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Is There any Scientific Proof of the Existence of Higher and Lower Planetary Systems?
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
There are different models of reality. Science is basically a map of reality and that map is meant for a particular perspective. For example, you are in place A and you want to go to place B to meet a friend. Someone gives you a map to get to place B.
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JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank Named in Money Laundering Report
Rob Lenihan | TheStreet - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
21 Sep 2020 – The report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found five global banks moved “staggering sums of illicit cash, including $514 billion from JPMorgan and $1.3 trillion from Deutsche Bank, for shadowy characters and criminal networks that have spread chaos and undermined democracy around the world.”
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The 10 Steps of Strategic Peacebuilding: Create Your Strategy to Build a More Peaceful and Just World
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
The process for developing a peacebuilding strategy that I’ve structured over years working freelance creating strategies for peace with lots of groups.
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The Dark Side of 5G: Military Use
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
18 Sep 2020 – The Sep 12 demonstration “Stop 5G” in Rome rightly focused on the electromagnetic consequences for health and environment, and the decree that prevents mayors from regulating 5G antennas. However, it continues to ignore a fundamental aspect: its military use.
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(Português) A Violência Contra Animais no Cinema
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
17 set 2020 – Pode parecer que não, mas atualmente se usa muito menos animais no cinema do que no passado. Se compararmos a atualidade com o cinema praticado até a década de 1970 a diferença é gritante.
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U.S. Expands Military Bases in the Eastern Mediterranean and Lures Debt-Weary Greece into Provocative Military Partnership for Geopolitical Control of Region
Andrew Lee | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – Thousands of Greeks have come out to protest the expansion of U.S. military bases in Greece, arguing this will further destabilize the region and perilously enmesh Greece in endless imperialist wars.
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Demystifying Conspiracy Theories, Internet Trolls Disinformation Agents, and the CIA
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – Here is a redo of a column I wrote a few years ago that deals with the ridiculous “Conspiracy Theory” issue. Perhaps parts of it could be utilized by those of us in the Vaccine Truth, 911 Truth, GeoEngineeringWatch.org, 5G Truth movements, each of which have been demonized for telling unwelcome truths that the establishment don’t want expressed.
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India: What Lies Ahead?
Arundhati Roy | The Paris Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
15 Sep 2020 – Only a year into his second term, through a series of horrifying moves, Modi has changed India beyond recognition. The infrastructure of fascism is staring us in the face, the pandemic is speeding up that process in unimaginable ways, and yet we hesitate to call it by its name. What lies ahead? Reimagining the world. Only that.
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Iconic Deaths and What They Mean: George Floyd and Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – 2020 is a year that will be remembered for its many distinctive features—the global reach and lethality of the COVID pandemic, worldwide protests against racism, and likely, to come, the outcome and aftermath of an American presidential election with likely severe worldwide reverberations. Yet one of the least conceptualized aspects up until now is the occurrence of two very different iconic deaths. By according an iconic status to an individual’s death is to acknowledge its historic impact.
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Study: Inequality Robs $2.5 Trillion from U.S. Workers Each Year
Eric Levitz | Intelligencer--New York magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
14 Sep 2020 – Every few months, some group of socially conscious number crunchers will remind Americans that a tiny elite is binge-eating the nation’s economic pie while the rest of us plebeians fight over table scraps. Journalists will then aggregate eye-popping statistics and edifying charts, progressives will share these over social media, adorned with red-faced (and/or guillotine) emoji — and the moral arc of history will carry on bending toward neofeudalism.
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Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
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(Português) Setembro Amarelo: Morte de Gatinho Acende Discussão Sobre o Suicídio Animal
Renê Costa | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
27 set 2020 – A consultora empresarial Priscila Nogueira perdeu seu gatinho Samir, após ele se jogar do 6° andar do seu prédio.
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Rūmī (30 Sep 1207 – 17 Dec 1273)
Annemarie Schimmel | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Sufi Mystic and Poet – Rūmī’s use of Persian and Arabic in his poetry, in addition to some Turkish and Greek, has resulted in his being claimed variously for Turkish and Persian literature. The influence of his writings in the Indian subcontinent is also substantial.
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What’s the Difference between ‘Villain’ Assange and ‘Intrepid’ Woodward?
Lee Camp | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – The completely fair super awesome trial of Julian Assange is a beautiful blend of the works of Kafka, Stalin and Joseph Heller. The next time you see a mainstream-media talking-head fawn over Woodward, just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they would be fawning over Assange instead.
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Fascism for Dummies
Joe Kandra, Pat Daniel and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
If you are not worried, you are not paying attention.
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Evicting Lote Ocho: How a Canadian Mining Company Infiltrated the Guatemalan State
Max Binks-Collier | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – The 11 women’s accounts of the trauma that the gang-rapes caused them are unfathomable. Five were pregnant at the time; four miscarried, and one, three days from her due date when she was gang-raped, said in a deposition that she gave birth to a stillborn that “was all blue or green.” The women claim to live with chronic pain and ongoing emotional suffering. “Something has entered inside me, and it is a fear. It’s a terror, and it is a physical pain that I live with all the time.”
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(Português) Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Siga tranquilamente por entre a agitação e a pressa e lembre-se da Paz que pode haver no silêncio. Procure, o mais que possa, viver em harmonia com as pessoas ao seu redor, sem abrir mão das suas próprias convicções.
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The Dying Planet Report 2020
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
24 Sep 2020 – The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the Living Planet Report 2020, but the report should really be entitled the Dying Planet Report 2020 because that’s what’s happening in the real world. Not much remains alive.
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Julian Assange: Press Shows Little Interest in Media ‘Trial of Century’
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 – Labeled the media “trial of the century,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing is currently taking place in London—although you might not have heard if you’re relying solely on corporate media for news. If extradited, Assange faces 175 years in a Colorado supermax prison, often described as a “black site” on US soil.
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Who Is Behind the Judge Who Is Trying Julian Assange?
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
18 Sep 2020 – Emma Arbuthnot is the chief judge who conducted the trial for the extradition of Julian Assange in London to the USA, where a 175 year prison sentence awaits him for “espionage,” that is, for having published evidence of US war crimes, including videos of civilians’ killings in Iraq and Afghanistan, as an investigative journalist. At the trial, assigned to Judge Vanessa Baraitser, every defense request was denied.
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The Cost of Resistance
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – Two of the rebels I admire most, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher, and Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, are in jail in Britain. That should not be surprising. You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response. Julian courageously exposed the lies, deceit, war crimes and corruption of the ruling imperial elites. Roger has helped organized the largest acts of mass civil disobedience in British history.
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Trump Induced Normalization Agreements with Gulf Monarchies: Is This What Peace Looks Like?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
18 Sep 2020 – Two interviews based on the normalization agreements between Israel and two Arab countries, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which are being perceived from a variety of angles depending on the agendas of the various political actors. In the present context it seems a win for Israel and Trump, and a loss for the Palestinians and Iran. However,…
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(Italiano) In quale mondo stiamo per entrare?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Abbiamo il privilegio di vivere in un periodo storico molto stimolante, con l’addio agli stati-nazione e l’accoglienza alle regioni-civiltà. E poi sempre con la possibilità di riscoprire, o ricreare, una realtà di “piccolo è bello”, indipendentemente da quanto “grosso è necessario” possa emergere. Emozionante!
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A Photo Gallery of Doomed Children Who Suffered Because of America’s Profitable Wars
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Below is a small handful of the multitude of censored-out and “unpatriotic” war photos that document examples of the “collateral damage” of children, which accompanies America’s wars. These are usually endorsed or at least not significantly opposed by the overwhelming majority.
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Old Enough
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
16 Sep 2020 – You can join the side of murdering dictators and war criminals (monarchs of the Gulf + Netanyahu + Trump) who are waging war on humanity, self-determination, and justice or you find your alternative by WORKING for humanity, self-determination and justice. We must stand with the oppressed people of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Egypt, Palestine and elsewhere. Millions are standing with us against these tyrants. History will judge.
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UN Assembly Approves Pandemic Resolution; US, Israel Object
Edith M. Lederer | AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a wide-ranging resolution on tackling the coronavirus pandemic on 11 Sep 2020 over objections from the United States and Israel, which protested a successful last-minute Cuban amendment. The world body adopted the resolution by a vote of 169-2.
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DARPA: The Pentagon’s Mad Scientists at Work
Dave Makichuk | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – You’ve seen the superhero movie scenario before — a mad scientist’s experiment goes terribly wrong, and he or she is transformed into an evil nemesis for the good guys to battle. Ten ‘high-risk high-reward’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency projects that stretch the imagination.
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(Português) Coronavírus Pode Sobreviver na Carne por Três Semanas
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 set 2020 – De acordo com um estudo concluído em agosto e publicado por pesquisadores de Singapura e da Irlanda na plataforma de conteúdo científico bioRxiv, o coronavírus (SARS-CoV-2) pode sobreviver em alimentos de origem animal como carne de porco, frango e salmão por três semanas.
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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Love, Mortality, and Night as an Existential Clarifying Force for the Deepest Truths of the Heart
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
“Day belongs to family quarrels, but with the night he who has quarreled finds love again. For love is greater than any wind of words… Love is not thinking, but being.”
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Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets–Racism, Yes, but What About Militarism and Materialism?
Andrew Bacevich | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
23 Jun 2020 – In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans are finally — or is it once again? — confronting the racism that afflicts this country and extends into just about every corner of our national life. Something fundamental just might be happening. Yet to state the obvious, we’ve been […]
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So Many Hoaxes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
14 Sep 2020 – Current Affairs – This Modern World
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Swami Agnivesh (21 Sep 1939 – 11 Sep 2020): A Tribute
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Abhorrent institutions and systems have co-existed with religions for millennia. Slavery and racism would be two such examples. Religion should cease to provide the cloak of legitimacy to such blatant wrongdoings including ‘Casino Capitalism’ in our age, Agnivesh insisted. Only then will faith in the Divine, belief in the Almighty, become a conduit for the expression of justice, compassion, love and other such virtues.
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Coronavirus and the Heterogenesis of Ends: Underpinning the Ecological and Health Catastrophe Is a Political Crisis
Donato Bergandi, Fabienne Galangau and Hervé Lelievre | Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
The coronavirus catastrophe’s underlying cause is the political crisis that our democracies are living. The sustainable development model is a smokescreen that will lead not to changes to the economic paradigm but to business as usual. The betrayal of the elites, both political and economic, supported by a system no longer democratic, has exposed the population to this sanitary problem. A deep transformation of our political system is urgently needed.
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The ‘Desaparecidos’ of Palestine: Gantz Escalates Israel’s War on the Dead
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
On 2 Sep the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army. While in the past, Israel has only kept the bodies of alleged ‘Palestinian attackers’ who belonged to ‘terror groups’, the latest decision would extend the rule to all Palestinians, even those who have no political affiliations.
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Did the US War on Terror Displace 37 Million?
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – The Brown University Watson Institute Costs of War Project put out a report with the astounding figure. Here’s what they got right and what they got wrong.
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Africa’s Catastrophic Covid Response
Ian Birrell | UnHerd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about the disease’s impact on Africa were terrifying. The World Health Organisation predicted ten million cases within six months, raising the horrifying prospect of fragile health systems becoming overwhelmed with corpses piled up in hospital corridors.
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Gas Companies Are Abandoning Their Wells, Leaving Them to Leak Methane Forever
Mya Frazier | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Gas wells never really die. Just one orphaned site in California could have emitted more than 30 tons of methane. There are millions more like it.
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(Português) Crise e Mudanças Climáticas: Pássaros Migratórios Caem do Céu sem Vida
Bianca Sales | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 set 2020 – Milhares de pássaros migratórios morreram inexplicavelmente no sudoeste dos Estados Unidos, no que os ornitólogos descrevem como uma tragédia nacional que provavelmente está relacionada à crise climática.
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Face Masks Could Be Giving People Covid-19 Immunity, Researchers Suggest
Georgina Hayes | The Telegraph - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – Mask wearing might also be reducing the severity of the virus and ensuring that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.
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Julian Assange, and Press Freedom, on Trial in London
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Press freedom itself is currently on trial in London, as Julian Assange fights extradition to the U.S. He faces 175 years in prison and his unjust imprisonment would serve as an example to anyone daring to publish leaked information critical of the U.S. government.
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A Providential Last Warning
Vincenzo Balzani | Substantia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Rather than being afraid of the coronavirus, today we must be afraid that once the health emergency is over we will return to the situation we were in before.
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How the West Lost
Anatol Lieven | Prospect Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
After the long stand-off against communism, victory seemed as total as it was sudden. But the west has since fractured and is now losing prestige and influence—does the reversal expose a moral defeat?
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What Now for the Whales of Japan?
Chris Butler-Stroud | Whale and Dolphin Conservation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
News that Shinzo Abe is stepping down as Japan’s prime minister could be another nail in the coffin for the country’s whaling industry. It offers the Japanese government a rare opportunity to press the reset button on a practice which costs it dearly, in subsidies and international reputation.
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Tech Titans and Censorship—the Same People Profiting from the Quarantine Are Censoring Criticisms of It
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – The same bloated Tech/Data and Telecom Titans now gorging themselves on the corpses of our obliterated middle class are rapidly transforming America’s once proud democracy into a censorship and surveillance police state. They used the lockdown to accelerate construction of their 5G network of satellites, antennae, biometric facial recognition, and “track and trace” infrastructure that they will use to compel obedience and suppress dissent.
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Niles Niemuth | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – According to Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, the super-rich now possess $3.2 trillion, enough to pay for an entire year of public education, health care, nutrition and disaster relief for millions of people.
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Fibonacci Spiral in 3D Framing Psychosocial Phyllotaxis
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Determining the Golden Angle for Global Governance Uplift – The question here is whether greater insight is to be obtained from representation of the Fibonacci spiral in 3D, as an approximation to the so-called golden spiral. Specifically how might this assist in reconciling distinctions of relevance to psychosocial development — or its progressive constraint.
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Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine
Monica Gandhi, M.D., M.P.H., and George W. Rutherford, M.D. | The New England Journal of Medicine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – As SARS-CoV-2 continues its global spread, it’s possible that one of the pillars of Covid-19 pandemic control — universal facial masking — might help reduce the severity of disease and ensure that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic. If this hypothesis is borne out, universal masking could become a form of “variolation” that would generate immunity and thereby slow the spread of the virus in the United States and elsewhere, as we await a vaccine.
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American Bloodlands
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – The tinder that could soon ignite widespread violent conflagrations throughout the United States lies ominously stacked around us. Millions of disenfranchised white Americans, who see no way out of their economic and social misery, struggling with an emotional void, are seething with rage against a corrupt ruling class and bankrupt liberal elite that presides over political stagnation and grotesque, mounting social inequality.
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Appropriator Financial Fabric, the Case of BlackRock
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Intricate and extended fabrics of economic organizations that appropriate good part of the surplus generated by the productive effort of humanity proliferate in the world today. These fabrics have their epicenter in central countries but their tentacles reach every place in the world. They are able to leap on profitable opportunities as well as to retract with no losses when circumstances change. The case of the fabric articulated by BlackRock and its impacts.
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Two Decades of US “War on Terror” Responsible for Displacing At Least 37 Million People and Killing Up To 12 Million
Jacob Crosse | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – A new report from Brown University estimates the number of people who have fled from US military operations since September 2001 to be as high as 59 million.
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Julian Assange, Prometheus Bound
Pepe Escobar | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – This is the tale of an Ancient Greek tragedy reenacted in AngloAmerica. Amid thundering silence and nearly universal indifference, chained, immobile, invisible, a squalid Prometheus was transferred from the gallows for a show trial in a faux Gothic court built on the site of a medieval prison.
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Arakan Resistance Assist Rohingya in Their Common Quest for Int’l Accountability
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – Arakan Army/ULA emerging as an unseemly ally and collaborator of Rohingya victims seeking justice and a peaceful homeland.
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
10 Sep 2020 – Under the World Health Organization, vaccine development is proceeding through a vast, global collaboration. Noticeably absent, however, is the United States. Here, President Donald Trump is intent on releasing a vaccine before the November election, placing his lust for power above the urgent demands of public health. Millions of Americans could be harmed if Trump forces the release of a vaccine before it’s proven to be safe and effective.
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(Português) A Estratégia do Behemoth
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
7 set 2020 – A desordem promovida pelo poder não é nem sequer ou somente um sintoma de incapacidade, mas uma estratégia de destruição das instituições democráticas mediante a confusão e a distração. Depois virá a repressão.
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The Dehumanization Is the Point
Sarit Michaeli | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
4 Sep 2020 – Israeli soldiers placed IEDs at the entrance to a Palestinian village. If only we’ll kill, maim, arrest or demolish enough of their homes, so the logic goes, we’ll finally deter them and make them stop demanding basic rights we take for granted: the right to freedom, livelihood, and dignity.
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Press in His Pocket: Bill Gates Buys Media to Control the Messaging
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – A Columbia Journalism Review expose reveals that, to control global journalism, Bill Gates has steered over $250 million to the BBC, NPR, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, the New York Times, Univision, Medium, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, the Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, Center for Investigative Reporting, Pulitzer Center, National Press Foundation, International Center for Journalists, and a host of other groups. His press bribes have paid off.
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Rest in Power, Kevin Zeese
Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
7 Sep 2020 – It is with a sad heart that I report the sudden and unexpected death of Kevin Zeese early Sunday [6 Sep] morning. Kevin was working up until the end and died in his sleep of a possible heart attack. There will be an online tribute to Kevin on Saturday, September 19 at 3:00 pm Eastern/12:00 pm Pacific on Zoom.
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It’s Time to Acknowledge Hutu Genocide and Rwandan Occupation of DR Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – Global power elites are silent about Hutu genocide and Rwanda’s ongoing occupation of the Democratic Republic of Congo because it has served their interests for many years. “The truth would embarrass them.”
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Coronavirus Dons a New Crown
Nuruddin Unchwaniwala and Paul Ahlquist | Science Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, which causes COVID-19, belongs to the positive-strand RNA viruses, a large class of viruses that includes Zika, hepatitis C, and chikungunya viruses… RNA replication is a major target of antiviral drugs, including remdesivir, which shows promise for treating COVID-19 patients.
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Vaccine-Derived Polio Spreads in Africa after Defeat of Wild Virus
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – A new polio outbreak in Sudan has been linked to the oral polio vaccine that uses a weakened form of the virus. News of the outbreak comes a week after the World Health Organization announced that wild polio had been eradicated in Africa.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 6 (final)
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Why had the 1917 Revolution in Russia been followed by the defeats of the working class in Italy, China, Germany and Spain, to name only the most consequential of the political disasters? Why had the Great Depression—the greatest economic breakdown in the history of capitalism—led not to socialism, but, instead, to fascism and war? Why had the workers’ state founded on the basis of the October Revolution degenerated into a monstrous totalitarian regime?
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Truths
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – George Orwell said “in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” So let us all tell the truth:
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To the Country
Rubén Darío | Academy of American Poets – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
“To the Country” originally appeared in Prosas Profanas and Other Poems (Nicholas L. Brown, 1922).
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Panic Time
E. Tammy Kim | Columbia Journalism Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists may be the only outlet whose approach to climate change is explicitly existential.
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John Pilger outside the Old Bailey Court on Julian Assange’s Trial
John Pilger | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Veteran investigative journalist and filmmaker John Pilger delivered this speech outside London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court on 7 Sep 2020, the first day of resumed show-trial proceedings for the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. Pilger, along with a number of other journalists and human rights activists, was denied access to the court.
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How Many People Has the Coronavirus Killed?
Giuliana Viglione | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
1 Sep 2020 – Researchers, journalists and politicians turned to calculations of excess deaths. Rather than getting bogged down by cause, the metric compares all deaths in a given week or month with the deaths that statisticians predict would have happened in the absence of the pandemic, usually as an average over the previous five years. It can be challenging to differentiate between people who died of COVID-19 and those who were infected but died from unrelated causes. “That’s going to be a very critical piece of all this. If you have two concurrent conditions, what does it get classified as?”
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Dengue Breakthrough after Mosquitoes Laced with Natural Bacteria
Rebecca Ratcliffe | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
27 Aug 2020 – Infecting mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria dramatically reduces their ability to transmit dengue, according to a breakthrough study that could pave the way to eliminating the disease.
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Gravitational Waves: Astronomers Spot a Black Hole so Massive They Weren’t Sure It Could Exist
Ilya Mandel | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – One of the greatest things about being an astrophysicist is that you keep discovering things you didn’t think were possible. Now two Observatories have discovered their largest black hole yet. It’s important because scientists had in fact doubted whether black holes of this mass could even exist.
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A Conversation at the Edge of the Human Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – I am posting below a long interview with Konrad Stachnio on wide-ranging questions, which stretched by knowledge past its breaking point, especially in assessing where the technological innovations on the horizons will lead us. It is one of 17 conversations published by Clarity Press under the title, Civilization in Overdrive: Conversations at the edge of the Human Future.
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How Philanthropy Benefits the Super-Rich
Paul Vallely | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – There are more philanthropists than ever before. Each year they give tens of billions to charitable causes. So how come inequality keeps rising?
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Here to Help!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Meanwhile, in the good old US of A
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Facts vs. Feelings: How to Stop Our Emotions Misleading Us
Tim Harford | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
10 Sep 2020 – The pandemic has shown how a lack of solid statistics can be dangerous. But even with the firmest of evidence, we often end up ignoring the facts we don’t like.
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Refuting the Official Narrative: An Essential Reading List of Banned Resources to Better Understand the COVID-19 “Pandemic”
Compiled by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – This short list of important censored-out items has been put together to make more understandable what has been going on behind the scenes of the COVID-19 “pandemic”. This partial list of resources reveals unwelcome truths that are never discussed in the Mainstream Media – which is totally controlled by the despised Wall Street corporations that will benefit most.
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Once Foot Soldiers in Myanmar’s Army, Now Potential Witnesses to Mass Atrocities
Nahlah Ayed | CBC Radio Canada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
9 Sep 2020 – Two men deserters from Myanmar’s army are in the custody of the International Criminal Court at The Hague after reporting their participation, under military orders, in the 2017 campaign of killing and rape of countless Rohingya Muslim civilians. They appeared on Bangladesh border in mid-August, sources say.
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Peace Is Endangered Not by Chinese Military Expansion but by a Declining US Viewing It as an Existential Threat
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – A report from the US Department of Defense paints China as a rising military power capable of challenging America for global superiority. The reality is that the report is a product of Washington’s nervous psychological state.
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Global Governance after the COVID Pandemic
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
31 Aug 2020 – In making conjectures about global governance in the post-COVID-19 era, it is important to be both cautious and clear. Cautious because there are many uncertainties. Clarity is equally important, especially drawing clear lines between what is expected and feasible, what seems necessary, and what is desirable but not likely attainable.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 3
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
25 Aug 2020 – An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
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BREAKING: U.S. Court Rules Mass Surveillance Program Revealed by Snowden Was Illegal
Raphael Satter | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – Seven years after Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 4
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
29 Aug 2020 – Trotsky’s miraculous survival of the assassination attempt of May 24, 1940, proved to be only a reprieve. The GPU immediately set into motion an alternate plan. The next attempt would be carried out not by a heavily armed squad of killers, but by a lone assassin.
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(Français) La bible pour constitution : l’essor de la droite évangélique au Brésil
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
L’arrivée au pouvoir de Jair Bolsonaro est loin d’être le produit d’un malheureux concours de circonstances. Sa victoire à l’élection présidentielle d’octobre 2018 est aussi le résultat d’une puissante lame de fond portée, entre autres, par l’essor spectaculaire des cultes évangéliques dans le pays à partir du dernier quart du 20e siècle. Implantées dans les quartiers populaires, désertés par les pouvoirs publics, leurs églises (pentecôtistes et néo-pentecôtistes principalement) se sont rapidement révélées être de redoutables instruments de socialisation et de propagande politiques au service des élites conservatrices.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1 Sep 2020 – Face aux prévisions pessimistes pour les États-Unis, pouvant aller jusqu’a la guerre civile, de nombreuses initiatives progressistes avancent. C’est la dialectique de l’histoire en action: «when the going gets tough, the tough get going» (quand les temps deviennent durs, les durs avancent.). Et cela fait naître l’espoir que le crash de l’empire pourrait avoir un “atterrissage en douceur.”
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(Português) Degradação Florestal da Amazônia Cresce 465% em Um Ano
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1 set 2020 – De acordo com um levantamento do Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (Imazon), o desmatamento no bioma amazônico aumentou 29% entre agosto de 2019 e julho de 2020. Já a degradação florestal teve aumento de 465% no mesmo período.
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Space Weapons to Counter China, Russia ‘Coming’
Dave Makichuk | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
28 Aug 2020 – To say that officials at the newly established US Space Command face a clear and present danger, is an understatement. USSC major general says new capabilities are on the way to mitigate looming threats.
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Éminence Grise: Journalism’s ‘Gates Keepers’
Tim Schwab | Columbia Journalism Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
As philanthropists increasingly fill in the funding gaps at news organizations—a role that is almost certain to expand in the media downturn following the coronavirus pandemic—an underexamined worry is how this will affect the ways newsrooms report on their benefactors. Nowhere does this concern loom larger than with the Gates Foundation, a leading donor to newsrooms and a frequent subject of favorable news coverage.
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What Is Covid-19, SARS-2? How Is It Tested? How Is It Measured? The Fear Campaign Has No Scientific Basis
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – If the public had been informed that Covid-19 is “similar to Influenza”, the fear campaign would have fallen flat. Covid-19 is a public health concern but it is NOT a dangerous virus.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 5
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
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Operation Condor: The Cold War US Conspiracy That Terrorized South America
Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice.
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COVID-19: Efficient Protection of Contacts Is Simpler Than Imagined
Prof. Felix I. D. Konotey-Ahulu, et al. | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – The Oxford Vaccine for COVID-19 raises the question: “How does this prospective treatment provide efficient protection right now for front line health workers, many of whom are dying despite the stringent protective measures?” Answer: It doesn’t. We need something immediately to stop deaths.
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Iran’s Increasing Reliance on China
Niranjan Jose | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Will China’s bruited $400 bn. investment in Iran make Beijing an oil Gulf power?
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War Is a Disaster, Not a Game
Pete Shimazaki Doktor and Ann Wright | Honolulu Civil Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – It is hard to argue that war is for the defense of people when modern warfare is notable for indiscriminate killing, albeit often filtered through commercial media and mislabeled by government and military officials as “collateral damage.” Defund militarism and invest in peacemakers if conflict resolution is truly the objective.
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Everything Going According to Plan in China
Pepe Escobar | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
24 Aug 2020 – China plans not only in years, but in decades. Five year plans are complemented by ten and 15 year plans. The Belt and Road Initiative is in fact a nearly 40-year plan, designed in 2013 to be completed in 2049. And continuity is the name of the game. The contours of China’s long-term strategy for the new Cold War are quickly coming into view.
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(Italiano) Cappellani militari e obiettori di coscienza: da che parte stare
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Il 19 agosto sera sono rimasto addolorato. Mi preparavo a recitare il rosario del mercoledì assieme a mia moglie quando ho scoperto che esso veniva recitato dalla Diocesi militare, ovvero castrense. La cosa mi fa male perché quella diocesi è esclusiva, riguarda solo dei professionisti.
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Artificial (Un)intelligence: Robot Generals
Michael T. Klare | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
25 Aug 2020 – With Covid-19 incapacitating startling numbers of U.S. service members, the American military is relying more on intelligent robots. Now the Pentagon is seeking to replace not just soldiers and their weapons, but admirals and generals with robotic systems.
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The U.S. Is Determined to Make Julian Assange Pay for Exposing the Cruelty of Its War on Iraq
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
On September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that has nothing to do with the reasons for his arrest from the embassy of Ecuador. On April 11, 2019, the UK Home Office spokesperson said, “We can confirm that Julian Assange was arrested in relation to a provisional extradition request from the United States of America. He is accused in the United States of America of computer-related offenses.”
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US Punishes International Criminal Court for Investigating Potential War Crimes in Afghanistan
Susan M. Akram | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – The Trump administration is taking aim at the International Criminal Court, a global tribunal that investigates and prosecutes war crimes, torture and genocide. Claiming the ICC’s investigation into war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan poses a national security threat, Trump issued an executive order effectively criminalizing anyone who works at the ICC.
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Breaking the News
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
What? Come again?
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Leo Tolstoy (9 Sep 1828 – 20 Nov 1910)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most-diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ endure as the summit of realist fiction.
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The Pandemic Has Laid Bare Deep Divisions, but It’s Not Too Late to Change Course
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate | IMF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
Around the world, there are marked differences in how the pandemic has been managed, both in terms of how successful countries have been in maintaining the health of their citizens and the economy and in the magnitude of the inequalities on display. There are many reasons for these differences
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The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Noam Chomsky | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, corporate/mainstream media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy.
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Hope for a Soft Landing
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1 Sep 2020 – In the face of pessimistic predictions for the United States, to the point of civil war, there are many progressive initiatives advancing. It’s the dialectics of history in action: “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” And it raises the hopes that the crash of the empire could have a soft landing.
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