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Covid Vaccine Safety Update
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
17 Apr 2021 – University of Oxford: Covid vaccines are generally effective, but they are not mature medical products meeting the highest medical safety standards. There are already more than 5,000 post-vaccination deaths reported in the US and in Europe, but given underreporting the real figure may be significantly higher. In Israel, an unexplained increase in all-cause mortality after the vaccination campaign has been registered.
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U.S. Joins Past Empires in Afghan Graveyard
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – President Biden announced a removal of all U.S. troops by September 11, but he failed to include some important details.
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Biden Is Not Ending the Afghanistan War, He Is Privatizing It
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – Special Forces, Pentagon Contractors and Intelligence Operatives Will Remain – The meaninglessness of the announcement becomes apparent when we consider that the Pentagon employs more than seven contractors for every serviceman or woman in Afghanistan.
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For Activists in Myanmar: A Nonviolence Manual in Burmese
Metta Center for Nonviolence | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – In the spirit of solidarity and support with activists resisting the coup in Myanmar, the Metta Center offers a Burmese translation of Steps of Nonviolence.
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Lawyers Signal More Lawsuits Likely against Syngenta, Alleging Paraquat Causes Parkinson’s Disease
Carey Gillam | U.S. Right to Know - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
9 Apr 2021 – A move by lawyers to consolidate at least 14 lawsuits filed by eight different law firms in six different federal courts is a “telling sign” more lawsuits will be filed against the company over claims its weedkiller, Paraquat, causes Parkinson’s Disease.
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Israel Rejects ICC Investigation: What Are the Possible Future Scenarios?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – While Palestinians remain cautious about the future of the investigation, hope is slowly rising that, this time around, things may be different and that Israeli war criminals will eventually be held accountable for their crimes. Time will tell.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Pope Francis on 3 Oct 2020 released his latest encyclical letter, Fratelli Tutti. Less than four months previously, Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret launched ‘Covid-19: The Great Reset’ at Davos–the World Economic Forum. In some ways their authors might appear to share a common worldview.
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(Français) Le néo-colonialisme, la suprématie blanche et le défi de la Chine
Franklin Frederick | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
12 Avr 2021 – Un récent article de l’Atlantic Council, influent think tank occidental, fait une référence sans détour à la guerre froide pour définir la politique à mener à l’égard de la Chine. Franklin Frederick remonte pour nous les racines de ce cercle d’influence. Elles prennent leur source dans une idéologie raciste et réactionnaire qui fait consensus auprès de l’élite impérialiste.
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(Italiano) A quando un nuovo patto tra scienza e società?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Aprile 2021 – A quando un nuovo patto tra scienza e società? Un’analisi di Elena Camino sulle presunte politiche ambientali dell’Unione Europea.
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The New Pandemic of Disease and Death: Global Obesity 2021, in Company of Covid-19
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021- Obesity is not just a condition but is now officially classified as a disease, like Heart or Lung Disease and is therefore medically managed. It may be classified into two broad categories of types: Lifestyle Obesity and Pathological Obesity. Obesity and Covid Concurrently: Guaranteed Death
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The Journalist and the Whistleblower
James Risen | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – As the government attacks press freedom, reporters must consider their responsibility to sources — and each other.
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Colombia: An Ideal U.S. Client-State in the Western Hemisphere
Angelo Cardona | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
16 Apr 2021 – Colombia has been living with one of the longest armed conflicts in the world. A peace agreement to end the more than 50-year-old armed civil war was signed in Havana, Cuba, in 2016. Despite this historic event, violence continues in the country relentlessly. Washington has long helped fuel the devastating conflict that goes back to the era of La Violencia in World War II.
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Spring
Emily Dickinson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period
Denis Halliday: A Voice of Reason in an Insane World
Nicolas Davies interviews Denis Halliday – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021 – I asked Denis what North Americans should understand about the real-world impacts of “maximum pressure” sanctions like the sanctions on Iraq that he resigned from the UN over in 1998, and we went on to discuss UN Security Council reform, the prospects for peace in Afghanistan and the roles of the UN and the United States in the world.
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The Joy of Volunteering
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
In kindergarten, our teacher once asked us if we would like to help our janitor carry a pile of firewood into the basement of our school building, where she needed it to heat the building early every winter morning. We all enthusiastically agreed. We stood in line, waiting for our turn, and each one said, […]
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The Man They Call Tiger: The Diplomat Who Stood up to America’s Bullies Becomes China’s New and Unlikely Hero
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021 – Yang Jiechi’s outburst against the US at a high-level meeting in Alaska last month has been widely praised and elevated the career bureaucrat to the status of national deity.
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Hindi Film Songs: Beautiful, Romantic, Nostalgic
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
As most Indians know, Hindi film songs are popular all over the country and in several foreign lands. On pattern with Hollywood, Hindi films are often described as Bollywood films. There are many similarities between the two forms of motion pictures — romance, adventure, background music, etc., but in one sphere they totally differ from each other.
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NATO Initiates Full Withdrawal from Afghanistan
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – The allies of NATO yesterday agreed to pull out all of their armed forces from Afghanistan after the U.S. announced that its troops would leave the country by Sept. 11. After two decades of unsuccessful military intervention, they recognized that there is no military solution to the challenges Afghanistan faces.
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What Went Right This Week: ‘The Right to Disconnect’, Plus more Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – The ‘right to disconnect’ campaign gathered momentum in the UK, France moved to ban short-haul flights and indigenous Brazilians won a landmark court case, plus the week’s other positive news.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 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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Coronavirus Global Data: 142,1M Total; 120,8M Recovered; 3M Deceased; 500,6M Vaccinated
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
On 19 Apr 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 500,608,509
Total Cases: 142,102,302
Recovered: 120,840,208
Deaths: 3,035,109
Cases Closed: 123,694,123
Active: 18,408,179
How Law Made Neoliberalism
Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski and David Singh Grewal | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.
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Russia’s Ukraine Maneuvers Are a Response, Not a Provocation
Leonid Ragozin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – Over the past few weeks, Russia has been amassing troops at the Ukrainian border, triggering alarm in Kyiv and European Union capitals. The Ukrainian government’s push for NATO membership could provoke a dangerous escalation of the Ukrainian conflict.
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A Call for Solidarity with Haiti
Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
17 Mar 2021 – This statement, written by Haiti Action Committee and signed by over 60 organizations, commemorates the 10th anniversary of the return to Haiti of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and First Lady Mildred Aristide. It calls for support of the resistance by the Haitian people to the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise, and provides concrete ways for progressive-minded people to take action in solidarity with Haiti.
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Danser Encore (Music Video of the Week)
HK saltimbank – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Clip tourné à Avignon – Cloître des Carmes, 2020
Clip shot in Avignon – Carmelite Cloister, 2020
As Biden Plans Withdrawal, Analysis Shows Afghan War Cost At Least 241,000 Lives and $2.26 Trillion
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
16 Apr 2021 – “Ending the war as soon as possible is the only rational and humane thing to do,” said a co-director of the Costs of War Project.
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Youth Summit against NATO
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
The International Peace Bureau Would Like to Introduce the First Youth Summit against NATO – Webinar, Sat 24 Apr 2021, 5 to 7pm
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The Middle East: Geopolitical Battleground
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
18 Apr 2021 – Questions posed on the basis of my memoir, ‘Public Intellectual,’ by an Egyptian journalist. The interview covers several distinct issues that involve interpretations of major foreign policy concerns in the Middle East.
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The Kafkaesque Nightmare of Attorney Steven Donziger, a Literal Prisoner of the Chevron Corporation
Luke Savage interviews Steven Donziger | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021 – When human rights lawyer Steven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Chevron, the company set out to destroy his life. After 20 months of house arrest on the orders of a Chevron-linked judge, his Kafkaesque story is a window into the corrupt US legal system. Chevron is using sixty law firms and two thousand lawyers against Donziger.
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US Intelligence Community Warns of Devastating Long-Term Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic
Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – The fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is poised to fracture societies worldwide, increase instability across the globe and reshape political and economic realities for years to come, the US intelligence community warned in a stark report laying out the top security concerns facing the country.
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular and controversial playwrights in London; sentenced to prison for the ‘crime’ of being homosexual.
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‘Tragic Combination’: Millions Go Hungry amid Brazil COVID Crisis
Sam Cowie | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
11 Apr 2021 – As Brazil’s COVID-19 crisis gets worse by the week with record-high death tolls, packed hospitals and climbing caseloads, another crisis is unfolding: hunger and food insecurity.
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Meanwhile in Australia
Lindsay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Welcome????
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How to See Mars through a Telescope
Adam Kirk | Love the Night Sky - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
Mars became a hot topic thanks to NASA’s Perseverance Rover landing there last February. My guide to finding and seeing Mars with a telescope has loads of real images of the red planet, a full-screen star map, tables showing when it’s best to take a look, and detailed but easy-to-understand guidance on seeing Mars from your own backyard.
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The Red Phone
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
There was a simple and humble Brahmana, a Hindu priest, who lived in Mathura, India. Once he had the chance to go visit the Pope at the Vatican in Rome.
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Cold War on Trial: Truth Commission Details Horrible Crimes Akin to Native American Genocide and Slavery
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – With a new Cold War heating up between the U.S. and Russia and China, Witness for Peace Southwest, Addicted to War and CodePink organized a Truth Commission on the original Cold War on March 21st, which brought together the testimony of historians, activists and others who lived through the period.
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“Regime” and “CCP”: Propaganda Tools for Dissociating a Targeted Nation from Its Government
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
9 Apr 2021 – Have you ever seen a mainstream news report containing the phrase “the French regime”? How about “the British regime” or “the Australian regime”? Ostensibly the word simply means “a form of government” or “a government in power.” In theory its meaning is closer to “a bad or authoritarian government”, and in practice by the western media it means “a government which disobeys the dictates of Washington”.
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Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Celebrates His 90th Birthday
Deutsche Welle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
2 Mar 2021 – Mikhail Gorbachev turned 90 today, with several world leaders sending well-wishes to the former leader of the Soviet Union and secretary-general of the Communist Party. He is considered by some as one of the greatest reformers of the 20th century — but remains a controversial figure at home.
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Ramsey Clark, Attorney General Who Became a Critic of U.S. Policies, Dies at 93
Emma Brown | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Ramsey Clark, the U.S. attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson who redefined himself as a relentless critic of American foreign policy and as a courtroom defender of figures such as former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, died April 9 at his home in New York City. He was 93.
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Among the Covid Sceptics: ‘We Are Being Manipulated, without a Shadow of a Doubt’
Samira Shackle | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – Who are the people who have come to follow wild conspiracy theories about Covid-19? Covid conspiracies are often presented in the form of complex, pseudo-technical documents. Factchecking is of limited use in changing believers’ minds because sources such as the BBC or the Office for National Statistics are seen as part of the lie.
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Biden’s Aggressive Foreign Policy
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Richard Nephew, the advisor on sanctions in Biden’s State Department, is the author of a 2017 book entitled “The Art of Sanctions: A View of the Field”. He brags of the pain and suffering caused by US sanctions imposed on Iran, Venezuela and other countries. But according to international law, sanctions may not be imposed by individual countries, but only by the Security Council.
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Dandi March
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty four-day march lasted from 12 Mar to 6 Apr 1930 as a direct action campaign.
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Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
On 12 Apr 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 438,133,814
Total Cases: 136,740,332
Recovered: 109,974,123
Deaths: 2,951,424
Cases Closed: 112,925,547
Active: 23,814,785
We, the People, the Humanity and Our Entangled Future in Global COVID-19 Pandemic
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – Looking Beyond the Erroneous Logic of Contemporary Professional Intellect and Political Leaderships – Are we living in an era of false truth, feigned piety and alternate transient facts of human affairs? To answer a rational question, we need to look for critical thinking of our own lives being managed by distorted narratives coming from those who cannot even think for themselves in political governance.
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The Empires of Gates- Interview with Vandana Shiva, Ph.D.
Joseph Marcola interviews Vandana Shiva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Mar 2021 – Vandana Shiva discusses the importance and benefits of regenerative agriculture and a future Regeneration International project that we’ll be collaborating on. She says, “… if In the next decade we don’t protect what has to be protected … and take away the sainthood from this criminal, they will leave nothing much to be saved.”
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How Significant Is the $400 Billion Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between China and Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
This post consists of my responses to questions posed by the Iranian journalist Javad Heiran-Nia, Questions on the China/Iran Agreement (4 April 2021). The agreement, officially known as Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, was signed formally just a few weeks before it was announced that so-called ‘indirect talks’ between Iran and the U.S. were taking place in Vienna.
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Children's Health Defense Team | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – Research on SARS-CoV-2 RNA by scientists at Harvard and MIT has implications for how mRNA vaccines could permanently alter genomic DNA, according to Doug Corrigan, Ph.D., a biochemist-molecular biologist who says more research is needed.
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The Vaccine Passport and the Dynamics of Domination
Diane Perlman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
These lucrative, patented, experimental synthetic gene injectables are not technically vaccines. I call them VINOs – “Vaccines in Name Only.” Those who opt out of this unapproved experiment are demonized and pathologized as threats to humanity. Coercive VPP’s are promoted by Big Tech and Big Pharma, not health providers.
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The More Loving One
W. H. Auden | Poets - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
Last Dance (Music Video of the Week)
Donna Summer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
«The Queen of Disco»
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Leonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Leonardo would have been exposed to a vast range of technical skills and had the opportunity to learn drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling.
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Rwanda and Zaire (DRC) 1990 to 1997, Where the US Blocked Real Humanitarian Intervention
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – The cases of Bosnia and Rwanda are the most often cited in arguments for humanitarian war, Bosnia as a case in which the US and NATO intervened, Rwanda as a case in which they did not, but the truth of both histories is disputed.
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The U.S. Can’t Control the World
Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – China’s Belt and Road Initiative involves countries on every continent and provides opportunity where the western nations offer only debt and subjugation… Any nation that threatens U.S. economic supremacy faces an onslaught of corporate media attacks… China committed itself to buying Iranian oil, an agreement which diminishes the impact of U.S. sanctions… China and Russia supply Venezuela with medical equipment that would otherwise be impossible to obtain under U.S. sanctions.
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Award a Nobel Prize for Peace and Nurture the Killing Fields of Humanity
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
A Trail of Destruction of Two Nobel Laureates in Recent History
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“Federal Army for Federal Democracy”: The Dawn of Myanmar’s New Politics
Maung Zarni | FORSEA Forces of Renewal for Southeast Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
9 Apr 2021 – Myanmar’s peoples of all ethnic backgrounds are undergoing a revolutionary process. Ms Suu Kyi may have to be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice: give up her centre stage in order that a revolution can grow and succeed in its revolutionary mission: a federal army and federal democracy. Otherwise, the pursuit of federalism in Myanmar will continue to be the Achilles’ heel for all democrats and federalists, the majority and minorities.
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Corporate Versus Public Control of Science and Technology: Forging a Framework for the 21st Century
Nicholas Freudenberg | STAT News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 – Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” Louis Pasteur said that in 1876. Today it would be more accurate to say that science belongs to the corporations and investors that have the money, power, and savvy to secure patents and bring new developments to global markets, a change that threatens human and planetary health.
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The ICC’s Attempt to Place Israel on Par with Terror Armies
Yaakov Lappin | Jewish News Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – The International Criminal Court’s Feb. 5 decision that it has jurisdiction to investigate alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem represents a milestone in the politicization of international law.
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Drawing Attention to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Carlos Latuff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
History repeating itself…
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From His Solitary Confinement, Marwan Barghouti Holds the Key to Fatah’s Future
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – If imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, becomes the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status quo will change substantially. For Israel, as well as for the current PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, such a scenario is more dangerous than another strong Hamas showing in the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections.
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A Big and a Small Dog
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
A house was burglarized every night. Finally, the home owner had enough. He went to an animal shop and said, “I want to buy the biggest dog you have.”
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Why We Need to Shift from Protest Power to People Power
Stellan Vinthagen | Resistance Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – Nonviolent movements must go beyond marching in the streets in order to build truly transformative change for a post-pandemic future.
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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Obituary
Stephen Bates | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Philip Mountbatten-Windsor, Duke of Edinburgh, Baron of Greenwich, Earl of Merioneth, born 10 Jun 1921, died 9 Apr 2021. He was the Queen’s husband for 73 years, the longest-serving royal consort in British history, the family’s patriarch, and a well-known figure in public life for two-thirds of a century until his final disappearance into seclusion in 2019.
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What Went Right This Week: Britain’s ‘Greenest Day Ever’, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021 – Britain set a green energy record, bee-friendly face masks launched and seeds were sown for a community farm in Manchester, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Why Ukraine’s Borders Are Back at the Center of Geopolitics
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – On Twitter, President Zelensky used the hashtag #CrimeaIsUkraine to send a clear signal that he is prepared to escalate conflict with Russia over Crimea. He set up a Crimean Platform Initiative to coordinate strategy alongside the USA and NATO to pressure Russia over both Crimea and the conflict in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.
→ read full articleQueens and Kings
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
The death of Prince Phillip on 9 April 2021 at age 99 has brought out some interesting facts about him and the British monarchy. He was given the title of Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Philip was a nephew of Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, and was well known in India.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Pure Unadulterated Wisdom
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Nonviolent Intervention and George Floyd
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
There’s no guarantee that third party nonviolent interposition would have saved Floyd’s life. But the empathy and desire were there—why didn’t anyone try? The onlookers were afraid to challenge the armed, aggressive men wearing uniforms of state authority. There are legal penalties for interfering with police activity. In fact, the onlookers at times restrained each other, not wanting anyone else to get hurt.
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My New Book on Journalism, Exposing Corruption, and the Resulting Risks, Dangers and Societal Changes
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – On Mother’s Day in 2019, I obtained a massive digital archive of chats, documents, audios, videos, and photos from Brazil’s most powerful officials. It of course viscerally reminded me of the first time I was contacted back in 2012 by Edward Snowden. [The hacker] told me that he had reviewed less than ten percent of these materials, but already found acts of such grave deceit and illegality that he was certain it would shake Brazilian politics at its core. The reporting we did changed the country, and our lives.
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How Spain Connected the Far East and the Far West: The Beginning of a New Era
Cristina Cabrejas-Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Magellan and Elcano’s nautical expedition was an extraordinary leap for humankind. Almost two years of a long-haul sail across the unknown oceans changed the history of navigation and, most importantly, it unlocked a whole new world connecting people from the Moluccas in the Far East, across the New World in the Americas with old continent in Western Europe.
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Two Years after Assange’s Arrest, Biden Can End Trump’s Assault on Press Freedom
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
11 Apr 2021 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been detained at the high-security Belmarsh prison in London for two years today. Protests and solidarity actions are planned over the course of the week throughout the world and in cities like Boston, Berlin, Brussels, Dresden, Vienna, and Hamburg.
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Hans Küng, Catholic Theologian Critical of the Church, Dies at 93
Douglas Martin | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Hans Küng, a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and priest whose brilliantly disputatious, lucidly expressed thoughts in more than 50 books and countless speeches advanced ecumenism and provoked the Vatican to censure him, died on 6 Apr 2021 in Germany. He was 93.
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India Prepares for Kumbha Mela, World’s Largest Religious Gathering, Amid COVID-19 Fears
Tulasi Srinivas | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Massive crowds are expected to gather at Haridwar throughout April 2021 for the religious festival of Kumbha Mela. This year, over a million pilgrims a day will bathe in the sacred River Ganges and over 5 million are expected per day on the most auspicious days – April 12, 14 and 21 – for a total of a 100 million celebrants.
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COVID-19: Pandemic? Or Cult?
Michael J. Talmo | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – For the overwhelming majority of people, COVID-19 is a religion. On faith they believe that vaccines using an experimental mRNA technology never before used on humans, developed in less than a year instead of the normal 5-10 years to evaluate the long-term effects on people’s health, are safe and effective. It’s important to understand that there is a difference between knowing something and believing that you know something. Your brain makes decisions for emotional reasons first, such as being afraid, and then comes up with intellectual reasons to justify that belief.
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Trapped at the Border: Their Fate Is Our Fate
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – You’d think that the “border crisis” begins and ends as a problem for the USA… Something else becomes possible when we begin to realize that unless we change the world, their fate is our fate.
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A National Security System for Hawai’i Built on Aloha
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Aloha is a cultural foundation of Hawaii, an expression of kindness, inclusiveness, comforting attitude, and loving relationship. Let us step away from that old paradigm of national security being big guns, large number of soldiers, huge ships, and ABC weapons (Atomic, Biological and Chemical). Let us keep an open mind and drop the stumbling blocks of false loyalties to a rogue state which is in constant violation of international law.
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“It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.”
Socrates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Socrates was a scholar, teacher and philosopher born in ancient Greece. His Socratic method laid the groundwork for Western systems of logic and philosophy. He always emphasized the importance of the mind over the human body. This credo inspired Plato’s philosophy of dividing reality into the world of the senses and the world of ideas, the latter being the only important one.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 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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Hans Küng: Towards a Global Ethic
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Hans Küng was a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian who died on 6 Apr 2021 at the age of 93. From the early 1980s he turned his attention to other religions. He wrote a book on Judaism and another on Islam. Then he turned his attention to the religions of Asia, looking for common themes that could provide a bridge.
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‘We Have to Act’: Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever in Recorded History
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide surged past 420 parts per million this past weekend, according to a measurement at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Carbon dioxide isn’t the only greenhouse gas scientists are concerned about. Emissions of methane and sulfur hexafluoride have also spiked to “worrying levels.”
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
5 Apr 2021 – Some covid-related reader questions and comments SPR has received in recent weeks that may be of interest to a broader audience.
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Urgent Open Letter from Doctors and Scientists to the European Medicines Agency Regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Concerns
Doctors for Covid Ethics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
10 Mar 2021 – We note a wide range of side effects following vaccination of healthy younger individuals with the gene-based COVID-19 vaccines, as well as care homes being struck by COVID-19 within days of vaccination of residents. While these occurrences might have been unfortunate coincidences, we are concerned that there has been inadequate scrutiny of the causes of illness or death and especially so in the absence of post-mortems examinations.
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Collateral Crucifixion – Pressuring for Julian Assange’s Release!
Sabine Bock | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 -The artist duo Captain Borderline has created on the theme of “Collateral Crucifixion” a huge, artistic mural on a complete house facade directly in front of the SPD headquarters, the Willy Brandt House. In conversation with the two artists, they explained to us the reason for creating the revolutionary, crucifix-like work of art.
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Siddhartha Gautama–the Buddha’s Birthday: 8 April (563 – 483 BC)
Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
8 Apr – Today is the anniversary of the Buddha’s birth—born Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, the fourth largest religion in the world.
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Rebuttal Letter to European Medicines Agency from Doctors for Covid Ethics, April 1, 2021
Doctors for Covid Ethics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – Regrettably, your reply of March 23 is unconvincing and unacceptable. We are dismayed that you choose to respond to our request for crucially important information in a dismissive and unscientific manner. Such a cavalier approach to vaccine safety creates the unwelcome impression that the EMA is serving the interests of the very pharmaceutical companies whose products it is your pledged duty to evaluate.
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Covid Update, Spring 2021
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
30 Mar 2021 – An update on virus origin, vaccines, early treatment, masks, long covid, and covid mortality.
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Americans Wake Up! Outlaw Technocrats Are Stealing Our Democracy
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – The pandemic is being used to shift wealth upwards, abolish civil rights and destroy democracy. Government technocrats, billionaire oligarchs, Big Pharma, Big Data, Big Media, the high-finance robber barons and the military industrial intelligence apparatus love pandemics for the same reasons they love wars and terrorist attacks. Catastrophic crises create opportunities of convenience to increase both power and wealth.
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On Anniversary of MLK’s Death, His Words Are ‘More Relevant’ than Ever, His Son Says
Erik Ortiz | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Five decades later, his family says in a new video, he can help “guide humanity in the right direction.”
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Do We Really Want a Second Cold War?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021 – The protection of human rights is being geopolitically manipulated to mobilize public support for an anti-Chinese foreign policy in the West that risks generating a dangerous geopolitical confrontation. Such a confrontation amounts to war-mongering and diverts U.S. attention from self-scrutiny and global peacebuilding. Whether a second cold war is already underway is a matter of interpretation.
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The European Council against the Trade in Instruments of Torture
Riccardo Noury | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
On 31 Mar the European Council adopted a recommendation, long solicited by Amnesty International and Omega Research Foundation, by which the 47 member states will effectively fight the trade in torture equipment. It provides a total ban to the trading of any instruments aimed to cause pain and requires stricter controls on the trade in police items potentially used to torture.
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The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 – Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the United States’ celebrated civil rights icon. Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For more than fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government disinformation to hide the truth.
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Pity the Nation
Khalil Gibran - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
From ‘The Garden of the Prophet’:
Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion…
Bill Gates & His Fake Solutions to Climate Change
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – This latest report from Navdanya International details the reasons behind Bill and Melinda Gates’ attempts to focus the debate on miraculous technologies and their real interests. While Gates’ many investments are all seemingly justified by a noble humanitarian and environmental cause, the report shows that they actually allow him to impose his techno-solutionist strategies through direct influence over all types of protagonists.
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Antiquities, Monuments, Statues, Heritage Sites and Colonial Legacy versus Divergent Cultures, Philosophies, Ethnic Nationalism and Religious Beliefs
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – A Global Dilemma between Preservation of the Past and the Destruction of Human History – The bottom line is that the oppressed must not transform themselves into the oppressors. This philosophy was espoused by the first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela of South Africa in 1994, in a bloodless transformation of power from the previous oppressive white minority government.
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Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976): Lessons from a Remarkable Life
Tayo Aluko | Counterfire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Black Lawyer, Singer and Football Player, Paul Robeson’s Extraordinary Life Holds Many Lessons for the Present Day
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Analysis–Burma/Myanmar Today
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
24 Mar 2021 – States do not go to war to save humans – only for oil, trade dispute, settling ethnic scores, boundary disputes. We have learned our bitter lessons. We have no interest in Peace Industry, or INGO business or research this or research that crowd. The beauty amidst all these ugly scenarios of Burma is at least the People woke up – that the Wretched of the Earth must band together for their own liberation. No free lunches in international politics. No Messiahs on the horizon.
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I Feel Love (Music Video of the Week)
Donna Summer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
‘The Queen of Disco’ 1977 Classic Hit
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 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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Listen to the Women
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – This month the women of the world give us reason to hope for the future. Around the world millions of women risked the Covid pandemic and took to the streets to demand radical change.
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The “Defender-Europe”– US Army Arrives
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – Not everything in Europe is paralyzed by the anti-Covid lockdown: The mammoth annual exercise of the US Army, Defender-Europe, which mobilizes dozens of thousands of soldiers and tanks, has been set in motion. The Defender-Europe 21 not only resumes the 2020 program, but amplifies it.
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Overcoming Hopelessness
Nick Vujicic | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Nicholas James Vujicic, 39 years old, is an Australian American Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of arms and legs. He has 4 children and is active since 2004. Prepare to cry…
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