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(Italiano) Attenzione agli Esperti!
Naresh Jotwani | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
4 Dicembre 2020 – Il mondo–o almeno larga e predominante parte di esso!–è incredibilmente gestita da cosiddetti “esperti”, ogni tanto soprannominati giustamente come “tecnocrati”. I loro ambiti di “competenza” sono molti, e la loro lista sta crescendo sempre più costantemente.
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Marcuse Today
Ronald Aronson and Jesper Munk Jakobsen | The Transnational/Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
23 Nov 2020 – When Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man appeared fifty years ago, it was a revelation. To many of us who were becoming the New Left, Marcuse reflected and explained our own feeling of suffocation, our alienation from an increasingly totalitarian universe that trumpeted its freedom at every moment.
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Why the Military Lies
Lt. Col. Danny Davis | Committee for the Republic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
17 Nov 2020 – Lt. Col. Danny Davis was a hero and then became a whistleblowing legend by exposing the lies the military has told and continues to peddle. The costs have been steep: trillions of dollars squandered on fool’s errands; the killing, maiming or displacement of millions; and the awakening of hatreds or revenge against the United States that make all citizens potential targets.
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A New Level, a Historic Step Forward
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – For the first time there are so many virtual events for the culture of peace free and open to the public that we have begun listing them on CPNN. This makes possible a new step forward in the development of a global movement for the culture of peace.
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Ethiopia: Civil War and Nation Building in the 21st Century
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – In light of the Ethiopian central government’s military clash with regional forces in Tigray province, Ann Garrison speaks with a member of the Oromo people, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia.
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Locked in and Locked out: The Impact of Digital Identity Systems on Rohingya Populations in Myanmar
Natalie Brinham, et al. | Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion/UN Special Rapporteur on Racism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
November 2020 – This paper sheds urgent light on how the digitization of identity stands to worsen the human rights situation for the Rohingya, who the global community has failed time and time again. It also centres Rohingya perspectives on the action necessary to ensure that technological innovation does not become a cover for severe discriminatory exclusion on the basis of ethnicity and religion.
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Ten Years Since WikiLeaks Published the US Diplomatic Cables
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
28 Nov 2020 – Today is the tenth anniversary of “Cablegate” when WikiLeaks, leading a group of partner media organisations, began reporting on the contents of hundreds of thousands of leaked United States government diplomatic cables. The documents revealed the vast scope and global reach of US imperialism’s criminal conspiracies and the brutality and corruption of governments the world over.
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Reframing the Imaginable Key to the Future?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
30 Nov 2020 – Clues to the Nature of a Global Reset – The World Economic Forum is proposing a Global Reset (or a Great Reset) as a form of panacea for the crises of global civilization. The complementary World Social Forum has not engendered any consensus on a panacea — other than curtailing those motivated by the World Economic Forum.
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(Italiano) Possiamo “TRASCENDERE” la guerra civile americana?
Diane Pearlman | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
28 Novembre 2020 – Una guerra civile sta crescendo negli Stati Uniti dati gli attacchi alla democrazia senza precedenti del presidente Trump, che sta piantando bombe pronte ad esplodere. Come abbiamo raggiunto il livello patologico della separazione degli opposti? Cosa ha da offrirci adesso il Metodo Transcend?
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(Nederlandse) Wist je dat het IMF pleit voor een coronataks? Dat en andere markante feiten over COVID-19
Marc Vandepitte | De Wereld Morgen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 – In deze rubriek brengt veellezer Marc Vandepitte markante feiten, cijfers of quotes van over heel de wereld die in de andere media weinig of geen aandacht kregen, maar zeker het vermelden waard zijn om de chaotische wereld van vandaag te begrijpen.
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Brave Vandana Shiva Speaks Out against the Great Reset
Organic Radicals | SOTT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – Prof. Vandana Shiva has been courageously speaking out against the insidious ‘Great Reset’ being sprung on us by Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and the rest of the global capitalist elite. She warns that “The Great Reset is about maintaining and empowering a corporate extraction machine and the private ownership of life”.
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(Português) Pecuarista que encomendou morte de ativistas da Amazônia continua impune
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
De acordo com o juiz Raimundo Moises Flexa, o pecuarista que está foragido há seis anos agiu com culpabilidade fria, covarde e premeditada.
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Technological Solutionism Will Not Save Our Food Systems
Carla Ramos Cortés | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – Although most international actors agree that our current food system is broken, not all agree on how this call for ‘food systems transformation’ should go. Now, the COVID public health crisis and its resulting economic devastation have accelerated calls to respond through the ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism through embracing the fourth industrial revolution.
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Tulsi Gabbard Urges Trump to ‘Please Consider’ Pardons for Julian Assange and Edward Snowden
Matt Mathers | Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
29 Nov 2020 – Democrat lawmaker, Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s call comes after Mr Trump pardoned his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who twice admitted lying to the FBI.
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The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires. Despotisms fear the truth. They know it is a mortal threat. If we remain determined to live in truth, no matter the cost, we have a chance.
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A People’s Vaccine? Drugmakers Set to Profit from COVID Vaccines Made with Publicly Funded Research
Amy Goodlman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – With the world pinning its hopes on a successful coronavirus vaccine to curb the pandemic, corporate watchdogs say much of the research and development of the medicines rely on publicly funded research.
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(Français) Saviez-vous que le FMI plaide pour une taxation corona? Quelques faits marquants à propos du COVID-19
Marc Vandepitte | Investig'Action/De Wereld Morgen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
26 Nov 2020 – Dans cet article Marc Vandepitte, lecteur tous azimuts, présente des faits marquants, des chiffres et des citations du monde entier qui n’ont guère attiré l’attention des autres médias, mais qui méritent certainement d’être mentionnés pour comprendre le monde chaotique d’aujourd’hui.
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What the Leading COVID Vaccine Contenders Still Need to Tell the Public
Rob Verkerk Ph.D | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – Given how much we don’t yet know, it’s unclear why those of us asking for more information about the leading COVID vaccines are being marginalised. We’re simply exercising our right to informed consent.
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Cuba Successfully Halts Its COVID-19 Outbreak
Dr. Birsen Filip | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
25 Nov 2020 – Broadly speaking, Cuba’s success in terms of containing its COVID-19 outbreak is due in large part to the centrally planned system’s adherence to the principle that free and universal health care is a fundamental human right.
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Sidelining Africans, the US Imposes Its Own Choice for UN Envoy to Libya
Maurizio Guerrero | PassBlue - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – “We came, we saw, he died” ha ha ha – thus cackled the unrepentant sponsor of US state terrorism, Hillary Clinton, following the brutal, inhumane murder of Muammar Gaddafi the Libyan revolutionary head of state: supported by Joe Biden, by the way. The US is the last country on earth that should be allowed to impose an envoy on any country, least of all Libya. — Roger Kotila, President DWF
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A Long-Forgotten CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on Today’s U.S. Politics and Wars
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – The Agency knew that their best asset for selling their wars was Barack Obama — the same reason so many in the security state were eager to get rid of Donald Trump.
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The Love of Truth and the Truth of Love: Bertrand Russell on the Two Pillars of Human Flourishing
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
“Fanaticism is the danger of the world. It always has been and has done untold harm. I think fanaticism is the greatest danger there is. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.” When asked what, in nearly ninety years of living, he has learned about life that he considers most important to pass on to posterity, Russell offers two things — “one intellectual and one moral.”
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Study Finds Meatpacking Plants Were Responsible for 8% of Coronavirus Cases in Opening Phase of Pandemic in the US
Cordell Gascoigne | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
27 Nov 2020 – A recent study by Charles Taylor of Columbia University, and Christopher Boulos and Douglas Almond of the University of Chicago, found that outbreaks at meatpacking plants were responsible for 8 percent of all COVID-19 cases in the USA during the early months of the pandemic.
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[Obscenity] World Bank Urges Governments to Guarantee Private Profits even if Investors Fail Contractual Agreements
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 – The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks and international financial institutions to press developing country governments to ‘de-risk’ infrastructure and other private, especially foreign investments. Governments have little choice but to accede to their private partners’ demands. Thus, WB guidance further undermines governments.
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Wars R Us: ‘Understanding the War Industry’
Jeremy Kuzmarov | ConvertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
28 Nov 2020 – Pay no attention to all those nasty left-wing allegations about how military contractors collude and conspire with the Pentagon. Rather than simply having what President Dwight Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex, we actually have a military-industrial-congressional complex, with a media and academic adjunct.
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The Whale Who Sank a Ship and Became a Legend
Ed Fox | Whale and Dolphin Conservation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
On 20th November, 1820, far out in the Pacific Ocean, an enormous male sperm whale turned on a group of American whalers, ramming their ship, the Essex, and sinking it. News of the event shocked the whaling world, and would later inspire Herman Melville to write his great American novel, Moby Dick.
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How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship, Hate Journalism
Joseph Mercola, M.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
27 Nov 2020 – Social media platforms are openly censoring dissenting views about COVID, particularly its origin and treatment, says author Sharyl Attkisson in her new book on media bias and the deterioration of objective journalism.
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Pompeo’s Diabolical Diplomacy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
29 Nov 2020 – This interview, devoted to Pompeo’s three-day visit to Israel and Occupied Palestine, was conducted by Eshrat Mardi and published in the Tehran Times Interview Nov. 28, 2020.
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UN Panel Votes 163-5 in Support of Palestinian Statehood, End of Occupation
Jacob Magid | The Times of Israel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – Draft calling for two-state solution passes General Assembly’s Third Committee in large package of annual pro-Palestinian resolutions that Israel argues shows bias against it.
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Media, Propaganda, Perception and China’s Identity in the 21st Century
Hassanal Noor Rashid | JUST Commentary - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
18 Nov 2020 – Since the advent of the modern media, propaganda and disinformation have been part of the tools used in the eternal contest of public perception. But unlike traditional military power, the ones who carry the fight in this battle of perceptions are not armed soldiers. Ultimately, the layman and everyday people are the ones who propagate much of what goes into the discourse. The casualties are not measured in blood, but in the death of truth, integrity and trust.
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The Real Threat to Democracy Isn’t Julian Assange — It’s the Espionage Case against Him
Andy Bichlbaum | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – We have complicated feelings about Assange. But prosecuting him under the Espionage Act would be a disaster for journalism and democracy. He is currently facing extradition to the US from London, for allegedly violating the U.S. Espionage Act — marking the first time the act has been used to prosecute the publishing of information.
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Simon & Garfunkel | Chinese Boys Band - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
Name of performers unknown—but they are excellent.
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Iran in the Crosshairs: Tracing Overt and Covert Action
Eric Walberg | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Prof. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, has seriously complicated any efforts to normalize relations with Iran under a new Biden administration. Walberg contrasts the republican and democratic positions toward Iran while tracing key historical and recent events all in an effort to provide deeper insight into understanding Iran and U.S.-led efforts toward destabilization. — Editor
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Uganda’s Youth Majority Brave Police Blockades and Bullets to Rally Behind Bobi Wine
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
25 Nov 2020 – US elites may see the writing on the wall in Uganda, where the youth majority population is braving police blockades and bullets to rally behind Bobi Wine. “The dictator is worried about what will happen if he rigs and steals the election this time.”
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – Pandemic Challenge to Advertising, Ideology, Religion and Science – There is no lack of strongly articulated concern about misinformation and disinformation, as highlighted by the assertion early in the pandemic by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Donald Trump’s Refusal to Concede the Election Is Something to Be Feared
Stuart Emmrich | Vogue - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
21 Nov 2020 – It’s time to step back and realize we are witnessing something this country has never seen before: a sitting president trying to undo a free and fair election and challenging the very basis of our democracy. Tweets and frivolous lawsuits are one thing (and the Trump team has gone 1 for 32 at last count). But this past week, Donald Trump crossed the line into potentially illegal territory.
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I Lived through a Stupid Coup–The USA Is Having One Now
Indi Samarajiva | Indica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
11 Nov 2020 – What else do you call Donald Trump refusing to leave, consolidating control of the military, and spreading lies across the media? That, my friends, is just a coup. You take the power, you take the guns, and you lie about it. American commentators say “we’re like the third world now” as if our very existence is a pejorative. You’re no better than us. The third world from the Sun is Earth. You live here too.
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The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon.
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Susan Rice, Scourge of Africa, May Become Secretary of State
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
11 Nov 2020 – Rice has been intimately involved in covering up the deaths of more than six million Congolese, and has cultivated close relations with every US-backed tyrant on the continent. “That’s the kind of ruthless, bloodthirsty, lying, hypocrite she is.”
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Remembering Robert Fisk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
15 Nov 2020 – ‘Remembering Robert Fisk’ is the text of an interview conducted by Daniel Falcone, and published below on Nov. 9, 2020 in Counterpunch. There is one insertion mentioning Seymour Hersh as a fourth journalist in this style of exceptional devotion to the courage and craft of truth telling in place of danger or where transparency is obscured by state secrets.
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The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War
Laura Gottesdiener | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – The debate over Fallujah has centered on the use and impact of toxic material in US weapons, particularly depleted uranium. The discussion has largely overlooked the long-term public health effects of urban warfare on civilian populations and the dangers of politicizing science and medicine in times of military violence abroad.
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Education for Peace and Nonviolence in Times of Crisis
Pía Figueroa | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
21 Nov 2020 – Doris Balvín, senior researcher at the New Civilization Humanist Studies Center in Lima, Peru and a specialist in social ecology, speaks about education for peace and nonviolence in times of social and ecological crisis.
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Elite Australian Troops Unlawfully Killed 39 Afghan Civilians amid a Culture of ‘Blood Lust,’ Report Alleges
Angus Watson, Ben Westcott and Brad Lendon | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – “Blood lust” and “competition killings” were a norm, according to a long-awaited official report. Chief of the Australian Defense Force Gen. Angus Campbell said there had been a “warrior culture” among some members of Australia’s Special Forces serving in Afghanistan.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] President Obama, Who Promised to Sow Peace, Instead Led the Nation in War
Christi Parsons and W.J. Hennigan | Los Angeles Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Before he took office in 2008, Barack Obama vowed to end America’s military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, but he left a very different legacy. U.S. military have been at war for all eight years of Obama’s tenure, the first two-term president with that distinction. He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.
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Personal Reflections on Exposing the Myths of Money
Hazel Henderson | Ethical Markets - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell was asked on “60 Minutes” the usual dumb question: “Where’s the money coming from?”. Powell responded that the Fed prints its, not just the banknotes, but also digitally in its computer databases and programs. Essentially, the Fed simply moves some of the decimal points! And all central banks empower their commercial banks to create money every time they make a loan or mortgage for a borrower.
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Putting Myanmar Election Results in Perspective
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – Election cycles will neither reverse colonial treatment of non-Burmese population, nor end genocide against Rohingya.
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UN Charter’s “Sovereignty” Gives Brazil the Legal Right to Destroy the Lungs of the Earth
Roger Kotila | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – A “new UN” is possible, one given the tools it will need to actually save the world from the harm allowed by selfish sovereignty. After all, why should Brazil, or China, or the USA, or any country have the legal sovereign right to endanger humanity? The Charter’s flaws are serious.
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Lessons from around the World on Fighting COVID’s Second Wave
Jimmy Whitworth | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – Here’s what the west can learn from South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and more.
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2 Companies Say Their Vaccines Are 95% Effective. What Does That Mean? + More
Children's Health Defense Team | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 -The Defender’s COVID Vaccine NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines on COVID-19 and vaccines.
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A Room, a Bar and a Classroom: How the Coronavirus Is Spread Through the Air
Mariano Zafra and Javier Salas | El País - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
The coronavirus is spread through the air, especially in indoor spaces. Scientists now openly acknowledge the role played by the transmission of aerosols – tiny contagious particles exhaled by an infected person that remain suspended in the air of an indoor environment. How does the transmission work? And, more importantly, how can we stop it? (Read on…)
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Acting Is a Wonderful Way of Avoiding Feeling Despair – A Guide
Louis Kriesberg | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
21 Oct 2020 – So many bad things are occurring every day, it is hard to fight against any one of them, as new ones distract us. Below, I sketch out an approach to taking actions that have a good chance to be effective and satisfying in overcoming objectionable circumstances.
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Is There any Hope for the USA?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – I left the US in 2008 not because of pressure but because I thought I could serve humanity better in Zionist occupied Palestine than in Zionist occupied USA. I hope to die in Canada and atone for my stupidity and culpability in paying taxes to the USA, the most well-oiled killing machine in history, by teaching peace studies and promoting pacifism, which I think is the only force powerful enough to overcome the US’ super weapons.
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Senior Trump Official Says Politicians Get ‘Very Rich’ by Supporting Israel
Amir Tibon | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – Senior U.S. Defense official Douglas Macgregor, who was recently installed at the Pentagon by Trump’s partisan loyalists, has come under fire for saying that American politicians become “very, very rich” by supporting Israel and that the pro-Israeli lobby is trying to drag the United States into war.
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Former President Evo Morales Returns to Bolivia One Year after Being Forced into Exile by Military Coup
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – Twelve months after being driven into exile by right-wing forces, socialist former president Evo Morales was “received by the very social movements who defeated the coup and restored democracy.”
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Navdanya International | Independent Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – IICA announced partnerships with Microsoft, Bayer, Corteva ( subsidiary of DuPont), and Syngenta, all along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We can start to see a repeating pattern with all these alliances in the launching of Ag One. Through the Gates Foundation’s promotion of chemical and genetically modified inputs, they open up isolated or hard to reach markets in Africa, South Asia and Latin America for private corporations to derive profits.
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If the ‘Great Reset’ Really Is so Good for Us, Let’s Hold a Referendum on It, so It Can Have a Democratic Mandate (or Not)
Neil Clark | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – The World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ and associated Fourth Industrial Revolution would, if implemented, mean far deeper changes to our everyday lives than Brexit, yet is being pushed through without any proper debate.
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Crybaby
Joe Kandra, Kathie MM, Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
… throwing a tantrum.
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How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
Joseph Cox | Vice/Motherboard - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people’s personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
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Everyone’s Gandhi — A Collection of Gandhi Columns
L Gopalakrishnan | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
It is hoped that the articles and anecdotes will serve a long felt need: to bring the Mahatma closer to us, make him a Father in every sense of the word i.e. every one’s Gandhi. Since Mahatma Gandhi cannot be any one person’s property, there is no copyright of this publication. You are welcome to freely use portions of this book with due acknowledgement. Printed & Published by: Gandhi Peace Foundation
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A Comic Display of Geopolitical Subservience: Mike Pompeo’s Visit to Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 – On the entirely inappropriate and distasteful visit of the U.S. Secretary of State to Israel for three days. For me the entire event was a grotesque occasion of national embarrassment from start to finish. Even the most dimwitted imperialist would know better than to declare Pompeo’s subservience to Israel in these scary words: “Israel is everything we want the entire Middle East to look like going forward.”
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How a [Nobel Peace Laureate] Human Rights Angel Lost Her Halo
Hannah Beech | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
14 Nov 2020 – Ten years after she left house arrest and vowed to fight for justice, Myanmar’s civilian leader has instead become a jailer of critics and an apologist for the slaughter of minorities.
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(Português) JBS É Acusada de Mentir sobre Comprometimento Contra o Desmatamento
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Nesse ritmo, a ONG prevê que a criação de gado pode provocar um desmatamento equivalente a duas vezes a área da Suécia.
“No ritmo atual de desmatamento, até 2025 – quando a JBS planeja monitorar efetivamente uma pequena parte de sua cadeia de suprimentos na Amazônia – mais de 25 mil quilômetros quadrados terão sido desmatados somente no Cerrado”, avalia.
What’s Not Being Said about the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. “Human Guinea Pigs”?
F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – he Pharma giant Pfizer has now announced what they claim were spectacular results in initial human tests. They use an experimental technology known as gene editing, specifically mRNA gene-editing, something never before used in vaccines. Before we rush to get jabbed in hopes of some immunity, we should know more about the radical experimental technology and its lack of precision.
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Salute to Gaza – Salam Li Ghazza (Music Video of the Week)
Ahmed Matar | Gaza Youth Choir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Peace to Gaza Peace
سلامٌ لغزة سلامٌ سلام سلامٌ لكل العيون الحزينة تفيضُ دموعها بئساً وعزة سلامٌ سلامٌ لغزة سلام
We Need to Rethink the Concept of Genocide
Philippe Sands | Aljazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – Seeing genocide as less exceptional may help us view war crimes and crimes against humanity in a more serious light.
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Joshua M. Greene (Yogeshvara Dasa) | Integral Yoga Magazine/ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Mediation is a process of conflict resolution in which a trained intermediary assists disputants to arrive at a mutually agreeable settlement. In this intriguing interview by Integral Yoga Magazine, Joshua Greene (Yogeshvara Dasa), a seasoned mediator and instructor of the Gita, evaluates the Bhagavad Gita through the lens of mediation.
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RCEP Augurs Hope
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
18 Nov 2020 – In the mist of the gloom generated by the twin health and economic crises, the birth of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a ray of light. More than a million lives have been lost worldwide as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, there is massive unemployment, and entire societies have been devastated.
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The New Elite: Dark Nights Rising
Thomas Klikauer & Nadine Campbell | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – There is a new elite on the rise.The old elite was defined by leisure and conspicuous consumption . The new elite has to work – mostly in elite professions – to earn money. The new elite’s employment is located in a relatively narrow spectrum of occupations separating the new elite from non-elite. The new elite finds employment mainly in three main categories: CEOs, CFOs, elite law firms.
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Richard Falk, a Citizen Pilgrim in Search of Justice and Peace, Turns 90
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – We are blessed by having a number of peace and future scholars, world-leading in their professions, who have followed world events over many decades and continue to be committed to world order change and public education. I say “blessed” because I assume that the reader share my reverence for high age and the sharing of long life experience as well as the wisdom.
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Varieties of Tone of Voice and Engagement with Global Strategy
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
It has been estimated that 7 percent of meaning is communicated through the spoken word, 38 percent through tone of voice, and 55 percent through body language according to the 7-38-55 rule, which has been variously misinterpreted and subject to criticism, although considerable importance continues to be attached to tone-of-voice (irrespective of any rule and its relevance across cultures).
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Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading “Capital” in Precarious Times
Andy Merrifield | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so many conjuring tricks, with collusions and conspiracies, fake news and endless sleights of the economic and political hand.
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Assange Legal Team Submits Closing Argument against Extradition to United States
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
10 Nov 2020 – In submission to magistrates’ court in London, attorneys detail the “politically motivated” case the Trump administration pursued against the WikiLeaks founder.
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Reaching 90 in 2020
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Note from TMS editor: Richard Falk and his friends around the world celebrated his 90th year on 13 Nov 2020.
Happy Birthday dear Richard! Thank you for existing.
(Português) Número de veganos em parte da Europa dobra em quatro anos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
11 nov 2020 – De acordo com uma pesquisa da rede de supermercados Veganz, a soma do número de veganos em sete países subiu para 2,6 milhões em 2020. O maior índice de crescimento foi registrado na Alemanha.
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Now We Have to Fight Trump’s Tin-Pot Coup — and Biden’s Worst Instincts
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – Republicans keep finding new ways to tell us that they don’t believe in democracy, and we should believe them. The chorus of Republican voices echoing manufactured claims of mass election fraud hasn’t petered out yet.
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Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the Anthropocene
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
John Bellamy Foster on how, two hundred years since his birth, Frederick Engels can be seen as one of the foundational ecological thinkers of modern times.
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Questions
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – Many Gaza Palestinians lost hope. Many young people are committing suicide. It is not only a pandemic of a virus but the pandemic of systematic racism and colonialism that spread. While Zionists spread hate and divisiveness to advance its goals around the world (via Hollywood, Bloomberg and Fox News etc), even they are starting to rethink what world are they making and will it be livable even for the billionaires.
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First Comes a Rolling Civil War
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times/Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
10 Nov 2020 – Biden is on a double precipice of the worst-ever economic depression coupled with imminent explosions of social rage. The massive psyops is ongoing. This is a live exercise. Yet no one knows exactly how it will end.
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Joshua Cho | FAIR- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – US corporate media have buried coverage of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in the UK, despite its being the media “Trial of the Century”. But even in the scarce coverage that does exist, one would hardly get the impression that the US and British governments are involved in an illegal conspiracy—in violation of their own laws—to punish Assange for the “crime” of journalism.
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The Big Bang Never Happened but Fusion Will
Jonathan Tennenbaum | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – The Big Bang theory says that our Universe began with a gigantic explosion, about 14 billion years ago. Until recently this theory has been regarded as the foundation of modern cosmology. But not all scientists agree with it and some even say it is completely wrong and contradicted by a growing mountain of evidence.
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Interpreting the U.S. Election Results: Preliminary Observations
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – The victory by the Biden/Harris ticket is basically good news for the country and the world, although not as good as expected. And there is some bad news, as well, lurking just beneath the surface. Not only the strength of Trumpism in America, but the likely drift toward the center-right of the Biden presidency.
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Occupation of Palestine? — Not!
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Biden Personally Intervened to Get the Word ‘Occupation’ Removed from the Democratic Party Platform
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Bruce Lee on Death and What It Takes to Be an Artist of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
On the bench across from Bruce Lee’s tombstone, these words of tribute appear: “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” The animating ethos of that uncommon life comes newly alive in ‘Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee’ by his daughter, Shannon Lee.
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Making Sense of Hunger Strikes and Symbolic Politics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – My essay speaks to the hunger strikes as political resistance of a sublime character, and at the same time to the selective silence of the Western media when it comes to heroic moments in the Palestinian struggle
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Biden’s Foreign Policy May Be Disappointing & Dangerous
Roger Kotila | DWF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – If we are lucky, Biden will have an “enlightened” moment and try to do some good — like abandon US militarism in favor of a progressive foreign policy. This means that the US government and media will quit pretending that Russia and China (and Muslims) are “enemies.” Fake enemies insure a robust US War Business, but are bad for world peace.
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World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Plan for Big Food Benefits Industry, Not People
Jeremy Loffredo | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
11 Nov 2020 – The Great Reset plan is to transform the global food and agricultural industries and the human diet to reduce food scarcity, hunger and disease, and mitigate climate change. But the real motive is tighter corporate control over the food system by means of technological solutions. “The Great Reset is about maintaining and empowering a corporate extraction machine and the private ownership of life.” — Vandana Shiva
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Is Normalization with Israel without a Resolution for Palestine Justifiable?
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
10 Nov 2020 – Zionism is a strange political beast. Some argue that it is anti-Semitic and white supremacist. Others claim that it is Jewish supremacist. And then there is Christian Zionism. But many of the early leaders of Israel were atheists or agnostics. The certainty is that Zionist Tel Aviv practices apartheid having declared Israel a Jewish state. Palestinians, the indigenous people, are second class citizens.
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Diet Coke Is Poison
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
14 Nov 2020 – Aspartame, which is in thousands of processed food products that are usually labeled “lite” or “diet”, was synthesized in 1965 by a chemist who was trying to create an anti-ulcer drug. But some scientists knew that aspartame was a lethal poison! In a 1996 report compiled from 10,000 consumer complaints obtained during the pre-marketing testing period, the FDA listed 92 aspartame-related symptoms, ranging from seizures to death.
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Elections 2020: Everybody Knows the Fight Was Fixed
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
11 Nov 2020 – Who is winning the battle, the people or the ruling elites? The answer is obvious. It matters not at all whether the president has been Trump or Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush, Barack Obama or George H. W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, or Jimmy Carter. The power of the national security state has grown under them all and everyone is left to moan and groan and wonder why.
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Further Analysis of US Elections
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – In order to understand the deep meaning of the US election results, and to compare them to the electoral situation in France, I have downloaded a series of maps from the Internet showing the relation between voting patterns, poverty and urbanization.
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Votes Have Changed Little in Myanmar since Suu Kyi Assumed State Counsellorship 5 Years Ago
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – Myanmar’s second experiment with the parliamentary democracy is irredeemably flawed: The constitutional framework in which democratic process is located is categorically anti-democratic.
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(Italiano) Surplus cognitivo e sobrietà digitale
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – Negli ultimi mesi le restrizioni alla circolazione e ai contatti interpersonali, la chiusura di attività commerciali, uffici e scuole nel tentativo di frenare il dilagare della pandemia da COVID-19 ha spinto un numero crescente di persone ad aumentare (o attivare) modalità di relazione in remoto. Si sono moltiplicate in tutto il mondo le comunicazioni ‘virtuali’.
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Constantly Wrong
Cory Doctorow | Pluralistic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – In “Constantly Wrong,” Kirby Ferguson continues his brilliant mashup video work on conspiracy theories with a new, 47 minute documentary that contrasts real-world conspiracies (crimes) with conspiracy theories.
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(Français) A quelle rupture la crise actuelle du capitalisme appelle-t-elle?
Rémy Herrera | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
16 nov 2020 – L’auteur était invité au PCF pour parler du socialisme. Trois questions étaient posées. Pourquoi une rupture avec le capitalisme? Pourquoi le choix d’une alternative socialiste? Quelles leçons tirer de la Chine, du Vietnam et de Cuba? Des questions intéressantes.
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Tolerating Phases of Bad Fortune
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
By our intelligence and efforts, we can stave off everything undesirable and attain everything desirable. Or so we are taught to believe. The notion that we are the controllers of our life is so central to our worldview that we define our success and even our self-worth in terms of our capacity to mold our circumstances to our will. Given such self-conceptions, uncontrollable situations don’t just frustrate us – they shatter us. No wonder mental health problems have risen with the spread of modernity.
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Beware of the Hawk: What to Expect from the Biden Administration on Foreign Policy
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
8 Nov 2020 – Millions of people around the world breathed a sigh of relief with the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. elections. Joe Biden’s victory speech exuded a feeling of optimism in its call for a new era of bipartisanship and decency in politics. However, it is unlikely that decency will prevail in the realm of foreign policy.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11 Nov 1821 – 9 Feb 1881)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time, he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.
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Peter Koenig and Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | GRTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
About ten to fifteen percent have slight to more serious symptoms, but do not need hospitalization – and the rest who may be hospitalized is above 75 or 80 years of age almost all of them with one to several comorbidities. Of those who die, most die from a medical pre-condition – coronary disease, diabetes, cancer – with “tested” covid-19, but not ‘from’ covid-19.
→ read full articleInterview on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 – A momentous test of whether the Trump challenge to constitutional democracy will be decisively repudiated by the American people and whether Republicans will mount a perverse challenge via the judicial system. The system is structurally rigged against democratic values by enabling Trump to be reelected via the anachronistic Electoral College even if he loses the popular vote by 5,000,000 or more.
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The US Just Left the Paris Climate Agreement
Umair Irfan | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
4 Nov 2020 – The United States left the Paris climate agreement today, making the US the only country in the world to back out of the accord. But the next occupant of the White House will be the far bigger determinant of the future of international action on climate change. Pulling out of the accord was one of President Donald Trump’s signature campaign promises in 2016.
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