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Raw Materials or Sacred Beings? Lithium Extraction in Bolivia Puts Two Worldviews into Tension
Mario Orospe Hernández | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – A rapid escalation of lithium extraction in the Bolivian Andes conflicts with the beliefs of Indigenous communities who call the region home.
→ read full articleNobody for President Campaign
Curtis Spangler - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
‘None of the above’ should be a valid choice on voter ballots. The ‘Birthday Party’ provided an easy, cost-effective way to restore political balance
→ read full articleWhat China Is Really Playing at in Ukraine
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
30 Apr 2023 – Beijing is fully aware the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is the un-dissociable double of the U.S. war against its Belt and Road Initiative.
→ read full articleNatural Disasters: Where is God in All of This?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
A short article that helps show how we can recognize God in situations that may seem to force us to reassess ourselves and our life, and in the cooperation and renewed spirituality that it may take to overcome disasters and tragedies.
→ read full articleShock Doctrine: Industry Exploiting Ukraine War for Liquefied Natural Gas Expansion
Olivia Rosane | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – In an investigation targeting the “shock doctrine” practices of the gas industry, Greenpeace is calling on policymakers in both the U.S. and EU to move away from expanding LNG infrastructure before it’s too late.
→ read full articleDesecration of yet another Ahmadi Mosque in Pakistan
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
JUST is of course aware that some Muslims are opposed to Ahmadis and certain aspects of their teachings which are incongruent with fundamental Islamic beliefs. But that does not give them a right to vandalise places of worship used by the Ahmadis. Disputes of this sort should be resolved through peaceful means.
→ read full articleHymn for the Weekend (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Hymn for the Weekend is from the album A Head Full of Dreams released in 2015.
Click on Watch on YouTube and delight your senses.
Key Nations Don’t Want to Follow the US on Russia, China Policies
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
30 Apr 2023 – Leaked intelligence assessments detail how Brazil, Pakistan, India, and other countries don’t want to follow Biden.
→ read full articleQuick Quiz: Mapping Militarism 2023
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – A picture can be worth a couple of trillion dollars–when it’s of military spending. A new ‘Mapping Militarism 2023’ is available. You can pick a map and zoom in and out, click on a country to get details, move the slider back to see earlier years, switch to list-view and get the information in text form, or click “source” to see the origins of the data and exactly what it means.
→ read full articleHow Facebook and Instagram Became Marketplaces for Child Sex Trafficking
Katie McQue and Mei-Ling McNamara | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex.
→ read full articleSouls for Sale – The Times Interviews Noam Chomsky
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – In a society built on lies, the search for truth is a game.
→ read full articleRisen Word
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
7 May 2023 – A divide between elites and the populace is a feature of society that has been true without exception since the abundance by agriculture/husbandry encouraged the growth of early Neolithic bands. A key to elite dominance always was the superior group’s monopoly – or quasi monopoly – of crucial knowledge.
→ read full articleNoam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For
C.J. Polychroniou and Noam Chomsky | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
3 May 2023 – The subset of artificial intelligence known as Large Language Models can’t tell us anything about human language learning, but it excels at misleading the uninformed.
→ read full articleControl
Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Knock! Knock!
→ read full articleOf Africa and the Magic Formula of the Italian Taxi Driver
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – Africa is the continent that has contributed the least (just 2 to 3%) to the causes of the current climate emergencies while bearing the brunt of 82% of the devastating consequences.
→ read full articleAs US Grip on Middle East Slips, Peace Breaks Out
Robert Inlakesh | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – Washington’s poor decision-making is starting to catch up with it, as nations choose to pursue peace without US interference.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace Destruction: The Fire of the Gods
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Nuclear Energy Is the Fire of the Gods, Constructive in Good Hands and Destructive in the Evil Hands of Miscreants, as well as Misdemeanants
→ read full articleJapan PM Kishida’s Field of Vision on Nuclear Disarmament Is Out of Focus
Hiromichi Umebayashi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
What are the ‘Inconvenient Truths’ that Mr. Kishida refers to? For him, “the most troublesome inconvenient truth” is nuclear development in the DPRK, and “the second inconvenient truth” is the increasing nuclear arsenals in China. His words and deeds are highly inconsistent. In such circumstances, real “Inconvenient Truths” for nuclear abolition will not enter his field of vision.
→ read full articleJeffrey Sachs on China’s “Historic” Push for Multipolar World to End U.S. Domination
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – China is taking an assertive role in world affairs, helping restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, offering a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, and strengthening its relationships with European and Latin American powers. Last week, China continued its diplomatic outreach by offering to hold talks between Israel and Palestine.
→ read full articleTao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (1)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Quoted from the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi.
→ read full articleA Quantum Experiment Suggests There’s No Such Thing as Objective Reality
MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it.
→ read full articleChilean President Plans to Nationalize Lithium Industry
Gabriel Boric | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – The initiative, which will be sent to Congress later this year, is designed to boost the economy of the nation, which has some of the world’s largest reserves of the high-demand metal.
→ read full articleWWIII on the Installment Plan
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – The Invention of a Wartime Presidency to Save the Biden Administration
→ read full articleCan the U.S. Adjust Sensibly to a Multipolar World?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – The multipolar world that is taking shape, and the failure of the United States to adjust sensibly to the new order or play a constructive role in it.
→ read full articleGeoffrey Roberts – Why Putin Went to War
Brave New Europe - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – I have spoken with the British historian Geoffrey Roberts about an article he recently published in the Journal of Military and Strategic Studies under the title “Now or Never: The Immediate Origins of Putin’s Preventive War on Ukraine”.
→ read full articleThe Coming War Shrouded in Propaganda: Time to Speak Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 May 2023 – John Pilger recalls the ‘electric’ opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the two greatest powers draw closer to armed conflict.
→ read full articleYou Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – On 7 Oct 2022, the US government implemented export controls to hinder the development of China’s semiconductor industry. ‘The whole point is to kneecap China’s AI and HPC efforts’. The next day, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said:
→ read full articleCalling for the Immediate Release of Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – Talk I Gave in New York City at a Rally for Julian Assange – “This legal lynching marks the official beginning of corporate totalitarianism.”
→ read full articleTaiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. Surrounding China with military bases, nuclear weapons and military vessels is a highly dangerous provocation. U.S. wars are for corporate profit.
→ read full articleFrom “Vaccine Passports” to Digital Identity
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
How to Follow the Digital Identity Debate
→ read full articleUS Corporations Cash in on Ukraine’s Oil and Gas
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – As Ukraine sells off public assets in a privatization spree, US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Halliburton are in talks to run its oil and gas industry, and the IMF imposes the Washington Consensus.
→ read full articleParadoxes of Durable Peace, Heaven and a Sustainable Lifestyle
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
24 Apr 2023 – Mysterious Dynamics Fundamental to Hopeful Anticipation of Enduring Viability – There is a widespread familiarity with the aspiration to “peace in our times”. Some form of equivalent is anticipated by many in the afterlife — a “heavenly peace”. The condition may well be imaginatively associated to some degree with holidays and retirement.
→ read full articleRobert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Despite a family actively opposed to his candidacy, despite all the media lies about him, and despite the oddsmakers giving him little chance, RFK, Jr. is entering the race. It is an act of supreme moral courage. Like his father in ’68, he is the only candidate who can heal this nation’s great divide.
→ read full articleThe UN Is Negotiating a Treaty That Could Solve the Plastic Problem–Here’s What You Need to Know
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
21 Apr 2023 – 175 countries are negotiating a legally-binding, international treaty on plastic pollution that could change the world. It’s a big deal. Some countries and companies say they want an ambitious treaty, but when you actually look into the details, they aren’t pushing for meaningful solutions.
→ read full articleMicroplastics Invading the Male Reproductive System
Huanjia Zhang | Environmental Health News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – The authors of a new pilot study that found microplastics in human testis and semen called for more data and research to determine how the tiny particles affect the male reproductive system. It builds on evidence that male fertility is at risk from environmental toxics.
→ read full article500 Australians Join World’s First COVID Vaccine Injury Class Action Lawsuit
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – Dr. Melissa McCann raised more than $110,000 to crowdfund the case, which accuses the Australian government of negligence related to the approval and monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines.
→ read full articleWinner Takes All: John Perkins on the Global Economy
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
21 Apr 2023 – “Senate Finance Chief: Nothing Unites GOP More Than ‘Helping Rich People Cheat on Their Taxes” reads a headline on Common Dreams this morning. But actually that has been the strategy of both parties in US development programs for decades, according to John Perkins.
→ read full articleUS War Crimes in the War on Terror
Melvin A. Goodman | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
The mainstream media are increasing their attention to war crimes and the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, but there has been no attempt to link the issues. The war itself could be labeled a war crime or a “crime against the peace,” which was the charge against Germany introduced at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945 and 1946.
→ read full articleNational Peace Disruption: This Is a Nation of Thieves
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
22 Apr 2023 – Thievery and thieves in operation are attributes of basic, human, reptilian brain in the course of evolution and is refined in Homo Sapiens, Sapiens
→ read full articleThe Enemy from Within
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
1 May 2023 – The US war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China.
→ read full articleThe West’s State Media and Their Increasing Violence: The Hersh Affair
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
The disturbing truth behind the West State Media’s use of violence to maintain their grip on power and control public opinion. The explosive Hersh Affair and the dark forces it helped uncover.
→ read full articleThe American Dream
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Ditto!
→ read full articleAvoiding Climate Disaster: Our Last Chance?
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Despite promises made at each COP climate conference, the Keeling Curve, which registers carbon dioxide concentrations in our atmosphere, keeps increasing, indicating that the nations of the world have by no means stopped emitting greenhouse gases.
→ read full articleNow Europeans Learn What Climate Extremes Are All About
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Apologies to those Western politicians and media who continue to say that Ukraine’s brutal proxy war stands behind whatever catastrophes, disasters or crises that occur in the Planet. Scientific evidence confirms that much earlier than that war Europe, like many other regions, was already walking closer to the edge of extreme weather consequences.
→ read full articleMoving Forward to Protect the Oceans
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
On 4 March 2023, at the United Nations in New York, an important step toward the protection of the oceans was taken with the presentation of the Treaty on the High Seas. The aim of the treaty is the protection of the biodiversity of the oceans beyond the national territorial limits. These negotiations began in 2004.
→ read full articleWhat Can “the Invisibles” Do to Make Wars Stop?
Victoria Barceló | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
It is said that in a war everyone loses, but that is not true at all. There are those who make huge profits from the death and suffering of other human beings, of men, women and children like us: the Elites
→ read full articleBombshell Filing: 9/11 Hijackers Were CIA Recruits
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
18 Apr 2023 – At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing.
→ read full articleMedia Briefing: U.S. Liquefied Gas Flooding Europe
Tim Donaghy | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – The oil and gas industry has moved quickly to take advantage of the US terror attack on the Russian Nordstream 2 pipeline. In 2022, shipments of liquefied natural gas from the US were redirected to Europe to replace Nordstream 2 and secure supplies for the European winter. The industry has also secured financing and begun construction on numerous LNG terminals on both sides of the Atlantic designed to operate permanently.
→ read full articleSyria Updates: ISIS Massacres and Turkish Double-Dealing
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
18 Apr 2023 – The US Cartel Is Doubling Down on War
→ read full articleBig Tech Companies Are More Powerful Than Nation-States
Tom Valovic | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – They are already richer than many countries, and the rise of AI looks set to increase their influence.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace and Conflict Resolution: Xi Jinping Mediating the Russia/Ukraine Conflict
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – China’s President Xi Jinping Takes Initiative to Make Peace between Russia and Ukraine
→ read full articleHow the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
29 Apr 2023 – Facts & Info – Expert Analysis
→ read full articleWestern Media’s Peculiar Incuriosity about Nord Stream
Jonathan Cook | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
26 Apr 2023 – Seymour Hersh’s investigation is filled with details that could be checked — and verified or rebutted — if anyone wished to do so.
→ read full articleFacebook Censors Journalist Seymour Hersh’s Report on Nord Stream Pipeline Attack
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Facebook censored a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany, forcing users to instead read a website funded and partially owned by NATO member Norway.
→ read full articleYoung People from the U.S. Travel to Cuba and Break the Siege
Manolo de los Santos and Kate Gonzales | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
It’s a very hot and crowded Tuesday morning in the Yoruba Cultural Center in Havana. Yet, 150 young organizers from the U.S. listen attentively to two leaders of the cultural movement in Cuba before submitting their questions—on climate change, on housing, on fighting racism, about hope in the future—before time is up.
→ read full articleRealities in Conflict of Interest and Corruption Challenges in South Asia: The Case of Nepal
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
22 Apr 2023 – Introductory Background and Context – According to the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International, Nepal is one of the most corrupt in South-Asia and it ranks one of the top fifteen most corrupt in all of Asia. Corruption is a well-documented issue in Nepal, and several government institutions and individuals have been implicated in corrupt practices.
→ read full articleLemon Tree (Music Video of the Week)
Fools Garden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Kick back and enjoy – w/ Lyrics
→ read full articleA World of Violence
Eduardo Galeano | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
30 Apr 2023 – On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion – Passages excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s book ‘Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History,’ just out in paperback.
→ read full article(Italiano) Come opporre una resistenza efficace all’élite tecnocratica?
Robert Burrowes | Come Don Chisciotte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
21 Aprile 2023 – Come ampiamente documentato, sotto le mentite spoglie della narrativa “virus”/”vaccino”, l’Elite Globale sta attuando cambiamenti profondi e a lungo pianificati in 200 aree della vita umana.
→ read full articleHome of the Brave
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Terms and conditions may apply…
→ read full articleAll Roads Are Leading toward an International CBDC in a Cashless World
Bill Willers | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
26 Apr 2023 – The idea of government “of, by and for the people” has become a sick joke. Federal/corporate power dominates a fearful public from which it has effectively separated itself. Elected representatives consort with lobbyists flush with cash.
→ read full articleThe Nord Stream Pipeline Explosions: Cold War vs. “Common Sense” Perspectives
Stephen Ingle | MAPA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
14 Apr 2023 – “Common sense” dictates that we work with the rest of the world to address climate catastrophe and the hair-trigger threat of nuclear annihilation. We’re in this together. As citizens of empire and advocates for peace, we have a unique opportunity to make a difference.
→ read full articleSecrecy versus Democracy: New Developments
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
In a democracy, the citizens must control the actions of their government. If they are unable to do so because those actions are secret, then any claim to democratic government is lost.
→ read full articleIn Solidarity with Another
Jocelyn Wright - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Another black boy
Brutally shot
Not given a second thought
At a mistaken address
World Hunger Doubles
IPS | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
29 Apr 2023 – Some 345 million people are acutely food insecure worldwide, more than twice as many as before the covid-19 pandemic, said a new report by the UN World Food Programme.
→ read full articleCan India Sustain Linguistic Imperialism?
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
India was one of Britain’s proudest, biggest colonies. It had entered India for trade purposes, by the agency known as ‘East India Company’, but gradually metamorphosed into a colonial power.
→ read full articleReport on the Censorship-Industrial Complex
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Introduction to a series of features about the new global speech-policing bureaucracy, uncovered in the Twitter Files and beyond.
→ read full articleOde to LGBTQ
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Soliloquy
→ read full articleThe Toxic Legacy of U.S. Foreign Policy in Puerto Rico
Monisha Ríos, Ph.D. | Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
23 Apr 2023 – The women of Vieques, an island off the east coast of Puerto Rico, have been on the front lines of the generations-long struggle for peace and justice to end the havoc wrought by U.S. foreign policy on their island, in their homes, and on their bodies.
→ read full articleRemembering TRANSCEND Member Graeme MacQueen (1948 – 25 Apr 2023)
Kevin Ryan and Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Graeme was a leading expert on 9/11 and published his highly influential book, ‘The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy,’ where he establishes through careful analysis that the anthrax attacks were crimes committed by individuals associated with the U.S. executive branch, linked also to the 9/11 crimes. He died at home in Ontario from cancer on 25 Apr 2023. RIP
→ read full articleEastern Philosophy
Bishnu Pathak and Susmita Bastola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – This study contributes to a wider understanding of international relations and philosophies in a world where the balance of power is shifting and emerging as superpower countries India and China are increasingly growing in importance.
→ read full articleDostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
“Treasure this ecstasy; however absurd people may think it.”
→ read full articleThe Lifeblood of Democracy
Andy Lee Roth | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
20 Apr 2023 – Two cornerstones of democracy—freedom of expression and freedom of information—are under concerted attack, in the United States and around the world. Journalists are on the front lines of battles to defend the right to freedom of expression.
→ read full articleSyria Comes in from the Cold
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
24 Apr 2023 – After the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another diplomatic coup is unfolding in the Middle East. This one is orchestrated by the Russians.
→ read full articleNOTICE FROM TMS EDITOR
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Dear friends & readers, this week’s TMS Weekly Digest is incomplete because my computer decided to give up on me. I had to come to Amsterdam to configure a new one with Malvin, our webmaster. Next week I will publish all materials submitted this week.
→ read full articleFire and Ice
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
In 1923, Robert Frost wrote a short poem entitled “Fire and Ice”. Frost’s Poem Takes on a New Meaning Today
→ read full articleEconomic System in Islam Compared with Capitalism and Socialism
Abdul Husain Muhammad | World Organization for Islamic Services – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Abstract: This paper covers some popular Islamic Economic topics in a short and lucid style for those who want to know the basic Islamic concepts of economy. The topic, the economic system in Islam, might cause astonishment among Muslims who received Western style education.
→ read full articleG7 Endorses Japan’s Fukushima Water Discharge Plans
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
16 Apr 2023 – Ignoring Science, Environmental Protection and International Law – Legacy of Fukushima disaster proves that nuclear energy is no solution to energy and climate crises.
→ read full article‘Spreading Faster than Ever’: Bangladesh’s Tea Pickers Have World’s Highest Rate of Leprosy
Thaslima Begum and Kaamil Ahmed | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the disease.
→ read full articleThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now so Huge and Permanent That a Coastal Ecosystem Is Thriving on It
Ivana Kottasová | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
18 Apr 2023 – Scientists found thriving communities of coastal creatures living on plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a 620,000 square mile swirl of trash in the ocean between California and Hawaii.
→ read full articleJung on Evil
Carl Jung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Agree?
→ read full articleMore Unanswered Red Flags Regarding Jack Teixeira and the Pentagon Leaks
Larry C Johnson | SONAR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
16 Apr 2023 – Former military and intelligence professionals voiced doubts about the allegations that he removed TOP SECRET documents and posted them to a gamer chat. They agree that something is not right and the media account does not make sense… I remain skeptical of the narrative and hope by raising these questions that some journalists will try to get to the ground truth.
→ read full article‘It May Be in No One’s Interest to Reveal More’: Cancelling Facts That Challenge Establishment Power
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Journalists Pushing For Less Transparency
→ read full articleAfrica, Now Squeezed to the Bones
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023 – As many as 45 African countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have been further squeezed as funding shrinks to lowest ever levels; a portion of the so-called aid goes back to the rich donor countries. See what happens.
→ read full articlePeru’s Coup-Plotting Congress Has 6% Approval, 91% Disapproval (but Full US Backing)
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – Peru’s coup-plotting, right-wing-controlled congress has 6% approval and 91% disapproval. Unelected leader Dina Boluarte has 15% approval and 78% disapproval. But they have the full support of the US, Canada, and foreign mining corporations.
→ read full articleThe Sky Darkens in Sudan
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
On 15 Apr 2023, a conflict between two generals who had seized power in a coup in 2021 broke into armed battles especially in Khartoum. Use of tanks, jets and artillery has been reported. The split between them is no great surprise as there is often place for only one person in a military junta.
→ read full articlePentagon Documents Leak: Here’s What You Need to Know
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – Documents posted online appeared to reveal details of how US agencies spy on other nations, including allies.
→ read full articleNatu Natu (Music Video of the Week)
Kaala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Oscar Winning Video from the South Indian Film “RRR” at the 2023 Academy Award Ceremony
Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy the exquisite Indian show.
Begging?!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
What is wrong with this scene?
→ read full articleThe Perpetual War Alarm
Brian Martin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
There is an alarm in Australia about a Chinese military threat. This is a typical feature of the war system.
→ read full articleOur Tech Overlords Offer another Climate Solution without Sacrifice
Kurt Cobb | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – My expectations are never disappointed when I read that the solutions to problems created by technology are in more technology. It will solve our problems without us having to make any substantial change in our way of life. We cannot wait for our tech overlords to solve our problems; their kind of thinking only perpetuates them.
→ read full articleLeaks Reveal Reality behind U.S. Propaganda in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023 – The U.S. corporate media’s first response to the leaking of secret documents about the war in Ukraine was to throw some mud in the water, declare “nothing to see here,” and cover it as a depoliticized crime story. President Biden dismissed the leaks as revealing nothing of “great consequence.”
→ read full articleUN Expresses Concerns over Reports of US Spying on Its Top Officials
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023 – The classified documents leaked from the US Department of Defense recently have yet again exposed how it spies on even its close allies and violates their sovereignty to pursue its own interests.
→ read full articleUS/EU/NATO Meet with Somaliland Secessionists
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023 – As Somaliland forces continue to fire on Somali nationalists, US/EU/NATO officials held a joint call with secessionist Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi.
→ read full articleSnowden and Teixeira: Ten Years of Disaster
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
16 Apr 2023 – The behavior of The New York Times and Washington Post in the current case involving secret documents is truly shocking. In contrast to 10 years ago, they now see their mission as to serve the security state, not public knowledge.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
The United States has a motive: to cut off from Russia a source of income. Recently Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh described in great detail how the United States sabotaged the two pipelines. The decision to do so must have been made by President Biden.
→ read full articleLeaks Spelling the End for Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington.
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Haves vs Have Nots
→ read full articleVacanas
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Vacanas are short, informal poems of devotion to Shiva. They originated in South India during the tenth century, a time of social upheaval, and took the side of poor against the rich, of spontaneous free expression against established orthodoxy, of passion against propriety. Our times are similar to those.
→ read full articleGen. Wesley Clark’s 2007 Pivotal Revelations about US ‘Future’ Wars
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Objective: Take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran.
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