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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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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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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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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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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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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 Coronavirus Map
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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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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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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US Military Steps up Taliban-Approved Evacuation from Kabul
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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Quick Quiz
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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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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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
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.
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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.
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COVID 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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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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“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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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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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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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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When Will We Stop Letting Our Presidents Lie USA into Wars?
Thom Hartmann | The Hartmann Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – Let’s never forget that what we are watching happen right now in Afghanistan is the final act of George W. Bush‘s 2004 reelection strategy. The U.S. has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in terms of money, credibility and blood. We must remember the lies. We can’t afford to let this one go down the memory hole, too.
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Special Days and Their Significance
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
There are so many days to celebrate and to ruminate. Many days have been approved by the UN or other international bodies such as the WHO. But some are local to some countries for example, in India.
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The Afghan War –> 200l-2021
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
17 Aug 2021 – This week, USA/NATO withdrew their troops from Afghanistan. The war cost hundreds of thousands of lives with the USA spending US $2 trillion, little of which went to improve the lives of Afghan people, many of whom are hungry, homeless and living in poverty. Our love, prayers and thoughts go out to the people of Afghanistan who have suffered so much.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Irresponsible Failure of Health Authorities Regarding Need for Protective Goggles?
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John Pilger: A Day in the Death of British Justice
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The veteran journalist has covered Julian Assange’s case from the beginning and was in London this week to witness the latest shameful episode. “The reputation of British justice now rests on the shoulders of the High Court in the life or death case of Julian Assange.” Here is his dispatch.
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Empire or Humanity?
Howard Zinn | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me about the American Empire – Have not the justifications for empire–that war is necessary for security and expansion to civilization–begun to lose their hold on our minds? Are we ready to embrace a new way of living in the world, expanding not our military power, but our humanity?
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‘Code Red for Humanity’: IPCC Report Warns Window for Climate Action Is Closing Fast
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Aug 2021 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–a team of more than 200 leading scientists convened by the UN– issued a comprehensive report today. “The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”
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The IPCC Understated the Need to Cut Emissions from Methane and Other Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, Climate Experts Say
Phil McKenna | Inside Climate News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – A landmark report on the science of climate change underplays the quick benefit of reducing methane emissions, but the Biden administration says they’re on it, anyway.
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The Fall of Kabul
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
15 Aug 2021 – Today, the Taliban entered the Afghan capital of Kabul, and several countries, including the USA, began to evacuate their embassies. As the Taliban seized the presidential palace, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. “We, of course, are saddened indeed by the events. … But these events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America’s leadership in the world,” said the U.S. president. But that president wasn’t Biden. It was Gerald Ford on April 23, 1975, as North Vietnamese forces rolled toward Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.
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Global Wildfires: Methane, the Final Nemesis of Climatic Degradation
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The Occult Adversary Remains Invisible – Mother Earth is screaming for help and is dying from humanoid caused destructive activities, which are violently disturbing the balances operative in the various, fragile ecosystems.
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(Italiano) ONU: Due imperi in crollo – e poi?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Agosto 2021 – Washington: C’è Storia nel voto ONU del 29 novembre 2012: 138 SI’ per dare alla Palestina lo status di “stato osservatore non-membro” ONU, solo 9 NO, e 41 astensioni.
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Afghanistan: No Exit
Andrew Quilty | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – As the Taliban Seize Cities, Desperate Afghans Are Trapped in an American-Made Fiasco
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COVID World Data: 208M Total; 4,3M Dead; Survival Rate 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
On 16 Aug 2021 (12pm GMT):
Total Cases: 208,003,480
Deaths: 4,375,020
Active: 22,772,378
Recovered: 186,475,570
Cases Closed: 190,850,590
Total Vaccinated: 2,434,947,187
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
Epic Afghan Failure Shows That USA’s Naive Belief It Can Cure the World’s Ills with Democracy, Dollars, and M16s Is Wrong
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The Taliban’s close to retaking control and the US occupation’s been a total failure. Yet the fundamental lesson’s being ignored: Washington needs to stop exporting its ideology as if it’s an answer to the problems countries face.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 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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Behind the Smokescreen: West’s China Cold War Agenda
Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby | TFF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop
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Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
The Whistleblower Who Started It All – For the Fourth of July, I reached out to an old friend, Daniel Ellsberg, to experiment with recording little conversations for you about big topics. I hope you enjoy it.
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(Italiano) Predizioni del futuro
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), scrittore inglese estremamente prolifico che scrisse romanza, novella, libri di storia, manuali di biologia, scenari utopici e così via, è stato chiamato “lo Shake-speare della fantascienza”. Durante la sua carriera face varie predizioni del futuro, molte fra le quali sorpendentemente precise.
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The Graveyard of Empires…
Paresh - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
All said…
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The Houses of Dead and Crooked Souls
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Obama’s Vineyard mansion stands as an outward sign of his inner disgrace, his soullessness. Trump’s golden towers and his never-ending self-promotion or the multiple million-dollar mansions of high-tech, sports, and Hollywood’s superstars send the same message. Take Bill Gates’ sixty-three-million-dollar mansion, Xanadu, named after William Randolph Hearst’s estate in Citizen Kane, that took seven years to build.
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Facebook Silences the People Who Know Its Operations Best
Yael Eisenstat | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
3 Aug 2021 – Tech giants use nondisparagement clauses to keep former employees from discussing the companies.
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Capitalism Is What’s Burning the Planet, Not Average People
Chris Saltmarsh | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – Not all humans are equally culpable in the climate chaos outlined in the 9 Aug IPCC report. Identifying the rich and powerful as the principal culprits is key to stopping further destruction.
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War, Herbicides and Moral Disengagement
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
On 10 Aug 1961 the U.S. started poisoning the forests and crops of Vietnam with herbicides to deprive the commies of Ho Chi Minh of food and ground cover. Agent Orange Awareness Day was on 10 Aug. I think we should spend the rest of the year honoring War and Dehumanization Awareness Day.
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Assange: The End Game
Scott Ludlam | The Monthly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope.
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Industrial Meat Producers Use Same Playbook as Big Oil, Pesticide Industry to Deceive Consumers
The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
23 Jul 2021 – DeSmog analyzed the public relations and lobbying efforts of industrial meat producers and found the industry is stepping up its game in an effort to cast itself in a climate-friendly light.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
We hail Mahatma Gandhi,
We remember his Salt March to Dandi
He is the
Father of our Nation who promoted freedom and nonviolence
We’ve Never Seen Vaccine Injuries on This Scale — Why Are U.S. Regulatory Agencies Hiding COVID Vaccine Safety Signals?
Children's Health Defense Team | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – In under a year, more than 500,000 post-COVID vaccine injuries have been reported to VAERS — nearly a third of all reports accumulated over the system’s entire three-decade lifespan — yet regulatory agencies remain silent.
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Does China’s Rise Really Threaten the U.S.—Or Just Its Sociopathic Power Elite, Who Want to Keep Ruling the World Even If It Drags Us into WW III?
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
14 Aug 2021 – Government-sponsored “fake news” is brainwashing the public into accepting a new U.S./NATO-sponsored Cold War with China.
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US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington No Longer Calling the Shots
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
“Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business,”
— Jonah Goldberg quoting Michael Ledeen in The National Review, before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003
Collected Essays (volume VI)
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
A New Freely Downloadable Book – I would like to announce the publication of a collection of the articles and book announcements which I have written during the last two years.
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The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie about the Atom Bomb
William J. Broad | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Aug 2021 – Charles H. Loeb defied the American military’s denials and propaganda to show how deadly radiation from the strike on Hiroshima sickened and killed.
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What the West Must Learn from China
Marshall Auerback | UnHerd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
10 Aug 2021 – The Chinese government has made an existential choice: rather than surviving by betting on the markets, it is going to produce stuff instead. Unlike America’s Federal Reserve, whose increasing tolerance and support of financial bubbles continues to engender profound systemic fragility in the American economy, Beijing is prioritising social cohesion above the narrow interests of financial rentiers.
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How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect Nature
Jim Robbins | Yale Environment 360 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using traditional knowledge, from how to support wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds.
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(Français) Pour Trouver la Paix au Mali, Il Faudra Ecouter
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
La gouvernance démocratique ne signifie pas voter: elle signifie une vraie participation du peuple, donc la consultation et l’écoute. Injurier et crier n’avane personne et rien. Ecouter permet de comprendre. Voici deux livres qui vont aider les Maliens à s’écouter.
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Saber Rattling in the South China Sea
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – Six days of Chinese naval maneuvers have begun on 6 August 2021 near southeast Hainan province in the South China Sea at the same time as war ships of the U.S.A, the United Kingdom, Australian Defense Forces ships and those of the Japan Self-Defense Forces are also training in the area. The South China Sea is fast becoming a theater of brinkmanship.
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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.” –Mathematician Robert Kaplan. If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today.
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Brazil Indigenous Groups Take Bolsonaro to ICC over Genocide
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
The complaint of indigenous communities joins two other similar processes already in the International Criminal Court against Bolsonaro, the first president whose conduct is analyzed by that Court as complaints are usually against States.
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country’s greatest moral, cultural, constitutional, and political crisis.
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The Berg
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
The mountains stand tall
Yet look so small,
Somewhere the birds call.
Laying the Foundations for Our Jewish Liberation
Mira Stern | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
4 Aug 2021 – The Jewishness I love is one of a people rooted in collective freedom, in justice, in hereness. What might it mean for us to divest from the projects of Zionism, whiteness, and settler colonialism, while also holding pride in the layers of our Jewish identity?
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
After an interval of four million years, two planets meet again in the universe.
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Why Relationships Fail
Radhanath Swami - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
My friend who is a marriage counsellor shared with me a story which gives us insight into this subject. A couple came to her in tears. They had been arguing for weeks. Each took their turns to explain their issues. Several sessions passed discussing the harsh words and mental pain that they both suffered.
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If You Build It, They Will Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship around the World
Kurt Opsahl | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted messages. It has created an infrastructure that is all too easy to redirect to greater surveillance and censorship. Apple has paved the road to mandated security weakness around the world, enabling and reinforcing the arguments that, should the intentions be good enough, scanning through your personal life and private communications is acceptable.
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Induced Divisionism
Opinion Sur | Editorial - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
20 Jul 2021 – Since remote times and even today, those who seize power defending minority interests need to coopt followers from other spaces to secure sustainability. They achieve that manipulating public opinion, colonizing minds, buying wills, also with repression.
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How Myanmar Fits into China’s New Silk Roads
Pepe Escobar | InsideOver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
4 Aug 2021 – How Beijing approaches the Myanmar maze is conditioned by four variables: natural gas; water; the drug trade; and the fractious clashes between the Tatmadaw and a dizzying patchwork of over 135 ethnic minorities.
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The Biggest Lie
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Nagasaki Day, August 9, 2021 – The biggest secret ever revealed was the Manhattan Project, in which the US spent two billion dollars or more to build the bomb. It was followed by a big lie by President Truman when he got on national radio to announce that this marvelous invention had been dropped on “Hiroshima, a military base.
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Where Are We?
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Aug 2021 – Very quietly and with no media fuss, in the space of a week the IDF destroyed two Palestinian villages, Humsa al Bqai’a (for the sixth time) and Ras a-Tin, in a drive to compel the residents to relocate. The IDF has devised a strategy for circumventing legal measures that would delay execution of demolition orders, issued only after the fact.
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Thriller (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Michael Jackson’s 14-minute short film “Thriller” revolutionized the music video genre forever. Hailed as the greatest music video of all time, it is also the only one selected to be in the Library of Congress’ prestigious National Film Registry. Aug 2021: 777,807,758 views – (Click on Watch on YouTube)
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
The Durban Conference was a forum at which Israel, colonialism, the legacy of slavery, and victimization of vulnerable ethnicities would be depicted and condemned. It is no longer plausible to contend that associating Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people as antisemitic. As a Jew myself, I regard Israeli justifications for its behavior toward Palestine as the embodiment of antisemitic behavior, bringing discredit to the Jewish people.
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Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – The fall of the centralized, corrupt Afghan government propped up by the Western powers was inevitable, whether this year, next year or ten years from now. The rapid advance of the Taliban and the U.S. response to it.
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(Italiano) I conflitti ambientali e il bluff dell’economia circolare
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Agosto 2021 – 3.492 pallini sulla carta, indicatori di altrettanti conflitti ambientali segnalati e descritti dall’Environmental Justice Atlas, uno straordinario archivio, tuttora ‘in progress’, che dagli anni ’70 del Novecento segnala al pubblico storie di comunità che in tutto il mondo sono impegnate nella difesa dei loro territori.
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