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West Bank Dispatch: Palestinian Teen Killed as Israeli Settlers Attack Huwwara
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

6 Oct 2023 – West Bank: An estimated 248 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the start of the year. The UN has documented more than 800 settler attacks on Palestinians and their property since the start of the year. Key Developments (October 3-6)

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Then and Now
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

We all know that things and even life changes all the time. What was true a week back or even yesterday, may not be true today.

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Peace Portraits: Pathways to Nonkilling
Review by Robin Collins of a Memoir by Balwant Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

“Everyone has the right not to be killed and the responsibility not to kill others.”

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The German Banker and British Lord Who Wrote the ‘Capitalist Magna Carta’
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

4 Oct 2023 – In this excerpt from their book, Silent Coup, the authors go to the sources of a key legal mechanism used by multinational corporations to override governments around the world.

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

9-15 October 2023

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Spot the Mistakes!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – Rainy Day Fun Game

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Jupiter-Sized Objects in Orion Nebula Baffle Scientists
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – The new entities, nicknamed ‘JuMBOs’, are neither stars nor planets. And they shouldn’t exist, researchers say.

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A Year of U.S. Lying about Nord Stream
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

26 Sep 2023 – The Biden administration has acknowledged neither its responsibility for the pipeline bombing nor the purpose of the sabotage.

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The Gandhian Path to Resilience
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary reopens a familiar debate around his legacy every year. How could a frail man use his moral strength to galvanize 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence from the mighty British Empire?

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Dying for Inches in Ukraine
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

30 Sep 2023 – That weapons systems are being tested on human bodies to the immense benefit of war profiteers over a completely avoidable and provoked war is nightmarishly depraved. 

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A Proven Path to Peace
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

The waves of war are rising again around the fragile ship of our civilization, threatening to sink it to the depths of barbarism and radioactive megadeath. The principle to preventing this is stated in the constitution of UNESCO: “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”

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Global Leaders Plead for Peace in Ukraine at UN
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – The calls for peace in Ukraine issued by at least 50 world leaders at this year’s UN General Assembly.

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Ukraine on Fire
Global Tree Pictures - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

20 Aug 2021 – This video provides a historical perspective for the deep divisions in the region which lead to the 2004 Orange Revolution, 2014 uprisings, and the violent overthrow of Yanukovych. Producer Oliver Stone interviews Ukraine’s legally elected president Viktor Yanukovych, who in the 2010 election got 12,5 million votes.

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The Big Business of War–a Clandestine Arms Market in Ukraine
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

25 Sep 2023 – US Congress has allocated 43 billion to the security of Ukraine for direct military purposes. The New York Times calls it “a clandestine arms market” in Ukraine as billions of dollars were pocketed by high-ranking officials in Kyiv; the government had to fire the Minister of Defence and all six deputy Defence Ministers for corruption.

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Peace Journalists in London and Vicinities
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

I plan to organise a journalistic event (lectures, debate, party) but would like to hear first from Peace journalists interested in taking part.

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Cyprus Anti-Migrant Violence: Reconciliation Efforts Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

28 Sep 2023 – To highlight the calls of Pope Francis in Marseille calling for humanitarian efforts for migrants, there was a wave of anti-migrant violence in southern Cyprus in September. Cyprus, in practice, is divided into two.

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Two for the road…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

After eating an entire bull, …

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Winner? Winners!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Which one fits your personal story?

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The AI Conundrum: The Peace Movement’s Next Big Challenge
Tom Valovic | Mass Peace Action - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

15 Sep 2023 – It’s hard to watch or read the news these days without bumping into the latest breathless glorification of artificial intelligence. For those of us who believe that some sort of technocratic takeover of many government functions is underway, this trend is deeply concerning.

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Israeli Settlements ‘Systematically Erode’ Viability of Palestinian State
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process today expressed deep concern over the relentless expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

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Denmark’s Prime Minister Frederiksen Knows Nothing about Ukraine, Conflict Understanding and Peace–She Wants War
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

22 Sep 2023 – The brief presentation of her views on Ukraine’s situation testifies to an ignorance – conscious, unconscious or opportunistic – that is not easily reconciled with State leadership in general and war participation in particular.

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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

It is an ongoing mystery: What makes you and your childhood self the same person. Across a lifetime of physiological and psychological change, some center holds.

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Ralph Schoenman: Unsung Hero of Progressive Thought and Action (RIP)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

30 Sep 2023 – Ralph Schoenman is a member of a trinity of forgotten heroes of US progressive politics, airbrushed from collective memory by mainstream media and even infrequently notice by online, independent publications. The other two are Tony Russo and David Ray Griffin.

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Amazing Grace in Emotional Show (Music Video of the Week)
Andre Rieu Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

From the Concert Christmas in London 2016

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How Can We Combat Militarism?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Ridding the U.S. and the world of militarism will take time, no doubt. But it will happen. And, as the sage Hillel asked, “If not now, when?”

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The US Air Force Is Clearing Out Jungles in the Pacific to Prepare for War with China
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

A Poem

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Why Our Popular Mass Movements Fail
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

1 Oct 2023 – The wave of global popular protests that erupted in 2010 and lasted a decade were extinguished. This means new tactics and new strategies.

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Waiting for an Apocalypse
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Finding Hope Living Outside the Box

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From a German War Primer
Bertolt Brecht - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Among the highly placed
It is considered low to talk about food.
The fact is: they have
Already eaten.

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Father of the Nation: Mahatma Gandhi’s Granddaughter Remembers Her Heroic Ancestor on the Anniversary of His Birth
Tara Gandhi-Bhattacharjee | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – Gandhi’s desire for harmony with nature and the environment remains significant with the current focus on climate action and sustainability.

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Torture at Guantanamo
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

25 Sep 2023 – I Was the only U.S. Official Imprisoned over the Torture Program — because I Opposed and Blew the Whistle on It

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

2-8 October 2023

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Hawaiian Nationality: Who Comprises the Hawaiian Citizenry
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

28 Sep 2023 – Nationality is the legal bond between a person and a State and does not indicate the person’s ethnic origin. It is a person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a given State. The terms nationality and citizenship are synonymous.

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Professional Psychology 22 Years after 9/11
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

26 Sep 2023 – The American Psychological Association, US psychology’s most prominent voice, still seems unwilling to do anything that could jeopardize its carefully nurtured ties to the military-intelligence establishment. This needs to change.

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The Forgotten People: Once We Were Migrants (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

It is a Serious Indictment on Governments, that various world leaders have forgotten their Origins as Migrants and are now Anti-migrants.

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Ignorance and Egoistic Leaders Destroying Mankind and the Living Earth
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Humanity is a Victim of Wrong Elite’s Thinking and Wrong Actions

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Atom and Identity: Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Science to Illuminate Consciousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

The Atom and the Doctrine of Identity: Quantum Pioneer Erwin Schrödinger on Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Science to Illuminate Consciousness

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Menendez Bribery Scandal: Egypt versus Ethiopia
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – U.S. federal investigators caught New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine with $180,000 worth of gold bars, $550,000 in cash, plus furniture and a $60,000 Mercedes Benz that they didn’t pay for.

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The Arms Trade Needs a Shift from War Economy to Green Economy
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Stopping militarism and deploying resources towards completion of the UN’s much-needed Sustainable Development Goals would leave a lasting legacy for generations to come, ensuring the continuation and progress of our sacred civilisation and humanity.

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Venezuela to Launch China-Backed Anti-Poverty Program
Andreína Chávez Alava | Venezuelanalysis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

21 Sep 2023 – The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country’s reality to alleviate poverty and inequality.

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US House Rejects Cluster-Bomb Ban
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – Bipartisan House Amendment to Ban US Cluster Bomb Exports Fails – Democrats and Republicans turned down the chance to stop the export of weapons that harm and kill civilians long after military campaigns are over.

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Revealed: Israeli Cyber Firms Have Developed an ‘Insane’ New Spyware Tool–No Defense Exists
Omer Benjakob | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

14 Sep 2023 – A Haaretz investigation reveals that Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the advertising system to monitor civilians, hack into their phones and computers, and spy on them. This is a terrifying capability against which no defense currently exists.

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Scientists Just Proved That ‘Monster’ Black Hole M87 Is Spinning–Confirming Einstein’s Relativity Yet Again
Ben Turner | Live Science - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

28 Sep 2023 – Astronomers have spotted two huge jets fired off by the ‘monster’ black hole M87 wobbling on an 11-year cycle, proving for the first time that black holes spin.

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Development of the Indian City Delhi — Historical, Contemporary
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Delhi is an ancient city with several unique and majestic monuments such as Lal Quilla (Red Fort), Purana Quilla, Qutab Minar, Hauz Khas Fort, Humayun Tomb and others. Akshardham Temple and Lotus Temple are also beautiful structures.

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Top Brazilian Court Rules in Favor of Indigenous Rights
Saurav Sarkar | Globetrotter News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

25 Sep 2023 – Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of Indigenous claims to land occupied before 1988. The case had been brought by “agribusiness-backed lawmakers.” The court ruled against the lawmakers and for Indigenous groups.

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The Real Message from the BRICS Summit
Prince Michael of Liechtenstein | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

28 Sep 2023 – Between 22-25 Aug, the BRICS – a loose association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – held a summit in Johannesburg where some 30 other developing nations were invited to participate.

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(Italiano) Vattimo e la cultura della nonviolenza
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

21 settembre 2023 – Propongo a chi studia anche il lato teorico della nonviolenza, di osservare sotto questo profilo il pensiero filosofico di Gianni Vattimo, che ci ha appena lasciati, il 19 settembre.

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How to Think about the Ukraine War after 18 Months
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

20 Sep 2023 -This text addresses various aspects of the global political setting that has crystallized since the Russian attack of 5 Feb 2022 on Ukraine. The repudiation of diplomacy as an alternative to war, despite the costs and dangers of continuing the Ukraine War, are quite striking.

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BRICS+: Experts Explain What the Strategic Entry of Six New Nations Means for Bloc
Yusra Asif | Al Arabiya/BRICS Info Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

19 Sep 2023 – Why these six countries? One of the prominent goals of BRICS is to enhance cross-border trade among member nations to boost the group economically and reduce the bloc’s reliance on the US dollar.

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Being Spoken to Meaningfully by Constructs
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Reframing Cognitive Implication in Nature and Natural Disasters – Emphasis is increasingly given to the problematic “disconnect” from “nature” and to how this might be recognized and remedied.

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The West Destroyed Africa, Eurasia Will Revive It
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

20 Sep 2023 – In Africa, injustice looms large. After decades of restrictive IMF and World Bank loans, poverty, hunger, and conflict persist throughout the continent. While many attribute this to Africa’s governance challenges, in reality, a deliberate imperial agenda has hindered the continent’s development in all political, economic, and security sectors. 

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How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
Deborah Barsky and Jan Ritch-Frel | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Recent scientific findings and research in the fields of human origins and biology have reached a key threshold: with increasing accuracy, this body of knowledge can tell the complete human evolutionary story that began 7 million years ago and spans to modernity.

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Amnesty International Pushes Regime Change in Eritrea with Dubious, Unverifiable Report
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

21 Sep 2023 – Amnesty’s new report accusing Eritrea’s government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West’s campaign to topple the country’s independent government.

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Leaders of World’s Biggest Polluting Countries Skipping UN Climate Summit
Oliver Milman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

20 Sep 2023 – Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York today.

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How Arab Leaders Betrayed Islam and Defied the Logic of Political Change, Peace and Security
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

18 Sep 2023 – The Arabian landscape portrays continuous wars, insurgency against authoritarianism, insecurity and lack of moral and intellectual leadership to political change for the good of people.

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Noam Chomsky on the Russia-NATO-Ukraine War
Through Conversations Podcast – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Noam Chomsky shares his perspective on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, and where does he think this conflict is heading in the future.

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International Day of Peace –> 21 September
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Fear? Not even…

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

25 Sep – 1 Oct 2023

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Agreement Boosts Academic Mobility Across BRICS Borders
University World News | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

22 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries, a grouping of emerging economies, agreed to facilitate the recognition of academic qualifications among members to ensure the mobility of skilled professionals, academics and students.

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Defeat
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

21 Sep 2023 – The United States is being defeated in Ukraine. One could say that it is facing defeat or that it is staring defeat in the face. Neither formulation is appropriate, though. The U.S. doesn’t look reality squarely in the eye. We prefer to look at the world through the distorted lenses of our fantasies.

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Why the Media Aren’t Telling the Whole Story of Libya’s Floods
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

15 Sep 2023 – The reality of the West’s current foreign policy – marketed under the principle of a “Responsibility to Protect” – is all too visible amid Libya’s flood wreckage. There are reasons for Libya’s ‘chaotic’, ‘dysfunctional’ response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home.

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Veganic Farming: How My Tiny Plot Produced 5,000 Pounds of Food without Using Manure
Jimmy Videle | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

19 Sep 2023 – Veganic farming is the growing, gardening, cultivation, and production of food and fiber crops with a minimal amount of exploitation of animal and plant species. Veganic methods use no animal products, byproducts or any other animal-originated matter.

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Comparing Galtung’s Theory of Conflict Resolution with Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory
Prof. Antonino Drago | CIC-Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Abstract: The present paper compares Galtung’s theory of conflict resolution with Freud’s psychoanalytical theory. The basic notions of this comparison are the “adjunction” and the transference. Freud’s description of the inner conflict resolution is first interpreted by the adjunction of one person (Analyst) to the patient.

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Assad and Xi Summit Heralds a New Dawn in East and West Asia Relations
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

On Thu 21 Sep Syria’s Pres. Assad arrived in China as guest of Pres. Xi Jinping who chartered a private plane to bring Assad and his wife to China for their first visit since 2004.

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Peace Education and International Community
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

The common masses of every nation are exploited and oppressed by their masters whether they are dictators or democrats. Common people everywhere are poor and slaves. Even intellectuals are not free from the organized authority of societies’ institutions.

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NATO Admits That Ukraine War Is a War of NATO Expansion
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

19 Sep 2023 – During the Vietnam War, the US government treated the public like a mushroom farm: keeping it in the dark and feeding it with manure.  The heroic Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers documenting the unrelenting US government lies.  A half century later, in the Ukraine War, the manure is piled even higher. 

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A Groundbreaking German Peace Proposal for Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

18 Sep 2023 – At the end of August this year, four highly respected German personalities[i] presented a peace proposal for ending the war in Ukraine through a ceasefire and subsequent peace negotiations.

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Collaboration, Not Confrontation
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad  | Peoples Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

24 Sep 2023 – Since a defeat of one side or the other is simply not possible, the only way forward is through a diplomatic settlement. The alternative, put simply, is collective suicide as both sides move up the escalation ladder until it is too late. 

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The Titan
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

18 Sep 2023 in the US of A

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UNGA’s Dennis Francis: G77+China Promoting Multilateralism
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

22 Sep 2023 – The group’s voice is needed for the pressing implementation of the 2030 Agenda and for the reform of the international financial architecture, UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis said. 

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Australian Parliamentarians Speak Outside DOJ after Assange Talks
Consortium News | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

21 Sep 2023 – A delegation of six Australian members of Parliament are in Washington this week lobbying for the release of Julian Assange.

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Declaration of the Summit of Heads of State of the G77+China
Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Havana, Cuba 15-16 Sep 2023 – The summit held in Havana was attended by more than 1,300 participants from 116 countries and 12 organizations and agencies of the United Nations system.

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Diversities in Modern Times
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

The world we are familiar with, has different types of diversities — linguistics, social, economic, cultural, and scientific, etc. Considering these and other related differences, perhaps the economic diversities are fairly quite pronounced and tragic.

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The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke
Mnar Adley | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

21 Sep 2023 – Here’s how this deadly disaster has everything to do with the Obama administration and NATO’s 2011 “humanitarian intervention” to overthrow Muammar Qadaffi. The US and NATO bombed Libya into a failed state with open-air slave markets. Before, Libya was the most successful country in Africa.

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Propaganda: The Manufacture of Consent
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Sep 2023 – A documentary about the father of modern propaganda and public relations – the man who coined the phrase “manufacture of consent” 60 years before Noam Chomsky popularized it: Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud.

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Empowering Populism Worldwide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Modern Populism: Weaponizing for Power and Influence, by Deepak Tripathi (2023) – Foreword by Richard Falk

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Judge Rules 9/11 Defendant Unfit for Trial after CIA Torture Made Him Psychotic
AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

22 Sep 2023 – A military judge at Guantánamo Bay has ruled a 9/11 defendant incompetent to stand trial after a military medical panel found that the man’s sustained abuse in CIA custody years earlier had rendered him lastingly psychotic.

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Peace Disruption by Weaponisation of Water Security through the Passage of Time (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

This paper discusses water security from the perspectives of the history of water supply disruptions from antiquity through to the 21st century, and how empires, cities and towns have been decimated by weaponisation of water scarcity over the millennia. 

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Hoax: UK Intelligence Spun 2013 Syria Chemical Attack, Leaked Docs Show
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

19 Sep 2023 – US officials suppressed assessments that Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing had an “advanced” sarin production cell as the US blamed the Assad government for a 2013 chemical weapons attack. Leaked documents show a shadowy British intelligence contractor helped sell the story that Assad was responsible – and nearly triggered Western intervention.

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Wish You the Best (Music Video of the Week)
Lewis Capaldi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Lyrics Below – Please click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy the video.

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Consciousness and the Nature of the Universe: Panpsychism in the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Coined in the sixteenth century by the Italian philosopher and proto-scientist Francesco Patrizi, whose work inspired Galileo, panpsychism is the idea that all matter is endowed with the capacity for subjective experience of immaterial quality — the sort of experience we call, in its expression familiar to us, consciousness.

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(Italiano) Guerre perpetue degli Stati Uniti d’America
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

20 Settembre 2023 – Guerre perpetue… Il complesso militar-industriale ha bisogno di nemici. Senza di loro avvizzirebbe. Non possiamo sbarazzare il mondo di queste pazzesche armi antiumane prima che tutto ciò che vale nel nostro magnifico mondo venga ridotto a ceneri radioattive? Non possiamo sgombrare il mondo dall’istituzione della guerra?

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The Balance Between Analysis and Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

21 September had been set by the United Nations as the International Day of Peace when, through meditation and action, we try to advance a culture of peace.  This September there were enough armed conflicts and areas of tension so that we did not have to search far for objects of study. 

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Real Savings
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

A Suggestion…

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The Mass-Media Memory Hole – Blair, Ukraine and Libya
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

20 Sep 2023 – A key function of the ‘mainstream’ state-corporate media is to keep the public pacified, ignorant and ill-equipped to disrupt establishment power. Knowledge on how the world operates politically and economically is kept to a minimum. George Orwell’s famous ‘memory hole’ from ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ signifies the phenomenon brilliantly.

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The Future of Muslims in Saffronsed India
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

21 Sep 2023 – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is inflaming hatred of Muslims in India, as the world looks the other way. Hindu hard-liners, one holding a sword, chant slogans against Muslim communities. A darker narrative is starting to define Modi’s India.

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G-7 and BRICS Visions of the Future: Coercive Geopolitics or Multilateral Cooperation?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

17 Sep 2023 – A modified version of this post was published in CounterPunch on 8 Sep 2023, which itself is a reconfigured version appearing earlier on TMS (Transcend Media Service) on 4 Sep. Neither version considers the relevance of the Delhi meeting of the G-20, which represents a weaker and somewhat overlapping grouping compared to either G-7 or BRICS.

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U.N. General Assembly Starts: NGO Action Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

With the United Nations General Assembly starting on 19 September 2023, there is a good deal of reflection going on among governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) regarding the  effectiveness of the U.N. to meet the challenges facing the world community.

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Beyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

6 Sep 2023 – Mother Earth is a sacred, self organized living being. She creates and sustains life. Through her biosphere and her complex ecological processes, she regulates her water systems, her nutrition cycles, and her climate system.

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Libya Climate Crisis Linked to Pentagon-NATO Intervention of 2011
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

13 Sep 2023 – Western foreign policy has destroyed the capacity of Libya and the Kingdom of Morocco to coordinate relief efforts amid the worsening effects of climate change.

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Peace Disruption by Weaponisation of Food Security through the Passage of Time (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

“There is Enough on this Planet for Everyone’s Needs but not for Everyone’s Greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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Climate Collapse – The Grim Silence of Our Leaders
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

14 Sep 2023 – None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of worldwide extreme weather like in this summer. Canadian wildfires, a Hawaiian town incinerated, a Greek island devastated by rainfall, a Libyan town washed into the sea leaving 20,000 dead, killer hurricanes fueled by climate change, heatwaves, floods…

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BRICS: The Quest for a Just Multi-Polar World (video)
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

7 Sep 2023 – The BRICS Summit that concluded on 24 Aug 2023 in Johannesburg is a significant milestone in the journey towards a multi-polar world.

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How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote as she contemplated the art of seeing just before the Little Prince sighed his timeless sigh: “What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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The Elite’s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing–Can We Defeat It? (Part 2)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

10 Sep 2023 – Part 1 of this study introduced the subject and discussed the psychological and political methods used to control our minds. Part 2 will consider the medical and technological methods used and explain what is necessary to win this war.

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(Castellano) C. G. Jung: La espiritualidad como dimensión esencial del alma
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

9 septiembre 2023 – Hoy existe una preocupación fundamental: rescatar la razón sensible o cordial (del  corazón) para equilibrar el exceso desastroso de la razón instrumental-analítica. Tenemos que armonizar el logos con el pathos, el anima con el animus si queremos resolver los problemas sociales y enfrentar la alarma ecológica.

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War/No More Trouble (Music Video of the Week)
Bono et al. | Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

This song around the world features musicians who have seen and overcome conflict and hatred with love and perseverance. We don’t need more trouble, what we need is love. The spirit of Bob Marley always lives on.

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Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

16 Sep 2023 – NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.

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Fernando Botero Angulo, Painter and Sculptor (19 Apr 1932 – 15 Sep 2023)
Nick Caistor | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

Colombian painter and sculptor of voluminous figures that grace city centres the world over including Paris, Madrid and London. RIP

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Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

4 Sep 2023 – Much has been made of the simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, part of the security detail in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. 

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