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The Poetic Science of the Aurora Borealis
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
“And now commenced a display which baffles all description.”
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Having a Blast
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
New Worlds…?
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How British Colonialism Killed 100 Million Indians in 40 Years
Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.
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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates Is Promoting ‘Surveillance Agriculture’
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
5 Dec 2022 – Vandana Shiva and Russell Brand discussed the history of agriculture, the role of Big Food in the current global cost-of-living crisis and how Gates is promoting “basically a surveillance agriculture.”
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My Sweet Lord (Music Video of the Week)
Billy Preston | George Harrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
This show was a tribute to George Harrison two years after his death. On guitar Eric Clapton, on the other guitar Harrison’s son, on piano Paul McCartney, 1st drummer Ringo Star, on second Phil Collins, on guitar Tom Petty, on organ and vocals Billy Preston.
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The Christmas Truce of 1914 and Other Unlearned Lessons from WWI
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
That spontaneous event, the Christmas Truce of 1914, was expressed in a variety of ways at a multitude of locations all along the 600 miles of trenches that stretched across France, but it was an event that would never again be duplicated in the history of warfare.
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Escaping the Military–Healing the Virus of Violence
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Radical Peace presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our U.S. warrior culture. A young Buddhist novice contributed this account, which we then revised together.
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Moral High Ground
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Are you serious? Really?? Wow!
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The War Crime of Usurpation of Sovereignty by the US against the Hawaiian Islands since 1898
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
9 Dec 2022 – Usurpation of sovereignty during military occupation was listed as a war crime in a 1919 report by the Commission on Responsibilities of the Paris Peace Conference.
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Our Authentically Fake and Hypocritical Society of Copies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
4 Dec 2022 – Indeed, to make people into machines is the goal of trans-humanists Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum with its Great Reset and the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Artificial Intelligence for artificial people. While there are innocent examples of repetition, the use of it is a fundamental tactic of propaganda.
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Peru’s Oligarchy Overthrows President Castillo
Manolo de los Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
8 Dec 2022 – The coup against Pedro Castillo is a major setback for the current wave of progressive governments in Latin America and the people’s movements that elected them. This coup and the arrest of Castillo are stark reminders that the ruling elites of Latin America will not concede any power without a bitter fight to the end. And now that the dust has settled, the only winners are the Peruvian oligarchy and their friends in Washington.
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World Health Organization Meets to Plot Censorship of “Misinformation” under International Pandemic Treaty
Tom Parker | Reclaim the Net - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
6 Dec 2022 – The unelected UN health agency inches closer toward being granted unprecedented, legally-binding censorship powers.
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The Forgotten Journalists (Part 1): The Assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
The Targeted, Governmental Extrajudicial Execution of Journalists Who Are Classified as Personae Non Gratae and Enemies of the State
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
On 11 Dec, the New York Times broke a front-page story about “J.R.O.T.C,” described as “a program funded by the U.S. military designed to teach leadership skills, discipline, and civil values – and to open students’ eyes to the idea of a military career…” If peace education programs can be combined with civilian job training and public advocacy efforts, we might finally see a real challenge to the ongoing militarization of the schools.
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Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Realism has its own moral and intellectual properties and truth cannot be made truer simply by numbers and fake political statements. We, the People of globe have no passion for war; it is incompatible with human nature.
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Journalism Defenders Push for Passage of ‘Game-Changing’ PRESS Act
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – “The PRESS Act is the most important free press legislation in modern times because it would finally stop the government from spying on journalists and threatening them with arrest for doing their jobs,” explained one advocate.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Beethoven was a German composer and the predominant musical figure between the Classical and Romantic periods. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was unable to hear.
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In Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs
AllesAfrikaans | TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
“The mainstream media wants you to believe that the Russia/Ukraine conflict is the result of an unprovoked invasion by Russia. This fundamental lie about the conflict clearly stands in the way of understanding the war and of finding a peaceful end to the conflict.”
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The World — Real or Digital
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
The world around us that we can see or even unable to see is the real world. Here you may see a few people walking, working or eating together. In the digital world we get interesting glimpses of different activities being performed. These may include women in sparkling dresses walking on the ramp; or children playing various games or just rapidly exiting from the classroom when the bell rings.
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COVID Notice
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2022
12 Dec 2022 – Dear Readers, Friends, Supporters, this is the first time that TMS fails to be updated since its inception on 3 Mar 2008. The reason: I have been infected with COVID and bedridden still without prognosis; my very first bout with the condition. Read on…
→ read full articleBuilding Stronger Track-Two Networks
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2022
The continuing armed conflict in Ukraine and the likelihood that the conflict will drag on through the winter–as well as armed conflicts in other parts of the world–forces us to ask if more can be done on the part of non-governmental organizations to encourage negotiations in good faith.
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 1)
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Latin America and the Caribbean are again taking on a pink complexion with June’s historic electoral victory in Colombia over the US-backed rightwing and a similar reverse in Brazil in October. These electoral rejections of the rightwing followed left victories last year in Peru, Honduras, and Chile. And those, in turn, came after similar routs in Bolivia in 2020, Argentina in 2019, and Mexico in 2018.
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(Português) Vamos ao Encontro de Nossa Destruição?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 dez 2022 – A história de ser humano na Terra em grande parte se resume num permanente conflito com o ambiente. Os seres humanos modernos moveram uma verdadeira guerra contra a Terra: no solo, no subsolo, no ar e no mar, sempre na perspectiva de saquear e extrair mais e mais vantagens.
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(Italiano) Verso un Nuovo Ordine Internazionale–Una Prospettiva Nonviolenta
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Come l’industria delle armi sta portando l’umanità all’autodistruzione.
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 2)
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
3 Dec 2022 – The US has long considered Latin America and the Caribbean its “backyard” under the anachronistic 1823 Monroe Doctrine. Even though Biden mistakenly thinks that upgrading the region to “front yard” makes any difference, Yankee hemispheric hegemony is becoming increasingly volatile by a “Pink Tide” of left electoral victories.
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Australian PM Tells USA to Drop Charges against Julian Assange
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today said that he has personally asked the US government to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is an Australian citizen. His comments came after five major news organizations finally spoke out for Assange.
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Pelé Goes Into Palliative Care after Cancer Hospitalization
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
3 Dec 2022 – The Brazilian soccer legend is reportedly receiving palliative care, after his body did not respond to chemotherapy treatment to fight colon cancer, according to Brazilian media.
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International Media Groups Urge US to Drop Julian Assange Charges in Letter
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Twelve years ago, on 28 Nov 2010, our five international media outlets–the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El País and Der Spiegel–published a series of revelations in cooperation with WikiLeaks that made the headlines around the globe. Our statement supporting the end of the US government’s prosecution of Julian Assange.
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 3)
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
4 Dec 2022 – A surging Pink Tide has brought left electoral victories in Latin America and the Caribbean protesting the neoliberal model imposed by the US and its collaborators. Neoliberalism has failed to meet the needs of the peoples of the region and is losing its legitimacy as a prototype for development.
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From Lateral Thinking to Voluminous Thinking
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Unexplored Options for Subterranean Habitats in Dense Urban Areas – Reposted in celebration of world population having reached 8 billion on 15 Nov 2022, with challenges to every kind of resource, and the continuing inability to discuss what cannot otherwise be discussed
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Be Yourself
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
NOW!
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Immediate and drastic action is needed to prevent irreversible climate change. However, the worst effects of climate change lie in the distant future, perhaps as much as a thousand years from today. It is part of our human nature to see what is near to us. We accept the comfort and convenience provided by fossil fuels.
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(Français) Préparons-Nous pour un Nouvel Ordre Mondial
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 décembre 2022 – La culture de la guerre est si fermement établie, en particulier dans l’État moderne, qu’une culture de la paix ne peut être achèvée qu’avec un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale. Pour comprendre la nature du changement radical, je me tourne vers ce vieil expert, Karl Marx.
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Why Does U.S. Navy Allow Officers to Commit Gory Murders and Other Atrocities with Impunity?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – And even more disturbingly, why are the men who commit these crimes revered in American popular culture? “The thrill of killing [is] like a drug; the greatest feeling I’ve ever experienced in my life.” – Eddie Penney, Navy SEAL Team 6.
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The Guardian Could Help Assange by Retracting All the Lies It Published about Him
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – The Guardian has joined The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País in signing a letter from the five papers which collaborated with WikiLeaks twelve years ago to call for the Biden administration to drop all charges against Julian Assange. The Guardian’s participation in this letter is particularly noteworthy, given the leading role that publication has played in manufacturing public support for his persecution in the first place.
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Regional Leaders Raise Doubts over US-Backed Plan to Send Foreign Military to Haiti
Jake Johnston | Center for Economic and Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
28 Nov 2022 – How Haiti’s neighbors are resisting the USA inciting them to participate in another military intervention in Haiti.
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Cryptome Founder Asks to Be Indicted with Assange
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – John Young, the founder of the Cryptome website, has asked the U.S. Justice Department to also indict him as he published un-redacted State Dept. files before WikiLeaks did.
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TRANSCEND Members December Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished member JIM ALBERTINI a HAPPY BIRTHDAY with many returns. We take this opportunity to thank him for all his contributions to the world and to TMS. Bless your life!
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Jan Oberg in China Daily: Abolish NATO and Build Peace Instead
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
While most organisations are evaluated and reformed as time goes by, NATO isn’t. It has become sacrosanct and criticism of its operations silenced. In Western media, it is always called the ”defensive” alliance. It does not see itself as party to the conflict with Russia…
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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.” — Kurt Vonnegut
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David Ray Griffin (8 Aug 1939 – 26 Nov 2022)–The Man and His Work: A Synopsis
Elizabeth Woodworth | AE911truth - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – From a hopeful common-sense theology to the exposés of imperialist propaganda and false flag operations, to the full extent of the climate crisis, to our evolving perception of the nature of the divine, David Griffin stands with the greats; yet was quiet, humorous, down to earth, and unassuming. RIP
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Hawai’i to Pentagon: Stop Bombing Pohakuloa Toxic Area
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Lava Flow from Maunakea Volcano Has Entered Hawaii’s Military Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) –->Danger of Toxins! There is a massive toxic stew at Pohakuloa from 75 years of bombing and the use of nuclear depleted uranium, spotting rounds, and likely chemical and biological weapons. Pohakuloa is NOT safe for soldiers, residents and visitors to Hawaii Island.
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US Tax Dollars at Work: Neocolonial Dictatorship, Paramilitary and Police Terror in Haiti Today
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Sending additional foreign troops into Haiti: it misses the fact that it was subjected to such an intervention culminating in the foreign occupation of Haiti since 2004. Similarly, the call for greater US-funding and training of the Haitian police camouflages the following fundamental realities:
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‘Zombie’ Viruses Are Thawing in Melting Permafrost Because of Climate Change
Michael Birnbaum and Ellen Francis | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Ancient viruses are locked in Russia’s permafrost. We may soon get a peek.
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This Planet Is Drying Up–and These Are the Consequences
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of loss of life arising from wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress. Droughts devastate farmland, destroy livelihoods and cause untold suffering.
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Peace Disruptors–The Conversion and Repurposing of Places of Worship (Part 4): Synagogues Defiled by Spanish Monarchy
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
The Odyssey of the Second Exodus Based on Religious Conflicts and Oppression
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Eight Reasons That Now Is a Good Time for a Ukraine Ceasefire and Peace Talks
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Eight reasons that this would be a good time for diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, as faith leaders around the world call for a Christmas Truce. We join these leaders declaring that the holiday season presents “a much-needed opportunity to recognize our compassion for one another.
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Plurality of Information Can Prevent War
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
29 Nov 2022 – In the world we observe a multiplicity of media but no pluralism; all refer to the same sources which convey the same vision of the facts. If the facts exist in a unique way, the way we perceive them is multiple. UNESCO has highlighted “information imperialism:” Imposing a single perception and denying all the others.
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The Warrior –> Yodhajiva Sutta (1 and 2)
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
“Monks, there are these five types of warriors who can be found existing in the world. Which five? In the same way, monks, there are these five warrior-like individuals who can be found existing among the monks. Which five?”
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Where Matter Doesn’t Matter: “Consciousness and the Quantum”
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Quanta aren’t physical particles but energy frequencies. They exhibit mass at the macro scale only because of their energy, as Einstein established with his discovery that energy is interchangeable with mass.
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Nationalism and Migration in Relation to Peace
Johan Galtung | Univ. of Antwerp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) on 21 Apr 2016 – “His work has a unique imprint on many scholarly disciplines; it is a combination of systematic scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics of peaceful means and harmony.”
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Stop and Smell the Apocalypse
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
23 Nov 2022 – In the eyes of the beholder…
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Top Antitrust Expert: We Need a New Approach to Giant Tech Firms like Google
Lynn Parramore | Institute for New Economic Thinking – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
28 Nov 2022 – Economist Cristina Caffarra, a leader in competition and antitrust, warns that ever-expanding tech giants raise concerns about the extent of their power.
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The Racists Return to Kindergarten
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Damn those Marxists! You know their game, right? No doubt they’re in favor of dropping charges against Julian Assange, who (as all real Americans know) deserves 175 years in prison for exposing — with the help of the New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País — embarrassing realities about U.S. foreign policy.
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Home (Music Video of the Week)
David Byrne | Talking Heads – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
From the movie This Must Be the Place (2011) starring Sean Penn
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Qatar’s World Cup Is a Lavish Exercise in Sportswashing
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – Qatar’s treatment of foreign workers is a consequence of colonialism: The “kafala” system was the migrant labor governance structure put in place initially by British colonizers to preserve their own interests.
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10 Suggestions for Lula, New President of Brazil
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
28 Nov 2022 – Dear President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, when I visited you in prison on 30 Aug 2018, in the brief time that the visit lasted, I experienced a whirlwind of ideas and emotions that remain as vivid today as they were then.
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Who Benefits from Persistent Hunger?
Prof. George Kent | World Nutrition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
I am writing this because an article of mine on ‘The Benefits of World Hunger’ was unclear. Some readers have taken it to mean I advocate having more hunger in the world. That was not my intention. I have been pushing for reduction of hunger for decades. I am writing this to explain my views relating to who benefits from hunger.
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Postpone Enforcement of CPTPP
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
29 Nov 2022 – A postponement of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership is necessary because it impinges on our sovereignty and affects the ability of Malaysia to protect its workers and people. If a dispute arouse, a decision by an international arbitration panel would be final; our local courts would have no say.
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Bad News: Headlines Are Indeed Getting more Negative and Angrier
David Rozado, Ruth Hughes and Jamin Halberstadt | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
27 Nov 2022 – New research shows that right-leaning media outlets tend to be more negative and angry. But the left peddles fear, too.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
India is a country that demonstrates religious and cultural unity within its diversity. Come to India and see for yourself.
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China Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself with U.S. Bases
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
29 Nov 2022 – Everyone knows the US has invaded countries completely unprovoked very recently and will definitely do so again, but we still have to pretend that Putin is the worst thing since Hitler. I cannot emphasize enough how little respect I have for anyone who parrots US empire narratives about China.
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NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to ‘Doorstep of Doom’
Robin Andersen | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – Corporate media are failing democracy and to disclose our current, stark choice between war, life and the planet. They shout for more war in loud voices. They censor and poison public discourse and position North Americans as targets of propaganda—the denizens of empire—instead of citizen participants in a democracy.
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Prepare for a New World Order
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – The culture of war is so firmly established in the modern state that it will take a revolutionary change in global governance to move to a culture of peace. To understand the nature of revolutionary change, I turn to that old expert, Karl Marx.
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Be It Resolved: Don’t Trust Mainstream Media
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – My Opening Remarks for the Munk Debates in Toronto Tonight
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How Joe Biden Suckered Europe
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
29 Nov 2022 – Europe is lost for answers. Boxed in, the EU is failing the test of the war in Ukraine.
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Unequal Mercy
Helen Benedict | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
4 Dec 2022 – The West’s Approach to Refugees – Almost anyone would agree that war is horrifying and peaceful countries should do their best to help its victims.
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World Cup in Qatar Is “Deadliest Major Sporting Event” in History, Built on a Decade of Forced Labor
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
21 Nov 2022 – A look into Qatar’s labor and human rights record. Minky Worden, of Human Rights Watch, describes how millions of poor migrant workers have faced deadly, forced labor conditions on the $2 billion infrastructure. By one count, 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since 2010, when it was awarded the hosting of the games.
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Did the World Make Progress on Climate Change? Here’s What Was Decided at CP27
Nathan Rott et al. | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022 – Contentious climate negotiations ended in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, as negotiators from around the world finalized a modest deal to help control global warming and pay for the costs of a hotter Earth.
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Sanctions: Another Form of War on Designated Enemies
Kathleen Malley-Morrison | MAPA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
18 Nov 2022 – Both the UN and illegal US sanctions have had disastrous effects on millions of people, effects that violate both the UN charter and the UDHR. Research in 69 countries showed that sanctions lowered infant weight and increased the likelihood of death before age three.
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The US Is Determined to Drive a Wedge between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
23 Nov 2022 – Thanks to the 21 Nov US-imposed sanctions, Eritrea has been excluded from the SWIFT system along with Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Now American Enterprise Institute fanatic Michael Rubin wants it on the US list of state sponsored terrorists along with Cuba, North Korea, and Syria—triggering sanctions that penalize persons and countries trading with Eritrea.
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73% of the World’s Population Did Not Call for Russian Reparations to Ukraine
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
On 14 Nov 2022, the UNGA passed a resolution (A/ES-11/L.6) calling for Russia to pay war reparations to Ukraine. The majority of the world’s countries simply did not support this resolution:
99 NOT VOTING IN FAVOR (AGAINST, ABSTENTION or NOT VOTING)
93 IN FAVOR
Crimes against the Innocent Child
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
21 Nov 2022 – In addition to the reported brutalities, many more crimes against children continue amidst worldwide impunity. The following are just some tragic examples.
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Heal the World (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson | RAM's F.M. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Ukraine and Russia –> Peace Not War 2022
→ read full articleIndigenous People Push Back Against US ‘Thanksgiving Mythology’
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
24 Nov 2022 – “We will not stop telling the truth about the Thanksgiving story and what happened to our ancestors,” says Kisha James, whose grandfather founded the National Day of Mourning in 1970.
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Lives of Some Great Philosophers
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
I announce the publication of a new book, “Lives of Some Great Philosophers.” It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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What Spirituality after 1989?
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
A Universal Spirituality Adequate to Our Times
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Memorial Prose Poem
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
I write in memory of a tragic day in history that changed the destiny of the USA and the world. With the assassination of JFK, the path was open for presidential deceit and deception, for abuses of national purpose and moral authority. Say what you will, JFK was our nation’s last hope for principled charismatic leadership capable of inspiring hope and sacrifice for higher purpose.
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Every Child Has a Right to Realize the Human Potential
Yasmine Sherif | ECW - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022 – Racism and discrimination against children on the basis of their ethnicity, language and religion remain widespread in many countries. Statement by Yasmine Sherif, Director of ‘ECW-Education Cannot Wait’
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Zelensky Trapped by Moscow and Washington
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
22 Nov 2022 – The balance of power on the Ukrainian battlefield and the tragic episode of the G20 in Bali mark the first time the West has failed to impose its worldview on the rest of the planet. The USA has already begun secret negotiations with Russia to let go of Ukraine and blame solely Volodymyr Zelensky. As in Afghanistan, the awakening will be brutal.
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Friedrich Engels (28 Nov 1820 – 5 Aug 1895)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Friedrich Engels was a German author, political theorist and philosopher, best known for his monumental works with Karl Marx, ‘The Communist Manifesto’ and ‘Das Kapital’. He is pegged as being the cornerstone of a development of Marxism that led to Soviet Marxists and the institution of dialectical materialism.
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Anyway
Mother Teresa of Kolkata – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
~Love them anyway.
SAMs for Uncle Sam
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Radical Peace presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our US warrior culture.
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Interpol Arrest Warrant Issued for Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos
Fergus Shiel and Micael Pereira | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
19 Nov 2022 – The daughter of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos was the subject of the ICIJ 2020 Luanda Leaks investigation. Sources say the warrant relates to allegedly corrupt dealings exposed.
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COP27 Sponsor, Coca-Cola, Named Worst Plastic Polluter for the Last Five Years
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and Nestlé come in as the world’s top plastic polluters for five years running, according to Break Free From Plastic’s 2022 global brand audit report.
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Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces Are Defending Their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism
Eva Bartlett | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
19 Nov 2022 – Western Media Inverted Reality, Lauding Nazis and Demonizing Defenders: The U.S. is widely understood to be a key instigator behind conflict in Ukraine that has pitted brother against brother.
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Mr. Fish - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Enjoy!
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A Short Introductory Bibliography on Unbounded Organization
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Concepts of Unbounded Organizing
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Wang Yi Briefs the Media on the Meeting between Chinese and U.S. Presidents and Answers Questions
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – Yesterday, President Xi Jinping had a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Bali, Indonesia. After the meeting, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi briefed the media on the meeting and answered questions.
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A Thanksgiving Reminder
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
24 Nov 2022 – Happy Thanksgiving, sucker…
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Forgive Yourself
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Feel compassion for yourself. Love yourself, not merely your body.
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The U.S. Military Pledged to Remove Unexploded Bombs from This Island–Native Hawaiians Are Still Waiting
Rob Perez | Honolulu Star-Advertiser/ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
26 Nov 2022 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is leading the remediation effort, has been plagued by shoddy work and multiple regulatory disputes, according to an investigation by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica.
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Peace Disruptors–The Conversion and Repurposing of Places of Worship (Part 3): The Odyssey of Byzantia’s Hagia Sophia from Christianity to Islam
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
The Eastern Roman Empire was the site of repeated and enormous Peace Disruption due to Inter-Abrahamic Religious conflicts.
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Georgian Legion Carries Out ISIS-Style Executions in Ukraine—with Covert U.S. Support
Evan Reif | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
23 Nov 2022 – U.S. has a long history of subcontracting dirty counterinsurgency operations to brutal proxy forces–the Georgian Legion, which stands out among the many right-wing militias of Ukraine, is but the latest.
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Israel Has Jailed 50,000 Palestinian Children since 1967, and the Number of Detentions Is Growing Rapidly: Report
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
23 Nov 2022 – The Palestinian Commission on Detainees and Ex-Detainees released a report for World Children’s Day on the routine Israeli arrest and jailing of minors, saying that Palestinian children are not secure from being constantly targeted by Israeli security forces.
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Their Children Struggled with Addiction—Now They’re Fighting against the War on Drugs
Troy Farah | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
26 Nov 2022 – A growing number of parents see the war on drugs as an abject failure that harmed their kids.
→ read full articleElderly Populations
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
India has some 1.3 billion inhabitants, the second highest in the world after the Chinese population of about 1.4 billion. If the present conditions continue, we may exceed the Chinese in another year and may equal 1.5 billion by 2030.
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(Italiano) Il risveglio arabo-musulmano e USA/Israele
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Il risveglio arabo è contro la violenza e la corruzione a favore della democrazia, della crescita e dell’occupazione, e contro il dominio USA-Israele. Ma credere che l’Islam tolleri il secolarismo imposto è incredibilmente ingenuo. C’è un risveglio musulmano. Tuttavia, ci sono molti islam, come ci sono i cristiani e gli ebraismi. Come reagiscono USA-Israele e quale sarebbe una reazione positiva alla loro reazione?
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What Does the EU Parliament’s Designation of Russia as a ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ Mean?
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
24 Nov 2022 – The European Parliament’s non-binding resolution is a PR effort rooted in political agenda.
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While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed Readers
Ari Paul | FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
19 Nov 2022 – Before Bankman-Fried’s transition from financial genius to possible financial criminal, he received little scrutiny in the media.
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