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Erasing Women from Science? There’s a Name for That
Jess Romeo | JSTOR Journal Storage – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
20 Mar 2021 – If you base your understanding of science history on what the textbooks tell you, you might believe that up until about a hundred years ago, Marie Curie was one of the only women in science to have achieved anything notable. Countless women scientists have been shunted to the footnotes, with credit for their work going to male colleagues. This is called the Matilda Effect.
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COVID-19 Vaccinations Are Proof of Israel’s Medical Apartheid
Diana Buttu | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
23 Mar 2021 – In Israel, more than five million people, or more than half the population, have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and case numbers are dropping. But the coronavirus does not stop at checkpoints. As an occupier, Israel must provide medical supplies to Palestinians and adopt measures to combat the disease there.
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Peaceful Societies Are Not Utopian Fantasy–They Exist
Douglas P. Fry and Geneviève Souillac | The Bulletin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – The ancestral tribes of the Iroquois lived in constant fear of each other and constructed high stockades around their villages for protection. Then, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca transformed themselves into a union of cooperating neighbors.
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Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change (FREE eBook!)
Michael E. Tigar | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
In his first U.S. Supreme Court case—at the age of 28—Tigar won a unanimous victory that freed thousands of Vietnam War resisters from prison. He led the legal team against the Pinochet regime for a 1976 Washington, DC car bombing and prosecuted Pinochet for torture and genocide. Tigar has been counsel to Angela Davis, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), the Chicago Eight, and leaders of the Black Panther Party, to name only a few.
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Lula Is Back, and Brazil Is Facing a Perfect Storm
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
25 Mar 2021 – The annulment of the corruption convictions against former President Lula threw the country into unprecedented political chaos. Pres. Bolsonaro camp, which has long treated the Supreme Court as an enemy, presented the decision as proof that the Court is defending criminals and corrupt politicians like Lula for political reasons.
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COVID-19 and the Economic Agenda
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate | Columbia News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
25 Mar 2021 – While we celebrate the United States’ emergence from the pandemic and the economic recovery, poorer countries face dimmer prospects. They don’t have access to COVID-19 vaccines or to the resources to reignite their economies. Many are burdened by debts that were barely manageable before the pandemic, but are crushing them now. What advanced countries should do to help the developing world recover from the pandemic and its economic aftermath.
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Leaked Photographs Expose Dismal Conditions in US Child Immigration Detention Center
Trévon Austin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
23 Mar 2021 – Leaked photos from a facility in Texas released Sunday [21 Mar] by US Representative Henry Cuellar, gave the first glimpse of the crowded conditions for children detained at the US-Mexico border. Children can be seen cramped in enclosed spaces, many lying on mats with Mylar blankets. Amid an increase in COVID-19 infections, the crowding makes social distancing impossible.
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Virtual Nonviolence? Civil Disobedience and Political Violence in the Information Age
Andrew Calabrese | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
Nonviolent civil disobedience is a vital and protected form of political communication in modern constitutional democracies. Reviews the idea of both demonstrating its continued relevance, and providing a basis for considering its uses as an information-age strategy of radical activism.
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Dirty Business as Usual: New CIA Director Burns Confirmed by Unanimous Vote in Senate
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – William J. Burns became the first former diplomat to become CIA director. As a diplomat, he supported U.S. military interventions in Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria and is now stoking the coals against Russia and China.
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La Vida Tombola–Feat. Diego Maradona (Music Video of the Week)
Manu Chao | Nacional Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
From the Latin Grammy-winning album – Filmed in Buenos Aires ~~ Lyrics in English and Castellano
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European Union Screams at Eritrea
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
24 Mar 2021 – The European Union (EU) came out “screaming on the Internet” this week, with all-caps, boldface typography, in a video cloaking its latest imperial moves in comically phony human rights sanctimony.
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Myanmar’s Protesters Have Achieved Significant Victories–Now Is the Time to Double Down on Nonviolent Resistance
Maria J. Stephan | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
24 Mar 2021 – The military’s brutal attack on peaceful protesters has understandably sparked calls for armed insurgency. But such a move could set the movement back. The most effective antidote to dictatorship is organized and disciplined nonviolent resistance, including mass non-cooperation.
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A Locust Plague Hit East Africa–The Pesticide Solution May Have Dire Consequences
Tristan McConnell | National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
24 Mar 2021 – Heavy use of a broad-spectrum pesticide seems to have slowed the desert locust invasion. What the repercussions of that approach are isn’t yet clear. So far, a ground and air spraying campaign over eight East African countries, coordinated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, has staved off the worst.
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Urgent Message to ALL Peace Activists
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Rusi – Land Warfare Conference 2021 – In the wake of the UK’s Integrated Review, the conference will provide a forum for the British Army and its allies to discuss how they can integrate their efforts as they modernise their forces for a new era of great power competition.
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Syria: The Price of Resistance
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
20 Mar 2021 – Few nations in recent decades have been targeted by a superpower the way the USA has subjected Syria to various forms of attack. Apart from military assaults and acts of political subversion aimed at overthrowing the government in Damascus, the US has also imposed crippling economic sanctions upon Syria.
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Palestinian Balance Sheet: Normative Victories, Geopolitical Disappointments
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
21 Mar 2021 – . It seems to me that Israeli leaders understand that South African racism collapsed largely because it lost the Legitimacy War. Maybe some Israeli leaders are beginning to grasp the writing on the wall. The ICC decision may turn out to be a turning point not unlike the Sharpeville Massacre of 1965. This may be so even, as is likely, not a single Israeli is ever brought to justice before the ICC.
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Quad Summit Consolidates US-Led Military Bloc to Prepare for War against China
Peter Symonds | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
The first leaders’ summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad, online on Friday [12 Mar], has raised the stakes in the US-led war drive against China. The summit not only issued a formal statement, but Biden and the prime ministers of India, Australia and Japan put their names to an opinion piece published prominently in the Washington Post on Sunday[14 Mar].
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Media Pseudo-Debates and the Silence of Leftist Critics
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
19 Mar 2021 – The Incompetent, Negligent, Mishandling, Miscalculating Elite Blunderers – You’ve heard of them, no doubt, the U.S. rulers who can’t rule too well and are always getting surprised by events or fed bad advice by their underlings. Their “mistakes” are always well intentioned. They stumble into wars through faulty intelligence…
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Transcending Psychosocial Polarization with Tensegrity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – Biomimetic Clues to Collective Resilience and Unshackling Knowledge – This exploration follows from the preoccupation with the current level of poisonous polarization of psychosocial dynamics. Given the tensions between one or more polarized perspectives, reference is made to the potential role of tensegrity structures. “Tensegrity” being a combination of “tension” and “integrity”. Integrity of any kind — institutional, academic, or personal.
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The New Medical-Industrial Complex
Arnold S. Relman, M.D. | The New England Journal of Medicine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
This new “medical-industrial complex” may be more efficient than its nonprofit competition, but it creates the problems of overuse and fragmentation of services, overemphasis on technology, “cream-skimming,” and undue influence on national health policy. Closer attention and careful study are necessary to ensure that it puts the interests of the public before those of its stockholders.
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Jokerman (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Dylan Cover by John Cruz | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Filmed on the beautiful island of Oahu, Honolulu-Hawai’i, we hope this soulful rendition touches your heart as much as it did ours. Turn it up and let the music take you to a peaceful place–like the wonderful Kapiolani Park, by Diamond Head Volcano, where John is performing.
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Lula in a Wilderness of Mirrors in Brazil
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
17 Mar 2021 – Still in the legal woods and not daring to project as a revolutionary leader, Lula should nonetheless never be underestimated. His best bet will be to hit the road, unleash the battered working masses in the streets, energize them, talk to them, listen to them. And act like the true leader of the Global South he never ceased to be.
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20+ Countries Suspend Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine, but Regulators Insist ‘Benefits Outweigh Risks’
Megan Redshaw | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
16 Mar 2021 – More than 20 countries have either suspended or said they will delay Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccinations based on reports of deaths or injuries — in most cases related to blood clots — in healthy people who received the vaccine.
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Rich Countries Signed Away a Chance to Vaccinate the World
Selam Gebrekidan and Matt Apuzzo | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
21 Mar 2021 – Despite warnings, American and European officials gave up leverage that could have guaranteed access for billions of people. That risks prolonging the pandemic.
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Our Four Nations Are Committed to a Free, Open, Secure and Prosperous Indo-Pacific Region
Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Scott Morrison and Yoshihide Suga | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
13 Mar 2021 – Joe Biden is president of the United States. Narendra Modi is prime minister of India. Scott Morrison is prime minister of Australia. Yoshihide Suga is prime minister of Japan.
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(Castellano) Brasil: La Mentira como Forma de Acción Política
Fernando De la Cuadra | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
22 feb 2021 – Es bastante conocida la frase difundida por el ministro de Propaganda nazista del Tercer Reich, Joseph Goebbels: “Una mentira mil veces repetida, se transforma en verdad”. O también aquel eslogan que difundía frecuentemente: “Miente, miente, miente que algo quedará, cuanto más grande sea una mentira más gente la creerá”.
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On 10th Anniversary of the U.S.-NATO Attack on Libya: Powerful Perpetrators Have Yet to Face Justice
Jeremy Kuzmarov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
19 Mar 2021 – In this day ten years ago, the Obama administration launched air strikes over Libya under NATO’s banner. Three powerful American women—Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice—pushed Obama into destroying the wealthiest, healthiest and happiest nation in Africa.
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Nuclear Fusion and the Great Global Gamble
Stu Campana | Alternatives Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Isaac Newton risked his sight for science; what will we risk for renewable energy? There have always been a few willing to risk their own careers on a gamble like nuclear fusion, but now the whole world is inching closer to going all in.
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Aaugh! A Brief List of Official Russia Claims That Proved to Be Bogus
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – The Director of National Intelligence releases a report, and the press rushes to kick the football again: Konstantin Kilimnik, a “Russian influence agent” (whatever that means), used “prominent U.S. persons” and “media conduits” to “launder their narratives” to American audiences. Maybe it’s time to start asking for proof in these episodes?
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In the Eyes of the Beholder
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
“What are you looking at?”
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Plummeting Sperm Counts, Shrinking Penises: Toxic Chemicals Threaten Humanity
Erin Brockovich | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – The chemicals to blame for our reproductive crisis are found everywhere and in everything. The rapid death and decline of sperm must be addressed, and it must be addressed now.
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Corporate, Mainstream Media Journalists Double Down on Lies about Russia
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
17 Mar 2021 – Journalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie all over Twitter – Eager to obtain vindication for the pre-election falsehood they spread about the Hunter Biden story, journalists falsely claim that the CIA blamed Russia for it.
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Capital, Science, Technology
Raúl Delgado Wise and Mateo Crossa Niell | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
1 Mar 2021 – The Development of Productive Forces in Contemporary Capitalism – How capitalism has become a parasitic entity with an essentially rentier and speculative function. Underlying this is an institutional framework that favors the private appropriation and the concentration of the products of general intellect.
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The Medical Industrial Complex: Never a Cure to Be Found
Dr. John Reizer | NoFakeNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Not only does the medical industrial complex own the intellectual rights to the named entities, the treatment protocols, the pharmaceutical products, the insurance products that pay for the care, and the hospital corporations, they also control the regulatory agencies, the medical researchers, medical schools, medical curricula, media companies that advertise their drugs, and the newscasts that perform medical cheerleading on a daily basis.
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Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Shortly after the 13 Mar 2021 Black Alliance for Peace webinar on the Horn of Africa, I came across a radio broadcast featuring “Anarchists from the Horn of Africa.” They were presenting the rebellion of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front as the struggle of a grassroots movement for autonomy being violently put down by the Ethiopian central government with the help of neighboring Eritrea.
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With Ratings Down, the Networks Hunt for a Trump Replacement
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
16 Mar 2021 – Trump saved the cable news business once. Without him, things are looking bleak again. Who will news outlets find to feed the outrage machine?
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The Ideology of Late Imperialism
Prof. Zhun Xu | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
1 Mar 2021 – The Return of the Geopolitics of the Second International
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There Are Options beyond Savage Capitalism
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
18 Mar 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. 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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Drugmakers Promise Investors They’ll Soon Hike Covid-19 Vaccine Prices
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – The U.S. pharmaceutical firms behind the approved coronavirus vaccines — Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and Pfizer — have quietly touted plans to raise prices on coronavirus vaccines in the near future and to capitalize on the virus’s lasting presence. They pledged affordable vaccines — but only as long as there’s a “pandemic.”
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Let’s Stop Pretending Russia and China Are Military Threats
Dave Lindorff | This Can't Be Happening - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
12 Mar 2021 – The Biggest Threat to US Security Is Here at Home: The Pentagon – Someone needs to say this, and it looks like it’s gotta be me: China and Russia are not our enemies.
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The Scene from Cuba: How It’s Getting So Much Right on COVID-19
Jennifer Ruth Hosek | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
16 Mar 2021 – As the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately harms underprivileged people globally, Cuba’s “people over profit” approach has been saving many lives — both on the island and abroad. From the onset, Cuba’s approach has been holistic and integrated.
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Naomi Klein: ‘We Shouldn’t Be Surprised That Kids Are Radicalised’
Patrick Barkham | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
9 Mar 2021 – With ‘How to Change Everything’, the activist has written her first book for young people. She explains how she has been inspired by a new, very young generation of protesters.
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18 Years Ago: Emergency Warning against the US Invasion of Iraq
Diane Perlman | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
19 Mar 2021 – The March 19, 2003 US led invasion of Iraq was cataclysmic. I cried. In the months before I had done everything in my power to try to prevent it, but it was a done deal. I felt like I was watching Romeo and Juliet and trying to warn them not to take the poison.
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(Français) Massacres et dérive autoritaire. Pourquoi la situation en Haïti est-elle à rebours du récit international?
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
5 mars 2021 -La communauté internationale a largement contribué à la dégradation de la situation et à l’approfondissement de la crise que traverse Haïti. Et elle continue à le faire, en soutenant le président contesté Jovenel Moïse et son calendrier référendaire et électoral.
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U.S. Military Turns Somalia into a Failed State for Shell and Exxon-Mobil to Steal Its Oil
Nick Alexandrov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
15 Mar 2021 – “U.S. foreign policy in Somalia has always sided with the wrong side.” That’s how a young Somali historian studying for his doctorate at Oxford summarized Washington’s legacy there. Petroleum industry analysts call Somalia “promising,” “one of the last truly unexplored oil frontiers.” Shell and ExxonMobil paid Mogadishu $1.7 million in 2019 for 30-year rights to offshore blocks.
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Myanmar’s Once Nationalist Military Has Just Lost the Nation
Maung Zarni | Politics Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
15 Mar 2021 – Whatever the outcome of the violent confrontation between civil society and the military will be, one thing is certain: the Burmese military has lost the nation irretrievably.
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Tens of Thousands of Palestinians Protest against Israeli Police Violence and Inaction
Mustafa Abu Sneinehj and Lubna Masarwa | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021 – Demonstration Held on Eighth Friday in a Row Said to Be the Largest in 20 Years – Furious over police violence and inaction in the face of armed gang violence, tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel protested in the town of Umm al-Fahem on Friday [5 Mar], demanding security and accountability.
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A Place the World Has Forgotten: Inside the Horror Show of Northern Uganda
Otim Tonny | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
17 Mar 2021 – The Lord’s Resistance Army began as an evolution of the ‘Holy Spirit Movement’—a rebellion against president Museveni’s oppression of northern Uganda, led by Alice Lakwena. When she was exiled, Joseph Kony took over, changing the name of the group to the Lord’s Resistance Army. As the group lost regional support, he quickly started a trend of self-preservation by stealing supplies and abducting children to fill his ranks.
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China-backed Junta’s Murder and Violence Aggravates Myanmar Economy
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
16 Mar 2021 – While the ongoing confrontation between Myanmar society and the criminal junta negatively impacts Myanmar’s economy, China is also responsible. Its short-sighted, human-rights-indifferent approach to pursuing its interests, is further aggravating the economic and political conditions with potentially dire consequences for all.
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Brazil’s Lula Launches Comeback — as the Judge Who Locked Him Up Falls from Grace
Alexandre de Santi and Rafael Moro Martins | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
15 Mar 2021 – By ending Lula’s political ban and trying the ex-judge Sergio Moro for bias, the Supreme Court shook up Brazilian politics.
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Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
10 Mar 2021 – The decision by a Brazilian judge reverses Lula’s unjust and politicized persecution. The corruption that led to this holds many lessons for the west.
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Controls and Guinea Pigs in the Pandemic Experiment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Honouring the Sacrifice of the Vaccine Refuseniks for the Wider Community
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UN Rebuke of US Sanctions on Venezuela Met with Stunning Media Silence
John McEvoy | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
10Mar 2021 – By omitting the devastating impact of sanctions, corporate media attribute sole responsibility for economic and humanitarian conditions to the Venezuelan government, thereby using the misery provoked by sanctions to validate the infliction of even more misery. US and European officials have long admitted that the sanctions regime against Venezuela is collective punishment by design.
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USA: Reports of Deaths after COVID Vaccines up by 259 in 1 Week, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Data Show
Megan Redshaw | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Servicee,
15 Mar 2021
12 Mar 2021 – Data released today by the CDC on the number of injuries and deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) following COVID vaccines remain consistent except for a 31% spike of Bell’s Palsy. Between 14 Dec 2020, and 5 Mar 2021, 31,079 reports of adverse events including 1,524 deaths, 5,507 serious injuries and 390 reports of Bell’s Palsy.
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(Português) Entenda a Decisão de Fachin que Anulou as Condenações de Lula e o que Acontece Agora
Tahiane Stochero | O Globo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
8 março 2021 – A anulação das condenações de Lula vale para quais processos? Por que Fachin decidiu anular as decisões? Por que agora? Com a anulação, Lula agora é considerado inocente? O que acontece agora? Veja respostas para essas e outras perguntas.
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Lesson Learned from a Pandemic Year
Ted Howard | The Democracy Collaborative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
11 Mar 2021 – A year ago today, the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 had become a global pandemic. The twin crises that unfolded with that declaration—an unprecedented health crisis and an unprecedented economic crisis, both revealed the wrongly constructed and badly corroded foundations of a system that not only failed to protect our health and wellbeing but actively helped to make both worse as the year progressed.
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Fukushima Meltdowns Turn Ten, Still Getting Worse
William Boardman | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
9 Mar 2021 – Fukushima Daiichi’s multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns started ten years ago. They are not over. They are not even close to over. Nuclear disasters don’t ever end. The radioactive danger slowly decays over decades, during which it needs constant safety management. Fukushima continues to be a low-level nuclear disaster, as it has been for ten years.
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Fusion Power Is a Strong Alternative Energy Source
Christopher Reis | UC Berkeley - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Fusion is the physical process by which atoms release energy when they are forced together into bigger atoms; it is the energy that drives the sun. The drawbacks of fossil fuels are now very well known. Electricity generation produces nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide emissions, which contribute to smog and acid rain and the formation of fine particulate matter. Even renewable energy, which despite making great strides in combating the effects of fossil fuels, have drawbacks.
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Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor Its Writers: To Bar Critiques of Journalists
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
11 Mar 2021 – This new political battle does not break down along left v. right lines. This is an information war waged by corporate media to silence any competition or dissent. That same motive of self-preservation is driving them to equate any criticisms of their work with “harassment,” “abuse” and “violence.”
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PRIO [Founded by Johan Galtung]: Silently Disciplining Research
Prof. Ola Tunander | PRIO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
1 Mar 2021 – Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars, seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions. The example presented here is from the Institute for Peace Research in Oslo (PRIO). A researcher is said to seek objectivity and truth. But he or she learns to select their research topics and arrive at conclusions in accordance with what the authorities and management expect. In today’s societal discourse, freedom of speech seems to be reduced to the right to offend other people’s ethnicity or religion.
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Bandaging the Corpse
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
12 Mar 2021 – The ruling elites agreed to throw money at the crisis with the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 bill known as American Rescue Plan (ARP). But the Biden’s bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America’s death spiral.
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460 Dead 243,612 Reported Injuries from COVID19 Vaccines Reported in the U.K.
Brian Shilhavy | Health Impact News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
4 Mar 2021 – The UK Government’s reporting system for COVID vaccine adverse reactions from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency released their latest report today. It covers data collected from 9 Dec 2020 through 21 Feb 2021 for the two experimental COVID vaccines currently in use in the U.K., Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
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10 Global Peacebuilding Networks
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
2 Mar 2021 – Regardless of our approach, it is common that we work in silos, disconnected from similar efforts with same goals. A common challenge: peacebuilders feel alone in their efforts. But it doesn’t have to be like that. We peacebuilders are everywhere. And there are broad arrays of global peacebuilding networks that can support you.
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Is the US Heading for Confrontation with China? The Pentagon’s Multibillion Dollar Indo-Pacific Military Deployment
Stephen Lendman | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
On Sunday [7 Mar], China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi stressed again: China seeks cooperative relations with the US. Washington’s rage to dominance prevents it, prioritizing containment of China along with seeking to undermine and isolate the country politically, economically, technologically and militarily.
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60 Years of Int’l Impunity for Myanmar Military’s Mass Murder
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
11 Mar 2021 – Until Feb. 1 Coup, West and Rest Were Coasting Bogus Narrative of ‘Fragile Democratic Transition’ with Suu Kyi at Its Helm
→ read full articleNaomi Klein on How We Can Help Young People Save the World
Emily Chan | Vogue - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
25 Feb 2021 – “There’s something happening with this generation that is really quite extraordinary.2
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Lula’s Return Could Save Brazilian Democracy
Hugo Albuquerque | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
13 Mar 2021 – With former Brazilian president Lula da Silva now eligible to run in next year’s election, Jair Bolsonaro’s grip on power is looking weaker than ever before. Amid the tide of reaction, Lula’s return means there is finally some hope for democracy and social justice in Brazil.
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What’s Behind the Biden Administration’s New $100 Billion Nuclear Missile System?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
9 Mar 2021 – One of the more important tasks that the Biden administration will undertake this year will be to review the Pentagon’s nuclear weapons budget and modernization strategy. Massive popular pressure—like that organized by the 1980s nuclear freeze movement—is needed to stop more waste, fraud and abuse.
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We Should Call the Myanmar Coup Regime a Terrorist Group
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021 – Myanmar today has become a textbook example of failed and collapsed state with the national armed forces, having morphed into gangs of heavily armed terrorists, still commanding the air force and navy. Myanmar’s military regime should no longer be treated as a state actor. They are terrorists, no less.
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The Pattern inside the Pattern: Fractals, the Hidden Order beneath Chaos…
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
… and the Story of the Refugee Who Revolutionized the Mathematics of Reality – I have learned that the lines we draw to contain the infinite end up excluding more than they enfold. I have learned that most things in life are better and more beautiful not linear but fractal. Love especially. “In the mind’s eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.”
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(Italiano) 11 marzo 2021 – Fukushima – un anniversario in sordina
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
11 marzo 2021, Fukushima, un anniversario in sordina. A 10 anni dalla tragedia si ripropone il nucleare come scelta energetica sostenibile?
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The Geopolitics of the Normalization Agreements
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Listen Closely to the Israeli Discourse in an American Liberal Idiom: Geopolitical Dreams, Ethical Nightmares
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My Long-Lost Conversation with John Lewis on His Vision of Nonviolence
Rev. John Dear | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
In this never-before-released interview, the late civil rights leader and congressman talks systemic racism, permanent warfare, extreme poverty and nonviolence as a way of life.
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The Attack on the Italian Ambassador in Congo
Daniel Ruiz, PhD | Scienza & Pace Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
1 Mar 2021 – A critical analysis of the recent attack that cost the life of the Italian Ambassador and of his bodyguard and driver in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 22 Feb 2021, focusing on a security risk analysis in the context of a long-lasting conflict.
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Yemen: World’s Worst Humanitarian Disaster Triggered by Deadly Weapons from US and UK
Thalif Deen | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
It is caused by air attacks on Yemeni civilians by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Rarely has the world denounced the primary arms merchants, US and UK, for the more than 100,000 killings since 2015 due mostly to air strikes on weddings, funerals, private homes, villages and schools. Over 130,000 have died from shortages of food and medical care.
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My Win-Win Solution for Prince Harry and the Royal Family
Diane Perlman | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
11 Mar 2021 – Being born into or marrying into a Royal Family thrusts one into a double bind. Double bind theory regards the dilemma of being confronted with conflicting, irreconcilable demands — one negating the other. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. One can neither resolve the dilemma nor opt out of the situation.
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Exclusive: US Counterterrorism Operations Touched 85 Countries in the Last 3 Years Alone
George Petras, Karina Zaiets and Veronica Bravo | USA TODAY - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – These globe-spanning operations have cost the U.S. in blood and treasure and had a massive impact on populations around the world. Newer nonmilitary threats from climate change to cyberattacks raise questions about the utility of holding on to hundreds of foreign bases and deploying tens of thousands of troops overseas.
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What Does an Ecological Civilization Look Like?
Jeremy Lent | YES! Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Unless we move from a civilization based on wealth accumulation to a life-affirming, ecological civilization, we will continue accelerating toward global catastrophe. A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.
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Keep Victoire Ingabire in Your Hearts
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021 – At the outset of International Women’s History Month, I’d like to ask Black Star News readers to remember and keep in their hearts one of the most courageous women I know, Rwandan political prisoner Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza.
→ read full articleFraming Dynamic Transcendence of Simplistic Cognitive Polarization
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021 – History may well find it remarkable the extent to which the present period cultivates the pretence of the adequacy of binary distinctions. Arguably these have even been embodied in the technologies on which civilization is now so dependent. In the case of the computer, this is most evident in the on/off distinction of logic gates — ironically at a time when progress in quantum computing is revealing other practical possibilities.
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United States Counterterrorism Operations, 2018-2020
Watson Institute/Brown University | Costs of War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Feb 2021 – From 2018 to 2020, the United States government undertook what it labeled “counterterrorism” activities in 85 countries. The map illustrates countries in which the U.S. government conducted operations it explicitly described as counterterrorism, in an outgrowth of President George W. Bush’s “Global War on Terror.”
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For the Sixth Time, Israel Razes a Disabled Palestinian’s Home
Gideon Levy and Alex Levac | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Mar 2021 – A disabled man watches as a bulldozer demolishes his home. There’s no way for Palestinians to build legally on their own land in Isawiyah. Almost all the construction there has been illegal, but the Jerusalem Municipality has chosen to single out this man.
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Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Independent Science News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk. The real threat to life, he said, is “not missiles, but microbes.” When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as “a world war.” In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited.
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An Environmental Nakba: The Palestinian Environment under Israeli Colonization
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammed A. Abusarhan | Science for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
March 5th is Palestine Environment Day. The Palestinian environment is being attacked from all fronts. This article is about the Environmental Nakba (catastrophe) in Palestine. ~~ Prior to the 1948 war and even the Zionist Congress of 1897, Palestine had some thirteen hundred villages and towns, each with a small and manageable population living sustainably with nature. The land was owned or worked by the Palestinian people, who were 85 percent Muslim, 9.2 percent Christian, and 5.3 percent Jewish.
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War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence chairman Eric Schmidt–technical advisor to Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, which he was formerly CEO of: “Never before in my lifetime have I been more worried that we will soon be displaced by a rival or more aware of what second place means for our economy, our security, and the future of our nation.”
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Why Big Pharma Shouldn’t Have Any Control over COVID-19 Vaccines
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
While a public desperate for protection against COVID-19 is quick to shame “vaccine hunters,” the real culprits are the companies refusing to share their publicly funded intellectual property and the governments allowing them to get away with it.
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Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
4 Mar 2021 – Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. Sixteen new bills to form publicly-owned banks or facilitate their formation were introduced in eight U.S. states just in Jan and Feb. Faced with the dire Covid-19 crisis, some lawmakers are starting to see publicly-owned banks as the key to ensuring an equitable economic recovery.
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John Stone | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
2 Mar 2021 – Government data show that, compared with the Pfizer vaccine, there have been 43% more reports of injuries related to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, including 77% more adverse events and 25% more deaths — but no red flags from UK regulators.
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The Attack That Never Happened: Cuba and the U.S. Fantasy of Sonic Attacks
Rosa Miriam Elizalde | Globetrotter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
5 Mar 2021 – They called it “sonic attacks,” “health incidents,” and “Havana syndrome.” In September 2017, the United States government decided to withdraw all nonessential personnel and their families from their country’s embassy in Cuba. This decision was based on alleged inexplicable noises whose causes were unclear.
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Picnic Video Exposes Both Faces of Israeli Apartheid
Jonathan Cook | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
17 Feb 2021 – Israel upholds a system of Jewish supremacy over the land, and it doesn’t matter whether those challenging its apartheid rule are Palestinian subjects without rights or “Arab” citizens supposedly with full rights.
→ read full articleSaturday Night Live Joke over Israel’s Vaccination Sparks Fury
Michael Che | Saturday Night Live - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – Michael Che’s joke about Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign pokes fun at a regime that does little to hide its supremacist and anti-Palestinian policies.
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Philosopher Martin Buber on What Trees Teach Us about Being More Human…
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
… and Mastering the Difficult Art of Seeing Others as They Truly Are – Contemplating the difference between objectifying and subjectifying the universe. I and Thou, I-Thou. Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber explores his 1923 existentialist masterpiece, laying out his visionary lens on what makes us real to one another.
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Is It Too Late for Secrets?
Janet Phelan | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
4 Mar 2021 – The recent publication by the Associated Press of high resolution satellite photos of “sensitive” Israeli nuclear sites has some people worried. As it turns out, however, they may be worried about entirely the wrong thing.
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The Age of Social Murder
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
2 Mar 2021 – The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.
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CERN: Scientists Discover Four New Particles – Here’s why They Matter
Patrick Koppenburg and Harry Cliff | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
3 Mar 2021 – The theory of tiny particles isn’t complete. But new discoveries are helping scientists expand it. The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva has now found a total of 59 new particles, in addition to the Nobel prize-winning Higgs boson.
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Analysis of India’s Nuclear Weapons Program
Anum A. Khan | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
28 Feb 2021 – It is India, not Pakistan, with the oldest and fastest growing nuclear program. India enjoys the leverage over Pakistan regarding fissile material estimates because it started its fissile material production more than two decades earlier than that of Pakistan.
→ read full article(Italiano) Una crescente militarizzazione: rischi in più per la pace e anche per l’ambiente
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
3 Marzo 2021 – La relazione finale di una ricerca che era stata commissionata da un gruppo politico (il Left Group del Parlamento Europeo) ai ricercatori di due associazioni che da molti anni sono impegnate nel denunciare – dati alla mano – i rischi e i danni ambientali causati dalle attività militari: una crescente militarizzazione produce rischi in più per la pace e anche per l’ambiente.
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Why Is Brazil Such a Basket Case?—The Role of U.S. Covert Action
Aidan O’Brien | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
6 Mar 2021 – Covid-19, murder, evangelical Christianity, crime, environmental destruction, drugs, shantytowns, inequality, corruption, doesn’t matter what you pick, Brazil is a world leader in them all—and more.
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International Women’s Day 8 Mar 2021
Achim Steiner | UNDP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
This year’s International Women’s Day is like no other. As countries and communities start to slowly recover from a devastating pandemic, we have the chance to finally end the exclusion and marginalization of women and girls. But to do that, we need immediate action.
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How India’s Farmers’ Protests Could Upend the Political Landscape
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
3 Mar 2021 – For the past three months, Indian farmers and agricultural workers have been in the middle of a difficult struggle against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tens of thousands of them have gathered around the capital city of New Delhi; they say that they will not disband unless the government […]
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