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Sowing Seeds of Freedom from Hunger, Malnutrition and Disease
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
14 Aug 2021 – The Industrial agriculture model is based on violence and war–war against the earth and against our bodies. It has created structural hunger, malnutrition and disease… Our work has shown that we can address both SDG 2 on zero hunger and SDG 3 on good health and wellbeing for all by regenerating and cultivating biodiversity in our minds, on our farms, in our gut. How we grow our food, and what we eat, is the single biggest change each of us can make to regenerate the earth.
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Is This the End of the Road for Meat Consumption?
Johnny Luk | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems concluded ahead of the main Summit in September in New York. How can the world achieve zero food poverty while also reducing carbon emissions and reversing biodiversity loss? These lofty aspirations are immensely challenging in reality.
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The Surreal Magaverse
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
This Modern World
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Toward Global Solidarity: A Politics of Impossibility
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
14 Aug 2021 – This post is my stimulus essay for a Forum sponsored by Great Transition Initiative, a project of the Tellus Institute, dedicated to the exploration of humane and ecologically resonant adjustments to the challenges and threats posed by the onset of the Anthropocentric Age.
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Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” about Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
India McKinney and Erica Portnoy | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage and messaging systems. Apple’s compromise on end-to-end encryption may appease government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, but it is a shocking about-face for users who have relied on the company’s leadership in privacy and security.
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Transnational Activism vs White Saviourism in Myanmar Affairs
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – As a Burmese who has been angry – very angry – for decades over numerous forms and countless instances of oppression and injustices in Myanmar, and emphatically, around the world, I am less concerned about the morally corrupt desire of revenge and vengeance of the oppressed towards their oppressor or the System than the enveloping White Saviourism with its corrupting coloniality.
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And So It Begins Again: The Media Recycles Afghanistan War Lies
Patrick Martin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021 – Following the desperate evacuation of US troops, the corporate press is raising concerns for the “human rights” of Afghans. For the last 20 years, the corporate media raised no objections as the USA killed over 100,000 people, set up black site torture chambers, carried out drone assassinations, robbed the country of its resources, and facilitated horrific crimes by promoting the war as a “just cause,” a necessary response to 9/11.
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A Hell of Our Own Making
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – Reflections on the Road to Kabul – Nearly 20 years after it was launched in the wake of 9/11, the long war in Afghanistan, one of the great cruelties of my generation, has unexpectedly reached its expectedly tragic conclusion. I am certainly not sad to see it go, but it’s difficult to avoid a profound sense of regret at the error of it all.
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The Media Yawns at the Israeli Army’s Death Squads
Gideon Levy | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – Israeli terror is at it again. The Israel Defense Forces’ death squads chalked up another successful week: four bodies of innocent Palestinians piled up between the two Fridays. There doesn’t seem to be a connection between the four incidents in which four sons were killed, but the link cannot be broken.
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Are We Out of Options on Myanmar?
Nayd Riham | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
22 Aug 2021 – Rohima Kadu’s idyllic village of Rakhine was visited by Myanmar’s much-dreaded military, the Tatmadaw and its local Buddhist militia associates. A helpless Rohingya widow of 50, Rohima’s eldest daughter was bedridden with malaria and too weak to run. So, Rohima grabbed her grandchildren and fled to the nearby forest. She returned when the pillaging was over, but all that remained was a charred skull of her daughter lying on the ground.
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Tigrayans Speak Out in Support of Ethiopia and Prime Minister Abiy, not the TPLF
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – A Tigrayan speaks in support of the Ethiopian government.
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In the Tradition of U.S. Puppets, When They Finally Get Kicked Out, They Steal as much of the Country’s Treasure as They Can
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
17 Aug 2021 – True to Form, Last Sunday the U.S. Puppet President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, Fled Kabul with Four Luxury Vehicles and a Helicopter Stuffed So Full of Cash That a Huge Pile of It Could Not Fit and Had to Be Left on the Tarmac
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When Will We Stop Letting Our Presidents Lie USA into Wars?
Thom Hartmann | The Hartmann Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – Let’s never forget that what we are watching happen right now in Afghanistan is the final act of George W. Bush‘s 2004 reelection strategy. The U.S. has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in terms of money, credibility and blood. We must remember the lies. We can’t afford to let this one go down the memory hole, too.
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COVID-19 Infection via the Eyes and Mask Protection Misinformation
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Irresponsible Failure of Health Authorities Regarding Need for Protective Goggles?
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John Pilger: A Day in the Death of British Justice
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The veteran journalist has covered Julian Assange’s case from the beginning and was in London this week to witness the latest shameful episode. “The reputation of British justice now rests on the shoulders of the High Court in the life or death case of Julian Assange.” Here is his dispatch.
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Empire or Humanity?
Howard Zinn | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me about the American Empire – Have not the justifications for empire–that war is necessary for security and expansion to civilization–begun to lose their hold on our minds? Are we ready to embrace a new way of living in the world, expanding not our military power, but our humanity?
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‘Code Red for Humanity’: IPCC Report Warns Window for Climate Action Is Closing Fast
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Aug 2021 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–a team of more than 200 leading scientists convened by the UN– issued a comprehensive report today. “The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”
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The IPCC Understated the Need to Cut Emissions from Methane and Other Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, Climate Experts Say
Phil McKenna | Inside Climate News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – A landmark report on the science of climate change underplays the quick benefit of reducing methane emissions, but the Biden administration says they’re on it, anyway.
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The Fall of Kabul
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
15 Aug 2021 – Today, the Taliban entered the Afghan capital of Kabul, and several countries, including the USA, began to evacuate their embassies. As the Taliban seized the presidential palace, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. “We, of course, are saddened indeed by the events. … But these events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America’s leadership in the world,” said the U.S. president. But that president wasn’t Biden. It was Gerald Ford on April 23, 1975, as North Vietnamese forces rolled toward Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.
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(Italiano) ONU: Due imperi in crollo – e poi?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Agosto 2021 – Washington: C’è Storia nel voto ONU del 29 novembre 2012: 138 SI’ per dare alla Palestina lo status di “stato osservatore non-membro” ONU, solo 9 NO, e 41 astensioni.
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Afghanistan: No Exit
Andrew Quilty | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – As the Taliban Seize Cities, Desperate Afghans Are Trapped in an American-Made Fiasco
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Epic Afghan Failure Shows That USA’s Naive Belief It Can Cure the World’s Ills with Democracy, Dollars, and M16s Is Wrong
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The Taliban’s close to retaking control and the US occupation’s been a total failure. Yet the fundamental lesson’s being ignored: Washington needs to stop exporting its ideology as if it’s an answer to the problems countries face.
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Behind the Smokescreen: West’s China Cold War Agenda
Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby | TFF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop
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Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
The Whistleblower Who Started It All – For the Fourth of July, I reached out to an old friend, Daniel Ellsberg, to experiment with recording little conversations for you about big topics. I hope you enjoy it.
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(Italiano) Predizioni del futuro
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), scrittore inglese estremamente prolifico che scrisse romanza, novella, libri di storia, manuali di biologia, scenari utopici e così via, è stato chiamato “lo Shake-speare della fantascienza”. Durante la sua carriera face varie predizioni del futuro, molte fra le quali sorpendentemente precise.
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Capitalism Is What’s Burning the Planet, Not Average People
Chris Saltmarsh | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – Not all humans are equally culpable in the climate chaos outlined in the 9 Aug IPCC report. Identifying the rich and powerful as the principal culprits is key to stopping further destruction.
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Facebook Silences the People Who Know Its Operations Best
Yael Eisenstat | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
3 Aug 2021 – Tech giants use nondisparagement clauses to keep former employees from discussing the companies.
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War, Herbicides and Moral Disengagement
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
On 10 Aug 1961 the U.S. started poisoning the forests and crops of Vietnam with herbicides to deprive the commies of Ho Chi Minh of food and ground cover. Agent Orange Awareness Day was on 10 Aug. I think we should spend the rest of the year honoring War and Dehumanization Awareness Day.
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Assange: The End Game
Scott Ludlam | The Monthly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope.
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We’ve Never Seen Vaccine Injuries on This Scale — Why Are U.S. Regulatory Agencies Hiding COVID Vaccine Safety Signals?
Children's Health Defense Team | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – In under a year, more than 500,000 post-COVID vaccine injuries have been reported to VAERS — nearly a third of all reports accumulated over the system’s entire three-decade lifespan — yet regulatory agencies remain silent.
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Does China’s Rise Really Threaten the U.S.—Or Just Its Sociopathic Power Elite, Who Want to Keep Ruling the World Even If It Drags Us into WW III?
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
14 Aug 2021 – Government-sponsored “fake news” is brainwashing the public into accepting a new U.S./NATO-sponsored Cold War with China.
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US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington No Longer Calling the Shots
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
“Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business,”
— Jonah Goldberg quoting Michael Ledeen in The National Review, before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003
The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie about the Atom Bomb
William J. Broad | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Aug 2021 – Charles H. Loeb defied the American military’s denials and propaganda to show how deadly radiation from the strike on Hiroshima sickened and killed.
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What the West Must Learn from China
Marshall Auerback | UnHerd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
10 Aug 2021 – The Chinese government has made an existential choice: rather than surviving by betting on the markets, it is going to produce stuff instead. Unlike America’s Federal Reserve, whose increasing tolerance and support of financial bubbles continues to engender profound systemic fragility in the American economy, Beijing is prioritising social cohesion above the narrow interests of financial rentiers.
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How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect Nature
Jim Robbins | Yale Environment 360 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using traditional knowledge, from how to support wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds.
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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.” –Mathematician Robert Kaplan. If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today.
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Laying the Foundations for Our Jewish Liberation
Mira Stern | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
4 Aug 2021 – The Jewishness I love is one of a people rooted in collective freedom, in justice, in hereness. What might it mean for us to divest from the projects of Zionism, whiteness, and settler colonialism, while also holding pride in the layers of our Jewish identity?
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If You Build It, They Will Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship around the World
Kurt Opsahl | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted messages. It has created an infrastructure that is all too easy to redirect to greater surveillance and censorship. Apple has paved the road to mandated security weakness around the world, enabling and reinforcing the arguments that, should the intentions be good enough, scanning through your personal life and private communications is acceptable.
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Induced Divisionism
Opinion Sur | Editorial - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
20 Jul 2021 – Since remote times and even today, those who seize power defending minority interests need to coopt followers from other spaces to secure sustainability. They achieve that manipulating public opinion, colonizing minds, buying wills, also with repression.
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How Myanmar Fits into China’s New Silk Roads
Pepe Escobar | InsideOver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
4 Aug 2021 – How Beijing approaches the Myanmar maze is conditioned by four variables: natural gas; water; the drug trade; and the fractious clashes between the Tatmadaw and a dizzying patchwork of over 135 ethnic minorities.
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(Italiano) I conflitti ambientali e il bluff dell’economia circolare
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Agosto 2021 – 3.492 pallini sulla carta, indicatori di altrettanti conflitti ambientali segnalati e descritti dall’Environmental Justice Atlas, uno straordinario archivio, tuttora ‘in progress’, che dagli anni ’70 del Novecento segnala al pubblico storie di comunità che in tutto il mondo sono impegnate nella difesa dei loro territori.
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The US Legacy in Afghanistan
Maya Evans | Afghanistan Peace Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
15 Aug 2021 – The Taliban take all major cities in Afghanistan ~ The Presidential Palace has fallen ~ President Ghani flees the country ~ US pledge to redeploy 5,000 troops ~ All embassy staff leave the country ~ We are now looking at a Taliban led Government ~ The Taliban say they want to take power without violence. The war in Afghanistan can be summed up as chaotic and disastrous.
→ read full articleInterrelating Multiple Ways of Looking at a Crisis
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
9 Aug 2021 – It is extraordinary to note that the current period is witness to a singular way of looking at a crisis. In this case the challenge is the pandemic. The one way of looking that has emerged as an absolute global necessity is universal vaccination. Informed by “science”, every effort is now made to ensure that all authorities reinforce this modality and that any other way is depicted as ridiculous, if not dangerous — to be eradicated by any means possible.
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(Français) Prosternez-vous devant le Dieu Vaccin
Dr Pascal Sacré | Centre de Recherche sur la Mondialisation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
30 juillet 2021 – La question, pour moi, n’est pas de diaboliser la vaccination comme les intégristes de celle-ci diabolisent toute alternative à leur Dieu. La question, pour moi, est de dire la vérité aux gens : Il y a des alternatives plus sûres, plus efficaces et moins dangereuses pour trouver la porte de sortie de cette crise.
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Our Life as Rohingya Refugees
Austin Jani | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – A poem written by a young Rohingya poet, from Rakhine state, living in Rangoon.
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Austin Jani | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – From Sittwe, Rakhine, Myanmar – ရိုဇင်မြင့်ထိုက် -ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ကဗျာဆရာ
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Hiroshima Never Again!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Aug. 6th marks the anniversary of the U.S. dropping the first atomic bomb named “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. Three days later, on Aug. 9th a second atomic bomb named “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki. In two blinding flashes of light, heat and radiation, hundreds of thousands of people were killed.
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(Français) Mise à Jour Sur la Culture de la Guerre
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Il ne semble pas probable que l’avancée de la démocratie et de la conscience anti-guerre puisse renverser l’empire américain et sa culture de guerre, mais comme son prédécesseur, l’empire soviétique, finira par s’effondrer à cause de ses propres contradictions. Et à ce point lá, le développement de la démocratie et de la conscience anti-guerre sera essentiel si on peut faire un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale, une ONU basée directement sur le peuple et promouvant une culture de paix.
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Neither Judges nor Diplomats Are Coming to Save Sheikh Jarrah
Amjad Iraqi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – It was infuriating to follow the Israeli High Court’s deliberations on Sheikh Jarrah today. The three presiding judges proposed a deal that would allow the families to remain in their homes as “protected tenants” for several years, in exchange for paying a small “rental” fee to the settler group Nahalat Shimon, which has been aggressively coveting the properties with the backing of the police. What the judges described as a “compromise,” however, was delivered more like an ultimatum.
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Investigation: How the Meat Industry Is Climate-Washing Its Polluting Business Model
Caroline Christen | DeSmog - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
18 Jul 2021 – Growing global meat consumption threatens to derail the Paris Agreement, but that hasn’t stopped the meat industry insisting it is part of the solution to climate change.
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Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence
Henry A. Giroux | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
On 6 Aug 1945, the US unleashed an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 140,000 people and destroying 70% of the city instantly. On 9 Aug, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimated 70,000 people. The Japanese government stated that the death toll was much higher: close to a half million. The incineration of mostly innocent civilians was buried in official government pronouncements about the victory of the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Corporate Courts vs. the Environment
Nick Dearden | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – Corporate courts were invented to protect the West’s control of the world against decolonisation. They are now undermining attempts to halt climate change. Italy expects to be ordered to hand millions of dollars over to an oil exploration corporation, following the Italian government’s decision to ban such exploration off its coast.
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(Português) Um Relato Sobre a Dor dos Frangos Antes do Abate
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
28 jul 2021 – Na tentativa de resistir, os frangos, já estressados e assustados, balançam as asas, se debatem e dão bicadas. Irritados, os catadores de frangos reagem batendo nos animais, o que pode ir além de arrancar asas. “Tem quebra de osso. É mais normal do que você pode imaginar, porque frango de granja já é um bicho meio frágil.
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Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years at War with Anglo American Power
Carla Stea | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
A Review of A. B. Abrams’s Book – The United Nations, to its disgrace, participated in this genocidal policy throughout the war, and continues to the present day.
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Space Stooges
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Progress… (?)
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A Shocking List of 52 Zionist Israel-Nazi Germany Comparisons
Gideon Polya | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
7 Aug 2021 – The cruel and genocidal oppression of the Indigenous Palestinians by nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel invites comparison with the cruelties of Nazi Germany.
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Pentagon Documents Reveal How the DOD Bullies Movie and TV Producers into Forcing Them to Accept Their ‘Assistance’
Tom Secker | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – The US military’s central office for dealing with Hollywood revealed how the Department of Defense strong-armed the industry to achieve its propaganda goals. The reports were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Canada Is Waging an All-Front Legal War against Indigenous People
Justin Podur | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – After mass graves full of Indigenous children have been found, how can Canada justify ongoing land theft?
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Chomsky on Secret Bolsonaro Meeting with C.I.A Director: A ‘Soft Coup’ May Be Underway
Edu Montesanti | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – Like the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff by a Bunch of Corrupt Gangsters on Fraudulent Grounds – “A military coup does not seem out of the question,” says Noam Chomsky. The meeting in Brasilia on July 1 was at least “suggestive,” he says in an exclusive interview.
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Havana Heat
Andrea Arroyo and Angel Boligàn Corbo | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – Cuba Libre
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Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
“The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.” Consider this.
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The Specter of Vaccine Fundamentalism: Bowing Down and Serving the “God of Vaccines”
Dr. Pascal Sacré | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
3 Aug 2021 – The issue, for me, is not to demonize vaccination the way fundamentalists demonize any alternative to their God. The issue, for me, is to tell people the truth: There are safer, more effective and less dangerous alternatives to finding the way out of this crisis.
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Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One – The easier it becomes to produce information, the harder that information becomes to consume — and the harder we have to work to separate the spurious from the significant.
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‘Unimaginably Catastrophic’: Researchers Fear Gulf Stream System Could Collapse
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – While heatwaves, fires, and floods produce warnings that “we are living in a climate emergency, here and now,” a scientific study suggested today that a crucial Atlantic Ocean current system could collapse, which “would have severe impacts on the global climate system.” Scientists say we cannot allow this to happen. People in power stand in our way.
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Brilliant New Film ‘Pray Away’ Picks Personal Stories of ‘Ex-Ex-Gays’ to Expose Faith-Based Conversion Therapy as a Religious Sham
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
7 Aug 2021 – Conversion’s therapy’s bogus science is exposed in a new documentary in which ‘ex-gay’ Christian cheerleaders admit they’re homosexual and confess they were lying all along as they brought misery to vulnerable young people.
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An Urgent Reading Assignment That Makes Vaccine-hesitancy Logical for the Vaccinology-illiterate
Compiled by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
8 Aug 2021 – Especially for Big Pharma-corrupted Scientists, Politicians, Journalists, Talking Heads, Public Health Bureaucrats and Vaccinology-naïve Doctors and Nurses
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We Restricted Nuclear Weapons–Now We Must Limit Fossil Fuels
Lyn Adamson | Toronto Star - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
6 Aug 2021 – The percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere today is 419 parts per million. We are experiencing chaotic climate conditions at a global average temperature rise of just over 1° Celsius. But we are very quickly heading to 450 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere; that’s the tipping point when feedback loops will be set in motion that humans will be unable to reverse, and the global average temperature rise will soar uncontrollably.
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Twitter Will Allow You to Deny the Genocide of Palestinians, but Not a ‘Uighur Genocide’, So I’ve Been Banned
Maram Susli | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
7 Aug 2021 – Big Tech censors are shutting down voices like mine, because they don’t like me exposing the truth of what’s going on in Palestine. But they’re happy with tweets about killings in Xinjiang, even when there’s no evidence for it.
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Remembering Richard Lewontin, the Great Scientific Crusader Who Showed There Is No Biological Basis for Race
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Lewontin fought a lifelong battle against racism, imperialism and capitalist oppression.
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Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The Story They Want Us to Forget
Bruce Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on 16 July 1945 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. US President Harry Truman ordered the first atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 Aug 1945. On 9 Aug Washington dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki.
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The US Needs to Break China’s Siege Mentality
Daniel Larison | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – High-level U.S. and Chinese officials met in the city of Tianjin earlier this week. Combative meetings highlight the urgency for Washington to take small steps toward reducing tensions.
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Towards a Science of Misinformation and Deception
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: come appare la pace
Prof. Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Challenging Colonization: Building Sustainable Human and Natural Communities in Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Radical Ecological Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Why Are We Still at War with Syria?
Ted Snider | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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?
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UNFSS – Where Multinationals Continue to Design Our Food Systems and Control Our Diets
Navdanya International | Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us from the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Democracy: Enemy of the Powerful
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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…
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The Collective Suicide Machine
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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…
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The Price of Conscience
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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2021, the Year of Israeli Apartheid
Ahmed Abbes and Jonathan Rosenhead | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Team Hawaiian Kingdom? Activists Want Some U.S. Olympians to Surf for a Different Homeland
Claire Wang | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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As Progressives Call for End to Blockade, Biden Announces More Sanctions against Cuba
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Here Is Why We Are Boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit
Elizabeth Mpofu and Edgardo Garcia | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Pegasus and the Threat of Cyberweapons in the Age of Smartphones
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Culture of War Update
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Rethinking the Critical Race Theory Debate
Patrick D. Anderson | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Journalist Craig Murray Jailed for Eight Months in a Major Assault on Democratic Rights
Robert Stevens | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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The Former Guy
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
19 Jul 2021 – This Modern World
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Why We Need a Movement to Abolish COVID Vaccine Patents Now
Andy Bichlbaum | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Solidarity with Haiti Will Strengthen the Struggle for Racial Justice Everywhere
Nia Imara | The Progressive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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How Haunani-Kay Trask Shaped Her Hawai’ian People’s Struggle for Independence
Anne Keala Kelly (Kānaka Maoli) | YES! Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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What Went Right This Week: Empathy in English Channel, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Good luck!
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Chris Hedges and Slavoj Žižek on the Pandemic’s Ramifications (Parts 1 & 2)
On Contact | RT America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
13-15 Jul 2021 – Chris Hedges discusses the social, political, cultural economic ramifications of the pandemic with the philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
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(Français) Haïti : l’assassinat du président « est le marqueur de la privatisation de toutes les institutions publiques »
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – Hale should be pardoned and released, and the government should pay him restitution.
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Money-Laundering Ring Pushed $4 Billion through HSBC
Franz Wild and Ben Stockton | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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How Ben & Jerry’s Has Exposed Israel’s Anti-BDS Strategy
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
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.
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