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Trump Unleashed
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
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(Português) Mark Wahlberg adota dieta à base de vegetais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
“Preciso lhe dizer: me sinto muito bem. O que você coloca no seu corpo vai determinar como você se sente”
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Ancient Greek Wisdom: The Tragedy That Was Athens
Alex Holzman | Philosophy Now - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
The History of Golden Age Athens as a Play with Pericles and Socrates as Its Tragic Heroes
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War, Profit and the Coronavirus
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – If you want expertise, don’t bother reading any further here. I know as much about coronavirus as any stunned disbeliever with a sudden, irresistible urge to touch his face.
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The Fed’s Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – The next time the country’s largest banks become insolvent, rather than bailing them out it should nationalize them. The banks could then be used to fund infrastructure and other government projects to stimulate the economy, following the model of China.
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Calculating the Incalculable: Thoreau on the True Value of a Tree
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
“What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?”
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The Graveyard Talks Back: Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News
Arundhati Roy | Literary Hub – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
12 Feb 2020 – Text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature Instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge – What is the Role of the Writer in a Time of Rising Nationalism?
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Nuremberg and Media
Fritz Pointer | Democratic World Federalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
14 Mar 2020 – Journalists were among those prosecuted for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity during the Nuremberg Trials post WWII. The Nuremberg prosecution argued: “By virtue of its functions, the German Press Division (think ABC, NBC, FOX, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, CBS, NY Times, Washington Post) became an important and unique instrument of the Nazi (think Project For the New American Century – PNAC) conspirators, not only in dominating the minds and psychology of Germans, but also as an instrument of foreign policy and psychological warfare against other nations.”
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Doctors of Assange Reveal Reports on Mistreatment Have Intensified the Abuse
Angel Fox | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
13 Mar 2020 – Doctors 4 Assange, who are the many doctors who sent a letter to the Home Secretary in Great Britain, tweeted a concerning statement today. According to them, Craig Murray’s reporting on the trial of Assange only escalated his mistreatment
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Ownership Futures: Towards Democratic Public Ownership in the 21st Century
Mathew Lawrence & Thomas M. Hanna | Common Wealth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Feb 2020 -Our current political economic system is in crisis. Forty years of market fundamentalism, privatisation, and unchecked corporate power have led us to the point of ecological collapse, increasing economic and social inequality, and dangerous political instability and backlash. Driven by the system’s failings, and the real pain being felt by workers and communities across the world, the search is on for answers, and alternative approaches and institutions are becoming increasingly popular.
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Chelsea Manning Attempted Suicide in Jail, Is Recovering, Lawyers Say
Dell Cameron | Gizmodo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – Imprisoned activist and former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning attempted suicide today in the Alexandria, Virginia, jail where she’s been held for a year following her refusal to testify before a federal grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.
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Chelsea Manning Released from Jail after Grand Jury Is Dismissed by US Federal Court
Kevin Reed | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
13 Mar 2020 – Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower who refused to answer questions before a federal grand jury empaneled as part of the US conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was released late yesterday after spending the last year in jail. Manning’s release occurred one day after the courageous fighter for truth attempted suicide in her cell and was hospitalized by prison authorities.
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Towards a Mayors’ Security Council
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
1 Mar 2020 – Around the world we see the beginning of failed states, consumed by violence: Libya, Yemen, and a case can be made for Mexico. Johan Galtung has gone so far as to imagine that the United States will split into two countries as the American Empire crumbles. The situation is so serious that UN Secretary-General Guterres devoted his annual press conference on February 4 to the “wind of madness” sweeping the globe. ”
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On Hanging from the Blades of a Bulldozer: Al-Naem Is Every Palestinian
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
27 Feb 2020 – Naem’s death will not end resistance in Gaza, as subsequent events have demonstrated. Instead, it would further accentuate the savagery of Israel as a heartless military occupier in the minds of Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, and anyone who can see through Israeli state-sanctioned lies and propaganda.
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Systematic Global Treachery and Betrayal
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
9 Mar 2020 – In the Light of Donald Trump’s Condemnation of Traitors and Pardoning of the Convicted
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Evasions, Accidents, Engagements, and Fulfillment: An Autobiographical Fragment
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
2 Mar 2020 – This post is something new for me, an autobiographical fragment written at the request of an online listserv as a suggestive model for academics at the start of their careers as diplomatic historians. I publish it here. It was found unsuitable for publication by the group that made the initial solicitation for unspecified reasons.
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Beware the Bipartisan Legion of Doom: Corporate Democrats and Trump’s GOP
Roy Eidelson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
3 Mar 2020 – There is no more daunting and dangerous duo in U.S. politics than the profits-over-people corporate wing of the Democratic Party and the belligerent, bigoted, and brutal Republican Party of Donald Trump.
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Supermassive Black Hole Causes Biggest Cosmic Explosion in Recorded History, Leaving Dent That Could Fit 15 Milky Way Galaxies
Human Wrongs Watch | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
28 Feb 2020 — The biggest cosmic explosion in recorded history was detected about 390 million light years from Earth in a supermassive black hole in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, which made a dent in surrounding space that could fit 15 Milky Way galaxies inside.
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The Haunting Beauty of Snowflakes: Wilson Bentley’s Pioneering 19th-Century Photomicroscopy of Snow Crystals
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Hardly any scientific finding has permeated popular culture more profoundly, transmuted its truth into a more pervasive cliché, or inspired more uninspired college application essays than the fact that no two snowflakes are alike.
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Traces of Poison: Israel’s Dark WMD History Revealed
Salman Abu Sitta | Ahram Weekly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Israel, not Iraq, holds that distinction of being the first country in the region to use weapons of mass destruction with genocidal intent. We dig into the dark history.
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The End of the Corporation? Make the Profit-Maximizing Corporation Obsolete
Marjorie Kelly | Transnational Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Marjorie Kelly makes a bold case for “the end of the corporation”—certainly in its dominant form as a profit-extraction machine designed primarily to enrich shareholders. “What must change is the structural design and ownership of the corporation itself. We need to envisage and create an entirely new concept of the company – a just firm – designed from the inside out for a new mandate: to serve broad wellbeing and the public good. The just firm is the only kind that should ultimately be permitted to exist. The time is coming when society must end the corporation as we know it.”
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Battling Roundup Weedkiller: ‘Round and Round’ We Go
Katherine Paul | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
21 Feb 2020 – It seems forever that we’ve been trying to get Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller off the market, and out of our food. It’s a battle that’s had more than its share of highs and lows. Where are we today? Fighting a new company—Bayer now owns Monsanto.
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USA Announces New Humanitarian Assistance for Displaced Rohingya
Morgan Ortagus | US State Department - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
5 Mar 2020 – On March 3, the United States announced more than $59 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh and internally displaced Rohingya and members of other affected communities in Burma. This funding will help address the emergency needs of more than 900,000 refugees in Bangladesh, many of whom are Rohingya women and children from Rakhine State, Burma, as well as the needs of Bangladeshi host communities.
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A Perfect Storm on the Horizon
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
2 Mar 2020 – Are the powers, NATO et al., edging towards a World War? One does get the impression that at this time the US and its NATO allies are erring towards the belief that they can win such a war.
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Climate Change and the Sinking Island States in the Pacific
Saber Salem | E-IR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Despite the ever-rising environmental catastrophes that are occurring around the world from destructive hurricanes, cyclones and flooding to sea level rise, coastal erosion, drought, fire, and sea acidification, there are climate change deniers who argue that climate change is not posing the kind of danger that is being put forward.
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The Final Chapter Has Still Not Been Written: Remembering the 2004 Coup in Haiti
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
On February 29, 2004, the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was overthrown by a violent coup. This was the second U.S.-sponsored coup against a popularly elected Aristide government, the first one taking place in 1991 after he had served only eight months in office.
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(Français) Les nouvelles orientations de l’impérialisme français en Afrique
Saïd Bouamama | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
2 Mar 2020 – L’annonce, par simple communiqué, daté du 2 février 2020 de l’envoi de 600 militaires français supplémentaires au Sahel a soulevé peu de débats contradictoires et encore moins d’oppositions. Aucune initiative militante n’a accompagné cette annonce.
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Khalil Bendib | Other Words – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
… of the Century
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(Português) Marreta pneumática: violência por trás do consumo de carne
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
“O pino perfura o osso do crânio e destrói parte do cérebro do animal, deixando-o inconsciente”.
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WHO Expert Explains Why China’s Cases of COVID-19 Are Declining
Julia Belluz | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
4 Mar 2020 – There’s one country in the world that currently has the most knowledge of and experience with Covid-19: China. “It’s all about speed”: the most important lessons from China’s response.
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‘The Most Powerful and Disturbing Book That I Have Ever Read’
Antony Beevor | The Spectator - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women, by Christina Lamb – A Devastating Exposé of the Systematic Use of Rape in War and Ethnic Cleansing
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
The concern is with the accumulation of clues to a dramatic commemoration of the process, inspired by the Passion Plays so widely used with respect to the Trial of Jesus. The focus here is however on identification of dramatic elements and processes which might serve to highlight the passion for truth, most obviously associated with investigative journalism, and to a lesser degree by other disciplines exposed to lesser risk.
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Judge Rules Assange Cannot Sit with Lawyers during Extradition Hearing
Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
28 Feb 2020 – The first week of the extradition hearing in USA v Julian Assange ended yesterday at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court with Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejecting a submission from Assange’s lawyers that he be allowed to sit with them in court.
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(Italiano) Locuste e dollari a centinaia di miliardi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
17 Febbraio 2020 – Nel 1928 Gandhi pronunciò queste profetiche parole: “L’imperialismo economico di una sola minuscola isola-regno (l’Inghilterra) oggi tiene in catene il mondo. Se un’intera nazione con trecento milioni di abitanti ambisse a un simile sfruttamento, il mondo sarebbe divorato come dalla piaga delle cavallette.” Da allora l’impero inglese è stato sostituito da quello USA.
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The Terrorism-Industrial Complex (TIC)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
25 Feb 2020 -As we have a Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) or, rather, a Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex (MIMAC), the last 20 years have permitted the development of the Terrorism-Industrial Complex (TIC) – that is, intimately connected, wealthy elites who have a common interest in thriving and profiting in various ways from the Global War On Terror with a complete contempt for the rest of us, for democracy and security – and don’t mention peace, they don’t know that word.
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The Digestive System Is A Potential Route of 2019-Ncov Infection: A Bioinformatics Analysis Based on Single-Cell Transcriptomes
Hao Zhang, et al. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
31 Jan 2020 – This study has provided the bioinformatics evidence of the potential route for infection of 2019-nCov in digestive system along with respiratory tract and may have significant impact for our healthy policy setting regards to prevention of 2019-nCoV infection.
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The Zionist Colonization of Palestine
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
24 Feb 2020 – For more than a century Zionists and, later, Israelis have pursued a project to seize and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land.
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A Difficult Peace
Sean Reynolds | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
25 Feb 2020 – The path we must follow within the U.S. seems also to be the sole survivable path the U.S. has left that it can follow abroad – to somehow redress those of our neighbors’ real grievances to which their undeniable failings should never have blinded us; to build a movement for species survival which no-one will join if we won’t share our wealth and our power; and to empower those who, like Iran, we’re most inclined to condemn – in the desperate hope of forging a difficult peace.
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David Ray Griffin’s The Christian Gospel for Americans: A Systematic Theology
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
There are very few writers who have done more to try to open the public’s mind to the evil nature of the American empire than David Ray Griffin. His series of books on the false flag attacks of September 11, 2001 will endure for a long time, and they will one day, when it is safe to do so, be recognized as seminal texts exposing the traitorous conspiracy of elements within the Unites States’ government to launch the endless so-called war on terror.
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Conspiracy Theories, Fake News & Information Warfare
Uriel Araujo | OneWorld – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
18 Feb 2020 – The problem is that, in everyday usage, “conspiracy theorist” (just like “populist” or “terrorist”) may refer to anyone. Such labels are often employed as an accusatory category. Just like witchcraft and witches in many societies, a “conspiracy theorist” is always the Other, always someone else.
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The Paradox of America’s Endless Wars
William J. Astore | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
25 Feb 2020 -The Iraq War soon joined the Afghan invasion of 2001 as a quagmire and disaster, yet the antiwar movement died down as U.S. leaders worked to isolate Americans from news about the casualties, costs, calamities, and crimes of what was by then called “the war on terror.” And in that they succeeded. Even though the U.S. now lives in a state of perpetual war, for most Americans it’s a peculiar form of non-war.
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Dwarka, Krishna’s Lost City Discovered–Rare Photos
The Historical India | Ancient Astronaut Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
As time marches on, archaeologists all over the world have been discovering ancient cities that were once thought to be myths or legends: Troy, Xanadu, Helike, Great Zimbabwe, Leptis Magna, Heracleion, La Ciudad Blanca, Iram of the Pillars, Musasir, and Urkesh are but just a few. And it seems there is no end to the list of the lost-found cities of the ancient world. Among them, Krishna’s Lost City of Dwarka is perhaps the most profound.
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Former UN Climate Chief Calls for Civil Disobedience
Jeff McMahon | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
24 Feb 2020 – In a book out tomorrow, the woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement calls for civil disobedience to force institutions to respond to the climate crisis.
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(Português) Vida de boi, do pasto para a pista da morte
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
Um bovino, dos milhões que são abatidos por mês no Brasil para serem reduzidos a pedaços de carne, tem uma vida realmente curta.
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How Sanders Wins and Governs–Winning and Losing in 2020
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
24 Feb 2020 – Anyone sensitive to the American political scene has become aware of an emerging collision between surging citizen support for Bernie Sanders and the lamentations of portfolio (stocks & bonds) driven Democrats who purport to question Sanders’ electability, and even if they now most reluctantly acknowledge the robustness of his electoral challenge to Trump, contend that he will be never be able to govern given his left agenda and considering the likely embitterment of the DNC establishment.
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An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action
John Perkins | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who did not “play the game” were assassinated or overthrown. He brings us up to date about the way the economic hit man system has spread from developing countries to the US, Europe, and the rest of the world and offers a strategy for turning this around.
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Risks to Health and Well-Being from Radio-Frequency Radiation Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices
Anthony B. Miller et al. | Frontiers in Public Health - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
Novel 5G technology is being rolled out in several densely populated cities, although potential chronic health or environmental impacts have not been evaluated. The range and magnitude of potential impacts of 5G technologies are under-researched, although important biological outcomes have been reported with millimeter wave-length exposure. These include oxidative stress and altered gene expression, effects on skin and systemic effects such as on immune function. Acceleration of bacterial and viral replication, and other endpoints indicate the potential for novel as well as more commonly recognized biological impacts from this range of frequencies, and highlight the need for research.
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Evangelicals for Trump
Khalil Bendib | Other Words - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
No comment…
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NATO: From Covert Sponsor to Artillery Provider for Terrorists in Syria
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
28 Feb 2020 – NATO member Turkey was recently caught out providing artillery support for terror groups in Syria’s Idlib province. As Syria’s endgame closes, the protagonists and their proxies are coming more clearly into focus. NATO’s covert shadowy connection with the jihadist insurgents it has sponsored for regime change is being flushed out as the Syrian army and its Russian ally home in on the last stand of the terror groups.
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Persistence of Coronaviruses on Inanimate Surfaces and Their Inactivation with Biocidal Agents
G. Kampf, et al. | Journal of Hospital Infection – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
6 Feb 2020 – Currently, the emergence of a novel human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has become a global health concern causing severe respiratory tract infections in humans. Human-to-human transmissions have been described with incubation times between 2-10 days, facilitating its spread via droplets, contaminated hands or surfaces. We therefore reviewed the literature on all available information about the persistence of human and veterinary coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces as well as inactivation strategies with biocidal agents used for chemical disinfection, e.g. in healthcare facilities.
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Extradition and Trial of Julian Assange
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
19 Feb 2020 – The following items have been progressively accumulated as an addendum to an earlier document elaborated as a speculative dramatisation of the legal process against Julian Assange in several Christian countries. Given the probability of his extradition, trial and conviction in the USA, a further document was produced to offer Christians the possibility of collectively determining his punishment — in the spirit of that dramatisation.
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Marchers Support Assange ahead of London Extradition Hearing
Jill Lawless | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
22 Feb 2020 – Hundreds of supporters of Julian Assange marched through London today to pressure the U.K. government not to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States in hearing due to begin in a London court on Monday 24 Feb. Famous backers, including Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, editor in chief of WikiLeaks Kristinn Hrafnsonn, Assange’s father John Shipton, Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters, and Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde joined the crowd.
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Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in Belmarsh high-security prison in the United Kingdom and faces extradition to the United States and criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. He risks up to 175 years imprisonment for his part in making public the leak of US military documents from Afghanistan and Iraq, and a trove of US State Department cables.
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West Point Prof Pens Blistering Takedown of U.S. Military Academies
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos | The American Conservative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
17 Feb 2020 – What do you call a civilian law professor who, after successfully filing for federal whistleblower status to keep his job teaching at West Point Military Academy, proceeds to write a bombshell book about the systematic corruption, violence, fraud, and anti-intellectualism he says has been rampant at the historic institution for over a hundred years?
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(Français) Le sort de Snowden, Manning, Harrison et Assange devrait susciter la même indignation mondiale que celle de Mandela
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
13 Fév 2020 – L’association Carta Academica a remis le 29 janvier à Bruxelles ses premiers Academic Honoris Causa à Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden et Sarah Harrison. Durant la cérémonie, le philosophe Geoffroy de Lagasnerie a expliqué qu’ils incarnent tous les quatre ce que Derrida appelle le « destin de l’humanité ».
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Weaponizing Lawfare in the Philippines
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
22 Feb 2020 – Rodrigo Duterte, despite leaving by now a long trail of blood-stained abuse, retains an approval rating of more than 80%. As in the United States, we ask the question that prompted the leading thinkers in ancient Athens to abandon democracy—‘how can we trust the citizenry if they are drawn to support demagogues whose policies are self-destructive for the political community?” If not, the people, then whom? Surely, not the financial oligarchs. Plutocracy is not the answer.
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Trump Pardons White Collar Ruling Class Elite Criminals
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – Trump issued 11 pardons on Tuesday [18 Feb], expunging the lawbreaking records of billionaire financier Michael Milken, the “junk bond king,” and billionaire real estate magnate Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., former owner of the San Francisco 49ers. He also pardoned former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, convicted of tax fraud and perjury, and commuted the 14-year jail term of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, impeached and then convicted on multiple corruption counts, including attempting to sell the Senate seat of Barack Obama after Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008.
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World-Wide Journalists Condemn Court Action against Julian Assange
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – 1242 journalists from 99 countries (as of 21 Feb 2020 10:30 a.m. GMT) have released a joint statement today in defence of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, in the lead up to proceedings in a UK court to extradite him to the United States to face the espionage charges. The court case begins on 24 February.
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How COVID-19 Spreads
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
17 Feb 2020 – Current understanding about how the virus that causes coronavirus disease spreads is largely based on what is known about similar coronaviruses. On 11 Feb the WHO announced an official name for the disease that is causing the current outbreak of coronavirus disease, COVID-19. CDC will be updating our website and other CDC materials to reflect the updated name.
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How India’s Modi Is Playing on Trump’s Ego to His Advantage
M.K. Bhadrakumar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
Trump’s remarks on his India visit Feb 24-25: “We’re not treated very well by India, but I happen to like Prime Minister Modi a lot. And he told me we’ll have 7 million people between the airport and the event. And the stadium, I understand, is sort of semi under construction, but it’s going to be the largest stadium in the world. So it’s going to be very exciting. But he says between the stadium and the airport, we’ll have about 7 million people. So it’s going to be very exciting. I hope you all enjoy it.”
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Mistrial Is another Blow to U.S. Coup in Venezuela–Our Work Continues
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
16 Feb 2020 – Last week, we along with Adrienne Pine and David Paul were unsuccessfully prosecuted by the Trump administration for our protection of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC from April 10 to May 16, 2019. The jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision and so we remain innocent of the charge of interfering with the protective functions of the US Department of State. The judge declared a mistrial.
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COVID-19 at Munich Security Conference
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | WHO Director-General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
15 Feb 2020 – Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous… The greatest enemy we face is not the virus itself; it’s the stigma that turns us against each other. We must stop stigma and hate! … It’s easy to blame. It’s easy to politicize. It’s harder to tackle a problem together, and find solutions together… We will all learn lessons from this outbreak. But now is not the time for recriminations or politicization. This is a time for facts, not fear. This is a time for rationality, not rumours. This is a time for solidarity, not stigma.
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Cartoon: 2020 Senate Republican Class Photo
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
Republican Democracy
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(Português) Harrison Ford Muda Alimentação pelo Bem do Planeta
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 fev 2020 – Durante sua participação no programa The Ellen DeGeneres Show, o ator Harrison Ford disse que decidiu fazer mudanças na sua alimentação pelo bem do planeta. O anúncio foi feito um ano após ele criticar líderes mundiais que ignoram o impacto das mudanças climáticas. Ford revelou que já não consome mais nenhum tipo de laticínios ou carne, com exceção de peixe, e que tem priorizado os vegetais.
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Can Dems Be Part of the Solution at AIPAC?
Diane Perlman | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
23 Feb 2020 – A coalition of progressive organizations is pressuring Democratic candidates to boycott the AIPAC-American Israel Public Affairs Committee Conference in Washington, March 1–3, 2020. Skipping AIPAC would be a huge mistake and a loss for the candidates, the party, our democracy, and AIPAC.
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Wall Street Celebrates Milken Pardon
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
20 Feb 2020 – The decision by Donald Trump to pardon the financial criminal Michael Milken is being celebrated on Wall Street and for good reason. He was a pioneer of the methods and financial mechanisms that have led to the greatest accumulation of wealth by the financial oligarchy ever seen in history, at the expense of the jobs and social conditions of broad sections of the working class.
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The Shocking Death of Rwandan Gospel Singer and Dissident Kizito Mihigo
Ann Garrison | San Francisco Bay View – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
19 Feb 2020 – The West’s major media, New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, the BBC, etc. have reported on the shocking death of Kizito Mihigo, a gospel singer and political dissident in the tiny Sub Saharan African country of Rwanda. But will it do anything to erode the West’s support for Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the tyrant and war criminal who no doubt ordered his execution? Probably not, because Kagame is their gateway to the riches of the Congo.
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Who Is Right, Lyn or Pam? Using Conflict Resolution Scenario Methods to Resolve an Organisational Conflict
Ivana Milojević | Journal of Futures Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
11 Feb 2020 – Lyn and Pam (names have been changed) are co-workers in an Australian organisation. They are in the middle of a conflict that has been brought to their director’s attention. The director is not sure whether to engage with this conflict, as it appears rather trivial. Like most people do when it comes to conflicts, the director is hoping that the quarrel will dissipate and disappear on its own. Also like most people, she habitually uses a style of conflict resolution that she learned in her family of origin; she applies it to all conflicts, regardless of the context.
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As Usual, Western Media Grossly Distort Syria’s Conflict
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
21 Feb 2020 – It is by now untenable for Western corporate media to spin the fictional narrative about “moderate rebels” fighting against a “cruel dictatorship”. The dominant component is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly Al Nusra Front, an offshoot of Al Qaeda, like Islamic State. Unable any longer to launder the bloody image of the terrorists and retail them as “moderate rebels”, the mainstream media are now laying on the “humanitarian emotion” as a way to undermine the sovereign right of the Syrian Army to defeat and rid the country of the terror scourge.
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Duterte Does the Right Thing for a Change
Walden Bello | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
19 Feb 2020 – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s termination of a key military pact with the United States, the Visiting Forces Agreement, which governed the deployment of US troops in the country, has evoked varied responses. He might be the devil incarnate, but Duterte is beginning the process of ending over 120 years of colonial subjugation.
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COVID-19 Contagion: Reality and Myth
Catherine Offord | The Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
21 Feb 2020 – Scientists’ Latest Understanding of the Facts, the Suspicions, and the Discounted Rumors of SARS-CoV-2’s Transmission from Person to Person
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Painting a True Christ
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
A Review of Terrence Malick’s Film “A Hidden Life”- Franz, a devout Roman Catholic, is deeply disturbed by the rise of Hitler and the thought of participating in his immoral killing machine.
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Gandhi’s Ahimsa: A Critical Review at the Critical Time of War against Terrorism
M Abdur Rahman Malik, et al. | International Journal of Business and Social Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
Abstract: This paper will seek to understand what is meant by the term that Gandhi refers to as Ahimsa. This research will also seek to evaluate the term from both theoretical and practical angles and will establish that Ahimsa is not possible in its virtual meanings. The critique on Ahimsa and Gandhi’s ideology will also be discussed. Finally this paper will propose that the concept of Ahimsa can be of any use for humanity only if it is defined in a broader framework.
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COVID-19: Fighting Panic with Information
Editorial | The Lancet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
22 Feb 2020 – As governments and health officials worldwide grapple with the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, new developments in the accounting of and response to cases are occurring as part of a swiftly evolving crisis… There may be no way to prevent a COVID-19 pandemic in this globalised time, but verified information is the most effective prevention against the disease of panic.
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‘Victory for Farmers’ as Jury Awards Grower $265 Million in Damages from Drift of Monsanto’s Dicamba
Andrea Germanos | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
17 Feb 2020 – German chemicals giant Bayer announced today its intention to “swiftly appeal” a U.S. jury’s decision to award a Missouri peach farmer over $265 million in compensation for years of crop losses as a result of drifting dicamba weedkiller. “This verdict is just the tip of the iceberg.”
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A Hard Look into the Genesis of Myanmar’s Genocide
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
12 Feb 2020 – Genesis of sustained, institutionalized destruction of Rohingya is anchored in group’s identity as Muslims. This faith-based framing of Rohingya, a borderland population, as a threat is precisely what qualifies Myanmar’s policies as genocidal.
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Meeting Grand Ayatollah 41 Years Ago
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
15 Feb 2020 – In February 1979, along with two others, I had a meeting with Ayatollah Khomeini. The post below is an edited text of an interview by two Iranian journalists, Maryam Khormaei & Javad Heiran-Nia, which was published a few weeks ago in Iran. As few Westerners had such an opportunity to meet the leader of the Iranian Revolution in a relatively relaxed atmosphere and for an ample length of time, there seemed interest in Iran and elsewhere in my recollections of that meeting.
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UN’s Nils Melzer on Assange: «A Murderous System Is Being Created before Our very Eyes»
Daniel Ryser | Republik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
31 Jan 2020 – A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture – and soon extradition to the U.S., where he could face up to 175 years in prison for exposing war crimes. For the first time, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, speaks in detail about the explosive findings of his investigation into the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – The global security state, which is not bound by the rule of law, will target all who defy it.
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The Golden Age of White Collar Crime
Michael Hobbes, Matt Giles, et al. | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – Elite lawbreaking is out of control. This is the grotesque story of an existential threat to American society. One of the most conspicuous aspects of white-collar cases is the doting, near-veterinary care with which judges try to prevent defendants from facing harsh punishment. 32% of American managers said they were comfortable behaving unethically to meet financial targets. –Ernst and Young Global Fraud Survey
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Save the Insects, Save Ourselves: Researchers Sound Alarm on Bugpocalypse
Andrea Germanos | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – Global conservation scientists drew renewed attention to the “insect apocalypse” underway with two companion papers published Sunday [9 Feb] underscoring how the fate of human beings and that of insects is intertwined and the available solutions to address the crisis.
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Bolivia: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing Coup
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup in November 2019. Morales had just won a presidential election in October for a term that would have begun in January 2020. The Organization of American States claimed that there was fraud in the election and Morales was prematurely removed from office.
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On 41st Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Has Trump’s Belligerence Strengthened the Iranian Government?
Farhang Jahanpour | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
11 Feb 2020 – The current impasse in Iran will either result in a much more hard-line government, similar to the one led by President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, or even in a military coup led by the IRGC. Either scenario will push back the possibility of democratization in Iran by many years, and might even lead to a devastating war. The neocons who have been pushing Trump to pursue these policies have not served him, the United States or Iran well.
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Bat and Hyena
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
15 Feb 2020 – What a baseball bat and a murdered pregnant hyena have in common? Please read on…
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Haiti Ten Years after the Earthquake
Resumen | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – January 12 marked 10 years since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 300,000 people and left an estimated 1.3 million more homeless. Much of the greater Port-au-Prince region laid in ruins, including the presidential palace, 17 of 19 ministries, and many schools and hospitals. Entire neighborhoods leveled, power outages, roads blocked with rubble, some still not removed. The United States government militarized the emergency aid. They sent in thousands of troops to provide “security,” when Haitians needed food, water, and medical care.
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A Plague of Locusts Has Descended on East Africa–Climate Change May Be to Blame
Madeleine Stone | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
14 Feb 2020 – A plague of locusts is spreading across the East Africa region threatening the food supply of tens of millions. City-sized swarms of the dreaded pests descend on crops and pasturelands, devouring everything in a matter of hours. The outbreak, which now affects seven countries, is like nothing in recent memory. Human activity has made an ocean circulation pattern misbehave—triggering a weird confluence of events that has caused the infestations.
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New Religion Journalism Award
María-Paz López | International Association of Religion Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
Dear TMS editor, I would like to draw your attention to a new journalism award, and to kindly ask you to disseminate the information below to forward it to journalists that may have an interest in submitting entries to the contest. Perhaps also contributors to TRANSCEND can be interested in applying.
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What Does the Myanmar Provisional Measures Order by the International Court of Justice Mean for ASEAN?
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
12 Feb 2020 – It is long overdue for ASEAN to sync its policies towards Myanmar with international opinion, legal and human rights, and the global public. It needs to prove that it is a part of the solution, rather than being a Bystander in yet another genocide in its backyard after Khmer Rouge genocide four decades ago.
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Trump Budget Gives Top Priority to New Generation of Nuclear Weapons
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
11 Feb 2020 – The most ominous feature of the new budget document issued yesterday by the Trump administration is the prominent place given to the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons, including so-called low-yield weapons, smaller than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which are widely regarded as more likely to actually be used in combat.
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Breaking with Washington: Arabs and Muslims Must Take a Stance for Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
12 Feb 2020 – A negotiated solution to the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’, at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole new path of liberation that does not go through Washington.
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David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
8 fev 2020 – Localizado no Sul da Ásia, e com uma grande população de 164,7 milhões de pessoas, onde 86,6% dos habitantes se identificam como muçulmanos, a Nação Bengali, como também é conhecida, não tem uma cultura de alto consumo de carne como ocorre principalmente nas nações mais industrializadas e ricas.
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska | Our Chopin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, he was the author of two polonaises…. In the summer of 1849, Ludwika Jedrzejewiczowa, the eldest sister of the composer, came from Warsaw to take care of her ill brother. On 17 October 1849, Chopin died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendôme. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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More Damning Evidence of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Cover-up in Syria
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
14 Feb 2020 – More evidence has emerged to indict the OPCW in carrying out a despicable cover-up in Syria. Even more damning is that the cover-up has been orchestrated in response to pressure from the US and Western allies. This is a grave matter considering the UN-affiliated body is supposed to be a neutral, technical watchdog overseeing the implementation of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention banning the use of such weapons of mass destruction.
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Why Be a Pacifist?
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
From developing a pacifist economy to addressing structural injustice, author Tim Gee discusses the challenge and potential of pacifism in the 21st century.
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Mexico’s Fight for National Banking Revives a Forgotten History
Matthew Ehret | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
14 Feb 2020 – In [TRANSCEND member] Ellen Brown’s brilliant new article “Mexico’s AMLO Shows How It’s Done”, the researcher and national banking advocate made the powerful point that the only way to properly fight the neo-liberal order is for nations of the west to follow the lead of Mexico’s current President Lopez Obrador who recently announced the creation of a new network of national banks
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Fully-funded Rotary Peace Fellowship
Sarah Cunningham | Rotary International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020 – The Rotary Foundation is now accepting applications for the fully-funded 2021 Rotary Peace Fellowship. Up to 130 peace and development leaders are selected globally every year to earn either a master’s degree or a professional development certificate in peace and conflict studies at one of seven Rotary Peace Centers at leading universities around the world. Application deadline: 31 May.
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Look to the United Nations to Find Solace in Trump’s Wind of Madness
Douglas Roche | The Hill Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
12 Feb 2020 – In the UN Charter, we find the truths to guide us, such as saving humanity from the scourge of war, reaffirming faith in fundamental human rights, and the dignity of the human person.
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Arendt, Eichmann and the Banalization of Blame
Michael Brenner | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
Hannah Arendt, who originated the term “banality of evil” in her provocative writings, was not interested in explaining Eichmann’s blandness per se. She had more profound thoughts to convey. He was a symbol of something much deeper. Her forcefully argued conclusions that ordinary people can commit horrific crimes created a furor – a blazing fire of argument and recrimination whose embers smoldered for decades.
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Making a Difference: 20 Years of Conflict-Resolving Media
Jake Lynch | The Peace Journalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
“In my reportage, taking from the course, I always stay focused on stating facts, the truth and let the voice of the people dominate the narrative as opposed to political parties or ‘elite sources’ as you call them. These sources tend to have vested interests that I avoid. I focus on people’s stories, the human-interest ones. Solutions are not what I intentionally work towards, but they can be inevitable outcome of any such endeavour and I hope for that”.
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Temperature in Antarctica Soars Past 69°F/20ºC as NOAA Reports Last Month Was World’s Hottest January on Record
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020 – As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today announced that last month was the hottest January ever recorded, the Guardian reported that Brazilian scientists logged a new record-breaking temperature of 20.75°C, or 69.35°F, at Seymour Island in Antarctica on Feb. 9. They called the new record “incredible and abnormal.”
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