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The Covid Vaccine War (II)
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – New developments concerning “vaccine passports”, vaccine mandates, and protests against them – an updated international overview.
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Cattle Boom in Brazil’s Acre Spells Doom for Amazon Rainforest, Activists Warn
Sarah Brown | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – With about 80% of its forests still untouched, Acre is one of Brazil’s least-deforested Amazonian states. But in the past three decades, the thriving cattle industry has become a major threat to Acre’s forests, with livestock now outnumbering the state’s human population by a factor of four.
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The Destruction of Literary Heritage (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – It is appropriate to begin in ancient history to highlight how libraries were destroyed for political and territorial gains by stronger forces oppressing the weaker ones, throughout history.
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Public Intellectual–The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, by Richard Falk
Clarity Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
Book Reviews and Selected Interviews (UNCLA Law, Ha’aretz, Counterpunch, Consortium News
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USA, Russia and NATO Look for New Frontiers of Influence
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Why the Lessons of History Are Ignored – USA, Russia and NATO’s Geneva diplomatic talks ended in failure without any formal course of action to avoid military confrontation on Ukraine’s border.
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#Ethiopia #TigrayGenocide #ExcuseForRegimeChangeWar
Ann Garrison | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Ethiopia’s growing ties with China and Russia and the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Cooperation Between Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea so threaten U.S. global hegemony that a U.S. “regime change” campaign is well underway. One of the first stages of any such campaign is, of course, massive disinformation.
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Kazakhstan Coup Fails, US-Russia Talks Go Nowhere. Is War on Horizon?
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Max Blumenthal and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar: Inside Look at Kazak & Russia Events
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 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 Day CNN’s Jake Tapper Sold His Soul to Pharma
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – There’s a reason CNN’s Jake Tapper is intent on branding me a “menace” and “a liar,” and why he refuses to debate me on the merits of facts and scientific evidence. Here’s the back story.
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Washington Pursues RAND’s Plan in Kazakhstan, Then in Transnistria
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
11 Jan 2022 – The events that have been unfolding for the past week in Kazakhstan are the fifth part of a plan by the RAND Corporation, the sixth of which will take place in Transnistria. The four previous episodes took place over the last two years in Ukraine, Syria, Belarus and Nagorno-Karabakh. The aim is to weaken Russia by forcing it to over-deploy.
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None Dare Call It “Encirclement”
Michael Klare | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Washington Tightens the Noose around China
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Evangelicals in Brazil Are Stronger Today Than Ever Before
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – The appointment of André Mendonça to the Supreme Federal Court was a turning point for the evangelical movement in Brazil.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
While this is being written, tension builds up around the more comprehensive Ukraine conflict formation. If this blows up in real war – God forbid! – the main reason will be three serious lies disseminated by the NATO side.
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Maha Kumbha Mela 2001: The Greatest Spiritual Festival and Gathering of People in the History of the World
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
Every six years, the Kumbha Mela festival is the largest gathering of people, mostly Hindus, in the history of the world; what to speak of it being a religious festival. Over the course of its 41 days, it is calculated that as many as 70 million people of all kinds attend the Kumbha Mela. However, 2001 saw an amazing increase.
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The Mauling of Tennis Player Novak Djokovic
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Asia-Pacific Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – Tennis World Number One Novak Djokovic’s treatment by Australian authorities, and his subsequent detention as an unlawful arrival despite being granted a visa to participate in the Australian Open, had the hallmarks of oppression and incompetent vulgarity; another example of provincial opportunism and crass stupidity.
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‘Jaw-Dropping’ Targeting: How Pegasus Was Used against Critical Journalists in El Salvador
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – A new report by Citizen Lab and Access Now, shared with Forbidden Stories, shows how investigative journalists at El Faro and GatoEncerrado, two independent media outlets in El Salvador, were repeatedly and aggressively targeted with Pegasus spyware.
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Selected Articles on the Kazakhstan Uprisings
CovertAction Magazine and openDemocracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
9 Jan 2022 – Anger, Injustice and Politics Brought People to the Streets in Kazakhstan
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No Comparison
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
A customer complained to his tailor,
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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Fight to Contain Them
Rebecca Gordon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
9 Jan 2022 – The continued construction and deployment of killer robots is not inevitable. Let’s give U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres the last word: “Machines with the power and discretion to take human lives without human involvement are politically unacceptable, morally repugnant, and should be prohibited by international law.” I couldn’t agree more.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
The Kite
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
Up and up the kite flies.
The wind carries it afloat
Yet it cannot reach the star.
Are Western Wealthy Countries Determined to Starve the People of Afghanistan?
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022 – A few days after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, the U.S. government announced the seizure of $9.5 billion in Afghan assets that were being held in the U.S. banking system. Under pressure from the USA, the IMF also denied Afghanistan access to $455 million of its share of special drawing rights.
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Peace and Justice Organizations Call for Freedom for Julian Assange
UNAC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022 – Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder, journalist and free speech champion Julian Assange today faces life imprisonment for telling the truth about U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and at the U.S. torture base in Guantanamo Bay. Assange faces charges under the 1917 U.S. Espionage Act.
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Communing with Albert Camus in 2022
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself” way, or in any deep psychoanalytical sense, but very simply. We have our own thoughts and feelings that come and go like breaths, most of which never get expressed in words.
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Syrian Extremists Had Free Access to Western Media, Says Award Winning Syrian Photographer
Patrik Paulov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Issa Touma, photographer from Aleppo, has portrayed the Syrian people before, during and after the war. But it was only when he moved to Sweden that he understood why the Western world’s image of Syria was so distorted.
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Why Is Joe Biden Discreetly Looking the Other Way as His AFRICOM Commander Commits War Crimes for Which He Would Have Been Hanged at Nuremberg?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Townsend Oversaw Army Unit in Syria That Committed Myriad Atrocities and Helped Cover Up Crimes – He claims that the U.S. was “never a colonizing power in Africa,” that AFRCOM’s motto is “African solutions, for African problems,” and that countries “drowning in poverty” frequently “ask for U.S. help.” These words mask the imperial underpinnings of U.S. foreign policy.
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What Went Right This Week: Defending Democracy, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Analysis suggested autocrats are losing their grip on power, child marriage was banned in the Philippines, gorillas got a boost, plus…
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Untangling Ourselves from the Dark Side
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
12 Jan 2022 – “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” The words are those of Albert Einstein. He adds, pointing out a truth: “The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war.”
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James Baldwin on Resisting the Mindless Majority, Not Running from Uncomfortable Realities, and What It Really Means to Grow Up
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
“We ought to try, by the example of our own lives, to prove that life is love and wonder and that that nation is doomed which penalizes those of its citizens who recognize and rejoice in this fact.”
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“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind…”
Dalai Lama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
The 14th Dalai Lama, known as Gyalwa Rinpoche to Tibetans [born 6 Jul 1935], is the current Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and a retired political leader of the nation. His teachings are about peace of mind, holiness and love. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
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Covid: A Collision of Historical and Scientific Illiteracy
Kevin Ryan | Dig Within – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – People don’t want to acknowledge the fact that we do not live in democratic societies any longer. Yet today the world is fully run by an oligarchy and that oligarchy wants us to be diverted and outraged about superficial things while staying ignorant or silent on issues important to us like the following.
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Native Hawaiians Fight US Navy for Polluting Island’s Water
Empire Files - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
30 Dec 2021 – Under the cover of pre-dawn darkness, Native Hawaiians surprised the gates of the US Navy Command with a civil disobedience action over the #RedHill fuel leak. Empire Files producer Mike Prysner was on the ground.
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(Italiano) L’ascesa sorprendente della Cina
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
4 Gennaio 2022 – L’ascesa sorprendente della Cina: dovuta a un ‘socialismo con caratteristiche cinesi’ o a un ‘capitalismo con facciata cinese? O a un po’ di entrambi?
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(Italiano) San Marino Abbraccia la Nonviolenza: Il Sì a un Corpo Civile di Pace
Manuela Petrini | In Terris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
1 Gennaio 2022 – La Repubblica di San Marino ha promulgato la legge 2 dicembre 2021 n. 194 che prevede l’istituzione di un corpo civile di pace.
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Futura Vecchia, New Year’s Eve
Rebecca Elson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Returning, like the Earth
To the same point in space,
We go softly to the comfort of destruction,
Bombshell: CDC No Longer Recognizes the PCR Test as a Valid Method for Detecting “Confirmed Covid-19 Cases”
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – In the Course of the Next Two Days the PCR Test in the US Will Be Declared Invalid
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Nobel Nominations 2022 Deadline: 31 January
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – We in Nobel Peace Prize Watch still encourage those with nomination rights to make nominations by January 31, strictly adhering to and demanding respect for the Nobel goal of promoting global co-operation on a global peace order, based on international law, institutions and disarmament. Information below in English, French, German, Russian, Castellano and Swedish
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Azeem-O-Shaan Shahenshah (Music Video of the Week)
SonyMusicIndiaVEVO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
An ode to Akbar, the Moghul Emperor of India. The exquisitely choreographed song is not just a celebration of color and beauty; it also depicts the power of the Moghul Empire under Akbar.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Austria’s greatest achievement…
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 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) Mauvaise foi, mauvaises nouvelles et Julian Assange
Edward Snowden | Le Grand Soir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
24 décembre 2021- Edward Snwoden explique pourquoi la décision de la Haute Cour britannique en faveur de l’extradition d’Assange pourra créer un précédent extrêmement dangereux pour le métier de journaliste.
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Frozen Berries
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Frozen strands of beads,
Looking like crimson pearls.
The sun is never seen.
Hidden?
Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races
U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Italy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
3 Jan 2022 – The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks as our foremost responsibilities.
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(Italiano) Anno nuovo: revisione e rinnovamento
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Gennaio 2022 – C’è da parte di molti una consuetudine diffusa di approcciare l’anno imminente rivedendo avvenimenti dell’anno al termine e facendo propositi di miglioramento per l’anno Nuovo – un momento di rinnovamento.
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Despite Widespread Opposition, Japan Plans to Dump Water from Fukushima Plant into the Pacific Ocean
Mong Palatino and Nevin Thompson | Global Voices – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
30 Dec 2021 – A Million Tons of Contaminated Water Will Be Released in Two Years’ Time
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Covid’s Lesson: When Anxious, Isolated and Hopeless, We’re Less Ready to Think Critically
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – The corporate media is not our friend. The aim of its coverage of the pandemic is not to promote the public good. It is there to feed our anxieties, keep us coming back for more and monetize that distress.
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France’s highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award. Author of The Little Prince among other jewels of literature.
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A Texas Team Comes Up with a COVID Vaccine That Could Be a Global Game Changer
Joe Palca | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – The vaccine is called CORBEVAX. It uses old but proven vaccine technology and can be manufactured easier than all of the COVID-19 vaccines in use today. “And it’s cheap, a dollar, dollar fifty a dose,” Hotez says. The real beauty is that the intellectual property of this vaccine will be available to everybody.
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The Danger of False Accusations of Antisemitism
Natasha Roth-Rowland | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – A high-profile Israeli official suggested that posting a picture of Palestinian flags at a protest alongside an open-ended slogan about solidarity is tantamount to anti-Jewish hatred. The insistence of Israel’s former UN Ambassador Danny Danon that the British actor Emma Watson is an antisemite for making said post should be recognized for the farce it is.
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Building a Life Worth Living
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
This book is a heartfelt, honest, and touching account of Marsha M. Linehan’s personal life, scientific research and her lifelong relationship with her Catholic faith and spirituality. She is a distinguished US psychologist who has made significant contributions to the treatment of a psychiatric condition called ‘personality disorders’.
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(Italiano) Tassonomia EU: implicazioni e responsabilità
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Gennaio 2022 – La Commissione Europea (CE) da circa quattro anni sta lavorando per arrivare a individuare e definire quali attività economiche – e quali investimenti – possano definirsi sostenibili.
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The US Military Is Polluting Hawaii’s Water Supply – and Denying It
Wayne Tanaka | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
4 Jan 2022 – The Hawaiian governor issued an emergency order to de-fuel the Red Hill Facility. The US Navy has enlisted top lawyers to make sure its 600m liters of petroleum stay perched above our water supply.
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Stop Prosecuting the Press: Biden’s Persecution of Julian Assange
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – Sadly, with its ongoing prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder, the Biden administration is leading the attack on journalism and strengthening the hand of would-be autocrats everywhere. Democracy is under assault. Biden must live up to his promise to support a free press and drop the prosecution of Julian Assange.
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Medical Cannabis – The Entourage Effect
Horacio Mesón | Red Humanista de Noticias en Salud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – THC is short for “tetrahydrocannabinol” or Δ9-THC, while CBD is short for “cannabidiol”. Both are components of the plant and are located in its seeds, stem and flower. Cannabis has around 100 cannabinoids and more than 400 compounds, including fatty acids, terpenes, ketones, lactones, lactones, alcohols, flavonoids, etc. This rich content explains the number of different strains that exist and the multiple effects they produce.
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Lowering USA’s Delusion Throne
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
When Pompey the Great made his triumphant return to Rome in 61 BCE, a spectacular ceremony was planned. The centerpiece was to be a towering throne where Pompey would pass through a Victory arch. But a small problem arose: the throne was 4 feet taller than the height of the arch. That is a neat metaphor for the uneasy position in which Uncle Sam finds himself these days.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Desmond Tutu, Rest in Power
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
29 Dec 2021 – Archbishop Desmond Tutu died the day after Christmas at the age of 90. The Nobel Peace laureate was a leader in the movement to overthrow apartheid, South Africa’s brutal system of racial segregation. He gave the Boston speech not long after St. Thomas University in Minneapolis/St. Paul rescinded an invitation to speak because of his unwavering solidarity with Palestinians.
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January 6th: A Year Later
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – In retrospect, the attempted insurrection at the Capitol was about a great deal more than an angry expression of disappointment by the populist side of gun culture America. The coup attempt of January 6th failed, yet it succeeded in undermining the unwritten, yet vital, social contract that brought high levels of stability to United States since the republic was established in 1789.
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Dissonance Searching for Resonance: An Open Letter to TRANSCEND Members and Friends
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Needless to say, if you are a frequent writer, contributor, or visitor to the TRANSCEND Media Service website, you are aware of the unique significance this Weekly Digest offers both as a beacon and archive. Thirteen years of thought on major global issues from a wide variety of peace and conflict transformation perspectives. You also must be aware of the financial difficulties that TMS now continues to face.
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Diane Perlman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Mass psychology theories that shed new light are becoming popular. I will make an imperfect attempt to apply the TRANSCEND Method of Analysis, Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapy.
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Lives in the 20th Century
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – Human History as Cultural History – I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents many aspects of science and culture in the 20th century. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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CELAC Foreign Ministers Summit Begins in Argentina
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – The 22nd Summit of Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will begin its in-person and virtual plenary session today, with the attendance of some 30 delegations.
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The Corona Crisis: Is the Tide Turning? “A Rapid General Awakening”?
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – Early indications are that the tide may be turning, that “peak-covid tyranny” may have been reached. Going into 2022 under these new apparent signs could mean a rapid general awakening, to the point of reaching a critical mass of people who start doubting the going billion-dollar propagated narrative. That would be good. It’s never too late.
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Slavoj Zizek: It’s Naive to Think Bitcoin & NFT Give Us Freedom
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
8 Jan 2022 – In a world where digital control and manipulation have become a norm, many believe that cryptocurrency and Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, enable freedom. But this is not exactly true.
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The Partition of India by the British Raj: Destruction of Peace, National Cohesion and Love
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
The Butchering of a Nation by the Guardians of the Civilised Western World
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The Restart of International Politics after August 2021
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – A disruption has occurred in the superpower state, the USA. In the 1950s, Lanza del Vasto predicted the “fall of the western hero”. The US is such a powerful “hero” that no enemy can attack. But it is a decadent powerful state and therefore it is subject to fatalism.
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The Myth of the Good War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – The myth of the good war may well be the most destructive certainty misleading the crumbling empire known as “USA! USA!” Here’s the problem, though. Building global and environmental peace — listening to and understanding one another — is a slow, extraordinarily complex process. It’s so much easier to keep waging war against the bad guy of the moment, who will never go away.
→ read full articleMultiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
COVID World Data -Total: 307,9M -Dead: 5,5M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
On 10 Jan 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 307,909,895
Deaths: 5,506,141
Active: 42,816,513
Recovered: 259,587,241
Cases Closed: 265,093,382
Total Vaccinated: 4,656,381,992
The U.S. Makes a Mockery of Treaties and International Law
K.J. Noh | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – The United States claims it is operating under a “rules-based order”—but the term is not the same international law recognized by the rest of the world. Rather, it is camouflage behind which U.S. exceptionalism flourishes.
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Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing”
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
“There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.”
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New India
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
This is a photograph of a twelve year old student who is teaching the poor children of his locality in Delhi. What he teaches is what he learns in his own regular school — arithmetic, Hindi language and some history of India.
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441,449 Low Earth Orbit Satellites – Operating, Approved and Proposed
Arthur Firstenberg | International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – While the attention of a terrified world has been riveted on a virus, the assault on the heavens has reached astronomical proportions. During the past two years, a flood of new projects has brought the number of operating, approved, and proposed satellites to at least 441,449. The satellite projects include the ones listed below.
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The Pentagon and CIA Have Shaped Thousands of Hollywood Movies into Super Effective Propaganda
David Swanson| World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – Propaganda is most impactful when people don’t think it’s propaganda, and most decisive when it’s censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.
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The War on Terror Is a Success — for Terror
Nick Turse | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
4 Jan 2022 – Terrorist Groups Have Doubled Since the Passage of the 2001 AUMF
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What Does the Statement of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War Tell Us?
Kim Petersen | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – The Doomsday Clock has been sitting at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to civilization-ending apocalypse. Will the first-ever Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races help to put a damper on any potential conflagration? An analysis of the statement seems called for.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian Assange. Melzer’s integrity and courage, for which he has been mercilessly attacked, stand in stark contrast to the widespread complicity of many human rights and press organizations, including PEN America.
→ read full articleMashup: “Omicron DEATH!”
Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea | TK News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – Pandemic Scare-Coverage Reaches New Heights, or Depths, or Something
→ read full articleDissonance Searching for Resonance: An Open Letter to TRANSCEND Members and Friends
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Needless to say, if you are a frequent writer, contributor, or visitor to the TRANSCEND Media Service website, you are aware of the unique significance this Weekly Digest offers both as a beacon and archive. Thirteen years of thought on major global issues from a wide variety of peace and conflict transformation perspectives. You also must be aware of the financial difficulties that TMS now continues to face.
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Nonviolent Theory on Communication: The Implications for Theorizing a Nonviolent Rhetoric
Ellen W. Gorsevski | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
The interrelationship between nonviolence and rhetoric is examined. While we have studied the world of adversarial relationships, conflict, and difference of belief, rhetorical critics have not done as much to understand the practices of seeking mutual identification, cooperation, and learning how to live with diversity and adversity. Nonviolent theory shows rhetoricians that language and culture—our ways of creating and perpetuating our reality—can impose minimal aggression while maximizing the potential for peacemaking.
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The Death of the Father of the Rainbow Nation
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – “I wish I could shut up, but I can’t and I won’t.” — Desmond Tutu. A Celebration of the Glorious Life of the Global Icon, Reverend Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Hey There Delilah (Music Video of the Week)
Plain White T | HollywoodRecordsVEVO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
(Official Video) Please click on WATCH ON YOUTUBE kick back and enjoy!
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Warnings from the Far North
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – It’s never been more urgent and timely for the world to change its ways and abandon the current economic maelstrom that haunts all life on the planet. The pros and cons of capitalism’s experiment with neoliberal tendencies that enrich the few and bury the many should be debated in the context of strained resources throughout the biosphere, including all life forms.
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Musings on Olympia by Emanuel Garcia
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – If you are a lucky reader, you chance upon a book that makes your hair stand on end in wonder and sends a shiver down your spine. This book does that, for it is deft, digressive, and capricious in ways that leave you wondering what whim set the author’s mind so ablaze to dare to set this story to paper.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
The TRANSCEND Media Service team,
3 Jan 2022
We at TMS take this opportunity to thank wholeheartedly all those who contributed to keep us alive in 2021, and we hope to keep improving for the benefit of our readers worldwide. We are in this together because TMS is 100% financed by you, the reader. HAPPY NEW YEAR and please pitch in for the 2022 budget in case you haven’t.
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(Italiano) La minaccia di una carestia diffusa entro metà secolo
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 Dicembre 2021 – A meno che vengano fatti sforzi per stabilizzare e infine ridurre la popolazione globale, c’è una grave minaccia che il cambiamento climatico, la crescita demografica e la fine dell’era dei combustibili fossili possano combinarsi nel produrre una carestia di casta scala per la metà del secolo in corso.
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What Shall We Call a State That Lets Its Soldiers Kill Lots of Innocent People without Punishing Even One?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – Did you hear about it? See it on your Western prime time news? This is a state that pretends to be a global leader and insists on teaching the world what human rights, democracy and justice are. In my view, only a criminal state does this, not one that adheres to the rule of international law.
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Big Power Rivalries: The Thugs of Myanmar
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
21 Dec 2021 – ASEAN leaders should explore a joint strategy with China, India and the US. By working together on a conflict that does not directly affect the three powers’ strategic interests, ongoing high tensions between China and US could cool down, and pave the way for additional small building blocks of cooperation and partnership.
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Sex Crimes of the CIA—Unreported, Unrepented, and Unpunished
John Kiriakou | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – The CIA rivals the Vatican in covering up sex crimes against children and then protecting the members of its organization who commit them.
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Finding Our Real Spiritual Identity
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
The author presents some of the most important spiritual information in Vedic philosophy so that everyone can understand their real spiritual nature. Out of all the philosophical understanding that the Vedic texts provide, this is one of the most important of all.
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US Still Doesn’t Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Pile of Nuclear Waste
Charles Pekow | Earth Island Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 Dec 2021 – Senate Armed Services Committee report: “As the USA continues to modernize its nuclear weapons, waste will be generated. It is not clear whether there are sufficient facilities to address the waste or if such facilities are in current plans and budgets.” The estimated cost of handling the degrading radioactive material is rising steadily — $512 billion at last count.
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The Penguin
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Thought I will find you in the Antarctic
But there you are, in Africa!
All dressed up in your finest.
‘Rampant Forest Destruction’ Wracks Reserve as Cattle Ranching Advances in Brazilian Amazon
Morgan Erickson-Davis and Ana Ionova | Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
29 Dec 2021- The Terra do Meio reserve is a federally protected area across the Amazon Brazilian state of Pará. But, despite its protected status, the reserve has come under growing pressure. Between Jan. 1 and Dec. 14 2021, some 25,943 deforestation alerts were confirmed in primary forest within it.
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Experts (?)
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Right!
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(Français) La Biennale de Luanda : Passé et Avenir de la Culture de la Paix en Afrique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Maintenant, l’avenir de la culture panafricaine de la paix est là où il devrait être, entre les mains de la jeunesse africaine et de la diaspora. Un nouveau jour se lève. Il a besoin de notre soutien.
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Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
29 Dec 2021 – Irony of Historic National Freedom and Unspoken Tyranny of Imperialism – A challenging new historic viewpoint and critical analysis for many obsessed with systematic colonization of poor and helpless masses across the globe.
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(Français) Rétrospective 2021: Le Regard du CETRI
CETRI Centre Tricontinental - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 décembre 2021 – L’année 2021 s’est ouverte sur l’investiture à la présidence de Joe Biden, et se clôt par la victoire aux élections chiliennes de Gabriel Boric, à la tête d’une vaste alliance de gauche, face au candidat d’extrême droite, nostalgique de Pinochet. Tiraillements entre héritages du passé et espoirs de changements, entre désillusions et élans populaires.
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What’s Ahead for Palestine in 2022
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
2 Jan 2022 – To begin with, we will witness a growing awareness that traditional diplomacy will not bring stability, much less peace with justice to this struggle that has gone on for more than a century.
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The Biennale of Luanda: Past and Future of the Culture of Peace in Africa
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Now the future of the Pan-African Culture of Peace is where it should be, in the hands of the youth of Africa and the Diaspora. A new day is dawning. It needs our support.
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Private Prescriptions for a Better Life in 2022
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 -A thoughtful Indian friend in Paris sent this list as her prescription for a better life in 2022. I adopted her list and added to it. I invite readers to propose their own additions and subtractions.
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