Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Odyssey of Papal Synodality 2023: The Resurrection of the Catholic Institutes of Worship as Peace Mediators
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
“Under the applicable Abrahamic Laws of Blasphemy and Heresy, many a souls were lost to Heaven, by the most brutally cruel means, over the past millennia.”
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The Age of the Possible
Maria Popova – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
There,
at the bottom of being,
where the water that makes
this planet a world
is the color of spacetime
Empire Solves Ukraine’s Nazi Problem with a Logo Change
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – “The Azov Battalion has removed a neo-Nazi symbol from its insignia that has helped perpetuate Russian propaganda about Ukraine being in the grip of far-right nationalism,” The Times of London informs us. Ahh, that’s much better. Problem solved.
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Why Is Everything Broken?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
The U.S.A. and its allies are waging war on many fronts. It is a form of total war – cold, hot, medical, military, mind-control, spiritual, etc. – that demands a total response from us. None of us is completely innocent; we are all part of the deep evil that is happening all around us. But if we listen carefully, we might hear God asking for our help. For we need each other.
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(Français) Effondrement du Dollar Américain
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1er juin 2022 – Il y a deux ans, j’écrivais que le dollar perdrait son rôle mondial et serait dévalué. Raisons : le budget militaire gonflé et la dette nationale pour le payer, l’effet de retour des sanctions américaines sur d’autres pays et la réaction de pays comme la Russie, la Chine, la Turquie et l’Inde à échanger leurs dollars contre de l’or. Selon Zero Hedge, cette tendance s’est intensifiée.
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A View on the Ukraine Crisis. And Then What?
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
In the contemporary world whose economic structure is based on the heavily interdependent and mutual-indispensable relations, the economic sanctions against a huge economic influential country such as Russia do not work effectively as intended. Such sanctions work as the two-edge knife.
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Italy Drops Last COVID Entry Rules, Ditches Testing and Vaccination Restrictions
Nichola Daunton | Euronews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – Italy will abolish all entry rules for international travellers from June 1. At present, unvaccinated tourists need to take a test before visiting the country – but this rule expires on May 31. Italy’s Health Ministry have indicated that it “will not be extended,” marking the end of all entry restrictions on travellers.
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Journalists for Assange
JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
24 May 2022 – Full page ad in today’s Guardian: 1800 Journalists from around the world urge the British government to block the extradition of Julian Assange. The case against him is a threat to journalists everywhere.
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Phase Three in Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – No amount of western military aid has been able to prevent Russia from achieving its military objective of liberating the entire territories of both Lugansk and Donetsk as Phase Three begins.
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Ensuring Dynamics of Sustainability by Appreciative Recognition of Evil
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Engaging Otherwise with the Paradoxes of Positive and Negative – Whilst the religions have long featured its existence in their theologies, the country world leader in science devoted no resources to evil and the responses required — unless the many “virtual wars” are to be seen as proxy wars to that end
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The Risk of Turning Planet Earth into a Giant Desert
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – The message is clear: three-quarters of the world’s population will be affected by drought by 2050. Does it sound too far in time? Well, your kids might be among the billions of humans living on a desertified planet.
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Westphalian Logic and Geopolitical Prudence in the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – The Ukraine War, its complexities and global spillover effects, have not been adequately depicted by either political leaders or the more influential media. Most commonly, the Ukraine War has been narrowly and reductively depicted as a simple matter of defending Ukraine against Russian aggression.
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U.S. Congress Holds First UFO Hearings in Fifty Years Just as Biden Administration Budgets Record $27.6 Billion for Space Weapons
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
On 17 May 2022, the U.S. Congress held its first hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena —the new official name for Unidentified Flying Objects —in more than 50 years. Wernher von Braun, a Nazi scientist recruited under Operation Paperclip, said: “Weapons will be based in space—hence the need to create a psychological nexus whereby people will fear all things alien.”
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Saving Lives
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
In April 1940, a German warship with 4000 soldiers entered a Norwegian Fjord to occupy the country. One of two torpedoes left over from World War I hit the ship; it burst into flames and began to sink.
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Stop This Rape in Ukraine!!!
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Gruesome rape and torment in Ukraine
Causing women and children agonising pain.
Horrific headlines curdle one to the bone.
Microplastics from Masks Found Deep in Lungs of the Living
Joseph Mercola, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
A respirator specialist says surgical masks don’t meet the legal definition of a mask but rather are “breathing barriers.” They shed microplastics small enough to be inhaled, which can be found in your bloodstream in particles small enough to cross membrane barriers.
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Funding the Ukraine Proxy War, Bernie Sanders and the Squad Abandon Progressives and Peace
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – By voting to enrich the US arms industry and escalate a proxy war against Russia, Congressional progressives are enabling a militarist agenda that threatens their political cause, and the planet.
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No Way Out but War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Permanent war has cannibalized the country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana.
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Listen to Kissinger and CIA’s Burns and Compare with Populist Platitudes
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
19 May 2022 – This short article aims to merely illustrate – not prove – the difference between security political intellectualism and ignorance. It does not focus on peace simply because none of the personalities appearing below are in the business of peace.
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We Need a Real Debate about the Ukraine War
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – Bringing the war in Ukraine to an end will demand new thinking and challenges to the orthodoxies of this time.
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How “Virtual Crime Scenes” Became a Propaganda Tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine and Syria
John Perry and Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
26 May 2022 – How media uses computer modeling and “virtual crime scenes” to assign blame for some important international events. The deaths at the “Mother’s March” in Nicaragua precipitated an attempted coup. The Maidan Massacre in Kyiv led to an actual coup. The claims of a chemical attack in Douma led to the US, France and the UK bombing Syria.
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Guantanamo, Cuba: VII Symposium on the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases
Ann Wright | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – The Seventh Iteration of the Symposium on the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases Was Held May 4-6, 2022 in Guantanamo, Cuba, Near the 125-Year-Old US Naval Base Located a few Miles from the City of Guantanamo
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(Castellano) ¿Guerra para quién?
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Castellano with subtitles in English and Portuguese
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Atthasatapariyaya Sutta: One Hundred Eight Feelings
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
“I shall show you, O monks, a way of Dhamma presentation by which there are one hundred and eight feelings. Hence listen to me.
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The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
28 May 2022 – The USA Must Demand a Credible Investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing – The assassination sent shock waves throughout the Middle East as Shireen was known and respected as a trusted journalist. We keep waiting for a ‘Sharpville Moment’ with respect to Palestine and Israeli impunity. When will it come?
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Bakunin formulated no coherent body of doctrine, and his voluminous and vigorous writings were often left incomplete. Anarchist movements owing allegiance to Bakunin flourished in Italy and especially in Spain, where as late as 1936 the anarchists were the strongest revolutionary party. Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer.
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Women of the World Call for Peace Now!
Nuclear Wake Up Call Channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
10 May 2022 – Featuring Nobel Peace Laureate (TRANSCEND Member) Mairead Maguire, Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez and Dr. Paula Garb – These women are all leading in a new way, showing us a pathway forward to peace and disarmament. They are calling on us to awaken and join together to eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.
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Water Scarcity and Suffering in Africa
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Many parts of Africa especially East Africa and the Island of Madagascar located in the Indian Ocean near South Africa are suffering due to scarcity of water. The area of this island state is about the same as that of France and has a population of about 30 million. But the conditions of people in […]
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Pandemic Created 1 New Billionaire Every 30 Hours, Now Millions Could Face ‘Extreme’ Poverty
Oxfam International | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
25 May 2022 – For every new billionaire created during the pandemic — one every 30 hours — nearly a million people could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2022 at nearly the same rate, according to Oxfam.
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Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
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Big Fossil’s Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine
Amy Westervelt | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
25 May 2022 – The industry moved quickly to capture the narrative, going from disinformation blitz to policy wins within a matter of weeks.
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‘Realist’ Kissinger Says Ukraine Must Give Up Land to Russia, Warns West Not to Seek to Humiliate Putin with Defeat
Tom Porter | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – Even for those of us who are not big fans of Henry Kissinger, his ‘Realpolitik’ comments yesterday to the World Economic Forum in Davos about what should be done in Ukraine requires careful consideration by Western leaders.
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(Italiano) Le mancate iniziative di pace in Ucraina
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Perché si parla così poco di pace per l’Ucraina? La comunità mondiale è davvero disposta a starsene seduta sulle mani mentre il paese viene distrutto? Non abbiamo alternative che raddoppiare il nostro patrocinio, nonostante i contraccolpi. Per la pace ci vuole tempo, mentre invece un consulto di fretta è un consulto di guerra. Ma può darsi che non abbiamo ere ed ere, perciò dobbiamo elaborare come fare una differenza.
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Sweden Poised to Join NATO as Part of Western Mobilization against Russia
Andi Olluri | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
28 May 2022 – Debates in the Country Follow Narrow Lines Defined by Government As Dissenting Voices Are Silenced
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The Global Killing Fields of Journalists: International Assassinations–Journocides (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
This paper examines the killings of journalists, internationally for political silencing, as a major peace disruption, in various parts of the world, where nefarious activities of governments and crime syndicates need to be concealed if a particular journalist poses a threat to the exposure of these “dark and corrupt activities.”
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Escalation or Reconciliation: Options for Ukraine
Marc Pilisuk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
29 May 2022 – The conflict centering in Ukraine has continued for an extended time. The two grandest nuclear super-powers are in conflict. The model is one of increasing escalation. The dangers involved in this case merit a stepping back to trying an alternative conciliatory model.
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Mass Shootings: American Exceptionalism of the Worst Kind
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
26 May 2022 – A shocking number of U.S. mass shootings take place in schools. According to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, there have been 2,054 school shootings in the United States since 1970, with 681 deaths. Canada has had a total of eight school shootings in about the same time frame, from 1975, with a total of 31 victims killed.
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Emotional Reaction?
Bruce Lee | The Minds Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Let it go…
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
It is a tool of the ongoing stealth war of the super-rich predator class against the rest of humanity over control of the earth’s people and resources that hides behind manufactured conflicts instigated to distract and demoralize.
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US Threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with Illegal “Legal Designation of Genocide”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
25 May 2022 – The US is falsely accusing Ethiopia and Eritrea of hindering food aid and committing genocides in the ongoing war in Tigray. The charges are false and the US has no right to make such a claim on its own.
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Getting a Grip on Apollo 11
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
25 May 2022 – Since my personal investigations into the veracity of the Apollo lunar missions, having concluded that they were in fact a hoax, several of my friends wondered aloud if I were a Holocaust denier (I am not) or a flat-earther (not one of these either), and have strongly urged me to ‘get a grip’.
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Goofball and Galahad
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
16 May 2022 – This Modern World
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The Rise of NATO in Africa
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
In 2001, NATO conducted an “out of area” military operation in Afghanistan, which lasted 20 years, and in 2011, bombed Libya– its first major military operation in Africa–and overthrew its government. These were the prelude to a “Global NATO.” Anxiety about NATO’s expansion toward the Russian border is one of the causes of the current war in Ukraine.
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Brazilian Bachianas No.5 (Music Video of the Week)
Steve Howe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Track #1 from ‘TIME’ (Aria)
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Pakistan Looks for Political Change and Stability but Nation Suspects Military Intervention
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
29 May 2022 – The current chaotic culture carries a lingering suspicion of the coming of martial law and some form of military dictatorship in alliance with most corrupt, known thugs and indicted criminals of the recent past. The evidence supports the alliance of the defunct Bhuttos, Sharif’s, military generals, MQM and other infamous so-called Islamic parties.
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(Português) Como ignorar a violência por trás do leite e dos derivados?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
30 de maio de 2022 – Quando vejo as longas fileiras de caixas de leite no supermercado, não consigo ignorar a violência por trás daqueles produtos que parecem de origem pacífica. E assim parecem porque esse é o poder da dissimulação do consumo.
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Biodiversity Is Health
Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
22 May 2022 – To celebrate World Biodiversity Day, we present Biodiversity Is Health. We break down how all levels of biodiversity have a direct and tangible tie to human health, especially as an intimate connection exists between the biodiversity of our diets and gut, and our surrounding ecosystems, making health a continuum. Biodiversity is, hence, needed at every level of the food system.
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The History They Don’t Teach You in School: U.S. and Russia Have a Long History of Collaboration
Nancy Spannaus | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
21 May 2022 – Relationship Can Be Rekindled Today, Even in These Darkest of Times
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A Reset That Serves the People
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
19 May 2022 – Instead of buying into the World Economic Forum’s dystopian “Great Reset,” we can build an alternative system with a mandate to serve the people.
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“The Winter of Our Discontent:” Mind’s Accommodation to Disparate Experiences
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
A Personal Essay – 20 May 2022 – MIND, MEANING, CHANCE . . .
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Journalist Assassination: Are Israeli Defense Forces Out of Control?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
18 May 2022 – Israeli Soldier Kills Al Jazeera Journalist on 11 May 2022
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The Global Killing Fields of Journalists: “The Silence of the World” (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
In the assassination of journalists, the universal silence highlights the demise of humanity.
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Nakba at 74
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – On this 74th anniversary of the beginning of our Nakba (catastrophe) we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we also pledge it as a day of dedication, meditation, and work towards return (al-awda) and liberation.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
18 May 2022 – The U.S. backs TPLF war, then when IDPs overwhelm public health capacity, USAID sends help. Measles threatens to sweep IDP camps full of undernourished children. Contradictions of empire.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
20 May 2022 – It is often said that a pessimistic person is an optimistic but well-informed person.
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Western Media Engages in a War on Truth
Russell Bentley | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – Yellow Journalism of the Hearst Era Is Alive and Well in the 21st Century
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The Heart Is Mightier Than the Sword
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Sounds like a horror movie on permanent rewind through the brain, through the soul. Catch your breath, buy a gun. What other choice do you have?… The heart is mightier than the sword. I’m allowing myself to imagine a world where most people believe this.
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Ramjas College of Delhi University
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
I was a student of Ramjas College of DU and lived in its Hostel for five years while I did my undergraduate and postgraduate studies. I wrote this piece after leaving the college half a century back and have some fond memories which I want to share with my readers here.
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(Italiano) Maturità politica ed empatia razionale per il nemico
Diane Perlman | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
20 Maggio 2022 – Dopo lo sfascio dell’URSS, seppure Putin lo considerasse “la maggiore catastrofe geopolitica del secolo”, richiese l’adesione della Russia alla NATO e all’Unione Europea, a seguito di proposte fatte da Gorbachev e Yeltsin.
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(Castellano) La batalla final por la humanidad: Es ‘ahora o nunca’ en la larga guerra contra el homo sapiens
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Si perdemos esta batalla, no habrá batalla posterior. La Larga Guerra contra la humanidad se habrá perdido, de una vez por todas. Esta batalla es por todo lo que significa ser humano: identidad humana, libertad humana, derechos humanos, privacidad, dignidad, libre albedrío y cualquier otra cosa que haga que valga la pena vivir la vida, y por el control de la Tierra y todos sus recursos.
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Not Soon Enough: Meditations on Ending War and Visioning Peace
Ivana Milojević, Ph.D. | Journal of Future Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
March 2022 -To end war, we need to challenge the futures fallacies we use to construct reality. We also need to envision peaceful futures. This essay analyses a ‘failure of (futures) imagination’ behind wars and concludes with four meditations/visions on peace.
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Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Why is there so little talk of peace for Ukraine? Is the world community really prepared to sit on its hands as the country is destroyed? We have no alternative but to redouble our advocacy, despite the knock-backs. Peace takes time, whereas a counsel of haste is a counsel of war. But we may not have ages and ages, so we need to work out how to make a difference.
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On Bush’s Freudian Confession
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
19 May 2022 – While criticizing Russia for having rigged elections and shutting out political opposition, the 43rd president made the following comment: “The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean, of Ukraine.”The bullshit doesn’t get any more brightly illuminated than this, folks. All that spin and narrative management they’ve been pouring into the US proxy war in Ukraine, and Bush undoes it all with the Bushism to end all Bushisms.
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New Documents Show How Drug Companies Targeted Doctors to Increase Opioid Prescriptions
Charles Ornstein | ProPublica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
17 May 2022 – A trove of documents published as part of a legal settlement offers an unvarnished look inside the financial relationships between pharmaceutical companies and the medical community — from the perspective of drug companies themselves.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
This Modern World – 9 May 2022
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Still Support We Can Offer!
Jocelyn Wright - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
We sit helplessly by as opponents to peace
Decimate Ukraine
One town after another
On diverse devices, TVs, and radios
Forgetful of our shared humanity
Biden Redeploys Troops to Somalia While Humanitarian Crisis Looms
Abayomi Azikiwe | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
20 May 2022 – U.S. war policy in Ukraine and Eastern Europe has prompted hyperinflation, food deficits and economic underdevelopment around the world. The military maneuvers in the Horn of Africa as well will prove detrimental to the people of the region and throughout the world.
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(Português) A Sombra Tenebrosa do Bolsonarismo no Brasil
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
18 maio 2022 – Bolsonaro é tão pouco político e desvairado que nem esconde o jogo. Revela-o às claras. Tal comportamento de um chefe de estado que se caracteriza por constantes ameaças às instituições e pelo permanente descaso da situação dramática do país, dos milhões de famintos, de insuficiência alimentar, dos desempregados, nos provoca graves preocupações e sérias apreensões.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
American Transcendentalism Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Emerson had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adulation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
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“Notes on Exterminism” for the Twenty-First-Century Ecology and Peace Movements
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
May 2022 – The dual exterminist tendencies: the planetary ecological crisis and the growing threat of global nuclear annihilation.
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Why Learning from Each Other’s Struggles Is Vital to Long-Term Movement Success
Laurence Cox | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Time is too short to reinvent the wheel if we want to win. Movements must take seriously how they train and strategize.
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Swami Vivekananda Addresses the Parliament of Religions–Chicago 1893
Swami Vivekananda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
“As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.”
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The New Iron Curtain
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe’s crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment.
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Not in the Heat of Battle
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – On the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day and six days after Holocaust Memorial Day, Israel’s High Court of Justice issued their heinous decision to allow the Israeli army to demolish eight Palestinian villages and expel their inhabitants in the South Hebron Hills.
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Recasting Attention to the Raging Genocide
Shad Saleem Faruqi and Jaspal Kaur Sadhu Singh | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
19 May 2022 – We wish to reiterate that though the global attention these days is focused on the Russia-Ukraine war, the world needs to recast its attention and conscience to the genocide, protracted aggression and injustices in the illegally occupied territories of the West Bank. Shireen Abu Akleh’s assassination underlies the daily reality of apartheid in occupied Palestine.
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(Italiano) Ammazza-ammazza
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 Maggio 2022 – Si ammazzano, si ammazzano. Per un pezzo di terra. Ammazza-ammazza. Per un orgasmo mentale della psicopatia di potenza. Ahimé, sono esseri para-umani, simil-umani, fermi al grado primitivo dell’evoluzione umanizzatrice.
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(Português) Joaquin Phoenix lança documentário sobre o impacto do uso de antibióticos na pecuária
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
19 de maio de 2022 – “The End of Medicine” também aborda os riscos de novos surtos e pandemias por meio da criação de animais para consumo.
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Amnesty International Resists Calls to Designate Assange a ‘Prisoner of Conscience’ as Extradition Looms
Mohamed Elmaazi | The Dissenter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – The international human rights organization Amnesty International has resisted calls to designate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a “prisoner of conscience,” even though the organization acknowledges he is the target of a “politically motivated prosecution” by the United States.
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USA’s Selective Outrage over Ukraine Is Fashioned by a Well-Oiled Propaganda Machine… Just Ask the People of Yemen
Robert Bridge | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
15 May 2022 – North Americans are being shepherded to the next emoji crusade – the latest being Russia’s special operation in Ukraine – like consumers waiting in line for junk food and Happy Meals. When does the mindless virtue-signaling end?
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Logic vs Emotion
Bruce Lee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Words -> Reactions
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Mistakes
HKM Life – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Practical Wisdom
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Angela Davis, John Pilger, Roger Waters Rave about Just-Released ‘Our Vision for Liberation’
Ilan Pappé & Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
18 May 2022 – In commemoration of the 74th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, Professor Ilan Pappe and Dr. Ramzy Baroud announce the release of their latest book, ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out.’
→ read full articleGlobal Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution: We, the People, Witness the Coming of an Insane Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
17 May 2022 – The quest for a peaceful resolution of the current crisis is more important than other imperatives of global concern. The global leaders who claim to possess greatness of mind have failed miserably to stop the ongoing slaughter of humanity in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq…
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Teach Your Children (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Live in Australia – Song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (w/lyrics)
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When Is a TV News Interview Not Just an Interview?
Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
When TV News Won’t Identify Defense Lobbyists – As war rages, viewers watch commercials for weapons dealers, often without knowing it.
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Escaping the Apocalypse on the Killing Fields of Ukraine
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
21 May 2022 – It’s not surprising that the threat to destroy Roe V. Wade has shown its ugly head at the same time as a desperate, bloody war and a horrible white supremacist attack in Buffalo. All three are expressions of patriarchy gone haywire as power elites strive to achieve global dominance.
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Ode to Grief
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Poem written at the passing on of my beloved brother Niresh Manilall in South Africa.
→ read full articleMemorability, Mnemonics, Maths, Music and Governance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
Memory Enhancement Ensuring Strategic Credibility – In a period in which great emphasis is placed on the complexity of governance and the issues which it is required to address, remarkably little is said of the challenges to memory.
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Acclaimed Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Killed in Israeli Raid in West Bank
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
12 May 2022 – Shireen was a beloved journalist known for her tireless reporting on Palestine. As news of her death spread, crowds turned out in a spontaneous outpouring of anger and grief gathered outside her home in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli soldiers then raided the home in an act both pointless and cruel.
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Biden Wanted $33B More for Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised It to $40B. Who Benefits?
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
11 May 2022 – Tens of billions, soon to be much more, are flying out of U.S. coffers to Ukraine as North Americans suffer, showing who runs the U.S. government, and for whose benefit.
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Israeli Police Attack Funeral Procession for Shot Journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh
Sufian Taha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
13 May 2022 – Israeli forces have attacked a funeral procession for a Palestinian American journalist shot dead this week, kicking and hitting people with batons and causing mourners carrying her coffin to lose balance and drop it to the ground.
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Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of U.S. Fascism
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
9 May 2022 – The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election by running against the Supreme Court decision on abortion. The Christian fascists believe military power, and its “manly” virtues, are blessed by God. No military budget is too big. No war waged by the US is evil. Violence is the primary form of communication. Vengeance is the highest good.
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Putin’s Monroe Doctrine against NATO
John Mearsheimer | Economy & Geopolitics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
Russia Ukraine War Update by John Mearsheimer – 5 May 2022
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Sanctions
Laini Mataka | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
15 May 2022 – the hateful’s favorite tool for dismantling dissension,
their weapon of choice
for punishing those who refuse to gap their legs wide for rape w/out protest.
‘All the Questions Were about Israel’: Inside Deutsche Welle’s Purge of Arab Journalists
Hebh Jamal and Lena Obermaier | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
5 May 2022 – When Deutsche Welle fired seven Arab journalists over accusations of antisemitism, many in Germany took its decision at face value. But a closer look shows DW’s investigation was riddled with political motives.
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U.K. Orders Zelensky to Stop Peace Negotiations with Russia
The Jimmy Dore Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had two simple messages to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:
1- Putin should be pressured, not negotiated with.
2- Even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements with Putin, NATO/Western allies are not.
It Is Foolish for Finland and Sweden to Join NATO and Ignore both the Causes and Consequences
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
12 May 2022 – Today, Finland decided to become a full NATO member. Sweden will do the same next week. What caused this ill-considered and panicking but fateful policy change and what its consequences will be.
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Empire of Bioweapon Lies
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
13 May 2022 – An ongoing U.S. bioweapons program in Ukraine was one of the Top Three reasons that led to Operation Z. So just when we thought we could enjoy the summer by watching Europe commit hara-kiri, it’s time to stock up on those Aperol Spritz. Get ready for a new hit series, season 1: Inside the American bioweapon racket.
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The Last Good Guys? Five Reasons Why Washington Can’t Break Its War Addiction
William J. Astore | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
8 May 2022 – Why has the United States already become so heavily invested in the Russia-Ukraine war? And why has it so regularly gotten involved in so many other wars on this planet since it invaded Afghanistan in 2001? Persistent warfare should never be confused with strength and certainly not with righteousness, especially on a planet haunted by a growing sense of impending doom.
→ read full articleInequality Tightens Its Grip on the Most Vulnerable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
13 May 2022 – Please do not say you were not aware that the world produces enough food to feed all human beings on Earth, while nearly double the combined European Union’s population go to bed hungry… every single night.
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