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Beirut Blast
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
9 Aug 2020 – Lebanese president Michel Aoun attributes the largest explosion since WWII to either the accidental ignition of 2750 tons of Ammunition Nitrate stored in a warehouse at Beirut port or a planned attack by some external entity. There may be a nexus between the two causes.
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‘Floating Bomb’: How the Beirut Blast Was Predicted
Michael Safi, Andrew Roth and Martin Chulov | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020 – The Lebanese prime minister on Tuesday [4 Aug] blamed the explosion on 2,750-tonne store of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in bombs and fertilisers, stored at the port. Media reports from 2014 claimed a vessel carrying that load was impounded at Beirut’s after making an emergency stop in the city and being denied permission to leave by customs authorities because it was deemed unseaworthy. In a letter published by a journalist, the ship was described as “a floating bomb and the crew is a hostage aboard this bomb.”
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Venezuela and Trump’s Irrational Electoral Policy
Jorge Arreaza Montserrat, Venezuela Foreign Minister | Council on Hemispheric Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020 – There is a belief that hard line, regime change policies against Venezuela would lead to electoral success in Florida and therefore, nationwide… Trump would do better if he followed his initial instinct of talking to President Maduro. A respectful dialogue with Venezuela is what is really in the interest of the U.S. electorate.
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America’s Unholy Crusade against China
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
5 Aug 2020 –
Last month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered an anti-China speech that was extremist, simplistic, and dangerous. If biblical literalists like Pompeo remain in power past November, they could well bring the world to the brink of a war that they expect and perhaps even seek.
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Brazil’s Money Laundering Scandal from Hell
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
23 Jul 2020 – What is now termed “the Banestado leaks” and “CC5gate” is straight out of vintage WikiLeaks: a list, published for the first time in full, naming names and detailing one of the biggest corruption and money laundering cases in the world in the past three decades. With no one eager to talk about the revelations, the question is what will ex-president Lula do about it.
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The Hibakusha’s 75-Year Journey to Ban Nuclear Weapons
ICAN-International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
6/9 Aug 2020 – A nuclear attack is almost too horrific to imagine. But take a few minutes and try to walk in the footsteps of the hibakusha, the survivors of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Follow their journey from 6 and 9 August 1945 through a lifetime of advocacy to eliminate nuclear weapons.
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Irene Dawa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
The Lives of Refugee Women in Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement, Arua, Uganda – In contemporary conflict, as much as 90% of causalities are among the civilians, most of whom are women and children. For most women, the end of war and conflict is marked by the excessive effects of trauma and shame as a result of Gender Based Violence (GBV).
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(Português) E se a sobrevivência for, afinal, do mais amigável e não do mais forte/apto?
Visão - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
21 jul 2020 – Os autores defendem que espécies vingam no mundo através da simpatia, da cooperação e da comunicação – e dão vários exemplos para o demonstrarem. “A sobrevivência do mais forte, que é o que todos têm em mente quando ouvem “evolução” e “seleção natural”, causou mais dano que qualquer outra teoria”, diz Hare.
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Science Approved, Safe: Buy, Use, Consume It!
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
You probably don’t remember such Marvels of Science…
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15 Lessons from 15 Years of BDS
Alys Samson Estapé | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
29 Jul 2020 – July marked the 15th anniversary of the launch of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Much has happened over those years. Here are 15 lessons I’ve learned on the journey to dismantle Israeli apartheid.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Connecting dots is neither the trend of our times nor of day-to-day political decision-making. Over the years, time, space and intellectual focus has shrunk. It’s deplorable and dangerous for an increasingly complex world facing increasingly existential challenges.
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(Castellano) La Élite Global Está Demente–Reconsiderado
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
En 2014 escribí un artículo titulado ‘La élite global está loca’. Quiero profundizar lo que expliqué en ese artículo para que se tenga una idea más clara de a qué nos enfrentamos en nuestra lucha por crear un mundo de paz, justicia y sostenibilidad ecológica.
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Trumpism: What Will 2020 Bring?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
8 Aug 2020 – During the height of the Cold War when it was viewed as disloyal and compromising to show a sympathetic interest in Marxism or sympathies with Soviet ideology, someone at the U.S. military base at Frankfurt distributed to the soldiers stationed there, a handwritten version of the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution, in the form of petition.
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Pandemics, Corruption, Profits (Part 3): Head of the Hydra–The Rise of Robert Kadlec
Whitney Webb and Raul Diego | The Last American Vagabond - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
14 May 2020 – A powerful network of political operatives, a global vaccine mafia and their man in Washington.
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Polca – Paraguaya Linda (Music Video of the Week)
Patricia Cantaluppi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Singer Patricia Cantaluppi
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Time to Add Myanmar’s Most Influential Genocidal Monk Sitagu to ICC List
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
5 Aug 2020 – As the ICC proceeds with its full investigation, it needs to look into the instrumental role of Sitagu Sayadaw, Myanmar’s most influential Saffron-robed hate preacher, in the genocidal and other crimes against predominantly Muslim Rohingya. He offered scriptural justifications for ‘killing millions of non-Buddhists’.
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How the Pandemic Defeated the USA
Ed Yong | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
4 Aug 2020 – How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom.
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Peace Mask Project
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Myong Hee Kim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
8 Aug 2020 – The following interview was held at Myong Hee Kim’s studio in the small rural village of Takano, Japan. She is the founding artist of the Kyoto-based international NPO, Peace Mask Project, currently celebrating its 20th year of workshops, talks, discussions, performances and exhibitions.
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Trump Forecasts His Own Fraud
Charles Blow | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
2 Aug 2020 – This election is in danger of being stolen. By Donald Trump. He is a win-at-all-costs kind of operator. For him, the rules are like rubber, not fixed but bendable. All structures–laws, conventions, norms–exist for others, those not slick and sly enough to evade them, those not craven enough to break them.
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Fidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba (1959–2008), transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
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Theoretical Note: John Maynard Keynes vs. Milton Friedman
Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
The thesis of this note is that what is most important about Keynes was that he called attention to staggering features of the basic structure, namely the chronic insufficiency of effective demand and the chronic insufficiency of the inducement to invest. What is most important to extrapolate from Keynes survives the falsification of some of his empirical claims.
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C Is for Children–And Plenty of It, Too
Theo Farmer | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
31 Jul 2020 – The power of achieving the right vitamin C level in your body daily is old news. It’s like 50-plus years old. What is “news” at the moment is the COVID “crisis.” But it is an overblown crisis to people who understand the human need for vitamin C. Orthomolecular practitioners can “C through it.”
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List of Israeli Targets Leaked: Tel Aviv Fears the Worst in ICC Investigation of War Crimes
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
29 Jul 2020 – The fact that a “secret list” exists is an indication that Tel Aviv understands that this era is different and that international law, which has failed Palestinians for over 70 years, may, for once, deliver, however a small measure of justice.
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Presumptuous Pompeo Pushes Preposterous ‘Peking’ Policy
Ray McGovern | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
28 Jul 2020 – Quick. Somebody tell Mike Pompeo. The secretary of state is not supposed to play the role of court jester — the laughing stock to the world. There was no sign that any of those listening to his “major China policy statement” last Thursday at the Nixon Library turned to their neighbor and said, “He’s kidding, right? Richard Nixon meant well but failed miserably to change China’s behavior? And now Pompeo is going to put them in their place?”
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Jewish Settlers Poison and Kill Over 60 Livestock in Jordan Valley
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
30 Jul 2020 – The killing of a large number of animals by spraying poison on their owner’s pastureland.
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Fulfilling Needs of the Poor Is Also a Sacrifice
Majid Parekh - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
I believe the single major cause of human being’s misery and hurdle to achieve peace and growth is superstition/polytheism. The concept of the Vedas, Qur’an and all heavenly scriptures is that all human beings are equal and no one is superior to others.
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New Censorship Czars: Tech Titans Aim to Restrict Access to Information in the Vaccine Debate
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
30 Jul 2020 – Today they openly silence the tragic stories of American mothers of vaccine-injured children and all other unapproved criticism of pharmaceutical products.
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A True Intelligence Assessment, For Once!
Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
So as long as one is articulate, persuasive, photogenic, assertive and well-networked – what one says does not matter. The truth value of a narrative does not count. What counts is only the result: Which narrative ‘looked like it carried the day’? That explains the 24×7 yakety-yak. In such an environment, rational debate is not possible. And what happens if rational debate fails? Conflict, what else?
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The Heart of the Matter in the South China Sea
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
30 Jul 2020 – The battle for the contested maritime region is over before the shooting even begins and China has won.
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Yemen: A Torrent of Suffering in a Time of Siege
Kathy Kelly | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
29 Jul 2020 – By 2018’s end, Save the Children reported 85,000 children under age five had already died from starvation since the war escalated in 2015. By the end of 2020, it is expected that 23,500 children with severe acute malnutrition will be at immediate risk of death. If we cooperate with war-making elites, the most horrible storms will be unleashed. We must learn–and quickly–to make a torrent of our mingled cries.
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The Crash of the American Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
1 Aug 2020 – The American empire is crashing. What will it be like. Let us look at recent precedents.
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Statement on the 75th Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
International Peace Bureau | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
In just two days, the two primitive atomic bombs dropped over Japan killed a quarter of a million women, children and men. Yet from the atomic ruins, an unwavering resolve has survived to bear witness to the personal human tragedy. For 75 years, the Hibakusha have spoken out as the voice of experience and hope for the urgent imperative of eliminating all nuclear weapons.
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US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Genocide
Gideon Polya | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
17 Jul 2020 – Genocide of Indigenous People – On 4 Jun 2020 I published in Germany a large book entitled ‘US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide’ that is substantially based on articles I have published in Countercurrents as well as in other progressive media over the last 2 decades.
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The Commodification of Black Death
Nia Imara | The Progressive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
27 Jul 2020 – As corporations and large universities attempt to profit off of the movement against racial violence, it’s apparent that racism and capitalism are as intertwined as ever. History is rich with Black intellectuals who have brilliantly expounded on this point, from W.E.B. Du Bois, to Fannie Lou Hamer, to Malcolm X, to Angela Davis.
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Julian Assange Is Awarded the 2020 Stuttgart Peace Prize
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
29 Jul 2020 – Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks imprisoned in London for a year, received the Stuttgart Peace Prize 2020. It is awarded by Die Anstifter and aims to promote the right to unconditional freedom of information and of the press.
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Talking to Clouds
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
Let’s look at the clouds that go by
and ask them to learn from the sky
Why do so many people die
Spanish Jurist Denounces US Political Harassment against Assange
Prensa Latina - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
27 Jul 2020 – Spanish jurist Baltasar Garzon denounced that Australian journalist Julian Assange is the victim of political persecution by the United States. As the coordinator of Assange’s international defense, Garzon testified as an injured witness, having also been a victim of surveillance by the Spanish company UC Global.
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Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
30 Jul 2020 – If the killing of George Floyd was racism, how shall we describe US- and UK-led UN policy that ‘was more humane with its dogs’? How to describe corporate media that rail against domestic racism while perennially cheerleading the infinitely more violent international version? Why are we not taking a knee for Iraqis and Libyans? Why is no-one toppling Orwellian monuments to a ‘free press’ supporting global oppression, like the statue of George Orwell outside BBC Broadcasting House?
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Vote by Mail: An Alternative to the USPS
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
Let us suppose that the November election approaches and the US Post office is unable to deliver mail-in votes. Is there any other way that these votes can be delivered? I believe that there are some possibilities.
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What Is Peacebuilding?
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
A Human-Centered Approach – As the man who created the term, let’s see what Johan Galtung has to say: “Peacebuilding is the process of creating self-supporting structures that remove causes of wars and offer alternatives to war in situations where wars might occur.”
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A Buddhist Socialist Peaceable Kingdom
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
Buddha was a “soft” social revolutionary. Marx developed his notion of “species consciousness” in order to encourage a shared commitment to animal rights and a clean environment. His endeavor echoes Pythagoras, Lao Tzu, and Buddha, three of the world’s first ecological sages.
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Assange Appears in Court, as Lawyers Warn Case May Be Delayed by New US Indictment
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
28 Jul 2020 – As it stands, the UK courts are continuing with Assange’s extradition process based on an outdated indictment.
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Israeli Forces Uproot Hundreds of Olive Trees in West Bank Village
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
21 July 2020 – Israeli forces uprooted this morning over 200 olive trees in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya, near the West Bank city of Salfit, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
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Seeking Education— An Inspiring Saga of Young Women’s Courage
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
28 Jul 2020 – Education is a need for all people in today’s world — people of all ages and all backgrounds. This is especially so for young people and students. Education serves several needs of young people.
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Brazilian Meat Giant Trucked Cattle from Deforested Amazon Ranch
Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal and André Campos | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
27 Jul 2020 – “Caught red-handed”: The world’s biggest meat company has been using its own trucks to transport cattle from an illegally deforested ranch in the Amazon to a “clean” farm that supplies its abattoirs. JBS continues to deny this. The company’s meat ends up all over the world – in supermarkets, fast food, ready meals and school dinners, sold by major brands.
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Could the Dogs of War Have Been Kept Chained? Prelude to the Guns of August
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, started on 28 Jul 1914: Guns of August.
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Brief against FCC on 5G and Wireless Harms: Submitted!
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
31 Jul 2020 – What we put in our bodies and our children’s is the most important and personal choice we make. But when it comes to damaging levels of radiation, that right to choose has been stolen from us. The case challenges the Federal Communications Commission’s refusal to review its 25-year-old obsolete wireless “health guidelines” and adopt scientific, biologically based radio frequency emissions rules that adequately protect public health.
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Manhattan Project Spies, Cold War, MAD–Their Efforts Gifted Us 75 Years of No Nuclear War
Dave Lindorff | This Can't Be Happening! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
1 Aug 2020 – Unsung Heroes of Los Alamos – As we look back at the grim 75th anniversary of those three first nuclear bombs exploded by the US, we should admit a debt of gratitude to those spies at Los Alamos who kept the US from committing an atrocity that humanity would have never forgiven, and for giving us this amazing three-quarters of a century of no nuclear or world war.
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Worries about Foreign ‘Hacking’ of Vaccine Research Place Corporate Profits Ahead of Public Health
Joshua Cho | FAIR- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
28 Jul 2020 – One should expect corporate media outlets like the Times to equate corporate interests with the US national interest. By spinning the intellectual property of large US corporations as something that must be safeguarded rather than something that should be shared, US media are failing to inform their audiences about how corporations are delaying the development of a vaccine—and causing unnecessary deaths.
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COVID-19 Antibodies only Last about Three Months, Studies Find
Asmae Fahmy | Verywell Health - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
-> Several studies offer evidence that protective antibodies in former SARS-CoV-2 patients shed in about three months.
-> This data discredits the idea of herd immunity through infection, as antibodies do not seem to last long enough in the population to provide immunity.
-> While this research is evolving, it could pose difficulties for the development of an effective vaccine.
Momin Khawaja–The Forgotten Canadian Detainee of 9/11
Habib Siddiqui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
When Supreme Court Justice Louis LeBel asked the Prosecution: “Why should Mohammad Momin Khawaja be sentenced to a Life and 24 years when he was not charged with the crime nor he committed it?” – The prosecution asserted that “terrorism” was an international problem and they wanted to send a message. What type of justice is that? It is reminiscent of the kangaroo courts in Sisi’s Egypt.
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A 75th Commemorative Year for the Hibakusha (2020-2021)
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
The Hibakusha, those who 75 years ago survived the fires and black rains of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have lived through hell and have brought the world a message, a prayer to humanity that remains unanswered. A softly spoken hope, now nearly gone.
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Formerly Incarcerated Women Launch Chicago Worker Cooperative
Karen Kahn | Employee Ownership News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
6 Jul 2020 – It’s not often that a business launches weeks before its planned opening. But in the case of ChiFresh Kitchen, a worker cooperative owned and operated by four formerly incarcerated women and one man, the COVID-19 pandemic turned out to be a blessing. ChiFresh Kitchen prepares meals to help address food insecurity during the pandemic.
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Mental Illness
Khalil Bendib | Other Words - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
What’s wrong with me, Doc?
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Facts about Covid-19: August 2020 Update
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
3 Aug 2020 – Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
Don´t leave anybody high and dry, bored, and hungry, tempted to join a gang to have fun being bad! Homo sapiens should transition to the day when humans will devote themselves to fun and funded intrinsically worthwhile activities –sports, music, science, philosophy, dance, religion, scholarship, gardening, yoga and so on—while advanced technology produces more and better goods and services, and creates more surplus to transfer.
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(Português) Desmatamento Faz Grandes Investidores Romperem com a JBS
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
28 jul 2020 – O maior grupo de serviços financeiros do norte da Europa, a Nordea Asset Management, que controla um fundo equivalente a R$ 1,38 trilhão e representa vários investidores, decidiu romper com a JBS por causa da associação do grupo brasileiro com compras de gado proveniente de fazendas denunciadas por desmatamento na Amazônia.
→ read full articleSigh…
Banksy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
Age of Rejection…
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Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc
Yanis Varoufakis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
27 Jul 2020 – On 15th July, Ben Arc published in Bitcoin Magazine an open letter addressed to me in a bid to convince me that I should re-assess my rejection of Bitcoin as a force for good, as a bulwark for democratising capitalism and paving the ground for socialism. Here is my reply.
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Mozart y Mambo–Rondo alla Mambo (Music Video of the Week)
Sarah Willis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
Rondo alla Mambo, which combines the music of Mozart and Cuban Mambo, was featured in this flash mob on the streets of Havana at the grand finale of the Mozart y Mambo project. What a delightful musical–and visual–experience!
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With John Lewis in Stockholm 1969
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
1 Aug 2020 – Moved by the iconic recognition of John Lewis’ exceptional courage and perseverance on behalf of human rights, nonviolence, and opposition to American militarism, I recall a weekend spent together in Stockholm. We were the two invited American speakers at a conference opposing the American War in Vietnam.
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(Italiano) Amore per il ciclismo
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
Una bicicletta non è stata solo un mezzo di trasporto, ma anche uno strumento educativo, per aiutare il padre malato e per ricevere una lettera o del denaro. Gli smartphone o WhatsApp possono offrire questi vantaggi? Le persone che promuovono la digitalizzazione o l’online banking non sarebbero d’accordo. Ma io resto col mio amore per la bicicletta.
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Julian Assange’s Next Hearing on Monday, July 27
Don't Extradite Assange | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
26 Jul 2020 – Julian Assange is expected to appear over video link at Westminster Magistrates’ Court’s hearing on Monday (27 July), despite medical advice that he risks contracting COVID-19. A lung infection combined with a pre-existing condition and the risk of exposure to COVID-19 had prevented him from attending recent hearings.
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South China Sea Delimitation Disputes: Good Faith Negotiations Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
23 Jul 2020 – Although most maritime delimitations are, in fact, achieved without recourse to adjudication and settled by bilateral negotiations, submitting a dispute to the World Court can better ensure that the results of the delimitation process conform to the rules of international law.
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(Italiano) Imparare da Gandhi
Robert J. Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Non solo perché credo che sia stato fonte di grande ispirazione per il mondo intero, di idee e potenti strategie per contrastare la violenza nelle più svariate circostanze, ma anche perché le mie esperienze personali sono la prova che queste idee hanno un immenso valore. Tra queste, la consapevolezza che “Se stiamo per compiere dei progressi, non dobbiamo ripetere la storia ma crearne di nuova.
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(Français) Amérique Latine en Résistance: Pandémie, Sanctions et Elections
Jessica Dos Santos et Ricardo Vaz | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
20 Juil 2020 – Un pays « normal », dans des conditions « normales », pourrait importer de la nourriture, des médicaments, des carburants et tout ce qui était nécessaire, dans un système hégémonique où les vertus du « marché libre » sont exaltées. De la même façon, un pays normal dans des conditions normales n’aurait aucun problème à exporter du pétrole ou toute autre matière première demandée sur le marché mondial.
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Is the United States a Failing State? A Failed State?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
22 Jul 2020 – To ask whether the United States, the world’s dominant military power, is ‘a failing state’ should cause worldwide anxiety. Such a state, analogous to a wounded animal, is a global menace of unprecedented proportions in the nuclear age. Its political leadership is exhibiting a reckless tendency of combining incompetence with extremism. The November elections will send a strong signal as to whether the United States is failing or has failed.
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(Italiano) Dal Trinity Test a Hiroshima e Nagasaki, e oltre. Una storia complessa…
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
21 Luglio 2020 – Il rischio nucleare non è finito. Una notizia comunicata dall’Agenzia Reuters il 20 luglio 2020: il Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite, Antonio Guterres sollecita Azerbaijan e Armenia a esercitare la massima prudenza dopo gli scontri di confine dei giorni scorsi. Il Segretario Generale segue con grande preoccupazione gli eventi.
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Asylum, Now an American Horror Story
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
We’re witnessing an assault designed to suffocate the hopes and life prospects of asylum seekers. The changes under consideration would upend the decades-old and internationally embraced standards of the Refugee Act of 1980, created to protect refugees who have a “well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” the real Boogeyman isn’t lurking at our border. He’s sitting in the Oval Office.
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Déjà vu All Over Again?
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Or still the same scene? Define progress…
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
A bicycle has been not just a means of transportation but also an instrument for education, for helping one’s ill father, or for receiving a letter or money. Can the smartphones or the WhatsApp’s provide these benefits? People promoting digitisation or online banking would disagree. But I rest my love for a bicycle.
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Masked, Homeless, and Desolate
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Fear and obedience oozes from them. Death walks the streets with people on leashes in lockstep. That they have been the victims of a long-planned propaganda campaign to use an invisible virus to frighten them into submission and shut down the world’s economy for the global elites is beyond their ken. This is so even when the facts are there to prove otherwise.
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While EU Leaders Squabble, the Elephant in the Room Remains Unnoticed
Yanis Varoufakis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
18 Jul 2020 -While the media are reporting the news of the deadlocked EU Summit negotiations over the so-called ‘Recovery Fund’, an eerie silence prevails regarding the Elephant in the Room: The huge wave of austerity the Eurozone is sleepwalking towards. Let’s look at the facts.
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Only Bold State Intervention Will Save Us from a Future Owned by Corporate Giants
Joe Guinan and Martin O'Neill | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
If small businesses fail after Covid-19, the big boys will become even more powerful. A radical 1930s policy could be the answer. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has seen his wealth increase by over US$30bn during the pandemic alone.
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Chechnya Is Trying to Exterminate Gay People–Our Silence only Emboldens Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov
Mehdi Hasan | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Chechnya is a small Muslim-majority republic in southwestern Russia. It is also a place where gay people live in terror. Since 2017, there have been a series of state-sponsored anti-gay purges across Chechnya, in which hundreds of gay men have been arrested and detained in secret prisons.
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A Typology of Violence
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Mapping Structural and Cultural Violence – These types of violence were first laid out by peace studies scholar Johan Galtung, back in 1969 and 1990 respectively.
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Critiques on the Tribunals and The Hague Court
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
27 Jul 2020 – This critique is a review of heinous crimes. It assesses to connect with perpetrators, victims, people and institutions and change professed through the works of the Tribunals and The Hague Court and share the feeling with the concerned ones. The objectives of the paper are three-fold: (1) to study the situations of the investigation, prosecution and punishment on accountability; (2) to analyze the preference for justice: victors’ justice or victims’ justice; and (3) to access the critiques on violations of human rights and humanitarian law beyond the borders.
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Global Unethical Nonviolence: United Nations and Inhuman Rights
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
21 Jul 2020 – Last week TMS published a paper by Charles P. Webel and Sofia Khaydari titled Toward a Global Ethics of Nonviolence. In the course of the paper, it transpired to me that, despite their acknowledged disappointment with the United Nations, they still believe UNO is a Peace organization.
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Robert G. Smith, PhD | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
25 Jul 2020 – The PubMed database is widely used to find health-related articles about a wide variety of topics. It references articles from hundreds of journals, both domestic USA and international. PubMed contains citations and information from life science journals and online books originally compiled into the MEDLINE database by the US National Library of Medicine, some originally published as far back as the nineteenth century.
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How 36 Reporters Brought Us the Twin Towers’ Explosive Demolition on 9/11
Graeme MacQueen and Ted Walter | Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 – Editor’s Note: As of the publication of this article, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is awaiting a decision from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) regarding the request for correction that AE911Truth and ten family members of 9/11 victims submitted to NIST on April 15, 2020. The request seeks corrections to eight separate items of information in NIST’s 2008 report on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, any of which would effectively force NIST to reverse its conclusion that fires caused the building’s destruction.
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(Português) Queimadas no Amazonas Crescem 51,7% e Batem Recorde dos Últimos Quatro Anos
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
23 jul 2020 – Dados do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais revelaram um aumento de 51,7% no número de focos de queimada no Amazonas no primeiro semestre de 2020, em comparação ao mesmo período do ano anterior. As estatísticas alarmantes indicam um recorde em relação aos últimos quatro anos.
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EU Summit Agrees to €750 Billion Fund for the Banks and Corporations
Will Morrow | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
22 Jul 2020 – The agreement will provide a new revenue stream for European states to give handouts to corporations, and a new mechanism for austerity across the continent.
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How the USA Overthrew the Hawai’ian Monarchy and Annexed Hawai’i as the 50th State
Smithsonian Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Learn how Hawai’i became a part of the United States after a group of local businessmen perform a coup to overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Monarch, and the government with the support of the U.S. Marines.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Did you hear about the monkeys who shared an Amazon account?
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The Rich Just Keep on Getting Richer
Mac Hackett | Vice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
16 Jul 2020 -New research has revealed that, despite the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s super-wealthy have continued to get wealthier. The Swiss bank UBS surveyed the family offices of 121 families whose average fortune is £1.25 billion ($1.6 billion) – making them the richest in the world.
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After 40 Years, Researchers Finally See Earth’s Climate Destiny More Clearly
Paul Voosen | Science Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
22 Jul 2020 – The new study is the payoff of decades of advances in climate science, says James Hansen, the famed retired NASA climate scientist who helped craft the first sensitivity range in 1979. “It is an impressive, comprehensive study, and I am not just saying that because I agree with the result. Whoever shepherded this deserves our gratitude.”
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AFRICOM and the Guise of Terrorism
Tunde Osazua | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – If AFRICOM’s mission is to fight terrorism, then why have terror attacks increased five-fold since the US began its military occupation of the continent? “Entities that threaten a liberated, autonomous Africa are the real terrorists, and the United States is the biggest terrorist in the world. AFRICOM’s true purpose is not fighting terrorism.”
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COVID-19 and China: Lessons and the Way Forward
Editorial | The Lancet - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
25 Jul 2020 – China has largely controlled COVID-19. A country of 1.4 billion people now reports only clusters of cases rather than widespread community transmission. The rest of the world can still learn from China’s successes in bringing its outbreak under control. Tackling a global health emergency like a pandemic requires open collaboration. The lack of global solidarity to address COVID-19 amid geopolitical instability is a threat to us all.
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(Português) Jane Goodall Completa 60 Anos de Dedicação aos Primatas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – A primatóloga Jane Goodall, que deixou de comer carne em 1968,está completando 60 anos de atuação em defesa dos primatas. Seu trabalho iniciado em 1960 contribuiu principalmente para o reconhecimento da capacidade de aprendizagem social e raciocínio de chimpanzés e babuínos. Ela tem citado a exploração e o consumo de animais como responsáveis pelo aumento das doenças zoonóticas.
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A Pandemic of Surveillance
J.D. Tuccille | Reason Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
We are increasingly monitored, and COVID-19 health concerns aren’t improving the situation. “Aggressive expansion of surveillance programs without adequate checks could normalize privacy intrusions and create systems that may later be used for various forms of political and social repression,” frets Freedom House.
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Agara Sutta – The Guest House
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
“In a guest house, O monks, people from the east may take lodgings, or people from the west, north or south.
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“Goldman Sachs Is Still Goldman Sachs”: Investment Banks Soar as COVID-19 Rattles Economy
William D. Cohan | Vanity Fair - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
20 Jul 2020 – The investment banks are back, baby! And you can thank for their resurrection the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic instability. Trading and underwriting are up at Goldman and Morgan Stanley, while memories of the 2008 financial collapse fade. “This is not a normal recession,” says Jamie Dimon.
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The Partisan (Music Video of the Week)
Leonard Cohen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
France 1970 Live
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Knowing How Small We Are Helps You/Us Achieve Big Things
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
25 Jul 2020 – Each of us individual human beings is a very small part of a vast universe. We do big things with help, but they are still small things in the universe…..
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UNHCR Welcomes New Ukrainian Statelessness Law Set to End Legal Limbo for Thousands
UN High Commissioner for Refugees - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
17 Jul 2020 – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes a new statelessness law in Ukraine which came into effect this week. The law will give thousands of people who lack a nationality a chance to work legally, study and access healthcare among other rights and opportunities, and will ultimately provide a pathway to citizenship, once they are recognized as stateless.
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This Is What Happens When the War on Terror Is Turned Inward, on the USA
Hamilton Nolan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
24 Jul 2020 – A strange and necessary ingredient of America’s descent towards fascism is that it will have little impact on the majority of people. Trying to determine when we slip into fascism is like staring at a baby to see when it turns into an adult. Once you perceive it, it’s already happened. The trick now is convincing that tranquil majority that their interests are more aligned with the antifa protesters than with the cops in fatigues.
→ read full articleThe ICC’s Enormous Importance
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
The essential difference between a confederation and a federation, both of them unions of states, is that a federation has the power to make and to enforce laws that act on individuals, rather than attempting to coerce states. Our present United Nations is a confederation attempting to coerce states with sanctions that are “applied to people collectively and not individually.” The ICC acts on individuals, rather than attempt to coerce states.
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Dag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 Apr 1953 to 18 Sep 1961 when he died in a plane crash in the Congo. He was born on 29 July 1905 in Jonkoping, Sweden. An authority on literature whose translations of poetry were widely admired, Dag’s journal of personal and spiritual reflections was published posthumously as Markings in 1963.
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Thoreau on Knowing vs. Seeing and What It Takes to Apprehend Reality Unblinded by Our Preconceptions
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”
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Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
22 Jul 2020 – This is Kabir’s America. It is our America. And our shame. Robert “Kabir” Luma was 18 when he found himself in the wrong car with the wrong people. He would pay for that misjudgment with 16 years and 54 days of his life, locked away for a crime he did not participate in and did not know was going to take place. Released from prison, he was tossed onto the street, without financial resources and, because of fines and fees imposed on him by the court system, $7,000 of debt. He ended up broke in a homeless shelter in Newark–filthy, infested with lice and bedbugs.
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