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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Colin Dwyer | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – The Brazilian president, who has consistently downplayed the dangers of the virus, revealed his positive test result during nationally televised remarks today. “It came back positive,” he told reporters from behind a mask. He is just the second major world leader, after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to confirm he contracted the virus.
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Cornel West’s 2017 Harvard Convocation Address
Cornel West | Harvard Divinity School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
First, we normalize mendacity and naturalize criminality. We make our lies look like the normal order of things. Second, we encourage callousness and reward indifference. We make mean-spiritedness look manly and mature. Third, we trump the moral and spiritual dimensions of our lives and world by applauding our short-term gains and superficial successes.
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(Italiano) La Sardegna come il Vietnam
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Luglio 2020 – Mi è capitato di recente di scambiare idee e documenti con alcuni amici e amiche sulla ‘questione Sardegna’: di cosa si tratta, almeno per quanto riguarda la nostra conversazione? C’era l’ipotesi di dare una mano a un giovane, laureato in Scienze della Natura, per svolgere una ricerca sulla situazione socio-ambientale dell’isola conseguente alla presenza dell’apparato militare.
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New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears
Lily Hay Newman | Wired - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – The malware known as ThiefQuest or EvilQuest also has spyware capabilities that allow it to grab passwords and credit card numbers.
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Poems, Pandemics, and Preservation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
3 Jul 2020 – With the help of a friend I taught myself to write poems in a haiku form following classic Japanese guidance. Poetry has long been a place of sanctuary for me, and in recent months it has also offered me the pleasures of ‘lockdown therapy.’ I hope I am not abusing readers by posting a sample, and hoping others will be drawn to join an invisible community of haiku lovers.
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Nature as an Antidote to Depression
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
On the Consolations of Monarchs and of Stars – “It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, the dark threw its patches down upon me also,” Walt Whitman wrote.
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Warning of Serious Brain Disorders in People with Mild Coronavirus Symptoms
Ian Sample | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 – UK neurologists publish details of mildly affected or recovering Covid-19 patients with serious or potentially fatal brain conditions.
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How the House Armed Services Committee, in the Middle of a Pandemic, Approved a Huge Military Budget and More War in Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – The least-discussed Congressional proceedings are often the most consequential — and almost always bipartisan.
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13th Anniversary: Collateral Murder Video & US Military Cover Up
Chris Hedges | On Contact, RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Chris Hedges talks to journalist Dean Yates, who was head of the Reuters’ Baghdad bureau on 12 July 2007, when two of his employees–Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen–were shot and killed by the U.S. Army, which tried to cover up the war crime. The killing of the reporters and others was recorded on the now-infamous video Collateral Murder leaked by Chelsea Manning and released by WikiLeaks.
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Simplicity Revolution
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
World Simplicity Day 12 Jul 2020 – Simplicity Revolution: An ecological and ethical imperative to protect life on earth and ensure justice for all beings. The Corona Lockdown has forced us to shed the clutter and the speed and become an invitation to humanity to differentiate between the essential and non essential. In making us stay home, the crisis creates the possibility of realising that no matter who we are, where we are, we are members of one Earth Family and share a common home, our beautiful Earth.
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Why Do Authoritarians Win?
William E. Scheuerman | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 – Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.
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Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Palestine-Israel
Peter Beinart | Jewish Currents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – What makes someone a real Jew today? In Haredi circles it means adhering to religious law. In leftist Jewish spaces, it means championing progressive causes. But in the broad center of Jewish life—where power and respectability lie—being a Jew means, above all, supporting the existence of a Jewish state. In most Jewish communities on earth, rejecting Israel is a greater heresy than rejecting God.
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Western Martyrdom
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Fiction of Biblical Proportion: ‘The truth shall set you free.’ Right!!
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Mistakes Were Made
Tom Tomorrow| Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Pandemic Fun Game
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(Italiano) L’Occidente finge di non vedere mentre l’apartheid e altre illegalità d’Israele si sviluppano sempre più
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
1 luglio 2020: un altro tragico punto di svolta per l’Occidente – già decadente – in quanto civiltà. La sua irresponsabilità morale si esprime nel roboante silenzio su questa nettissima vistosa violazione del diritto internazionale e sul male fatto per decenni al popolo palestinese.
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Vitamin C for the Prevention and Treatment of Coronavirus
Patrick Holford | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
7 Jul 2020 – COVID-19, or SARS-CoV-2, is a coronavirus disease, classified as influenza, although coronaviruses can also induce colds, both of which are upper respiratory tract infections. The consequences of infection can be pneumonia, hospitalization in Intensive Care Units and mechanical ventilation. Studies on vitamin C and any of the conditions mentioned above are relevant to decisions as to the suitability of using vitamin C for prevention of COVID-19, as a potential therapy, and for further research.
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On Israel’s Bizarre Definitions: The West Bank Is Already Annexed
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 – The fact is, annexation is not a new Israeli political agenda dictated by political circumstances in Tel Aviv and Washington. Rather, annexation has been the ultimate Israeli colonial objective from the very onset.
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Don’t Be Fooled by the Cancel Culture Wars
Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – The cancel culture–the phenomenon of removing or canceling people, brands or shows from the public domain because of offensive statements or ideologies–is not a threat to the ruling class. Hundreds of corporations in the hands of white executives and board members pumped out messages condemning racism after George Floyd was choked to death by police in Minneapolis. But without a concerted assault on corporate power, will do nothing to change the system.
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Post-COVID Prospects Assessed
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
8 Jul 2020 -This text is a slightly edited interview on post-COVID prospects that was published in Mutekabiliyet, a Turkish student online journal, July 3, 2020.
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July in History: Anniversaries of Russell-Einstein Manifesto, ICJ Verdict on Illegality of Nuclear Weapons, State-Terrorist Bombing of Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior
Alyn Ware | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
These three anniversaries provide inspiration to consider the roles of science, law and diplomacy to advance peace, security and nuclear disarmament.
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Decolonising Peace Journalism – And Putting It to Work in East Africa
Fredrick Ogenga | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Conflict resolution is a recurrent theme in East Africa. This has prompted the need for innovative ways to create lasting consensus in the region as well as across the continent. One of these innovative ways is peace journalism. It can stimulate peaceful resolution of conflict by voicing different conflicting parties and issues in a balanced and objective manner.
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The West Turns a Blind Eye as Israel’s Apartheid and Other Illegalities Develop Further
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – Another tragic turning point for the – falling – West as civilization. Its moral irresponsibility is expressed by its roaring silence on this crystal clear and gross violation of international law and evil done to the Palestinian people for decades.
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(Italiano) I soldi dell’Unione Europea a sostegno delle industrie di armi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
29 Giugno 2020 – «Nonostante il COVID, si continuano a finanziare le armi»: la segnalazione proviene dall’Associazione War Resisters’ International (WRI), che da quasi cento anni è impegnata a realizzare l’obiettivo di un mondo senza guerra. WRI è una rete globale pacifista e antimilitarista, con più di 90 gruppi affiliati in 40 Paesi.
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(Français) Brésil: Les dessous de l’incendie–la politique amazonienne de Jair Bolsonaro
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Il faut profiter du fait que « la presse internationale se focalise quasi exclusivement sur le covid-19 » pour « faire passer des réformes [infra-légales] et assouplir les règles » en matière de protection et de préservation de l’environnement. Tel est en substance, le propos tenu par Ricardo Salles, ministre de l’environnement de Bolsonaro, filmé à son insu, le 22 avril dernier lors d’un conseil de gouvernement, dans une vidéo abondamment relayée par les médias.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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Reframing the Righteousness Enabling Repetition of the Titanic Disaster
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Comprehension of 144 Distinctions–Mahjong as “Angels” versus “Demons” ~~~The emphasis here is on challenges to the imagination, and the possibilities of enabling other modes of reflection, most notably through the use of visualization technology and mnemonic aids — whose availability and appreciation is now so evident to the young.
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Pandemic Spirals out of Control in South Africa, India, Brazil
Bryan Dyne | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
4 Jul 2020 – The official tallies in each country of daily confirmed coronavirus cases have become exponential, indicating that whatever containment measures were implemented to halt the spread of the virus have essentially collapsed.
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(Italiano) Contrasto allo hate speech online e social network: a che punto siamo?
Enzo Gargano | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
29 Giugno 2020 – Il 22 giugno scorso la Commissione europea ha pubblicato i risultati della sua quinta valutazione del Codice di Condotta introdotto il 31 maggio 2016 proprio grazie alla Commissione europea e a quattro importanti società informatiche (Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter e YouTube), al fine di rispondere alla proliferazione online di discorsi di odio razzista e xenofobo, Da allora, Instagram, Google+, Snapchat, Dailymotion e Jeuxvideo.com hanno aderito al Codice.
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Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence Contribute to Nuclear Risk – SIPRI
Human Wrongs Watch | SIPRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – The authors warn that nuclear-armed states’ competition in military AI and premature adoption of AI in nuclear weapons and related capabilities could have a negative impact on strategic stability and increase the likelihood of nuclear weapon use.
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BOUNTYGATE: Scapegoating Systemic Military Failure in Afghanistan
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
5 Jul 2020 – The story of the alleged “bounty scheme” grew up in the context of top U.S. brass blaming Russia for America’s defeat in Afghanistan. Research shows that 99% of Americans never have seen the material in this article. Understandable – it can be highly contagious and carries a high morbidity rate for those with pre-existing biases.
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The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us about the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
“Life [exists] only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in reply.”
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Alfredo Saad Filho | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
6 Jul 2020
29 Jun 2020 – Inequality, confused responses and a disbelieving leader have all contributed to a crisis that’s showing no signs of slowing down. The country is competing with the USA for the largest number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases (more than one million) and the highest number of fatalities (above 50,000).
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Burundi: Fare Thee Well, President Nkurunziza
Edgar Tabaro | The Observer [Uganda] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
My discussions with President Nkurunziza revealed the disjuncture of the international community from our plight as East Africans. Conflict resolution is not enough. The underlying factors of conflict remain and very often resurgence occurs. We as Africans ought to turn post-conflict societies into productive societies. Less of this, we are pursuing futile efforts.
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New US Indictment of Julian Assange Not Served in UK Courts
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
30 Jun 2020 – In yet another Kafkaesque turn, UK legal proceedings are continuing on the basis of an indictment which has been replaced and therefore has no legal force in the US.
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Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
Tom Tomorrow | This Modern World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
As the pandemic rages on…
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How We Can Fix This Pandemic in a Month
Damien Downing, MBBS, MRSB | Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
22 Jun 2020 – If we act on the data showing that it is highly probable that vitamin D can save lives, we could fix this pandemic in a month, for perhaps $2 per person. There would be no significant adverse effects.
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In Letter to the Lancet, Doctors Condemn Torture of Assange and Demand His Release
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
26 Jun 2020 – More than 200 eminent doctors from around the world have reiterated their call for an end to the psychological torture of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange and his immediate release from Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison.
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This Coronavirus Mutation Has Taken Over the World. Scientists Are Trying to Understand Why.
Sarah Kaplan and Joel Achenbach | The Washington Post - Reader Supported News,
6 Jul 2020
29 Jun 2020 – The mutation doesn’t appear to make people sicker, but a growing number of scientists worry that it has made the virus more contagious.
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Winds of Change–The Challenge of Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa
Abbas Aroua, et al. | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
One theme is the opposition between traditionalists and modernists, “the conflict between fundamentalists and those who want to bring Islam into the modern age”. A possible approach: social change. The Middle East must be able to temper a spiritual vision in a modern and pragmatic world and rediscover traditional values without “a perpetual and obsessive return to the past”. This book is a worthwhile and welcome contribution to current debates over the future of the MENA region.
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As Pandemic Spread Accelerates, Wall Street Celebrates Biggest Quarterly Surge in More Than 20 Years: Obscene
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 July 2020 – The end of the second quarter, June 30, must surely go down as one of the stranger days in financial history. With the US economy in the grip of the deepest recession since the Great Depression, having experienced an even more rapid contraction than in the 1930s crisis, Wall Street recorded its best quarter for more than 20 years.
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Development Banks Funding Industrial Farms around the World
Andrew Wasley and Alexandra Heal | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – The International Finance Corporation–the commercial lending arm of the World Bank–and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have provided $2.6bn for pig, poultry and beef farming, as well as dairy and meat processing, despite their vast contribution to the oncoming climate catastrophe. The UK government is a major funder of both banks.
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Italy: Sold to Big Pharma
Dr. Antonietta M. Gatti and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
28 Jun 2020 – Summarizing everything in a few words, Italy was sold to Big Pharma and has become a huge laboratory where experiments are carried out on the population: adults, children, old, healthy, sick people … it makes no difference, we are all guinea pigs. Now the business, and not just an economic one, is to force 60 million Italians to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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How Technology Literally Changes Our Brains
Ezra Klein | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
On Deep Reading and Digital Thinking – “In the long run, a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act. Or, put more simply: Media work their magic, or their mischief, on the nervous system itself.” — Marshall McLuhan
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Racism and the Culture of War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – To succeed, the struggle against racism needs to be understood in the context of the struggle against the culture of war. The recent uprisings against racist violence by the police is another step towards the radical transformation from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
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(Français) Cinq Questions à Helen la Lime Meagher, Représentante Spéciale du Secrétaire Général de l’ONU en Haïti
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Madame, le 19 juin 2020, à la séance du Conseil de sécurité consacrée au Bureau intégré des Nations unies en Haïti (BINUH), à New York, vous avez fait une déclaration sur votre travail et sur la situation en Haïti.
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The Racist Underpinnings of the American Way of War
Walden Bello | Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars. The political economy of the U.S. is built on two “original sins:” genocide of Native Americans to clear the ground for capitalist relations of production, and slave labor of African Americans. The reproduction and expansion of U.S. capitalism over time have consistently reproduced its racial structures.
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Right, Moral, Ethical… vs Legal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Rule of law? What law?
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Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza (18 Dec 1964 – 8 Jun 2020)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
24 Jun 2020 – Burundi is Africa’s Syria and Venezuela, a developing nation that dared to defy US dictates under Nkurunziza’s leadership. “His legacy is his effort to reconcile Burundi’s Hutu and Tutsi classes and end the deep-seated, centuries-old hatred between them.”
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Year Six of the War in Yemen
Abubakar Ben Rajeh | Cordoba Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
In March 2020 the war in Yemen enters its sixth year since the Saudi-led Arab Coalition, with the effective participation of the UAE and logistical support by the U.S., launched the military campaign against the Iranian-backed Houthis.
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By Recognising Palestine, Britain Can Help Right the Wrongs of the Balfour Declaration
Avi Shlaim | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
22 Jun 2020 – The theft of Palestinian land is a legacy of British colonialism. The UK must stand in the way of further Israeli annexations.
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USA: Cuban Spies Disguised as Doctors
Roger Stoll | Dissident Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – The EU now excludes travelers from the COVID-ridden U.S., but welcomes those from the virtually COVID-free Cuba. The U.S. tries to convince the world that Cuban doctors are victims of human trafficking, or spies, or both. What perfect disguises: doctors, nurses, epidemiologists, medical technicians. Oh, Cuba, please send us all the spies you can spare. For we are suffering from a severe lack of spies. And we are dying because of it.
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Alert but Not Alarmed: What to Make of New H1N1 Swine Flu with ‘Pandemic Potential’ Found in China
Ian M. Mackay | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
2 Jul 2020 – Researchers have found a new strain of flu virus with “pandemic potential” in China that can jump from pigs to humans, triggering a suite of worrying headlines. It’s excellent this virus has been found early, and raising the alarm quickly allows virologists to swing into action developing new specific tests for this particular flu virus.
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Power Potluck
Joe Kandra, Kathie Malley-Morrison and Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
No joke…
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Palestine-Israel: What Needs to Be Done
Haidar Eid | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
19 Jun 2020 – The Israeli government’s goal is clear: establish an apartheid regime through annexing parts of the West Bank, and liquidate the Palestinian cause all together. Palestinians must acknowledge mistakes of the past and not compromise on demanding our full human rights.
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Hubris: Israel’s Endgame in Palestine
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
30 Jun 2020 – The “peace process” has been exposed for what it is – a colonisation operation. This surreal process has long served as a cover up for deep Israeli entrenchment in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Having secured Trump’s approval, Netanyahu will go forward with annexation despite warnings of an international backlash, the demise of the two-state solution, and the erosion of the “democratic Jewish state”.
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Ripple | Playing for Change (Music Video of the Week)
The Grateful Dead | Bill Kreutzmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
We are proud to share with you this Song Around The World in honor of the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary [2015]. After many miles on planes, trains and automobiles we can finally share it with all of you. Enjoy!
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Explainer: What Is the Deadly India-China Border Dispute About?
Helen Davidson and Ben Doherty | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
17 Jun 2020 – At least 20 people have died in clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along the disputed Himalayan border running along the Ladakh area of Kashmir. It is the first fatal clash since 1975 and the most serious since 1967.
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(Satire) The Strange and Curious Case of “Politicianitis”…
Gary Corseri | Dissident Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
It is difficult to say when precisely the phenomenon commenced, but because it was first recorded at a Commencement Ceremony at a very small and unimportant “Liberal Arts” college in the embarrassing “fly-over” part of the country, and somewhat deftly reported by a sophomore reporter for the college newspaper, it was at first entitled “The Commencement Malefaction.”
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To Fight Coronavirus, You Have to Understand How Weird It Is
David Axe | The Daily Beast - Reader Supported News,
29 Jun 2020
24 Jun 2020 – The novel coronavirus is unusual, it was obvious early in the pandemic, as the pathogen seemed to spread much faster than other coronaviruses, and kill at a higher rate than influenza viruses. It seems the disease behaves like a covert enemy that slips behind normally stout defenses—a Trojan Horse that deceives the body into submission.
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The Politics of Kneeling: A Tribute to Colin Kaepernick
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – Of course, there have been many Kaepernick moments that stretch back to the era of slavery, and forward to Rosa Parks’ 1956 refusal to go to the back of the bus sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott , King’s 1963 letter from the Birmingham Jail, and the death of George Floyd, some more resonant than others, but none have been enough to remove the dark stains of systemic racism from the fabric of daily life in America, and elsewhere in the world.
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BDS and Its Critics
Stephen Eric Bronner | Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
24 Jun 2020 – No civil society group in the United States has undergone as much censorious repression as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement — better known simply as BDS — and the most radical critic of Israeli policy in Gaza and the West Bank. Twenty-eight states have passed “anti-boycott” legislation condemning BDS.
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My Student Comes Home
Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
29 Jun 2020 – When Lawrence Bell, an orphan living in an abandoned house in Camden, New Jersey, went to prison he was 14-years-old. Barely literate and weighing no more than 90 pounds, he had been pressured by three Camden police detectives into signing a confession for a murder and rape he insisted at his trial he did not commit. It made no difference. He would not be eligible to go before a parole board for 56 years. It was a de facto life sentence.
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Short of the Goal
Joe Kandra & Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Yes!
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(Français) Haïti étouffe sous le poids de son oligarchie et des États-Unis
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 juin 2020 – Pays le plus vulnérable du continent américain, Haïti est frappé par le covid-19 alors que la population est en prise avec les cyclones, une pauvreté généralisée, un gouvernement gangréné par la corruption et totalement décrédibilisé. Les derniers mots de Georges Floyd sont devenus sur les réseaux sociaux haïtiens un cri d’alerte : « Ayiti paka respire », Haïti ne peut pas respirer.
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Must the United States Demonise China?
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
26 Jun 2020 – Simply existing as a prosperous power is enough to make China an enemy, which must be isolated, contained, if not destroyed, like a disease. Hong Kong is but another factor in this hegemonic calculus.
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What West Bank Annexation Really Means
Naim Mousa | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
July 1. That is the date by which Netanyahu has promised to complete the annexation of the West Bank. But what does that really mean? Most people think that means he will annex Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho, and the rest of the region. However, nothing can be farther from the truth.
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India: “We Live in a Casteist Hindu Nationalist State”–Interview with Arundhati Roy
Dalit Camera | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – Activist and author Arundhati Roy discusses Indian society and the response that George Floyd’s killing has evoked, and the prevalence of racism and casteism in the country. About the pulling down of a statue of a slave trader in the US, she said such a move was impossible in present day India. “We are very far away from the day when statues like these will be removed or pulled down. We are at the stage when they are being installed and celebrated.”
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(Français) Interview d’Evo Morales: La Bolivie sous la dictature, le pouvoir réel des Etats-Unis
Stella Calloni | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
18 Juin 2020 – Un peu plus de six mois après le Coup d’Etat du 10/11 novembre 2019 en Bolivie contre le Président Evo Morales, actuellement réfugié en Argentine, ce dernier nous met en garde sur la situation désastreuse de son pays, soumis à un gouvernement de fait dirigé par la présidente autoproclamée Jeanine Anez qui non seulement réprime la population, provoquant des massacres, pourchassant et emprisonnant les dirigeants et militants politiques, mais détruit aussi de manière systématique le modèle social, économique et les avancées réalisées par le gouvernement renversé du MAS.
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Boaventura De Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
24 Jun 2020 -Once again, after so many other times, Brazil’s wealthy would rather run the risk of descending into dictatorship (if that’s not what they wanted to begin with) rather than have the lower classes express their aspiration to be included in the nation, which the wealthy have always conceived of as their own personal property.
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Can People Spread the Coronavirus If They Don’t Have Symptoms? 5 Questions Answered about Asymptomatic COVID-19
Monica Gandhi | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – There is a lot of confusion and concern around asymptomatic spread of SARS-C0V-2. An infectious disease expert explains how many people are asymptomatic and how they can spread the virus.
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Suicidal Empire
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – But it is indeed the land of hypocrisy that no longer can be covered by fancy Hollywood movies of good cowboys-bad indians, good Israel-bad terrorist Muslims, good capitalists-bad communists. For decades while claiming the moral high grounds, the US government has supported dictatorial regimes around the world that torture, disappear, and kill so many. Many books have been written on this (e.g. by Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and others).
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Surely Coronavirus Teaches Us We Shouldn’t Be Eating Whales or Dolphins?
Nicola Hodgins | WDC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
We know eating whales and dolphins can be bad for human health. In the light of coronavirus, it’s more important than ever to draw attention to the major potential health implications from continuing to eat them.
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Majority of ICC Members Backs Tribunal in Face of US Sanctions
Mike Corder | AP/Star Tribune – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – More than half of the member states of the International Criminal Court voiced their support for the institution in a strongly worded statement issued today in response to the Trump administration’s decision to authorize sanctions against court staff.
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US Indictment of Assange Based on Testimony of FBI Assets, Convicted Child Molester
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
In Thordarson, a convicted paedophile and conman, and Monsegur, a former petty criminal turned stool pigeon, the US government has found the fitting representatives of its campaign against Assange. The reliance on testimony from both men demonstrates that the US extradition request should be dismissed as a criminal operation, involving individuals who themselves should be in prison.
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The Politics of Gene Sharp
Brian Martin | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Gene Sharp’s contributions to the understanding of nonviolent action provide a useful lens for understanding developments in the field in recent decades. Sharp built on Gandhi’s pioneering endeavours, but moved away from Gandhi by providing a pragmatic rationale for nonviolent action. However, few academics have paid much attention to Sharp’s work, and policy-makers have largely ignored it. In contrast, activists have taken up Sharp’s ideas enthusiastically.
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Affluence Is Killing the Planet
Thomas Wiedmann, Julia K. Steinberger and Manfred Lenzen | The Ecologist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
25 Jun 2020 – Would you like to be rich? Chances are your answer is: ‘Yes! Who wouldn’t want to be rich?’ How can we reduce consumption as much as necessary in a socially-sustainable way, while still safeguarding human needs and social security?
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Hottest Arctic Temperature Record Probably Set with 100-Degree Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) Reading in Siberia
Andrew Freedman | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 June 2020 – Record-Shattering Reading Continues Siberia’s Hot Streak, Foreshadows More Heat Elsewhere – A northeastern Siberian town is likely to have set a record for the highest temperature documented in the Arctic Circle, with a reading of 100.4 degrees (38 Celsius) recorded Saturday in Verkhoyansk, north of the Arctic Circle and about 3,000 miles east of Moscow.
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(Castellano) Brasil: La contención institucional frente a la arremetida de la ultraderecha
Fernando De la Cuadra | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
18 junio 2020 – El surgimiento de muchos grupúsculos que se inspiran en la ideología nazifascista para –según dicen- construir una patria libre de la conjura comunista, está colocando a los brasileños ante el desafío de neutralizar dicha ideología o dejar impasiblemente que ella se expanda como un tumor maligno hacia todos los rincones del país.
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Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve. The fate of a large portion of the country’s corporations has been put in the hands of a megalithic private entity with the private capitalist mandate to make as much money as possible for its owners and investors; and that is what it has proceeded to do.
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Everyday People (Music Video of the Week)
Turnaround Arts | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
We are proud and honored to share “Everyday People,” produced by Playing For Change in partnership with Turnaround Arts. Turnaround Arts infuses struggling schools with arts as a strategy for reform. The program is run by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Kevin Gosztola | Shadowproof - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
25 Jun 2020 – The United States government expanded their indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to criminalize the assistance WikiLeaks provided to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden when staff helped him leave Hong Kong.
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The Pandemic of Hunger
Frei Betto | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – Farmers can no longer bring their products to market to sell them. They must hand them over to a middleman who resells them to the system that processes, transports, packages and distributes them to the points of sale. Today it is the banks, multinationals and pension funds that dominate the food market and promote speculation through commodity derivatives. When there is an interruption in that chain, farmers are forced to burn or bury the products. A crime against humanity practiced in honor of the god of Capital.
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(Português) ONG britânica expõe violência por trás da carne de porco (Vídeo)
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
24 jun 2020 – Viva! mostra que a realidade por trás de uma certificação de “bem-estar animal” pode ser diferente do que os consumidores de carne de porco imaginam. O vídeo mostra animais sendo espancados e arremessados, incluindo leitõezinhos com poucos dias de idade.
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Intimidation and Suppression of Inconvenient Knowledge
John Stone | Children's Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – These comments follow on the disappointing failure of Prof Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur to respond to two respectful letters complaining about the arbitrary use of terms like “misinformation” and “disinformation” and “anti-vaccinationist” as catch-all hate speech for anyone who criticises vaccine products, programs or the lobby.
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Feeding the People in Times of Pandemic: The Food Sovereignty Approach in Nicaragua
Rita Jill Clark-Gollub, Erika Takeo and Avery Raimondo | Council on Hemispheric Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – In the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere there are no hunger flags flying. The market stalls are stocked, customers are buying, and prices are stable. Nicaraguan small farmers produce almost all the food the nation consumes, and have some leftover for export. We will examine how this is possible.
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Online and Independent: The Future of Journalism Is Already Here
Andrew Tarantola | Verizon Media - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – The modern news industry is in crisis. For years, formerly stalwart publications have been bought up, hollowed out, and sold for scrap by predatory (and often utterly incompetent) venture capital firms. The recent global outbreak of COVID-19 has further shattered the business as reporters and editors have been furloughed, or outright laid off, en masse.
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‘The Pandemic Is Accelerating,’ Says WHO Chief, Warning of ‘New and Dangerous Phase’ of Coronavirus Crisis
Andrea Germanos | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
19 Jun 2020 -“More than 150,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO yesterday—the most in a single day so far.”
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With the World Focused on the Pandemic, Israel Prepares to Annex Large Swaths of the West Bank
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – Israel is planning a move on July 1 that the international community regards as one of the gravest assaults on the international law: annexation of not only the decades-old settlements in the West Bank, which the U.N. Security Council in 2016 declared illegal to be permanent Israeli land, but also the Jordan Valley, that is central to Palestinian agriculture.
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The Right to Food During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Time of Bio-Ethical-Ecological Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
14 Jun 2020 – Even before the Coronavirus Pandemic, humanity faced an unprecedented challenge in the coming decades that threatened the foundations of life itself, and yet, up to this time societal reactions have been disappointingly weak and evasive, aside from a few voices in the wilderness.
→ read full articleA $1.1M Hospital Bill after Surviving the Coronavirus? That’s America for You
Ross Barkan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
16 Jun 2020 – The bill included $9,736 per day for the intensive care room, nearly $409,000 for its transformation into a sterile room for 42 days, $82,000 for the use of a ventilator for 29 days, and nearly $100,000 for two days when he appeared to be on his deathbed.
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Gardening and the Secret of Happiness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
“It came to me while picking beans, the secret of happiness.”
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The Bohemian Club Conspiracy
Brian Dunning | Skeptoid - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
Let’s point our skeptical eye at some of the stories surrounding San Francisco’s Bohemian Club. The membership rolls of this exclusive, men-only social club include US Presidents, captains of industry and banking, military contractors, giants in the arts and sciences, and the absurdly wealthy. Thus, the Bohemians are automatically the subject of charges by some that they are a secret guild of Illuminati, making the decisions that rule the world; manipulating interest rates and choosing political candidates, for example.
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Not Just “Cops”: It’s Time to End the Entertainment Industry’s Anti-Black, Pro-Police Programming
Rich Benjamin | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
20 Jun 2020 – “Cops,” the longest-running reality TV show in U.S. history, was recently canceled after more than 30 years on air. The Paramount Network announced its decision to pull the plug on the seminal reality show after protests over George Floyd’s death and police brutality. The cancellation is barely a first step, however.
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The Bohemian Club and the New Manhattan Project
Peter A. Kirby | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
14 Jun 2020 – The Bohemian Club is an exclusive, all-male club based in San Francisco, CA. and firmly hooked into the old boy network. Short of the Vatican, it is the most powerful organization in the Western world; not because of the power that the organization itself wields, but because of the power of the ideas and collaborations that are generated there – particularly the ideas and collaborations that arise from their most important annual meeting held at their Bohemian Grove, a summer camp for some of the world’s most famous and powerful men.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – Strategies, declarations and sets of values and principles typically take the form of lists with a specific number of items. The number selected often varies between 8 and 30. Examples are the 8 Millennium Development Goals of the UN and the 30-fold Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Currently a major focus is given to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN.
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Joe Kandra | Engaging Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.
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Politicians Call on UK to Release Assange
Consortium News | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
22 Jun 2020
16 Jun 2020 – A group of members of the European Parliament, and former members of Congress and local legislatures have written to Britain’s secretary of state for justice urging that Julian Assange be released from Belmarsh prison on compassionate grounds. The text of the letter signed by former British MP Chris Williamson, former U.S. Mike Gravel and former Congressman Ron Paul among other political leaders:
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“Black Lives Matter” Is International: Where There Is Oppression, There Will Be Resistance
Roger Harris | Council on Hemispheric Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th was the spark that ignited the tinder of accrued injustice throughout the US and globally. There is a shared history of colonial conquest of the Indigenous and the abominable institution of the enslavement of African peoples. What happened has its roots in systemic oppression that has resonated internationally.
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Jaivik Bharat
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
On 10th June 1947 at a prayer meeting Gandhi had said: “The first lesson we must learn is of self-help and self reliance. If we assimilated this lesson we shall at once free ourselves from disastrous dependence on foreign countries and ultimate bankruptcy. This is not said in arrogance but as a matter of fact. We are not a small place, dependent for this food supply upon outside help. We are a subcontinent, a nation of nearly 400 million (now 1.3 billion). We are a country of mighty rivers and a rich variety of agricultural land, with inexhaustibe cattle wealth …”
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