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Walmart among US Retail Giants Selling Beef Linked to Amazon Destruction
Andrew Wasley and Alexandra Heal | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – Walmart, Costco and Kroger are selling Brazilian beef products imported by JBS–the world’s largest meat company–which we previously revealed has been embroiled in a string of deforestation allegations. Campaigners Call for Major Grocers to Cut Ties with Controversial Brazilian Meat Firm JBS
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The Foreign Roots of Haiti’s “Constitutional Crisis”
Mark Schuller | NACLA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – As usual, news on Haiti in the US remains limited except during periods of “crisis.” As if on cue, U.S. media began reporting on Haiti’s “constitutional crisis” this week. The president’s term came to an end, but he refuses to step down. Solidarity is urgent.
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(Italiano) Una società non-razziale (senza razzismo) dev’essere per forza una società sconfinata
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
“Arcobalenismo” è da non confondere con “Non-razzialismo” o “Una società non razziale.” La differenza è che in “una Società Arcobaleno” vivono insieme in pace e armonia persone di diverse razze, mentre in una “Società non-razziale” non esiste razza, si riconosce la verità. Che è che non esiste una tal cosa come la razza. L’umanità è una.
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To Defuse Political Violence across US, Conflict Mediators Apply Lessons from Gang Disputes and Foreign Elections
Joseph G. Bock, Marta Poblet and Per Aarvik | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – After a violent American election season, activists are trying to keep the peace using technologies and techniques more often applied in unstable democracies. Civilian peacekeepers are trying to stop violence before it starts.
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Don’t Stop at Big Tech — We Need to Break Up Big Food Monopolies, Too
Rob Larew and Dr. Diana Moss | Modern Farmer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Some of the largest players in the food and agriculture sectors have been allowed to engage in anticompetitive mergers and practices that are as serious, if not more so, than those of which Big Tech stands accused. A wave of consolidation has given a few large companies control of proprietary, multi-level systems of traits, seeds, agrochemicals and digital technology.
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Remembering George Shultz after 53 Years
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
I recall nostalgically, George’s civility, which according to reports, nevertheless required backbone, resisting the Nixon’s tactics that prefigured Trump’s antic presidency. George impressively stood his ground firmly whenever political leaders asked him to cross his red lines, so unlike the Republicans who inhabit Congress, and toe the Trump line no matter what. [He died on 6 Feb 2021 at the age of 100.]
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The Drain of Wealth: Colonialism before the First World War
Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – The Western European powers appropriated economic surplus from their colonies and this aided their own industrial transition and the diffusion of capitalism to the regions of new European settlement. In the literature on economic growth, however, we find little awareness of the existence of such transfers, let alone their sheer scale. How a substantial part of India’s earnings was appropriated by Britain.
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Family of Girl, 12, Forced to Marry Abductor Condemn Pakistan Authorities
Haroon Janjua | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
10 Feb 2021 – The family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after allegedly being kidnapped and forced to marry her abductor, have attacked the authorities for refusing to act.
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The B’Tselem Report on Israeli Apartheid
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – The significance of the B’Tselem Report, which recently concluded that Israel imposes an apartheid regime to sustain Jewish supremacy on both Israel itself and all of the Occupied Palestine.
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Appeals Are Not Enough
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
“Many of the organizations above make demands of the nuclear states to begin the process of nuclear disarmament. And people are invited to sign appeals to these governments such as the Appeal for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World. But there is no indication that the nuclear powers are listening. We must do more than that.”
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Myanmar Coup: What Is Happening and Why?
Alice Cuddy | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
2 Feb 2021 – Myanmar hit headlines around the world on Monday [1 Feb] when its military seized control. The country’s leader, [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of her party are thought to be under house arrest.
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I’m A Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and I Have a Message for President Biden
Ahmed Rabbani | Reprieve/ICH - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – I am in year seven of a hunger strike, protesting the fact that I am held without trial. I am under half of the weight I was when I was first seized in Karachi, and the way it has been going, even while they force-feed me, I will die here in my cell. I have no interest in revenge, but I would like people to know what happened to me and how it has been swept under the carpet.
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Rising?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Vaccine apartheid is being practiced and not just in Palestine (Israeli colonizers get it, Palestinians don’t) but around the world as rich (white ruled) countries who became rich because of a history of colonization and oppression get it while developing/poor countries impoverished by the attacks of the West (like Yemen and Syria) do not.
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A Coup in Burma: Did Military Seize Power to Avoid ICC Prosecution for Rohingya Genocide?
Amy Goodman and Maung Zarni | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – We speak with Maung Zarni, a Burmese dissident, about the military coup underway in Burma as de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been arrested. The coup unfolded hours before lawmakers were to take their seats in the opening of parliament. “The military decided that they could no longer play this democracy game with Aung San Suu Kyi,” says Zarni.
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The Big Tech Takeover of Agriculture Is Dangerous
Larissa Ambrosano Packer, et al. | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
5 Feb 2021 – It will endanger the livelihood of the world’s small farmers and food workers and completely transform our food systems.
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Contrast Today’s Anti-Intellectual Peacelessness: John F. Kennedy’s “Peace Speech” in 1963
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – As the intellectual level of much politics has decreased dangerously, it may be useful to remember politicians who were leaders, visionaries, intellectually alert. We bring you this speech to establish some comparative standard and to ponder: Why is it that politics has become so boring? Why do today’s young people not queue up to participate in their country’s political work?
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Centenary
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
The British empire was complicit with the Zionists in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in these 100 years (and killing over 100,000 natives and injuring nearly a million) and that is precisely why we have 7.5 million displaced or refugee Palestinians and the rest squeezed into 8% of their historic lands and living under racist apartheid policies. The prosperity of the Israeli economy–like that of the US or Australia–is baptized by the blood of the native Palestinians. Lest we forget, the latest “Israeli” nationality law calls the whole land the land of the Jews and only Jews have a right to “self-determination” in this land (Palestine).
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Biden Administration Ends U.S. Support of Saudi-Led Offensive in Yemen
Mark Katkov | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – President Biden announced today that the U.S. will no longer support offensive military operations led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, reversing a policy started by the Obama administration and continued by Trump despite widespread accusations of Saudi war crimes.
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Brazil’s COVID-19 Catastrophe: Nothing Less Than Criminal
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – Brazil will, eventually, defeat this virus. Bolsonaro and his far-right government, however, may not be as lucky.
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(Italiano) Perché la “rottura” della Gran Bretagna sarebbe un bene sotto tutti gli aspetti
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
I piani escogitati per accelerare la deregolamentazione della finanza, stanno isolando i bancari e gli speculatori dalle conseguenze del rischio. Le proposte per un rogo dei diritti dei lavoratori vengono bocciate per adesso, ma nessun osservatore informato ritiene che queste rimarranno fuori dall’agenda a lungo. I pesticidi che uccidono le api, illegali secondo l’Unione Europea, sono appena stati approvati per l’utilizzo nelle colture inglesi. Che cosa si dovrebbe fare?
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A Murderous System Is Being Created Before Our Very Eyes
Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture | Republik - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture – and extradition to the U.S., where he could face up to 175 years in prison for exposing war crimes. For the first time, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, speaks in detail about the explosive findings of his investigation into the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Robinhood Is a Perfect Example of Fintech’s Insidious Power
Timi Iwayemi and Max Moran | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
31 Jan 2021 – This past week we saw a perfect illustration of financial technology’s power. To spite “hedge fund bros,” retail investors led a surge in GameStop’s stock price. “The recent rise of ‘fintech’ is just the latest saga in a centuries-old struggle between democratic accountability and unaccountable private power, with the latter hiding behind promises of technological innovation.”
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(Português) Organização Mundial da Saúde Sugere que Governos Incentivem Mais o Consumo de Alimentos de Origem Vegetal
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
31 Jan 2021 – OMS recomenda que os governos ofereçam mais opções em instituições públicas – como creches, escolas, hospitais e lares de idosos.
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Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – Bill Gates has quietly made himself the largest owner of farmland in the United States. For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible. “Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” — Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case
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(Italiano) Ma che cosa ha visto Shantidas in Gandhi?
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Per rispondere si potrebbero elencare tutte le volte che egli lo descrive.
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National vs. Human Security
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – The sea change — awareness — begins with the realization that security isn’t a linear, one-way process: Round up the bad guys, the troublemakers, the illegals, lock ’em up, get them out of our way and, voila, problem solved, security attained, the good Americans are safe. Trouble’s in a cage! The remarkable, bureaucratic ignorance of this policy transcends the racism that drives it.
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Biden Says Trump Should No Longer Receive Classified Intelligence Briefings
Donald Judd, Kate Sullivan and Phil Mattingly | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – President Joe Biden doesn’t believe former President Donald Trump should receive classified intelligence briefings, as is tradition for past presidents, citing Trump’s “erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.”
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An Open Letter to President Biden about Guantánamo
Mansoor Adayfi, Moazzam Begg, et al. | The New York Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
29 Jan 2021 – President Bush opened it. President Obama promised to close it, but failed to do so. President Trump promised to keep it open. Now, it is your turn to decide. “We write to you as former prisoners of the United States held without charge or trial at the military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay who have written books about our experiences.”
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The mRNA COVID Vaccine Is Not a Vaccine
Makia Freeman | The Freedom Articles - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
NOT a Vaccine: the mRNA COVID VAX is a chemical pathogen production device and a technocratic, trans-humanistic tool to reprogram your DNA.
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Pentagon Goes Rooting for ‘Extremists’ among Its 3.6mn Trained Killers
Helen Buyniski | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – The US military is making a big show of cleansing its ranks of ‘extremism’ – because nothing says tolerance like raining fiery death on innocent strangers at the command of a guy who just stepped down from Raytheon’s board. With “domestic extremists” now officially the enemy du jour in Washington, the top order of business has become finding some.
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Myanmar Military and Its Coup
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – Myanmar’s military staged a coup, detaining the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint early today, just hours before the scheduled start of the first session of the new parliament. With tanks, armored vehicles on streets, military sends message to public: ‘we are still here as arbiters of democracy’.
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How ExxonMobil Uses Divide and Rule to Get Its Way in South America
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Tensions rise between neighboring Guyana and Venezuela over a piece of land that has been disputed since at least 1835. ExxonMobil sits on the sidelines, smiling. The distraction suits the oil giants. They make their money whether there is peace or war.
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Papering Over the Rot
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
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CNA Nursing Home Whistleblower: Seniors Are Dying like Flies after COVID Injections!
Brian Shilhavy | Health Impact News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
26 Jan 2021 – James is a Certified Nursing Assistant and he recorded this video as a whistleblower. He reports that in 2020 very few residents in the nursing home where he works got sick with COVID, and none of them died during the entire year of 2020. However, shortly after administering the Pfizer experimental mRNA injections, 14 died within two weeks, and he reports that many others are near death.
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(Português) Curta-metragem mostra como a Nike financia matança de cangurus
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
“Quero expor a verdade sangrenta que está sendo escondida de consumidores bem-intencionados”, diz Gavin Polone.
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Winning Votes through Identity Politics
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – Donald Trump obtained a little over 74 million votes in the 2020 presidential election losing to Joseph Biden who secured a little over 81 million. What explains Trump’s performance? An analysis may reveal the growing influence of a certain combination of forces that may shape elections in not only the United States but also in other parts of the world in the coming years.
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Creeping Corporate Statism, aka Fascism
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Despite depending on separate news media that purvey different realities, the two corporate parties both serve a corporate dictatorship.
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ICC Clears Way for War Crimes Probe of Israeli Actions
Josef Federman | Toronto Star/Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – The International Criminal Court said Friday [5 Feb] that its jurisdiction extends to territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, potentially clearing the way for its chief prosecutor to open a war crimes probe into Israeli military actions. The decision was welcomed by the Palestinians and decried by Israel’s prime minister, who vowed to fight “this perversion of justice.” The U.S., Israel’s closest ally, said it opposed the decision.
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The Coup We Are Not Talking About
Shoshana Zuboff | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
29 Jan 2021 – We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.
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‘Freedom Is Never Voluntarily Given’: Palestinian Boycott of Israel Is Not Racist, It Is Anti-Racist
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – The boycott movement aims at holding the oppressor accountable as it places a price tag on military occupation and apartheid. Not only is the Palestinian boycott movement not racist, it is essentially a rallying cry against racism and oppression.
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Smile (Music Video of the Week)
Nat King Cole | Overjazz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Nat King Cole’s Classic from 1954
-Wonderful Lyrics by the great Charlie Chaplin-
It Is Never Too Late
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Sometimes we feel that life has passed us by that it is now too late to do many of the things we wanted to achieve in our life. Such thoughts demoralize us and prevent us from taking the small incremental steps on the path to improvement that may still be possible for us. “It is never too late to be what you might have been” – George Eliot
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Foresight? Foreknowledge? Conspiracy Theorist? Visionary? Prophet?
Bill Gates | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
3 April 2015: The next outbreak? We’re not ready! In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now’s the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
27 Jan 2021 – Ajamu Baraka warns of a new era of totalitarian neoliberalism. “Anybody who is in opposition to the hegemony of the neoliberal project is at some point over the next few years going to experience the heavy hand of the state.”
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Complex Life Threatened
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
22 Jan 2021 – Throughout the world, scientists are speaking out like never before. They’re talking about an emergency situation of the health of the planet threatening “complex life,” including, by default, human life. It’s scary stuff.
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(Italiano) Psico-Covidologia: Indurre all’impotenza e allo sfruttamento della paura
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
La paura è nell’aria. Legittimare preoccupazioni sulla morte e sulla malattia può faciltare gli interessi politici e finanziari con la disinformazione, ma anche con censura, capri espiatori, supervisione, manipolando paura e abuso di potere. Le paure possono essere ben fondate o esagerate, minimizzate o negate. Inoltre, noi giudichiamo il livello di paura di chiunque altro come troppo, non abbastanza, o assurdo rispetto al nostro.
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Nation-State Attacks
Fernando Velázquez | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
27 Jan 2021 — “You’ve been hacked. It was by a nation-state.” The latest example of this type of cyber attack involved U.S. federal agencies and high-profile companies that were breached via a compromised and weaponized version of a software update from a connected third party.
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US Backs Al-Qaeda in Yemen while Dubbing Its Houthi Enemies ‘Terrorists’
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
12 Jan 2021 – The US State Department designated Yemen’s Houthi movement — the most effective force in fighting al-Qaeda — as a “terrorist” organization. Meanwhile, Washington and Saudi Arabia have supported al-Qaeda.
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Misinformation Market: The Money-Making Tools Facebook Hands to Covid Cranks
Jasper Jackson and Alexandra Heal | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
31 Jan 2021 – Hundreds of Facebook pages have been making money using the social network’s tools while spreading misinformation about Coronavirus on social media. But so long as you keep using its platform, Facebook doesn’t seem to care. The video opens with a question: “Could this be bio-terrorism?”
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The End of the Portuguese Dream?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
29 Jan 2021 – According to certain foreign media, the results of the last election spelled the “end of the Portuguese dream”. Until now Portugal had been the only European country without significant far-right forces. Analysis of the Election’s Results in Portugal
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Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?
Ciara Nugent | TIME - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
22 Jan 2021 – One evening in December, Jennifer Drouin, 30, headed out to buy groceries and noticed new price tags. The label by the zucchini said they cost 6¢ extra per kilo for their carbon footprint, 5¢ for the toll the farming takes on the land, and 4¢ to fairly pay workers. The true-price initiative is one of the schemes that Amsterdammers have introduced as they reassess the impact of the existing economic system.
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The Reddit Revolution, GameStop and Melvin Capital
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
28 Jan 2021 – One of the most interesting and potentially significant conflicts to happen in some time — not just financially but culturally and politically — deserves serious scrutiny. A remarkable series of events culminated in at least one major Wall Street hedge fund on the verge of insolvency and widespread anxiety and even panic from the titans of the financial system. It was all initiated on a sub-group of Reddit.
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Variations in Canon (Music Video of the Week)
Johann Pachelbel | George Winston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
One of the greatest masterpieces of Classical Music. Magical piano!
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The Inequality Virus
Esmé Berkhout, et al. | OXFAM - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
25 Jan 2021 – Bringing together a world torn apart by coronavirus through a fair, just and sustainable economy. Over two million people have died, and hundreds of millions of people are being forced into poverty while many of the richest–individuals and corporations–are thriving. Billionaire fortunes returned to their pre-pandemic highs in just nine months.
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G4S Migrant Workers ‘Forced to Pay Millions’ in Illegal Fees for Jobs
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
18 Jan 2021 – Migrant workers working for the British security company G4S in the UAE have collectively been forced to pay millions of pounds in illegal fees to recruitment agents to secure their jobs. Firm faces calls to repay charges for jobs in Gulf states and conflict zones.
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2021 Doomsday Clock Statement: It Is 100 Seconds to Midnight
John Mecklin | Editor - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
1 Feb 2021
27 Jan 2021 – The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains.
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Two Shocking Headlines That Sum Up Covid: Billionaires MADE $3.9 Trillion during the Pandemic, while Workers LOST $3.7 Trillion
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
30 Jan 2021 – The economic impact of Covid-19 on regular folk across the globe is as devastating as the physical toll it has taken, but we can’t just blame the super rich(er) for our woes – the true villains are much closer to home.
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After COVID, Davos Moves to the “Great Reset”
F. William Engdahl | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
27 Jan 2021 – With the USA Biden Presidency, Washington has rejoined the Global Warming agenda of the Paris Accords. With China making loud pledges about meeting strict CO2 emission standards by 2060, now the World Economic Forum is about to unveil what will transform the way we all live in what WEF head Klaus Schwab calls the Great Reset.
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(Português) No Corredor
Luana S S | Vegazeta - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
“Fico pensando comigo mesmo como é interessante o fim de ciclos em nossas vidas, como nos causam ansiedade”
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Is Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha Significant in Our Times?
David M. Traboulay | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
This paper was the fruit of two conceptions. The first was a manuscript of Gandhi’s Satyagraha movement revised at least six times, unfinished. The other arose from a deep concern over the consequences of terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
→ read full articleOxfam: Global Billionaires’ Wealth up $3.9 Trillion during the Pandemic
Jacob Crosse | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
26 Jan 2021 – A new report issued by Oxfam International ahead of this week’s virtual World Economic Forum, which is usually held annually in Davos, Switzerland, underlines the effect of government policies enacted in response to the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic: Inequality Expected to Rise in Every Country “Simultaneously”
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(Italiano) Impronte umane sul pianeta Terra
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
26 Gennaio 2021 -Dagli anni ’80 del secolo scorso a oggi sono stati elaborati numerosi strumenti concettuali per mettere in evidenza il crescente impatto esercitato dalle attività o impronte umane sul pianeta Terra. Questi strumenti sono stati associati a misure quantitative di grandezze fisiche (superficie di un territorio, massa di una sostanza, volume di un gas, ecc.), in modo da renderne più comprensibile il significato.
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Uprising and the End of the U.S. Empire
Johan Galtung | Free Speech TV/Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
Excerpts from a Lecture in Santa Cruz, California in Feb 2011 by Father of Peace Studies and Mediator Prof. Johan Galtung
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The Psychology of Nuclear Disarmament: Only a Democratic Federal World Union Is Realistic
Roger Kotila | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
25 Jan 2021 – In international relations, multilateralism refers to an alliance of multiple countries pursuing a common goal. Unfortunately, history shows that agreements based upon treaties are eventually broken or ignored. Time and time again, particularly with the more powerful, treaties are discarded when seen as inconvenient.
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(Castellano) Papa Francisco y Gandhi: 5 claves de liderazgo con el ejemplo
Ary Waldir Ramos Díaz | Aleteia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
«Podría decirse que es la primera vez que un Papa reconoce oficialmente la contribución del método no violento de Gandhi para el cambio político y quizás la primera vez que un no cristiano recibe una mención en una encíclica papal».
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(Italiano) Sfide per Joe Biden e Kamala Harris
John Scales Avery | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
Dopo le lodi dobbiamo anche notare le sue cattive decisioni. Molte fra le persone scelte per il suo gabinetto o per altre alte funzioni hanno ricevuto gran somme di denaro da megaziende. Molti hanno sostenuto guerra e tortura. Gran parte delle scelte di gabinetto di Biden hanno avuto posti nell’amministrazione Obama: non va abbastanza bene! Gli Stati Uniti devono rinunciare alle proprie guerre esterne aggressive e ai tentativi di raggiungere l’egemonia globale col potere militare!
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Bamboo Tree as Renewable Energy Source
Ariel Bellamy | Earthava - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
Bamboo Tree: Renewable Energy Source and So Much More
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On the Uses of Compassion
Douglas Penick | Literary Hub - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
21 Jan 2021 – Buddhist Traditions in the Mediation of Suffering
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The Boy Whose Head Was Filled with Stars: The Inspiring Illustrated Story of How Edwin Hubble Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Universe
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
The law underlying the universe’s expansion would come to bear Hubble’s name, as would the ambitious space telescope that would give humanity an unprecedented glimpse of a cosmos “so brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.” Hubble’s Law staggers the imagination with the awareness that even our most intimate celestial companion, the Moon, is slowly moving away from us every day, about as fast as your fingernails grow.
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Amidst Opposition, the Nuclear Ban Treaty Becomes International Law
Diane Perlman, PhD | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Today, January 22, 2021, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) finally enters into force. The “Nuclear Ban Treaty” prohibits states parties from developing, testing, stockpiling, manufacturing, possessing, transferring, or threatening to use nuclear weapons. The full text of the Treaty IS HERE.
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Vaccines May Not Work as Well against the Coronavirus Variant Detected in South Africa, Research Shows–People May Also Face a Risk of Reinfection
Aylin Woodward | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021 – At first, there was little evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines wouldn’t work against the mutated, more infectious versions of the virus that have emerged in the last few months. But preliminary research published this week suggests that a coronavirus variant detected in South Africa in December can partially evade the defenses vaccines build in our bodies’ immune systems.
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Biden Immediately Rolls Back Trump’s Legacy with 17 Executive Orders on Immigration, Climate, COVID
Griffin Connolly | Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – Core Components of Trump’s Legacy Come Undone with the Stroke of a Pen – Biden signs federal mask mandate, repeals Muslim ban, and rejoins Paris climate agreement.
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Is There an American ‘Deep State’?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
23 Jan 2021 – Trump’s foreign policy was indeed disastrous, but it did somewhat illuminate the anachronistic character of the zombie like ‘bipartisan consensus’ that yet be revived in the course of reaffirming the old Cold War/neoliberal globalization orthodoxy of pre-Trump America.
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(Italiano) Dalla “non proliferazione” alla proibizione delle armi nucleari
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Il Trattato di non proliferazione degli armamenti nucleari, risalente al 1968, non ha arginato in modo significativo il fenomeno. Oggi, 22 gennaio 2021, entra in vigore un nuovo trattato per la proibizione delle armi nucleari. Non farà miracoli ma potrà produrre alcuni effetti importanti per un effettivo processo di disarmo nucleare.
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Why We Love War
David R. Loy | Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021 – War is hell, and today more than ever. Although high-tech weapons are a videogame for some, they are unbelievably destructive for everyone else. Whatever valor was once associated with hand-to-hand combat has long since disappeared being increasingly difficult to romanticize the death and misery war causes.
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(Italiano) Il Martin Luther King Day negli USA e nel mondo di oggi
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
20 Gennaio 2021 – Il 18 gennaio si è celebrato negli USA, come ogni anno dopo il suo assassinio, il Martin Luther King Day, in ricordo della nascita del pastore battista, leader del movimento contro la segregazione razziale, avvenuta il 15 gennaio 1929 (la ricorrenza si celebra sempre il terzo lunedì di gennaio).
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The Energy Bulletin
Tom Whipple and Steve Andrews | Editors – Post Carbon Institute,
25 Jan 2021
“It may be counterintuitive to say that the oil demand crash and the resulting glut in 2020 could lead to an oil supply crunch in just a few years. Yet, a growing number of experts and international agencies warn that the world could be headed for an oil shortage when oil demand finally recovers from the COVID-inflicted crisis in late 2022 or 2023.”
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10 Things You Need to Know about the Experimental COVID Vaccines
Makia Freeman | The Freedom Articles - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – The COVID vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna are called mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccines – a completely new type of vaccine that has never been licensed or used on humans before. Traditional vaccines introduce pieces of a weakened virus to stimulate an immune response. mRNA vaccines inject molecules of synthetic genetic material from non-humans sources into your cells, thus hijacking your genes and permanently reprogramming them. These newly created proteins are not regulated by your DNA and are thus completely foreign to your body.
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America’s Biggest Owner of Farmland Is Now Bill Gates
Ariel Shapiro | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – Bill Gates, the fourth richest person in the world, has been quietly snatching up 242,000 acres of farmland across the U.S. — enough to make him the top private farmland owner in America.
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What Went Right This Week: US Climate Action, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – US president Joe Biden signed executive orders aimed at tackling the climate crisis, the Dominican Republic approved a bill to end child marriage and jaguars roamed Argentina’s wetlands for the first time in 70 years, plus more positive news.
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Trump Pardons Bannon, Grants Clemency to Reactionaries and Criminals
Jacob Crosse | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – President Donald Trump ended his presidency by granting clemency to 144 individuals, including one of his top fascist advisers, Stephen Bannon. On his way out of the White House, Trump issued 74 pardons and commuted the sentences of 70 others.
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Why We Need to Move Closer to King’s Understanding of Nonviolence
Kazu Haga | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Nonviolence is not simply the absence of violence, but about taking a proactive stand against violence and injustice, and working to repair the harm.
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The New Normal
True Sceptics | happen.network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – A great documentary that investigates The Fourth Industrial Revolution, what the 1% has to gain and the rest of us are about to lose.
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Nuclear Weapons Are Finally Outlawed, Next Step Is Disarmament
Robert Mardini | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021 – More than 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world’s first multilateral agreement banning nuclear weapons finally enters into force today.
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(Italiano) La distruzione di biodiversità della Terra
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Ralph Waldo Emerson una volta predisse che «La fine della razza umana sarà che finirà per morire di civiltà». Se dobbiamo dimostrare che aveva torto, non ci resta molto tempo. Questo perché Homo Sapiens è una parte del tessuto della vita. E noi lo stiamo scelleratamente distruggendo quel tessuto.
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Why Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Their Countries from COVID-19 Must Be Investigated
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – It is time to impanel a citizens’ tribunal to investigate the utter failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, and others to break the chain of the infection of COVID-19. The tribunal would provide the ICC with a firm foundation to do a forensic investigation of this crime against humanity. We should all be outraged. But, outrage is not a strong enough word.
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The U.S.’s Idea of Diplomacy with Ecuador Is a Multibillion-Dollar Loan Trap
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021 – The deal with Ecuador is not seen as a one-time arrangement to “eject” China from the hemisphere. If Arauz becomes the next president of Ecuador, he will face the challenge of this U.S.-imposed conflict against China as one of his first obstacles. President Moreno and former president Trump have already begun the sabotage.
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Meet the 50 Doctors, Scientists and Healthcare Entrepreneurs Who Became Pandemic Billionaires in 2020
Giacomo Tognini | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Forbes found 50 new billionaires in the healthcare sector in 2020. The most notable newcomers of the year are the scientists behind two vaccines for the coronavirus — one developed by Pfizer and German biotech firm BioNTech, the other by Moderna — who have seen their net worths skyrocket since Jan 2020.
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Monarch Butterfly Population Moves Closer to Extinction
Olga R. Rodriguez | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
19 Jan 2021 -The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted precipitously to a record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to extinction, researchers announced today.
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(Italiano) I vescovi cattolici chiedono al Regno Unito di “abbandonare il proprio arsenale nucleare”
Peter Kearney | Pax Christi International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
19 Gennaio 2021 – Una dichiarazione congiunta dei vescovi cattolici di Inghilterra, Galles e Scozia ha chiesto al governo britannico di “abbandonare il proprio arsenale nucleare” e di sostenere il Trattato sulla proibizione delle armi nucleari, che entrerà in vigore venerdì 22 gennaio 2021.
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The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – The symbolic power of Bernie’s old pair of mittens was the work of the “us” in “not me, us.”
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Are We as Area Studies Scholars Guilty of Negligence in Allowing Genocides to Happen in the Regions We Study?
Michael Charney | FORSEA Forces of Renewal for Southeast Asia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – Foreign scholars CAN help to prevent genocide again. If we’re waiting for policymakers to prevent things on their own and save ourselves the trouble so that we can take a well-funded research trip and sit outside a coffee shop in Naypyitaw or Yangon, why should the rest of the world have any interest in reading anything we have to write? Scholarship and research should mean something.
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“The best warriors do not use violence. The best tacticians try to avoid confrontation. The best businessmen serve the communal good. The best leaders become servants of their people…”
Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi also known as Lao Tzu. However, the text’s authorship and dates of composition and compilation are debated.
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Leading UN Member-States Fail to End Rohingya Abuse
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
20 Jan 2021 – With an air of renewed optimism, Bangladesh side has widely reported on the Beijing-brokered meeting yesterday to resuscitate the repatriation process of 1 million Rohingya. However, the China-brokered tripartite meeting will bring no solution for either Bangladesh or Rohingya refugees.
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Corona Mask Mandates: Science or Political Dogma?
Michael J. Talmo | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
When it comes to masks, U.S. government officials have more waffles than a pancake house. Back in March 2020 we were told not to wear masks. Then, starting in April, they do an about-face and for the past several months have been telling us to wear surgical and even cloth masks. But they insisted that the masks won’t protect the people wearing them from COVID-19—only the people they come in contact with. “My mask protects you, your mask protects me” was the mantra.
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This Isn’t Goodbye
Mr. Fish | Scheer Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
Troy Revisited – 20 Jan 2021
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UN Predicts ‘Famine Not Seen in 40 Years’ Due to Pompeo’s Yemen Policy
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – Mike Pompeo’s designation of Houthis as foreign terror group will block food and other aid, senior humanitarian says.
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MLK’s Warning of America’s Spiritual Death
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
From the Archive: A half century ago, The New York Times accused Martin Luther King Jr. of “slander” for decrying the Vietnam War and The Washington Post detected “unsupported fantasies” in his speech, recalled more favorably by Gary G. Kohls–originally published on 19 Jan 2014; slightly edited for time element.
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Update – #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange
Serena, Nicky, Blaž and Tareq | International Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – No doubt you have all closely followed the events surrounding Julian Assange’s court proceedings this week. For those of you who may have not yet had the chance, we wanted to provide you with a brief summary, analysis and some resources.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Dal 22 gennaio 2021, le armi nucleari diventano illegali – Ci sono le volontà, ci sono i mezzi: dobbiamo farcela
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