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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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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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Operational Plan for Transitioning the Military Government into the Hawaiian Kingdom Government
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
12 Sep 2023 – Bringing the U.S. Occupation to an End – What the U.S. military did when they invaded Hawaiian territory and caused the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom government was unlawful, and admitted being so by President Grover Cleveland, but that didn’t mean it ended then and there.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
The military-industrial complex needs enemies. Without them it would wither. Can we not rid the world of these insane and anti-human weapons before everything of value is reduced to radioactive ashes? Can we not rid the world of the institution of war?
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Voting, Democracy, Solutions
The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Really?
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‘War Is Good for Business,’ Declares Executive at London’s Global Arms Fair
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
15 Sep 2023 – “Deals done at DSEI will cause misery across the world, causing global instability, and devastate people’s lives,” one peace activist lamented. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the West’s scramble to arm Ukrainian homeland defenders have been a bonanza for arms-makers.
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Departments for Peace – A Great Institutional Invention
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
15 Sep 2023 – We need to change this culture of militarism, populism and extremism or we will face the scenario of what John F Kennedy said in his speech to the UN in 1961, ‘Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.’
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What to Expect from the G77+China Summit in Cuba
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
14 Sep 2023 – Tomorrow the G77+China Summit will kick off in Havana, Cuba, with the attendance of heads of state and government from more than 100 nations.
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What Every Child Should Know about Marx’s Theory of Value
Michael A. Lebowitz | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
September 2023 – The law of value works in mysterious ways. For some Marxists, it underlies everything we need to know about capitalism. But, just as Karl Marx claimed he was not a Marxist, so too might he have said, “that’s not my law of value.”
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It’s Hard to Find Fulfillment in a Civilization That Revolves Around Corporate Profits
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
18 Sep 2023 – Corporate profits are our life. Corporate profits are our religion. Most of us pour more of our energy into generating corporate profits throughout our lives than the most pious monk pours into worshipping any deity.
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The Never-Ending Story
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Ad Nauseam…
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Landing on the Moon
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
India has sent a Moon Lander to land on the moon on 22 August.
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Vedantic Democracy, Education and Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
All men tend to be free. Freedom is the birth right of every man irrespective of caste, creed and color.
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
18-24 September 2023
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Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military’s Climatic Experiments
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
14 Sep 2023 – ‘Climatic Warfare’ Has Been Excluded from the Agenda on Climate Change
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Of Civil Disobedience
Makhtar Diouf | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
This is a citizen’s right. A right of defiance, of distrust towards a State and its institutions when we are convinced that our rights are being violated.
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The Gender Gap in Finance
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Women represent half the world’s population ~ and half of its economic potential. A society cannot have sustained economic prosperity and well-being until the central role of women is recognized and their financial health is used to shape policy.
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(Castellano) La Paloma de la paz de Fernando Botero, una obra que ha entrado y salido de la Casa de Nariño
Notícias Caracol - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
La paloma de la paz de Fernando Botero fue creada en 2016, con motivo de la firma del Acuerdo Final de Paz entre el Gobierno Santos y las FARC. Las controversias alrededor suyo no han sobrado.
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Intra-BRICS Trade and Analysis 2023
Chris Devonshire-Ellis and Farzad Ramezani Bonesh | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries as a total currently includes about 26% of the total global land mass, and about 42% of the world’s population. This basic clout means that BRICS combined efforts in restructuring the global economy and strengthening economic and financial cooperation have been welcomed by many countries – and been viewed with suspicion elsewhere.
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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
The Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us, bringing together our three primary instruments of investigating reality: empirical science, philosophy, and metaphysics.
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(Italiano) L’intelligenza artificiale e il suo ‘metabolismo’
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
11 Settembre 2023 – Che cos’è l’intelligenza artificiale (IA)? Tra le numerose definizioni disponibili scelgo quella proposta dal sito dell’Unione Europea:
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The Expansion of BRICS: Challenges and Uncertainties
William Daldegan | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
13 Sep 2023 – The negotiations for expansion faced significant pressure from the Chinese. In contrast, Brazil and India resisted and, along with South Africa, negotiated for a stance from Russia and China for a broader UN reform. However, this raises uncertainties about the future of BRICS.
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The Elite’s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing–Can We Defeat It? (Part 1)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
— Steve Biko, South African freedom fighter, beaten to death in an Apartheid prison cell in 1977
A Psychological Evaluation of a Certain Megalomaniacal Narcissistic Paranoid Demagogic Leader from Recent World History
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duluth Reader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
This sometimes charismatic political leader was one of the richest persons in his country yet he was often joked by comedians, regarded as a buffoon, but he impressed his followers at his campaign stops by flying in to his political rallies on a private airplane.
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International Rules-Based Order vs UN Charter: What You Need to Understand Now
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – It has become commonplace amongst alternative media to see efforts to reframe the conflict between multipolar vs unipolar systems as a chimera devoid of meaning for the “wise” to the Great Game.
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In Hottest Summer Ever, West Bank Sears from Israeli Water Apartheid
Basel Adraa | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Across the West Bank, Palestinians and Israeli settlers have very different access to water resources — even when they live on the same hill.
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The Pentagon Is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room
Melissa Garriga and Tim Biondo | CODEPINK/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – The climate justice movement seems more organized than ever. But, there’s a big elephant in the room, and it has the Pentagon written all over it. The U.S. military is the world’s largest institutional oil consumer.
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Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – Girls who had exposure to modern careers ranging from journalism to teaching have chosen in the past few years to wear the hijab. Most strikingly, however, these women fluently and cogently articulate how they believe Islam has liberated and empowered them.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Videos produced by The Drawdown Project outline what must be done to prevent more climate catastrophes worse than the ones already happening. The main staff members of the project, including narrator Jonathan Foley, are climate scientists.
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Fan the Flames: Lahaina on Fire
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – The Looting of Lahaina
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Story of Krishna
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Today, 7 September, is an important day for Hindus — it is called Krishna Janmashtami — the birth of Lord Krishna and the several aspects that are known and believed about his birth. Janam-ashtami indicates the eighth day of the Moon.
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In AI Regulation Coverage, Media Let US Lawmakers off the Hook
Julianne Tveten | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – Corporate Press: ‘US Policymakers would like to place guardrails on artificial intelligence, but, given its novel and evolving nature, they’ll need more time.’ This narrative minimizes their responsibility— excusing, rather than interrogating, regulatory inertia.
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Revisiting John Pilger’s 2016 Warnings about US Warmongering against Russia and China
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – “It’s like listening to a time traveler warning people from the past about a grave mistake they were about to make.”
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What Makes You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
To face the question of what makes us who we are with courage, lucidity, and fullness of feeling is to face, with all the restlessness and helplessness this stirs in the meaning-hungry soul, the elemental fact of our choicelessness in the conditions that lead to our existence.
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Exploring the Centrality of Nonviolent Communication for Resolution of Conflicts and a Culture of Peace
Vedabhyas Kundu | CIC-Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
It can be an important starting point of analyzing and linking Johan Galtung’s conflict triangle using the Gandhian nonviolent communication. It may also be mentioned that Galtung himself was much influenced by Gandhi.
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NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because of NATO Expansion
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
During a speech at the EU Parliament on 7 Sep, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism.
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‘Occupied by the US’: Wildfires Renew Native Hawaiian Call for Sovereignty
Claire Wang | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – As Disaster Capitalists Descend on Lahaina, Indigenous Hawaiians Fight for Self-Governance
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Belgian Minister Says What Biden Won’t: Israel Is Wiping Entire Palestinian Villages Off the Map
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
3 Sep 2023 – Belgium’s Minister of Development, Caroline Gennez, said in an interview that “Entire villages are being wiped off the map by the Israelis” in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. The Israeli ambassador to Brussels lambasted the remarks as “libel.” To her credit, Ms. Gennez has stood her ground since she is right.
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Media: Bad Faith & Blank Checks
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere. An excerpt from Lawrence’s new book, ‘Journalists and Their Shadows.’
→ read full article“The War Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – The War on Afghanistan Is a Profit-driven “Resource War” – US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan more than 20 years ago on 7 Oct 2001. It’s been a continuous war marked by US military occupation. In the wake of the withdrawal of US troops, Afghanistan’s assets were confiscated.
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Peace and War: Russia-Ukraine Conflict Urgently Needs a Dialogue for Peace
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – Mankind Is Being Traumatized for Its Hopes for Peace and Sustainable Future
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A Bad One
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
No Comment
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Peace Ambassador of Old: Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Ganj-E-Shakar, R.A.
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
A Brilliant Star in the Galaxy Shines Gloriously and Draws even after Death
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Luis Rubiales the King of the Machirulos
Marcelo Trivelli | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – Machirulo in Spain is a man who boasts of being undisguisedly macho, and is generally used in a derogatory sense. Luis Rubiales, the suspended president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, has confirmed in every performance the well-earned title of “king of the machirulos”.
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As the U.S. Wages War on It China Reacts with Defiance
Moon of Alabama - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – Just as U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo returns from China her department issues new restrictions on chip deliveries. But China is not only autarkic in making chips but also in making the delicate machines needed to make them.
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Fears of ‘Plantation Disaster Capitalism’ Mount in Wake of Maui Fires
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
“Justice is returning control of public resources like land and water to the people,” wrote one activist. “For too long the strings of Maui and thousands of communities like it have been pulled by forces indifferent to their soul.”
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The Hunt
Balwant (Bill) Bhaneja | The Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Short Fiction
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Haiti Violence: ‘Carnage Needs to Stop’ Says UN Relief Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – Haiti is in the grip of “extreme brutality”, with gang-related violence continuing to force thousands from their homes amidst widespread suffering, said the UN’s top humanitarian official there.
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Depleted Uranium Won’t Bring Peace to Ukraine
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – Militarism is obsolete, for God’s sake. Its technology is out of control. The latest news left me stunned and terror-stricken: “The Biden administration will send munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, despite the dangers such weapons pose to civilians.”
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Condolences on the Passing of Dr. M.S. Gosavi
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – I am extremely shocked to hear the news about the death of Dr. M.S. Gosavi, Director General and Secretary, Gokhale Education Society, Nashik, Maharashtra, India on 9 Jul 2023. This is my delayed condolences because I was not aware of his death.
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New BRICS Bloc Will Democratize World Economy and Global South Future
Pedro Mzileni | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – The addition of Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Argentina, Egypt, and Iran to the BRICS block is the consolidation of a struggle to end the domination of this planet by Washington. The future of the world is in the Global South.
→ read full articleInternational Forgiveness Day
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Talk at the Lokahi Cultural Center in Wai`anae, Honolulu, Hawaii – The Theft of the Hawaiian Islands Kingdom by the United States of America
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(Italiano) Niger: il calvario del colonialismo perenne
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Da allora sono successe molte cose che riguardano il Niger e il modo in cui intendiamo la sua relazione con quel Paese, con la regione del Sahel dell’Africa occidentale, con l’Africa in generale e con la guerra geopolitica di posizione che mette in primo piano la rivalità degli Stati Uniti con Russia e Cina.
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Transparency International’s Covert Agenda: A Pawn in Western Intelligence’s Game
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – Expressing “astonishment,” many compared TINZ’s consultation of high-ranking lobbyists on how to clean up their own industry as akin to “police recruiting gang members to determine new rules on pursuit of fleeing drivers.” Yet, anyone familiar with Transparency International’s history would hardly be surprised.
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Africa Climate Summit Issues Nairobi Declaration
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – Nairobi, Kenya, hosted the Africa Climate Summit which attracted thousands of delegates, investors and observers to discuss the continent’s environmental degradation. The meeting was from Sep 4-8 at the Kenyatta International Convention Center.
→ read full articleAccess Journalism at Its Most Pernicious
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – Modern western national security journalism is mostly just writing what a government official tells you to write and then calling it a “scoop” which you got from a nameless “source” in the government.
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Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden Yes-Man, a Putin Apologist or a Peacemaker?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – The insight on Russia that Bill Burns provided during many years as a diplomat, and then ambassador in Moscow, and some critical questions regarding his current role in the Biden administration.
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Smile (Music Video of the Week)
Philippe Quint – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
26 Oct 2019 – To mark the 130th anniversary of Chaplin’s birth, Grammy-nominated violinist Philippe Quint released a new album, Chaplin’s ‘Smile.’
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Economic Growth in G7 vs BRICS: A Reality Check
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – We are confronted with a combination of denials and pretenses by the conjoined decline of U.S. capitalism and its global empire (or hegemony). Those declines have become clear to observers within the old capitalist establishment. For example, …
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The Pedagogy of Power
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 – The ruling classes always work to keep the powerless from understanding how power functions. This assault has been aided by a cultural left determined to banish “dead white male” philosophers.
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No Respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ Rises
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying ‘non’ to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs.
→ read full articleCompetitions for Highest, Fastest, Slowest Events
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
There are sports events today where the person who jumps the highest or the longest distance is declared the winner. We also have several games that puts this ideal to test.
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
11-17 September 2023
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Direct Energy Weapons Create Forest and Bush Fires, Destroying Entire Cities and Igniting Boats in the Sea
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
DEWs are defined as electromagnetic systems capable of converting chemical or electrical energy to radiated energy, then these energies are fired by laser beams with the speed of light on specific targets. They can produce forces that range from deterrent, to damaging, to destructive.
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‘Peace, War and 9/11’ Honors Late Peace Activist Graeme MacQueen
Jeff Mahoney | The Hamilton Spectator - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – The Westdale cinema is hosting world premiere of “Peace, War and 9/11,” a movie about the late Graeme MacQueen, founder of Centre of Peace Studies at McMaster University and a member of the TRANSCEND Network.
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(Italiano) Spiritualità e pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Agosto 2023 – Il nostro mondo manca chiaramente di qualcosa, anzi molto, nei propri sforzi di conseguire la pace. E fra questo c’è quanto espresso dalla parola “spiritualità”, abusata all’incirca quanto la parola “pace”, proprio perché entrambe incarnano tanti nostri sogni.
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Coup in Gabon: Change of Persons Not of Structures
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – On 27 Aug, some of the military of Gabon, in particular members of the Presidential Guard, took power and placed President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest. The consequences of the coup are unlikely to produce any quick changes in structures, but the situation merits watching closely.
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Why We Can’t Have World Peace
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – We can’t have world peace as long as the US government’s foreign policy is to (militarily) conquer the world. Western think tanks refer to this grandiose wet dream to dominate the world as US “exceptionalism” and “hegemony.”
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Japanese Expert: Nuclear-Contaminated Water Sacrifices the Public Interests
CGTN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – “The Japanese government rejected all plans and made the decision to discharge the nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the sea,” said Hayashi Kumpei, associate professor at the Fukushima University
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More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – North Dakota has the fastest growing GDP per capita in the country and its banks are thriving, backstopped by the nation’s only state-owned bank.
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(Un)Consciousness
Carl Jung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
No Comment
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The BRICS Summit
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – The BRICS Declaration, a major historic document, is published by media in South Africa, Brazil, China, South Africa, Russia, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, India, Nicaragua, Peru, and Colombia. But in Europe and North America, only alternative media and no major media has published the full text.
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The Hippie Lieutenant
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – One soldier’s unsparing vision of life and combat in the Vietnam War
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Inequality and Democracy
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – With the right political reforms, democracies can become more inclusive, more responsive to citizens, and less responsive to the corporations and rich individuals who currently hold the purse strings. But salvaging democratic politics also will require far-reaching economic reforms.
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Australian Intelligence Agency Funding Research to Merge Human Brain Cells with AI
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
A team of researchers in a Melbourne lab received a $600,000 grant to merge biology with AI. They already demonstrated how 800,000 brain cells in a Petri dish play a game of “Pong.” Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Neuralink has FDA approval to study brain implants in humans since May. They call it transhumanism.
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Live Parasitic Worm Found in Australian Woman’s Brain in World First
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – A live parasitic worm has been found inside the brain of a 64-year-old Australian woman, marking the first case of the infection in humans.
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BRICS Will Change the Power Balance in the Global Energy Market
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
28 Aug 2023 – BRICS Will Make Up nearly 40% of Global Economy – The 11 BRICS countries will account for 48.5 million square kilometers or 36% of the world’s land area. The combined population will amount to 3.6 billion, 45% of the globe’s total.
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US Extends Science Pact with China: What It Means for Research
Natasha Gilbert and Gemma Conroy | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
25 Aug 2023 – The move is a stop-gap measure, and scientists warn that lack of a full renewal could damage research collaborations.
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Niger’s Ordeal of Forever Colonialism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
27 Aug 2023 – A lot has happened since the coup, which affects Niger and how we understand its relation to that country, to the Sahel region, to Africa generally, and to the U.S. rivalry with Russia and China in the foreground. I have taken ‘liberties’ with my answers to address this awareness of the broader context.
→ read full articleRoads Taken and Not Taken: Two Visions of the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
When the Cold War ended in 1991, the West, and particularly the United States, found itself at a fork in the road. One road led to peace, justice, cooperation, nuclear disarmament, a revitalized UN, inclusiveness, pluralism, human rights, multilateralism, fair trade, regulated markets, food security, sustainability, and humane governance. The other road led to militarism…
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Gabon President Bongo Detained in Coup Attempt after Winning Third Term
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – A group of senior Gabonese military officers today announced that they had taken power and detained President Ali Bongo, minutes after the state election body declared the winner of Saturday’s general election.
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American Psychological Association: Doing Harm
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – I’m excited to share the news that my book Doing Harm: How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror has now been published!
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Clearing the Fog of ‘Unprovoked’ War
Edward Lozansky, Ph.D. | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
9 Aug 2023 – For the record: I was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia, and worked in the USA as a laser fusion researcher and Professor of Mathematics and Physics. I have relatives and friends in all three countries, and for the last 35 years, I have been trying to do my best to make them friends, partners, or even allies. Instead, all three are now at war, even if some call the U.S. war only a war “by proxy.”
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Why Do Many Scientists Oppose Fukushima Radioactive Waste Discharge?
Victoria Bela | South China Morning Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – The release of treated waste water from the nuclear plant has begun, despite concerns from major scientific organisations. IAEA is monitoring the operation but many experts are questioning the amount of data being collected.
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(Italiano) Vietnam e Palestina/Israele: un confronto tra legge e guerra
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Agosto 2023 – Il testo che segue è la mia prefazione a un confronto di conflitti di eccezionale valore: Vietnam e Palestina/Israele. Queste due regioni mi hanno preoccupato per tutta la mia carriera professionale e nel corso della mia vita di cittadino attivista.
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Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of “Deep State” and “Working Class”
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – Today’s theme involves once-embraced liberal terminology re-branded as right-wing and therefore infamous, false, or seditious: DEEP STATE.
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A Roadmap for Peace in Ukraine
Alfred de Zayas | TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – As more and more politicians and scholars recognize that the Ukraine conflict cannot be solved militarily, that there will be no winners but only losers, we should concentrate on stopping the slaughter. This is the only rational policy we can follow. My roadmap for peace is simple.
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French Ambassador Defies Order to Vacate Niger
Abayomi Azikiwe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – Prompting a diplomatic crisis, the former colonial power is determined to remain in a country where they are not wanted.
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(Français) Le Sommet des BRICS
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 sep 2023 – Le fossé mondial entre le Nord et le Sud s’est élargi ce mois-ci lors du sommet des pays BRICS (Brésil, Russie, Inde, Chine et Afrique du Sud) qui a eu lieu à Johannesburg.
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The Strategic Importance of Space Cooperation: Humanity as an Open-System
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – There are currently two opposing space paradigms that I’d like to speak about today.
→ read full articleMulti-Billion Dollar “Directed Energy Weapons (DEW)” Market, for Military and “Civilian Use” (?). Were DEWs Used in Hawaii?
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – Directed Energy Weapons constitute a $5.3 billion dollar business (2022) slated to increase to $12.9 billon dollars by 2027. This profit-driven military-industrial market is dominated by six “defense contractors” including Raytheon, Northrup Grunman, BAE Systems (plc), Boeing, Lockheed Martin and L3Harris Technologies.
→ read full articleA School of Students, Teachers, and their Relationships
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Schools have become essential institutions today for imparting education, not only in a town but also in a village — in rural conditions.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Sempre più si moltiplicano le notizie messe a disposizione su tutti i temi possibili. Sempre più i sistemi di comunicazione presentano al pubblico molteplici versioni dello stesso tema, fornendo come in un caleidoscopio una pluralità di interpretazioni diverse di uno stesso evento.
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Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
… Jack!
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The Last Time a Foreign Military Threat Was Placed Near the US Border, the World Almost Ended
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
27 Aug 2023 – To demand that Russia and China tolerate foreign activities on their borders that the US would never even think about tolerating on its own borders is just demanding that the entire world lie down and submit to being ruled by Washington.
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Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Everybody knows that 2 + 2 = 4 since 4 = 2 + 2. They know that excellent thing with certainty but generally fail to appreciate the charming nature of 2 + 2 = 5. Tautologies are usually preferred to choices that seem to contradict the “laws of nature.”
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NATOstan Robots Versus the Heavenly Horses of Multipolarity
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – We will all need plenty of time and introspection to analyze the full range of game-changing vectors unleashed by the unveiling of BRICS 11 last week in South Africa. Yet time waits for no one. The Empire will (italics mine) strike back in full force; in fact its multi-hydra Hybrid War tentacles are already on display.
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Heavenly Peace of the Oppressor and Hellish Peace of the Oppressed
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
“The Oppressor Gains Power to Achieve Peace, while the Oppressed Gains Agony.”
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UN, Great Powers and World Peace
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
The future of the UN, its funding requirements and authority remain uncertain. Will it buckle and break by rising nationalism, militarism and populism? Will it ever be able to realise its UN Charter goal of – “…to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war which in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind?”
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Cultural Differences
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Being aware of cultural differences is important to avoid unfortunate misunderstandings.
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