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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 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
→ read full articleMultiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Language Skills and Implications
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Being good at languages, spoken or written, is an asset for most people.
→ read full articleRwandans Mourn “Mama Rwanda” Esperance Mukashema
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – One of the winners of this year’s ‘Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize’ was Esperance Mukashema, a Tutsi survivor of the Rwandan Genocide who spoke out about the crimes of General Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front army during its four-year war to seize power, which ended in the 1994 genocide.
→ read full articleAbout the Pegasus Project
Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
18 Jul 2021 – Journalists from the Pegasus Project – more than 80 reporters from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories with the technical support of Amnesty International’s Security Lab – sifted through these records of phone numbers and were able to take a peak behind the curtain of this surveillance weapon, which had never been possible to this extent before.
→ read full articleThe Many Faces of Regime Change in Cuba
Louis A. Pérez Jr | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
24 Jul 2021 – Cubans confront a host of problems amid a national health emergency — and the Biden administrative is only adding to punitive sanctions with the intent to make everything worse.
→ read full articleForensic Methodology Report: How to Catch NSO Group’s Pegasus
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
18 Jul 2021 – NSO Group claims that its Pegasus spyware is only used to “investigate terrorism and crime” and “leaves no traces whatsoever”. This Forensic Methodology Report shows that neither of these statements is true. Amnesty International’s Security Lab has performed in-depth forensic analysis of numerous mobile devices from human rights defenders and journalists around the world. This research has uncovered widespread, persistent and ongoing unlawful surveillance and human rights abuses perpetrated using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.
→ read full articleReports on COVID Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Edward Snowden on Spyware: ‘This Is an Industry That Should Not Exist’ (videos)
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reacts to the Pegasus project disclosures. Plus: Pegasus spyware is capable of bypassing your phone’s security and gaining complete access to your device: emails, messages, GPS location, photos, video, microphone. Widespread abuse of the Pegasus technology by government clients around the world. People who were selected as possible targets include journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders.
→ read full articleNew York Times Ad: Let Cuba Live
The People's Forum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – Urgent times call for urgent action. In just two days, over 400 prominent activists, intellectuals, scientists and artists came together to produce an Open Letter to President Biden in the New York Times. This is just the beginning.
→ read full articleEvo Morales Denounces New U.S.-led Operation Condor
Nan McCurdy and Nora McCurdy | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – Operation Condor was a U.S.-directed secret intelligence program in the 1970s-’80s in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay, which resulted in the torture and “disappearance” of thousands of people. Plan follows precedent of state-sponsored assassination campaign targeting leftists.
→ read full articleThe Ivermectin Debate
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
25 Jul 2021 – Is Ivermectin highly effective or totally useless against covid? And why is there still no agreement on this question?
→ read full articleStuck in the Smoke as Billionaires Blast Off
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – Climate inaction was never really about denial. Rich countries just thought poorer countries would bear the brunt of the crisis.
→ read full articleAnd Then God Listened (South Africa)
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 –
The past week has been melancholic
Anger, fear, panic has ceased.
How Not to Do Activism
Michael Gecan | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
The calculus of power isn’t defined by hits or clicks or tweets. It is measured in relationships and meaningful reactions over time. While social media can be a useful tool in organizing, it is not a strategy. Real change depends on finding a large group of local leaders, not a single charismatic person.
→ read full articleWho Are You
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Who are you is a question often asked
Are you a poet, are you a scholar
Or are you an unknown Rebel or a lawyer
Problem?
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
What Problem?
→ read full articleSyrian Civilians Attacked by Terrorists Using US-NATO Weapons
Vanessa Beeley | OffGuardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – Vanessa Beeley in Idlib – Children are being killed, homes are being shelled, and fields scorched, often by Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists armed with US-made weapons or by Turkish artillery. Where’s the outcry in the West against these war crimes?
→ read full articleDisrupting Hate in Education
Emilee Rauschenberger and Katherine Crawford-Garrett | Teachers College Record – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
To effectively interrupt dominant narratives of hate, one must first understand them. This is a central theme of Rita Verma and Michael Apple’s co-edited volume, Disrupting Hate in Education: Teacher Activists, Democracy, and Global Pedagogies of Interruption. Featuring ten empirical chapters—four focused on the U.S. and six set in countries across the globe—the book is a timely text firmly situated in the current political moment.
→ read full articleBuilding Solidarity with Haiti’s Popular Movement
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
It is imperative that we respect the people’s aspirations for progress and for a just society. It is paramount that we stand in solidarity with the people’s protests demanding a new form of state. The nation deserves a new system that is more in harmony with the dreams of our founders, a new vision of the republic rooted in justice, transparency and participation.
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 Apr 1953 to 18 Sep 1961 when he died in a plane crash in the Congo. He was born on 29 July 1905 in Jonkoping, Sweden. An authority on literature whose translations of poetry were widely admired, Dag’s journal of personal and spiritual reflections was published posthumously as Markings in 1963.
→ read full articleWhat if Socialism (or Communism) Is a Better Deal for Poor People?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
22 Jul 2021 – China’s outstanding economic successes are the worst thing that has ever happened for American capitalists (who control most of the American government). Their fear is that economies that favor socialism or communism will become attractive to Americans, especially its poor people and the middle classes who would stand to benefit.
→ read full articleThe Pegasus Project Dossier
Forbidden Stories – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 –
*Pegasus: The New Global Weapon for Silencing Journalists
*The Rise and Fall of NSO Group
*Profiles | Journalists under surveillance
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*A Worldwide Collaboration to Counter a Global Crime
(Português) Vegano vence ultramaratona de 217 km nos EUA
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
22 julho 2021 – O corredor vegano Harvey Lewis, de 45 anos, venceu ontem (21 jul) nos EUA a 44ª edição da ultramaratona Badwater 135. Ele concluiu o percurso de 217 quilômetros em 26 horas e cinco minutos, ficando à frente do segundo colocado, o ucraniano Igor Gotsuliak, por quase 30 minutos. Esta é considerada uma das mais difíceis ultramaratonas do mundo.
→ read full articleCovid Vaccines: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The Latest Data from Israel and the UK on Covid Vaccine Effectiveness
→ read full article“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
Babe Ruth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Over the course of his career, Babe Ruth broke baseball’s most important slugging records including most years leading a league in home runs, most total bases in a season, and highest slugging percentage for a season. In all, Ruth hit 714 home runs—a mark that stood until 1974. Ruth was born on 6 Feb 1895 and was raised in a poor waterfront neighborhood in Baltimore, where his parents owned a tavern. Ruth was one of eight children born to the couple, and one of only two who survived infancy.
→ read full articleThe Pegasus Spyware Story Is a Reminder of Why We’re So Attracted to Conspiracy Theories These Days
Charles P Pierce | Esquire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – As a new report demonstrates, we are all relying on technologies that very few of us truly understand.
→ read full articleCivilizing the Savage
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
21 Jul 2021 – We crossed the Atlantic, encountered a bunch of savages, defeated them, claimed the continent. We won! This is the history I remember learning, as satisfying and stupid as a John Wayne movie.
→ read full articleAnswering Readers’ Questions
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – …How do we sort True conspiracies from False?
→ read full article‘Biggest Story in the World Right Now’: Humanity Has Flipped Amazon from Carbon Sink to Source
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
14 Jul 2021 – Recent research has elevated concerns about the Amazon putting more CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than it absorbs, but the new findings, published in the journal Nature, were presented as a “first” by scientists and climate reporters. They “show that the uncertain future is happening now.”
→ read full articleHinduism and Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Hinduism, based on Vedanta (Upanishads), is a religion of perpetual verifiable truth. It is a religion of universe and God in man. It is a religion that claims the manifestation of perfection already exists in man. Hinduism is very much peace education.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data: 194,8M Total; 4,1M Dead; Survival Rate 99.98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
On 26 Jul 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 194,847,492
Deaths: 4,175,435
Percentage Dead: 0.02%
Survival Rate 99.98%
Active: 19,234,754
Recovered: 176,789,190
Cases Closed: 180,964,625
Total Vaccinated: 2,114,425,526
The Covid Deception Exposed
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
21 Jul 2021 – Dr. Robert Malone, who pioneered the mRNA technology, has provided data that clearly show that the countries with the smallest percentage of their population vaccinated have the fewest number of new Covid cases. Countries with the largest percentages of population vaccinated have surging numbers of new Covid cases. How can this be?
→ read full articleBangladesh Seeks Russia’s Help in Resolving Rohingya Refugee Crisis
News Desk | WeeklyBlitz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
20 Jul 2021 – Dhaka has made a proposal to Moscow to take a trilateral initiative among Bangladesh, Russia and Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
→ read full articleSatellite Mega-Constellations’ Mega-Threats
Miguel Coma | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The Rise of Space Junk and the Fall of Reason – Above our heads, man-made satellites wage war against the stars. On Earth, a handful of CEOs plan to put hundreds of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit—in addition to the 5,000 satellites already launched. Altogether, these satellites will outnumber the stars visible to the naked eye tenfold.
→ read full articleA Sadistic Decision – Damn Them All
Gideon Levy | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – Damn them all. Damn Rafael Gana, the deputy head of the Israel Prison Service, who wrote to the interior minister: “Your request does not meet the prerequisites for consideration.” Damn Katy Perry, the head of the Israel Prison Service, who approved the decision. Damn Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev, the heartless coward, who didn’t lift a finger to change this evil decision.
→ read full articleThree for the Road
CountryLiving – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Why do fathers take an extra pair of socks when they go golfing?
→ read full articlePossibilities
Wisława Szymborska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
I prefer movies.
I prefer cats.
I prefer the oaks along the Warta.
I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.
The New Cold War on China
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – On March 24, 2021, a high-profile article proclaiming “There Will Not Be a New Cold War” appeared in Foreign Affairs, the flagship publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, the principal think tank for U.S. grand strategy. The author, Thomas Christensen, a professor of international affairs at Columbia University and former […]
→ read full articleThese 3 Deceptively Simple Questions Can Shatter the Mythology That Sanctifies U.S. Imperialism
Matt Mckenna | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The 20th century muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair once opined that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” With this in mind, it is easy to understand why a small but powerful class of war profiteers might not acknowledge or seek to educate the public about the nefarious nature and immorality of U.S. empire.
→ read full articleThe Soul of an Octopus: How One of Earth’s Most Alien Creatures Illuminates the Wonders of Consciousness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
“While stroking an octopus, it is easy to fall into reverie. To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege… an uplink to universal consciousness.”
→ read full articleGraphene Oxide: A Toxic Substance in the Vial of the COVID-19 mRNA ‘Vaccine’ (w/ Video)
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – We bring to your attention this important interview with Ricardo Delgado Martin, responsible for coordinating the Spanish research team’s analysis of the impacts of graphene oxide nano-particles contained in the vial of the mRNA ‘vaccine.’
→ read full articleReflections from Kyoto
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
25 Jul 2021 – Dissonance Searching for Resonance – Last night from Tokyo, Japan those of our troubled, speculative, hopeful, and cynical world who had live-screen accessibility could watch the opening ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
→ read full article(Castellano) Eduardo Galeano: Mitos, Dios – Lo Valiente, Genuino y Hermoso que la Historia Oficial No Registra
Centro de Educación Popular de Ecuador – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Eduardo Galeano talks about the unofficial history of Latin America. Audiovisual document preserved by Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, a production of CEDEP 1990.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: What Peace Looks Like
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
But peacebuilding is not sufficient; we need also peacemaking–a political solution–and peacekeeping. And here the EU enters: not only as a mediator, but as model, brilliantly accommodating a Germany that had made itself very difficult to digest by surrounding countries. Yesterday. Like Israel. Today.
→ read full articleAldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become known especially for his fifth novel, Brave New World, written in 1931. At the age of 14 he lost his mother subsequently becoming ill in 1911, what would leave him virtually blind. As if all of this was not enough, his other brother, Noel, would kill himself in 1914. Huxley would then turn himself to literature.
→ read full articleThe End of the World (as we know it)
Dewi Zarni | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
In many ways, depression is a natural response to the circumstances. My childhood was fundamentally shaped by protests, school projects on global warming, and dinnertime conversations about rising sea levels. Our generation is the first to grow up at a time when the existence of climate change is no longer the subject of debate. We are also the last with any chance of mitigating its effects.
→ read full articleLove You Anymore (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Bublé – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
[Official Music Video] – Click on Watch on YouTube
→ read full articleSouth Africa: The Long Walk to Freedom and a Short Walk to Nowhere
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
21 Jul 2021 – The Values Espoused by Madiba Are Burnt in the Civil Unrest
→ read full articleOlympic Surfing Exposes Whitewashed Native Hawaiian Roots
Sally Ho | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – For some Native Hawaiians, surfing’s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and an extension of the racial indignities seared into the history of the game and their homeland. The Tokyo Summer Games, which open July 23, serve as a proxy for that unresolved tension and resentment.
→ read full articleHUFUD Peace & Human Rights Award – Essay Competition
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
We are looking for bright and imaginative Peace Seekers to come up with innovative plans for the planet to be free of Armed Forces – that is, free of wars, politically concocted as well as those of a private initiative. Submissions Deadline: 30 Sep 2021. The recipient of the £1000 HUFUD Peace Award will be announced on 30 Nov 2021.
→ read full articleAtthakarana Sutta –> In Judgment
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
At Savatthi. As he was sitting to one side, King Pasenadi Kosala said to the Blessed One: “Just now, lord, as I was sitting in judgment… (read on)
→ read full article(Italiano) Contronarrazione della questione palestinese: s’inverte la marea della rappresentazione
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Luglio 2021 – Stavolta era diverso. Le proteste per il minacciato sfratto forzoso di residenti palestinesi da Gerusalemme-Est da parte di Israele, seguite dall’assalto di polizia armata al complesso della moschea Al-Aqsa; dal lancio di razzi da Hamas a Gaza e dal più recente attacco militare alla Striscia [di Gaza]
→ read full articleProblematic Sexual Paradoxes of Pandemic Response
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – Denial and Unconscious Cover-up in the Light of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein – There is a case for comparing the emergence of psychoanalysis a century ago — in response to challenging individual experiential disorders — with the current challenge to society faced with a variety of collective experiential “disorders”.
→ read full articleLike a Mighty Wave: A Maunakea Documentary-Film from Hawai’i
Puuhonua Puuhuluhulu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Two years ago today, on 17 Jul 2019, 38 Kūpuna were arrested on the Mauna Kea mountain in the Big Island of Hawai’i. Here’s why! – [Kūpuna means grandparent, ancestor, and/or honored elder. In the Hawaiian culture, the Kūpuna are highly respected and seen as an important link as keepers of ancestral knowledge and wisdom.]
→ read full article(Italiano) Il viaggio in India come conversione: confronto tra Hermann Hesse e Lanza del Vasto
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Il viaggio può avere i più svariati scopi. Uno scopo dei più interessanti è quello di collegare e magari identificare il viaggio esteriore in luoghi lontani ed affascinanti con un viaggio interiore che porta a scoprire impreviste aperture della vita, tali da far cambiare completamente direzione. Questi possono essere chiamati i viaggi di conversione.
→ read full articleThe Unfiltered Truth behind Human Magnetism, Vaccines, and COVID-19
Ethan Siegel | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
23 Jun 2021 – Recently, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny has claimed that the coronavirus vaccine is actively magnetizing people, stating in her testimony, “I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the internet of people who have had these shots and now they’re magnetized. You can put a key on their forehead, it sticks. You can put spoons and forks all over and they can stick because now we think there is a metal piece to that.” Fortunately, the science of magnetism has been extraordinarily well-understood for over 150 years. Here’s a look at the science behind this claim.
→ read full articleRiding the Wave: Defense Revenues Rise Despite a Dark 2020
Joe Gould | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – Defense revenues of the top 100 defense companies in the world climbed for a fifth consecutive year, a sign that fiscal 2020 was good for the industry despite the crippling coronavirus.
→ read full articleSouth Africa Is Burning: The Legacy of Mandela Is Dead for a Nation of Thieves
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – It is indeed ironic that South Africa is “celebrating” Mandela Day on 18th July marking the birthday of the great international icon, amid serious civil unrest, resulting in the deaths of 72 South Africans. In reality, the week has become a period of national mourning and reflection on the profound legacy left by the Great Madiba, as did Mahatma Gandhi in India.
→ read full articleVandana Shiva: A New Wave of Colonization, Carbon Slavery
Joseph Mercola, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
25 Jun 2021 – Vandana Shiva is a brilliant mind calling for inhabitants of the Earth to unite against forces that are threatening to destroy the planet, in part via a new wave of colonization in the name of sustainability. “It’s all about digitalization – they want to reduce life to software and end humans’ sacred relationship to their food and the land where it is grown.”
→ read full articleAfghanistan: Elegy . . . Unfinished Tapestry?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
I write in sympathy, empathy, compassion, and shared hope.
→ read full articleNorwegian Whale Slaughter Ramps Up
Danny Groves | WDC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
28 Jun 2021 – Norway’s atrocious whale hunt looks set to be the deadliest for years with more than 450 whales killed already this season. Most of the dead will likely be pregnant females.
→ read full articleMyanmar Coup Regime’s Handling of COVID-19: Is It Genocidal?
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – It is conceivable that the Myanmar terrorist regime of the SAC may be genocidally minded in its approach in tackling COVID-19 within the military and its sub-social system, while deliberately putting at risk the lives of millions of anti-military Burmese of all ethnic and religious backgrounds.
→ read full articleThe Evil Twins of Transhumanism And Technocracy
Patrick Wood | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021 – The dots between Technocracy and Transhumanism are easily connected once its understood that both sit atop the pseudo-science religion of Scientism, which posits that science is god and scientists and engineers are its priesthood. This article provides the current framework to understand this nexus.
→ read full articleContributions to Methods for Structural Transformation
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
There may be people who believe that the problem of mass unemployment has become a non-problem solved by the Biden Administration. I doubt that any of them read TMS. I also trust that detailed explanations of phrases like “structural transformation” are as unnecessary as they are impossible here. Everyone knows about structural violence. And the reader will tolerate having to rely on context when she or he is not familiar with unusual kinds of structure-talk that I find indispensable.
→ read full articleThe List Is Here: Find Out How Global Defense Companies Performed in FY20
Mike Gruss | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – The coronavirus pandemic is not yet over and this year’s Defense News Top 100 list offers hints of how the broader international defense market has coped. The answer is that national security firms have fared well. Very well.
→ read full articleHaunani-Kay Trask Delivers Powerful Speech: USA Stole, Occupied, Colonized Hawai’i
Noʻeau Woo-O'Brien - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
1991, University of Hawaii Mānoa Campus: Haunani-Kay Trask (3 Oct 1949 – 3 Jul 2021) was a Hawaiian nationalist poet, activist, educator, political scientist, author, and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Trask co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation, winning nine different awards in three different countries.
→ read full articleThe Myth That Meat Is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All
Jennifer Barckley | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
North Americans eat more meat per capita than any other country, even though meat consumption is linked to heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
→ read full article“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.
→ read full articlePeace by Piece: Harnessing Peace, Conflict and Dialogue
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Peace by Piece: Harnessing Peace, Conflict and Dialogue, by Uduak-Abasi Akpabio, Amazon, Jun 2021 – Making peace is tough in a world where vast sums of money fuel the makers and users of weapons. Violence enriches the suppliers of ammunition. Arms and automobile manufacturers, petroleum corporations and security companies all get rich from war. Other people’s misery and deaths make weapon corporations rich.
→ read full articleShanghai Cooperation Organization New Great Game Gets Back to Basics in Afghanistan
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – Russia-China-Iran Alliance Is Taking Afghanistan’s Bull by the Horns
→ read full article(Italiano) A Genova da Sant’Anna di Stazzema a piedi. IL CAMMINO come AZIONE POLITICA. Secondo Lorenzo Guadagnucci
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Silvia Berruto: Perché camminare? Qual è il senso del cammino?
Lorenzo Guadagnucci: Il senso del cammino, dal punto di vista personale, è un modo per testimoniare con più forza, col corpo, con la fatica, il fatto di credere in quello che si fa. È una forma di affermazione anche dei propri convincimenti per se stessi» e per chi è esterno. «C’è anche un valore comunicativo verso l’esterno». Il cammino è più forte delle sole parole.
We Will Conspire
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
We will conspire to keep this blue dot floating and alive,
to keep the soldiers from gunning down the children.
Three Windows and Critical Peace/Nonviolence Research
Chaiwat Satha-Anand | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
The Windows help us to peer into three contemporary peace research pioneers: Glenn D. Paige (1929-2017), Gene Sharp (1928-2018), and Johan Galtung (1930- ).
→ read full articleA City in Agony
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
A giant wave has crushed us
Sounds of gun shots, bombs exploding and helicopters circulating.
The United States Tries to Take Advantage of the Price Cubans Are Paying for the Blockade and the Pandemic
Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – Yesterday Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel told a press conference that Cuba is facing serious shortages of food and medicine. “What is the origin of all these issues? It is the blockade.” If the U.S.-imposed blockade ended, many of the great challenges facing Cuba would lift. Meanwhile, the United States hardens a cruel and illegal blockade of the island, a medieval siege that has been in place for six decades.
→ read full articleFrom History: Afghanistan and the CIA Heroin Ratline
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
27 Aug 2017 – Up to 93% of the world’s opium comes from Afghanistan. Near the top of the Persian Gulf’s array of extremely compromising secrets is the Afghan heroin ratline – with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) positioned as the golden node of a transnational, trillion dollar heroin money laundering operation.
→ read full articleClash of Paradigms: The Threat to Our Food Supply
Stephanie Hiller | Sonoma Sun - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – Klaus Schwab, founder and director of the World Economic Forum, sees “the opportunity” to make fundamental change. He uses a lot of familiar green-worthy terms in his book, ‘Covid-19: The Great Reset’: “interdependence”, “equity”, “sustainable.” But even with the resonant language, this is not the systems change ecologists and progressives have been talking about.
→ read full articleCIA Stories: The CIA is Born
Abby Martin | Empire Files – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
20 Jun 2021 – Abby Martin introduces the first installment of a new Empire Files series about the CIA explaining why the agency was created, and how it became the most nefarious criminal organization in the world, with CIA expert Douglas Valentine.
→ read full articleAmazon Rainforest Now Emitting More CO2 than It Absorbs
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
14 Jul 2021 – Cutting emissions more urgent than ever as Amazon rainforest is emitting more than a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, more than it is able to absorb, scientists have confirmed for the first time.
→ read full articleGermany Establishes New Military Space Command
Vivienne Machi | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – The German military has announced the creation of a separate command dedicated to space, becoming the latest of a handful of nations prioritizing more resources and missions among the stars
→ read full articleThe Turkish Coup Attempt: Five Years Later
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021 – A modified text of my responses to interview questions of Murat Sofuoglu, a Turkish journalist associated with TRT World.
→ read full articleClimate: We Are Not Doing Enough!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
18 Jul 2021 – Measurements of the carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere as a function of time have been made ever since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the “Keeling Curve”. Despite promises made at the 2015 Paris Conference, despite global concern about the threat of catastrophic climate change, despite massive worldwide protests organized by Greta Thunberg, despite the reduced emissions resulting from the COVID-19 lockdown, the Keeling Curve continues to rise steadily, and the carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere continues to rise steadily.
→ read full articleStand by Me (Music Video of the Week)
Tracy Chapman Online – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Live on Letterman 2015 (Click on Watch on YouTube)
→ read full articleDrinking Coffee in the Early Morning Rain and Thinking of Donald Rumsfeld
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – I think of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on his recent deathbed. Here was a man whose entire life was dedicated to the American Empire. He spent all his allotted time making war or making money from the spoils of war. He was a desert maker, a slaughterer for the Empire. No doubt he died very rich in gold.
→ read full articleMultiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Even in a Challenging Period, Publicly Traded Defense Stocks Thrive
Scott Sacknoff | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – From a business perspective, 2020 will be remembered as an incredibly challenging and volatile year. Yet, by mid-2021 investment returns of the defense sector rebounded to historic highs. This remarkable indicator demonstrates just how strong the sector has been.
→ read full articleLet’s Get Serious about Climate Change
William Mebane | Wall Street Int'l Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Avoiding the Irreversible Path of Global Warming
→ read full article(Italiano) Lotta nonviolenta al G8 di Genova 2001: come mai vi siete dimenticati di noi?
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Luglio 2021 – Interessanti le interviste realizzate da “BACK TO THE G8” con diversi protagonisti dell’esperienza di lotta nonviolenta al G8 di Genova 2001. In particolare, quella con Carlo Schenone, che fino all’inizio delle giornate promosse dal Genova Social Forum è stato coordinatore dei gruppi di azione diretta nonviolenta che si stavano preparando per affrontare l’evento.
→ read full articleWhat Happens at Sun Valley, the Secret Gathering of Unelected Billionaire Kings?
Hamilton Nolan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – We are developing a private class of billionaire kings whose will is omnipotent and untouchable by any democratic force.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data: 191,2M Total; 4,1M Dead; Survival Rate 99.9%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
On 19 Jul 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 191,265,853
Deaths: 4,106,672
Percentage Dead: 0.02%
Survival Rate 99.9%
Active: 18,336,568
Recovered: 174,211,540
Cases Closed: 178,318,212
Total Vaccinated: 2,050,346,680
Bless the Traitors
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – Daniel Hale exposed the widespread and indiscriminate murder of noncombatants in the global US drone war. For his heroism, he faces ten years in prison while those who oversee these war crimes continue their killing spree.
→ read full articleThus Spake Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Was Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) known only as the first Prime Minister of independent India? He was that, but much more.
→ read full articleThe Controversial Prosecutor at the Heart of the Julian Assange Case
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – The battle to extradite Assange from the UK to the US is of paramount importance to the future of national security reporting. Prosecutor Gordon Kromberg has been dogged by allegations of bias and politicized prosecutions. Now he could shape the future of journalism.
→ read full articleMoral Intelligence or Nuclear War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
14 Jul 2021 – Let’s dance at the border! One of these days, something will give — the rich, the powerful will suddenly look around cluelessly. What’s happening? Awareness will sweep across the planet: We are one, and life is sacred. This consciousness will even invade political life and what I call moral intelligence will find political traction.
→ read full articleRevealed: Leak Uncovers Global Abuse of Israeli Cyber-Surveillance Weapon
Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Paul Lewis, David Pegg and Sam Cutler | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
18 Jul 2021 – Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by governments using hacking software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
→ read full articleRed, White, and Blue
Guy Billout | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Unfathomable
→ read full articleMedia Play Up Protests, Play Down Effect of US Sanctions in Cuba
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021 – The Media were quick to give the protests front and center coverage. Far larger and more deadly movements in Chile and Ecuador were mostly ignored by the corporate press. Meanwhile, the political situation in Haiti, which has seen three continuous years of nationwide protest, was overwhelmingly ignored until the assassination of US-backed President Jovenel Moïse last week.
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