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The Revolutionary Humanism of Frantz Fanon
Peter Hudis | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
The philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary militant Frantz Fanon was a key figure in the struggle against European colonialism. Fanon’s innovative thinking on racism and its relationship to class oppression still speaks vividly to the present.
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Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative–not on the streets but confined to human dwellings.
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Christmas 2020
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
25 Dec 2020 – Despite the difficulties we tried to enjoy the night of 24 December 2020 at the nativity square. We are not just contending with colonial occupation but also a pandemic. The Palestinian Jesus (yes he was born in a country then called Palestine and has been called Palestine for four millennia) went on to challenge the occupation of his time and the hypocrisy of the local and foreign “leaders”.
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Fools’ Crusade: Why United States Provocations towards China Will Lead to Disaster
Jeff J. Brown and Jeremy Kuzmarov | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – On July 21st, The New York Times ran a front-page article highlighting the revival of the Committee on the Present Danger, a Cold War organization that called for greater military spending to meet the Soviet threat, but whose focus is now on China. Joe Biden told Foreign Affairs that the U.S. needed to get tough with China calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “thug” who “doesn’t have a democratic bone in his body.” A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that 73 per cent of Americans had an unfavourable view of China.
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(Italiano) “L’effondrement”, la serie francese che mette in scena il collasso della società
Daniel Ruiz | Scienza & Pace Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
L’effondrement, ossia il collasso, è una serie TV francese che si ispira alle tesi derivate dal recente concetto di “collassologia”: lo studio interdisciplinare dei rischi legati al collasso della civiltà industriale. Il termine “collassologia” (in ing. Collapsology) è stato coniato da Pablo Servigne e Raphaël Stevens nel loro libro Come tutto può collassare (2015). Tuttavia, il modello scientifico della distruzione antropogenica della biosfera è datato al 1973, con I limiti dello sviluppo scritto dal Club di Roma.
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What Went Right in 2020: The Top 20 Good News Stories of the Year
Lucy Purdy | Positive News magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
22 Dec 2020 – It’s been a year like no other. As challenging as 2020 has been, the past 12 months have also seen big wins for the environment, society and culture, human rights – and even health. Read on for 20 stories of progress that got hidden behind the headlines in 2020.
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(Português) Mais um Estudo Desbanca Mito da Necessidade de Proteína Animal
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
20 dez 2020 – Pesquisadores concluíram que proteína não animal proporciona as mesmas taxas de síntese de proteínas miofibrilares em adultos com mais de 60 anos.
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John Le Carré (19 Oct 1931 – 12 Dec 2020): Spy Novelist and “Inside-Outside” Man
Stefan Steinberg | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British author of espionage novels and former intelligence agent. He died of pneumonia December 12 aged 89 years. Le Carré leaves behind an intriguing body of literary work set against a background of some of the key political and social developments of the past half-century.
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Child Labor
Tonni Aktar | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
19 Dec 2020 – Gray eyes, depressed faces and tender hands seek love in the heart of the earth. Poor children and street children understand what the urge for livelihood is, what hunger means. In developing countries like Bangladesh, the rate of child labor is very high. This number has also increased significantly in Covid-19.
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America’s Longest War: An Afghan’s Perspective
Mustafa Ariaie | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
26 Dec 2020 – How the U.S. has imposed puppet leaders in Afghanistan who have allied with the Taliban, advocated ethnic cleansing, and betrayed their people. The U.S. troop presence and covert training of corrupt Afghan security forces have been major factors contributing to the growth of terrorism in Afghanistan.
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Jabberfear: Indoctrination, Fear-of-the-Jab, and Vaccination Passports?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
21 Dec 2020 – There is now a rapidly emerging confluence of dynamics associated with the pandemic–usefully caricatured as a jabberplex. These include:
* extreme pressure to accede to a singular mainstream perspective — without any space for doubt, or the right to freedom of opinion in that regard. (…)
Unlearned Lessons from World War I: The Christmas Truce of 1914
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
That spontaneous event, the Christmas Truce of 1914, was expressed in a variety of ways at a multitude of locations all along the 600 miles of trenches that stretched across France, but it was an event that would never again be duplicated in the history of warfare.
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Agent Blue Haunts Vietnam War Vets
Mike Tharp | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – This US-manufactured defoliant used in the Vietnam War has no half life: its poison keeps on poisoning forever.
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It’s Time to Find Our Common Ground and Fight the Real Deep State
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Big Oil, King Coal, Big Chemical, Big Tech and Big Pharma are titans of a Deep State cartel that is driving our country down the road to plutocracy and environmental apocalypse. We must unite to fight them — and not each other. For decades, the Rockefeller family owned some 80% of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. Today, the Rockefeller Empire — in tandem with JP Morgan Chase — continues to own half the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S.
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Palestine Legal: Please Support & Donate
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – Palestine Legal’s work is necessary not only for those of us involved in work for Palestinian human rights, but for anyone who believes in preserving space for open political debate and upholding our rights to protest, which are sacred elements of any genuine constitutional democracy. Needless to say, Palestine Legal’s work will remain urgently necessary under the next U.S. administration.
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(русский – Russian) Коррумпированная наука и власть элиты: «Техно-рабство» Covid-19 и «Великая перезагрузка»
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Альтернативная информация о COVID-19
– TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Вам нравится верить, что ученые изучают доказательства — будь то в отношении Covid-19 или чего-то еще — и предоставляют высококачественные знания, которые можно использовать для руководства при формировании государственной политики, чтобы они лучше служили интересам обычных людей? К сожалению, это утверждение — просто пропаганда неосторожных.
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Will China Run the World? Should It?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – Responses to interview questions from Javad Heiran-Nia on ‘World Order in the Time of COVID-19,’ with emphasis on China & United States, especially as reflected in the restructuring of the world economy. The underlying issue is whether the Chinese or U.S. approach to global policy and world order will gain the upper hand, and at what costs to humanity.
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Washington-DC Mayor, Please Veto the Psychologically Harmful ‘Minor Vaccine Consent Bill’
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – Open Letter to DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. I have grave concerns about the physical and psychological dangers of Bill B23–0171.3, the Minor Vaccine Consent Bill, which permits children 11 and older to consent to vaccines without their parents’ knowledge or consent. I hope the information below inspires you to veto this bill with a clear conscience.
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The Assange Prosecution: A Haunting Reminder of What Happened in My Espionage Act Case
Jeffrey Sterling | The Dissenter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – Jeffrey Sterling, a CIA whistleblower, responds to how his case has been invoked by prosecutors to help them win the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition.
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(Italiano) Siamo nel 2020, l’anno del coronavirus. Che cosa vorresti fare?
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
L’anno 2020 volge al termine, memorabile per i suoi incessanti riflettori sul coronavirus. Riflettendo sugli ultimi 12 mesi, immaginate cosa potreste fare se foste in una posizione di grande potere e influenza. Gli scenari offerti sono due, i quali hanno diversi obiettivi di fondo. Lo Scenario Global PowerElite, orientato a proteggere i diritti dei super-ricchi per continuare ad accumulare sempre più ricchezze. L’altro è lo Scenario One Earth Family, volto a garantire che ogni essere umano possa vivere in dignità e armonia con la terra. Inizierò io questo esercizio; poi toccherà a te.
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Teaching Evolution in Schools: What Science Explains and What Explains Science
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
An Indian Union Minister of State recently triggered a furor by stating that evolution is unproven scientifically and shouldn’t be taught in schools.
Before examining the tenability of this statement, we need to understand what is implied by the word evolution. It refers to different things in different contexts.
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Walt Whitman on What Makes a Great Person and What Wisdom Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
“The past, the future, majesty, love — if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.”
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The Planet’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Just when it seemed that Joe Biden’s coming administration couldn’t be more of a horror show, he’s likely to appoint another monster from the deep, violent know-it-all Samantha Power to head the US Agency for International Development; a perfect position to wield foreign aid as a cudgel for beating foreign heads of state till they bow to US empire.
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Spy Companies Using Channel Islands to Track Phones around the World
Crofton Black | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Surveillance firms can track the location of mobile phone users, intercept their messages and calls and access their sensitive data, thanks to vulnerabilities in how phone networks communicate with each other, our story shows. Experts told us the Channel Islands are an easy route in. We found evidence of surveillance attempts in more than 60 countries.
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Community Champions Law to Castrate Pedophiles in Nigerian State
Nosmot Gbadamosi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Despite criticism from rights groups, families of young rape victims in Kaduna state say they support the new law.
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The SolarWinds Hack Is Unlike Anything We Have Ever Seen Before
Josephine Wolff | Future Tense/Slate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – The SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign has apparently targeted a dizzying number of government and private organizations: the State, Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Energy departments; Microsoft; the cybersecurity firm FireEye; the National Institutes of Health; and the city network of Austin, Texas, just to name a few. It launched in the spring of this year, and it will likely last for years.
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A Pandemic of ‘Russian Hacking’
Ray McGovern and Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
19 Dec 2020 – The hyperbolic, evidence-free media reports on the “fresh outbreak” of the Russian-hacking disease seems an obvious attempt by intelligence to handcuff President-elect Joe Biden into a strong anti-Russian posture. Neither the actor, nor the motive, nor the damage done is known for certain in this latest scare story.
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Daniel Ruiz, PhD | Scienza & Pace Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – The Collapse is a French television series inspired by the theses of the new academic subject of Collapsology, the transdisciplinary study of the risks of collapse of the industrial civilization. The word Collapsology was coined by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens in their essay: How Everything Can Collapse (2015). But the scientific modelling of the anthropogenic destruction of the biosphere dates back to 1972 with The Limits to Growth of the Club of Rome.
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Forests and Climate Change in Canada
Dr. Bill Bhaneja | Pilgrims - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
‘Carbon sink’ is a phenomenon similar to what one may describe as nature’s breathing – the forests/trees absorb CO2 from atmosphere and release Oxygen; however, during forest fires or decay, this process is reversed. A forest then starts lowering its carbon sink capacity, emitting a large amount of stored carbon sending it billowing into the air.
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Climate Chaos amidst the Pandemic: 5 Years after Paris
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
17 Dec 2020 – It’s been five years since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed to avert global climate chaos. World leaders, though, are primarily focused on COVID-19 with over 1.6 million people worldwide dead and over 74 million reported. These twin crises demand a global, collective coordinated response, with equitable, free distribution of coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, and a vigorous, just green recovery.
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Trump Is Spending the Last Days of His Presidency on a Literal Killing Spree
Austin Sarat | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – In disregard for political precedent or basic humanity, Trump is turning the anger and resentment which burnishes his brand into a virtually unprecedented string of fast-tracked federal executions before Biden takes office.
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Move of Rohingya Refugees Poses Environmental and Human Rights Concerns
Tina Gerhardt | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – On December 4, about 1,600 Rohingya traveled across the Bay of Bengal in seven navy boats from Chattogram to Bhasan Char. Bangladesh plans to move 100,000 families to the island. The move poses serious concerns, both with regard to the environment and human rights.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
This Modern World – Life in the Stupidverse
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Tackling the Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The “American System” Solution
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest problems.
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The Controversial Covid RT-PCR Test: What Do We Know?
Mark Taliano | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – We know that the PCR tests being used are not “fit for purpose”, that they are for Research Use Only. They are not meant to be used as diagnostic tools, and the late inventor of the RT-PCR instruments was very clear about this.
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COVID-19 Vaccines Are Coming, but They’re Not What You Think
Graeme Wood and David A. Spiegel | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
These novel approaches could fail in many ways.
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The Biodiversity Paradigm: Building Resilience for Human and Environmental Health
Ruchi Shroff & Carla Ramos Cortés | Springer Link – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
11 Nov 2020 – It is a well-established fact that biodiversity is pivotal to human and planetary health. This paper looks through an ecological sciences perspective at the interconnections and interrelations between human health and Earth’s health. But regardless of the wide recognition of the benefits of biodiversity, we are seeing a political and economic landscape which actively runs contrary to and further erodes diversity in favor of the globalized industrial food system, seed uniformity and further centralization through false tech solutions.
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The Great Delusion
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
20 Dec 2020 – The real lesson we should learn from the rise of a demagogue such as Trump and a pandemic that our for-profit health care industry proved unable to contain is that we are losing control as a nation and as a species. Joe Biden and the systems managers of the deep state and empire are returning to power. Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and Christian fascists are sullenly preparing to leave office.
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Christmas Truce of 1914, World War I – For Sharing, For Peace
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Peace at the war front on Christmas day during World War I. A real story. An inspiration. Made in partnership with The Royal British Legion, it commemorates the extraordinary events of Christmas Day, 1914, when the guns fell silent and two armies met in no-man’s land, sharing gifts – and even playing football together.
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Leading Scholars’ Consensus Was Clear: Neither ICJ nor ICC on Their Own Will Deliver Rohingyas from Hell
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
On 15 December 2020, a group of leading scholars and experts from Canada, USA, and Ireland involved in the global campaign to end Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingyas held a legal roundtable, jointly organised by the Free Rohingya Coalition and FORSEA.
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Wall Street Vultures Are Ready to Get Rich from Water Scarcity
Nick Martin | The New Republic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
9 Dec 2020 – The basis of all human life is now officially on the market. Call it the No Future futures index.
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The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads for Children
Andrew Quilty | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be USA’s Exit Strategy from Its Longest War
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New World Order? Oligarchs Discuss How Legal System Could Use Brain Mapping against You
Joseph Mercola, M.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
12 Sep 2020 – If brain mapping becomes mainstream, it could have major implications for the legal system. Even if a person chooses not to confess, their brain could be tapped to do it for them.
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PCR Test for Coronavirus Questioned by Prominent Scientists
Barbara Cáceres | National Vaccine Information Center - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – 22 scientists with specialties in microbiology, virology, molecular genetics and molecular biology, immunology, pharmacology and other science fields, found “severe errors” in design and methodology of the RT-PCR which “render the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test useless.”
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The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
8 Dec 2020 – Writing about “The Great Reset” is not easy. It has turned into a viral conspiracy theory purporting to expose something no one ever attempted to hide, most of which is not really happening anyway, some of which actually should. A viral conspiracy theory blends together legitimate critiques with truly dangerous anti-vaccination fantasies and outright coronavirus denialism.
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(Italiano) L’importanza del collegamento “Pratica, Ricerca, Addestramento” nel peacebuilding
Abbas Aroua | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dicembre 2020 -All’interno di un buon ospedale universitario, non si può immaginare l’assenza di uno dei tre pilastri della sanità e del suo corretto funzionamento: pratica, addestramento e ricerca in campo medico così come nelle discipline sanitarie. Svariati ambiti dell’attività umana – come il peacebuilding – seguono lo stesso schema per ottimizzare l’accumulo di sapere, la condivisione e gestione di conoscenze, anche pratiche.
→ read full articleEnvisaging the AI-enhanced Future of the Conferencing Process
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – Meeting Design through Interactive Incorporation of Participants and Content – Whereas virtual gatherings were relatively exotic in 2019, they have become commonplace (if not essential) in 2020.
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U.S. National Lawyers Guild Condemns U.S. Illegal Occupation of Hawaii
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
On 28 Nov 1843, the United Kingdom and France jointly recognized the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign and independent State, which was followed by formal recognition by the United States on 6 Jul 1844. By 1893, when it was overthrown, the Hawaiian Kingdom maintained over 90 legations (embassies) and consulates throughout the world.
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The United States of America Is a Military ‘Democracy’
John Stanton | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020 – What is the point of the United States spending 1.2 trillion dollars on national security/defense when its healthcare system, critical infrastructure (bridges, sewage pipes, roads, etc.), small to mid-sized businesses, and social safety nets—even the constitutional order— are collapsing? Maybe it is all part of the plan.
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Murdering Nuclear Scientists Does Not Prevent Proliferation–A Nuclear Free Middle East Does
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Interview published in the Tehran Times on 2 Dec 2020. Fakhrizadeh’s assassination cannot be legally and politically justified by any acceptable theory governing the use of force in international relations and has very negative implications as an international precedent.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – Or What It Means to Fall on a Failing Planet
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Qatar: Between the Scylla of Coercion and the Charybdis of Accommodation: An Inquiry into Sub-Regional Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020 – Qatar is caught between seeking the end of the coercive diplomacy led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE and not wanting to end its necessary cooperation with Iran, especially with respect to large maritime natural gas deposits. The efforts at accommodation can turn out to be either a lessening of a confrontational approach to Iran or its intensification.
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‘Buy It or Else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Strategy to Force Farmers to Buy GMO Seeds and Pesticides
Johnathan Hettinger | Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
4 Dec 2020 – Internal company records show the companies knew their weedkiller, sprayed on GMO soybeans, would drift onto neighboring fields, devastate non-GMO organic crops, and that crop damage would be extensive. They sold it anyway.
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A Brief History of US Military Poisoning of Hawai’i
Ann Wright, Kyle Kajihiro and Jim Albertini | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
U.S. military contamination in Hawai’i comes from the military bases on four of the islands. The island of Kauai has the large Pacific Missile Test Facility. The Big Island of Hawai’i has the massive 130,000 acre firing range. The island of Kahoʻolawe is still contaminated from being bombed for decades. 43,000 active duty military personel, 9,600 Guard and Reserve, 60,000 dependents and 20,000 military employees live in Hawai’i. The military complex population of 132,600 comprises 10% of the 1.4 million population of the state.
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Is Philanthro-Capitalism Endangering Sustainable Development?
Navdanya International | LifeGate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
26 Oct 2020 – The latest report by Navdanya International aims to investigate the role and actions of one of the most influential private foundations – the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Abandoning Afghanistan
Mort Rosenblum | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
6 Dec 2020 – Nineteen years and only Allah knows how many lives later – perhaps 500,000 – that still stands. And now Donald Trump has chosen to cut and run, leaving Joe Biden with an ungodly mess in a collapsed state of hapless victims ruled by violent factions that see the USA as a bitter enemy.
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EU Summit: Billions for the Banks, Nothing for Workers
Peter Schwarz | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
12 Dec 2020 – European Central Bank extended its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme until the end of March 2022 and expanded it by €500 billion. This is the greatest redistribution of wealth in history, for the huge sums of money will ultimately have to be paid back by the working class in the form of cuts in social programmes and wages. The stock exchanges are jubilant.
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Vincent van Gogh on Art and the Power of Love in Letters to His Brother
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done! Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.
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The End of U.S. History Begins in the USA
Prof. Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
America’s aggressions around the globe have now come full circle and boomeranged into its domestic affairs.
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(Italiano) Fuori la guerra dalla storia
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dicembre 2020 -«Sono sempre dell’opinione che ripudiare la guerra e quindi avere una politica estera favorevole alla trattativa e ridurre le spese per gli armamenti siano le migliori prevenzioni della catastrofe bellica, opinione che la diffusione delle armi di distruzione di massa non fa che confermare.
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Net Worth of US Billionaires Has Soared by $1 Trillion to Total of $4 Trillion Since Pandemic Began
Americans for Tax Fairness and The Institute for Policy Studies | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dec 2020 – The collective wealth of America’s 651 billionaires has jumped by over $1 trillion since roughly the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to a total of $4 trillion at market close on Monday, December 7, 2020. Wealth increase in 9 months exceeds $908 billion cost of Covid relief package GOP has stalled as too costly.
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(Italiano) Gli invisibili… in India e nel mondo …diventano coro
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
9 Dicembre 2020 – In una recente video-intervista realizzata dal Direttore dell’Istituto di Ricerca Sociale Tricontinental e giornalista Vijay Prashad sulla rivista on-line Newsclick, la scrittrice e attivista Arundhati Roy – commentando il fatto che il Primo Ministro Modi ha annunciato il lockdown dicendo ‘avete quattro ore di tempo per chiudervi dentro’ – osservò: “Il Primo Ministro si comporta come se i suoi cittadini fossero forze ostili, che necessitano l’imboscata, che devono essere colti di sorpresa, di cui non ci si può fidare.”
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‘I Can’t Fall Asleep’: The Trauma of Israeli Raids on Palestinian Homes
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – A new report by human rights groups highlights the arbitrary nature and psychological harm of the Israeli army’s home invasions on Palestinian families.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dec 2020 – Covid-19 is a convenient excuse for governments to ban or restrict activities they don’t like. State measures to control coronavirus undoubtedly have great potential for justifying state repression and surveillance. “It’s beyond the Patriot Act authors’ wildest dreams.” In Africa, it’s been crudely weaponized to suppress elections, as witnessed in Uganda and Ethiopia.
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Media Fuels Economic War on Nicaragua with False ‘Conflict Beef’ Story
John Perry | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)/Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Liberal media outlets are aiding a US economic war on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, calling for a boycott of “conflict beef” based on deeply flawed opposition accusations.
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The War on Cuba Documentary Tells the Story of the U.S. Embargo
Julia Thomas | NACLA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – The Belly of the Beast collective explains how they are creating responsible media about Cuba and depicting the impacts of U.S. policy.
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Partly Truth and Partly Fiction – Totally Genius: Kris Kristofferson
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
While great songs usually take but a few minutes to travel from the singer’s mouth to the listener’s ears, they keep echoing for a long time, as if they had taken both singer and listener on a circular journey out and back, and then, in true Odyssean fashion, replay the cyclic song of the shared poetic mystery that is life and death, love and loss, the going up and coming down, the abiding nostalgia for a future home.
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(Italiano) La sofferenza degli animali selvatici e il dilemma dei vegani
Jordi Casamitjana | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dicembre 2020 – L’etica vegana è per definizione anti-specista, così la definisce la Vegan Society. Per cui lo sfruttamento degli animali è inammissibile in tutte le sue forme, non solo quelle relative all’alimentazione. I vegani non hanno ancora raggiunto un accordo sul come affrontare la sofferenza degli animali selvatici, non sottoposti al diretto controllo degli esseri umani.
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The Empty-Headed League
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
More intelligent dialogues…
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The U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Displaced 37 Million People
David Vine | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – Our goal is to shed light on the 19-year-long “war on terror.” Our study focuses on the eight countries where the U.S. government bears significant responsibility for wars it has launched (Afghanistan and the overlapping war in Pakistan triggered by invading Afghanistan, and Iraq); escalated as a major combatant (Libya and Syria); or intensified through drone strikes, battlefield advising, logistical support, weapons sales, and other military aid (Yemen, Somalia, and the Philippines).
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Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany–False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test
F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
10 Dec 2020 – The widely-praised German model of the Angela Merkel regime to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is now engulfed in a series of potentially devastating scandals going to the very heart of the testing and medical advice being used to declare draconian economic shutdowns and next, de facto mandatory vaccinations.
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The COVID-19 Vaccine; Is the Goal Immunity or Depopulation?
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
4 Dec 2020 – This is the state of affairs in America today. All real power has been conceded to a globalist oligarchy that operates behind the curtain of corrupt government officials and public health experts. This begs the question of whether the hoopla surrounding the Coronavirus emerged as a spontaneous and appropriate reaction to a lethal and fast-spreading pandemic or whether the hysteria has been greatly exaggerated to implement a transformational political-social agenda.
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix e cineasta russo lançam filme sobre sensibilidade dos animais que comemos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
12 dez 2020 – Lançado ontem (11) na plataforma de streaming Film Forum, “Gunda” é um filme de 93 minutos pautado na sensibilidade, consciência e nas relações dos animais que reduzimos a alimentos e outros produtos.
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Myanmar’s Perennial Ceasefire Talks
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
4 Dec 2020 – Myanmar is witnessing world’s longest ‘peace talks’ and continuation of longest-running ethnic wars.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – No one can, or should, take them seriously. They stand for nothing. They fight for nothing.
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Why Are Palestinians Being Forced to Prove Their Humanity?
Mohammed El-Kurd | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – What is happening has a clear name: ethnic cleansing. Over the last few months, the Israeli Court of Jerusalem has ruled to displace at least 12 Palestinian families in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah — including mine. Our homes, at any minute, might be taken by squatters backed by police. If your oppressor is the judge, to whom do you complain?
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To Force Climate Action, We Need More Than Just Protests
Edward Carver | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020 – Two years ago, the Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion both captured media attention through bold direct action. Since then, Sunrise has combined protest with political work challenging fossil-fuel interests. XR and other groups tepid about electoral politics should do the same.
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Dystopian “Great Reset”: “Own Nothing and Be Happy”, Being Human in 2030
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Driven by the vision of its influential CEO Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum is the main driving force for the dystopian ‘great reset’, a tectonic shift that intends to change how we live, work and interact with each other. The Great Reset entails a transformation of society resulting in permanent restrictions on fundamental liberties and mass surveillance as entire sectors are sacrificed to boost monopoly and hegemony.
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Rohingya Coerced into Going to Remote Island, Refugees and Aid Workers Say
Poppy McPherson and Ruma Paul | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – Refugees and humanitarian workers said today that some of the thousands of Rohingya being shipped to a remote island had been coerced, despite government assertions that none would be forced to go.
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The Slow-motion Assassination of Julian Assange
Kim Petersen | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – There is an attempt to use the machinery of the state to beat down a man in the darkness of Belmarsh prison and a British kangaroo court in London. Big media, however, has marginalized coverage of the Assange case even though the outcome is bound to have an enormous impact on journalism. The WikiLeaks publisher was targeted for exposing the war crimes of the US government.
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No Escape from Our Techno-Feudal World
Pepe Escobar | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – The Digital Age was crucially associated with right-wing ideology from the very start. The incubation was provided by the Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF), active from 1993 to 2010 and conveniently funded, among others, by Microsoft, At&T, Disney, Sony, Oracle, Google and Yahoo. In 1994, PFF held a ground-breaking conference in Atlanta that eventually led to a seminal Magna Carta: literally, Cyberspace and the American Dream: a Magna Carta for the Knowledge Era, published in 1996, during the first Clinton term.
→ read full articleJabbercovid from the Jabberplex
Anthony Judge | TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – The divisive nature of public discourse, most obviously between political opponents, could now be seen as characterized by repeated attempts to “take a jab at each other”. Rather than any reference to the “chattering classes”, the associated processes might now be caricatured as a feature of the “jabbering classes” — with the military-industrial and medical-industrial complexes usefully caricatured as forming a “jabberplex”.
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The Post Covid World, the WEF’s Diabolical Project: “Resetting the Future of Work Agenda” – after “the Great Reset”. A Horrifying Future
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
25 Nov 2020 -The World Economic Forum has just published a so-called White Paper, entitled “Resetting the Future of Work Agenda – in a Post-Covid World” – “Covid-19 – The Great Reset” by Klaus Schwab, founder and CEO. They call “Resetting the Future” a White Paper, meaning it’s a draft of sorts to measure people’s reactions. It reads indeed like an executioner’s tale. Many people may not read it – have no awareness of its existence. If they did, they would go up in arms and fight this latest totalitarian blueprint, offered to the world by the WEF.
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In Closing Argument for Assange’s Extradition, Prosecutors Cast WikiLeaks as Criminal Enterprise
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – In the closing argument for the extradition os Julian Assange, Crown Prosecution Authority lawyers cast WikiLeaks as an ideologically entity in the “business of encouraging individuals to hack into computers.” Prosecutors further allege Assange encouraged the “mass and indiscriminate theft of a vast number of documents,” maintaining WikiLeaks “cannot be compared to the New York Times.”
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How to Conduct Your Own Conflict Analysis
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Making conflict analysis simple – There are many people and groups out there who are working to transform violent conflict, uproot some injustice, or address some social issue. It’s challenging work! And I know from experience that putting together a nice, clear conflict analysis can be incredibly useful to find strategic, effective ways to transform the issues you’re engaging with.
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Why the Fed Needs Public Banks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – The Fed’s policy tools – interest rate manipulation, quantitative easing, and “Special Purpose Vehicles” – have all failed to revive local economies suffering from government-mandated shutdowns. The Fed must rely on private banks to inject credit into Main Street, and private banks are currently unable or unwilling to do it. The tools the Fed actually needs are public banks, which could and would do the job.
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A Little Bit Nazi
Mitchell Abidor | Jewish Currents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – The image has become a familiar one: A group of young Israelis is visiting Auschwitz, many of them wrapped in the Israeli flag. “I think,” one of the students says, “that in order to survive we need to be a little bit Nazi, too . . . we have to be able to kill mercilessly. We don’t stand a chance if we’re too soft. . . It’s hard to distinguish civilians from terrorists. A boy who’s just a boy today could become a terrorist tomorrow. It’s us or them. We won’t let this happen again.” The reasoning is Nazi—literally the same reasoning to which the Nazis resorted to explain the slaughter of Jewish children.
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Peace Is Possible
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
The following is an open letter I sent from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the International Peace Bureau in Berlin, Germany, following their request for a donation on “Giving Tuesday” (1st December)
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Contradictions Emerge Amid the Race to Develop a COVID-19 Vaccine
Benjamin Mateus | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – Both Pfizer, a pharmaceutical giant, and the start-up firm Moderna have used essentially the same biochemical process, involving messenger RNA (mRNA) to develop a new vaccine against coronavirus.
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“Global Policeman”: Why Is the US in the South China Sea?
Andrew Korybko | OneWorld - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – The USA regards itself as the “global policeman”, hence its arrogant actions, but it was never deputized by the international community to fulfill such a role. Rather, it’s more like a dangerously delusional role player .
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Crisis and Predation: India, COVID-19, and Global Finance
Research Unit for Political Economy | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Nov 2020 issue – With the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent
lockdown on an already depressed economy, dealing a body blow to the majority of India’s billion-plus population. Yet the Indian government’s spending to cushion the lockdown’s economic impact ranked among the world’s lowest in GDP terms, resulting in unprecedented unemployment and hardship.
Dorothy Day, Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, Was a Radical Activist
Lexi McMenamin | TeenVogue - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
30 Nov 2020 – Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement, lifelong radical and anarchist, and prolific journalist, died on November 29, 1980, at age 83 — 40 years ago this week. Until her final days, Day was a committed advocate for social justice and pacifism.
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Warp Speed Ahead: COVID-19 Vaccines Pave the Way for a New Frontier in Surveillance
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – Like it or not, the COVID-19 pandemic with its veiled threat of forced vaccinations, contact tracing, and genetically encoded vaccines is propelling humanity at warp speed into a whole new frontier—a surveillance matrix—the likes of which we’ve only previously encountered in science fiction.
→ read full articleImportance of the “Practice-Research-Training” Nexus in Peacebuilding
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Peacebuilding, the equivalent of medicine in “social health”, benefits highly from this scheme to improve its approaches and tools and to be more effective and impactful. In fact, the development of peace studies in the last seven decades was grounded on the “practice-training-research” triad.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dai cicloni alla cattura dell’anidride carbonica… e ritorno. Aprire gli occhi sul mondo come ‘mercato’
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Dicembre 2020 – Bisogna che ci rendiamo conto degli effetti globali delle nostre scelte (individuali, ma anche collettive, dai cicloni all’estrazione artificiale dell’anidride carbonica) e che ci impegniamo – come cittadini – a smascherare i persistenti tentativi di trasformare il mondo in un mercato.
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Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche on Love, Perseverance, and the True Mark of Greatness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity. What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
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Robodoc: How India’s Robots Are Taking on Covid Patient Care
Kalpana Sunder | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – The pandemic has spurred on robotics companies building machines to perform tasks in hospitals and other industries.
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My Way… OUT(ch)!
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Parody: When Trump Does Sinatra…
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The Philanthro-Capitalist Empire of Bill Gates
Manlio Masucci | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Nov 2020 – To continue to impose the old and failed policies of neoliberalism through new narratives, new make-up, new promises. Capitalism has been able to wear many masks throughout its history, but philanthropy is certainly one of the most vicious and dangerous. Especially when behind the veil of donations and aid there are powerful economic entities capable of directly influencing policies of the world’s rulers.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – Donald Trump was the messenger from hell when it came to a falling empire on a failing planet. Whether, on such a changing world, the next empire or empires, China or unknown powers to come, can rise in the normal fashion remains to be seen. As does whether, on such a planet, some other way of organizing human life, some potentially better, more empathetic way of dealing with the world and ourselves will be found.
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