Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Italiano) Dalla giustizia ambientale alla giustizia climatica
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Non c’è pace senza giustizia: questo è uno degli slogan che accompagnano le manifestazioni e i presìdi organizzati da associazioni e gruppi della società civile per protestare contro i conflitti armati che in tante parti del mondo portano ancora oggi morte e devastazione.
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(Italiano) Una carestia su vasta scala
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Fra i maggiori pericoli per la civiltà umana ci sono la guerra nucleare e un mutamento climatico catastrofico, pericoli che minacciano anche la biosfera. Inoltre, siamo di fronte alla minaccia di una carestia su vasta scala, che coinvolge miliardi di persone, non solo milioni.
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US Department of Defense Finally Admits in Public Document that There Are 46 US Military-Funded Biolabs in Ukraine
Jim Hoft | Gateway Pundit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
The Pentagon on Thursday [9 Jun] finally admitted in a public statement that there are 46 US-funded biolabs in Ukraine. This is after months of lies and denials by Democrats, Biden, and their fake news mainstream media!
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Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
All three sources of generative force (Direct, Structural and Cultural Violence) need to be explored – with problems diagnosed, prognoses made from present trends if allowed to continue, and appropriate therapies devised – if conflict is to be not merely resolved, but transformed.
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Gustavo Petro Wins Colombian Election, Makes History as Country’s First Leftist President
Genevieve Glatsky, Julie Turkewitz, et al. | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
20 Jun 2022 – A former rebel and longtime legislator won Colombia’s presidential election yesterday, galvanizing voters frustrated by decades of poverty and inequality under conservative leaders.
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The Mirror on India and Sistine Chapel
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Mirror mirror on the wall
Who is the best of them all
Is it books that you read
While you laid in your bed
Embracing the Complexity of Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars. One can also quickly, unavoidably imagine the cynicism that rushes in whenever someone tosses out the word “peace.” Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars.
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Is There Life After Death?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – A review of ‘James and Whitehead on Life after Death’ by David Ray Griffin – The meaning of death, and whether humans do or do not survive it in some form, has always obsessed people, from the average person to the great artists and thinkers. Death is the mother of philosophy and all the arts and sciences.
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Deon and Telos: How Journalisms Are Evolving Their Ethical Approaches
Jake Lynch | MDPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Aug 2021 – This article belongs to the Special Issue, Beyond Fake News and Fact-Checking: The Political, Social and Technological Consequences of the Battle Against Misinformation and Disinformation.
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Lives of Some Great Dramatists
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
18 Jun 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents the lives and work of some great dramatists throughout history. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link:
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Why Does the United States Have a Military Base in Ghana?
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – An interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana.
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Welcome to a Science-Fiction Planet
David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – How George Orwell’s Doublethink Became the Way of the World – The remarkable 93-year-old Noam Chomsky put the Ukraine War in the largest and most devastating context possible in an interview with Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian.
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Global Conflict Management: Why Russia, NATO, the EU and Ukraine Cannot Make Peace?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
19 Jun 2022 – To stop the war in Ukraine, the US, the EU, NATO should have a direct face-to-face communication with President Putin under the G20 auspices. It is logical when the parties come to talk directly that tensions and evil mongering is reduced. This has not happened except military options for weapon supplies and enlargement of the scope of the conflict.
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The Nine Great Covid Mysteries
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
June 2022 – The nine great Covid mysteries: from virus origins to the Nordic paradox.
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A New Helsinki Process: Restoring Pragmatic Order in Europe
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
The Cold War experience of broad-based security dialogues suggests how to restore pragmatic European order.
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UK’s Bid to Export Some Refugees to Rwanda, ‘All Wrong’, Says UN Refugee Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, today dismissed the British government’s proposal to process United Kingdom-bound asylum seekers in Rwanda, describing the offshore deal between the two countries announced in April, as “all wrong”.
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What Is ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’? Inside China’s Economic Model
Ben Norton | Multipolarista - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
22 May 2022 – How does socialism with Chinese characteristics differ from Western neoliberal capitalism? Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton discussed China’s socialist model with economist John Ross, a senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China.
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Universal Brotherhood Includes Animals: Another Reason to Be Vegetarian
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
If we expect to attain peace in the world, kindness must extend to all living beings. Otherwise, the violence we perform will manifest in other areas of our lives and in society. Includes quotes from various religious texts and Christian authorities.
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Alan Turing (23 Jun 1912 – 7 Jun 1954)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, educator, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. The famed code-breaking war hero, now considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, was criminally convicted to chemical castration and harshly treated under the U.K.’s homophobic laws. He committed suicide.
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New Bill That Passed U.S. House Reinvokes Old Russian Bogeyman as Pretext for More Intervention in Africa
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
14 Jun 2022 – Liberal Democrats shamefully all voted for the “Countering Malign Russian Influence Activities in Africa” Act—seems like relic from bygone era.
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Mark Blyth | Rhodes Center Podcast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
27 May 2022 – From 2019 to 2021, Frances Haugen worked as a Product Manager in Facebook’s Civic Integrity Department. During that time she got an inside view into how Facebook’s algorithms are deliberately designed to influence its users. She also saw something deeply worrying: that this influence was often used to grow Facebook’s profits at the expense of users’ safety and wellbeing.
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Herman Melville’s Passionate, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Love Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
“Your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s… The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds.”
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Teach Your Children (Music Video of the Week)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Live – A Classic from 1969
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Doctor’s Orders: ‘Do Not Extradite Assange’
Doctors for Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Ahead of the U.K. Home Secretary’s decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, a group of more than 300 doctors representing 35 countries have told Priti Patel that approving his extradition would be “medically and ethically unacceptable”.
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A Couple for the Road…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
They said, ‘Do what you love and the money will follow.’
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Returning to Realism: The Other Face of the Ukraine Crisis
Mohamed Mahad D. Darar | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
12 Jun 2022 – The debate over the driving force behind Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has divided the West into two major camps: one renders Russia’s offensive as Putin’s grand scheme to resuscitate the Soviet Empire, while the other portrays Russia’s aggression as Putin’s response to the expansion of NATO to Russia’s neighbors. While both arguments merit serious attention, both ignore a crucial connection.
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Why Won’t Europe Call for an End to This War?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Manipulation of the news around Russia’s war on Ukraine is to prevent a lasting peace for both Ukraine and the region. The aim is to prolong the war to serve the interests of those who wish to promote it. How does one know facts from lies, and how can one learn to explain events without being accused of justification?
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George Orwell (25 Jun 1903 – 21 Jan 1950)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
George Orwell was a novelist, essayist and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) the latter a profound anti-Utopian novel that examines the dangers of totalitarian rule and surveillance state. Aldous Huxley was one of his masters. He worked between bouts of hospitalization for tuberculosis, of which he died in a London hospital.
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Journeys of Desperation: The New Export Commodity of Britain (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
“Migrants Back to the Colony, with Love to Rwanda” – It is ironic that a person of Indian origins, Home Secretary Ms Priti Patel, concluded the deal to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, when the good lady herself had grandparents who were from India. Her paternal grandparents were born in Gujarat before emigrating to Uganda.
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On Learning
Rumi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Wisdom
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Squelching Dissent on Both Sides of the Atlantic
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 202 – The current repression of dissent in Germany is startlingly similar to that in North America. In 2019 as the virus started to spread, the government ordered drastic measures against it.
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Constrained, Unconstrained and Surprised in a Global Context
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Encountering Black Swans with Insights of the Frog-in-the-Well and Turtle of Chinese Fable
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We Need a Culture of Nonviolence
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – The culture of violence is failing us. It’s time to change everything. U.S. society is defined by a culture of violence. This year, Campaign Nonviolence’s Action Days aim to build momentum toward a radical, nonviolent future.
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African Union Leaders Meet with Russian Government amid Escalating Food Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – The Russian special military operations in neighboring Ukraine have brought to the surface a number of persistent economic problems which have plagued the world since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged during the early months of 2020.
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African Cultural Footprint of Peace
Tendai Angela Jambga-Rokkones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Review of Amani, Rais Boneza’s Latest Poetry Collection
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Secretive Bilderberg Meetings of ‘Spies, War Hawks and World Leaders’ Escape Media Scrutiny
Susan C. Olmstead | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – A secretive meeting of more than 100 of the world’s most powerful people just took place in a Washington, D.C. hotel behind closed doors and under tight security — while few reporters even took note.
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Rebel Verdict
Irene Publishing – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
The remarkable story of how two peace activists took on the British government – and won. Rebel Verdict will be of great interest to anyone in the legal profession as well as to new generations of antiwar and environmental campaigners, especially those prepared to take nonviolent direct action on climate issues. It is also a rattling good read.
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Why Are We Risking Nuclear War over Ukraine? Have We Gone Mad? (MUST WATCH)
Col. Richard Black (ret.) | Schiller Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Col. Richard Black (ret.), former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon and former Virginia State Senator, addresses the May 26 Schiller Institute conference.
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Anthem (Music Video of the Week)
Leonard Cohen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
London 2008 – Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy.
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Ukraine and the Risk of Geopolitical Conflict — A Reawakening to Nuclear Dangers?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
11 Jun 2022 – The risk of nuclear escalation has been subject of debate in the US. These debates reveal those who dismiss Russian references to nuclear capabilities as mere saber rattling to those who worry that if Putin finds his back to the wall in Ukraine, he may resort to tactical nuclear strikes.
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Multiple Articles on U.S. Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations in Space
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction – Military Space Report
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Most Important
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Pertinent Question –> Perfect Answer
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The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – A confluence of crises—lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions and war—have compounded to trigger food shortages; and we have been warned that they may last longer than the food stored in our pantries. What to do?
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Individual Efforts for Environmental Sustenance
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
It may be mentioned that Mahatma Gandhi promoted reuse of items and not wasting anything — paper, clothing, shoes or food, etc. In fact the simple dress that he wore was demonstrably aimed at simplicity and non wastage.
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Chad Declares Food Emergency While International Agencies Sound the Alarm
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – There have been 20 hunger hotspots listed by UN humanitarian organizations while underlying problems remain unaddressed. Two of the major UN agencies are warning of the potential for widespread hunger and famine in several geopolitical regions of the world.
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(Italiano) Legami USA al Nazismo
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Volonterosa sospensione d’incredulità: il pericolo di trascurare i legami USA al nazismo
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What Is Wrong with the United States of America?
Piero P. Giorgi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
A lot of talking is currently going on about what happened (many mistakes) on May 24th in that small Texan town, while one should, instead, fly higher and try to understand the primary cause: how violence grew such strong roots in the USA. I will try to introduce here new aspects of this little discussed problem.
→ read full articleHindus, Dharmists, Devotees and Politics
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Many Krishna Devotees, Dharmists and Hindus in general will say they are not interested in politics or getting involved with it or even in voting. It is a distraction from their normal activities or spiritual pursuits. Or they feel all politicians are crooked or corrupt anyway, so what makes the difference between one or the other.
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Enemies…
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
… Within
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The Threat of a Large-Scale Famine
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Among the greatest dangers to human civilization are nuclear war and catastrophic climate change, dangers which also threaten the biosphere. In addition to these two existential threats, humans also face the threat of an extremely large-scale famine, involving billions of people, rather than millions.
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Storms at the Summit of the Americas
Rosa Miriam Elizalde | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 was a bad day for Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of American States at the Summit of the Americas. A young man declared to him what he is: an assassin and puppet of the White House, instigator of the coup in Bolivia.
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Chemtrails Are Not Contrails: The Face of Evil
Nick Rogers | Our Geoengineering Age - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
22 May 2022 -This book is an indispensable addition to the growing swath of evidence implicating governments, health agencies, medical establishments, and media the world over in one of–if not the greatest and most deadly–cover-ups of all time.
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Peace Education: An Alternative to War Education
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
War is considered essential for peace and progress. This has also been the ancient concept of attaining peace, and we know that the ancient wars were for the most parts waged to achieve peace. “Even in our modern civilization”, if we may believe Mary Stuart and E.C. Oakden, “war proves the most valuable stimulus to progress.”
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Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.
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On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations
Robert Frost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
You’ll wait a long, long time for anything much
To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud
And the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.
Summit of the Americas Fails: Boycott by Presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – As the US government’s Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – 13 gun massacres this past weekend, at strip malls, nightclubs, graduation parties — with 16 people dying, many more injured — and the total number of such shootings so far in 2022 is 246. The country is on pace to match or surpass last year’s total, which is the worst on record.
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Bilderberg Meets in Washington: Bilderberg Does China–An Economic Hurricane Is Coming
Pepe Escobar | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – Discreetly, as under the radar as a looming virus, the 68th Bilderberg meeting is currently underway in Washington, D.C. Nothing to see here. No conspiracy theories about a “secret cabal”, please. This is just a docile, “diverse group of political leaders and experts” having a chat, a laugh, and a bubbly.
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The Targeted Death and Extinction of Muslin by British Imperialism
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
200 years ago, Dhaka muslin, woven by indigenous peoples of India on hand looms was the most valuable and sought-after fabric on earth. It was the latest fashion trend in Europe, at the time. Then it was totally annihilated.
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Israeli Anti-Torture Body Refers Israel to International Criminal Court
Lubna Masarwa | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
10 Jun 2022 – The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel has referred its own country to the International Criminal Court upon concluding that, after 30 years, Israel is “not interested and unable to stop the use of torture and abuse against Palestinians”.
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Calls for Protection/Asylum for Deserters and Conscientious Objectors from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
IFOR International Fellowship of Reconciliation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – In a joint appeal to members of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a broad civil society alliance from 20 countries has called on the European governments to grant protection and asylum to Russian and Belarusian as well as Ukrainian conscientious objectors and deserters. They need immediate protection and asylum.
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The Unbearable Reactions of Zelensky
Éric Denécé | CF2R/ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – If Russia is clearly the aggressor in this conflict, those who pushed it to this attack are undoubtedly the United States, NATO and the Zelensky government. It is essential never to forget it. If NATO had not been constantly expanding, and if Zelensky and his clique had not listened to the disastrous advice of their American mentors, we would not be here.
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Portugal as an Enduring Embarrassment of the Failure of the COVID Mass Vaccination Campaign
Daniel Horowitz | Conservative Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – Portugal has the highest vaccination rate in Europe. 94 percent (including young children) have received at least one dose, and 70% have received boosters. Yet, Portugal now has the highest case rate and COVID death rate per capita in Europe and the second highest COVID fatality rate in the world. Why?
→ read full articleClever
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Bush realized that President Kennedy was popular because he sent a man to the moon.
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On Ukraine, ‘Progressive’ Proxy Warriors Spell Disaster
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – Urging leftists to support the Ukraine proxy war, Bernie Sanders aide Matt Duss whitewashes the US role, attacks dissenting voices, and advocates the dangerous militarism that he claims to oppose. His proxy war apologia will certainly win him a warm reception in establishment DC circles. For the US progressive movement, Ukraine, and the rest of the planet, it only spells disaster.
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How the U.S. Government Is Controlled by Its Armaments Firms
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – Unlike corporations that sell to consumers, Lockheed Martin and the other top contractors to the U.S. government are dependent upon sales to governments, especially sales to their own government. Here is described how they do it, to understand and to make sense of the US foreign policies, such as determining which nations are ‘allies.’
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Rossiya TV Interviews Vladimir Putin
Presidential Executive Office | Kremlin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – This extensive interview on the global as well as European resource crisis provides more than statement of Russia’s perspective. It also frames issues structurally that need to be addressed in every capital and policy arena… However we judge the actions of Russia, and others, I see no advantage in having a political elite – including those in power – who wear their ignorance as some sort of insignia of rank. — Prof. Michael Brenner
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The Great Fish Robbery
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
6 Jun 2022 – Now it comes to another ‘crime’ being stealthy committed as a consequence of the unrelenting obsession for making more and more money. It is about the illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, a practice that threatens marine biodiversity, livelihoods, exacerbates poverty, and augments food insecurity.
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Refugees Welcome – Sometimes
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – Posted on streetlamps all over Germany are stickers showing fleeing silhouettes with the caption, “Refugees welcome – bring your families”. Some have been blacked out with felt markers or ripped partially away.
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William Butler Yeats (13 Jun 1865 – 28 Jan 1939): The Transition to Aquarius
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
William Butler Yeats is the modern European poet most conscious of the transition within astrological cycles from the Piscean Period to the Age of Aquarius. The concept that humanity is at the end of a 2000-year cycle and about to start a new dispensation at a higher turn of the spiral – the gyre as Yeats called the historic spiral – was the framework within which he always worked.
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What If a Patient Unplugged the Oxygen Tube That Keeps Her or Him Alive?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – Imagine a patient connected to a vital oxygen device to keep him or her breathing, thus alive. Then, imagine what would happen if this patient unplugged it. This is exactly what humans have been doing with the source of at least 50% of the whole Planet’s oxygen: the oceans. The ocean […]
→ read full articleTerrified of Freedom: Why Most Human Beings Are Embracing the Global Elite’s Technotyranny
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Human freedom is on the verge of being lost. Forever.
→ read full articleThe Richest 1% Pollute More than the Poorest 50%
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
As an introduction to the World Environment Day on 5 June, this report deals with how the excesses of the world’s population, mostly in the wealthiest countries, are causing so much harm to Planet Earth.
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Five More Planets Earth Urgently Needed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – If everyone were to consume resources at the rate at which people in the United States, Canada and Luxembourg do, at least five Earths would be needed. But there is a problem… There is one Earth.
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U.S. Global Empire of Violence!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – The U.S. says weapons, weapons, and more weapons, are the solution for everything! More weapons for Ukraine! Arm teachers in schools! Put armed guards everywhere!
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Kissinger Nails It. For Once.
Michael Whitney | The Unz Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – Kissinger didn’t criticize the way the war in Ukraine is being conducted or the lack of progress on the ground. No. What Kissinger criticized was the policy itself, that’s what triggered the firestorm. He was throwing a bucket of cold water on the people who concocted this loony policy by telling them to their faces that they “got it wrong.”
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The Problem with the Next Trillion Dollar Industry
GNspace4peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – This video raises the serious question – at what point does Earth go dark as satellites that run much of the modern world are smashed to bits? Regulation is needed to limit the numbers of satellite launches into these already crowded orbits. Any war in the heavens would exacerbate the problem beyond our imagination.
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Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter on Ukraine, Russia, China
Ray McGovern | AntiWar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
29 May 2022 – Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern discuss China relations with Taiwan and the US, the lemming-like bloc heads now leading the NATO bloc, and Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine.
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Ode to Joy – Finale (Music Video of the Week)
Leonard Bernstein | Beethoven – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. This is the final part of the piece, which contains the incredible Prestissimo Finale. In 1985, it was adopted by EU leaders as the official anthem of the European Union.
→ read full articleUpset with the Opulence of the Rich? But the World’s Children Are Paying the Bill
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – The excesses committed by rich people can be deadly–and in fact they are. Be it about food, energy or overall waste, such excesses have been depleting the world’s natural resources and pushing both current and future generations towards the edge of a predictable abyss.
→ read full articleAFRICOM: Black Skin, White Mask
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – Lt. General Michael Langley is poised to become the first black Four Star Marine Corps Officer and second black commander of AFRICOM—a neocolonial force to enable Western corporate pillage of Africa. We have seen Blacks assist in the subjugation of their own people before and it is not something to cheer about.
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Collapse of the Us Dollar
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – Two years ago I wrote that the dollar would lose its global role and be devalued. Reasons: the bloated military budget and national debt to pay for it, the blow-back effect of U.S. sanctions on other countries, and the reaction of countries such as Russia, China, Turkey and India to trade their dollars for gold. According to Zero Hedge, this trend has intensified.
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Defamation Documentary Anti Semitism
Yoav Shamir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
Defamation examines antisemitism and, in particular, the way perceptions of antisemitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics. It won Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
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US Congress Passes Anti-Russia Bill Reinforcing Neo-colonialism in Africa
Abayomi Azikiwe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – A U.S. Congressional bill has been approved by a wide margin targeting and punishing African states that maintain political and economic relations with the Russian Federation. The legislation compounds further militarization of the Biden administration’s foreign policy.
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Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work
Judith Enck and Jan Dell | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – If the plastics industry is following the tobacco industry’s playbook, it may never admit to the failure of plastics recycling.
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William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
4 Jun 2022 – The wise men of the establishment are again telling us that hopes for lasting peace are a delusion. They declare that human nature makes it impossible, that war is built into our genes. They point to research by evolutionary biologists that indicates our closest genetic relatives, the chimpanzees, make war. Therefore war must be part of our heredity.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
Everyone who has a dog has some interesting stories about it and other dogs. So does my family.
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Impact of Israeli Strike in Gaza Akin to Chemical Weapons, NGO Report Finds
Bethan McKernan and Hazem Balousha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – Shells fired at agrochemical warehouse created toxic plume that has left residents with health problems.
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Common Security 2022: For Our Shared Future
Olof Palme Center, IPB, and Int'l Trade Union Confederation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
The world stands at a crossroads. The choice is between an existence based on competition and aggression or one rooted in peace and common security. Humanity faces the existential threats of nuclear war, climate change and pandemics. How we respond to these threats will define our very survival.
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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.
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Silicon Valley Corporations Are Taking Control of History
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
6 Jun 2022 – Twitter has imposed a weeklong suspension on the account of writer and political activist Danny Haiphong for a thread he made on the platform disputing the mainstream Tiananmen Square massacre narrative.
→ read full articleNO to Mandates! YES to Wise Power!
TheNewView – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
Featuring Diane Perlman and Marilyn Langlois, TMS editorialists.
(Beginning at 13m:50s in the video) Perlman’s slide presentation proposes a model akin to the Transcend Method of conflict transformation, representing solutions-oriented thinking to create a new reality. They considered how this can be applied to the Ukraine situation and other conflicts.
The Great Carbon Capture Scam
Rex Weyler | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – We know that Big Oil hid knowledge of global heating for decades, but the captains of petroleum industry devised a plan to swindle money from the public purse by pretending to address the climate issue while using subsidies to increase oil production. One might say their scam was a stroke of genius. How it works.
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Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia (Part 5)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – I wish I could conclude on a lighter note, but summoning Gramsci’s “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will,” I can only resolve to share what I’ve learned back home and suggest that the US let Ethiopia live.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
This Modern World – 23 May 2022
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Pedagogy of Positiveness
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
Positives vs Negatives
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Best Case Scenario: Cheaper, Deeper, Faster, Better Solutions
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – A Court-Free Alternative for Reparative and Transformational Justice
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
“Transforming education means empowering learners with knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to be resilient, adaptable and prepared for the uncertain future while contributing to human and planetary well-being and sustainable development.”
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How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – There are ways to defeat the billionaire class and many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in Seattle.
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War AS Terrorism
Andrea Mazzarino | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – Conflicts We Can’t Win, Suffering We Don’t See
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