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Delhi — Old and New
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Delhi, the capital of modern India, has had a long chequered background. It has been plundered and rebuilt seven times over its long history.
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Facing Severe Repression, Russians Are Turning to Antiwar Graffiti
Colleen Wood and Alexis Lerner | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – As the Kremlin cracks down on antiwar protests, subversive street art critiquing the war in Ukraine is proliferating across Russia.
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(Italiano) Conflitto NATO/Russia in Ucraina
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – La reazione “rettiliana” dell’Occidente si dimostrerà estremamente autodistruttiva: una lettura di Jan Oberg del conflitto NATO/Russia in Ucraina.
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Biden’s Reckless Words Underscore the Dangers of U.S. Use of Ukraine as a Proxy War
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
27 Mar 2022 – The central question from the start of the war in Ukraine was what role, if any, should the U.S. government play in it? If the U.S. is going to involve itself in this war, what objectives should drive that involvement? Those questions were never considered and it may be too late for them to be examined. But given the stakes, this is as clear a case of better late than never.
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The Evolving Narrative
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – Current Affairs
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2021 Amazon Deforestation Map Shows Devastating Impact of Ranching, Agriculture
Maxwell Radwin | Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The Andean Amazon Project found that around 1.9 million hectares (4.8 million acres) of primary forest were lost in 2021, mostly as the result of cattle ranching and other agricultural activities.
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U.S. Lied about Funding “Dangerous Pathogen” Research in Secret Ukrainian Biolabs, Newly Leaked Documents Reveal
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – Newly Leaked Documents Reveal Pentagon Contractors Worked Under $80 Million Program Funded by Defense Department but Kept Hidden from Public
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World’s Dullest Editorial Launches Panic
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Mar 2022 – In an inane sequel to the Harper’s Letter fiasco, a New York Times editorial ignites a fury proving its anodyne thesis.
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Jane Goodall (Born 3 Apr 1934)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Animal Rights Activist, Scientist – Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times.
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The Lie of North American Innocence
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. Our hypocrisy makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: una prospettiva geopolitica
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Ripresa modificata di una conferenza tenuta il 9 marzo 2022 a una sessione dei Colloqui su Studi Globali all’Università di California – Santa Barbara convocata dal professor Jan Nederveen Pieters, purtroppo priva di una serie di domande impegnative a seguito del mio intervento, fra cui da vari partecipanti in Europa.
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NATO Is Arming and Training Nazis in Ukraine, as US Floods Russia’s Neighbor with Weapons
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
11 Mar 2022 – NATO is sending weapons and trainers to help neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s white-supremacist Azov movement fight Russia. This follows numerous reports of Western government support for Ukrainian far-right extremists.
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Ukrainian Leftist Criticizes Western War Drive with Russia: US Is Using Ukraine as ‘Cannon Fodder’
Yuliy Dubovyk | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia.
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The United Fruit Co.
Pablo Neruda, Nobel Literature Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
When the trumpets had sounded and all
was in readiness on the face of the earth,
Jehovah divided his universe:
Anaconda, Ford Motors,
Coca-Cola Inc., and similar entities
To Be Human–Lives Matter
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
The women, the poor, the marginalised, the ostracised,
What do they have in common?
Their rights are forsaken and forgotten.
United Nations as a Potemkin Institution Faced with Potemkin Crises?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Potential of AI to Enable a Transformative Dynamic through Meta-Discourse – As noted previously, the current global campaign of sanctions against Russia curiously recalls the psychosurgical procedure of lobotomy — much favoured in the USA and the UK subsequent to World War II during the Cold War period.
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We Are All Ukrainian
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – I am of Ukrainian origin. Like many Jewish Americans, my ancestral roots reach back to Eastern Europe. My father was born in Kiev and thought he was a Russian. Other relatives lived in the Pale of Settlement created by the Tsarina Catherine the Great which was part of Ukraine. They thought they were Russian too. Even today families blend Russia with Ukraine.
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From Kyiv to Kabul: The ‘Blessings’ of Civilisation
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – It’s time to put an end to a long history of violence in the name of benevolence.
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Ukraine War: Three Academic Perspectives
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – The following discussion resulted from three separate interviews. There was no interaction among the three of us. I wonder whether this war is best described as ‘Russo-Ukrainian War’ or simply as ‘Ukrainian War’ or ‘Russo-U.S. Proxy War.’ It seems an amalgam of all three.
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(Castellano) La guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania: Toma de posición equivocada de algunas ONGs
Ernesto Kahan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – En general los conflictos armados ente naciones, generan la aparición de posiciones extremistas entre la gente, que exacerban los sentimientos de identidad y concordia, que contradicen los principios de respeto y tolerancia.
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A Commune Called ‘Che’: A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes
Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – Just as the independence struggle had different resonances in the Andes, so too does Venezuela’s project of communal socialism. The region is home to one of the most successful communes in the country and has a solid productive basis (a chocolate factory and coffee cooperative). However, the Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others.
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International Law Is a Meaningless Concept When It only Applies to U.S. Enemies
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – International law is a meaningless concept when it only applies to people the US power alliance doesn’t like. Neither George W Bush nor Tony Blair are in prison cells at The Hague where international law says they ought to be.
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(Italiano) Se lo stato abdica alle sue leggi, i comuni hanno il diritto/dovere di disobbedire
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Stavo pensando ad alcune esperienze di resistenza civile in cui la pubblica amministrazione (PA) locale (Comuni) è intervenuta nei conflitti armati e non armati.
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(Italiano) Centrali nucleari – una ‘tassonomia’ controversa?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Pochi giorni fa, l’11 marzo, in sordina, ricorreva l’undicesimo anniversario della tragedia di Fukushima (in Giappone) Il 26 aprile prossimo saranno trascorsi 27 anni dal disastro di Chernobyl (in Ucraina)
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Transcending the Certainties of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Can we stare into hell and refuse to see . . . an enemy?
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Biggest Oil Giants Made ‘Eye-Popping’ $205 Billion in Profits in 2021: Report
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – While millions have been hurt by surging gas prices, a new report from a government watchdog group shows 25 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel corporations in 2021 collectively pulled in $205 billion in profits. Now, fossil fuel giants are trying to “cash in on inflation and the crisis in Ukraine,” said one critic.
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Reader's Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Oh, well…
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Since Russia’s foolish and totally unacceptable war on Ukraine started, there no longer seems to be any limit to what can be said about Russians and Russia and what can be done to isolate the country and its people economically, culturally, socially, financially and in the media. The word ‘Putin’ explains everything as if by magic.
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Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.
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Barcoding Nature: The Largest Global Land Grab in Human History
Meleni Aldridge and Melissa Smith | ANH International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – The commoditization of nature is justified as being driven by the protection of natural resources. But scratch beneath the surface and the greed and avarice is clear to see. Is the largest corporate land grab in recent history hiding in plain sight?
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Plea to Second Language Educators
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Dear second language educators,
When to your teaching Peace Linguistics you apply
your students achieve more than communication
They experience a deep transformation
The UK Supreme Court Won’t Listen to Assange, but the Legal Battle Is Still On
Sara Chessa | Bella Caledonia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – What are Assange’s lawyers’ options after the Supreme Court refused to listen to his appeal. Why US diplomatic assurances are unacceptable from a human rights point of view.
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Bias(?)
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
In the eyes of the beholder…
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Sanatana-Dharma: Its Real Meaning
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Dharma consists of both the force that sustains as well as what is sustained. It can also be said that there is the path of dharma as well as its conclusion, the object of dharma, or what we are seeking, the goal of life. So dharma is the means as well as the goal. Dharma is also said to be the force which maintains the universe.
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Lockheed and Raytheon–Today’s ‘Masters of War’
Betsey Piette | Workers World -TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Mar 2022 – That the U.S./NATO-instigated war in Ukraine could result in a WWIII is of major concern for all of humanity. Yet for some global billionaires — today’s ‘masters of war’ — this conflict is an opportunity to further boost profits.
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Nikolayevich Tolstoy: The Aristocratic Renunciator of Materialism
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
The Path Will Be Clear if the Worldly Weeds Are Renounced and Removed
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Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuitive Antidote to the Time-Anxiety That Haunts and Hampers Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
“Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster… Since finitude defines our lives… living a truly authentic life — becoming fully human — means facing up to that fact.”
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UK Supreme Court Slams Door on Assange Appeal, Extradition May Be Authorized
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – Without any explanation, the British Supreme Court denied WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “permission to appeal” a decision by the British High Court. If the British Home Office approves extradition, Assange’s defense may submit an appeal on the issues of freedom of the press.
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version – 1970
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Rebuilding Life after Partition — Vinni School
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The partitioning 1947 of India into two countries — India and Pakistan was a momentous event. People who are still alive relate the horrors, tragedies, anxieties, loss of jobs, loss of homes and one’s belongings.
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Preparing for a Dictator Down Under?
Brian Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – Australia has a stable, prosperous democracy. There are no looming external threats and no violent opposition movements. Yet, in the past two decades Australian governments have passed numerous laws giving police and security agencies ever more powers for surveillance and repression.
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Lives in the Middle Ages
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents many aspects of culture in the Middle Ages. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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The Amazon, Undone: Death in the Forest
Terrence McCoy | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – The groups, which dominate this stretch of the forest, had unleashed a wave of fire and destruction that was transforming much of southern Amazonas state into smoldering pastureland. The way they solve problems is with violence.
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Say Hello to Russian Gold and Chinese Petroyuan
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed. The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions.
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(Italiano) Si può fare la pace con le armi?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Nei giorni scorsi sono comparsi diversi articoli di autorevoli intellettuali quali Vito Mancuso su «LaStampa»o di politici impegnati come Luigi Manconi su «La Repubblica», in difesa della scelta etica dell’invio di armi all’Ucraina.
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On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – To grasp this possibility within the context of Ukraine, we need to put aside all talk of morality, rights, international law, and think in terms of great power politics. When a great power feels its existence is threatened, might makes right. You simply can’t understand world politics without thinking at this level. It is a means of clarifying the causes of wars.
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Russia-Ukraine: Western Media Are Acting as Cheerleaders for War
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – Journalists are cheering on the arming of militias and civilians making improvised explosives – acts they usually treat as terrorism. It’s suddenly sexy to make IEDs – at least, if the media consider you white, European and “civilised“.
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Unique Resource on the Russia/Ukraine Conflict 2022
Rachael Mellor | Better World Info - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Mar 2022 – Better World Info provides a unique peace perspective on the current developments. At over 4,000 links, and growing daily, they feature the conflict from a Western/NATO perspective, Russian perspective, and independent viewpoints.
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Noam Chomsky on Hope and the Barcelona World Conference
Noam Chomsky | IPB International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Second IPB World Peace Congress: Campaign for Peace, Disarmament & Common Security Apr 2021
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A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War
Greg Mello | Los Alamos Study Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires security for others, says the Los Alamos Study Group.
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Nation-States Are Destroying the World – Could ‘Bioregions’ Be the Answer?
Shrishtee Bajpai, Juan Manuel Crespo and Ashish Kothari | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – From the border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are seeking new ways to organise societies that respect humans and nature.
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Ukraine, It Was All Written in the Rand Corp Plan
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – How to Destroy Russia–2019 Rand Corporation Report: “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia.” Rand is “a global research organization developing solutions to [USA] policy challenges”: it has an army of 1,800 researchers from 50 countries, speaking 75 languages in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Persian Gulf: more than 25 countries.
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Business as Usual in Munich: White Men Rule the World
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – A photograph from a CEO lunch at this year’s Munich Security Conference yet again demonstrated who continues to run the world.
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Stop the Ukraine War — Now!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
11 Mar 2022 – The war in Ukraine can and must be stopped now, before any more Ukrainians or Russians are killed and maimed, by declaring a ceasefire and then negotiating a peace. A decisive victory or defeat for either party is highly unlikely. Now – right now! — is the time for a ceasefire. There simply is no alternative to a negotiated peace.
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California Dreamin’ (Music Video of the Week)
The Mamas & The Papas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
California Dreamin’s best-known version is by The Mamas and the Papas, who released it as a single in 1965. The song is No. 89 in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It express the narrator’s longing for the warmth of Los Angeles during a cold winter in New York City.
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Orwell Was Right
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
13 Mar 2022 – From free speech to “spheres of influence” to our passion for endless war, we’ve become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted.
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Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has “Biological Research Facilities,” Worried Russia May Seize Them
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – The neocon’s confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – Dividing the world into worthy and unworthy victims is a tactic used to justify our crimes and demonize our enemies. Conflicts will not be solved until all nations abide by international law and all victims are deemed worthy.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
In addition to illegally invading Ukraine, Russian leaders have put their nuclear forces on high alert, thus illegally threatening nuclear war. This recent crisis emphasizes the urgent need for the world to somehow rid itself of nuclear weapons before human civilization is destroyed by them, together with much of the biosphere.
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Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – From Sep-Nov 2021, overlapping with the UN Climate Change Conference, three major developments in global finance marked a turning point in the financial expropriation of the earth and a shift in the economic paradigm to unlimited accumulation of total capital, which is now seen as including “natural capital.”
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Ruling Out Social Democracy as an Option and a Way to Rule It Back In
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – A decisive misunderstanding prolonging today´s mega crisis is the lingering belief that social democracy, as it existed in Europe during the thirty glorious years after World War II, and in a different form in the USA during the four terms of Franklin Roosevelt´s presidency, is a viable option in today´s world.
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Covid Vaccine Injuries: The German Pathologists’ Findings
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022 – A group of German pathologists have studied tissue samples of people who died after Covid vaccination. They presented their preliminary results at three press conferences. Using state-of-the-art immunohistological technology, they detected vaccine-induced spike protein in the endothelium of blood vessels up to at least four months after vaccination.
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An Interview with Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann, a Short-listed Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Robert Kowalczyk: Not many Germans recently have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Please explain the essence of your thoughts and why they are crucial at this moment in our world’s history.
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Arms Flood into Ukraine as US, NATO Pursue Proxy War over Peace
Kit Klarenberg | The Dissenter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country has been flooded with weapons and military hardware from Europe and North America. The strategy significantly expands the growth prospects for military companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman.
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Putin’s Criminal Invasion of Ukraine Highlights Some Ugly Truths about U.S. and NATO
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – The fact that Putin is trying to justify the unjustifiable in Ukraine does not mean we must ignore the U.S. actions that fuel his narrative.
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Life Goes on, Right?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – I had a breakthrough yesterday — and I don’t mean metaphorically. Wars rage, countless humans suffer, the rich get richer, life goes on. I still have my morning coffee. But not yesterday.
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Stepping up
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Indeed…
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine through My Burmese Eyes
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
13 Mar 2022 – None of the leading liberal democracies of the West really honours the principles they loudly espouse such as nonviolence, popular and state sovereignty, human rights, or democracy, nor do they support democratic resistance, armed or nonviolent, unless such support serves their hidden interests, whether commercial or geostrategic.
→ read full articleOwning the Libs
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Current Affairs…
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The Ukraine War: A Geopolitical Perspective
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Talk on 9 Mar 2022 at the Global Studies Colloquium, UCSB. When we agreed on a theme for my presentation, we were in a pre-Ukraine world. Interim developments: the imprudent US-led provocations, Russian aggression against a sovereign state of over 44 million people, the confrontational Western sanctions, and a surging Russophobia produced a win/lose calculus rather than partial win/win political outcomes.
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COVID World Data -Total: 458,5M -Dead: 6M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
On 14 Mar 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 458,582,742
Deaths: 6,066,254
Active: 60,684,497
Recovered: 391,834,920
Cases Closed: 397,901,174
Total Vaccinated: 4,999,997,559
Homage to Women
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
For Women’s Day – 8 Mar 2022 –
A feminine force so mighty and monumental
Yet so delicate, almost ornamental!
(Italiano) Da Gaia a Tecno-Gaia… e poi?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
“Voglio finire presto, perché ho bisogno di staccare la mente e di immergermi nella consapevolezza gloriosa e sensuale delle connessioni tra la grande atmosfera, i germogli primaverili, la profondità del tempo dell’evoluzione e il mio umile respiro. Inspiro. Espiro…
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The Root Problem Is War–Not Putin
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
War is a highly contagious disease, spreading germs the way a common cold causes its human host to sneeze. Among the many war germs are hatred, fear, dehumanization, tribalism, glorification of violence, and legitimization of murder. Without sufficient therapy, each war leads to the next.
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U.S. and NATO’s Unprecedented Weapons Transfers to Ukraine Could Prolong the War
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – The USA, world’s largest arms dealer, is leading an effort to dramatically increase the flow of weapons to the government in Kyiv. The weapons transfers represent a significant escalation of Western involvement and nations must ask themselves whether it is more or less likely to help end the horrifying violence being imposed on Ukraine’s civilian population.
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Extremely Important Statements by Putin (MUST SEE!)
Andrei | The Saker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – This is such an important statement that I am also posting the transcript below. In this exchange, Putin spells out in quite some details WHAT Russia is doing and WHY she is doing it. — Andrei
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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.
→ read full articleWorld Problems — Social Structure
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
There are countless conflicts, disagreements, problems in the world today. To add to the existing ones, new problems or conflicts are coming up on almost a daily basis.
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Understanding the War in Ukraine
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – The United States wants “to organize chaos between Russia and the Europeans.” Peace in Ukraine “is a matter of reconciliation between NATO and the new global powers, Russia and China.”
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How U.S. Has Empowered and Armed Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – Exploring the troubling and dangerous U.S. relationship with the Azov Battalion and other neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in Ukraine.
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It’s Time to Ask: What Would a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Look Like?
Anatol Lieven | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The West is morally right to oppose the illegal Russian war and to impose severe sanctions on Russia, but would be morally wrong to oppose an agreement to end the invasion and spare the people of Ukraine terrible suffering. America’s own record over the past generation gives no basis for such self-righteous hyper-legalism.
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Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Annihilation of the Kingdom of Benin and Pillaging of the Royal Palace by British Soldiers (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022 – A frenzied and savage mob of 1200 British soldiers, empowered and fired up with a singular aim of revenge “against the barbarous savages”, landed on the serene coast line of Nigeria, on 09th February 1897. This was the beginning of a massive attack on and the ruthless invasion of the Kingdom of Benin.
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Virology of Ideas and Colonialism
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022 – This brilliant talk by a Nobel Prize Winner George Smith on “The Virology of Ideas — An Indispensable Pandemic” calls us to a higher level of (re)thinking our world.
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Some Lives Are More Valuable Than Others
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – According to Western Media’s Coverage of the Ukraine War
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How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
“To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.”
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Richard Falk on Peace, War, and the Life of a Citizen Pilgrim
David Swanson | Talk World Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
11 May 2021 – Richard Falk is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University London. Since 2009 he has been annually nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. His political memoir, Public Intellectual: Life of a Citizen Pilgrim was published by Clarity Press in Feb 2021.
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Follow the Money: US Sanctions–Will Russia Be Able to Bypass Western Economic Warfare?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide.
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Vandana Shiva on the Dangers of Philanthrocapitalism
Vandana Shiva | Nonviolence Radio Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Physicist, ecologist and prolific author Vandana Shiva discusses her new book, “Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy,“ which identifies a new form of colonialism turning us away from each other and the Earth.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – Engendering a Transformative Dynamic through the Potential of Meta-Discourse – The current global campaign of sanctions against Russia curiously recalls the psychosurgical procedure of lobotomy — much favoured in the USA and the UK subsequent to World War II.
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A Guide for Peace in Ukraine: A Humanist and Nonviolent Proposal from Portugal
Redação Portugal | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions”, the Portuguese branch of the World Centre for Humanist Studies, an organism of the Humanist Movement, is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it.
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Searching My Roots in Ukraine: What I Learned and Re-learned in Kiev
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
76 years after August, 1945, we have not eliminated the threat of nuclear war! Nearly 8 billion of us better connected than ever, sharing a shrinking planet–beautiful, fragile and endangered. Who is in control? How do we deem ourselves ‘free and independent’ when we have surrendered autonomy and agency?
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Ukrainian Refugees to Portugal Will Have Over 11,500 Jobs to Choose from
Natasha Donn | Portugal Resident - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – As the government announced earlier this week, bureaucratic details like temporary residence authorisation/social security, fiscal and SNS State health Service numbers, will all be fast-tracked to make this transition for new arrivals as simple as possible.
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Despite Government Crackdown, Russians Continue to Protest the War
Culture of Peace News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
6 Mar 2022 – CPNN has published several articles recently about Russian opposition to the war, including open letters from scientists, from cultural figures, and from the “Congress of Intelligentsia.” Opposition continues to grow despite draconian, even ridiculous, measures by the Russian government to stifle protest.
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Ulysses’ Final Journey
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Penelope dead, my son in mourning,
I took a skiff along the craggy shores
I had no thirst for the world of men
Ukraine: A Conflict Soaked in Contradictions and New Patterns in War and Media
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – The world has become used to military interventions by the United States. This is, however, not a U.S. intervention. That in itself is a surprise—one that has befuddled reporters and pundits alike. It is valuable to step back and look at how the rest of the world may perceive this conflict, starting with the West’s ethnocentric interests.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Prior to any analysis of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, prior to the casting of blame and outrage — at Putin’s hubris, at NATO’s pernicious eastward expansion over the last three decades — there’s this:
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Ukraine: How Close Was the Nuclear Plant Attack to Catastrophe?
Esme Stallard and Victoria Gill | BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – Buildings at the Zaporizhzhia plant–the largest in Europe–were damaged after it was hit by shelling. UN’s nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency says that none of the safety systems at the plant were affected, and there was no release of radioactive material.
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Ukraine, Russia and the West to Rethink Dialogue for Peace, Not War
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
In an age of Reason, the cause of humanity calls for peace, freedom and respect for human dignity… Isn’t true that intelligent leaders and people always readily accept reasoned advice?
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How the U.S. Started a Cold War with Russia and Left Ukraine to Fight It
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – How the US reignited its Cold War with Russia and precipitated the crisis that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the catastrophic results of its actions being borne by Ukrainians, not by North Americans.
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