New Scientific Paper Suggest?
David Spratt | Climate Code Red - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
28 Jul 2020 – Reading the media reporting of a new scientific paper released on 22 July, it was easy to get the impression that some “worse-case” climate warming possibilities are now off the agenda. “So this is good news?” a friend emailed. “No” was my answer. It would be a grave mistake, and an illustration of how media reporting can get complex climate stories wrong, to find good news in this research.
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Bill Gates’ Charity Paradox
Tim Schwab | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
A Nation investigation illustrates the moral hazards surrounding the Gates Foundation’s $50 billion charitable enterprise.
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US Space Force Faults Russia, China for ‘Militarizing Space’, which Pentagon Did Decades Ago
Morgan Artyukhina | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – US defense leaders have firmly pointed the finger at Russia and China as the raison d’etre for the US Space Force, claiming the nations have “militarized space,” requiring the US to respond. However, what is really threatened is US space superiority, as the Pentagon has tested space weapons for decades.
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Gypsy Jazz Band ‘Hot Club du Nax’ Plays ‘Joseph Joseph’ (Music Video of the Week)
Hot Club du Nax - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Dreaming of the roaring 20s and 30s? Let us take you back to the golden champagne decades…
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From Blossoms
Li-Young Lee | Poetry Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy…
HUFUD-Humanity United For Universal Demilitarisation Now in Africa
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 – It is with great joy and excitement that I announce the launch of HUFUD Africa, with Head Offices in Uganda. I hope that Black Lives Matter will help broadcast the news to all their followers and media outlets.
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Shaun Walker | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020 – A funeral, a family, and a journey into a disappearing religion.
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Freakish Arctic Fires Alarmingly Intensify
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
12 Aug 2020 – NASA satellite images of fires in eastern Siberia depict an inferno of monstrous proportions, nothing in modern history compares. And, as of July, it’s intensifying. Should people be concerned? Answer: Yes, and double yes.
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Lebanon: A Proposal
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – Lebanon today is like Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge: the solution for Cambodia was to abandon everything and to start over. During 1993–following the Paris Peace Accord–the United Nations took over Cambodia and ran the country for one year.
→ read full articleUpdated Covid-19 Data
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – Several SPR documents on Covid-19 have been updated recently.
→ read full articleWhat Is a Holistic View?
Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Sages say that craving, aversion and illusion are the root causes of an individual’s problems. These problems occur in every community, without exception, regardless of whether ‘outsiders’ are present or not. But an altogether different category of problems arises when people who intermingle with one another lack a shared holistic view. Conflicts arise over differences in views.
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Advertisements — Their Impact on Businesses
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Modern business works on the principle of advertisements— conveniently called ads. The more ads you post in newspapers or on TV, social media or even on roadside hoardings, the better chances you have with your products. Even if a person does not need the product, the advertising is so enticing, that a person thinks let us give it a chance.
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Back to the Drawing Board: Beirut Has Been Bombed to the Ground. Now What?
Amanda Haydar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – Embedded in Lebanon’s system is what Galtung calls structural violence. The current arrangement has failed to ensure the best interests of the Lebanese people and it is neither conducive to peace nor development. Conflict in Lebanon embodies Cultural Violence–the tendency to utilize aspects of culture to legitimize and justify direct and structural violence. Ask yourself this: “What does the Lebanon I want to live in look like?”
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Learning from the Hibakushas
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
12 Aug 2020 – “They were covered with blood and burned and blackened and swollen, and the flesh was hanging from the bones. Parts of their bodies were missing, and some were carrying their own eyeballs in their hands. And as they collapsed, their stomach burst open.” But war is necessary, right?
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Joshua Goodman | AP, Global News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – The Trump administration has seized the cargo of four tankers it was targeting for transporting Iranian fuel to Venezuela, U.S. officials said today, as it steps up its campaign of maximum pressure against the two heavily sanctioned allies.
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The Show Trial of Julian Assange: A Cruel and Pseudolegal Farce
Thomas Scripps and Kevin Reed | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 – Yesterday’s hearing in London made clear that the prosecution of Julian Assange is a shameful and degrading show trial, intended to railroad an innocent man to prison or death for revealing the crimes of US. In a botched proceeding, Assange was initially not brought to the video room to join the proceedings, the US prosecutors failed to show up after getting the hearing time wrong… (read on)
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What Happens if Julian Assange Dies in a British Prison? Journalists and Monitors Voice Concerns
Tareq Haddad - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Julian Assange appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via video-link on 14 Aug 2020. Normally held in a solitary cell at Belmarsh Prison for 23,5 hours a day with a chronic lung condition, this is the second hearing Assange has attended in recent weeks. He spoke once to confirm his name and date of birth, but struggled to speak and looked weakened.
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130 Degrees
Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency, by Mark Lynas, London: 4th Estate, 372 pp. – So now we have some sense of what it’s like: a global-scale crisis that disrupts everything–shopping for food, holding a wedding, going to work, seeing your parents. Will you ever ride a subway again, or take a plane? The upheaval that has been caused by Covid-19 is also very much a harbinger of global warming.
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World Humanitarian Day
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
In memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello (15 Mar 1948 – 19 Aug 2003). The UNGA has designated 19 August as “World Humanitarian Day” but celebrated to pay tribute to aid workers in humanitarian service in difficult and often dangerous conditions.
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Israel Is in Shock, in a Sickening Show of Hypocrisy
Gideon Levy | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
7 Aug 2020 – When Israel demolished Dahiya and other neighborhoods in Beirut, the Tel Aviv Municipality building was not illuminated with the colors of the Lebanese flag. When Israel killed thousands of innocent women and children, old and young, in Gaza during the criminal Operation Cast Lead and Operation Protective Edge, the municipality was not lit up in the colors of the Palestinian flag. But on Wednesday [5 Aug] we were all so humane, so Lebanese for a moment. Until the next Dahiya.
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Re-membering the Globe from a Flatland Perspective
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Reconciling in 3D the Vitruvian Archetype with Sports Ball Curves – The speculation here is that the long-admired (and much-reproduced) Vitruvian Man, as famously depicted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490, could be seen as apparently reinforcing a two-dimensional worldview — even though it is interpreted as implying and exemplifying what could be considered as a vital perspective on proportions in their more integrative global sense.
→ read full articleReversal
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020 – With survival at stake, can weapon makers change course? Today, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, should be a day for quiet introspection.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
5 Aug 2020 – The Italian health and statistics authorities have published the results of their first nationwide coronavirus antibody study based on close to 65,000 participants.
→ read full articleUpdate on the Treatment of Covid-19
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
4 Aug 2020 – SPR has updated its Covid-19 early treatment protocol. Immunological and serological studies show that most people develop no symptoms or only mild symptoms when infected with the new coronavirus, while some people may experience a more pronounced or critical course of the disease.
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Black Lives Matter: Resisting the Propaganda of Status Quo Defenders
Roy Eidelson - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
5 Aug 2020 – First came the unjustifiable police killings of Black Americans. Then came the batons, the pepper spray, the tear gas, the flash-grenades, the helicopters, the armored vehicles, and the rubber bullets. And then came the chorus of privileged beneficiaries of our country’s discriminatory status quo, denying and defending the reality of brutal, racist, militarized, and unaccountable over-policing.
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U.S. Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the U.S, Not China
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies | CODEPINK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
3 Aug 2020 – Governments all over the world are collaborating with China to stop the spread of coronavirus and share the solutions. The U.S. must stop pursuing its counterproductive effort to undermine China as it has initiated each new escalation in U.S.-China relations. And the reason seems obvious: the approaching U.S. election.
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Pandemics, Corruption, Profits (Part 1): All Roads Lead to Dark Winter
Whitney Webb and Raul Diego | The Last American Vagabond - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
1 Apr 2020 – The leaders of two controversial pandemic simulations that took place just months before the Coronavirus crisis – Event 201 and Crimson Contagion – share a common history, the 2001 biowarfare simulation Dark Winter. Dark Winter not only predicted the 2001 anthrax attacks, but some of its participants had clear foreknowledge of those attacks.
→ read full articleCompanions
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Vaclav Havel recommended:
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Another Hiroshima Is Coming… Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
3 Aug 2020 -In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from five ‘ground zeros’ for nuclear weapons – from Hiroshima to Bikini, Nevada to Polynesia and Australia. He warns that unless we take action now, China is next.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
All of us have memories, some pleasant some distasteful, in our lives. My purpose in this essay is to understand the meaning of memory and to determine its relationship or linkage with Nature in its various manifestations.
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(Italiano) Agosto 1945: Riusciremo mai a imparare dalla tragedia nucleare?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
5 Agosto 2020 – Nei prossimi giorni – il 6 e il 9 agosto – saranno trascorsi 75 anni dalla doppia tragedia che catapultò l’umanità nell’era nucleare: il bombardamento di Hiroshima e Nagasaki. Dopo le grandi manifestazioni anti-nucleari dei primi decenni la tensione morale alimentata dall’indignazione per la morte atroce di più di duecentomila vittime, e la paura di un olocausto nucleare globale si sono affievolite.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Ditto!
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BREAKING: Israel Bombed Beirut
Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam תיקון עולם - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
4 Aug 2020 – Exposure: Israel blew up a Hezbollah ammunition depot in the port of Beirut, but did not know in advance that a nearby warehouse contained a huge amount of ammonium nitrate. The government, overwhelmed by the scale of the carnage and destruction, was quick to deny Israeli involvement – even before anyone in Lebanon blamed Israel.
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Hiroshima Spring
Gary Corseri - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
In the Twentieth Epoch of Love
we pulled on the rubbery face
and found the luminous skull
turning around in its place,
wearing the grin of our race,
saying: All who endeavor will
find here the end of man,
the bone at the heart of will,
the snake in the garden of Love;
saying: “Go and be killed if you can!”
Pandemics, Corruption, Profits (Part 2): How One of Big Pharma’s Most Corrupt Companies Plans to Corner the Covid-19 Cure Market
Whitney Webb and Raul Diego | The Last American Vagabond - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
9 Apr 2020 – One of the most politically-connected yet scandal ridden vaccine companies in the United States, with troubling ties to the 2001 anthrax attacks and opioid crisis, is set to profit handsomely from the current Coronavirus crisis.
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The Coronavirus Is Airborne. Keep Saying It.
Michael A. Fisher | Slate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
31 Jul 2020 – It’s a jarring message, and the right one.
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Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Simone Weil considered it the highest existential discipline to “make use of the sufferings that chance inflicts upon us.” George Bernard Shaw saw suffering as our supreme conduit to empathy. “We suffer more in imagination than in reality,” Seneca observed in his timeless antidote to anxiety. “All you have is what you are, and what you give.”
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While America Awakes…
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Winston Langley, ‘While America Sleeps: Squandered Opportunities and Looming Threats to Societies’ (Lulu Press, 2020) – On the surface the book offers a dose of pessimism as Langley elaborates how the US missed several opportunities to address deep rooted violence, but a reading between the lines generates hope. It depends on which side of the spectrum you are standing.
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