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Battle of the Heavyweights
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

A pic is worth a thousand Twitters…

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Since I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Back
Barton Gellman | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

Jun 2020 issue – “What time exactly does your clock say?” asked the voice on the telephone, the first words Edward Snowden ever spoke to me aloud. I glanced at my wrist—3:22 p.m. “Good. Meet me exactly at four. I’ll be wearing a backpack.” The rendezvous point Snowden selected on 5 Dec 2013 was a casino hotel called the Korston Club in Moscow. After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.

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How We Became Refugees: The Day My Grandfather Lost His Village in Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

15 May 2020 – Starting on March 27, 1948, a beautiful, small Palestinian village called Beit Daras, came under Zionist militias attacks. With little means – a few old rifles and kitchen knives – the Badrasawis fought back, repelling the first raid and the second. The final attack on the peaceful village followed a scorched-earth military strategy, leaving in its wake scores of dead and wounded, and the entirety of the village on the run. Among the thousands of ethnically-cleansed Palestinians in Beit Daras, a family of six, including an infant, salvaged a few old blankets and some supplies and went searching for a safe place, with the hope that they would return home in a few days. Their nearly one hundred descendants are yet to return to Beit Daras, 72 years later. 

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Prostitution, the Sex Trade, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melissa Farley | Logos Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

Spring 2020 – The pandemic reveals the exploitation and violence in all forms of prostitution, including sugar daddy/sugar baby prostitution, cell phone/escort prostitution, massage parlor prostitution, street prostitution, webcam prostitution (Moran & Farley, 2018; Farley, 2016). A San Francisco group mainstreaming prostitution as work admitted, “People who are doing street-based sex work may not be able to stop doing sex work to survive,”

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“America Exists Today to Make War”
Lawrence Wilkerson | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

“America exists today to make war. How else do we interpret 19 straight years of war and no end in sight? It’s part of who we are. It’s part of what the American Empire is,” says Wilkerson. “We are going to cheat and steal to do whatever it is we have to do to continue this war complex. That’s the truth of it. And that’s the agony of it.” — Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell.

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Despite the Danger of COVID-19, the US Military Continues War Practice in Europe and Pacific and Plans for More in 2021
Ann Wright | OpEd News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

19 May 2020 – During the COVID-19 pandemic, not only will the U.S. military have the largest maritime military maneuvers in the world, with Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) coming to the waters off Hawaii August 17-31, 2020 bringing 26 nations, 25,000 military personnel, up to 50 ships and submarines and hundreds of aircraft in midst of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, but the U.S. Army is having a 6,000-person war game in June 2020 in Poland.

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US Withdraws from Open Skies Treaty, Heightening Danger of War with Russia
Clara Weiss | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

22 May 2020 – The treaty, signed in 1992 after the dissolution of the USSR, has been in full force since 2002. It has been ratified by 34 states, including almost all NATO and EU members, Russia and most countries of the former Soviet Union. The US withdrawal from Open Skies, which will take effect within six months, comes amidst growing tensions with Russia.

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The Price of America’s Quest for an External Enemy
Morgan Godvin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

22 May 2020 The US spent so much fighting phantom enemies and creating the myth of good versus evil that it ignored the real threat.

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How Does the US Rally Support for Wars That Kill Millions of Innocent People Worldwide?
Robert Fantina | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

21 May 2020 – These wars have killed millions of innocent men, women and children around the world. Yet more often than not they have been based on weak evidence, questionable motives, and outright lies. Why, then, do large portions of the public staunchly support the US troops?  Why are so many Americans satisfied with the U.S. bombings of Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other Middle Eastern countries, knowing that this is creating starvation and refugee crises of catastrophic proportions?

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Trump Administration Quietly Adds Foreign Arms Sale to List of “Essential Work”
Taylor Barnes | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

19 May 2020 – Buried on the 18th page of a recently updated federal government memo defining which workers are critical during the Covid-19 pandemic is a new category of essential workers: defense industry personnel employed in foreign arms sales. The original March memos made no mention of the lucrative foreign arms sales that U.S. companies make in the order of $180 billion a year.

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Republican Party’s Corona Big Book
Brett O’Donnel | O’Donnell & Associates – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

17 May 2020 – The book was assembled by Brett O’Donnell, who has worked for and is close to Secretary of State Mike ​Pompeo. It is basically a script for what Republican Senate candidates are to say. O’Donnell currently serves as a message and media strategist for numerous members of congress and for profit and nonprofit corporations. The Republican Party is using the text to deflect their failed COVID-19 leadership. They believe that if you create a set of lies, muddle them in a conspiracy theory, and have every Republican repeat them over and over, they can succeed in framing the political conversation.  — Rolf Melheim

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Why East Beat West on COVID-19
Andrew Salmon | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

15 May 2020 – Perhaps the most startling trend visible in the global Covid-19 pandemic is the vast differential separating East Asia from the West when it comes to the disease’s impact. Very clearly, East Asian nations of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam have done better than the West on virus management. Why?

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Eliciting Insight from Mandala-Style Logos in 3D
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

Interactive Engagement with Mandalas and Yantras in Virtual Reality

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COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth about ‘First’ and ‘Third’ World Competence
Steven Friedman | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

13 Maio 2020 – One of the planet’s – and Africa’s – deepest prejudices is being demolished by the way countries handle COVID-19.

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My Earth Journey
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

At the peak of the Corona Pandemic and in the midst of the Lock Down, on 26 March, Microsoft was granted the World Patent # WO 2020/060606 by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Just as our Biodiversity and Indigenous knowledge were “mined” — for patenting and Biopiracy, there is now an attempt to mine and pirate the data from our bodies and minds, without our permission and consent. Our humanity and autonomy are being stolen. We are being reduced to “users” of the “machines” which are extracting our humanity and our information to build the next stage of the mechanical, money machine.

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The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism
Walden Bello | Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

13 May 2020 – The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them? In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging.

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The Coronavirus Pandemic, Sanctions on Iran, and the Maladies of World Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

12 May 2020 – The U.S. depends primarily on its military capabilities to punish and coerce those states that it regards as hostile to its global ambitions. Iran (and Venezuela) is the current leading example, as victimized by ‘the maximum pressure’ approach based on threats and punitive sanctions. In contrast, China has brilliantly extended its influence and increased its prosperity by reliance mainly on non-military instruments of expansion including trade, investment, and foreign assistance. The two global states exemplify an encounter between hard and soft power foreign policies.

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Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid to Invade Venezuela Count as Mercenaries
Joshua Cho | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

11 May 2020 – In recent reports regarding the Bay of Pigs–style invasion the term “mercenary” was accompanied by scare quotes, as if these men could only be seen that way from the perspective of an Official US EnemyTM (whose perspective is always illegitimate in the eyes of corporate media). It is clear that the men behind the La Guaira invasion aren’t described as mercenaries because the US government and media alike favor regime change in Venezuela.

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Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with COVID-19 Severity and Mortality
Katie Weisman | Children’s Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

12 May 2020 – 100% of ICU patients less than 75 years old had Vitamin D insufficiency. It is a potential game-changer; vitamin D from sunshine is free and regular exposure for 20 minutes a day will provide about 1000 IU for who exposes 30% of body surface. 

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Enlightened Leaders…
Zeng | Cartoon Arts – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

Boring Blame Game Goes on…

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Bolivia: The Open Veins Are Bleeding Six Months after the Coup
Verónica Zapata | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

On 10 Nov 2019 a violent coup d’état took place in Bolivia navigated by the U.S. and with the backing of the armed forces, the police and paramilitary groups forcing Evo Morales to resign at gunpoint. The objective was to regain control of lithium and to erase a government with an indigenous face that for the first time since the genocidal conquest of America had come to power.

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(Italiano) Ascolta tua madre: nessuno dovrebbe essere troppo ricco o troppo povero
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

I super-ricchi sono diventati così esperti a distrarre e dividere il resto di noialtri da tenerci impantanati in beghe per ogni tipo d’ingiustizia—guerre, oppressione razziale, patriarcato, partigianeria, degrado ambientale –al punto di perdere spesso di vista la smania di potere e di profitto alla radice di ciascuno di questi mali. Quindi, nostro dovere fondamentale è far sì che nessuno sia troppo ricco p troppo povero.

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(Português) Brasil Caminha para Recorde de Desmatamento da Amazônia
David Arioch | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

14 maio 2020 – Entre agosto de 2019 e abril de 2020 o desmatamento na Amazônia totalizou 5.666 km² – quase o mesmo que a soma da extensão desmatada em 2018 e 2019 no mesmo período. Considerado isoladamente, o desmatamento no mês de abril é igualmente assustador: aumento de 64% em relação ao mesmo mês de 2019.

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Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen
Michael LaForgia and Walt Bogdanich | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

16 May 2020 – President Trump sees arms deals as jobs generators for firms like Raytheon, which has made billions in sales to the Saudi coalition. The Obama administration initially backed the Saudis too, but later regretted it as thousands died.

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(Français) 100 Ans de Honte : L’annexion de la Palestine a Commencé a San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

18 Mai 2020 – Porté par le soi-disant accord du siècle de Donald Trump, Benyamin Netanyahou se prépare à annexer de nouveaux territoires palestiniens. L’histoire se répète-t-elle? Il y a cent ans déjà, les représentants de quelques puissants pays se sont réunis dans une ville endormie de la Riviera italienne pour sceller le sort des vastes territoires confisqués à l’Empire ottoman après sa défaite lors de la Première Guerre mondiale.

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Gangster Geopolitics and Israel’s Annexation Plans
Richard Falk | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

13 May 2020 – The Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank shows a shocking disregard for international law.

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What You Need to Know about the ICC Investigation of Israeli War Crimes in Occupied Palestine
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

On April 30 Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, released a 60-page document diligently laying down the legal bases for the decision, concluding that “the Prosecution has carefully considered the observations of the participants, and remains of the view that the Court has jurisdiction over the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”

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[Satire] Now Is the Time to Cherish the Little Things, by Jeff Bezos
Jeremy Beiler | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

13 May 2020 – If you’re still going a little stir-crazy, why not stay in a different one of your houses every night of the week? We’ve all got to get creative here. Though it’s true that the pandemic has brought the world to its knees, it also has the power to bring us together, and in little, unseen ways it can even make us billions more dollars than we were making before.

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15 May–International Conscientious Objectors’ Day
Lewis Randa | Engaging Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

Although conscientious objection to war is not a hot media topic today, respect, admiration, and appreciation for COs are expressed (mostly distally) around the world.

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Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”

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Walking Blues — Song around the World (Music Video of the Week)
Keb' Mo' | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

8 May 2019 – In honor of blues legend Robert Johnson’s birthday, we share our Song around the World with musicians from six countries. Originally written and recorded by Son House in 1930, Robert recorded his own version in 1936. We started in Patagonia, Argentina and added friends as we traveled to create a blues jam around the world.  Enjoy!

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Naomi Klein: How Big Tech Plans to Profit from the Pandemic
Naomi Klein | The Intercept/The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

For a few moments during NY governor Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus briefing on Wed 6 May, the grimace was replaced by a smile. The inspiration: a video visit from the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who announced that he will be heading up a panel to reimagine New York state’s post-Covid reality, with an emphasis on permanently integrating technology into every aspect of civic life.

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Eminent Monsters: A Manual for Modern Torture
Stephen Bennett and Mark Fallon | Christal Frost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

‘Eminent Monsters’ is a documentary focusing on the use of psychological torture that breaks the mind without physical evidence of harm. It is an exposure of the abuse by the governments of Britain and the United States. It has immediate relevance regarding the treatment being meted out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which Professor Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, has described as psychological torture.

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Why on Earth Is the U.S. Bombing Somalia?
Danny Sjursen | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

15 May 2020 – The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing—and covert raiding—campaign in Somalia amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has provided any explanation for the deadly escalation of a war that Congress hasn’t declared and the media rarely reports. At stake are many thousands of lives.

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Corporate Media Setting Stage for New Cold War with China
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

15 May 2020 – Corporate media are laying the ideological groundwork for a new cold war with China, presenting the nation as a hostile power that needs to be kept in check.

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[Cartoon] Too Much Winning
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

#1… Still

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Civil Society Is the Second Pillar of West African Nation States
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. | Virginia Commonwealth University - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

Experience from many African nations – as well as America, Asia and Europe – provides compelling evidence that civil society plays a fundamental role in social progress and in promoting peace and democratic governance. Civil society has organised democratic governance in West African for millennia, and not simply since colonial rule began. Our political science research shows how civil society has been and remains critical to the evolution of West African Nation States – nearly all of which are recent post-colonial creations – and that a Five Pillar conception of the Nation State conforms more closely to West African realities than the traditional Western concept of Executive + Legislative + Judiciary.

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US Blocks UN Global Ceasefire Resolution Objecting Reference to World Health Organization
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

9 May 2020 – International diplomats were stunned and frustrated yesterday night after the U.S. again blocked a UN resolution to call for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic. It objected to any mention of the WHO in the resolution. “It’s bad enough that Trump is responsible for so many deaths in his own country, now he is actively complicit in causing even more across the globe.”

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COVID-19 as a Memetic Disease–An Epidemic of Panic
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

Learning from Terrorism, Communism, Fascism and Evil as Pandemics of the Past – There is no denying that COVID-19 is a disease that is causing worldwide fatalities. Less evident is the extent to which it is a memetic disease–and the nature of the fatalities with which that is associated.

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Bobby Sands Died in Prison 39 Years Ago–Julian Assange Is His Modern Equivalent and One Day Will also Be Hailed as a Martyr
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

6 May 2020 – The British government allowed IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands to starve to death. It is showing the same lack of judgment on what is right and wrong, by callously letting another political detainee die. On 5 May 1981, Bobby Sands died after refusing food for 66 days at a British Northern Ireland prison. Julian Assange, in extremely poor health, is being held at draconian Belmarsh Prison in London.

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With a Distracted Public, the Pentagon Tries to Get Away with Killing Innocent Civilians
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

8 May 2020 – The United States’ wars continue to rage in the Middle East and Africa against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Trump administration has shown itself to be not just indifferent, but positively encouraging of the killing of civilians in foreign wars. If there is a time to get away with killing people with no fear of accountability, it’s now.

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(Italiano) COVID-19: Infrangere il lockdown, sconfiggere il colpo di mano, evitare l’estinzione
Robert J. Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

Usando i propri forum come il Forum Economico Mondiale l’élite globale continua a stringere la sua presa sulla popolazione con la propaganda COVID-19 per alzare la paura della gente mentre s’introducono nuove restrizioni e/o se n’estendono di esistenti per nascondere le molte misure che si vanno prendendo per portare avanti il loro colpo di mano tuttora in corso contro l’umanità.

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The Real Scandal Isn’t What China Did to Us — It’s What We Did to Ourselves
Fareed Zakaria | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

7 May 2020 – The Trump administration is trying to whip the country into an anti-Chinese frenzy because the novel coronavirus might have been accidentally transmitted from a laboratory rather than a wet market. The real scandal is not what China did to us, but what we together are doing to the planet — and what only we together can stop.

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Weapons Don’t Fight Pandemics
Miodrag Soric | DW - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

26 Apr 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic shows that we’ve got our security priorities wrong. Virus outbreaks, after all, cannot be contained by military force. Time for a security rethink. Tanks, fighter planes and aircraft carriers — where many crew members have fallen ill with the coronavirus — are useless against a pandemic. The world’s mightiest army simply will not keep us safe. On the contrary, increased defense spending leads to states diverting money away from health care systems.

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(Français) Pandémie de la Dépense Militaire
Manlio Dinucci | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

7 Mai 2020 – Chaque minute sont dépensés dans le monde environ 4 millions de dollars à des fins militaires. En 2019 la dépense militaire mondiale a presque atteint les 2.000 milliards de dollars. Ceci signifie qu’aujourd’hui on dépense en armes, armées et guerres plus que ce que l’on dépensait dans la dernière phase de l’affrontement entre USA et URSS et leurs alliances respectives.

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U.S. Policy toward Israel/Palestine in a Deglobalizing World: A Pre-Pandemic Perspective
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

7 May 2020 – The text below is from my presentation at the TRT World Forum, 21-22 Oct 2019. What strikes me now is how different the world seems only six months later due to the surreal impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on all aspects of perception and assessment, the totality of dislocating developments, and the heightening of an existential appreciation of the precariousness of individual and collective experience and of the radical uncertainty clouding our expectations of the future.

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(Français) Le Venezuela inflige une nouvelle défaite à l’Empire… et aux grands médias
Thierry Deronne | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

4 Mai 2020 – Mauvais remake de la Baie des Cochons signé Trump dans son opération caraïbe pour renverser le Président élu Nicolas Maduro : une incursion de paramilitaires venus de Colombie (photo) et munis d’un imposant armement vient d’être mise en déroute par l’armée bolivarienne, le dimanche 3 mai à l’aube, sur les côtes du Venezuela.

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Venezuela: An Invasion in the Midst of a Pandemic
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

Cuba, like Venezuela, is also the victim of all-encompassing economic sanctions initiated and imposed by the US. It is remarkable that in spite of the sanctions, both Cuba and Venezuela have managed to protect their people in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Indeed they have done a million times better than the nation that has punished them with sanctions which incidentally has the highest number of fatalities and infections in the world.

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Mercenaries behind Failed Venezuela Coup Had Been Trump’s Security
Ben Makuch | Vice - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

Silvercorp, the mercenary company caught Sunday [3 May 2020] in a bizarre attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government, claims in an Instagram post and promotional video by Jordan Goudreau, a former US special forces soldier, that the company did security for a Trump rally in November 2018.

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What It Takes to Grow Up, What It Means to Have Grown
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

I suspect it is simply a feature of being an adult, what I will call being grown, or a grown person, to have endured some variety of thorough emotional turmoil, to have made your way to the brink, and, if you’re lucky, to have stepped back from it — if not permanently, then for some time, or time to time…

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While the World Focuses on COVID-19, Indigenous Peoples in Myanmar Are Being Killed
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

28 Apr 2020 – As large parts of the world’s population are sitting at home in self- and authority-imposed isolation watching the development of the major public health crisis, governments in some countries are taking advantage of the situation and moving on with their repressive agendas cracking down on opposition groups, silencing human rights defenders and independent media, and subjecting entire ethnic groups to brutal military campaigns.

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What Pandemic? US & Royal Navy Launch Cold War-Style Provocation in Russia’s Arctic Backyard
Nebojsa Malic | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

5 May 2020 – Millions of Americans and Britons losing their livelihoods under Covid-19 lockdowns can rejoice that their navies are open for business, staging a show of force on Russia’s doorstep for the first time since the Cold War. Three guided missile destroyers and a Royal Navy frigate sailed into the Barents Sea yesterday, to “assert freedom of navigation and demonstrate seamless integration among allies.”

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COVID-19: Cuba’s People-before-Profit Approach Pays Off as Capitalism Proves a Bitter Pill for the US
Pablo Vivanco | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

28 Apr 2020 – Havana has punched above its weight for decades when it comes to health. But never have the differences between its socialist system and the market-based system of its strongest detractor, America, been so apparent.

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Mystery of Snails with Iron Shells That Survive Inside White-Hot Volcanoes
Michael Havis | Mirror - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

9 May 2020 – A team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has decoded the genome of the volcano-dwelling scaly-foot snail, which can live in remarkably hot temperatures.

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Letter from Myanmar: What Comes after Militant Buddhism?
Krithika Varagur | New Statesman - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

6 May 2020 – The rise of Buddhist nationalism has led to some of the worst inter-faith violence the country has ever seen. But some monks are leading the charge against the most intolerant preachers.

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Can We Achieve Nuclear Adulthood?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

6 May 2020 – What we urgently need now is a rethinking of the entire concept of security. All we’ve been hearing is talk about weapons, missiles and airstrikes. Is it not clear by now that wars and the arms race cannot solve today’s global problems? War is a sign of defeat, a failure of politics.

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The Brave New World of Bill Gates and Big Telecom
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

8 May 2020 – Next time you buy a “smart” device, remember the device is not the product—you are.

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Guantanamera (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song Around The World - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

We started the song with Carlos Varela in Havana and it features over 75 Cuban musicians around the world, from Havana and Santiago to Miami, Barcelona and Tokyo. We recorded and produced this track with Jackson Browne, who explains that “traveling with Playing For Change across Cuba was one of the most rewarding and inspiring musical experiences of my life.”

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Meet the US Veterans Returning to Make Amends in Vietnam
Loretta Graceffo | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

30 Apr 2020 – Forty-five years after the fall of Saigon, U.S. veterans are returning to Vietnam to find peace — and to atone for the damage they left behind.

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Coronavirus Found In Semen of Young Men with COVID-19
Peter Ellis, Mark Wass and Martin Michaelis | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

7 May 2020 – The study involved 38 patients undergoing treatment for severe COVID-19 disease. Fifteen of the patients provided a semen sample during the acute phase of their illness and 23 shortly after recovering. In four of the 15 patients with acute disease and in two of the 23 recovering patients, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was found in the semen samples.

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The Coronavirus Crisis: A Plea to Pause and Ponder
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

1 May 2020 – A Sharing by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, president of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST)

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Unity in Diversity
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

A Picture Is Worth 8 Billion Words–Or as many God Manifestations

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The Problem with Stories about Dangerous Coronavirus Mutations
Ed Yong | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

6 May 2020 – There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months.

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COVID19 and the U.S. Left: An Ignored Civil Rights Crisis
Michael Lesher | ZNet - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2020

5 May 2020 – Dissecting the left-right inverse polarization of responses to COVID-19 lockdowns.

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May Day Message
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

1 May 2020 – We are witnessing 3 pandemics simultaneously: The Corona Pandemic, the Hunger Pandemic, and the Pandemic of Destruction of Livelihoods. We are One Humanity on One Planet. Autonomy, meaning, dignity, work, freedom, democracy are our birthright.

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Acknowledging Disorientation after COVID-19: Beyond Horizons of Fear and Doubt
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

3 May 2020 – More than earlier crises of my lifetime, including the Great Depression, World War II, 9/11, the COVID-19 pandemic illuminates as never before, how precarious and uncertain is the future wellbeing, and possibly survival, of the human species. The concreteness, immediacy, and haunting uncertainties of the pandemic is quite terrifying on its own, but its heuristic pedagogy seems applicable to a range of potentially catastrophic threats of global scope, most obviously climate change, biodiversity, nuclear weaponry.

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Organizing the Future of Humanity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

The Commission for the Human Future convened an expert roundtable of Australian scientists, business leaders, public servants and academics which has called for the world’s nations to come together to develop a strategy for human survival. Critical Dimensions to Be Born in Mind

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Cuba’s COVID-19 Medical Brigades Are Not Medical Diplomacy but International Solidarity at Its Finest
Bill Hackwell | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

26 Apr 2020 – On the growing number of Cuban medical brigades fighting the Coronavirus pandemic around the world.

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Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: The Fed’s Generous New Rules
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

2 May 2020 – The banks are making extremely well in this crisis. The Federal Reserve has dropped interest rates to 0.25%, eliminated reserve requirements, and relaxed capital requirements. Banks can now borrow effectively for free. Following the playbook of the 2008-09 bailout, they can make the funds available to their Wall Street cronies to buy up distressed Main Street assets at fire sale prices, while continuing to lend to credit cardholders at 21%.

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(Italiano) Viaggi e salvataggi. Aspetti sociali e ambientali dei viaggi in aereo
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

Il trasporto aereo per passeggeri è solo uno delle tante attività industriali che sono state colpite in questo periodo di grandi cambiamenti.  A differenza di altri settori, qui i singoli cittadini sono elementi direttamente coinvolti: le scelte personali possono pesare in modo significativo, modificando le scelte aziendali e orientando le politiche governative.

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Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Message on Coronavirus Pandemic
Fanmi Lavalas | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

23 Apr 2020 – Fanmi Lavalas sends greetings to Haitians here and abroad during this coronavirus pandemic and takes this opportunity to be in solidarity with all the victims and their families. After the earthquake, hurricanes and floods, the coronavirus pandemic has hit the country at a time when misery, hunger, insecurity and unemployment are already disastrous.

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The World Is on Lockdown. So Where Are All the Carbon Emissions Coming from?
Shannon Osaka | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

27 Apr 2020 – Pedestrians have taken over city streets, people have almost entirely stopped flying, skies are blue for the first time in decades, and global CO2 emissions are on-track to drop by… about 5.5 percent. Wait, what? Appreciate the bluer skies and fresher air, while you can. But the emissions drop from the pandemic should be a warning, not a cause for celebration: a sign of how much further there is to go.

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Global Economy: Oil vs COVID-19
Prof. Cyrus Bina | New Cold War - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

22 Apr 2020 – How can oil prices become negative, and what does this mean for the global economy? World oil expert Cyrus Bina explains the current new turn of the global economy and the role that oil is playing in it.

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(Português) A Dor dos Animais pela Lente de Andrew Skowron
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

29 abr 2020 – Por meio da fotografia, quero mostrar o que é invisível para a sociedade – as relações entre os animais, sua capacidade de sentir, o respeito que eles merecem. Minhas imagens mostram suas existências, que foram degradadas e reduzidas a produtos, bens comuns.

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Standing on the Shoulders of Solitude: Newton, the Plague, and How Quarantine Fomented the Greatest Leap in Science
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” In the 1650s, the penumbra of plague slowly began eclipsing Europe. Italy fell first, soon Spain, then Germany, then Holland.

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New Zealand Has ‘Effectively Eliminated’ Coronavirus — Here’s What They Did Right
Aaron Gulley | National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

30 Apr 2020 – The island nation chose strict lockdowns and austerity. What’s next?

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Time to Repatriate Humanity
Wael Qarssifi | Malay Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

30 Apr 2020 – It is rather disappointing and shocking in 2020 to read that a Malaysian writer and journalist is asking the Rohingyas — the most persecuted minority in the world — to be thankful for not being put on an island camp, and using factual errors and xenophobic remarks to provoke the Malaysian public against one of the most deprived communities in the world.

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Portugal Leads the Way: How European Countries Fared in Their Treatment of Refugees
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

28 Apr 2020 – Although one of the poorest European countries, Portugal has decided to legalize all of its undocumented refugees and migrants, therefore, providing them with the same medical attention and support as its own citizens. Neglecting the refugees while fighting to halt the spread of the coronavirus is as foolish as it is inhumane. The last few months have taught us that provisional and self-centered strategies do not apply in the cases of global healthcare crises.

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Soul Rebel (Music Video of the Week)
Song around the World | Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

Bob Marley once said, “One good thing about music is that when it hits you feel no pain.” Another good thing about music is that it touches our souls and lifts our spirits. Connecting people is one thing, but connecting souls is a whole different level. Enjoy Bunny Wailer, Manu Chao and Bushman singing the Wailer’s classic, Soul Rebel, with musicians around the world.

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My Priorities or Yours?
Joe Kandra and Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

Good old US of A

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On ‘The Plague’ by Albert Camus
Tony Judt | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

Camus’s insistence on placing individual moral responsibility at the heart of all public choices cuts sharply across the comfortable habits of our own age. His unwavering grasp of the difference between good and evil, despite his compassion for the doubters and the compromised, for the motives and mistakes of imperfect humanity, casts unflattering light upon the relativizers and trimmers of our own day. And his controversial use of a biological epidemic to illustrate the dilemmas of moral contagion succeeds in ways the writer could not have imagined.

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(Italiano) Come collaborare con il nemico… ce lo spiega Adam Kahane
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

24 Aprile 2020 – Vi voglio presentare un personaggio che ha dedicato il suo lavoro e la sua vita al cambiamento e ai metodi per conseguirlo in contesti diversi.

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Clean Air in Europe during Lockdown ‘Leads to 11,000 Fewer Deaths’
Jonathan Watts | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

30 Apr 2020 – The improvement in air quality over the past month of the coronavirus lockdown has led to 11,000 fewer deaths from pollution in Europe, a study has revealed. It also finds less asthma and preterm births.

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The Coronavirus Pandemic as Opportunity in the Midst of Suffering: For a Future of Global Solidarity
Dr. Evelin Lindner | Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

2 Apr 2020 – Where do we stand, as humankind? We have dug ourselves into a multitude of perilous crises, both despite and because of what we call progress or economic growth. In service of profit, we practice strategies of development that shred our social fabric while simultaneously plundering our planet – fuelling a toxic combination of sociocide and ecocide that leads to intractable cycles of systemic humiliation. The coronavirus pandemic is one manifestation of this dire predicament.

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Malaysia Cites Covid-19 for Rounding Up Hundreds of Rohingya Migrants
Kaamil Ahmed | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

2 May 2020 – In move condemned by UN, refugees including Rohingya detained amid rise in xenophobia.

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Running of the Bulls: Pamplona’s San Fermin Cancelled over Coronavirus
Fiona Govan | The Local - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

21 Apr 2020 – Spain’s most famous running of the bulls fiesta has been cancelled this year due to the coronavirus. Acting Mayor Ana Elizalde announced that the festival could not be carried out with social distancing measures in place. She was unable to say whether it might be held at a later date, given the unpredictability of the coronavirus health crisis.

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Earth Day Communiqué
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

21 April 2020 – The health emergency we face as a global community is strictly connected to the health emergency the Earth is facing. This Earth Day over 500 organisations, movements and leaders from over 50 countries call for integrated action putting the health and wellbeing of all peoples and the planet at the centre of government and institutional policy, community building and civic action.

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Alternating between Complementary Images of Coronavirus
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

27 Apr 2020 – The response to the coronavirus, COVID-19 and the pandemic is variously framed in terms of threat, fear, surprise, panic, evil, pestilence, and the like. There is a case for exploring the set of such images as a source of insight in its own right.

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Light a Candle
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

21 Apr 2020 – Israel has over 13,000 COVID-19 cases and close to 200 deaths. Yet, the Israeli regime keeps thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in crowded prisons (and using them as guinea pigs to test drugs to profit its pharmaceutical industry). The regime shuts down a Palestinian clinic in occupied East Jerusalem (Silwan) that is fighting the pandemic.

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Oil Plunges below Zero for First Time in Unprecedented Wipeout
Catherine Ngai, Olivia Raimonde and Alex Longley | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

20 Apr 2020 – Of all the wild, unprecedented swings in financial markets since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, none has been more jaw-dropping than today’s collapse in a key segment of U.S. oil trading:
* U.S. crude trades at lowest level in data going back to 1946.
* Crude in U.S. trades more than $40 below zero at lowest level.

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Singapore’s Spike in Coronavirus Cases Shows the Road to Recovery Will Be a Bumpy Ride
Pushan Dutt | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

23 Apr 2020 -Singapore was widely praised as one of the countries that reacted quickly and effectively to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. But subsequent spikes show how long and bumpy the road to recovery from coronavirus will be. Lockdowns will have to be lifted cautiously and new waves of infection are likely.

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Gates’ Globalist Vaccine Agenda: A Win-Win for Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Children's Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

9 Apr 2020 – Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vaccination ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control of global health policy. Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems to be fueled by a conviction to save the world with technology.

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Self-Extinction of Neoliberalism? Don’t Bet on It
Gilbert Achcar | New Politics – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

24 Apr 2020 – The magnitude of the ongoing economic disaster is such that it has revived and boosted the hope that it will lead to a major global shift in economic policies and priorities. Naomi Klein quotes from one of the key contributors to the neoliberal shift–Milton Friedman: “Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.” She quotes it approvingly: “Friedman, one of history’s most extreme free market economists, was wrong about a whole lot, but he was right about that. In times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas suddenly become possible.”

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‘Closing Borders Is Ridiculous’: The Epidemiologist behind Sweden’s Controversial Coronavirus Strategy
Marta Paterlini | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

21 Apr 2020 – As much of Europe imposed severe restrictions on public life last month to stem the spread of the coronavirus, one country stood out. Anders Tegnell talks about the nation’s ‘trust-based’ approach to tackling the pandemic.

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Vulture Capitalism
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service~, 27 Apr 2020

As It Is…

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(Português) COVID-19 Força Cancelamento da “Corrida de Touros” da Festa de San Fermín na Espanha
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

24 abr 2020 – De acordo com a PETA, a famosa “Corrida de Touros” realizada anualmente em Pamplona como parte da Festa de San Fermín foi cancelada este ano. Agora a PETA está aproveitando a ocasião para tentar motivar o poder público a cancela-la para sempre.

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Are We before the Possible ‘Awakening’ of Mankind?
Juana Pérez Montero | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

10 Apr 2020 – A door has been opened and it is worthy to work on a new impulse for the humanization of the world. If we can be silent in this isolation, perhaps we will advance towards the awakening of the human being, towards the arrival of the Winged Lion.

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From Trump to Erdoğan, Men Who Behave Badly Make the Worst Leaders in a Pandemic
Simon Tisdall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

26 Apr 2020 – Around the world, authoritarian leaders are exploiting, exacerbating or grossly mishandling the response to the pandemic, placing selfish interest ahead of public good. Their behaviour is frequently appalling. They are a modern incarnation of TS Eliot’s “hollow men”. Sex is relevant, in that female leaders are generally thought to be behaving better.

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Banking on Climate Breakdown
Brendan Montague | The Ecologist - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

23 Apr 2020 – Banks must stop funding climate breakdown-driving fossil fuels as the world recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. Barclays and HSBC must address their role in funding the climate crisis and contribute to delivering a sustainable recovery from the impacts of COVID-19, announces new report from a coalition of NGOs.

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From Emergency to Emergence
David Korten | YES! Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

23 Apr 2020 – The COVID-19 emergency has exposed our societies’ failure to address the needs of billions of people. Simultaneously, we are witnessing a fundamental truth about human nature: There are those among us eager to exploit the suffering of others for personal gain. We can be reassured, however, by how few of them there are. Their actions contrast starkly with the far greater numbers at all levels of society demonstrating their willingness, even eagerness, to cooperate, share, and sacrifice for the well-being of all.

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