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(Português) Mais um estudo associa consumo de carne a maior risco de doenças cardíacas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
26 jul 2021 – Um estudo realizado e divulgado na semana passada pela Universidade de Oxford associa o consumo de carne processada e não processada a um maior risco de desenvolvimento de doenças cardíacas, o qual pode variar de 9% a 18% a partir do consumo de mais de 50 gramas de carne por dia.
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Defining Refugees in the Era of Climate Displacement
Dewi Zarni | BIMI at UC Berkeley - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – July 28th marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This historic document, signed by 149 nation-states, defines refugees as those with a well-founded fear of persecution if returned to their country of origin on the basis of their “race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.” It also outlines the rights afforded to refugees.
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The Rif Republic: A Self-Proclaimed and Internationally Unrecognized State
Rabah Arkam | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
The Rif Republic (Tagduda n Arrif) in Berber, is a state bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Algeria to the east, the plains separating it from Morocco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Composed of mountains and plains, the Rif stretches for nearly 500 km from Tangier to Berkane and Kebdana (border between Algeria and Morocco).
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Bolsonaro’s 1,000Km Amazon Railway Will Cause Climate Chaos–It Must Be Stopped
David Miranda | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – Jair Bolsonaro is determined to expand his exploitation of Brazil’s natural resources. His latest project, one of the most destructive yet, would rapidly deforest large areas of the Amazon, which would wreak havoc on the planet.
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Rwandans Mourn “Mama Rwanda” Esperance Mukashema
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – One of the winners of this year’s ‘Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize’ was Esperance Mukashema, a Tutsi survivor of the Rwandan Genocide who spoke out about the crimes of General Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front army during its four-year war to seize power, which ended in the 1994 genocide.
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The Many Faces of Regime Change in Cuba
Louis A. Pérez Jr | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
24 Jul 2021 – Cubans confront a host of problems amid a national health emergency — and the Biden administrative is only adding to punitive sanctions with the intent to make everything worse.
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Evo Morales Denounces New U.S.-led Operation Condor
Nan McCurdy and Nora McCurdy | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – Operation Condor was a U.S.-directed secret intelligence program in the 1970s-’80s in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay, which resulted in the torture and “disappearance” of thousands of people. Plan follows precedent of state-sponsored assassination campaign targeting leftists.
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Stuck in the Smoke as Billionaires Blast Off
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – Climate inaction was never really about denial. Rich countries just thought poorer countries would bear the brunt of the crisis.
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How Not to Do Activism
Michael Gecan | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
The calculus of power isn’t defined by hits or clicks or tweets. It is measured in relationships and meaningful reactions over time. While social media can be a useful tool in organizing, it is not a strategy. Real change depends on finding a large group of local leaders, not a single charismatic person.
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Problem?
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
What Problem?
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Syrian Civilians Attacked by Terrorists Using US-NATO Weapons
Vanessa Beeley | OffGuardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – Vanessa Beeley in Idlib – Children are being killed, homes are being shelled, and fields scorched, often by Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists armed with US-made weapons or by Turkish artillery. Where’s the outcry in the West against these war crimes?
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Disrupting Hate in Education
Emilee Rauschenberger and Katherine Crawford-Garrett | Teachers College Record – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
To effectively interrupt dominant narratives of hate, one must first understand them. This is a central theme of Rita Verma and Michael Apple’s co-edited volume, Disrupting Hate in Education: Teacher Activists, Democracy, and Global Pedagogies of Interruption. Featuring ten empirical chapters—four focused on the U.S. and six set in countries across the globe—the book is a timely text firmly situated in the current political moment.
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Building Solidarity with Haiti’s Popular Movement
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
It is imperative that we respect the people’s aspirations for progress and for a just society. It is paramount that we stand in solidarity with the people’s protests demanding a new form of state. The nation deserves a new system that is more in harmony with the dreams of our founders, a new vision of the republic rooted in justice, transparency and participation.
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What if Socialism (or Communism) Is a Better Deal for Poor People?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
22 Jul 2021 – China’s outstanding economic successes are the worst thing that has ever happened for American capitalists (who control most of the American government). Their fear is that economies that favor socialism or communism will become attractive to Americans, especially its poor people and the middle classes who would stand to benefit.
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(Português) Vegano vence ultramaratona de 217 km nos EUA
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
22 julho 2021 – O corredor vegano Harvey Lewis, de 45 anos, venceu ontem (21 jul) nos EUA a 44ª edição da ultramaratona Badwater 135. Ele concluiu o percurso de 217 quilômetros em 26 horas e cinco minutos, ficando à frente do segundo colocado, o ucraniano Igor Gotsuliak, por quase 30 minutos. Esta é considerada uma das mais difíceis ultramaratonas do mundo.
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Civilizing the Savage
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
21 Jul 2021 – We crossed the Atlantic, encountered a bunch of savages, defeated them, claimed the continent. We won! This is the history I remember learning, as satisfying and stupid as a John Wayne movie.
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The Pegasus Spyware Story Is a Reminder of Why We’re So Attracted to Conspiracy Theories These Days
Charles P Pierce | Esquire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – As a new report demonstrates, we are all relying on technologies that very few of us truly understand.
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Answering Readers’ Questions
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – …How do we sort True conspiracies from False?
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‘Biggest Story in the World Right Now’: Humanity Has Flipped Amazon from Carbon Sink to Source
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
14 Jul 2021 – Recent research has elevated concerns about the Amazon putting more CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than it absorbs, but the new findings, published in the journal Nature, were presented as a “first” by scientists and climate reporters. They “show that the uncertain future is happening now.”
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The Covid Deception Exposed
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
21 Jul 2021 – Dr. Robert Malone, who pioneered the mRNA technology, has provided data that clearly show that the countries with the smallest percentage of their population vaccinated have the fewest number of new Covid cases. Countries with the largest percentages of population vaccinated have surging numbers of new Covid cases. How can this be?
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Satellite Mega-Constellations’ Mega-Threats
Miguel Coma | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The Rise of Space Junk and the Fall of Reason – Above our heads, man-made satellites wage war against the stars. On Earth, a handful of CEOs plan to put hundreds of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit—in addition to the 5,000 satellites already launched. Altogether, these satellites will outnumber the stars visible to the naked eye tenfold.
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Bangladesh Seeks Russia’s Help in Resolving Rohingya Refugee Crisis
News Desk | WeeklyBlitz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
20 Jul 2021 – Dhaka has made a proposal to Moscow to take a trilateral initiative among Bangladesh, Russia and Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
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A Sadistic Decision – Damn Them All
Gideon Levy | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – Damn them all. Damn Rafael Gana, the deputy head of the Israel Prison Service, who wrote to the interior minister: “Your request does not meet the prerequisites for consideration.” Damn Katy Perry, the head of the Israel Prison Service, who approved the decision. Damn Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev, the heartless coward, who didn’t lift a finger to change this evil decision.
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The New Cold War on China
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – On March 24, 2021, a high-profile article proclaiming “There Will Not Be a New Cold War” appeared in Foreign Affairs, the flagship publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, the principal think tank for U.S. grand strategy. The author, Thomas Christensen, a professor of international affairs at Columbia University and former […]
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These 3 Deceptively Simple Questions Can Shatter the Mythology That Sanctifies U.S. Imperialism
Matt Mckenna | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The 20th century muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair once opined that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” With this in mind, it is easy to understand why a small but powerful class of war profiteers might not acknowledge or seek to educate the public about the nefarious nature and immorality of U.S. empire.
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Graphene Oxide: A Toxic Substance in the Vial of the COVID-19 mRNA ‘Vaccine’ (w/ Video)
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – We bring to your attention this important interview with Ricardo Delgado Martin, responsible for coordinating the Spanish research team’s analysis of the impacts of graphene oxide nano-particles contained in the vial of the mRNA ‘vaccine.’
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The Soul of an Octopus: How One of Earth’s Most Alien Creatures Illuminates the Wonders of Consciousness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
“While stroking an octopus, it is easy to fall into reverie. To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege… an uplink to universal consciousness.”
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The End of the World (as we know it)
Dewi Zarni | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
In many ways, depression is a natural response to the circumstances. My childhood was fundamentally shaped by protests, school projects on global warming, and dinnertime conversations about rising sea levels. Our generation is the first to grow up at a time when the existence of climate change is no longer the subject of debate. We are also the last with any chance of mitigating its effects.
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Olympic Surfing Exposes Whitewashed Native Hawaiian Roots
Sally Ho | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – For some Native Hawaiians, surfing’s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and an extension of the racial indignities seared into the history of the game and their homeland. The Tokyo Summer Games, which open July 23, serve as a proxy for that unresolved tension and resentment.
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HUFUD Peace & Human Rights Award – Essay Competition
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
We are looking for bright and imaginative Peace Seekers to come up with innovative plans for the planet to be free of Armed Forces – that is, free of wars, politically concocted as well as those of a private initiative. Submissions Deadline: 30 Sep 2021. The recipient of the £1000 HUFUD Peace Award will be announced on 30 Nov 2021.
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(Italiano) Contronarrazione della questione palestinese: s’inverte la marea della rappresentazione
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Luglio 2021 – Stavolta era diverso. Le proteste per il minacciato sfratto forzoso di residenti palestinesi da Gerusalemme-Est da parte di Israele, seguite dall’assalto di polizia armata al complesso della moschea Al-Aqsa; dal lancio di razzi da Hamas a Gaza e dal più recente attacco militare alla Striscia [di Gaza]
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Problematic Sexual Paradoxes of Pandemic Response
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – Denial and Unconscious Cover-up in the Light of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein – There is a case for comparing the emergence of psychoanalysis a century ago — in response to challenging individual experiential disorders — with the current challenge to society faced with a variety of collective experiential “disorders”.
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(Italiano) Il viaggio in India come conversione: confronto tra Hermann Hesse e Lanza del Vasto
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Il viaggio può avere i più svariati scopi. Uno scopo dei più interessanti è quello di collegare e magari identificare il viaggio esteriore in luoghi lontani ed affascinanti con un viaggio interiore che porta a scoprire impreviste aperture della vita, tali da far cambiare completamente direzione. Questi possono essere chiamati i viaggi di conversione.
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The Unfiltered Truth behind Human Magnetism, Vaccines, and COVID-19
Ethan Siegel | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
23 Jun 2021 – Recently, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny has claimed that the coronavirus vaccine is actively magnetizing people, stating in her testimony, “I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the internet of people who have had these shots and now they’re magnetized. You can put a key on their forehead, it sticks. You can put spoons and forks all over and they can stick because now we think there is a metal piece to that.” Fortunately, the science of magnetism has been extraordinarily well-understood for over 150 years. Here’s a look at the science behind this claim.
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Riding the Wave: Defense Revenues Rise Despite a Dark 2020
Joe Gould | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – Defense revenues of the top 100 defense companies in the world climbed for a fifth consecutive year, a sign that fiscal 2020 was good for the industry despite the crippling coronavirus.
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Norwegian Whale Slaughter Ramps Up
Danny Groves | WDC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
28 Jun 2021 – Norway’s atrocious whale hunt looks set to be the deadliest for years with more than 450 whales killed already this season. Most of the dead will likely be pregnant females.
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Myanmar Coup Regime’s Handling of COVID-19: Is It Genocidal?
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – It is conceivable that the Myanmar terrorist regime of the SAC may be genocidally minded in its approach in tackling COVID-19 within the military and its sub-social system, while deliberately putting at risk the lives of millions of anti-military Burmese of all ethnic and religious backgrounds.
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The Evil Twins of Transhumanism And Technocracy
Patrick Wood | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021 – The dots between Technocracy and Transhumanism are easily connected once its understood that both sit atop the pseudo-science religion of Scientism, which posits that science is god and scientists and engineers are its priesthood. This article provides the current framework to understand this nexus.
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The List Is Here: Find Out How Global Defense Companies Performed in FY20
Mike Gruss | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – The coronavirus pandemic is not yet over and this year’s Defense News Top 100 list offers hints of how the broader international defense market has coped. The answer is that national security firms have fared well. Very well.
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The Myth That Meat Is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All
Jennifer Barckley | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
North Americans eat more meat per capita than any other country, even though meat consumption is linked to heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization New Great Game Gets Back to Basics in Afghanistan
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – Russia-China-Iran Alliance Is Taking Afghanistan’s Bull by the Horns
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Three Windows and Critical Peace/Nonviolence Research
Chaiwat Satha-Anand | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
The Windows help us to peer into three contemporary peace research pioneers: Glenn D. Paige (1929-2017), Gene Sharp (1928-2018), and Johan Galtung (1930- ).
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The United States Tries to Take Advantage of the Price Cubans Are Paying for the Blockade and the Pandemic
Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – Yesterday Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel told a press conference that Cuba is facing serious shortages of food and medicine. “What is the origin of all these issues? It is the blockade.” If the U.S.-imposed blockade ended, many of the great challenges facing Cuba would lift. Meanwhile, the United States hardens a cruel and illegal blockade of the island, a medieval siege that has been in place for six decades.
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From History: Afghanistan and the CIA Heroin Ratline
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
27 Aug 2017 – Up to 93% of the world’s opium comes from Afghanistan. Near the top of the Persian Gulf’s array of extremely compromising secrets is the Afghan heroin ratline – with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) positioned as the golden node of a transnational, trillion dollar heroin money laundering operation.
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Clash of Paradigms: The Threat to Our Food Supply
Stephanie Hiller | Sonoma Sun - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – Klaus Schwab, founder and director of the World Economic Forum, sees “the opportunity” to make fundamental change. He uses a lot of familiar green-worthy terms in his book, ‘Covid-19: The Great Reset’: “interdependence”, “equity”, “sustainable.” But even with the resonant language, this is not the systems change ecologists and progressives have been talking about.
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CIA Stories: The CIA is Born
Abby Martin | Empire Files – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
20 Jun 2021 – Abby Martin introduces the first installment of a new Empire Files series about the CIA explaining why the agency was created, and how it became the most nefarious criminal organization in the world, with CIA expert Douglas Valentine.
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Amazon Rainforest Now Emitting More CO2 than It Absorbs
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
14 Jul 2021 – Cutting emissions more urgent than ever as Amazon rainforest is emitting more than a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, more than it is able to absorb, scientists have confirmed for the first time.
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Germany Establishes New Military Space Command
Vivienne Machi | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – The German military has announced the creation of a separate command dedicated to space, becoming the latest of a handful of nations prioritizing more resources and missions among the stars
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The Turkish Coup Attempt: Five Years Later
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021 – A modified text of my responses to interview questions of Murat Sofuoglu, a Turkish journalist associated with TRT World.
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Even in a Challenging Period, Publicly Traded Defense Stocks Thrive
Scott Sacknoff | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – From a business perspective, 2020 will be remembered as an incredibly challenging and volatile year. Yet, by mid-2021 investment returns of the defense sector rebounded to historic highs. This remarkable indicator demonstrates just how strong the sector has been.
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(Italiano) Lotta nonviolenta al G8 di Genova 2001: come mai vi siete dimenticati di noi?
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Luglio 2021 – Interessanti le interviste realizzate da “BACK TO THE G8” con diversi protagonisti dell’esperienza di lotta nonviolenta al G8 di Genova 2001. In particolare, quella con Carlo Schenone, che fino all’inizio delle giornate promosse dal Genova Social Forum è stato coordinatore dei gruppi di azione diretta nonviolenta che si stavano preparando per affrontare l’evento.
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Let’s Get Serious about Climate Change
William Mebane | Wall Street Int'l Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Avoiding the Irreversible Path of Global Warming
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What Happens at Sun Valley, the Secret Gathering of Unelected Billionaire Kings?
Hamilton Nolan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – We are developing a private class of billionaire kings whose will is omnipotent and untouchable by any democratic force.
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Bless the Traitors
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – Daniel Hale exposed the widespread and indiscriminate murder of noncombatants in the global US drone war. For his heroism, he faces ten years in prison while those who oversee these war crimes continue their killing spree.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
14 Jul 2021 – Let’s dance at the border! One of these days, something will give — the rich, the powerful will suddenly look around cluelessly. What’s happening? Awareness will sweep across the planet: We are one, and life is sacred. This consciousness will even invade political life and what I call moral intelligence will find political traction.
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The Controversial Prosecutor at the Heart of the Julian Assange Case
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – The battle to extradite Assange from the UK to the US is of paramount importance to the future of national security reporting. Prosecutor Gordon Kromberg has been dogged by allegations of bias and politicized prosecutions. Now he could shape the future of journalism.
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Revealed: Leak Uncovers Global Abuse of Israeli Cyber-Surveillance Weapon
Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Paul Lewis, David Pegg and Sam Cutler | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
18 Jul 2021 – Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by governments using hacking software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak.
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Red, White, and Blue
Guy Billout | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Unfathomable
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Media Play Up Protests, Play Down Effect of US Sanctions in Cuba
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021 – The Media were quick to give the protests front and center coverage. Far larger and more deadly movements in Chile and Ecuador were mostly ignored by the corporate press. Meanwhile, the political situation in Haiti, which has seen three continuous years of nationwide protest, was overwhelmingly ignored until the assassination of US-backed President Jovenel Moïse last week.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Born on the island of Martinique under French colonial rule, Frantz Omar Fanon was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring.
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Cry, the Bedeviled Country: I Weep for My Homeland of South Africa, As I Watch Its Disintegration from Afar
Jani Allan | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – Widespread looting and burning has killed over 100, and wrecked factories, shops and homes, with Indian and whites increasingly the target. Is the country I love, where I spent 30 years of my life, spiralling into racial warfare?
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20 Years of U.S. Occupation Was Brutal in Afghanistan—and so Will Be the Exit
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – Alongside the relief of ending the longest war in modern American history, we need to acknowledge the horrors of what we are leaving behind in Afghanistan.
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Probable Impossibilities: Physicist Alan Lightman on Beginnings, Endings, and What Makes Life Worth Living
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
How our cosmic improbability confers dignity and meaning upon our shared existence. Poetic physicist Alan Lightman sieves four centuries of scientific breakthroughs to estimate that even with habitable planets orbiting one tenth of all stars, the faction of living matter in the universe is about one-billionth of one-billionth: If all the matter in the universe were the Gobi desert, life would be but a single grain of sand.
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The Aliens Are Coming to Help
Tom Tomorrow | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Liberals will try to create a scandal out of even the smallest space invasion.
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The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – Today, the people of Haiti are facing down the US-backed dictatorship of the ruling Haitian Tet Kale Party (PHTK) that came to power through the fraudulent election of Michel Martelly in 2010 and maintained its grip on power through the fraudulent election of Jovenel Moise in 2016, what Haitian activists refer to as electoral coup d’etats.
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Covid 19 Crisis: Questions and Motives
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021 – A discourse on Covid 19 and its solutions would benefit from a willingness to listen and even learn from the views of the other. An inclusive rather than an exclusive attitude which accommodates the other would strengthen the discourse. An adherence to scientific methodology would be of immense help. Respect for empirical evidence would also be an asset.
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Afghans Left to Pick up the Pieces of the West’s Failed War
Paul Rogers | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Military leaders in NATO, USA and Britain now accept that they have lost their war with the Taliban. As the Taliban rapidly expand in the shadow of their retreat, has anyone considered the impact on innocent civilians?
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Supreme Court in Mexico Declares Cannabis Prohibition Unconstitutional
Scoop.me | Amerika21 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021 – The Supreme Court of Mexico has ruled that the previously introduced legal ban on the use of cannabis was unconstitutional. The Court judges called the declaration as historic in terms of respect for human rights.
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MAGA Goggles!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
5 Jul 2021 – This Modern World
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Disgusting Perverts or Just Misunderstood? Meet the Zoophiles Who Have Sex with Animals and Want to Be Embraced by Pride
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
6 Jul 2021 – Zoophiles believe it’s acceptable to be intimate with an animal, and want the LGTBQ+ movement to add a Z to its name. RT spoke to one about their secret world, and with members of the ‘furry’ and ‘therian’ communities.
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A Saigon Moment in the Hindu Kush
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – The US is on the verge of its own second Vietnam repeated as farce in a haphazard retreat from Afghanistan. Let’s start with some stunning facts on the Afghan ground.
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Today’s Science Deniers: What We Owe Galileo after 400 Years
Prof. Susan E. Babbitt | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
On June 22, 1633, a sick and beaten old man, on his knees, had to “abjure, curse and detest” his view that “the earth moves and is not the centre of the world.” It was “one of the most deplorable acts of the Inquisition”, relevant to our times. Galileo’s relevance hits much closer to home.
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A Research Center in the Scandinavian Forest Nourishes Resistance
Stellan Vinthagen | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
6 Jul 2021 – Home to a large library, writers residence and a vast garden, the Irene Community in Sweden welcomes activists and academics to explore nonviolent activism.
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Ethiopian Conflict and International Law
Ann Garrison interviews Francis A. Boyle | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 -Legal scholar Francis A. Boyle told Ann Garrison that a “Responsibility-to-Protect” intervention in Ethiopia would be illegal and catastrophic.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
We Are the Champions (Music Video of the Week)
Freddie Mercury | Queen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Queen Official – From News of the World, 1977 – Winners’ Anthem
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Data, Not Arms, the Key Driver in Emerging US-China Cold War
Robert Reich | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Cybersecurity comes down to which side has access to more information about the other and can utilize it best.
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Why We Should Change How We Talk about Nonhuman Animals
Debra Merskin, Carrie P. Freeman and Alicia Graef | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
We wouldn’t say “it” or “that” when referring to humans, so why would we for other sentient individuals?
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Activism Uncensored: Colombia in Chaos
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Any American correspondent working abroad will tell you: coverage of in-country upheavals are dictated by the nature of the government’s relationship to the United States. If they’re technically allies, protests tend to be portrayed as illegitimate. Hence the dilemma in Colombia. As protests erupt on the streets of a longtime U.S. ally, the Biden administration and the American media wait to see whose side they’re on.
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The Syria Deception: The Public Has Been Hoodwinked Yet Again into Supporting a Criminal War of Aggression—and One That Has Been Effectively Lost
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – United States warmakers have become so skilled at propaganda that not only can they wage a war of aggression without arousing protest; they can also compel liberals to denounce peace activists using language reminiscent of the McCarthy era. Take the case of Syria. The people and groups one would normally count on to oppose wars have been the ones largely defending it.
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Key Witness Admits Lying about Julian Assange–a Major Blow to U.S. Extradition Case–yet Western Media Ignores This Development
Ron Ridenour | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
12 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Former WikiLeaks volunteer, who became an FBI informant for $5,000, says he fabricated important parts of the accusations in the U.S. indictment.
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Letting Filthy Private Jets Go Tax-Free Shows How the EU Prioritises the Mega-Rich Over the Masses
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – Despite being hugely damaging for the environment, private planes operated by mi(bi)llionaires are to be given carbon tax exemption by hypocritical bureaucrats who tirelessly push a green agenda. It’s Brussels hypocrisy at its finest.
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Haiti in Upheaval: President Moïse Assassinated at Home
Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home Wednesday [7 Jul], with police killing four suspects and arresting two others hours later amid growing chaos in a country already enduring gang violence and protests of his increasingly authoritarian rule.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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How Not to Cover Critical Race Theory
Julie Hollar | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Fox News and its conservative media allies have turned white rage onto a more actionable target: critical race theory. Though the theory is a longstanding and specific academic lens for understanding systemic racism, the right has transformed it into a catchall for anything that encourages talking about and addressing racism.
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(Italiano) Teoria critica della razza: osservazioni e lezioni apprese
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Per risolvere il conflitto fra propugnatori e oppositori della Teoria Critica sulla Razza, perciò pare che bisogni procedere in due fasi. La prima immediata e la seconda più a lungo termine. Subito, la teoria dev’essere riformulata in termini comprensibili ai non-accademici chiarendo che il nodo della teoria non è condannare i bianchi per la loro razza o eredità culturale oppure impancarsi a giudizio finale sull’America. Si tratta invece di dimostrare le fonti strutturali delle idee e prassi più benefiche e più distruttive dell’America, e la necessitàdi cambiamenti risoluti in un sistema che genera tali profonde contraddizioni.
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An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.
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(Français) L’acte d’accusation contre Assange repose sur le faux témoignage d’un sociopathe avéré
Caitlin Johnstone | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
28 Juin 2021 – C’est une bombe dans l’affaire Assange. Pour faire extrader le fondateur de WikiLeaks, le gouvernement US l’a notamment accusé de piratage. Or, le témoin-clé de cette accusation vient de retourner sa veste dans un journal islandais. Pire, le témoin en question serait une taupe rémunérée du FBI qui avait été reconnu coupable d’abus sexuels sur mineurs et de détournement de fonds. Il admet maintenant avoir menti. Pour Edward Snowden, cette révélation marque la fin de l’affaire Assange.
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Aloha & Mahalo Haunani-Kay Trask! RIP
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Haunani-Kay Trask, Hawaiian scholar and activist, died in the morning of 3 Jul 2021 on Oahu, Honolulu. She was 71. Tenured as a professor for more than 30 years at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Trask worked in co-founding the contemporary field of Hawaiian Studies.
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U.S. Mass Murder by Economic Warfare Mocks the UN and the Teachings of Jesus
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – The United Nations has not been able to protect socialist countries in Latin America from economic warfare by the U.S. At its worst such aggression could be considered to be indirect mass murder — some say genocide. Cuba and Venezuela have been prime targets.
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Believe Your Eyes: Becoming a Snitch–If You See Something, Say Something
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021 – The reality of snitching on others has been around for a long time. Just think Adolf Hitler’s or Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian police states where free thought and free speech was a punishable crime against the state. The same thing happened in every war that America has ever entered. The corporate propaganda machinery behind all those wars had their ways to ferret out dissenters.
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Declaration of the Crime of Apartheid: Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
9 Jul 2021 – The Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine below is an initiative endorsed by scholars and artists worldwide. Please distribute widely as there is a campaign underway to reach 1,000 signatures. List of the 773 signatories (last update : 8 Jul 2021)
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US Imperialism’s Criminal Debacle in Afghanistan
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – US troops pulled out of the sprawling Bagram Air Base at three in the morning last Friday [2 Jul], without notifying the Afghan government forces meant to replace them, and cutting off the power on the way out, an act that triggered an invasion of the base by a small army of looters. This ignoble retreat is a fitting symbol of the debacle wrought by 20 years of US war and occupation in Afghanistan.
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Fox News’ Anti-Vaccination Hysteria Has Reached a Disturbing New Level
Ryan Bort | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
9 Jul 2021 – Right-wing media is melting down over President Biden’s push to … inoculate people against a virus that has killed more than 600,000 Americans.
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Biden’s Failure to End Trump’s War on Cuba Is Threatening Lives
Danny Glover | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Imagine a country developing and producing Covid-19 vaccines enough to cover its entire population, but being unable to inoculate everyone because of a syringe shortage. Cuba has already vaccinated about 2 of its 11 million people, and hopes to have 70 percent of the population vaccinated by August. Yet, because of the 60-year US embargo the country is facing a shortage of millions of syringes. Biden promised to return to Obama’s policies of engagement with Cuba, but the embargo and other Trump-era restrictions remain in place.
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Assange Turns 50 in Jail–A Reminder of a Western Democracy Paradox He Exposed: Non-Freedom Gives a Sense of Freedom
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Today, WikiLeaks co-founder Assange is celebrating his 50th birthday, being held at the Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London as Washington seeks his extradition to the US, where he could be jailed for up to 175 years if found guilty. That reminds us of the dark aspects of the ‘Land of the Free’ and most of Western democracies.
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Chris Hedges Speaks on ‘American Sadism’ (video)
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Chris Hedges gave this talk on American Sadism at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on Sunday June 27.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Control of Human Agents Unconscious of AI-Elaboration of Communication Scripts?
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Lisbon Court Rules Only 0.9% of ‘Verified Cases’ Died of COVID, Numbering 152, Not 17,000 Claimed
Mordechai Sones | America's Frontline Doctors - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
23 Jun 2021 – Following a citizen’s petition, a Lisbon court was forced to provide verified COVID-19 mortality data. According to the ruling, the number of verified deaths from Jan 2020 to Apr 2021 is only 152, not about 17,000 as claimed by government ministries.
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‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Jul 12-19 Issue – Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen sat for a chat with The Nation. Born in Vietnam and raised in the United States, where his family was resettled as refugees, Nguyen has become an essential literary voice—at once an eloquent champion of the displaced and a trenchant critic of empire.
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