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COVID World Data -Total: 425M -Dead: 5,9M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
On 21 Feb 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 425,071,562
Deaths: 5,906,496
Active: 68,405,260
Recovered: 350,759,806
Cases Closed: 356,666,302
Total Vaccinated: 4,898,997,900
Afghanistan on the Brink of Disaster
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Gay rights, women’s rights — in reality, these are a nuisance to many U.S. conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the world is a great excuse to play war.
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Hinduism in View of World Thinkers
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Hinduism is the oldest of all religions in the world. Many great world thinkers were highly impressed with its universal, tolerant, and elastic tenets. Below cited views on Hinduism of a few world renowned thinkers are worth mentioning here.
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The US Empire Is Evil and You Should Want It to Fail
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
20 Feb 2022 -To rule the world, make it rely on a single dominant financial system you control so anyone who disobeys you can be cut off from the economy you’ve made them dependent on. The challenge isn’t so much obtaining evidence of the depravity of the empire as helping people to really, truly see the evidence we already have.
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“Do You Want a War Between Russia and NATO?”
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
9 Feb 2022 – Mr. Macron went to Moscow to see Mr. Putin with a simple 4-stage plan in mind.
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Meanwhile in the USA – Big Enough
Ed Wexler - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Dangerous and offensive.
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Corporate Vaccine Mandates and Vaccine Passports — Brought to You by BlackRock and Vanguard?
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Investment giants BlackRock and The Vanguard Group stand to benefit from their ownership stakes in most of the corporations that imposed COVID vaccine mandates, and in some of the technology firms developing vaccine passports.
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US Democrats, the More Effective Evil
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire, and the primary business is war.
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(Italiano) Ucraina, oltre gli schieramenti…
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Febbraio 2022 – La crisi che sta vivendo l’Europa, con il suo punto focale in Ucraina, è descritta, spiegata, alimentata da dichiarazioni e azioni, mosse e contromosse di molti soggetti interessati, in una complessa e mutua esibizione delle ‘forze in campo’: truppe, aerei, navi; soldati regolari e mercenari; armamenti…
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George Harrison (25 Feb 1943 – 29 Nov 2001)
Biography Online - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
George Harrison was a British guitarist, singer, songwriter and film producer. As a member of the Beatles, he achieved international fame and renown. In addition to music, Harrison was interested i n Hindu spirituality. After meeting A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, of which he became an active participant, Harrison turned his devotion to Lord Krishna and became a devotee of the Hare Krishna Movement in 1969.
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The Bridge or the Barrier?
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
There is a tottering bridge,
across the rocky mountain ridge
Will you use it to build?
Arms Industry–The Tail Wagging the Dog
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Militarism is a menace, in efforts to build a more peaceful world system, and it is propelled by the gravitational force, which distorts political and media responses alike, of the military-industrial complex. To oppose it entails having something else to propose, to put in its place, as a source of security and prosperity alike.
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Pipeline Politics and the Ukraine Crisis
John Foster | Canadian Dimension – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Amid escalating tensions, all eyes are on Ukraine. Canada’s Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland describes it as “a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism.” But Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas directly to Germany, is an integral part of the story.
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The Cattle of Goa
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
After the government of Goa was forcibly driven out by the independent India in 1961, the original Portuguese speaking people cannot be seen today after more than half a century of that event.
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What Happens When We Die
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
“How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
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‘Nothing More Grotesque than a Media Pushing for War,’ Says Edward Snowden
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill similarly notes that “the talking heads on cable news are almost drooling over the prospect of a ratings-boosting war.”
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Patience
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Yes!
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Open Letter to Presidents Biden and Putin
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
18 Feb 2022 – Please, Mr. Presidents, be a light in a dark and dangerous world. Give the people hope. Please meet each other in friendship and in respect for each other, and the sake of the great peoples of your countries, USA and Russia.
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Meta’s Facebook to Pay $90 Million to Settle Decade-Old Privacy Lawsuit
Makena Kelly | The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Meta, Facebook’s parent company, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users even after they logged out of their accounts.
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Why Is the White House Stealing $7bn from Afghans?
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Last week, the White House issued an executive order announcing the theft of some $7bn. In a move that can only be described as brazenly immoral and utterly unconscionable, the Biden administration has begun a process to seize the more than $7bn of assets that the Central Bank of Afghanistan has on deposit at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since the Taliban gained control of the war-ravaged country last year, that money has been frozen in place.
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Potential for Coherence through Engaging Strategic Poetry
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Memorable Cycles of Subdivision Enabling Viable Governance – Ever increasing quantities pose an ever increasing challenge for governance — its comprehension and its coherence. The matter can be clarified by the following somewhat simplistic exercise.
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Is the Amnesty International Report an Israeli ‘Sharpeville Moment?’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – This interview followed the release on 1 Feb of the explosive Amnesty International Report finding Israel guilty of the continuing crime of apartheid. How much longer can governments, the UN, and liberal Zionist close their eye in face of the mounting consensus in the international human community on the question of Israeli apartheid?
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Attacks on Democracy in the United States
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The worst crime of the Republican Party is obstruction of action to prevent catastrophic climate change, which Donald Trump called “a hoax” pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement. Trump’s party continues to echo his denialism and his obstruction of climate action.
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Dissonance Searching for Resonance: A Time to Remember the Hibakusha, or Are We Too Late?
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The world is now bracing itself for a possible Russian invasion of the Ukraine. The U.S. is pushing back, with President Biden talking about “a World War.” Hopefully, it’s not too late to remember the Hibakusha (Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings). How does one limit such an exchange once the first button is pressed?
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NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia over Ukraine
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describing Putin as Hitler incarnate.
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Dahara Sutta – Young
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
“There are these four things, great king, that shouldn’t be despised and disparaged for being young. Which four?
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The United Nations: Beyond Reform?
Edward J Horgan, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The Collective Insecurity of the International System and the Prospects for Sustainable Global Peace and Justice
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Haiti, San Martin and the Odious Foreign Debt
Miguel Julio Rodríguez Villafañe | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
7 Feb 2022 – The colonising logic of the centres of conditioning capital, from the very beginning, sought to take over Latin America, dominating it in different ways, according to their interests, beyond the principles that were proclaimed and the freedom that was promised.
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version,1967 – Click on Watch on YouTube, kick back…, enjoy!
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 412,6M -Dead: 5,8M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
On 14 Feb 2022 (10am GMT):
Total Cases: 412,627,461
Deaths: 5,836,222
Active: 73,538,688
Recovered: 333,252,551
Cases Closed: 339,088,773
Total Vaccinated: 4,869,912,010
Rather Than Sink Main Street by Raising Interest Rates, the Fed Could Save It. Here’s How.
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Today’s price inflation was triggered not so much by “too much money” as by “too little supply,” due to U.S. lockdowns and mandates. The Fed can help restock consumer supplies using tools that include Open Market Operations to counteract speculation, and the Discount Window to purchase loans from local banks willing to fund Main Street businesses if they had some help from the national Lender of Last Resort.
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Listen…
Rumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
… within.
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The Lotus Flower
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Through dirty mud, the lotus flower emerges
Tied to spirituality, the sacred lotus flower
exudes divinity, is a symbol of beauty and spirituality.
Seventy-Seven Years Ago, U.S. and Russia Signed Historic Agreement at Yalta
Jeremy Kuzmarov and Jacques Pauwels | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – With tensions between the U.S. and Russia at historic levels and threat of a hot war breaking out in Ukraine, we would do well to remember FDR’s visionary leadership and pursuit of diplomacy.
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Chinese-Russian Text on Constructing a Community of Common Destiny for Mankind – A Crucial Peacebuilding Approach
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The presence of the Russian President to the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics led to an important Joint Statement that stresses current proposals of the two States meriting close attention. It highlights the concept of the community of common destiny for humankind and sets out the political framework for its proposals.
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Oliver Stone: American Exceptionalism Is on Deadly Display in Ukraine
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The creator of the Showtime documentary series “The Putin Diaries” speaks to Robert Scheer about the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
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The Three Kinds of Violence Defined by Prof. Johan Galtung
Gandhi Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The word “violence” is typically used to describe harmful actions inflicted upon one person by another, but Galtung suggests that the the concept of “violence” actually denotes a much broader range of actions and behaviors. This video defines and differentiates the three types: “Direct Violence” – “Structural Violence” – “Cultural Violence”
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Sorry? Really?
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Tibetan Buddhism: Instructions for Life in the New Millennium
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Barbarism Practised by the Epicentre of Civilisation (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The Brutal Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar by the British Raj in India
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AP Reporter Challenges US Lies about Russian War Preparations
Clara Weiss | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
5 Feb 2022 – In a remarkable exchange on Thursday [3 Feb], US State Department spokesman Ned Price was challenged by Matt Lee from the Associated Press. With just one simple question—“what evidence do you have?”—Lee threw Price completely off and exposed a simple fact: The current press campaign over an allegedly impending “Russian invasion” of Ukraine and “false flag attacks” has no more credibility than Colin Powell’s lies of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 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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The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized “Fact-Checking”
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker’s British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact.
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Can Israel Stop the World from Saying ‘Apartheid’? Concealing the Suffering in Palestine
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Statements by Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups (including B’Tselem, Al-Haq and Addameer) as well as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch—are a reflection of the facts witnessed on the ground, and no amount of Hasbara 2.0 can erase these facts.
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From Havana with Love
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
7 Feb 2022 – Sixty years of US embargo on Cuba have not starved the island into ‘democratisation’, the way Washington hoped.
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This Ukraine Crisis Was a George W. Bush Mistake
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
George W. Bush and his neo-con administration made an awful lot of foreign policy blunders. This Ukrainian crisis is just the latest of many mistakes.
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Sleepwalking into Hell: The Global Elite’s Technological Coup d’état Against Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Opposed to vaccine mandates, QR codes and other restrictions on our rights and freedom?
Refusing to wear a mask, have the vaccine and stay locked-down when ordered?
Attended a number of demonstrations in your country?
Involved in or supporting the truckers convoys?
Hiroshima Spring
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
In the Twentieth Epoch of Love
we pulled on the rubbery face
and found the luminous skull
turning around in its place,
wearing the grin of our race,
The Terrible Fate Facing the Afghan People
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – When the West fled the country at the end of August 2021, a large part of the foreign funding, which Afghanistan’s GDP is dependent on, also vanished with the troops: 43 percent of Afghanistan’s GDP and 75 percent of its public funding, which came from aid agencies, dried up overnight.
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Sustainable Legacy
Fred Dubee | China Daily - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The 2022 Beijing Winter Games are a work-in-progress and will be a learning experience even after the Olympic flame leaves Beijing to begin the journey to Paris. However, its legacy will continue to enrich Beijing, China and the world long into the future.
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Memo to US Congress: Diplomacy for Ukraine Is Spelled M-i-n-s-k
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
8 Feb 2022 – The Minsk Protocol is the UN-endorsed international agreement that has preserved relative peace in Ukraine for 7 years, and provides a coherent framework for a permanent resolution to the civil war. Members of Congress should support it, instead of falling over each other to send more weapons.
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Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
9 Feb 2022 – As the plot thickens in Eastern Europe, Russia’s move in South America promises to add a new component that would make a win-lose scenario in favor of the US and NATO nearly impossible.
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How to End the Ukraine Crisis in 4 Steps
Alexander Dynkin and Thomas Graham | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
9 Feb 2022 – Two former top policymakers — one Russian, one American — have a plan they think could work.
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Early Life Exposure to Pesticides and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
Miguel Leyva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
How Does Paraquat Exposure Cause Parkinson’s Disease?
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The Propaganda Pandemic
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – How mass psychosis, PR campaigns, and psychological operations have shaped the pandemic. It is clear that high-quality independent media outlets and skilled independent analysts and authors played a leading role in debunking official propaganda and investigating various key aspects of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Can Peace Be Researched?
Nils Petter Gleditsch | PRIO-Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Revisiting a 55-Year-Old TV Program
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What Went Right This Week: Iceland to Ban Whaling, Plus More Positive News
Sarah LaBrecque | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – Iceland made moves to ban commercial whaling, a paralysed man walked again, scientists published research into chimpanzees showing each other empathy, …
→ read full articleGOA — Then and Now
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The conquest of the region of Goa, Daman and Diu on the western coast of India was achieved in 1510 against the Bijapur Sultanate with the Portuguese forces being under the command of Afonso de Alberquerque. Only about 200 soldiers died in this attack with an equal number of wounded on the Portuguese side.
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Let’s Face It: The Human Race Is Stark Raving Nuts
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Some have speculated that there must be some external agent other than us humans driving this global insanity. It’s hard to believe that people could be so self-destructive, evil, and incredibly stupid. Some say it’s the devil, others cite space aliens and inter-dimensional beings. Who knows? But maybe, just maybe, we humans are just plain nuts.
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Argentina Turns to Russia and Joins China’s Belt and Road
Ben Norton | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Seeking alternatives to US hegemony, President Alberto Fernández traveled to Russia and China, forming an alliance with the Eurasian powers, joining the Belt and Road Initiative. Argentina is trapped in $44 billion of IMF odious debt taken on by corrupt right-wing regimes.
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BREAKING: Joint Russia-China Statement Articulates United Opposition to Western Alliance
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – Today’s joint statement is a historic articulation of the major shift underway from the unipolar world that has existed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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The Moral, Military and Financial Cost of Guantanamo Bay, 20 Years Later
Stefano Kotsonis and Meghna Chakrabarti | WBUR/On Point - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – 20 years ago, the first detainees in the U.S. War on Terror arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Many detainees were innocent, and tortured. Presidents since then have promised to close Guantanamo, and failed. They picked up human beings and moved them halfway around the globe without an idea of how to undo this. They’re stuck with this mission. So, what’s next?
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Major Media Outlets That Use Invasive User Tracking Are Lobbying Against Regulation
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The “surveillance advertising” industry makes online news possible. News outlets entrusted with promoting transparency and privacy are also lobbying behind closed doors against proposals to regulate the mass collection of data.
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Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Amnesty International has analysed Israel’s intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and has concluded that this system amounts to apartheid. Israel must dismantle this cruel system and the international community must pressure it to do so. All those with jurisdiction over the crimes committed to maintain the system should investigate them.
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The Exit from the Ukraine Crisis That’s Hiding in Plain Sight
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Is there any way out of this exceedingly dangerous crisis? Perhaps the only hope is the Minsk II agreement, forged in February 2015 between Russia and Ukraine, brokered by Germany and France, and endorsed by the European Union and the United Nations. The agreement essentially called for a recognition of reality in law.
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Russia-Ukraine Standoff: Putin Says US Could Drag Moscow into War with Aim to Impose Sanctions
Vladimir Putin | Global News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The Ukraine Conflict: Views from the Other Side
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The Problematics of Middle Eastern Diplomacy: The Case of Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – In relation to both Iran, Israel, and Palestine, the essential message sent by the new leadership is continuity when it comes to substance combined with a resumption of the pre-Trump pretension of equi-distance diplomacy when it comes to the search for a sustainable peace.
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For Warmth
Thich Nhat Hanh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
I hold my face between my hands.
No, I am not crying.
Reimagining Guernica to Engage the Antitheses of a Cancel Culture
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Coherence in the Surreal as a Kaleidoscope of Imagery Forming a Hyperobject – There is no lack of commentary and explanation with regard to the surreal nature of the current times. Emphasis is commonly placed on the pervasive sense of meaninglessness — with various parties to be appropriately blamed.
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Press Stunned as Ukraine President Zelensky Points Finger at West
Nury Vittachi | Friday Everyday - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
* Campaign to paint Russia as aggressor is huge, but there are cracks
* Putin placing troops on Ukrainian border is “no different to last year”
* Ukrainian leader tells journalists that Russia isn’t the main problem, the press is
* NATO has continuously broken promises made to Moscow, archives reveal
The Execution of Love as a Tool in Ethnic and Religious Cleansing in India (Part 4)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
“Love Jihad”: Deadly, Peace Destroying, New Strategies in Ensuring the Survival of a Political Ideology
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The Blackwater Is in Ukraine with the Azov Battalion
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – In the Donbass front line is the Azov battalion, trained and armed by the US and NATO. The Azov recruits neo-Nazis from all over Europe under its flag from SS Das Reich. It is not only a military unit, but an ideological and political movement. In addition, there is the $10 billion plan being implemented by Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, now renamed Academy, which has been supplying mercenaries to the CIA, Pentagon and State Department for covert operations (including torture and assassinations).
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Too Good Not to Share!!
Neil Johnson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – I got this from ‘Truckers For Freedom’ on Telegram. Share it everywhere.
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Why Amnesty Is Taking Aim at the ‘Root Causes’ of Israeli Apartheid
Edo Konrad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Amnesty International’s Saleh Hijazi elaborates about his organization’s new report, the Israeli government’s harsh response, and why our analysis of Israeli apartheid needs to begin from 1948.
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Carbon Colonialism
George Monbiot - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public.
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Pegasus Spyware Row Is Really about Who Controls Cyber Weapons
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – Washington’s ban on NSO Group is not about safeguarding human rights. It’s about curbing Israel’s dominance of ‘espionage diplomacy.’
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US National Debt Surpasses $30 Trillion for the First Time
Michael Peterson | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – On Monday [31 Jan], the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the national debt surpassed US$30 trillion, which included US$23.5 trillion in debt held by the public and US$6.5 trillion in intergovernmental holdings.
→ read full articleUkrainian Sovereignty Means Not Joining NATO
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Taking international law seriously requires looking at the world in a particular way. And this view of the world is very different from the view presented to Americans by their foreign policy establishment.
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USA, NATO and Russia: Why War and Not Peace?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – The ongoing war syndrome between the U.S., NATO and Russia typifies what can go wrong when human thinking evolution is restricted to imaginary temptations and compulsions of animosities. Often myth of war is manifested in self-interest and its evolution becomes unquestionable on the rational screen of reason and moral values.
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Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
“It is only a narrow passage of truth (no matter whether scientific or other truth) that passes between the Scylla of a blue fog of mysticism and the Charybdis of a sterile rationalism. This will always be full of pitfalls and one can fall down on both sides.”
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Stripping Away the Bulls**t: U.S. and Russian Threats over Ukraine—What They’re about and Who’s the Aggressor
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
25 Jan 2022 – Threats and counter-threats flying between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine have caused a flurry of fear and confusion that escalates and expands daily. Is the world on the brink of war? What is it about, who is the aggressor and who is to blame?
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Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
More to the point…
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 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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(Français) Guerre à l’étranger, Guerre Dans la Métropole
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 février 2022 – C’est une vieille expression selon laquelle “les poulets sont rentrés chez eux pour se percher”. Les guerres que l’Empire américain a menées à l’étranger arrivent aux États-Unis sur son propre territoire ! L’invasion du Capitole il y a un an a marqué le début d’une seconde guerre civile dans la métropole.
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NPPW Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Shortlist Respecting Nobel’s Antiwar Intention Updated on 5 Feb 2022
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Prosecutors Silence Evidence of Cruel Factory Farm Practices in Animal Rights Cases
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
30 Jan 2022 – The government wants to keep juries from seeing gruesome evidence of animals in distress — the very reason activists are going into farms.
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The USA Is Reaping what It Sowed in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – So the revived Cold War that U.S. officials and corporate media hacks have been mindlessly cheering on could very quickly turn into one in which the United States would find itself just as encircled and endangered as its enemies.
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Is It Time to Bar Coup Leaders from the UN?
Thalif Deen | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – A rash of military coups in Africa has resurrected a long dormant question: should leaders who take power through armed insurrections be barred from addressing the United Nations—an institution which swears by, and promotes, multi-party democracy?
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Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State
István Mészáros | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – István Mészáros was one of the greatest political theorists of the twentieth century. Left unfinished at the time of his death, Beyond Leviathan focuses on the transcendence of the state, along with the transcendence of capital and alienated labor, while traversing the history of political theory from Plato to the present. Aristotle, More, Machiavelli, and Vico are only a few of the thinkers discussed in depth.
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Reaching COVID-19 “Turning Point of Critical Mass”: Is Nuremberg 2 Next? London Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation
Joachim Hagopian | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – At least 1,011 scientific studies have proven beyond any doubt that the Covid-19 non-vaccines are in fact lethal. The deceivers are realizing that regardless of how many times they repeat their lies to those no longer buying it, it will only lead to their own downfall sooner than later. The despots’ narrative is quickly falling apart smashed by real science.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 395,9M -Dead: 5,7M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
On 7 Feb 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 395,981,600
Deaths: 5,758,707
Active: 74,365,422
Recovered: 314,910,018
Cases Closed: 320,668,725
Total Vaccinated: 4,832,623,444
The Fields
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
A gravel path separates the fields
The clouds form a shady shield.
War Abroad, War at Home
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – There is an old expression that “the chickens have come home to roost.” The wars that the American Empire waged abroad have come to the continental USA. The invasion of the Capitol one year ago has signaled the beginning of a second civil war at home.`
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Nostalgic for the Future
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Nostalgia is always about time and space. In that sense, it is equivalent to all human experience that also takes place within these dimensions. And when technology has radically disrupted our human sense of limits in their regard, it becomes harder and harder to feel at home, to dwell enough to grasp what is happening in the world.
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Native American Tribes Reach Major Opioid Settlement
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Native American tribes have agreed a landmark settlement with major drug companies over the devastation caused by opioid addiction.
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A Night with the Untouchables
David Maybury | The Reformed Physicist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
I live in downtown Ottawa, right in the middle of the trucker convoy protest. They are literally camped out below my bedroom window. They moved in on Friday [28 Jan] and they seem determined to stay. They are our moral conscience reminding us – with every blow of their horns – what we should have never forgotten: We are not a country that makes an untouchable class out of our citizens.
→ read full articleUkraine and the Nuclear Paradox
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – There is a paradox here the size of the whole planet. The essential point here, as far as I can tell, is that the signatories are confessing that, yes, we possess the weapons that could destroy all life, and yes, we think using them would be wrong, but we have no idea how to make them go away and so we’ll just use them to scare each other, a.k.a., serve defensive purposes.
→ read full articleHarsh Times, Triumph of Bravery
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
The breakup of a country, popularly called a partition, brings forth harsh times in terms of loss of occupation, of homes, and worse, many people die in its aftermath. The former India broke up in 1947 into a majority Hindu country, India, and Muslim majority areas on the West and East of India called West and East Pakistan, respectively.
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(Italiano) Il paradosso della crisi ucraina e le possibilità della pace
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Gennaio 2022 – Lo scenario della crisi ucraina presenta elementi molto allarmanti e contraddittori, ma anche concrete vie di uscita per il ristabilimento della pace nel cuore dell’Europa. Ecco il paradosso della crisi ucraina.
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Genocide: Why We Let It Happen
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
5 Feb 2022 – As a detour, judicial demand for PROOF, beyond reasonable doubt, THE INTENT is one of the stupidest anti-THOUGHT and anti-INTELLECTUAL elements in the rich collection of legal and other literature. This question is raised – and answered – typically by lawyers and legally minded individuals.
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