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Towards a Science of Misinformation and Deception
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – The Challenge of an Information Pandemic–a COVID19 Infodemic – The study of information has been remarkably clarified by information theory. This is the scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of digital information.
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(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: come appare la pace
Prof. Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Ma il peacebuilding non è sufficiente; abbiamo bisogno pure del peacemaking – una soluzione politica – e il peacekeeping. E qui entra in ballo l’EU: non solo come mediatrice, ma come modello, che sistema brillantemente una Germania che si era resa molo difficile da digerire dai paesi circostanti. Ieri. Come Israele, oggi.
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Challenging Colonization: Building Sustainable Human and Natural Communities in Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Radical Ecological Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021 – Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people have endured in the past, and continue to engage in, currently. In this article, I want to raise an issue that is not discussed often enough in this massive literature, that of challenging colonization through activities that sustain humans and nature.
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Why Are We Still at War with Syria?
Ted Snider | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
15 Jul 2021 – While congress continues to ask Biden to justify bombing Syria without congressional approval, the real question is: Why is the US bombing and sanctioning Syria at all?
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UNFSS – Where Multinationals Continue to Design Our Food Systems and Control Our Diets
Navdanya International | Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – The Pre-Summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) taking place in Rome, as a preparative stage to the New York September Summit, is, as expected, going in the wrong direction. As many civil society members, as well as past and current Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, have denounced, this summit is yet another instrument to reinforce corporate control over food and agriculture, while attempting to restrain civil society’s role in global food governance.
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Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us from the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – On July 14, the EU unveiled sweeping climate change and emissions targets that would mean “the end of the internal combustion engine.” Hemp fuel and other biofuels could quickly reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech climate solutions.
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Democracy: Enemy of the Powerful
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – Perhaps the best possible thing we could acknowledge being is a “divided nation.” Failing to do so justifies — or at least avoids noticing — all manner of violent cruelty and repression in the name of so-called democracy, from the jailing of whistleblowers who reveal U.S. war crimes…
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The Collective Suicide Machine
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
26 Jul 2021 – The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the U.S. empire — and nobody will be held accountable. Two decades of combat, one trillion dollars spent, 100,000 troops deployed, high-tech gadgets, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, Reaper and the Global Hawk drones with high-resolution cameras, Special Operations Command, elite rangers, SEALs, black sites, torture, electronic surveillance, satellites, attack aircraft, mercenary armies…
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The Price of Conscience
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced today to 45 months in prison.
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2021, the Year of Israeli Apartheid
Ahmed Abbes and Jonathan Rosenhead | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – More than 1000 academics, artists and intellectuals have signed a “Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine,” in a sign of the growing acceptance of the term in the west.
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Team Hawaiian Kingdom? Activists Want Some U.S. Olympians to Surf for a Different Homeland
Claire Wang | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – After decades of whitewashing, Hawai’i sovereignty activists say, the effort is part of an attempt to reclaim the sport’s cultural and spiritual importance in its place of birth.
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As Progressives Call for End to Blockade, Biden Announces More Sanctions against Cuba
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – While President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to reverse the “failed” policies of his predecessor that “inflicted harm on Cubans and their families,” his administration—already under mounting pressure from progressives to deliver on that promise—announced new sanctions against Cuba today.
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Here Is Why We Are Boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit
Elizabeth Mpofu and Edgardo Garcia | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
25 Jul 2021 – In September this year, the United Nations will host a Global Food Systems Summit in New York. Social movements and scientists are staying out because it represents big agribusiness interests.
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Pegasus and the Threat of Cyberweapons in the Age of Smartphones
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021 – Spyware like Pegasus is dangerous not only because it gives hackers complete control over an infected phone, but also because it introduces the skills and knowledge of nation-states into the civilian sphere.
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Rethinking the Critical Race Theory Debate
Patrick D. Anderson | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The conspicuous absence of Derrick Bell who levels a class critique against the Black bourgeoisie, whom he sees as having led Black political protest down the wrong path time and time again.
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Culture of War Update
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
1 Aug 2021 – It does not seem likely that the advance in democracy and anti-war consciousness can overthrow the American empire and its culture of war, but like its predecessor, the Soviet Empire, it will eventually collapse from its own contradictions. At that point, the development of democracy and anti-war consciousness will be essential if we are to make a radical change in global governance, a UN based directly on the people and promoting a culture of peace.
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The Insecurity Industry
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
26 Jul 2021 – The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is take it apart simply because it is unsafe to operate. Surgically removing the two or three tiny microphones hidden inside is only the first step of an arduous process.
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Why We Need a Movement to Abolish COVID Vaccine Patents Now
Andy Bichlbaum | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
21 Jul 2021 – While the call by activists to waive TRIPS is an important first step to scale up COVID vaccines, it actually needs to be abolished.
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The Former Guy
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
19 Jul 2021 – This Modern World
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Journalist Craig Murray Jailed for Eight Months in a Major Assault on Democratic Rights
Robert Stevens | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – Yesterday, Murray was informed that the UK’s Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal for a punitive eight months by a Scottish court. The railroading of Murray into prison is the culmination of a politically motivated witch-hunt. For the last decade, he has been a trenchant defender of Julian Assange.
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Solidarity with Haiti Will Strengthen the Struggle for Racial Justice Everywhere
Nia Imara | The Progressive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
26 Jul 2021 – While reports on the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse are silent on the history of the United States’ harmful relations with the island nation, solidarity with Haiti is as important as ever.
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How Haunani-Kay Trask Shaped Her Hawai’ian People’s Struggle for Independence
Anne Keala Kelly (Kānaka Maoli) | YES! Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
The Hawaiian movement for self-determination was forever changed by the fierce and unapologetic leadership of the late Haunani-Kay Trask. She modeled for us how to analyze the U.S. overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, our material reality, and American hegemony in the same frame.
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What Went Right This Week: Empathy in English Channel, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021 – A UK charity criticised for rescuing refugees saw a 2,000 per cent increase in donations, a tool was launched to help endangered species, and Montenegro saw its first same-sex marriage, plus more positive news.
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Debt to Society
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Good luck!
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Chris Hedges and Slavoj Žižek on the Pandemic’s Ramifications (Parts 1 & 2)
On Contact | RT America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
13-15 Jul 2021 – Chris Hedges discusses the social, political, cultural economic ramifications of the pandemic with the philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
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(Français) Haïti : l’assassinat du président « est le marqueur de la privatisation de toutes les institutions publiques »
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
16 juillet 2021 – Le président d’Haïti, Jovenel Moïse, a été assassiné dans la nuit du 6 au 7 juillet. Cet acte jette une lumière crue sur le pouvoir haïtien et sur la complicité internationale dont celui-ci n’a cessé de jouir.
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Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – Hale should be pardoned and released, and the government should pay him restitution.
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Money-Laundering Ring Pushed $4 Billion through HSBC
Franz Wild and Ben Stockton | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – A string of scandals has unravelled at HSBC since it admitted in 2012 to laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels. Today, under the nose of a court-appointed monitor, HSBC uncovered a $4.2bn money laundering network using client accounts in Hong Kong. There’s no indication the findings were ever reported to the regulators.
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How Ben & Jerry’s Has Exposed Israel’s Anti-BDS Strategy
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – By calling an ice cream company ‘terrorist’ for simply adhering to international law, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed the absurdity of the official Israeli strategy to counter the BDS movement.
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(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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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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Problem?
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
What Problem?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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