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While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed Readers
Ari Paul | FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
19 Nov 2022 – Before Bankman-Fried’s transition from financial genius to possible financial criminal, he received little scrutiny in the media.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace and Humanity: We the People Are Victims of Failed Global Leadership
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Looking Beyond the Obvious Lens of Human Consciousness
→ read full articleBiden Sides with Trump in Killing Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
27 Nov 2022 – Events in the U.S. and in Israel indicate that the Biden administration has decided to drop all notion of reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action-JCPOA. Biden will hold to Trump’s position when he pulled the U.S. out of the pact in 2018.
→ read full articleBlack ‘Fraud-Days’ and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
25 Nov 2022 – Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales; most of them are fake, as often denounced by consumers organisations, which report that the business usually inflates prices before launching such deals.
→ read full articleThe Failure of the Expected Peace and the Suggestion of an Unbounded Way Forward
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
“Expected peace:” the peace expected after WWII. In a few years the UN was founded, human rights redefined to include social rights, colonial empires dissolved and new nation-states welcomed. It was reasonable to believe that human beings were learning how to live together in peace and shared prosperity.
→ read full articleThe COVID Pandemic Farce Served as a Trial Balloon for the New World Order
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò | LifeSiteNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
22 Nov 2022 – Viganò’s Address to Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International – “There can be no neutrality, because when there is a clash between two armies, those who choose not to fight are also making a choice that affects the outcome of the battle.”
→ read full articleWhy German State Racism Is Now Directed at the Palestinians
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
23 Nov 2022 – The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others, as the cancellation of an arts prize to Caryl Churchill shows.
→ read full article(Italiano) Elezioni israeliane 2022: una vittoria per i “coloni” colonialisti o per la lotta di Liberazione Palestinese?
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Non c’è dubbio che le elezioni israeliane 2022 del 1°novembre [U.S..] saranno d’importanza durevole. I mesi e gli anni a venire riveleranno se Israele consolida il suo status di stato coloniale di coloni o se la lotta palestinese aumenta la sua resistenza al dominio israeliano rafforzata da un crescente movimento di solidarietà globale.
→ read full articleDon’t Be Fooled: Climate Disasters Are Highly Lucrative
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
17 Nov 2022 – Companies involved in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear warheads, have been supported by over 150 big banks by lending them money or underwriting bonds, according to ICAN’s ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ report.
→ read full articleBehaviors to Avoid at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup
Reflect Your Respect | Twitter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
A FIFA spokesperson told Reuters that the poster is not an official 2022 World Cup document. It was made by a Qatari citizen group called “Reflect Your Respect.”
→ read full articleBiden Travels East in Clouds of Mistrust
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022 – U.S. Joe Biden and Chinese Xi Jinping met for more than three hours at the G20 conference Nov 14-15 in Indonesia. China “is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and… the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to advance that objective,” Biden wrote in the U.S. Defense Strategy in Oct, a document focused on China and Russia as “threats” to U.S. hegemony.
→ read full articleImagining Partnership of the SDG Goals as Phases of the Cross
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Correspondence between cognitive internalization and collective strategic articulation.
→ read full articleDealing with Fashion Industry Plastic Pollution
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
4 Nov 2022 – The Repair Model That Could Save the Fashion Industry’s Environmental Impact
→ read full articleThe U.S. Has Seen At Least 601 Mass Shootings This Year Alone
Ashley Ahn | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022 – In 2022 the US has seen at least 601 mass shootings, an average of 13 shootings a week according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident where at least four people are shot or killed. The year 2021 saw 690 mass shootings, 2020 had 610, and 2019 had 417.
→ read full articleIn Praise of Toilets
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – Some billionaires, in particular in the Gulf oil-producing kingdoms, pose their buttocks on a solid-gold toilet around solid-gold faucets. The other side of the coin shows a shocking, different picture: 4 billion people –or about half of the world’s population– still live without access to a safe toilet and other sanitation facilities.
→ read full articleIs Fascism Returning? A Reflection on the Centennial of the March on Rome
Hugo Bardi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Collapses are the way the universe gets rid of the old to leave space for the new. It was noted for the first time by the Roman Philosopher Lucius Anneaus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) and it is called today the “Seneca Effect.”
→ read full articleConfucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.
→ read full articleRussia, India, China, Iran: The Quad That Really Matters
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – Southeast Asia is right at the center of international relations for a week with three consecutive summits: ASEAN in Phnom Penh, the G20 in Bali, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Bangkok.
→ read full article(Italiano) Quale spiritualità dopo il 1989?
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Una spiritualità universale e all’altezza dei nostri tempi.
→ read full articleWestern Allies Look to Ukraine as a Testing Ground for Weapons
Lara Jakes | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – Delta is one example of how Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems, and new ways to use them, that Western political officials and military commanders predict could shape warfare for generations to come.
→ read full articleSome Old Memories
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
I have been living in Delhi for decades now. I lived in a Lumsden Square in the city when I was about 7 or 8 years old. The accommodation composed of a room and a toilet on the rear boundary of the house. At that time I did not know who Lumsden was.
→ read full articleHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.
→ read full articleWorld Cup Stadium Workers ‘Had Their Money Stolen and Lives Ruined’, Says Rights Group
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – Report on conditions in Qatar alleges labour abuses are widespread and calls on FIFA to set up compensation fund.
→ read full articleThe Stage Is Set for US Combat Troops in Ukraine
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
11 Nov 2022 – If US forces join the fighting, the calculus for winning could change dramatically, but the strategic objectives would remain the same. No nation can be expected to live at peace when a gun is pointed at its head. That is why Putin opposed NATO membership for Ukraine, and that is why the current war is being fought.
→ read full articleIt’s Not Just Coca-Cola: Corporations Have Co-Opted the UN Climate Talks
Kate Yoder | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – COP27 is covered with logos. But that’s just the start of companies’ influence. The event is brought to you by the largest plastic producer in the world, Coca-Cola.
→ read full articleUS Aid to Ukraine Invested in Crypto FTX Scheme
FreeWestMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – The company FTX, in its bankruptcy filing appears to have held tens-of-billions in American “military aid” to Ukraine. Instead of using the alleged funds to fight Russia, the money was instead invested in the FTX Ponzi scheme. From the bankruptcy filing it is clear that this money has now disappeared.
→ read full articleBruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
→ read full articleCriminals, Terror Financiers, Arms Traffickers, Drug Runners Infiltrated Honorary Consul Ranks
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Shadow Diplomats: Accused terror financiers, arms traffickers and drug runners among hundreds of rogue diplomats, global investigation reveals. Honorary consuls are meant to foster ties between countries. But criminals and others accused of exploiting the position have infiltrated their ranks.
→ read full articleA Fast-Emptying Ark
Bill McKibben - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
A vast new study finds there are 70 percent fewer wild animals sharing the earth with us than there were in 1970.
→ read full articleUrsula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
“All you have is what you are, and what you give.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Difesa Nucleare: Lettera Aperta a Papa Francesco
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
18 novembre 2022 – Lettera a papa Francesco sulla preparazione della difesa popolare non violenta dello SCV; se attuata, sarebbe di grande insegnamento per tutti i Paesi nel mondo.
→ read full articleThe Arab/Muslim Awakening–and USA/Israel
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
The Arab awakening is against the violence and corruption in favor of democracy, growth and jobs, and against US-Israel domination. But to believe that Islam tolerates imposed secularism is incredibly naive. There is a Muslim awakening. However, there are many Islams, like there are Christianities and Judaisms. How do USA-Israel react, and what would be a positive reaction to their reaction?
→ read full articleLost and Damaged: The UN’s COP27 Climate Summit
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
17 Nov 2022 – An estimated 30,000 people from around the world have descended on this Red Sea resort on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. The summit is hosted by Egypt, a dictatorship propped up by billions of dollars annually in military aid from the United States.
→ read full articleBetrayal All the Way Down (Part 1)
Diane Perlman | TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Whether we deal with our experience of betrayal consciously or unconsciously will make all of the difference. It is critical that we take an enlightened approach to get it right. Here I attempt a comprehensive, coherent and constructive analysis towards intentional, wisely designed strategies and processes, informed by social science, conflict analysis, psychology and history.
→ read full articleShatter Alley
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
I snuggle behind the wheel
and see
shards of glass
scattered across
the seat of my car.
Hawai’i: The Very First U.S. Regime Change
Jon D. Olsen | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – Illegitimate overthrow of Polynesian Queen Lili’uokalani of Hawai’i in 1893 marked beginning of more than a century of American regime-change operations.
→ read full articleWomen of the World Unite (Music Video of the Week)
Yael Deckelbaum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Cast aside for centuries
Bound in chains of slavery
Waiting for the roots to come together
Women of the world unite!
College Degrees Help Incarcerated People Take the Next Step to Freedom
M. Yayah Sandi | Prison Journalism Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – At East Jersey State Prison prior to 2013 the only rehabilitative program available was a high school equivalency diploma. The Prison Journalism Project trains incarcerated writers to become journalists and publishes their stories.
→ read full articleQatar: World Champion Human Rights Violators
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Bloodied Trophy…
→ read full articlePeace Disruptors–The Conversion and Repurposing of Places of Worship (Part 2): The Ayodhya Temple, from Hinduism to Islam and back to Hinduism
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
19 Nov 2022 – This part 2 in the series on conversions of existing places of worship into buildings for the remembrance and supplication of a God of another religion highlights the saga of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya, India.
→ read full articlePioneer Jews of North America
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
The first European settlers in what is now the USA weren’t English Puritans or French fur trappers but Sephardic Jews. Before the Mayflower sailed to the United States, Jews had fled the Spanish Inquisition and settled in what are now Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
→ read full articleCorporate Weapons Heaven Is a Hell on Earth
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
17 Nov 2022 – A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales
→ read full articleSee 867 US Military Bases on New Online Tool
World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – World BEYOND War has launched a new online tool that allows viewing 867 U.S. military bases outside the USA, and to zoom in for a detailed information on each base. It also allows filtering the map or list of bases by country, government type, opening date, number of personnel, or acres of land occupied.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cambiamento climatico: facciamo finta
Anthony Judge | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Perché dobbiamo fare qualcosa per il cambiamento climatico dopo la COP27?
→ read full articleJeffrey Sachs on World Peace, US Wars, NATO, and the Costs
Jeffrey Sachs | InvestoPads - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
12 Nov 2022 – Hegemonic USA Is Causing a Horrific Financial Crisis
→ read full articleFTX: The Joke of Democracy
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – From its founding in 2017, the one-man company rose to a “partner organisation” of the WEF and second largest donor to Biden and the Democrats’ mid-term election. It has now gone completely bust, taking every penny of its depositors’ money with it.
→ read full articleA World Cup Stained with Blood and Bribery
Aram Aharonian | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – Qatar is a Soccer World Cup tainted by blood and corruption. The spread of these facts preoccupies the FIFA leadership which, less than 20 days before the start, asked the teams to focus on soccer and not on “sermons” on morality, dragging soccer “into ideological or political battles that exist”.
→ read full articleEat Me
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Help Yourself…
→ read full article‘On the Highway to Climate Hell’ – The Climate Crisis, Activism and Broken Politics
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – Last month, the UN Environment Agency issued its starkest warning yet about the climate crisis. The failure by governments around the world to cut carbon emissions means there is ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’. Limiting the rise of global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels was the international agreement at COP21, the UN Climate Summit in Paris in 2015.
→ read full articleAttempt to Try Russian Leaders for War Crimes Is Part of the West’s Weaponization of the ICC
Robin Philpot | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – International Criminal Court continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it.
→ read full articleUS Nuclear Forces Chief: ‘The Big One Is Coming’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
6 Nov 2022 – The commander that oversees US nuclear forces delivered an ominous warning at a naval conference last week by calling the war in Ukraine a “warmup” for the “big one” that is to come. [Having fun yet?]
→ read full articleClimate Change — Let’s Just Pretend
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
Why Do We Need to Do Anything Following COP27?
→ read full articleTRANSCEND Members November Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished members VANDANA SHIVA and RICHARD FALK a HAPPY BIRTHDAY with many returns. We take this opportunity to thank them for all their contributions to the world–and to TMS. Bless your lives!
→ read full articleUrging Peace with Russia, Top US General Challenges DC’s Proxy War
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
12 Nov 2022 – A series of leaks, including a call for diplomacy from Gen. Mark Milley, show that some US officials are ready for a settlement in Ukraine. While US “diplomats” oppose diplomacy, White House officials would not be disclosing that Milley, the nation’s highest military officer, is challenging their stance if he were alone.
→ read full articleThe Girl in the Picture
Doug Rawlings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
On occasion the iconic picture of Kim would cross into my consciousness at odd times but just recently I found out she was nine at that horrific moment captured for eternity. My oldest granddaughter just turned ten.
→ read full articleEnergy Bills in Europe Are 90% Higher Than Last Year
Irina Slav | Oilprice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
8 Nov 2022 – Electricity and gas prices are soaring across Europe, with bills close to double from last year in most European capitals, according to new data from the Household Energy Price Index—a monthly tracker of energy prices for households across 33 European capitals, including the 27 EU member states and several non-members.
→ read full articleStop Funding Climate Disaster
Transnational Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
2 Nov 2022 – Big Bankers Are Part of the Problem, Not the Solution – Declaration: We cannot save the planet from disastrous climate change without tackling financial markets. As long as trillions of dollars go unhindered to fund yet more fossil fuels and deforestation, it will not be possible to halt climate change or enable communities to adapt.
→ read full articleWhat Is Missing from the Climate Debate
Dr. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
7 Nov 2022 – “The destabilisation of the Earth’s climate systems is the consequence of violating the ecological processes and cycles of the earth, violating the Rights of the Earth, Rights of Indigenous People, and the Rights of Future Generations. — Dr. Vandana Shiva
→ read full articleLetter from Manuel Zelaya, former President of Honduras, to the British PM about Julian Assange
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
11 Nov 2022 – Your Excellency PM Sunak, I am writing to you in my capacity as Former President of the Republic of Honduras to request the review of the extradition to the USA and the immediate release of the Australian cyber journalist and activist Julian Assange. I base this request on humanitarian reasons, since as is public knowledge the prolonged confinement and the current conditions of detention have seriously affected Mr. Assange’s health; also on reasons that warn of the violation of rights not only of the aforementioned but of civilised society as a whole.
→ read full articleTrafficking Inc.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
28 Oct 2022 – An ICIJ investigation examines networks of companies, people and business practices that draw profit from cross-border labor trafficking and sex trafficking.
→ read full articleThe Story of Solutions
The Story of Stuff Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
What if the goal of our economy wasn’t more, but better — better health, better jobs and a better chance to survive on the planet? Shouldn’t that be what winning means?
→ read full articleHands off Haiti!!—No Military Intervention!!
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
12 Nov 2022 – The United States and Canada have delivered military machinery to Haiti under the suspicious title of “security equipment”; this “security equipment” includes armored and tactical vehicles to be used to strengthen the police to fight “criminal gangs.” It is reported that, by October 28, Haiti will receive additional delivery of military machinery.
→ read full articleTHANK YOU!
From the TRANSCEND Media Service team,
14 Nov 2022
We would like to offer a huge THANK YOU! to the few readers/writers who consistently contribute financially to TMS allowing us to ride the disaster/predatory capitalism in place. You know who you are but, most importantly, we know who you are. Bless your hearts!
→ read full articleUN Expert Calls for Lifting Unilateral Sanctions ‘Suffocating’ Syrian People
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights Alena Douhan today urged sanctioning States to lift unilateral sanctions against Syria, warning that they were perpetuating and exacerbating the destruction and trauma suffered by the Syrian people since 2011.
→ read full articleAmerican-Born Canadian Professor Attacked by Mainstream Media for Opposing NATO Narrative on Ukraine
Aidan Jonah | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
6 Nov 2022 – A highly regarded Russia specialist in Canada, Prof. Michael Carley at the Univ. of Montreal, has refused to support the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict and has since been subjected to a vicious smear campaign. The “Carley Affair” can act as a warning of what to expect as the U.S. harbors more Ukrainian refugees.
→ read full articleMarket Lords, Much more than a War, behind World’s Food Crisis
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
11 Nov 2022 – While grain exports continue to flow to world’s markets, and Turkey-brokered agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilisers shipments from both countries, food prices are still skyrocketing. How come? “In each of the three global food crises studied, financial speculation has caused steep increases in prices, making food inaccessible to hundreds of millions of people.”
→ read full articleExpectations
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
Some wisdom…
→ read full articleWhat to Expect from Netanyahu & Religious Zionism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
A Preliminary Appraisal
→ read full articlePeace Disruptors–The Conversion and Repurposing of Places of Worship (Part 1): The Great Mosque at Cordoba
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
12 Nov 2022 – Religion has been the main cause of Peace Disruption through the centuries.
→ read full articleGermany: Is the Chancellor Betraying the US Emperor? The New Germany-China “Connection”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
9 Nov 2022 – Before Olaf Scholz and Ursula von der Leyen, two Germans, were chosen to economically destroy Europe, they were indeed vetted for months by the neoliberal hegemons in Washington and the Pentagon/NATO.
→ read full articleLet’s Be Clear: If WW3 Happens It Will Be the Result of Choices Made by the US Empire
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
7 Nov 2022 – The commander of the US nuclear arsenal has stated unequivocally that the war in Ukraine is just a warmup exercise for a much larger conflict that’s already in the mail.
→ read full articleThen There’s Only One Choice
Wolfgang Borchert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
You. Man at the machine in the factory. When they tell you tomorrow to stop making pots and pans and instead make helmets and machine guns, then there’s only one choice:
Say NO!
(Português) Passados os tempos sombrios de Bolsonaro, surge o sonho da refundação do Brasil
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
11 nov 2022 – Vivemos os últmos quase 4 anos sob um governo que não amava o povo e coniderava o pais como uma espécie de capitania hereditária familiar. Mas agora, segundo um cântico famoso de Camões nos Lusíadas, o novo tempo “traz serena claridade,esperança de porto e salvamento”. Por isso cabe esperar e sonhar. Eis alguns pontos de nossa positividade.
→ read full article(Italiano) Non c’è pace senza giustizia. Ma non c’è giustizia senza pace
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
La violenza ha più forme: è bellica, armata, omicida, invasiva; ma c’è anche la violenza strutturale, incarnata nelle strutture economiche e sociali; e c’è anche, più profonda, la violenza culturale, quando è insediata nelle menti, nelle tradizioni onorate, nelle teorie, nelle antropologie che riconoscono fatale e insuperabile la violenza in tutte le sue forme. La violenza bellica è la più visibile, fragorosa e dolorosa
→ read full article2022 Israeli Elections: A Victory for Settler Colonialists or for the Palestinian Liberation Struggle?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
There is no doubt that the November 1st Israeli elections will be of lasting significance. The months and years ahead will reveal whether Israel consolidates its status as a settler colonial state or the Palestinian struggle increases its resistance to Israeli rule reinforced by an intensifying global solidarity movement.
→ read full articleU.S. Government Quietly Declassifies Post-9/11 Interview with Bush and Cheney
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – One of the most striking aspects of the interview conducted in 2004 is the apparent absence of even a glimmer of self-awareness by Bush about the significance of the death and destruction he was unleashing with his global war. He comes off as almost childishly simplistic in his insights and analysis.
→ read full articleMore Investment, Less Interference: How China Is Moving into ‘Washington’s Latin Hemisphere’
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – After decades [centuries?] of abuse by the U.S., some Latin American countries seem to find Beijing’s approach attractive.
→ read full articleTranscending Communicatively
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
Communicatively how to transcend?
Ensuring communicative peace will never end
Will the U.S. War-for-Profit Capitalist System Lead to Nuclear Annihilation?
Leonard Goodman | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
9 Nov 2022 – The US continues to fan the flames of nuclear conflict with massive investments in the war department. How long can this last? A cancer on Earth.
→ read full articleInfluence of Vedic Culture around the World
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
The Vedas, especially the Bhagavad-gita, are not new to the Western world. There have been seekers, writers, poets, philosophers, and people of all levels who have appreciated the depth, inspiration, and insight of Vedic thought. Scholars outside India who have great respect for the Vedic Culture.
→ read full articleCongressional Amendment Opens Floodgates for War Profiteers and a Major Ground War on Russia
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
13 Nov 2022 – The dangerous amendment that U.S. Senators Inhofe and Reed attached to the 2023 military authorization bill, under the deceptive guise of “replenishing” weapons sent to Ukraine, is a bonanza for the arms industry and a serious step toward the major war on Russia.
→ read full article‘So Irresponsible’: US Condemned for Warning Australia against Joining Anti-Nuclear Treaty
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
9 Nov 2022 – Blackmail: The U.S. Embassy in Canberra warned Australian officials that the government’s decision to adopt an “abstain” position regarding the treaty—after five years of opposing it—would obstruct Australia’s reliance on American nuclear forces in case of a nuclear attack on the country.
→ read full articleFairytale (Music Video of the Week)
Alexander Rybak | Eurovision – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
Alexander Rybak represented Norway in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest and won the grand finale.
→ read full articleAccuracy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
A tourist asked a little boy in a village:
→ read full articleWho Knew: We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World War I. We’re all lucky to still be here. If we continue to celebrate past wars and the soldiers who fought them in a sly homage to the greatness of war, we are doomed.
→ read full articleJawaharlal Nehru (14 Nov 1889 – 27 May 1964)
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
Nehru was a man who struggled for India’s independence for several years along with Mahatma Gandhi and several other political stalwarts. He was born in a rich family and studied in England for several years, but he was put in several prisons till India became independent on 15 August 1947.
→ read full articleLargesse: US Air Force Seeks the Aircraft Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife
Stephen Losey | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
7 Nov 2022 – Preparing for a potential fight against China, weighing limited budgets and fleets, and looking for more capabilities from existing aircraft: if a C-130 can act as bomber, a bomber can serve as a cargo plane, the argument goes. Toys for the boys.
→ read full articleTrial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.
→ read full article(Italiano) Scienziati in affanno? Ai confini tra scienza, società e policy
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
La parola ‘affanno’ nel suo duplice significato – letterale e metaforico – mi sembra molto adatta a ispirare non solo il mondo scientifico – ma la società tutta, a mettere in atto un personale e collettivo satyagraha.
→ read full articleGlaring Western Hypocrisy on Human Rights in Africa: Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
2 Nov 2022 – The US and EU are complicit in the Rwandan and Ugandan incursions into the DRC, as well as in their support of their TPLF proxies against Ethiopia. On a positive note, however, Ethiopians, Eritreans, Congolese, Rwandans, and Ugandans are speaking out about the West’s hypocrisy and interference and building PanAfrican ties.
→ read full articleThe Pursuit of Pseudo Peace (Part 3): The Sordid Business of Child Prostitution
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
4 Nov 2022 – This Part 3 in the series of publications on prostitution, highlights the abhorrent sale of the child’s body for the sexual gratification of adults, pedophiles and other humanoids, usually males, of an aberrant sexual orientation and perversion.
→ read full articlePutin Skewers US Ineptitude
Ray McGovern | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – Speaking on Oct. 27 at Valdai, Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the sanity of those who would “spoil relations with China at the same time they are supplying billions-worth of weapons to Ukraine in a fight against Russia.” It turns out they come from the same stock of white-privileged, exceptional, ivy-mantled “Best and Brightest” that brought us Vietnam–this time brought by President Joe Biden.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Hypocrisy
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the great documents of history. With that in mind, it is especially ironic and unfortunate when human rights is used by the culture of war as part of its weaponry.
→ read full articleWild Animals and Their Features
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
There are many types of wild animals in the world. These animals present many useful features and consequences in the regions they are found–economy, tourism, safety measures and other aspects that are interesting and unique to different countries and species of wild animals.
→ read full articleFyodor Dostoyevsky (11 Nov 1821 – 9 Feb 1881)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time, he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.
→ read full articleData Journalism: Why Usability Is More Than ‘Nice to Have’
Antonia Sanke interviews Christina Elmer | Deutsche Welle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
31 Oct 2022 – Christina Elmer is professor of Digital and Data Journalism at TU Dortmund University and a renowned data journalist in Germany. Why do media outlets need data journalism? She shares her expertise on how to become a data journalist and the future of digital media.
→ read full articleLeon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
→ read full articleWe Are Demanding Too Much
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
6 Nov 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which may be downloaded and circulated free of charge. We Are Demanding More from Nature Than Nature Can Restore
→ read full articleTop 5 Worst Things That Far-Right Netanyahu Could Do as Prime Minister
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
… to Israeli Democracy and Palestinian Society
→ read full article(Français) Hypocrisie à Propos des Droits Humains
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
La Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme est l’un des grands documents de l’histoire. Dans cet esprit, il est particulièrement ironique et malheureux que les droits de l’Homme soient utilisés par la culture de la guerre comme faisant partie de son armement.
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