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UN: Two Empires Crumbling–and Then What?

The USA is out of touch. Stop droning, killing; make a beautiful North America with Mexico and Canada. Add it all up: the fall of the US empire is on track. How about Israel? Heading for a cliff of its own making: suicide. Israel is out of touch. A regime change from within is needed.

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Chris Hedges and Slavoj Žižek on the Pandemic’s Ramifications (Parts 1 & 2)

13-15 Jul 2021 - Chris Hedges discusses the social, political, cultural economic ramifications of the pandemic with the philosopher Slavoj Žižek.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

The Role of Female Ex-Combatants in Peace Processes

Pawn or Queen Pieces in Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Programmes?

TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

Democracy: Enemy of the Powerless

28 Jul 2021 - Perhaps the best possible thing we could acknowledge being is a “divided nation.” Failing to do so justifies — or at least avoids noticing — all manner of violent cruelty and repression in the name of so-called democracy, from the jailing of whistleblowers who reveal U.S. war crimes...

What Went Right This Week: Empathy in English Channel, Plus More Positive News

29 Jul 2021 - A UK charity criticised for rescuing refugees saw a 2,000 per cent increase in donations, a tool was launched to help endangered species, and Montenegro saw its first same-sex marriage, plus more positive news.

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Defining Refugees in the Era of Climate Displacement

27 Jul 2021 - July 28th marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This historic document, signed by 149 nation-states, defines refugees as those with a well-founded fear of persecution if returned to their country of origin on the basis of their “race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.” It also outlines the rights afforded to refugees.

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Towards a Science of Misinformation and Deception

2 Aug 2021 - The Challenge of an Information Pandemic--a COVID19 Infodemic - The study of information has been remarkably clarified by information theory. This is the scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of digital information.

Challenging Colonization: Building Sustainable Human and Natural Communities in Palestine

29 Jul 2021 - Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people have endured in the past, and continue to engage in, currently. In this article, I want to raise an issue that is not discussed often enough in this massive literature, that of challenging colonization through activities that sustain humans and nature.

UNFSS – Where Multinationals Continue to Design Our Food Systems and Control Our Diets

27 Jul 2021 - The Pre-Summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) taking place in Rome, as a preparative stage to the New York September Summit, is, as expected, going in the wrong direction. As many civil society members, as well as past and current Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, have denounced, this summit is yet another instrument to reinforce corporate control over food and agriculture, while attempting to restrain civil society’s role in global food governance.

Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us from the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure

30 Jul 2021 - On July 14, the EU unveiled sweeping climate change and emissions targets that would mean “the end of the internal combustion engine.” Hemp fuel and other biofuels could quickly reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they're often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech climate solutions.

Culture of War Update

1 Aug 2021 - It does not seem likely that the advance in democracy and anti-war consciousness can overthrow the American empire and its culture of war, but like its predecessor, the Soviet Empire, it will eventually collapse from its own contradictions. At that point, the development of democracy and anti-war consciousness will be essential if we are to make a radical change in global governance, a UN based directly on the people and promoting a culture of peace.

Why Is the Top Chinese Swimmer Not at the Tokyo Olympics?

29 Jul 2021 - How Sun Yang Was Eliminated - The FINA Doping Panel was correct and Sun Yang should be competing in the Tokyo Olympics.

Taking Control by Destroying Cash: Beware Cyber Polygon as Part of the Elite Coup

Anyone who is paying attention to what is taking place in the background is well aware that the life we knew before 2020 has already ended and what is being systematically put in its place as the World Economic Forum implements its ‘Great Reset’ will bear no comparison to any period prior to last year. Of course, those of us who qualify as ‘ordinary people’ have had no say in the shape of what is being implemented.

Language Skills and Implications

Being good at languages, spoken or written, is an asset for most people.

Rwandans Mourn “Mama Rwanda” Esperance Mukashema

27 Jul 2021 - One of the winners of this year’s 'Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize' was Esperance Mukashema, a Tutsi survivor of the Rwandan Genocide who spoke out about the crimes of General Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front army during its four-year war to seize power, which ended in the 1994 genocide.

IN FOCUS

Pegasus and the Threat of Cyberweapons in the Age of Smartphones

29 Jul 2021 - Spyware like Pegasus is dangerous not only because it gives hackers complete control over an infected phone, but also because it introduces the skills and knowledge of nation-states into the civilian sphere.

How to Defend Yourself against the Powerful New NSO Spyware Attacks Discovered Around the World

27 Jul 2021 - Even iPhones were vulnerable to the surveillance software, which appears to have been used against activists, journalists, and others.

WHISTLEBLOWING

The Price of Conscience

27 Jul 2021 - Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced today to 45 months in prison.

The Insecurity Industry

26 Jul 2021 - The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is take it apart simply because it is unsafe to operate. Surgically removing the two or three tiny microphones hidden inside is only the first step of an arduous process.

Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy

30 Jul 2021 - Hale should be pardoned and released, and the government should pay him restitution.

MEDIA

Journalist Craig Murray Jailed for Eight Months in a Major Assault on Democratic Rights

30 Jul 2021 - Yesterday, Murray was informed that the UK’s Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal for a punitive eight months by a Scottish court. The railroading of Murray into prison is the culmination of a politically motivated witch-hunt. For the last decade, he has been a trenchant defender of Julian Assange.

AFRICA

South Africa Durban Riots 1949–The Destruction of Cato Manor and Murder of People of Indian Origins

28 Jul 2021 - History Repeats Itself: The Sad Odyssey of Indian Suburb of Cato Manor--Land Expropriated by the Whites and Destroyed by the Blacks

The Rif Republic: A Self-Proclaimed and Internationally Unrecognized State

The Rif Republic (Tagduda n Arrif) in Berber, is a state bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Algeria to the east, the plains separating it from Morocco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Composed of mountains and plains, the Rif stretches for nearly 500 km from Tangier to Berkane and Kebdana (border between Algeria and Morocco).

ANGLO AMERICA

The Collective Suicide Machine

26 Jul 2021 - The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the U.S. empire — and nobody will be held accountable. Two decades of combat, one trillion dollars spent, 100,000 troops deployed, high-tech gadgets, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, Reaper and the Global Hawk drones with high-resolution cameras, Special Operations Command, elite rangers, SEALs, black sites, torture, electronic surveillance, satellites, attack aircraft, mercenary armies…

Rethinking the Critical Race Theory Debate

23 Jul 2021 - The conspicuous absence of Derrick Bell who levels a class critique against the Black bourgeoisie, whom he sees as having led Black political protest down the wrong path time and time again.

Witness to Turbulent U.S. Democracy: The Paradox for Soul Searching of Anglo American Acclaimed Values

29 Jul 2021 - Nancy Pelosi, the US House Speaker wanted an independent and non-partisan congressional investigation into the January 6, 2021 Trump planned mobbed invasion of the US Congressional complex in Washington, D.C. - The Myriad Drama at the US Congressional Committee Hearings

BRICS

Bolsonaro’s 1,000Km Amazon Railway Will Cause Climate Chaos–It Must Be Stopped

28 Jul 2021 - Jair Bolsonaro is determined to expand his exploitation of Brazil’s natural resources. His latest project, one of the most destructive yet, would rapidly deforest large areas of the Amazon, which would wreak havoc on the planet.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Court Withdraws Assange’s Ecuadorean Nationality

28 Jul 2021 - An Ecuadorean court revoked the citizenship of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange without allowing him to participate in the process, his lawyers denounced today. Assange, who currently remains in a U.K. prison, received Ecuadorean citizenship in 2018 despite pressure from former president Lenin Moreno to force him out of the embassy.

As Progressives Call for End to Blockade, Biden Announces More Sanctions against Cuba

30 Jul 2021 - While President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to reverse the "failed" policies of his predecessor that "inflicted harm on Cubans and their families," his administration—already under mounting pressure from progressives to deliver on that promise—announced new sanctions against Cuba today.

Solidarity with Haiti Will Strengthen the Struggle for Racial Justice Everywhere

26 Jul 2021 - While reports on the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse are silent on the history of the United States’ harmful relations with the island nation, solidarity with Haiti is as important as ever.

PALESTINE - ISRAEL

2021, the Year of Israeli Apartheid

27 Jul 2021 - More than 1000 academics, artists and intellectuals have signed a "Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine," in a sign of the growing acceptance of the term in the west.

How Ben & Jerry’s Has Exposed Israel’s Anti-BDS Strategy

28 Jul 2021 - By calling an ice cream company ‘terrorist’ for simply adhering to international law, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed the absurdity of the official Israeli strategy to counter the BDS movement.

SYRIA IN CONTEXT

Why Are We Still at War with Syria?

15 Jul 2021 - While congress continues to ask Biden to justify bombing Syria without congressional approval, the real question is: Why is the US bombing and sanctioning Syria at all?

UNITED NATIONS

Clash of Paradigms II: The Way Out

30 Jul 2021 - In this day of zoom communications, there is no backstage. But the UN Food System pre-Summit held at the FAO offices in Rome did bring together a live audience of 500, with the virtual participants numbering 20,000. Allegedly the event, which called itself the Peoples’ Forum, was meant to be inclusive. They claimed to welcome everyone. But not everyone felt included.

Here Is Why We Are Boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit

25 Jul 2021 - In September this year, the United Nations will host a Global Food Systems Summit in New York. Social movements and scientists are staying out because it represents big agribusiness interests.

EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS

Money-Laundering Ring Pushed $4 Billion through HSBC

28 Jul 2021 - A string of scandals has unravelled at HSBC since it admitted in 2012 to laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels. Today, under the nose of a court-appointed monitor, HSBC uncovered a $4.2bn money laundering network using client accounts in Hong Kong. There’s no indication the findings were ever reported to the regulators.

SPORTS

Team Hawaiian Kingdom? Activists Want Some U.S. Olympians to Surf for a Different Homeland

27 Jul 2021 - After decades of whitewashing, Hawai'i sovereignty activists say, the effort is part of an attempt to reclaim the sport’s cultural and spiritual importance in its place of birth.

COVID19 - CORONAVIRUS

Why We Need a Movement to Abolish COVID Vaccine Patents Now

21 Jul 2021 - While the call by activists to waive TRIPS is an important first step to scale up COVID vaccines, it actually needs to be abolished.

COVID World Data: 199M Total; 4,2M Dead; Survival Rate 99.98%

On 2 Aug 2021 12pm GMT: Percentage Dead: 0.02% Survival Rate 99.98% Total Cases: 199,051,292 Deaths: 4,241,236 Active: 20,589,343 Recovered: 179,653,493 Cases Closed: 183,894,729 Total Vaccinated: 2,221,330,543

World Coronavirus Map

Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily

DEBATES ON COVID - VACCINES

Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines

* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue * The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative

INSPIRATIONAL

Be like a Pencil

A pencil writes, but in fact it is the hand that guides it, and the mind that guides the hand. Similarly,...

SPIRITUALITY

Vedic Literature Says Caste by Birth Is Unjust

When it comes to the sensitive topic of Varnashrama, the caste system of India, we have seen both pro and con, back and forth, this way and that. The Vedic system of Varnashrama has been mentioned in the Purusha Sukta verses of the Rig-veda but there is no indication that birth is the essential quality for one’s varna. This article contains many quotes from Vedic shastra to clarify what the caste system is actually supposed to be.

POETRY FORMAT

O` Buck Moon

In your orange light I look at you. Silently drawn to your beauty, Unfolding the auburn light, as the young deer grows his antlers.

OBITUARIES

How Haunani-Kay Trask Shaped Her Hawai’ian People’s Struggle for Independence

The Hawaiian movement for self-determination was forever changed by the fierce and unapologetic leadership of the late Haunani-Kay Trask. She modeled for us how to analyze the U.S. overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, our material reality, and American hegemony in the same frame.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: come appare la pace

Ma il peacebuilding non è sufficiente; abbiamo bisogno pure del peacemaking – una soluzione politica – e il peacekeeping.  E qui entra in ballo l’EU: non solo come mediatrice, ma come modello, che sistema brillantemente una Germania che si era resa molo difficile da digerire dai paesi circostanti. Ieri.  Come Israele, oggi.

(Français) Haïti : l’assassinat du président « est le marqueur de la privatisation de toutes les institutions publiques »

16 juillet 2021 - Le président d’Haïti, Jovenel Moïse, a été assassiné dans la nuit du 6 au 7 juillet. Cet acte jette une lumière crue sur le pouvoir haïtien et sur la complicité internationale dont celui-ci n’a cessé de jouir.

(Português) Mais um estudo associa consumo de carne a maior risco de doenças cardíacas

26 jul 2021 - Um estudo realizado e divulgado na semana passada pela Universidade de Oxford associa o consumo de carne processada e não processada a um maior risco de desenvolvimento de doenças cardíacas, o qual pode variar de 9% a 18% a partir do consumo de mais de 50 gramas de carne por dia.

MEMORABLE QUOTES

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”

Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of industrial mass production.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The Former Guy

19 Jul 2021 - This Modern World

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Debt to Society

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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

The Theory of Everything

16 Jul 2021 - The Standard Model of particle physics describes how everything in the universe is made of 12 different types of matter particles, interacting with three forces, all bound together by a rather special particle called the Higgs boson. The standard model is the most successful scientific theory ever.

Chopin’s Nocturne (Music Video of the Week)

Graceful, Natural, Beautiful - Enjoy!