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A Research Center in the Scandinavian Forest Nourishes Resistance
Stellan Vinthagen | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
6 Jul 2021 – Home to a large library, writers residence and a vast garden, the Irene Community in Sweden welcomes activists and academics to explore nonviolent activism.
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Today’s Science Deniers: What We Owe Galileo after 400 Years
Prof. Susan E. Babbitt | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
On June 22, 1633, a sick and beaten old man, on his knees, had to “abjure, curse and detest” his view that “the earth moves and is not the centre of the world.” It was “one of the most deplorable acts of the Inquisition”, relevant to our times. Galileo’s relevance hits much closer to home.
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Ethiopian Conflict and International Law
Ann Garrison interviews Francis A. Boyle | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 -Legal scholar Francis A. Boyle told Ann Garrison that a “Responsibility-to-Protect” intervention in Ethiopia would be illegal and catastrophic.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
We Are the Champions (Music Video of the Week)
Freddie Mercury | Queen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Queen Official – From News of the World, 1977 – Winners’ Anthem
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Data, Not Arms, the Key Driver in Emerging US-China Cold War
Robert Reich | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Cybersecurity comes down to which side has access to more information about the other and can utilize it best.
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Why We Should Change How We Talk about Nonhuman Animals
Debra Merskin, Carrie P. Freeman and Alicia Graef | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
We wouldn’t say “it” or “that” when referring to humans, so why would we for other sentient individuals?
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Activism Uncensored: Colombia in Chaos
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Any American correspondent working abroad will tell you: coverage of in-country upheavals are dictated by the nature of the government’s relationship to the United States. If they’re technically allies, protests tend to be portrayed as illegitimate. Hence the dilemma in Colombia. As protests erupt on the streets of a longtime U.S. ally, the Biden administration and the American media wait to see whose side they’re on.
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The Syria Deception: The Public Has Been Hoodwinked Yet Again into Supporting a Criminal War of Aggression—and One That Has Been Effectively Lost
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – United States warmakers have become so skilled at propaganda that not only can they wage a war of aggression without arousing protest; they can also compel liberals to denounce peace activists using language reminiscent of the McCarthy era. Take the case of Syria. The people and groups one would normally count on to oppose wars have been the ones largely defending it.
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Key Witness Admits Lying about Julian Assange–a Major Blow to U.S. Extradition Case–yet Western Media Ignores This Development
Ron Ridenour | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
12 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Former WikiLeaks volunteer, who became an FBI informant for $5,000, says he fabricated important parts of the accusations in the U.S. indictment.
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Letting Filthy Private Jets Go Tax-Free Shows How the EU Prioritises the Mega-Rich Over the Masses
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – Despite being hugely damaging for the environment, private planes operated by mi(bi)llionaires are to be given carbon tax exemption by hypocritical bureaucrats who tirelessly push a green agenda. It’s Brussels hypocrisy at its finest.
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Haiti in Upheaval: President Moïse Assassinated at Home
Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home Wednesday [7 Jul], with police killing four suspects and arresting two others hours later amid growing chaos in a country already enduring gang violence and protests of his increasingly authoritarian rule.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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How Not to Cover Critical Race Theory
Julie Hollar | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Fox News and its conservative media allies have turned white rage onto a more actionable target: critical race theory. Though the theory is a longstanding and specific academic lens for understanding systemic racism, the right has transformed it into a catchall for anything that encourages talking about and addressing racism.
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(Italiano) Teoria critica della razza: osservazioni e lezioni apprese
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Per risolvere il conflitto fra propugnatori e oppositori della Teoria Critica sulla Razza, perciò pare che bisogni procedere in due fasi. La prima immediata e la seconda più a lungo termine. Subito, la teoria dev’essere riformulata in termini comprensibili ai non-accademici chiarendo che il nodo della teoria non è condannare i bianchi per la loro razza o eredità culturale oppure impancarsi a giudizio finale sull’America. Si tratta invece di dimostrare le fonti strutturali delle idee e prassi più benefiche e più distruttive dell’America, e la necessitàdi cambiamenti risoluti in un sistema che genera tali profonde contraddizioni.
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An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.
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(Français) L’acte d’accusation contre Assange repose sur le faux témoignage d’un sociopathe avéré
Caitlin Johnstone | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
28 Juin 2021 – C’est une bombe dans l’affaire Assange. Pour faire extrader le fondateur de WikiLeaks, le gouvernement US l’a notamment accusé de piratage. Or, le témoin-clé de cette accusation vient de retourner sa veste dans un journal islandais. Pire, le témoin en question serait une taupe rémunérée du FBI qui avait été reconnu coupable d’abus sexuels sur mineurs et de détournement de fonds. Il admet maintenant avoir menti. Pour Edward Snowden, cette révélation marque la fin de l’affaire Assange.
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Aloha & Mahalo Haunani-Kay Trask! RIP
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Haunani-Kay Trask, Hawaiian scholar and activist, died in the morning of 3 Jul 2021 on Oahu, Honolulu. She was 71. Tenured as a professor for more than 30 years at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Trask worked in co-founding the contemporary field of Hawaiian Studies.
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U.S. Mass Murder by Economic Warfare Mocks the UN and the Teachings of Jesus
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – The United Nations has not been able to protect socialist countries in Latin America from economic warfare by the U.S. At its worst such aggression could be considered to be indirect mass murder — some say genocide. Cuba and Venezuela have been prime targets.
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Believe Your Eyes: Becoming a Snitch–If You See Something, Say Something
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021 – The reality of snitching on others has been around for a long time. Just think Adolf Hitler’s or Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian police states where free thought and free speech was a punishable crime against the state. The same thing happened in every war that America has ever entered. The corporate propaganda machinery behind all those wars had their ways to ferret out dissenters.
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Declaration of the Crime of Apartheid: Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
9 Jul 2021 – The Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine below is an initiative endorsed by scholars and artists worldwide. Please distribute widely as there is a campaign underway to reach 1,000 signatures. List of the 773 signatories (last update : 8 Jul 2021)
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Fox News’ Anti-Vaccination Hysteria Has Reached a Disturbing New Level
Ryan Bort | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
9 Jul 2021 – Right-wing media is melting down over President Biden’s push to … inoculate people against a virus that has killed more than 600,000 Americans.
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US Imperialism’s Criminal Debacle in Afghanistan
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – US troops pulled out of the sprawling Bagram Air Base at three in the morning last Friday [2 Jul], without notifying the Afghan government forces meant to replace them, and cutting off the power on the way out, an act that triggered an invasion of the base by a small army of looters. This ignoble retreat is a fitting symbol of the debacle wrought by 20 years of US war and occupation in Afghanistan.
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Biden’s Failure to End Trump’s War on Cuba Is Threatening Lives
Danny Glover | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Imagine a country developing and producing Covid-19 vaccines enough to cover its entire population, but being unable to inoculate everyone because of a syringe shortage. Cuba has already vaccinated about 2 of its 11 million people, and hopes to have 70 percent of the population vaccinated by August. Yet, because of the 60-year US embargo the country is facing a shortage of millions of syringes. Biden promised to return to Obama’s policies of engagement with Cuba, but the embargo and other Trump-era restrictions remain in place.
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Assange Turns 50 in Jail–A Reminder of a Western Democracy Paradox He Exposed: Non-Freedom Gives a Sense of Freedom
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Today, WikiLeaks co-founder Assange is celebrating his 50th birthday, being held at the Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London as Washington seeks his extradition to the US, where he could be jailed for up to 175 years if found guilty. That reminds us of the dark aspects of the ‘Land of the Free’ and most of Western democracies.
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Chris Hedges Speaks on ‘American Sadism’ (video)
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Chris Hedges gave this talk on American Sadism at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on Sunday June 27.
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Governance of Pandemic Response by Artificial Intelligence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Control of Human Agents Unconscious of AI-Elaboration of Communication Scripts?
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Lisbon Court Rules Only 0.9% of ‘Verified Cases’ Died of COVID, Numbering 152, Not 17,000 Claimed
Mordechai Sones | America's Frontline Doctors - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
23 Jun 2021 – Following a citizen’s petition, a Lisbon court was forced to provide verified COVID-19 mortality data. According to the ruling, the number of verified deaths from Jan 2020 to Apr 2021 is only 152, not about 17,000 as claimed by government ministries.
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‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Jul 12-19 Issue – Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen sat for a chat with The Nation. Born in Vietnam and raised in the United States, where his family was resettled as refugees, Nguyen has become an essential literary voice—at once an eloquent champion of the displaced and a trenchant critic of empire.
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Illusions of Empire: Amartya Sen on What British Rule Really Did to India
Amartya Sen | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Sen’s counter-history of the institutionalized elite’s delusion that the British Raj was better than French rule, building liberal institutions for the colonized, etc. As a tyrannical blood-sucking alien ruler, Britain did nothing good for the colonized out of the goodness of its heart. Many of the arguments defending the Raj are based on serious misconceptions about India’s past, imperialism and history itself.
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The Mirror of Enigmas: Chance, the Universe, and the Pale Blues of Knowing Who We Are
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
“There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who s/he is.” It takes a great sobriety of spirit to know your own depths–and your limits. It takes a special grandeur of spirit to know the limits of your self-knowledge.
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U.S. Military: Greatest Polluter on the Planet!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – The U.S. Military is the largest consumer of oil and largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the world. In the name of “defense” the U.S. military is carbon bombing the planet and countries all around the world, including munitions sites this week in Syria and Iraq.
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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates’ Book Is Rubbish!
Russell Brand | Under the Skin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
I spoke with Indian scholar, food sovereignty advocate and environmental activist #VandanaShiva. She speaks about #BillGates’ book and the colonisation of land and food production. However, she provides us with hopeful and powerful words of advice that might help us challenge these Tech Giants and monopolies.
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Scientific American Retracted Pro-Palestine Article without Any Factual Errors
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – After right-wing outrage, the esteemed journal removed an opinion piece expressing solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli bombardment.
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Critical Race Theory: What It Is and What It Isn’t
David Miguel Gray | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor and central figure in critical race theory, said that it “just says, let’s pay attention to what has happened in this country, and how it is continuing to create differential outcomes. … Critical Race Theory … is more patriotic than those who are opposed to it because … we believe in the promises of equality.”
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U.S. Wargames in Nordic Region Aimed at Moscow
Agneta Norberg | Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – The US & NATO are rapidly developing a military encirclement of Russia with heavy emphasis on the Nordic region – the High North. It is a Cuban-missile crisis in reverse. Few in the west know anything about it.
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(Italiano) Pico Fidel: partigiani e ribelli cubani
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
2 Luglio 2021 – “Nella mattinata di sabato 25 novembre 2017, un gruppo di appassionati della montagna e alpinisti torinesi, integrati da giovani della “Brigada Gino Done” e dell’Agenzia per l’interscambio culturale ed economico con Cuba da attivisti del “Circolo Valle Susa dell’Associazione di Amicizia Italia – Cuba”, insieme all’ambasciata di Cuba in Italia si sono inerpicati dal Col del Lys verso la cima del Monte Arpone a 1600 metri di altitudine.
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Native Hawaiian Educator and Activist Haunani-Kay Trask Dies
Anita Hofschneider | Honolulu Civil Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Haunani-Kay Trask, indigenous poet, author, scholar and teacher, a staunch advocate for her Native Hawaiian community, died in Honolulu today at age 71. Trask was known for her powerful speaking and persistent advocacy, her Hawaiian nationalism, and her writings. “We are not American!” she told a crowd on the 100th anniversary of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. “We will die as Hawaiians, we will never be Americans!” RIP
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UN Security Council: Key Reform for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – The key is the reform of the United Nations Security Council, which at the present time is controlled by the nuclear powers and unable to act in the Middle East because of alliances with the State of Israel. What we have now is not promoting a culture of peace. What we need is radical change, and the UNSC is a key point to be changed.
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NYTimes Op-Ed Denounces Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden on 50th Anniversary of Publishing the Pentagon Papers
Barbara Koeppel | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – This past June 13th, The New York Times celebrated the 50th anniversary of its publishing the Pentagon Papers. In a special section, “Uncovering the Secret History of the Vietnam War,” it told how a team of 50 reporters, researchers and editors worked on the story for nearly four months, holed up in a “whole group of suites” at a New York City Hilton Hotel—to ensure their secrecy.
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Glyphosate’s Toxic Legacy Exposed: Why This Weedkiller Should Be Banned
Stephanie Seneff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
30 Jun 2021 – When it comes to Monsanto’s controversial herbicide, both the mainstream scientific community and our regulatory establishments have failed us.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
28 Jun 2021 – Biden pledged as a candidate to restore JCPOA, but has so far shown only a limited commitment to rejoin the earlier agreement, and seems to be insisting on a new agreement that is more restrictive of Iran’s nuclear program and its regional political activity. The U.S. Government seems to forget that it was its actions that led to the breakdown of the agreement.
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Get back to work!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Why everyone should return to the office now.
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Changing Ourselves
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Changing others? Changing ourselves! Is it possible to have revolutionary change such as the one needed to change course on climate change or corruption of our political systems? Does that require drastic behavioral change by many individuals ill-structure to do so? Sometimes I think like that and then sometimes I do see drastic changes in individuals that are amazing.
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“Governments are vassals of Bankism and Military Capitalism, the Mafia that controls human affairs through Cyber-information manipulation.”
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Antonio C.S. Rosa, born 1946, is founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS (from 2008), an assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung at the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, and recipient of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s 2017 Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice. He is on the Global Advisory Board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and completed his B.A., M.A., and graduate Ph.D. work in the fields of Communication-Journalism and Political Science-Peace Studies/International Relations at the University of Hawai’i. Originally from Brazil, he lives presently in Porto, Portugal. Antonio was educated in the USA where he lived for 20 years; in Europe-India since 1994.
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The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party
Walden Bello | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation. Reflecting on the meaning of the 100th anniversary on 1 Jul 2021 of one of the most important institutions of our time, the Chinese Communist Party, the first thing that entered my head was that the present does change the significance of the past.
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Art versus Drones
Kathy Kelly | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – An exhibit seeks to raise public awareness of the anonymous killing machines. People in many parts of the world can’t speak up. Comparatively, we don’t face torture or death for protesting. We can tell the stories of the people being killed now by our drones, or watching the skies in terror of them.
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Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – This is an edited text from the 30 Jun 2021 book launch of Timothy Brennan’s ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ (2021), under the auspices of the Cambridge Centre of Palestinian Studies and moderated by its director, Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool.
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(Italiano) Armamenti nucleari: scelta suicida per l’umanità e l’ambiente?
Elena Camino e Paolo Candelari | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
30 Giugno 2021 – La bomba atomica che colpì Hiroshima era contenuta in un involucro in acciaio lungo di 3 metri x 70 cm, e pesava circa 4,4 tonnellate. Fu trasportata con un grande aereo, un bombardiere modello Boeing B-29 Superfortress, fu sganciata sulla città ed esplose a circa 600 metri dal suolo. I morti immediati furono circa 80.000, altri morirono nei giorni successivi, e molto altri ancora negli anni.
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China Pulls Itself Out of Poverty 100 Years into Its Revolution
Vijay Prashad and John Ross | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – On 25 Feb China’s President Xi Jinping announced that his country of 1.4 billion people had pulled them out of poverty as it is defined internationally. Since 1981, 853 million Chinese have lifted themselves out of poverty thanks to large-scale interventions from the Chinese state and the Communist Party; according to the data of the World Bank, three out of four people worldwide who were lifted out of poverty live in China.
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What Went Right This Week: A Milestone for Lab-Grown Meat, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 -The world’s first lab-grown meat factory opened, an ‘extinct’ mouse reappeared, and the UK brought forward plans to phase out coal, plus the week’s other positive news.
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The Chinese Miracle, Revisited
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Chinese Communist Party’s centennial takes place on 1 July at the heart of an incandescent geopolitical equation. China, the emerging superpower, is back to the global prominence it enjoyed throughout centuries of recorded history, while the declining Hegemon is paralyzed by the “existential challenge” posed to its fleeting, unilateral dominance.
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Hawaiʻi 78’ (Music Video of the Week) [Must Watch]
Israel 'IZ' Kamakawiwo'ole | Kokua Films Hawaii – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
44 years ago, history was about to be made ~~ Click on Watch on YouTube
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What Is Critical Race Theory?
Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
And why are racists afraid of it? The culture of settler-colonial peoples coming from across the world and overpowering the original inhabitants of a territory to form a state around themselves has enduring and insurmountable maladies and misanthropies. They act as the native inhabitants of the lands they violently conquered and brand those who come after them as “immigrants”.
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Conspiracy: Theory and Practice
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Toward a Taxonomy of Conspiracies – The truest conspiracies meet with the least opposition. Conspiracy practices — the methods by which true conspiracies such as gerrymandering, or the debt industry, or mass surveillance are realized — are almost always overshadowed by conspiracy theories: those malevolent falsehoods that in aggregate can erode civic confidence in the existence of anything certain or verifiable. In my life, I’ve had enough of both the practice and the theory.
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Myanmar’s Twin Curse of Murderous Military and Cultist Opposition
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – The last few days saw heated debates and name-calling between national minority activists who are completely fed up with the ethnic majoritarian colonial mentality, and the political practices of majoritarian democrats who treat Aung San Suu Kyi’s words like Holy Scripture. This is her lasting gift to Myanmar and her dark legacy from which society will reel for decades.
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(Castellano) Brasil: El Desenmascaramiento de un Gobierno Embustero Genocida Y Corrupto
Fernando De la Cuadra | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 juin 2021 – En las últimas semanas, el gobierno Bolsonaro viene acumulando evidencias de corrupción en diversos ámbitos del quehacer nacional. De hecho, el ministro de (la destrucción del) medioambiente, Ricardo Salles, tuvo que renunciar debido a los procesos por los que está siendo sometido en la justicia por favorecimiento ilícito y por la exportación irregular de maderas a Estados Unidos y Europa.
→ read full article(Français) Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU: Une Réforme Clé Pour Une Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1er juillet 2021 – La clé est la réforme du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies, qui est actuellement contrôlé par les puissances nucléaires et incapable d’agir au Moyen-Orient en raison d’alliances avec l’État d’Israël. Ce que nous avons maintenant, ce n’est pas la promotion d’une culture de paix. Ce dont nous avons besoin, c’est d’un changement radical, et le CSNU est un point clé à changer.
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Beyond Passive Victims and Agentic Survivors: Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Anne-Kathrin Kreft and Philipp Schulz | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Apr 2021 – The words of a woman living in Colombia who was raped by armed actors; and of a male survivor of sexual violence from Uganda, who was raped by Ugandan government soldiers. Today both are local activists working closely with victim-survivors of (conflict-related) sexual violence. In Colombia the word ‘victim’ is widely used whereas in Uganda ‘survivor’ is the preferred term.
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Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
22 Jun 2021 – Think about it: if the suppression is happening in your own home, if you’re suppressing your own speech, who will know? And how can you ever call for help?
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Transcending War: Everyone Wins
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
23 Jun 2021 – When will we as a nation admit it? Barbara Lee was right. She was the only member of Congress to vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force back in 2001, following the 9/11 disaster, which allowed George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan. A year later she voted against a second AUMF that launched the invasion of Iraq and Bush’s alleged Global War on Terror, a.k.a., our endless war to pummel evil into dust and sweep it out of the universe.
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The USA Has Very Little to Gain by Overdemonizing China
Michael E. O’Hanlon | The Brookings Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
The recent bipartisan push in the United States to be tough on China seems to be confirming the adage: If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing. While the Biden administration suggests that we compete against Beijing in some realms, cooperate with it in others and confront the Chinese where we must, Washington seems all too willing to overemphasize this last leg of the policy triad.
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Culture as Combat: Palestinian Voices
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Festivals, Museums and Awards – In stirring opening remarks at the international 2021 mega-conference, Palestine Writes, Susan Abulhawa asserts that “… this festival is meant to expand Palestine’s cultural imprint in the world.”
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Have We Learned Nothing? Biden Backs Mass Murder in the Middle East
Connor Freeman | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
18 Jun 2021 – The Gaza Strip, measures only 25 miles long and five miles wide. It is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Since 2007, Israel has imposed a full blockade on Gaza from the air, land, and sea. The two million Palestinians living there are trapped in an open air prison where food, potable water, electricity, medicine, building materials, etc. are severely restricted by the Israeli authorities.
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What Went Right This Week: England’s New Beauty Spots, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – England was promised four new areas of outstanding natural beauty, Wales shelved plans to build more roads, and Guinea stamped out Ebola, plus the week’s other positive news.
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It’s Apartheid, Say Israeli Ambassadors to South Africa
Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel | GroundUp - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
8 Jun 2021 – During our careers in the foreign service, we both served as Israel’s ambassador to South Africa. In this position, we learned firsthand about the reality of apartheid and the horrors it inflicted. But more than that – the experience and understanding we gained in South Africa helped us to understand the reality at home.
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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.
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Russia: The Doukhobor 1895 Arms Burning Is Relevant Today
Koozma J. Tarasoff | Spirit-Wrestlers - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
28 Jun 2021 – 126 years ago today, one-third of the Doukhobors in the Russian Caucasus joined in a daring protest of burning guns — all their killing weapons. The significance of the Burning of Arms event is enormous then and now. Why?
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Under Pandemic, UN Votes to Condemn Cruel and Illegal U.S. Blockade of Cuba—but There Is a Twist
Chris Agee | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – 184 Countries Vote in the UN to Condemn U.S. Blockade of Cuba—As Usual, Two Countries Vote Against: the U.S. and Israel. While Conditions in Cuba Under the Blockade are Worsening, Cuba’s Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industry May Help Them Out of the Pandemic
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America’s Decadent Militarism and the F-35 in Two Minutes
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Project On Government Oversight POGO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Aside from the fact that the F-35 is the plane that can’t fly right (see the 2-minute video below), it is a symbol of America’s decadent militarism — the country’s love affair with its deadly War Business and its defiance of the original purpose for the United Nations to “end the scourge of war.”
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Divisions over Russia Policy Erupt Inside EU at Brussels Summit
Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
On Thursday [24 Jun], EU heads of state met for a two-day summit in Brussels that endorsed EU policy on the pandemic, while clashing bitterly on foreign policy, especially Russian. The EU issued an initial summit communiqué whitewashing its pandemic policies in Orwellian terms.
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode, Le Déserteur, composed by Boris Vian in 1954. The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (over 170 books in his 90 years, +++).
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US Jews Are Turning against Zionism in a ‘Surge’ — Pro-Israel Voices Lament
Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
19 Jun 2021 – In recent days, four pro-Israel writers have lamented that American Jews are turning against Zionism in the wake of the latest Gaza attack. Two speak of a “surge in anti-Zionism” among Jews.
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Farewell to Anti-Virus Guru John Mcafee
Damian Wilson | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – The Wild, High-Living, Paranoid, Millionaire Genius I Was Glad to Call My Neighbour – The suicide of tech entreprenuer John McAfee in his Spanish prison cell, as he awaited deportation to the USA over tax fraud, draws a curtain on the madcap escapades of the most colourful character I’ve ever come across.
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Myanmar Anti-Coup Opposition’s Happy Birthday Parties for Aung San Suu Kyi Do Not Augur Well for the Country’s Future
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – The mass hysteria around Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday is the clearest indication of deeply entrenched cultist neo-totalitarian thoughts, mental habits and political behaviour among Ms Suu Kyi’s populist base. It confirms how indifferent this base is to the democratic ethos, international law, and normative principles of human rights.
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Geneva Summit: Low Expectations, Modest Results, Glimmers of Hope
Edward Lozansky | The Washington Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – U.S. political circles and the media: this summit is a huge mistake because it will allow President Putin to appear as an equal partner of the U.S. president. The Hill’s headline screamed that “Biden loses to Putin at Geneva summit just by showing up.” Hudson Institute portrayed it as “Biden’s gift to Putin” because it will lead to “empowering Russia, undermining the EU, a threat to the NATO alliance.”
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Ethiopians Go to the Polls Even After the US Tells Them Not to
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
23 Jun 2021 – Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia are now alarming US political and military elites by forming an alliance and threatening to chart an independent path in the Horn of Africa. Many Ethiopians expressed enthusiasm for what they consider the country’s first real, competitive election.
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(Português) Até Quando Aceitaremos Tanta Crueldade Contra os Animais?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 jun 2021 – Afinal, um pintinho que passa pelo processo de debicagem é uma criança de outra espécie. Jamais aceitaríamos qualquer mutilação contra crianças humanas, mas não vemos problema nessa imposição a quem não é humano. A sociedade diz que é adequado fazer isso em prol da manutenção da produção de ovos.
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How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
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Statement of the World Emergency COVID19 Pandemic Ethics
Prof. Darryl Macer, et al. | WeCope Committee/ Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
As an independent, multidisciplinary, and cross-cultural committee comprised of ethicists from cultures and nations across the world, we offer the following statement and recommendations on Ethical Values and Principles for Healing Society in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis. We hope that this joint statement will widen the scope of reflections both within and between communities and nations and will help share a mutual vision for a healing society by elucidating ethical values and principles that can assist in making better societies.
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Socialism Has a PR Problem—One That Can Be Solved
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
25 Jun 2021 – Even as openly socialist candidates are winning political power, the right is working hard to equate socialist governance with repressive regimes.
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Six Rules to Survive an Autocracy with Dignity
Alejandro Bendaña | Havana Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Institutions Are Useless to You, Be Outraged, Don’t Make Compromises, Remember the Future
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Apartheid by Stealth
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
20 Jun 2021 – Israeli apartheid continues its brutal abuse of Palestinians even after the bombing of Gaza stops and Palestine disappears from Western TV screens.
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Key Witness in Assange Case Admits to Lies in Indictment
Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson and Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson | Stundin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
26 Jun 2021 – A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.
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Existing and Resisting in the Nuclear Submarine Capital of the World
Frida Berrigan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
25 Jun 2021 – Or How to Deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas – In New London, Connecticut, where potential world killers are built, we manage our discomfort by being a small, but visible “No.”
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(Italiano) Peacebuilding: in quale direzione?
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Benché i discorsi su una “Nuova Guerra Fredda” siano troppo drammatici, ci sono reali tensioni strutturali in atto da tempo e non facilmente superabili. I recenti avvenimenti in Medio Oriente, il futuro dell’Afghanistan e il suo effetto sull’area più vasta Pakistan-India-Iran, il futuro delle due Coree – sono tutte tematiche fondamentali relative all’equilibrio di forze a livello regionale e mondiale.
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The Real B3W-NATO Agenda
Pepe Escobar | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
16 Jun 2021 – The NATO summit communiqué concise low down: Russia is an “acute threat” and China is a “systemic challenge”. NATO, of course, are just a bunch of innocent kids building castles in a sandbox. Those were the days when Lord Hastings Lionel Ismay, NATO’s first secretary-general, coined the trans-Atlantic purpose: to “keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”
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Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China
Bernie Sanders | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – The challenges that the US faces today—climate change, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, economic inequality, terrorism, corruption, authoritarianism—are shared global challenges. They cannot be solved by any one country alone. They require increased international cooperation—including with China, the most populous country on earth. Don’t Start Another Cold War!
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Divide & Rule: The Plan of the 1% to Make You DISPOSABLE
Vandana Shiva | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
16 Mar 2021 -TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers’ rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the Navdanya Trust.
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(Italiano) Il G7 è stato un flop. Per il semplice motivo che la Cina può far saltare il Qe perenne
Mauro Bottarelli | Money - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
14 giugno 2021 – Il G7 è stato un totale fallimento. Al netto di un generico richiamo ai diritti umani, nulla di fatto. Non a caso, gli Usa hanno emanato un comunicato a parte. In compenso, il tallone d’Achille di Stati Uniti e Ue è platealmente emerso.
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The Covid Vaccine Is Causing the Covid Variants
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – The so-called Covid variants, officially designated as mutations, are being used to extend the British lockdown. However, Dr. Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and former director of the Retrovirology Lab at the Pasteur Institute, reports that in fact it is the vaccinations that are producing the variants.
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To Save Planet, Solve Twin Crises of Climate Change and Species Loss Together, Say UN Scientists
Reynard Loki | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
16 Jun 2021 – Some climate solutions can actually harm biodiversity. But there are synergistic solutions that can tackle both issues.
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Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – Yesterday’s summit showed how the “North Atlantic” Treaty Organization has decided it has an extremely expansive global mission.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
21 Jun 2021 – Immunity Passports, Travel Worthiness and Certificates of Wholth – Recommendations, development and implementation of some form of “immunity passport” are ever more widely evident, potentially to be required for entry to public buildings, health facilities, public transport, educational institutions, or to obtain employment.
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NATO Declares China as Global Security Challenge
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
The NATO summit in Brussels on 14 Jun 2021 reminds us of what a hoax the USA had perpetrated on the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 by assuring him that the western alliance would expand “not one inch eastward” once Moscow allowed German Unification and disbanded the Warsaw Pact.
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Tools for Repression in Myanmar Expose Gap between EU Tech Investment and Regulation
Zach Campbell and Caitlin L. Chandle | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
14 Jun 2021 – Inside the interrogation room of a Myanmar detention center, what Myat remembers most clearly is looking up from the floor and everything being green. “When they first caught me, about 30 police just beat me up quite badly. They also dragged me on the road for about 100 meters and I think I lost consciousness,” Myat said. “But somehow I wasn’t bleeding, so they kept beating me until I bled.” Europe is developing phone-cracking technology with a company that has exported to violent, authoritarian regimes.
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(Italiano) Coronavirus: l’Arca di papa Francesco
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Sin dall’inizio ha battuto e ribattuto che “tutto non deve tornare come prima, alla normalità”. Coronavirus: l’Arca di papa Francesco.
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Chan Chan (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Buena Vista Social Club Project – The Best of Traditional Cuba to the World
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Latest CDC VAERS Data for 12- to 17-Year-Olds Include 7 Deaths, 271 Serious Adverse Events Following COVID Vaccines
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
18 Jun 2021 – VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 358,379 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 5,993 deaths and 29,871 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and June 11, 2021.
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Capital and the Ecology of Disease
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
June 2021 – The dominant view is that the COVID-19 crisis is simply an external, “black swan” event, a rare, unpredictable, and unlikely to be repeated occurrence that has entered from outside the system. The world capitalist economy, we are informed, was fundamentally sound prior to the advent of this unforeseen exogenous shock, and it will revive quickly once the SARS-CoV-2 virus is under control. This received view, however, is incorrect on all counts.
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