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EU Approves COVID Passport: Here’s How It Works—and Why the U.S. Doesn’t Have One
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
The European Commission on June 14 formally signed legislation to create the EU Digital COVID Certificate. The regulation will take effect July 1 and expire in 12 months. Member States are required to start issuing the first certificates within six weeks of the July 1 start date, if they haven’t done so by then.
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Creating Enemies: China Reacts to NATO Targeting It
Rick Rozoff | Anti-Bellum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – After months of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg mercilessly – tediously – denouncing Russia and China ahead of yesterday’s summit, the communiqué issued after it finally raised China’s ire. It was the first time the 30-nation military bloc so overtly directed harsh language of that nature at China in an official publication.
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The Ganges Is Returning the Dead. It Does Not Lie.
Om Gaur | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – The Ganges, or Ganga, is the holiest of India’s rivers, and most Hindus believe that dipping their body in it will purify their soul. But when the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit this spring, the river also became Exhibit A for the Modi administration’s failures and deceptions.
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The Pentagon Papers at 50: Press Freedom and Whistleblowers Still at Risk
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 -Legendary whistleblower Dan Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers fifty years ago, a courageous act of truth-telling for which he later faced life in prison. He hasn’t stopped since. Last May, just weeks after turning 90 years old, Ellsberg made yet another disclosure of classified national security information.
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Ouch!
Amber Guetebier | Red Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
What did the left eye say to the right eye?
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(Português) 2020: Desmatamento no Brasil equivale a uma área nove vezes maior que a cidade de São Paulo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
11 jun 2021 – O desmatamento nos seis biomas brasileiros cresceu 13,6% em 2020, atingindo 13.853 quilômetros quadrados (1.385.300 hectares), uma área nove vezes maior que SP. Desse total, 61% estão na Amazônia. É o que mostra uma análise inédita de 74.218 alertas de desmatamento no país inteiro, publicada hoje pelo Projeto MapBiomas.
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The FBI’s Mafia-Style Justice: To Fight Crime, the FBI Sponsors 15 Crimes a Day
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government—purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure—has come about as a threat manufactured by our own government. Think about it. Cyberwarfare. Terrorism. Bio-chemical attacks. The nuclear arms race. Surveillance. The drug wars. Domestic extremism. The COVID-19 pandemic.
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(Italiano) Un processo di conquista rovesciato per un’alternativa
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
18 Giugno 2021 – A proposito de L’invasione zapatista è iniziata! di Jérôme Baschet del 20/5/2021 pubblicato sul nostro sito e al cercare di impostare un processo di conquista rovesciato per un’alternativa, condivido con l’autore che “questo viaggio significa sfumare una storia che ha assegnato posizioni profondamente radicate e inequivocabili al conquistatore e al vinto. Ma significa soprattutto sbloccare la possibilità di una storia alternativa.”
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What Went Right This Week: A Soaring Conservation Success, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – Scotland celebrated a conservation success story, the real winner of the Euros was revealed, scientists found a novel use for plastic…
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Activism for Life: “Wake Up, the World Is Dying!”
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Do Something about It! ACTIVISM FOR LIFE is published by Luath Press Ltd., and is available from a number of booksellers. All royalties will go to Trident Ploughshares, a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a nonviolent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.
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Burma: Engaging with State Power without Losing Principles or Head (Part 3)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – Those of us Burmese who have made overthrowing our country’s well-entrenched military dictatorship, our business – or Doe-Ayay, as we say in Burma in specific reference to protests against any Oppressive Order – do not look to the UN or the EU, let alone ASEAN, for help.
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Say This, Don’t Say That: Time to Confront the Misleading Language on Palestine, Israel
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
On May 25, famous American actor, Mark Ruffalo, tweeted an apology for suggesting that Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza. To avoid pointless social media spats, one only needs to reference the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. According to Article 2 of the 1948 Convention, the legal definition of genocide is:
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Confronting the Ruling Elite
Chris Hedge interviews Richard Falk | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
5 Jun 2021 – Richard Falk joins Chris Hedges for a new episode of “On Contact.” Falk has denounced what he calls “the global legalization of rogue behavior embedded in the UN Charter” which vests a right of veto in the five permanent members of the Security Council, the only organ within the UN system with the authority to reach binding decisions.
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Why Daniel Ellsberg Wants the U.S. to Prosecute Him under the Espionage Act
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
In an exclusive interview, Ellsberg explains why he hopes the courts take on the law used to crack down on whistleblowers.
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Power at Any Cost: How Opportunistic Mansour Abbas Joined Hands with Avowed ‘Arab Killers’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
7 Jun 2021 – We are led to believe that history is being made in Israel, following the formation of a government coalition that for the first time includes an Arab party, Ra’am. In truth, Mansour Abbas, a Palestinian Arab politician who is willing to find common ground with extremists and proud ‘Arab killers’, only represents himself. The future shall attest to this claim.
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Inside the Pentagon’s Secret Undercover Army
William M. Arkin | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people belong to this secret army working under masked identities in a program called “signature reduction.” More than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, it carries out domestic and foreign assignments in military uniforms or civilian cover, in real life and online, hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.
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Julian Assange and the Collapse of the Rule of Law
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally on 10 June 2021 night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People’s Forum.
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IDF Operation ‘Guardian of the Walls’: Prelude, Aftermath, Prospects
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
7 Jun 2021 – The Palestinian ordeal is certainly not over, but for the first time we can envision it ending!
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(Italiano) Armi nucleari: le vulnerabilità
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
7 Giugno 2021 – Le scelte sulle armi nucleari: le vulnerabilità presenti e future. Chi prende le decisioni, e su quali basi?
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How Organized Crime Infiltrated American Business after WWII and Corrupted National Politics from Truman to Trump
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Jun 2021 – Provocative new book documents the unsavory alliance between the Mafia, the CIA, and the corporate establishment that transformed America into “the world’s most dangerous nation.”
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What Are Atomic Bomb Quasicrystals, and Why Do They Matter?
Susan D’Agostino | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – Something unexpectedly lovely was created amid the detonation of an atomic bomb 75 years ago: a mathematically perfect quasicrystal. Quasicrystals may be able to determine responsible parties in a nuclear terrorist attack.
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The American Working Class Must Come to Assange’s Defense!
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Jun 2021 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been subjected to more than a decade of vicious uninterrupted persecution by the imperialist powers. He is currently in London’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison, fighting extradition to the US.
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Whither Palestine? Whither Israel? After the Violence Spike, after the Abraham Accords, after Netanyahu
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
13 Jun 2021 – The changing circumstances in Israel/Palestine over the last six weeks. Two questions that will shape the Palestinian destiny: Will the post-Netanyahu government push harder the political agenda of the right-wing settler movement? Will the aftermath of the IDF military operation, Guardian of the Walls, increase Palestinian resistance and global solidarity?
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Burma: Engaging with State Power without Losing Principles or Head (Part 1)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – The Burmese military regime remained, as intransigent towards any compromise with the democratic opposition, as it was repressive, towards Burmese dissidents.
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Prelude to War? The US/NATO, Egypt, and Ethiopian Sovereignty
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – Ethiopian American activist and community organizer Benyam Kitaw says that US hostility toward Ethiopia could lead to further sanctions, economic pressure, and perhaps even war.
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The US National-Security State Has an Invisible Army
Branko Marcetic interviews William Arkin | Jacobin Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – Tens of thousands of Americans work for US military and intelligence agencies, operating domestically under false identities with fake documents and James Bond–style spy gizmos. Why? To allow the national-security state to pursue its forever wars smoothly, forever.
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How Billion-Dollar Foundations Fund NGOs to Manipulate U.S. Foreign Policy: A Case Study from Nicaragua
Rick Sterling | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
8 Jun 2021 – U.S. foreign policy is increasingly promoted by billionaire-funded foundations. The neoliberal era has created individuals with incredible wealth who, through “philanthropy,” flex their influence and feel good at the same time. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they almost universally support U.S. foreign policy and the “free market.” Because many of these super-rich individuals made their wealth through investments and speculation, most do not like a planned economy, socialized services beyond the private sector, or greater government control.
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US Kidnaps Venezuelan Diplomat: The Case of Alex Saab
Anya Parampil | Red Lines/The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
4 Jun 2021 – Attorney Femi Falana talks about the shocking case of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab who has been kidnapped for violating illegal sanctions to feed his country. Under pressure from the USA, Cape Verdean authorities arrested Saab in Jun 2020 when he stopped to refuel his plane. Falana explains why the case is invalid, accusing the US of practicing “gangsterism”.
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(Français) Réflexions sur le génocide comme crime ultime
Alfred de Zayas et Richard Falk | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Juin 2021 – L’utilisation abusive du mot «génocide» est un manque de respect envers les proches des victimes des massacres arméniens, de l’holocauste et du génocide rwandais. Il est bien plus dangereux de découvrir que nous risquons également d’être immergés dans les eaux troubles du «faux droit» (fake law). Il est urgent de réagir. Une telle évolution n’est pas tolérable.
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(Português) Grupos da USP e Universidade de Lisboa realizam colóquio internacional “Derrida e a Questão dos Animais”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
No dia 25 junho 2021, o Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa e o grupo de ética e direitos animais da Universidade de São Paulo realizam o colóquio internacional “Derrida e a Questão dos Animais”. Evento online fecha a primeira série de encontros sobre o livro “O animal que logo sou”, do filósofo franco-magrebino Jacques Derrida.
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The Difference between ‘Woke’ and a True Awakening
Slavoj Žižek | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Jun 2021 – The supposedly liberal ‘wokeness’ and cancel culture have little to do with awakening to what’s going on in the world and trying to change it – it’s just noise for the sake of noise, while the status-quo is carefully preserved.
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Apartheid
André Carrilho | OppArt/The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
Lost Links
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What Went Right This Week: The Other G7, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Jun 2021 – Art installations cut straight to the point at the G7, Israel became the first nation to ban fur, and a plan was announced for a basic income trial in Wales, plus the week’s other positive news.
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US Navy Pilots Describe Encounters with UFOs
Bill Whitaker | 60 Minutes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
17 May 2021 – Bill Whitaker reports on the regular sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, that have spurred a report due to Congress next month. “60 Minutes” is the most successful television broadcast in history.
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Napalm Sticks to Kids (Music Video of the Week)
Covered Wagon Musicians | Vietnam War Song Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
A vivid account of US forces indiscriminately dropping bombs on Vietnam, hitting pregnant women, children, and other civilians. The focus of the song is chemical weapon Napalm B – a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict, dropping 388,000 tons on Indochina between 1963 and 1973.
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Burma: Engaging with State Power without Losing Principles or Head (Part 2)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
11 Jun 2021 – In those years, the Burma policy world was caught in the emerging Orwellian duality of ‘Sanctions Bad, Engagement Good’ of international debates which took place with respective proponents talking past one another, pursuing their own concealed interests.
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Tokyo Pushes Ahead with Olympics despite Growing Demands to Cancel
Ben McGrath | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
31 May 2021 – With the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games scheduled to start on July 23, opposition continues to grow in Japan as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens throughout the country. The head of the Japan Doctors Union warned that holding the Games could lead to a new “Olympic” strain of the COVID-19 virus.
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We Charge Apartheid? Palestine and the International Criminal Court
Noura Erakat & John Reynolds | Third World Approaches to International Law Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
Reflections on Palestinian efforts to engage the International Criminal Court, in the context of Israeli settler-colonialism and both its spectacular and structural violence. Conscious of the limits of international criminal law, we think about Palestinian activist legal tactics – and the charge of the crime of apartheid in particular – in relation to political strategy.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 juin 2021- Il nous reste cinq ans avant les événements que j’imaginais dans ma nouvelle, “j’ai vu la terre promise.” Plus que jamais, je pense qu’il s’agit d’un tournant essentiel dans la voie que nous devons suivre pour passer de la culture de la guerre à une culture de la paix.
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Nukes, Lies and Invisible Murder
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – “The employment or threat of employment of nuclear weapons could have a significant influence on ground operations. . . . Integration of nuclear weapons into a theater of operations requires the consideration of multiple variables. Using nuclear weapons could create conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability. Specifically, the use of a nuclear weapon will fundamentally change the scope of a battle and create conditions that affect how commanders will prevail in conflict.” – ‘Nuclear Operations’ Report by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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The Tokyo Olympics Must Go Ahead
Johnny Luk | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
30 May 2021 – Although they are one year later, the “2020” Tokyo Olympics are finally around the corner, with less than two months to go before the opening ceremony. COVID has raised the stakes to unprecedented levels but we need the Olympics more than ever before.
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Off the Rails: New Report by Corporate-Funded Think-Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China
Danny Haiphong | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
5 Jun 2021 – A new report published in Railway Age magazine and written by the Information Technology Innovation Foundation has sounded the alarm about China’s growing high-speed rail sector amid escalations in the U.S.’s New Cold War against China. It paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world.
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(Italiano) ‘Ordine internazionale su base normativa’: nuova metafora per un primato geopolitico U.S.A.
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
3 Giugno 2021 – Questa enfasi su un mondo ‘governato da norme’ implicitamente esprime l’asserzione polemica che gli Stati Uniti si muovono secondo le regole mentre gli avversari no. Ma Snowden ha rivelato che gli USA hanno investito più pesantemente di qualunque altro governo del pianeta nello sviluppo di capacità di sorveglianza intrusiva. I precedenti USA di manipolazione di elezioni estere sono notori, e sono da tempo una parte ben nota del repertorio CIA.
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‘Sponsor a Child’ Schemes Attacked for Perpetuating Racist Attitudes
Karen McVeigh | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
31 May 2021 – International child sponsorship schemes have come under attack for perpetuating racist thinking. Using individual children to ‘sell’ schemes to rich donors is similar to ‘poverty porn’ images of past, say experts, as calls grow to decolonise aid.
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Was Mark Ruffalo Wrong to Accuse Israel of Genocide?
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – So, is it bigoted to say that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians? No. Is it inaccurate? That is harder to say. Is it inflammatory? I guess I would ask why that is an issue.
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Norman Finkelstein: Truth and Justice Are the Ultimate Test, Not International NGOs
Ann Garrison interviews Norman Finkelstein | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – Even Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in Gaza, and the idea of a Jewish state in the context of Palestine is not legitimate. “Do concentration camp guards have a right to self-defense?”
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Editorial | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
Societies frequently accept what is harmful, fearful or hindered to address the necessary changes. Concentrated Power manipulates opinions and colonizes minds, formatting subjectivities. Fear of changing, legitimate or induced, facilitates Concentrated Power domination. Lifting the veils and uncovering the deceits create conditions to choose different courses and ways of functioning.
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On Myanmar, ASEAN’s Empty Diplomatic Rhetoric Is Costing Lives
Lawrence Moss | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
4 Jun 2021 – Words have failed to persuade the Myanmar military to stop killing and jailing its civilian opponents. Both the UNSC and ASEAN have called on it to cease the violence but it defies these calls; the killing spree and arbitrary detentions continue. ASEAN must support the growing calls for a global arms embargo on Myanmar.
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126 Nobel Laureates Warn ‘Humanity Taking Colossal Risks with Our Common Future’
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
3 Jun 2021 – A group of 126 Nobel laureates and other experts today called on the leaders of the G7 nations and the UN to help put the global community on a path to establishing “a new relationship with the planet” as the world faces a coming decade which will be “decisive” in determining whether the Earth remains habitable.
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AFRICOM Military’s Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests
Pavan Kulkarni | People's Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 Jun 2021 – Phoenix Express 2021, the AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise involving 13 countries in the Mediterranean Sea region, concluded last week. While its stated aim was to combat “irregular migration” and trafficking, the US record in the region indicates more nefarious interests.
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“Dying for an iPhone”
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
31 May 2021 – The suffering of the working class, within and outside the United States, is ignored by our corporatized media, and yet, it is one of the most important human rights issues of our era.
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USA Dominant again in Arms Sales: Selling Death
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
25 May 2021 – When it comes to trade in the tools of death and destruction, no one tops the United States of America. Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and others are again profiting at the expense of so many of the rest of us. And Again… and Again… and Again
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
3 Jun 2021 – You know the United States is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic when the pace of mass shootings gets back to “normal.” As of June 2nd, there were 244 mass shootings in the U.S. this year. That’s one to two per day.
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The Etymological Animal Must Slip Out of the Cage of Habit to Grasp Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – Since Sep 11, 2001, the corona virus lockdowns, and the WEF’s push for a Fourth Industrial Revolution that will lead to the marriage of artificial intelligence, cyborgs, digital technology, and biology, that the USA has been slipping into a new form of fascism. Dissent has become unpatriotic and worse – treasonous. Unless people wake up and rebel in greater numbers, the gates of this electronic iron cage will quietly be shut.
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Why Did Naomi Osaka Withdraw from the French Open?
Mia Mercado | The CUT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
On Monday [31 May], tennis star Naomi Osaka dropped out of the French Open after a week of confrontation with tournament officials over whether she would participate in press events. In an Instagram post, Osaka announced her decision to withdraw, citing mental-health concerns including depression and anxiety.
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Supreme Court Says a $2 Billion Verdict in a Baby Powder Cancer Case Should Remain
Associated Press | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 Jun 2021 – The Supreme Court is leaving in place a $2 billion verdict in favor of women who claim they developed ovarian cancer from using Johnson & Johnson talc products.
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Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
May 2021
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A Utopian Vision for Jerusalem
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 Jun 2021 – We have over five years remaining before the events I imagined as follows in my novella, “I have seen the promised land.” More than ever, I think that this is an essential turning point in the road we need to follow to achieve the transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
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Danish Public Broadcaster Reveals Ongoing NSA Spying on Top EU Officials
Alex Lantier | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – While Snowden’s actions have met with support and gratitude from workers and young people in the US and across the planet, that is not the case with the governments that rule them. All of them bow to the bullying from Washington. Like the US government, they defend wealthy ruling classes under conditions of ever-widening social inequality, and like Washington, they fear that their conspiracies against their own people will be exposed to the light of day.
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What Went Right This Week: All Hail Citizen Science, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
3 Jun 2021 – The UK’s national parks called on visitors to embrace citizen science, there were signs the EU’s carbon footprint is shrinking, and a woman’s sight was saved by a robot, plus more positive news.
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Global Elite Use 3 Giant Financial Companies to Control 88% of the Corporations Listed on the S&P 500
Michael Snyder | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
3 Jun 2021 – The “big three” had almost 18 trillion dollars in combined assets, equivalent to more than three-quarters the size of the US economy, under management in Jan 2021; a number quite higher by now. If you were alive when Jesus was born and you spent a million dollars every single day since then, you still would not have spent a trillion dollars yet—for context.
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Application of Universal Vaccination Narrative to Climate Change
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
30 May 2021 – There are numerous sources justifying universal vaccination against COVID-19. However, many others highlight the arguments for vaccine hesitancy. The controversy bears a resemblance to the poisonous discourse between opposing political parties in any country — except that the enforced total dominance of public discourse by pro-vaccination authorities is more consistent with the dynamics of a dictatorship.
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US-Funded Belarusian Regime-Change Activist Arrested on Plane Joined Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
27 May 2021 – Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government’s media apparatus.
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Chemical Farming & the Loss of Human Health
Dr. Zach Bush | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
27 Apr 2021 – Zach Bush, MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is the founder of Farmers Footprint , a coalition of farmers, educators, doctors, scientists, and business leaders to expose the impacts of chemical farming and pesticide reliance–offering a path forward through regenerative agricultural practices.
→ read full articleA Permanent Structure of Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
26 May 2021 – Wars are too easily seen as necessary until they blow up in our faces. We’re at a point where something has to change, where human effort has to be put into planetary survival, which requires creating “a permanent structure of peace.” Is it asking too much that the media bring values, at least as deep as the U.N. Charter, to its reporting, when it comes to matters of war and peace?
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Palestine: This Time, the International Criminal Court Is Watching
Mark Kersten | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
27 May 2021 – The ICC cannot bring peace to Israel-Palestine. It cannot end apartheid. It is not the solution. But it should be part of it. Every hour that passes offers only more evidence that the ICC should continue its investigation and, ultimately, issue warrants for those responsible for international crimes in Palestine. The court is watching. Perpetrators ignore this fact at their peril.
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As Anger toward Belarus Mounts, Recall the 2013 Forced Landing of Bolivia’s Plane to Find Snowden
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
24 May 2021 – What Belarus did, while illegal, is not unprecedented. The dangerous tactic was pioneered by the same U.S. and E.U. officials now righteously condemning it.
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“Today We Are Nazis,” Says Member of Israeli Jewish Extremist Group
Ali Abunimah and Tamara Nassar | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
19 May 2021 – Israeli Jewish extremists used instant messaging services to organize armed militias to attack Palestinian citizens of Israel. “We are no longer Jews today,” one user wrote in a Telegram group titled “People from Holon, Bat Yam and Rishon Lezion go out to bring war.” “Today we are Nazis.” “No one in the authorities could claim that they did not know,” HaBloc said.
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(Français) Reconstruction du capital au prix de notre destruction
Angeles Maestro | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
27 mai 2021 – Au fur et à mesure que l’abîme de la crise s’approfondit, le capitalisme montre sans ambages que la liberté des marchés et sa défense de la libre concurrence ne sont que de la propagande. Le gâteau pour lequel les factions oligarchiques dominantes se battent bec et ongles est l’argent public que l’État, leur État, l’État au service du capital, met à leur disposition.
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Israeli Provocations Continue as Scale of Gaza Damage Emerges
Mike Head | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
24 May 2021 – The United Nations said nearly 450 buildings had been damaged, including six hospitals, 53 schools and 11 primary healthcare centres, as well as more than 1,000 homes.
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(Italiano) La Norvegia e il Premio Nobel per la Pace: Fama o onta?
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
26 Maggio 2021 – Qualche anno addietro il ministro degli esteri norvegese Thorvald Stoltenberg intraprese dei passi saggi per ridurre il confronto con la Russia mediante un Barents Council per la cooperazione civile. La settimana scorsa il figlio di Stoltenberg, Jens, attuale capo della NATO, ha disonorato un incontro ad alto livello per la [corporation>>] cooperazione civile nell’ambito dell’Arctic Council a Reykjavik tenendo grandi manovre navali NATO in quella zona dell’Atlantico, con la partecipazione di molti paesi a quella provocazione atta a suscitare tensione, diventata una politica standard norvegese negli anni recenti.
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Palestine’s Moment: Despite Massive Losses, Palestinians Have Altered the Course of History
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
26 May 2021 – Finally, it can unequivocally be asserted that the Palestinian resistance scored a major victory, arguably unprecedented in its proud history. This is the first time that Israel is forced to accept that the rules of the game have changed, likely forever.
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UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: An Alliance for Action
René Wadlow | Association of World Citizens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
On World Environment Day, 5 June 2021, begins the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030. An ecosystem is the interaction between people, plants, animals, and their surroundings.
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World-Renowned Academic Physician Blows Lid off COVID Vaccines
Dr Peter McCullough | LewRockwel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH is a consultant cardiologist and Vice Chief of Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, TX. He is the co-editor of Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, and associate editor of the American Journal of Cardiology and Cardiorenal Medicine.
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29 May 2021: First Meeting of the Council of Wisdoms of the Earth’s Peoples
Multiconvergence of Global Networks | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – The Multiconvergence of Global Networks (MRG) is an articulation that aggregates global networks for mutual support, dialogue, development of common strategies and planning of joint actions. It is not an institution, but a confluence of global civil society networks that explores new ways of doing politics through interarticulation, communication and cooperation between various processes that seek to strengthen planetary citizenship.
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Today I Saw Syrians Dancing and Celebrating Life, and a Return to Peace – but, of Course, the Western Media Won’t Report That
Eva Bartlett | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
26 May 2021 – Although the West has waged 10 years of war on Syria, and there is much destruction, the entire country isn’t in ruins and the pulse of life continues, albeit strangled by brutal Western sanctions. In Douma, I saw lovely, smiling children, excited to practise their English with me.
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What Went Right This Week: Low-CO2 Passenger Blimps, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
27 May 2021 – A blimp maker promised low-carbon flights by 2025, Tasmanian devils bred in mainland Australia for the first time in 3,000 years, and scientists invented the ‘holy grail’ of batteries, plus more positive news.
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Future of Planetary and People’s Health
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
27 May 2021 – The Health and Climate Emergency are interconnected: Their common roots are an energy intensive, chemical intensive corporate controlled globalized food system that puts profits above people and planet. – A reflection on why we must avoid fake food, fake science , face economics which puts profits above people and planet.
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Chileans Voted for an End to Neoliberalism
Pablo Abufom | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
22 May 2021 – Last week, the people of Chile voted for sweeping structural reform and an end to neoliberalism. It’s one of the Left’s biggest victories since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.
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Ann Garrison interviews Simon Tesfamariam | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
27 May 2021 -US hostilities towards Ethiopia and Eritrea look more and more like those preceding US wars in Yugoslavia, Libya, and Syria.
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Peace to Unity: A Framework for Peace Between Palestine and Israel
Jorgen Johansen | Irene Publishing - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
22 May 2021 – As Jerusalem Post reported that thousands of Jews and Arabs were marching in Tel Aviv for coexistence, Irene Publishing launched a new book by Omar Dweik presenting a framework for sustainable peace between Palestine and Israel.
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Israel Kills Children, Doctors in Horrific Nighttime Massacre
Tamara Nassar | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
Israel in the early hours of Sunday [16 May 2021]—around 1 am–obliterated multiple generations of families when it bombed their homes in Gaza firing 50 missiles. Two prominent doctors were among the dead. This has raised the death toll in Gaza since Israel’s bombing campaign began on 10 May to 192, including 58 children and 34 women. More than 1,200 people have been injured as of 17 May.
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Israel: Profile of a Terror State
Donald Monaco | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
23 May 2021 – Historical Analysis – Israel’s crimes against the people of Palestine reveal a record of barbarism and cruelty unmatched in the modern world except for the unrivaled chronical of suffering resulting from murderous wars perpetrated by U.S. imperialism in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Nicaragua, and beyond.
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“Fact-Checking” Takes another Beating
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do.
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That Inconvenient Insurrection
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
This Modern World – 24 May 2021
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(Português) Pizza Hut Entra em Lista de Empresas que Mais Financiam Tortura de Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
29 May 2021- A Humane League, dos EUA, divulgou um relatório com uma lista de cadeias de pizzarias que mais têm financiado a crueldade contra os animais. Um dos destaques é a rede Pizza Hut que “incentiva o abuso e tortura de animais por meio de sua cadeia de abastecimento”.
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The Zionists on the Defensive
Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – Israel’s Friends Overwhelm Capitol Hill – Yes folks, there is an international conspiracy and it is all about “protecting” Israel. It operates through front and lobbying groups that uniquely promote the interests of a foreign country, Israel, even when those interests do serious damage to the host country where the lobbyists actually live.
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The Real Crimes of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi and the Farce of Her Trial
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
28 May 2021 – Suu Kyi Being Charged under Same Draconian Law She Defended while in Power – There is absolutely no question about the farcical nature of this trial of the deposed Myanmar state counselor by the regime that has committed — and continues to commit — all the gravest crimes in international law.
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Fairness, Justice, Solidarity, Not Even Mercy or Compassion?
Editorial | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
18 May 2021 – No person, no economic group, no country could have accumulate so excessively wealth and decisional power just with their own effort. Always, openly or concealed, they have done it taking advantage of other persons, other economic groups, other countries. It is impossible to explain not moderate but enormous inequalities without considering some degree, some modality of appropriating what others had generated.
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Many Civilian Airplanes Hijacked by States before Lukashenko’s
Petri Krohn | Moon of Alabama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
24 May 2021 – While the incident unfolded yesterday I amused myself with reading the know-nothing responses from several European prime ministers and officials.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
30 May 2021 – This text is based on responses to questions posed by C.J. Polychroniou, a skilled interpreter of the global scene and noted author and interviewer.
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Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”
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“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
Roy T. Bennett | The Light in the Heart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
Roy T. Bennett is the author of The Light in the Heart. He loves sharing positive thoughts and creative insight that has helped countless people to live a successful and fulfilling life. He hopes that his writing will help you become what you are capable of becoming.
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Manufacturing Consent for War: 70 Years of CIA Coups, Assassinations, False Flag Operations and Mass Murder
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
21 May 2021 – A Review of Vijay Prashad’s book, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, with foreword by Evo Morales (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020).
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Did Time Start at the Big Bang? What Happened before the Big Bang?
Matt O’Dowd | PBS Space Time - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Our universe started with the big bang. But only for the right definition of “our universe”. And of “started” for that matter. In fact, probably the Big Bang is nothing like what you were taught. Simply fascinating!
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
24 May 2021 – Few would question the importance of dialogue in this period of global crises and poisonous divisiveness. There are of course many approaches to dialogue although it is less evident how their insights translate into the challenges of inter-national, inter-faith, inter-cultural, inter-sectoral, and inte-disciplinary dialogue in practice. There are many calls for dialogue as a substitute for conflict. There is however a sense in which the appreciation of dialogue is somewhat superficial — reinforced by exercises in which it only takes token and symbolic form as a feature of public relations.
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Palestine Is Winning the Legitimacy War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – This piece attempts to contextualize the current violence directed against Gaza in earlier Israeli provocations and takes note of Israel’s reliance on excessive force upon a helpless Gazan civilian population of over two million people trapped inside a crowded and unlawfully blockaded enclave. I find it appropriate to recall Gandhi’s famous observation along these lines: “First, they ignore you, then they insult you, then they fight you, then you win.”
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Unity at Last: The Palestinian People Have Risen
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 May 2021 – Speak up. Speak out. The Palestinians have risen. It is time to rally behind them.
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People of Conscience: Palestinians Ask You to Boycott Israel
Omar Barghouti | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
19 May 2021 – Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid struggle, the nonviolent BDS movement needs your support, writes BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti.
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China’s Humanitarian Intervention in Gaza May Be Motivated by Its PR War with the US–But That Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t Welcome
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 May 2021 – Beijing’s more conciliatory approach to the mire that is Israel-Palestine relations may be based in self-interest, but unequivocal American support for Israel hasn’t brought peace, so why not try something new?
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