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The $12 Million Weapons Sale from US to the Haiti Police Raises “Troubling Questions”
Jake Johnston and Kira Paulemon | CEPR-Center for Economic and Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
31 Aug 2020 – State Department Awarded Contract to Politically Connected Security Firm
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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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Up to 90% of U.S. People Who Test Positive for Covid Barely Carry Any Virus & Are Not Contagious. Every Stat about the Disease Is Bogus
Peter Andrews | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – The scale of the pandemic ‘problem’ is actually much smaller than we’ve been led to believe – about a tenth of what all the politicians and media have been using to justify the lockdowns, the quarantines, the mass testing. Some may be shocked that the scale of the problem is so much smaller than assumed.
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James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”
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Portuguese Youth Activists Sue 33 Countries over Climate Crisis
Holly Young | Deutsche Welle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
3 Sep 2020 – In the latest example of a wave of climate litigation across the world, six Portuguese young people this week filed a case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, asking for accountability around the climate crisis.
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Children Who Died of Covid-19 Were Already Seriously Ill, New Study Shows
Ross Clark | The Spectator - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
28 Aug 2020 – It has been clear from the start of the Covid-19 crisis that it was a disease with relatively little impact on children. A broad study led by Liverpool University and published in the British Medical Journal today confirms that – and sheds a lot more light on how Covid-19 affects children.
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The OAS Accusation of Electoral Fraud against Evo Morales Is Bullshit — and Now We Have the Data to Prove It
David Rosnick | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
5 Sep 2020 – The day after the Bolivian election, the Organization of American States suggested the result was fraudulent — then took months to provide any proof. Last month, it finally released its data — and researchers at the Center for Economic and Policy Research found a basic coding error that destroys the OAS’s case against Morales.
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(Français) Haïti : la terreur s’installe avec la complicité de l’international
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1er septembre 2020 – Le meurtre, vendredi 28 août, du bâtonnier du barreau de Port-au-Prince a provoqué de larges remous en Haïti. Venant s’ajouter à une longue liste d’assassinats, il jette une lumière crue sur l’insécurité et l’impunité, la responsabilité de l’État et la complicité de l’international.
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Three Years since Their Genocide Began, the Rohingya Remain Desperate for Help
Editorial Board | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
13 Aug 2020 – The Rohingya Muslims three years after 750,000 of them were terrorized and torched out of their homes by Myanmar’s security forces and forced into miserable camps in Bangladesh. Using the word ‘genocide’ won’t bring the Rohingya home. But it will serve as a reminder to [Nobel Peace laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi – and to the world – of what happened.
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Judaism, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Me
Gershon Baskin | The Jerusalem Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 – For years I have witnessed very violent behavior by settlers and soldiers toward Palestinians. The most violent of these acts were committed by religious settlers. Their hatred is burning in their eyes toward Palestinians, and even more toward Jews who come to show solidarity or protect Palestinians. These behaviors push me to move even further away from Judaism; the religious settlers and the soldiers call me a traitor.
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2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 25.4 Million+ Positive; 850 Thousand+ Dead
Worldometer | Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
USA, Brazil, India with most world infections
Thank You for Your Military Service?… What?
Vince Emanuele | In the Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Iraq war veteran Vince Emanuele: “The Marines took it upon themselves to shoot at, beat, rob, rape, kill whoever they wanted to. And that’s being proposed on the news as a few bad apples, an isolated incident.”
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Those Who Protest against the “Official” Covid-19 Narrative Are Categorized as “Psychopaths”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 – “Collective Narcissism” and the “Dark Triad”: Is It a Witch Hunt? – The legitimacy of Wall Street, the World Economic Forum, Big Pharma and the billionaire foundations which ordered the closure of the global economy in March must be forcefully challenged.
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The “Third Way” of the Fake COVID-19 Two-Sided “Debate”
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
29 Aug 2020 – Trying to Point out some of the Differences Between – and the Similarities of – the Pro-vaccine, Vaccinology-illiteracy in the Trump Camp and the Pro-vaccine, Vaccinology-illiteracy in the Big Pharma/Big Media/CDC/Fauci/Gates/World Economic Forum/Biden Camp and why Neither of the Two Camps Should be Blindly Supported
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COVID19/Coronavirus Selected Articles
Various Authors | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – The Imposition of Compulsory Vaccination with a Biometric Health Passport?
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 1
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
20 Aug 2020 – Eighty years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky—the exiled co-leader of the 1917 October Revolution and founder of the Fourth International—was mortally wounded by an agent of the Soviet Union’s secret police. The murder of Trotsky was the outcome of a massive political conspiracy organized by the regime headed by Stalin.
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Agenda ID2020 of the “One World Order”: The 101 to Understanding Its Implications
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – Agenda ID2020 is hardly mentioned by any media, let alone the mainstream. Agenda ID2020, if carried out, is the ultimate control by a small elite – of the One World Order (OWO), also called the New World Order (NWO) – over the world population. It is a mechanism that would allow controlling every movement of each one of the 7-plus billion people of planet earth, including everyone’s health records, cash flows, bank accounts, as well as our behavior in this ultra-controlled society – which I refrain from calling civilization anymore.
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Covid Vaccine Rush Could Make Pandemic Worse, Say Scientists
Sarah Boseley | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
30 Aug 2020 – The rush to immunise populations against Covid-19 could lead to the rollout of a vaccine that is not very effective and risk worsening the pandemic, leading scientists have said. Experts say strong evidence of efficacy needed to avoid approval of inferior vaccines.
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In Defence of Conspiracy Theories (and Why the Term Is a Misnomer)
David Coady | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Yesterday’s conspiracy theories often become today’s incontrovertible facts. In the mid-1990s, journalist Gary Webb’s claims that CIA officials conspired with drug dealers to bring cocaine into the US were dismissed as a conspiracy theory. But the claims were true. The net effect of terms such as “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracism” is to silence people who suspect conspiracies may be occurring. These terms serve to herd respectable opinion in ways that suit the interests of the powerful.
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How Corporate Tyranny Works
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable, find that the institutions of power unite to crucify them.
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Write Your Own Caption
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Hear any bells ringing? Or the sand prevents it?
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There’s a Conspiracy Theory That the CIA Invented the Term ‘Conspiracy Theory’ – Here’s why
Michael Butter | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
Conspiracy theories have a long history, but the actual term “conspiracy theory” emerged much more recently. It was only a few decades ago that the term took on the derogatory connotations it has today, where to call someone a conspiracy theorist functions as an insult.
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Palestinians Stage Surprise ‘Thank You’ Event for Banksy in Bethlehem
Jessie McDonald | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Photographs of works go on display in Manger Square to celebrate British street artist’s contribution to diversifying tourism.
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How the Shadow of Slavery Still Hangs Over Global Finance
Philip Roscoe | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance. The slave trade pioneered a new kind of finance, secured on the bodies of the powerless. Today, the arcane products of high finance, targeting the poor and troubled as profit opportunities for the already-rich, still bear that deep unfairness.
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Trotsky’s Last Year – Part 2
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 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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D.H. Lawrence on Trees, Solitude, and How We Root Ourselves When Relationships Collapse
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
“One must possess oneself, and be alone in possession of oneself.”
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The World Cannot Forget the Rohingya
Tun Khin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – This week marks exactly three years since the Myanmar military poured into Rakhine State and launched a vicious operation against the Rohingya people. Thousands of women, men and children were killed, mutilated and raped, whole villages were burned to the ground, and hundreds of thousands fled into neighbouring Bangladesh. Abandoned by the international community, the Rohingya have only one glimmer of hope: international justice.
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Curing Viruses with Hydrogen Peroxide
Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Can a simple therapy stop the pandemic? This article seeks only to describe a therapy that is highly effective, potentially accessible to any person on the planet, exceptionally inexpensive, and easily available without requiring a prescription. I am not trying to convince the reader to just nebulize HP and do nothing else. It is vital to your general health as well as to overcome COVID-19 to take all of the quality supplements available and affordable to you.
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Julian Assange Receives First Visitors in Six Months: “He Is in a Lot of Pain”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – Stella Morris, Assange’s partner and an internationally-respected human rights attorney, was allowed to meet with the WikiLeaks founder earlier this week. It was the first time that Morris and their two young children Gabriel and Max had seen Assange since March 22. The visit is welcome news but it has underscored the brutal conditions in which he is held by the British authorities, despite not having been convicted of any crime.
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United States to Quit World Health Organization: What Does It Mean for the World?
S Faizi | EPW - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
8 Aug 2020 – Although it appears that without the US, WHO would be weakened in terms of its significance and resources at its command, the fact remains that, in reality, it bodes well for the democratic functioning of WHO without the intimidating presence of a global superpower.
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The Japan Shinzo Abe Has Left Behind
Bill Emmott | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – By leaving office now, as modern Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe will set the terms of his departure instead of allowing dagger-wielding rivals to do it for him. He will leave behind a country still struggling with fundamental economic problems, but also more prepared to go its own way in the world.
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12 Years
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
29 Aug 2020 – I returned to Palestine in 2008 (after a quarter of a century in the US) and it is good to reflect on these 12 years. Below this is the message from August 2008 explaining why I came back and what I had planned to do here. Much of course happened in […]
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These Poems
June Jordan | Academy of American Poets - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
These poems
they are things that I do
Humanity’s Magic Number as 1.5?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
24 Aug 2020 – Dimensionless Constant Governing Civilization and Its Potential Collapse – Never in the history of humankind has a number been so widely publicized in so many forms.
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From Lockdown to Police State: The “Great Reset” Rolls Out
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – Questioning the unreliability of the tests in a Wired interview, even Bill Gates acknowledged that most US test results are “garbage.” The Polymerase Chain Reaction technology used in the nasal swab test for COVID-19 detection was regarded by its own inventor, Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis, as inappropriate to detect viral infection. “Excess mortality rates are caused by therapy and lockdown while death statistics include diseases redefined as COVID-19 only because of a “positive” test result whose value could not be more doubtful.”
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The End of American History Begins in America
Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
America’s aggressions around the globe have boomeranged into its domestic affairs. In the 1980s, Francis Fukuyama, a bureaucratic functionary, declared that “history” had ended and USA was the triumphant trophy. Had he inadvertently played a satirical spoof to the end of American history itself?
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Pivot to Peace with China. Sign!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
During the last few months, a systematic Sinophobic (anti-China) policy has been rolled out all over the world by the US and its obedient mainstream media. It is so uniform in content and style that it deserves to be categorized as a ‘campaign.’ It has nothing to do with critical media, questioning and diversity of perspectives. You are being taken for a ride!
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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This Pandemic Brings Out the Worst in Our CEOs
Jim Hightower | Other Words - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
12 Aug 2020 – Last year, CEOs signed a pledge to be better corporate citizens. Then the pandemic hit. As horrible as the COVID-19 crisis is, it has brought out the best in the American people. But it has also amplified the “me-first” greed of corporate chieftains.
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I’m a Historian–I See Reason to Fear-and to Hope
Joanne Freeman | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 -Historians don’t just study history. We construct it. We puzzle pieces into meanings. Aided by our instincts and experiences, as well as by our research, we make sense of other times, other nations, other peoples. In that sense, the writing of history is always personal.
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(Português) Como o Crime Organizado Tem Explorado Benefícios Concedidos a Igrejas para Operar Seus Negócios Ilegais
Rebekah Ward, Beatriz Muylaert, Matthew Albasi e Giannina Segnini | Agência Pública – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
16 ago 2020 – Paraísos de Dinheiro e Fé – Investigação realizada por veículos de dez países descobriu que, amparados nas leis de liberdade de culto, algumas igrejas e líderes religiosos nas Américas abusam da confiança de seus fiéis e cometem crimes como lavagem de dinheiro e fraude.
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Disinformed to Death
Jonathan Freedland | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
20 Aug 2020 – When a pandemic is raging, it becomes harder to deny that rigorous, truthful information is a mortal necessity. No one need explain the risks of false information when one can point to, say, the consequences of Americans’ coming to believe they can deflect the virus by injecting themselves with bleach. (The fact that that advice came from the podium of the president of the U.S. is one we shall return to.)
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Media Show Little Interest in Israeli Bombing of Gaza
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Israel is bombing Palestine again, although you wouldn’t guess that from watching TV news. For the eleventh straight night, Israeli Defense Force warplanes have been bombing the densely populated Gaza Strip causing considerable damage and forcing the shutdown of the area’s only power plant. But the corporate media, focused on the coronavirus and US elections, have shown little interest in the renewed violence in the Middle East.
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Conscience in Revolt: Sophie Scholl on Suffering, Strength, and the Deepest Wellspring of Courage
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
“Sympathy is often difficult and soon becomes hollow if one feels no pain oneself.”
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Modi’s Brutal Treatment of Kashmir Exposes His Tactics – And Their Flaws
Arundhati Roy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
At midnight on 4 August 2019, phones in Kashmir went dead and internet connections were cut. On 5 August 2019, a year ago today, 7 million people were locked into their homes under a strict military curfew. Up to 10,000 people, from young children and teenage stone pelters to former chief ministers and major pro-India politicians, were arrested and put into preventive detention, where many of them still remain. On 6 August, a bill was passed in parliament stripping the state of Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomy and special status enshrined in the Indian constitution. It was stripped of statehood, downgraded into two union territories, Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir. Ladakh would have no legislature and would be governed directly by New Delhi.
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‘Jurassic Park Experiment’: 750 Million Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes to Be Released in Florida
James Crump | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – US authorities have approved a plan to release more than 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes across the Florida Keys, despite objections from local residents. The project will test whether the altered mosquitoes can work as an alternative to pesticides to control the spread of diseases, such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.
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(Français) Arrêter notre descente dans la tyrannie: vaincre le Coup d’État Covid-19 de l’élite mondiale
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Libertégérie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Le coup d’État de l’élite pour vous refuser vos droits en tant qu’être humain libre et autonome resserre son emprise, inflige une énorme violence psychologique et physique sous une variété stupéfiante de formes à ceux qui sont emprisonnés dans leurs maisons, tue ceux dans toute l’Afrique , Asie et ailleurs incapables de survivre dans une économie mondiale gravement perturbée et accélère la ruée vers l’extinction sur quatre points distincts. Vous pouvez vous soumettre à la tyrannie ou vous pouvez y résister.
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Minimizing Conflicts amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
Ivana Milojević | Journal of Future Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
The critical importance of enhancing our conflict resolution capacities. As COVID-19 races around the world, we can anticipate further increases in conflicts. Indeed, psychologists and humanitarian organizations have already posted some helpful guidelines as to how to defuse intra- and inter-personal conflicts.
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The Conversation
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020 – Coronavirus is a conspiracy. Masks are a conspiracy. Mail-in voting is a conspiracy. Seeing a pattern here?
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(Français) Oh Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Association France Palestine Solidarité - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
15 juillet 2005 – Poème écrit par Mazen Qumsieh, Palestinien qui vit aux Etats-Unis et dénonce régulièrement dans ses écrits l’occupation israélienne et ses méfaits en Palestine.
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Richard Z. Cheng, M.D., Ph.D. | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
16 Aug 2020 – Covid-19 has caused more than 700,000 deaths and USD$86 trillion economic losses worldwide in just over half a year! And yet, there are still no specific drugs or treatments that the top medical advisors (medical agencies) in US are willing to recommend. Really? No specific treatments for Covid-19?
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Nuclear Complacency and the Dangerous Drift toward a New Cold War with China
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – I am increasingly worried by the either/or quality of the U.S. November elections that effectively suppresses concerns about a bipartisan drift toward a second cold war focused on China as geopolitical adversary that will be confronted.
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There Is Still Much to Be Learned about the Beirut Explosion
Habib Battah | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – To prevent a tragic repeat, we should not be satisfied with simple, convenient, yet incomplete explanations.
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Nonviolence versus Capitalism
Brian Martin | War Resisters’ International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
Nonviolent action is the most promising method for moving beyond capitalism to a more humane social and economic system. Approaches based on using state power—including state socialism and socialist electoralism—have been tried and failed. Dramatic changes are definitely needed because capitalism, despite its undoubted strengths, continues to cause enormous suffering. Nonviolent action as an approach has the capacity to transform capitalism, though there are many obstacles involved.
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As Wages Stagnate and Executive Pay ‘Continues to Balloon,’ Report Shows Top CEOs Now Make 320 Times More Than Typical Worker
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – New research from the Economic Policy Institute finds that CEO compensation grew by 1,167% from 1978 to 2019, “far outstripping” the growth of the stock market.
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In Act of High Seas Piracy, US Hijacks Iranian Oil Bound for Venezuela
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 – The US interdiction of oil shipments bound from Iran to Venezuela represents a dangerous escalation, raising the threat of armed conflict. The Department of Justice issued a statement Friday [14 Aug] bragging that “approximately 1.116 million barrels of petroleum” had been stolen “with the assistance of foreign partners.” There has been no indication of what “foreign partners” were involved in this act of piracy, but US officials claim that the seizure did not involve military force.
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How to Prevent the Looming Sovereign-Debt Crisis
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate, and Hamid Rashid | Vox EU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
3 Aug 2020 – From Latin America’s lost decade in the 1980s to the more recent Greek crisis, there are plenty of painful reminders of what happens when countries cannot service their debts. This column argues that a global debt crisis today would likely push millions of people into unemployment and fuel instability and violence around the world, and proposes a multilateral sovereign debt buyback facility which could be managed by the IMF.
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(Português) Artista critica violência por trás do consumo de leite
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 ago 2020 – Quem não conhece a realidade por trás do consumo de leite e derivados pode acreditar que esses produtos que chegam às nossas mãos são produzidos da forma mais pacífica possível.
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Israel Launches Airstrikes against Gaza and Threatens War
Jean Shaoul | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Israel is preparing for war on the besieged Palestinian enclave, even as it ups the ante against Hezbollah in Lebanon and its primary target, Iran.
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Wait, How Much Microplastic Is Swirling in the Atlantic?
Matt Simon | Wired - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – Scientists calculate that the top 200 meters of ocean alone contains up to 21 million metric tons of plastic. And that wasn’t even counting microfibers.
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Videogame: Nonviolence as War by Other Means
Michael Peck | Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – “Gandhi” is a wargame that inverts Clausewitz’s famous dictum: Instead of war as politics by other means, nonviolence becomes war waged by other means. Players control one of four competing factions: the British Raj; the Indian National Congress; the Muslim League; or the Revolutionaries.
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Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – Perceptions Are Driven by Experiences
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US Decision to File New Charges against Julian Assange ‘Astonishing and Potentially Abusive’
Charlie Jones | Computer Weekly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – Lawyer for WikiLeaks founder slams US decision to serve a second indictment at the 11th hour alleging that Assange conspired with hackers, as a potential abuse of process.
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Apple Surpasses $2 Trillion, Doubling in Value in Two Years–It’s Insane!
Mitchell Feierstein | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
19 Aug 2020 – Amid the Worst Depression Ever, It Will End Badly – As the stock prices of the big five technology companies rise beyond irrational valuations, something is wrong. The coming stock crash and economic depression will be swift, severe and devastating.
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Something’s Rotten in the Corporate States of America
Robert Scheer interviews Barbara Freese | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – A new book by Barbara Freese explores eight stories about the unfettered corporate greed that has corrupted modern society and led to an astounding loss of life.
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China and the Decline of US Power
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
23 Aug 2020 – In examining the interface between the US and China, I shall begin with those areas of conflict where the latter has surpassed the former. This will be followed by reflections on manifestations of US power which are not as formidable as they are made out to be. Conclusions will be drawn from these two categories on the emerging pattern of global power.
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(Português) Tecido Financeiro Apropriador: O Caso da BlackRock
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
11 ago 2020 – Têm-se desenvolvido no mundo intrincados e extensos tecidos de organizações econômicas que se apropriam de boa parte do excedente gerado pelo esforço produtivo da humanidade. Esses tecidos têm seu epicentro em países centrais, mas seus tentáculos atingem todo o mundo. Conseguem abalançar-se sobre oportunidades de lucrar e também de retrair-se sem perdas quando as circunstâncias mudam. O caso do tecido articulado pela BlackRock e seu impacto.
→ read full articleSustaining the Quest for Sustainable Answers on COVID-19
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – Beyond the Divisive Preoccupation with Unquestionable Assertions and Unanswered Questions – The early months of 2020 have seen no lack of questions and answers with respect to the coronavirus pandemic. Especially problematic is the process whereby discourse in this regard has been characterized by misinformation of every kind — and from every authority.
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Does Coronavirus Linger in the Body? What We Know about How Viruses in General Hang on in the Brain and Testicles
William Petri | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
31 Jul 2020 – An unanswered question is the extent to which the virus can “hide out” in recovered individuals. If it does, could this explain some of the lingering symptoms of COVID-19 or pose a risk for transmission of infection to others even after recovery? I am a physician-scientist of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, where I care for patients with infections and conduct research on COVID-19. Here I will briefly review what is known today about chronic or persistent COVID-19.
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Oliver Stone: It Doesn’t Matter Who’s US President, the Military-Industrial Complex Must Be Funded!
Going Underground | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
5 Aug 2020 – We speak to one of the greatest film directors in the world Oliver Stone. He discusses his new book ‘Chasing the Light’ which details his life directing and involvement in iconic films such as Salvador, Scarface and Midnight Express, why it was hopeless for Donald Trump to change a system ran by the military-industrial complex, and much more!
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Marines to Test ‘Super Powered’ Exoskeleton Suit
Dave Makichuk | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
30 Jul 2020 – By the end of the year, the US Marines will have a Guardian XO Alpha full-body robotic exoskeleton that allows one person to do the work of four to 10 people, depending on the task. The wearable suit can do hours of physical labor that would otherwise be impossible for a Marine to do alone, lifting and moving up to 200 pounds of gear repeatedly for eight hours straight.
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Beethoven on Creative Vitality and Resilience in the Face of Suffering
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
“Day by day I am approaching the goal which I apprehend but cannot describe.” He would go on to cultivate a lifestyle regimen that sustains a superhuman vitality, to embody the crucial difference between genius and talent, and to believe that music saved his life.
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As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections a Third Time, Media Continue to Ignore Coup
Bryce Greene | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020 – When a country’s military oust a sitting president by force, that is a military coup. Referring to it simply as a “resignation”–as in the Washington Post’s 11/10/19–fails to capture the nature of the overthrow. Describing Morales’ ouster as merely happening “amid widespread unrest” is a way of telling readers: “This sort of thing happens all the time in this part of the world. No need to look into it.”
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Still Hanging Over Us
Joe Kandra, Kathie MM and Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Like a curse!
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Bolsonaro and WHO United in the Same Fight?
Maria Antonietta Bàlzola, M.D. | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020 – Jair Bolsonaro, just like Trump, claims that there is no epidemic from COVID-19 and shows himself smiling as he swallows chloroquine, thus projecting the image of a good-tempered and decidedly stupid despot. A lot of people make a simple reasoning: if he takes chloroquine, it must certainly be a stupid thing to do.
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While Israel Celebrates a New Peace Accord, Palestinians Once Again Lose
Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – Who could be against an announcement of peace between two nations formally at war? Netanyahu may have agreed to halt annexation of parts of the West Bank, but the UAE has ensured the occupation itself is normalised. With this deal, it has signalled that Israel can remain an occupier, closing off the possibility of Palestinian self-determination, and still win regional acceptance.
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Interpreting the UAE/Israel Agreement on Suspending Annexation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
16 Aug 2020 – Responses to interview questions from Javad Heiran-Nia, an Iranian journalist, on the UAE/Israel Normalization/Annexation Agreement of Aug. 13, 2020.
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The Return of Anonymous
Dale Beran | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
11 Aug 2020 – The infamous hacker group reemerges from the shadows. At the end of May, as protests against the police killing of George Floyd got under way, reports started to circulate that they were back.
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Ernest Wamba dia Wamba (1942 – 15 Jul 2020): A Healer from Within
Jacques Depelchin | Africa Is a Country - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
A brother, comrade, philosopher, historian, thinker, healer, and dreamer left us physically. But he is still there to help us navigate through the times, assuming we realize how he understood the senselessness of the managers of a dominant system that presumes it must control and own everything.
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Trump’s Tantrum against TikTok Is No Laughing Matter
Ari Paul | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
5 Aug 2020 – President Donald Trump has made it clear he would like to ban the video-making app TikTok. Despite being mostly used by younger users to make music or comedic videos, the White House says it is worried about the platform, as the New York Times (8/1/20) explained, “because of the app’s Chinese ownership.”
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Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020 – Regardless of the outcome, the election will not stop the rise of hypernationalism, crisis cults and other signs of an empire’s terminal decline.
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(Português) Até Quando Nos Alimentaremos de Violência?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
23 jul 2020 – Até o final do dia estarão mortos no Brasil não menos do que 80 mil bois, 131 mil porcos e 16,7 milhões de frangos. Chegamos a esses números calculando os mais recentes dados trimestrais da pecuária no país coletados pelo IBGE. Imagine quanto sangue é derramado para que possamos nos alimentar de carne. Seríamos capazes de encher quantas piscinas?
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(Português) Extinção de Abelhas Causam Escassez das Principais Culturas de Alimentos
Maria Luiza Santos | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
8 ago 2020 – A falta de abelhas em áreas de agricultura está limitando o suprimento de algumas plantações de alimentos, segundo um novo estudo feito nos EUA que segure que o declínio desses polinizadores pode causar sérias ramificações para a segurança alimentar global.
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Are Worst-Case Climate Scenarios Less Likely, as Media Reports of a New Scientific Paper Suggest?
David Spratt | Climate Code Red - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
28 Jul 2020 – Reading the media reporting of a new scientific paper released on 22 July, it was easy to get the impression that some “worse-case” climate warming possibilities are now off the agenda. “So this is good news?” a friend emailed. “No” was my answer. It would be a grave mistake, and an illustration of how media reporting can get complex climate stories wrong, to find good news in this research.
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Bill Gates’ Charity Paradox
Tim Schwab | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
A Nation investigation illustrates the moral hazards surrounding the Gates Foundation’s $50 billion charitable enterprise.
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US Space Force Faults Russia, China for ‘Militarizing Space’, which Pentagon Did Decades Ago
Morgan Artyukhina | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – US defense leaders have firmly pointed the finger at Russia and China as the raison d’etre for the US Space Force, claiming the nations have “militarized space,” requiring the US to respond. However, what is really threatened is US space superiority, as the Pentagon has tested space weapons for decades.
→ read full articleFrom Blossoms
Li-Young Lee | Poetry Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy…
HUFUD-Humanity United For Universal Demilitarisation Now in Africa
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 – It is with great joy and excitement that I announce the launch of HUFUD Africa, with Head Offices in Uganda. I hope that Black Lives Matter will help broadcast the news to all their followers and media outlets.
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Shaun Walker | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020 – A funeral, a family, and a journey into a disappearing religion.
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Freakish Arctic Fires Alarmingly Intensify
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
12 Aug 2020 – NASA satellite images of fires in eastern Siberia depict an inferno of monstrous proportions, nothing in modern history compares. And, as of July, it’s intensifying. Should people be concerned? Answer: Yes, and double yes.
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Learning from the Hibakushas
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
12 Aug 2020 – “They were covered with blood and burned and blackened and swollen, and the flesh was hanging from the bones. Parts of their bodies were missing, and some were carrying their own eyeballs in their hands. And as they collapsed, their stomach burst open.” But war is necessary, right?
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Joshua Goodman | AP, Global News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – The Trump administration has seized the cargo of four tankers it was targeting for transporting Iranian fuel to Venezuela, U.S. officials said today, as it steps up its campaign of maximum pressure against the two heavily sanctioned allies.
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The Show Trial of Julian Assange: A Cruel and Pseudolegal Farce
Thomas Scripps and Kevin Reed | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 – Yesterday’s hearing in London made clear that the prosecution of Julian Assange is a shameful and degrading show trial, intended to railroad an innocent man to prison or death for revealing the crimes of US. In a botched proceeding, Assange was initially not brought to the video room to join the proceedings, the US prosecutors failed to show up after getting the hearing time wrong… (read on)
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130 Degrees
Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency, by Mark Lynas, London: 4th Estate, 372 pp. – So now we have some sense of what it’s like: a global-scale crisis that disrupts everything–shopping for food, holding a wedding, going to work, seeing your parents. Will you ever ride a subway again, or take a plane? The upheaval that has been caused by Covid-19 is also very much a harbinger of global warming.
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Israel Is in Shock, in a Sickening Show of Hypocrisy
Gideon Levy | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
7 Aug 2020 – When Israel demolished Dahiya and other neighborhoods in Beirut, the Tel Aviv Municipality building was not illuminated with the colors of the Lebanese flag. When Israel killed thousands of innocent women and children, old and young, in Gaza during the criminal Operation Cast Lead and Operation Protective Edge, the municipality was not lit up in the colors of the Palestinian flag. But on Wednesday [5 Aug] we were all so humane, so Lebanese for a moment. Until the next Dahiya.
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Re-membering the Globe from a Flatland Perspective
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Reconciling in 3D the Vitruvian Archetype with Sports Ball Curves – The speculation here is that the long-admired (and much-reproduced) Vitruvian Man, as famously depicted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490, could be seen as apparently reinforcing a two-dimensional worldview — even though it is interpreted as implying and exemplifying what could be considered as a vital perspective on proportions in their more integrative global sense.
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U.S. Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the U.S, Not China
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies | CODEPINK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
3 Aug 2020 – Governments all over the world are collaborating with China to stop the spread of coronavirus and share the solutions. The U.S. must stop pursuing its counterproductive effort to undermine China as it has initiated each new escalation in U.S.-China relations. And the reason seems obvious: the approaching U.S. election.
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Pandemics, Corruption, Profits (Part 1): All Roads Lead to Dark Winter
Whitney Webb and Raul Diego | The Last American Vagabond - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
1 Apr 2020 – The leaders of two controversial pandemic simulations that took place just months before the Coronavirus crisis – Event 201 and Crimson Contagion – share a common history, the 2001 biowarfare simulation Dark Winter. Dark Winter not only predicted the 2001 anthrax attacks, but some of its participants had clear foreknowledge of those attacks.
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(Italiano) Agosto 1945: Riusciremo mai a imparare dalla tragedia nucleare?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
5 Agosto 2020 – Nei prossimi giorni – il 6 e il 9 agosto – saranno trascorsi 75 anni dalla doppia tragedia che catapultò l’umanità nell’era nucleare: il bombardamento di Hiroshima e Nagasaki. Dopo le grandi manifestazioni anti-nucleari dei primi decenni la tensione morale alimentata dall’indignazione per la morte atroce di più di duecentomila vittime, e la paura di un olocausto nucleare globale si sono affievolite.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Ditto!
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