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Iranian President Rouhani Sends Message to People of the United States of America
Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran | IFP - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2020

20 Mar 2020 – On behalf of the great Iranian nation, I write to the people of the United States of America on the occasion of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz). The coronavirus outbreak has endangered the health of—and even presented a considerable threat to—humanity with no distinction as to nationality, or gender or religious backgrounds. This presents an opportune moment to further contemplate our common pains and our human principles.

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What Goes around Comes around…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2020

There!

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COVID-19: How Much Is It Worth to Save the Elderly?
Sarah Edmonds | News Decoder - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2020

9 Apr 2020 – COVID-19 is squeezing the economy as nations impose lockdowns. Some are asking: Is the financial pain worth saving the elderly?

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Here’s How Your Body Gains Immunity to Coronavirus
Zania Stamataki | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2020

10 Apr 2020 – Unprecedented efforts and diverted resources mean we are fast learning about human defences against this new threat. Importantly, Covid-19 cannot gain entry to our homes or bodies by itself – we have to let it in.

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Thank You Coronavirus
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

Nothing will be the same again…

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Coronavirus — Global Plan, Doughnut, Torus, Helix and/or Pineapple?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

Zome Modelling Dynamics Allowing for Uncertainty in Perception of Order in Governance? Given widespread urgent calls for a “Global Plan” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the argument first challenges the appropriateness of any “plan” in a global context. This is contrasted with the so-called doughnut model which has been presented as appropriate to ensuring a safe operating space for humanity.

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In Time of Pandemic Praise for the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

3 Apr 2020 – What the COVID-19 experience made clear was the importance of information to virtually every person and governmental body on the planet, and the degree to which the WHO and its Director General were quickly established as a valued source of reliable and trustworthy information. Establishing public trust and informational reliability become paramount goals, and WHO and Tedros Adhanan Grebreyerus, its Director General, have risen to the occasion, gaining media credibility and worldwide respect.

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Anti-Parasitic Drug Kills COVID-19 in Lab
Christine McGinn | MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

4 Apr 2020 – An anti-parasitic drug available throughout the world has been found to kill COVID-19 in the lab within 48 hours. A Monash University-led study has shown a single dose of the drug Ivermectin could stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus growing in cell culture.

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Inside Jared Kushner’s Coronavirus Research: A Wide Net on a Giant Facebook Group
Anita Kumar | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

Just before midnight on 11 March, a doctor asked a group of fellow emergency room physicians on Facebook how they would combat the escalating coronavirus outbreak. “I have direct channel to person now in charge at White House,” Kurt Kloss wrote in his post. Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, had asked him for recommendations.

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The Corona – An Opportunity to Replace Militarist Security with Common and Human Security (Part 1)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

2 Apr 2020 – Governments have spent trillions on preparing for military threats created by their own policies. No one prioritised human and societal security. The unique over-reaction to COVID-19 should worry us much more than the virus itself. It can be seen as a panicky attempt to cover-up the failure of an outdated militarist security policy.

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1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin and spread worldwide during 1918-1919. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide.

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(Italiano) «Il virus è la malattia del pianeta stressato»
Francesco Bilotta interviste Prof. Gianni Tamino | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

26 marzo 2020 – Intorno alla pandemia causata dal nuovo coronavirus si sta sviluppando un intenso dibattito sugli aspetti sanitari. Anche nel campo delle scienze sociali, per l’impatto che il virus sta avendo sulle nostre abitudini e stili di vita, si stanno producendo riflessioni ed analisi.

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Coronavirus: Once You Have Antibodies, Are You Safe?
Connor Bamford | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

31 Mar 2020 – As more and more people get infected, survive and build up antibodies and T cells against SARS-CoV-2, we may eventually reach a threshold where we achieve “herd immunity”. This refers to the phenomenon where not everyone is immune, but because most people in the population are, the chances that those non-immune susceptible people catch a disease is very small.

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One Year of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Spending Would Provide 300,000 ICU Beds, 35,000 Ventilators and Salaries of 75,000 Doctors
Matthew Impelli | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

26 Mar 2020 – The amount of money spent in one year by the U.S. on nuclear weapons could instead provide 300,000 ICU (intensive care unit) beds, 35,000 ventilators and 75,000 doctors’ salaries, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

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How Deadly Is the Coronavirus? It’s Still far from Clear
Dr John Lee | The Spectator - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

28 Mar 2020 – There Is Room for Different Interpretations of the Data – Any testing regime that is based only in hospitals will over-estimate the virulence of an infection.

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The Coronavirus Did Not Escape from a Lab–Here’s How We Know
Jeanna Bryner | Live Science - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

As the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 spreads across the globe, with cases surpassing 284,000 worldwide today (March 20), misinformation is spreading almost as fast. One persistent myth is that this virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was made by scientists and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began.

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COVID-19 Blunders Signal End of ‘American Century’
Wang Wen | Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

30 Mar 2020 – For most people it’s unfathomable that the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is the first global event that hasn’t been led by the US since 1941. The principal founder of peace and conflict studies, Johan Galtung, predicted in his 2009 book ‘The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What?’ that the US empire will decline and fall by 2020. According to Galtung, it is due to USA expanding hegemon that has driven it to exploit and suppress other countries. 

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The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Part of the Climate Change Crisis
Vijay Kolinjivadi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

30 Mar 2020 – The two emergencies have their roots in the world’s current economic model – that of the pursuit of infinite growth at the expense of the environment on which our survival depends – and both are deadly and disruptive. The pandemic is part of climate change and therefore, our response to it should not be limited to containing the spread of the virus. What we thought was “normal” before the pandemic was already a crisis and so returning to it cannot be an option.

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We Can All Help!
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

How to Help Others in the Pandemic

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Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976)
Tayo Aluko | Counterfire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

Black Lawyer, Singer and Football Player, Paul Robeson’s Extraordinary Life Holds Many Lessons for the Present Day

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U.N. Security Council ‘Missing In Action’ in Coronavirus Fight
Rick Gladstone | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

2 Apr 2020 – The leader of the U.N. has called the pandemic the biggest international threat in the 75-year history of the organization, but its most powerful body has yet to take action.

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(Italiano) Proteggere la filiera alimentare… non solo merci, anche persone
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

29 Marzo 2020 – “Scarsità di cibo”: questo il titolo di un recente articolo pubblicato sul giornale «The Guardian». Se i governi introducessero misure protezionistiche durante questa crisi sanitaria da coronavirus, potrebbero verificarsi difficoltà di approvvigionamento di cibo in tutto il mondo: questa l’opinione espressa da Maximo Torero, economista dalle FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation).

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Brazil Scales Back Environmental Enforcement amid Coronavirus Outbreak
The Guardian | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

27 Mar 2020- Brazil will reduce efforts to fight environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak, despite concerns that reduced protection could lead to a surge in deforestation.

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Amid War Threats, Washington Blocks UN Resolution Demanding End to Sanctions
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

4 April 2020 – Washington and its allies on 2 April killed a UN resolution calling for the lifting of unilateral sanctions that are severely impeding efforts to combat the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Joining the US in blocking the resolution were the European Union and the United Kingdom, along with the right-wing governments of Ukraine and Georgia.

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A New Book on Iran
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

A new book entitled Politics of Oil and Nuclear Technology in Iran has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. In it, Johan Galtung’s version of the Center Periphery model, described in his article entitled “A Structural Theory of Imperialism,” has been used as an analytical framework.

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The Race Between Economics and COVID-19
Mohamed A. El-Erian | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

26 Mar 2020 – For years, the economics profession has suffered from a stubborn reluctance to adopt a more multidisciplinary approach. But now that the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming economic life the world over, the profession has no choice but to leave its comfort zone.

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Investigating Israeli Criminality at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

Amicus Brief submitted to the International Criminal Court in The Hague on 16 Mar 2020 in the jurisdictional phase of a proceeding in which to initiate such a legal proceeding and whether the ICC has jurisdiction, that is, legal authority to investigate and possibly prosecute such alleged. As the Prosecutor indicated, the facts at her disposal indicate a basis for accepting Palestine’s request for an investigation of alleged Israeli criminal conduct.

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Helping Humanity
Schulz | Peanuts – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

Right!

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Never Has So Little Done So Much Harm to So Many
Scott C. Tips | The National Health Federation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

4 Apr 2020 – The Latest Coronavirus Attack Is A Cover for Restricting Our Health Freedoms

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The World Rediscovers Cuban Medical Internationalism
Helen Yaffe | Le Monde Diplomatique - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

30 Mar 2020 – Just weeks ago, US Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders was vilified by the US establishment for acknowledging education and healthcare achievements in revolutionary Cuba. Now, as the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, the island’s medical prowess is back in the spotlight.

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“Murder Most Foul”: Unpacking Bob Dylan’s New Epic, from Dallas 1963 to the Pandemic of 2020
David Masciotra | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

4 Apr 2020 – Bob Dylan’s new song, “Murder Most Foul,” arrives in the mailbox like a postcard from the apocalypse. In an effectively restrained voice, America’s most important songwriter delivers an act of mourning for John F. Kennedy that enlarges into political prophecy, almost as if he is auditioning for authorship of a follow chapter to the book of Revelation. 

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Why Inequality Could Spread COVID-19
Joseph Stiglitz et al. | The Lancet - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

2 Apr 2020 – Pandemics rarely affect all people in a uniform way. The Black Death in the 14th century reduced the global population by a third, with the highest number of deaths among the poorest. As these populations are more likely to have chronic conditions, this puts them at higher risk of COVID-19-associated mortality. Since the pandemic has perpetuated an economic crisis, unemployment rates will rise substantially and weakened welfare safety nets further threaten health and social insecurity.

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Trump: US to Deploy Anti-Drug Navy Ships near Venezuela
Joshua Goodman | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

2 Apr 2020 – President Donald Trump announced yesterday that Navy ships are being moved toward Venezuela as his administration beefs up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a U.S. drug indictment against Nicolás Maduro. The announcement came at the start of the daily White House press briefing to discuss the coronavirus pandemic.

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An Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

“Only through full awareness of the danger to life can this potential be mobilized for action capable of bringing about drastic changes in our way of organizing society.”

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(Português) Jane Goodall Diz que Devemos Deixar os Animais em Paz
Jane Goodall | Vegazeta - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

31 mar 2020 – Considerando a origem e as consequências da pandemia de coronavírus, este mês a famosa primatologista Jane Goodall, de 85 anos, protagonizou um vídeo disponibilizado no YouTube em que pede que os animais sejam deixados em paz. “Nosso relacionamento muito próximo com animais silvestres nos mercados ou quando os usamos para entretenimento, desencadeou o terror e a miséria de novos vírus”.

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Messianic Zionism – The Ass and the Red Heifer
Moshé Machover | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

1 Feb 2020 – The relation between Zionism and Judaism (the Jewish religion) is paradoxical and complex. In its early days, Zionism was apparently a thoroughly secular political movement. Apparently. In reality, while its ego was secular, its id has always been religious. And in recent times, the latter has emerged from its hidden recess and is parading in full view. A form of religious Zionism has gained influence in Israel, which shares with militant Christian evangelism and Islamic jihadism the character of political movement with fundamentalist religious ideology.

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The German Government Has Declared a Complete Stopping to «Defender Europe 20»
Edgars Palladis | The Duran - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

28 Mar 2020 – According to the official Bundestag representative, the the U.S.-led multinational Exercise «Defender Europe 20» has been cancelled.

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Israeli Warplanes Attack Several Places in Gaza
Days of Palestine | Kia Ora Gaza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

Gaza Strip, 28 Mar 2020 – Despite coronavirus pandemic, the Israeli occupation forces continue its crimes against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.

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Visiting Auschwitz the Day Poland Locked Itself Down
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

30 Mar 2020 – Genocides start with an act of framing human community, with their distinct group identity, typically vulnerable and weak, as ‘a virus’ or ‘existential threat.’

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Global Call
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

24 Mar 2020 – A global call from Palestine Action for the Planet. More and more people realize that the current global political and economic structures are unable to deal with global climate crisis, the endless conflicts, proliferation of WMD, and the increased frequency of pandemics. This is no longer just a question of morality and rights but a question of our survival as a civilization and as a planet facing mass extinction. 

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Don’t Just Avoid the Virus — Defeat It by Strengthening Your Immunity
Amory B. Lovins and Eric Rasmussen, MD | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

30 Mar 2020 – Simple, science-based steps to boost your immunity can help prevent or moderate infection — including challenging the conventional wisdom about Vitamin C.

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Bigger Brother
Tim Wu | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

9 Apr 2020 Issue – What we have learned, what Skinner and secret police alike have realized, is this: to know everything about someone is to create the power to control that person. We may not be there yet, but there is a theoretical point—call it the Skinnerlarity—where enough data will be gathered about humanity to predict, with some reasonable reliability, what everyone on earth will do at any moment. That accomplishment would change the very structure of experience. As the legal scholar Jonathan Zittrain has said, it would make life “a highly realistic but completely tailored video game where nothing happens by chance.”

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Inspiration from a Father: Johan Galtung Interviewed by Henrik Urdal
Henrik Urdal | PRIO - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

“When [Gandhi] was shot on 30th January 1948, I found myself crying – much to my puzzlement and dismay. I was 17 and 17-year-olds don’t cry. And a boy to boot. And it wasn’t a habit of mine to cry. Somehow or other, Gandhi’s message had affected me so deeply that I reacted in this unexpected way.”

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Was the Fed Just Nationalized?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

3 Apr 2020 – Did Congress just nationalize the Fed? No. But the door to that result has been cracked open.

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Cuba’s Coronavirus Response Is Putting Other Countries to Shame
Ben Burgis | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

23 Mar 2020 -Cuba is caricatured by the Right as a totalitarian hellhole. But its response to the coronavirus pandemic — from sending doctors to other countries to pioneering anti-viral treatments to converting factories into mask-making machines — is putting other countries, especially the rich ones, to shame.

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Cognitive Engagement with Spike Dynamics of a Polyhedral Coronavirus
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

30 Mar 2020 – The presentations here follow from an argument previously made suggesting that there were insights to be gained from the form of the coronavirus in 3D. In particular this highlighted the possible isomorphism between the configuration of spikes on the viral form and psychosocial forms potentially characterized in terms of “spikes”.

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Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm
Kathy Kelly | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

27 Mar 2020 – U.S. national security leaders and stakeholders in war, as they shelter in place, have an extraordinary opportunity to set a new norm and link with the vigil for Peace in Yemen, virtually. And, some may even join Yale students on April 9, from sunrise to sunset, in their National Fast for Peace in Yemen. They invite us to pledge support for Doctors Without Borders and other relief groups in Yemen.

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A 21st Century Worldview: Interviewing Ahmet Davutoğlu
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

28 Mar 2020 – Interview that I conducted with the former Turkish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, published in Middle East Monitor on March 23-24, 2020. His responses to questions 18-20 concern the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the world. The interview is long, yet a worthwhile overview how the most important intellectual political figure in Turkey views global and national reality given the shape of recent developments.

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When Economists Try to Solve Health Crises, the Results Can Often Be Disastrous
Justin Podur | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

27 Mar 2020 – Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly.

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Civilized, Barbarians, Savages
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.

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(Italiano) Nell’Europa chiusa per il virus la Ue apre le porte all’esercito Usa
Manlio Dinucci | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

10 Marzo 2020 – L’Arte della guerra . Lo Us Army Europe ha richiesto l’istituzione di «un’Area Schengen militare», con la differenza che a circolare liberamente non sono persone ma carrarmati. Test decisivo è l’esercitazione «Difensore dell’Europa 2020», in aprile e maggio. L’arrivo, il 6 marzo, dei primi 200 soldati Usa in Baviera.

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(Português) A Primavera Não Sabia (Texto Inspirador)
Irene Vella | Rui Unas – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

Entrevistada por DiLei, Irene explicou a gênese de sua maravilhosa poesia dedicada ao mundo durante a emergência do coronavírus e que se tornou viral em pouco tempo. “Eu estava na minha cozinha sentada num banquinho, tinha dado uma volta pelo jardim para ver as árvores a florescer. Estava excitada. Tinha esquecido as quase três semanas de quarentena voluntária, já que meu marido é imunossuprimido, e a mente começou a voar … ”

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War and Warming
Nathan Albright | Voices for Creative Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

11 Mar 2020 – “What we most need is grassroots solidarity and cross border hospitality, even with all its messiness” said Yeb, “this movement must be strengthened and built despite our world leaders.” That week at the summit, where the Paris Climate Accord would be drafted, despite a government ban on public assembly, 11,000 people flooded the streets facing tear gas and police clubs, and over 600,000 others around the world marched in support. “Solidarity is not an option,” said Yeb, as he completed his journey and risked arrest joining the demonstrations for climate justice, “it is our only chance.”

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Leading the Charge!
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

No comment…

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(Italiano) Ribbon – un lungo nastro di speranza per questi giorni (in)quieti
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

Se questa piccola proposta incontra l’adesione di qualcuna/o, ci si può poi coordinare per stabilire un punto di raccolta dei pannelli e per organizzare iniziative locali, riaffermando con forza la volontà di abolire le armi nucleari dal mondo.

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Explaining the ‘Asian Miracle’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

20 Mar 2020 – A timely aspect of Nayyar’s book is the emphasis he places on the importance of effective state/society relations in explaining the remarkable growth experience of Asia. Such an insight seems relevant to the degree to which various governments are effectively managing responses to the challenge of the Coronavirus pandemic. It would seem at this stage that well-managed autocracies do better than most democracies, and much better than poorly managed democracies that embody capitalist structures, priorities, and values.

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The Fate of the Planet Rests on Dethroning the IMF and World Bank
Johanna Bozuwa and Thomas M. Hanna | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

A Global Green New Deal could herald a new era of international cooperation to curb the climate crisis, based on genuine international solidarity and climate reparations.

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Is the US a Civilized Nation?
Ron Forthofer | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

We have continued with savage and barbaric policies in, for example, Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, Syria, Libya, Iraq. We have also imposed sanctions on a number of nations that don’t comply with our policies, and these cruel and brutal sanctions are crimes against humanity. This unnecessary and illegal killing by the US of untold numbers while devastating countries and populations that were not a threat to it were hardly acts of a civilized nation.

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Covid-19: Misinformation, Education, and the Need for Clarity
Hassanal Noor Rashid | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

25 Mar 2020 – The recent explosion of COVID-19 cases in the South East Asian region has contributed to the globally growing pandemic that has impacted our global social order and may have many dramatic unforeseen consequences to come.

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Libya: A Political Deadlock
Loïc Sauvinet | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

26 Mar 2020 – In the light of these latest developments, we have to ask ourselves how this country collapsed, how a seemingly strong state could fail and allow the dynamics of violence to set in, and finally what could be done to manage a peaceful way out of the crisis? To find some answers or at least some keys to interpreting the situation, it is important to have a multidisciplinary approach, using the tools of historical science, sociology and political science.

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(Português) Hamilton pede boicote de zoológicos e circos com animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

27 mar 2020 – Pedido foi feito aos seus 14,9 milhões de seguidores no Instagram – Esta semana o piloto da Fórmula 1 Lewis Hamilton comparou o isolamento social praticado durante a pandemia de coronavírus com a realidade dos animais submetidos a cativeiro em zoológicos e circos.

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Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
Tomas Pueyo | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

19 Mar 2020 – Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way. If we don’t take these measures, tens of millions will be infected, many will die, along with anybody else that requires intensive care, because the healthcare system will have collapsed.

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Venezuela’s Coronavirus Response Might Surprise Some
Leonardo Flores | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

26 Mar 2020 – Within a few hours of being launched, over 800 Venezuelans in the U.S. registered for an emergency flight from Miami to Caracas through a website run by the Venezuelan government. This flight, offered at no cost, was proposed by President Nicolás Maduro when he learned that 200 Venezuelans were stuck in the United States following his government’s decision to stop commercial flights as a preventative coronavirus measure.

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Creative Empathy in a Pandemic
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

18 Mar 2020 – Of all the disruption, paradox and chaos that have been unleashed by the coronavirus, this is the most stunning: It has something to teach us that we could never learn on our own. My God, we are one planet — one people. This isn’t idealism; it’s the most pragmatic social organizing principle possible. Just as all of us are, of necessity, isolated from each other, we are all participants, via our creative empathy, in this shift in human consciousness. What examples of this empathy have you noticed? Let’s share.

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(Italiano) COVID19: catastrofe o opportunità di cambiamento?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

15 Marzo 2020 – All’emergenza climatica e a quella di milioni di rifugiati in fuga dalle devastazioni prodotte dalle guerre e dagli effetti del riscaldamento globale si è aggiunta la pandemia da COVID19. Come una goccia che fa traboccare il vaso, quest’ultima ha messo in evidenza tutte le fragilità delle nostre società opulente, dissipatrici, diseguali, aggressive verso ogni forma di rifiuto del sistema militare-industriale-scientifico dominato dal profitto e dal mercato senza regole.

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Can COVID-19 Take Down NATO?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

25 Mar 2020 – The Pentagon insisted on going ahead with provocative NATO war games near Russia’s borders, despite the coronavirus epidemic, but Germany pulled its forces out and closed its roads to troop movements. The US is doing a poor job of helping its own population. Europeans are figuring out that the US is a morally and spiritually bankrupt nation and that’s no doubt dawning on Americans who see the scarcity of medical equipment and the abundance of lethal weapons here.

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Race
Peter Wade, Audrey Smedley and Yasuko I. Takezawa | Encyclopaedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

29 Jan 2020 – Race, the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences. Genetic studies in the late 20th century refuted the existence of biogenetically distinct races, and scholars now argue that “races” are cultural interventions reflecting specific attitudes and beliefs that were imposed on different populations in the wake of western European conquests beginning in the 15th century.

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Jena Declaration: The Concept of Race Is the Result of Racism, Not Its Prerequisite
Jena University | Koozma J. Tarasoff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

It was historically significant that the ‘Jena Declaration’ was endorsed at Jena University, Germany, 100 years after the death of its most famous zoology professor Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) who co-founded scientific racism, which led to eugenics, antisemitism, involuntary sterilizations, racial wars, the racial policy of Nazi Germany, xenophobia, apartheid, etc. Haeckel divided human beings into 10 races, and believed Negroes were savages doomed to extinction and that Whites were the most civilised.

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Coronavirus: Less Humanitarianism, More Politics!
Julie Billaud | Allegra Lab - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

25 Mar 2020 – Time is running out, we are told, and the end justifies the means… In other words, we need to move away from humanitarian thinking, which provides primarily technical answers, and rethink in political terms the public good, solidarity and social justice.

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Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #3 (Music Video of the Week)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Alice Sara Ott | France Musique – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

Pianist Alice Sara Ott plays with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mikko Franck in the auditorium of Radio France, Paris. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #3 was first performed in Vienna on 5 April 1803, the same day as the oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives and the Symphony #2.

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Year Six of the War in Yemen
Abubakar Ben Rajeh | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

26 Mar 2020 – The Yemeni parties must rally around a comprehensive national project, in order to find consensus on the shape of the Yemeni state and its territorial integrity; and the establishment of a transitional authority based on the principle of partnership, leading to a comprehensive political process that is separate from subnational projects and regional polarisation. Otherwise, Yemen will remain subject to international and regional polarisation, which will prolong the war and exacerbate the suffering of the Yemeni people.

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Nicaragua: Advancing Social Equality and Food Sovereignty
Carissa Brands | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

20 Mar 2020 – Other than the economy still recuperating from the attempted coup of 2018, the Nicaraguan people continue their struggle to remain independent and out of the grips of the neoliberal orbit of US imperialism. Despite the crippling effects of US sanctions, the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega has made significant social advances since it came to power in 2007

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Technology of Death: The Not-so-Shocking Report on Israeli Weapons Exports
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

25 Mar 2020 – The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security, and reconstruction. Thanks to the US, Russian, French, Israeli and other weapons manufacturers, however, it is now the dumping ground for military hardware, an ominous sign for the years ahead.

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Civilized, Barbarians, Savages
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.

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COVID-19: Present, Past, and Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

17 Mar 2020 – A few days ago when WHO officially declared the COVID-19 a ‘pandemic’ a Rubicon of consciousness and global governance was crossed. Hundreds of millions of individuals around the world are coping physically and mentally with what that word never before used in my lifetime means for themselves and those they care most about. The mental dimensions of self-isolation may turn out to be a big challenge almost as big as the disease itself.

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Race
Peter Wade, Audrey Smedley and Yasuko I. Takezawa | Encyclopaedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

29 Jan 2020 – Race, the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences. Genetic studies in the late 20th century refuted the existence of biogenetically distinct races, and scholars now argue that “races” are cultural interventions reflecting specific attitudes and beliefs that were imposed on different populations in the wake of western European conquests beginning in the 15th century.

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Weaponising Mass Distraction from Overpopulation Denial?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

The future may well marvel at the primary strategy advocated globally in response to the coronavirus pandemic, namely social distancing. The question here is the viability of social distancing on a planet on which overcrowding is already widely recognized — but as a purely local challenge. This is most evident in the restriction of access of tourists to popular destinations. The reality of local overcrowding is the theme of a separate argument which notes the total unreality of global implications

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(Português) Civilizados, Bárbaros e Selvagens
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

23 Mar 2020 – Uma civilização ou cultura é definida como o conjunto de costumes, tradições, éticas, valores, língua, música, dança, cozinha, vestuário, religião, e organização social e política de um povo, grupo étnico, tribo, ou nação.

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The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift
John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

Departing from much previous scholarship, Foster and Clark adopt a materialist and dialectical approach, bridging the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism. The ecological crisis, they explain, extends beyond questions of traditional class struggle to a corporeal rift in the physical organization of living beings themselves, raising critical issues of social reproduction, racial capitalism, alienated speciesism, and ecological imperialism.

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Ecological Reflections on the Corona Virus
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

One Planet, One Health–Connected through Biodiversity: From the forests to our farms to our gut microbiome – We are one Earth Family on one planet , healthy in our diversity and interconnectedness. The planet’s health and our health is non separable .

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Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Brazil Begs for Cuban Doctors–After Expelling Them
Ben Norton | Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

17 Mar 2020 – Brazil’s far-right government requested the return of thousands of Cuban doctors to help fight the coronavirus. Months ago, President Jair Bolsonaro smeared the doctors as “terrorists” and expelled them.

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Why Sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during a Pandemic Are Cruel
Vijay Prashad and Paola Estrada | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

In the midst of a pandemic, one would expect that all countries would collaborate in every way to mitigate the spread of the virus and its impact on human society. One would expect that a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude would provide the opportunity to suspend or end all inhumane economic sanctions and political blockades against certain countries. Is this not the time for the imperialist bloc, led by the United States of America, to end the sanctions against Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and a series of other countries?

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(Português) Sempre Culpamos Outros Animais Pelas Doenças que Provocamos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

22 Mar 2020 – Semeamos muitas doenças quando nos alimentamos de animais e/ou interferimos em suas vidas; sejam criaturas domesticadas ou silvestres.

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Has the Crash Arrived?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

19 Mar 2020 – The headlines provide abundant details about economic shutdowns in order to slow the spread of the COV-19 virus. But behind the headlines, there is another story more important in the long run: the global economy is a house of cards based on speculation and military spending. It seems likely that the house of cards will come crashing down as a result of the global economic shutdown.

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The American Empire and Its Media
Severine Renard | Swiss Propaganda Research - The Transnational, 23 Mar 2020

19 Mar 2020 – Largely unbeknownst to the general public, executives and top journalists of almost all major US media outlets have long been members of the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

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Jena Declaration: The Concept of Race Is the Result of Racism, Not Its Prerequisite
Jena University | Koozma J. Tarasoff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

It was historically significant that the ‘Jena Declaration’ was endorsed at Jena University, Germany, 100 years after the death of its most famous zoology professor Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) who co-founded scientific racism, which led to eugenics, antisemitism, involuntary sterilizations, racial wars, the racial policy of Nazi Germany, xenophobia, apartheid, etc. Haeckel divided human beings into 10 races, and believed Negroes were savages doomed to extinction and that Whites were the most civilised.

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Yanis Varoufakis: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Yanis Varoufakis | DiEM25 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder and MeRA25 MP, on the economic and political impact of the coronavirus.

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IMF Refuses Aid to Venezuela in the Midst of the Coronavirus Crisis
Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado and Zoe PC | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

18 Mar 2020 – The chief of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva’s policy to provide special assistance to countries should have been sufficient for the IMF to provide the assistance that the Venezuelan government had requested. But, very quickly, the Fund declined the request from Venezuela. It is important to underline the fact that the IMF made this denial at a time when the coronavirus had begun to spread in Venezuela.

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Coronavirus: Tech Rivals Facebook, Google and Microsoft Release Unprecedented Joint Statement on ‘Fake News’
Rob Waugh | Yahoo News UK - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

Google, Facebook and Microsoft have joined forces to release an unprecedented statement on coronavirus – in the battle against online misinformation. The statement promises that the tech giants are working together, “jointly combating fraud and misinformation about the virus”.

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Questions and Curfews
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

The two choices before us (collectively): We keep the old ways (greed, rampant capitalism and die together) or care for each other and for our planet. Our health and the health of the planet are at stake. This is yet another stark reminder. Let us hope we make the right choices, pressure politicians, and choose life. We cannot act like lemmings going towards the cliff. 

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Coronavirus: Global Response Urgently Needed
Jim O'Neill, Robin Niblett and Creon Butler | Chatham House – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

There have been warnings for several years that world leaders would find it hard to manage a new global crisis in today’s more confrontational, protectionist and nativist political environment.

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Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning others of them in good time, with apology and charm.”

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Socialism at Its Finest after Fed’s Bazooka Fails
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

21 Mar 2020 – In what is being called the worst financial crisis since 1929, the US stock market has lost a third of its value in the space of a month, wiping out all of its gains of the last three years. When the Federal Reserve tried to ride to the rescue, it only succeeded in making matters worse. The government then pulled out all the stops. To our staunchly capitalist leaders, socialism is suddenly looking good.  

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(Italiano) Dal mare altre brutte notizie per Cina, Usa, Germania e Italia
Jack Cambiaso | IlSussidiario - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2020

11 Mar 2020 – Dopo un mese intero di emergenza da coronavirus il peggio sembra dover ancora arrivare dal punto di vista economico

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Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for ‘Disaster Capitalism’
Marie Solis | Vice - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2020

13 Mar 2020 – Naomi Klein explains how governments and the global elite will exploit a pandemic. “We’re seeing in real time that we are so much more interconnected to one another than our quite brutal economic system would have us believe.”

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Cruelty or Humanity?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2020

12 Mar 2020 – This is my foreword to Stuart Rees’ exceedingly important study of the role of cruelty in politics, a mystifying dimension of human experience, which is illuminated by integrating the insights and reflections of poets with the narration of political policies. This fusion gives this book a quality of originality as well of practical relevance.

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A Record of Major High-Rise Fires Worldwide
Chris Sarns | AE911Truth - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2020

10 Mar 2020 – This article is a record of major high-rise fires around the world over the past 50 years. As the record shows, neither before nor since 9/11 has a steel-frame, fire-protected high-rise experienced a total collapse due to fire — much less a collapse exhibiting all the features of controlled demolition, as was observed in the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on September 11, 2001.

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Reimagining Coronavirus in 3D as a Metaphor of Global Society in Distress
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2020

16 Mar 2020 – Crowning pattern that connects spiky organisms, satellite constellations, nuclear explosions, and egomania? In a period of widespread concern about the coronavirus, and widespread media response, the concern here is with the possibility of another way of imagining its implication — of relevance to responses of new kind.

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Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2020

And Ten Steps to Take to Do So – We are like the British at the end of World War II: desperately trying to shore up an empire that we never needed and can no longer afford, using methods that often resemble those of failed empires of the past — including the Axis powers of World War II and the former Soviet Union. There is an important lesson for us in the British decision, starting in 1945, to liquidate their empire relatively voluntarily, rather than being forced to do so by defeat in war, as were Japan and Germany, or by debilitating colonial conflicts, as were the French and Dutch.

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Will Humanity Fail?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2020

Obviously human beings are being tested: pandemics spreading around the world, coronavirus, the collapse of oil prices that led to financial market collapses, the climate change, the technology gone rampant and killings and nature (5G, chemical and biological weapons), the accelerating risk of nuclear war, and much more. There are bad signs and good signs. Let us give some examples of both and then of areas where we could go either way. Please Join the Discussion and post other good and bad news in comments section.

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