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Israel Is Losing the Fight to Obscure Its Apartheid Character
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – New report by rights group B’Tselem will make it harder to smear Israel’s critics as antisemites for arguing that Israel is a racist state. For more than a decade, Israeli politicians and US diplomats from the “peace process industry” warned that, without a two-state solution, Israel is in danger of becoming an “apartheid state”.
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On 22 Jan 2021, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Will Enter into Force
ICAN-International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
To mark the day that nuclear weapons become illegal under international law, ICAN campaigners and other anti-nuclear activists around the world will be hosting a huge range of actions and activities. Find one near you (or online in your timezone) through the map below. And make sure to add yours to the map as well!
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Explaining the United Nations
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
A letter written by a citizen of Kashmir I read recently, addressed to the United Nations Secretary General, urging him to ensure an end to the Kashmir conflict, prompts me to write this piece. The writer stated the end of the conflict was necessary “if war was to be avoided, not only between India and Pakistan, but a war that would extend to various countries”.
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The US Capitol Building Riot and Its Blowback
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – The Only Thing Scarier than QAnon Is the Reaction to It
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How a Lawbreaking International Coalition Failed to Overthrow Venezuela’s Government
Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – Last 15 Jan the newly elected National Assembly took its seats in Venezuela. That day the Lima Group released a statement saying they did not recognize it and called upon countries to “disregard” it and recognize a former member, Juan Guaidó. The Group called for a “transition process” in Venezuela; in other words, the overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution.
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Between Capitalism and Community
Michael A. Lebowitz | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
In this book, Michael Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning Beyond Capital. Karl Marx, in Capital, focused on capital and the capitalist class that is its embodiment. It is the endless accumulation of capital, its causes and consequences, that are central to Marx’s analysis.
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Machiavelli or Gandhi? Chaiwat Satha-anand’s Nonviolence in a Comparative Perspective
Carool Kersten | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
This paper examines the doctrine of non-violence by the Thai political scientist Chaiwat Satha-Anand, based on his thesis, “The Non-Violent Prince”. Chaiwat’s theoretical considerations will be related to the work of the political philosopher Leo Strauss and his doctrine will be contrasted with the Gandhian notion of non-violence through a comparison with the writings of the French Islamologist Louis Massignon.
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The Trump Administration’s Parting Outrage against Cuba
Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
On 11 Jan 2021, in his final days before leaving office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added one parting blow to the series of bludgeons his administration has inflicted on Cuba for four years: putting the island on the list of “state sponsors of terror” that includes only Iran, North Korea and Syria. The designation drew swift condemnation from policymakers and humanitarian groups.
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Trump’s Twitter Ban May Be Justified, but That Doesn’t Mean Tech Giants’ Power Isn’t Scary
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – In the wake of the dramatic storming of the Capitol last week, a host of big media companies, including Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok, have all taken measures against Donald Trump. Making the most headlines, however, was the decision of the president’s favorite medium, Twitter (8 Jan 21), to permanently suspend him “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
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British Judge Keeps Julian Assange in Prison, Despite Denying Extradition Two Days Ago
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
6 Jan 2021 – “As far as Mr. Assange is concerned, this case has not been won,” Judge Vanessa Baraitser declared. She said the United States government “must be allowed to challenge [her] decision.”
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Nobel Nominations – Deadline Jan 31
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – The world needs a less dangerous, non life-threatening, security system and a new, open and realistic thinking about the foul and failed militarized world disorder that we all live under. Nobel saw this in 1895 when he tasked a Norwegian committee with awarding his “prize for the champions of peace”.
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Licensed to Live? Licensed to Lie? Unlicensed to Die?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Implications of Universal Vaccination–Voluntary or Otherwise – The question as to whether vaccination against COVID-19 should be voluntary or mandatory is now widely discussed. Increasingly any questions as to the value or dangers of such vaccination are framed as misinformation — if not deliberate disinformation and a feature of conspiracy theories, necessarily to be deprecated.
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(Português) 10 Estratégias de Manipulação em Massa Utilizadas Diariamente Contra Você
Tales Luciano Duarte | Saia da Caixinha/Yogui.co - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
“Em um estado totalitário não se importa com o que as pessoas pensam, desde que o governo possa controlá-la pela força usando cassetetes. Mas quando você não pode controlar as pessoas pela força, você tem que controlar o que as pessoas pensam, e a maneira típica de fazer isso é através da propaganda (fabricação de consentimento, criação de ilusões necessárias), marginalizando o público em geral ou reduzindo-a a alguma forma de apatia” (Chomsky, N., 1993)
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UK Judge Blocks US Request to Extradite Assange
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – A British judge has ruled that Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges, saying that such a move would be “oppressive” because of the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health.
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Professors-Teachers: Youth Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
The Nobel Peace Prize is important to young people; it is about their future. But they cannot nominate. Therefore, we have launched the Youth nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Individuals or groups aged between 15 and 25 may send us nominations.
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Money Matters
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
All modern societies are dependent on money in the form of currency — dollars, rubles, Euros, rupees, taka, etc. Dollars are the currency of not only USA, but of other countries also — Australia, New Zealand, Namibia although their value is different from the USD (US dollar).
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Coronavirus Global Data: 90,7M+ Infected <> 1,9M+ Deceased <> 64,8M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
On 11 Jan 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 192
Total Cases: 90,708,118
Deaths: 1,943,544
Recovered: 64,852,338
Cases Closed: 66,795,882
Active: 23,912,236
A Simple Way to Understand What’s Happening … and What to Do
Richard Heinberg | Post Carbon Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Energy is necessary in order for any organism to do anything whatsoever. For humans, food is energy that powers labor. But, in addition, people long ago learned how to harness energy from fire, water, and wind. Using firewood, paddle wheels, and sails, we built agrarian societies with irrigation systems, cities, cathedrals, mills, and seagoing ships, and created some pretty great art, music, and literature along the way.
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Our Suicidal War against Nature
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Ceasefire in Our Suicidal War against Nature – Here are some quotations from a 2 Dec 2020 article by Justin Rowlatt entitled “Humans waging suicidal war on nature – UN chief Antonio Guterres”:
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Twitter Bans President Trump Permanently
Brian Fung | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said yesterday evening. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter said.
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Pro-Trump Crackpots Invade the Capitol, Beware a Draconian Response
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – How much can we trust corporate media accounts of the Capitol riot on Wednesday, January 6? In no time at all there were claims of Russian involvement. And President-elect Biden has already said he’ll increase budgets for handling domestic terrorism. Will that include the “Black identity extremists” that the FBI identified as a domestic threat in 2019?
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Madman Trump’s Last Ditch Options
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – Are Trump’s Most Reckless Actions Yet to Come? Just what we need in the midst of a global pandemic! Iranian officials are aware of intelligence suggesting the Trump administration is engaged in a “plot to fabricate a pretext for war.” Israeli and US nuclear submarines and other warships including the USS Nimitz carrier strike force are in position.
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Porn Addiction Coach Reveals the Problem Has ‘Nothing to Do with Sex’ as He Helps Struggling Men Navigate Dependency in Lockdown
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
10 Jan 2021 – The digital revolution and social media explosion have allowed the addiction to flourish. Tim Reigle is helping thousands of men all over the globe break their erotic compulsions and regain control of their lives. The Covid-19 pandemic has birthed many externalities, but one that’s flown under the radar is the explosion in men succumbing to porn.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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Albert Schweitzer (14 Jan 1875 – 4 Sep 1965): Reverence for Life
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
“Just as the rivers are much less numerous than underground streams, so the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what men and women carry in their hearts, unreleased or scarcely released.”
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Pelosi Asks Military to Limit Trump’s Nuclear Authority–Here’s How That System Works
Geoff Brumfiel | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked the Pentagon’s leadership to limit President Trump’s ability to use nuclear weapons during his final days in office. In a letter to her Democratic House colleagues today, Pelosi said that she had spoken with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley.
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Big Tech and Big Pharma Merge: Oracle Takes Over Vaccine Data World
Jay Hawker | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
6 Jan 2021 – The pandemic handed Oracle CEO Larry Ellison what he’s wanted for decades — the power to curate the vast datasets housing our medical, financial and personal information.
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“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”
Albert Camus, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel. Camus was born in Algeria to French Pieds Noirs parents.
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As Time Goes By – Casablanca (Music Video of the Week)
Herman Hupfeld | USP Filarmonica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
From the classic movie Casablanca released on 17 May 1945
Orquestra Filarmonica of the University of São Paulo
What is Activism?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
What is activism?
For 30 years, I have asked myself that perennial question.
Now that a New Year has dawned, I must ask and answer it, again.
Activism is Conscience, triggered by acute pain,
The pain of witnessing and living the state of the troubled world.
The Fascinating Story of Placebos – And Why Doctors Should Use Them More Often
Will de Freitas | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
6 Jan 2021 – Every time your doctor tells you that the drug you take has been proved to work, they mean that it has been proved to work better than a placebo.
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(Português) Robbie Williams Adota Dieta à Base de Vegetais Após Consumir Peixes Contaminados
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 jan 2021 – Em dezembro, durante entrevista à Rádio X, o cantor britânico Robbie Williams revelou que a sua principal motivação para adotar uma dieta à base de vegetais foi descobrir uma séria intoxicação por mercúrio. “Eu comia peixe duas vezes por dia e tive a maior intoxicação por mercúrio que o médico já viu”, informou.
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The 7 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Not the Answer to Solve Climate Change
Mark Z. Jacobson | Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
There is a small group of scientists that have proposed replacing 100% of the world’s fossil fuel power plants with nuclear reactors as a way to solve climate change. Many others propose nuclear grow to satisfy up to 20 percent of all our energy (not just electricity) needs. They advocate that nuclear is a “clean” carbon-free source of power, but they don’t look at the human impacts of these scenarios. Let’s do the math…
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Who to Believe about Venezuela’s Election?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – In early December I traveled to Venezuela to be an election observer at their national assembly election. There were about two hundred international observers, including the Latin American Council of Electoral Experts. I have been an official election observer in Honduras and was an unofficial observer at the 2015 Venezuela national assembly election.
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Bethlehem, Biden, and Biology
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – Readers asked me to comment on events in the US (including the storming of Trump supporters. Israeli commentators worried because some Trump supporters waved American flags. And a congresswoman from Florida promised to put the Israeli flag next to the American flag in front of her office. Trump did deliver for Zionism.
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Big Pharma’s Finest Hour?
Nick Dearden | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
9 Jan 2021 – The roll-out of COVID vaccines gives much-needed hope. But without fundamental reform of the drug industry, inequality and mistrust will cost lives both nationally and globally.
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Trump’s Deal on Morocco’s Western Sahara Annexation Risks More Global Conflict
Stephen Zunes | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
15 Dec 2021 – Last week, President Trump formally recognized Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara as part of a deal to get Morocco to normalize relations with Israel. But Morocco’s claim on Western Sahara is rejected by the United Nations, the World Court, the African Union and a broad consensus of international legal scholars that consider the region a non-self-governing territory that must be allowed an act of self-determination. This is why no country had formally recognized Morocco’s takeover — until now.
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The Terrorist Attack Is NOT Over
Michael Moore - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
10 Jan 2021 – The terrorist attack is NOT over. Thousands from Wednesday’s [6 Jan] terrorist mob assault on the Capitol have not been arrested and have NOT LEFT the DC area. They are planning more attacks. A poster advertising an “ARMED MARCH ON CAPITOL HILL & ALL STATE CAPITOLS” on January 17th is being displayed all over.
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The Empire Is Not Done with Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – The arrest eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British and U.S. governments, in the seizure of Assange were ominous. They presaged a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially war crimes, carried out by corporate states and the global ruling elite will be masked from the public. They presaged a world where those with the courage and integrity to expose the misuse of power will be hunted down, tortured, subjected to sham trials and given lifetime prison terms in solitary confinement.
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Pashtun Woman: Enduring the Unendurable
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
It is said 90% of the world’s opium is grown in Afghanistan. It is alleged Taliban forces, exacting tolls religious fanaticism, ended opium production, while the presence of United States and NATO occupation increased this percentage. There is too much money to be made by nations and cartels to yield control. Shame!
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New York Times Declines My Rebuttal to Defamatory Op-Ed on COVID Vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
5 Jan 2021 – On Dec. 30, 2020, the New York Times published an opinion piece by my niece, Dr. Kerry Meltzer. Although the piece contained factual errors and defamatory accusations, the Times declined to publish my letter to the editor correcting those false claims.
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Music Shop
Readers Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Piano
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Progress…(?)
Carlos Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
The only sector of the US economy where there is no shortage of jobs during the covid-19 pandemic.
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The Fascist Coup of 6 Jan 2021
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – The fascist insurrection in Washington DC—which resulted in the storming of the US Congress, the panicked dispersal of terrified senators and members of the House, the delay of the official validation of Joseph Biden’s Electoral College majority, and even the occupation of the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—is a turning point in the political history of the United States.
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The Face of Things to Come
Walden Bello | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – The storming of Capitol shows America has entered the Weimar Era.
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Chomsky and Prashad: Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
5 Jan 2021 – Although the pandemic is the principal issue on all of our minds, other major issues threaten the longevity of our species and of our planet. These include:
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Tolerating Phases of Bad Fortune
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
We sometimes go through phases of bad fortune when things keep going wrong, one after another. Whatever we do to set things right only makes them worse. Gita wisdom helps us understand that such phases deliver us concentrated doses of reactions to our past karma. To navigate such phases, or even to just survive them, we need patience and tolerance. Kneejerk reactions can cause aggravation, even devastation.
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What Went Right This Week: Hope for Stabilising the Climate, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – Scientists said the climate could stabilise with decisive action, Norway pulled ahead in the race to drive combustion engines off the road and the US state of Georgia elected its first black senator – plus the week’s other positive news.
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Every Journalist Should Be Concerned about What Was Said Today in Assange’s Kangaroo Court
WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
The Political Arguments Provided by the U.S. Were Upheld by the British Judicial System – Fidel Narváez, ex-consul from Ecuador in London and Assange’s friend, thanked those gathered outside the court for “supporting freedom of expression, supporting Julian Assange, the man, the journalist, the activist, the freedom fighter”.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Memory roughly means the thoughts or events that we may remember. Some of these memories are pleasant — give pleasure; some of these are painful , unpleasant and result in pain or sadness or occasional suffering. The latter trait of suffering results both from physical or mental causes. In this essay I focus on memories of individuals both pleasant and painful.
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The Prophet of Maximum Productivity
Kwame Anthony Appiah | New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 issue – We are all Veblenians now. Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts. Armed with two Ph.D.s from Yale and Cornell, sacked by Chicago and Stanford, he was an intellectual giant whose ideas hold after 100 years of his death.
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Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
7 Jan 2021 – From the Cold War to the War on Terror: the harms from authoritarian “solutions” are often greater than the threats they are ostensibly designed to combat.
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Restoring the Threat of Impeachment for Future Office Holders
David Swanson - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
10 Jan 2021 – In the past 150 years, U.S. presidents have lied, cheated, stolen, warmongered, incited hatred and violence, driven inequality and corruption through the roof, taken over major powers from the Congress and abused them, gained the power of nuclear war and abused it through numerous threats, …
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Hope and Desire as a Fifth
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
By a rope
I am winded round
It is invisible
You cannot help me
Wednesday’s Other Story
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – On the Case of Julian Assange, and Fearing Empire More Than Fearing Trump – Just before the madness at the Capitol broke out Wednesday [6 Jan], news came from London. Julian Assange, who seemed Monday to be the luckiest man alive when a judge denied an American request to extradite him, was now denied bail.
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American Democracy on Trial: Trump vs. Biden
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
3 Jan 2021 – President Trump’s Fault lines and Delusional Concept of Power–America is entrenched in deep political crises of multiple dimensions. The working of political institutions, politicians, human character, morals and responsibility signal rituals of evil eye paradigms and a future of miseries of innumerable multitudes.
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State Terrorism: Remembering General Soleimani
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – This first anniversary of the assassination of General Qassim Soleimani, provides an occasion to remember not only the man but the nature of the act, the precedent set, and degree to which Iran and the region have become the main hunting ground of post-colonial Western imperialism. It is also relevant to take note of Mossad’s apparent responsibility for the targeted killing of Iran’s leading nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, ten months later.
→ read full articleYou Don’t Want to Imagine an Ocean without Coral Reefs—but You Might Have to
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
5 Jan 2021 – Scientists call the coral reefs the “rainforests of the sea,” because they are highly diverse ecosystems; their destruction would lead to the extinction of a large number of species. There is even a name used to describe this period of history—the Anthropocene. This term obscures the fact that it is the productive powers of capitalism that generated carbon emissions. It is not some vague term such as Anthropocene, but it is the social formation called capitalism that is central to global warming.
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The Nuremberg Code
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
The Nuremberg Code was created in 1947 after the WWII and the Nuremberg Trials. It is a set of ethical principles for research and experiments in humans. The ten points of the code were in the section“Permissible Medical Experiments” of the Nuremberg Trials verdict.
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Improving Rural Health
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Drs. Rajanikant and Mabelle Arole, a husband and wife team of physicians, founded the Comprehensive Rural Health Project in Jamkhed, India, about 8 hours bus ride east of Mumbai. They first worked in a hospital, but soon realized that despite seeing hundreds of patients every day and working tirelessly, they were reaching only a small fraction of the sick people in their area.
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Threat to Journalism Remains, Warn Critics, After Assange Extradition Rejected Solely Due to Brutal US Prison System
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – “That a British court has ruled that the U.S. prison system is too barbaric to guarantee the safety of Assange tells its own story. But this is about something much bigger than Assange: it’s about journalism, the free press, and… the ability to expose atrocities committed by the world’s last remaining superpower.”
→ read full articleThe Assault on the U.S. Capitol and the Problem of Right-Wing Radicalization
Richard Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. was invaded on January 6th by right-wing protestors bent on disrupting the joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’s election as U.S. president and vice-president. The house in which I am writing this editorial is two blocks from the Capitol, and from my study I could hear the crowd, sirens, helicopter noises, and explosive “bangs” of flash grenades detonating.
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The Trump Pardons and Fast-Tracking Capital Punishment
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – Among the disquieting dimensions of this strangest of all Christmas holidays has been the lurid spectacle of misplaced empathy by Donald Trump, placating cronies and criminals who helped him circumvent law and morality while exhibiting hard heartedness toward those unfortunate souls awaiting execution on death row in federal prisons.
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After 50 Years, the Pentagon Papers Give Up Their Final Secrets
Edward Helmore | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
10 Jan 2021 – It is to many the greatest journalistic scoop in a generation. Journalist behind scoop reveals how he tricked whistleblower to get copies of explosive Vietnam War reports.
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Nomination of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
The Peace People | Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
“My reasons for nominating them together are simple. Individually each has given countless examples of courage exposing governments’ illegal actions that caused millions of deaths, putting their own freedom and lives on the line. Collectively, their lives of self-sacrifice and selflessness constitute remarkable demonstrations of the magnificence of the human spirit. They are indeed breathtaking testimonies to the goodness inherent in the human heart.”
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Country Health Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Welcome to World Life Expectancy. Find info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated daily.
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In Assange Case, British Judge Rejects US Government’s Extradition Request
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – “It would be oppressive to extradite [Assange] to the United States of America,” Judge Vanessa Baraitser stated
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(Português) Por que chegamos a Jair Bolsonaro? Uma disquisição histórico-filosófica
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
31 dez 2020 – Há um sem número de excelentes análises do anti-fenômeno Jair Messias Bolsonaro, predominando as de ordem sociológica, histórica e econômica. Creio que devemos cavar mais a fundo para captar a irrupção deste Negativo em nossa história.
→ read full articleLiving within a Self-engendered Simulation
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – There is an ongoing debate among scientists as to whether humanity and the planetary environment are best understood as part of a simulation developed and maintained by an advanced race of extraterrestrials. As a speculative argument, this offers one way of understanding why humanity has not been contacted by ETs — if humans could comprehend the form which such contact might take.
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I’m a Consultant in Infectious Diseases – ‘Long Covid’ Is Not a Mild Illness
Joanna Herman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
27 Dec 2020 – Nine months on from the virus, I am seriously debilitated. This is how the new NHS clinics need to help thousands of us.
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On the Beach Alone at Night
Walt Whitman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
On the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
Chaos or Happy New Year?
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
29 Dec 2020 – In the midst of the Covid pandemic, one thing which unites the US Congress is an increasing War Budget. Meanwhile, an Israeli submarine, possibly carrying nuclear weapons, has crossed the Suez canal and headed for the Persian Gulf in a show of force to Iran.
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From Counterterrorism to Geopolitics: Reviving the U.S. Deep State
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
25 Dec 2020 – The challenge of transnational non-state violence, what the media dutifully criminalizes as ‘terrorism’ while whitewashing the abuses of state and state-sponsored violence as ‘counterterrorism’ or exercises of every state to act in self-defense. Language matters as those who wanted to sugarcoat ‘torture’ by such phrases as ‘enhanced interrogation.
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Vaccination No Guarantee of Coronavirus Eradication: WHO Officials
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
In the final World Health Organization COVID-19 press conference of the year, on 28 December, senior officials warned that the virus is “not necessarily the big one”, and that there is a real chance of another, more serious pandemic spreading across the world.
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Peace and Peacefulness: Reaching for the Stars
Richard Falk | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
29 Dec 2020 – This interview is not about current political concerns. It rather explores ‘peace’ in its manifold identity. The interview was conducted by Miguel Mendoça a couple of months ago for a book project.
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Execution Will Mark MLK’s Birthday
Barbara Koeppel | Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
1 Jan 2021 – Shakespeare got it right. Something is definitely rotten, but not in Denmark. The decay is made in America and engulfs the fortress at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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(Italiano) Le parole contano. Il COVID-19 è una pandemia? Siamo in guerra con il virus?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
“Sindemia” – l’interesse dei mass media è iniziato in seguito all’articolo COVID-19 isnot a pandemic di Richard Horton, pubblicato il 26 settembre su The Lancet. L’autore sostiene che l’approccio nella gestione della diffusione, ma soprattutto della patologia, sia sbagliato, perché la crisi sanitaria è stata affrontata focalizzando l’attenzione alla malattia infettiva, e non con un “approccio sindemico”. Già dal 2017 la rivista inglese pubblicava un insieme di articoli, inserendoli in una serie denominata Syndemics.
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Evolution of a Con Man
Joe Kandra, Kathie Malley-Morrison, Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
Or Is It Devolution?
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How Do You Help a Grieving Friend?
Megan Devine | Refuge in Grief – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
It’s so hard to know what to do when your friends are hurting. The thing is, you can’t cheer someone up by telling them to look on the bright side, or by giving them advice. It just doesn’t work. Watch this video to learn the one thing that will improve all of your “I’m here for you” intentions, and be that supportive friend you most want to be.
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The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths about Freedom and Tyranny
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents.
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UN Opposes Relocation of Rohingya Refugees to Remote Island
Elishya Perera | Commonwealth Business Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
8 Dec 2020 – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says he opposes the relocation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, which is vulnerable to cyclones and prone to flooding. Amnesty International released a report with allegations of limited food and healthcare facilities, cramped and unhygienic living conditions, sexual harassment and extortion.
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Upcoming Ruling in Assange Trial Threatens More Than Just Freedom of the Press
Steve Brown | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
2 Jan 2021 – His two children could lose their father for the rest of their lives. Although important legal principles are at stake in the extradition trial of Julian Assange, for which a ruling will be handed down on January 4, it should not be forgotten that there are important human issues at stake as well. One such issue is Assange’s health.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian born on 29 Nov 1898 who lived until 22 Nov 1963. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland into a Protestant Ulster family and took an active interest in Celtic literature and myths. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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Colonialist Injustice: The Pardoning of the Blackwater Killers
Richard Becker | Liberation News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
27 Dec 2020 – Along with a motley collection of wealthy swindlers and fraudsters, President Donald Trump on Dec. 22 pardoned four former Blackwater private contractors (mercenaries) convicted in the infamous 16 Sep 2007 massacre in Baghdad. Seventeen Iraqis were killed and 14 seriously wounded in an unprovoked attack by the four including two boys, 9 and 11 years of age, and a woman burned alive in her car.
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Jan Oberg’s Prime Minister Speech on the Corona Crisis
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
1 Jan 2021 – Or your government leader’s Coronavirus speech that was never given. Do not believe the future will be better before you hear leaders say something like this…
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Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Spirits Rebellious
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
Gibran’s bitter denunciation of both religious and political injustice brought his anticipated exile from Lebanon. He was also excommunicated from the Church in a country where much civil identity and justice was based on religious membership — not to mention the popular idea that God did not allow excommunicated souls into his Heaven.
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How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – After four years of the Trump administration undermining global governance, Joe Biden will certainly have his work cut out for him. Nonetheless, there are several actions the new administration can take immediately to reaffirm America’s commitment to multilateral institutions and the rule of law.
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US Must Remove Sanctions and Allow Syria to Rebuild – UN Expert
UN Human Rights Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
29 Dec 2020 – “The sanctions violate the human rights of the Syrian people, whose country has been destroyed by almost 10 years of ongoing conflict,” said Douhan, UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights.
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The Second Cold War Is Coming
Roberto Savio | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
4 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – The new Cold War will be between China and the West, but it will be quite different from the one with the Soviet Union. The USSR, a military giant with little industrial development, had the advantage of presenting itself as the champion of an international ideology. Today, China harbors no real international flag, and the West is besieged by internal contradictions.
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Bias, Racism and Lies: Facing Up To the Unwanted Consequences of AI
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
30 Dec 2020 – Powerful digital tools using artificial intelligence software are helping in the fight against COVID-19, and have the potential to improve the world in many other ways. However, it’s becoming clear that its misuse can lead to serious harm, leading the UN to call for strong, international regulation of the technology.
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Covid: The Illusion of Control
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
28 Dec 2020 – Covid deaths in Sweden–without lockdown or mask mandate, with one of the lowest ICU capacities in Europe–are almost identical to the EU average and significantly lower than in the US. So, the measures proposed by experts have been ineffective medically but highly destructive socially and economically.
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Collision at Sea as Sea Shepherd Vessels Attacked in Mexico’s Vaquita Refuge
Sea Shepherd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
At approximately 07:00 on the morning of December 31st, a group of assailants in 5-7 fishing boats (known locally as pangas) launched a violent attack on Sea Shepherd vessels Farley Mowat and Sharpie inside the Zero Tolerance Area of Mexico’s federally-protected Vaquita Refuge.
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NIH ‘Very Concerned’ about Serious Side Effect in Coronavirus Vaccine Trial
Arthur Allen, Liz Szabo, and Kaiser Health News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage, even as the National Institutes of Health has launched an investigation of the case.
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Mother Theresa
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
A journalist observed Mother Theresa changing the bandage of a leper, full of blood and puss.
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Bad News for 2021
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
A crash of the global economic system would inevitably produce a crash of the system of global governance. And a crash of the global system of governance will give us a window of opportunity for the radical change that is needed from the culture of war to a culture of peace. But such a change requires advance preparation.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
Un effondrement du système économique mondial entraînerait inévitablement un effondrement des systèmes de gouvernance. Et un crash du système mondial de gouvernance nous donnera une fenêtre d’opportunité pour le changement radical qui est nécessaire pour la transition de la culture de guerre à une culture de paix. Mais un tel changement nécessite une préparation préalable.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
Country Health Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Welcome to World Life Expectancy. Find info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated daily.
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Caatuma Sutta: The Discourse at Catuma
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
I heard thus: At one time the Blessed One was living in the Aamalaki forest in Catuma. At that time about five hundred Bhikkhus had come to Catuma headed by venerable Shariputra and venerable Moggallana to see the Blessed One. While exchanging friendly greetings, arranging beddings, putting away bowls and robes, they made much noise. The Blessed One addressed venerable Ánanda:
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Psycho-Covidology: Induced Helplessness and the Exploitation of Fear
Diane Perlman, PhD - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
We don’t know the actual death rate because the CDC combines death rates from pneumonia, influenza and COVID-19 (PIC). Doctors report that they are instructed to list people dying from other causes, some with Covid-19 as dying from Covid-19. “Probably never before in history has anything or any event mixed fact, fiction, fear, and confusion like the COVID-19 pandemic.” – Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD
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World: Positive News in the Difficult Year of The Pandemic
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
3 Jan 2020 – Is there any positive news in this era that was accompanied by the outbreak of a pandemic? Here are some news and texts that, as human beings, fill us with pride. Because, they allow us to move forward, breaking down the walls of intolerance and racism, lighting the way and bringing hope, solidarity and cooperation.
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