Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Ukrainian Nonviolent Civil Resistance in the Face of War
Felip Daza Sierra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Analysis of trends, impacts and challenges on nonviolent action in Ukraine between Feb and Jun 2022 based on 235 nonviolent actions and over 55 interviews with Ukrainian political and social leaders, academics, and activists.
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55% of Humanity Does Not Reject the Accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
21 Oct 2022 – just as with previous UNGA votes condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the Western press, with maximum duplicity, continues to treat the 12 Oct vote as an resounding world condemnation of Russia, when in fact it is proof of the world majority’s refusal to condemn Russian actions in Ukraine.
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Australia Reverses Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
18 Oct 2022 – Australia says it will no longer recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing a decision taken by the previous administration in 2018. Foreign Minister Penny Wong says government reiterates commitment to two-state solution.
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The Last Days of the Lilliputians
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
The ruling elite have tied the working class in bondage. Small in number but great in power, the elite have designed myriad mechanisms of control to hold the much larger working class down and force it to work for them.
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Geo-engineering Oversight Agency for Thermal Stabilization — GOATS
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – Geoengineering proposals for mitigating climate change continue to proliferate without being tested. It is time to select and assess the most promising ideas according to efficacy, cost, all aspects of risk and, importantly, their rate of mitigation.
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Why the US Imprisoned Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
A year ago, October 16, the long arm of US extra-territorial judicial overreach abducted Alex Saab and threw him into prison in Miami, where the Venezuelan diplomat has languished ever since.
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Iran: The Evolving Symbols of Protest
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – The themes of the protests are shifting from the restrictions on women to the clerical regime itself. Ayatollah Khamenei is aged and not well. There is no obvious replacement should he die. The situation in Iran merits to be watched closely.
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Peace in a Cup of Tea (Part 2): The Exploitation of the Tribal Tea Plantation Workers in Assam
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
While Enjoying a Cup of Tea, Reflect on Assam’s Tea Gardens, Which Are Rooted in the Abuse and Torture of Labourers Since 1834
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(Português) Eleições no Brasil: Tensão na reta final. E o day after?
Jean Marc von der Weid | Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
15 outubro 2022 – Texto analítico de Jean Marc com os vários cenários possíveis face à eleição no dia 30 de outubro e nos tempos subsequentes. Vale estar atentos, pois se trata de nossa sobrevivência como nação civilizada e sem os ódios e mentiras que marcaram o governo atual. — L. Boff
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To Be a Life Partner
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Now we have a woman Prime Minister in England. Will her rule in England and their few possessions, be more humane and less harsh? Let us hope so.
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US Rejection of Moscow’s Offer for Peace Talks Is Utterly Inexcusable
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that Moscow was open to talks with the US or with Turkey on ending the war in Ukraine, claiming that US officials are lying when they say Russia has been refusing peace talks. Lavrov’s claim was given more weight when US State Department spokesman Ned Price dismissed the offer for peace talks shortly after it was extended.
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The Indigenous Fight against Big Oil in the Arctic Circle
The Story of Stuff Project– TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Alaska is melting at twice the rate of the rest of the world, and with it, the livelihoods of its Native people. Now, Big Oil is trying to disrupt the ecosystem even more by drilling the Arctic Circle. Watch as Bernadette Demientieff of the Gwich’in people illustrates the fight to save her ancestral lands and the caribou that her people are deeply intertwined with.
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(Italiano) Va’ a dire agli affamati che i loro alimenti li si stanno buttando nei rifiuti!
Baher Kamal | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Questi sono fatti, non supposizioni: circa 1.300 milioni di tonnellate di alimenti vanno sprecati e persi… ogni singolo anno, l’equivalente di oltre una tonnellata per ciascuno del miliardo di affamati, molti dei quali sono quelli che li hanno prodotti.
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PayPal: Rule of Power
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
11 Oct 2022 – Last week PayPal announced that at its “sole discretion,” $2,500 would be seized from accounts guilty of spreading misinformation–dissent from official narratives–,a policy of thought control like in George Orwell’s «1984». The rule of power, not the rule of law, is what we are up against, and some are slow to realize it.
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War through the Media and the Role of Journalism
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – From a journalist who covered wars for 30 years in Latin America, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia, the book “Truth Is Bombed: Media and War through the Eyes of a War Correspondent” is the result of a long-term research on the role of powerful news organizations in the coverage of armed conflicts, fake news, propaganda and censorship in the major wars from the 19th to the 21st century.
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Biden’s Broken Promise to Avoid War with Russia May Kill Us All
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
11 Oct 2022 – The US and NATO’s escalating war with Russia in Ukraine has raised the danger of nuclear war to a level that even President Biden has compared to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. How Biden and his allies have taken fateful decisions to keep escalating this war.
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Comrades in Arms
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
A Letter from an Ex-US Soldier
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Energy Flow
Anima Mundi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Give or Take…
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The Latest Outrage
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
3 Oct 2022 – This Modern World
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Prof. Dietrich Fischer, Co-Founder of TRANSCEND, Passed Away on 18 Oct 2015
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
My dear friend, co-founder of TRANSCEND in 1993 with myself and Fumiko Nishimura left us on this date after a short hospital stay in coma, basically due to his diabetes for many years. Let us celebrate your life while deploring that you are no longer among us, in deep gratitude for all you did to inspire and help–and for peace in general. RIP
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Tulsi Gabbard Dares to Challenge Washington’s War Machine
Tony Cox | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – Tulsi Gabbard’s rapid transformation from rising Democratic star to demonized outcast–culminating this week with her decision to leave the party–has exposed the one thing on which every powerful person in Washington agree: war is good. The former presidential candidate has shown that opposing regime-change policies is the one taboo that the ruling class will not tolerate.
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Our Shared Addiction to Empire
Patrick Lawrence | Scheerpost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
If the Columbus myth has been thoroughly discounted, what is it that causes us to continue closing the banks, stopping the mail, and marching in parades on a Monday around October 12 each year?
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Africa, the Looted Continent
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
10 Oct 2022 – Africa. The birthplace of “Homo Sapiens.” The land of plenty. The home of over 1.3 billion humans, with 500 million plus living in extreme poverty, continues to be looted. It is a sort of graveyard for half of the world’s victims of terror and the land with the highest suicide rate on Earth. Why?
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Millions of Girls Abused in the Name of Fake, Toxic Masculinity
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – A common feature to religions – including the monotheistic ones – is that groups of males have self-proclaimed themselves as the source for interpreting the “Word of God,” shaping them, and spreading them among the peoples of good faith.
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Pipelines v. USA
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.
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Westerners Live in Denial Convinced They’re the Good Guys
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – Stark contradictions in West’s treatment of the Ukraine war and the occupation and siege of Palestine should serve as a wake-up call.
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Morning Has Broken (Music Video of the Week)
Cat Stevens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Song by Cat Stevens. Scenes of Cornwall and Devon. Video by Dennis Bolt. Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy.
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Peace Agenda for Ukraine and the World
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Statement of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement Adopted on 21 Sep 2022, International Day of Peace, at the Meeting of Ukrainian Pacifists
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The Flaws and Fantasies of the New Biden Doctrine
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – United States President Joe Biden’s newly released National Security Strategy is an amalgam of his predecessors’ doctrines. It is ambitious–and delusional–about America’s role in the world.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Not only did Washington mobilize the world to denounce Russia’s ‘aggression,’ but supplied advanced weaponry in great quantities to the Ukrainians doing all it could at the UN and elsewhere to build a punitive coalition hostile to Russia, coupled with a variety of sanctions and the demonization of Putin. This perspective of state propaganda was faithfully conveyed by a self-censoring Western media.
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Big Tech: Not Only Market but Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
Cecilia Rikap | Institute for New Economic Thinking - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
How do we regulate an information utility?
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Will Saudi Leadership of OPEC Clash with U.S. Strategic Partnership?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Reevaluating US Relations with Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ Oil Production Cut
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Direct Link
Helen Berg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Ditto
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Elections in Ukraine Provinces
Marc Pilisuk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – The recent Russian sponsored elections in four Ukraine provinces were seriously flawed. The US and NATO response to these elections, however, once again missed an opportunity for dialogue that might lead to an end to the war before its escalation into new weapons use and further killing.
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The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford to Lose Kabul and Kiev
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Russia will not allow the Empire to control Ukraine, whatever it takes. That’s intrinsically linked to the future of the Greater Eurasia Partnership.
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The Non-West Coalesces
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – Nations representing more than 80 percent of the global population and a like percentage of global gross domestic product are perfectly capable of seeing the Biden administration’s pointed provocations and do not approve.
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(Português) Animais Devem Existir para Nos Servir?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Reduzir animais a uma finalidade de consumo não anula capacidades dissociadas do consumo. Apesar de haver uma resistência de reconhecimento, esses animais, embora inaturais, manifestam características de sujeitos.
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Israel Authorizes Military to Kill Palestinians with Drones in West Bank
Marjorie Cohn | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
15 Oct 2022 – Commanders of the Israeli Occupying Forces have been authorized to use armed drones to kill Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Journalists who report the truth about Israel’s crimes incur the risk of being fired or even assassinated. Neither Israel nor the U.S. government and its corporate media will tolerate any criticism of the illegal Israeli occupation.
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Biden Administration Wants Kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to “Suffer like Julian Assange,” according to UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
Ed Rampell | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela.
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Once Upon a Time
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
9 Oct 2022 – Just as was the case with the birth of the universe, when life first arrived it was as simple as could be. It remained in that state of radical simplicity for a very long time, like a kind of incubation period, before hatching and exploding into organisms of greater and greater complexity. The story of the universe is a story of expanding perception of the universal consciousness.
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The Fatal Attraction of the City
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
3 Oct 2022 – While cities are seen as a symbol of glamour and comfort for a number of their residents, over one billion people continue to live in overcrowded settlements with inadequate housing. And their number is rising every single day.
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How Private Interests and the Banking Dynasties Control Washington
Shane Quinn | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – The strongest branch of the Federal Reserve is the New York Federal Reserve Bank, which fell under the control of 8 long-established banking families. Only 4 of these dynasties hail from largely American backgrounds, which are Goldman Sachs, the Rockefellers, Lehman Brothers and Kuhn Loeb. The other 4 are the Rothschilds in Paris and London, the Warburgs from Germany, the Lazards from France and Israel Moses Sieff from Britain.
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Death by Nationalism?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – The irresolvable dilemma facing Western leaders is that this is a no-win situation. How can they militarily defeat Russia, when it possesses 6,000 nuclear warheads and its military doctrine explicitly states that it will use them before it will accept an existential military defeat? If a nuclear war happens, everyone on the planet is no more than a deportee.
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Open Letter to UNSG Antonio Guterres: The 2022 Nobel War Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
6 Oct 2022 – Nobel´s prize should each year serve to remind the nations of the world of the urgent need for demilitarization and for taking the UN Charter obligations very seriously. Unfortunately, the Norwegian award committee is betraying Nobel´s trust, breaking the law and deliberately acting in bad faith.
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“Peace in a Cup of Tea” (Part 1): The Beginning
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
8 Oct 2022 – Life Is Like a Cup of Tea – It Is All in How You Make It
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Optimism of the Will
David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
And the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Pipeline Terror Is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on 30 Sep as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties.
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Iranian and Turkish Moves to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization Raise Its Profile
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
7 Out 2022 – While far from being an alliance, the SCO is increasingly utilized for managing Eurasian affairs without traditional Western mechanisms and organizations.
→ read full articleGo and Tell the Hungry That Their Food Is Being Thrown in the Garbage
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – These are facts, not guesses: about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted and lost… every single year, the equivalent of one ton per each of the one billion hungry people, many of them are those who produced the food.
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Consider this…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
No Comment
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Einstein’s Prescience
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
War and many other forms of violence are generated by the underlying structural violence of capitalism, which is intrinsically unjust and inevitably produces conflict. This outmoded, destructive system chains us also into working to make its owners rich.
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(Castellano) Derrotar la Pobreza en Todas las Casas
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Una vez que se entiende el principio básico aquí destacado –que el empleo y por ende la dignidad no tienen que depender de las ventas, sino que pueden ser también fruto de la solidaridad, hay innumerables variaciones y extensiones posibles.
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Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Born in London, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Deforestation 101: Everything You Need to Know
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Deforestation is the clearing of forested land with the purpose of converting it to be used for something other than forest, including the raising of livestock, agriculture, mining, development or other non-forest uses.
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The Military Industrial Media Complex Wants You to Be More Media (I)Literate!
Nolan Higdon | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – A true media literacy education empowers students to be autonomous and sophisticated media users, who ask their own questions about who controls media messaging and interrogate the power structures behind them. When a student is left dependent on the military industrial complex to analyze content for them, it is not education, it is indoctrination.
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The Greatest Evil Is War
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
29 Sep 2022 – I flew to Kansas City to see Tomas Young. Tomas was paralyzed in Iraq in 2004. He was receiving hospice care at his home. I knew him by reputation and the movie documentary Body of War. He was one of the first veterans to publicly oppose the war in Iraq.
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Putin Grants Russian Citizenship to US Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Pjotr Sauer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – Vladimir Putin signed a decree today granting Russian citizenship to the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, 39, a former intelligence contractor who has been living in Russia since 2013 after leaking secret files that revealed vast domestic and international surveillance operations by the NSA.
→ read full articleComplex Changes Occurring in the World
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Wherever you may be, you will observe changes taking place. The changes could be cultural, political, linguistic, regarding food habits, etc. This is inevitable and we have to adjust accordingly.
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Hannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
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Hawaii to US Navy: Quit Polluting Our Waters
Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
6 Oct 2022 – A $9 million fine and a sewage leak into Pearl Harbor are just the latest in a series of water crises.
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The Democratic Party, Now the Leading Party of War
John V. Walsh | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
The prowar mentality among the progressive Dem pols is not limited to Biden’s cruel proxy war to the last Ukrainian. It extends to a second proxy war now being ginned up in Taiwan. When Nancy Pelosi recently visited the island to stir up secessionist sentiment, not a single progressive Democrat in Congress made so much as a peep of protest.
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‘End the War on Journalism and Free Assange’: Thousands Demand Release of WikiLeaks Founder
Kenny Stancil | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
9 Oct 2022 – Supporters of Julian Assange held a massive transatlantic protest yesterday to demand his freedom. In London, thousands formed a giant human chain around Britain’s parliament; in Washington D.C., people gathered outside the Department of Justice demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland end U.S. attempts to extradite Assange.
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I Was Canceled for Criticizing Israel
Katie Halper | The Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – I contributed to The Hill TV’s “Rising” for three years. But one monologue defending Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Palestinians cost me my job.
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The Amazing Trumpkin
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – The Magician
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Blinken Says Nord Stream Sabotage Is a ‘Tremendous Opportunity’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
2 Oct 2022 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday [30 Sep] that the attacks on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia to Germany offer a “tremendous opportunity” to end Europe’s dependency on Russian energy.
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Reforming the United Nations
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
It is becoming clear that the concept of the absolutely sovereign nation-state is a dangerous anachronism in a world of thermonuclear weapons, instantaneous communication, and economic interdependence. Probably our best hope for the future lies in developing the United Nations into a World Federation.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
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Religiousness, Spirituality, and IQ: Are They Linked?
Regan Clark | UC Davis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Abstract – Research has revealed a positive correlation between IQ and education, as well as a negative correlation between education and religiosity. However, there is little research linking IQ with religiosity and spirituality. Furthermore, researchers disagree about the operational definitions of religiousness and spirituality and about their relationship to one another.
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How Does the Russo-Ukrainian War End?
Timothy Snyder | Thinking about... - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Sometimes you change the subject, and sometimes the subject changes you.
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Is This the End of ‘Socialism for the Rich’?
Yanis Varoufakis | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
5 Oct 2022 – Last Thursday [29 Sep], the International Monetary Fund spooked the markets and surprised the commentariat by chiding the U.K. conservative government for fiscal irresponsibility. The shock was palpable. The rebuke for tax cuts that will “increase inequality” is probably not the come-to-Jesus moment it might seem.
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Despite Calls for Diplomacy to End War, US Confirms More Weapons Headed to Ukraine
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – Proponents of a negotiated diplomatic solution to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this week decried the Biden administration’s latest military assistance package for the embattled country, warning that the longer the fight continues, the greater the chance of a catastrophic nuclear war.
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The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
9 Oct 2022 – Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department of Justice are the puppets, not the puppet masters. They are the façade, the fiction, that the longstanding persecution of Julian Assange has something to do with justice. Like the High Court in London, they carry out an elaborate judicial pantomime.
→ read full articleIt’s only a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ When It Accuses the US Government
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – The western political/media class dismisses as “conspiracy theories” claims that the US is responsible for the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, while leveling the same accusations against Russia. Which probably says a lot about the way that label has been used over the years, if you think about it.
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Masters of the Piano (Music Video of the Week)
Brendan Kavanagh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Senior Citizen Plays Piano… Then Magic Occurs
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Global Peace and Conflict Management: Ignorance and Wickedness Pushing Humanity to Third World War
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
5 Oct 2022 – The global leader’s mental microscope obsessed with ignorance and wickedness appear to have an irresistible necessity to deprive humanity of its peaceful future. The favorite perversion sees people just in numbers and digits, not voices of reason for change and human unity.
→ read full articleCan Europe Afford to Turn a Blind Eye to Evidence of a US Role in Pipeline Blasts?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
6 Oct 2022 – The sabotage of the two Nord Stream pipelines leaves Europeans certain to be much poorer and colder this winter, and was an act of international vandalism on an almost unimaginable scale. The attacks severed Russian gas supplies to Europe and caused the release of enormous quantities of methane gas, the prime offender in global warming.
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30 Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike for 14 Days: 900 Prisoners Return Meals in Solidarity
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
8 Oct 2022 – Thirty Palestinian prisoners continue their hunger strike to end administrative detention and imprisonment without charge or trial.
9 Oct 2022 – Twenty More Palestinian Prisoners Join Hunger Strike
The Myth of Normal”: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
16 Sep 2022 – “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté. “Psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease.” He also discusses how the healthcare system has harmfully promoted the “mechanization of birth” and how capitalism has fueled addiction and the rise of youth suicide rates.
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Protection Wall
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Emotional Health
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(Português) Até Quando a Crueldade Animal Será Normalizada?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Se olhássemos para a realidade comum dos animais, sem a defensiva da priorização de nossos interesses, o que nos impediria de perceber que a violência é cotidiana e intrinsecamente cruel?
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Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Winner: “What We Need Today Is Weapons”
Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
“What we need today is weapons, and maybe it’s weird to hear that from a human rights lawyer, but I’ll be very honest with you: I have spent 20 years defending human rights, and now I have no legal instrument which has worked in this situation.”
— Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Fallen on Hard Times –> Duggata Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
“From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating and wandering on.”
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“End War in Ukraine” Say 66 Nations at UN General Assembly
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
29 Sep 2022 – The calls to end the war in Ukraine that “reverberated through the Hall” at the UNGA. Sixty-six countries, representing most of the world’s population, made eloquent and urgent pleas for a negotiated peace in Ukraine.
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Patagonia Partners with Planet Earth
Sohini Dey | The Voice of Fashion - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
American outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia has announced a new ownership. Corporate activism drives sales for the company, which will now transfer all additional profits for climate change initiatives, Yvon Chouinard, who founded Patagonia 50 years ago, announced on 14 Sep 2022.
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The Narrative That This War Was “Unprovoked” Prevents Peace
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
2 Oct 2022 – People who believe the empire’s narratives about its official enemies have fewer critical thinking skills than your average Marvel movie viewer. Think. Be a grown up and think. Someone’s benefitting from the aggressively promulgated narrative that peace is impossible and war is the only solution. And that someone isn’t you.
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Brazil Votes in Tense Election: Bolsonaro vs. Lula
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
2 Oct 2022 – Divisive polls head into second round after far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro did better than polls had suggested. The second-round vote will take place on October 30.
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Imperialism and Capitalism Are ‘Bleeding the World Dry’: At UN, Nicaragua Calls for Global Rebellion
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
27 Sep 2022 – At the United Nations General Assembly, Nicaragua’s Sandinista government called for a global rebellion against the “imperialist and capitalist system” that is “bleeding the world dry.” Condemning illegal sanctions and war, it urged a new multipolar order.
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Iran: Women-Life-Liberty
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – The cry “Women-Life-Liberty!” is going up in many different parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Some observers believe that there is a new spirit in these protests. They may be the wave of the future and should be watched closely.
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An Overview of US Nuclear Weapons and Arms Expenditure
Shane Quinn | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
29 Sep 2022 – By 2012, there were 750 US military bases globally and 1.4 million American troops, figures which are reported through today. Other estimates suggest more than 1,000 military installations abroad but even the Pentagon may not be sure of the exact number.
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Who Sabotaged Nordstream 2?
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
30 Sep 2022 – Russia had no motive for sabotaging Nordstream 2. If they wanted to stop the flow of natural gas, they could have simply turned it off at the Russian end. But the USA has a motive for sabotaging Nordstream 2: to weaken Russia by reducing its income from the sale of natural gas. Washington’s aim throughout the Ukraine war has been to weaken Russia.
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The Everlasting Wonder of Being: How a Cold Cosmos Kindles the Glow of Consciousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
How we went from quanta packages to the laughter of children on a summer afternoon.
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Galtung on Militarism
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
Solve the Underlying Conflict
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Putin Signs Treaties on Accession of Former Ukrainian Regions to Russia
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
30 Sep 2022 – President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties on the inclusion of four former Ukrainian regions into the Russian Federation. Today’s ceremony marked the start of the formal process of their accession. The documents must now be verified by the Constitutional Court and ratified by parliament.
→ read full articleA New UN to Prevent the Sacrifice of Europe to the Nuclear Gods
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
The UN is stymied by its fatally flawed Charter. Despite the fact that the original purpose of the UN is to end “the scourge of war,” it has failed time and time again. While the UN has done much good, the world has seen over 250 wars since the Charter was signed.
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Václav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
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Snowden Gets Russian Citizenship
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden today. The North American’s name was included without fanfare on a list of 72 foreigners who became citizens.
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An Open Letter to Vladimir Putin from Roger Waters
Roger Waters | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – Recently I have been reading comments on social media, asking why I’ve written to Mrs Olena Zelenska but not to Mr Vladimir Putin. Very good question, I’m glad you asked, here it is.
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Russia Says US “Wrecked” Ukraine Talks, but Peace Is Still Possible
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
25 Sep 2022 – A US official rejects Putin’s claim that NATO sabotaged a “peaceful settlement” with Ukraine early in the war. The threat of US-Russia nuclear conflict is at its highest in decades, economic havoc is spreading, and more Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are being sent off to die. But it is not too late for diplomacy in this perilous moment.
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(Português) Devermos Combater Algumas Violências Contra Animais, mas Não Outras?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
Crueldade contra animais é algo que nunca é tão pequeno quanto tendemos a julgar que seja, a não ser quando minoramos o significado de “crueldade”.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
19 Sep 2022 – Sigh!
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