Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Português) O Grande Engodo: O Capitalismo Verde
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 outubro 2021 – Os grandes mega capitais estão reunindo centenas de economistas e politólogos documentados no The Economist (principais acionistas: as famílias Rothschild e Agnelli), sob o título:”O futuro que nos espera”. Se lemos os seus 20 pontos ficamos estarrecidos: apresentam um projeto onde só eles entram, deixando fora o resto da humanidade controlada por uma inteligência artificial destinada a desarmar e liquidar qualquer reação em contrário.
→ read full articleCovid: Conscientious Resignation of Police Officer in Australia
Krystle Mitchell and Police for Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – Following the conscientious resignation of Acting Senior Sergeant Krystle Mitchell of the Victoria Police in Australia, the international network Police for Freedom has issued a statement. Krystle had served for 16 years and has recently resigned over a matter of conscience in relation to policing of the Covid-19 restrictions.
→ read full articleThe Rehearsal Is Over
Charles Eisenstein | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
10 Oct 2021 – A friend wrote me about her dilemma. She owns a company employing hundreds of people and is a staunch critic of that-which-shall-not-be-named. She said she has been trying to fly under the radar until sanity is restored, but with looming mandates for large employers, the radar will soon turn on her. What will she do? I will share with you the inner monologue that her note provoked in me.
→ read full articleA Call to Practice an Ethic of Care by Sharing Surplus
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Given today´s economic science and common sense assume, jobs for everybody, paid for by the products the employees contribute to making, will never happen. There will never be enough employers finding it profitable to hire workers and pay them well to create sustainable good jobs for everyone who needs one.
→ read full articleFrom Sci-Fi to Reality: How the US Space Force Launched a Digital Revolution
Nathan Strout | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – All courtesy of the well-educated but passive masses who accept the falsehood that Armed Forces are a deterrent.
→ read full articleBolsonaro Wants to Privatize Brazil’s State-Owned Petrobras
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
15 Oct 2021 – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro declared yesterday that he wants to privatize state-owned Petrobras as he authorized the entry of US military forces for exercises next month.
→ read full articleThe Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built Will Look Back in Time to the Dark Ages of the Universe
Chris Impey | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex piece of mechanical origami that has pushed the limits of human engineering. On Dec. 18, 2021, after years of delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns, the telescope is scheduled to launch into orbit and usher in the next era of astronomy.
→ read full articleDiet for a Dead or Dying Planet
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
The Giant Food Corporations and Their Cunningly Marketed “Happy Meals for All” Are Making Us Sick
→ read full article(Italiano) Iron Dome Israeliane: la farsa del finanziamento USA
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
4 Ottobre 2021 – Che gli Stati Uniti paghino il conto per ricostituire la scorta di missili nel sistema difensivo israeliano Iron Dome (Cupola di Ferro) utilizzato durante l’attacco a Gaza in maggio è una caricatura di legalità e giustizia.
→ read full article(Français) Le Prix Nobel de la Paix Aurait du Être Attribué à Julian Assange
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 oct. 2021 – Dans une certaine mesure, il faut applaudir le choix du prix Nobel de la paix de cette année à deux journalistes qui ont osé défier la pression du gouvernement. Maria Ressa et Dmitry Muratov méritent certainement la distinction. Mais il y a un autre journaliste qui le mérite encore plus et sa reconnaissance aurait contribué beaucoup plus à la cause de la paix mondiale. C’est Julian Assange.
→ read full articleInstitutional Blackmail — No Jab, No Job, No Livelihood
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – Reframing Virtual Death and Assisted Dying by “Just Suffering Theory” – Governments’ responses to the pandemic have been cautiously sensitive to the concerns articulated in the Nuremberg Code. Yet, progressively those provisions have been circumvented through policies of “No Jab, No Job”, with restrictions imposed on the unvaccinated–and freedoms reserved for the vaccinated.
→ read full articleForbes Reveals Why the US Government Is Trying to Extradite Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
2 Oct 2021 – Alex Saab is “the key that unlocks the Venezuelan monetary mystery—that is, how a country facing sanctions from the US, the UK and the European Union—is still able to export things like gold and oil…and really the only man who can actually explain how the country [Venezuela] survives today,” according to Forbes.
→ read full articlePandora Papers: An Offshore Data Tsunami
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – The ICIJ spent more than a year structuring, researching and analyzing the more than 11.9 million records in the 2.94 terabyte Pandora Papers leak: over 330 politicians, 130 Forbes billionaires, celebrities, fraudsters, drug dealers, royal family members, and leaders of religious groups. The task involved journalists, technology and time.
→ read full articleThe World Economic Forum and the Pandemic
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – The WEF has been involved in the coronavirus pandemic in several ways.
→ read full articleL’ONU 75enne: una storia mista di delusioni e adempimenti
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
8 Ottobre 2021 – L’ONU: S’impegna aldilà del suo potenziale [“fa a pugni sopra la sua classe di peso”] ? Le pressioni verso l’unità e il bene pubblico globale possono ricostruire un’ONU orientata e autorizzata a servire gli interessi umani piuttosto che quelli nazionali o la geopolitica? Il suo contributo è nella politica simbolica, come “una superpotenza soft power”, il suo segretario generale è quasi solo come una voce rispettata della ragione e dell’empatia o un gentile critico dell’eccesso geopolitico.
→ read full articleThe Research Is Clear: Ivermectin Is a Safe, Effective Treatment for COVID. So Why Isn’t It Being Used?
Dr. Elizabeth Mumper | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021 – Despite efforts to denigrate Ivermectin as “horse paste” and prevent doctors from prescribing it and patients from using it, the latest research shows this safe, inexpensive drug is effective at keeping COVID patients out of the hospital.
→ read full articleLessons for Ethically-compromised Physicians in 2021 from the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
Collated by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021 – The Medical Case, U.S.A. vs. Karl Brandt, et al. (also known as the Doctors’ Trial), was prosecuted in 1946-47 against twenty-three doctors and administrators accused of organizing and participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the form of medical experiments and medical procedures inflicted on prisoners and civilians.
→ read full articleThe Cult of the Vaccine
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
8 Oct 2021 – “The Jab” Is Just the Latest Story to Be Reported as Mantra
→ read full articleHow the U.S. Derailed an Effort to Prosecute Its Crimes in Afghanistan
Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
5 Oct 2021 – The new chief prosecutor of the ICC, Karim Khan, sought to reopen a suspended investigation in Afghanistan but it would not include conduct by the USA and its allies. He wrote in a statement that his office would focus exclusively on crimes committed by the Taliban and by the Islamic State Khorasan Province, or IS-K. His decision came after years of U.S. obstruction.
→ read full articleUS Denounced as ‘Biggest Peddler of Financial Secrecy’ after Pandora Papers Leak
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
“U.S. President Biden must match his own rhetoric on shutting down global illicit finance, and start with the biggest offender—his own country. The biggest blockers to transparency are the U.S. … and the U.K., the leader of the world’s biggest tax haven network.”
→ read full articleFacebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview
Frances Haugen | 60 Minutes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021 – Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.” Scott Pelley reports.
→ read full article“Carbon Capture” – Two World Views, Two Technology Paradigms, Two Economic Systems, Two Futures
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – The Earth is Living. She is Gaia, Pachamama, Vasundhara, Terra Madre. For indigenous cultures she is Mother Earth. Even scientists like James Lovelock call her Gaia because they have understood that she is living. The living Earth is a biological self organised self-regulated living system. She is auotopoietic. She has evolved her biodiversity and her complex biosphere over billions of years. Through the biosphere she creates and regulates her climate systems. The Earth’s living systems ,the “Gaian system”, self-regulates global temperature, atmospheric content, ocean salinity, thus maintaining the infrastructure for life to persist and evolve .
→ read full articleDecolonization or Extinction – Indigenous People’s Day 2021
The Red Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
9 Oct 2021 – In 2015, The Red Nation and a coalition of Native and non-Native organizations led a successful campaign to rename the second Monday of October Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The Albuquerque City Council issued a proclamation abolishing Columbus Day.
→ read full articleHannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
→ read full articleGlobal Leadership, Peace and Conflict Resolution beyond the Lens of Rationality
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
We, the People of the globe must realize the truth and urgency at a time of challenging transformation and our sensual abilities for survival under circumstances of extreme geopolitical problems – continuous wars, COVID19 pandemic, climate change, violations of human rights, and dangers of insane cruelty in policies and practices to endanger our own future on this planet.
→ read full articleA Propaganda Model
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Excerpted from Manufacturing Consent, 1988 – The Five Filters:
1. Size, ownership, and profit orientation of the mass media
2. The advertising license to do business
3. Sourcing mass-media news
4. Flak and the enforcers (according to the authors, Freedom House is a flak)
5. Anticommunism as a control mechanism
Johan Galtung’s Negative and Positive Peace
Korczyk's Class - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
What does it mean to have peace? Is it the absence of violence, or do there need to be more factors in place to ensure a peaceful society? This video will explore Johan Galtung’s ideas of Peace, and introduce the concepts of direct violence, structural violence, and cultural violence.
→ read full articleFace Masks: Enough Already
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – It’s been over a year-and-a-half since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the battle over wearing masks is still going on. Who would have thought? Grow a spine and throw those masks away.
→ read full articleIndia: Land of Diversities
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
India is a nation of extensive diversities–religious, cultural, economic and geographic to name a few. There is a say that suggests we should encourage unity in diversity. By and large, India survives by this ideology. Let us all promote this aspect of life.
→ read full article(Français) PEGASUS israélien: votre téléphone est-il un instrument de surveillance permanente?
Belen Fernandez | Investig'Action/Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – Le scandale « Pegasus » est le dernier épisode en date du thriller de science-fiction dystopique, mais bien réel que nous vivons à l’heure actuelle.
→ read full articleYour Money AND Your Life
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
9 Oct 2021 – Central Banks Digital Currencies Will Ransom Our Future
→ read full articleInstascam
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Big Brother 2021
→ read full articleThe Nobel Peace Prize 2021
The Norwegian Nobel Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Oslo, 8 Oct 2021 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.
→ read full articleAspects of Nonkilling Literature
Dr. Bill Balwant Bhaneja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
5 Oct 2021 – It was Canadian philosopher Northrop Frye who once observed that we may not live in literature as much as we live in culture. Six recent nonkilling literary works with a focus on saving humanity from killings are examined. The books, both fiction and non-fiction, point not only to the act of lethality but also challenges posed by societal dehumanization, deprivation and declining values.
→ read full articleThe Richer You Are the Creepier You Get: Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – So the Facebook “whistleblower” all the mass media are loudly amplifying today is pushing for regulations that Facebook just happens to fully support, likely because the trillion-dollar corporation knows it will impose costs that make the emergence of future competitors impossible? Cool. That’s not suspicious at all.
→ read full articleShell Shocked in Amhara, Ethiopia: “I don’t even want to hear the word ‘America’”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – A displaced person in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region told photographer and human rights investigator Jemal Countess that he didn’t want to talk to him because he was American and “didn’t even want to hear the word America” because of all the damage America has done in Ethiopia.
→ read full articlePink Hibiscus
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
The hibiscus sturdy and tall,
the sweet fragrance of the pink blossoms,
epitomizing romantic love,
The Spoils of War
Mary Kaldor | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Andrew Cockburn, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine (Verso) –
A chilling account of how corruption has become institutionalised at the heart of the U.S. war machine with consequences for us all.
Afghanistan Today – Overview
UK Afghanistan Peace Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
20 Years of Occupation by 31 of the Richest Countries in the World –
What has US/UK and NATO occupation achieved? Afghanistan today:
CIA Plan to Poison Assange Wasn’t Needed–the US Found a ‘Lawful’ Way to Disappear Him
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – The reality of Julian Assange’s years of persecution is far worse than even the picture painted by a new investigation of a thuggish, power-mad CIA bent on vengeance for his role in exposing its crimes.
→ read full articleUse of Fossil Fuels Must Stop
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
The IPCC Report states that, “We need transformational change operating on processes and behavior at all levels: individual, communities, business, institutions and governments. We must redefine our way of life and consumption.”
→ read full articleGraphics: Major U.S. Military Operations since WW II
CGTN China Global Television Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 -Two decades ago, on 7 Oct 2001, the onset of the U.S. bombing campaign against the Taliban triggered an endless nightmare for Arabs in general and the Afghan people in particular: 5,430,084 deaths and incalculable suffering.
→ read full articleThe Amazon Rainforest Is Losing 200,000 Acres a Day–Soon It Will Be Too Late
Kim Heacox | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – Three days before Christmas, 1988, Brazilian rubber tapper and environmental activist Chico Mendes was shot dead by a rancher’s son. Since his murder, nearly 1 million sq km of the Amazon, an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined, have been destroyed: an average of 200,000 acres every day, or 40 football fields per minute.
→ read full articlePlace, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
“Often the places we grow up in… influence how we perceive and conceptualize the world, give us metaphors to live by, and shape the purpose that drives us.”
→ read full articleKishida Elected as Japan’s PM, Calls Election for October 31
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021 – Fumio Kishida was formally elected as Japan’s prime minister today. A 64-year-old former foreign minister with an image as a consensus builder, he has called a parliamentary election for 31 Oct and promised to bolster the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
→ read full articleAn Alien’s View of Life on Earth
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
The author’s reasons for never having been too comfortable on this human level of existence. A different perspective on the peculiarities of what living on this planet and in a human body can be like, and why it may be better to move on.
→ read full articleFriedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
→ read full article“The further away you are from a problem the more likely you think you have a solution.”
Popular Proverb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Street Wisdom
→ read full articleFacebook, the Largest Autocracy on Earth
Adrienne LaFrance | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – When a company has all the power of a country itself, it takes on a darker meaning. The basic components of nationhood are land, currency, a philosophy of governance, and people. When you’re an imperialist in the metaverse, you need not worry so much about physical acreage—though Zuckerberg does own 1,300 acres of Kauai, one of the less populated Hawaiian islands. As for the rest of the items on the list, Facebook has them all.
→ read full articleFrom Rural Drought to Urban Shortages: Afghanistan’s New Hungry
Shadi Khan and Irwin Loy | The New Humanitarian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – ‘We have cut our grocery expenditures and are trying to consume as little as possible.’ Hunger is rising in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, and the clearest sign may be who’s now struggling to afford food: the educated, urban, and middle-class.
→ read full articleConsequences
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
A boy brought home a very bad school report.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
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
→ read full articleCelebrating the 2021 National Indigenous Peoples Month
Genevieve Balance Kupang | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
10 Oct 2021 – Capitalizing on inclusion, cultural heritage, shared commonalities, and recognition of contribution to the Kiwi community, the New Zealand tangata whenua (locals) welcomed indigenous peoples from the Philippines and other migrants who work in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
→ read full article“Eulogy” for James Bond: World Peace Is at Peril
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021 – The Glorious End
→ read full articleFlorida’s Republican Governor Awards Medal of Freedom to Che Guevara’s Assassin
Michael Stephen Smith | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – After Rodriguez ordered Che be shot, his hands were chopped off and shipped to Langley, but not before he stole the Rolex from Che’s corpse that was meant for the son of one of his compatriots in Bolivia.
→ read full articleThe Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Steven Donziger to six months in prison Friday [1 Oct]. Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 238,6M -Dead: 4,8M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
On 11 Oct 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 238,652,927
Deaths: 4,867,295
Active: 24,459,776
Recovered: 215,856,036
Cases Closed: 220,723,331
Total Vaccinated: 3,664,224,352
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
(Português) Nove Vezes em que Woody Harrelson Promoveu o Veganismo ou os Direitos Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
21 set 2021 – Sem se alimentar de animais há mais de 30 anos, o ator vegano Woody Harrelson tem utilizado há muito tempo a sua influência para motivar mais pessoas a considerarem o veganismo, os direitos animais e a preservação do meio ambiente.
→ read full articleWhat Went Right This Week: Historic Malaria Vaccine for Africa Gets Go-Ahead, plus more Positive News
Sarah LaBrecque | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – The WHO gave the nod for a malaria vaccine to be rolled out to much of Africa, an indigenous group officially named a new species for the first time, and a global citizens’ assembly was announced for Cop26, plus.
→ read full articleSomewhere Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Israel "IZ" KamakawiwoʻOle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
The Hawaii state flag flew at half-staff on July 10, 1997, the day of his funeral attended by some ten thousand people. Thousands of fans gathered as his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean at Mākua Beach in Hawai’i two days later. The funeral and the scattering of ashes were featured in this music video released posthumously.
→ read full articleA New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021 – Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are extracting it economically without ecological damage.
→ read full articleIntegrating Ouroboros and Yi Jing as Fundamental Symbols in 3D
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Dynamics of Change Indicated in Virtual Reality by a Torus of 64 Hexagrams – Curiously the imaginative anticipation of the organization of a possible future by different cultures involves a change of metaphor from “global” to “toroidal.”
→ read full articleA Buddhist Perspective on Gandhi and Nonviolence
Dr. A.T Ariyaratne | Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Facebook Live, Tue 5 Oct 2021, 11:30 am (GMT)
In Celebration of Mahatma Gandhi’s 2 Oct Birth Anniversary
The True Cost of the Military-Industrial Complex
Our Changing Climate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The environmental and social costs of militarism with a focus on the US military industrial complex as the biggest military in the world. How the military is a massive polluter in terms of both emissions and chemical waste. The video connects environmental destruction with military imperialism and concludes that demilitarization is the only truly effective answer to the carbon footprint of the military.
→ read full articleJesus, Judas and Che Guevara
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Che Guevara, of the Bolivia diaries and the brilliant movie based on them, was assassinated by the CIA on 9 Oct 1967. In an interview in the early 60s he conveyed to this author his disappointment that his respected Fidel privileged Soviet support against a US attack, and the Soviets wanted raw sugar in return for their industrial goods.
→ read full articleLending Legitimacy to a Murderous Military: What Is in the “Stateless” Label for Rohingyas?
Natalie Brinham and Ali Johar | University of Melbourne - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Oct 2021 – Critiquing the widely accepted understanding of “statelessness” as a rights claim, the authors call our attention to the ways in which labelling the Rohingya ethnic community as stateless undermines belonging and legitimises the power of the Myanmar military to exclude.
→ read full articleProblems with Capitalism
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
We need a new economic system. Capitalism is driving us towards disaster.
→ read full articleThe Conceit of U.S. Indispensability
Sam Klug | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
In recent years debates about U.S. foreign policy have been haunted by the history of the 1940s. Donald Trump resurrected the “America First” slogan, associated with the far right during World War II. As both politicians and historians mine for alternate visions of international order, we must guard against the presumption that the United States remains the benevolent center of global politics.
→ read full articleUSA’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict.
→ read full article“Avoid the tyranny of the law. Obedience keeps the rules, but love knows when to break them.”
Anthony de Mello – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Anthony de Mello, also known as Tony de Mello, [4 Sep 1931 – 2 Jun 1987] was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A spiritual teacher, writer, and public speaker, de Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hosted numerous spiritual retreats and conferences.
→ read full article(Italiano) La devastante tecno-privatizzazione del mondo
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
1 Ottobre 2021 – In prossimità dell’inizio della terza edizione del Festival della Nonviolenza e della Resistenza Civile proponiamo un recente articolo sulle imprese spaziali che potrebbero anche coinvolgere Torino, come testo di riflessione e di sintesi su temi che saranno affrontati da diverse angolature nelle giornate del Festival.
→ read full articlePfizer, Moderna Eye Windfall Profits as COVID Booster Rollout Begins
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – One analyst predicted COVID boosters alone will bring in about $26 billion in global sales next year for Pfizer — that splits profits with BioNTech — and around $14 billion for Moderna.
→ read full articleEurope after Angela Merkel: Is the Atlantic Era Over?
James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
29 Sep 2021 – Any answer must begin with France’s role in the EU and include the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
→ read full articleThe Secret Philosophy of Bonsai Trees
Tim Brinkhof | Big Think - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.
→ read full articleKilling Off Humanity: How the Global Elite Is Using Eugenics and Transhumanism to Shape Our Future
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – The world as we knew it has ended. If we are to recover the vaguest semblance of what we once had and, hopefully, an even better version of it, we have a monumental struggle ahead of us. So our choice is simple. Resist, strategically, as outlined above or watch Earth being depopulated to a planet of cyborg slaves.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intervista con Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Settembre 2021 – In prossimità dell’inizio della terza edizione del Festival della Nonviolenza e della Resistenza Civile, presentiamo un’intervista a Vandana Shiva per una riflessione e una sintesi sui temi che saranno affrontati da diverse angolature nelle giornate del Festival.
→ read full articleSuperbug: “The Annihilator”
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The Final Nemesis of Humanoids
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 235,7M -Dead: 4,8M-Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
On 4 Oct 2021 (7am GMT):
Total Cases: 235,730,535
Deaths: 4,816,145
Active: 24,790,506
Recovered: 212,609,370
Cases Closed: 217,425,515
Total Vaccinated: 3,589,157,141
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
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
→ read full articleChina’s ‘Hostage Diplomacy’ Wins: Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou Flies Home a National Heroine after Her Release from Detention in Canada
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – Big crowds greeted Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou’s arrival back in China, which believes its show of strength against the USA forced Washington to back down in this three-year standoff.
→ read full articleOde to a Dove
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Everyday, a gentle dove comes to visit.
he perches his head and stares at me.
Trying to give me a message.
Adiya Sutta – Benefits to Be Obtained from Wealth
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Then Anathapindika the householder went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said to him: “There are these five benefits that can be obtained from wealth. Which five?
→ read full articleIndigenous People of Brazil Fight for Their Future
Nick Estes | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
17 Sep 2021 – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear what he wanted to build, but he knew exactly who and what he wanted to destroy: the Indigenous people and the Amazon rainforest respectively.
→ read full articleImagine (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Please click on Watch on YouTube and ENJOY!
→ read full articleThe NYT’s Partisan Tale about COVID and the Unvaccinated Is Rife with Sloppy Data Analysis
Jeremy Beckham | Outside Voices - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021 – The Times’ piece on “Red Covid” obscures the reality of the pandemic and manipulates data in favor of a self-congratulatory liberalism.
→ read full articleWar on Terror Film Festival
Coalition for Civil Freedoms – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The War on Terror Film Festival will run on five weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) beginning Friday, October 1 and ending Sunday, October 31. Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, Mohamedou Slahi, Michael Moore and many others.
→ read full articleUS Lawyer Who Sued Chevron Sentenced to 6 Months in Contempt Case
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021 – Disbarred American lawyer Steven Donziger, who spent more than two decades battling Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, has been sentenced to six months in prison on contempt charges.
→ read full articleLives in the 19th Century
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – Human History as Cultural History – I announce the publication of a book that presents many aspects of science and culture during the 19th century. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
→ read full articleMansoor Adayfi: Detainee #441, Lost and Found at Guantánamo
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – Yemeni-born Mansoor Adayfi, or “Detainee #441,” was held for 14 years, until 2016. He is now living in exile in Serbia, where the U.S. forced him to relocate despite having no connection to the country. Adayfi’s memoir has just been published. “I was sold to the CIA and was taken to the black site, where I was tortured for over two months.”
→ read full articleThe Myth of Green Capitalism
Katharina Pistor | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
It is perfectly understandable that major corporations and private financial institutions would rally behind new disclosure standards and other market-based measures to address climate change. It is an approach that allows the owners of capital yet another way to avoid a real reckoning. If business and finance leaders were serious, they would recognize the need to change course drastically to ensure that this planet remains hospitable for all of humanity now and in the future.
→ read full articleU.S. Litany of Lethal Lies
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – The latest US drone strike that obliterated a family in Afghanistan was a heinous crime. A “Hellfire” missile fired from a “Reaper” drone obliterated the Corolla and the 10 dead included Ahmadi and three of his children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 13, as well as his cousin, Ahmad 30, and three of Ahmadi’s nephews, Arwin, seven, Benyamin, six, and Hayat, two and two three-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya.
→ read full articleVáclav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
→ read full articleCIA Officials under Trump Discussed Assassinating Julian Assange – Report
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – Mike Pompeo and officials requested ‘options’ for killing Assange following WikiLeaks’ publication of CIA hacking tools, report says.
→ read full articleGood Riddance… Afghanistan Wins
Paper Cartoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
One more down.
→ read full articleNobel Literature 2005 Acceptance Speech by Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading – as a last resort – all other justifications having failed to justify themselves – as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Clock
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival – Prospects for decent long-term survival are not high unless there is a significant change of course. A large share of the responsibility is in our hands — the opportunities as well.
→ read full article(Português) 88 Bilhões de Animais São Abatidos para Consumo por Ano
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
25 set 2021 – Isso Equivale a mais de 11 Vezes a População Humana Global
→ read full articleThe UN after 75: A Mixed Record of Disappointment and Fulfillment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
UN: Does It Punch above Its Weight? Can pressures toward unity and global public good remake a UN oriented and empowered to serve the human interest rather than national ones or geopolitics? Its contribution is in symbolic politics, as ‘a soft power superpower,’ its Secretary General being almost alone as a respected voice of reason and empathy or a gentle critic of geopolitical excess.
→ read full articleThe Cycle of Wingnuttery
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
And people look up to them. The joke is on whom, exactly?
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