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The Ukraine War: A Geopolitical Perspective
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Talk on 9 Mar 2022 at the Global Studies Colloquium, UCSB. When we agreed on a theme for my presentation, we were in a pre-Ukraine world. Interim developments: the imprudent US-led provocations, Russian aggression against a sovereign state of over 44 million people, the confrontational Western sanctions, and a surging Russophobia produced a win/lose calculus rather than partial win/win political outcomes.
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Abolish Violent and Corrupt Police Forces
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
How brutal the police are depends on the country. Some places are worse than others. But data reported by CNN in a June 2020 article shows that cops in my country, the US, are among the worst.
→ read full articleDoes Gabriel Boric Have the Answer?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Markets command governments more than governments command markets. Governments, whatever their ideology, in practice devote themselves to attracting investment and to discouraging disinvestment. “When investors choose not to invest, policymakers are powerless to force them.”
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On Humiliation
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Russia’s actions in the Ukraine, to a great extent, are the culmination of the numerous humiliations that the West, under American instigation, has inflicted on Russia’s rulers and the country as a whole over the past 30 years.
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Ending Poverty by Rethinking Thinking
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Ending poverty would benefit everyone. It would be relatively inexpensive. It would open paths to sustainability. Rethinking thinking is needed to see why ending poverty is feasible…
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Ipsis Literis
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The little girl opened the door and said happily to her uncle,
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Leak Exposes Ericsson’s Secret Dealings with ISIS amid Iraq Corruption Spree
Sydney P. Freedberg, Maggie Michael and Amir Musawy | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The embattled Swedish telecom giant concealed years of bribery and fraud in the war-torn nation and grappled with undisclosed corruption allegations in more than a dozen other countries.
→ read full articleThe Paused Quest for Humane Governance in the Arab World: Is It Time ‘to fail better’?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
The acceleration of history foreshortens our memory of past events, especially when disillusionment displaces hope. This happened a decade ago when uprisings were celebrated as ‘the Arab Spring.’ The role of activist youth, the spontaneous displays of populist strivings for a better political future, created the feeling that something irreversible, and for the better, was taking place. Yet it was not to be.
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On Israel as an Apartheid State: An Interview with Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
19 Feb 2022 – An interview David Falcone originally published in CounterPunch on 11 Feb prompted by the Amnesty Report but extending beyond it.
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‘Politics as Usual’ Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat (or to Nuclear War)
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Richard Falk | DWF News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity’s greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. (Commentary added by Roger Kotila)
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Corporate Vaccine Mandates and Vaccine Passports — Brought to You by BlackRock and Vanguard?
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Investment giants BlackRock and The Vanguard Group stand to benefit from their ownership stakes in most of the corporations that imposed COVID vaccine mandates, and in some of the technology firms developing vaccine passports.
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Is the Amnesty International Report an Israeli ‘Sharpeville Moment?’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – This interview followed the release on 1 Feb of the explosive Amnesty International Report finding Israel guilty of the continuing crime of apartheid. How much longer can governments, the UN, and liberal Zionist close their eye in face of the mounting consensus in the international human community on the question of Israeli apartheid?
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Let’s Face It: The Human Race Is Stark Raving Nuts
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Some have speculated that there must be some external agent other than us humans driving this global insanity. It’s hard to believe that people could be so self-destructive, evil, and incredibly stupid. Some say it’s the devil, others cite space aliens and inter-dimensional beings. Who knows? But maybe, just maybe, we humans are just plain nuts.
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The Problematics of Middle Eastern Diplomacy: The Case of Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – In relation to both Iran, Israel, and Palestine, the essential message sent by the new leadership is continuity when it comes to substance combined with a resumption of the pre-Trump pretension of equi-distance diplomacy when it comes to the search for a sustainable peace.
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For Warmth
Thich Nhat Hanh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
I hold my face between my hands.
No, I am not crying.
US National Debt Surpasses $30 Trillion for the First Time
Michael Peterson | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – On Monday [31 Jan], the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the national debt surpassed US$30 trillion, which included US$23.5 trillion in debt held by the public and US$6.5 trillion in intergovernmental holdings.
→ read full articleDeath and Destruction on the Highways: A Global Disaster Hiding in Plain Sight
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
What accounts for the indifference to a calamitous loss of life and millions of serious injuries? Johan Galtung points to an answer in his 1969 essay on structural violence, where he notes that, unlike personal violence in which people intentionally and visibly injure each other, the violence generated by a social system can seem so natural and inevitable that it virtually disappears from people’s consciousness.
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Will the Iran Nuclear Agreement Be Restored?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
26 Jan 2022 – An interview with Mojtaba Majidi of the Mehr News Agency (Tehran) on the Vienna Talks that are seeking to restore the Iran Nuclear Agreement of 2015 reached during the Obama presidency.
→ read full article(Castellano) Borrador de Propuestas para Construir la Paz en Chile
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
20 enero 2022 – Quisiera decir algo concretando unos sueños de paz que han venido a vivir en mi alma, con la finalidad de hacerlos concretos con acciones que mi mente y otras mentes consideran inteligentes, y también con otra finalidad mayor. La finalidad mayor es contribuir a un sueño colectivo que nace, compartido entre numerosos individuos y numerosas instituciones tanto privadas como públicas.
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Silence in Communication
Thich Nhat Hanh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Mind you
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – This essay was published on 13 Jan 2022 on This View of Life, which brings to bear the views of science and evolutionary biology on a series of global challenges increasingly overwhelming the capabilities of civilizational modernity.
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None Dare Call It “Encirclement”
Michael Klare | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Washington Tightens the Noose around China
→ read full articleNo Comparison
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
A customer complained to his tailor,
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(Italiano) L’ascesa sorprendente della Cina
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
4 Gennaio 2022 – L’ascesa sorprendente della Cina: dovuta a un ‘socialismo con caratteristiche cinesi’ o a un ‘capitalismo con facciata cinese? O a un po’ di entrambi?
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Bombshell: CDC No Longer Recognizes the PCR Test as a Valid Method for Detecting “Confirmed Covid-19 Cases”
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – In the Course of the Next Two Days the PCR Test in the US Will Be Declared Invalid
→ read full articleFake History?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Austria’s greatest achievement…
→ read full articleLowering USA’s Delusion Throne
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
When Pompey the Great made his triumphant return to Rome in 61 BCE, a spectacular ceremony was planned. The centerpiece was to be a towering throne where Pompey would pass through a Victory arch. But a small problem arose: the throne was 4 feet taller than the height of the arch. That is a neat metaphor for the uneasy position in which Uncle Sam finds himself these days.
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January 6th: A Year Later
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – In retrospect, the attempted insurrection at the Capitol was about a great deal more than an angry expression of disappointment by the populist side of gun culture America. The coup attempt of January 6th failed, yet it succeeded in undermining the unwritten, yet vital, social contract that brought high levels of stability to United States since the republic was established in 1789.
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What’s Ahead for Palestine in 2022
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
2 Jan 2022 – To begin with, we will witness a growing awareness that traditional diplomacy will not bring stability, much less peace with justice to this struggle that has gone on for more than a century.
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Private Prescriptions for a Better Life in 2022
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 -A thoughtful Indian friend in Paris sent this list as her prescription for a better life in 2022. I adopted her list and added to it. I invite readers to propose their own additions and subtractions.
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Was China’s Amazing Rise Due to ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’ or ‘Capitalism with a Chinese Facade? Or a Little of Both?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – There has in recent months many discussions centering around the proper characterization of China from an ideological point of view. The Chinese leadership has its own reasons for doing this, seeking to present what it deems a glorious self-image.
→ read full articleObjective
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
A little girl became restless as the preacher’s sermon dragged on and on.
→ read full articleA Proposal to Humanity: A Path to Surviving Today`s Megacrises
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
After WWII it was believed that the formula for peace, dignity, and sustainable prosperity had been discovered. It was called “Development.” Its ingredients included the rule of law, human rights including those declared in the Universal Declaration of 1948, and–crucially–mixed economies like those pioneered in Scandinavia. Now the dreams of 1948 have turned into the nightmares of 2021. Why?
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(Italiano) Creare sussistenze dignitose che non dipendano da vendite
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Si dissolvono i principali ostacoli al salvarci dalle sei minacce all’umanità trattate in Project Save the World; per chi non ne sappia abbastanza, le 6 minacce sono: Guerra e armi, riscaldamento globale, fame, pandemie, contaminazione radioattiva, e rischi cibernetici.
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FDA Now Wants 75 Years to Release Pfizer Vaccine Documents
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – “ … it is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure.”
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Covering Up Failure: Ignoring the Record of Regime-Changing Interventions
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The militarized U.S. political class rejects the record of failure with respect to regime-changing interventions since suffering defeat in the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.
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Why the Dutch Are Closing Prisons – and What They’re Doing with Empty Ones
Deborah Nicholls-Lee | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – The Netherlands has reduced its prison population to such a degree that it’s now turning old prisons into socially useful buildings, such as schools and refugee centres. What went right?
→ read full article(Norwegian-Norsk) Overskuddsdeling – etisk atferd i praksis
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
13. desember 2021 – De siste tiårene har noen hundre mennesker i Norge blitt ufattelig rike, en tendens vi ser i en rekke land. Globalt kontrollerer noen styrtrike familier praktisk talt alle økonomiske sektorer over hele verden. Man kan undre seg over at rike mennesker er så uvillige til å dele av sin overflod med folk som ikke får dekket sine mest grunnleggende behov.
→ read full articleCreate, or Help Create, Dignified Livelihoods That Do Not Depend on Sales
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Project Save the World’s six threats to humanity: War and Weapons, Global Warming, Famine, Pandemics, Radioactive Contamination, and Cyber Risks. Question: “Where do we start?”
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(Italiano) Baloccarsi mentre Roma brucia: mentre USA e Cina si preparano alla guerra, i soloni USA esitano
Richard E. Rubenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Coloro che negli USA battono i tamburi di preparazione alla guerra sono mossi da preoccupazioni di cui possono essere inconsapevoli, come timori che il proprio tessuto sociale stia disintegrandosi, che il dominio bianco a livello globale come negli USA sia obsolescente e che il ruolo della propria nazione da egemone globale (o “leader”, come direbbero) sia alla fine
→ read full articleOn the Collective Will of the Human Species to Survive
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – The human will to survive is often uncritically taken for granted, which was of little consequence prior to the advent of the nuclear age in 1945. That the first atomic explosion was the event chosen by the scientific community agreed to signal the advent of the age of the Anthropocene is of added significance.
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Climate Change in an Unjust World
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – It is a great pleasure to participate once again in this annual Congress on Agricultural and Food Ethics. The fact that it coincides with the UN COP-26 Summit on CC taking place is especially appropriate.
→ read full articleFiddling as Rome Burns: While the U.S. and China Prepare for War, USA Pundits Dither
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
Those in the USA beating the drums of war are driven by concerns they may be unaware: fears that the social fabric is disintegrating, that white rule on a global level is obsolescent, or that their nation’s role as a global hegemon (or “leader”) is ending. The main task of US peace advocates today is to help citizens to understand that preparing for a war with China will not allay any of these fears or solve the problems, which can only happen by confronting the homeland elites that monopolize wealth, power, and social status for their own agendas.
→ read full articleClimate Challenge Cannot Be Overcome in an Unjust World
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
16 Nov 2021 – Climate Change, Survival, and Justice in Relation to Agricultural and Food Security – The UN COP-26 delivered mixed messages that disappointed a worried world public. Only the future will tell us whether Glasgow was a welcome new beginning or, in Greta Thunberg’s rhetoric, “more blah, blah, blah.”
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(Italiano) Cambiamento Climatico, Sopravvivenza e Giustizia
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
18 Nov 2021 – Il Raduno sul Cambiamento Climatico ONU COP-26 recentemente concluso a Glasgow ha rilasciato messaggi misti a un pubblico mondiale preoccupato.
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Mind &/or Brain
Michael Brenner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
8 Nov 2021 – The question of what constitutes ‘thinking’ overlaps the issues of MIND/BRAIN. Defining, delineating and explicating self-awareness, rationality, and logic has been a perplexing challenge since time immemorial. ‘’Discovery’ of the subconscious has enormously complicated these tasks. Advances in neurology add a new dimension to the discourse.
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US Government Boldly Scrutinized: Oliver Stone’s New JFK Documentary Is a Must-Watch
Michael McCaffrey | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
12 Nov 2021 – Stone’s new documentary, ‘JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass’, isn’t perfect, but it’s vitally important.
→ read full articleClimate Change, Survival, and Justice
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
The recently concluded UN COP-26 Climate Change Gathering in Glasgow delivered mixed messages to a concerned world public. Only the future will tell whether Glasgow was a welcome new beginning or, in Greta Thunberg’s well-chosen rhetoric, “more blah, blah, blah.”
→ read full articleHeavens
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
A teacher asks his class,
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Has The World Become Nazi Germany?
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – When it comes to resisting any form of tyranny, a common assertion is that if you make any comparisons to Nazi Germany you lose the argument. Really? Consider this:
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Is This a Sputnik Moment? Or a Paranoid Geopolitical Moment?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
6 Nov 2021 – US Military Interests Are Promoting a Culture of Fear With China – This is a slightly modified interview with Daniel Falcone. It attempts to challenge the pathological geopolitics that diverts attention from climate change and the global justice agenda in a period of growing dangers.
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Michael Jackson 5 Medley (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 | Mark Dukes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
It’s important that current and future generations understand the shock wave this performance created. It not only launched Michael into super-stardom, it had a significant cultural impact. It was the first time, on a global scale, that non-black teens by the millions were idolizing a black artist. Long Live the King!!! Please Click on Watch on YouTube
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Marriage is the triumph of…
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Colin Powell: In Life and Death
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Colin Powell died on Monday [18 Oct 2021] at the age of 84. Richard Falk reflects on Powell’s life and the US reaction to his passing including the relevance of identity politics, the question of moderation, his contribution to the horrors of Vietnam and Iraq, and US governmental hypocrisy in the wake of its January 2020 assassination of the comparable Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.
→ read full articleOn Denigrating the Humanities
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – This post reflects on the brutal frankness of this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor Joshua Angrist, unqualified rationale for leaving his faculty position at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for a higher paying professorship at MIT. The put down of literature is mindlessly irresponsible and civilizationally obtuse.
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Outgoing U.N. Envoy Says Myanmar Has Spiraled into Civil War
Michelle Nichols | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – Myanmar has spiraled into civil war following a military coup, the outgoing U.N. special envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, said today, warning that the chance to return to democracy is disappearing and signaling that further targeted sanctions could be helpful.
→ read full articleCultures
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Bacteria…
→ read full articleThe Rebranding of Antisemitism after the Holocaust
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – This post is concerned with the legacy of the Holocaust as providing antisemitism as a policy tool exploited by Israel and Zionist activists to intensify Palestinian suffering and deflect attention from Israeli wrongdoing. My main contention is that the Holocaust experience accentuated the tendencies of the Zionist movement to be opportunistic in the course of its long effort to attain, little by little, its territorial and ideological goals.
→ read full articleA Couple for the Road…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
My wife keeps complaining I never listen to her — or something like that. ** “Why do you answer every question with another question?” “What’s wrong with that?”
→ read full articleA Call to Practice an Ethic of Care by Sharing Surplus
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Given today´s economic science and common sense assume, jobs for everybody, paid for by the products the employees contribute to making, will never happen. There will never be enough employers finding it profitable to hire workers and pay them well to create sustainable good jobs for everyone who needs one.
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(Italiano) Iron Dome Israeliane: la farsa del finanziamento USA
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
4 Ottobre 2021 – Che gli Stati Uniti paghino il conto per ricostituire la scorta di missili nel sistema difensivo israeliano Iron Dome (Cupola di Ferro) utilizzato durante l’attacco a Gaza in maggio è una caricatura di legalità e giustizia.
→ read full articleL’ONU 75enne: una storia mista di delusioni e adempimenti
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
8 Ottobre 2021 – L’ONU: S’impegna aldilà del suo potenziale [“fa a pugni sopra la sua classe di peso”] ? Le pressioni verso l’unità e il bene pubblico globale possono ricostruire un’ONU orientata e autorizzata a servire gli interessi umani piuttosto che quelli nazionali o la geopolitica? Il suo contributo è nella politica simbolica, come “una superpotenza soft power”, il suo segretario generale è quasi solo come una voce rispettata della ragione e dell’empatia o un gentile critico dell’eccesso geopolitico.
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Face Masks: Enough Already
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – It’s been over a year-and-a-half since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the battle over wearing masks is still going on. Who would have thought? Grow a spine and throw those masks away.
→ read full articleConsequences
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
A boy brought home a very bad school report.
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Florida’s Republican Governor Awards Medal of Freedom to Che Guevara’s Assassin
Michael Stephen Smith | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – After Rodriguez ordered Che be shot, his hands were chopped off and shipped to Langley, but not before he stole the Rolex from Che’s corpse that was meant for the son of one of his compatriots in Bolivia.
→ read full articleThe UN after 75: A Mixed Record of Disappointment and Fulfillment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
UN: Does It Punch above Its Weight? Can pressures toward unity and global public good remake a UN oriented and empowered to serve the human interest rather than national ones or geopolitics? Its contribution is in symbolic politics, as ‘a soft power superpower,’ its Secretary General being almost alone as a respected voice of reason and empathy or a gentle critic of geopolitical excess.
→ read full articleReacting to Crime by Waging War(s) – 9/11+9/12: Compounding Tragedy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
20/22 Sep 2021 – Greater transformative effects resulted from 9/12 than the tragic events of 9/11 due to the vengeful recklessness of the U.S. response. It is a reflection of the deficiencies of political pedagogy and journalistic priorities in the US that despite all that has happened at home and abroad in the course of the last twenty years virtually no distinct attention is given to 9/12.
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ShadowDragon: Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software That Can Watch Your Every Move
Michael Kwet | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – A Michigan State Police contract obtained by The Intercept sheds new light on the use of a little-known surveillance software that helps law enforcement and corporations watch people’s social media and other activities—the product of a growing industry.
→ read full articleCulture
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
A boy asks, “Father, where is the equator?”
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(Italiano) Invertire la marcia verso l’auto-distruzione?
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Sì, è ancora possibile invertire la marcia verso l’auto-distruzione. Oggi non esistono più i conflitti d’interesse che hanno creato l’insostenibile mondo odierno.
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(Italiano) Il ritiro USA/NATO dall’Afghanistan è soddisfacente?
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Alcuni “costruttori di pace” dicono di No!
→ read full articleWhat a Travesty! Iron Dome Subsidy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
25 Sep 2021 – For the US to pay the bill for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system used during the Gaza attack in May is a travesty of law and justice. And to gain support for such a measure by a vote of 420-9 in the U.S. House of Representatives should be an embarrassment for the strategic rationality of American foreign policy.
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The COVID-19 “Vaccine” and the Nuremberg Code: Crimes against Humanity, Genocide
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
• EU/EEA/Switzerland to 11 Sep 2021: 24,528 Covid-19 injection related deaths and 2,292,967 injuries
• UK to 1 Sep 2021: 1,632 Covid-19 injection related deaths and 1,186,844 injuries
• USA to 3 Sep 2021: 14,506 Covid-19 injection related deaths and 3,146,691 injuries
• TOTAL for EU/UK/USA: 40,666 Covid-19 injection related deaths and 6,626,502 injuries on 15 Sep 2021
Four Remarkable Women
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Sep 2021 – This post reflects an amateurish interest in depicting a fascinating form of feminism that is exemplified by certain exceptional women whom I have been privileged to know. It was originally to be a chapter for my memoir, but I was compelled to cut 100,000 words, and this is one way of saying that my life is bigger than the book!
→ read full articleIs It Still Possible to Reverse Humanity’s March toward Self-Destruction?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
YES! Today the conflicts of interest that created today´s unsustainable world no longer exist. NO! Most governments are fighting the economic impact of Covid by promoting growth through funding consumption, keeping banks solvent, and subsidizing business–to get people back to work. After the crisis, the same mental model will be employed to raise growth rates that in most of the world were already lagging before Covid, to bring down the numbers of those who were even then rejected by the labour market.
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(Castellano) El Once de Septiembre en Chile
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Septiembre 2021 – El día once de septiembre, este año como todos los años, fuimos junto con mi pareja Carolina y con nuestra hija Shelley, al cementerio de Limache, el pequeño pueblo de la quinta región donde vivimos. Nos sumamos a nuestros vecinos limachinos quienes también no dejen de conmemorar la muerte de seres amados, y la muerte de la democracia, el once de septiembre de 1973.
→ read full articleThe Bipartisan Demise of U.S. Democracy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – The Republican Party contempt for liberal U.S. values, traditions, constitutionalism, the findings of science and truthfulness, became routine features of the presidency of Donald Trump.
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Understanding the Basics of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, and Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – Marxism’s criticisms of capitalism in the century after Marx’s death might have led it to advocacy for worker cooperatives. Instead, it focused on which agents could accomplish a transition from capitalism to socialism: the working class or the state.
→ read full articleThe Shared Struggle of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
7 Sep 2021 – Posted below is my foreword to a very illuminating collaboration relating the comparative experience of Palestinian and Irish hunger strikers. Desperate circumstances give rise to desperate behavior. If by states, extreme violent behavior tends to be rationalized as ‘self-defense,’ ‘military necessity,’ or ‘counterterrorism,’ and governmental claims of legal authorization tend to be upheld by judicial institutions.
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Is Billionaire Philanthropy a Sham?
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – Remember when Jeff Bezos was showered with praise for donating $100 million to food banks last year? That may seem like a lot, and it is. But once you consider all that Bezos has raked in during the pandemic – including making $13 billion in a single day in 2020 – it’s a few hours of his earnings.
→ read full articleShall We Welcome the U.S./NATO Withdrawal from Afghanistan?
Richard Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Some “Peacebuilders” Say No!
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
A judge announced to the ex-husband in divorce court,
→ read full articleCrime and Punishment in Afghanistan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
29 Aug 2021 – Atrocity in Kabul, Geopolitical Crime in Washington
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
A man came to the emergency room with both ears bandaged. The doctor asked him what had happened.
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The Future Is a Landscape
John Michael Greer | Ecosophia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
I’ve been reflecting of late about the way that our habitual expectations about change blind us to the way that change actually happens. One of the most important of these is the frankly weird but pervasive notion that the future is a single place, where only one kind of thing happens. It’s always “The Future,” very much in the singular.
→ read full articleAre You a Seeker of Truth or a Believer in Lies?
Michael J. Talmo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021 – Truth, facts, and individual freedom don’t seem very important these days. As the COVID-19 epidemic rages on, our little blue planet is drowning in a sea of lies, oppression, and propaganda. Day after day, our weary brains are being saturated with case numbers, death totals, and supposedly overcrowded hospitals while governments and private businesses are coercing and bullying us into taking so called vaccines that are killing and permanently disabling who knows how many tens of thousands. We are told that we must bow to the voice of authority and give up our freedom lest we be accused of being selfish and murdering our fellow earthlings.
→ read full articleEverything Went Wrong in Afghanistan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 – In the post-colonial world, the military superiority of Western intervening powers has proved unable to shape the political outcomes of non-Western sovereign spaces, especially if they have unresolved tribal and ethnic conflicts, warlordism, and drug cartels. In Afghanistan, this proved to be once again validated, despite trillions of dollars spent in devastating parts of the country.
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Demystifying Geopolitical Crime and Afghan Debacle
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – Further Thoughts on Demystifying the Afghan Tragedy and the US-led NATO Geopolitical Crime
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Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – For those of you trying to understand economics and what capitalism is about, here is an excellent introduction. Capitalism is just one particular way of—a system for—organizing the production and distribution of goods and services. It differs from other systems such as slavery and feudalism but also shares some similarities with them.
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Toward Global Solidarity: A Politics of Impossibility
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
14 Aug 2021 – This post is my stimulus essay for a Forum sponsored by Great Transition Initiative, a project of the Tellus Institute, dedicated to the exploration of humane and ecologically resonant adjustments to the challenges and threats posed by the onset of the Anthropocentric Age.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
After an interval of four million years, two planets meet again in the universe.
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Thriller (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Michael Jackson’s 14-minute short film “Thriller” revolutionized the music video genre forever. Hailed as the greatest music video of all time, it is also the only one selected to be in the Library of Congress’ prestigious National Film Registry. Aug 2021: 777,807,758 views – (Click on Watch on YouTube)
→ read full articleDemonizing Durban
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
The Durban Conference was a forum at which Israel, colonialism, the legacy of slavery, and victimization of vulnerable ethnicities would be depicted and condemned. It is no longer plausible to contend that associating Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people as antisemitic. As a Jew myself, I regard Israeli justifications for its behavior toward Palestine as the embodiment of antisemitic behavior, bringing discredit to the Jewish people.
→ read full articleTyranny: The Deadliest Pandemic
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Government power is a two-edged sword. It can be used to do good or evil.
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Why We Need a Movement to Abolish COVID Vaccine Patents Now
Andy Bichlbaum | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
21 Jul 2021 – While the call by activists to waive TRIPS is an important first step to scale up COVID vaccines, it actually needs to be abolished.
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How Not to Do Activism
Michael Gecan | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
The calculus of power isn’t defined by hits or clicks or tweets. It is measured in relationships and meaningful reactions over time. While social media can be a useful tool in organizing, it is not a strategy. Real change depends on finding a large group of local leaders, not a single charismatic person.
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Graphene Oxide: A Toxic Substance in the Vial of the COVID-19 mRNA ‘Vaccine’ (w/ Video)
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – We bring to your attention this important interview with Ricardo Delgado Martin, responsible for coordinating the Spanish research team’s analysis of the impacts of graphene oxide nano-particles contained in the vial of the mRNA ‘vaccine.’
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Love You Anymore (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Bublé – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
[Official Music Video] – Click on Watch on YouTube
→ read full articleContributions to Methods for Structural Transformation
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
There may be people who believe that the problem of mass unemployment has become a non-problem solved by the Biden Administration. I doubt that any of them read TMS. I also trust that detailed explanations of phrases like “structural transformation” are as unnecessary as they are impossible here. Everyone knows about structural violence. And the reader will tolerate having to rely on context when she or he is not familiar with unusual kinds of structure-talk that I find indispensable.
→ read full articleThe Turkish Coup Attempt: Five Years Later
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021 – A modified text of my responses to interview questions of Murat Sofuoglu, a Turkish journalist associated with TRT World.
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