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Elon Musk Offers $43 Billion in Cash to Buy Twitter in Bid to ‘Save Free Speech’
David Charbonneau, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, yesterday offered $43 billion — cash — to buy Twitter so he can “unlock” its “potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe.”
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Two for the Road
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
A little child in church for the first time watched as the ushers passed the offering plates.
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Dr. Vandana Shiva: ‘The Evolved Mind Sees Earth as One Family’
David Marks interviews Vandana Shiva | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – Environmental champion shares her perspective on how the degradation of the planet can be reversed by returning to traditional organic farming practices and compassionate community organization.
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From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, Killing Civilians Is a Crime
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 –The lies and double standards that corrupt the Pentagon’s latest effort to whitewash its criminal non-compliance with the Geneva Conventions. North Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the US has waged war in country after country for decades, carving swathes of destruction through cities, towns and villages on a far greater scale than has so far disfigured Ukraine.
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Pedagogy of Positiveness
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
A Plea
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‘It Can Get Very Creepy Very Fast:’ John Oliver Exposes Multimillion-Dollar Data Brokering Industry
Susan C. Olmstead | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
11 Apr 2022 – Data brokering is the multi million-dollar industry of collecting personal information and then reselling or sharing it with marketers and others. Data brokers are “the middlemen of surveillance capitalism.” “They know significantly more about you than you might like and do significantly more with it than you might think,” Oliver said.
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The Pimps of War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
11 Apr 2022 – The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.
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The New Capitalist Gold Rush
William Hartung and Julia Gledhill | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – How Pentagon Contractors Are Cashing in on the Ukraine Crisis
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Elon Musk, Twitter’s Largest Shareholder: We Can’t Let Billionaires Control Major Communications Platforms
Victor Pickard | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO notorious for posting asinine tweets to his 80 million–plus Twitter followers, has purchased himself a position of power within the platform itself by becoming the company’s largest shareholder–and that’s bad news.
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Countries Currently at War–2022
World Population Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
As of 13 April 2022
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The Monopoly on Your Mind (Part 1): Six Media Companies Control 90% of What You Read, Watch and Hear
Rebecca Strong | Down The Rabbit Hole - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 – Ever-mounting media consolidation has narrowed the perspectives the public is privy to. Ownership and funding of these corporations are riddled with conflicts of interest and Big Tech companies are outright censoring and demonetizing independent outlets.
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Russia, Ukraine, and the USA: Trapped in a Cultural Script
Kristin Y. Christman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
16 Apr 2022 – Compassion for Ukrainians victimized by Russia’s violence demonstrates that human hearts care. However, beneath the visible current of compassion there’s an alarming, dangerous dynamic at play.
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“Peace”: The Odyssey of the Relentless Pursuit of Humanoids of an Elusive Philosophy (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
16 Apr 2022 – The concept of peace was first introduced into academic literature by the Norwegian pioneer of peace research Johan Galtung, who distinguished between two types of peace: positive peace and negative peace. Defining Peace itself is an arduous process and Galtung, the patriarch of formal Peace Research, has formulated the “Mini Theory of Peace”.
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Michigan Bomb Plot: FBI Scheme to Create False ‘Domestic Terror’ Cabal Exposed in Court
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – Jury finds FBI agents fabricated a kidnapping threat against Michigan governor so they could be heroes by foiling a “crime” of their own creation. FBI director’s use of entrapment is part of a strategy designed to sow public fear and render support for draconian anti-terrorist legislation.
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Jingoistic Journalism Is No Friend of Ukraine
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Propaganda for a bigger and longer Ukraine war is flooding the media on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal in attempts to manipulate public opinion.
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Singularity
Marie Howe - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
After Stephen Hawking
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Einstein and Freud’s ‘Why War?’ Revisited: Why Anti-War Efforts Go Nowhere
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein exchanged letters, later published under the title ‘Why War?’ However, whatever insight these two giants of an earlier era brought to our understanding of war, the reality is that a great deal has been learned since they corresponded.
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The Righteous, the Black Sheep, and the Sacrificial Lamb
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
16 Apr 2022 – “Countries in the developing world with large populations like Indonesia, Brazil, and India do not support the sanctions against Russia because of the behavior of the USA, which they recognize as ‘moral hypocrisy.'” Specifically the difference between our response to the white Europeans of Ukraine and our behavior in Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Dangerous ‘Truth’ of the Kashmir Files
Sanjay Kak | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – The popular Bollywood film, powered by a visceral demonisation of the Kashmiri Muslim, attempts to construct the truth about Kashmir out of the carcasses of facts.
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Submission to the Disability Rights Commission of New Zealand: COVID Vaccination Mandates
Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – I and my colleagues in the New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out for Science would be happy to participate in a debate with the government ministries on the scientific and ethical points in this submission. To date the government has ignored our pleas for transparency and dialogue, opting to represent itself, incredibly enough, as a ‘single source of truth.’ This position is as ludicrous as it is harmful.
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Oliver Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
Documentary by Oliver Stone about the history of Ukraine, what happened in Kiev in 2014, and the role of western media and USA in what happened on Maidan. Premiered Mar 5, 2022
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Nuclear Weapons and Cranial Winter
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – “The defense industry mobilized a small army of at least 718 lobbyists and doled out more than $67 million dollars pressuring Congress for increased weapons spending generally.”
→ read full articleThe Censorship Campaign against Western Criticism of NATO’s Ukraine Policy Is Extreme
Glenn Greenwald | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.
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Dutch Journalist: ‘We Are Here, in Donbass, to Awaken Westerners Deluded by Propaganda’
Ekaterina Blinova | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – There are only a handful of Western journalists on the ground in Donbass, while the Western mainstream press is rubber-stamping fake news about the Ukrainian crisis using the same templates it previously exploited in Iraq, Libya and Syria, says Dutch independent journalist Sonja van den Ende.
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How Movements Can Maintain Their Radical Vision while Winning Practical Reforms
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 – Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
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The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine
Richard Wolff | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – To the motives for war in human history, capitalism added another: profit. Ukraine, per se, is not the issue. It is tragically a war-ravaged pawn in a much larger conflict.
→ read full articleWhy Are Humans Fighting Other Humans when We Are Facing Extinction as a Species?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
How can the absurdity of humans fighting humans lead to solutions while physics, chemistry and biology have us slated for extinction? How can we contribute to rethinking and reinventing ourselves? An idea: a Pedagogy of the Rich, conceived as a companion volume to Paulo Freire´s ‘The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.’ It could also be called ‘The Pedagogy of the Unoppressed.’
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Palestine’s Widening Geography of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat the Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – If Israel continues to subjugate the Palestinian people under the current system of military occupation and deepening apartheid, Palestinians will surely continue to respond until their oppressive reality is changed.
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Evil Empire
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
Indeed…
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Venezuela’s Great Housing Mission Achieves Major Milestone of Delivering 4 Million Homes
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
On 7 Apr 2022, the socialist government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the delivery of a record 4 million homes to its citizens as part of a social housing program called the Great Housing Mission of Venezuela launched by Commander Hugo Chávez in 2011.
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Complexities of the Ukraine War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
15 Apr 2022 – This war can be characterized thus:
– Level One: Russia vs. Ukraine
– Level Two: USA vs. Russia
– Level Three: Ukrainian nationalism vs. Russian-oriented separatism
Sounds — Soft and Aloud
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
Tell me my Dear
What sounds do you hear
Siding with Ukraine’s Far-Right, US Sabotaged Zelensky’s Peace Mandate
Aaron Maté | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – In 2019, Zelensky was elected on an overwhelming mandate to make peace with Russia. As Stephen F. Cohen warned that year, the US chose to side with Ukraine’s far-right and fuel war.
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Ukraine, Russia and the Easter of Insanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – We, the People witnessing a planned scheme of things to exterminate humanity with superior weapons hitting targeted civilian towns and daily bloodbath as a new normal. Have we not learned any lessons from the European nationalistic wars of First and Second World Wars?
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Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia (Part 1)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US backing their former puppet, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation, which ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when they were finally overthrown by a popular uprising.
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More Than 1 Million COVID Vaccine Injuries, Nearly 27,000 Deaths Reported to VAERS, CDC Data Show
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
15 Apr 2022 – VAERS data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,226,314 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 26,976 deaths and 219,865 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 8, 2022.
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Peace Train (Music Video of the Week)
Yusuf/Cat Stevens | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media service,
18 Apr 2022
Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ timeless anthem of hope and unity was originally released in 1971. This Song Around The World version features more than 25 musicians from 12 countries, and Cat Stevens singing and playing a beautiful white piano in a tranquil open air setting in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Imran Khan Ousted as Pakistan’s PM after Vote
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ousted from power after losing a no-confidence vote in his leadership. The vote was held past midnight after opposition parties brought a motion against him, following days of drama.
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Eliminating the Causes of War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the causes of war, and how they may be eliminated. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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“Conflicts Should Be Resolved through Negotiations, Not War”
Reiner Braun | IPB, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Apr 2022 – Interview by Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau, by email, with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliakhenko, peace activists from Russia and Ukraine respectively.
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(Français) La Guerre d’Ukraine Aurait Pu Être Évitée
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 avril 2022 – La guerre en Ukraine est le résultat de décisions politiques erronées des États-Unis et de l’OTAN en 1997 qui ont conduit à l’expansion de l’OTAN jusqu’aux frontières de la Russie.
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The Origins of the Ukraine Crisis and the Need for Collective Security between Russia and the West
Tom Sauer | Global Policy, Wiley Library – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
This paper tries to explain the origins of the Ukraine crisis. It posits that it is only a symptom of a wider conflict between two major powers (or power blocs), whose origins can only be understood by assessing the post-Cold War security architecture in Europe. Instead of having integrated Russia in a collective security organization on an equal level, the West kept NATO alive.
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Having a Laugh…
CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
… on us.
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Biden Administration Budgets Record $27.6 Billion for Militarization of Outer-Space
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – As homeless rates skyrocket and public education flounders, the Biden administration has proposed a record $27.6 billion budget for the militarization of outer space in 2023—a 25% increase from the 2022 budget. New cold war provides continued backdrop for misallocation of public resources into weaponry right out of science fiction films.
→ read full articleSparkman & the Blinkster
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – This Modern World
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Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Once again, much of the world is gripped by a compelling narrative portraying a simplistic, archetypal drama, a simple Hollywood script: Ukraine is the angel, Russia is the devil, Zelensky is the hero and all good people will wear blue and yellow ribbons.”
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Monopoly – Who Owns the World? [MUST SEE]
Documentary by Tim Gielen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
This incredibly eye opening documentary reveals how a small group of super rich criminals have been buying virtually everything on earth. From media, health care, travel, food industry to governments, they seek to impose a New World Order: Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, etc. The names of the two companies that virtually own the world are Vanguard and BlackRock.
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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr | Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 1967 – I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
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An Appeal for Peace
Thomas Daffern | World Intellectual Forum/International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
As intellectuals, philosophers, academics, scientists and teachers, we issue this peace appeal to all the citizens of Russia, Ukraine and other countries from today, February 25, 2022, we call for:
→ read full article(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: capire l’agenda sottostante dell’élite globale e resisterle
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Aprile 2022 – In un comunicato televisivo del 24 febbraio 2022, il presidente russo Vladimir Putin ha annunciato la sua decisione di ordinare alle forze militari russe di invadere l’Ucraina in quella che ha denominato una ‘operazione militare speciale’ per difendere le neo – autoproclamate repubbliche di di Donetsk e Luhansk e ‘smilitarizzare e […]
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The Coming Global Financial Revolution: Russia Is Following the American Playbook
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – No country has successfully challenged the U.S. dollar’s global hegemony—until now. How did this happen and what will it mean? it could well mean the end of the petrodollar as sole global reserve currency, and the end of the devastating petroleum wars it has funded to maintain its dominance.
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Europe Is Sleepwalking into another World War
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – How can we trust countries that created SWIFT—a financial transfer system aimed at protecting economic transactions against political interference—only to end up removing from that system a country on political grounds? Countries that arrogate to themselves the power to confiscate the financial and gold reserves of sovereign nations like Afghanistan, Venezuela, and now Russia? Countries that trumpet freedom of expression as a sacrosanct universal value, but resort to censorship the moment they are exposed by it?
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The Ukraine Crisis: Past, Present, and Future?
Charles Webel | The New Presence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Mar 2022 – Is the Ukraine crisis a turning point in world history? And is this also a potential wake-up call for the “liberal U.S.-dominated Western world order,” due to a conflict whose significance is comparable to and potentially greater than 9/11?
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Applicability of “Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum” to the Present Context of International Belligerence
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – The Roman General Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus’s seminal work, “Epitoma Rei Militaris,” is the only surviving military tome which elaborates his hypothesis of deterrence through strength and remains the basic foundation of modern military defence policy, eleven centuries later, for achieving peace.
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Pakistan: Politics of Deception and Betrayal
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – Politics of the Few Criminals Waits for Dark Future
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The Ukraine War Could Have Been Avoided
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The Ukraine war is the result of mistaken policy decisions by the United States and NATO in 1997 which led to the expansion of NATO up to the borders of Russia.
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Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most North Americans.
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Trumping Environment
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
8 Apr 2022 – Under colonization and during conflicts (rackets for money/profit of the elites) environmental declines accelerate. For those like me who study and write about these things, the most disheartening aspect is the way common people who suffer are duped to be partisan to conflict thus enriching the oligarchs who oftentimes profit on both sides of conflicts. For example, the oligarchs of the Rothschild and Bush families who got enriched from both sides on WWII.
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Stonehenge
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
What was it that they thought to own?
Decades, centuries kept intent intact.
Neither Victims nor Executioners: Albert Camus on the Antidote to Violence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
“If he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward.”
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Was Alleged Russian Army Massacre of Civilians at Bucha Actually a False Flag Event Staged by Ukrainian Nazis?
Evan Reif | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – Why was Nazi Butcher Botsun at Bucha? This story raises an important challenge to the official storyline of the Bucha massacre promoted in the mainstream media.
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Animal Crossing: World’s Biggest Wildlife Bridge Comes to California Highway
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – Unprecedented overpass will allow fauna of the Santa Monica mountains to safely cross a dangerous 10-lane stretch.
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Noam Chomsky: “We’re Approaching the Most Dangerous Point in Human History”
George Eaton | The New Statesman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
The US professor, now 93, on the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear war.
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Leonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Leonardo would have been exposed to a vast range of technical skills and had the opportunity to learn drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling.
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An Antidote to the ‘Split’ in the US Peace Movement: Anti-Interventionism
John V. Walsh | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Apr 2022 – No more US Arms to Ukraine. End the Racist Sanctions. Stop the Russia Bashing. Once upon a time anti-interventionism by the hegemonic US empire was a point of principle for progressives and peace advocates. Sadly, that is no longer the case.
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Fabricating Putin Quotes and Banning Paraplegic Athletes to Undermine Russia: How Low Can the West Go?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Apr 2022 – Vilifying and hating an enemy is a tactic that leaders have used in human history, and it is being used to demonize Russia and Vladimir Putin. If we want to join the march to war, we can join the hate fest. But if we want a more objective assessment of events, we must rely on facts that our governments and mainstream media are not anxious for us to know.
→ read full articleThe Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Fully artificial food is an increasingly popular trend focused on developing a new line of synthetically produced, ultra-processed food products by using recent advances in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. These new products seek to imitate and replace animal products, food additives, and expensive, rare, or socially conflictive ingredients (such as palm oil).
→ read full articleSee the World Going By
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Are you living in some Indian town or city near a place where you can see the world go by? What is this world? It is people, first. Then we have vehicles — buses, cars, bikes, bicycles, even an odd tricycle. There are some animals such as dogs and an occasional elephant.
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MLK: “Beyond Vietnam” Speech
Martin Luther King, Jr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
April 4, 1967 – One year before his death, Dr. King gave a speech criticizing the involvement of the U.S. in Vietnam. Great consequences would follow. His criticism made him very unpopular towards the end of his life.
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Vaaji Vaaji Sivaji (Music Video of the Week)
AVM Productions/Movies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Vaaji Vaaji song from Sivaji the Boss starring Rajini, Shriya.
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My First Aid Kit: Turmeric
Horacio Mesón | REHUNO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – Our healers, our shamans and witches, our “curanderos” used these medicines for millennia and today science is beginning to vindicate them through the force of reason and a return to the origins, the path of the heart. Originally from India and Southeast Asia, the use of turmeric dates back more than 4,000 years.
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The Military Situation in the Ukraine
Jacques Baud | The Postil Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. I notice that the “experts” who take turns on television analyze the situation on the basis of dubious information, most often hypotheses erected as facts—and then we no longer manage to understand what is happening. This is how panics are created.
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Let Us Now Praise Amazon Unionists
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – The only way to halt the global assault on the human rights of workers is to unionize.
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This Geopolitical War Is a ‘Geopolitical Crime’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – There is no doubt that atrocities have been committed in Ukraine, seemingly yet not exclusively by Russian attacking forces, and in a perfect world those who so acted would be held responsible. But the world is highly imperfect when it comes to accountability for international crimes.
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Attadanda Sutta – The Training
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Violence breeds misery; look at people quarreling. I will relate the emotion agitating me. Having seen people struggling and contending with each other like fish in a small amount of water, fear entered me.
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Cyclic Representation of Coherence as Knots and Otherwise
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Cyclic themes include the circular economy, environmental cycles, recycling, business cycles, domestic cycles of violence, and the cycles of conflict. Exploration of the cyclic representations of coherence considering their significance separately, or however they may be combined with others.
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Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.
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The Cost of War: 23 Million Afghans Suffer Acute Hunger, 95% Don’t Eat Enough Food
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
24 Mar 2022 – Following 20 long years (2001-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, 23 million Afghans now face severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse, unbearable family indebtedness, and devastating humanitarian crisis.
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Sheath the Sword Now
Katyayani Singh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Halt, Cease, and Retreat
Halt the war Comrade if you can, and speak without the sword,
Convince if you can, sans the military horde.
The MADness of the Resurgent U.S. Cold War on Russia
Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia under a spotlight: How they expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, backed a coup and now a proxy war in Ukraine, imposed waves of economic sanctions, and launched a debilitating trillion-dollar arms race. The goal is to pressure, weaken and eliminate Russia, or a Russia-China partnership, as a strategic competitor to U.S. imperial power.
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67 Years Late: Machinations of the Lynching Law
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
“Lynching was pure terror to enforce the lie that not everyone belongs in USA, not everyone is created equal.”
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(Italiano) Ucraina: non mandiamo armi ma un esercito di volontari in soccorso degli abitanti
Paolo Maddalena | Il Fatto Quotidiano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Marzo 2022 – “C’è bisogno di ripudiare la guerra, luogo di morte dove i padri e le madri seppelliscono i figli, dove gli uomini uccidono i loro fratelli senza averli nemmeno visti, dove i potenti decidono e i poveri muoiono. Ogni giorno di guerra peggiora la situazione per tutti. Perciò rinnovo il mio appello: basta, ci si fermi, tacciano le armi, si tratti seriamente per la pace!”.
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Ukraine and the Global Economic War: Is This Barbarism or Civilization?
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
The West’s actions against Russia since the war in Ukraine could signal an emerging new order that shuns the U.S. for weaponizing the dollar and Western control over the global financial system.
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Maya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
The light of the world has grown a little dimmer with the loss of the phenomenal Maya Angelou, but her legacy endures as a luminous beacon of strength, courage, and spiritual beauty.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – Why, why, why, as our ecosystem collapses, as millions flee the horrors of war and poverty, as the pandemic continues, as WWIII and a nuclear Armageddon rears its evil head, does ever-expanding, global militarism remain our primary national purpose? This question stabs me as President Whoever announces his proposed military budget, as Congress increases it, as the media shrugs.
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Hinduism – The Secrets of the Vedas
Sanskriti Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
“One finds two theorems in modern science which have a profound spiritual echo, wrote in 1926 Sri Aurobindo, India’s avatar of the Modern Age: “First that atoms are masses of swirling structures, like the solar system; and then that all the atoms are constituted of the same elements… (read on)
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(Italiano) Verso un’Abbondanza Frugale. Gaia e l’Umanità: Esperimento in Corso
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
La situazione mondiale è critica: la popolazione umana ha raggiunto la cifra di 8 miliardi, e il suo impatto sul pianeta ha alterato i processi e le dinamiche del nostro pianeta a tal punto, da innescare una trasformazione dell’ecosistema globale.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – There were a series of provocations by NATO that aroused security concerns in Moscow, including the expansion of NATO after the Cold War was over, the threat from the Soviet Union had disappeared, and promises were made by Western leaders to Gorbachev of no further NATO expansion. Such geopolitical behavior amounted to imprudent statecraft by the West,
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South Sudan: Oil Underground, Blood on the Surface
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While politicians and media have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan as a “civil war” between ethnic groups, there are some facts that should be considered. One of them is that this country is rich in oil.
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Wars Lie!
Eduardo Galeano | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Wars always invoke noble motives. They kill in the name of peace. In the name of God. In the name of civilisation. In the name of progress. In the name of democracy… And just in case, if so many lies are not enough… the mass media are ready to invent imaginary enemies to justify the conversion of the world into a great madhouse and an immense slaughterhouse.
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Vaccine Myocarditis: Mystery Solved?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
3 Apr 2022 – A Brazilian investigator may have identified the mechanism driving mRNA vaccine myocarditis. And the US CDC finally acknowledges the strongly increased risk in young males.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The title comes from a speech by Vladimir Posner at Yale Sept 27, 2018. Posner was the spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev in the latter years of the 1980’s and has continued over the years to provide independent, informed journalism from his base in Russia.
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Stressing the Obvious
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Reacting to Life
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The Urgent Need for Climate Action
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
One reason that the Glasgow Climate conference failed so miserably to produce urgently needed climate action was that humans tend to react to what is close to them. Money to pay the rent is urgent, while a climate catastrophe seems to be a distant threat. A second reason is cultural inertia.
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While You Were Distracted by Will Smith, the International Elite Met at the World Government Summit
Derrick Broze | The Last American Vagabond - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – While much of the world spent the last days obsessing over the celebrity spectacle of actor Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock ‘live,’ the international elites were meeting in Dubai for the 2022 World Government Summit. Guests included Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and Kristalina Georgieva of the International Monetary Fund.
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Ukrainians Could Defeat a Russian Occupation by Scaling Up Unarmed Resistance
Jørgen Johansen, et al. | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – As scholars of nonviolent resistance, we see four key ways Ukrainians can organize and expand the civil resistance that’s already happening.
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Geopolitics and the Rise of China
Anna Jaguaribe | OpinionSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Let’s start with a reverse order as the rise of China has a direct impact on how we perceive geopolitics today. It is unique by the historical situation in which it is couched.
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Putin… &…
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – I first saw Dylan Morgan’s painting a couple of months ago. The recent horrors of the War in Ukraine have opened old wounds and whipped me back to confront the stalking “strong men”–on their side and ours–and to weep with the mothers of shattered children.
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Bruce Willis Developed Aphasia after Being Vaccinated against COVID19
Steve Kirsch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage in a specific area of the brain. It controls language expression and comprehension, leaving a person unable to communicate effectively with others. Many have aphasia as a result of stroke.
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Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This Ukrainian War
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue.
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