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The Risk of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine
Bennett Ramberg | Project-Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Of all the obvious dangers that come with war, one of the most far-reaching in the current Russia-Ukraine conflict has been woefully underappreciated. Even if commanders took pains to avoid striking Ukraine’s 15 nuclear power reactors, that might not be enough to avoid a catastrophe.
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Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Long Odysseys of Goddess Annapurna and Treasures of India (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The Ungodly Thievery of Godly Treasures from India
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The Dangerous Assumption That Violence Keeps Us Safe
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
26 Feb 2022 – A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again. One of the most popular — and dangerous — assumptions in the world is that violence keeps us safe.
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COVID World Data -Total: 446,7M -Dead: 6M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
On 7 Mar 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 446,721,728
Deaths: 6,020,582
Active: 60,831,275
Recovered: 379,869,871
Cases Closed: 385,890,453
Total Vaccinated: 4,976,030,953
Corporations versus Democracy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the ways in which giant corporations control both governments and media, thus undermining democracy. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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So This Is What It Looks Like When the Corporate Media Opposes a War
Jeff Cohen | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Having worked inside mainstream U.S. media during the beginning of the “War on Terror” and run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the differences in today’s war coverage are dizzying to me. Major American media outlets oppose military aggression… unless the United States is doing it.
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Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – What a strange feeling it was to know that the cruise missile shown descending towards an airport and erupting in a ball of flame was NOT fired by US or British forces. This was Russia’s war of aggression, not ‘ours’. This was not an approved orgy of destruction and emphatically not to be celebrated.
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Toxic Nostalgia, from Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?
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See Saw
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
21 Feb 2022 – Please clarify…
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(Français) La Chute de Poutine – Un Déjà-vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
J’ai travaillé par intermittence en Union Soviétique dans les années 1970 et 1980 et j’ai observé le crash de l’Empire Soviétique – de l’intérieur. Il y avait trois causes principales: la perte de valeur du rouble, la perte de la guerre en Afghanistan et la perte de confiance du peuple.
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Swami Vivekananda and His Gospel
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Swami Vivekananda travelled all over India and met large number of people especially the poor marginalised sections of society and wondered if there was a God, how could people live in such pitiable conditions. In fact he asked this question about existence of God to several religious people and seers.
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Now, Perhaps . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
5 Mar 2022 – In this personal response to the invasion of Ukraine, I composed a continuous commentary, unbroken by conventional grammatical punctuations and sentence structure, save a comma, in an effort to stifle and restrain the inequities of division, and instead, to sear minds with a plaintive, mournful, rhythmic statement, sanctioned by shared horror.
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The Curse of NATO
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The war over Ukraine is an example of the curse of NATO. Russia reacted to the possibility of Ukraine being in NATO. This is not irrational in that US/NATO has over 750 military bases around the world, and many of these bases appear to be there to militarily encircle Russia (and China).
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Abolish Violent and Corrupt Police Forces
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
How brutal the police are depends on the country. Some places are worse than others. But data reported by CNN in a June 2020 article shows that cops in my country, the US, are among the worst.
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Tears – Assu Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating and wandering on.
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This War of MMXXII
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
This is war my dear!
Invasion for pure greed and gratification.
What else can this be?
I Want You Back (Music Video of the Week)
The Jackson 5 | The Ed Sullivan Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The Jackson 5 on The Ed Sullivan Show December 14, 1969
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They Are ‘Civilized’ and ‘Look Like Us’: The Racist Coverage of Ukraine
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Markets command governments more than governments command markets. Governments, whatever their ideology, in practice devote themselves to attracting investment and to discouraging disinvestment. “When investors choose not to invest, policymakers are powerless to force them.”
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Ukraine and the Orwellian “Ministry of Truth”: The Attack Was Launched by NATO Eight Years Ago
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU is banning Sputnik and Russia Today so that “they can no longer spread their lies to justify Putin’s war with their toxic disinformation in Europe”. The EU thus officially establishes the Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Country Health Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Welcome to World Life Expectancy. Find info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated daily. CLICK HERE
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Navigating our Humanity: Ilan Pappé on the Four Lessons from Ukraine
Ilan Pappé | The Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The USA Today reported that a photo that went viral about a high-rise in the Ukraine being hit by Russian bombing turned out to be a high-rise from the Gaza Strip, demolished by the Israeli Air Force in May 2021. Legitimizing internationally the invasion of sovereign countries and licensing the continued colonization and oppression of others, such as Palestine and its people, will lead to more tragedies, such as the Ukrainian one, in the future.
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On Humiliation
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Russia’s actions in the Ukraine, to a great extent, are the culmination of the numerous humiliations that the West, under American instigation, has inflicted on Russia’s rulers and the country as a whole over the past 30 years.
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The Fall of Putin – a Déjà vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Déjà vu. I worked on and off in the Soviet Union during the 1970’s and 1980’s and I watched the crash of the Soviet Empire – from inside. Three main causes: the loss of value of the ruble, the loss of the war in Afghanistan and the loss of confidence of the people.
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West Backs Ukraine but Ignores Palestinians
Gideon Polya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Both the Russian occupation of Ukraine and the Apartheid Israeli occupation of Palestine are wrong, inhumane, international law-violating, and hugely destructive. However, a racist and specifically anti-Arab West utterly ignores the Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, while quite rightly condemning and sanctioning Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
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Grow Man (Human) for Peace: The Role of Peace Education
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
We have developed tremendously in science, humanities, technology, medicine, agriculture, transportation, communication, and the other fields of knowledge except man (human), hence we have violence of others and selves, war, exploitation of each other.
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(Italiano) La Russia non doveva bombardare l’Ucraina: c’erano alternative
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Marzo 2022 – Un giorno o due prima dell’attacco russo all’Ucraina, scrissi che la Russia NON avrebbe invaso l’Ucraina. La notizia del mattino del 24 febbraio francamente mi scioccò e mi intristì molto.
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Militarism Is Never the Answer
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The West has always demonized Russia and ignored its border security. The US has successfully stoked another war because NATO always needs an enemy–Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria—and they have now turned their sights back to Russia. It will be the Europeans who reap the fall out of another US/NATO folly.
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Climate Change: IPCC Report Warns of ‘Irreversible’ Impacts of Global Warming
Matt McGrath | BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Many of the impacts of global warming are now simply “irreversible” according to the UN’s latest assessment.
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Ipsis Literis
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The little girl opened the door and said happily to her uncle,
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Ending Poverty by Rethinking Thinking
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Ending poverty would benefit everyone. It would be relatively inexpensive. It would open paths to sustainability. Rethinking thinking is needed to see why ending poverty is feasible…
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(Italiano) Quale pedagogia nei conflitti
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Marzo 2022 – Questi appunti su quale pedagogia nei conflitti li ho scritti pensando a Gene Sharp che è stato per diversi anni direttore del Program of nonviolent sanctions del Center for International Affair della Harward University.
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The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
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The War-Profiteering Gangsters Will Kill Us All Unless We Unite against Them
Roger Waters | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Western media simplifies the conflict in Ukraine in ways that divide us. But what if instead, we chose to unite against those who profit from all wars throughout the world?
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What You Should ‘Really’ Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
As tensions began to rise over Ukraine, US media produced articles attempting to explain the situation: “Ukraine Explained” (New York Times, 12/8/21) and “What You Need to Know About Tensions Between Ukraine and Russia” (Washington Post, 11/26/21). But to truly understand this crisis, you would need to know much more than what these articles offered.
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Ukraine versus Iraq — Humanitarian Intervention versus Invasion?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Russian “Peacekeeping” or another “Forever War” – With the emphasis so emphatically placed on “invasion”, little is said of the possibility of “humanitarian intervention” — let alone of the meaning of any form of “promise” not to invade.
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How the US Instigated the Ukraine Crisis
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – US intervention, both open and secret, has been a major driver of the events in Ukraine. Let us hope that the violence ends quickly and a genuinely independent Ukraine, no longer a tool of the United States, emerges.
→ read full articleDid the U.S. and NATO Promise Not to Threaten Russia by Moving the Military Forces of NATO to Its Borders?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – We continue to be threatened by the culture of war, which, as usual in recent history, is monopolized by the nation states.
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The Ocean
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
There is a timeless source leaving the shore.
Waves are crashing, fierce almost like a roar!
The deep blue sea cannot cover or conceal.
Whistleblower Exposes Credit Suisse’s Bankrolling of Spy Chiefs Involved in CIA Torture
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – A major global journalism project called “Suisse Secrets” revealed the names of criminals and corrupt government officials who had Credit Suisse accounts, including spy agency chiefs implicated in the CIA’s torture program.
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Culture — Food, Music, Languages, Dress
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
Many countries had their own culture
Consisting of languages people spoke, food they ate
The attractive dresses that they wore
Leak Exposes Ericsson’s Secret Dealings with ISIS amid Iraq Corruption Spree
Sydney P. Freedberg, Maggie Michael and Amir Musawy | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The embattled Swedish telecom giant concealed years of bribery and fraud in the war-torn nation and grappled with undisclosed corruption allegations in more than a dozen other countries.
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The Situation in Russia and Ukraine – Why Is Ukraine the West’s Fault?
Prof. John Mearsheimer | King’s Politics/The University of Chicago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
John J. Mearsheimer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. In 2020 he won the James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.”
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(Italiano) Di fronte alla guerra
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Febbraio 2022 – La prima reazione che viene spontanea di fronte a quanto sta accadendo in queste ore non troppo lontano dai nostri confini è lo sconforto, unito a sgomento e dolore. Di fronte alla prospettiva di tante vite distrutte solo il silenzio è adeguato. Poi, però, di fronte alla guerra, segue il bisogno di capire, di riflettere e di agire.
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The ICJ and the Issue of Lawful Representation in The Gambia v Myanmar
John Packer, Gregory Stanton, Nathalie Chaar, Loujain El-Sahli, and Bailey Pelletier | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
18 Feb 2022 – Ahead of the scheduled public hearings in The Gambia v Myanmar (the Rohingya genocide case) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Canada, the Genocide Watch of USA and FORSEA release a comprehensive legal analysis. It focuses on the crucial question of who should lawfully speak for Myanmar before the ICJ as Myanmar’s coup resulted in an unprecedented situation with no recognized government or even regime with effective control of the state.
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Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
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God’s Eternal Spiritual Abode–Our Ultimate Goal
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
The Vedic texts describe that there are innumerable spiritual planets in the spiritual sky beyond this material creation, each having one of the unlimited forms of the Lord with countless devotees engaging in His service.
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Veganism vs. Cruelty-Free Products: What Is the Difference?
Jason Hughes | VeganLiftz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
It is a common misconception that the term veganism and cruelty-free are synonymous. But there are several factors that differentiate both the terms from each other. When you’re new to the plant-based diet and lifestyle, there is so much information out there that it can be overwhelming.
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Assange Affirms the Existence of another Kind of Human Nature
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
** Statement made at the Belmarsh Tribunal on 25 Feb 2022 ** Beyond his great public service with WikiLeaks, it is his unwillingness to surrender his integrity and dignity that is key to understanding why the powers that be continue to crucify him.
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How Nanoplastics Enter the Human Body
Erica Cirino | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – If you regularly drink water from plastic bottles, you’re likely ingesting even more plastic than the average consumer.
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Meeting Thousands of People–Conversing with a Few of Them
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
With hundreds of thousands of people that I encounter at different places every day, is there even one person whom I know or who knows me? I have travelled a lot in my life due to academic pursuits or as a tourist… (read on)
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 436M -Dead: 5,9M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
On 28 Feb 2022 (9am GMT):
Total Cases: 436,012,909
Deaths: 5,968,333
Active: 63,468,125
Recovered: 366,576,451
Cases Closed: 372,544,784
Total Vaccinated: 4,934,325,612
Nils Melzer: The Political Persecution of Julian Assange
Saturday Morning | RNZ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being made an example of by the US government to deter investigative journalists from exposing state abuses, the current UN Special Rapporteur on torture says.
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Coping with the Dark Side
Carl Jung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
Us & Them
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US, UK, France Promised USSR Not to Expand NATO East of Germany, Newly Discovered Document Proves
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Feb 2022 – A newly discovered document provides more evidence that Western governments broke their promise not to expand NATO eastward after German reunification. Notes from a 1991 meeting prove that the US, UK, France, and Germany assured the Soviet Union that NATO would not expand east.
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(Português) Guerra?
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
Quem opta por guerra
E’ inimigo da Terra
Diplomaticamente erra
(Italiano) Industria delle armi: la coda che agita il cane
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
24 Febbraio 2022 – Il militarismo è una minaccia negli sforzi di costruzione di un sistema mondiale più pacifico. Ed è spinto dalla forza gravitazionale, che distorce le risposte sia politiche sia mediatiche, del complesso militar-industriale. Opporvisi comporta aver qualcos’altro da proporre, da mettere al suo posto, come fonte di sicurezza come pure di prosperità.
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War Propaganda about Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – Every useful or pleasing claim about the war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents.
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Hymn for the Weekend (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
* From the album A Head Full of Dreams released in 2015
* Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy.
Chronicle of a War Foretold
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
24 Feb 2022 – After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.
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Propaganda Switch: From Covid to Ukraine
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
23 Feb 2022 – During the last two years, geopolitical propagandists have had rather little to do – with the partial exception of quickly blaming China for the pandemic. With the escalation of the Ukraine crisis, the following “propaganda switch” can now be observed:
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 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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Russia’s Security Threats to Increase if Ukraine Joins NATO
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Feb 2022 – Today Russian leader Vladimir Putin noted that the security threats would increase if Ukraine joins NATO.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
Life in the Stupidverse
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Creating Peace Means Changing the World
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
23 Feb 2022 – Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right? Regarding Ukraine: Both sides in the matter are flawed, and both sides need to listen.
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Ukraine: Understanding the Concern of the Other
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Bluntly put, Moscow has now been provoked to act since Washington was not willing to use diplomacy. Moscow’s response is perfectly understandable and rational. Cuba 60 years ago is relevant to the present situation. Just as the US did not want Russian missiles at its doorstep, Russia does not want overwhelming Western military power at its gate today.
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Switzerland at Risk of EU Blacklist after Credit Suisse Leak
Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
– 21 Feb 2022 –
* Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians.
* What is the Suisse secrets leak and why are we publishing it?
Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, and Life Has Never Been Better
Ida Auken | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
[Note from TMS editor: We republish this 2016 piece without approving or subscribing to the author’s or the WEF’s views. It is purely for analysis and context as it was written 6 years ago about 8 in the future. You the judge.]
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The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
An Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation – “Only through full awareness of the danger to life can this potential be mobilized for action capable of bringing about drastic changes in our way of organizing society.”
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(Français) Les États-Unis et l’OTAN ont-ils promis de ne pas menacer la Russie en déplaçant les forces militaires de l’OTAN vers ses frontières ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 février 2022 – Nous continuons d’être menacés par la culture de la guerre qui, comme d’habitude dans l’histoire récente, est monopolisée par les États-nations.
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Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Looting of Wealth, and Plundering of Cultural and Religious Treasures of India (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
The Odyssey of Systematic Theft of Wealth and Heritage Artifacts from India by Imperial Britain
→ read full articleThe Paused Quest for Humane Governance in the Arab World: Is It Time ‘to fail better’?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
The acceleration of history foreshortens our memory of past events, especially when disillusionment displaces hope. This happened a decade ago when uprisings were celebrated as ‘the Arab Spring.’ The role of activist youth, the spontaneous displays of populist strivings for a better political future, created the feeling that something irreversible, and for the better, was taking place. Yet it was not to be.
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The Sacralization of War, U.S.-Style
Kelly Denton-Borhaug | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – St. Paul’s line from Galatians, “A person reaps what they sow,” sprang into my consciousness with the death of the 95-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, who helped encourage Martin Luther King to declare his opposition to the Vietnam War so long ago.
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There Were Alternatives: Why Russia Should Not Have Bombed Ukraine
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
A fundamentally different professional Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment/Solution approach that should have been tried – just bits of it – during the last 30 years.
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Fake News Warfare in Ukraine Conflict
José Manuel Blanco Díaz | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The ongoing geopolitical and military conflict situation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine is being used for fake news production by Western press and social media platforms, as is becoming evident.
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(Français) Avoir confié la politique sanitaire mondiale à Big Pharma est une faute impardonnable
Nick Dearden | Guardian/Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Fév 2022 – Le Covid l’a clairement démontré : Pfizer et ses semblables, asservis aux actionnaires, ne se soucient vraiment que de leurs profits faramineux. C’est ce qu’explique, dans une tribune parue dans le Guardian, Nick Dearden, directeur de Global Justice Now.
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The Belmarsh Tribunal
The People's Forum NYC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunals of the late 1960s, which put the US government on trial for its war crimes in Vietnam, the Belmarsh Tribunal exposes the crimes of the so-called War on Terror 20 years after the first prisoners were brought to Guantánamo Bay — and calls for Assange’s freedom.
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What Russia Wants
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Both Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Secretary Sergey Laverov have repeatedly stated that Russia does not intend to invade Ukraine. Logic also tells us that if they had wished to do so, they would have done it long ago. The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is a western invention.
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Conflict: Management, Resolution, or Transformation?
Charles Webel, Ph.D. | The New Presence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – What is a conflict? Is conflict always undesirable? What is the range of human conflicts? What are the reasons for conflicts? And when conflicts arise, how should one optimally deal with them? These general issues have particular relevance for understanding and mitigating contemporary conflicts
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Russia Announces Withdrawal of Troops near Ukraine as Drills End
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Amid the hype around a potential Russian invasion, Moscow announced today that it is withdrawing troops from areas near Ukraine as military drills in the region conclude. The Russian Defense Ministry said the troops are returning to their permanent bases.
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The US Government Truly Believes the Entire Planet Is Its Property
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The irony of the Wall Street Journal yelling about China’s “global expansionism” over a ‘potential’ military base in Equatorial Guinea without applying that label to the US, which has hundreds of times the number of foreign military bases as China. It is ridiculous that a military base some six thousand nautical miles from the US coastline be framed as a threat to North Americans.
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With Its Doomsday Clock at 100 Seconds to Midnight, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Calls for Escalating US Aggression against Russia
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Citing the Atlantic Council, the US-based think tank for NATO, the Bulletin explains that the sanctions they advocate would cause the Russian economy to “experience significant chaos.” Instead of supporting peaceful measures in the Ukraine, it has become a cheerleader for Washington. From an organization run by scientists, the current governing board of the Bulletin has hardly a scientist in sight.
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska | Our Chopin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, he was the author of two polonaises…. In the summer of 1849, Ludwika Jedrzejewiczowa, the eldest sister of the composer, came from Warsaw to take care of her ill brother. On 17 October 1849, Chopin died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendôme. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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Future Psychosocial Implications of the Metaverse
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Exploring Possible Non-Technical and Existential Dimensions
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RAND Corporation Study Calls for Regime Change in Moscow
Bruce Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
13 Feb 2022 – Imagine how Moscow felt when they first read this study. It is clear that there is a method behind US-NATO madness. If you were sitting in Russia’s shoes how would you react to these proposals – many of which have been or are now being implemented?
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On Israel as an Apartheid State: An Interview with Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
19 Feb 2022 – An interview David Falcone originally published in CounterPunch on 11 Feb prompted by the Amnesty Report but extending beyond it.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 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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‘Politics as Usual’ Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat (or to Nuclear War)
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Richard Falk | DWF News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity’s greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. (Commentary added by Roger Kotila)
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Ukraine: Situation and Background
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – A brief overview of the situation in Ukraine and its geopolitical background.
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Multiple Articles on Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News | Military Space Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Thought-provoking News on War and Destruction
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The Mind Control Police: U.S. Government’s War on Thought Crimes and Truth-Tellers
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – The U.S. government, which speaks in a language of force, is afraid of its citizenry. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell
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War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain. On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin, the currency of the age. In 1964, Marshall McLuhan famously declared, “The medium is the message.” The lie is the message now.
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How We Can See God
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
If we expect to see God with our material senses, we must consider their limitations. We often need glasses to see clearly, and also enough light. We will never experience the spiritual with these dull material senses. When researching atoms, neutrons, protons, etc., scientists actually don’t see every molecule they ‘find.’ Sometimes they only see the evidence that such particles exist. It is in the realm of ‘consciousness.’ The Higgs boson is a case in point.
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Barbarism by the Epicentre of Civilisation against the Irish on “Bloody Sunday 1972” (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
The Bloody Sunday Massacre at Lodonderry, Northern Ireland by British Soldiers
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The Western Allied Nations Bully the World While Warning of Threats from China and Russia
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – Why the chief of Germany’s navy, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, was sacked? Because while in India he said two things that are unacceptable in the West:
• That “the Crimean Peninsula is gone and never [coming] back” to Ukraine.
• That Putin should be treated with respect.
A Scene of Mughal-E-Azam (Music Video of the Week)
Lata Mangeshkar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Celebrating the 78-year career of the famous Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar who passed away in Mumbai on Sunday 6 Feb 2022. The song’s movie is based on the life of Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great and his son who dared to fall in love with a Mughal court dancer.
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Activism Uncensored: The Freedom Convoy
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – As Canada Clamps Down on Trucker Protest, American Copycat Event Fails to Materialize So Far – A Balanced Look at the Canadian Protests
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Lives in the Renaissance
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
18 Feb 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a book that presents many aspects of science and culture in the Renaissance (meaning “Re-birth”), a period of excitement and innovation in Europe. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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What Is Going to Happen in Ukraine?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
* Three possible scenarios in the current crisis in Ukraine.
* How current US-UK-NATO policy is designed to erect a new EU/Russia Iron Curtain.
* What the actual outcome could be.
Today’s Crisis over Ukraine
Amb. Jack F. Matlock | ACURA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense. We are being told each day that war may be imminent in Ukraine. (This article is judged “UNFIT TO PRINT” by The New York Times et al. — Prof. Michael Brenner)
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