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An Afghanistan Veteran Looks Back on the “First Postmodern War”
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – Adrian Bonenberger, author of Afghan Post and veteran of two tours, reflects on the withdrawal announcement, the MRAP boondoggle, and reporting fraud.
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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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Our Own Wisdom Is Telling Us to Evolve
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – Let’s use up the planet and bless the future with its corpse. Those words could well be the core slogan of mainstream politicians and their media cohorts, with the purpose of the election process (you know, democracy) being, simply, to choose the specific ways in which we continue exploiting the planet and ignoring the consequences.
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Paulo Freire’s Brazil: ‘Return to Grassroots Popular Education’
Paolo Vittoria | Il Manifesto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – We spoke with Frei Betto, the Dominican friar, liberation theologian, educator and political militant. ‘September will mark the 100th anniversary of Freire’s birth, and it is only right to recall how popular education, which he introduced, still has the potential to make the oppressed into social and political protagonists.’
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Living Ecologically Is Illegal
Mark Ruffalo & Melissa Troutman | YES! Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
Spring 2021 – The concepts of respect, honor, and love seem simple enough, so why is it so hard to live in harmony with Nature? Well, for starters, it’s illegal. Corporations are People. Nature is Property. The Rights of Nature movement offers a solution.
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The Tiredness Virus
Byung-Chul Han | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
12 Apr 2021 – Covid-19 is a mirror that renders more visible the pathological symptoms that already existed before the pandemic. The idleness imposed on us during lockdown has made us tired. Some people claim that we might rediscover the beauty of leisure, that life might decelerate. In fact, time during the pandemic is ruled not by leisure and deceleration but by tiredness and depression. Why do we feel so tired?
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Talking of Pandemics…
Rob Rogers | Counterpoint – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
No comment.
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Imagine a Culture of Peace: The U.S. Is a War Culture, but That Can Change
Michael D. Knox | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
23 Apr 2021 – War is glorified in the United States. Imagine a change in our culture so momentous that Americans who stand for peace are celebrated rather than denounced as unpatriotic, anti-military, or un-American. Imagine…
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The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katherine Gun’s Courage of Conscience
Stefan Schindler | Engaging Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – The prosecution would be forced to reveal the Anglo-American “dirty tricks” to drum up support for the Iraq war. On the first day of the trial, the prosecution dropped all charges. Katherine Gun’s memo caused the U.N. Security Council to deny approval for the war, depriving Bush and Blair of the U.N. blessing they were hoping for.
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UN’s Most Powerful Political Body Remains Paralyzed Battling a U.S.-scripted New Cold War
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021 – A new Cold War – this time, between the US and China —is threatening to paralyze the UN’s most powerful body. The sharp divisions between China and Russia, on one side, and the Western powers on the other, are expected to continue, triggering the question: Has the Security Council outlived its usefulness or has it lost its political credibility?
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The Unraveling of the American Empire
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. US leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.
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Why “Securing Democracy” Will Be Taught in Journalism Schools
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
24 Apr 2021 – Review: Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil – Haters gonna hate, but Glenn Greenwald’s latest is a field guide to bringing home (another) scoop of a lifetime.
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18-Year-Old Undergoes 3 Brain Surgeries from Blood Clots after J&J Vaccine
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – Emma Burkey, 18, a high school senior from Nevada, who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID vaccine on April 1, suffered seizures and underwent three brain surgeries to repair blood clots she developed about a week after receiving the vaccine.
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Why Is the EU Helping to Label Israel Criticism as Antisemitism?
Amb. Ilan Baruch | +972 Mag - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – By adopting the IHRA definition, the EU is playing into the agendas of Israel advocacy groups that undermine civil society work against the occupation.
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Reflections on Genocide as the Ultimate Crime
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
26 Apr 2021 – The misuse of the word genocide is disdainful toward relatives of the victims of the Armenian massacres, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide – and as well a disservice to both history, law, and the prudent conduct of international relations. We already knew that we were adrift in an ocean of fake news. It is far more dangerous to discover that we are also at risk of being immersed in the turbulent waters of “fake law”. We must push back with a sense of urgency. Such a development is not tolerable.
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တရက်ဆိုတာမြန်မာပြည်သူတွေရဲ့အသက်ပါ A Typical Day in the Life of People in Myanmar under Terrorist Siege
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – A thoughtful but painful comment on the situation in Myanmar written by an anonymous Burmese Facebook user. English Translation by Maung Zarni
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Remembering Ramsey Clark
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
12 Apr 2021 – Ramsey Clark was a great man, and it was my privilege to work with him closely on several occasions. His death is a time to mourn, but it is also a time to remember who he was and why his life mattered in profound ways to so many people.
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Slaughter Central
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – The United States as a Mass-Killing Machine – By the time you read this, it will already be out of date. With so much all-Anglo American weaponry in this world, there’s no way to keep up. Anglo America is the emperor of weaponry. The top five arms makers on the planet — Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and General Dynamics — are all located in the United States.
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Raul Castro Steps Down as Head of Communist Party Ending an Era in Cuba
Andrea Rodríguez | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
17 Apr 2021 – Raul Castro said yesterday he is stepping down as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership that began with his brother Fidel and country’s 1959 revolution. The 89-year-old Castro made the announcement in a speech at the opening of the eighth congress of the ruling party.
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Ramsey Clark, One of the Greatest
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
On the 9th of April 2021, Ramsey Clark passed away in the States. He was ninety four. The former US Attorney-General had spent decades in the struggle for human rights. In this short tribute, I have chosen to highlight some of his outstanding achievements. At some point in the future, one hopes that some better qualified person will analyse in depth his impact upon American society and global politics.
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Meta-pattern via Engendering and Navigating “Pantheons” of Belief?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Conventionally a pantheon is the particular set of all gods of any individual polytheistic religion, mythology, or tradition. There are an estimated 4,200 different religions in the world, although these may be variously clustered. However, in an extensively secularized global civilization of considerable complexity, “pantheon” may in practice have other meanings — as with “religion” and “god”. Religion may then be extended to mean a pattern of fundamental beliefs. Any such religion may then be recognized as having one or more gods — and perhaps many.
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Reclaim the Seed
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
3 Decades of Seed Satyagraha & Defense of Seed Freedom
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U.S. Joins Past Empires in Afghan Graveyard
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – President Biden announced a removal of all U.S. troops by September 11, but he failed to include some important details.
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Biden Is Not Ending the Afghanistan War, He Is Privatizing It
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – Special Forces, Pentagon Contractors and Intelligence Operatives Will Remain – The meaninglessness of the announcement becomes apparent when we consider that the Pentagon employs more than seven contractors for every serviceman or woman in Afghanistan.
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For Activists in Myanmar: A Nonviolence Manual in Burmese
Metta Center for Nonviolence | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – In the spirit of solidarity and support with activists resisting the coup in Myanmar, the Metta Center offers a Burmese translation of Steps of Nonviolence.
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Lawyers Signal More Lawsuits Likely against Syngenta, Alleging Paraquat Causes Parkinson’s Disease
Carey Gillam | U.S. Right to Know - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
9 Apr 2021 – A move by lawyers to consolidate at least 14 lawsuits filed by eight different law firms in six different federal courts is a “telling sign” more lawsuits will be filed against the company over claims its weedkiller, Paraquat, causes Parkinson’s Disease.
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Israel Rejects ICC Investigation: What Are the Possible Future Scenarios?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – While Palestinians remain cautious about the future of the investigation, hope is slowly rising that, this time around, things may be different and that Israeli war criminals will eventually be held accountable for their crimes. Time will tell.
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(Français) Le néo-colonialisme, la suprématie blanche et le défi de la Chine
Franklin Frederick | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
12 Avr 2021 – Un récent article de l’Atlantic Council, influent think tank occidental, fait une référence sans détour à la guerre froide pour définir la politique à mener à l’égard de la Chine. Franklin Frederick remonte pour nous les racines de ce cercle d’influence. Elles prennent leur source dans une idéologie raciste et réactionnaire qui fait consensus auprès de l’élite impérialiste.
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(Italiano) A quando un nuovo patto tra scienza e società?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Aprile 2021 – A quando un nuovo patto tra scienza e società? Un’analisi di Elena Camino sulle presunte politiche ambientali dell’Unione Europea.
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The Journalist and the Whistleblower
James Risen | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – As the government attacks press freedom, reporters must consider their responsibility to sources — and each other.
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Colombia: An Ideal U.S. Client-State in the Western Hemisphere
Angelo Cardona | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
16 Apr 2021 – Colombia has been living with one of the longest armed conflicts in the world. A peace agreement to end the more than 50-year-old armed civil war was signed in Havana, Cuba, in 2016. Despite this historic event, violence continues in the country relentlessly. Washington has long helped fuel the devastating conflict that goes back to the era of La Violencia in World War II.
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The Man They Call Tiger: The Diplomat Who Stood up to America’s Bullies Becomes China’s New and Unlikely Hero
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021 – Yang Jiechi’s outburst against the US at a high-level meeting in Alaska last month has been widely praised and elevated the career bureaucrat to the status of national deity.
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What Went Right This Week: ‘The Right to Disconnect’, Plus more Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – The ‘right to disconnect’ campaign gathered momentum in the UK, France moved to ban short-haul flights and indigenous Brazilians won a landmark court case, plus the week’s other positive news.
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How Law Made Neoliberalism
Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski and David Singh Grewal | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.
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Russia’s Ukraine Maneuvers Are a Response, Not a Provocation
Leonid Ragozin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – Over the past few weeks, Russia has been amassing troops at the Ukrainian border, triggering alarm in Kyiv and European Union capitals. The Ukrainian government’s push for NATO membership could provoke a dangerous escalation of the Ukrainian conflict.
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As Biden Plans Withdrawal, Analysis Shows Afghan War Cost At Least 241,000 Lives and $2.26 Trillion
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
16 Apr 2021 – “Ending the war as soon as possible is the only rational and humane thing to do,” said a co-director of the Costs of War Project.
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The Middle East: Geopolitical Battleground
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
18 Apr 2021 – Questions posed on the basis of my memoir, ‘Public Intellectual,’ by an Egyptian journalist. The interview covers several distinct issues that involve interpretations of major foreign policy concerns in the Middle East.
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The Kafkaesque Nightmare of Attorney Steven Donziger, a Literal Prisoner of the Chevron Corporation
Luke Savage interviews Steven Donziger | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – When human rights lawyer Steven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Chevron, the company set out to destroy his life. After 20 months of house arrest on the orders of a Chevron-linked judge, his Kafkaesque story is a window into the corrupt US legal system. Chevron is using sixty law firms and two thousand lawyers against Donziger.
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US Intelligence Community Warns of Devastating Long-Term Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic
Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – The fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is poised to fracture societies worldwide, increase instability across the globe and reshape political and economic realities for years to come, the US intelligence community warned in a stark report laying out the top security concerns facing the country.
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‘Tragic Combination’: Millions Go Hungry amid Brazil COVID Crisis
Sam Cowie | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
11 Apr 2021 – As Brazil’s COVID-19 crisis gets worse by the week with record-high death tolls, packed hospitals and climbing caseloads, another crisis is unfolding: hunger and food insecurity.
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How to See Mars through a Telescope
Adam Kirk | Love the Night Sky - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Mars became a hot topic thanks to NASA’s Perseverance Rover landing there last February. My guide to finding and seeing Mars with a telescope has loads of real images of the red planet, a full-screen star map, tables showing when it’s best to take a look, and detailed but easy-to-understand guidance on seeing Mars from your own backyard.
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Cold War on Trial: Truth Commission Details Horrible Crimes Akin to Native American Genocide and Slavery
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – With a new Cold War heating up between the U.S. and Russia and China, Witness for Peace Southwest, Addicted to War and CodePink organized a Truth Commission on the original Cold War on March 21st, which brought together the testimony of historians, activists and others who lived through the period.
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Ramsey Clark, Attorney General Who Became a Critic of U.S. Policies, Dies at 93
Emma Brown | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Ramsey Clark, the U.S. attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson who redefined himself as a relentless critic of American foreign policy and as a courtroom defender of figures such as former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, died April 9 at his home in New York City. He was 93.
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Among the Covid Sceptics: ‘We Are Being Manipulated, without a Shadow of a Doubt’
Samira Shackle | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – Who are the people who have come to follow wild conspiracy theories about Covid-19? Covid conspiracies are often presented in the form of complex, pseudo-technical documents. Factchecking is of limited use in changing believers’ minds because sources such as the BBC or the Office for National Statistics are seen as part of the lie.
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How Significant Is the $400 Billion Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between China and Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
This post consists of my responses to questions posed by the Iranian journalist Javad Heiran-Nia, Questions on the China/Iran Agreement (4 April 2021). The agreement, officially known as Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, was signed formally just a few weeks before it was announced that so-called ‘indirect talks’ between Iran and the U.S. were taking place in Vienna.
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Children's Health Defense Team | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – Research on SARS-CoV-2 RNA by scientists at Harvard and MIT has implications for how mRNA vaccines could permanently alter genomic DNA, according to Doug Corrigan, Ph.D., a biochemist-molecular biologist who says more research is needed.
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The More Loving One
W. H. Auden | Poets - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
Rwanda and Zaire (DRC) 1990 to 1997, Where the US Blocked Real Humanitarian Intervention
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – The cases of Bosnia and Rwanda are the most often cited in arguments for humanitarian war, Bosnia as a case in which the US and NATO intervened, Rwanda as a case in which they did not, but the truth of both histories is disputed.
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The U.S. Can’t Control the World
Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – China’s Belt and Road Initiative involves countries on every continent and provides opportunity where the western nations offer only debt and subjugation… Any nation that threatens U.S. economic supremacy faces an onslaught of corporate media attacks… China committed itself to buying Iranian oil, an agreement which diminishes the impact of U.S. sanctions… China and Russia supply Venezuela with medical equipment that would otherwise be impossible to obtain under U.S. sanctions.
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“Federal Army for Federal Democracy”: The Dawn of Myanmar’s New Politics
Maung Zarni | FORSEA Forces of Renewal for Southeast Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
9 Apr 2021 – Myanmar’s peoples of all ethnic backgrounds are undergoing a revolutionary process. Ms Suu Kyi may have to be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice: give up her centre stage in order that a revolution can grow and succeed in its revolutionary mission: a federal army and federal democracy. Otherwise, the pursuit of federalism in Myanmar will continue to be the Achilles’ heel for all democrats and federalists, the majority and minorities.
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Corporate Versus Public Control of Science and Technology: Forging a Framework for the 21st Century
Nicholas Freudenberg | STAT News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 – Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” Louis Pasteur said that in 1876. Today it would be more accurate to say that science belongs to the corporations and investors that have the money, power, and savvy to secure patents and bring new developments to global markets, a change that threatens human and planetary health.
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The ICC’s Attempt to Place Israel on Par with Terror Armies
Yaakov Lappin | Jewish News Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – The International Criminal Court’s Feb. 5 decision that it has jurisdiction to investigate alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem represents a milestone in the politicization of international law.
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From His Solitary Confinement, Marwan Barghouti Holds the Key to Fatah’s Future
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – If imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, becomes the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status quo will change substantially. For Israel, as well as for the current PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, such a scenario is more dangerous than another strong Hamas showing in the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections.
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Why We Need to Shift from Protest Power to People Power
Stellan Vinthagen | Resistance Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – Nonviolent movements must go beyond marching in the streets in order to build truly transformative change for a post-pandemic future.
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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Obituary
Stephen Bates | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Philip Mountbatten-Windsor, Duke of Edinburgh, Baron of Greenwich, Earl of Merioneth, born 10 Jun 1921, died 9 Apr 2021. He was the Queen’s husband for 73 years, the longest-serving royal consort in British history, the family’s patriarch, and a well-known figure in public life for two-thirds of a century until his final disappearance into seclusion in 2019.
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What Went Right This Week: Britain’s ‘Greenest Day Ever’, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – Britain set a green energy record, bee-friendly face masks launched and seeds were sown for a community farm in Manchester, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Why Ukraine’s Borders Are Back at the Center of Geopolitics
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – On Twitter, President Zelensky used the hashtag #CrimeaIsUkraine to send a clear signal that he is prepared to escalate conflict with Russia over Crimea. He set up a Crimean Platform Initiative to coordinate strategy alongside the USA and NATO to pressure Russia over both Crimea and the conflict in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.
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Arguments against Vaccination
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Pure Unadulterated Wisdom
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Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – On Mother’s Day in 2019, I obtained a massive digital archive of chats, documents, audios, videos, and photos from Brazil’s most powerful officials. It of course viscerally reminded me of the first time I was contacted back in 2012 by Edward Snowden. [The hacker] told me that he had reviewed less than ten percent of these materials, but already found acts of such grave deceit and illegality that he was certain it would shake Brazilian politics at its core. The reporting we did changed the country, and our lives.
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Two Years after Assange’s Arrest, Biden Can End Trump’s Assault on Press Freedom
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
11 Apr 2021 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been detained at the high-security Belmarsh prison in London for two years today. Protests and solidarity actions are planned over the course of the week throughout the world and in cities like Boston, Berlin, Brussels, Dresden, Vienna, and Hamburg.
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Hans Küng, Catholic Theologian Critical of the Church, Dies at 93
Douglas Martin | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Hans Küng, a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and priest whose brilliantly disputatious, lucidly expressed thoughts in more than 50 books and countless speeches advanced ecumenism and provoked the Vatican to censure him, died on 6 Apr 2021 in Germany. He was 93.
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India Prepares for Kumbha Mela, World’s Largest Religious Gathering, Amid COVID-19 Fears
Tulasi Srinivas | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Massive crowds are expected to gather at Haridwar throughout April 2021 for the religious festival of Kumbha Mela. This year, over a million pilgrims a day will bathe in the sacred River Ganges and over 5 million are expected per day on the most auspicious days – April 12, 14 and 21 – for a total of a 100 million celebrants.
→ read full articleTrapped at the Border: Their Fate Is Our Fate
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – You’d think that the “border crisis” begins and ends as a problem for the USA… Something else becomes possible when we begin to realize that unless we change the world, their fate is our fate.
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COVID-19: Pandemic? Or Cult?
Michael J. Talmo | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – For the overwhelming majority of people, COVID-19 is a religion. On faith they believe that vaccines using an experimental mRNA technology never before used on humans, developed in less than a year instead of the normal 5-10 years to evaluate the long-term effects on people’s health, are safe and effective. It’s important to understand that there is a difference between knowing something and believing that you know something. Your brain makes decisions for emotional reasons first, such as being afraid, and then comes up with intellectual reasons to justify that belief.
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‘We Have to Act’: Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever in Recorded History
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide surged past 420 parts per million this past weekend, according to a measurement at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Carbon dioxide isn’t the only greenhouse gas scientists are concerned about. Emissions of methane and sulfur hexafluoride have also spiked to “worrying levels.”
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Collateral Crucifixion – Pressuring for Julian Assange’s Release!
Sabine Bock | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 -The artist duo Captain Borderline has created on the theme of “Collateral Crucifixion” a huge, artistic mural on a complete house facade directly in front of the SPD headquarters, the Willy Brandt House. In conversation with the two artists, they explained to us the reason for creating the revolutionary, crucifix-like work of art.
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Americans Wake Up! Outlaw Technocrats Are Stealing Our Democracy
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – The pandemic is being used to shift wealth upwards, abolish civil rights and destroy democracy. Government technocrats, billionaire oligarchs, Big Pharma, Big Data, Big Media, the high-finance robber barons and the military industrial intelligence apparatus love pandemics for the same reasons they love wars and terrorist attacks. Catastrophic crises create opportunities of convenience to increase both power and wealth.
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On Anniversary of MLK’s Death, His Words Are ‘More Relevant’ than Ever, His Son Says
Erik Ortiz | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Five decades later, his family says in a new video, he can help “guide humanity in the right direction.”
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Do We Really Want a Second Cold War?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – The protection of human rights is being geopolitically manipulated to mobilize public support for an anti-Chinese foreign policy in the West that risks generating a dangerous geopolitical confrontation. Such a confrontation amounts to war-mongering and diverts U.S. attention from self-scrutiny and global peacebuilding. Whether a second cold war is already underway is a matter of interpretation.
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The European Council against the Trade in Instruments of Torture
Riccardo Noury | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
On 31 Mar the European Council adopted a recommendation, long solicited by Amnesty International and Omega Research Foundation, by which the 47 member states will effectively fight the trade in torture equipment. It provides a total ban to the trading of any instruments aimed to cause pain and requires stricter controls on the trade in police items potentially used to torture.
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The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 – Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the United States’ celebrated civil rights icon. Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For more than fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government disinformation to hide the truth.
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Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976): Lessons from a Remarkable Life
Tayo Aluko | Counterfire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Black Lawyer, Singer and Football Player, Paul Robeson’s Extraordinary Life Holds Many Lessons for the Present Day
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Listen to the Women
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – This month the women of the world give us reason to hope for the future. Around the world millions of women risked the Covid pandemic and took to the streets to demand radical change.
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The “Defender-Europe”– US Army Arrives
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – Not everything in Europe is paralyzed by the anti-Covid lockdown: The mammoth annual exercise of the US Army, Defender-Europe, which mobilizes dozens of thousands of soldiers and tanks, has been set in motion. The Defender-Europe 21 not only resumes the 2020 program, but amplifies it.
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Overcoming Hopelessness
Nick Vujicic | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Nicholas James Vujicic, 39 years old, is an Australian American Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of arms and legs. He has 4 children and is active since 2004. Prepare to cry…
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Canada Does About Face on AstraZeneca Vaccine, Citing Blood Clot Concerns
Megan Redshaw | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
After previously defending AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine, Canadian health officials on Monday [29 Mar] suspended its use in people 55 and under, pending outcome of a detailed risk-benefit analysis. “There is substantial uncertainty about the benefit given the potential risks,” said the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.
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Despite U.S. Dirty Tricks, Bolivia Is Finding a Way to Stay Independent
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
29 Mar 2021 – Bolivia has decided to act against the coup makers. The U.S. government is now using that action to delegitimize the government of President Arce. Platforms such as TMS might turn out to be essential as a conduit for Bolivia to tell its story and not be suffocated by Washington’s information war, a vital part of the regime change strategy.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – The refusal — the inability? — of most leaders at the national level to approach humanity’s biggest problems holistically, rather than simply blame them on “the other,” says to me it’s time to begin loosening the certainty that borders are real, that nation states are real. “We’ve defeated freedom’s enemies before, and we will defeat them again.” How could any sane human being imagine that actions built on this kind of thinking could solve, or heal, a complex issue?
→ read full articleComparable Dynamics of Point, Bullet, Ball and Globe
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Cognitive Significance of Systemic Similarities Conventionally Obscured – The question here is whether the cognitive engagements with a point, a bullet, a ball and the globe have unexplored similarities. These may indeed be limited in many respects, but each may well function as a surrogate for the others in some contexts — which then merit clarification.
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Myanmar Military a ‘Terrorist Group’ That Should Face International Court, Advisory Council Says
Ben Doherty | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
29 Mar 2021 – The Myanmar military is a “terrorist group” that should be brought before the ICC and imposed a global sanctions regime, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar says. The council has called for a “three cuts” strategy to combat the Tatmadaw, as the military is known. First, the ICC. Second, an arms embargo. And third, financial sanctions against military officials and military-owned companies.
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(Français) Écouter les Femmes
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 avril 2021 – Ce mois-ci les femmes du monde nous donnent des raisons d’espérer pour l’avenir. Partout dans le monde, des millions de femmes ont risqué la pandémie de Covid et sont descendues dans la rue pour exiger un changement radical.
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The Disarticulation of Pandemic War Propaganda
Raul Diego | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon.
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Need a Quote from an Official Enemy Denouncing Democracy? Do like the New York Times and Make It Up
Jim Naureckas | FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
You know you’re in for a hard sell when the New York Times (29 Mar 2021) publishes an article under the headline “An Alliance of Autocracies? China Wants to Lead a New World Order.”
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Is Traditional Liberalism Vanishing?
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
3 Apr 2021 – “Mighty Ira,” a documentary about legendary former ACLU chief Ira Glasser, is simultaneously inspiring and unnerving.
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Sarah LaBrecque and Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – Netflix made an ambitious net-zero pledge, beavers returned to Wales and hydrogen planes were scheduled for takeoff, plus more.
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Another Mecha Suit Massacre — The Right to Bear Laser-Blasting Arms
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Don’t tread on me, unless you’re in a mecha suit.
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Kosovo Becomes First Muslim Nation to Open Jerusalem Embassy
Michael Daventry | Jewish News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
The Kosovar foreign ministry announced the move in a statement on Sunday [14 Mar 2021], six weeks after it established diplomatic ties with Israel on 1 Feb. It is the second European country and the fourth in the world to open an embassy in Jerusalem.
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Scots Become Automatic Organ Donors under New Law
Joanne Macaulay | BBC Scotland News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
26 Mar 2021 -From today, it is presumed that people have consented to donation unless they have stated otherwise. Everyone in Scotland is now an automatic organ donor.
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‘Most Couples May Have to Use Assisted Reproduction by 2045’
Zoë Corbyn | Guardian/Observer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
28 Mar 2021 – Shanna Swan is a professor of environmental medicine and public health studying fertility trends. In 2017 she documented how average sperm counts among western men have more than halved in the past 40 years. She explains how chemicals in plastics are causing our fertility to decline – and what we can do about it.
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Revolutions and Revolutionary Acts
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
23 Mar 2021 – I do not have the moral or intellectual option of telling those on the ground who risk their lives and livelihoods that their resistance is futile. Nor do I share the view that resistance is futile or that another world is not possible. History does not change through normal politics. What Myanmar and her people are undergoing is nothing less than a textbook example of Revolution.
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An Illustrated Glossary of Political Violence
Emily Hencken Ritter and Christian Davenport | Political Violence at a Glance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
We provide some definitions of various types of political violence; how political conflict and violence scholars define these terms; also visualizations, which help communicate what words can never capture alone. We list and define tactics, a “repertoire” or “menu” items.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Indeed…
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Institutionalized Greed: Shareholders and Large Investment Funds
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – Behind large corporations, other actors appear that help sustain the concentrating dynamic. They are shareholders and investment funds that, with diverse complicities, seek maximum profits without considering that their decisions affect the entire humanity and the planet. Greed eagerness goes hand in hand with the permanent attempt to cover up the damages it produces.
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Weaponization of Aid Contributes to Death of Yemenis
Rabih Torbay and Zaher Sahloul | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
23 Mare 2021 – Since March 2015, according to the Yemen Data Project, at least 3.6 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict. Horrifically, more than 80 percent of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance. The clock is ticking in Yemen. Yemenis are not just dying, they are left to die.
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The Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel Uses ‘the Law’ to Ethnically Cleanse East Jerusalem
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
24 Mar 2021 – While the Israeli State claims to play an impartial role in this scheme, it is actually the facilitator of the entire process. The final outcome manifests in the ever-predictable scene, where an Israeli flag is triumphantly hoisted over a Palestinian home and a Palestinian family is assigned an UN-supplied tent and a few blankets.
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Biden Continues the U.S. Conflict with China through the Quad
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
16 Mar 2021 – On March 12, the heads of government of four countries, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and the United States President Joe Biden, met for a virtual meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, better known as the Quad. The goal of the Quad is to deepen the military and economic pressure against China.
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10 Women’s Peace Networks
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
And How They Are Changing the World
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Six Days in Fallujah: Another Video Game That Refuses to Question US Militarism?
Emad Ahmed | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
26 Mar 2021 – First announced in 2009 before being dropped, the Konami video game offering serves as a perfect mixture of ignorance and imperialist propaganda.
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The Evil within Us
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – Millions of largely white Americans, hermetically sealed within the ideology of the Christian Right, yearn to destroy the ‘Satanic’ forces they blame for the debacle of their lives. And one such evangelical just killed eight people in Atlanta.
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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Losing a Friend
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”
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