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Aldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become known especially for his fifth novel, Brave New World, written in 1931. At the age of 14 he lost his mother subsequently becoming ill in 1911, what would leave him virtually blind. As if all of this was not enough, his other brother, Noel, would kill himself in 1914. Huxley would then turn himself to literature.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Born on the island of Martinique under French colonial rule, Frantz Omar Fanon was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring.
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Religious Liberty: Concern and Opportunity for Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
18 Jul 2020 – In an earlier TMS issue, I highlighted two avenues for informing on questions of religious liberty. Today, there is greater use of Track II diplomacy–meetings among relevant people on all sides of a conflict to see what issues might be negotiated. Religious and spiritual bodies have the resources for such Track II efforts. My impression is that they could do more.
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Assange’s Father Speaks Out, Calls Oppression of WikiLeaks Founder a “Great Crime of 21st Century”
Denis Rogatyuk | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – An extended interview with Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, who condemns the US, UK, and Australian governments for their “11 years of ceaseless psychological torture” of the WikiLeaks publisher.
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U.S. Approves $620 Million Missile Upgrade Package for Taiwan
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
10 Jul 2020 – The United States has approved a possible $620 million upgrade package for Patriot surface-to-air missiles to Taiwan, the State Department said, the latest purchase from the United States to deal with a rising threat from China.
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The Gates Foundation’s “Green Revolution” in Africa: Agribusiness Wins, Small Scale Farmers Lose
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – Ann Garrison interviews Timothy Wise on why US-style corporate agriculture pushed by billionaire Bill Gates has been disastrous for Africa. “The number of hungry people in those 13 countries actually rose by 30% to 131 million people.”
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Words of Wonder/Get Up, Stand Up (Music Video of the Week)
Keith Richards, et al. | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
A ‘Song around the World’ featuring Keith Richards [Rolling Stones] with a number of worldwide musicians on his Reggae song, ‘Words of Wonder’. Ending with Bob Marley’s ‘Get Up, Stand Up’. A truly delightful musical experience. Enjoy!
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Human Nature
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
17 Jul 2020 – What is human nature? Are we humans good or evil? To what extent is the character of a person produced by heredity and to what extent by environment? Is competition more central to our existence than cooperation, or is it the other way around? How can a happy, peaceful and stable society be created? Are humans essentially the same as other animals, or are we fundamentally different? Should humans dominate and control nature, or should we be the custodians of nature?
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Defund the Pentagon: The Liberal Case
Sen Bernie Sanders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
16 Jul 2020 – Fifty-three years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. challenged all of us to fight against three major evils: “the evil of racism, the evil of poverty and the evil of war.” If there was ever a moment in American history when we needed to respond to Dr. King’s clarion call for justice and demand a “radical revolution of values,” now is that time.
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‘An Illegitimate Regime’: How a Top Rights Group Shed Israeli Myths to Recognize Apartheid
Amjad Iraqi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – In an exclusive interview, human rights lawyer Michael Sfard explains what led Yesh Din to charge Israel with the crime of apartheid in the West Bank.
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(Português) Pandemia de Covid-19 Provoca Queda Recorde de Poluição Atmosférica
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
19 jul 2020 – A pandemia do novo coronavírus provocou uma queda histórica na emissão de gases, de acordo com novo estudo. As maiores diminuições ocorreram nos Estados Unidos e China, em grande parte devido às viagens e ao uso reduzido de energia, água e gás, porém isso resulta em grande impacto econômico.
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Manhattan Project in Their Own Words: Trinity at 75
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
On July 16, 1945 the first nuclear bomb exploded in New Mexico.The history of the Manhattan Project and the birth of the bomb have been examined and reexamined countless times over the past seven decades—as have the threats they posed to humanity. Though nearly all now are dead, many scientists, soldiers, and family members who attended the birth of the bomb documented their first-hand experiences in the pages of the Bulletin.
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Markets Soar as the Corpses Pile Up
Andre Damon | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 was a disaster: 71,670 new cases of COVID-19, the second-worst day on record. Nearly 1,000 people lost their lives to the disease. With Texas hospitals at 90 percent capacity, mobile morgues are dispatched. In Florida, 54 hospitals have zero available beds in intensive care units. And one third of children who were tested in Florida were positive. Amid this death and economic devastation, the stock markets surged, with the Dow Jones closing up for the fourth day in a row. Goldman Sachs posted one of its most profitable quarters ever, doubling the predictions of analysts.
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EU Legal Action against France, Spain and Sweden a Big Step in Campaign to Stop Death in Nets
Danny Groves | WDC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
3 Jul 2020 – The European Commission has demanded that France, Spain and Sweden take immediate action to prevent the needless deaths of dolphins and porpoises killed every year in fishing nets (known as bycatch).
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Cold War with China and the Thucydides Trap: A Conversation with Richard Falk
Daniel Falcone | Counterpunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – In retracing the collapse of the Soviet Union and China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization, Falk analyses the origins of US resentment towards China’s remarkable market growth that is absent of liberal democratic structures. How a ‘cold war’ with China, an economic rival, is different from 20th century Russian tension, which was largely militaristic and ideological.
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(Português) PETA Publica Vídeo que Mostra Crueldade por Trás do Couro
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
11 jul 2020 – A organização Pessoas Pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (PETA) publicou esta semana um novo vídeo mostrando a crueldade por trás do couro. As imagens resultam de uma investigação iniciada na Alemanha.
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Small Talk…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
… Not So Small
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Sabotage, Sanctions and the Bullying of Iran Is Bound to Backfire on the West
Simon Tisdall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
12 Jul 2020 – The onslaught visited on Tehran by Trump, Israel and other bully boys can only increase tensions in the Middle East. Iran is now moving closer to acquiring a weapons manufacturing capability as a direct consequence of US bad faith.
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Real Economy Plunges but Financial Profits Surge
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
16 Jul 2020 – The four major US banks this week have highlighted the widening dichotomy between the real economy and the financial system. The US is set to record the worst recession since the Great Depression, threatening elevated levels of unemployment well into the future and a wave of bankruptcies. Yet the banks are raking in billions of dollars through speculative operations financed by the massive intervention of the Fed into all corners of the financial markets.
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Deal of the Century
Joe Kandra & Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Rules & Laws vs. Justice …
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The US Military Is Using Online Gaming to Recruit Teens
Jordan Uhl | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – Gamers with the Army, Navy, and Air Force are spending hours on Twitch with children as young as 13. “As we think about how automation and media are changing the way we fight wars, it’s concerning to think that children are being given the impression that the military is like a video game.”
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Nations That Plant Roots of Peace
The Christian Science Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
10 Jun 2020 – More than half the world’s countries have a lower homicide rate than 12 years ago. More than half have cut military spending. In the past five years, deaths from terrorism are down by half.
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‘Cancel Culture’ Cannot Erase a Strong Argument
Robert Jensen | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – In the current squabble on the liberal/progressive/left side of the fence over so-called “cancel culture”—in which one open letter in favor of freedom of expression led to a rebuttal open letter in favor of a different approach to freedom of expression—I can offer a report on the experience of being canceled.
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Zero COVID-19 Deaths in Vietnam
Christina Potter | Outbreak Observatory - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – Vietnam has been lauded as an emerging COVID-19 success story with the country reporting low counts and no coronavirus-related deaths during the country’s outbreak. We are taking a closer look at the country’s response in order to better understand its success in controlling its epidemic as well as how the country plans to maintain that control in the future.
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Revolutions, Revolutionaries, and Me the Facebook Ninja
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – At a tender age, I was turned on by tales of subversion of repressive political authority or defiance of unjust laws and social order. Retroactively, I hold my beloved mother who impressed upon me that revolutions and revolutionaries, not to mention political defiance and civil disobedience, are noble, worthy of giving up one’s life, career, property, family and all the rest.
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Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
The unholy alliance, between Little Englander mythology and parasitical profiteering, should be recognised in Brussels as the strategic enemy it always was, to be weakened by all necessary means.
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Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Garry Jacobs and Donato Kiniger-Passigli | Other News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – Sixty-five years ago this week, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and nine other Nobel Laureates released a historical document which became known as the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. The Manifesto called for the governments of the world to abolish nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the imminent danger of nuclear warfare and an existential threat to the human race.
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A Covid-19 Strategy
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
17 Jul 2020 – To beat Covid-19, governments must drop ineffective strategies – including mass testing and tracing, mandatory face masks, lockdowns, or waiting for a hypothetical and experimental vaccine – and instead adopt an early treatment and prophylaxis strategy for people at high risk or high exposure.
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How “Cancel Culture” Repeatedly Emerged in My Attempt to Make a Film About Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
14 Jul 2020 – Growing up as a gay child in South Florida in the late 1970s and into the dark 1980s era of Reagan and AIDS, my childhood hero was the tennis star Martina Navratilova. In 1975, at the age of 18, Navratilova fled Communist Czechoslovakia, leaving her entire family behind in a daring escape, to emigrate to the U.S. In the 1980s, she became one of the only openly gay celebrities in the world, an LGBT and feminist pioneer, and an outspoken political dissident.
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COVID-19: How Can I Cure Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
18 Jul 2020 – With the treatment options available, there is no good reason for most people to even contract COVID-19, and there is certainly no good reason for anyone to die from this virus, much less have a prolonged clinical course of infection with a great deal of needless suffering.
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Coronavirus Warning from Italy: Effects of COVID-19 Could Be Worse Than First Thought
Stuart Ramsay | Sky News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – The long-term effects of COVID-19, even on people who suffered a mild infection, could be far worse than was anticipated, according to doctors in Italy. Psychosis, insomnia, kidney disease, spinal infections, strokes, chronic tiredness and mobility issues are being identified in former coronavirus patients in Lombardy.
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Kindness
Naomi Shihab Nye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
Rozina Ali | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Rumi was born in the early thirteenth century, in what is now Afghanistan and later settled in Konya, in present-day Turkey, with his family. His father was a preacher and religious scholar, and he introduced Rumi to Sufism. Rumi’s works reflected a broader push and pull between religious spirituality and institutionalized faith—though with a wit that was unmatched. “Historically speaking, no text has shaped the imagination of Muslims—other than the Koran—as the poetry of Rumi.”
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Can Private Finance Really Serve Humanity?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
14 Jul 2020 – The recent explosion of private finance has nursed the hope, dream or illusion that it can be mobilized for the public good, e.g., to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, associated with Agenda 2030. However, such hopes ignore how changes in financial investing have deeply transformed corporations, national economies and prospects for the world economy and social progress.
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Potato Bag Strength
Beverly Gross | Reader's Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
An exercise for people who are out of shape:
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Crisis at the Commission: Inside Europe’s Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak
Ben Stockton, Céline Schoen and Laura Margottini | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – While the pandemic is still raging across the world, people are understandably already asking questions about whether the right things were done, at the right time, in the right way. This week our in-depth exposé of Europe’s handling of the coronavirus was published with partners in 14 countries across the continent.
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She Waved a Rainbow Flag at Our Cairo Show. Tragedy Followed.
Haig Papazian | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
16 Jul 2020 – Last month, Sarah Hegazi, a 30-year-old Egyptian L.G.B.T.Q. rights activist, took her own life in Canada. That she felt safe enough to honor our music with her bravery is thrilling; that such a simple act forever altered and then ended her life brings me great sorrow.
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Worldometer | Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
USA, Brazil and India with more than half of global infections: 12.6 million. ->Database permanently displayed on TMS for the duration of the pandemic. Global, localized and specific data in real time.
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(Português) Juiz derruba decreto de Bolsonaro que atribui gestão de florestas ao Ministério da Agricultura
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
9 julho 2020 – O magistrado afirmou que “o meio ambiente é patrimônio comum de toda humanidade” e que “as condutas do Poder Público devem ser direcionadas no sentido da integral proteção desse direito fundamental”
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Scientists Urge WHO to Address Airborne Spread of Coronavirus
James McAuley and Emily Rauhala | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
6 Jul 2020 – In a forthcoming paper titled “It is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Covid-19,” 239 scientists from over 30 countries are urging the World Health Organization to take more seriously the possibility of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus. They cite growing evidence that the virus can spread indoors through aerosols that linger in the air.
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(Italiano) Educazione alla pace e geopolitica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
L’educazione-prassi-teoria di pace è compatibile con la mentalità militare – comunque definita, e ci sono molte culture militari al mondo – o no? Seconda Gran Questione: la pace è compatibile con le civiltà?
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The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
Frederick Douglass | PBS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Kampen mot koronavirus – er vi i ”krig”?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Noen omtaler kampen mot koronavirus som krig, definert som en væpnet konflikt mellom to eller flere parter, enten folkegrupper eller stater. I likhet med væpnede konflikter har koronapandemien også ført til store lidelser, og en rekke land har innført portforbud. Forfatteren analyserer årsaker til den raske, globale spredningen av koronaviruset, og diskuterer muligheter for å skape en mer menneskelig, mindre sårbar verden.
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Palestine and Israel: Mapping an Annexation
Mohammed Haddad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
26 Jun 2020 – What will the maps of Palestine and Israel look like if Israel illegally annexes the Jordan Valley on July 1?
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(Português) Covid-19 Provoca Maior Queda de Consumo de Carne em Décadas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Há indícios de uma mudança estrutural ocorrendo, com milhões consumindo mais proteínas de origem vegetal”
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Colin Dwyer | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – The Brazilian president, who has consistently downplayed the dangers of the virus, revealed his positive test result during nationally televised remarks today. “It came back positive,” he told reporters from behind a mask. He is just the second major world leader, after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to confirm he contracted the virus.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
10 July 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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Key US Allies, Kosovars Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme
Nicolas J S Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
In 2008 an international prosecutor accused U.S.-backed Prime Minister Hashim Thaci of Kosovo of using the U.S. bombing campaign to murder people to sell their internal organs. The charges seemed too ghoulish to be true. But on 24 Jun, Thaci, now President of Kosovo, and nine other former leaders of the CIA-backed Kosovo Liberation Army were indicted for these crimes by a special war crimes court at The Hague.
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Cornel West’s 2017 Harvard Convocation Address
Cornel West | Harvard Divinity School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
First, we normalize mendacity and naturalize criminality. We make our lies look like the normal order of things. Second, we encourage callousness and reward indifference. We make mean-spiritedness look manly and mature. Third, we trump the moral and spiritual dimensions of our lives and world by applauding our short-term gains and superficial successes.
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Open Letter on COVID-19 and Humanitarian Disarmament
IPB International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 -The IPB and GCOMS have signed the following open letter arguing that humanitarian disarmament can lead the way to an improved post-pandemic world and calls on states, international organizations, and civil society to follow its lead to create a “new normal.” It is open for signature by civil society organizations.
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New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears
Lily Hay Newman | Wired - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – The malware known as ThiefQuest or EvilQuest also has spyware capabilities that allow it to grab passwords and credit card numbers.
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(Italiano) La Sardegna come il Vietnam
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Luglio 2020 – Mi è capitato di recente di scambiare idee e documenti con alcuni amici e amiche sulla ‘questione Sardegna’: di cosa si tratta, almeno per quanto riguarda la nostra conversazione? C’era l’ipotesi di dare una mano a un giovane, laureato in Scienze della Natura, per svolgere una ricerca sulla situazione socio-ambientale dell’isola conseguente alla presenza dell’apparato militare.
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Glass Walls (legendado em português)
Paul McCartney – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
[ENG]: A PETA production. Paul demolishes the meat, eggs and milk industry in a detailed and forceful way.
[PORT]: ‘Paredes de Vidro’, produzido pela PETA. Paul expõe de forma detalhada e contundente a indústria de carnes, ovos e leite.
Poems, Pandemics, and Preservation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
3 Jul 2020 – With the help of a friend I taught myself to write poems in a haiku form following classic Japanese guidance. Poetry has long been a place of sanctuary for me, and in recent months it has also offered me the pleasures of ‘lockdown therapy.’ I hope I am not abusing readers by posting a sample, and hoping others will be drawn to join an invisible community of haiku lovers.
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Nature as an Antidote to Depression
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
On the Consolations of Monarchs and of Stars – “It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, the dark threw its patches down upon me also,” Walt Whitman wrote.
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Johan Galtung: Peace and Conflict Studies and COVID-19
Brighten Your Mind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
* The world after COVID-19
* Teaching peace and resolving conflict between individuals
* Teach young children peace
* Keeping children from violence from video-games
* Fall of the U.S. empire, not the U.S. Republic
* Islam in promoting peace and transforming conflicts
* “Peace Journalism” in promoting nonviolence and resolving disputes
* Rising powers
Coronavirus/COVID-19 Global Database: Over 13M Positive, 570K+ Dead
Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Permanently displayed on TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS for the duration of the pandemic. The dashboard shows global, localized, specific data in real time.
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Bolivia’s Coup-born President Áñez (Who Deposed Evo Morales) Tests Positive for COVID-19
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – Bolivia’s de facto president Jeanine Áñez today announced via her Twitter account that she had tested positive to COVID-19 while other members of her team are infected as well.
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Warning of Serious Brain Disorders in People with Mild Coronavirus Symptoms
Ian Sample | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 – UK neurologists publish details of mildly affected or recovering Covid-19 patients with serious or potentially fatal brain conditions.
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How the House Armed Services Committee, in the Middle of a Pandemic, Approved a Huge Military Budget and More War in Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – The least-discussed Congressional proceedings are often the most consequential — and almost always bipartisan.
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13th Anniversary: Collateral Murder Video & US Military Cover Up
Chris Hedges | On Contact, RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Chris Hedges talks to journalist Dean Yates, who was head of the Reuters’ Baghdad bureau on 12 July 2007, when two of his employees–Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen–were shot and killed by the U.S. Army, which tried to cover up the war crime. The killing of the reporters and others was recorded on the now-infamous video Collateral Murder leaked by Chelsea Manning and released by WikiLeaks.
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Simplicity Revolution
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
World Simplicity Day 12 Jul 2020 – Simplicity Revolution: An ecological and ethical imperative to protect life on earth and ensure justice for all beings. The Corona Lockdown has forced us to shed the clutter and the speed and become an invitation to humanity to differentiate between the essential and non essential. In making us stay home, the crisis creates the possibility of realising that no matter who we are, where we are, we are members of one Earth Family and share a common home, our beautiful Earth.
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The Nutcracker–Waltz of the Snowflakes (Music Video of the Week)
Royal Opera House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
The Royal Ballet performs the Waltz of the Snowflakes in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker accompanied by the London Oratory Junior Choir and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
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Why Do Authoritarians Win?
William E. Scheuerman | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 – Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.
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UNESCO Expresses Deep Regret over Turkey Decision to Change Status of Historic Hagia Sophia
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
10 Jul 2020 – The Turkish President signed a decree today converting the ancient Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a mosque. The majestic building was founded around 1,500 years ago as a cathedral and is widely regarded as the foremost example of Byzantine Christian architecture in the world. Following the rise of the Ottoman Empire, it became a mosque, but in 1934, was designated a secular museum, shared by Christians, Muslims and those of all faiths or none, alike.
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Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Palestine-Israel
Peter Beinart | Jewish Currents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – What makes someone a real Jew today? In Haredi circles it means adhering to religious law. In leftist Jewish spaces, it means championing progressive causes. But in the broad center of Jewish life—where power and respectability lie—being a Jew means, above all, supporting the existence of a Jewish state. In most Jewish communities on earth, rejecting Israel is a greater heresy than rejecting God.
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Western Martyrdom
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Fiction of Biblical Proportion: ‘The truth shall set you free.’ Right!!
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Mistakes Were Made
Tom Tomorrow| Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Pandemic Fun Game
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(Italiano) L’Occidente finge di non vedere mentre l’apartheid e altre illegalità d’Israele si sviluppano sempre più
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
1 luglio 2020: un altro tragico punto di svolta per l’Occidente – già decadente – in quanto civiltà. La sua irresponsabilità morale si esprime nel roboante silenzio su questa nettissima vistosa violazione del diritto internazionale e sul male fatto per decenni al popolo palestinese.
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Mafia vs. the People: Who Wins?
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
10 Jul 2020 – The world is changing (coronavirus will accelerate the change) from the neoliberal capitalist world that they easily manipulated to a more caring world based on caring for each other and for the environment. My Jewish and other friends who work against Zionism continue to grow and the number of Zionists continue to shrink. Time to end the charade: free Palestine, free the USA, free the world.
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Vitamin C for the Prevention and Treatment of Coronavirus
Patrick Holford | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – COVID-19, or SARS-CoV-2, is a coronavirus disease, classified as influenza, although coronaviruses can also induce colds, both of which are upper respiratory tract infections. The consequences of infection can be pneumonia, hospitalization in Intensive Care Units and mechanical ventilation. Studies on vitamin C and any of the conditions mentioned above are relevant to decisions as to the suitability of using vitamin C for prevention of COVID-19, as a potential therapy, and for further research.
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Rumi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
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Sudan: Female Genital Mutilation Officially a Crime
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
10 Jul 2020 – Sudan’s Sovereign Council ratified today a law criminalizing FGM. As the movement to eliminate it grows, it still is practiced in at least 27 African countries as well as Asia and the Middle East. The practice can cause urinary tract infections, uterine infections, kidney infections, cysts, reproductive issues, and pain during sex. 9 out of 10 Sudanese women have suffered genital cutting.
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On Israel’s Bizarre Definitions: The West Bank Is Already Annexed
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 – The fact is, annexation is not a new Israeli political agenda dictated by political circumstances in Tel Aviv and Washington. Rather, annexation has been the ultimate Israeli colonial objective from the very onset.
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Heart-Centered Rationality and the Peaceable Kingdom
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
The war and suffering endemic in world structure puts prosperity first, with peace (and its appearance like shadows in Plato’s cave) flickering off and on as befits economic boom and bust. Humanity’s survival depends on an inversion of values: peace and prosperity. Peace first. And peace includes redistribution of the world’s wealth.
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Bill Gates — Most Dangerous Philanthropist in Modern History?
Dr. Joseph Mercola - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Bill Gates has been pouring billions of dollars into global health initiatives that stand on shaky scientific and moral ground. His answers to the problems are consistently focused on building corporate profits through chemical agriculture and GMOs, or pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. Rarely, if ever, do we find Gates promoting clean living or inexpensive holistic health strategies.
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Don’t Be Fooled by the Cancel Culture Wars
Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – The cancel culture–the phenomenon of removing or canceling people, brands or shows from the public domain because of offensive statements or ideologies–is not a threat to the ruling class. Hundreds of corporations in the hands of white executives and board members pumped out messages condemning racism after George Floyd was choked to death by police in Minneapolis. But without a concerted assault on corporate power, will do nothing to change the system.
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Post-COVID Prospects Assessed
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 -This text is a slightly edited interview on post-COVID prospects that was published in Mutekabiliyet, a Turkish student online journal, July 3, 2020.
→ read full articleJuly in History: Anniversaries of Russell-Einstein Manifesto, ICJ Verdict on Illegality of Nuclear Weapons, State-Terrorist Bombing of Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior
Alyn Ware | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
These three anniversaries provide inspiration to consider the roles of science, law and diplomacy to advance peace, security and nuclear disarmament.
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Today’s Challenges — Mid Day Meals
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
In India, government schools provide mid-day meals to the students who generally come from low income households. Not only do these schools charge no fees, the provision of MDM attracts students to school regularly. With schools shut, the nutrition being provided stopped.
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Cuban Medical Brigade Heads to Azerbaijan
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
12 Jul 2020 – The latest contingent of over 100 medical professionals has departed the island for Azerbaijan to assist health authorities in combating COVID-19.
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The Principle of Nonviolence: A Philosophical Path
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
“The mass media does not inform us of the reasons and stakes of violence, but of the violence itself. It does not arouse public opinion, but public emotion.” An erudite work with rich discussions on the relevance of nonviolence in western political thought, politics, and social psychology.
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Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
→ read full articleContemplating Human Extinction Terrifies Most People: A Strategy for Survival
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Any serious study of the relevant scholarly literature reveals at least four possible paths to imminent human extinction, that is, human extinction within five years: nuclear war, the climate catastrophe, the deployment of 5G, and biodiversity collapse.
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Decolonising Peace Journalism – And Putting It to Work in East Africa
Fredrick Ogenga | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Conflict resolution is a recurrent theme in East Africa. This has prompted the need for innovative ways to create lasting consensus in the region as well as across the continent. One of these innovative ways is peace journalism. It can stimulate peaceful resolution of conflict by voicing different conflicting parties and issues in a balanced and objective manner.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Kim Jong-un announced in a news conference that North Korea would be sending a man to the sun within ten years!
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The West Turns a Blind Eye as Israel’s Apartheid and Other Illegalities Develop Further
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – Another tragic turning point for the – falling – West as civilization. Its moral irresponsibility is expressed by its roaring silence on this crystal clear and gross violation of international law and evil done to the Palestinian people for decades.
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(Norwegian-Norsk) Trosforhold, religioner og fred
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Johan Galtung har i årtier studert hvordan trosforhold og religioner påvirker menneskets tilværelse. Galtungs skille mellom ”harde” og ”myke” varianter av trosretninger og religioner kan bidra til innsikt: Noen retninger bidrar til positiv fred, andre til fysisk og psykisk vold.
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(Italiano) I soldi dell’Unione Europea a sostegno delle industrie di armi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
29 Giugno 2020 – «Nonostante il COVID, si continuano a finanziare le armi»: la segnalazione proviene dall’Associazione War Resisters’ International (WRI), che da quasi cento anni è impegnata a realizzare l’obiettivo di un mondo senza guerra. WRI è una rete globale pacifista e antimilitarista, con più di 90 gruppi affiliati in 40 Paesi.
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(Français) Brésil: Les dessous de l’incendie–la politique amazonienne de Jair Bolsonaro
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Il faut profiter du fait que « la presse internationale se focalise quasi exclusivement sur le covid-19 » pour « faire passer des réformes [infra-légales] et assouplir les règles » en matière de protection et de préservation de l’environnement. Tel est en substance, le propos tenu par Ricardo Salles, ministre de l’environnement de Bolsonaro, filmé à son insu, le 22 avril dernier lors d’un conseil de gouvernement, dans une vidéo abondamment relayée par les médias.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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Reframing the Righteousness Enabling Repetition of the Titanic Disaster
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Comprehension of 144 Distinctions–Mahjong as “Angels” versus “Demons” ~~~The emphasis here is on challenges to the imagination, and the possibilities of enabling other modes of reflection, most notably through the use of visualization technology and mnemonic aids — whose availability and appreciation is now so evident to the young.
→ read full articleMonitoring Pressures against Religious Freedom
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
3 Jul 2020 – Religious freedom is under pressure today. A worldwide erosion of religious freedom is causing large scale human suffering and grave injustice. In some cases, a religion is closely associated to an ethnic group or a tribal community. It is more inter-ethnic tensions which are the motor of the dispute rather than the core belief system.
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Pandemic Spirals out of Control in South Africa, India, Brazil
Bryan Dyne | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
4 Jul 2020 – The official tallies in each country of daily confirmed coronavirus cases have become exponential, indicating that whatever containment measures were implemented to halt the spread of the virus have essentially collapsed.
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(Italiano) Contrasto allo hate speech online e social network: a che punto siamo?
Enzo Gargano | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
29 Giugno 2020 – Il 22 giugno scorso la Commissione europea ha pubblicato i risultati della sua quinta valutazione del Codice di Condotta introdotto il 31 maggio 2016 proprio grazie alla Commissione europea e a quattro importanti società informatiche (Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter e YouTube), al fine di rispondere alla proliferazione online di discorsi di odio razzista e xenofobo, Da allora, Instagram, Google+, Snapchat, Dailymotion e Jeuxvideo.com hanno aderito al Codice.
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Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence Contribute to Nuclear Risk – SIPRI
Human Wrongs Watch | SIPRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – The authors warn that nuclear-armed states’ competition in military AI and premature adoption of AI in nuclear weapons and related capabilities could have a negative impact on strategic stability and increase the likelihood of nuclear weapon use.
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BOUNTYGATE: Scapegoating Systemic Military Failure in Afghanistan
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
5 Jul 2020 – The story of the alleged “bounty scheme” grew up in the context of top U.S. brass blaming Russia for America’s defeat in Afghanistan. Research shows that 99% of Americans never have seen the material in this article. Understandable – it can be highly contagious and carries a high morbidity rate for those with pre-existing biases.
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A Dream Deferred: Healing through Culture, Dialogues & Sharing Our Arts
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us about the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
“Life [exists] only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in reply.”
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Burundi: Fare Thee Well, President Nkurunziza
Edgar Tabaro | The Observer [Uganda] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
My discussions with President Nkurunziza revealed the disjuncture of the international community from our plight as East Africans. Conflict resolution is not enough. The underlying factors of conflict remain and very often resurgence occurs. We as Africans ought to turn post-conflict societies into productive societies. Less of this, we are pursuing futile efforts.
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