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A $1.1M Hospital Bill after Surviving the Coronavirus? That’s America for You
Ross Barkan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
16 Jun 2020 – The bill included $9,736 per day for the intensive care room, nearly $409,000 for its transformation into a sterile room for 42 days, $82,000 for the use of a ventilator for 29 days, and nearly $100,000 for two days when he appeared to be on his deathbed.
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Diesel Spilled in the Arctic Continues Its Advance to the Sea
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
9 Jun 2020 -This accident is comparable to the “Exxon Valdez” tanker spill that occurred three decades ago. Diesel spilled on May 29 at a Norilsk thermoelectric station in the Arctic Circle continues to move towards the sea, despite attempts by Russian authorities to control the catastrophe.
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Gardening and the Secret of Happiness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
“It came to me while picking beans, the secret of happiness.”
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The Bohemian Club Conspiracy
Brian Dunning | Skeptoid - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
Let’s point our skeptical eye at some of the stories surrounding San Francisco’s Bohemian Club. The membership rolls of this exclusive, men-only social club include US Presidents, captains of industry and banking, military contractors, giants in the arts and sciences, and the absurdly wealthy. Thus, the Bohemians are automatically the subject of charges by some that they are a secret guild of Illuminati, making the decisions that rule the world; manipulating interest rates and choosing political candidates, for example.
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Norman Cousins (24 Jun 1915 – 30 Nov 1990): A Pioneer of Track II Diplomacy
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
World Citizen Norman Cousins was a pioneer of Track II diplomacy. Track I is official government to government diplomacy among instructed representative of the State. Track II is a non-official effort, usually by a non-governmental organization (NGO) or an academic institution.
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The Bohemian Club and the New Manhattan Project
Peter A. Kirby | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
14 Jun 2020 – The Bohemian Club is an exclusive, all-male club based in San Francisco, CA. and firmly hooked into the old boy network. Short of the Vatican, it is the most powerful organization in the Western world; not because of the power that the organization itself wields, but because of the power of the ideas and collaborations that are generated there – particularly the ideas and collaborations that arise from their most important annual meeting held at their Bohemian Grove, a summer camp for some of the world’s most famous and powerful men.
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UN Refugee Chief Laments Nearly 80 Million People Forcibly Displaced
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
18 June 2020 – Global displacement reached a staggering 79.5 million people last year – almost double the number of people in crisis registered a decade ago – owing to war, violence, persecution and other emergencies, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said today.
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Not Just “Cops”: It’s Time to End the Entertainment Industry’s Anti-Black, Pro-Police Programming
Rich Benjamin | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
20 Jun 2020 – “Cops,” the longest-running reality TV show in U.S. history, was recently canceled after more than 30 years on air. The Paramount Network announced its decision to pull the plug on the seminal reality show after protests over George Floyd’s death and police brutality. The cancellation is barely a first step, however.
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Identifying Polyhedra Enabling Memorable Strategic Mapping
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – Strategies, declarations and sets of values and principles typically take the form of lists with a specific number of items. The number selected often varies between 8 and 30. Examples are the 8 Millennium Development Goals of the UN and the 30-fold Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Currently a major focus is given to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN.
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Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
Even Orwell would be at a loss to make sense of some of the recent antics of leading governments. We would expect Orwell to be out-satirized by the U.S. actions to impose penalties and sanctions on officials of the ICC not because they are accused of acting improperly or seem guilty of some kind of corruption but because they were doing their appointed jobs carefully, yet fearlessly.
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Ship of State
Joe Kandra | Engaging Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
No Comment
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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.
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Netanyahu Establishes the Principle of Anti-Semitism in Israeli Policy
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
15 Jun 2020 – There are many reasons for opposing Netanyahu’s plan to annex settlements and the occupied Jordan Valley. I would like to focus on the implications of one of its important aspects: the intention to annex territories without granting citizenship to Palestinian residents, placing the discrimination between Jews and non-Jews on legal ground and providing ideological and legal justification for similar discrimination against Jews in other parts of the world.
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Statement of the International Criminal Court on Recent Measures Announced by the US
International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 – The ICC stands firmly by its staff and officials and remains unwavering in its commitment to discharging, independently and impartially, the mandate bestowed upon it by the Rome Statute and the States that are party to it. These are the latest in a series of unprecedented attacks on the ICC, an independent international judicial institution, as well as on the Rome Statute system of international criminal justice, which reflects the commitment and cooperation of the ICC’s 123 States Parties, representing all regions of the world.
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‘Unacceptable Threat’ and ‘Provocation’: European Nations Fume after US Pulls Out of Talks on Global Digital Tax
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – European nations have blasted Washington’s decision to pull out of talks on a major overhaul to the taxing of digital giants, which currently move profits into low-tax havens from the places where those profits are actually made.
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(Português) A Transição Ecológica para uma Sociedade Biocentrada
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
19 jun 2020 – Cientistas já advertiram que poderemos, dentro de pouco, sofrer com um ataque ainda mais feroz, caso não tenhamos aprendido a lição de cuidar da natureza e de desenvolver uma relação amigável para com a Mãe Terra. Elenco aqui algumas alternativas, pois os senhores do capital e das finanças estão numa furiosa articulação entre eles para salvaguardar seus interesses, fortunas e poder de pressão política.
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“Black Lives Matter” Is International: Where There Is Oppression, There Will Be Resistance
Roger Harris | Council on Hemispheric Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th was the spark that ignited the tinder of accrued injustice throughout the US and globally. There is a shared history of colonial conquest of the Indigenous and the abominable institution of the enslavement of African peoples. What happened has its roots in systemic oppression that has resonated internationally.
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“Like a Kidney Stone” — Trump vs. Journalists
Founders Sing - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
Funny satire on Trump to the Dylan tune “Like a Rolling Stone”
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Jaivik Bharat
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
On 10th June 1947 at a prayer meeting Gandhi had said: “The first lesson we must learn is of self-help and self reliance. If we assimilated this lesson we shall at once free ourselves from disastrous dependence on foreign countries and ultimate bankruptcy. This is not said in arrogance but as a matter of fact. We are not a small place, dependent for this food supply upon outside help. We are a subcontinent, a nation of nearly 400 million (now 1.3 billion). We are a country of mighty rivers and a rich variety of agricultural land, with inexhaustibe cattle wealth …”
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Why COVID “Immunity Passports” Are Bound to Fail
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
16 Jun 2020 – One of the many questionable aspects of the political response to the coronavirus pandemic is the still discussed idea of “immunity passports” to regulate participation in work and travel. In fact, Covid immunity passports are bound to fail, simply because antibody tests can detect at most 20% of all infections, as the pioneering research by Professor Onur Boyman has shown.
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Did Time Start at the Big Bang? (Part 2)
PBS Space Time – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
It’s often said that the universe started with a singularity, and the Big Bang is thought of as the explosive expansion that followed. And before the Big Bang singularity? Well, they say there was no “before”, because time and space simply didn’t exist. If you think you’ve managed to get your head around that bizarre notion then I have bad news. That picture is wrong. At least, according to pretty much every serious physicist who studies the subject. The good news is that the truth is way cooler, at least as far as we understand it.
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‘Rolling Emergency’ of Locust Swarms Decimating Africa, Asia and Middle East
Kaamil Ahmed | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
8 Jun 2020 -Unseasonal rains have allowed desert pests to breed rapidly and spread across vast distances leaving devastation in their wake.
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Real vs Reel: Dilemma of the Modern World
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
In earlier days most of what we could see around us was real. We had real parents, brothers and sisters, uncles, aunts and grandparents, some of whom loved us and some who scolded us if we were naughty. Today we are flooded with the virtual or what is also referred to as the reel world.
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The Global Reset – Unplugged. “The Deep State”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
The Lives and Fate of “We the Sheeple” is in the Hands of a Few Ultra-Rich, Ultra-Powerful and Ultra-Inhuman Oligarchs
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Weapons Don’t Fight Pandemics (series)
Mir Suhail | Cartoon Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
How to Protect Yourself from the Military
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Trump Having 2nd Thoughts on Guaidó, Would Meet Maduro: Axios
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
21 Jun 2020 – U.S. President Donald Trump would consider meeting his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro after losing faith in Washington-backed Juan Guaidó, an exclusive interview from Axios revealed today. The comments made on Friday [19 Jun], if were to be implemented, would mark a new chapter in the relations of both nations.
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(Norwegian-Norsk) Hvordan vi blir bedratt
Marilyn Langlois - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
Mange kjenner uttrykket ”verden vil bedras”, gjerne med tillegget ”la den derfor bedras”. Opprinnelsen er tilskrevet den romerske satirikeren Gaius Petronius Arbiter (ca. 27–66), forfatter av novellen Satyricon. Uansett beskriver uttrykket dagens mediesituasjon, der folk flest ikke har annet valg enn å tro på det de hører og ikke vet hva de ikke hører.
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The Corruption of Science. The Hydroxychloroquine Lancet Study Scandal. Who Was Behind It? Anthony Fauci’s Intent to Block HCQ on Behalf of Big Pharma
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Servicer,
22 Jun 2020
10 Jun 2020 – The Guardian has revealed the scandal behind the hydroxychloroquine study which was intent on blocking HCQ as a cure for COVID-19. “Dozens of scientific papers co-authored by the chief executive of the US tech company behind the Lancet hydroxychloroquine study scandal are now being audited, including one that a scientific integrity expert claims contains images that appear to have been digitally manipulated.
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Philippines: Maria Ressa’s Libel Conviction Is a Blow to Press Freedom
James Risen | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
15 Jun 2020 – Journalist Maria Ressa, who has long resisted efforts by Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte to throw her in jail and shut down her Manila-based news organization, was found guilty on criminal libel charges in a Filipino court today. The editor who has come to symbolize the global fight for press freedom now faces the prospect of up to six years in prison, even as she continues to fend off other legal assaults from the Duterte regime.
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Rebellion, Confusion, Scoundrels and Kente Cloth
Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
10 Jun 2020 – Black rebellion brings insecurity to those in power, as editors, mayors and even long dead criminals are being called to account.
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Caesar Tries to Suffocate 17 Million Syrians
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
19 Jun 2020 – Since 2011, the US and allies have promoted, trained and supplied militants trying to bring about “regime change” in Damascus. Having failed in that effort, they have tried to strangle Syria economically. This month the aggression reaches a new level with extreme sanctions known as the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act. The vast majority of Syrians continue as victims of US foreign policy delusions, hypocrisy, cynicism and cruelty.
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The Canton Speech by Eugene Debs
Eugene V. Debs | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
16 Jun 2020 – Today in 1918, Eugene V. Debs delivered the speech that landed him in prison. However pedestrian for Debs, the offending speech is a study in socialist oration, with memorable lines like “The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.” In honor of its anniversary we reprint it here in full.
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Capitalism Is the Virus
Brendan Montague | The Ecologist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
13 Jun 2020 – ‘Capitalism, colonialism, and ecological devastation are all cause and effect of each other, and they coevolved together.’ Capitalism is the virus. I present this as both a literal and metaphorical statement. My aim is to supplant the “humans are the virus” claim.
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Gaslighted by the Ruling Class
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
15 Jun 2020 – There is only way to defeat these forces of occupation and the ruling elites they protect. It is not through voting. It will come from the streets, where tens of thousands of courageous men and women, facing arrest, indiscriminate police violence, economic despair and the threat of Covid-19, are fighting for not only an end to racism, but freedom.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
14 Jun 2020
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Revisiting Meeting Ayatollah Khomeini in January, 1979
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
10 Jun 2020 – This post is a slightly modified text of responses to Javad Heiran-Nia’s interview questions that was published on 2 Jun 2020 in Mehr News. From the Iranian publication I received some criticisms to the effect that I failed to associate Ayatollah Khomeini’s legacy with the repressiveness of the policies and practices of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Trump Authorizes Sanctions against the International Criminal Court
Nahal Toosi and Natasha Bertrand | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 – Trump today moved to further punish officials of the ICC, authorizing economic sanctions against them as well as the expansion of visa restrictions on the officials and their families. The efforts come amid anger over the ICC’s efforts to look into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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Weapons That Protect White Privilege Prevent Sustainable Community Change
Kathy Kelly | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
10 Jun 2020 – Kathy Kelly reflects on weapons and systems white people use to protect their white privilege, recalling that Dr. King likened U.S. wars to “some demonic destructive suction tube.”
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A Community Seeks Answers After a Young Black Man Is Found Hanging from a Tree in California Park
Sarah Moon | The Mercury News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
13 Jun 2020 – Dozens of people gathered at Palmdale city council chambers Friday [12 Jun] as officials held a press conference on the death of a 24-year-old black man who was found hanging from a tree in northern Los Angeles County.
→ read full articleInteractions of Peoples and Civilisations
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
People have been interacting with each other for thousands of years on this planet. The interactions have resulted in exchange of several aspects of human lives and civilisations.
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Missing Perspective in Media: Iran/Venezuela Ties Are None of US’s Business
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
10 Jun 2020 – The American state not only snuffs out lives by pressing knees to necks domestically, it also seeks to asphyxiate entire countries like Iran and Venezuela. This is evident in corporate media coverage of Iranian oil shipments to Venezuela, which has framed the deliveries as a problem that needs to be solved, rather than a commercial transaction that doesn’t concern third parties.
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Gardeners of the Spirit
Eric Herter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
“When I got back from 6 years of video work in Viet Nam (1995-2002), I got a job traveling the country with wife & 5-year-old daughter, visiting community gardens in schools, slums, hospitals and prisons. Very enlightening. Among the last 30 years of sporadic productions, this is one of my favorites.” –Eric Herter (Narrated by himself)
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International Criminal Court Oversight Chief ‘Deeply Regrets’ US Decision to Target Officials Investigating Afghanistan War Crimes
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
13 Jun 2020 – Responding to the decision of the US government to sanction ICC officials and their families, O-Gon Kwon, president of the body that oversees the ICC, denounced the measures which, he said, undermine the “endeavour to fight impunity and to ensure accountability for mass atrocities”.
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NSA Whistleblower Reveals Covert Torture Program
Chevalier de Lorimier | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
12 Jun 2020 – On April 11, 2020, the former Technical Director of the NSA, William Binney, and Pulitzer-prize winning Chris Hedges were discussing on RT America TV the abuses committed by U.S. intelligence agencies since the ’60s, when suddenly the link between mass surveillance and covert electromagnetic torture of innocent civilians was uncovered – a shocking first on American television.
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The Days Pass Quickly Now ….
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
The days pass quickly now.
I recall how long each day seemed in my youth.
How I yearned to be an adult,
Able to enjoy the freedoms of age!
Walking Blues (Music Video of the Week)
Keb' Mo' | Playing For Change | Song Around The World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
We started in Patagonia, Argentina and added friends as we traveled to create a blues jam around the world. Blues is always from the people for the people and this video creates a moment in time to come together and put all the darkness and division we face as a human race into the music so it can set us free. Turn it up and enjoy!
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Breakthrough: Microbe Found to Block the Transmission of Malaria
Jeremy Herren | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
7 Jun 2020 – Mosquitoes that had Microsporidia MB – a tiny parasitic fungus – never became infected with malaria.
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George Floyd, RIP
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
Like millions of others, both in United States and around the World, I was deeply shocked by the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer on 25 May 2020. As a tribute and in respect to his memory we join our black American brothers and sisters and commit to the search for justice, equality and peace amongst the human family.
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NYT Erases US Occupation’s Role in Prolonging Taliban Insurgency
Joshua Cho | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
12 Jun 2020 – The New York Times’ correspondent in Afghanistan, Mujib Mashal, somehow managed to write the article “How the Taliban Outlasted a Superpower: Tenacity and Carnage” to explain how the Taliban “outlasted a superpower through 19 years of war,” without examining at all how the US contributed to reviving and sustaining the Taliban insurgency.
→ read full articleSouthFront Is Censored under Cover of Pandemic
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
8 Jun 2020 – Censorship of alternative media is becoming more widespread in the COVID19 era. This article documents the case of SouthFront.
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Jean-Paul Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
Sartre was offered, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 for his autobiography, Words, though he subsequently rejected the award based on his own notions of his integrity as a writer.
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Godliness, Strength and Grit
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
They said it was the Asian century
With economies booming
Democratic principles shining
Scholarship, education rising
Crisis Means Danger and Opportunity
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
The present crisis will undoubtedly lead to great change, but will it be takeovers by neo-fascist leaders such as Trump? Or will the change be social reforms, such as those initiated in Denmark by Stauning? Will the Green New Deal be part of our recovery from the present economic crisis? We stand at a critical point in history. Each of us has the duty to strive with all our strength to persuade our societies to make the right choice.
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The “Greedy” Monk
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
A Buddhist monk had a great talent as a painter, but he always demanded a down payment before he began to paint, and charged high prices. So he was known as the greedy monk.
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While Statues Sleep
Thomas Laqueur | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – A few years ago Susan Neiman published an article titled ‘History and Guilt’, which asked whether America can ‘face up to the terrible reality of slavery in the way that Germany has faced up to the Holocaust’. -Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman, Allen Lane, 415 pp., Aug 2019
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(Português) Paul McCartney pede que fãs parem de comer carne
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
12 junho 2020 – Em comemoração aos dez anos do documentário “Glass Walls” ou “Paredes de Vidro”, Paul McCartney, que é o narrador do curta lançado pela organização Pessoas Pelo Tratamento Ético dos Animais (PETA), pede que as pessoas parem de comer carne e diz que “tudo que ele quer para este aniversário é paz na Terra, incluindo os animais.” Vale lembrar que McCartney completa 78 anos no próximo dia 18.
→ read full articleMinnesota Cops Trained by Israeli Police, Who Often Use Knee-on-Neck Restraint
Alison Weir | Israel-Palestine News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
* Over 100 Minnesota law enforcement officers attended a 2012 conference organized by the Israeli consulate in which Israeli police trained them. Israeli forces often use the knee-on-neck restraint on Palestinians.
* Israel has been training law enforcement officers around the US for many years, despite the fact that Israeli forces have a long record of human rights violations.
Are Asymptomatic People Spreading the Coronavirus? A WHO Official’s Words Spark Confusion, Debate
William Wan and Miriam Berger | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
9 Jun 2020 -The World Health Organization moved Today to clarify its position on whether people without symptoms are widely spreading the new coronavirus, saying much remains unknown about asymptomatic transmission. A comment by a WHO official yesterday — calling such asymptomatic transmissions “very rare” — touched off a furious scientific debate over the unresolved question and attracted widespread criticism of the organization.
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(Italiano) Contro il razzismo e il cambiamento climatico: Le potenzialità di un doppio impegno
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
12 Giugno 2020 – La gente di colore subisce gli impatti negativi delle trasformazioni ambientali molto più dei bianchi, dai cicloni alle onde di calore, agli effetti dell’inquinamento. Impianti industriali, raffinerie, industrie chimiche si trovano in maggioranza nelle aree abitate dai neri: la recente pandemia da coronavirus ha messo chiaramente in luce i danni alla salute causati dalle emissioni inquinanti, e la conseguente minore resistenza al virus.
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What Would the Buddha Do?
David Loy | Huffington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
Interdependence is not merely an insight to be cultivated on our cushions. A suffering world calls upon us to realize interdependence—to make it real—in the ways we actually live. If Buddhists do not want to do this or cannot find ways to do this, then Buddhism is not the spiritual path that the world needs today.
→ read full articleWeapons Don’t Fight Pandemics (series)
Joel Pett | Lexington Herald Leader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
Worse Than the War Machine
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[Nobel Literature laureate] Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind
Douglas Brinkley | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
12 Jun 2020 – In a rare interview, the Nobel Prize winner discusses mortality, drawing inspiration from the past, and his new album, “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”
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We Are One Humanity – All Lives Matter
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
Racism and racial disharmony is a chronic problem created by the socio-economic disparities and political injustice – the perpetuated Capitalism. The insanity of arbitrary power and injustice needs urgent change and reformation.
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America Is Fracturing—and So Is ‘The New York Times’
Jeet Heer | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
8 Jun 2020 – The global uprising against racist policing is unsettling many institutions, perhaps most surprisingly The New York Times. In the current crisis, the stakes are too high to chase clickbait.
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Royal Commission of Inquiry Calls Upon the State of Hawai‘i to Comply with International Law and to Work with the Council of Regency
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
9 Jun 2020, Hawaiian Kingdom – Denationalization was formally initiated in 1906 by the Board of Education and carried into effect within the public and private schools throughout the Hawaiian Islands. Within three generations, Hawaiian Kingdom national consciousness had been effectively replaced with American national consciousness and the national language of Hawaiian replaced with English. As part of this inculcation, young students were led to falsely believe that the Hawaiian Islands had become a part of the United States, and they were now American citizens.
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(Português) Como Indígenas Estão Vivenciando as Mudanças Climáticas na Amazônia
Jenny Gonzales (Mongabay) | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
9 junho 2020 – Chuvas tardias, seca intensa, leitos secos, mais incêndios florestais, menos comida disponível – comunidades indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira sofrem transformações sociais através da mudança climática.
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European Court of Human Rights Deals Major Blow to Israel’s War on Palestine Solidarity
Palestinian BDS National Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 – ECHR rules unanimously that the French highest court’s criminal conviction of Israel boycott advocates violates the article on freedom of expression of the European Convention on Human Rights. Decision has major implications for anti-BDS state repression in Europe including Germany, where advocates for Palestinian rights face fierce restrictions on their civil rights.
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The Elite’s COVID-19 Coup to Destroy Humanity That Is Also Fast-Tracking Four Paths to Human Extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 – The global elite is conducting a coup that is designed to destroy all of the key elements of human society. It is doing this by destroying the essence of what it means to be human, by destroying the nature of existing human relationships, and by destroying the political, economic and social institutions of nation states.
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Child Labor – Facts and Figures
ILO-International Labour Organization | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 – The COVID-19 health pandemic and the resulting economic and labour market shock are having a huge impact on people’s lives and livelihoods. Unfortunately, children are often the first to suffer. The crisis can push millions of vulnerable children into child labour.
→ read full articleThe Police May Pull the Trigger, but It’s the System That Kills
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
Fifty years ago I published my first book, Rebels in Eden, an exploration of mass political violence in America focusing on the uprisings in Los Angeles, New York, Newark, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore and Washington. Acknowledge racism? Yes! “Defund” the police? Certainly. But none of this will get oppressed communities where they want to go unless America’s capitalist order is transformed or redirected toward the satisfaction of human needs.
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Eichmann’s Mistake: The Problem of Thoughtlessness in International Criminal Law
Itamar Mann | Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
To examine what is at stake, this article returns to one of the most perplexing conundrums in criminal legal theory, Hannah Arendt’s problem of “the banality of evil.” The iconic subtitle of Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ has drawn the attention of legal scholars. Yet I believe we have not so far fully developed its implications with regard to mistakes of law.
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Looting all the Way to Freedom… (Really?)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
You the judge…
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Turning Anguish into Action
Marc Pilisuk | Engaging Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
10 Jun 2020 – So many of my white friends and I are anguished over the injustice of yet another Black man murdered by police. We find ourselves agreeing with Black Lives Matter that the strong and necessary response to the recent killings involves working not only for justice in these individual cases, but also for addressing the systemic racism underlying the repeated injustices.
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Germany’s Farewell to US Troops: Fewer Soldiers Means More Peace
Reto Thumiger | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 – The President of the United States has decided to withdraw up to 15,000 soldiers from Germany. This announcement by Der Spiegel at the end of last week struck the transatlantic states almost like a bomb. For half of the population in Germany, which is in favor of a complete withdrawal of American troops, the news looks more like a dove of peace on the horizon.
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3 Cs: Corruption, COVID-19, Conflict… Only the Tip of the Iceberg in the D.R. Congo
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
13 Jun 2020 – Two years ago, remembering the elections followed by concocted shadowy deals, the D.R. Congo celebrated a soundly first-time peaceful transfer of power in its 40 years of independence.
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Surgisphere: Governments and WHO Changed COVID-19 Policy Based On Suspect Data from Tiny US Company
Melissa Davey, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Sarah Boseley | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
3 Jun 2020 – Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies. The World Health Organization and a number of national governments have changed their Covid-19 policies and treatments on the basis of flawed data from the little-known US healthcare analytics company.
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The Path beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
Message for World Environment Day, 5 Jun 2020 – On 31st May, while people were dying during the Corona Pandemic, while millions had lost their livelihoods and were going hungry during the “lockdown”…, billionaire Elon Musk launched Space X. For me this was a brutal display of the hubris, indifference and power of the 1% who have pushed ecosystems, communities, countries and humanity to the brink.
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8 June: International Day of the Oceans
René Wadlow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
World Citizens Call for Renewed Efforts to Resolve Asian Maritime Delimitations Dispute – This date can serve as the start of a strong mobilization of voices calling for good-faith negotiations and for a vision of cooperation among the States of the China Seas.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
The purpose here is to note further possibilities in 3D, building on the models previously presented — and offering interactive access to them over the web. The various design metaphors explored here frame the question as to how global integration might be comprehended in dynamic terms in virtual reality — especially given other possibilities that such models might suggest.
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How American Cities Were Reduced to Esper’s “Battlespace”: from Fallujah to Minneapolis
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
3 Jun 2020 – Some 2.7 million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, an astonishing number. The Bush administration began the practice of sending to civilian police departments military equipment no longer needed in Iraq– everything from Kevlar vests to armored vehicles. Community policing in some towns and cities gave way to the spectacle of militarized police, heavily armed and armored, and inevitably separated from the public they were supposed to serve and protect.
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Haiti: Father Gerard Jean-Juste Memorial Video
Long Memory Productions - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
Gérard Jean-Juste (7 Feb 1946 – 27 May 2009) was a Roman Catholic priest “often considered the Martin Luther King Jr. of Haiti” and rector of Saint Claire’s church for the poor in Port-au-Prince. He was also a liberation theologian and head of the Miami-based Haitian Refugee Center from 1977 to 1990. He was arrested twice for his political work, leading Amnesty International to designate him a prisoner of conscience.
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The US Ruling Class Have Destroyed Our Capitalist Democracy and Replaced It with a Mafia State
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
2 Jun 2020 – What the Roman philosopher Cicero called a commonwealth, a res publica, a “public thing” or the “property of a people,” has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression on behalf of a global corporate oligarchy. We are serfs ruled by obscenely rich, omnipotent masters who loot the U.S. Treasury, pay little or no taxes and have perverted the judiciary, the media and the legislative branches of government to strip us of civil liberties and give them the freedom to commit financial fraud and theft.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
May 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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Toward a Theory of Peace: The Role of Moral Beliefs
G. John Ikenberry | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
Forsberg, an antinuclear activist and defense policy expert who died in 2007, is most famous as a leader of the “nuclear freeze” campaign of the 1980s. As revealed by this remarkable book, the text of which comes from her 1997 doctoral dissertation, Forsberg was also a thoughtful theorist of peace studies and political change.
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When Profits and Politics Drive Science: The Hazards of Rushing a Vaccine at “Warp Speed”
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
4 Jun 2020 – More than 100 companies are competing to be first in the race to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. It’s a race against time, not because the death rate is climbing but because it is falling – to the point where there could soon be too few subjects to prove the effectiveness of the drug.
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Who Should Try Rwandan Genocide Suspect Felicien Kabuga?
Nicola Palmer | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
2 Jun 2020 – Many Rwandans would like to see the man accused of funding the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi put on trial in Rwanda. When French police entered Kabuga’s flat, they were acting on an indictment and arrest warrant by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, charging Kabuga with genocide.
→ read full articleWeapons Don’t Fight Pandemics (series)
Matt Wuerker | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
Learned Helplessness…
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‘Make Noise and Don’t Panic’: India Tries to Ward off Locust Invasion
Amrit Dhillon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
28 May 2020 – Delhi braces for swarm while farmers in badly-hit north play loud music and honk car horns to try to prevent decimation of fields.
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A Superpower in Chaos
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
2 Jun 2020 – Minneapolis could not have happened at a worse time for the US elites. While violence perpetrated against African Americans by White police officers has happened a number of times before, its occurrence right in the midst of a huge health emergency that has already claimed more than a 100,000 lives and a related massive economic disaster that has robbed 30 million people of their jobs, is truly unprecedented.
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The Pillage of India
Christopher de Bellaigue | New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 issue – The company was transformed into an instrument of imperialism under Robert Clive, a terse, pugnacious delinquent from Shropshire. After arriving in Madras as a writer in 1744, Clive distinguished himself on the battlefield, making up in daring what he lacked in experience. In 1752 he and a fellow officer led a company force that took prisoner almost three thousand troops from the Compagnie des Indes, for which he was rewarded with a lucrative sinecure.
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Germany’s Merkel Rejects Trump Invite to Attend G7 Summit in Washington
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
30 May 2020 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to accept U.S. President Donald Trump’s invitation to attend an envisaged summit of the Group of Seven (G7) in the US.
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Trump Bans Chinese Airlines from Flying to the United States
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
3 Jun 2020 – The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that all regular flights by Chinese civilian airlines to and from the United States will be suspended beginning June 16. This decision affects Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, and Xiamen Airlines.
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I Can’t Breathe
Khalil Bendib | Other Words – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
3 Jun 2020 – Call It Political Brutality
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COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism
John Bellamy Foster and Intan Suwandi | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
1 Jun 2020 – Commodity Chains and Ecological-Epidemiological-Economic Crises – COVID-19 has accentuated as never before the interlinked ecological, epidemiological, and economic vulnerabilities imposed by capitalism. We are seeing the emergence of catastrophe capitalism as the structural crisis of the system takes on planetary dimensions.
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Trump and the USA Can Escape, but the Empire Cannot
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
5 Jun 2020 – The USA is trapped. It is ravaged by the coronavirus with inadequate medical preparedness. It is torn apart by racist violence. And it now has an unemployment rate that rivals that of the Great Depression. The military budget must be totally converted in order to save the country. Its military bases around the world must be dismantled and the soldiers brought home and put to useful work.
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Microsoft to Replace MSN News Production Workers with Artificial Intelligence
Mike Ingram | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
3 Jun 2020 – Microsoft is firing dozens of news contractors after June 30 and replacing them with artificial intelligence. Around 50 journalists and editors in the US will lose their jobs. These workers operate MSN news pages, curating content and in some cases rewriting headlines and editing content to fit the format.
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17 Things We Don’t Know—and Shouldn’t Pretend to Know—about Covid-19
Lissa Rankin, MD - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
5 May 2020 – It’s clear that there are many things we don’t yet know about COVID-19 and the SARS CoV-2 virus, but I have yet to see any “expert” clearly admit what we don’t know, so I thought I’d take a stab at it. Unless we’re willing to be transparent about where we’re uncertain, attempts at false certainty will only mislead the public and potentially interfere with personal and collective wise decision-making.
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Bank of England Spends Billions Bailing out Europe’s Richest Families
Ollie Williams | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
5 Jun 2020 – Emergency financial aid from the U.K. government totalling over £16 billion ($20.6 billion) has been claimed by companies controlled by U.K. and European billionaires.
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Vincent—Starry Starry Night (Music Video of the Week)
Don McLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
Slideshow of Van Gogh Paintings with Biographical Music by Don McLean – ENJOY the artistic jewel!
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Leading by Example: Cuba in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Helen Yaffe | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
4 Jun 2020 – That a small island nation, subjected to hundreds of years of colonialism and imperialism and, since the Revolution of 1959, six decades of the criminal United States blockade, can play such an exemplary role is due to Cuba’s socialist system. The central plan directs national resources according to a development strategy which prioritises human welfare and community participation, not private profit.
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