Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Vaccine Refusers Don’t Get to Dictate Terms Anymore
Juliette Kayyem | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
29 Aug 2021 – People who opt out of shots shouldn’t expect their employers, health insurers, and fellow citizens to accommodate them.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research and The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
U.S. Psychology’s Unfinished Journey from 9/11
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
3 Sep 2021 – As the upcoming anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the APA’s ethics reforms that constrain the involvement of psychologists in national security detention and interrogation operations still remain in place. But they are fragile and under assault. Particularly worrisome in this regard is the growth of a specialized domain within “operational psychology”—one where individuals are targeted for harm rather than healing; where voluntary informed consent is absent; and where activities are conducted in classified settings beyond the ready reach of outside ethical oversight.
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – US Slips out of Kabul but Is Vengeful
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“Those who can give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first United States Postmaster General. Wikipedia
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Lord Krishna: Symbol of Love, Compassion, Wisdom and Mischief
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
30 Aug 2021 – The lunar day that Krishna (Gopal) was born is known as Krishnan Janmastami that this year falls on Aug 30–today. The wisdom shared by Krishna to Arjun is enunciated in the Hindu epic Bhagwad Gita, which is a source of the meaning of life — both material and spiritual. Krishna is considered as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu and his features or aspects are countless and endearing.
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Misleading Modelling of Global Crises
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
The argument here is provoked by the single-issue modelling of the global pandemic and the consensus to which it has given rise regarding universal vaccination as “doing the right thing” and “for the benefit of all” — with zero consideration of alternative possibilities. Not only are these alternatives absent from public discourse, but any efforts at their articulation are reframed as misleadingly associated with misinformation — therefore requiring vigorous suppression, and censorship of those promoting such methodological consideration.
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Debacle in Afghanistan
Tariq Ali | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – The fall of Kabul to the Taliban on 15 August 2021 is a major political and ideological defeat for the American Empire. The crowded helicopters carrying US Embassy staff to Kabul airport were startlingly reminiscent of the scenes in Saigon – now Ho Chi Minh City – in April 1975. The speed with which Taliban forces stormed the country was astonishing; their strategic acumen remarkable. A week-long offensive ended triumphantly in Kabul.
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Everything Went Wrong in Afghanistan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 – In the post-colonial world, the military superiority of Western intervening powers has proved unable to shape the political outcomes of non-Western sovereign spaces, especially if they have unresolved tribal and ethnic conflicts, warlordism, and drug cartels. In Afghanistan, this proved to be once again validated, despite trillions of dollars spent in devastating parts of the country.
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Are You a Seeker of Truth or a Believer in Lies?
Michael J. Talmo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021 – Truth, facts, and individual freedom don’t seem very important these days. As the COVID-19 epidemic rages on, our little blue planet is drowning in a sea of lies, oppression, and propaganda. Day after day, our weary brains are being saturated with case numbers, death totals, and supposedly overcrowded hospitals while governments and private businesses are coercing and bullying us into taking so called vaccines that are killing and permanently disabling who knows how many tens of thousands. We are told that we must bow to the voice of authority and give up our freedom lest we be accused of being selfish and murdering our fellow earthlings.
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2 Things Mainstream Media Didn’t Tell You about FDA’s Approval of Pfizer Vaccine
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr and Meryl Nass, M.D. | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Aug 2021 – Buried in the fine print of yesterday’s approval by the U.S. FDA of the Pfizer Comirnaty COVID vaccine are two critical facts that affect whether the vaccine can be mandated, and whether Pfizer can be held liable for injuries. The FDA is playing bait and switch with the American public. If it doesn’t say Comirnaty, you have not been offered an approved vaccine.
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US-Afghanistan August 15, 2021: Eight Conclusions and the Mean Words “What Was It We Said All the Time”?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
17 Aug 2021 – Back then, after September 11, 2001, in Washington and New York, everybody talked about who could have done it, how they did it and with what means. The only thing never brought to the fore was: WHY would somebody want to do something like 9/11 to the United States of America?
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The Story of Solutions
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal. What if the goal of our economy wasn’t more, but better — better health, better jobs and a better chance to survive on the planet? Shouldn’t that be what winning means?
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Pfizer/FDA: 95% Deception?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – How the US FDA “fully approved” the Pfizer vaccine while still excluding product liability.
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Catastrophe in Afghanistan: U.S. Wrecks another Country Thinking It’s Playing the ‘Great Game’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Aug 2021 – As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
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It Is Past Time to Call the Violence against Rohingya Genocide
Myra Dahgaypaw | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – Today marks four years since the Myanmar military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya, a mostly Muslim minority. Under the banner of a “clearance operation”, Rohingya women were abused and raped, and men, women and children were ruthlessly killed. The international community have to officially declare the events of August 2017 genocide to prevent further crimes by the Myanmar military.
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COVID World Data -Total: 217,2M -Dead: 4,5M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
On 30 Aug 2021 (12pm GMT):
Total Cases: 217,293,229
Deaths: 4,516,835
Active: 24,573,570
Recovered: 194,205,034
Cases Closed: 198,721,869
Total Vaccinated: 3,128,591,289
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”
Harry Truman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945.
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The Tokyo Tribunal: Precedent for Victor’s Justice II
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
This paper aims to find out the situations of the investigation, prosecution and punishment, and analyse the preference for justice: victor’s justice or victim’s justice. During World War II, anti-communist Emperor Hirohito actively led Japan decorated by the Army’s uniform but pretended to be a ceremonial Emperor making scapegoats to his opponents.
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Atmospheric CO2 Levels Haven’t Been This High in 800,000 Years: NOAA
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – Based on contributions of more than 530 scientists from 60 countries, the latest report by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found Earth’s atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and sea levels both hit record highs in 2020.
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A Photograph and Its Meaning
Gary Corseri short interview with Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Note: My American friend, Robert Kowalczyk, a retired Professor and Department Chair at Kindai University, Osaka, Japan, was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, working in Seoul, South Korea, during the Vietnam War. “Can you tell me more about this photo, this image? How did you compose it?” “I always feel the best images compose themselves, that’s how they stay alive.”
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(Italiano) Noi siamo con il popolo afghano e col senso autentico della libertà
Giampiero Leo, Claudio Torrero e Paolo Candelari | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
17 Agosto 2021 – Il precipitare della situazione in Afghanistan, in tempi più celeri di qualsiasi immaginazione, ci induce a essere più che mai a fianco del popolo afghano – un popolo che da più di quarant’anni è dentro al tunnel della guerra; e a rivolgere un triplice appello. Perché noi siamo con il popolo afghano e col senso autentico della libertà.
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Haiti Needs Help, but ‘Not from Aid Workers Who Never Leave Their SUVs’
Joe Parkin Daniels | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Aug 2021 – Beset by earthquakes, poverty and gang violence, the country is desperate for aid. “Part of the problem is that international folks don’t talk to people on the ground, and that is going to be worse this time because everyone is afraid of the security situation. So you get a lot of white people driving around in their white SUVs, not getting out of their cars, and they’re the ones making the decisions about what Haitians need and where they need it.”
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Humiliating Defeat in Afghanistan
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – The Western media is full of news about people fleeing Kabul in the wake of the Taliban victory. These visuals serve to divert attention from another reality: the humiliating defeat suffered by the US and its allies after a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan. It was an occupation that devoured US 2.26 trillion dollars. At its height it employed 775,000 US service personnel. The US and its NATO allies had at their command some of the world’s most lethal and sophisticated weapons.
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Snowden on Secret U.S. Surveillance
Inner Vision – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
1 Jul 2021 – Edward Snowden explains how the government has been exploiting their citizens and betraying their privacy as he talks about the different methods and factors that go into the government’s mass surveillance. He further speaks on his experience working for the NSA, CIA, U.S. government, and what he did during his time spying on US citizens.
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(Italiano) Contro la guerra. Oggi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Agosto 2021 – Hale andò in Afghanistan nel 2012. Quando tornò in USA l’anno successivo aveva già profondi dubbi sul lavoro che aveva svolto (esperto informatico addetto a operazioni con i droni). Durante un recente processo a suo carico affermò di aver appreso – dopo un attacco di droni su un’auto – che un bambino era stato ucciso e un altro gravemente ferito.
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US and UK Usurp Rohingya Voices while (Miss)Framing Myanmar Genocide as “Ethnic Cleansing,” Slobodan Milošević’s Euphemism
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
28 Aug 2021 – It’s one thing for the United States and its British poodle to abandon dissidents worldwide during their hours of needs, yet it is a moral low for the British and American officials and leaders to coordinate acts of genocidal denial as they have done with their official statements on the 4th anniversary of “Ethnic Cleansing” in Rakhine State.
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Who Are the Islamic State in Afghanistan?
Anatol Lieven | Responsible Statecraft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – Today’s ghastly bombings reflect a real threat to the Taliban’s new-found control over the country — and to the U.S. evacuation on the ground.
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Important Information to Employers from America’s Frontline Doctors
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
29 Aug 2021 – The Legality and Ethics of Mandating Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine to Employees – A sample letter to be sent to employers who are illogically considering mandating experimental vaccines for their employees.
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Demystifying Geopolitical Crime and Afghan Debacle
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – Further Thoughts on Demystifying the Afghan Tragedy and the US-led NATO Geopolitical Crime
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Smiling as an Act of Resistance in Occupied Palestine
Mahmoud Soliman | Roar Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – Under the threat of detention and eviction, Palestinian smiles are a powerful message of resistance and hope: “Our smiles beat their brutality.”
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Open Letter and Challenge for Rachel Maddow (Incomplete text deleted by Medium)
Diane Perlman | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Ivermectin: Truth or Consequences
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United (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song Around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
We traveled across the globe, put headphones on musicians, added them to the track, and created “United,” which serves as a tangible example of something positive we can all do together as a human race.
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U.S. Deploys Marines to Haiti under Guise of ‘Disaster Relief’
Patrick MacFarlane | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – The devastation of the 7.2 earthquake on 21 Aug has provided U.S. leaders the cloak of humanitarian aid to deploy Marines to Haiti. Sadly, as the next few weeks play out, the U.S. Military and international NGOs will likely repeat the “Fatal Assistance” of 2010. Regardless, the Haitian people must be given the respect and dignity to control their own destiny. Haitians and non-interventionists everywhere must insist on it.
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Somalia, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – Cold War and War on Terror destabilize Somalia and cause great suffering for its people.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research and The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
We Are Human, We Are Free – 7 Days Campaign
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
We Are the Power – We Create Our Future
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Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab Fights Latest US Extradition Maneuvers
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021 – Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab remains defiant after over 14 months under US-ordered arrest in the African archipelago country of Cabo Verde. A special envoy of the Venezuelan government, he is fighting extradition to the US for the “crime” of trying to procure humanitarian supplies of food, fuel, and medicine from Iran in violation of illegal US sanctions. To date, Saab’s legal appeals for freedom have been either denied, rejected, or ignored as his extradition to the US is becoming increasingly imminent.
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From Kabul to the Rio Grande, the U.S. Creates Refugee Crises
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – The United States has long branded itself as a safe haven for refugees fleeing war and persecution abroad. It has a responsibility to provide a safe haven for refugees, from Afghanistan, Latin America, or elsewhere, and to cease interventions that fuel these crises and displace so many.
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Believing… Miracle or Utopia?
Bob Mankoff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Moving towards the cliff; flying into the sky!
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Brazil’s Indigenous Groups Mount Unprecedented Protest against Destruction of the Amazon
Andrew Fishman | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
28 Aug 2021 – Brazil’s largest-ever Indigenous protest came amid efforts by Pres. Jair Bolsonaro and his allies to pave the way for industry in the Amazon.
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Dad Strips at School Board Meeting to Make a Point about Mask Mandates (video)
Global News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 – A father stripped out of his suit and down to his underwear during a School District Board meeting today, in a creative attempt to argue for mandatory masking at his child’s high school. Hilarious!
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Insane U.S. Plan to Spend Billions on Weaponizing Space Makes Defense Contractors Jump for Joy
Karl Grossman | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – But Rest of World Cowers in Horror at Prospect of New Arms Race Leading to World War III
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108: The Significance of the Number in the Vedic Culture
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Today, 30 Aug 2021, is the celebration (Janmastami) of Lord Krishna’s appearance on planet earth some 5,000 years ago–according to a lunar calendar. He was born in the Vedic Culture, prevalent in Bharata Varsa (India) at the time. The number 108 is also associated with Him and His stay among us.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Regardless of how strongly one might support the vaccine program—and I use the term “vaccine” very loosely, as these injections are far different from traditional vaccines—mandates should be vigorously opposed. There is no proven benefit to such requirements, and if left in place they will only escalate and allow Big Pharma and Big Tech to take increasing control over more and more aspects of our lives.
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We Failed Afghanistan, Not the Other Way Around
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – MSNBC rails against the “fantastically corrupt elite” on the ground that ruined the Afghan mission, but the real corruption was our own.
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Brazil: Struggles of the Roofless
Mario Sergio Conti interviews Guilherme Boulos | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Jul/Aug 2021 – With Lula currently holding an overwhelming lead in opinion polls for the 2022 presidential election, the stakes are high. Latin America has started to roll back the gains of the right of recent years. Could his return to power make the region a beacon of non-conformity once again? Guilherme Boulos—coordinator of Brazil’s Sem Teto and PSOL presidential candidate—speaks to Mario Sergio Conti about the political crisis, bairro psychoanalysis, and the politics of impeachment.
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (31 Aug 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Posted by Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was a Gaudiya Vaishnavism spiritual teacher (guru) and the founder preceptor (acharya) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna Movement”. In February 2014, ISKCON’s news agency reported to have reached a milestone of distributing over half a billion books authored by Prabhupada, since 1965. He has been described as a charismatic leader, in the sense used by sociologist Max Weber, as he was successful in acquiring followers in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, India and elsewhere.
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Live to Eat and Eat to Die
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
But There Is No Time to Die, There Is Just Enough Time to Suffer – Hail the Intestinal Microbiome
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The Orange Orchid
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
An orange orchid silently blooms
On bare roots, forgotten but has its own perfume.
The colorful buds emerge, like little orange balloons
World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 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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Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – For those of you trying to understand economics and what capitalism is about, here is an excellent introduction. Capitalism is just one particular way of—a system for—organizing the production and distribution of goods and services. It differs from other systems such as slavery and feudalism but also shares some similarities with them.
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Who Profits from the Kabul Suicide Bombing?
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021 – The horrific Kabul suicide bombing by ISIS-Khorasan aims to introduce an extra vector in an already incandescent situation: to prove, to Afghans and to the outside world, that the nascent Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Taliban, is incapable of securing the capital.
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What Went Right This Week: Scotland’s Minimum Income Plan, plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – Scotland announced plans for a minimum income to tackle poverty, Qatar took tentative steps towards democracy, and Denmark and Costa Rica sought to hasten the end of fossil fuels, plus the week’s other positive news.
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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – By now you’ve probably heard that Apple plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system out to many of the more than one billion iPhones it has sold, which all run the behemoth’s proprietary, take-it-or-leave-it software. This new offensive is tentatively slated to begin with the launch of iOS 15—almost certainly in mid-September—with the devices of its US user-base designated as the initial targets.
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I Was a Marine in Afghanistan. We Sacrificed Lives for a Lie.
Timothy Kudo | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – The Afghan cities fall in rapid succession, like men caught in enfilade fire. Decades of war are dissolved in weeks. The Taliban advance with a speed that reminds me of the American conquest of Baghdad. Taliban troops enter the gilded compounds of our corrupt Afghan allies and marvel at the evidence of years of American aid stolen by their former government leaders.
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Did the NY Fed Confiscate $1.3 Billion in Afghan Gold?
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – Striking Revelations from Afghanistan’s Central Bank Chief
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Covid Vaccines: A Shot in the Dark?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021 – New data from Israel shows that within six months, covid vaccine protection against severe disease in people over 65 has decreased from 95% to 55%. Will boosters save the day?
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Afghanistan: We Never Learn
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, when asked months ago about a “significant deterioration” of the security in Afghanistan once the USA withdrew, said, “I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.” As the Taliban waltzes into Kabul, the look of surprise on the faces of top officials should frighten us most of all.
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The Pentagon Is Killing Us
Marcy Winograd | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
6 Aug 2021 – The record high temperatures killing hundreds in the Pacific Northwest and bringing 118 degree heat to Siberia serve as a harbinger of even hotter, more dangerous days unless we address the elephant in the room. The Pentagon. The U.S. must downsize its military budget to meet the climate crisis.
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The U.S. Government Lied for Two Decades about Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan.
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Being Unmasked as Unshot and Unjabbed
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 – There is an unprecedented global agreement among authorities about the desirability, if not the necessity, of universal vaccination. Via the media, government propaganda urges people to get their “shots” or “jabs”. The following is a reflection on the existential condition of being “unshot” and “unjabbed” — and being “unmasked” as such.
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As Kabul Is Retaken, Papers Look Back in Erasure
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – Corporate media coverage of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan offered more mystification than illumination. I looked at editorials in five major US dailies: the Boston Globe, LA Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. Their editorial boards consistently trivialized South Asian lives, erased US responsibility for lethal violence, and made untenable assertions about Washington’s supposedly righteous motives in the war.
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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Back with a Bang
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – In the end, the Saigon moment happened faster than any Western intel “expert” expected. Four frantic days of the most astonishing guerrilla blitzkrieg of recent times, Afghan-style: lots of persuasion, lots of tribal deals, zero columns of tanks, minimal loss of blood. The US ‘loss’ of Afghanistan is a repositioning and the new mission is not a ‘war on terror,’ but Russia and China.
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The Face Mask Folly in Retrospect
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
22 Aug 2021 – It has been known for decades that face masks don’t work against respiratory virus epidemics. Why has much of the world nonetheless fallen for the face mask folly? Ten reasons.
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(Italiano) Guerra Afgan e Diritti
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Guardiamo allora oltre la attuale cocente sconfitta USA e del militarismo occidentale. Questo è il tempo della uscita dai monismi–una sola risoluzione dei conflitti mediante le armi, una sola superpotenza, un solo modello di sviluppo–affinché nascano le alternative e si realizzi un pluralismo di più modelli di sviluppo nel mondo.
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You’re Beautiful (Music Video of the Week)
James Blunt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
(Please Click on WATCH ON YOUTUBE)
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Global Industrial Fires, Explosions, Environmental Pollution, and Human Suffering
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Déjà Vu from Bhopal 1984 to Durban 2021
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$10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth almost $100,000
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and their shareholders.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 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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Clarifying the Right of Self-determination Regarding Hawai‘i
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
22 Aug 2021 – Self-determination is the “legal right of people to determine their own destiny in the international order.” At the very top of this order are the people of established States, which is also referred to as countries. The second unit are the people in non-self-governing territories, which are non-States in a colonial situation. The third unit are the Indigenous Peoples, which are tribal peoples that exist within the territory of an established State not of their own making.
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Figures of Thought
Howard Nemerov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Mathematical-Existential Poem about the Interconnectedness of the Universe – A splendid song of praise for the elemental truth at the heart of all art, science, and nature.
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Top Nine Policy Recommendations for the U.S. in the Wake of Afghanistan Debacle
Farhang Jahanpour | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – I do not wish to rub salt into the wounds of US and British officials who are responsible for the humiliating debacle in Afghanistan, but there is no way of sugar-coating this appalling tragedy, especially for hard-pressed Afghans who have experienced war and occupation for over 40 years.
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Patrick Martin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – Some 2,000 US citizens and Afghan associates were flown out of Kabul yesterday, and the US military said it would be able to increase the airlift to 9,000 a day once all runways at the main airport are cleared. There were at least 4,000 US troops at the airport and a total of 6,000 were expected once the full deployment was carried out.
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Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding the Covid-19 Intrusion
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
15 Aug 2021 – Every social-historical reality, no matter how good it looks or how deep in chaos it is, demands a theoretical framework (set of concepts) in order to be understood, whether to face the threats it may represent or to celebrate a new order that may emerge with its promises.
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What Went Right This Week: How We Saved Earth Before, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – Scientists said saving the ozone layer bought us time to tackle the climate crisis, Scotland promised free bikes for disadvantaged children, and Illinois put media literacy on the curriculum, plus.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Find the ass.
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Slavoj Žižek: The True Enemy for Islamists Is Not the West’s Neocolonialism or Military Aggression, but Our ‘Immoral’ Culture
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021 – Ayatollah Khomeini once wrote: “We’re not afraid of sanctions. We’re not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of Western immorality.” And it is this fear that fuels the Taliban.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Why Time Slows down When We’re Afraid, Speeds up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
“Time perception matters because it is the experience of time that roots us in our mental reality.”
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The All-American Base World
Patterson Deppen | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – 750 U.S. Military Bases Still Remain Around the Planet – Latest look at the global imperial structure, still standing despite the recent American disaster in Afghanistan, and for so many on this planet (as it isn’t for Americans), symbolic of the nature of the U.S. presence globally based on a brand-new count of the Pentagon’s bases.
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Reflections on the Myths and Ethoses That Promote and Sustain War as a “Way of Life” and Acceptable Moral Code for the USA (II)
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 – Never before has the USA been revealed to be the greatest danger to world peace, as it pursues its own corrupt, criminal, venal goals. Why does the USA abide these acts, which speak directly to inept national leaders and hidden oligarchs? Still we celebrate Presidents, and permit them to build enduring libraries to their immorality and incompetence.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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Sowing Seeds of Freedom from Hunger, Malnutrition and Disease
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
14 Aug 2021 – The Industrial agriculture model is based on violence and war–war against the earth and against our bodies. It has created structural hunger, malnutrition and disease… Our work has shown that we can address both SDG 2 on zero hunger and SDG 3 on good health and wellbeing for all by regenerating and cultivating biodiversity in our minds, on our farms, in our gut. How we grow our food, and what we eat, is the single biggest change each of us can make to regenerate the earth.
→ read full articleAfghanistan and the Mainstream Media Manipulation Methods
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
When it comes to Western mainstream media’s coverage of international affairs, I would today dare the hypothesis that 10-20% is truthful, 20-30% is fake and narratives and 50-70% is omitted.
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Is This the End of the Road for Meat Consumption?
Johnny Luk | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems concluded ahead of the main Summit in September in New York. How can the world achieve zero food poverty while also reducing carbon emissions and reversing biodiversity loss? These lofty aspirations are immensely challenging in reality.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 212,6M -Dead: 4,4M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
On 23 Aug 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 212,669,135
Deaths: 4,445,760
Active: 23,756,618
Recovered: 190,275,655
Cases Closed: 194,721,415
Total Vaccinated: 2,536,479,647
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
Afghanistan: How the USA and NATO Betrayed the Global Humanity
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – US leadership and allied NATO countries blame the Taliban for the prevalent chaos and insecurity across Afghanistan. The Western news media appears biased and unprepared to recognize the new Taliban administration as a legitimate transformational entity for peace and stability in the region. The myth of Taliban as an extreme “Islamist”, “militant” and sometimes a “terrorist” group is kept functional in all of the recent reporting.
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For Cat Lovers
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
She looks at me with those big green eyeballs
A type of snowy beard to match the emerald eyes.
No one owns her!
No one knows her name!
The Surreal Magaverse
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
This Modern World
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Toward Global Solidarity: A Politics of Impossibility
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
14 Aug 2021 – This post is my stimulus essay for a Forum sponsored by Great Transition Initiative, a project of the Tellus Institute, dedicated to the exploration of humane and ecologically resonant adjustments to the challenges and threats posed by the onset of the Anthropocentric Age.
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“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” about Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
India McKinney and Erica Portnoy | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage and messaging systems. Apple’s compromise on end-to-end encryption may appease government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, but it is a shocking about-face for users who have relied on the company’s leadership in privacy and security.
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Transnational Activism vs White Saviourism in Myanmar Affairs
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – As a Burmese who has been angry – very angry – for decades over numerous forms and countless instances of oppression and injustices in Myanmar, and emphatically, around the world, I am less concerned about the morally corrupt desire of revenge and vengeance of the oppressed towards their oppressor or the System than the enveloping White Saviourism with its corrupting coloniality.
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And So It Begins Again: The Media Recycles Afghanistan War Lies
Patrick Martin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021 – Following the desperate evacuation of US troops, the corporate press is raising concerns for the “human rights” of Afghans. For the last 20 years, the corporate media raised no objections as the USA killed over 100,000 people, set up black site torture chambers, carried out drone assassinations, robbed the country of its resources, and facilitated horrific crimes by promoting the war as a “just cause,” a necessary response to 9/11.
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A Hell of Our Own Making
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – Reflections on the Road to Kabul – Nearly 20 years after it was launched in the wake of 9/11, the long war in Afghanistan, one of the great cruelties of my generation, has unexpectedly reached its expectedly tragic conclusion. I am certainly not sad to see it go, but it’s difficult to avoid a profound sense of regret at the error of it all.
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The Media Yawns at the Israeli Army’s Death Squads
Gideon Levy | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – Israeli terror is at it again. The Israel Defense Forces’ death squads chalked up another successful week: four bodies of innocent Palestinians piled up between the two Fridays. There doesn’t seem to be a connection between the four incidents in which four sons were killed, but the link cannot be broken.
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Are We Out of Options on Myanmar?
Nayd Riham | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
22 Aug 2021 – Rohima Kadu’s idyllic village of Rakhine was visited by Myanmar’s much-dreaded military, the Tatmadaw and its local Buddhist militia associates. A helpless Rohingya widow of 50, Rohima’s eldest daughter was bedridden with malaria and too weak to run. So, Rohima grabbed her grandchildren and fled to the nearby forest. She returned when the pillaging was over, but all that remained was a charred skull of her daughter lying on the ground.
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Tigrayans Speak Out in Support of Ethiopia and Prime Minister Abiy, not the TPLF
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – A Tigrayan speaks in support of the Ethiopian government.
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In the Tradition of U.S. Puppets, When They Finally Get Kicked Out, They Steal as much of the Country’s Treasure as They Can
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
17 Aug 2021 – True to Form, Last Sunday the U.S. Puppet President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, Fled Kabul with Four Luxury Vehicles and a Helicopter Stuffed So Full of Cash That a Huge Pile of It Could Not Fit and Had to Be Left on the Tarmac
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