Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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An Appeal for Peace
Thomas Daffern | World Intellectual Forum/International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
As intellectuals, philosophers, academics, scientists and teachers, we issue this peace appeal to all the citizens of Russia, Ukraine and other countries from today, February 25, 2022, we call for:
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: capire l’agenda sottostante dell’élite globale e resisterle
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Aprile 2022 – In un comunicato televisivo del 24 febbraio 2022, il presidente russo Vladimir Putin ha annunciato la sua decisione di ordinare alle forze militari russe di invadere l’Ucraina in quella che ha denominato una ‘operazione militare speciale’ per difendere le neo – autoproclamate repubbliche di di Donetsk e Luhansk e ‘smilitarizzare e […]
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The Coming Global Financial Revolution: Russia Is Following the American Playbook
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – No country has successfully challenged the U.S. dollar’s global hegemony—until now. How did this happen and what will it mean? it could well mean the end of the petrodollar as sole global reserve currency, and the end of the devastating petroleum wars it has funded to maintain its dominance.
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Europe Is Sleepwalking into another World War
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – How can we trust countries that created SWIFT—a financial transfer system aimed at protecting economic transactions against political interference—only to end up removing from that system a country on political grounds? Countries that arrogate to themselves the power to confiscate the financial and gold reserves of sovereign nations like Afghanistan, Venezuela, and now Russia? Countries that trumpet freedom of expression as a sacrosanct universal value, but resort to censorship the moment they are exposed by it?
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The Ukraine Crisis: Past, Present, and Future?
Charles Webel | The New Presence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Mar 2022 – Is the Ukraine crisis a turning point in world history? And is this also a potential wake-up call for the “liberal U.S.-dominated Western world order,” due to a conflict whose significance is comparable to and potentially greater than 9/11?
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Applicability of “Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum” to the Present Context of International Belligerence
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – The Roman General Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus’s seminal work, “Epitoma Rei Militaris,” is the only surviving military tome which elaborates his hypothesis of deterrence through strength and remains the basic foundation of modern military defence policy, eleven centuries later, for achieving peace.
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Pakistan: Politics of Deception and Betrayal
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – Politics of the Few Criminals Waits for Dark Future
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The Ukraine War Could Have Been Avoided
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The Ukraine war is the result of mistaken policy decisions by the United States and NATO in 1997 which led to the expansion of NATO up to the borders of Russia.
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Trumping Environment
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
8 Apr 2022 – Under colonization and during conflicts (rackets for money/profit of the elites) environmental declines accelerate. For those like me who study and write about these things, the most disheartening aspect is the way common people who suffer are duped to be partisan to conflict thus enriching the oligarchs who oftentimes profit on both sides of conflicts. For example, the oligarchs of the Rothschild and Bush families who got enriched from both sides on WWII.
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Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most North Americans.
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Stonehenge
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
What was it that they thought to own?
Decades, centuries kept intent intact.
Neither Victims nor Executioners: Albert Camus on the Antidote to Violence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
“If he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward.”
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Was Alleged Russian Army Massacre of Civilians at Bucha Actually a False Flag Event Staged by Ukrainian Nazis?
Evan Reif | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – Why was Nazi Butcher Botsun at Bucha? This story raises an important challenge to the official storyline of the Bucha massacre promoted in the mainstream media.
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Animal Crossing: World’s Biggest Wildlife Bridge Comes to California Highway
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – Unprecedented overpass will allow fauna of the Santa Monica mountains to safely cross a dangerous 10-lane stretch.
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Noam Chomsky: “We’re Approaching the Most Dangerous Point in Human History”
George Eaton | The New Statesman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
The US professor, now 93, on the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear war.
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Leonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Leonardo would have been exposed to a vast range of technical skills and had the opportunity to learn drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling.
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An Antidote to the ‘Split’ in the US Peace Movement: Anti-Interventionism
John V. Walsh | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Apr 2022 – No more US Arms to Ukraine. End the Racist Sanctions. Stop the Russia Bashing. Once upon a time anti-interventionism by the hegemonic US empire was a point of principle for progressives and peace advocates. Sadly, that is no longer the case.
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Fabricating Putin Quotes and Banning Paraplegic Athletes to Undermine Russia: How Low Can the West Go?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Apr 2022 – Vilifying and hating an enemy is a tactic that leaders have used in human history, and it is being used to demonize Russia and Vladimir Putin. If we want to join the march to war, we can join the hate fest. But if we want a more objective assessment of events, we must rely on facts that our governments and mainstream media are not anxious for us to know.
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The Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Fully artificial food is an increasingly popular trend focused on developing a new line of synthetically produced, ultra-processed food products by using recent advances in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. These new products seek to imitate and replace animal products, food additives, and expensive, rare, or socially conflictive ingredients (such as palm oil).
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See the World Going By
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Are you living in some Indian town or city near a place where you can see the world go by? What is this world? It is people, first. Then we have vehicles — buses, cars, bikes, bicycles, even an odd tricycle. There are some animals such as dogs and an occasional elephant.
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MLK: “Beyond Vietnam” Speech
Martin Luther King, Jr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
April 4, 1967 – One year before his death, Dr. King gave a speech criticizing the involvement of the U.S. in Vietnam. Great consequences would follow. His criticism made him very unpopular towards the end of his life.
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Vaaji Vaaji Sivaji (Music Video of the Week)
AVM Productions/Movies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Vaaji Vaaji song from Sivaji the Boss starring Rajini, Shriya.
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My First Aid Kit: Turmeric
Horacio Mesón | REHUNO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – Our healers, our shamans and witches, our “curanderos” used these medicines for millennia and today science is beginning to vindicate them through the force of reason and a return to the origins, the path of the heart. Originally from India and Southeast Asia, the use of turmeric dates back more than 4,000 years.
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The Military Situation in the Ukraine
Jacques Baud | The Postil Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. I notice that the “experts” who take turns on television analyze the situation on the basis of dubious information, most often hypotheses erected as facts—and then we no longer manage to understand what is happening. This is how panics are created.
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Let Us Now Praise Amazon Unionists
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – The only way to halt the global assault on the human rights of workers is to unionize.
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This Geopolitical War Is a ‘Geopolitical Crime’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – There is no doubt that atrocities have been committed in Ukraine, seemingly yet not exclusively by Russian attacking forces, and in a perfect world those who so acted would be held responsible. But the world is highly imperfect when it comes to accountability for international crimes.
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Attadanda Sutta – The Training
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Violence breeds misery; look at people quarreling. I will relate the emotion agitating me. Having seen people struggling and contending with each other like fish in a small amount of water, fear entered me.
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Cyclic Representation of Coherence as Knots and Otherwise
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Cyclic themes include the circular economy, environmental cycles, recycling, business cycles, domestic cycles of violence, and the cycles of conflict. Exploration of the cyclic representations of coherence considering their significance separately, or however they may be combined with others.
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Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.
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The Cost of War: 23 Million Afghans Suffer Acute Hunger, 95% Don’t Eat Enough Food
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
24 Mar 2022 – Following 20 long years (2001-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, 23 million Afghans now face severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse, unbearable family indebtedness, and devastating humanitarian crisis.
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Sheath the Sword Now
Katyayani Singh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Halt, Cease, and Retreat
Halt the war Comrade if you can, and speak without the sword,
Convince if you can, sans the military horde.
The MADness of the Resurgent U.S. Cold War on Russia
Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia under a spotlight: How they expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, backed a coup and now a proxy war in Ukraine, imposed waves of economic sanctions, and launched a debilitating trillion-dollar arms race. The goal is to pressure, weaken and eliminate Russia, or a Russia-China partnership, as a strategic competitor to U.S. imperial power.
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67 Years Late: Machinations of the Lynching Law
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
“Lynching was pure terror to enforce the lie that not everyone belongs in USA, not everyone is created equal.”
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(Italiano) Ucraina: non mandiamo armi ma un esercito di volontari in soccorso degli abitanti
Paolo Maddalena | Il Fatto Quotidiano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Marzo 2022 – “C’è bisogno di ripudiare la guerra, luogo di morte dove i padri e le madri seppelliscono i figli, dove gli uomini uccidono i loro fratelli senza averli nemmeno visti, dove i potenti decidono e i poveri muoiono. Ogni giorno di guerra peggiora la situazione per tutti. Perciò rinnovo il mio appello: basta, ci si fermi, tacciano le armi, si tratti seriamente per la pace!”.
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Ukraine and the Global Economic War: Is This Barbarism or Civilization?
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
The West’s actions against Russia since the war in Ukraine could signal an emerging new order that shuns the U.S. for weaponizing the dollar and Western control over the global financial system.
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Maya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
The light of the world has grown a little dimmer with the loss of the phenomenal Maya Angelou, but her legacy endures as a luminous beacon of strength, courage, and spiritual beauty.
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Save the Planet, Behead the Military Budget
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – Why, why, why, as our ecosystem collapses, as millions flee the horrors of war and poverty, as the pandemic continues, as WWIII and a nuclear Armageddon rears its evil head, does ever-expanding, global militarism remain our primary national purpose? This question stabs me as President Whoever announces his proposed military budget, as Congress increases it, as the media shrugs.
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Hinduism – The Secrets of the Vedas
Sanskriti Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
“One finds two theorems in modern science which have a profound spiritual echo, wrote in 1926 Sri Aurobindo, India’s avatar of the Modern Age: “First that atoms are masses of swirling structures, like the solar system; and then that all the atoms are constituted of the same elements… (read on)
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(Italiano) Verso un’Abbondanza Frugale. Gaia e l’Umanità: Esperimento in Corso
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
La situazione mondiale è critica: la popolazione umana ha raggiunto la cifra di 8 miliardi, e il suo impatto sul pianeta ha alterato i processi e le dinamiche del nostro pianeta a tal punto, da innescare una trasformazione dell’ecosistema globale.
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South Sudan: Oil Underground, Blood on the Surface
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While politicians and media have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan as a “civil war” between ethnic groups, there are some facts that should be considered. One of them is that this country is rich in oil.
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Make Peace, Not War, in Ukraine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – There were a series of provocations by NATO that aroused security concerns in Moscow, including the expansion of NATO after the Cold War was over, the threat from the Soviet Union had disappeared, and promises were made by Western leaders to Gorbachev of no further NATO expansion. Such geopolitical behavior amounted to imprudent statecraft by the West,
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Wars Lie!
Eduardo Galeano | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Wars always invoke noble motives. They kill in the name of peace. In the name of God. In the name of civilisation. In the name of progress. In the name of democracy… And just in case, if so many lies are not enough… the mass media are ready to invent imaginary enemies to justify the conversion of the world into a great madhouse and an immense slaughterhouse.
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How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The title comes from a speech by Vladimir Posner at Yale Sept 27, 2018. Posner was the spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev in the latter years of the 1980’s and has continued over the years to provide independent, informed journalism from his base in Russia.
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Vaccine Myocarditis: Mystery Solved?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
3 Apr 2022 – A Brazilian investigator may have identified the mechanism driving mRNA vaccine myocarditis. And the US CDC finally acknowledges the strongly increased risk in young males.
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Stressing the Obvious
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Reacting to Life
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The Urgent Need for Climate Action
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
One reason that the Glasgow Climate conference failed so miserably to produce urgently needed climate action was that humans tend to react to what is close to them. Money to pay the rent is urgent, while a climate catastrophe seems to be a distant threat. A second reason is cultural inertia.
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While You Were Distracted by Will Smith, the International Elite Met at the World Government Summit
Derrick Broze | The Last American Vagabond - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – While much of the world spent the last days obsessing over the celebrity spectacle of actor Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock ‘live,’ the international elites were meeting in Dubai for the 2022 World Government Summit. Guests included Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and Kristalina Georgieva of the International Monetary Fund.
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Ukrainians Could Defeat a Russian Occupation by Scaling Up Unarmed Resistance
Jørgen Johansen, et al. | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – As scholars of nonviolent resistance, we see four key ways Ukrainians can organize and expand the civil resistance that’s already happening.
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Geopolitics and the Rise of China
Anna Jaguaribe | OpinionSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Let’s start with a reverse order as the rise of China has a direct impact on how we perceive geopolitics today. It is unique by the historical situation in which it is couched.
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Putin… &…
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – I first saw Dylan Morgan’s painting a couple of months ago. The recent horrors of the War in Ukraine have opened old wounds and whipped me back to confront the stalking “strong men”–on their side and ours–and to weep with the mothers of shattered children.
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Bruce Willis Developed Aphasia after Being Vaccinated against COVID19
Steve Kirsch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage in a specific area of the brain. It controls language expression and comprehension, leaving a person unable to communicate effectively with others. Many have aphasia as a result of stroke.
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Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This Ukrainian War
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue.
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(Castellano) “Las Guerras Mienten”
Eduardo Galeano | Promotores No Violencia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
“Ninguna guerra tiene la honestidad de confesar: Yo mato para robar. Las guerras siempre invocan nobles motivos, matan en nombre de la paz, en nombre de dios, en nombre de la civilización, en nombre del progreso, en nombre de la democracia y si por las dudas, si tanta mentira no alcanzara, ahí están los grandes medios de comunicación dispuestos a inventar enemigos imaginarios para justificar la conversión del mundo en un gran manicomio y un inmenso matadero.”
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2022 Global Policy Institute Book Award to Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Dr. Falk is now a Santa Barbara resident. After four decades at Princeton, he has served as Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has lectured widely around the world as one of America’s most recognizable and relentless crusaders for international justice.
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Corporate Profits Soar to Record $2.8 Trillion
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Federal data released yesterday shows U.S. corporate profits jumped 25% to record highs in 2021, even as COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the nation’s economy and CEOs bragged on corporate earnings calls about jacking up consumer prices.
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My Sweet Lord “Live” (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison | Federico Perlingieri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
A Tribute to George Harrison by “Family & Friends”
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The U.S. Has Its Own Agenda against Russia
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – Ukraine is ground zero for the expansion of the U.S.-Russia proxy war, simultaneously a war of aggression being waged by Putin and a larger geopolitical battle between the U.S., NATO, and Russia. “It’s a proxy war with Russia, whether we say so or not,” said Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary under Obama.
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Really??
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
No Shame…
→ read full articleThe War in Ukraine: Understanding and Resisting the Global Elite’s Deeper Agenda
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Focusing on some of the more obscure aspects of the deeper agenda that is driving this conflict. This reflects my own long-standing interest in understanding how elite power manifests in the world.
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Comedians’ Tragedy: The Global Shortage of Cynicism in the Russian-Ukrainian War
Michimi Muranushi | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – The world has no choice but to condemn the Russian aggression against Ukraine. It has no choice but to help the Ukrainians to end the war with honor. But it is the role of the Ukrainians to produce statesmen who understand that the Ukrainians need to suspect not only the Russians but also the Americans and the Europeans.
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Showing Off — Splashing Oneself Visually in Social Media
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
A trend that has become visible today among the well-to-do younger generation is to show off and display oneself on the Social Media. How?
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Coronavirus Doesn’t Exist?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
3 Apr 2022 – For (non-scientist) readers interested in questions such as the reality of SARS-CoV-2 (or viruses in general), if it is causing covid, if the virus fulfills Koch’s postulates, if it has been isolated etc., SPR recommends this Twitter thread by geneticist Kevin McKernan.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 avril 2022 – Le titre de ce blog vient d’un discours de Vladimir Posner à Yale le 27 septembre 2018. Posner était le porte-parole de Mikhaïl Gorbatchev dans les dernières années des années 1980 et a continué au fil des ans à fournir un journalisme indépendant et informé depuis sa base en Russie. .
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Resisting Militarism: Mission Impossible?
Sean Howard | Cape Breton Spectator – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – “I don’t think the country should be militarized… but we live in the moment when the Army matters.” — Ukrainian peace activist Nataliya Gumenyuk. But denying millions the right to conscientiously object or leave the country is criminal. Overall problem: war. Pseudorealities lead to war. All lines lead to the war. It may be a mission impossible, but can pacifism help lead us back?
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BioBiden
María Zakharova | Pressenza Argentina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – An idea of the US political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine. Below is an attempt to reconstruct the chronology of this involvement, though not a comprehensive one. There are many gaps in this truly diabolical plan that are still to be filled.
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Siddhartha Gautama–the Buddha’s Birthday: 8 April (563 – 483 BC)
Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
8 Apr – Today is the anniversary of the Buddha’s birth—born Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, the fourth largest religion in the world.
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Nonkilling Political Reflections: The Sham of Non-Existence and the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022
Clay Edwards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – What should greatly concern us, in my view, is that US President Biden hit the impotence of our security structures squarely when he declared that Russian President Putin should not be in power. The use of the word “power” in regard to Russian President should be clarified.
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Russians Resist War
Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – Over 15,000 Arrested for Anti-War Protests – Russian citizens continue to protest against the invasion of Ukraine despite harsh repression by the Russian authorities.
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Round and Round
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Now you see… Now you don’t…
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On Being Disappeared
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – The entire archive of On Contact, the Emmy-nominated show I hosted for six years for RT America, has been disappeared from YouTube. I received no inquiry or notice. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist; then you don’t. Are we a more informed and better society because of this wholesale censorship?
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The Wondrous Mountain
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Is the wondrous mountain you?
Holding you back… like a boulder?
Or can you climb up and realise your true potential?
Resurrecting the Fear of AIDS
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
2 Apr 202 – Here we go again folks. The COVID-19 narrative is getting old. Oppressive, idiotic, and useless restrictions are being rolled back. But now we are being told that scientists in the Netherlands discovered a more aggressive variant of HIV-AIDS. They have to find some way to keep the fear porn going.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: The Making of the Mahatma in South Africa
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
The Cutting, Faceting and Polishing of a Diamond
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The Impact of Ukraine on Yemen
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – The People of Yemen Suffer Atrocities, Too – The Western economic war on Russia over Ukraine is having a spillover effect on the forgotten war in Yemen. The ghastly blockade and bombardment of Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is now entering its eighth year.
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Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
26 Mar 2022 – According to the 2019 Rand Report: “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”, the US goal is to undermine Russia. Rather than “trying to stay ahead” or to improve the US relations, the emphasis is on efforts and actions to undermine the designated adversary Russia. Rand is a think tank that receives three-quarters of its funding from the US military.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – “Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population has been displaced. More than 100,000 are missing or forcibly disappeared. Syria’s cities and infrastructure have been destroyed. The poverty rate is 90 percent; 14.6 million people depend on humanitarian aid.”
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Obituary: How Madeleine Albright’s ‘Munich Mindset’ Turned into Uninhibited Interventionism
Daniel Larison | Responsible Statecraft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
24 Mar 2022 – Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State, a prominent liberal interventionist, and promoter of NATO expansion, died on 23 Mar from cancer at the age of 84. A refugee who rose to the highest levels of government, she became a well-positioned advocate of American exceptionalism.
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U.S. Space Force Becomes More Lethal
GNspace4peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
26 Mar 2022 – What’s the newest branch of the US armed forces, the Space Force, doing in 2022? Find out in this video from the Global Network.
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Reporting from Moscow: Sanctions May Achieve the Opposite of Biden’s Stated Long-Term Goals
Glenn Greenwald and Dimitri Simes Jr. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In Russia, sanctions have taken a bite out of the Russian economy, but interviews and data suggest they cannot fulfill the West’s strategic motives for imposing them.
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Washington Is Driving the World to Nuclear War
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Washington dumped three more provocations simultaneously on the Kremlin. The signal it consistently sends is aggression. Why has no government and no presstitute in the West pointed this out? Why provoke a country concerned with its security with more security concerns unless you are trying to widen the war?
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Ukraine Being Destroyed by Proxy War, Not for Peace or Sustainable Future-Making
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Mar 2022 – Witness to Killing and Destruction: Ukraine Fast Becoming the Epic Centre of Cataclysm
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Body and Soul (Music Video of the Week)
Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
From Duets II: The Great Performances
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Interestingly, most news sources in the U.S. and Europe continue to attribute Russia’s military difficulties in Ukraine to their own incompetence or Ukrainian heroism, but seldom to the $3.2 billion worth of high-tech weapons that the U.S. has shipped to Kyiv since 2014. Joe Biden, of course, is an architect of this de facto Western alliance with Ukraine. What his end game is nobody can say.
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The Marriage of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – I was in London as a guest of Julian Assange and Stella Moris for their wedding, but even on that day the authorities continued their relentless campaign of cruelty against Julian.
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Yemen: The Largest Humanitarian Crisis That No One Discusses
Martin Armstrong | Armstrong Economics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The media rarely reports on Yemen and most journalists likely would not be able to recognize Yemen’s flag. The public does not discuss or shed tears for the people of Yemen who live in unfathomable conditions because they are not a piece of the larger agenda and no one can profit off of their suffering at this time.
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The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution
Nils Melzer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution, by Nils Melzer, Verso, 8 Feb 2022, 368 pp. – In July 2010, WikiLeaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. Unsurprisingly, Melzer’s book has hardy received a whisper in the Western corporate mainstream press.
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Confession
Raymond Nat Turner | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” —P. J. O’Rourke
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More Evidence That the U.S. Is Trying to Prolong This Ukrainian War
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – “Secretary of State Antony Blinken has not attempted any conversations with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, since the start of the conflict. So the US government is continuing its policy of refusing to attempt any high-level diplomatic resolutions to this war despite its public hand-wringing
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Marzo 2022 – Di recente è stata approvata una modifica della Costituzione Italiana, all’articolo 9. L’inserimento della biodiversità e degli ecosistemi è un passo avanti rispetto al ‘paesaggio’. Viene riconosciuta almeno una parte di Gaia – il nostro pianeta vivente – tra i soggetti da tutelare, anche se c’è ancora qualche ambiguità.
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Ice Shelf Bigger than New York City Breaks Off Eastern Antarctica
Jason Samenow | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
26 Mar 2022 – The first major shelf to collapse in more than four decades of satellite observations. The Conger Ice Shelf, spanning about 460 square miles, shattered off the continent on March 15. Its disintegration has alarmed scientists, who have long considered ice in eastern Antarctica as relatively stable.
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Anana Sutta – Debtlessness
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
There are these four kinds of bliss that can be attained in the proper season, on the proper occasions, by a householder enjoying the pleasures of the senses. Which four?
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Unsettling Coloniality in the Psychological Sciences by Restoring Our Kinship Worldview
Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Psychology is the go-to social science for helping mitigate imbalanced mental capacity and behavior. This paper shows how it is also one of the most colonized science disciplines and explains how it contributes indirectly to or at least does little to prevent calamities. Metacognitive reflection that focuses on re-embracing Indigenous worldview is the best way to challenge the colonial assumptions behind most psychological approaches effectively.
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Ukraine Déjà Vu 1984: Political Egocentrism, Nuclear Narcissism and Political Maturity
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – In 1984 I went to the USSR with the Association of Humanistic Psychology as a citizen diplomat during the height of the Soviet-American nuclear arms race. That was the good old days when Reagan called the USSR “the Evil Empire.” I put aside my shyness to become a speaker for Physicians for Social Responsibility on the psychology of the arms race.
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Poem about Holi Festival
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
The vibrant colours of Holi
Bringing sheer delight with jubilant colour
Like a rainbow, announcing its Spring
Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
Ray McGovern, John Mearsheimer | Salon, Committee for the Republic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To an empire, everything looks like a crisis to justify a multi-trillion-dollar military-industrial-security complex as dictatress of the world. The crisis du jour for the American empire is Russia‘s aggression against Ukraine.
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UN Condemnation of Russia Endorsed by Countries Run by the Richest, Oldest, Whitest People on Earth
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360° - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
24 Mar 2022 – The statistics below show that only 41% of the world’s people live in countries that joined the US in voting for the UN resolution: Divided World
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Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
“As for me, I am rather often uneasy in my mind, because I think that my life has not been calm enough; all those bitter disappointments, adversities, changes keep me from developing fully and naturally in my artistic career.” —Vincent van Gogh
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The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – We have arrived into the dystopian future dreamed up by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move. Much like Huxley’s A Brave New World, we are churning out a society of watchers who “have their liberties taken away from them, but … rather enjoy it.
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The Comedian
Unknown author – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Tragicomedy?
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Expectations…
George Bernard Shaw - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
True.
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