Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Italiano) Il potere dei senza potere
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Marzo 2023 – 1. Václav Havel 2. Capitini 3. Bobbio 4. Gandhi 5. Gene Sharp 6. Democrazia 7. Vite nella verità 8. Václav Havel 9. Per chiudere la pagina
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Reconciling Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Significance of the China Effort
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
22 Mar 2023 – It would be wrong to view the restoration of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran as something that happened suddenly.
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2,000 Years of Kindness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
From Marcus Aurelius to Einstein, poets and philosophers on the deepest wellspring of our humanity.
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Peace Propagators (Part 4): Khawaja, the Mystic Saint of Rajasthan
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
The World Needs More Humanoids with Enlightened Brains
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Human Rights Watch Deliberately only Scratched the Surface in Exploring Ukraine’s Use of Banned ‘Petal’ Mines
Eva Bartlett - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – Since Ukraine dropped thousands of mines on the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in July, 104 people have fallen victim to the internationally-banned PFM-1 ‘petal’ (otherwise known as ‘butterfly’) devices. Nine of them are children. Of which three died.
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Why Zelensky Will NOT Take Back Crimea
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
Seventeen months ago the US State Department officially declared the US will “NEVER” recognize Crimea as part of Russia. Three months ago Ukrainian President Zelensky vowed to “take back” Crimea. Is this possible? The misinformation about Crimea shows how distorted media coverage of the entire Ukraine conflict is.
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
An inquiry into the eternal enchantment of why the world exists.
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“Facing Clear Evidence of Peril” in a Country of Lies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
28 Mar 2023 – Perhaps silence is the best response to the endless cavalcade of official lies that is United States history. The Internet and digital technology have allowed those lies to increase exponentially in number and frequency with the result that people’s minds have become like 7-Eleven stores, open 24/7 for snack-crap “news.”
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The Great Importance of the ICC
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
In 1998, in Rome, representatives of 120 countries signed a statute establishing an International Criminal Court, with jurisdiction over the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. By 11 Apr 2002, 66 countries had ratified it, 6 more than the 60 needed to make the court permanent.
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US Occupiers Lash Out as Syria War Draws to an End
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
U.S. Is Stirring Up Syrian Cauldron -> Washington is worried about a peace between Damascus and its estranged Arab neighbors–as well as Turkey–that is marginalizing the U.S. and its allies, the “collective West”.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
Today, there is a need to draw upon these experiences to impart conflict resolution skills to new individuals and groups, thereby building and expanding the constituencies working for conflict reduction measures.
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Quantum Physics and Spirituality: The Relationship between Quantum Mechanics and the Vedas
Alex Ferrari | Next Level Soul - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
At first glance, Quantum mechanics and the Vedas seem to be two unrelated fields of study, with the former being a branch of physics that deals with the behavior of matter and energy at a very small scale and the latter being a collection of ancient texts that form the basis of Hinduism and contain information on a wide range of topics, including philosophy, religion, and culture.
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Burying Key Evidence, New OPCW Report Covers up Douma’s Unsolved Deaths
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Mar 2023 – After censoring experts who found that the victims in Douma could not have been killed by chlorine gas, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons continues the cover-up and baselessly accuses the Syrian government.
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‘Clean Money’
@truejpg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
War Racket Laundromat
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Haiti Action Committee Condemns Massacres at Bele
Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
According to witnesses and media reports, members of the G9 federation of gangs/death-squads armed with assault rifles launched an all-out attack against these neighborhoods, shooting residents, burning down their homes – some with the occupants inside, including a mother and child and others who were not able to escape.
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Freddie Mercury Last Video 1991
Agency IK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
The One and Only FREDDIE — The End
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The Lingering Effects of Iraq War Lies
Stephen Zunes | The Progressive Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Mar 2023 – The conflict was a textbook case of rewriting history to cover up war crimes.
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Meanwhile, in Pandemic Land
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
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China and Brazil Deal a Blow to US Dollar-powered Bullying
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
1 Apr 2023 – Ditching the American currency in trade will diminish Washington’s ability to impose its will.
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How EU Leaders Destroyed Relations with Russia – and Denied Their Citizens Access to Reliable Cheap Energy
Tyler Kay | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
2 Apr 2023 – The West destroyed over a half-century of cooperation in the energy sector and hasn’t any affordable prospects in sight.
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Alfred De Zayas on the Arrest Warrant for Putin
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – Putin’s arrest warrant issued by the ICC is a ridiculous affair. To be applied, the West has to launch a successful nuclear war against Russia and then arrest its President, provided both the ICC and Putin survive. It proves in what universe western political leaders live and why it is so easy for the “Party of War” to manipulate them.
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2023 Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize Awarded to John Williams Ntwali and Kambale Musavuli
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – The Prize for Democracy and Peace is awarded to people who work for democracy, peace, and freedom in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.
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Week in Hospital
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – I spent a tortuous week in hospital with multiple maladies–sore throat, breathing, from 13 Mar (Holi) to 17 Mar, then again on following week. I have lost my voice, even now I cannot speak, and I can now understand the acute suffering of people who cannot speak, but I feel this loss is temporary.
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Timeline of United States Military Operations
Wikipedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
From 1945 to 2021 –> Addicted to Destruction of the Other
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The Tide Has Turned
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
This is an excellent time to make changes in our lives that we’ve been wanting but haven’t been able to achieve. The influx of higher-consciousness energy will support our efforts. We are now at the dawn of a new era.
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(Italiano) L’Ucraina, la guerra con la cavalleria e il formaggio della cornacchia
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Marzo 2023 – Ho già indicato il risultato delle mie riflessioni sulla guerra tra l’Ucraina e la Russia. Ma di fronte alla insufficienza delle analisi che vedo in giro, qui voglio mettere in piedi il discorso da subito, iniziandolo dal suo punto centrale. Quel discorso che nei mass media e in molta gente parte invece da un altro punto, quello più immediato, più soggettivo, più emotivo; e che con ciò vuole precostituire il ragionamento.
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White House Says It Opposes a Ceasefire in Ukraine
Dave DeCamp | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – The White House has come out against a ceasefire in Ukraine ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to Moscow to potentially mediate between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart in Kyiv.
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Russia and China Summit: The Reconfiguration of World Power
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The three-day Moscow summit signals China and Russia’s commitment to each other and the vision of a new multipolar world.
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The Iraq War 20 Years Ago: No Shame. No Lessons Learned. No Arrest Order on NATO State Leaders.
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – Like other wars and interventions, this was no “mistake”. It was an unavoidable consequence of Western MIRE – Militarism, Imperialism, Racism, Exceptionalism. The West has learned nothing. Militarism is now its main cohesive force into its manifest destiny: Decline and fall.
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The U.S. Cover-Up
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The Biden Administration continues to conceal its responsibility for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
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A Tangled Web Indeed
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – Poem written about the severe energy crisis/ load shedding in South Africa. Sadly, for hours we are seeped into darkness.
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Why the West Should Consider Some of Putin’s Claims
Dana E. Abizaid | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
This type of white hat vs. black hat narrative makes for good copy and confirms western stereotypes. If peace is going to prevail, a more nuanced examination of Russia’s response to US political and military meddling in Ukraine is needed, including a more honest analysis of NATO expansion eastward and a sober look at the threat that far-right Ukrainian militias pose for Europe.
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Healing Triggers
Vienna Pharaon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Wisdom <---> Evolution
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To Understand Iran’s 150-Year Fight, Follow the Trail of Blood and Oil (Part 1)
Cynthia Chung | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
It all started in 1872, with Nasir al-Din Shah having granted to the British Baron Julius de Reuter, rights to Iran’s entire economic estate. Reuter not only controlled Iran’s industry, farming, and rail transportation, but also held the right to issue currency and to set up a national bank, called the Imperial Bank of Persia, which was under direct British control.
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The Fabulist Arrogance of US Power
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The U.S. reserves for itself the right to commit crimes all over the world. Yet it also refuses to participate in any war crimes prosecution and even passed a law giving itself the right to invade the International Criminal Court at the Hague should a North American or an ally face justice.
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China Releases Position Paper on Ukraine Crisis Solution
Xinhua | China Daily - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
24 Feb 2023 – China today released a paper stating its position on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis, saying dialogue and negotiation are the only viable solution. The following is the full text.
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Peace Propagators (Part 3): The Legacy of the Mystic Saints
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Mystic Saints, in any religion, are a group of highly, spiritually evolved individuals, who traditionally inhibit the functioning of their reptilian brains.
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The Mafia: BP Stole £15 Billion of Iraqi Oil after British/West Invasion
Matt Kennard | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – Shell, the other U.K. “super-major” oil company, also re-entered Iraq in 2009 after an invasion in 2003 that was widely denounced at the time as a war-for-oil on the part of the U.S. and U.K.
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The ‘Vampiric’ Draining and Poisoning of Lifeblood: Water
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
21 Mar 2023 – Shockingly, the human suicidal war on Nature not only continues unabated but is also set to become even more virulent. Be reminded that groundwater accounts for 99% of all liquid freshwater on Earth.
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A Highway to Peace or a Highway to Hell?
William J. Astore | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
The Vast Power of the US Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex – In Apr 1953 Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the five-star general who led the D-Day, gave a powerful speech known as the “Cross of Iron” address. Ike warned of the cost humanity would pay if Cold War competition led to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn’t be reined in.
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My Plagiarised Work Was Used to Justify the War on Iraq
Ibrahim al-Marashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
21 Mar 2023 – Imagine it is February 5, 2003. The US secretary of state is speaking in front of the United Nations, holding your work in his hands, as he calls for a war on another sovereign nation. How would you feel? Well, it happened to me, and I felt shocked.
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G7 vs BRICS — Off to the Races
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – BRICS Surpasses G7 in PPP-Adjusted Global GDP – An economist digging below the surface of an IMF report found something that should shock the Western bloc out of any false confidence in its unsurpassed global economic clout.
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U.S. War for Oil Turned 20!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Fascism?! What?!
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The World’s Largest CBDC Trial: A Preview of the Elite’s Cashless Vision for You
Nick Giambruno | International Man - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – The eNaira is Africa’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC). Central bankers, academics, politicians and elites from over 100 countries have closely followed the eNaira. They used Nigeria—Africa’s largest country by population and economy—as a trial balloon to test their nefarious plans to eliminate cash in North America, Europe, and beyond.
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Russia Calls for U.N. Investigation of Nord Stream Attack, as Hersh Accuses White House of False Flag
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – Moscow claims Germany, Denmark, and Sweden are engaged in a U.S.-backed cover-up, as the war to control the narrative — and the evidence — intensifies.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
My title is taken from the last speech of Martin Luther King, Jr given in Memphis less than 24 hours before his assassination. He was only 39 years old and world-famous for nonviolent resistance to racism, but his thinking and his activism had moved on.
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Bordeaux City Hall Set on Fire amid Nationwide Protests against French Pension Changes
Kim Willsher | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – Largely peaceful protests are marred by outbreaks of violence as unions claim 3.5 million turned out, while authorities put number at just over 1 million.
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The ‘Pernicious Evil’ of Racism, Discrimination, Hatred, Inequality
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – Three-quarters of a century ago, the world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, emphasising that all human beings are born equal in dignity and rights. The 2023 theme of its 75th anniversary focuses on the urgency of combating racism and racial discrimination.
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US Wars
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
20 Mar 2023 – Over 300 Wars! As documented in the Wikipedia timeline of U.S. wars, and in the Wikipedia list of wars involving the USA, the country has been continuously at war since the Revolutionary War of 1775-1783 to establish it as a nation. Often several wars took place simultaneously.
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Acting on Peacebuilding Values
Miho Taka and Michaelina Jakala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – In teaching, researching and practising in the field of peacebuilding, we talk about ethical challenges and the importance of considering ethical issues. The ethical challenges resonate with most of us in this field and spark lively conversations.
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Diversities in India
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
As most would know, India has various diversities in different sectors — religious, linguistic, food, gastronomy, clothes or dresses worn by people, etc. There are many religions in the country.
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People Can Win
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – We’ve been trained to think that endless rule by tiny minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of things, but that turns out to be just another lie.
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How Does GPT4 Work and How Can You Start Using It in ChatGPT?
Mohammed Haddad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Launched on 14 Mar 2023, GPT-4 is the successor to GPT-3 and is the technology behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT. All you need to know about this technology–gone viral.
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Iraq Plus 20 (Part 2): From Iraq into the Abyss?
Dennis Kucinich | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – In Part 1, I detailed the careful lies to ignite the war on Iraq. The US military attack on Iraq commenced on March 20, 2023, after a highly structured domestic and international media campaign of misinformation and disinformation, by the Bush Administration, which succeeded in getting major media and Congressional support.
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Rage against the War Machine: What Rage? ‘When Will They Ever Learn?’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
In his iconic 1950s anti-war hit song ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’, Pete Seeger posed the eternal question about war: ‘when will they ever learn?’ primarily to those who participate in the fighting. But it might equally have been directed at those in the ‘anti-war’ movement.
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Hersh: US Bombed Nord Stream to Prolong the Ukraine Proxy War
Aaron Maté interviews Seymour Hersh | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – Seymour Hersh joins Aaron Maté to discuss his report on how the Biden administration bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines, a vital Russian-German infrastructure project and a key off-ramp to peace in Ukraine.
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U.S. Act of War against the European Union: Biden Ordered the Terror Attack against Nord Stream
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – High Treason against the People of Europe
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Aaron Maté at UN: OPCW Cover-up Denies Justice to Douma Victims
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – At the United Nations, Aaron Maté debunks the OPCW’s latest attempts to whitewash the cover-up of its investigation into the alleged April 2018 chemical attack in Douma, Syria.
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My Childhood Connection with Nalanda and Its Uncompromising Tradition of Intellectual Freedom
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
14 Mar 2023 – Buddhist intellectual tradition institutionalized Freedom of Inquiry and Debate 2,600 years ago. Nalanda was an institutional embodiment of this principle… The Pursuit of Knowledge and Human Understanding based on ‘Reason’ and what is termed ‘empiricism’ took place outside the Greco-Romanic World, typically presumed to be the philosophical cradle of Western Civilization and the European Enlightenment.
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The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
A largehearted invitation to “stand on the precipice between the known and the unknown, without fear, without anxiety, but instead with awe and wonder at this strange and beautiful cosmos we find ourselves in.”
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Why Would China Be an Enemy?
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
21 Mar 2023 – To react to Beijing’s growing economic power by increasing Western military power is hopeless. It is harder to think of a more stupid example of lashing out in blind anger.
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Ukraine and the ‘Thucydides Trap’
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The importance of Ukraine, in the eyes of US officials, goes far beyond the country’s intrinsic geopolitical or economic value. The crisis is rooted in Washington’s preoccupation with Russia. It has very little to do with Ukraine per se. That benighted country has provided the occasion, not the cause of the current confrontation.
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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rule[r]s of the Game
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Bail In, Bail Out, or “Socialism for the Rich”?
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Our Global Water Crisis
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
In its home-page on World Water Day, 22 Mar 2021, the United Nations pointed out the following facts.
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US Banks Want Socialism for Themselves–and Capitalism for Everyone Else
Robert Reich | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail.’
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Magnificent Russian Music (Music Video of the Week)
Zevnikov | Youth Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Astonishing, Marvelous, Exquisite
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Gods and Goddesses of Vedic Culture
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
One of the most confusing topics to people who are new or unfamiliar with the Vedic tradition is the number of Gods there seems to be within it. This is not really so difficult to understand. So here is a quick guide with brief descriptions that may help to bring some clarity to how they fit into the scheme of things.
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(Português) A Importância Fundamental da Vida do Espírito
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
24 Mar 2023 – O conhecido e apreciado piloto e escritor Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, autor do Pequeno Príncipe, num texto póstumo escrito em 1943–Carta ao General “X”–antes que seu avião se precipitasse no Mediterrâneo, afirma com grande ênfase, ”Não há senão um problema, somente um: redescobrir que há uma vida do espírito que é ainda mais alta que a vida da inteligência, a única que pode satisfazer o ser humano”.
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Endless Wars: US Escalation to the East
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
20 Mar 2023 – Unable to prevent the “decline” with political and economic tools, the U.S. and its allies are increasingly resorting to military ones. This includes the “landmark agreement with Australia and Britain,” announced by President Biden.
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How to Survive Hopelessness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
“You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative.”
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‘Outright Hatred’ towards Muslims, Has Risen to ‘Epidemic Proportions’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – “Terrorism and violent extremism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization, or ethnic group.”
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The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
On10 March Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the country, collapsed. This was the second largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, following Washington Mutual in 2008. Despite its size, SVB was not a “systemically important financial institution” as defined in the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires insolvent SIFIs to “bail in” the money of their creditors to recapitalize themselves.
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The Lords of Chaos
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East, and who seek a world dominated by U.S. power, must be held accountable for their crimes.
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Food Inglorious Food: Children’s Health Defense Attack on Food Summit
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – Yesterday Dr. Meryl Nass–with assistance, comments and summaries by Alexis Baden-Mayer–convened a magnificent, important 7-hour Attack on Food Symposium + Solutions to Fight Back
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U.S. and NATO Allies Were Responsible for Nearly 65% of Global Arms Exports in 2018-22
Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
14 Mar 2023 – The US share in global arms exports increased from 33% to 40% in 2018-22, and its ally France, the third-largest exporter of weapons, had its share increasing from roughly 7.1% to 11%.
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Haiti: “The Truth Speaks for Itself”
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
With a defunded health care system, Haiti is once again confronting a cholera epidemic. Food insecurity threatens 5 million people, including 2.4 million children, in a country of 12 million. Government-supported paramilitary groups continue to terrorize opposition neighborhoods, with kidnappings at an all time high. These crises have their roots in the 2004 coup and the subsequent imposition of foreign occupation, coordinated through the UN.
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Forever Wars vs. Armageddon
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The call for the U.S. to end military involvements is often made in order to advocate for new wars against more powerful countries. It appears that the only choices are forever wars or the end of the world.
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What Follows US Hegemony
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Rebirth of the Dream of Global Peace and Mutual Respect – The USA remains a powerful country, but it has not come to terms with the immense changes taking place in the world order.
→ read full articleProviding Education to Handicapped Students
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Mahatma Gandhi contributed to the freedom of India in diverse ways including in the field of education. He stressed the role of learning appropriate skills along with formal education; simple tasks such as electrical fittings, repair work, housekeeping (for girls), animal care, etc.
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Jeffrey Sachs Testimony on COVID Origins
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – My reasons to believe that SARS-CoV-2 may have emerged from a laboratory are straightforward. If indeed that is the case, it reveals the remarkable danger of ongoing gain-of-function research unknown to the Congress and public. Key questions include the following.
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Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order
A. B. Abrams | Clarity Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Atrocity fabrication, the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary, has a long history in propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public opinion. It provides pretext for hostile measures against targets, transforming wars of aggression into wars of liberation of the oppressed.
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Anything to Say? Assange, Snowden & Manning in Sydney
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – The three bronze statues that have been touring the world have arrived in Assange’s home country, Australia.
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The Saudi-Iran Détente and Its Regional Implications
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023 – What the normalisation between two regional powers means and does not mean.
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A Sane Voice amidst the Madness
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia.
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Frankfurt Undermines Human Rights by Canceling a Concert by Roger Waters
Katie Halper and Vijay Prashad | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Roger Waters will take his “This Is Not a Drill” tour to Europe. But on 24 Feb, Frankfurt’s city council cancelled the concert for “persistent anti-Israel behavior” calling Waters an antisemite. In response, Peter Gabriel, Julie Christie, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, Alia Shawkat, Glenn Greenwald and others signed a petition calling on the German government to uncancel the concert.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
I got the idea of checking what the AI-based ChatGPT had to say about the war in Ukraine and its answers were a pleasant surprise from the perspective that I hold dear: peace. Here is what I asked and what it answered within a couple of seconds.
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Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
9 Mar 2023 – This is a qualitatively new phase of world history with significant global changes since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, which can be seen in a new phase of imperialism. We hope to stimulate debate and discussion in our broader Battle of Ideas against toxic social philosophies that seek to suffocate rational thought about our world.
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Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023 – FORBES Has a New List of the World’s Richest People
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To the Brahmin Sela: Sela Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
I heard thus: At one time the Blessed One was touring the country of Anguttaraapa with a large community of Bhikkhus, about one thousand two hundred and fifty and entered a hamlet named Aapana. The matted hair ascetic Keniya heard “The good recluse Gotama, son of the Saakyas touring the country of Anguttaraapa.”
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Iraq Plus 20 (Part 1): Lies as Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The Script for the Lead-Up to War
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Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up
Michael Hudson | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The collapses of the Silvergate and Silicon Valley Banks are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse is the rising temperature of interest rates. Most media reports reflect a prayer that the bank runs will be localized, as if there is no context or environmental cause.
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The US/UK Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia
Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – If submarine nuclear reactor technology and weapons-grade (highly enriched) uranium are shared with Australia, it is a breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which Australia is a signatory as a non-nuclear power. Even the supplying of such nuclear reactors by the U.S. and the UK would constitute a breach of the NPT.
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G20, the Ukraine War, and the Global Economic Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
18 Mar 2023 – United States and Its Allies Accused of Hampering Progress within the Global South
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Peace Conference: A World without Militarism
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Sat, 25 Mar: 9am to 5pm, University of London, In-person & Online, Free Entry
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The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the Sep 2001 Attacks
Edward Curtin and Graeme MacQueen | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book – Leftists, no matter what they say in their defense, bear great moral responsibility for the so-called War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq, the deaths of Muslims, etc., all of which emanate from the insider attacks of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks.
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The Travesty of “International Justice”
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
18 Mar 2023 – The Latest ICC Attempt to Criminalise a World Leader Who Challenges UK, US Supremacy
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Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
7 Mar 2023 – Joke? No Joke
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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Não é um argumento especista se digo que a violência contra outros animais deve ser combatida por causa das consequências para humanos?
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An Open Call for Genocide in Palestine
Jafar M Ramini | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Theodore Herzl, founder of Zionism, in his 1895 vision of a Jewish State in Palestine: “We shall have to spirit the penniless population across the border … while denying it any employment in our country…Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” (Source: Theodore Herzl Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895) “It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples … If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us. The only solution is a Land of Israel … without Arabs.”
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WCPA’s Two Track Strategy for Earth Federation Government or a ‘New UN’
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
16 Mar 2023 – Einstein noted the absence of enforceable world law in the UN Charter. Bully nations violate international law with impunity as leaders responsible for world crimes, especially from the UN Security Council (U.S., Russia, China, UK, France) are untouchable, never held accountable, even by the ICC or the ICJ.
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