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The Failure of PCR Mass Testing
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
19 Jun 2021 – Since March 2020, SPR has warned that PCR mass testing in the general population (“test, test, test”) is a huge mistake. The issue never was that PCR tests didn’t work or that the Drosten PCR paper was “peer-reviewed” in just one day. The issue is that PCR tests cannot determine an acute infection, ongoing infectiousness, and actual disease, especially if ct values are not taken into account.
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EU Approves COVID Passport: Here’s How It Works—and Why the U.S. Doesn’t Have One
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
The European Commission on June 14 formally signed legislation to create the EU Digital COVID Certificate. The regulation will take effect July 1 and expire in 12 months. Member States are required to start issuing the first certificates within six weeks of the July 1 start date, if they haven’t done so by then.
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Creating Enemies: China Reacts to NATO Targeting It
Rick Rozoff | Anti-Bellum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – After months of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg mercilessly – tediously – denouncing Russia and China ahead of yesterday’s summit, the communiqué issued after it finally raised China’s ire. It was the first time the 30-nation military bloc so overtly directed harsh language of that nature at China in an official publication.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 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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The Ganges Is Returning the Dead. It Does Not Lie.
Om Gaur | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – The Ganges, or Ganga, is the holiest of India’s rivers, and most Hindus believe that dipping their body in it will purify their soul. But when the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit this spring, the river also became Exhibit A for the Modi administration’s failures and deceptions.
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The Pentagon Papers at 50: Press Freedom and Whistleblowers Still at Risk
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 -Legendary whistleblower Dan Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers fifty years ago, a courageous act of truth-telling for which he later faced life in prison. He hasn’t stopped since. Last May, just weeks after turning 90 years old, Ellsberg made yet another disclosure of classified national security information.
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Ouch!
Amber Guetebier | Red Tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
What did the left eye say to the right eye?
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(Português) 2020: Desmatamento no Brasil equivale a uma área nove vezes maior que a cidade de São Paulo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
11 jun 2021 – O desmatamento nos seis biomas brasileiros cresceu 13,6% em 2020, atingindo 13.853 quilômetros quadrados (1.385.300 hectares), uma área nove vezes maior que SP. Desse total, 61% estão na Amazônia. É o que mostra uma análise inédita de 74.218 alertas de desmatamento no país inteiro, publicada hoje pelo Projeto MapBiomas.
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Don’t Look Away
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
A world that profits from human slaughter!
It happens in plain sight,
How Mobsters Control U.S., UK, and the Netherlands
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
20 Jun 2021 – “Mobsters” are whatever the law says they are, but in some countries they are, in fact, simply the nation’s wealthiest people, who can and do pay whomever they have to pay (“consigliere”) in order to get the law to mean what they want it to mean. In other words: sometimes a mobster is anyone who no matter how harmful to society, can become and remain enormously wealthy and never go to prison for it, nor be executed for it.
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The FBI’s Mafia-Style Justice: To Fight Crime, the FBI Sponsors 15 Crimes a Day
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government—purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure—has come about as a threat manufactured by our own government. Think about it. Cyberwarfare. Terrorism. Bio-chemical attacks. The nuclear arms race. Surveillance. The drug wars. Domestic extremism. The COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jean-Paul Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Sartre was offered, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 for his autobiography, ‘Words,’ though he subsequently rejected the award based on his own notions of his integrity as a writer.
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(Italiano) Un processo di conquista rovesciato per un’alternativa
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
18 Giugno 2021 – A proposito de L’invasione zapatista è iniziata! di Jérôme Baschet del 20/5/2021 pubblicato sul nostro sito e al cercare di impostare un processo di conquista rovesciato per un’alternativa, condivido con l’autore che “questo viaggio significa sfumare una storia che ha assegnato posizioni profondamente radicate e inequivocabili al conquistatore e al vinto. Ma significa soprattutto sbloccare la possibilità di una storia alternativa.”
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Why Democracies in G7 & NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – Instead of a world in which other countries emulate or fall victim to USA’s failed experiment in extreme neoliberalism, the key to a peaceful, sustainable and prosperous future for all the world’s people, including North Americans, lies in working together, learning from each other and adopting policies that serve the public good and improve the lives of all, especially those most in need. There’s a name for that. It’s called democracy.
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What Went Right This Week: A Soaring Conservation Success, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – Scotland celebrated a conservation success story, the real winner of the Euros was revealed, scientists found a novel use for plastic…
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The Same Shady People Own Big Pharma and the Media
Joseph Mercola, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – What does The New York Times and a majority of other legacy media have in common with Big Pharma? Answer: They’re largely owned by BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world. Moreover, it turns out these two companies form a secret monopoly that own just about everything else you can think of too.
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What Really Counts
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Nine physically and mentally disabled contestants at a Special Olympics assembled at the starting line for the 100-meter dash.
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Activism for Life: “Wake Up, the World Is Dying!”
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Do Something about It! ACTIVISM FOR LIFE is published by Luath Press Ltd., and is available from a number of booksellers. All royalties will go to Trident Ploughshares, a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a nonviolent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.
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International Yoga Day (21 June)
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Yoga, an ancient practice of India is today recognised in many parts of the world for its physical, social, spiritual benefits. It also leads to meditation and understanding the harmony of oneself with the outer world.
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Double Standard?
Carlos Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Reality!
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Burma: Engaging with State Power without Losing Principles or Head (Part 3)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – Those of us Burmese who have made overthrowing our country’s well-entrenched military dictatorship, our business – or Doe-Ayay, as we say in Burma in specific reference to protests against any Oppressive Order – do not look to the UN or the EU, let alone ASEAN, for help.
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HIV Now Sets the Pace in the Bogus-vaxx Race
Rosemary Frei, MSc - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
14 Jun 2021 – This month marks the 40th anniversary of the first report of ‘acquired immunodeficiency syndrome’ or ‘AIDS.’ Officials like Anthony Fauci are using the occasion to spread the message that vaccines for HIV will soon be rolling out. Forty years of fruitless effort supposedly are suddenly successful thanks to the precedent of the lightening-speed and ‘successful’ development of Covid vaccines.
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Say This, Don’t Say That: Time to Confront the Misleading Language on Palestine, Israel
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
On May 25, famous American actor, Mark Ruffalo, tweeted an apology for suggesting that Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza. To avoid pointless social media spats, one only needs to reference the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. According to Article 2 of the 1948 Convention, the legal definition of genocide is:
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Confronting the Ruling Elite
Chris Hedge interviews Richard Falk | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
5 Jun 2021 – Richard Falk joins Chris Hedges for a new episode of “On Contact.” Falk has denounced what he calls “the global legalization of rogue behavior embedded in the UN Charter” which vests a right of veto in the five permanent members of the Security Council, the only organ within the UN system with the authority to reach binding decisions.
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COVID World Data: 179,3M Total; 3,8M Dead; Percentage Dead: 0.02%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
On 21 Jun 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 179,320,883
Deaths: 3,883,427
Percentage Deaths: 0.02%
Active: 11,556,620
Recovered: 163,880,836
Cases Closed: 167,764,263
Total Vaccinated: 1,698,359,858
“And still, after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe Me.’ Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the Whole Sky.”
Hafiz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Hāfez (12 Feb 1317 – 14 May 1390) was a Persian poet whose collected works (The Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature and are to be found in the homes of most people in Iran, who learn his poems by heart and still use them as proverbs and sayings. His life and poems have been the subject of much analysis, commentary and interpretation, influencing post-14th century Persian writing more than any other author.
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Why Daniel Ellsberg Wants the U.S. to Prosecute Him under the Espionage Act
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
In an exclusive interview, Ellsberg explains why he hopes the courts take on the law used to crack down on whistleblowers.
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Power at Any Cost: How Opportunistic Mansour Abbas Joined Hands with Avowed ‘Arab Killers’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
7 Jun 2021 – We are led to believe that history is being made in Israel, following the formation of a government coalition that for the first time includes an Arab party, Ra’am. In truth, Mansour Abbas, a Palestinian Arab politician who is willing to find common ground with extremists and proud ‘Arab killers’, only represents himself. The future shall attest to this claim.
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Inside the Pentagon’s Secret Undercover Army
William M. Arkin | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people belong to this secret army working under masked identities in a program called “signature reduction.” More than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, it carries out domestic and foreign assignments in military uniforms or civilian cover, in real life and online, hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.
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Julian Assange and the Collapse of the Rule of Law
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally on 10 June 2021 night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People’s Forum.
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Pre-Symptomatic Transmission Is Very Real
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
12 Jun 2021 – Because many authorities justified mask mandates with pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic coronavirus transmission, many skeptics and critics tried to argue against the existence or importance of pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission. But pre- and asymptomatic transmission is real for the same reason that face masks don’t work: aerosols.
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IDF Operation ‘Guardian of the Walls’: Prelude, Aftermath, Prospects
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
7 Jun 2021 – The Palestinian ordeal is certainly not over, but for the first time we can envision it ending!
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Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.
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(Italiano) Armi nucleari: le vulnerabilità
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
7 Giugno 2021 – Le scelte sulle armi nucleari: le vulnerabilità presenti e future. Chi prende le decisioni, e su quali basi?
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How Organized Crime Infiltrated American Business after WWII and Corrupted National Politics from Truman to Trump
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Jun 2021 – Provocative new book documents the unsavory alliance between the Mafia, the CIA, and the corporate establishment that transformed America into “the world’s most dangerous nation.”
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Oral Cancer in Florida – World No Tobacco Day
Vidushi Prasad - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
Oral Cancer is a subtype of head and neck cancer occurring in an oral cavity. It is a cancerous tissue growth that may involve tongue, the floor of mouth, cheek, gingiva, palate, lips or oropharynx. It may be of different types adenocarcinoma, lymphoma, melanoma, but most common is squamous cell carcinoma, and it is one of the chronic diseases that results in high mortality rate due to late diagnosis.
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A Critical Decade
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
14 Jun 2021 – I would like to announce the publication of a book, which discusses the urgent changes that are needed to save our planet and our collective future. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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The Brutality of Hate: Stop Homophobia!
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
I wrote this poem after I read about Aubrey Boshoga a member of the LGBTQ community in South Africa. The community lives in fear and anxiety as crimes against their group goes unpunished. No life should be lost on the basis of discrimination and oppression on grounds of sex, gender and sexual orientation.
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(Português) Sem Espiritualidade Não Salvaremos a Vida na Terra
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
8 jun 2021 – Em momentos de grandes crises, desastres naturais, e agora do Coronavírus, os seres humanos deixam vir à tona a sua essência: a solidariedade, a cooperação, o cuidado mútuo e a espiritualidade. Michail Gorbachev, na elaboração da Carta da Terra: “Ou desenvolvemos uma espiritualidade com novos valores,centrados na vida e na cooperação, ou não haverá solução para a vida na Terra.”
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What Are Atomic Bomb Quasicrystals, and Why Do They Matter?
Susan D’Agostino | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – Something unexpectedly lovely was created amid the detonation of an atomic bomb 75 years ago: a mathematically perfect quasicrystal. Quasicrystals may be able to determine responsible parties in a nuclear terrorist attack.
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Whither Palestine? Whither Israel? After the Violence Spike, after the Abraham Accords, after Netanyahu
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
13 Jun 2021 – The changing circumstances in Israel/Palestine over the last six weeks. Two questions that will shape the Palestinian destiny: Will the post-Netanyahu government push harder the political agenda of the right-wing settler movement? Will the aftermath of the IDF military operation, Guardian of the Walls, increase Palestinian resistance and global solidarity?
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The American Working Class Must Come to Assange’s Defense!
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Jun 2021 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been subjected to more than a decade of vicious uninterrupted persecution by the imperialist powers. He is currently in London’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison, fighting extradition to the US.
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The Inflation Red Herring
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – Far from signaling the return of significant inflation, temporary price increases are exactly what one would expect in a recovery following an economic shutdown. Whether those peddling inflation fears are pursuing their own agenda or simply jumping the gun, they should not be heeded.
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Burma: Engaging with State Power without Losing Principles or Head (Part 1)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – The Burmese military regime remained, as intransigent towards any compromise with the democratic opposition, as it was repressive, towards Burmese dissidents.
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Prelude to War? The US/NATO, Egypt, and Ethiopian Sovereignty
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – Ethiopian American activist and community organizer Benyam Kitaw says that US hostility toward Ethiopia could lead to further sanctions, economic pressure, and perhaps even war.
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The US National-Security State Has an Invisible Army
Branko Marcetic interviews William Arkin | Jacobin Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – Tens of thousands of Americans work for US military and intelligence agencies, operating domestically under false identities with fake documents and James Bond–style spy gizmos. Why? To allow the national-security state to pursue its forever wars smoothly, forever.
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Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
Q: What is the difference between capitalism and socialism?
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How Billion-Dollar Foundations Fund NGOs to Manipulate U.S. Foreign Policy: A Case Study from Nicaragua
Rick Sterling | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
8 Jun 2021 – U.S. foreign policy is increasingly promoted by billionaire-funded foundations. The neoliberal era has created individuals with incredible wealth who, through “philanthropy,” flex their influence and feel good at the same time. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they almost universally support U.S. foreign policy and the “free market.” Because many of these super-rich individuals made their wealth through investments and speculation, most do not like a planned economy, socialized services beyond the private sector, or greater government control.
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Doorstep Delivery Services — DDS
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
The economy has shriveled so much
That DDS have been launched
But we should know DDS of what
US Kidnaps Venezuelan Diplomat: The Case of Alex Saab
Anya Parampil | Red Lines/The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
4 Jun 2021 – Attorney Femi Falana talks about the shocking case of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab who has been kidnapped for violating illegal sanctions to feed his country. Under pressure from the USA, Cape Verdean authorities arrested Saab in Jun 2020 when he stopped to refuel his plane. Falana explains why the case is invalid, accusing the US of practicing “gangsterism”.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data: 176,7M Total; 3,8M Deceased; 164,6M Cases Closed
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
On 14 Jun 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 176,782,604
Deaths: 3,820,853
Percentage Deaths: 0.01%
Active: 17,358,886
Recovered: 160,845,875
Cases Closed: 164,666,728
Total Vaccinated: 987,900,015
(Français) Réflexions sur le génocide comme crime ultime
Alfred de Zayas et Richard Falk | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Juin 2021 – L’utilisation abusive du mot «génocide» est un manque de respect envers les proches des victimes des massacres arméniens, de l’holocauste et du génocide rwandais. Il est bien plus dangereux de découvrir que nous risquons également d’être immergés dans les eaux troubles du «faux droit» (fake law). Il est urgent de réagir. Une telle évolution n’est pas tolérable.
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(Português) Grupos da USP e Universidade de Lisboa realizam colóquio internacional “Derrida e a Questão dos Animais”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
No dia 25 junho 2021, o Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa e o grupo de ética e direitos animais da Universidade de São Paulo realizam o colóquio internacional “Derrida e a Questão dos Animais”. Evento online fecha a primeira série de encontros sobre o livro “O animal que logo sou”, do filósofo franco-magrebino Jacques Derrida.
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An Alien’s View of Life on Earth
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
The author’s reasons for never having been too comfortable on this human level of existence, giving a different perspective on the peculiarities of what living on this planet and in a human body can be like, and why it may be better to move on.
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Comfort
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
A neighbor’s wife had died, and he was very sad.
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Open Letter: The 16 Jun 2021 Biden/Putin Summit
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
The following recommendations for the Summit Meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joseph Biden are the product of discussions among a core group of international think tanks specializing in world peace, disarmament, and a federal geopolitical system change to transform the United Nations.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 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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Endogenous Racism against People of African Origins–Tulsa and Sharpeville: Parallels in History (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
The Global Injustices towards Black People – June 1st 2021 marked the centennial of the Race Riots now called the Race Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, which led to the killing 300 North Americans of African origins, destroying their residences, businesses, and eradicating “The Black Wall Street” of Oklahoma forever.
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The Difference between ‘Woke’ and a True Awakening
Slavoj Žižek | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Jun 2021 – The supposedly liberal ‘wokeness’ and cancel culture have little to do with awakening to what’s going on in the world and trying to change it – it’s just noise for the sake of noise, while the status-quo is carefully preserved.
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Apartheid
André Carrilho | OppArt/The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
Lost Links
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“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
Paulo Coelho de Souza, born Aug 24, 1947, is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist, best known for his novel, The Alchemist. In 2014, he uploaded his personal papers online to create a virtual Paulo Coelho Foundation. Wikipedia
→ read full articlePeacebuilding: Where Do We Go from Here?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
While talk of a “New Cold War” is overly dramatic, there are real structural tensions that have been there for a long time and that will not be easily overcome. Recent events in the Middle East, the future of Afghanistan and its impact on the wider Pakistan-India-Iran area, the future of the two Koreas – all are fundamental issues related to the balance of power at the regional and world levels.
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What Went Right This Week: The Other G7, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Jun 2021 – Art installations cut straight to the point at the G7, Israel became the first nation to ban fur, and a plan was announced for a basic income trial in Wales, plus the week’s other positive news.
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US Navy Pilots Describe Encounters with UFOs
Bill Whitaker | 60 Minutes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
17 May 2021 – Bill Whitaker reports on the regular sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, that have spurred a report due to Congress next month. “60 Minutes” is the most successful television broadcast in history.
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Napalm Sticks to Kids (Music Video of the Week)
Covered Wagon Musicians | Vietnam War Song Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
A vivid account of US forces indiscriminately dropping bombs on Vietnam, hitting pregnant women, children, and other civilians. The focus of the song is chemical weapon Napalm B – a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict, dropping 388,000 tons on Indochina between 1963 and 1973.
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Burma: Engaging with State Power without Losing Principles or Head (Part 2)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
11 Jun 2021 – In those years, the Burma policy world was caught in the emerging Orwellian duality of ‘Sanctions Bad, Engagement Good’ of international debates which took place with respective proponents talking past one another, pursuing their own concealed interests.
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Tokyo Pushes Ahead with Olympics despite Growing Demands to Cancel
Ben McGrath | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
31 May 2021 – With the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games scheduled to start on July 23, opposition continues to grow in Japan as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens throughout the country. The head of the Japan Doctors Union warned that holding the Games could lead to a new “Olympic” strain of the COVID-19 virus.
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We Charge Apartheid? Palestine and the International Criminal Court
Noura Erakat & John Reynolds | Third World Approaches to International Law Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
Reflections on Palestinian efforts to engage the International Criminal Court, in the context of Israeli settler-colonialism and both its spectacular and structural violence. Conscious of the limits of international criminal law, we think about Palestinian activist legal tactics – and the charge of the crime of apartheid in particular – in relation to political strategy.
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Israel’s New Government Will Deepen Rifts, Not Heal Them
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
4 Jun 2021 – Ignore all the talk of a historic, post-Netanyahu era in which settlers and ‘Arabs’ work together in government. The new coalition will quickly turn sour – and Israel’s large Palestinian minority will, as always, pay a heavy price.
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The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
22 Apr 2009 -From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 juin 2021- Il nous reste cinq ans avant les événements que j’imaginais dans ma nouvelle, “j’ai vu la terre promise.” Plus que jamais, je pense qu’il s’agit d’un tournant essentiel dans la voie que nous devons suivre pour passer de la culture de la guerre à une culture de la paix.
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Nukes, Lies and Invisible Murder
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – “The employment or threat of employment of nuclear weapons could have a significant influence on ground operations. . . . Integration of nuclear weapons into a theater of operations requires the consideration of multiple variables. Using nuclear weapons could create conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability. Specifically, the use of a nuclear weapon will fundamentally change the scope of a battle and create conditions that affect how commanders will prevail in conflict.” – ‘Nuclear Operations’ Report by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
→ read full articleCovid: The Big Picture – June 2021
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
3 Jun 2021 – In response to numerous requests, SPR provides another update on the covid pandemic.
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The Tokyo Olympics Must Go Ahead
Johnny Luk | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
30 May 2021 – Although they are one year later, the “2020” Tokyo Olympics are finally around the corner, with less than two months to go before the opening ceremony. COVID has raised the stakes to unprecedented levels but we need the Olympics more than ever before.
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Off the Rails: New Report by Corporate-Funded Think-Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China
Danny Haiphong | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
5 Jun 2021 – A new report published in Railway Age magazine and written by the Information Technology Innovation Foundation has sounded the alarm about China’s growing high-speed rail sector amid escalations in the U.S.’s New Cold War against China. It paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world.
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(Italiano) ‘Ordine internazionale su base normativa’: nuova metafora per un primato geopolitico U.S.A.
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
3 Giugno 2021 – Questa enfasi su un mondo ‘governato da norme’ implicitamente esprime l’asserzione polemica che gli Stati Uniti si muovono secondo le regole mentre gli avversari no. Ma Snowden ha rivelato che gli USA hanno investito più pesantemente di qualunque altro governo del pianeta nello sviluppo di capacità di sorveglianza intrusiva. I precedenti USA di manipolazione di elezioni estere sono notori, e sono da tempo una parte ben nota del repertorio CIA.
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‘Sponsor a Child’ Schemes Attacked for Perpetuating Racist Attitudes
Karen McVeigh | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
31 May 2021 – International child sponsorship schemes have come under attack for perpetuating racist thinking. Using individual children to ‘sell’ schemes to rich donors is similar to ‘poverty porn’ images of past, say experts, as calls grow to decolonise aid.
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Was Mark Ruffalo Wrong to Accuse Israel of Genocide?
Juan Cole | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – So, is it bigoted to say that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians? No. Is it inaccurate? That is harder to say. Is it inflammatory? I guess I would ask why that is an issue.
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Norman Finkelstein: Truth and Justice Are the Ultimate Test, Not International NGOs
Ann Garrison interviews Norman Finkelstein | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – Even Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in Gaza, and the idea of a Jewish state in the context of Palestine is not legitimate. “Do concentration camp guards have a right to self-defense?”
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The Leaking Pot
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on one end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a hole in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.
→ read full articlePerception of What Happens in Complex Realities
Editorial | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
Societies frequently accept what is harmful, fearful or hindered to address the necessary changes. Concentrated Power manipulates opinions and colonizes minds, formatting subjectivities. Fear of changing, legitimate or induced, facilitates Concentrated Power domination. Lifting the veils and uncovering the deceits create conditions to choose different courses and ways of functioning.
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On Myanmar, ASEAN’s Empty Diplomatic Rhetoric Is Costing Lives
Lawrence Moss | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
4 Jun 2021 – Words have failed to persuade the Myanmar military to stop killing and jailing its civilian opponents. Both the UNSC and ASEAN have called on it to cease the violence but it defies these calls; the killing spree and arbitrary detentions continue. ASEAN must support the growing calls for a global arms embargo on Myanmar.
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AFRICOM Military’s Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests
Pavan Kulkarni | People's Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 Jun 2021 – Phoenix Express 2021, the AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise involving 13 countries in the Mediterranean Sea region, concluded last week. While its stated aim was to combat “irregular migration” and trafficking, the US record in the region indicates more nefarious interests.
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126 Nobel Laureates Warn ‘Humanity Taking Colossal Risks with Our Common Future’
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
3 Jun 2021 – A group of 126 Nobel laureates and other experts today called on the leaders of the G7 nations and the UN to help put the global community on a path to establishing “a new relationship with the planet” as the world faces a coming decade which will be “decisive” in determining whether the Earth remains habitable.
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Gestalt Prayer
Frederick Perls – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
The Gestalt Prayer is a statement taken as a classic expression of Gestalt therapy as a way of life model of which Dr. Perls was a founder.
“I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, …”
Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue & Debate
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
COVID World Data: 174M Total; 3,7M Deceased; 160,8M Cases Closed
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
On 7 Jun 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 174,092,834
Deaths: 3,745,093
Percentage Deaths: 0,021%
Active: 18,157,780
Recovered: 157,121,360
Cases Closed: 160,866,453
Total Vaccinated: 905,893,641
“Dying for an iPhone”
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
31 May 2021 – The suffering of the working class, within and outside the United States, is ignored by our corporatized media, and yet, it is one of the most important human rights issues of our era.
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Two Centuries of ‘the Imperialist, Warmongering, Hate-Filled Guardian’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – Guardian reader on Twitter: ‘My comment comparing the detention of the journalist in Belarus with what is being done to Craig Murray and Julian Assange in the UK has been deleted by The Guardian within seconds.’ Awkward readers like this are simply ostracised and no longer deemed part of the ‘Guardian’s community’.
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USA Dominant again in Arms Sales: Selling Death
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
25 May 2021 – When it comes to trade in the tools of death and destruction, no one tops the United States of America. Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and others are again profiting at the expense of so many of the rest of us. And Again… and Again… and Again
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San Francisco {Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair} (Music Video of the Week)
Scott McKenzie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
From 1967 – San Francisco’s Anthem (Click on Watch on YouTube)
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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
Maya Angelou – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
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(Italiano) “Siamo testimoni non perché c’eravamo ma perché continuiamo a esserci”
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
5 Giu 2021 – Italy, Lombardia, 28 maggio 2021 – 47.mo anniversario della Strage di Piazza della Loggia – Il 28 maggio a Brescia è sempre una data attorno alla quale la città si ritrova e sa raccogliersi. È ormai una data che appartiene a tutti. Appartiene davvero in senso proprio ampio.
→ read full articleThe Lethal Nexus: Mass Shootings and Domestic Violence
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
3 Jun 2021 – You know the United States is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic when the pace of mass shootings gets back to “normal.” As of June 2nd, there were 244 mass shootings in the U.S. this year. That’s one to two per day.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 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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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
A couple heard a psychologist explain that if one member of a family changes, the whole family system would change as a result.
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The Etymological Animal Must Slip Out of the Cage of Habit to Grasp Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – Since Sep 11, 2001, the corona virus lockdowns, and the WEF’s push for a Fourth Industrial Revolution that will lead to the marriage of artificial intelligence, cyborgs, digital technology, and biology, that the USA has been slipping into a new form of fascism. Dissent has become unpatriotic and worse – treasonous. Unless people wake up and rebel in greater numbers, the gates of this electronic iron cage will quietly be shut.
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Why Did Naomi Osaka Withdraw from the French Open?
Mia Mercado | The CUT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
On Monday [31 May], tennis star Naomi Osaka dropped out of the French Open after a week of confrontation with tournament officials over whether she would participate in press events. In an Instagram post, Osaka announced her decision to withdraw, citing mental-health concerns including depression and anxiety.
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Supreme Court Says a $2 Billion Verdict in a Baby Powder Cancer Case Should Remain
Associated Press | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 Jun 2021 – The Supreme Court is leaving in place a $2 billion verdict in favor of women who claim they developed ovarian cancer from using Johnson & Johnson talc products.
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