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New US Indictment of Julian Assange Not Served in UK Courts
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
30 Jun 2020 – In yet another Kafkaesque turn, UK legal proceedings are continuing on the basis of an indictment which has been replaced and therefore has no legal force in the US.
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Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Is peace theory-practice-education compatible with the military mind–however defined, and there are many military cultures in the world–or not? Second Big Question: is peace compatible with the civilizations?
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How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other in the Forest
National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
What do trees talk about? In the Douglas fir forests of Canada, see how trees “talk” to each other by forming underground symbiotic relationships—called mycorrhizae—with fungi to relay stress signals and share resources with one another.
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Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
Tom Tomorrow | This Modern World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
As the pandemic rages on…
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How We Can Fix This Pandemic in a Month
Damien Downing, MBBS, MRSB | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
22 Jun 2020 – If we act on the data showing that it is highly probable that vitamin D can save lives, we could fix this pandemic in a month, for perhaps $2 per person. There would be no significant adverse effects.
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On the Treatment of COVID-19
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
3 Jul 2020 – Immunological and serological studies show that a large part of the population develops no symptoms or only mild symptoms due to the new coronavirus, while some people may experience a more pronounced or critical course of the disease.
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In Letter to the Lancet, Doctors Condemn Torture of Assange and Demand His Release
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
26 Jun 2020 – More than 200 eminent doctors from around the world have reiterated their call for an end to the psychological torture of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange and his immediate release from Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison.
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Deadly Rainbow: Will 5G Precipitate the Extinction of All Life on Earth?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
If 5G is deployed, there will be nowhere on Earth that is safe for humans, insects, birds, animals and plants. We will have fundamentally altered the very conditions that made the evolution of life on Earth possible. An exaggeration? Here is the briefest sample of the damage existing human-generated electromagnetic radiation is causing life on Earth.
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Winds of Change–The Challenge of Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa
Abbas Aroua, et al. | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
One theme is the opposition between traditionalists and modernists, “the conflict between fundamentalists and those who want to bring Islam into the modern age”. A possible approach: social change. The Middle East must be able to temper a spiritual vision in a modern and pragmatic world and rediscover traditional values without “a perpetual and obsessive return to the past”. This book is a worthwhile and welcome contribution to current debates over the future of the MENA region.
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As Pandemic Spread Accelerates, Wall Street Celebrates Biggest Quarterly Surge in More Than 20 Years: Obscene
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 July 2020 – The end of the second quarter, June 30, must surely go down as one of the stranger days in financial history. With the US economy in the grip of the deepest recession since the Great Depression, having experienced an even more rapid contraction than in the 1930s crisis, Wall Street recorded its best quarter for more than 20 years.
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Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution
Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz – Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this “third-world” country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost.
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Development Banks Funding Industrial Farms around the World
Andrew Wasley and Alexandra Heal | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – The International Finance Corporation–the commercial lending arm of the World Bank–and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have provided $2.6bn for pig, poultry and beef farming, as well as dairy and meat processing, despite their vast contribution to the oncoming climate catastrophe. The UK government is a major funder of both banks.
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Italy: Sold to Big Pharma
Dr. Antonietta M. Gatti and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
28 Jun 2020 – Summarizing everything in a few words, Italy was sold to Big Pharma and has become a huge laboratory where experiments are carried out on the population: adults, children, old, healthy, sick people … it makes no difference, we are all guinea pigs. Now the business, and not just an economic one, is to force 60 million Italians to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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(Português) Elefantes são torturados por domadores e têm seus espíritos destruídos
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
26 jun 2020 – Uma investigação feita pela World Animal Protection (WAP) revela os bastidores do treinamento de elefantes explorados para carregar turistas na Tailândia. Vídeos e imagens mostram verdadeiras sessões de tortura e uma prática conhecida como ‘the crush’, na qual elefantes são acorrentados e espetados em áreas sensíveis para que se tornem assustados, submissos e com temor de seus algozes.
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How Technology Literally Changes Our Brains
Ezra Klein | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
On Deep Reading and Digital Thinking – “In the long run, a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act. Or, put more simply: Media work their magic, or their mischief, on the nervous system itself.” — Marshall McLuhan
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Racism and the Culture of War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – To succeed, the struggle against racism needs to be understood in the context of the struggle against the culture of war. The recent uprisings against racist violence by the police is another step towards the radical transformation from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
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(Français) Cinq Questions à Helen la Lime Meagher, Représentante Spéciale du Secrétaire Général de l’ONU en Haïti
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Madame, le 19 juin 2020, à la séance du Conseil de sécurité consacrée au Bureau intégré des Nations unies en Haïti (BINUH), à New York, vous avez fait une déclaration sur votre travail et sur la situation en Haïti.
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The Racist Underpinnings of the American Way of War
Walden Bello | Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars. The political economy of the U.S. is built on two “original sins:” genocide of Native Americans to clear the ground for capitalist relations of production, and slave labor of African Americans. The reproduction and expansion of U.S. capitalism over time have consistently reproduced its racial structures.
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Right, Moral, Ethical… vs Legal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Rule of law? What law?
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Facing the New Challenges – The New Lingo
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
These elites care little for other people or the environment and society at large. They exploit the planet’s resources mercilessly, inflicting a terrible cost on our planet that is leading to climate change and global warming. Only a sustained effort at reducing this adverse impact on the planet can now save ‘gennext’ peoples of the world.
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Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza (18 Dec 1964 – 8 Jun 2020)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
24 Jun 2020 – Burundi is Africa’s Syria and Venezuela, a developing nation that dared to defy US dictates under Nkurunziza’s leadership. “His legacy is his effort to reconcile Burundi’s Hutu and Tutsi classes and end the deep-seated, centuries-old hatred between them.”
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Perpetuated Insanity against Besieged Humanity: Racial Injustice, Kashmir and Palestine – Dark Days Ahead
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
There are seeds of unimaginable and destructive Western cultural absolutism that could destroy the sense of time and rational consciousness of living history… Often the extreme Western political propaganda enflames hatred against colored and indigenous people, Islam, and blames Muslims as being “terrorists.”
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Evolution
Rumi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
No Comment
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Year Six of the War in Yemen
Abubakar Ben Rajeh | Cordoba Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
In March 2020 the war in Yemen enters its sixth year since the Saudi-led Arab Coalition, with the effective participation of the UAE and logistical support by the U.S., launched the military campaign against the Iranian-backed Houthis.
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By Recognising Palestine, Britain Can Help Right the Wrongs of the Balfour Declaration
Avi Shlaim | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
22 Jun 2020 – The theft of Palestinian land is a legacy of British colonialism. The UK must stand in the way of further Israeli annexations.
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USA: Cuban Spies Disguised as Doctors
Roger Stoll | Dissident Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – The EU now excludes travelers from the COVID-ridden U.S., but welcomes those from the virtually COVID-free Cuba. The U.S. tries to convince the world that Cuban doctors are victims of human trafficking, or spies, or both. What perfect disguises: doctors, nurses, epidemiologists, medical technicians. Oh, Cuba, please send us all the spies you can spare. For we are suffering from a severe lack of spies. And we are dying because of it.
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Alert but Not Alarmed: What to Make of New H1N1 Swine Flu with ‘Pandemic Potential’ Found in China
Ian M. Mackay | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – Researchers have found a new strain of flu virus with “pandemic potential” in China that can jump from pigs to humans, triggering a suite of worrying headlines. It’s excellent this virus has been found early, and raising the alarm quickly allows virologists to swing into action developing new specific tests for this particular flu virus.
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Trump’s Record on Foreign Policy: Lost Wars, New Conflicts and Broken Promises
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – The corporate media and much of the public still take Trump at his word when he says he wants to end the endless wars and bring U.S. troops home. But he’s been in office for 3-1/2 years and he hasn’t done it. What is the reality behind the smoke and mirrors?
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Moore’s Planet of the Humans – More Misanthropic than Malthus
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Planet of the Humans is produced and promoted by Michael Moore and is free online. The underlying message of the movie, critiquing the green energy movement, is about the existential threat of human overpopulation. “Without seeing a major die-off in population, there is no turning back,” is anthropologist Steven Churchill’s gloomy prognostication.
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Power Potluck
Joe Kandra, Kathie Malley-Morrison and Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
No joke…
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Palestine-Israel: What Needs to Be Done
Haidar Eid | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
19 Jun 2020 – The Israeli government’s goal is clear: establish an apartheid regime through annexing parts of the West Bank, and liquidate the Palestinian cause all together. Palestinians must acknowledge mistakes of the past and not compromise on demanding our full human rights.
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The Long Road to Enlightened Development after Covid-19
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – The pandemic has caused unprecedented crisis and disruptions around the world. The political economy is on an unsettling journey headed to an uncertain destination. We will need a calibrated and careful out-of-the-box response to come up with resilient solutions and robust systems that help us ride out the current crisis and protect us from future disasters.
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Hubris: Israel’s Endgame in Palestine
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
30 Jun 2020 – The “peace process” has been exposed for what it is – a colonisation operation. This surreal process has long served as a cover up for deep Israeli entrenchment in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Having secured Trump’s approval, Netanyahu will go forward with annexation despite warnings of an international backlash, the demise of the two-state solution, and the erosion of the “democratic Jewish state”.
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Global Peace Index 2020
OCHA-United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
11 Jun 2020 – Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008. It is joined at the top of the index by New Zealand, Austria, Portugal, and Denmark.
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Ripple | Playing for Change (Music Video of the Week)
The Grateful Dead | Bill Kreutzmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
We are proud to share with you this Song Around The World in honor of the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary [2015]. After many miles on planes, trains and automobiles we can finally share it with all of you. Enjoy!
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Explainer: What Is the Deadly India-China Border Dispute About?
Helen Davidson and Ben Doherty | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
17 Jun 2020 – At least 20 people have died in clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along the disputed Himalayan border running along the Ladakh area of Kashmir. It is the first fatal clash since 1975 and the most serious since 1967.
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International Criminal Court
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
28 Jun 2020 – I would like to thank Richard Falk for his erudite and intelligent analysis of the workings of the ICC [Editorial TMS 22 Jun 2020]. Personally, I am not as surprised by the workings and politics of the ICC, because I usually give a different interpretation to ‘words’ used by politicians.
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UN Marks 75-Year Milestone Anniversary of Founding Charter
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
26 Jun 2020 – The UN Charter “brought rules and hope to a world in ruins”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a virtual ceremony today, commemorating 75 years since the Organization’s foundational text was signed on 26 Jun 1945.
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United Nations in Muir Woods 75th Anniversary
United Nations Association USA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Seventy-five years ago, in 1945, the first ever conference of the United Nations took place in San Francisco, California. On May 19th the delegates traveled to Muir Woods for a ceremony to honor the recently deceased US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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(Satire) The Strange and Curious Case of “Politicianitis”…
Gary Corseri | Dissident Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
It is difficult to say when precisely the phenomenon commenced, but because it was first recorded at a Commencement Ceremony at a very small and unimportant “Liberal Arts” college in the embarrassing “fly-over” part of the country, and somewhat deftly reported by a sophomore reporter for the college newspaper, it was at first entitled “The Commencement Malefaction.”
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UN Chief Urges Israel to Abandon Annexation Plan of West Bank
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres urged Israel today to call off its plans to annex parts of the illegally occupied West Bank, declaring that such a move would be a “most serious violation of international law.”
→ read full articleGross…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
An old grandma brings a bus driver a bag of peanuts every day.
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The Politics of Kneeling: A Tribute to Colin Kaepernick
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – Of course, there have been many Kaepernick moments that stretch back to the era of slavery, and forward to Rosa Parks’ 1956 refusal to go to the back of the bus sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott , King’s 1963 letter from the Birmingham Jail, and the death of George Floyd, some more resonant than others, but none have been enough to remove the dark stains of systemic racism from the fabric of daily life in America, and elsewhere in the world.
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BDS and Its Critics
Stephen Eric Bronner | Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
24 Jun 2020 – No civil society group in the United States has undergone as much censorious repression as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement — better known simply as BDS — and the most radical critic of Israeli policy in Gaza and the West Bank. Twenty-eight states have passed “anti-boycott” legislation condemning BDS.
→ read full articleThe Horrible Costs of a Fake Word
Prof. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
The world has literally ‘lost it’ over the horrible word capitalism. This may seem like an overstatement, but it can be justified easily. Today the global economic system is awash in ‘capital’ worth trillions upon trillions of dollars, but it is not coming to our help. By what twisted economics can this situation be justified? The reality of the word capitalism is ugly but simple. It is GREED – or the worship of Mammon – in a newer disguise.
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My Student Comes Home
Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
29 Jun 2020 – When Lawrence Bell, an orphan living in an abandoned house in Camden, New Jersey, went to prison he was 14-years-old. Barely literate and weighing no more than 90 pounds, he had been pressured by three Camden police detectives into signing a confession for a murder and rape he insisted at his trial he did not commit. It made no difference. He would not be eligible to go before a parole board for 56 years. It was a de facto life sentence.
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Coronavirus Pandemic Disease: The Role of Universal Peace Education in Its Remedy
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
The peoples of the whole world have been in the grip of poverty and inequality, and violence and war, and now they are facing to be the deadly Coronavirus pandemic disease, and currently there is no medicine or vaccine to cure this novel disease except to keep themselves in isolation from others and regular practice of cleanliness to prevent from this deadly disease.
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(Norwegian-Norsk) Rettssaken mot Julian Assange: hvorfor er han viktig for vår framtid?
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
I 2006 opprettet den australske redaktøren Julian Assange WikiLeaks for å publisere hemmeligstemplet materiale og lekkasje fra varslere. Den 18. desember 2018 trykket Klassekampen et utfyllende intervju med Julian Assanges far John Shipton om USAs utleveringskrav og den henlagte voldtektssaken i Sverige. Assange risikerer 175 års fengsel i USA, og professor Jake Lynch forklarer hvorfor Assanges framtid er viktig for oss alle.
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Family Tradition
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
A daughter observed her mother prepare a Christmas ham. Before she put it in a pot in the oven, she cut off a piece on the left and right and threw them into the garbage.
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Short of the Goal
Joe Kandra & Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Yes!
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(Français) Haïti étouffe sous le poids de son oligarchie et des États-Unis
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 juin 2020 – Pays le plus vulnérable du continent américain, Haïti est frappé par le covid-19 alors que la population est en prise avec les cyclones, une pauvreté généralisée, un gouvernement gangréné par la corruption et totalement décrédibilisé. Les derniers mots de Georges Floyd sont devenus sur les réseaux sociaux haïtiens un cri d’alerte : « Ayiti paka respire », Haïti ne peut pas respirer.
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Franz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
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Must the United States Demonise China?
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
26 Jun 2020 – Simply existing as a prosperous power is enough to make China an enemy, which must be isolated, contained, if not destroyed, like a disease. Hong Kong is but another factor in this hegemonic calculus.
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What West Bank Annexation Really Means
Naim Mousa | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
July 1. That is the date by which Netanyahu has promised to complete the annexation of the West Bank. But what does that really mean? Most people think that means he will annex Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho, and the rest of the region. However, nothing can be farther from the truth.
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Saint Ex for the style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. There is no indication that he had read Gibran in Saint Ex’s period in New York. It is more likely that both writers shared a common outlook on life.
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India: “We Live in a Casteist Hindu Nationalist State”–Interview with Arundhati Roy
Dalit Camera | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – Activist and author Arundhati Roy discusses Indian society and the response that George Floyd’s killing has evoked, and the prevalence of racism and casteism in the country. About the pulling down of a statue of a slave trader in the US, she said such a move was impossible in present day India. “We are very far away from the day when statues like these will be removed or pulled down. We are at the stage when they are being installed and celebrated.”
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Failing to Succeed
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
28 Jun 2020 – In a time of quarantine, isolation and anxiety, most literate isolates already have plowed through Decline & Fall, War & Peace, the complete set of Shakespeare’s dramas, and the Iliad. So, now the choice is between you and Paradise Lost – which is not everybody’s cup of tea. Widespread social disorder can be the expression of various conditions: civil war, sectarian strife, economic collapse, natural disasters, external incursions, etc. All of these situations are explicable by the application of some kind of causal logic.
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(Français) Interview d’Evo Morales: La Bolivie sous la dictature, le pouvoir réel des Etats-Unis
Stella Calloni | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
18 Juin 2020 – Un peu plus de six mois après le Coup d’Etat du 10/11 novembre 2019 en Bolivie contre le Président Evo Morales, actuellement réfugié en Argentine, ce dernier nous met en garde sur la situation désastreuse de son pays, soumis à un gouvernement de fait dirigé par la présidente autoproclamée Jeanine Anez qui non seulement réprime la population, provoquant des massacres, pourchassant et emprisonnant les dirigeants et militants politiques, mais détruit aussi de manière systématique le modèle social, économique et les avancées réalisées par le gouvernement renversé du MAS.
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Battleground States
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
26 Jun 2020 – The world that our global empire is swiftly creating, through our devastating oil wars in the Middle East and our arriving cold wars with Russia and China, is a world without winners. We must resist signing contracts with weapon makers profiting from endless immiseration of the Middle East and needless superpower rivalries inviting full nuclear war.
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When Religions Create Divisions and How to Avoid It
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Each religion implies, or comes right out and says, that it is the best or the only way to God. All others are inferior and should be ignored, dominated, pushed away, or even destroyed by force. In this way, a most difficult thing to break down is the barrier between us erected by our religions. A first-class religion is not the one that claims it is the highest religion.
→ read full articleRequiem for Democracy – Brazil’s Darkest Hour
Boaventura De Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
24 Jun 2020 -Once again, after so many other times, Brazil’s wealthy would rather run the risk of descending into dictatorship (if that’s not what they wanted to begin with) rather than have the lower classes express their aspiration to be included in the nation, which the wealthy have always conceived of as their own personal property.
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US Sanctions against International Court Staff a ‘Direct Attack’ on Judicial Independence
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
25 Jun 2020 – The decision by the United States to authorize sanctions targeting staff at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is “a direct attack to the institution’s judicial independence”, UN human rights experts said today.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – A German medical professor claims the Covid-19 infection fatality rate is “five to ten times higher” than the IFR of seasonal influenza. But he makes two classic mistakes. [Read on…]
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Suicidal Empire
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – But it is indeed the land of hypocrisy that no longer can be covered by fancy Hollywood movies of good cowboys-bad indians, good Israel-bad terrorist Muslims, good capitalists-bad communists. For decades while claiming the moral high grounds, the US government has supported dictatorial regimes around the world that torture, disappear, and kill so many. Many books have been written on this (e.g. by Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and others).
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Can People Spread the Coronavirus If They Don’t Have Symptoms? 5 Questions Answered about Asymptomatic COVID-19
Monica Gandhi | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – There is a lot of confusion and concern around asymptomatic spread of SARS-C0V-2. An infectious disease expert explains how many people are asymptomatic and how they can spread the virus.
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Surely Coronavirus Teaches Us We Shouldn’t Be Eating Whales or Dolphins?
Nicola Hodgins | WDC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
We know eating whales and dolphins can be bad for human health. In the light of coronavirus, it’s more important than ever to draw attention to the major potential health implications from continuing to eat them.
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Majority of ICC Members Backs Tribunal in Face of US Sanctions
Mike Corder | AP/Star Tribune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – More than half of the member states of the International Criminal Court voiced their support for the institution in a strongly worded statement issued today in response to the Trump administration’s decision to authorize sanctions against court staff.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi (4 Jul 1807 – 2 Jun 1882): Godfather of Transnational Democratic Politics
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice, now France, often called the hero of two worlds because of his efforts for independence in Latin America and then Europe, is in many ways inventor of transnational democratic politics.
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US Indictment of Assange Based on Testimony of FBI Assets, Convicted Child Molester
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
In Thordarson, a convicted paedophile and conman, and Monsegur, a former petty criminal turned stool pigeon, the US government has found the fitting representatives of its campaign against Assange. The reliance on testimony from both men demonstrates that the US extradition request should be dismissed as a criminal operation, involving individuals who themselves should be in prison.
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The Politics of Gene Sharp
Brian Martin | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Gene Sharp’s contributions to the understanding of nonviolent action provide a useful lens for understanding developments in the field in recent decades. Sharp built on Gandhi’s pioneering endeavours, but moved away from Gandhi by providing a pragmatic rationale for nonviolent action. However, few academics have paid much attention to Sharp’s work, and policy-makers have largely ignored it. In contrast, activists have taken up Sharp’s ideas enthusiastically.
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Affluence Is Killing the Planet
Thomas Wiedmann, Julia K. Steinberger and Manfred Lenzen | The Ecologist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
25 Jun 2020 – Would you like to be rich? Chances are your answer is: ‘Yes! Who wouldn’t want to be rich?’ How can we reduce consumption as much as necessary in a socially-sustainable way, while still safeguarding human needs and social security?
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Hottest Arctic Temperature Record Probably Set with 100-Degree Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) Reading in Siberia
Andrew Freedman | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 June 2020 – Record-Shattering Reading Continues Siberia’s Hot Streak, Foreshadows More Heat Elsewhere – A northeastern Siberian town is likely to have set a record for the highest temperature documented in the Arctic Circle, with a reading of 100.4 degrees (38 Celsius) recorded Saturday in Verkhoyansk, north of the Arctic Circle and about 3,000 miles east of Moscow.
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(Castellano) Brasil: La contención institucional frente a la arremetida de la ultraderecha
Fernando De la Cuadra | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
18 junio 2020 – El surgimiento de muchos grupúsculos que se inspiran en la ideología nazifascista para –según dicen- construir una patria libre de la conjura comunista, está colocando a los brasileños ante el desafío de neutralizar dicha ideología o dejar impasiblemente que ella se expanda como un tumor maligno hacia todos los rincones del país.
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Everyday People (Music Video of the Week)
Turnaround Arts | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
We are proud and honored to share “Everyday People,” produced by Playing For Change in partnership with Turnaround Arts. Turnaround Arts infuses struggling schools with arts as a strategy for reform. The program is run by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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China-India Frontier Tensions: Are Track II Efforts Possible?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
As Citizens of the World, we devote ourselves to the safeguarding, restoration and construction of peace through dialogue, cooperation and reconciliation. We need to facilitate contacts of the China-India frontier issues to see what doors might open.
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Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve. The fate of a large portion of the country’s corporations has been put in the hands of a megalithic private entity with the private capitalist mandate to make as much money as possible for its owners and investors; and that is what it has proceeded to do.
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Hermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Rebellion against established structures, the quest for personal values and a religious impulse are all elements in Siddhartha, published in 1922, perhaps his most widely-read book. It is not clear that Hesse found the harmony of enlightenment in his own life. In his last major work The Glass Bead Game (1943) he describes what might be an ideal Buddhist monastery devoted to the discovery, preservation and dissemination of knowledge.
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Patrice Lumumba (2 Jul 1925 – 17 Jan 1961)
Encyclopedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Lumumba was a man of strong character who intended to pursue his policies regardless of the enemies he made within his country or abroad. Because of its wealth, size, and proximity to white-dominated southern Africa, Lumumba’s opponents feared the consequences of a radicalized Congo. Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.
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Kevin Gosztola | Shadowproof - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
25 Jun 2020 – The United States government expanded their indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to criminalize the assistance WikiLeaks provided to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden when staff helped him leave Hong Kong.
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Malthus Revisited
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
I would like to announce the publication of a book, which discusses the excessive weight that our total human population and economy has imposed on the global environment. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
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The Pandemic of Hunger
Frei Betto | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – Farmers can no longer bring their products to market to sell them. They must hand them over to a middleman who resells them to the system that processes, transports, packages and distributes them to the points of sale. Today it is the banks, multinationals and pension funds that dominate the food market and promote speculation through commodity derivatives. When there is an interruption in that chain, farmers are forced to burn or bury the products. A crime against humanity practiced in honor of the god of Capital.
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(Português) ONG britânica expõe violência por trás da carne de porco (Vídeo)
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
24 jun 2020 – Viva! mostra que a realidade por trás de uma certificação de “bem-estar animal” pode ser diferente do que os consumidores de carne de porco imaginam. O vídeo mostra animais sendo espancados e arremessados, incluindo leitõezinhos com poucos dias de idade.
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(Português) Imagens mostram comerciantes cortando cães mortos e pessoas comemorando o Festival de Yulin na China
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
24 jun 2020 – Esse ano, apensar da pandemia de Covid-19, o Festival de Yulin teve início no último domingo (21). Ativistas em defesa dos direitos animais realizaram uma manifestação pacífica no domingo e registram imagens dolorosamente tristes. Inúmeras pilhas de cães mortos e assados eram fatiados em balcões enquanto pessoas comem e sorriem alegremente.
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Intimidation and Suppression of Inconvenient Knowledge
John Stone | Children's Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – These comments follow on the disappointing failure of Prof Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur to respond to two respectful letters complaining about the arbitrary use of terms like “misinformation” and “disinformation” and “anti-vaccinationist” as catch-all hate speech for anyone who criticises vaccine products, programs or the lobby.
→ read full articleIssues Regarding Elderly People — Ageing Concerns
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Space and Time are usually treated by scientists as an integral concept. But there is a basic difference of time from space. We can travel from one place to another. But time is different in the sense that we cannot go back; we can go into future but not into past.
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Feeding the People in Times of Pandemic: The Food Sovereignty Approach in Nicaragua
Rita Jill Clark-Gollub, Erika Takeo and Avery Raimondo | Council on Hemispheric Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – In the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere there are no hunger flags flying. The market stalls are stocked, customers are buying, and prices are stable. Nicaraguan small farmers produce almost all the food the nation consumes, and have some leftover for export. We will examine how this is possible.
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Online and Independent: The Future of Journalism Is Already Here
Andrew Tarantola | Verizon Media - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – The modern news industry is in crisis. For years, formerly stalwart publications have been bought up, hollowed out, and sold for scrap by predatory (and often utterly incompetent) venture capital firms. The recent global outbreak of COVID-19 has further shattered the business as reporters and editors have been furloughed, or outright laid off, en masse.
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‘The Pandemic Is Accelerating,’ Says WHO Chief, Warning of ‘New and Dangerous Phase’ of Coronavirus Crisis
Andrea Germanos | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
19 Jun 2020 -“More than 150,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO yesterday—the most in a single day so far.”
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10 Secret Military Technologies
DailyTop10s – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
Some secretive technologies you may not have known about.
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With the World Focused on the Pandemic, Israel Prepares to Annex Large Swaths of the West Bank
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – Israel is planning a move on July 1 that the international community regards as one of the gravest assaults on the international law: annexation of not only the decades-old settlements in the West Bank, which the U.N. Security Council in 2016 declared illegal to be permanent Israeli land, but also the Jordan Valley, that is central to Palestinian agriculture.
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What Happened Before the Big Bang? (Part 1)
PBS Space Time – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
We actually have a pretty good idea of what might have happened before the Big Bang. That is, as long as we define the Big Bang as the extremely hot, dense, rapidly expanding universe that is described by Einstein’s equations. That picture of the universe is very solid down to about a trillionth of a second after the supposed beginning of time. We can make good guesses down to about 10^-30th of a second. But before that?
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George Orwell (25 Jun 1903 – 21 Jan 1950)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
George Orwell was a novelist, essayist and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) the latter a profound anti-Utopian novel that examines the dangers of totalitarian rule and surveillance state. Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.
→ read full articleWorld Refugee Day, 20 Jun: End Conflict That Drives ‘Appalling’ Displacement Numbers
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
In his message to mark World Refugee Day, the UN chief praised those nations and communities hosting refugees and internally displaced people, often amid their own economic and security challenges. “We owe these countries our thanks, our support and our investment,” he said.
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Danilo Dolci (28 Jun 1924 – 30 Dec 1997)
EDDILI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
Danilo Dolci was son of a devout Slav mother and a sceptical Italian father. He originally studied architecture in Rome, Milan, Switzerland, and also trained as an engineer. On Dec 30, 1997 Danilo Dolci “the Sicilian Ghandi”, winner of the Lenin peace prize (despite being explicitly catholic, non-communist), and twice a nominee for the Nobel peace prize, died at the age of seventy-three, of heart failure.
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The Right to Food During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Time of Bio-Ethical-Ecological Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
14 Jun 2020 – Even before the Coronavirus Pandemic, humanity faced an unprecedented challenge in the coming decades that threatened the foundations of life itself, and yet, up to this time societal reactions have been disappointingly weak and evasive, aside from a few voices in the wilderness.
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On Wikipedia as a Disinformation Operation
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
June 2020 – The current Wikimedia Foundation executive director previously worked at the US Council on Foreign Relations as well as at a subgroup of the US National Endowment for Democracy, a US soft power organization involved in regime change campaigns. Needless to say, in the era of Covid-19, Wikipedia once again plays a key role in disseminating the officially sanctioned narrative, defending pharmaceutical interests, and attacking critics.
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Palestinians Fear Displacement from an Annexed Jordan Valley
Aljazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
19 Jun 2020 – Palestinians across the Jordan Valley have voiced concerns over Israel’s annexation plan, saying it will further displace them from their lands and restrict access to their farmlands.
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Alan Turing (23 Jun 1912 – 7 Jun 1954)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, educator, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. The famed code-breaking war hero, now considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, was criminally convicted to chemical castration and harshly treated under the U.K.’s homophobic laws. He committed suicide.
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Helen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
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From Tear Gas to Rubber Bullets, Here’s What ‘Nonlethal’ Weapons Can Do to the Body
National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
When misused, nonlethal weapons break bones, burn skin, and cause internal injuries. Here’s why those serious injuries may occur, and how to protect against them.
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