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Spring Didn’t Know – Inspirational
Irene Vella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
It was March 2020…
The streets were empty, stores were closed, people couldn’t go out anymore.
Last Night Julian Assange Called Me. Here Is What We Talked About
Yanis Varoufakis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
24 Mar 2020 – Last night, immediately after our first DiEM25 TV event, my phone rang. It was Julian. From prison. It was not that first time that he honoured me deeply by using the few phone calls prison allows him to make to call me. Like every other such occasion, when I unexpectedly recognise his voice a torrent of emotions comes flooding in. Julian wanted to talk about the effects of Covid-19 on the world we live in and, of course, on his case.
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Cuba’s Coronavirus Response Is Putting Other Countries to Shame
Ben Burgis | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 -Cuba is caricatured by the Right as a totalitarian hellhole. But its response to the coronavirus pandemic — from sending doctors to other countries to pioneering anti-viral treatments to converting factories into mask-making machines — is putting other countries, especially the rich ones, to shame.
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Conscience: The Inner Voice of the Higher Self
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
The United Nations has designated 5 April as the International Day of Conscience. The first celebration is this year 2020. An awakened conscience is essential to meeting the challenges which face humanity today as we move into the World Society. The great challenge which humanity faces today is to leave behind the culture of violence in which we find ourselves and move rapidly to a culture of peace and solidarity.
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Cognitive Engagement with Spike Dynamics of a Polyhedral Coronavirus
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
30 Mar 2020 – The presentations here follow from an argument previously made suggesting that there were insights to be gained from the form of the coronavirus in 3D. In particular this highlighted the possible isomorphism between the configuration of spikes on the viral form and psychosocial forms potentially characterized in terms of “spikes”.
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Nutritional Advice in These Corona Times
Dag Viljen Poleszynski, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
25 Mar 2020 – Information about Corona virus and measures taken to prevent the spreading of this virus dominate the media. We hear about the number of deaths, how many are infected and about the spread of the virus worldwide. However, we do not receive any information on measures each of us might take to prevent or mitigate the course of the disease if one is already ill.
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Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm
Kathy Kelly | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
27 Mar 2020 – U.S. national security leaders and stakeholders in war, as they shelter in place, have an extraordinary opportunity to set a new norm and link with the vigil for Peace in Yemen, virtually. And, some may even join Yale students on April 9, from sunrise to sunset, in their National Fast for Peace in Yemen. They invite us to pledge support for Doctors Without Borders and other relief groups in Yemen.
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A 21st Century Worldview: Interviewing Ahmet Davutoğlu
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
28 Mar 2020 – Interview that I conducted with the former Turkish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, published in Middle East Monitor on March 23-24, 2020. His responses to questions 18-20 concern the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the world. The interview is long, yet a worthwhile overview how the most important intellectual political figure in Turkey views global and national reality given the shape of recent developments.
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When Economists Try to Solve Health Crises, the Results Can Often Be Disastrous
Justin Podur | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
27 Mar 2020 – Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly.
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Civilized, Barbarians, Savages
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
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(Italiano) Nell’Europa chiusa per il virus la Ue apre le porte all’esercito Usa
Manlio Dinucci | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
10 Marzo 2020 – L’Arte della guerra . Lo Us Army Europe ha richiesto l’istituzione di «un’Area Schengen militare», con la differenza che a circolare liberamente non sono persone ma carrarmati. Test decisivo è l’esercitazione «Difensore dell’Europa 2020», in aprile e maggio. L’arrivo, il 6 marzo, dei primi 200 soldati Usa in Baviera.
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Short-Term and Long-Term Futures
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
28 Mar 2020 – There is a remarkable contrast in the way that governments around the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the way that they have responded to the climate emergency. The pandemic, which indeed represents an extremely grave danger to humanity, has produced a massive global response.
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Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
“As for me, I am rather often uneasy in my mind, because I think that my life has not been calm enough; all those bitter disappointments, adversities, changes keep me from developing fully and naturally in my artistic career.” —Vincent van Gogh
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Irene Vella | Rui Unas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
Entrevistada por DiLei, Irene explicou a gênese de sua maravilhosa poesia dedicada ao mundo durante a emergência do coronavírus e que se tornou viral em pouco tempo. “Eu estava na minha cozinha sentada num banquinho, tinha dado uma volta pelo jardim para ver as árvores a florescer. Estava excitada. Tinha esquecido as quase três semanas de quarentena voluntária, já que meu marido é imunossuprimido, e a mente começou a voar … ”
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(Italiano) La Primavera Non Sapeva Nulla (Inspirational)
Irene Vella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
Era l’11 marzo del 2020, le strade erano vuote, i negozi chiusi, la gente non usciva più.
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Leading the Charge!
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
No comment…
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
Like a wartime enemy, the virus is portrayed as a maleficent external threat, an alien force that endangers one’s homeland and personal security. Associating the biological threat with a political adversary, the American president labeled it a “Chinese virus,” while Chinese leaders have insisted that the virus was manufactured at the Pentagon’s biological warfare facility in Fort Detrick. This game of blame-the-adversary is absurd, of course.
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War and Warming
Nathan Albright | Voices for Creative Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – “What we most need is grassroots solidarity and cross border hospitality, even with all its messiness” said Yeb, “this movement must be strengthened and built despite our world leaders.” That week at the summit, where the Paris Climate Accord would be drafted, despite a government ban on public assembly, 11,000 people flooded the streets facing tear gas and police clubs, and over 600,000 others around the world marched in support. “Solidarity is not an option,” said Yeb, as he completed his journey and risked arrest joining the demonstrations for climate justice, “it is our only chance.”
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BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
10 Feb 2020 – BBC Africa Eye has uncovered shocking video evidence that torture is being used by multiple branches of the Nigerian police and armed forces. WARNING: This Film Contains Disturbing Scenes Including Images of Torture
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(Italiano) Ribbon – un lungo nastro di speranza per questi giorni (in)quieti
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
Se questa piccola proposta incontra l’adesione di qualcuna/o, ci si può poi coordinare per stabilire un punto di raccolta dei pannelli e per organizzare iniziative locali, riaffermando con forza la volontà di abolire le armi nucleari dal mondo.
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Explaining the ‘Asian Miracle’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
20 Mar 2020 – A timely aspect of Nayyar’s book is the emphasis he places on the importance of effective state/society relations in explaining the remarkable growth experience of Asia. Such an insight seems relevant to the degree to which various governments are effectively managing responses to the challenge of the Coronavirus pandemic. It would seem at this stage that well-managed autocracies do better than most democracies, and much better than poorly managed democracies that embody capitalist structures, priorities, and values.
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The Fate of the Planet Rests on Dethroning the IMF and World Bank
Johanna Bozuwa and Thomas M. Hanna | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
A Global Green New Deal could herald a new era of international cooperation to curb the climate crisis, based on genuine international solidarity and climate reparations.
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(Português) O Coronavírus: Auto-Defesa da Própria Terra
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
23 mar 2020 – Seremos capazes de captar o sinal que o coronavírus nos está passando ou continuaremos com o mesmo propósito letal, ferindo a Terra e nos auto-ferindo para acumular irracionalmente bens materiais?
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Lesson
Ravi P. Bhatia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
Two young women each having one baby meet in a Park.
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Is the US a Civilized Nation?
Ron Forthofer | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
We have continued with savage and barbaric policies in, for example, Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, Syria, Libya, Iraq. We have also imposed sanctions on a number of nations that don’t comply with our policies, and these cruel and brutal sanctions are crimes against humanity. This unnecessary and illegal killing by the US of untold numbers while devastating countries and populations that were not a threat to it were hardly acts of a civilized nation.
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Covid-19: Misinformation, Education, and the Need for Clarity
Hassanal Noor Rashid | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
25 Mar 2020 – The recent explosion of COVID-19 cases in the South East Asian region has contributed to the globally growing pandemic that has impacted our global social order and may have many dramatic unforeseen consequences to come.
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Black and White
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
In today’s complex violent society power is expressed in terms of nuclear weapons and armaments that kill and mutilate large sections of people and our ecosystems. Let us confine ourselves to the non destructive, peaceful power of this expression.
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Libya: A Political Deadlock
Loïc Sauvinet | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
26 Mar 2020 – In the light of these latest developments, we have to ask ourselves how this country collapsed, how a seemingly strong state could fail and allow the dynamics of violence to set in, and finally what could be done to manage a peaceful way out of the crisis? To find some answers or at least some keys to interpreting the situation, it is important to have a multidisciplinary approach, using the tools of historical science, sociology and political science.
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(Português) Hamilton pede boicote de zoológicos e circos com animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
27 mar 2020 – Pedido foi feito aos seus 14,9 milhões de seguidores no Instagram – Esta semana o piloto da Fórmula 1 Lewis Hamilton comparou o isolamento social praticado durante a pandemia de coronavírus com a realidade dos animais submetidos a cativeiro em zoológicos e circos.
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Jane Goodall (Born 3 Apr 1934)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
Animal Rights Activist, Scientist – Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times.
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Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
Tomas Pueyo | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
19 Mar 2020 – Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way. If we don’t take these measures, tens of millions will be infected, many will die, along with anybody else that requires intensive care, because the healthcare system will have collapsed.
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Venezuela’s Coronavirus Response Might Surprise Some
Leonardo Flores | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
26 Mar 2020 – Within a few hours of being launched, over 800 Venezuelans in the U.S. registered for an emergency flight from Miami to Caracas through a website run by the Venezuelan government. This flight, offered at no cost, was proposed by President Nicolás Maduro when he learned that 200 Venezuelans were stuck in the United States following his government’s decision to stop commercial flights as a preventative coronavirus measure.
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Lives in Poetry
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents an historical anthology of the poems of some of the world’s great poets, from very early times until the present, and from many countries and cultures. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
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Creative Empathy in a Pandemic
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
18 Mar 2020 – Of all the disruption, paradox and chaos that have been unleashed by the coronavirus, this is the most stunning: It has something to teach us that we could never learn on our own. My God, we are one planet — one people. This isn’t idealism; it’s the most pragmatic social organizing principle possible. Just as all of us are, of necessity, isolated from each other, we are all participants, via our creative empathy, in this shift in human consciousness. What examples of this empathy have you noticed? Let’s share.
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Seven Important Things to Know about Coronaviruses
Dan Werb - The New York Times,
30 Mar 2020
20 Mar 2020 – Six reasons they’re so harmful, and one reason they’re less infectious than other diseases.
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(Italiano) COVID19: catastrofe o opportunità di cambiamento?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
15 Marzo 2020 – All’emergenza climatica e a quella di milioni di rifugiati in fuga dalle devastazioni prodotte dalle guerre e dagli effetti del riscaldamento globale si è aggiunta la pandemia da COVID19. Come una goccia che fa traboccare il vaso, quest’ultima ha messo in evidenza tutte le fragilità delle nostre società opulente, dissipatrici, diseguali, aggressive verso ogni forma di rifiuto del sistema militare-industriale-scientifico dominato dal profitto e dal mercato senza regole.
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Defending Humanity against the Elite Coup
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
28 Mar 2020 – In last week’s TMS Editorial, I reported existing evidence on the way in which COVID-19 is being used to implement, but also divert attention from, initiatives being taken by the global elite to consolidate and expand its power in significant ways and perhaps to make the final drive to take total control of global society. The struggle to restore our rights, economic well-being and freedoms will not be won easily. I intend to do everything I can to ensure that we succeed. I hope that you will too.
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US Levies False Charges of Drug Trafficking against Venezuela
Task Force of the Americas - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
28 Mar 2020 – The Task Force on the Americas condemns the false criminal charges by the US government against fourteen high-ranking Venezuelan officials for alleged involvement in international drug trafficking. The US government has, in effect, put a $15 million bounty on Venezuelan President Maduro and bounties of $10 million each for the head of the National Constituent Assembly and other leading officials and former officials.
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Remembering My Friend Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams (RIP)
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – Betty Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate (22 May 1943 – 18 Mar 2020), Co-Founder of Peace People (1976). Today, a final farewell to Betty Williams took place at Roselawn Cemetery, Belfast.
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Can COVID-19 Take Down NATO?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
25 Mar 2020 – The Pentagon insisted on going ahead with provocative NATO war games near Russia’s borders, despite the coronavirus epidemic, but Germany pulled its forces out and closed its roads to troop movements. The US is doing a poor job of helping its own population. Europeans are figuring out that the US is a morally and spiritually bankrupt nation and that’s no doubt dawning on Americans who see the scarcity of medical equipment and the abundance of lethal weapons here.
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Race
Peter Wade, Audrey Smedley and Yasuko I. Takezawa | Encyclopaedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
29 Jan 2020 – Race, the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences. Genetic studies in the late 20th century refuted the existence of biogenetically distinct races, and scholars now argue that “races” are cultural interventions reflecting specific attitudes and beliefs that were imposed on different populations in the wake of western European conquests beginning in the 15th century.
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[LIVE] Coronavirus Pandemic: Real Time Counter, World Map, News
Roylab Stats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
Novel Coronavirus Live Streaming: Breaking News, World Map and Live Counter on confirmed cases, recovered cases (COVID-19)
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Coronavirus: Less Humanitarianism, More Politics!
Julie Billaud | Allegra Lab - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
25 Mar 2020 – Time is running out, we are told, and the end justifies the means… In other words, we need to move away from humanitarian thinking, which provides primarily technical answers, and rethink in political terms the public good, solidarity and social justice.
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Jena Declaration: The Concept of Race Is the Result of Racism, Not Its Prerequisite
Jena University | Koozma J. Tarasoff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
It was historically significant that the ‘Jena Declaration’ was endorsed at Jena University, Germany, 100 years after the death of its most famous zoology professor Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) who co-founded scientific racism, which led to eugenics, antisemitism, involuntary sterilizations, racial wars, the racial policy of Nazi Germany, xenophobia, apartheid, etc. Haeckel divided human beings into 10 races, and believed Negroes were savages doomed to extinction and that Whites were the most civilised.
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Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #3 (Music Video of the Week)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Alice Sara Ott | France Musique – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
Pianist Alice Sara Ott plays with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mikko Franck in the auditorium of Radio France, Paris. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #3 was first performed in Vienna on 5 April 1803, the same day as the oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives and the Symphony #2.
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Year Six of the War in Yemen
Abubakar Ben Rajeh | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
26 Mar 2020 – The Yemeni parties must rally around a comprehensive national project, in order to find consensus on the shape of the Yemeni state and its territorial integrity; and the establishment of a transitional authority based on the principle of partnership, leading to a comprehensive political process that is separate from subnational projects and regional polarisation. Otherwise, Yemen will remain subject to international and regional polarisation, which will prolong the war and exacerbate the suffering of the Yemeni people.
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COVID-19: UN Health Agency Advice Informs Decision to Delay Olympic Games for First Time Since 1944
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
24 Mar 2020 -The International Olympic Committee declared today that it is postponing the 2020 Summer Olympics which were due to take place in Japan, based on information provided by the UN health agency, WHO, on the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic.
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Maya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
Angelou’s timeless wisdom shines with unparalleled light in a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, in which Angelou explores issues of identity and the meaning of life.
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Nicaragua: Advancing Social Equality and Food Sovereignty
Carissa Brands | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
20 Mar 2020 – Other than the economy still recuperating from the attempted coup of 2018, the Nicaraguan people continue their struggle to remain independent and out of the grips of the neoliberal orbit of US imperialism. Despite the crippling effects of US sanctions, the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega has made significant social advances since it came to power in 2007
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(Português) Campanha pede que as pessoas divulguem que os animais domésticos não transmitem Covid-19
Fátima ChuEcco - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
30 Mar 2020
25 Mar 2020 – O Partido pelos Animais português quer ainda que o governo autorize a circulação de pessoas que alimentam animais de colônias ou que são voluntários de abrigos.
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(Italiano) Riflessione di Politica Non Violenta Sulla Pandemia del Coronavirus
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
La scienza occidentale è criticabile perché, nascondendo essa i suoi fondamenti (che in realtà sono divisi in un pluralismo di direzioni), si pone come verità assoluta e inevitabile. Con ciò dà autorità sociale ad una tecnologia che, allettando in continuazione gli uomini con la promessa di sempre sempre maggior benessere, invade la vita umana fino a soffocarla nell’intimo.
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Technology of Death: The Not-so-Shocking Report on Israeli Weapons Exports
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
25 Mar 2020 – The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security, and reconstruction. Thanks to the US, Russian, French, Israeli and other weapons manufacturers, however, it is now the dumping ground for military hardware, an ominous sign for the years ahead.
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(Português) A Praga – Texto Inspirador
Kitty O'Meara - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
“E as pessoas ficaram em casa. E liam livros, prestavam atenção, descansavam, se exercitavam, faziam arte, brincavam, cultivavam jardins cheios de alimentos frescos, e aprendiam novas maneiras de ser e estar, e mantinham-se postas. E ouviam mais profundamente. Alguns meditavam, outros oravam, outros dançavam. Alguns encontraram suas sombras. E o povo começou a pensar de maneira diferente. [Siga lendo, por favor…]
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Nonviolence According to Dharma
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
When understanding Vedic Dharma and the need for us to raise our consciousness, which includes perceiving the Divine in all beings, it should also be clear that we need to observe respect, kindness, non-injury, and nonviolence toward all.
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An Offer and an Appeal to You…
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
We all have interesting and varied sources of information and analysis. One of the most exciting and insightful that I use and enjoy is TRANSCEND Media Service, founded by Professor Johann Galtung, the “Father of Peace Studies” and leader of a multi-national group of distinguished academics and activists working for peace in all its forms. The articles analyse world affairs from a multitude of different approaches. I would like to offer this information source to you and your students. A University Education should challenge students to seek out ideas and to discover new sources. TMS does some of this preparatory work for your students: they can find many unexpected analyses and varying points of view in a single website.
— Robin Edward Poulton ChONM, ChROSC, UNSM, MBIM, MA (Hons St A), MSc (Oxon), PhD (Paris)
Civilized, Barbarians, Savages
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
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COVID-19: Present, Past, and Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – A few days ago when WHO officially declared the COVID-19 a ‘pandemic’ a Rubicon of consciousness and global governance was crossed. Hundreds of millions of individuals around the world are coping physically and mentally with what that word never before used in my lifetime means for themselves and those they care most about. The mental dimensions of self-isolation may turn out to be a big challenge almost as big as the disease itself.
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A COVID-19 Vaccine Quickly and Cheaply
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
16 Mar 2020 – How monoclonal antibody techniques may be used to produce the vaccine, and how gene-splicing may then be used to mass-produce it inexpensively.
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Peter Wade, Audrey Smedley and Yasuko I. Takezawa | Encyclopaedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
29 Jan 2020 – Race, the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences. Genetic studies in the late 20th century refuted the existence of biogenetically distinct races, and scholars now argue that “races” are cultural interventions reflecting specific attitudes and beliefs that were imposed on different populations in the wake of western European conquests beginning in the 15th century.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
The future may well marvel at the primary strategy advocated globally in response to the coronavirus pandemic, namely social distancing. The question here is the viability of social distancing on a planet on which overcrowding is already widely recognized — but as a purely local challenge. This is most evident in the restriction of access of tourists to popular destinations. The reality of local overcrowding is the theme of a separate argument which notes the total unreality of global implications
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(Português) Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – Uma civilização ou cultura é definida como o conjunto de costumes, tradições, éticas, valores, língua, música, dança, cozinha, vestuário, religião, e organização social e política de um povo, grupo étnico, tribo, ou nação.
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Coronavirus and the World Order
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Coronavirus is posing a global health risk. The World Health Organization has declared it a pandemic. Beyond the health crisis, and the economic costs, the political implications of the pandemic are far-reaching. International relations experts are yet to explore fully its impact on the world order.
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The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift
John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Departing from much previous scholarship, Foster and Clark adopt a materialist and dialectical approach, bridging the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism. The ecological crisis, they explain, extends beyond questions of traditional class struggle to a corporeal rift in the physical organization of living beings themselves, raising critical issues of social reproduction, racial capitalism, alienated speciesism, and ecological imperialism.
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Ecological Reflections on the Corona Virus
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
One Planet, One Health–Connected through Biodiversity: From the forests to our farms to our gut microbiome – We are one Earth Family on one planet , healthy in our diversity and interconnectedness. The planet’s health and our health is non separable .
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Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Brazil Begs for Cuban Doctors–After Expelling Them
Ben Norton | Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – Brazil’s far-right government requested the return of thousands of Cuban doctors to help fight the coronavirus. Months ago, President Jair Bolsonaro smeared the doctors as “terrorists” and expelled them.
→ read full articleObserving Elites Manipulate Our Fear: COVID-19, Propaganda and Knowledge
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
While humans stand on the brink of precipitating our own extinction, virtually everyone remains unaware of the critical nature of our plight. The ongoing human death toll from the activities that are generating this crisis numbers in the many millions each year while the number of species driven to extinction is estimated at 200 per day. In contrast, a virus that is killing a very small proportion of the minuscule number it has infected is causing panic in many countries around the world, devastating the travel and tourism industries while emptying supermarket shelves of food and that apparently most vital of commodities: toilet paper.
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The Coronavirus Is Not the Plague: The Plague Is US
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
21 Mar 2020 – Intuition tells me that although the emperor has no clothes and a vast PSYOPS occupation is now underway, too many are too grown-up to see it. It’s an old story continually updated. Like ‘The Plague. ‘
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Why Sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during a Pandemic Are Cruel
Vijay Prashad and Paola Estrada | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
In the midst of a pandemic, one would expect that all countries would collaborate in every way to mitigate the spread of the virus and its impact on human society. One would expect that a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude would provide the opportunity to suspend or end all inhumane economic sanctions and political blockades against certain countries. Is this not the time for the imperialist bloc, led by the United States of America, to end the sanctions against Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and a series of other countries?
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The Dressed Death Corona
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
The death and nature being close friends
A baton is with one hand and a rope the other
Behind and frontline they march
(Português) Sempre Culpamos Outros Animais Pelas Doenças que Provocamos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
22 Mar 2020 – Semeamos muitas doenças quando nos alimentamos de animais e/ou interferimos em suas vidas; sejam criaturas domesticadas ou silvestres.
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Relating…?
Banksy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
No comment…
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Has the Crash Arrived?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
19 Mar 2020 – The headlines provide abundant details about economic shutdowns in order to slow the spread of the COV-19 virus. But behind the headlines, there is another story more important in the long run: the global economy is a house of cards based on speculation and military spending. It seems likely that the house of cards will come crashing down as a result of the global economic shutdown.
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Jena Declaration: The Concept of Race Is the Result of Racism, Not Its Prerequisite
Jena University | Koozma J. Tarasoff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
It was historically significant that the ‘Jena Declaration’ was endorsed at Jena University, Germany, 100 years after the death of its most famous zoology professor Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) who co-founded scientific racism, which led to eugenics, antisemitism, involuntary sterilizations, racial wars, the racial policy of Nazi Germany, xenophobia, apartheid, etc. Haeckel divided human beings into 10 races, and believed Negroes were savages doomed to extinction and that Whites were the most civilised.
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Trump vs Coronavirus ‘Hoax’
The Recount - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
As another Caesar once said: “But I am as constant as the Northern Star…”
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Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws–A Humanitarian Message
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – U.S. sanctions against Iran continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the U.S. “maximum pressure” policy severely undermines Iranian efforts to cope with the ravages of COVID-19, causing hardship and tragedy while contributing to the global spread of the pandemic. On March 12, Iran’s Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif urged member states of the UN to end the United States’ unconscionable and lethal economic warfare.
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Yanis Varoufakis: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Yanis Varoufakis | DiEM25 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder and MeRA25 MP, on the economic and political impact of the coronavirus.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – Tea is a cheap drink that most Indians relish at home and in restaurants. The word comes from the Chinese term cha from where it is presumed the tea leaves spread to different parts of the world.
→ read full articlePlague – Inspirational
Kitty O'Meara - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and grew gardens full of fresh food, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.” [please read on…]
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Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado and Zoe PC | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
18 Mar 2020 – The chief of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva’s policy to provide special assistance to countries should have been sufficient for the IMF to provide the assistance that the Venezuelan government had requested. But, very quickly, the Fund declined the request from Venezuela. It is important to underline the fact that the IMF made this denial at a time when the coronavirus had begun to spread in Venezuela.
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The Coronavirus Reader
The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – Info and Insights on the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Bill was a Christian and wanted a horse. On Craigslist, he found a Christian horse so he went to check it out.
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Coronavirus: Tech Rivals Facebook, Google and Microsoft Release Unprecedented Joint Statement on ‘Fake News’
Rob Waugh | Yahoo News UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Google, Facebook and Microsoft have joined forces to release an unprecedented statement on coronavirus – in the battle against online misinformation. The statement promises that the tech giants are working together, “jointly combating fraud and misinformation about the virus”.
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Questions and Curfews
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
The two choices before us (collectively): We keep the old ways (greed, rampant capitalism and die together) or care for each other and for our planet. Our health and the health of the planet are at stake. This is yet another stark reminder. Let us hope we make the right choices, pressure politicians, and choose life. We cannot act like lemmings going towards the cliff.
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Coronavirus: Global Response Urgently Needed
Jim O'Neill, Robin Niblett and Creon Butler | Chatham House – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
There have been warnings for several years that world leaders would find it hard to manage a new global crisis in today’s more confrontational, protectionist and nativist political environment.
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Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It
Naomi Klein - The Intercept,
23 Mar 2020
16 Mar 2020 – I’ve spent two decades studying the transformations that take place under the cover of disaster. I’ve learned that one thing we can count on is this: During moments of cataclysmic change, the previously unthinkable suddenly becomes reality. In recent decades, that change has mainly been for the worst — but this has not always been the case. And it need not continue to be in the future.
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Pompeo’s Remarks to the Press about the ICC
Michael R. Pompeo, US Secretary of State – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
17 March 2020 – US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo officially trashes ICC and makes threats against ICC staff and their family members.
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Cuba Gives Permission for Cruise Ship Carrying COVID-19 Patients to Dock
Cuba Solidarity Campaign - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
16 Mar 2020 – A British cruise ship carrying five passengers who have tested positive for the coronavirus is to dock in Cuba after being turned away by other countries. The MS Braemar, which is carrying six hundred passengers, most of whom are British, had been stranded at sea for two days while trying to find a country which would allow it to dock.
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Paris Museums Put 100,000 Images Online for Unrestricted Public Use
Jason Kottke - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Paris Musées, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website. Artists with works in the archive include Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, and thousands of others.
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Alex Lockwood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Frances, Emily and Amy were all aspiring scientists, looking forward to a future in which they could make a real difference to human health. Testing on animals, they had felt, was a necessary part of their research. These three scientists all slowly came to question the validity of animal testing and now look to share their stories.
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Meet the 17-Year-Old Behind a Website Tracking Coronavirus Cases That Is Now a Vital Global Resource
Amy Goodman - Democracy NOW!,
23 Mar 2020
17 Mar 2020 – A teenager’s website tracking coronavirus has become one of the most vital resources for people seeking accurate and updated numbers on the pandemic. The URL is nCoV2019.live. We speak with 17-year-old Avi Schiffmann, a high school junior from Mercer Island outside Seattle, who started the site in late December, when coronavirus had not yet been detected outside of China. Now the site has been visited by tens of millions, from every country on Earth. It tracks deaths, numbers of cases locally and globally, and provides an interactive map, information on the disease, and a Twitter feed. The resource updates every minute or so, and pulls information from the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and elsewhere.
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Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning others of them in good time, with apology and charm.”
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Socialism at Its Finest after Fed’s Bazooka Fails
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
21 Mar 2020 – In what is being called the worst financial crisis since 1929, the US stock market has lost a third of its value in the space of a month, wiping out all of its gains of the last three years. When the Federal Reserve tried to ride to the rescue, it only succeeded in making matters worse. The government then pulled out all the stops. To our staunchly capitalist leaders, socialism is suddenly looking good.
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American Empire Defined
The Peace Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
Then->Colonialism – Now->Military Bases
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Rondo Alla Turca (Music Video of the Week)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
The 5 Browns playing an arrangement and rift of Mozart’s Alla Turca by Greg Anderson. The video was made at the International Street Pianos Art Installment, “Play Me, I’m Yours.”
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Chinese Swimmer Sun Yang Is Being Falsely Punished
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
19 Mar 2020 – Sun Yang is an Olympic Gold medalist and world record holding swimmer. He was recently ruled to be guilty of an anti-doping rule violation and banned from competing for eight years. The decision was met with shock and anger among his many fans in China; glee and gloating by some western media and swimming competitors. What lies behind this important decision? Has it advanced or undermined the cause of anti-doping? The following article outlines the Sun Yang case and context.
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(Italiano) Dal mare altre brutte notizie per Cina, Usa, Germania e Italia
Jack Cambiaso | IlSussidiario - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – Dopo un mese intero di emergenza da coronavirus il peggio sembra dover ancora arrivare dal punto di vista economico
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Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for ‘Disaster Capitalism’
Marie Solis | Vice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
13 Mar 2020 – Naomi Klein explains how governments and the global elite will exploit a pandemic. “We’re seeing in real time that we are so much more interconnected to one another than our quite brutal economic system would have us believe.”
→ read full articleCruelty or Humanity?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020 – This is my foreword to Stuart Rees’ exceedingly important study of the role of cruelty in politics, a mystifying dimension of human experience, which is illuminated by integrating the insights and reflections of poets with the narration of political policies. This fusion gives this book a quality of originality as well of practical relevance.
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(Castellano) Animales transgénicos, otra cruel y vil creación del hombre
Diario Ecologia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
Son diseñados por los hombres para explotar a los animales en pro de su beneficio. Esto es a lo que lleva el consumismo del ser humano y el daño de las industrias al enriquecerse a cualquier costo sin importarles la vida tanto del animal como la del ser humano. Nada en absoluto puede justificar este hecho sumamente cruel y vil.
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A Record of Major High-Rise Fires Worldwide
Chris Sarns | AE911Truth - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
10 Mar 2020 – This article is a record of major high-rise fires around the world over the past 50 years. As the record shows, neither before nor since 9/11 has a steel-frame, fire-protected high-rise experienced a total collapse due to fire — much less a collapse exhibiting all the features of controlled demolition, as was observed in the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on September 11, 2001.
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