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Pentagon Brass Can Kiss My Ass
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
22 Apr 2020 – The coronavirus-stricken crew of the USS Roosevelt would be more useful making N-95 masks, building housing for people living on the streets, and tilling community gardens to prepare for supply chain collapse. Why don’t we just bring them all home? What the hell is our Coast Guard doing off the coast of Iran anyway? Who’s protecting New Jersey?
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Can a Virus Undermine Human Rights?
Olivier Nay | The Lancet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
20 Apr 2020 – Can exceptionality jeopardise some democratic principles in the long term? Could the epidemic lead to a reduction of individual rights after the peak of the crisis? How can humans think about health crisis management systems that protect society without undermining individual freedom?
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W.H.O and China: A Case of Geo-Political Misdirection
Hassanal Noor Rashid | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
20 April 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has been a real roller-coaster ride as far as geo-politics is concerned. In times of peace there are politicians, but in times of crisis, the true leaders emerge.
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Second Wave of Locusts in East Africa Said to Be 20 Times Worse
Samuel Okiror | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020 – UN Warns of ‘Alarming and Unprecedented Threat’ to Food Security and Livelihoods in the Region – A second wave of desert locusts is threatening east Africa with estimates that it will be 20 times worse then the plague that descended two months ago.
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Redemption Song (Music Video of the Week)
Playing for Change | Song around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
This is a version of Redemption Song performed around the world in honor of Bob Marley’s birthday [6 Feb 1945]. We have reunited Bob with his son Stephen and the support of the entire planet. There is a feeling of rising above the past and moving forward with love in our hearts and hope in our eyes.
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What Would and Should a Post-Pandemic World Look Like?
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 – Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a general feeling that the world is at an historical turning point, that nothing will ever be the same again. A post-American, post-liberal world order awaits us. But what shape will it take?
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Remembering Carl Sagan on Earth Day
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
22 Apr 2020 – The excerpt below is from Carl Sagan’s book, Pale Blue Dot, and it was inspired by an image recorded by Voyager-1 on 14 Feb 1990. As the spacecraft was leaving the solar system for its no-return outer-space exploration trip, NASA technicians redirected the camera for a last photo of Planet Earth behind. Voyager was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away when it captured this unique, historical, unflattering portrait of the world. Among light rays from the Sun, our Earth appears as a tiny, almost invisible point of light 0.12 pixel in size in the beam to the right of the frame. The landmark photo was by Sagan’s request.
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Prophets of Instability
Rick Perlstein | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
How Finance Broke the Modern Corporation – What are corporations for? In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman gave a blunt answer: profit. Almost two decades earlier, Karl Polanyi had a different answer. Who was right?
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Why the West Hates Sandinista Nicaragua
Stephen Sefton | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
In Nicaragua’s case, Western media and NGOs have comprehensively distorted and repeatedly lied about the country’s extraordinary achievement of containing the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 20 Apr 2020, there were 10 confirmed cases and two deaths in a population of 6.5 million.
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Trump Halts US Funding for World Health Organization as COVID-19 Pandemic Spreads throughout USA
Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Noah Higgins-Dunn | CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
14 Apr 2020 – The U.S. will suspend funding to the WHO while it reviews the agency’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s unclear exactly what mechanism Trump intends to use to withhold WHO funding, much of which is appropriated by Congress.
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(Castellano) La Granja del Dr Frankenstein
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Documentary on the Use of Genetic Engineering in Animals
Documental sobre el Uso de la Ingeniería Genética en Animales
Israel Shuts Palestinian Coronavirus Testing Clinic in East Jerusalem
Nir Hasson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Israeli police raided a coronavirus testing clinic in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan and arrested its organizers on Tuesday [14 Apr] night because the clinic was operated in collaboration with the Palestinian Authority.
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Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help COVID-19 Victims
Belen Fernandez | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
14 Apr 2020 – As coronavirus ravages the world, Cuba has exhibited disproportionate heroism, deploying medical personnel to at least 14 countries thus far to battle the pandemic. It is a welcome bit of uplifting news in an otherwise mostly dismal international panorama. Lest anyone start feeling too inspired by the idea of humanity, however, sectors of the US corporate media are dutifully standing by to burst the bubble.
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Spike-Endowed Global Civilization as COVID-19
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
The following argument explores the sense in which the very form of the virus effectively mirrors the nature of global civilization at this time. To an interesting degree it could be asked whether COVID-19 “is” global civilization — or whether global civilization “is” COVID-19. Like it or not, does the coronavirus effectively define the identity of global civilization as humanity has chosen to engender it?
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Why the Stock Market Is Healthy as Americans Die from Coronavirus
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
12 Apr 2020 – This past week the S&P 500 went up 301 points, or 12 percent, its best performance in 46 years. During the same week, the reported number of Americans killed by Covid-19 went up 11,499, or 161 percent, the coronavirus’s best performance ever. So this seems like a good time to reevaluate our treasured belief that a rising stock market reflects general human flourishing. Consider a few more events that happened this week around the same time as this excited tweet from Donald Trump, who somehow is the president of the United States:
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World Order and COVID-19 Pandemic
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 – I am aware of the greater strength and role of cooperative movements in European countries, a residue of the socialist movements of the prior century, that give rise to more spontaneous approaches on local levels to immediate threats to well-being, exhibiting both less trust and less dependence on governmental undertakings. Furthermore, European health systems are more evolved, fewer people left out, and more sense of public responsibility, although some deficiencies also emerged.
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Easy to Replace: The US Contribution to the WHO
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
It ought to be peanuts for the world’s countries and private donors to contribute more and thereby do two important good things:
*show their commitment to this world-important UN organisation by compensating the loss of the US contribution at least 100% in this situation, and
*thereby reduce or abolish US bullying and money-based attempt to dominate.
The Muslim Religious Community and the Global War on COVID-19
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – The world is going through an unprecedented multi-dimensional crisis caused by the rapid spread of the virulent COVID-19, which seems to have built a consensus among the community of Muslim scholars on the need to work together with others, despite the diversity of their ideological references and political views, in order to face this health disaster collectively, and to assume fully their role as influencers in society.
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(русский-Russian) Норвежский «Нострадамус» еще 20 лет назад предрек крах США к концу 2020 года
Григорий Карачев | The Russian Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
12 апреля 2020 – Йохан Галтунг, который известен своими точными прогнозами, связанными с распадом Советского Союза и терактом в Америке 11 сентября, также предрек крах США. Данные его прогноз вызвал небывалый ажиотаж в сети.
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The Use of Propaganda in Times of Global or National Crises
Dr Gary Kohls | Duty to Warn - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
16 Apr 2020 – When Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud (the Father of Psychoanalysis), wrote his famous 1928 book, Propaganda, he titled the first chapter of the book “Organizing Chaos”. The first part of this article are quotes from the first chapter of the book. It is obvious that Bernays doesn’t try to sugar-coat what he thinks are the reasons why propaganda is necessary – and not even evil – in a modern society.
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An Extremely Normal Weekend of Pestilence, Locusts, a Fire in Chernobyl, and a Volcano
Charles P. Pierce | Esquire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020 – Here’s a sampling from around the world that gives substance to my now-regular reaction to any news at all—“Oh, come the fck on!”
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Why China Is Emerging as a Leader in Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
Steffanie Scott and Zhenzhong Si | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – This transformation provides lessons for the rest of world, for shifting away from chemical agriculture towards a healthier system for people and the planet.
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As Washington DC Faces Coronavirus Spike, Secret Military Task Force Prepares to Secure the Capital
William M. Arkin | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
16 Apr 2020 – A little-known military task force charged with evacuating Washington has already been activated, charged with “securing” Washington in the face of attackers, foreign and domestic. Activated on March 16, Joint Task Force National Capital Region is chartered to “defend” Washington on land, in the air, and even on its waterfronts. The only one of its kind in the country, it demonstrates how there are two sides of government preparedness.
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One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution, by Mahboob A. Khawaja, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 12/2019, 537 Pages – While science and technology have advanced immensely human thoughts, pleasure-seeking sports and entertainment, comforts and lifestyles, mankind remains disconnected to the imperatives of its own origins, purpose of life and relationships to the Nature of Things within a splendid Universe.
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The Fabulous Flimflamo
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
MAGA?
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Rohingyas at Sea for 2 Months, 32 Die
Abdul Kuddus and Gias Uddin | Prothom Alo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
17 Apr 2020 – In 2018 trafficking gradually began again in the region, but presently due to coronavirus, no country is willing to take in the Rohingya refugees, who said they came back to Bangladesh after being turned away first by the Malaysian navy, then by the Thai navy and then also by the Myanmar navy.
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‘Tip of the Iceberg’: Is Our Destruction of Animals and Nature Responsible for Covid-19?
John Vidal | The Guardian, Age of Extinction - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
18 Mar 2020 – As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics.
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Door by Door the Cuban Government Delivers Immune Boosting Medicine to the People
Susana Hurlich | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Taking the Concept of “Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism” to New Heights
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Abrupt Ecosystem Collapse
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
A new study in Nature Magazine 8 Apr 2020 casts a disturbing light on the prospects of abrupt ecosystem collapse. The report analyzes the probabilities of collapsing ecosystems en masse, and not simply the loss of individual species.
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The Decapitation Effect
Martin Sieff | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
16 Apr 2020 – In Brasilia, as in Washington and London we see welcome signs of reality belatedly breaking in to shatter the old fantasies. The political leadership of the world is being transformed.
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(Français) Le coup d’État de l’Élite contre une humanité terrorisée: Comment montrer une résistance puissante
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Je continuerai à attirer l’attention sur ce qui se passe et à encourager les gens à résister par les moyens stratégiques que j’ai exposés ci-dessus. Et je ferai ensuite tout mon possible pour que le plus grand nombre possible de personnes, qui sont assez puissantes pour le faire, réagissent avant qu’il ne soit trop tard.
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Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu and Du Xiaojun | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
As information about coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organize an immense campaign against its spread.
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NYT Blames Maduro for Healthcare Horror, Downplays US Role
Bryce Greene | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
The New York Times (10 Apr 2020) published an article describing the horrendous shape of the Venezuelan healthcare system. The piece fumbled the most important aspect of the story: how and why the system is as bad as it is. In true “manufacturing consent” fashion, it downplayed the US role in destabilizing the Venezuelan economy, and instead pointed to President Nicolás Maduro’s “authoritarianism” as the primary cause of the crisis.
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The Difficult Art of Self-Compassion
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
“We need to re-learn the value of calculated moments of self-compassion; we need to appreciate the role of self-care in a good, ambitious and fruitful life.”
“Compassion asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.”
“Have compassion for everyone you meet … You do not know what wars are going on down there, where the spirit meets the bone.”
A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine: On Faith, Humor and ‘Dutch Candy’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
6 Apr 2020 – Call it a ‘quarantine’, a ‘shelter-in-place’, a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’, we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual ‘lockdown’. My father’s ‘quarantine’ was experienced much earlier, as did his father’s ‘shelter-in-place’ before him. They both died and were buried in Gaza’s cemeteries without ever experiencing true freedom outside of their refugee camp in Gaza. Currently in Gaza, the quarantine has a different name. We call it ‘siege’, also known as ‘blockade’.
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Coronavirus, Herd Immunity and the Eugenics of the Market
Vito Laterza and Louis Philippe Romer | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
14 Apr 2020 – There is a clear element of eugenics in the proposals to pursue herd immunity as a strategy against the pandemic. Despite the dramatic rise in the number of COVID-19-related deaths around the world, governments of several countries heavily affected by the pandemic continue to send mixed messages about their responses.
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US and Russia Blocking UN Plans for a Global Ceasefire amid Crisis
Simon Tisdall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 – The Trump administration and Russia are blocking efforts to win binding UN security council backing for a global ceasefire to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, called for an immediate end to fighting involving governments and armed groups in all conflict areas almost one month ago.
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A Universal Basic Income Is Essential and Will Work
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 – A central bank-financed UBI can fill the debt gap, providing a vital safety net while preventing cyclical recessions. Spain is slated to become the first country in Europe to introduce a universal basic income (UBI) on a long-term basis. Its Minister for Economic Affairs has announced plans to roll out a UBI “as soon as possible,” with the goal of providing a nationwide basic wage that supports citizens “forever.”
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As Nicaragua Confronts COVID-19, Its U.S.-Backed Opposition Exploits the Pandemic to Create Chaos
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020 – Nicaragua’s right-wing opposition is waging an information warfare campaign to undermine the elected Sandinista government, spreading fake news on coronavirus, while the state takes a balanced approach with close attention to the working class and poor.
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Myanmar’s Double Contagion: The COVID-19 and the Viral Discourse of Islamophobia
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
15 Apr 2020 – Over the last 8 years, another type of virus, namely Islamophobia, has effectively spread across all segments of Burmese society, with devastating impact on Muslim communities and, more acutely, the community of Rohingyas, numbering 2 million in total.
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(Português) Caça às Focas Continua na Noruega, Japão e Canadá
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
10 abr 2020 – Durante a pandemia de coronavírus, enquanto se discute o impacto causado pela interferência humana na natureza e no ciclo de vida de muitas espécies de animais, Noruega, Japão e Canadá continuam permitindo a caça às focas e baleias e classificando as duas “atividades” como “essenciais”.
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NATO in Arms to “Fight Coronavirus”
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
The 30 NATO foreign ministers met on 2 Apr 2020 by video conference and instructed US General Tod Wolters, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to “coordinate the necessary military support to fight the coronavirus crisis”. He is the same general who declared in the US Senate on 25 Feb that “nuclear forces are supporting every US military operation in Europe” and ”I am a fan of a flexible first-use policy” of nuclear weapons, that is nuclear attack by surprise.
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Wall Street Feasts on Death
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
15 Apr 2020 – Since March 23, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than 25,000 lives in the United States. During the same period, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen more than 30 percent.
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The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld
Peter Dale Scott | WikiSpooks - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
4 Dec 2017 – A recommended and highly referenced overview of the deep state in action centering on the complex milieu of Khashoggi, the BCCI, and the Safari Club.
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Life in Lockdown – Is This What Captivity for Whales and Dolphins Is like?
Cathy Williamson | Whale and Dolphin Conservation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
7 Apr 2020 – What will this global pandemic mean for the future of whale and dolphin captivity? There will be challenges but maybe also some silver linings. Our End Captivity lead, Cathy Williamson, reflects.
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Resisting COVID-19 in Haiti
Pierre Labossiere | Haiti Action Committee -TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
The struggle against the coronavirus is a world-wide fight. It demands that we stand in solidarity with each other, across all borders. Despite the lack of coverage, the people of Haiti are confronting a dual crisis. Their struggle against a corrupt and repressive system and now COVID-19 demands strong advocacy and support. It is essential that we see their struggle as our own.
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Coronavirus Capitalism and How to Beat It
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
16 Mar 2020 – Governments around the world are busily exploiting the coronavirus crisis to push for no-strings-attached corporate bailouts and regulatory rollbacks. “I’ve spent two decades studying the transformations that take place under the cover of disaster,” writes Naomi Klein. “I’ve learned that one thing we can count on is this: During moments of cataclysmic change, the previously unthinkable suddenly becomes reality.”
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Brazil: Bolsonaro Sabotages Anti-Covid-19 Efforts
Human Rights Watch | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – President Jair Bolsonaro is putting Brazilians in grave danger by urging them not to comply with social distancing and other measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 from state governments and his own Health Ministry, Human Rights Watch said today. He has also acted recklessly by disseminating misleading information about the pandemic.
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Cowering for One’s Country in the War against Coronavirus
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
11 Apr 2020 – The argument here follows from a previous criticism of the strategy of social distancing, so rapidly adopted worldwide. The speed with which consensus was achieved within countries could be considered remarkable when compared to the procrastination so evident with respect to other issues variously upheld as urgent.
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San Marino Declared 1st Nonkilling Country in the World
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
13 Mar 2020 – In a statement at the Human Rights Council on March 12, Christophe Barbey, CGNK’s representative at the United Nations in Geneva, declared the Republic of San Marino to be the first nonkilling country. To our knowledge, there were during the last five years no murders, no suicides and no deadly traffic accidents in the country.
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A Prayer in the Time of Pandemic
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
8 Apr 2020 – Affirming spirituality as the power over life and death I aspire to achieve
this spirituality that is nothing other than the blending of love and mystery
cherishing wonder at a precarious precipice, respecting knowledge
NATO’s Destruction of Serbia: And Where Is Serbia, China and the West Today?
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
24 Mar 2020 – It was NATO’s first out-of-area operation, against its own Treaty and without a UN mandate. On March 24, 1999. Independent Kosovo was established – against UN SC resolution 1244. Serbia suffered tremendously from the 78 days of indiscriminate, hard bombing. I know because I was there. Finally, Serbia and its president Milosevic was threatened with total destruction of Belgrade. He gave in. And today – 21 years later?
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Rewilding Food, Rewilding Farming
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Ecologist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
Dr Vandana Shiva argues that agroecology holds the key to solving the climate and ecological crisis in a just and equitable way.
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Bolsonaro Is Far from Alone in Putting Profits over Lives—but He Is a Useful Scapegoat
Brian Mier | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
12 Apr 2020 -Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—already a media fixture for his propensity to say horrible things on Twitter—has over the past few weeks become one of the most ridiculed leaders in the world due to his handling of the coronavirus crisis.
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David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
2 abr 2020 -Shenzhen, cidade chinesa com 12,53 milhões de habitantes, anunciou hoje a proibição oficial do consumo de carne de cães e gatos.
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Meanwhile in Gaza…
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
More of the Same… Only Much More
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Trump Sends Gun Boats to Venezuela While the World Partners to Fight a Deadly Pandemic
Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado, and Zoe PC | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
3 Apr 2020 – On April’s Fools Day, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a press conference where he announced a new “counter-narcotics effort” by U.S. Southern Command. “We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircrafts and helicopters, Coast Guard cutters…doubling our capabilities in the region,” he said. On 26 March, less than a week before Trump’s announcement, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted several members of the Venezuelan government for narco-trafficking. An indictment is not a verdict of guilt, merely a note—in this case – prepared by the U.S. government against an adversary.
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Insights into China’s Victory over the Coronavirus
Liu Jian | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 -What we have experienced in the past two months is too dreamy and now, in retrospect, it seems not so real. On January 23, the day before Chinese New Year’s Eve, people who were ready to celebrate the New Year were shocked by the sudden outbreak of the virus. Wuhan, a super big city with a population of 11 million, was declared closed by the government. Anxiety and unease quickly enveloped the whole country.
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Ending the Unthinkable Injustice of Human Chaining
Emina Ćerimović and Kim Samuel | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
When Akanni’s mother died in early 2018, she stopped eating for three weeks. Her mood became unpredictable; she was often shouting or sulking angrily. Akanni’s father took her to a church in Nigeria and left her there. The evangelist chained her in a room, where she was left on a bare floor for three days straight with no food or water. She stayed there with a man who was going through a mental health crisis. The staff gave Akanni a pot to urinate and defecate in, right in front of the man.
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U.S. to Block Iran’s Request to IMF for $5 Billion Loan to Fight Coronavirus
Ian Talley and Benoit Faucon | The Wall Street Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
7 Apr 2020 – The U.S. plans to block Iran’s requested $5 billion emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund for funding Tehran says it needs to fight its coronavirus crisis. Trump administration officials say Tehran has billion-dollar accounts still at its disposal.
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Why the U.S. Is the World’s Leading Perpetrator of Global Terrorism
Ghali Hassan | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
31 Mar 2020 – For nearly a century, the U.S. regime has made it its goal to terrorise (defenceless) nations it deemed geopolitically unfriendly. It is a well-financed and deliberate campaign of unprovoked aggression, war crimes and wanton destruction to dominate the world. Without effective deterrence, every nation is at the mercy of U.S. barbarism. More than 39 countries are currently under U.S.-imposed economic sanctions – more than a quarter of the world’s population. To avoid the fate of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, Iranian leaders should pursue a defensive military strategy by emulating the DPRK’s formidable defence capability model to stop any U.S. acts of terrorism against their nation.
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Arundhati Roy: ‘The Pandemic Is a Portal’
Arundhati Roy | Financial Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
3 Apr 2020 – “Who can use the term ‘gone viral’ now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything any more — a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag of vegetables — without imagining it swarming with those unseeable, undead, unliving blobs dotted with suction pads waiting to fasten themselves on to our lungs?” The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India–and what the country, and the world, should do next.
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How US Media Dish Out Their Own Propaganda on China and COVID-19
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
12 Apr 2020 – Their stereotypical framing of China’s actions against the pandemic verges on parody and caricature, portraying even innocent and uncontroversial measures in the most insidious light possible.
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Charities Are Turning to Bitcoin amid the Global Fight against Coronavirus
Jinia Shawdagor | Cointelegraph - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
6 Apr 2020 -In the war against the novel coronavirus, cryptocurrencies are emerging as a much-needed tool for charity and fundraising projects. Already there are a number of large nonprofits accepting Bitcoin donations. Plus, some blockchain and crypto firms are contributing medical supplies to hospitals in an attempt to curb the virus, while others are setting up fundraisers and charities that are aimed at helping its victims.
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Coronavirus: Sanctions and Suffering
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
7 Apr 2020 – In the midst of the most horrendous crisis to confront the entire human family in recent decades, the Unite States elite, it appears, is hell-bent on perpetuating massive sanctions against certain states and affecting regime change in some of them. Sanctions cause much pain and suffering and even death on a wide scale.
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As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
8 Apr 2020 – Covid-19 has hammered few countries as hard as it has hit Iran, which reports (as of April 8) 64,586 cases and 3,993 deaths. US sanctions are a major reason that Iranians are getting infected with and dying from the coronavirus in such large numbers: The US’s economic warfare softened Iran up for the pandemic well before its outbreak.
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Hassanal Noor Rashid | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
Global inequality and injustice have been heated topics and of deep social concern throughout human history.
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The Portuguese Miracle: How Lisbon Has Managed the Corona Crisis
Alexander Smoltczyk | Der Spiegel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
9 Apr 2020 – While Spain continues to battle a dire coronavirus outbreak, the situation is vastly better in neighboring Portugal. But why?
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Justice for the Rohingya: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Sandra Smits | Chatham House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
8 April 2020 – The Cambodian case study illustrates the challenges of ensuring justice and accountability for the Rohingya in Myanmar.
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Marcus Aurelius in Love: The Future Stoic Philosopher and Roman Emperor’s Passionate Teenage Love Letters to His Tutor
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love,” a trio of psychologists wrote in their wonderful inquiry into limbic revision and how love rewires the brain. But whom we love equally depends on who we are and who we want to become. Love, like time, is as much a function of us as we are a function of it.
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Of Beards and Bubonic Plague: German Village Prays for a (2nd) Miracle
Katrin Bennhold | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
5 Apr 2020 – In 1633 the Bavarian village of Oberammergau, ravaged by a pandemic, made a pledge to God. Now another pandemic has forced villagers to abandon their promise.
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Haiti on the Precipice as Coronavirus and US-Imposed Leadership Take Their Toll
Jeb Sprague and Nazaire St. Fort | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – While Haiti’s widely despised, US-backed government officially promotes social distancing to suppress Covid-19, the stark reality is that most of the population is likely heading toward herd immunity, where many must get infected in the street rather than die by hunger at home.
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Iranian President Rouhani Sends Message to People of the United States of America
Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran | IFP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
20 Mar 2020 – On behalf of the great Iranian nation, I write to the people of the United States of America on the occasion of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz). The coronavirus outbreak has endangered the health of—and even presented a considerable threat to—humanity with no distinction as to nationality, or gender or religious backgrounds. This presents an opportune moment to further contemplate our common pains and our human principles.
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What Goes around Comes around…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
There!
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COVID-19: How Much Is It Worth to Save the Elderly?
Sarah Edmonds | News Decoder - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
9 Apr 2020 – COVID-19 is squeezing the economy as nations impose lockdowns. Some are asking: Is the financial pain worth saving the elderly?
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Here’s How Your Body Gains Immunity to Coronavirus
Zania Stamataki | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – Unprecedented efforts and diverted resources mean we are fast learning about human defences against this new threat. Importantly, Covid-19 cannot gain entry to our homes or bodies by itself – we have to let it in.
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Nothing will be the same again…
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Zome Modelling Dynamics Allowing for Uncertainty in Perception of Order in Governance? Given widespread urgent calls for a “Global Plan” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the argument first challenges the appropriateness of any “plan” in a global context. This is contrasted with the so-called doughnut model which has been presented as appropriate to ensuring a safe operating space for humanity.
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In Time of Pandemic Praise for the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
3 Apr 2020 – What the COVID-19 experience made clear was the importance of information to virtually every person and governmental body on the planet, and the degree to which the WHO and its Director General were quickly established as a valued source of reliable and trustworthy information. Establishing public trust and informational reliability become paramount goals, and WHO and Tedros Adhanan Grebreyerus, its Director General, have risen to the occasion, gaining media credibility and worldwide respect.
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Anti-Parasitic Drug Kills COVID-19 in Lab
Christine McGinn | MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
4 Apr 2020 – An anti-parasitic drug available throughout the world has been found to kill COVID-19 in the lab within 48 hours. A Monash University-led study has shown a single dose of the drug Ivermectin could stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus growing in cell culture.
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Inside Jared Kushner’s Coronavirus Research: A Wide Net on a Giant Facebook Group
Anita Kumar | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Just before midnight on 11 March, a doctor asked a group of fellow emergency room physicians on Facebook how they would combat the escalating coronavirus outbreak. “I have direct channel to person now in charge at White House,” Kurt Kloss wrote in his post. Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, had asked him for recommendations.
→ read full articleThe Corona – An Opportunity to Replace Militarist Security with Common and Human Security (Part 1)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
2 Apr 2020 – Governments have spent trillions on preparing for military threats created by their own policies. No one prioritised human and societal security. The unique over-reaction to COVID-19 should worry us much more than the virus itself. It can be seen as a panicky attempt to cover-up the failure of an outdated militarist security policy.
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1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin and spread worldwide during 1918-1919. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide.
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(Italiano) «Il virus è la malattia del pianeta stressato»
Francesco Bilotta interviste Prof. Gianni Tamino | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
26 marzo 2020 – Intorno alla pandemia causata dal nuovo coronavirus si sta sviluppando un intenso dibattito sugli aspetti sanitari. Anche nel campo delle scienze sociali, per l’impatto che il virus sta avendo sulle nostre abitudini e stili di vita, si stanno producendo riflessioni ed analisi.
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Coronavirus: Once You Have Antibodies, Are You Safe?
Connor Bamford | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
31 Mar 2020 – As more and more people get infected, survive and build up antibodies and T cells against SARS-CoV-2, we may eventually reach a threshold where we achieve “herd immunity”. This refers to the phenomenon where not everyone is immune, but because most people in the population are, the chances that those non-immune susceptible people catch a disease is very small.
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One Year of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Spending Would Provide 300,000 ICU Beds, 35,000 Ventilators and Salaries of 75,000 Doctors
Matthew Impelli | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
26 Mar 2020 – The amount of money spent in one year by the U.S. on nuclear weapons could instead provide 300,000 ICU (intensive care unit) beds, 35,000 ventilators and 75,000 doctors’ salaries, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
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How Deadly Is the Coronavirus? It’s Still far from Clear
Dr John Lee | The Spectator - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
28 Mar 2020 – There Is Room for Different Interpretations of the Data – Any testing regime that is based only in hospitals will over-estimate the virulence of an infection.
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The Coronavirus Did Not Escape from a Lab–Here’s How We Know
Jeanna Bryner | Live Science - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
As the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 spreads across the globe, with cases surpassing 284,000 worldwide today (March 20), misinformation is spreading almost as fast. One persistent myth is that this virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was made by scientists and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began.
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COVID-19 Blunders Signal End of ‘American Century’
Wang Wen | Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – For most people it’s unfathomable that the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is the first global event that hasn’t been led by the US since 1941. The principal founder of peace and conflict studies, Johan Galtung, predicted in his 2009 book ‘The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What?’ that the US empire will decline and fall by 2020. According to Galtung, it is due to USA expanding hegemon that has driven it to exploit and suppress other countries.
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The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Part of the Climate Change Crisis
Vijay Kolinjivadi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – The two emergencies have their roots in the world’s current economic model – that of the pursuit of infinite growth at the expense of the environment on which our survival depends – and both are deadly and disruptive. The pandemic is part of climate change and therefore, our response to it should not be limited to containing the spread of the virus. What we thought was “normal” before the pandemic was already a crisis and so returning to it cannot be an option.
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We Can All Help!
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
How to Help Others in the Pandemic
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Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976)
Tayo Aluko | Counterfire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Black Lawyer, Singer and Football Player, Paul Robeson’s Extraordinary Life Holds Many Lessons for the Present Day
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U.N. Security Council ‘Missing In Action’ in Coronavirus Fight
Rick Gladstone | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
2 Apr 2020 – The leader of the U.N. has called the pandemic the biggest international threat in the 75-year history of the organization, but its most powerful body has yet to take action.
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(Italiano) Proteggere la filiera alimentare… non solo merci, anche persone
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
29 Marzo 2020 – “Scarsità di cibo”: questo il titolo di un recente articolo pubblicato sul giornale «The Guardian». Se i governi introducessero misure protezionistiche durante questa crisi sanitaria da coronavirus, potrebbero verificarsi difficoltà di approvvigionamento di cibo in tutto il mondo: questa l’opinione espressa da Maximo Torero, economista dalle FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation).
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Brazil Scales Back Environmental Enforcement amid Coronavirus Outbreak
The Guardian | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
27 Mar 2020- Brazil will reduce efforts to fight environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak, despite concerns that reduced protection could lead to a surge in deforestation.
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Amid War Threats, Washington Blocks UN Resolution Demanding End to Sanctions
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
4 April 2020 – Washington and its allies on 2 April killed a UN resolution calling for the lifting of unilateral sanctions that are severely impeding efforts to combat the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Joining the US in blocking the resolution were the European Union and the United Kingdom, along with the right-wing governments of Ukraine and Georgia.
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A New Book on Iran
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
A new book entitled Politics of Oil and Nuclear Technology in Iran has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. In it, Johan Galtung’s version of the Center Periphery model, described in his article entitled “A Structural Theory of Imperialism,” has been used as an analytical framework.
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The Race Between Economics and COVID-19
Mohamed A. El-Erian | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
26 Mar 2020 – For years, the economics profession has suffered from a stubborn reluctance to adopt a more multidisciplinary approach. But now that the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming economic life the world over, the profession has no choice but to leave its comfort zone.
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Schulz | Peanuts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Right!
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Investigating Israeli Criminality at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Amicus Brief submitted to the International Criminal Court in The Hague on 16 Mar 2020 in the jurisdictional phase of a proceeding in which to initiate such a legal proceeding and whether the ICC has jurisdiction, that is, legal authority to investigate and possibly prosecute such alleged. As the Prosecutor indicated, the facts at her disposal indicate a basis for accepting Palestine’s request for an investigation of alleged Israeli criminal conduct.
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