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Noam Chomsky: Average People Still Have the Power to Stop Wars
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by J. C. Pan and Ariella Thornhill | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – Noam Chomsky on why the US withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t change US imperialism, the many war crimes of George W. Bush, and why he still believes in average people’s ability to push back against the war machine.
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The Spy Who Came in through Your Phone
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – A cybersecurity organization at the University of Toronto revealed the existence of a “zero-click” exploit that exposed 1.65 billion Apple iPhone and other devices to a complete and undetectable takeover by the spyware Pegasus, produced by NSO Group. Pegasus grants unlimited access to all of an infected device’s content: chat messages, emails, phone calls, control of microphone and camera, phone’s location in real time.
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Never Forget…
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Never Remember…
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Ivermectin Obliterates 97 Percent of Delhi Cases
Justus R. Hope, MD | The Desert View - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
A 97% decline in Delhi cases with Ivermectin represents the last word in an epic struggle to save lives and preserve human rights. This graph symbolizes the victory of reason over corruption, good over evil, and right over wrong. It is an absolute vindication of Ivermectin and early outpatient treatment. It is a clear refutation of the WHO, FDA, NIH, and CDC’s policies of “wait at home until you turn blue” before you get treatment.
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Secretary-General’s Report on “Our Common Agenda”
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
10 Sep 2021 – “Our Common Agenda” report looks ahead to the next 25 years and represents the Secretary-General’s vision on the future of global cooperation and reinvigorating inclusive, networked, and effective multilateralism. The Secretary-General presented his report to the General Assembly in September 2021 before the end of the 75th session of the General Assembly.
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(Português) Frei Betto Homenageia Paulo Freire em Seu Centenário de Nascimento
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
7 Setembro 2021 – Frei Betto é um dos melhores conhecedores de Paulo Freire. Além de amigo pessoal aplicou o seu método na educação popular que exerce até os dias de hoje. Essa homenagem que ele lhe presta pelos seus 100 anos de nascimento é um misto de experiências vividas com ele e exposição simples e exemplar de seu método. Unimo-nos a ele nesta celebração. — L. Boff
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What’s in a Covid-19 Vaccine?
South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Countries around the world are ramping up efforts to vaccinate their populations in a race to achieve herd immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But what exactly goes into each vial? How different are the components? Here’s what you need to know about the ingredients that make up the vaccines against Covid-19.
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The Prisoner | Brighteon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
An Investigation into the “Isolation” of the SARS-COV2 “Virus”
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Victoria, Australia Will ‘LOCK OUT’ Unvaccinated People from Its Economy
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
6 Sep 2021 – Premier Dan Andrews made the announcement. Victoria is currently under draconian lockdown restrictions, with residents under a 9pm to 5am curfew, forbidden from leaving their homes except to work, buy groceries, or get a Covid-19 vaccination.
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Running Damsel
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
I saw her running many a time
Not very fast not too slow
Wondered whom she was running away from
9/12
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
12 Sep 2021 – The Greatest Regret of My Life – The following is an excerpt from my memoir, Permanent Record, available in most languages wherever fine books are sold.
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(Italiano) Un altro Afghanistan
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Per quelli di noi attivi nel peacebuilding, la situazione afghana richiede valutazione e la disponibilità a considerare nuovi approcci, [peraltro] come faranno molto il US Dipartimento di Stato USA e il Pentagono. Adesso possiamo dire che le forze militari non sono addestrate o socializzate per realizzare società liberal-democratiche. Tuttavia, può darsi che si debba essere più chiari su quali misure di peacebuilding avrebbero potuto fare una vera differenza in società complesse e divise come l’Afghanistan.
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The Other 9/11: Salvador Allende and Chile
Bharat Dogra | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
11 Sep 2021 – On Sep 11 the world rightly pays homage to the victims of the 9/11 attack in the USA. However, on this day we should also remember the even higher number of victims of the US-engineered military coup in Chile on 11 Sep 1973, which also resulted in the tragic death of one of the most sincere and democratic leaders of Latin America—President Salvador Allende.
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Keep Space for Peace Week: 2-9 Oct 2021
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
A Gold Rush into Space Is Now Underway – The newly minted US Space Force is building toward domination in space and the Earth below on behalf of corporate interests. The amount of money being spent to ensure Pentagon first-strike capability is staggering.
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The Shared Struggle of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
7 Sep 2021 – Posted below is my foreword to a very illuminating collaboration relating the comparative experience of Palestinian and Irish hunger strikers. Desperate circumstances give rise to desperate behavior. If by states, extreme violent behavior tends to be rationalized as ‘self-defense,’ ‘military necessity,’ or ‘counterterrorism,’ and governmental claims of legal authorization tend to be upheld by judicial institutions.
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Nonkilling Documentaries of Sri Lankan Filmmaker Vishnu Vasu
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Vishnu Vasu is an internationally acclaimed maverick filmmaker. In addition to the four docs, he has over 25 short films to his credit. His documentary Butterfly was screened at over 200 venues around the world. The United Nations distributed his Butterfly as an advocacy tool to teach non-violent filmmaking and peacebuilding globally.
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(Castellano) Evangélicos: El nuevo reino terrenal de la ultraderecha en América Latina
César G. Calero | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
31 ago 2021 -La derecha latinoamericana ha visto en el auge evangélico una oportunidad para captar votantes en un nicho social que nunca han conseguido : los pobres.
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The Evil We Do Is the Evil We Get
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
10 Sep 2021 – The hijackers who carried out the attacks on 9/11, like all radical jihadist groups in the Middle East, spoke to us in the murderous language we taught them. We did not, and do not, grasp that we are the mirror image of those we seek to destroy. We too kill with an inchoate fury.
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Sep 11 Twenty Years Later: What the U.S. Should Have Done
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
11 Sep 2021 – Why was the discussion only about who did it and how did they do it but never about why did someone do this? If you look at the fact that the objects of the attacks were the centers of the US/world’s financial, military and political power – and not just a train station or some infrastructure – you’d have a diagnostic indicator.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research and The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
COVID World Data -Total 225,4M -Dead 4,6M -Survival Rate 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
On 13 Sep 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 225,482,944
Deaths: 4,644,220
Active: 25,040,451
Recovered: 202,071,105
Cases Closed: 206,715,325
Total Vaccinated: 3,294,886,796
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Rollout Is a Hopelessly Ambitious, Hugely Unpopular Economic Disaster Waiting to Happen
Bradley Blankenship | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
8 Sep 2021 – El Salvador’s right-wing government has adopted the cryptocurrency bitcoin as mass protests filled the streets, with many concerned about having to rely on the highly volatile digital asset for their income.
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‘The Dark Side of Paradise: Hawai’i in a Nuclear World’ Now Free Online
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Folks in Hawai’i, the Pacific and elsewhere will be glad to know that the classic 1980 book, The Dark Side of Paradise: Hawai’i in a Nuclear World, is available again in PDF. Please click to download:
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How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users
Peter Elkind, Jack Gillum and Craig Silverman | ProPublica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
7 Sep 2021 – WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors.
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song Around The World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
From Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World, featuring Grandpa Elliott with children’s choirs across the globe. In these hard times, children and music bring us hope for a better future. Today we celebrate life and change the world one heart and one song at a time!!
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We Need Open and Honest Discussion about the Pros and Cons of Vaccine Mandates, Not the Hysterical Shouting Match We Have Now
Ramsha Afridi | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
6 Sep 2021 – Vaccines are a medical miracle. Vaccine mandates are also a massive infringement on personal choice. We need a proper and public cost benefit analysis to work out the best way forward; instead, we just have tribal yelling.
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The Medical-Industrial Complex, like the Military-Industrial Complex, Is a Threat to Democracy
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – The public has caught on to the use of fear to shape opinion in support of costly wars that give free license for control under the guise of security. But now it’s falling for the same illusion from the medical-industrial complex.
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What to Expect from Taliban 2.0
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
8 Sep 2021 – A wiser, better-traveled and social media-savvy Taliban will strive to avoid the many dire mistakes of its 1996-2001 rule.
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‘Bill Gates Is Continuing the Work of Monsanto’
Vandana Shiva | FRANCE 24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Vandana Shiva, a world-famous environmental activist from India, tells us about her opposition to big multinationals such as Monsanto for their nefarious influence on agriculture. But she also singles out billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. “When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor and preventing famine, he’s pushing the failed Green Revolution, chemicals, GMOs, patterns.”
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Chappana Sutta – The Six Animals
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Suppose that a man, wounded and festering, were to go into a swampy jungle. Its sharp-bladed grasses would pierce his feet; its thorns would scratch his festering sores. And so, from that cause, he would experience an even greater measure of pain and unhappiness.
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(Italiano) La guerra è fallita, come sempre–abbiamo una opportunità
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Eh, già! questa cultura politica (Ezio Mauro, “Le democrazie nell’interregno”, Repubblica 30 agosto) ora si piange addosso, ma nel ’91 e nel 2001, giustificava le guerre Usa che coinvolgevano anche noi, per “esportare la democrazia”. Questa cultura politica del sistema non ha mai rinnegato la guerra.
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“After 20 years, mainstream media still only focus on the suffering of the United States and never on the victims of the response to 9/11: The US Global War on Terror. It’s simply disgraceful.”
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Prof. Jan Oberg, Ph.D. is director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research-TFF and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment.
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“Nonkilling Anthropology” Book Launched
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – The CGNK has launched today its latest academic publication, Nonkilling Anthropology: A New Approach to Studying Human Nature, War, and Peace, by Professor Leslie E. Sponsel. Inspired by the work of CGNK’s founder Glenn D. Paige, this book explores the mutual relevance of anthropology, nonkilling and peace studies–and their synergy.
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Merrygolds
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
O marigolds your beauty is simple
yellow petals from a seed,
who would have thought?
Is Billionaire Philanthropy a Sham?
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – Remember when Jeff Bezos was showered with praise for donating $100 million to food banks last year? That may seem like a lot, and it is. But once you consider all that Bezos has raked in during the pandemic – including making $13 billion in a single day in 2020 – it’s a few hours of his earnings.
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Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
11 Sep 2021 – It is impossible to overemphasize the importance of this book. Reading ‘Unanswered Questions’ will roil you to the depths of your soul and illuminate your mind as Ray McGinnis presents fact after fact backed up by almost one thousand endnotes and twelve years of meticulous research. There is nothing speculative about this book. It is not a “conspiracy theory.”
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Terrorism: A False Threat
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
10 Sep 2021 – Twenty years after the events of 9/11 2001, and in the midst of the messy withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan, it seems appropriate to question the validity of the so-called “War on Terror”.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 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
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US and UN Treachery in the African Great Lakes Region: Why Rwandan Refugees Don’t Want to Go Home
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
8 Sep 2021 – The term “United Nations” in front of the UN’s various humanitarian agencies is deceptive. It implies that they’re funded by the UN’s general budget and therefore are politically neutral but the UN High Commission for Refugees, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the UN High Commission for Human Rights are all donor dependent, primarily on the EU and other European nations, who look out for their interests and those of the US.
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Lives in Biology
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents the historical development of biological science and evolutionary thought. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
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The Perilous Odyssey of the Whistleblower
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
9 Sep 2021 – Easy Life or Painful Death, the Choice Has to Be Made – A Warning to Future Whistleblowers
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The FULL Snowden Interview
John Stossel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Here’s my full interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. I once was unsure if he was a hero or a traitor who made us all less safe. I’ve done my research, and I think he’s a hero. What do you think? Our full interview will help you decide.
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How Can the USA Wake Up from Its Post-9/11 Nightmare?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Our only hope for the future is to abandon the futile quest for hegemony and instead commit to peace, cooperative diplomacy, international law and disarmament. After 20 years of war and militarism that has only left the world a more dangerous place, we must choose the path of peace.
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To Counter Terror, Abolish War
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
11 Sep 2021 – On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was among a small group of U.S. citizens who sat on milk crates or stood holding signs, across from the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan. We had been fasting from solid foods for a month, calling for an end to brutal economic warfare waged against Iraq through imposition of U.N. sanctions.
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Richard Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Some “Peacebuilders” Say No!
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The Verdict
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
A judge announced to the ex-husband in divorce court,
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The Project for a New American Century
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
PNAC, from 9/11 fame, can be thought of as a precursor of the Bill Gates/World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, whose “New Pearl Harbor” opportunity was the Covid-19 manufactured panic.
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On Child Vaccines, the Experts Are Suddenly Reluctant to Follow ‘the Science’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
4 Sep 2021 – In the rancour over child vaccinations, we have been given a fleeting peek behind the curtain of official medical debate to see the uncertainty that has been actively concealed from us. “The science” is not quite as solid as it seems.
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Palestine: An Open-Air Museum of Colonialism
Omar Khalifah | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
7 Sep 2021 – Palestine has been turned, brutally, into a permanent museum of colonialism whose doors should have closed long ago.
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UN Chief: World Is at `Pivotal Moment’ and Must Avert Crises
Edith M. Lederer | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
12 Sep 2021 – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a dire warning that the world is moving in the wrong direction and faces “a pivotal moment” where continuing business as usual could lead to a breakdown of global order and a future of perpetual crisis. The U.N. chief said the world’s nations and people must reverse today’s dangerous trends and choose “the breakthrough scenario.”
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On 9/11, It’s Time for a Reckoning and Reflection of Decades of Failed U.S. National Security Policy
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
9 Sep 2021 – A Reckoning with America’s Failed National Security Policy Is Long Overdue – This country desperately needs a fierce and energetic citizen intervention—a movement that demands both a reckoning and a change in course. Our democracy may be corrupted, but the American people can still call our leaders to account and challenge entrenched interests.
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I Reported on the War in Afghanistan. Was I Complicit in the Harm the USA Caused?
Vanessa Gezari | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
2 Sep 2021 – Moral injury describes the inner collapse we feel, as civilians on the margins of endless war, when our leaders betray the people who helped us.
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An Illustrated Love Letter to Rivers
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
A painted landscape of fact and feeling along the flow of existence.
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Africa and the War on Terror
Elizabeth Schmidt | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
To understand the war on terror in Africa, it must be placed in historical context. At the close of WWII, the Cold War intensified and African struggles for independence escalated. European colonial powers and Cold War superpowers attempted to control the decolonization process. Western powers deployed military might to promote friendly governments that catered to their own political and economic interests and justified their interventions with the “communist threat.”
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Meet the Real-Life Devil’s Advocate Battling Australian Courts on Behalf of Satan after Religious Education ‘Got His Goat’
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
7 Sep 2021 – Trevor Bell, the first Advocatus Diaboli of the Noosa Temple of Satan, is currently leading litigation challenging religious teaching in Queensland schools, and “the Christian stranglehold over Australia’s government and society.”
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Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites.
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Enabling the “New Normal” through “Renormalization”
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
The pandemic highlighted widespread concern with the possibility of conditions returning to “normal”. This is now framed as “the light at the end of the tunnel”. Recognition that it is becoming unreasonable to expect to return to that old “normal” — whether or not that is desirable — discussion has however shifted to understanding the nature of the so-called “new normal”
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Mary’s Room: A Philosophical Thought Experiment
Eleanor Nelsen | TED-Ed - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Imagine a neuroscientist who has only ever seen black and white things, but she is an expert in color vision and knows everything about its physics and biology. If, one day, she sees color, does she learn anything new? Is there anything about perceiving color that wasn’t captured in her knowledge?
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Military Space Report
Northrop Grumman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Military Doom & Gloom News
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Israel, Global Pioneer in Vaccine Mandates and “Passports,” Has World’s Highest Infection Rate
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
2 Sep 2021 – Israel is reporting the highest coronavirus infection rate in the world, showing that neither vaccine mandates nor “vaccine passports” are suitable means to limit or end the pandemic.
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Costs of War Project – Sep 2021
Watson Institute | Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
• Over 929,000 people died from violence in post-9/11 wars; several times as many from effects of war
• Over 387,000 civilians killed
• 38 million refugees and displaced persons
• US price tag over $8 trillion
• US government leads counterterror in 85 countries
• Wars caused violations of human rights and civil liberties in U.S. and abroad
Afghanistan Is Not the End
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – As Karl Marx put it, spending money on the military is like throwing money into the sea. It produces nothing of value. And eventually an economy that produces nothing of value will crash from its own internal contradiction. This is the contradiction that led Johan Galtung to predict the end of the American Empire by the year 2020.
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Over Two Decades, U.S.’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – The U.S.-led global war on terror has killed nearly 1 million people globally and cost more than $8 trillion since it began two decades ago. These staggering figures come from a landmark report issued today by Brown University’s Costs of War Project, an ongoing research effort to document the economic and human impact of post-9/11 military operations.
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Crime and Punishment in Afghanistan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
29 Aug 2021 – Atrocity in Kabul, Geopolitical Crime in Washington
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Patents: Controlling Knowledge to Extract Wealth
Rod Driver | ElephantsInTheRoom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
There has been a lot of pressure from advanced nations to strengthen patent laws in all poor countries to bring them into line with the US and European systems. Rich countries control most of the world’s patents, so they receive almost all of the royalties.
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The Empire Does Not Forgive
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
30 Aug 2021 – The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan. The Taliban is about to be confronted with the wrath of a wounded empire. The Cuban, Vietnamese, Iranian, Venezuelan and Haitian governments know what comes next. It isn’t pretty. It will be paid for by the poorest and most vulnerable Afghans. Joe Biden: “We will not forgive, we will not forget, we will hunt you down and make you pay.”
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On Propaganda and Failed Narratives: New Understanding of Afghanistan Is a Must
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – Afghanistan is now in urgent need of a government that truly represents the people of that country. This is the true national narrative of Afghanistan that must be nurtured outside the confines of the self-serving Western mischaracterization of Afghanistan and her people.
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Are We Human? Are We Free? Defeating the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ before It Destroys Us
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
For most people, 2020 will be remembered as the year of the ‘virus’ and 2021 will be remembered as the year of the ‘vaccine’. What most people will probably never know is that 2021 is shaping to be the year in which humanity and freedom are both destroyed. If you wish to play a vital role in their defence, you are invited to undertake the actions indicated on these flyers, and share them with those who you think might be interested.
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‘Horror Scene’: Anger as US Drone Attack Kills Afghan Children
Ali M Latifi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
The Ahmadi and Nejrabi families had packed all their belongings, waiting for word to be escorted to Kabul airport and moved to the United States. The Sunday [29 Aug] afternoon drone attack, which the US claimed was conducted on an Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP, or ISIS-K) target, killed 10 members of the families, ranging from two to 40 years old.
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Afghanistan Shows White Privilege in Action on the Geopolitical Stage
Chandran Nair | The Diplomat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
3 Sep 2021 – The rapid collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan and the consequent yet predictable torrent of responses from Western media and politicians demonstrated just how entrenched the Western worldview in projecting its “right” to be the leaders of the world. Western exceptionalism and privilege have long been entrenched in geopolitics – and war.
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The Experts Weigh In
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
This Modern World – 23 Aug 2021
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New York Times Cites US Torturer Michael Chertoff on Chinese “Repression”
Andre Damon | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
A Case Study in “Human Rights Imperialism” – There is one source quoted in the 1,500-word editorial, a report by Freedom House, an organization the Times says nothing about: “Freedom House receives 90 percent of its funding from the US government. Its current chairman is Michael Chertoff, who served as US Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, and co-authored the USA Patriot Act, which justified mass illegal surveillance, torture, and the assassination of American citizens. Chertoff has been accused of war crimes.”
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
A man came to the emergency room with both ears bandaged. The doctor asked him what had happened.
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(Italiano) Nuovo Inizio
Enrico Peyretti | Constituente Terra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
30 agosto 2021 – L’orrore degli attentati e il dramma dei profughi afghani mostrano quanto sia alto il prezzo della rotta americana a Kabul, e non solo per l’America. Essa è stata assimilata alla fuga da Saigon dell’aprile 1975. In realtà è stata molto di più e molto più grande è la sua forza simbolica come evento capace di segnare una periodizzazione della storia in due tempi opposti e diversi tra un’epoca che finisce e un’altra che comincia.
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The Future Is a Landscape
John Michael Greer | Ecosophia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
I’ve been reflecting of late about the way that our habitual expectations about change blind us to the way that change actually happens. One of the most important of these is the frankly weird but pervasive notion that the future is a single place, where only one kind of thing happens. It’s always “The Future,” very much in the singular.
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AFRICOM in the Congo
Kambale Musavuli | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – The US military has operated in the Congo for a long time doing covert operations in South Sudan and Central African Republic. Their current engagement is not covert and highly arrogant after being the military that has trained Rwanda and Uganda, which invaded the Congo twice killing over 6 million people. AFRICOM arrived in the Congo ostensibly to fight ISIS; we can be sure they will do more to support the US looting of the Congo’s wealth than stopping terrorism.
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How the US Created a World of Endless War
Samuel Moyn | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – In 2008, many of Barack Obama’s supporters hoped he would bring the global war on terror to a close. Instead, he expanded it – and his successors have done nothing to change course.
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Don’t Give Up on Your Dreams (Music Video of the Week)
Takako Okamura | high note Music Lounge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Out-of-the-Box from Japan – Enjoy!
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Worrying about Your Carbon Footprint Is Exactly What Big Oil Wants You to Do
Auden Schendler | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – In 2004, BP hired the public relations firm Ogilvy & Mather to improve its image by conveying the message that consumers of oil and natural gas bear the responsibility for their greenhouse gas emissions, not the producers of the oil and gas they use. The result was BP’s ingenious carbon footprint calculator, which allows individuals to calculate the carbon emissions that result from their activities. It’s “about helping you to go carbon neutral — reducing and offsetting your carbon footprint,” BP says on its “target neutral” website.
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Accepting the Seasons of Life
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Celebrating Spring in South Africa
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7 Lies about Afghanistan
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
In covering the fall of Kabul, the Western media are mindlessly repeating seven lies of Western propaganda. By misrepresenting the history of Afghanistan, they mask the crimes committed in that country and make it impossible to foresee the fate that Washington has written for it.
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What Went Right This Week: Taming Big Tech to Protect Kids, plus…
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
2 Sep 2021 – A digital privacy code for children came into effect in the UK, campaigners delayed an oil drilling project in Scotland, bearded vultures had a record season in Spain, plus.
→ read full articleHis Master’s Voice, His Master’s Eyes, and His Master’s Ears
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
The Colonial Legacy of the Controlling Master Perpetuates in the 21st Century
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Afghan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
30 Aug 2021 – Even as UN agencies warn of an impending humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the U.S. Treasury has frozen the Afghan Central Bank’s $9.4 billion in foreign currency reserves, depriving the new government of funds that it will desperately need in the coming months. Under pressure from the Biden administration, the IMF decided not to release $450 million to Afghanistan to cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
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Leo Tolstoy (9 Sep 1828 – 20 Nov 1910)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most-diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ endure as the summit of realist fiction.
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When Did Time Really Begin? The Little Loophole in the Big Bang
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
A pleasurable warping of the figuring faculty to contemplate what was there before the before.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 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
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For the US, India Is Little More Than a Pawn to Be Deployed against China – Not a Nation to Be Respected on Its Own Terms
Maitreya Bhakal | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – The US is desperate to recruit allies in its hybrid war against China, and highly covets New Delhi – which has its own issues with Beijing – as a useful partner. So why is Washington so unhelpful and discourteous to its ally?
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Bolsonaro Is Destroying Mental Health Care to Favor Evangelicals
Ana Clara Telles and Gabriela Barros de Luca | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – His assault on public mental health services will hurt Black Brazilians the most and benefit evangelical centres.
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Blowback: Taliban Target US Intel’s Shadow Army
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
27 Aug 2021 – The Kabul Airport bombing shows there are shadowy forces in Afghanistan, willing to disrupt a peaceful transition after US troops leave. But what about US intel’s own ‘shadow army,’ amassed over two decades of occupation? Who are they, and what is their agenda?
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The Media Is Lambasting Biden over Afghanistan. He Should Stand Firm
Bhaskar Sunkara | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
29 Aug 2021 – The president was right to withdraw the US from Afghanistan – and he’s being skewered for it. Joe Biden did something good – and the media want to kill him for it. He should embrace their scorn and defend his actions to the American people.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
For those of us active in peacebuilding, the Afghan situation requires evaluation and a willingness to consider new approaches. We can say now that military forces are not trained or socialized to bring about democratic liberal societies. However, we may have to be clearer on what peacebuilding measures could have made a real difference in such complex and divided societies as Afghanistan.
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Open Letter and Challenge for Rachel Maddow (Full text previously censored by Medium)
Diane Perlman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Ivermectin: Truth or Consequences
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Our Welcoming Country
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Ancient though our country may be
With scholarship in various areas
Such as philosophy, medicine, even archery
But in Tokyo Olympic, India in the bottom category
(Italiano) Dall’Afghanistan all’India. Dalle tragedie mediatizzate a quelle trascurate
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
2 Settembre 2021 – In questi giorni convulsi, in cui l’attenzione del mondo è focalizzata sulla tragedia in corso in Afghanistan, si parla molto di Russia, Cina, USA, Europa, paesi del Mediterraneo…
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Arundhati Roy on America’s Fiery, Brutal Impotence
Arundhati Roy | The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
3 Sep 2021 – The US leaves Afghanistan humiliated, but now faces bigger worries, from social polarisation to environmental collapse. If empires and their outposts need to plunder the Earth to maintain their hegemony, it doesn’t matter if the plundering is driven by American, European, Chinese or Indian capital. These are not really the conversations that we should be having. Because while we’re busy talking, the Earth is busy dying.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 221,6M -Dead: 4,5M -Survival Rate: 98%.
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
On 6 Sep 2021 (12pm GMT):
Total Cases: 221,644,581
Deaths: 4,584,007
Active: 25,039,264
Recovered: 198,169,140
Cases Closed: 202,753,147
Total Vaccinated: 3,180,767,034
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
(Français) L’Afghanistan N’Est Pas la Fin
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sept. 2021 – Comme l’a dit Karl Marx, dépenser de l’argent pour l’armée, c’est comme jeter de l’argent à la mer. Il ne produit pas de valeur. Et finalement, une économie qui ne produit pas de valeur s’effondrera à cause de sa propre contradiction interne. C’est la contradiction qui ont conduit Johan Galtung à prédire la fin de l’empire américain d’ici 2020.
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Amazon: In the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to Fire and Deforestation
Georgina Gustin | Inside Climate News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – A new report finds that up to 85 percent of threatened animal and plant species have had their habitat damaged by mining, agriculture or logging.
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Rampage School Shootings in USA
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
The Crisis of School Violence: A New Perspective, by Marianna King, Michigan State University Press – The book elaborates on the connection between exposure to violent video games and rampage shootings including recent neuroscientific research about how the brain responds to violent video games, revealing that youth violence, bullying and rampage shootings peaked in 1993, the year following the widespread popularity of first-person shooter games.
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