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Is Lula under Threat? Political Intrigue Grows as Right Suddenly Merges with Left in Brazil’s Upcoming Presidential Election
Julian Cola | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – Latin America’s pink tide resumes its stride when Luíz Inácio “Lula” da Silva is re-elected for a third term as president. It’s a sentiment rooted in the size and geopolitical importance of the country. Lula’s two-term presidency (2003-2011) was no fluke, much less a disappointment.
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Vera Sharav: When a Holocaust Survivor Confirms the Parallels, We Need to Listen
Ann Tomoko Rosen | On Second Thought - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – This is the New Eugenics. It is embraced by the most powerful global billionaire technocrats who gather at Davos: Big Tech, Big Pharma, the financial oligarchs, academics, government leaders & the military industrial complex. These megalomaniacs have paved the road to another Holocaust. This time, the threat of genocide is Global in scale.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
The beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war in Feb 2022 dramatized a dangerous global conflict between the USA and its Cold War adversaries, Russia and China. A regional conflict that might have been resolved by negotiation or dialogues between the parties became relatively intractable, with no immediate solutions in sight.
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No Safe Haven: Nuclear Weapons Are Making Us Crazy
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
There are no safe havens from a nuclear war. Nuclear weapons are illegal by international law approved by 122 countries (of 197) at the UN on 7 Jul 2017; ratified by 66 countries.
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For Those Who Still Trust the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Radioactive Cesium – 137 Limits in Food by Country
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European Central Bank Says Cash ‘Not Fit’ for Digital Economy, Dismisses CBDC Privacy Concerns
Andrew Moran | The Epoch Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – In the digital economy, cash is no longer a useful tool, and a Central Bank Digital Currency is the “only solution” to continue the existing monetary system, according to a new paper, “The Economics of Central Bank Digital Currency.”
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Israel’s Assault on Palestinian NGOs Is Shutting off Access to International Community
Umar Farooq | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Experts say that Israel’s recent assault with overnight raids on Palestinian NGOs and closure of six Palestinian civil society groups will further block ties to international institutions from which they receive most of their funding. To what extent these groups will be able to continue operating with the outside world?
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Nuremberg: Holocaust Survivor Vera Sharav’s Alert about Nazi Tactics in 2022
Vera Sharav | CHD TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
“Humanity Is Currently Under Siege by the Global Heirs of the Nazis” – Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate, speaks first at the 75th Anniversary Event of the Nuremberg Code in Nuremberg, Germany, on 20 Aug 2022.
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Why Is There Suffering?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
It is natural that at some point in our lives we ask, “Why is there suffering?” Or “Why am I not happy?” “Why can’t we simply go on with life and not undergo so many trials and tribulations? Why can’t God make a universe or world where there is no suffering?” Well, He already has, but we are simply in the wrong one.
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8 Y.O. Child Prodigy Plays Chopin’s Nocturne (Music Video of the Week)
Elisey Mysin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Elisey Mysin was born in 2010 in Russia. He performed Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor in 2018 in his first performance on a TV show.
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The Monstrous Game of Nuclear Annihilation
Ray Acheson | Reaching Critical Will – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
States parties and signatories to the TPNW issued a joint statement on 26 Aug 2022 reiterating their support for the NPT and its full implementation. We will not rest until the last state has joined the TPNW, the last warhead has been irreversibly dismantled and destroyed, and nuclear weapons have been totally eliminated from the Earth.
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Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
28 Aug 2022 – Permanent War Requires Permanent Censorship
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They Lie to Us
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
They lie to us all our lives about what soldiers do,
about what cops do,
about what journalists do,
about what presidents do.
Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Possible Israeli War of Aggression against Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
26 Aug 2022 – While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. The deadly Israeli wars on Gaza are made possible, not only by western weapons and political support, but through an endless stream of media misinformation and misrepresentation.
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Philippine Activist Walden Bello Arrested for Cyber-libel
Carlos H. Conde | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
9 Aug 2022 – Philippine police yesterday arrested Walden Bello, a 76-year-old social activist, academic, and former congressman on charges of cyber-libel. Charges Spotlight Criminal Defamation Laws
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Putin og Zelenskij på ville veier!
Bjørn Eidsvig - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
26.august 2022 – Jeg skvatt da jeg hørte det: På NRK Nyhetsmorgen, onsdag den 24/8, like før kl 9 ble vi servert nyheten om at Zelenskij nettopp har holdt en tale der han presiserte at Ukraina uansett vil fortsette krigen mot Russland helt til de har gjenvunnet Donbass og Krim!
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Afghanistan, Iraq, and the “War on Terror”
Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov | USFP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
The paper analyzes how the North American people were duped into believing that the proper and necessary response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks was to attack other nations (beyond stateless terrorists); and examines the counterproductive policies pursued in the name of counterterrorism.
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The West’s Dangerously Simple-Minded Narrative about Russia and China
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – The overwrought fear of China and Russia is sold to a Western public through manipulation of the facts. Europe should reflect on the fact that the non-enlargement of NATO and the implementation of the Minsk II agreements would have averted this awful war in Ukraine.
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Lives in Molecular Biology
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
A New, Freely Downloadable Book: “Lives in Molecular Biology” – The PDF of the book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link:
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What Do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and TikTok all Have in Common?
John Parker | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – They are all funded or staffed by Western and U.S. intelligence members pushing the U.S. narrative on Ukraine. Fact-finding mission to Ukraine and Russia to report on the suppressed information that challenges the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S. The Facebook algorithm driving white supremacists. More…
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‘And of Water We Made Every Living Thing’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – This is how the Muslims’ Holy Book–the Quran–refers to the most precious element of life… Religions aside, also UNESCO underlines that “water is a unique and non-substitutable resource.” Now comes the question: is water finite or infinite?
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“The Worse, the Better” Doctrine and the Melting Ice
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – There is a prevailing doctrine among the right and far-right political parties that are still in the opposition and most likely to jump to power in those countries where they are not already ruling. It is the doctrine of “the worse things go, the better for us.”
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Global Peace and Conflict Resolution Need Leaders of Proactive Vision, Intelligence and Effective Communication
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Egoistic Leaders Are Misleading Humanity
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Diversity of India and Its People
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
India is a vast country with a population of about 1.37 billion. Africa, with so many countries, has about 1.4 billion. The world population is about 8 billion with the Chinese being the highest; however, India is expected to surpass it in a year or two.
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The Usual Suspects
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Take your pick.
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Tradition vs. Modernity? Humans vs. Animals? The Truth behind the Violations of Animal Rights
Carolina Gomes | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Over the past years animal exploitation became a popular subject but not in a good way. Music, documentaries, and news channels helped bring more public awareness but animal rights are still violated left and right, and we are not even close to some solution.
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Julian Assange Files His Perfected Grounds of Appeal
Assange Defense | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Today, 26 August 2022, Julian Assange is filing his Perfected Grounds of Appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court. The Respondents are the Government of the United States and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel.
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‘Disaster Capitalism at Its Worst’: Profits of Grain Giants Spark Global Criticism
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – The fact that global commodity giants are making record profits at a time when hunger is rising is clearly unjust. “There are strong arguments for a windfall tax on the food oligopoly.” — Natalie Bennett, U.K. Green Party Peer
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The Plastics Paradox Facing Humanity
Alice Mah | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Properly addressing the plastics problem involves not only interrogating corporate tactics but also understanding that some plastics provide societal benefits.
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The Hidden Truth about the War in Ukraine
Jacques Baud | The Postil Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
1 Ago 2022 – The way we understand crises determines the way we solve them. Cheating with the facts leads to disaster. This is what is happening in Ukraine. In this case the number of issues is so enormous that we will not be able to discuss them here. Let me just focus on some of them.
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Believe! You Can!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Dare to Risk
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(Français) Le CETRI condamne l’arrestation et les poursuites engagées contre l’intellectuel et activiste philippin Walden Bello
CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
10 août 2022 – C’est avec stupeur et colère que nous avons appris l’arrestation, ce lundi 8 août, aux Philippines, de Walden Bello, intellectuel et activiste philippin bien connu, figure majeure du mouvement altermondialiste, ancien parlementaire, et récent candidat à la vice-présidence des Philippines.
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Values, Virtues and Sins of a Viable Democratic Civilization
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – Reframing the Controversy of Unconstrained Population Growth as a Hyperobject
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The TFF Abolish NATO Catalogue
Jan Oberg and TFF Associates | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – Abolish NATO or Convert It to Serve Peace – 30 Arguments & 100s of Inspirations
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Movements to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons and to Establish Geopolitical Accountability
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022 – Go to the links given connecting you with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the NGO that has the longest record of commitment to establish a global security system without nuclear weapons and with geopolitical accountability.
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(Castellano) Rusia-Ucrania-Estados Unidos-OTAN (Parte VI): De la Propaganda de Guerra al Periodismo para la Paz
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Amanece Metrópolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – El marco general para la práctica del periodismo de paz consiste en proporcionar el contexto de las interrelaciones entre tres formas clave de violencia que son constitutivas de la guerra: 1. La violencia directa, física, hacia los seres humanos, las infraestructuras y el medio ambiente; 2. La violencia cultural, comunicativa, contra el otro; y 3. La violencia estructural basada en relaciones de poder desiguales.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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Why Don’t You Stop This War?
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 –
Are you living in a jar?
No one can see the brutality of war?
Don’t close your eyes…
New Polls Show almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore
Lee Camp | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Putting the CIA in every newsroom was a clandestine project called Operation Mockingbird, and it paid mighty dividends.
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How Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan Has Enabled China to Redefine the Rules of the Game
Míng Jīnwéi (明金维) | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation of important ongoing dialogue within top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.
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Assange Attorneys and Journalists Sue the CIA over Spying
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – “Journalists are allowed to request documents that have been stolen and to publish them.” So wrote U.S. federal Judge John Koeltl in a 2019 opinion dismissing a lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee against Julian Assange, Wikileaks and others.
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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
“In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.”
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A Hall of Mirrors
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – I have long wondered why our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators give so similar accounts of things. This has been especially so in the Ukraine crisis: Keeping readers and viewers a safe distance from reality is a touchy matter. One slip and the shroud shreds.
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Blue Helmets Shoot and Kill Civilians in Congo: Nobody Talks about the Failure of the UN
Cecilia Capanna | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – There are some facts happening in the world that are extremely serious, but very few media talk about them. Few weeks ago, for example, shocking news from the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed silently.
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The Simile of the Snake ~ Alagagadduupama Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Thus I heard: At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery. At that time to a Bhikkhu, a vulture trainer in his previous birth, this evil view had arisen. As I know the Teaching of the Blessed One, to one who pursues those impedimental things declared as impediments are not suitable impediments.
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Homage to Hiroshima, Homage to Life
Roy Tamashiro | IPRA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
This address was delivered at the 33rd Annual Hiroshima Peace Service Ceremony commemorating the 77th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, on August 6, 2022, at the Izumo Taishakyo Mission
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Of Aristotle, Orwell, and the Young Heirs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Today’s youth are an unpowered witnesses to numerous unprecedented crises, which they did not create but are expected to overcome… and hopefully leave a much less baleful inheritance.
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Three Lessons from Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan
Huáyǔ Think Tank (华语智库) | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation of important ongoing dialogue within top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.
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Washington Wants a New Cold War—but That’s a Bad Idea
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – As China unleashed live-fire military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, simulating a real “reunification by force” operation in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ceremonial visit to the island last week, the bipartisan fervor for a new Cold War with China and Russia took greater hold in Washington.
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The Deadly Business of Reporting Truth
Andy Lee Roth | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
17 Aug 2022 – Violence is press censorship. To kill or imprison a journalist is to silence the public’s source of news. 33 journalists around the world have been killed this year and 494 are imprisoned, according to Reporters Without Borders. In 2022 once per week, average, somewhere in the world a journalist is killed.
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Words or Deeds?
Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Take your pick…
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Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO: From War Propaganda to Peace Journalism
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Propaganda in Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – This series has argued that the war in Ukraine is being fueled by a propaganda campaign which hides previous and current NATO/US aggressiveness towards Russia as well as the options to reach a peaceful settlement by resolving underlying conflicts.
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No Longer a Pariah? Russia and China Could Be about to ‘Normalize’ North Korea and Leave the US with another Asian Headache
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – Once a Cold War proxy battleground for superpowers, is the Korean peninsula being pulled apart by bloc politics again?
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Amidst Uproar over Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan, Media Ignores Aggressive U.S. Maritime Action in South China Sea
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – In order to force high-tech companies to decouple from the People’s Republic of China and reverse U.S. decline, U.S. imperialism needs a political/military crisis with China.
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Ukraine ‘Testing Ground’ Shaping US Network, Electronic Warfare Effort
Colin Demarest | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
17 Aug 2022 – Fierce battles being waged in Ukraine are showcasing cyber and electronic warfare and their consequences for connectivity and communications, according to the deputy commanding general at U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
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On Healing
Audrey Kitching – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Worth the Pain
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Western ‘Naturalism’ Disrespects Nonhuman Animals and the Entire Natural World
Baptise Morizot | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – The self-destructive delusion that we are the only species that has a right to life on Earth has led to the ecological crisis.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Many people celebrate this date that fell on 20 March this year.
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The Story of Nuclear Winter
Future of Life Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
6 Aug 2022 – In the event of a nuclear war, smoke and soot, lofted into the stratosphere by nuclear firestorms and spread around the world by jet-streams, would block enough sunlight to create a ‘nuclear winter’, devastating global agriculture. Scientists predict that the resulting famine and civilizational collapse would kill most people on Earth.
→ read full articleHow Do You Know What You Think You Know? The Value of Dissident Voices
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
How do you react when hearing someone express an opinion that strikes you as ridiculous, outrageous, unbelievable?
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The “Circle of Peace and Tranquility”: The Karamat of The Sultan Shaykh (Sheikh) Abdurahman Matebe Shah (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
The Banishment of a Peace Promoter by Imperial Dutch Colonisers to South Africa
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(Português) Beleza virtual, liberdade virtual, amor virtual: o Metaverso é o nosso futuro?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Quando foi a última vez que você saiu de manhã para fazer parte de um glorioso nascer do sol? Ou você se sentou em uma praia vendo o sol se pôr no horizonte? O que você sente quando toca a pele de um ente querido? Um avô, um pai, um amante ou um filho?
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Saudi Woman Given 34-Year Prison Sentence for Using Twitter
Stephanie Kirchgaessner | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022 – Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists.
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Why the U.S. Is the Main Obstacle to Nuclear Disarmament
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – The Pentagon has made no secret of its goal of military “full spectrum dominance,” with the added delusional claim that the U.S. is “exceptional” and justified in establishing and maintaining an American empire. What’s wrong with this picture?
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Valerie (Music Video of the Week)
Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Official Video ~ Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy this delightful musical treat.
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This Media Empire Leads the Charge in the US-China Propaganda War
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – Australian-born American billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire has consistently led anti-China narratives in the Western media. Encompassing a long list of influential–both television and print–media, the list of talking points aimed at Beijing is immense.
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We Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, but We Will Probably Be the Last
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
14 Aug 2022 – The archeological remains of past civilizations, including those of the prehistoric Cahokia temple mound complex in Illinois, are sobering reminders of our fate.
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When Roger Waters Cried: “Has any Israeli Shed Tears for a Boy from Gaza?”
Roger Waters | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 -Roger Waters cried yesterday on his Twitter page as he read, on camera, an essay at the Mondoweiss news website about a boy from the Gaza Strip. “What is wrong with the fucking Israelis? What is wrong with them?” he asked, in anger and despair.
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Reason U.S. Stays in Syria Revealed: To Steal Its Oil
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
On 8 Aug, the Syrian oil ministry said in a statement that the average daily output in the first half of 2022 was 80,300 barrels, while the US occupying forces and their mercenaries are stealing an average 66,000 barrels a day–over 83 percent of the oil output. The prolonged crisis in Syria has cost the oil sector about 105 billion US$.
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August 15 — India’s Independence Day
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
‘Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny and now the time has come when we shall redeem our pledge not wholly but substantially . At the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps India will wake up to life and freedom.’ — Nehru
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Time to Sign the Treaty
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it has ever been. It’s time to get the US and the 8 other nuclear powers to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Humanity is playing with nuclear fire as if climate catastrophe was not bad enough.
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War Propaganda about Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin
Chay Bowes | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
13 Aug 2022 – More and More Are Seeing Through the Lies – Amnesty International confirms the inconvenient truths, which many independent journalists and political observers already knew.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – How come food prices declined all of a sudden over four consecutive months? The Ukraine war began around five months ago. So? The “miracle” explained.
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Hunger Factory: The Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Part 2)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 – While often too quickly attributing -quasi exclusively- the world unprecedented hunger tragedy to the current proxy war in Ukraine, other major causes remain hidden in plain sight.
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Can We Please Have an Adult Conversation about China?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental Institute for Social Research– TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – As the US legislative leader Nancy Pelosi swept into Taipei, people around the world held their breath. Her visit was an act of provocation. In December 1978, the US government – following a United Nations General Assembly decision in 1971 – recognised the People’s Republic of China, setting aside its previous treaty obligations to Taiwan.
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We Can’t Let Them Do This: Russell Brand Interviews Matt Taibbi
Russell Brand – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – War, Censorship, and the State’s “Monopoly on Lying” – Mis-information and dis-information. Who should be responsible for deciding what truth we’re told? We should leave that up to the government, shouldn’t we?
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Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 77th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
Tomihisa Taue, Mayor of Nagasaki | The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Translation of the Peace Declaration read on 9 Aug 2022 by Nagasaki’s Mayor, Mr. Tomihisa Taue, at a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, as released by the Nagasaki Municipal Government.
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European Imperialism and How India and Pakistan Won and Lost 14-15 Aug 1947 National Freedom
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
14 Aug 2022 – A Critical Analysis as both India and Pakistan Celebrate Their National Freedoms – Pakistan and India need desperately new, educated and intelligent proactive leadership to facilitate friendship, resolution of major political problems and a sustainable future to exist in peace.
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Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – It is becoming clear that U.S. neoconservatives have succeeded in creating a warmongering, anti-Russian mood in Europe through an unprecedented information war, the consequences of which will take some time to assess. It is, however, possible to identify the signs of what is to come.
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Life and Death and More Life: Leo Tolstoy on Science, Spirituality, and Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“A caterpillar sees itself shrivel up, but doesn’t see the butterfly which flies out of it.” “How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
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Washington Steals over 80 Percent of Syria’s Oil Output Per Day
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – The Syrian Oil Ministry released a statement yesterday accusing US forces occupying Syria of being responsible for the theft of most of the country’s oil. The losses incurred by the trafficking campaign surpass US$100 bn, according to Syria’s oil ministry.
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Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO (V): From Politics to Propaganda
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Propaganda in Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
This article focus on the official narrative by NATO, especially the US, which explains the war in terms of madman Putin taking the unprovoked decision to invade Ukraine. This narrative effectively camouflages the geopolitics of the war, especially the role of the US and NATO and the possibility of negotiating peace.
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (20 Aug 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Swami Prabhupada was a spiritual teacher (guru) and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna Movement”. Over half a billion books authored by him were distributed since 1965. He has been described as a charismatic leader with followers scattered throughout the world.
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Singularity: Attractors and Scenarios (Part 2)
Javier E Belda - IHPS | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 -The approaching evolutionary crisis is evidently not a regular evolutionary crisis like the many others in the history of the planet-system. It is the total crisis of an evolutionary path of 4,000 million years. It can be said to be a crisis of the very critical character of the preceding evolution, a crisis of crises.
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(Castellano) Rusia-Ucrania-Estados Unidos/OTAN: De la política a la propaganda
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Amanece Metrópolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Este artículo se centra en la narrativa oficial de la OTAN, especialmente de los EE. UU., que explica la guerra en términos de que el loco Putin tomó la decisión no provocada de invadir Ucrania. Esta narrativa camufla efectivamente la geopolítica de la guerra, especialmente el papel de EE. UU. y la OTAN y la posibilidad de negociar la paz.
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Of the Far West, the ‘Good Cowboys’… and the ‘Bad Indians’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – Rough men, ranchers, mercenary killers, saloons, cowboys, guns, gold fever, the ‘good sheriff’… and the ‘bad indians”. Add to this mix the deeply-rooted, widely dominating culture of the so-called “white supremacy.”
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Man is generally ambitious — he wants to be an important person, in the limelight. These days when India is celebrating its 75th year of independence from the British yoke, there are many flags, films, paintings and newspapers dwelling on India’s journey.
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Militarism vs Life
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“As Long as There Is Militarism, the Chances of Living in a World without Wars Are Null”
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Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
¿Cuándo fue la última vez que saliste afuera por la mañana para ser parte de un glorioso amanecer? ¿O te sentaste en una playa a ver la puesta de sol en el horizonte? ¿Qué sientes cuando tocas la piel de un ser querido? ¿Un abuelo, un padre, un amante o un hijo?
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Sleeping at the Wheel: The Uber Files, the Media, and the Coup against Labor Rights
Brian Dolber | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
9 Aug 2022 – Uber’s entire model has been about breaking—if not smashing—labor law (and worker power) through systematic misclassification.
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MIT App: Improve the News
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Aug 2022 – Based in part on the SPR Media Navigator, an MIT research group has developed an online app called Improve the News that allows readers to filter and compare news based on the “political bias” and the “establishment bias” of media outlets. Their own machine learning algorithm confirmed that these are indeed the two most important dimensions of media bias.
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The Ninth of August: Christians Killing Christians in the Name of Christ
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
On 9 Aug 1945 an all-Christian B-29 bomber crew took off from Tinian Island in the South Pacific, with the blessings of its Catholic and Protestant chaplains. In the plane’s hold was the second of the only two nuclear bombs to ever be used against human targets in wartime.
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Americans Rarely See the True Face of Israel’s Bombing of Gaza
Elise Swain and Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – By shying away from graphic images of death, news organizations sanitize the violence of Israeli aggression against Palestinians. This article includes graphic images and depictions of death.
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At the Lost and Found
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
5 Aug 2022 – Those who are never lost are forever lost. Only those who know they are lost and that life is a shipwreck have a chance to find their way to shore. The world’s great religions, including Taoism and Existential philosophy, understand that at the heart of human existence is the presence of the not (death, emptiness, void).
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Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
21 Jul 2022 – The co-founders of the nonviolent resistance movement “WAH-WAF” extend their sincere appreciation to the World Freedom Alliance Greece.
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Let’s Love Each Other
Rumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Let’s love each other,
let’s cherish each other, my friend,
before we lose each other.
Difference or Similarity?
SeekethFind - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Both-and
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
In the United States the arms industry has been privatized, which is not the case in China or Russia. In the US, selling weapons and death is a business. It is a business, on which capitalist investors can make enormous profits, selling weapons and selling war.
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Vedic Peace
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Author’s note: I’m grateful to TMS contributor Stephen Knapp for much of the historical information in this paper. We honor the source of the Sanatana Dharma in India and rejoice that it is now once again becoming a global reality – Hari Om!
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Leif Eiriksson Peace Award 2022 to Johan Galtung
Thor Magnusson | Mirpuri Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
The award was presented on 8 July 2022 by Thor Magnusson from the Peace 2000 Institute through the Mirpuri Foundation at the Lisbon Opera House, Portugal. 1,400 people attended.
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