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What You Should Really Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022 – These “explainer” pieces are emblematic of Ukraine coverage in the rest of corporate media, which almost universally gave a pro-Western view of US/Russia relations and the history behind them. Media echoed the point of view of those who believe the US should have an active role in Ukrainian politics and enforce its perspective through military threats.
→ read full articleThe Global Elite’s ‘Kill and Control’ Agenda: Destroying Our Food Security
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
31 Jan 2022 – Governments around the world continue to impose an expanding sequence of measures to curtail rights and freedoms ostensibly to tackle a ‘virus’. In response, public demonstrations against these government measures are also ongoing and expanding with truck convoys the latest manifestation of this form of protest.
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. With JFK Revisited, Oliver Stone has truly honored this fallen hero.
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‘The World’s Most Evil Company’ May Lose a Few Court Fights—but Will Keep on Poisoning and Killing Millions of People with Its Carcinogenic Pesticide ‘Roundup’
Mitchel Cohen | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – Monsanto (now part of Bayer AB) had to pay $78 million in 2018 and $10 billion more in 2020 to settle 100,000 cancer lawsuits. But that won’t stop a company whose 2021 revenues will top $49.991 billion…which is why Roundup is still being profitably sprayed in 160 countries around the world.
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This One-Two Punch from China and Russia Marks the End of U.S. Adventurism
Bradley Blankenship | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Syria’s inclusion in the Belt and Road Initiative is the final act in a long saga against American imperialism that shows how China and Russia can effectively counter U.S. intervention in the future.
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A Citizen of the World (Still) Speaks
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – I decided to honor Martin Luther King Day this year by reading — and trying to absorb, more fully than ever before — the entirety (nearly 7,000 words) of the iconic speech he gave at Riverside Church a year to the day before his assassination.
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The Day CNN’s Jake Tapper Sold His Soul to Pharma
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – There’s a reason CNN’s Jake Tapper is intent on branding me a “menace” and “a liar,” and why he refuses to debate me on the merits of facts and scientific evidence. Here’s the back story.
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‘Jaw-Dropping’ Targeting: How Pegasus Was Used against Critical Journalists in El Salvador
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – A new report by Citizen Lab and Access Now, shared with Forbidden Stories, shows how investigative journalists at El Faro and GatoEncerrado, two independent media outlets in El Salvador, were repeatedly and aggressively targeted with Pegasus spyware.
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Selected Articles on the Kazakhstan Uprisings
CovertAction Magazine and openDemocracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
9 Jan 2022 – Anger, Injustice and Politics Brought People to the Streets in Kazakhstan
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Communing with Albert Camus in 2022
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself” way, or in any deep psychoanalytical sense, but very simply. We have our own thoughts and feelings that come and go like breaths, most of which never get expressed in words.
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Syrian Extremists Had Free Access to Western Media, Says Award Winning Syrian Photographer
Patrik Paulov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Issa Touma, photographer from Aleppo, has portrayed the Syrian people before, during and after the war. But it was only when he moved to Sweden that he understood why the Western world’s image of Syria was so distorted.
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Why Is Joe Biden Discreetly Looking the Other Way as His AFRICOM Commander Commits War Crimes for Which He Would Have Been Hanged at Nuremberg?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Townsend Oversaw Army Unit in Syria That Committed Myriad Atrocities and Helped Cover Up Crimes – He claims that the U.S. was “never a colonizing power in Africa,” that AFRCOM’s motto is “African solutions, for African problems,” and that countries “drowning in poverty” frequently “ask for U.S. help.” These words mask the imperial underpinnings of U.S. foreign policy.
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Untangling Ourselves from the Dark Side
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
12 Jan 2022 – “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” The words are those of Albert Einstein. He adds, pointing out a truth: “The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war.”
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Dissonance Searching for Resonance: An Open Letter to TRANSCEND Members and Friends
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Needless to say, if you are a frequent writer, contributor, or visitor to the TRANSCEND Media Service website, you are aware of the unique significance this Weekly Digest offers both as a beacon and archive. Thirteen years of thought on major global issues from a wide variety of peace and conflict transformation perspectives. You also must be aware of the financial difficulties that TMS now continues to face.
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Slavoj Zizek: It’s Naive to Think Bitcoin & NFT Give Us Freedom
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
8 Jan 2022 – In a world where digital control and manipulation have become a norm, many believe that cryptocurrency and Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, enable freedom. But this is not exactly true.
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The Myth of the Good War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – The myth of the good war may well be the most destructive certainty misleading the crumbling empire known as “USA! USA!” Here’s the problem, though. Building global and environmental peace — listening to and understanding one another — is a slow, extraordinarily complex process. It’s so much easier to keep waging war against the bad guy of the moment, who will never go away.
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441,449 Low Earth Orbit Satellites – Operating, Approved and Proposed
Arthur Firstenberg | International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – While the attention of a terrified world has been riveted on a virus, the assault on the heavens has reached astronomical proportions. During the past two years, a flood of new projects has brought the number of operating, approved, and proposed satellites to at least 441,449. The satellite projects include the ones listed below.
→ read full articleDissonance Searching for Resonance: An Open Letter to TRANSCEND Members and Friends
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Needless to say, if you are a frequent writer, contributor, or visitor to the TRANSCEND Media Service website, you are aware of the unique significance this Weekly Digest offers both as a beacon and archive. Thirteen years of thought on major global issues from a wide variety of peace and conflict transformation perspectives. You also must be aware of the financial difficulties that TMS now continues to face.
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Warnings from the Far North
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – It’s never been more urgent and timely for the world to change its ways and abandon the current economic maelstrom that haunts all life on the planet. The pros and cons of capitalism’s experiment with neoliberal tendencies that enrich the few and bury the many should be debated in the context of strained resources throughout the biosphere, including all life forms.
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Musings on Olympia by Emanuel Garcia
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – If you are a lucky reader, you chance upon a book that makes your hair stand on end in wonder and sends a shiver down your spine. This book does that, for it is deft, digressive, and capricious in ways that leave you wondering what whim set the author’s mind so ablaze to dare to set this story to paper.
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Big Power Rivalries: The Thugs of Myanmar
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
21 Dec 2021 – ASEAN leaders should explore a joint strategy with China, India and the US. By working together on a conflict that does not directly affect the three powers’ strategic interests, ongoing high tensions between China and US could cool down, and pave the way for additional small building blocks of cooperation and partnership.
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Sex Crimes of the CIA—Unreported, Unrepented, and Unpunished
John Kiriakou | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – The CIA rivals the Vatican in covering up sex crimes against children and then protecting the members of its organization who commit them.
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US Still Doesn’t Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Pile of Nuclear Waste
Charles Pekow | Earth Island Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 Dec 2021 – Senate Armed Services Committee report: “As the USA continues to modernize its nuclear weapons, waste will be generated. It is not clear whether there are sufficient facilities to address the waste or if such facilities are in current plans and budgets.” The estimated cost of handling the degrading radioactive material is rising steadily — $512 billion at last count.
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Your $1.7 Billion of Gold Is Now Ours, UK Tells Starving Venezuelans
Belen Fernandez | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
26 Dec 2021 – In its prolonged freezing of Venezuelan assets, the UK continues to withhold 31 tons of its gold stored at the Bank of England, with a new Supreme Court ruling supporting the seizure.
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Learning Something New about [Nobel Peace Laureate] Desmond Tutu
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
28 Dec 2021 – You are unlikely to learn about it in the media tributes to Archbishop Rev. Desmond Tutu who died on 26 Dec at 90 (1931-2021). But Tutu, like the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was morally and spiritually a true world citizen belonging to a large list of VIP’s who supported the drafting of a new world constitution – what is now known as the Earth Constitution.
→ read full articleDo We Dare Stop Being Afraid of Ourselves?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
22 Dec 2021 – We’re stuck, right now, in the myth of collective suicide, more generally known as the myth of the conquest of good over evil. And since history is told by the winners of humanity’s wars, those currently in power are always — always! — the good guys. David Suzuki puts it this way: “As dictators have shown throughout history, collective narratives are often successful when they have a bad guy, someone or something that is ‘other.’”
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Prof. Werner Brilliantly Explains How the Banking System and Financial Sector Really Work
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Power, Privilege, Riches, Control…
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Israel Killed Up to 192 Palestinian Civilians in May 2021 Attacks on Gaza
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – More than 70 percent of the Israeli attacks that killed civilians in Gaza had no corresponding reports of militants hit alongside them. “I still don’t know why they bombed my house and killed my wife and children and my sister and her children.”
→ read full articlePoisoning Ourselves with War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the guys at Talon Anvil, a secret U.S. “strike cell” recently exposed by the New York Times as a unit with a reputation for ignoring the rules of engagement and killing lots and lots of civilians with drone strikes as it plays war with ISIS.
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The NYT Reports US Forces ‘Killed Dozens in Syria’–The Reality Is Far Worse
Eva Bartlett | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – Two recent reports by the New York Times highlight some of the US’ manifold crimes in Syria, murdering untold numbers of Syrian civilians over the years, under the pretext of fighting the Islamic State.
→ read full articleThe Origin of Violence
Henna Maria Vermeulen interviews Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Odysee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – Where violence comes from and how we can best reclaim our freedom in this time of ever increasing oppression and surveillance. I speak with a man who has dedicated 14 years of his life in seclusion to explore in depth why human beings kill each other. Robert is an author and world renowned scholar and teacher of nonviolent action strategy, especially the Gandhian approach.
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Red Current, Pink Tide: A Visit to El Maizal Commune in Venezuela
Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
1 Dec 2021 – Chris Gilbert on how Venezuela’s El Maizal Commune’s flag-waving communards are among the reddest elements in the so-called Pink Tide.
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Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.’s Heroic Resistance to the CIA’s Continuing Covid Coup D’état
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – With his extraordinary new book, RFK, Jr. has made it very clear that he will not allow Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian boot to stamp on his face. His is a very rare moral courage, and he is asking us to join him, before it is too late and we enter into a new dark age.
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Strategic Resistance to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Gathers Pace
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. and Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – The ‘We Are Human, We Are Free’ campaign was launched earlier this year. It is designed to enable people to participate in a grassroots nonviolent campaign to strategically resist the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ and related initiatives of the Global Elite including the transhumanist, eugenics and Cyber Polygon agendas.
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Pfizer Smoking-Gun Secret Document: Their Deadly COVID Vaccine
Jon Rappoport – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – Awakening from the Trance: Court-ordered Documents Pfizer Tried to Have Sealed for 55 Years
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Biden Deploys National Guard: It’s “Déjà Vu All Over Again” as Government Hawks and Corporate Media Play Up Ethiopian Atrocities in Tigray
Ann Garrison | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Twelve days after a Bloomberg Nov. 11 Headline proclaimed that “Ethiopia’s Civil War Is a Problem That U.S. Troops Can Help Solve,” President Joe Biden announced the Deployment of 1,000 National Guard Troops to the Ethiopian border—as if he had learned nothing from the U.S.’s disastrous 75-year history of military involvement in (and incitement of) foreign civil wars in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia, Nicaragua, Haiti, Serbia, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria.
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“Folks, I don’t trust children. They’re here to replace us.”
Stephen Colbert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is best known for hosting the satirical program The Colbert Report and the CBS talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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We Wage Wars Because We Are Violent Animals Likely Headed Toward Extinction
Jack Balkwill | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – We are spiraling headlong toward extinction as long as we allow our primitive violence to dominate. Ours is a species that builds cities only to blow them up in wars, again and again. Capitalists profit from the weapons that destroy the cities, and again from rebuilding the cities, and since their only concern is for profit, the insanity won’t end until a new economic order is adopted.
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Russia’s ‘Plan to Invade Ukraine’ Exists Only in the US and NATO Imagination
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
5 Dec 2021 – Ukraine has accused Russia of preparing to invade, triggering a crisis that will bring Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin together via a phone call. Someday international-relations students will scratch their collective heads, wondering what, if anything, was going through the minds of those responsible for the current crisis. In any other circumstance, this sort of narrative would be fodder for dark comedy.
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Bannon’s Plea
Lalo Alcaraz | OppArt/The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Come Clean
→ read full articleResisting the Gatekeepers of Hell: Gandhi, ‘Vaccine Passports’ and the Great Reset
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Misunderstanding what is happening around the world at the moment is understandable. Misrepresenting what is happening through misunderstanding it is also understandable. However, it makes it difficult to get the truth out there when blatant and persistent lying is being used by relevant international organizations: World Economic Forum, UN, World Health Organization, national governments, pharmaceutical and medical industries, and the corporate media.
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Criminalization of the Bedouin Victim
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – For some time, there has been an intensification of the media campaign against the Bedouin community in the Negev. This campaign seeks to prevent the ongoing and abiding harm perpetrated by the Israeli government against the Bedouin minority from coming to public attention.
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How Organized Crime Infiltrated American Business after WWII and Corrupted National Politics from Truman to Trump
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Provocative new book documents the unsavory alliance between the Mafia, the CIA, and the corporate establishment that transformed America into “the world’s most dangerous nation”
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The Dreaded Rainforest Shift
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – Major portions of the Amazon rainforest have shifted from a carbon sink to a carbon source. This shift has severe planet-wide negative implications.
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Atlantic Ocean: Former Naval Air Station Has Contaminated the Mussels in Maine
Pat Elder | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
24 Nov 2021 – Environmental Destruction Is Part of the Huge Human Costs of the American Military Empire
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Expert Censored after Demonstrating That a Gas Attack in Syria Was a False-Flag Operation by U.S.-Funded Terrorists
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
22 Nov 2021 – Fearful editors and CIA-connected hacks ganged up to defame top MIT scientist who refused to echo government propaganda and had article exposing truth about alleged Syrian chemical weapons attacks pulled by prestigious scientific journal. Instead, he quit his 30-year job on principle.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Lands: Stolen Fair and Square
Mark P. Fancher | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday, in which exceptionalism and selective amnesia are celebrated. The sick fairy tale obscures the violent foundations of a settler colonial nation.
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President John F. Kennedy: His Life and Public Assassination
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
22 Nov 2021 – Despite a treasure trove of new research and information having emerged over the last fifty-eight years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions.
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CDC Finally, Quietly, Begrudgingly Releases Natural Immunity Numbers and Now We Know Why They Waited
J.D. Rucker | The Liberty Daily - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
13 Nov 2021 – If the CDC cared about healthcare, they’d embrace natural immunity and acknowledge the risks associated with the injections. But healthcare is an afterthought to the CDC. 100% of their concern is for the vaccine agenda, science and lives be damned.
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Revealed, the Shocking Conditions at Belmarsh Prison That Julian Assange Is Exposed to
Kit Klarenberg | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
17 Nov 2021 – A new report has painted a bleak picture of the London prison where Julian Assange is being held. On 12 Nov, the HM Inspectorate of Prisons published an investigation on conditions in London’s Belmarsh Prison – dubbed ‘Britain’s Gitmo’ – which spells out the nightmarish environment.
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Pandora Papers: Secret Real Estate Purchases Are a Driving Force behind the Offshore Economy
Margot Gibbs and Agustin Armendariz | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – No longer content with Miami condos and London townhouses, investors are pouring money into properties in all corners of the world, fueling inequality and driving up prices, Pandora Papers investigation reveals.
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A Dog’s Life
Gene Weingarten | The Washington Post Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
8 Nov 2021 – Why are so many people so cruel to their dogs? My search to understand a hidden scourge.
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Mother Nature, Inc.
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021 – Wall Street investors have hit the jackpot. Soon they’ll be able to buy, own, and dictate The Commons, public lands, the world of Mother Nature. In fact, a pilot project is already in the works with ecosystems up for sale…
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US Government Boldly Scrutinized: Oliver Stone’s New JFK Documentary Is a Must-Watch
Michael McCaffrey | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
12 Nov 2021 – Stone’s new documentary, ‘JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass’, isn’t perfect, but it’s vitally important.
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“Limited Hangouts:” Western Intellectuals Whitewash Horrific Crimes of Rwandan CIA Asset Paul Kagame
Justin Podur | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
11 Nov 2021 – In the intelligence community, a “Limited Hangout” occurs when the conspirators put out part of the truth in order to hide the whole truth. They only do it when desperate, since doing so will reveal that they were previously either lying or covering up bigger truths.
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A Quest for Wisdom: Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
7 Nov 2021 – A Review of David Lorimer’s Book – This is a fascinating and beautiful book, one of those gems you serendipitously discover and shake your head at your good fortune.
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Vaccinated or Not, We Are ALL Controlled and Manipulated
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
2 Nov 2021 – Those who accept Covid vaccines and those who reject them think of each other as lambs willingly going to the slaughter. Perhaps both are right. But those who buy fake jab certificates are paying the butcher.
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The Dream Must Start
Bob Neumann | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
Is it too early for a strong world government?
Wiser men have said so for decade — too soon!
There are far too many differing cultures,
a myriad of languages and dialects!
We Are Surrounded by Local Solutions to Global Economic Challenges—Festival Brings Together Sustainable Leaders
April M. Short | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
2 Nov 2021 – Free access event highlights solutions for communities to adopt.
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Ethiopia: “I’ve Lost Faith in Everything American”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – Last month TRANSCEND Media Service published my interview with Jemal Countess, a photographer who has traveled back and forth between the US and Ethiopia since Nov 2020, when the civil war started. This is Part II of that interview.
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Open Letter to Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – In last week’s article in the Evening Standard newspaper, you said you dislike the dangerous, violent society you live in, that your own life is at risk, not only because of your job, but also due to your religion and the colour of your skin. I’d like to ask you a few questions.
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A Message of Encouragement to Delegates of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
The Group of 21 was a hastily assembled NPO of Japanese and international community friends organized in Kyoto in 1997: 21 youths, ages 1 to 21, from 21 different countries, to take a group photograph and run a global postcard campaign to reduce global warming. The postcards were to support the COP3 Global Warming Conference scheduled for December 1997 offering delegates an inspiring welcoming to Kyoto.
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The New Generation as World Patriots: Climate Change, Nukes & War
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – Young people are increasingly becoming world citizens and World Patriots. They want to save the world. The biggest mistake by climate change activists is a failure to demand an end to war as one of its top priorities. US/NATO with over 700 foreign military bases is one of the largest polluters in the world while also illegally attacking a number of nations.
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Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
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Julian Assange’s Health Is Central to Upcoming Ruling on Extradition to the U.S.
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – In a case that puts press freedoms on trial, a British appeals court is considering the suicide risk should Assange be sent abroad.
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U.S. Empire: The Global Grim Reaper! And It’s Not Just for Halloween!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
26 Oct 2021 – The U.S. Military is the greatest polluter and creator of chaos on the planet. All Empires eventually crumble and fall. I know of no empire in history that has repented and made an about face. The chickens from the U.S. Empire’s foreign wars are coming home to roost with increased spread of violence, hate and division.
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Snowden Calls Assange ‘Political Criminal’ Ahead of Extradition Hearing, Where the Pressure Might Now Be on Biden’s Legal Team
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden went on the attack against the US and UK and he appealed for the freedom of his pal, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, who faces the US’ attempt to overturn a UK court decision to deny his extradition.
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The Julian Assange Case
Chris Hedges | On Contact/RT America - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
23 Oct 2021 – Chris Hedges talks to documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist John Pilger about the upcoming appeals hearing in London for the Julian Assange case.
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The Myth of Redemptive Violence
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Several million dollars’ worth of fiction exploded the other day, leaving cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — age 42, a wife, a mom — dead, and plunging Alec Baldwin, who accidentally shot her, into a state of unimaginable hell.
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The Syrian Charity Scam
Paul Larudee | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Americans want to feel good about themselves by giving money to charities that claim to be helping the Syrian people. But they are being duped into supporting terrorist forces that have brought misery and violence to the country—while crippling U.S. sanctions accentuate the humanitarian crisis.
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‘In the Spirit of Mandela’: International Tribunal Seeks to Charge U.S. Government with Crimes Against Humanity
Bob Lederer and Matt Meyer | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – An historic International Tribunal on U.S. Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples will take place in New York City on October 22-25, 2021. It is designed to propel this and related issues into the forefront of public consciousness.
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“Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School, Philadelphia, 26 Oct 1967
→ read full articleAssange: A Threat to War Itself
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – The Pentagon’s offer of “condolence money” to the relatives of the ten people (seven of them children) who were killed in the final U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan — originally declared righteous and necessary — bears a troubling connection to the government’s ongoing efforts to get its hands on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and punish him for exposing the inconvenient truth of war.
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Blessed Be the Warmakers? Why Post-9/11 American Religious Leaders Must Atone
Jack Gilroy | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
5 Oct 2021 – Who Profits When Our Pastors of Peace Become Enablers of War?
→ read full articleThe Banners of the King of Hell Advance
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
For we are living in a world of endless propaganda and simulacra where vast numbers of people are hypnotized and can’t determine the difference between the real world of nature, the body, etc. and digital imagery. Reality has disappeared into screens. Simulation has swallowed the distinction between the real world and its representations. Meaning has migrated to the margins of consciousness. This process is not yet complete but getting there.
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Biden Demands Ethiopia’s Unconditional Surrender
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – President Joe Biden continues to play the cluelessly racist and paternalistic Ugly American in the Horn of Africa. Under his leadership, the US has been at war with Ethiopia since last November.
→ read full articleFantasies
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – Perhaps my fantasies offer an alternative vision? Western Europe realized these fantasies when they established the Common Market and then the European Union; Europe is flourishing like never before. Will Israel continue with the present policy until death and mutual destruction? Or will we show wisdom and choose the path of peace before this happens?
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NATO’s Plans to Hack Your Brain
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
8 Oct 2021 – Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militaries. Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.”
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
13 Oct 2021 – It’s too easy, right? Too simple — shoving Christopher Columbus off the historical honor roll, pulling down his statues, yanking his “day” away from him and renaming it in honor of the people he murdered, kidnapped, turned into property?
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A Poem for 9/11
Robert Cable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 September, iconic date
Like 7 December 60 years before,
Rushed us to judgment and a bloody war
As if war had been our unchosen fate.
Pandora Papers: An Offshore Data Tsunami
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – The ICIJ spent more than a year structuring, researching and analyzing the more than 11.9 million records in the 2.94 terabyte Pandora Papers leak: over 330 politicians, 130 Forbes billionaires, celebrities, fraudsters, drug dealers, royal family members, and leaders of religious groups. The task involved journalists, technology and time.
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Shell Shocked in Amhara, Ethiopia: “I don’t even want to hear the word ‘America’”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – A displaced person in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region told photographer and human rights investigator Jemal Countess that he didn’t want to talk to him because he was American and “didn’t even want to hear the word America” because of all the damage America has done in Ethiopia.
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Florida’s Republican Governor Awards Medal of Freedom to Che Guevara’s Assassin
Michael Stephen Smith | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – After Rodriguez ordered Che be shot, his hands were chopped off and shipped to Langley, but not before he stole the Rolex from Che’s corpse that was meant for the son of one of his compatriots in Bolivia.
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Killing Off Humanity: How the Global Elite Is Using Eugenics and Transhumanism to Shape Our Future
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – The world as we knew it has ended. If we are to recover the vaguest semblance of what we once had and, hopefully, an even better version of it, we have a monumental struggle ahead of us. So our choice is simple. Resist, strategically, as outlined above or watch Earth being depopulated to a planet of cyborg slaves.
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China’s ‘Hostage Diplomacy’ Wins: Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou Flies Home a National Heroine after Her Release from Detention in Canada
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – Big crowds greeted Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou’s arrival back in China, which believes its show of strength against the USA forced Washington to back down in this three-year standoff.
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Good Riddance… Afghanistan Wins
Paper Cartoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
One more down.
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Free Julian Assange!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
CIA Plotted to Kidnap and Assassinate Assange! What the US and UK are doing to Julian Assange for exposing the crimes of empire is criminal. A free society stands on freedom of the press, speech, and dissent. We all need to speak out for his freedom. If not, we’re next!
→ read full articleEthiopian Mystery: The Case of the 428 Disappearing Food Aid Trucks
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
29 Sep 2021 – For nearly a year, warmonger and USAID administrator Samantha Power has been shrieking about famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray, and demanding the humanitarian corridor that 428 massive food aid trucks have now mysteriously disappeared into.
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Biden Threatens Sweeping Sanctions on Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Responds
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
22 Sep 2021 – The U.S. is once again attempting to overthrow a legitimate head of state in Africa, this time in Ethiopia, where they want to put their old puppet, the TPLF, or a new one, in power.
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The Profits of War: How Corporations Won the War on Terror
William Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented: a staggering $8 trillion. Who has benefited most from such an orgy of military spending has received far less attention, however. -How U.S. Corporations Cashed in on the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge-
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The U.S. May Have Lost the Military War in Syria, but Has Won the Propaganda War at Home by Portraying Its Murderous Invasion as a Moral Crusade
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
22 Sep 2021 – As It Did with Castro in Cuba and Noriega in Panama, the “Mighty Wurlitzer” of U.S. Propaganda Defused Antiwar Sentiment by Painting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a Brutal Animal Who Had to Be Removed
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The Empire’s Last Stand
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
20 Sep 2021 – The origins of the first Cold War have been hopelessly blurred in the histories. We can watch this time. It is occurring before our eyes. I venture a prediction. When enough people begin to resist the madness and we begin to get somewhere, Cold War II will turn out to be the American empire’s last stand.
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Breakthrough Strategy: The Earth Constitution & the United Nations
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – The public is largely unaware that forming a world federal union government is the solution to critical world problems, or that the Earth Constitution is the key to the needed changes. The United Nations, hampered by its fatally flawed Charter, is trying to resolve global problems with one hand tied behind its back.
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How Many Satellites Are Orbiting Earth?
Supriya Chakrabarti | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
17 Sep 2021 – In the past decade, the number of satellites in orbit has skyrocketed thanks to tiny electronics and cheap launches. The crowded night sky is posing problems for astronomers and astronauts.
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Return to the Source: The US Military Swarms over Africa
Editorial | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
Military exercises carried out by AFRICOM on the African continent in recent years have occurred across the continent–east, west, north, and south–as well as on the surrounding seas and oceans. They have included participation from Europe and from almost every African country.
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Ivermectin Obliterates 97 Percent of Delhi Cases
Justus R. Hope, MD | The Desert View - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
A 97% decline in Delhi cases with Ivermectin represents the last word in an epic struggle to save lives and preserve human rights. This graph symbolizes the victory of reason over corruption, good over evil, and right over wrong. It is an absolute vindication of Ivermectin and early outpatient treatment. It is a clear refutation of the WHO, FDA, NIH, and CDC’s policies of “wait at home until you turn blue” before you get treatment.
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Victoria, Australia Will ‘LOCK OUT’ Unvaccinated People from Its Economy
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
6 Sep 2021 – Premier Dan Andrews made the announcement. Victoria is currently under draconian lockdown restrictions, with residents under a 9pm to 5am curfew, forbidden from leaving their homes except to work, buy groceries, or get a Covid-19 vaccination.
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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Rollout Is a Hopelessly Ambitious, Hugely Unpopular Economic Disaster Waiting to Happen
Bradley Blankenship | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
8 Sep 2021 – El Salvador’s right-wing government has adopted the cryptocurrency bitcoin as mass protests filled the streets, with many concerned about having to rely on the highly volatile digital asset for their income.
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‘The Dark Side of Paradise: Hawai’i in a Nuclear World’ Now Free Online
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Folks in Hawai’i, the Pacific and elsewhere will be glad to know that the classic 1980 book, The Dark Side of Paradise: Hawai’i in a Nuclear World, is available again in PDF. Please click to download:
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