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My Lovely Cave
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
This is the Cave that I am living in
This is the Cave I invite you to come within
Changing Ourselves
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Changing others? Changing ourselves! Is it possible to have revolutionary change such as the one needed to change course on climate change or corruption of our political systems? Does that require drastic behavioral change by many individuals ill-structure to do so? Sometimes I think like that and then sometimes I do see drastic changes in individuals that are amazing.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
To resolve the conflict between the advocates and opponents of Critical Race Theory, it seems that two steps need to be taken, one immediate and the second more long term. Immediately, the theory needs to be restated in terms understandable to non-academics that make it clear that the point of the theory is not to condemn white people because of their race or cultural heritage or to sit in final judgment on America. It is to demonstrate the structural sources of America’s most beneficial and most destructive ideas and practices, and the need for thoroughgoing changes in a system that generates such deep contradictions.
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“Governments are vassals of Bankism and Military Capitalism, the Mafia that controls human affairs through Cyber-information manipulation.”
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Antonio C.S. Rosa, born 1946, is founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS (from 2008), an assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung at the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, and recipient of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s 2017 Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice. He is on the Global Advisory Board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and completed his B.A., M.A., and graduate Ph.D. work in the fields of Communication-Journalism and Political Science-Peace Studies/International Relations at the University of Hawai’i. Originally from Brazil, he lives presently in Porto, Portugal. Antonio was educated in the USA where he lived for 20 years; in Europe-India since 1994.
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The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party
Walden Bello | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation. Reflecting on the meaning of the 100th anniversary on 1 Jul 2021 of one of the most important institutions of our time, the Chinese Communist Party, the first thing that entered my head was that the present does change the significance of the past.
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Art versus Drones
Kathy Kelly | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – An exhibit seeks to raise public awareness of the anonymous killing machines. People in many parts of the world can’t speak up. Comparatively, we don’t face torture or death for protesting. We can tell the stories of the people being killed now by our drones, or watching the skies in terror of them.
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Said the Enchantress
Dr Usha Roopnarain - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Don’t open the cupboard, she said to me.
There’s something I don’t want you to see.
Special potions and pills for him.
Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – This is an edited text from the 30 Jun 2021 book launch of Timothy Brennan’s ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ (2021), under the auspices of the Cambridge Centre of Palestinian Studies and moderated by its director, Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool.
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COVID World Data: 184,6M Total; 3,9M Dead; Survival Rate 99.9%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
On 5 Jul 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 184,667,799
Deaths: 3,995,265
Percentage Dead: 0.02%
Survival Rate 99.9%
Active: 11,681,411
Recovered: 168,991,123
Cases Closed: 172,986,388
Total Vaccinated: 1,897,474,080
Dr Edward Jenner, the Father of Vaccination, in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Challenges of Fighting Smallpox and SARS Cov-2 Remain Unchanged
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(Italiano) Armamenti nucleari: scelta suicida per l’umanità e l’ambiente?
Elena Camino e Paolo Candelari | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
30 Giugno 2021 – La bomba atomica che colpì Hiroshima era contenuta in un involucro in acciaio lungo di 3 metri x 70 cm, e pesava circa 4,4 tonnellate. Fu trasportata con un grande aereo, un bombardiere modello Boeing B-29 Superfortress, fu sganciata sulla città ed esplose a circa 600 metri dal suolo. I morti immediati furono circa 80.000, altri morirono nei giorni successivi, e molto altri ancora negli anni.
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China Pulls Itself Out of Poverty 100 Years into Its Revolution
Vijay Prashad and John Ross | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – On 25 Feb China’s President Xi Jinping announced that his country of 1.4 billion people had pulled them out of poverty as it is defined internationally. Since 1981, 853 million Chinese have lifted themselves out of poverty thanks to large-scale interventions from the Chinese state and the Communist Party; according to the data of the World Bank, three out of four people worldwide who were lifted out of poverty live in China.
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What Went Right This Week: A Milestone for Lab-Grown Meat, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 -The world’s first lab-grown meat factory opened, an ‘extinct’ mouse reappeared, and the UK brought forward plans to phase out coal, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
The Chinese Miracle, Revisited
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Chinese Communist Party’s centennial takes place on 1 July at the heart of an incandescent geopolitical equation. China, the emerging superpower, is back to the global prominence it enjoyed throughout centuries of recorded history, while the declining Hegemon is paralyzed by the “existential challenge” posed to its fleeting, unilateral dominance.
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Hawaiʻi 78’ (Music Video of the Week) [Must Watch]
Israel 'IZ' Kamakawiwo'ole | Kokua Films Hawaii – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
44 years ago, history was about to be made ~~ Click on Watch on YouTube
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What Is Critical Race Theory?
Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
And why are racists afraid of it? The culture of settler-colonial peoples coming from across the world and overpowering the original inhabitants of a territory to form a state around themselves has enduring and insurmountable maladies and misanthropies. They act as the native inhabitants of the lands they violently conquered and brand those who come after them as “immigrants”.
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Conspiracy: Theory and Practice
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Toward a Taxonomy of Conspiracies – The truest conspiracies meet with the least opposition. Conspiracy practices — the methods by which true conspiracies such as gerrymandering, or the debt industry, or mass surveillance are realized — are almost always overshadowed by conspiracy theories: those malevolent falsehoods that in aggregate can erode civic confidence in the existence of anything certain or verifiable. In my life, I’ve had enough of both the practice and the theory.
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Myanmar’s Twin Curse of Murderous Military and Cultist Opposition
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – The last few days saw heated debates and name-calling between national minority activists who are completely fed up with the ethnic majoritarian colonial mentality, and the political practices of majoritarian democrats who treat Aung San Suu Kyi’s words like Holy Scripture. This is her lasting gift to Myanmar and her dark legacy from which society will reel for decades.
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Nikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with the Serbian scientist and his path-breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).
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(Castellano) Brasil: El Desenmascaramiento de un Gobierno Embustero Genocida Y Corrupto
Fernando De la Cuadra | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 juin 2021 – En las últimas semanas, el gobierno Bolsonaro viene acumulando evidencias de corrupción en diversos ámbitos del quehacer nacional. De hecho, el ministro de (la destrucción del) medioambiente, Ricardo Salles, tuvo que renunciar debido a los procesos por los que está siendo sometido en la justicia por favorecimiento ilícito y por la exportación irregular de maderas a Estados Unidos y Europa.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1er juillet 2021 – La clé est la réforme du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies, qui est actuellement contrôlé par les puissances nucléaires et incapable d’agir au Moyen-Orient en raison d’alliances avec l’État d’Israël. Ce que nous avons maintenant, ce n’est pas la promotion d’une culture de paix. Ce dont nous avons besoin, c’est d’un changement radical, et le CSNU est un point clé à changer.
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Beyond Passive Victims and Agentic Survivors: Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Anne-Kathrin Kreft and Philipp Schulz | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Apr 2021 – The words of a woman living in Colombia who was raped by armed actors; and of a male survivor of sexual violence from Uganda, who was raped by Ugandan government soldiers. Today both are local activists working closely with victim-survivors of (conflict-related) sexual violence. In Colombia the word ‘victim’ is widely used whereas in Uganda ‘survivor’ is the preferred term.
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Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
22 Jun 2021 – Think about it: if the suppression is happening in your own home, if you’re suppressing your own speech, who will know? And how can you ever call for help?
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Transcending War: Everyone Wins
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
23 Jun 2021 – When will we as a nation admit it? Barbara Lee was right. She was the only member of Congress to vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force back in 2001, following the 9/11 disaster, which allowed George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan. A year later she voted against a second AUMF that launched the invasion of Iraq and Bush’s alleged Global War on Terror, a.k.a., our endless war to pummel evil into dust and sweep it out of the universe.
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The USA Has Very Little to Gain by Overdemonizing China
Michael E. O’Hanlon | The Brookings Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
The recent bipartisan push in the United States to be tough on China seems to be confirming the adage: If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing. While the Biden administration suggests that we compete against Beijing in some realms, cooperate with it in others and confront the Chinese where we must, Washington seems all too willing to overemphasize this last leg of the policy triad.
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‘7 Days Campaign to Resist The Great Reset’ Now Launched
Robert J. Burrowes & Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
‘We Are Human We Are Free’ announces the launch of the ‘7 Days Campaign to Resist The Great Reset’. This worldwide nonviolent resistance movement is a strategy to resist the achievement of elite control through implementation of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’.
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Saint Ex’s style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. His outlook was basically that of the Stoics: the common nature of all humans whatever the cultural differences, harmony with Nature, and calm in the face of danger.
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Brazil: Bolsonaro Government Has Brought Death to Indigenous People
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
28 Jun 2021 – The contempt that the current president shows for indigenous peoples is notorious. He considers them sub-people and in 2018 stated quite clearly: “Our project for the Índios is to make them equal to us”. And said further: “There is not going to be a centimeter demarcated for indigenous reserve or for quilombolas”.
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Covid Vaccination versus Viral Challenge in Low-Risk Children and Young Adults
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
22 Jun 2021 – Given the risks of covid vaccines, health authorities may want to consider the possibility of voluntary, medically supervised viral challenges in low-risk children and young adults.
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Culture as Combat: Palestinian Voices
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Festivals, Museums and Awards – In stirring opening remarks at the international 2021 mega-conference, Palestine Writes, Susan Abulhawa asserts that “… this festival is meant to expand Palestine’s cultural imprint in the world.”
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A Tear and a Smile
Khalil Gibran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart
For the joys of the multitude.
Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country- Hollywood in South Africa: 1951 and Bollywood Has Come As Well
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
The Challenges of Filming in Different Eras and Regimes
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US Blocks Websites Linked to Iranian Government
FRANCE 24/AFP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
23 Jun 2021 – US law enforcement seized the websites of two Iranian state-controlled news groups, Press TV and Al-Alam, and of the Al-Masirah TV channel of Yemen’s Huthis, statements posted on the websites showed Tuesday [22 Jun].
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Have We Learned Nothing? Biden Backs Mass Murder in the Middle East
Connor Freeman | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
18 Jun 2021 – The Gaza Strip, measures only 25 miles long and five miles wide. It is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Since 2007, Israel has imposed a full blockade on Gaza from the air, land, and sea. The two million Palestinians living there are trapped in an open air prison where food, potable water, electricity, medicine, building materials, etc. are severely restricted by the Israeli authorities.
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What Went Right This Week: England’s New Beauty Spots, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – England was promised four new areas of outstanding natural beauty, Wales shelved plans to build more roads, and Guinea stamped out Ebola, plus the week’s other positive news.
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G-7 Aftermath: Western Leaders in Search of New Animosities
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – Has civilization taught us to be friendlier towards one another? Asked Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher and intellectual. The G-7 used to be G-8 inclusive of Russia, but it shrunk to being the “West and America First” and anything else is a matter of opinion to be relevant for global peace and harmony.
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It’s Apartheid, Say Israeli Ambassadors to South Africa
Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel | GroundUp - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
8 Jun 2021 – During our careers in the foreign service, we both served as Israel’s ambassador to South Africa. In this position, we learned firsthand about the reality of apartheid and the horrors it inflicted. But more than that – the experience and understanding we gained in South Africa helped us to understand the reality at home.
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How Biden Helped Hardliner Raisi Win Iran Election
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
23 Jun 2021 – How President Biden’s failure to quickly rejoin the nuclear agreement with Iran helped a hard-liner win the presidential election. The U.S. on a path toward war with Iran unless Biden promptly rejoins the JCPOA.
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Why War?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
I would like to announce the publication of a book that discusses the reasons why the institution of war continues to threaten human civilization and the biosphere, as well as the steps that might be taken to rid the world of war. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi (4 Jul 1807 – 2 Jun 1882): Godfather of Transnational Democratic Politics
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice, now France, often called the hero of two worlds because of his efforts for independence in Latin America and then Europe, is in many ways inventor of transnational democratic politics.
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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread.”
Anatole France – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Anatole France, full name François-Anatole Thibault (16 Apr 1844 – 12 Oct 1924), was a French poet, journalist and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He wrote the quoted phrase in his 1894 novel, The Red Lily.
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Russia: The Doukhobor 1895 Arms Burning Is Relevant Today
Koozma J. Tarasoff | Spirit-Wrestlers - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
28 Jun 2021 – 126 years ago today, one-third of the Doukhobors in the Russian Caucasus joined in a daring protest of burning guns — all their killing weapons. The significance of the Burning of Arms event is enormous then and now. Why?
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Danilo Dolci (28 Jun 1924 – 30 Dec 1997)
EDDILI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Alone he stood, faced by hostility of the church, the government, the landowners, and the mafia. Surely, only with a flame of faith in his heart he could face hatred, corruption, brutality, indifference, poverty, dereliction and despair. But he did face them and achieved his victories. He lived on the same level of those he was trying to help, working at grassroots level.
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The Basket of Light
Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
She walks with a basket on her head
Smiling, but her basket is empty, although she carries the king of thermal energy
Luminating galactic, she does not realise this dispensary of light
O! if only she knows, he shines heavenly so bright!
Under Pandemic, UN Votes to Condemn Cruel and Illegal U.S. Blockade of Cuba—but There Is a Twist
Chris Agee | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – 184 Countries Vote in the UN to Condemn U.S. Blockade of Cuba—As Usual, Two Countries Vote Against: the U.S. and Israel. While Conditions in Cuba Under the Blockade are Worsening, Cuba’s Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industry May Help Them Out of the Pandemic
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America’s Decadent Militarism and the F-35 in Two Minutes
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Project On Government Oversight POGO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Aside from the fact that the F-35 is the plane that can’t fly right (see the 2-minute video below), it is a symbol of America’s decadent militarism — the country’s love affair with its deadly War Business and its defiance of the original purpose for the United Nations to “end the scourge of war.”
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Divisions over Russia Policy Erupt Inside EU at Brussels Summit
Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
On Thursday [24 Jun], EU heads of state met for a two-day summit in Brussels that endorsed EU policy on the pandemic, while clashing bitterly on foreign policy, especially Russian. The EU issued an initial summit communiqué whitewashing its pandemic policies in Orwellian terms.
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode, Le Déserteur, composed by Boris Vian in 1954. The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (over 170 books in his 90 years, +++).
→ read full articleSharing Scientific Knowledge
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
The nonviolent tradition of Shelly, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela is international. Culture is cooperative. It is not competitive. Global cultural cooperation can lead us to a sustainable and peaceful society. Our almost miraculous modern communications media, if properly used, can give us a stable, prosperous and cooperative future society.
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US Jews Are Turning against Zionism in a ‘Surge’ — Pro-Israel Voices Lament
Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
19 Jun 2021 – In recent days, four pro-Israel writers have lamented that American Jews are turning against Zionism in the wake of the latest Gaza attack. Two speak of a “surge in anti-Zionism” among Jews.
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Farewell to Anti-Virus Guru John Mcafee
Damian Wilson | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – The Wild, High-Living, Paranoid, Millionaire Genius I Was Glad to Call My Neighbour – The suicide of tech entreprenuer John McAfee in his Spanish prison cell, as he awaited deportation to the USA over tax fraud, draws a curtain on the madcap escapades of the most colourful character I’ve ever come across.
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Myanmar Anti-Coup Opposition’s Happy Birthday Parties for Aung San Suu Kyi Do Not Augur Well for the Country’s Future
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – The mass hysteria around Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday is the clearest indication of deeply entrenched cultist neo-totalitarian thoughts, mental habits and political behaviour among Ms Suu Kyi’s populist base. It confirms how indifferent this base is to the democratic ethos, international law, and normative principles of human rights.
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Anubuddha Sutta – Understanding
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
The Blessed One said: “It’s because of not understanding and not penetrating four things that we have wandered and transmigrated on such a long, long time, you and I. Which four?
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Geneva Summit: Low Expectations, Modest Results, Glimmers of Hope
Edward Lozansky | The Washington Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – U.S. political circles and the media: this summit is a huge mistake because it will allow President Putin to appear as an equal partner of the U.S. president. The Hill’s headline screamed that “Biden loses to Putin at Geneva summit just by showing up.” Hudson Institute portrayed it as “Biden’s gift to Putin” because it will lead to “empowering Russia, undermining the EU, a threat to the NATO alliance.”
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20 Factories Destroyed, 5,000 Jobs Lost Due to Israel’s Offensive on Gaza
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
19 Jun 2021 – Al-Amasi indicated that the economy was the main target for the Israeli attacks, pointing to the demolition of the offices of big companies located in the high-rise buildings destroyed during the offensive.
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Ethiopians Go to the Polls Even After the US Tells Them Not to
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
23 Jun 2021 – Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia are now alarming US political and military elites by forming an alliance and threatening to chart an independent path in the Horn of Africa. Many Ethiopians expressed enthusiasm for what they consider the country’s first real, competitive election.
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Seeing Is Believing
Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
— Which is closer, China or the moon?
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(Português) Até Quando Aceitaremos Tanta Crueldade Contra os Animais?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 jun 2021 – Afinal, um pintinho que passa pelo processo de debicagem é uma criança de outra espécie. Jamais aceitaríamos qualquer mutilação contra crianças humanas, mas não vemos problema nessa imposição a quem não é humano. A sociedade diz que é adequado fazer isso em prol da manutenção da produção de ovos.
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Patrice Lumumba (2 Jul 1925 – 17 Jan 1961)
Encyclopedia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Lumumba was a man of strong character who intended to pursue his policies regardless of the enemies he made within his country or abroad. Because of its wealth, size, and proximity to white-dominated southern Africa, Lumumba’s opponents feared the consequences of a radicalized Congo. Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
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Statement of the World Emergency COVID19 Pandemic Ethics
Prof. Darryl Macer, et al. | WeCope Committee/ Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
As an independent, multidisciplinary, and cross-cultural committee comprised of ethicists from cultures and nations across the world, we offer the following statement and recommendations on Ethical Values and Principles for Healing Society in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis. We hope that this joint statement will widen the scope of reflections both within and between communities and nations and will help share a mutual vision for a healing society by elucidating ethical values and principles that can assist in making better societies.
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Socialism Has a PR Problem—One That Can Be Solved
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
25 Jun 2021 – Even as openly socialist candidates are winning political power, the right is working hard to equate socialist governance with repressive regimes.
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Six Rules to Survive an Autocracy with Dignity
Alejandro Bendaña | Havana Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Institutions Are Useless to You, Be Outraged, Don’t Make Compromises, Remember the Future
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Meanwhile, Somewhere on Earth
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Trade Mark
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(Italiano) 25 giugno 1946 – 25 giugno 2021. 75 anni. E’ viva la Costituzione
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Nel 75mo anniversario della prima seduta dell’Assemblea Costituente, si è svolta a Brescia, venerdì 25 giugno 2021, la manifestazione denominata E’ viva la Costituzione. A coronamento di un percorso realizzato da Manifesto Costituente – gruppo informale di circa 50 associazioni del territorio bresciano – ri-unitesi attorno alla Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana. Nel segno dell’antifascismo, per ribadirne l’attualità, sollecitarne l’attuazione completa e, il 25 giugno, per celebrarne il portato culturale, politico e sociale.
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Apartheid by Stealth
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
20 Jun 2021 – Israeli apartheid continues its brutal abuse of Palestinians even after the bombing of Gaza stops and Palestine disappears from Western TV screens.
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Key Witness in Assange Case Admits to Lies in Indictment
Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson and Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson | Stundin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
26 Jun 2021 – A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.
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Hermann Hesse (2 Jul 1877 – 9 Aug 1962): Revolt and Enlightenment
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Rebellion against established structures, the quest for personal values and a religious impulse are all elements in Siddhartha, published in 1922, perhaps his most widely-read book. It is not clear that Hesse found the harmony of enlightenment in his own life. In his last major work The Glass Bead Game (1943) he describes what might be an ideal Buddhist monastery devoted to the discovery, preservation and dissemination of knowledge.
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Existing and Resisting in the Nuclear Submarine Capital of the World
Frida Berrigan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
25 Jun 2021 – Or How to Deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas – In New London, Connecticut, where potential world killers are built, we manage our discomfort by being a small, but visible “No.”
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Brazil: Poll Shows Lula Would Crush Bolsonaro in Presidential Election
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
25 Jun 2021 – The former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leads the polls for voting intentions in the country for the 2022 elections with an advantage of 49 percent, 26 points above Jair Bolsonaro, according to a survey released today.
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Legacy of Western Scientists
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Max Planck, Marie Curie, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, C V Raman (of India), Stephen Hawking are some well known scientists who have made immeasurable contributions to various fields of science, mainly Physics and Astronomy. Some unusual topics they have worked on include : Big Bang Theory, Black Holes, Speed of Light, Special Relativity, Energy-Mass relationships E = mc2.
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Franz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data: 181,9M Total; 3,9M Dead; Percentage Dead: 0.02%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
On 28 Jun 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 181,933,945
Deaths: 3,940,603
Percentage Dead: 0,02%
Active: 16,864,765
Recovered: 166,433,947
Cases Closed: 170,374,550
Total Vaccinated: 1,796,972,595
(Italiano) Peacebuilding: in quale direzione?
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Benché i discorsi su una “Nuova Guerra Fredda” siano troppo drammatici, ci sono reali tensioni strutturali in atto da tempo e non facilmente superabili. I recenti avvenimenti in Medio Oriente, il futuro dell’Afghanistan e il suo effetto sull’area più vasta Pakistan-India-Iran, il futuro delle due Coree – sono tutte tematiche fondamentali relative all’equilibrio di forze a livello regionale e mondiale.
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Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China
Bernie Sanders | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – The challenges that the US faces today—climate change, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, economic inequality, terrorism, corruption, authoritarianism—are shared global challenges. They cannot be solved by any one country alone. They require increased international cooperation—including with China, the most populous country on earth. Don’t Start Another Cold War!
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The Real B3W-NATO Agenda
Pepe Escobar | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
16 Jun 2021 – The NATO summit communiqué concise low down: Russia is an “acute threat” and China is a “systemic challenge”. NATO, of course, are just a bunch of innocent kids building castles in a sandbox. Those were the days when Lord Hastings Lionel Ismay, NATO’s first secretary-general, coined the trans-Atlantic purpose: to “keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”
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Divide & Rule: The Plan of the 1% to Make You DISPOSABLE
Vandana Shiva | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
16 Mar 2021 -TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers’ rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the Navdanya Trust.
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(Italiano) Il G7 è stato un flop. Per il semplice motivo che la Cina può far saltare il Qe perenne
Mauro Bottarelli | Money - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
14 giugno 2021 – Il G7 è stato un totale fallimento. Al netto di un generico richiamo ai diritti umani, nulla di fatto. Non a caso, gli Usa hanno emanato un comunicato a parte. In compenso, il tallone d’Achille di Stati Uniti e Ue è platealmente emerso.
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The Covid Vaccine Is Causing the Covid Variants
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – The so-called Covid variants, officially designated as mutations, are being used to extend the British lockdown. However, Dr. Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and former director of the Retrovirology Lab at the Pasteur Institute, reports that in fact it is the vaccinations that are producing the variants.
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To Save Planet, Solve Twin Crises of Climate Change and Species Loss Together, Say UN Scientists
Reynard Loki | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
16 Jun 2021 – Some climate solutions can actually harm biodiversity. But there are synergistic solutions that can tackle both issues.
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Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – Yesterday’s summit showed how the “North Atlantic” Treaty Organization has decided it has an extremely expansive global mission.
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Symbolic Insignia Indicative of Global Health
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
21 Jun 2021 – Immunity Passports, Travel Worthiness and Certificates of Wholth – Recommendations, development and implementation of some form of “immunity passport” are ever more widely evident, potentially to be required for entry to public buildings, health facilities, public transport, educational institutions, or to obtain employment.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – Please note: SPR only covers vaccine-related issues that are of global importance.
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NATO Declares China as Global Security Challenge
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
The NATO summit in Brussels on 14 Jun 2021 reminds us of what a hoax the USA had perpetrated on the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 by assuring him that the western alliance would expand “not one inch eastward” once Moscow allowed German Unification and disbanded the Warsaw Pact.
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Helen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
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Banks Increased Deforestation-Linked Investments by $8B during Covid-19: Report
Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – A new analysis of financial data by Forests & Finance, a coalition of NGOs, has found that weak policies and continued major investments in forest-risk sectors are driving deforestation in Southeast Asia, Latin America and West and Central Africa.
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Tools for Repression in Myanmar Expose Gap between EU Tech Investment and Regulation
Zach Campbell and Caitlin L. Chandle | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
14 Jun 2021 – Inside the interrogation room of a Myanmar detention center, what Myat remembers most clearly is looking up from the floor and everything being green. “When they first caught me, about 30 police just beat me up quite badly. They also dragged me on the road for about 100 meters and I think I lost consciousness,” Myat said. “But somehow I wasn’t bleeding, so they kept beating me until I bled.” Europe is developing phone-cracking technology with a company that has exported to violent, authoritarian regimes.
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(Italiano) Coronavirus: l’Arca di papa Francesco
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Sin dall’inizio ha battuto e ribattuto che “tutto non deve tornare come prima, alla normalità”. Coronavirus: l’Arca di papa Francesco.
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Chan Chan (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Buena Vista Social Club Project – The Best of Traditional Cuba to the World
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George Orwell (25 Jun 1903 – 21 Jan 1950)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
George Orwell was a novelist, essayist and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) the latter a profound anti-Utopian novel that examines the dangers of totalitarian rule and surveillance state. Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.
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Latest CDC VAERS Data for 12- to 17-Year-Olds Include 7 Deaths, 271 Serious Adverse Events Following COVID Vaccines
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
18 Jun 2021 – VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 358,379 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 5,993 deaths and 29,871 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and June 11, 2021.
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Endogenous Racism against People of African Origins–Tulsa and Sharpeville: Parallels in History (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
16 Jun 2021 – Historically, the month of June in the Gregorian calendar is significantly important in terms of liberation of the Black people, globally. The United States Congress approves a bill, marking “Juneteenth: June 19th, a federal holiday, formally marking the end of slavery, and reflects the story of pain, separation, human bondage and highlights the bigotry of African chiefs who sold their own subjects to white colonial slavers for a few trinkets.
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Capital and the Ecology of Disease
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
June 2021 – The dominant view is that the COVID-19 crisis is simply an external, “black swan” event, a rare, unpredictable, and unlikely to be repeated occurrence that has entered from outside the system. The world capitalist economy, we are informed, was fundamentally sound prior to the advent of this unforeseen exogenous shock, and it will revive quickly once the SARS-CoV-2 virus is under control. This received view, however, is incorrect on all counts.
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Reconsidering Authority: The Pandemic and the Resurgence of Collectivism
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Economic democracy and cultural federalism: both are much-needed features of a political system now confronting increasing demands for more effective authority, more active mass participation, and the satisfaction of basic human needs. Defusing socioeconomic taboos makes it possible for people to freely consider what systems of production and consumption suit them best.
→ read full articleLend Self-Destructive U.S. a Hand
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
The new orchestrated China Cold War Agenda is suicidal for the US. That, instead of a policy of strategic cooperation, trust and peacebuilding, will be destructive to the whole world. Humanity’s extremely urgent problems cannot be solved with a Cold War between its two most influential powers. It must be stopped now. Particularly by those who love the USA. And can lend it a hand.
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Alan Turing (23 Jun 1912 – 7 Jun 1954)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, educator, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. The famed code-breaking war hero, now considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, was criminally convicted to chemical castration and harshly treated under the U.K.’s homophobic laws. He committed suicide.
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