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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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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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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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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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Farcical Coverage of Julian Assange’s Farcical Hearing
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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Interview 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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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
En 2017, j’avais comparé la base electorale de Trump à celle de Marine Le Pen en France. Aujourd’hui je pourrais également faire la comparaison à celles de nombreux autres démagogues à travers le monde: Au Brésil, en Turquie, en Russie, aux Philippines, en Hongrie, etc.
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Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now
Margaret Spillane | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
3 Nov 2020 – In Costa Gavras’ classic antifascist thriller, Z teaches us that the moment of reckoning constitutes not the end of the story, but the beginning. Whatever the outcome of the 2020 election, the corrupt interests that have profited from the catastrophes of the past four years will still be securely in place.
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US Mercenary Exposes Trump Administration Links to Abortive Venezuela Invasion
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
3 Nov 2020 – Senior Trump administration officials were in on the planning of and offered assistance to the abortive May 3, 2020, invasion of Venezuela carried out by a mercenary band that included at least two former US special forces operatives, according to a lawsuit filed in Miami, Florida, last Friday [30 Oct].
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The Parallel Universe of Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
28 Oct 2020 – Nuclear weapons are now (or soon will be) . . . good Lord, illegal. Armageddon is against the law! Well, sort of. Indeed, no nuke-armed nation has, as far as I can tell, anything but contempt for this infringement on its right to blow up the world. War and peace, it seems, exist in parallel universes.
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How the Wealthy World Has Failed Poor Countries during the Pandemic
Peter S. Goodman | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
1 Nov 2020 – Despite pledges for debt relief and expanded programs, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have delivered meager aid, say economists. Even where money is provided by the IMF, in many cases it is used not to finance health and other necessary measures, but to pay off private-sector lenders.
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Imperial Overstretch Arrives: Anglo Americans Do Not Need the U.S. Empire
Philip M. Giraldi | Information Clearing House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
6 Nov 2020 – While it has been useful to consider how things might change, possibly for the worse, one must also recognize that much of what happens in the U.S. and in its far-flung empire operates by virtue of its own internal dynamics and rules, something that is often referred to as the “Deep State” or perhaps more accurately as the Establishment.
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Grand Illusions
Pankaj Mishra | The New York Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 issue – Today, those who insisted that there was no practical alternative to Western-style liberal democracy and capitalism have no concepts with which to explain how China, a Communist-ruled country, became central to global networks of trade and finance. It’s time to abandon the intellectual narcissism of cold war Western liberalism.
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Do-It-Yourself Funnies
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 – This Modern World
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New Documents Show Mueller Investigation Unable to Concoct Charges against Assange and WikiLeaks
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
6 Nov 2020 – Previously redacted portions of the Mueller report into supposed Russian interference in the US, released this week, have shown that despite every effort, the Justice Department was unable to concoct evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on the part of WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. The revelations demonstrate that the US state has been seeking to manufacture a criminal prosecution of Assange for years, in response to his exposure of its war crimes and corruption.
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Some Comments on the US National Election
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
5 Nov 2020 – Back in 2017, I compared Trump’s appeal to that of Marine Le Pen in France. Today I could also compare his appeal to many other demagogues that are thriving around the world in Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Philippines, Hungary, etc.
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The Corporate Dictatorship of the Very Rich
Nora Fernandez | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
6 Nov 2020 – The wealthy improve their image financing self-serving projects they present as “serving others” but few question their motives or suspect them of hidden agendas. Most take billionaires at face value and forget how they made their fortunes.
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COVID and Its Man-Made Gigantic Collateral Damage: The Great Reset – A Call for Civil Disobedience
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
3 Nov 2020 – The going narrative in the west is: “Covid is on the Rise – we are entering the second wave – we must protect our people.” The offered recipe is testing-testing-testing – it is the instrument for increasing “cases”. The more you test, the more cases you have. Is that so difficult to understand?
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Trump’s Normalization of Israel Spreads to Africa
Patrick Gathara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
31 Oct 2020 – Trump’s ‘normalization’ deals are hurting not only Palestinians, but all who hope for a moral international order. “No peace is possible with violent racists who abuse the weak under the protection of the army’s rifles”.
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Fukushima, the Nuclear Pandemic Spreads
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research/Il Manifesto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
5 Nov 2020 – Japan will release over a million tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. The power plant was built 4 meters above sea level with five-meter-high breakwater dams, in a tsunami-prone area with waves 10-15 meters high. A Tsunami struck on March 11, 2011, submerging the power plant and causing the core of three nuclear reactors to melt.
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Trust Us, Men: Move the Phone from Your Front Pocket
Robert Calandra | Medical Daily - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 – When they aren’t using it, most guys drop their cellphone into a front pocket of their pants. It’s convenient and, really, where else can you put it? But some research suggests that stashing your phone so close to particularly vital and valued organs may not be the safest place.
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Escalating the Demographic War: The Strategic Goal of Israeli Racism in Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
4 Nov 2020 – Israeli racism is the core of a sophisticated plan that aims at the political marginalization and economic strangulation of Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority within a constitutional, thus ‘legal’, framework.
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Rohingya Refugees Are Being Ignored
Jeremy Corbyn | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 – Those of us that spoke up for Aung San Suu Kyi when she was under house arrest will also speak up for the Rohingya people. There are approximately one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who have been driven out of their homes in Myanmar. The world must better support the Rohingya, and address the politics of why they have sought refuge in the first place.
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A Troubling Discovery in the Arctic
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
7 Nov 2020 – The satellite call referenced a sleeping giant that has enough carbon firepower to adversely impact the world’s climate system. The expedition discovered methane (CH4) that had been securely frozen in shallow subsea permafrost waters forever, and ever, and ever, now “stirring.” Colloquially, “The Monster of the North awakened.”
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The Science of How Alive You Really Are: Alan Turing, Trees, and the Wonder of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
We are, then, built of living bricks, but of living bricks set in dead mortar. We saw that the great trees, complex and long lived, have more wood and bark and other dead substances in them than the shrubs, herbs, and grass. These in turn are less alive than the lowly water plants and yeasts and molds which have no wood or bark at all. The same is true of animals. The jelly-fishes and infusoria have neither skin, hair, bones, nails, nor blood, and are pretty much all alive. So the more a creature’s life is worth, the less of it is alive.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
This Observatory was born in 2018 with the aim of increasing the awareness and understanding of the human and environmental consequences of military activities and to challenge the idea that the environment is a ‘silent victim’ of armed conflict. The CEOBS site makes the results of his research available to scholars, politicians, activists, journalists interested in the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts. CEOBS collaborates with international institutions, civil societies, universities etc.
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Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored by The Intercept
Glenn Greenwald | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – I am posting here the most recent draft of my article about Joe and Hunter Biden — the last one seen by Intercept editors before telling me that they refuse to publish it absent major structural changes involving the removal of all sections critical of Joe Biden, leaving only a narrow article critiquing media outlets.
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The Circular Economy: What Is It, Why Is It Important and How Can We Embrace It?
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
3 Nov 2020 – The principle of circular economics twists the planet trashing linear model into a loop by eliminating rubbish entirely or treating it as a resource. The virtues of going round in circles: Nature is a circular economy in action. Nothing goes to waste. Plants flourish, fade and die, and become compost and food for other creatures.
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Anglo American Requiem
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
5 Nov 2020 – Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the rich and hostile to the poor and minorities, the capitalist democracy offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse. $1.51 billion for the Biden campaign and $1.57 billion for the Trump campaign — to make us think there are choices. There are not. The empty jousting between a bloviating Trump and a verbally impaired Joe Biden is designed to mask the truth. The oligarchs always win. The people always lose. It does not matter who sits in the White House. America is a failed state.
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Three Short Films–Including ‘The Present’–about the Brutality of Israeli Checkpoints
Joanne Laurier | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
5 Nov 2020 – Oppression of the Palestinians, child hunger, and the COVID-19 pandemic are dealt with in two short films and an hour-long documentary currently screening at international film festivals or available online.
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(Português) Queimadas na Amazônia Crescem 225% em Outubro
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
6 nov 2020 – O Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais registrou 25% mais incêndios em out. 2020 do que em out. 2019 no Pantanal. No Brasil, as queimadas são mais utilizadas como meio de “limpar” uma área desmatada para dar lugar a atividades agropecuárias.
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Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
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Human Rights, Terrorism and Organized Crime
Stephen Sefton | Tortilla con Sal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
27 Oct 2020 – One way or another, governments and corporate interests fund their accomplices in the Western human rights industry, universities, and corporate and alternative media. They are all guilty to one degree or another of promoting terrorism and covering up organized crime.
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Arms Race Continues Unabated with Astonishing Weapons
Nadia Batok | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
31 Oct 2020 – There are no signs of a halt to the arms race… on the contrary, production of the most terrifying and lethal weapons continues unabated with the most sophisticated nuclear and hypersonic weapons, cruise and ballistic missiles, supersonic fighter jets, unmanned air vehicles (drones), lasers, robots… all experimenting with hardware and software technologies and digital engineering.
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Missiles, Needles, Missions, Rifles, Projects, Bullets
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
Transformation of a Civilization of Spikes and Penis Surrogates via Global Reset Mandalas ~~ In a period of crisis, which the conventions of global governance have been unable to address, much is now being made by elites of the need for a “Global Reset”, most notably articulated and promoted by the World Economic Forum and influential institutions at its annual Davos Forum. Use of “reset” is an appealing metaphor for techno-optimists who are typically inspired by familiarity with the ability to reset a computer rendered inoperable by one or more applications.
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“Nineteen Eighty-Four” or “Brave New World”?
Prof. Ruel F. Pepa | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
Orwell’s and Huxley’s societies are founded on institutionalized dehumanization. We call them societies but can we still attach the term “human” to modify them? In Orwell’s society, human free will is suppressed and denigrated. In Huxley’s, it is obsoletized in the majority of the people who constitute the lower rungs of the caste system. In the final analysis, we question the humanity of a society where human freedom is non-existent for such freedom is the only guarantee that bestows dignity to humanity.
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David Vine: Tracing America’s Brutal Imperialist History through Its Military Bases
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – A political anthropologist puts a much needed pin to the balloon of American exceptionalism with an invaluable guide to a country that, long before Orwell came along, said war was peace – and interventionism was the highest form of anti-colonialism.
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Medical Ignorance and the Mass Murder of Coronavirus Patients
W. Gifford-Jones, MD | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
20 Oct 2020 – I would not have the knowledge to write this article if one event in my life had not happened. At 74 years of age I nearly died of a serious heart attack. Doctors said I’d be dead in a few years without the help of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Now, 22 years later, the doctors who told me I’d be dead in a few years without cholesterol-lowering drugs are dead, and I’m in my 97th year, still alive.
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Brazilian Armed Forces Conduct Unprecedented Military Exercises Amid US Threats to Venezuela
Gabriel Lemos | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
2 Nov 2020 – Bolsonaro’s Foreign Ministry last Friday [30 Oct] classified as “secret” cables about Pompeo’s trip to Brazil, which took place during war games in Brazil and Colombia. Since coming to power at the beginning of last year, the Brazilian government of fascistic President Jair Bolsonaro has aligned itself with the US regime-change operation in Venezuela.
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Same Story, Different Decade: How WHO’s Definition of a Global Pandemic Benefits Big Pharma
Jeremy Loffredo | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – Dormant, or “sleeping contracts,” stipulated that if a global pandemic were to occur, it would trigger them. When WHO declared the H1N1 swine flu a pandemic, only 144 people worldwide had died from the infection. “The WHO had a definition of a pandemic, which it defined as a virus with high mortality and high morbidity. And in 2009 they suddenly dropped those two characteristics.” The declaration of H1N1 as a pandemic launched $18 billion worth of “dormant” GSK flu vaccine contracts.
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Macron’s Attack on Islam Reveals “Intolerance and Hatred,” Says Nobel Peace Laureate Tawakkol Karman
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – The beheading of a teacher in France elicited inflammatory remarks from President Emmanuel Macron, which in turn has been met with an Arab boycott of French goods. “Macron’s attack on Islam reveals intolerance and hatred which is shameful for the head of a state like France,” said Tawakkol Karman.
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Liability-Free COVID Vaccine Makers Seek Additional ‘Free Pass’ from FDA
Jeremy Loffredo | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – The winner of the race for approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine will get a bonus prize — the ability to pull the switch on vaccine production without having to undergo the standard mandatory safety and compliance inspection of its manufacturing facilities.
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Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution
Cira Gilbert and Chris Pascual Marquina | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
With predictable bias, mainstream media focus on violent clashes between opposition and government, coup attempts, hyperinflation, U.S. sanctions, and massive emigration. What is less known, however, is the story of what the Venezuelan people do and think in these times of social emergency.
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2045: A New Rallying Call for Nuclear Abolition
Alyn Ware, Vanda Proskova and Saber Chowdhury | InDepthNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
On 2 Oct 2020, 77 Heads of State addressed a UN meeting on nuclear weapons. One of the proposals was for the elimination of nuclear weapons by 2045, the 100th anniversary of the United Nations and also the 100th anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons.
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Cancel Culture: The First 500 Years
Matt Wuerker | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
12 Oct 2020: In Honor of Columbus Day…. Celebrating 500 Years of “Cancel Culture”
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The Neoliberal Capitalist Lockdown: Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
28 Oct 2020 – Although COVID is being blamed, the shutting down of the old economy was already happening as growth was below the minimum tolerable 3% level to maintain the viability of capitalism. “In order to reverse this serious setback [COVID] to development progress and poverty reduction, countries will need to prepare for a different economy post-COVID, by allowing capital, labor, skills, and innovation to move into new businesses and sectors.” — World Bank, Oct 2020 Report
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Déjà Vu in France: Change Attitudes
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
1 Nov 2020 – As events unfold in France centering around Islamophobia, there is a feeling of déjà vu. We have witnessed a few times before this sequence of events. There is some provocation or other targeting the Prophet Muhammad initiated by a non-Muslim group or institution. Predictably, Muslims react.
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Three Simple Conflict Analysis Tools That Anyone Can Use
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
24 Oct 2020 – To transform conflict in your family, workplace, community, and beyond.
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Dumping Fukushima’s Water into the Ocean… Seriously?
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – For nearly a decade the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has been streaming radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean as TEPCO struggles to control it. Yet, the bulk of the radioactive water is stored in more than 1,000 water tanks. Japan’s government has made a decision to dump the contaminated water into the Pacific.
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Why Gratitude Is Good for Us – And Five Ways to Practise It This Winter
Lucy Purdy | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
27 Oct 2020 – For many, this coming winter is tinged with sadness or anxiety. Science shows that, while it’s no fix-all, nurturing gratitude can help by shifting our attention to what’s positive.
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Israel’s Army of Archaeological Looters
Dima Srouji | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
1 Oct 2020 – On a recent summer night, equipped with a large flatbed truck and jeeps, Israeli soldiers entered the Palestinian village of Taquu near occupied Bethlehem to remove a Byzantine baptismal stone font. Using archaeology to validate its claim to the land, Israel is displacing artifacts from the occupied West Bank and erasing Palestinian identity.
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Venezuela: Maduro’s Anti-Blockade Law Deepens Debate over Revolution’s Future
Federico Fuentes | Green Left - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly passed a controversial anti-blockade law on October 8. The United States’ sanctions since 2017 have worked to cripple Venezuela’s oil industry, blocked its access to international financial markets and scared off potential investors under threat of financial punishment. It cost its economy upwards of US$116 billion, and contributed to the deaths of more than 40,000 Venezuelans.
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The Politics of Hunger Strikes
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
28 Oct 2020 – During my six years as UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine, I found disturbing the silence of the Western media about Palestinian hunger strikes, especially when these extreme expressions of nonviolent resistance were in reaction to prison confinement by Administrative Detention decrees, that is, without charges or any show of incriminating evidence.
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Power’s Prophet: Remembering Gene Sharp
Stephen Zunes | The Progressive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
His monograph From Dictatorship to Democracy, translated into dozens of languages, became a handbook for nonviolent revolt.
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(Italiano) Prevenzione dell’estremismo violento o aiuto allo sviluppo dei media?
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
Nel far sì che le tematiche di giustizia trovino il loro spazio nelle sfere pubbliche, i media indipendenti che fanno Giornalismo di Pace possono costruire fiducia in comunità che possono proteggerli dalle asserzioni di combattere e distruggere. Possono suggerire al pubblico permettendogli di considerare e avvalorare risposte nonviolente ai conflitti.
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Dystopian Plagues and Fascist Politics in the Age of Trump: Finding Hope in the Darkness
Henry A. Giroux | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
4 Oct 2020 – Reality now resembles a dystopian world that could only be imagined as a harrowing work of fiction or biting political commentary. The works of George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Sinclair Lewis now appear as an understatement in a world marked by horrifying political horizons — a world in which authoritarian and medical pandemics merge.
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(Italiano) Memorie di sogni passati: Hawaii come “Ginevra del Pacifico”
Anthony J. Marsella | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 ottobre 2020 – Buon compleanno, Johan Galtung! Passeranno gli anni, ma non la tua eredità come voce per la pace e la giustizia! Le orme dei tuoi giorni alle Hawaii restano.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences of social and political collapse during the twilight of the Greek and Roman empires, the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, Tsarist Russia, Weimar Germany and the former Yugoslavia. Voices from the past, Aristotle, Cicero, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Roth and Milovan Djilas, warned us.
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‘It Affects Everything’: Hawaii Residents Demand Transparency over Pearl Harbor Munitions Storage
Jon Letman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – A munitions storage complex being planned by the US army along the West Loch section of Pearl Harbor near densely populated Hawaiian neighborhoods to help counter Chinese influence in the Pacific is running into local opposition.
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The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
Gabriel Rockhill | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
16 Oct 2020 – One of the founding myths of the contemporary Western European and American world is that fascism was defeated in WWII by liberal democracies, and particularly by the United States. With the subsequent Nuremburg trials and the patient construction of a liberal world order, a bulwark was erected—in fits and starts, and with the constant threat of regression—against fascism and its evil twin in the East. American culture industries have rehearsed this narrative ad nauseum, brewing it into a saccharine ideological Kool-Aid and piping it into every household, shack and street corner with a TV or smartphone, tirelessly juxtaposing the supreme evil of Nazism to the freedom and prosperity of liberal democracy.
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One-On-One+ with Johan Galtung
Al Jazeera | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – On the occasion of Galtung’s 90th birthday tomorrow on UN Day, we bring you a conversation he had ten years ago with Riz Khan at Aljazeera about his life.
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Nobel Prize for a Gene Bomb
Silvia Ribeiro | Ecologist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – Alfred Nobel himself might see the irony. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – named after the inventor of dynamite and founder of one of the largest bomb factories in the world – has been awarded to researchers who developed the genetic engineering technique CRISPR-Cas9, which must not be allowed anywhere near our food systems or into the wider environment.
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A Gathering Global Storm
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – This is my chapter contribution to The Great Awakenkng: New Modes of Thinking Amid the Ruins of Capitalism (2020) edited by Anna Grear & Davd Bollier. My text is preoccupied with the decline of the state as an efficient problem-solving instrument in a period where global scale challenges are generating an ethical-ecological-bio crisis.
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The USA Has No Allies, Only Hostages
Caitlin Johnstone | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
25 Oct 2020 – The US-centralized empire functions like a giant blob that absorbs nations and turns them into imperial client states. Once absorbed, it is rare for a country to escape and rejoin other genuinely sovereign nations. The new president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has told the Spanish international news agency EFE that he intends to restore the nation’s relations with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran.
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(Português) Bispos de Angola engrossam denúncia sobre retirada ilegal de dólares da Igreja Universal do país
Gilberto Nascimento | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 out 2020 – Religiosos revelam como funcionava operação da igreja de Edir Macedo para transportar dinheiro em sigilo para África do Sul e Brasil. O dinheiro, fruto de dízimos e ofertas, seguiria de carro, por estradas, e seriam transportados, geralmente, entre 4 milhões e 6 milhões de dólares por viagem. Cédulas seriam escondidas em malas, no forro de veículos e até em pneus.
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The Body Politic Electric: Walt Whitman on Women’s Centrality to Democracy
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
“Have I not said that womanhood involves all? Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than the best womanhood?”
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Pope Francis Calls for Creation of Civil Union Laws for Same-Sex Couples
Justine Coleman | The Hill - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 Oct 2020 – Pope Francis expressed his clearest support for same-sex civil unions in the documentary “Francesco” that premiered in Rome, straying from the Vatican’s traditional position, the Catholic News Agency reported. He addressed pastoral care for LGBTQ: “homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family.”
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Philip M. Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020 – The most interesting story carefully hidden by the smoke from civil unrest, plague and personal scandals is the continued march of American militarism. Multi billionaire Elon Musk announced that he and the Pentagon are developing a new 7,500 m.p.h. missile capable of delivering 80 tons of military cargo anywhere in the world in under an hour. A major capability for continued U.S. intervention worldwide.
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Ten Years since WikiLeaks and Julian Assange Published the Iraq War Logs
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – Today marks a decade since WikiLeaks published the Iraq War Logs, the most comprehensive exposure of imperialist criminality and neo-colonial banditry since the Pentagon Papers of the 1970s revealed the scale of American military activities in Vietnam, and perhaps of all time. In minute detail, the logs exposed all of the […]
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The Healthcare System Isn’t Interested in Anything Other Than Covid… Not Even Lung Cancer
Peter Andrews | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 Oct 2020 – A new report has shown how people with lung cancer may have been misdiagnosed as coronavirus sufferers, which is already contributing to avoidable deaths. The obsession with Covid-19 is beginning to take its toll.
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Nick Dearden | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020 – To efficiently deal with the pandemic and keep everyone safe, we first need to transform the pharmaceutical industry. TRIPS extended Western-style patent protections across the whole world, allowing the business to sit on patents for a minimum of 20 years, during which time they are able to dictate who can use their creations and at what price.
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At 75 – A U.N. of the Future in a Globalized Democracy
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the world’s most important and visionary organisation, the United Nations. The UN Charter’s Article 1 states that peace shall be brought about by peaceful means. That is a typical Gandhian inspiration – “The means are the goals in-the-making. You cannot use destructive means to achieve constructive goals,” he said. Regrettably, many voices accuse “the UN” of being too expensive, too bureaucratic, too ineffective, too corrupt, too this and that.
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BBC’s Upcoming White Helmets ‘Documentary’ Gears Up to Be a Character Assassination of Those Who Challenge Syria War Narratives
Vanessa Beeley | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – The BBC is preparing an attack against journalists, former diplomats, academics and scientists who challenge the dominant pro-war narratives against Syria underpinned by the pseudo-humanitarian White Helmets.
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Israeli Conscientious Objector Begins Third Stint in Military Prison
Orly Noy | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 Oct 2020 – Israeli conscientious objector Hallel Rabin, 19, began serving a 25-day sentence in military prison today for refusing to join the Israeli army over its policies toward the Palestinians. Military conscription is mandatory for most Jewish Israelis. This is Rabin’s third period of incarceration, while her appeal to the conscientious objectors committee is still pending.
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(Français) Stefania Maurizi: « C’est un incroyable échec du journalisme »
Stefania Maurizi interviewée par Nadja Vancauwenberghe et John Brown | Le Grand Soir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
18 oct 2020 – La journaliste italienne Stefania Maurizi a travaillé pour certaines des plus grandes publications du pays, dont la Repubblica, l’Espresso et, maintenant, Il Fatto Quotidiano. En 2009, elle a commencé à travailler avec Julian Assange et WikiLeaks sur des dossiers secrets concernant la guerre en Afghanistan, les câbles de la diplomatie américaine et les détenus de Guantanamo.
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A Russia-China Military Alliance Would Be a Bulwark against America’s Global Imperialism. Is It Time for Washington to Panic?
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – Vladimir Putin says it’s ‘quite possible to imagine’ a full-blown defense pact between Moscow and Beijing in the near future. Such a deal would transform the geopolitical balance – and be a big headache for the US and NATO.
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Fools’ Crusade: Why United States Provocations towards China Will Lead to Disaster
Jeff J. Brown and Jeremy Kuzmarov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
25 Oct 2020 – On July 4, 2020, the U.S. Navy dispatched an unprecedented two aircraft carriers and four other warships to the South China Sea for naval maneuvers in waters claimed by China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo subsequently broke with the official U.S. policy of neutrality in territorial conflicts in the South China Sea and declared that China’s claims to most of the Sea were “completely unlawful,” though most of the disputed territories had been part of China prior to being taken over by Japan in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War.
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