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Vaccines Alone Aren’t Enough to Eradicate a Virus – Lessons from History
Caitjan Gainty and Agnes Arnold-Forster | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021- Too much hope is being pinned on the vaccine alone to get us out of the current pandemic. But ‘low-tech’ solutions are needed, too.
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DC Police Arrest 147 White Protesters on Capitol Steps
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
13 Jan 2021 – It was January 10, 2020. We weren’t protesting a stolen election, but a stolen future. I was among those arrested on the last day of Jane Fonda’s four-month DC stint of Fire Drill Fridays, along with Martin Sheen and Joaquin Phoenix.
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In Historic House Vote, Only 10 Republicans Join Democrats to Impeach Trump for Inciting Insurrection
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
13 Jan 2021 – With only a week left in office, President Donald Trump today became the first U.S. president in history to be impeached for a second time when all House Democrats—joined by just 10 Republicans—passed an article charging him with “high crimes and misdemeanors” for inciting a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Biden’s Nominee for CIA Director
John Kiriakou | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – If there must be a CIA, I feel better with Bill Burns being in charge of it.
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Why B’Tselem Is Calling Israel an Apartheid Regime, from the River to the Sea
Orly Noy | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – One of Israel’s top human rights groups recognizes the occupation cannot be viewed in isolation from the goal of Jewish supremacy inside the Green Line. B’Tselem invites the Israeli public and the international community to look at our reality with courage, to internalize its full meaning, and to work to create a different future based on full and equal human rights for all the inhabitants of the country.
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ACTION ALERT: What Can ‘Now Be Told’ by NYT about Pentagon Papers Isn’t Actually True
Jim Naureckas | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Contrary to what is generally believed, Mr. Ellsberg never ‘gave’ the papers to the Times.” In fact, Ellsberg did give the papers to Sheehan, as the story gets around to revealing 38 paragraphs later: “So he told Mr. Ellsberg that he now needed the documents, not just his notes…. This time, when Mr. Sheehan asked, Mr. Ellsberg consented…. He arranged for Mr. Sheehan to pick up a complete copy of the historical study stowed in an Ellsberg family apartment in Manhattan.”So the big revisionist revelation in the New York Times article turns out to be false.
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The Contagion of Capital
John Bellamy Foster, R. Jamil Jonna and Brett Clark | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
1 Jan 2021 – The U.S. economy and society at the start of 2021 is more polarized than it has been at any point since the Civil War. The wealthy are awash in a flood of riches, marked by a booming stock market, while the underlying population exists in a state of relative, and in some cases even absolute, misery and decline.
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Fifty Years Later: The Significance of the Nuremberg Code
Evelyne Shuster, Ph.D. | The New England Journal of Medicine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion…
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(Italiano) Nella più totale impunità l’emergenza continua nelle carceri indiane
Intervista a Virginius Xaxa di Daniela Bezzi | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Gennaio 2021 – Ci è già capitato più volte di denunciare su questo sito la situazione emergenziale del sistema giudiziario indiano, che sempre più spesso negli ultimi anni, di fronte a qualsiasi forma di dissenso, ha fatto ricorso al cosiddetto UAPA, acronimo che sta per Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
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US Brands Yemen’s Houthi Rebels “Terrorists,” Paving Way for Mass Starvation
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday [11 Jan] that Washington will designate the Houthi rebels, who govern territory containing 70 percent of the Yemeni population, as a “foreign terrorist organization.” This cynical and potentially catastrophic measure is being taken by the ostensibly “lame-duck” secretary of state as part of an unrelenting “maximum pressure” campaign of punishing economic sanctions and continuous military provocations against Iran.
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Brazil: 6 Patients Die of Asphyxiation as Hospitals in Manaus Run Out of Oxygen
Tomás Castanheira | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
16 Jan 2021 – Amid an explosive growth in COVID-19 hospitalizations, the Brazil’s Amazonian capital, Manaus, is experiencing days of terror with a collapse of the oxygen supply in its hospitals. An entire wing of University Hospital patients died on Thursday [14 Jan] night due to lack of oxygen, six people in total.
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Death by Coincidence?
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – Declarations by health officials and vaccine makers that deaths and injuries following COVID vaccinations are unrelated coincidences are becoming a pattern. They’re also depriving people of the information they need to make informed decisions.
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‘There Is No Noise’: Inside the Controversial Rohingya Bhasan Char Refugee Camp – A Photo Essay
Anonymous, as told to Shafiur Rahman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – Amid concern from charities and NGOs, Bangladesh is relocating Rohingya refugees to a remote island. One resident describes his new life there.
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“Special People”
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
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Nutrition to Treat and Prevent COVID-19
Doctor Y, Andrew W. Saul, and Robert G. Smith | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
17 Jan 2021 – Speaking out on nutritional therapy for COVID-19 is risky for medical doctors. Yet another physician is being threatened by his state licensing board for writing what you are about to read. We are not calling him/her “Doctor Y” on a whim, but rather by necessity.
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WHO: No Guarantee COVID Vaccines Will Prevent People from Being Infected
Joseph Mercola, M.D. | Children's Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – At a virtual press conference held by the World Health Organization on 28 Dec 2020, officials warned there is no guarantee that COVID-19 vaccines will prevent people from being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and transmitting it to other people.
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Billionaires Add $1tn to Net Worth during Pandemic as Their Workers Struggle
Michael Sainato | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – Billionaires in the US have increased their net worth by more than $1tn during the coronavirus pandemic, while many of their US workers have struggled with coronavirus risks in workplaces, for little to no extra pay to work in hazardous conditions.
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Julian Assange’s Denial of Freedom an Affront to Human Rights
Sara Chessa | Independent Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – JUST TWO DAYS after saying “no” to a U.S. extradition request, Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected Julian Assange’s bail application and sent him back to Belmarsh Prison. Meanwhile, the U.S. Government has confirmed they will appeal the verdict and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Professor Nils Melzer, called again for Assange to be immediately released.
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Blocking Twitter & Twitter Blocking Trump: Why We Should Worry
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
Should a government have the authority to limit the dissemination by social media of material derogatory to or defamatory of the elected leadership of the country, as well as have a mandate to impose limits on access to sexually explicit material in deference to public morals?
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Why Are People Going Hungry in India Despite a Massive Grain Surplus?
Prabhat Patnaik | Indepedent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – Since late November, braving the bitter cold, hundreds of thousands of farmers have set up protest camps at various points on the borders of India’s capital, New Delhi. Their main demand is the withdrawal of the three farm laws rammed through parliament by the right-wing Narendra Modi government in September.
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Color, COVID and the Coup
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – People of color in the USA are more likely to die of gun violence and to contract COVID-19, and when they do, disproportionately suffer more serious consequences, including death. The violent white supremacist insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th put the ugly realities of racism and inequality in this country in stark relief. Trump’s departure from the Oval Office is only the first step.
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How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler
Glenn Greenwald |– TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.
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How a Lawbreaking International Coalition Failed to Overthrow Venezuela’s Government
Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – Last 15 Jan the newly elected National Assembly took its seats in Venezuela. That day the Lima Group released a statement saying they did not recognize it and called upon countries to “disregard” it and recognize a former member, Juan Guaidó. The Group called for a “transition process” in Venezuela; in other words, the overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution.
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Between Capitalism and Community
Michael A. Lebowitz | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
In this book, Michael Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning Beyond Capital. Karl Marx, in Capital, focused on capital and the capitalist class that is its embodiment. It is the endless accumulation of capital, its causes and consequences, that are central to Marx’s analysis.
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Machiavelli or Gandhi? Chaiwat Satha-anand’s Nonviolence in a Comparative Perspective
Carool Kersten | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
This paper examines the doctrine of non-violence by the Thai political scientist Chaiwat Satha-Anand, based on his thesis, “The Non-Violent Prince”. Chaiwat’s theoretical considerations will be related to the work of the political philosopher Leo Strauss and his doctrine will be contrasted with the Gandhian notion of non-violence through a comparison with the writings of the French Islamologist Louis Massignon.
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The Trump Administration’s Parting Outrage against Cuba
Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
On 11 Jan 2021, in his final days before leaving office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added one parting blow to the series of bludgeons his administration has inflicted on Cuba for four years: putting the island on the list of “state sponsors of terror” that includes only Iran, North Korea and Syria. The designation drew swift condemnation from policymakers and humanitarian groups.
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Trump’s Twitter Ban May Be Justified, but That Doesn’t Mean Tech Giants’ Power Isn’t Scary
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – In the wake of the dramatic storming of the Capitol last week, a host of big media companies, including Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok, have all taken measures against Donald Trump. Making the most headlines, however, was the decision of the president’s favorite medium, Twitter (8 Jan 21), to permanently suspend him “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
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British Judge Keeps Julian Assange in Prison, Despite Denying Extradition Two Days Ago
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
6 Jan 2021 – “As far as Mr. Assange is concerned, this case has not been won,” Judge Vanessa Baraitser declared. She said the United States government “must be allowed to challenge [her] decision.”
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Nobel Nominations – Deadline Jan 31
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – The world needs a less dangerous, non life-threatening, security system and a new, open and realistic thinking about the foul and failed militarized world disorder that we all live under. Nobel saw this in 1895 when he tasked a Norwegian committee with awarding his “prize for the champions of peace”.
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Licensed to Live? Licensed to Lie? Unlicensed to Die?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Implications of Universal Vaccination–Voluntary or Otherwise – The question as to whether vaccination against COVID-19 should be voluntary or mandatory is now widely discussed. Increasingly any questions as to the value or dangers of such vaccination are framed as misinformation — if not deliberate disinformation and a feature of conspiracy theories, necessarily to be deprecated.
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(Português) 10 Estratégias de Manipulação em Massa Utilizadas Diariamente Contra Você
Tales Luciano Duarte | Saia da Caixinha/Yogui.co - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
“Em um estado totalitário não se importa com o que as pessoas pensam, desde que o governo possa controlá-la pela força usando cassetetes. Mas quando você não pode controlar as pessoas pela força, você tem que controlar o que as pessoas pensam, e a maneira típica de fazer isso é através da propaganda (fabricação de consentimento, criação de ilusões necessárias), marginalizando o público em geral ou reduzindo-a a alguma forma de apatia” (Chomsky, N., 1993)
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Professors-Teachers: Youth Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
The Nobel Peace Prize is important to young people; it is about their future. But they cannot nominate. Therefore, we have launched the Youth nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Individuals or groups aged between 15 and 25 may send us nominations.
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A Simple Way to Understand What’s Happening … and What to Do
Richard Heinberg | Post Carbon Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Energy is necessary in order for any organism to do anything whatsoever. For humans, food is energy that powers labor. But, in addition, people long ago learned how to harness energy from fire, water, and wind. Using firewood, paddle wheels, and sails, we built agrarian societies with irrigation systems, cities, cathedrals, mills, and seagoing ships, and created some pretty great art, music, and literature along the way.
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Twitter Bans President Trump Permanently
Brian Fung | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said yesterday evening. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter said.
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Pro-Trump Crackpots Invade the Capitol, Beware a Draconian Response
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – How much can we trust corporate media accounts of the Capitol riot on Wednesday, January 6? In no time at all there were claims of Russian involvement. And President-elect Biden has already said he’ll increase budgets for handling domestic terrorism. Will that include the “Black identity extremists” that the FBI identified as a domestic threat in 2019?
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Porn Addiction Coach Reveals the Problem Has ‘Nothing to Do with Sex’ as He Helps Struggling Men Navigate Dependency in Lockdown
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
10 Jan 2021 – The digital revolution and social media explosion have allowed the addiction to flourish. Tim Reigle is helping thousands of men all over the globe break their erotic compulsions and regain control of their lives. The Covid-19 pandemic has birthed many externalities, but one that’s flown under the radar is the explosion in men succumbing to porn.
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Madman Trump’s Last Ditch Options
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – Are Trump’s Most Reckless Actions Yet to Come? Just what we need in the midst of a global pandemic! Iranian officials are aware of intelligence suggesting the Trump administration is engaged in a “plot to fabricate a pretext for war.” Israeli and US nuclear submarines and other warships including the USS Nimitz carrier strike force are in position.
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Pelosi Asks Military to Limit Trump’s Nuclear Authority–Here’s How That System Works
Geoff Brumfiel | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked the Pentagon’s leadership to limit President Trump’s ability to use nuclear weapons during his final days in office. In a letter to her Democratic House colleagues today, Pelosi said that she had spoken with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley.
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Big Tech and Big Pharma Merge: Oracle Takes Over Vaccine Data World
Jay Hawker | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
6 Jan 2021 – The pandemic handed Oracle CEO Larry Ellison what he’s wanted for decades — the power to curate the vast datasets housing our medical, financial and personal information.
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As Time Goes By – Casablanca (Music Video of the Week)
Herman Hupfeld | USP Filarmonica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
From the classic movie Casablanca released on 17 May 1945
Orquestra Filarmonica of the University of São Paulo
(Português) Robbie Williams Adota Dieta à Base de Vegetais Após Consumir Peixes Contaminados
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 jan 2021 – Em dezembro, durante entrevista à Rádio X, o cantor britânico Robbie Williams revelou que a sua principal motivação para adotar uma dieta à base de vegetais foi descobrir uma séria intoxicação por mercúrio. “Eu comia peixe duas vezes por dia e tive a maior intoxicação por mercúrio que o médico já viu”, informou.
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The Fascinating Story of Placebos – And Why Doctors Should Use Them More Often
Will de Freitas | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
6 Jan 2021 – Every time your doctor tells you that the drug you take has been proved to work, they mean that it has been proved to work better than a placebo.
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Bethlehem, Biden, and Biology
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – Readers asked me to comment on events in the US (including the storming of Trump supporters. Israeli commentators worried because some Trump supporters waved American flags. And a congresswoman from Florida promised to put the Israeli flag next to the American flag in front of her office. Trump did deliver for Zionism.
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The 7 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Not the Answer to Solve Climate Change
Mark Z. Jacobson | Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
There is a small group of scientists that have proposed replacing 100% of the world’s fossil fuel power plants with nuclear reactors as a way to solve climate change. Many others propose nuclear grow to satisfy up to 20 percent of all our energy (not just electricity) needs. They advocate that nuclear is a “clean” carbon-free source of power, but they don’t look at the human impacts of these scenarios. Let’s do the math…
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Big Pharma’s Finest Hour?
Nick Dearden | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – The roll-out of COVID vaccines gives much-needed hope. But without fundamental reform of the drug industry, inequality and mistrust will cost lives both nationally and globally.
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Trump’s Deal on Morocco’s Western Sahara Annexation Risks More Global Conflict
Stephen Zunes | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
15 Dec 2021 – Last week, President Trump formally recognized Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara as part of a deal to get Morocco to normalize relations with Israel. But Morocco’s claim on Western Sahara is rejected by the United Nations, the World Court, the African Union and a broad consensus of international legal scholars that consider the region a non-self-governing territory that must be allowed an act of self-determination. This is why no country had formally recognized Morocco’s takeover — until now.
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The Empire Is Not Done with Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – The arrest eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British and U.S. governments, in the seizure of Assange were ominous. They presaged a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially war crimes, carried out by corporate states and the global ruling elite will be masked from the public. They presaged a world where those with the courage and integrity to expose the misuse of power will be hunted down, tortured, subjected to sham trials and given lifetime prison terms in solitary confinement.
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New York Times Declines My Rebuttal to Defamatory Op-Ed on COVID Vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
5 Jan 2021 – On Dec. 30, 2020, the New York Times published an opinion piece by my niece, Dr. Kerry Meltzer. Although the piece contained factual errors and defamatory accusations, the Times declined to publish my letter to the editor correcting those false claims.
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The Fascist Coup of 6 Jan 2021
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – The fascist insurrection in Washington DC—which resulted in the storming of the US Congress, the panicked dispersal of terrified senators and members of the House, the delay of the official validation of Joseph Biden’s Electoral College majority, and even the occupation of the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—is a turning point in the political history of the United States.
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The Face of Things to Come
Walden Bello | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – The storming of Capitol shows America has entered the Weimar Era.
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Tolerating Phases of Bad Fortune
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
We sometimes go through phases of bad fortune when things keep going wrong, one after another. Whatever we do to set things right only makes them worse. Gita wisdom helps us understand that such phases deliver us concentrated doses of reactions to our past karma. To navigate such phases, or even to just survive them, we need patience and tolerance. Kneejerk reactions can cause aggravation, even devastation.
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What Went Right This Week: Hope for Stabilising the Climate, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – Scientists said the climate could stabilise with decisive action, Norway pulled ahead in the race to drive combustion engines off the road and the US state of Georgia elected its first black senator – plus the week’s other positive news.
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Chomsky and Prashad: Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
5 Jan 2021 – Although the pandemic is the principal issue on all of our minds, other major issues threaten the longevity of our species and of our planet. These include:
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Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – From the Cold War to the War on Terror: the harms from authoritarian “solutions” are often greater than the threats they are ostensibly designed to combat.
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The Prophet of Maximum Productivity
Kwame Anthony Appiah | New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 issue – We are all Veblenians now. Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts. Armed with two Ph.D.s from Yale and Cornell, sacked by Chicago and Stanford, he was an intellectual giant whose ideas hold after 100 years of his death.
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Wednesday’s Other Story
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – On the Case of Julian Assange, and Fearing Empire More Than Fearing Trump – Just before the madness at the Capitol broke out Wednesday [6 Jan], news came from London. Julian Assange, who seemed Monday to be the luckiest man alive when a judge denied an American request to extradite him, was now denied bail.
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State Terrorism: Remembering General Soleimani
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – This first anniversary of the assassination of General Qassim Soleimani, provides an occasion to remember not only the man but the nature of the act, the precedent set, and degree to which Iran and the region have become the main hunting ground of post-colonial Western imperialism. It is also relevant to take note of Mossad’s apparent responsibility for the targeted killing of Iran’s leading nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, ten months later.
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Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
5 Jan 2021 – Scientists call the coral reefs the “rainforests of the sea,” because they are highly diverse ecosystems; their destruction would lead to the extinction of a large number of species. There is even a name used to describe this period of history—the Anthropocene. This term obscures the fact that it is the productive powers of capitalism that generated carbon emissions. It is not some vague term such as Anthropocene, but it is the social formation called capitalism that is central to global warming.
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Threat to Journalism Remains, Warn Critics, After Assange Extradition Rejected Solely Due to Brutal US Prison System
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – “That a British court has ruled that the U.S. prison system is too barbaric to guarantee the safety of Assange tells its own story. But this is about something much bigger than Assange: it’s about journalism, the free press, and… the ability to expose atrocities committed by the world’s last remaining superpower.”
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After 50 Years, the Pentagon Papers Give Up Their Final Secrets
Edward Helmore | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
10 Jan 2021 – It is to many the greatest journalistic scoop in a generation. Journalist behind scoop reveals how he tricked whistleblower to get copies of explosive Vietnam War reports.
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The Trump Pardons and Fast-Tracking Capital Punishment
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – Among the disquieting dimensions of this strangest of all Christmas holidays has been the lurid spectacle of misplaced empathy by Donald Trump, placating cronies and criminals who helped him circumvent law and morality while exhibiting hard heartedness toward those unfortunate souls awaiting execution on death row in federal prisons.
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Nomination of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
The Peace People | Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
“My reasons for nominating them together are simple. Individually each has given countless examples of courage exposing governments’ illegal actions that caused millions of deaths, putting their own freedom and lives on the line. Collectively, their lives of self-sacrifice and selflessness constitute remarkable demonstrations of the magnificence of the human spirit. They are indeed breathtaking testimonies to the goodness inherent in the human heart.”
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In Assange Case, British Judge Rejects US Government’s Extradition Request
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – “It would be oppressive to extradite [Assange] to the United States of America,” Judge Vanessa Baraitser stated
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – There is an ongoing debate among scientists as to whether humanity and the planetary environment are best understood as part of a simulation developed and maintained by an advanced race of extraterrestrials. As a speculative argument, this offers one way of understanding why humanity has not been contacted by ETs — if humans could comprehend the form which such contact might take.
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I’m a Consultant in Infectious Diseases – ‘Long Covid’ Is Not a Mild Illness
Joanna Herman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
27 Dec 2020 – Nine months on from the virus, I am seriously debilitated. This is how the new NHS clinics need to help thousands of us.
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Chaos or Happy New Year?
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
29 Dec 2020 – In the midst of the Covid pandemic, one thing which unites the US Congress is an increasing War Budget. Meanwhile, an Israeli submarine, possibly carrying nuclear weapons, has crossed the Suez canal and headed for the Persian Gulf in a show of force to Iran.
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From Counterterrorism to Geopolitics: Reviving the U.S. Deep State
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
25 Dec 2020 – The challenge of transnational non-state violence, what the media dutifully criminalizes as ‘terrorism’ while whitewashing the abuses of state and state-sponsored violence as ‘counterterrorism’ or exercises of every state to act in self-defense. Language matters as those who wanted to sugarcoat ‘torture’ by such phrases as ‘enhanced interrogation.
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Peace and Peacefulness: Reaching for the Stars
Richard Falk | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
29 Dec 2020 – This interview is not about current political concerns. It rather explores ‘peace’ in its manifold identity. The interview was conducted by Miguel Mendoça a couple of months ago for a book project.
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Execution Will Mark MLK’s Birthday
Barbara Koeppel | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
1 Jan 2021 – Shakespeare got it right. Something is definitely rotten, but not in Denmark. The decay is made in America and engulfs the fortress at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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Evolution of a Con Man
Joe Kandra, Kathie Malley-Morrison, Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
Or Is It Devolution?
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(Italiano) Le parole contano. Il COVID-19 è una pandemia? Siamo in guerra con il virus?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
“Sindemia” – l’interesse dei mass media è iniziato in seguito all’articolo COVID-19 isnot a pandemic di Richard Horton, pubblicato il 26 settembre su The Lancet. L’autore sostiene che l’approccio nella gestione della diffusione, ma soprattutto della patologia, sia sbagliato, perché la crisi sanitaria è stata affrontata focalizzando l’attenzione alla malattia infettiva, e non con un “approccio sindemico”. Già dal 2017 la rivista inglese pubblicava un insieme di articoli, inserendoli in una serie denominata Syndemics.
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How Do You Help a Grieving Friend?
Megan Devine | Refuge in Grief – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
It’s so hard to know what to do when your friends are hurting. The thing is, you can’t cheer someone up by telling them to look on the bright side, or by giving them advice. It just doesn’t work. Watch this video to learn the one thing that will improve all of your “I’m here for you” intentions, and be that supportive friend you most want to be.
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The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths about Freedom and Tyranny
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents.
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UN Opposes Relocation of Rohingya Refugees to Remote Island
Elishya Perera | Commonwealth Business Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
8 Dec 2020 – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says he opposes the relocation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, which is vulnerable to cyclones and prone to flooding. Amnesty International released a report with allegations of limited food and healthcare facilities, cramped and unhygienic living conditions, sexual harassment and extortion.
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Upcoming Ruling in Assange Trial Threatens More Than Just Freedom of the Press
Steve Brown | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
2 Jan 2021 – His two children could lose their father for the rest of their lives. Although important legal principles are at stake in the extradition trial of Julian Assange, for which a ruling will be handed down on January 4, it should not be forgotten that there are important human issues at stake as well. One such issue is Assange’s health.
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Colonialist Injustice: The Pardoning of the Blackwater Killers
Richard Becker | Liberation News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
27 Dec 2020 – Along with a motley collection of wealthy swindlers and fraudsters, President Donald Trump on Dec. 22 pardoned four former Blackwater private contractors (mercenaries) convicted in the infamous 16 Sep 2007 massacre in Baghdad. Seventeen Iraqis were killed and 14 seriously wounded in an unprovoked attack by the four including two boys, 9 and 11 years of age, and a woman burned alive in her car.
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Jan Oberg’s Prime Minister Speech on the Corona Crisis
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
1 Jan 2021 – Or your government leader’s Coronavirus speech that was never given. Do not believe the future will be better before you hear leaders say something like this…
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The Second Cold War Is Coming
Roberto Savio | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
4 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – The new Cold War will be between China and the West, but it will be quite different from the one with the Soviet Union. The USSR, a military giant with little industrial development, had the advantage of presenting itself as the champion of an international ideology. Today, China harbors no real international flag, and the West is besieged by internal contradictions.
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Bad News for 2021
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
A crash of the global economic system would inevitably produce a crash of the system of global governance. And a crash of the global system of governance will give us a window of opportunity for the radical change that is needed from the culture of war to a culture of peace. But such a change requires advance preparation.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
Un effondrement du système économique mondial entraînerait inévitablement un effondrement des systèmes de gouvernance. Et un crash du système mondial de gouvernance nous donnera une fenêtre d’opportunité pour le changement radical qui est nécessaire pour la transition de la culture de guerre à une culture de paix. Mais un tel changement nécessite une préparation préalable.
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Human Security Policy and Human Needs Theory
Karin Utas Carlsson, PhD | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
7 Dec 2020 – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the thoughts of peace researcher John W. Burton put forward towards the end of the last century. He is seen as the father of Human Needs Theory, a way of thinking behind the concept of human security, increasingly in focus in today’s debate.This is a line of thought very different from the established defence and foreign policy, based on power politics.
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The Year That Was–>India’s People Fight Back a Hostile Government
Subodh Varma | CETRI Centre Tricontinental - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
28 Dec 2020 – The right-wing Narendra Modi government used the pandemic and the lockdown to foist more exploitative policies. But the sustained resistance by people has shaken its hubris.
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Pandemic Profiteers: Forbes Adds 50 Health Care Moguls to Its List of Global Billionaires
Genevieve Leigh | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
29 Dec 2020 – For the richest layer of society, the year 2020 has proven to be one of soaring profits and the accumulation of personal wealth on a scale never before seen. The world’s billionaires collectively increased their already massive fortunes by more than a quarter (27.5 percent) from April 2020 to July 2020 alone, reaching a record total of $10.2 trillion.
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Bangladesh Sends 2nd Group of Rohingya to Isolated Island
Abdur Rahman Jahangir | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
28 Dec 2020 – Bangladesh’s Senseless Relocation of Rohingya Survivors of Myanmar Genocide – Officials in Bangladesh sent a second group of Rohingya refugees to an isolated island in the Bay of Bengal today despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. More than 30 buses carrying about 1,500 refugees left for the island.
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Biden & CIA Death Squads
Finian Cunningham | Information Clearing House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – CIA-backed death squads are running amok in Afghanistan, murdering civilians and terrorizing the population. When Joe Biden becomes president in three weeks, he should prioritize ending this “Murder Inc.” A newly published investigative report has uncovered a systematic assassination program conducted by the CIA in several provinces across Afghanistan.
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Water, “the Ultimate Commodity”, (*) Has Entered the Stock Market. Poor Water!
Riccardo Petrella | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – Entering the stock exchange is the result of a long series of steps. In the beginning there was …. the ‘petrolization’ of water. They announced it, proclaimed it since the 1970s. The “petrolization of water” (1) has driven the way we imagine and see water in industrialized and “developed” societies. Thus, in 2020, black gold […]
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India’s Pandemic of Violence against Women
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
28 Dec 2020 – An increase in violence against women in India during the global COVID-19 outbreak has been described by the United Nations as a “shadow pandemic”.
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The Class Dynamic of the Massive Wall Street Speculation
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
30 Dec 2020 – The year is ending amid the greatest economic contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s, but Wall Street is finishing the year at a record high. The ruling financial oligarchy is benefiting from the COVID-19 pandemic to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
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(Português) Crescimento do mercado de queijos vegetais é classificado como “surpreendente”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
26 dez 2020 – Um relatório recente divulgado pela Research and Markets, que mantém o maior banco de dados global de análises de mercado, classificou como “surpreendente” o crescimento do mercado de queijos vegetais.
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Who to Blame: “Donald Trump” or the “American People”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
Let’s Get Real Clear on Any Responsibility for Imminent Global Disaster – In this exercise in clarification, mention of “Donald Trump” in titles of a selection of articles in the media is replaced by “American People” — for whom Trump is merely the current mouthpiece in political, legal, executive, and public relations terms.
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Here’s Why We Can’t Rush a COVID-19 Vaccine
Patrick Boyle | Association of American Medical Colleges - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
Vaccines have saved humanity from countless scourges, including measles, polio, and smallpox. But the process of producing a safe, effective vaccine is necessarily painstaking, as the risk of harm is real.
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I Am Guilty of Violating the Espionage Act
Laura Poitras | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
21 Dec 2020 – The Justice Department is setting a dangerous precedent that threatens reporters — and the truth. Journalism is not a crime!
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Going Underground | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
19 Dec 2020 – John Pilger discusses the devastating impact of Covid-19 in the UK, rising poverty and militarism, the Western logic for the new Cold War with China, the victory of Joe Biden over Donald Trump, why not much will change in the White House, the Yemen War, the survival of Venezuela despite crippling international sanctions, mainstream journalism vs. real journalism–and more.
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Peace and Peacefulness: Reaching for the Stars
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
I recall being rather bemused more than 25 years ago when a meditation practice was premised on the confidence that if enough people meditated for a few minutes each day on the reality of a peaceful world it would bend the arc of history toward peace. I know that spiritual attentiveness has wider implications but I find no evidence that links connect my meditation with the policies and actions of performers in ongoing world dramas.
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Trump Pardons Blackwater Contractors Jailed for Massacre of Iraq Civilians
Michael Safi | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
23 Dec 2020 – Donald Trump has pardoned four security guards from the private military firm Blackwater who were serving jail sentences for killing 14 civilians including two children in Baghdad in 2007, a massacre that sparked an international outcry over the use of mercenaries in war.
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Is Iran Closer to Avenging the Murder of Its Two Prominent Leaders?
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
24 Dec 2020 – Tehran has taken every opportunity to demonstrate its scientific and technological skills but unwilling to exploit any of it needlessly. It is not a Third World country struggling to develop. It is a major military power of West Asia. It builds missiles, a prowess the US is trying to end. The late Fakhrizadeh has the distinction of being compared to Oppenheimer the father of the nuclear bomb. It is a civilisation of some five thousand years.
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George Galloway: The Brexit Deal Is Done. We Are Now Free to Build a New Britain…If We Want It
George Galloway | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
24 Dec 2020 – Free to decide who can live here and who must leave. Free to say FU to EU demands to sanction others. Free to make friends with the capriciously chosen enemies of both Washington and Brussels – usually the same in any case. We are free to trade on any terms we like with the suns rising in the east. Free to refuse to go quietly into the sunset in the west.
→ read full articleDoes Science Come from Spirituality or Is It Made by Man?
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
Spirituality is the study of the totality of reality, whereas science is the study of a subset of that reality. If we consider total reality as a big circle, then physical reality is a small circle within that big circle and science studies that physical reality.
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Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Goes Uninterrupted, but Is Europe Finally Taking Notice?
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
22 Dec 2020 – A long and cruel siege, constant Israeli attacks resulting in the killing of countless civilians, destruction of homes and infrastructure, extreme poverty, and trauma remain the daily bread of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Jews across the Globe Applaud Statement by Palestinian and Arab Academics, Journalists, and Intellectuals
Open Letter/Various | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020 – We, Jewish groups and individuals from across the globe, applaud the recent powerful statement and set of principles signed by 122 Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists, and intellectuals regarding the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and the way this definition has been applied, interpreted and deployed.
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