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And the Brand Played on: Bob Dylan at 80
Neil Spencer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
With a slew of books to mark the songwriter’s birthday (24 May 1941) due , we look at the industry that has grown up around the man who forced academia to take pop seriously.
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Turn It Off and On Again
William Petersen | Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Whoever said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again…
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Death Row Inmates Sue after They’re Asked to Pick Firing Squad or Electric Chair
Victoria Hansen | All Things Considered, NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – Two death row inmates in South Carolina, now required by law to choose between a yet-to-be-formed firing squad and a 109-year-old electric chair, have decided to sue instead. They call the state’s recently signed legislation unconstitutional because lethal injection was the main method of execution when they were sentenced.
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Citizen Pilgrim: To Be or Not to Be
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim – Conversation with Richard Falk, Noura Erakat, Victoria Brittain and Jeremy Corbyn~
Monday 17 May, 5:30–7:00 PM (GMT-BST), Where: Online
Varoufakis: From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | DiEM25 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Prof. Varoufakis expounds on the thesis that we have made an historic transition from “capitalism’ to a finance-base “post-capitalism” with profound consequences. A fork on the road is approaching: It will take us either into deeper stagnation and environmental degradation or to a society with markets but no capitalism.
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Comparability of “Vaxxing Saves” with “Jesus Saves” as Misinformation?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Problematic Challenge of Global Discernment – The international community strongly deprecates the isolated voices associated with vaccine hesitancy citing possibilities of: autism, vaccine overload, paradoxical vaccine responses, autoimmune triggering, prenatal infection, ingredient concerns, sudden infant death syndrome, and infertility. Reference is to incidence of other vaccines-related injuries (readily dismissed by authorities as rare and negligible)
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Clashes, Scuffles, Conflict – Western Media’s Euphemisms for Israel’s Brutal Violence in Sheikh Jarrah
Belen Fernandez | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – Let’s imagine some creative wartime reporting: “On April 26, 1937, the inhabitants of the Basque town of Guernica ‘clashed’ with German warplanes dropping high explosives and incendiary bombs. The town was pulverised in the course of the ‘scuffle’, and up to 1600 people perished”.
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‘What We’ve Seen in Sheikh Jarrah Is a Microcosm of What We’ve Experienced for the Last 70+ Years’
Janine Jackson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Interview with US Campaign for Palestinian Rights’ Ahmad Abuznaid about Israel/Palestine apartheid for CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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(Português) Poder Político versus Poder Financeiro
Editorial | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
16 maio 2021 – O poder financeiro apoderou-se do leme da marcha da humanidade. Ele tem acumulado tanta riqueza e o consequente poder de decisão que somente Black Rock -o maior fundo global de investimentos- qualifica, por tamanho, como terceiro “país” do mundo, apenas atrás dos Estados Unidos e da China. Isto é inaudito e, a na nossa opinião, inaceitável.
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(Italiano) Fermare la guerra fredda alla Cina e diventare partner – per il bene comune dell’umanità
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 Maggio 2021 – Il conflitto fra USA/Occidente e Cina plasmerà il futuro dell’umanità più che qualunque altro conflitto. Perciò non è una questione bilaterale ma un interesse globale. Credo che fermare la guerra fredda alla Cina dovrebbe essere in cima all’agenda delle istituzioni di ricerca sulla pace che non siano diventate dipendenti dagli stati e/o irreggimentate dagli USA.
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Six More Lawsuits Filed Against Syngenta and Chevron Over Pesticide That Causes Parkinson’s Disease
Carey Gillam | US Right to Know - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
3 May 2021 – More than a dozen similar lawsuits already filed in U.S. courts. First trial set for May 10.
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Second Stage Terror Wars
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 May 2021 – If you wistfully think the corona crisis will soon come to an end, I suggest you alter your perspective. We are in the second phase of a long war of terror waged with two weapons – military and medical – whose propaganda messaging is carried out by the corporate mainstream media in the pursuit of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset. Part one has so far lasted twenty years; part two may last longer. You can be certain it won’t end soon and that the new terrorists are domestic dissidents.
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The (Im)Proper Meshing of the Corporate Media and the Military-Industrial Complex
Helen Johnson | The Miscellany News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
13 May 2021 – This is the fourth article in a five-part series about the military-industrial-media complex. The third article, “The unprecedented consolidation of the modern media industry has severe consequences,” can be found here.
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What the Overlooked History of Post-1960s Organizing Can Teach Activists Today
Shane Burley | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
8 May 2021 – A conversation with the editors of “Remaking Radicalism” — a collection of writings from one of the most underrepresented periods of leftist organizing.
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The Costs of War to U.S. Allies since 9/11
Jason W. Davidson | Watson Institute/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – The US allies in the post-9/11 wars have borne significant human and budgetary costs. They were the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that have grown from the “Global War on Terror.” While the Afghan and Iraqi governments incurred the highest human costs, this research paper focuses on the human and financial contributions of European and other allies of the U.S.
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Israel, the Big Lie
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
14 May 2021 – Israel is not exercising “the right to defend itself” in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder, aided and abetted by the U.S.
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Art against Drones
Kathy Kelly | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 May 2021 – The installation of a drone overlooking people in Manhattan can bring them into the larger discussion. Outside of many military bases safely within the U.S. – from which drones are piloted to deal death over Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Syria and other lands, activists have repeatedly staged artistic events. In 2011, at Hancock Field in Syracuse, thirty-eight activists were arrested for a “die-in” during which they simply lay down, at the gate, covering themselves with bloodied sheets.
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‘Government Money That’s Gone into Vaccine Development Is Being Privatized by a Handful of Companies’
Janine Jackson | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Interview with Knowledge Ecology International’s James Love about Bill Gates and vaccine politics for CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Reality
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
When Masks Fall Down
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The Council on Foreign Relations, the Biden Team, and Key Policy Outcomes
Laurence H. Shoup | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
1 May 2021 – Laurence Shoup looks at the Council on Foreign Relations to analyze the new Biden administration, its personnel, and the policies it is likely to follow.
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The Architecture of a Nonviolent City
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – By replacing systems of violence with practices rooted in nonviolence, social justice movements are creating blueprints for nonviolent cities. For several years, Pace e Bene has organized the Nonviolent Cities Project to help people envision and construct a city rooted in nonviolence, rather than violence.
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(Português) Mazin Qumsiyeh: “Se a Palestina fosse livre, eu estaria a caçar borboletas, não perderia tempo com política”
Ana B. Carvalho | Contacto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Os colonizadores querem uma espécie de sociedade unificada, neste caso a sociedade judaica e isto é também uma monocultura. Neste caso, os sionistas querem tomar a Palestina, que é uma sociedade multiétnica, multicultural e multirreligiosa, e torná-la num Estado de Israel europeizado judeu uniforme. Isto é óbvio”.
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News from Palestine: The Messenger Refuses to Be Killed
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
15 May 2021 – The Israeli government has bombed the headquarters of Associated Press and Al Jazeera in Gaza, trying to limit messages from the Palestinian people to describe their suffering. But the messenger refuses to be killed. Here are some of the messages I have received from people in Palestine.
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Urgent Appeal to Halt Violence in the Jerusalem-Gaza Area
René Wadlow | Association of World Citizens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
13 May 2021 – The Association of World Citizens, devoted to ending armed conflicts through negotiations in good faith, addresses an Urgent Appeal to all parties to halt violence in the Jerusalem-Gaza area. In this highly inflammatory situation, there can be an escalation to the conflict at any point.
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Between Science and Magic: How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
How a tiny creature faster than the Space Shuttle balances the impossible equation of extreme fragility and superhuman strength.
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Mismanagement of the COVID-19 Crisis Increases Food Insecurity in India and Brazil
Ruhi Bhasin | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – The gross mismanagement of the handling of the COVID-19 situation on the ground and lack of action based on scientific data during the pandemic by Brazil, much like in India, has not only led to the loss of lives from the virus on a massive scale but has also led to food insecurity emerging as another factor people have to fight against in order to survive.
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Open Letter to Superstar Rapper J. Cole about Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – I hope you won’t be lending all your brain power, star power, and talent to a public relations coup for the President of Rwanda and his brutal, totalitarian regime. The top headlines, four days away from the Africa League’s debut, are all about you.
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There Are Options beyond Savage Capitalism
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Savage capitalism has surpassed the limits of its own sustainability. Important changes are to come. Options are multiple and diverse, including reformed capitalisms and other global and country projects. Despite current junctures, which certainly need attention, it is indispensable to envision the desired future. Let us hope we will not fear to advance towards encouraging courses; they bring sense and meaning to life.
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NATO Enters New Warfighting Domain in Space
Rick Rozoff | Anti-Bellum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – NATO officially declared space its newest operational domain, adding to its other four battlefields: air, land, sea and cyberspace. The thirty-nation military bloc is currently setting up a NATO Space Centre in Germany.
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Steve Brodner | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ starring Joe Biden. Man returns to his roots to find the conversation somewhat problematic.
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How Chileans Went from Jumping Subway Turnstiles to Rewriting the Constitution {Video}
Jordan Flaherty | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – While most Chileans want deep systemic change, the vote to create a new constitution is a historic moment in the struggle to undo the legacy of Pinochet’s dictatorship.
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Life After an Eating Disorder
Hannah Partos | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 May 2021 – As psychiatrists suggest a surge of eating disorders could be on the horizon, prompted partly by the pandemic, Cara Lisette reflects on what has helped her through her experience.
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Palestinian Refugees Deserve to Return Home. Jews Should Understand.
Peter Beinart | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Why has the impending eviction of six Palestinian families in East Jerusalem drawn Israelis and Palestinians into a conflict that appears to be spiraling toward yet another war? Because of a word that in the American Jewish community remains largely taboo: the Nakba.
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Climate Emissions Shrinking the Stratosphere, Scientists Reveal
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Humanity’s enormous emissions of greenhouse gases are shrinking the stratosphere, a new study has revealed. Thinning could affect satellites and GPS.
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As COVID Vaccines Drive Record Profits, CEOs Get Ultra Rich Off Massive Pay Packages, Questionable Stock Sales
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – Big Pharma CEOs are making millions off COVID vaccines raising questions over massive pay packages, questionable stock sales and windfall profits made possible by taxpayer funding.
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Dignity
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – The Tormented Dance of the Zionist Colonizer – I was interviewed in many media outlets in the past 48 hours about the events here. My message, beyond telling what is really happening on the ground [Jerusalem bombings, killings by IDF], is simple: This is not a “conflict,” neither it is a border dispute nor a tribal or religious issue. It is simply the last tantrums of the unsettled settler colonial system.
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Open Letter to Jordi Calvo & Quique Sánchez and the GCOMS Coordination Team
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Weapons, missiles, explosives, military vehicles (tanks, Apache helicopters, air fighters, warships) and armed forces exist exclusively for staging wars, which kill, destroy and devastate the planet and humanity. We must get rid of this unnecessary and immoral practice. Reducing it is not enough.
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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944), was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France’s highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award.
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(Italiano) Attacchi giuridici israeliani e diritti palestinesi
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 Maggio 2021 – I sostenitori dei diritti palestinesi hanno finora rintuzzato bene i tentativi di zittire la propria attività e sopprimere le proprie azioni solidali, con quattro importanti vittorie legali in altrettante distinte giurisdizioni ottenute durante l’ultimo anno.
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Biden’s Foreign Policy and Nuclear Weapons: A Dialogue
Richard Falk and David Krieger | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
5 May 2021 – Biden’s international bipartisan approach risks a renewed arms race in a political and economic atmosphere that makes it unaffordable as well as acutely dangerous. My conversation with David Krieger explores some of the ramifications.
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Dan Ellsberg Blows the Whistle Again at Conference to Commemorate His Legacy
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
7 May 2021 – Dan Ellsberg, the legendary whistleblower who has been arrested more than 75 times for protesting the U.S. warfare state, has not mellowed with age. The 90-year-old Pentagon Papers leaker details top secret plans in 1958 to destroy Taiwan and warns that similar discussions are going on in the Pentagon today.
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Origin of Covid–Following the Clues: Did People or Nature Open Pandora’s Box at Wuhan?
Nicholas Wade | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
5 May 2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: The political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstream press seems helpless to dispel. In what follows I will sort through the available scientific facts, which hold many clues as to what happened, and provide readers with the evidence to make their own judgments.
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USA: More Than a Year into the Pandemic, We’re Still Figuring out What Risks We’re Willing to Take
Joel Achenbach | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
3 May 2021 – Risk analysis is not something humans are necessarily good at. We rely on anecdotes more than scientific data. The questions we ask rarely have a simple yes or no answer. Risk tends to be on a sliding scale. Outside of self-isolation, there is no obvious way to drive the risk of viral transmission to zero, nor is risky behavior guaranteed to result in a dire outcome. We have no choice but to live probabilistically.
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No Jab for Me–My 35 Reasons as a North American Physician
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
5 May 2021 – The FDA did not approve Moderna or Pfizer mRNA gene therapeutics they dubbed “vaccines”. It simply authorized them. Fauci confirms. “In the US, the FDA in its ambiguous statement provided a so-called Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, namely “to permit the emergency use of the unapproved product, … for active immunization…”
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Israeli Man Trying to Take Over Palestinian Home Says ‘If I Don’t Steal It, Someone Else’ Will
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
4 May 2021 – In a glaring example of settler colonialism in action, a video on social media this week shows a Palestinian woman confronting an Israeli man who admits he is trying to steal her family’s home. The house is located in an occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood where Palestinian residents have been ordered to vacate by an Israeli court.
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United States Withdraws from Afghanistan? Not Really!
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
5 May 2021 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds. Now, 20 years later, the gulf between the Taliban and the others has widened. Appetite for negotiations simply does not exist any longer.
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The “Kill a Leftist” Law
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
7 May 2021 – So now it’ll be legal in some Neolithic U.S. states to run over leftists with your car. What’ll come next? Legalizing pushing people out of airplanes at 35,000 feet? Running over swimmers with boats? Unleashing your rabid dog on people whose political persuasions offend you? There are so many possibilities! It’s already legal for cops to shoot leftists.
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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Andre Gide | Autumn Leaves – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide’s career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
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Rampant Wall Street Speculation: The Fever Chart of a Terminally Diseased System
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
7 May 2021 – The phenomenal rise of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which has risen 11,000 percent since the start of the year, is the expression of a seemingly new principle in the world of speculation—the more intrinsically worthless a so-called “asset” the faster its rise.
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The Right-Wing Outrage Cycle
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
This Modern World – 3 May 2021
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Time to Talk about That Other Existential Threat to the Planet
Anton Wagner | NOW Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
26 Apr 2021 – A Nanos poll commissioned by a coalition of peace groups suggests Canadians are shaking off their indifference to nuclear war amid the pandemic.
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Are Chemicals Shrinking Your Penis and Depleting Your Sperm? Here’s What the Evidence Really Says
Tim Moss | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
3 May 2021 – A doomsday scenario of an end to human sperm production has been back in the news recently, now with the added threat of shrinking penises. Prof. Shanna Swan, a US epidemiologist who studies environmental influences on human development, recently published a new book called Countdown.
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Purge Genocide Culprits from Democratic Leadership: Myanmar
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
8 May 2021 – Hesitating to take stand against Rohingya genocide is costing $1B to National Unity Government and blocks its global recognition.
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The Soul-Expanding Value of Difficulty: Rilke on How Great Sadnesses Transform Us and Bring Us Closer to Ourselves
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
“That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.”
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Israeli Apartheid and Palestine Grievances
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
3 May 2021 – Questions from Rodrigo Craveiro from Correio Braziliense, 27 Apr 2021, in response to Report of Human Rights Watch on Israeli Apartheid; it is followed by my responses to questions of Zahra Mirzafarjouyan on behalf of Mehr News Agency in Tehran, addressing some of the underlying causes of Palestinian grievances.
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Can Guantánamo Ever Be Shut Down?
Karen J. Greenberg | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
4 May 2021 – Dealing with the Forever Prison of America’s Forever Wars – The Guantánamo conundrum never seems to end. The wrongfulness of indefinite detention as a system created expressly to evade the law — and one that brought ill-repute to the United States globally. Pariah state.
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Israel Is Trying Hard to Erase Jerusalem’s Palestinians
Jalal Abukhater | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
4 May 2021 – And it has made colonial violence a permanent feature of Palestinian lives in the holy city.
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How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden
Gail Tverberg | Our Finite World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
4 May 2021 – We live in a world where words are very carefully chosen. Companies hire public relations to give just the right “spin” to what they say. Politicians suggest that everything is going well. Newspapers would like their advertisers to be happy. I believe that what has happened in recent years is that the “truth” has become very dark.
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Can the Pope End Corruption?
Frank Vogl | The Globalist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
6 May 2021 – Pope Francis is taking all the right steps to end the deep-rooted corruption in the Vatican. Will he be successful?
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History: The Massacre at My Lai, Vietnam
Seymour M. Hersh | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
14 Jan 1972 – A U.S. Army mass killing and the massacre’s coverup.
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The Truth about Loneliness
Radhanath Swami | ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
1 May 2021 – On Valentine’s Day last year, the BBC launched the largest ever Loneliness Experiment with 55,000 people from around the world. They found that loneliness is as bad for our health as having a long-term illness such as diabetes or high blood pressure, or smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It may reduce our life expectancy by up to 8 years.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Pick Up 600 More Acres in Hawaii
Conor Skelding | New York Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
1 May 2021 – An existing online petition demanding that Zuckerberg stop “colonizing” the Aloha State is now well over 1 million signatures as of today. The couple now owns more than 1,300 acres on Kauai. In 2017, the social-media lord filed suit against native Hawaiians owning tiny parcels around his land to force them to sell their lots so he could “enhance” his privacy.
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What Went Right This Week: Europe’s First 3D-Printed House, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
6 May 2021 – A Dutch couple moved into Europe’s first 3D-printed house, UK windfarms broke records, and music was mooted as a treatment for Alzheimer’s, plus the week’s other positive news. A couple moved in to Europe’s first printed house A retired Dutch couple have become Europe’s first inhabitants of a 3D-printed house. Elize […]
→ read full articleSystemic Coherence of the UN’s 17 SDGs as a Global Dream
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals, as widely promoted by the UN, can be understood as the culmination of humanity’s best effort to respond in a coherent manner to the longer-term challenges of global governance in this period.
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(Italiano) Giornalismo di pace e libertà di stampa
Gianmarco Pisa | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
Nella ricorrenza del 3 maggio, una riflessione sul rapporto tra giornalismo di pace e libertà di stampa.
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The Ex-Pfizer Scientist Who Became an Anti-Vax Hero
Steve Stecklow and Andrew MacAskill | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
A Skeptic’s Story: Michael Yeadon was a scientific researcher and vice president at drugs giant Pfizer Inc. He co-founded a successful biotech. Then his career took an unexpected turn.
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The U.S. Owes Hawaiians Millions of Dollars Worth of Land but Congress Helped Make Sure the Debt Wasn’t Paid
Rob Perez | ProPublica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
7 May 2021 – Hawaii’s two elder statesmen — U.S. Sens. Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka — were at the forefront of efforts to ensure that the U.S. compensated Native Hawaiians for ancestral lands taken from them over the years. In a 1995 law, the U.S. promised to pay its land debt to Hawaiians, thousands of whom are waiting for homes. But Congress, including the state’s own delegation, voted to give the land to other parties.
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It’s Not Assange but the War Criminals He Exposed Who Should Be in Jail
Niall Farrell | Belfast Media - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
5 May 2021 – The Australian Julian Assange and WikiLeaks were a top team of journalists. Both in terms of scoops and global political impact they exposed the barbarism of the 21st century’s “never-ending wars”. “If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started with truth” – Julian Assange
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(Italiano) Applicazioni di Ahimsa–Nonviolenza nel Quotidiano
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
30 Aprile 2021 – Il TRANSCEND Peace Development Environment Network ha iniziato con conflitti geopolitici a livello macro e mega; molti ben noti e drammatici. Ma i conflitti nella vita di tutti i giorni, a scuola, nella coppia-famiglia, al lavoro possono essere ancora più drammatici.
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(Português) Entidades repudiam plano de Bolsonaro para a Amazônia
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
29 abril 2021 – “Oferecer recursos ao Brasil, neste contexto, seria entregar um cheque em branco que aumentará a violência e a destruição da Amazônia”.
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The Never Ending News
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
Blah blah blah–Lethal
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Declaration for the Transition to a Culture of Peace in the XXI Century
David Adams, Federico M. Zaragoza and Roberto E. M. Caballero | Transition to a Culture of Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
1 May 2021 – We will be circulating the Declaration as widely as possible for signatures and dissemination, and a website is in preparation for this. Below is the short English version.
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Becket Films | Vimeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, a feature-length documentary, presents the remarkable life story of the Gandhian eco-activist and agro-ecologist. A classic David versus Goliath tale, the film shows how TRANSCEND member Vandana, a brilliant scientist, became Monsanto’s worst nightmare and a rock star of the international organic food movement.
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Daniel Berrigan and His Fearless Nonviolence, at 100
Rev. John Dear | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
27 Apr 2021 – Five years since his death and 100 since his birth, legendary priest, author, poet and activist Daniel Berrigan continues to offer wisdom and insight on living a life of creative nonviolence.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal Tests the Limits of What the State Can Do to Any of Us
Ann Garrison | Peace & Planet News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
The United States has 5% of the world’s population but imprisons 25% of the world’s prisoners, and the problem of incarceration, its racist character, is really a reflection of everything that’s wrong with American society.
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The Right to Crash Cars into People
Alex Pareene | The New Republic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
24 Apr 2021 – How Republicans across the country came to endorse a terrorist tactic against protesters.
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Voices Are Raised Against the NBA Launching Its New African League in Rwanda
Dave Zirin | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
30 Apr 2021 – Human rights groups are concerned that using Rwanda as a backdrop would provide a public relations boost for its autocratic leader.
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Scientists Sound Alarm after Finding 25% of California Sea Lions Have Cancer
Joseph Mercola, M.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
26 Apr 2021 – Animals often act as sentinels for what’s to come, said the authors of a new study on the “unprecedented” rate of cancer in California’s wild sea lions.
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Creativity Is Our Superpower — 13 Stories of Inventive Nonviolence
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
21 Apr 2021 – This collection of stories from the news showcases the incredible versatility, imagination, and super creativity of nonviolence in action.
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Preserving Intellectual Property Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccines Is Morally Wrong and Foolish
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate | RSN/Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
28 Apr 2021 – Why, after three months of making great progress on domestic vaccination, has President Biden not ended a self-defeating policy from the Trump administration that hinders a global initiative to increase access to covid-19 vaccines and treatments?
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Ten Years Since WikiLeaks and Assange Published the Guantánamo Files
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
1 May 2021 – Last week marked a decade since WikiLeaks published a tranche of 779 secret files from the US government’s Guantánamo Bay military prison, revealing in greater detail than ever before the global dragnet of illegal detention associated with the fraudulent “war on terror.”
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Our Humanity – Our Identity
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
1 May 2021 – Identity politics has been on the ascendancy in many parts of the world in the last few decades. Its relationship to ethnicity, culture and religion is what concerns us at this point. To understand this relationship one has to consider the context. We should also try to explain the impact of identity politics upon religion itself.
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The Spirituality of Science and the Wonder of the Wilderness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
Ornithologist and Wildlife Ecologist J. Drew Lanham on Nature as Worship – “As I wander into the predawn dark of an autumn wood, I feel the presence of things beyond flesh, bone, and blood. My being expands to fit the limitlessness of the wild world.”
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Israel’s Attacks on Iran Are Not Working
Anchal Vohra | Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
27 Apr 2021 – The recent sabotage of the Iranian nuclear program has been spectacular—and strategically incoherent.
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The Largest Assessment of Global Groundwater Wells Finds Many Are at Risk of Drying Up
Harrison Tasoff | University of California Santa Barbara - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
23 Apr 2021 – UC Santa Barbara assistant professors Debra Perrone and Scott Jasechko have compiled the most comprehensive assay of groundwater wells to date, spanning 40 countries that collectively account for half of all global groundwater pumping. Their study offers an unprecedented account of the world’s groundwater resources.
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Between Us
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
26 Apr 2021 – He was sick of people, especially those he saw in masks because of their obsessive fear of death… He said to Billy Bush, “Thank you, it took me a while, but between us, that sure explains the masked desperadoes running in packs. But I won’t tell them, for as you told me long ago, they prefer their illusions.”
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(Italiano) Riflessioni sul genocidio come crimine estremo
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
L’abuso del termine genocidio è sdegnoso verso i parenti delle vittime dei massacri armeni, dell’Olocausto, del genocidio rwandese – come pure un disservizio alla storia, al diritto, e alla conduzione prudente dei rapporti internazionali. Sapevamo già di essere alla deriva in un oceano di fake news. E’ ben più pericoloso scoprire che rischiamo anche di venire sommersi nelle acque turbolente del “fake law” [falso diritto]. Dobbiamo reagire, con senso d’urgenza. Tale sviluppo non è tollerabile.
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The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades—Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us
Lee Camp | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
26 Apr 2021 – For generations the Intelligence Community has been a runaway truck–crushing everything in its path, creating coups around the world, killing thousands, and intruding on the lives of average citizens. Even the president who created the CIA and dropped atomic bombs on people, even THAT guy felt the CIA was a grave danger just after he saw a president get whacked live on prime time in Houston. I wonder why.
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How We Can Place the Wellbeing Economy at the Heart of Our Cities
Nadine Maarhuis | Sustainable Urban Delta - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
22 Apr 2021 – The current growth-obsessed economic system is becoming increasingly more dangerous for both people and planet. In order to build resilient and inclusive cities, we need an alternative.
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‘We Are Witnessing a Crime against Humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid Catastrophe
Arundhati Roy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
28 Apr 2021 – It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain.
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What Went Right This Week: Dutch Bees Buzz Back, and More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
29 Apr 2021 – Efforts to boost bee numbers in Dutch cities appeared to yield results, a malaria vaccine showed promise and a UK supermarket started selling pre-loved clothes, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Pharmaceutical Industry Dispatches Army of Lobbyists to Block Generic Covid-19 Vaccines
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
23 Apr 2021 – The pharmaceutical industry is pouring resources into the growing political fight over generic coronavirus vaccines. New lobbying disclosures show over 100 drug lobbyists working to defeat the IP waiver request at the WTO.
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Earth Democracy: Recognising the Rights of Nature, Respecting Human Rights
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – Earth Democracy is a world view, paradigm and practice that is based on the recognition that everything is interconnected, the Earth Is Living, the Earth has rights, that we have duties to care for the Earth , and regenerate her soil, seeds and biodiversity, her water and food systems. Our rights flow like a spring from our duties.
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Coping with Depression
Melinda Smith, M.A., Lawrence Robinson, and Jeanne Segal, Ph.D. | HelpGuide – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
When you’re depressed, you can’t just will yourself to “snap out of it.” But this guide to depression help can put you on the road to recovery.
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Wall Street’s Cooked Books Fueled the Financial Crisis in 2008–It’s Happening Again
Jon Schwarz and Ryan Grim | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
20 Apr 2021 – This time, the issue is not a bubble in the housing market but rather apparent widespread inflation of the value of commercial businesses, on which loans are based.
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix e Leonardo DiCaprio pedem que Biden não faça acordo com Bolsonaro em relação à Amazônia
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
22 abril 2021 – Artistas acusam Bolsonaro de cumplicidade na destruição da Amazônia, permitindo que o fogo consuma milhões de hectares de floresta.
→ read full articleThe Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth. The vast majority of our mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering comes from the violent collision between our expectations and reality. As we dust ourselves off amid the rubble, bruised and indignant, we further pain ourselves with the exertion of staggering emotional energy on outrage at how reality dared defy what we demanded of it.
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Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
18 Apr 2021 – We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is also involved.
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How Venezuela Is Rebuilding Its Industrial Base, One Volunteer at a Time
Leonardo Flores | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
22 Apr 2021 – An organization of 2,270 volunteer workers is helping Venezuela boost its industrial capacity, devastated by years of U.S. economic sanctions.
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Particle Mystery Deepens, as Physicists Confirm That the Muon Is More Magnetic Than Predicted
Adrian Cho | Science Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – A potential chink in physicists’ understanding of fundamental particles and forces now looks more real. New measurements confirm a fleeting subatomic particle called the muon may be ever so slightly more magnetic than theory predicts, a team of more than 200 physicists reported this week.
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