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(Italiano) Una lunatica pazzia: competizione, conflitti e sfruttamento minerario della Luna
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
12 Ottobre 2020 – Stiamo andando sulla Luna. Il nostro successo cambierà il mondo. Queste sono le frasi introduttive di un recente documento pubblicato dall’ Agenzia Spaziale USA: “Con il Programma Artemis, la NASA porterà sul suolo lunare la prima donna e il prossimo uomo entro il 2024, utilizzando tecnologie innovative per esplorare molto più che in passato ampie zone della superficie lunare”.
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(Français) Bolivie : le triomphe du MAS, c’est le triomphe d’un projet collectif des organisations sociales
Denise Godoy | NODAL - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 oct 2020 – Ce dimanche 18 octobre, la Bolivie a enfin tenu ses élections présidentielles. Elles avaient été reportées à trois reprises. Les décomptes indiquent une victoire retentissante de Luis Arce avec plus de 51% des voix. Le journaliste bolivien Julio Peñaloza Bretel explique les raisons de cette victoire historique après le putsch contre Evo Morales s’était lancée dans une campagne acharnée contre le MAS.
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Goldman Sachs Fined $2.9 Billion over Role in 1MDB Corruption Case
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – Goldman Sachs has been fined $2.9 billion the US Department of Justice announced yesterday closing one of the biggest corruption cases in the history of Wall Street. With a July settlement with Malaysian authorities, Goldman Sachs will pay more than $5 billion for its involvement in the 1MDB scandal but it can afford it easily: 2019 revenue: US$ 36.55 billion – Net worth: US$ 64 billion
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Evo Morales’s Party’s Massive Victory Is a Rebuke to US Elites Who Hailed the Coup
Shawn Gude | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – Immediately after last year’s right-wing coup in Bolivia, US elites, including many liberals, celebrated or excused the putsch against Evo Morales. Yesterday’s resounding electoral win for Morales’s party is a rebuke to all of their bloviating nonsense — and a massive triumph for democracy in Bolivia.
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Stop the Massacres in Haiti; End U.S. and UN Support for the Criminal Regime of Jovenel Moise
Haiti Action Committee | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – The human rights crisis under the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise has continued to widen and deepen with the proliferation of “Tonton Macoutes” style death squad repression across the country.
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Belching Cows and Endless Feedlots: Fixing Cattle’s Climate Issues
Henry Fountain | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
The United States is home to 95 million cattle, and changing what they eat could have a significant effect on emissions of greenhouse gases like methane that are warming the world. We traveled to the Texas Panhandle to understand the nation’s immense cattle feedlots.
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(Français) Les gouvernements occidentaux ont financé un important réseau de propagande en Syrie
Ben Norton | Investig'action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
29 septembre 2020 – Des coupures de renseignement financées par le gouvernement occidental ont formé des dirigeants de l’opposition syrienne, semé des articles dans les médias et dirigé un groupe de journalistes. Une mine de documents divulgués expose le réseau de propagande. Les documents mettent également en lumière le programme britannique de formation et d’armement des groupes rebelles, y compris des jihadistes extrémistes.
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An Environmental Nakba: The Palestinian Environment under Israeli Colonization
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammed A. Abusarhan | Science for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – Prior to the 1948 war and even the Zionist Congress of 1897, Palestine had some thirteen hundred villages and towns, each with a small and manageable population living sustainably with nature. The land was owned or worked by the Palestinian people, who were 85 percent Muslim, 9.2 percent Christian, and 5.3 percent Jewish.1 This structure changed radically when mostly European Jews mobilized for massive migration to Palestine and began to assume colonial control over the land.
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The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy
Michael T. Klare | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
11 Oct 2020 – Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick – We are finding ourselves in an ever more dangerous and insecure world, with the risk of Armageddon lurking just around the corner.
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Anticipation of Judicial Inquisition of Humans by Extraterrestrials
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Potential Consequence of Failure to Adhere to Universal Principles of Intelligent Life – The purpose of this exercise is to reframe the relation of humans to non-human species — as it may be perceived from an extraterrestrial perspective, now or in the future. Humans are naturally skilled in framing their treatment of animals — notably justified by particular interpretations of religious scriptures held to be beyond question, as with interpretations of the Bible regarding human dominion over all animals.
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(Français) Le cas d’extradition d’Assange est une attaque sans précédent contre la liberté de la presse – alors pourquoi les médias n’en parlent pratiquement pas ?
Patrick Cockburn | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
8 Oct 2020 – Le silence des journalistes en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis sur la procédure d’extradition de Julian Assange les rend complices de la criminalisation par le gouvernement américain. Assange et WikiLeaks ont fait tout ce que les journalistes devraient faire en révélant des informations importantes sur les méfaits du gouvernement américain et en les communiquant au public.
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After the Fall… What?
EnvisionPeaceMuseum | Johan Galtung & Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Fascism or Blossoming after the Fall of the US Empire?
10 Jul 2012 – Prognosis/Prediction
Americans Are Dying in the Pandemic at Rates Far Higher Than in Other Countries
Jason Beaubien | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 – Overall deaths in the U.S. are more than 85% higher than in places such as Germany, Israel and Denmark adjusting for population size. Deaths in the U.S. are 29% higher than even in Sweden, “which ignored everything for so long,” refusing to order social restrictions and a lockdown. “We have 29% more mortality than we should have if we’d followed Sweden’s path and Sweden virtually did nothing.”
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Freeing “Hotel Rwanda” Hero Paul Rusesabagina
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – The man portrayed by Don Cheadle in the movie about mass slaughter in Rwanda was kidnapped and jailed by the country’s dictator. Paul Rusesabagina, the real life hero whose story is the basis of the movie “Hotel Rwanda,” was kidnapped in Dubai and illegally rendered to Rwanda to stand trial on terrorism charges.
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Two Massive New Leaks Show Dirty Underbelly of Empire
Lee Camp | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 – Most Americans don’t know reality. They know their personal reality, which is detached from the real one. Shhhh, don’t tell them about the Blue Leaks and the Syria PR Leaks. The mainstream media’s virtual blackout must mean they aren’t supposed to know.
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Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
The idea of activism – of being a part of some cause that helps makes things better in the world – is increasingly catching on. It has become much cooler than what it was a few decades ago, when greed ruled the roost… When we imbue our activism with the inspiration to harmonize with the whole, our activism makes an enduring difference – in our own lives, in our social circle and in the world at large.
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California
Rafael Campo | Academy of American Poets – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
I wrote this poem to come to terms with some of my own conflicted feelings of shame, complicity, and privilege as I care for people with COVID-19 among my many other patients who continue to live with HIV, and to remember those who did not survive, recognizing my paradoxical power and helplessness as I witness the disproportionate burden of these diseases on people of color.”
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This Is My Message to the Western World – Your Civilisation Is Killing Life on Earth
Nemonte Nenquimo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 – We Indigenous people are fighting to save the Amazon, but the whole planet is in trouble because you do not respect it.
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Nietzsche on the Journey of Becoming and What It Means to Be a Free Spirit
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
“…become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities… acquire power over your aye and no and learn to hold and withhold them in accordance with your higher aims…” “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
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Vitamin C Cuts COVID Deaths by Two-Thirds
Patrick Holford | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 – Twice Nobel Prize winner Dr Linus Pauling proved the power of high dose vitamin C in the 1970’s. It is thanks to him we know about the benefits of high dose vitamin C. The cover of his landmark book “Vitamin C and the Common Cold” has a statement that reads, “It is especially important that everyone know that he can protect himself to a considerable extent against the disease, and its consequences, with this important nutrient, vitamin C.” It’s been 50 years since Pauling proved the anti-viral power of vitamin C. Isn’t it time we took this seriously?
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Home to Roost
Joe Kandra, Pat Daniel and Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Sigh…!
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Why Children, As Well As Adults, Need Stories about Solutions
Jodie Jackson | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
Jodie Jackson, author and expert on the psychological impact of the news, has now released a children’s book. She explains how, and why, it is grounded in the principles of positive psychology.
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Leaked Docs Expose Massive Syria Propaganda Operation Waged by Western Gov’t Contractors and Media
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
29 Sep 2020 – Western government-funded intelligence cutouts trained Syrian opposition leaders, planted stories in the media and ran a cadre of journalists. A trove of leaked documents exposes the propaganda network. The documents also shine light on the British program to train and arm rebel groups, including extremist jihadists.
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(Português) Enquanto a Amazônia queima, o que acontece com a biodiversidade?
Liz Kimbroughem (Mongabay) | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
17 out 2020 – Mais de 40% dos incêndios na Amazônia brasileira neste ano estão ocorrendo em florestas, com mais de 4,6 milhões de acres já impactados este ano. Embora longe de serem totalmente estudados, esses incêndios florestais têm grandes repercussões para a flora e fauna.
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Forget About Jewish or Democratic. Is Israel Even an Actual Country?
Yuli Tamir | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 – Based on the accepted definition, a country is a sovereign political organization that controls a defined territory. Its inhabitants are subject to a common authority and are governed by an independent government with the right to establish diplomatic relations or to declare war against other sovereign countries. Israel does not meet these basic conditions.
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Is the Cuba Blockade a Myth?
Maité Rizo | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
15 Oct 2020 – The Cuban people have lived for almost sixty years with restrictions imposed by the United States government. Many times we do not even notice how much this policy affects us, because in a certain way we get used to so many decades of economic war along with the problems of our country, and because no, it is not all the fault of the blockade. But it exists, and its impact is real.
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The Bolsonaro Thing
Jean Wyllys | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
7 Oct 2020 – Historical facts do not repeat themselves, but they can rhyme, like a poem. The rise of the extreme right in Brazil in the wake of Operation Lava Jato rhymes quite nicely with the rise of the extreme right in Italy after Operation Mani Pulite, which under the “excuse” of eradicating corruption destroyed the political elite with the help of the media, paving the way for the corrupt, authoritarian, and immoral Silvio Berlusconi to become prime minister.
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The Behemoth Strategy
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
In more than one occasion, democracies are taken by assault leveraging on the system’s defects. Their authors take advantage of democratic means to win power and, after conquering it, deny their adversaries all the means that were granted to them. Democracies can well die through democratic means better than by a coup d’état. An analysis of this challenge to the democratic coexistence in global terms, particularly focusing on the electoral process in United States.
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(Português) Lenny Kravitz diz que é vegano e que cultiva a própria comida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
5 out 2020 – Em entrevista publicada pela revista “Men’s Health”, o cantor e compositor estadunidense Lenny kravitz, de 56 anos, disse que se tornou vegano e que cultiva a maior parte da própria comida. Ele mostra o que colheu pela manhã – como fruta-do-conde, limão, abacate, cenoura e alecrim.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ completes 90 years of age. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues.
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Why the UN Can’t Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
Roger Kotila, PhD | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
15 Oct 2020 – Is the UN’s attempt to eliminate nukes a lesson in futility? It may be, unless we can identify nations that will work with us for the needed Charter Review with the Earth Constitution as a potential guide and model for a “new UN” (this strategy is known as the San Francisco Promise).
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The Palestinian Struggle Betrayed
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – The decline of the American Empire is too naked to refute. Millions are unemployed. The economy is in shambles. More than 200,000 Americans are dead and businesses are failing. The United States is in socio-political chaos and unrest is widespread. Are the Palestinians the attempted sacrifice at the altar of a Trump re-election trickery?
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Inspiration, Conspiration, Transpiration, Expiration
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
Towards a Universal Model of Conspiracy Theories – Reference is widely made to the problematic existence of conspiracy theories, variously understood as deriving from fake news. In relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns are raised regarding the epidemic of misinformation. CTs are now held to be especially influential with respect to the US 2020 presidential election.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
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Why Biden Must Win: It Is Not about Democracy, It’s about Fascism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
8 Oct 2020 – Interview with Iranian Journalist Javad Heiran-Nia on U.S. Elections: “What is the most important issue affecting the upcoming US presidential election? (Economy; Foreign Policy; Domestic Policy; etc.)”
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(Português) Uma Mensagem do Futuro II: Os Anos de Reparação [Vídeo]
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
1 Out 2020 – Dá para imaginar um futuro melhor? Pararmos de falar sobre o que significa vencer a pandemia não é o mesmo que desistir?
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‘Not Nobel’s Will’: World Food Programme’s Peace Prize Sparks Criticism
Jan van der Made | RFI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
9 Oct 2020 – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme. The UN institution beat famous and notorious competitors for the prestigious award, notably climate activist Greta Thunberg, US President Donald Trump and the World Health Organization. The award to the WFP has nonetheless generated criticism.
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Damien Downing, MBBS, MRSB | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service has been publicizing the importance of vitamins D and C, and the minerals zinc and magnesium, in this pandemic since January. I have been writing about vitamin D and sunlight for over 30 years, and it has never been more relevant.
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Louise Glück Should Refuse the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here’s Why.
Peter Maass | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
7 Oct 2020 – I don’t know what poet Louise Glück said when the Swedish Academy informed her that she won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, but I know what she should have said: “Thanks, but no thanks.” The Swedish Academy is a corrupt institution that has tolerated genocide denial and sexual assault.
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Lessons on Productivity
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – How do we manage to be productive and efficient while engaged in many projects and constantly getting interruptions? Being asked this question frequently by students, staff, volunteers and others, let me give my humble personal reflections. First, I start by saying that Einstein was right about theory of relativity not just in physics but in life.
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How Trump Damaged Science — and Why It Could Take Decades to Recover
Jeff Tollefson | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
5 Oct 2020 – The US president’s actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions. Some of the harm could be permanent.
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(Português) ONG Divulga Ranking da Crueldade Animal no Turismo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
25 set 2020 – Relatório cita empresas que têm favorecido e incentivado shows com golfinhos, passeios com elefantes e selfies com filhotes de tigres, entre outros exemplos.
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Global Billionaire Wealth Tops $10 Trillion as COVID-19 Deaths Mount
Jacob Crosse | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
8 Oct 2020 – The collective wealth of the world’s billionaires has risen to $10.2 trillion, an increase of nearly $1.3 trillion. The unprecedented surge in wealth takes place amidst a global pandemic that has killed more than one million people worldwide. The report, “Riding the Storm,” is based on data from 43 markets, including interviews with 60 billionaires, accounting for 98 percent of global billionaire wealth.
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The Social Dilemma Documentary
Netflix | Relax & Entertainment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
Premiered 16 Sep 2020 – We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen.
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Trump Administration Imposes Crushing New Sanctions on Iran
Josh Marcus | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
The Trump administration on 8 Oct 2020 imposed a new, crushing round of sanctions that blacklists Iran’s entire financial sector, which will cut off the country’s ability to import humanitarian goods like food and medicine. Foreign companies or individuals will have 45 days to unwind their relationships, and then will face “secondary sanctions.” A consequence of Trump’s tough re-election bout.
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The Boy Who Cried No COVID!…
Joe Kandra, Kathie Malley-Morrison and Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
… and let the place burn down.
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‘The Social Dilemma’ Sounds Alarm on Social Media’s Dark Side
Jeremy Loffredo | Children’s Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
8 Oct 2020 – “The Social Dilemma,” a new documentary that explores the dark side of social media, gives a history of the industry through the eyes of former Facebook, Google and Twitter company executives and software engineers who all agree on this one point: The industry has lost its way. Social media was designed to do good, the former insiders say. But those goals have been subverted to the point where the industry has created “monsters,” rather than tools for the common good.
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The Plot Against Gretchen Whitmer Shows the Danger of Private Militias
Mary B. McCord | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
8 Oct 2020 – In the swirls of disinformation that now pollute our political discourse, one is particularly dangerous: that private militias are constitutionally protected. These groups have no constitutional right to exist.
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(Italiano) Azioni giudiziarie contro le vendite di armi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
8 Ottobre 2020 – La lotta nonviolenta contro il traffico di armi deve sempre più coinvolgere tutte le componenti della società civile, per avviare processi di riconversione economica, sociale, culturale. Disinvestire, smilitarizzare e disarmare i nostri territori e le nostre menti. Una tappa importante di questo processo riguarda la sensibilizzazione e la formazione dei giovani.
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Discrimination
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
Injustice!
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Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19
Rob Wallace | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 Issue – Dead Epidemiologists is an eclectic collection of commentaries, articles, and interviews revealing the hidden-in-plain-sight truth behind the pandemic: Global capital drove the deforestation and development that exposed us to new pathogens. Rob Wallace and his colleagues—ecologists, geographers, activists, and, yes, epidemiologists—unpack the material and conceptual origins of COVID-19.
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My Sweet Lord “Live” (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison | Federico Perlingieri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
A Tribute to George Harrison by “Family & Friends”
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Bill Gates on Track to Grow His Fortune through Foundation’s Ties to Vaccine Makers
Jeremy Loffredo | Children's Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
8 Oct 2020 – A telling piece in The Nation this week reports some of the conflicts of interest the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation holds in the world’s quest for a COVID-19 vaccine.
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The Red Poppy (a Poem)
Louise Glück, Nobel Literature 2020 laureate | Academy of American Poets – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
Louise Glück is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Proud Boys Hashtag Gets Hijacked by LGBT+ Community
Emma Powys Maurice | Pink News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
4 Oct 2020 – The Proud Boys hashtag has been reclaimed by the LGBT+ community to drown out the racism and flood the internet with images of beautiful, queer love.
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Myanmar’s Colonial Policies and Crimes Trigger Renewed Liberation Struggles
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
9 Oct 2020 – Lack of action from UN and world community encourages Myanmar to commit atrocities against ethnic communities. The decades of failures by the UN and external actors will force the oppressed minorities to resort to armed liberation struggles.
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Revealed: Key Assange Prosecution Witness Is Part of Academic Cluster That Has Received Millions from UK and US Militaries
Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis | Declassified UK, Daily Maverick - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
2 Oct 2020 – One of the US prosecution’s key medical witnesses in the Julian Assange hearing, who claimed that Assange’s risk of suicide is ‘manageable’ if extradited to the US, works for an academic institute that is funded by the UK Ministry of Defence and linked to the US Department of Defence, it can be revealed.
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Fires Raze Nearly Half of Indigenous Territories in Brazil’s Pantanal
Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca and Raphaela Ribeiro | Agência Pública, Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – In September, 164 fires were recorded across Indigenous territories in the Brazilian Pantanal, the world’s biggest wetland. In August, there were more than 200. Nearly half of the certified Indigenous areas in the region have already been subject to fires that cut off villages, destroyed homes and farms, and sent community members to hospital for respiratory problems.
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Brazil Is Up in Flames—Here’s Why
Diego Gonzaga | Greenpeace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – It is no accident that there are fires all across Brazil. The world is looking in horror for the second straight year as historic blazes ravage the world’s largest tropical forest. All the while, instead of fighting the fires, the Brazilian government fans the flames by emboldening those who are setting the fires to expand their agribusiness.
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India’s Hindu Right Are Willing to Bury Democracy
Arundhati Roy | Scroll - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
Two Conspiracies and a Cremation: Let’s keep voting for the people who are leading us into penury and war, tearing us apart limb from limb. While India’s rulers downplay the brutal murder of a Dalit teenager by an upper-caste gang and acquit Hindu nationalists guilty of historic crimes, they are concocting another show trial of Muslims and progressive activists to intimidate dissenters.
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Richard Falk: Palestinians Are Winning the ‘Legitimacy War’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
9 Oct 2020 – According to Professor Falk, history is clearly on the side of Palestinians, who are already “winning the legitimacy war”.
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(Português) Mais de 200 Cães Sofrem Tortura em Leilão de Carne de Cães na Coreia do Sul
Bianca Sales | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
11 out 2020 – Imagens registradas por organização em defesa dos direitos animais, mostra 200 cães presos em caixas e gaiolas de metal, durante leilão em um período de calor torrencial no país.
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Susan Sontag on Moral Courage and the Power of Principled Resistance to Injustice
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
“Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example — for courage is as contagious as fear.”
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The Unprecedented and Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange
Charles Glass | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – Over the 17 days of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in London, courtroom evidence exposed illegality on an unprecedented scale by America’s and Britain’s intelligence, military, police, and judicial agencies to eliminate Assange. The governments had the edge, like the white man of whom Malcolm X wrote, “He’s a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck.” The deck was clearly stacked.
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Malaysia: A Clear Direction for the Present
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
11 Oct 2020 – If the five proposals made here and other similar ideas are implemented within the next 6 to 9 months, it is quite conceivable that the nation will be able to concentrate upon tackling the Covid challenge and the current economic woes.
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Donald Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19
Justin Sink | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
2 Oct 2020 – Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis has dramatically altered the closing weeks of the U.S. presidential campaign, with the president now facing not only an unprecedented health challenge but also logistical and staffing chaos about a month before Election Day.
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Should Iran Be Concerned about the U.S. Elections?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – This interview was published by Mehr News Agency on 27 Sept 2020 in Tehran. It addresses questions that arise for foreign societies seeking to comprehend the spectacle of the 2020 US national elections. The outcome of the Trump/Biden struggle is, of course, of particular concern to Iran.
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Why the US Is Falling–and Faster than You May Expect: A 40-Year-Old Prediction Coming True
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – In my view, the US no longer has the capacity to lead itself effectively and find solutions to its own multi-dimensional crisis be it the economy, democracy, climate change, warfare addiction, social polarization, racism and on top of it all the Covid-19 crisis. Not being able to lead itself, no one should wish that the US should lead the world. Neither does it have any right to.
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(Italiano) L’impatto Ecologico del Militarismo
John Scales Avery | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
La crisi di civiltà cui siamo oggi di fronte è stata prodotta dalla rapidità di sviluppo della scienza e della tecnologia. Le nostre istituzioni e idee si adattano troppo lentamente al cambiamento. La grande sfida che la storia ha posto per la nostra generazione è il compito di costruire nuove strutture politiche internazionali che siano in armonia con la tecnologia moderna.
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Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Stop the Machine and Defend Our Humanity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Children's Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk. The real threat to life, he said, is “not missiles, but microbes.” When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as “a world war.” In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited.
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(Français) Leçons Tirés de la Journée Internationale de la Paix de Cette Année
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
2 Oct 2020 – En regardant les résultats de notre enquête sur la Journée internationale de la paix cette année, je suis frappé par deux aspects, l’un à long terme et l’autre à court terme, qui sont de bon augure pour l’avenir.
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Lessons from This Year’s International Day of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
2 Oct 2020 – Looking at the results this year from our survey of the International Day of Peace, I am struck by two aspects, one long term and one short term, that bode well for the future.
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Amnesty International Shutters Offices in India, Citing Government Attacks
Sameer Yasir and Hari Kumar | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
29 Sep 2020 – The human rights organization said today that it had ceased its operations in India and laid off its entire staff in response to a series of government reprisals including the freezing of its bank accounts. The actions, it says, are retaliations for criticizing the country’s human rights record.
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Crumbling Case against Assange Shows Weakness of “Hacking” Charges Related to Whistleblowing
Micah Lee | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – The entire computer crime case against Assange is based on a brief discussion, between a publisher and source, about cracking a password — but the cracking never actually happened.
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New Silk Road and the Asian Century: India, China and the Empire
Devdan Chaudhuri | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
29 Sep 2020 – For the much of human history on planet earth – till the 18th century – India and China were the two largest economies in the world and periodically interchanged the top position amongst themselves. An Asian century means that from a unipolar hegemonic world order dominated by the empire, a multi-polar world order – more diverse and representative – will emerge.
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Why Anarchism Is Dangerous
Dana Ward and Paul Messersmith-Glavin | Anarchist Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – Anarchists frighten privileged elites and their authoritarian followers not simply because the primary goals of the movement have been to abolish the sources of elite power – the state, patriarchy, and capitalism – but because anarchism offers a viable alternative form of social and political organization grounded in workplace collectives, neighborhood assemblies, bottom-up federations, child-centered free schools, and a variety of cultural organizations operating on the basis of cooperation, solidarity, mutual aid, and direct, participatory democracy.
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As His Extradition Trial Drags On, Media and Rights Groups Are Still Ignoring Julian Assange
Alan MacLeod | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
28 Sep 2020 – The extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues in London. Many mainstream rights groups and media organizations have a mixed history when it comes to opposing Washington’s agenda. This case has been no exception even though widely seen as setting an important precedent for freedom of speech and of the media worldwide.
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(Português) Quem gostaria de ser ‘bem tratado” para ser morto em seguida?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
27 set 2020 – No mercado, alguém no alto-falante diz: “Carne orgânica, de animais criados ‘livres’, que se alimentam apenas de pasto. Tudo dentro de condições de bem-estar animal. Aqui você encontra ovos de galinhas criadas soltas, que têm espaço para ciscar.” Basicamente são afagos na consciência humana. É como se dissessem que “ao comprar esses produtos você permite que os animais tenham uma boa vida”.
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Johan Galtung on the Future of the USA: Fascism or Blossoming?
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Prediction/Prognosis: 7 Jun 2010 – Prof. Galtung on his book, “Fall of the US-Empire: And Then What?”
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The Evolution of COVID-19 Propaganda
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1] The Repetitive Use of Deceptive Imagery
2] Management of the News
3] Lying About the Worth of PCR Test Kits
Cosmic Consciousness: Maurice Bucke’s Pioneering 19th-Century Theory of Transcendence and the Six Steps of Illumination
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
We are not “patches of life scattered through an infinite sea of non-living substance” but “specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life.”
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‘Round Midnight
Sean Reynolds | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – Currently 87 nations have signed, and 45 (of a needed 50) ratified, the U.N. treaty definitively criminalizing the obscene nuclear stockpiles of these nine rogue states: USA, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel. Let’s ourselves exemplify the tremendous courage and compassion demanded of so many in the nations our government targets overseas, of the Plowshares activists now awaiting sentence.
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Nicaragua, the Country That Didn’t Swallow the Covid Blue Pill
Jorge Capelán | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
26 Sep 2020 – For Nicaragua, the “blue pill” of lockdown or “stay at home” would have been pure cyanide, and since its leadership long ago took the red pill, it was able to discern the true interests behind the phony rich-country pandemic discourse and its hidden “great re-set” agenda.
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The President Tested Positive for COVID-19. I Have 9 Questions.
Charles P. Pierce | Esquire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Around midnight, as Thursday [1 Oct] became Friday [2 Oct],and we learned that the pandemic had reached into the administration*’s innermost inner circle, and then into The Residence Itself, these were the things about which I began to wonder.
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Civil Rights 2020
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
What change?
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Entire Top of the Republican Party Has Been Exposed to COVID
Lachlan Markay | The Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
3 Oct 2020 – The web of those exposed by President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis reads like a who’s who of his peripatetic campaign.
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The Pandemic That Never Was
Michael J. Talmo | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020 – COVID-19 is a label, a classification, a designation, a figment of the imagination—a complete and utter fraud. There is no reason to wear a mask. There is no reason to do any kind of social distancing. There was never any reason to lock down the economy. There is no deadly virus—only inaccurate tests and corrupt politicians controlled by global elitists who want to rob and exploit us. Face it folks, you’ve been had, hoodwinked, bamboozled, lied to, conned, duped. The world is the same this year as it was last year and every year before. There is nothing to be afraid of.
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A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020 – With political and ecological fires raging all around, is it irresponsible to imagine a future world radically better than our own? A world without prisons? Of beautiful, green public housing? Of buried border walls? Of healed ecosystems? A world where governments fear the people instead of the other way around? If we stop talking about what winning actually looks like, isn’t that the same as giving up?
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JPMorgan Pays $920 Million Settlement over Illegal Trades
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020 – Following hard on the heels of revelations that major global banks have been involved in a network of criminal money laundering, JPMorgan Chase has been fined $920 million for manipulating markets on two of its trading desks. The charges involved the practice of spoofing.
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The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War
Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
In this detailed and expansive book, the authors demonstrate that widespread violence is in fact an expression of the underlying social order, and whether it is carried out by military forces or by patterns of investment, the aim is to strengthen that order for the benefit of the powerful.
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MI6’s “Man of Mystery” Is “Smoking Gun:” Britain’s Complicity in 1953 Iranian Coup Revealed
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – After 60 years of foot-dragging and dissembling, the U.S. government finally confessed and admitted its role in the bloody 1953 coup that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected government led by Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh. Must-See New Documentary Exposes Britain’s Complicity in the 1953 Bloody Coup in Iran
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Who is Rwanda’s Real Hero? Paul Kagame or Paul Rusesabagina?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – What Kagame has done to Rusesabagina, of Hotel Rwanda fame, embarrasses the US foreign policy establishment that has lionized his brutal regime for so long. “Rusesabagina is a longtime critic of Kagame’s regime and its catastrophic war on the Congolese people and the Rwandan refugee population.”
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(Italiano) L’ottagono: rango, squilibrio, discordanza e teoria bellica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Gli USA risultano il paese più inguaiato, e quindi molto attivo in tentativi di riequilibrio. Poi viene l’UE, in breve l’Occidente, seguito da India e Russia. Al minimo, il meno preoccupati in tal senso, sono Cina e LatinAmerica, alquanto equilibrate, seppur una a livello superiore, l’altra inferiore. Supporremmo che entrambe continueranno a salire in tutte le dimensioni, facendosi sentire, ma meno rumorosamente che l’Occidente, Russia e India.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
The concern in what follows is the quest for indications as to how the communication potential of virtual conferences might be more fruitfully organized — beyond past patterns of enabling the many to listen to the few. Those patterns can be seen as strangely echoing concern about the global resources controlled by “the 1%”, in contrast with those to which the remainder have access.
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(Português) “Não podemos compactuar com violação de direitos humanos e crimes financeiros da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus”
Tatiana Merlino | Pública – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
21 set 2020 – Racismo, lavagem de dinheiro, imposição da prática de vasectomia e intromissão na vida conjugal dos pastores e bispos estão entre as denúncias. “Eu prefiro morrer do que perder essa causa para um negro.” “Não se deve dar pérolas aos porcos.” “Os africanos cheiram mal.” “Os negros têm lábios grossos e nariz avantajados porque seus antepassados olhavam para gorilas e macacos nas selva.” Essas são algumas das frases racistas que líderes religiosos brasileiros da IURD, entre eles seu líder máximo, Edir Macedo, teriam dito a bispos e pastores em Angola.
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Trump Undermines Democracy!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – It’s been a horrific week. The US surpassed 200,000 deaths from the Corona virus, the highest national total in the world by far. The country mourns the passing of Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, while Trump and the Republican Senate rush to replace her with a conservative before the election. Trump is all about Propaganda! He’s been a liar and Conman his entire life!
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A Court Just Slammed the Guantánamo Gate Shut
Linda Greenhouse | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
10 Sep 2020 – The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has just slammed the Guantánamo gate shut. Has anyone noticed? Guantánamo once stirred public passions. Now that the inmate population is down to 40, from the nearly 800 who passed through the prison in its 18-year existence so far, do people still care?
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Barry Grey | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
An explosive report published on 20 Sep by BuzzFeed News documents the role that major US and international banks knowingly play in laundering and circulating trillions of dollars in dirty money from terrorist organizations, drug cartels and assorted international financial criminals. The report is an unanswerable indictment not only of the banks, but also of Western governments and regulatory agencies.
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The Death of Andre Vltchek, a Passionate Warrior for Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
24 Sep 2020 – For decades, Andre Vltchek, an old-school journalist and artist (but a young man) who traveled the world in search of truth and who always stood up straight, tried to revolve the world and encourage people to revolt against injustice. In this age of arm-chair reporters, he stood out for his boldness and indefatigable courage. He told it straight.
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UAE/Bahrain Normalization with Israel: Peace or Geopolitics?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – the willingness to endorse these normalization agreements in the White House setting was a dramatic expression of identification with Trump’s regional diplomacy in the Middle East and a formalized repudiation of Palestinian aspirations for a sustainable peace based on their inalienable right of self-determination.
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