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Covid Vaccines and Cancer
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
25 Sep 2021 – Can Covid vaccines cause cancer? In some cases, the answer appears to be yes. They can cause a temporary immune suppression or immune dysregulation and could potentially trigger sudden tumor growth and cancer in the weeks following vaccination. Of note, lymphocytopenia has also been frequently observed in cases of severe covid.
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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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ShadowDragon: Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software That Can Watch Your Every Move
Michael Kwet | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – A Michigan State Police contract obtained by The Intercept sheds new light on the use of a little-known surveillance software that helps law enforcement and corporations watch people’s social media and other activities—the product of a growing industry.
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“Last Warning, They Want to Take Control!”
Edward Snowden | Inner Vision – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
27 Jun 2021 – Edward Snowden explains how the government is taking advantage of the people, stealing their information and storing it in a secret data center. He tells about his experience working at the CIA, NSA, and FBI as a contractor. Snowden further suggests that we need to take action against mass surveillance.
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Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines
American Journal of Therapeutics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Repurposed medicines may have a role against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The antiparasitic Ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, has now been tested in numerous clinical trials.
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The Meaning of the FDA Resignations
Jeffrey A. Tucker | Brownstone Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
14 Sep 2021 – How significant is it that the two top US Food and Drug Administration officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters? This is a remarkable sign that the project of government-managed virus mitigation is in the final stages before falling apart.
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Protesters around the World Target Global Corporate Food Empire, Demand UN Cut Ties with World Economic Forum
Sustainable Pulse - TRANSCEND Media Servce,
27 Sep 2021
23 Sep 2021 – People’s movements and civil society groups say the United Nations Food Systems Summit is a platform for consolidating corporate control over food and agriculture, and perpetuating neoliberal food systems that wreak havoc on the lives of small food producers, who supply 80% of the world’s food.
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Culture
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
A boy asks, “Father, where is the equator?”
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How Big Corporations and Bill Gates Took Over the UN Food Summit
Nils McCune and Camila Escalante | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
24 Sep 2021 – Large corporations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took over the UN Food Systems Summit, abandoning small farmers on behalf of Big Ag companies, endangering food sovereignty.
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Bayer Forced to Change Roundup Label, Pay $39.5 Million for Misleading Advertising
Sustainable Pulse | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
22 Sep 2021 – Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, agreed to settle the case of Lisa Jones et al. v. Monsanto Company for $39.5 million, and will make changes to the Roundup product label.
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Huge Hack Reveals Embarrassing Details of Who’s Behind Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Websites
Drew Harwell, Craig Timberg and Hannah Allam | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – Extremism researchers and political opponents have treated the leak as a Rosetta Stone to the far-right, helping them to decode who has been doing what with whom over several years.
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Pegasus Project: All the Articles
Forbidden Stories | Global Investigative Journalism Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – Forbidden Stories Gathered All the Articles from the Pegasus Project Here
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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 Difference (Gandhi’s Birthday Music Video of the Week)
Peter Gonsalves – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
A Sing-Along Anthem for Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary – “You be the change you want to see.”
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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence Arms Race
Dan Cohen | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. How the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the possibility of a devastating war.
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Ela Gandhi | Nonviolence Radio - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – The granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi discusses growing up in her family’s intentional community and the importance of self-sufficiency.
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The Good War
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
What for?
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Twenty Years in a Security State: CIA Goes into the Torture Business
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
20 Sep 2021 – CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou was asked in July 2002 if he wanted to be trained in “enhanced interrogation techniques.” He was one of 14 people invited to learn how to apply these torture methods who declined the offer. “I had a moral and ethical problem with them. I had a legal problem with them. Besides being immoral and unethical, to me, they were clearly illegal. We have very clear laws and are signatories to international treaties that ban this kind of behavior,”
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Haitians Fleeing “Unacceptable Misery” Greeted by Whips and Shackles at U.S. Border
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
23 Sep 2021 – Images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping Haitian asylum seekers as they waded across the Rio Grande River into Texas shocked the world this week. After as many as 15,000 refugees arrived, sheltering under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, President Biden responded with an aggressive deportation campaign.
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War of Terror: Legal Colonialism Reincarnated
Azeezah Kanji | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
18 Sep 2021 – Did 9/11 really open a ‘new’ chapter in U.S. history? What we are told to “never forget” and what we are made to “always forget” are two sides of the same operation of power. And so the colonial present continues, inscribing each new chapter of violence as if it was the first.
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Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
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(Italiano) Invertire la marcia verso l’auto-distruzione?
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Sì, è ancora possibile invertire la marcia verso l’auto-distruzione. Oggi non esistono più i conflitti d’interesse che hanno creato l’insostenibile mondo odierno.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system in macro-space and macro-time with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery: economically, exploiters/exploited as inequity; militarily, killers/victims as enforcement; politically, dominators/dominated as repression; culturally, alienators/alienated as conditioning. Empires have different profiles.
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Clear Away the Hype: The U.S. and Australia Signed a Nuclear Arms Deal, Simple as That
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
On 15 Sep 2021, the heads of government of Australia, UK and USA announced the formation of AUKUS, “a new enhanced trilateral security partnership” between the three countries. While not explicitly mentioned, countering China is the unstated motivation for the new partnership.
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“A man who doesn’t read the newspaper is uninformed. A man who reads the newspaper is misinformed.”
Mark Twain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced,” and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”.
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(Italiano) 11 settembre: quanti sono?
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Perché ci dimentichiamo che gli 11 settembre (famosi) sono 3?
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U.S. Militarism’s Toxic Impact on Climate Policy
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
23 Sep 2021 – The U.S. failure to address climate change and how our government’s militaristic priorities are still diverting it from confronting the real existential crisis that threatens us all.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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The Saga of Filicide
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
The Epitome of Mental Illness
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Rūmī (30 Sep 1207 – 17 Dec 1273)
Annemarie Schimmel | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Sufi Mystic and Poet – Rūmī’s use of Persian and Arabic in his poetry, in addition to some Turkish and Greek, has resulted in his being claimed variously for Turkish and Persian literature. The influence of his writings in the Indian subcontinent is also substantial.
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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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Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger
Raj Patel | Scientific American - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – “We know how to do better. Agroecology more than fits the bill—not only because the crops grown are more diverse but because the social arrangements that surround them are more cognizant of power. Industrial agriculture’s hidden costs are precisely the ones agroecology makes explicit.”
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Global Leaders Waging Wars against Humanity Claim Peace and Success
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
In a time of humanitarian crisis as is COVID-19, we must allow truth of being One Humanity to support our existence and sustainable future. We must rethink that we are not alone, how we care about others, the neglected and tormented mankind. Often, politically aligned thoughts in Europe and the USA have ignored the humanitarian vitality of Asia, Africa or China and Russia for convenient political expediency.
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The Trillion Dollar COVID-19 “Vaccine” Market
Dr. Rudolf Hänsel | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – Worldwide Blood Trail of “Good Business” – Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and founder of the “Alliance for Human Research Protection”, said in an interview that the whole attraction of the COVID 19 vaccine empire is the expected trillion-dollar market. Parallels to the war and drug empires or to the organ trade are obvious. It is always about good business.
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COVID World Data -Total: 232,6M -Dead: 4,7M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
On 27 Sep 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 232,602,292
Deaths: 4,761,948
Active: 18,600,768
Recovered: 209,239,576
Cases Closed: 214,001,524
Total Vaccinated: 3,496,988,925
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
Live Now
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Out of your entire life give just one moment!
All of your life that has gone past,
all to come after it, – so you know it won’t last,
(Italiano) Il ritiro USA/NATO dall’Afghanistan è soddisfacente?
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Alcuni “costruttori di pace” dicono di No!
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Biden Administration Seeks a Contractor for a Migrant Facility at Guantanamo
Joel Rose | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
23 Sep 2021 – As the Biden administration scrambles to relocate thousands of Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town, it’s also looking for a private contractor to help operate a migrant detention facility at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — and to hire at least some guards who speak Spanish and Haitian Creole.
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Former Apple Engineer Says the Button on iPhones Asking Apps Not to Track You Is a ‘Dud’ That Gives Users a ‘False Sense of Privacy’
Hannah Towey | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
24 Sep 2021 – Even if users request apps not to collect their activity, popular iPhone apps still collect personal data, a new study by Lockdown Privacy determined. “We found that App Tracking Transparency made no difference in the total number of active third-party trackers. We further confirmed that detailed personal or device data was being sent to trackers in almost all cases.”
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(Italiano) 11 settembre 20 anni dopo: che cosa avrebbero dovuto fare gli USA
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
11/9/2021 – Quando mi si chiede che penso dell’11 settembre rispondo invariabilmente: “Non ho fatto ricerche personalmente, ma per me la spiegazione ufficiale lascia senza risposta troppi quesiti…
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Iran’s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East
Danny Postel | New Politics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
The Other Regional Counter-Revolution – The last decade has seen historic political upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa: a tsunami of popular uprisings that have brought down several dictators and led to momentous transformations in political consciousness, if not always to democratic outcomes. But the last decade has also seen a concomitant counter-revolutionary roll-back across the region.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s “Metaverse” Is a Dystopian Nightmare
Ryan Zickgraf | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
25 Sep 2021 – The Facebook founder intends to usher in a new era of the internet where there’s no distinction between the virtual and the real — and no logging off.
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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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Bridging the Island Universes of Our Experience: Aldous Huxley on Making Sense of Ourselves and Each Other
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.”
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New Research Shows the Power of Putting Your Opponent in a Bind
James L. VanHise | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – A study of 44 dilemma actions over the last 90 years examines the many benefits of creative protests for social movements.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Swastika, the Ancient Symbol That Was Hijacked by Evil
Bhakta dasa | ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
25 Sep 2021 – The Hon Premier of Victoria, Australia announced that his Government was going to recommend a prohibition of the Swastika symbol as anti-Semitic and racial tension is raising its ugly head by some far-right Neo-Nazi groups. We strongly oppose the prohibition or criminalization of our ancient, auspicious, holy symbol–the Swastika, as it predates by millennia the hateful use of Hakenkreuz by the Nazis.
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What a Travesty! Iron Dome Subsidy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
25 Sep 2021 – For the US to pay the bill for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system used during the Gaza attack in May is a travesty of law and justice. And to gain support for such a measure by a vote of 420-9 in the U.S. House of Representatives should be an embarrassment for the strategic rationality of American foreign policy.
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The COVID-19 “Vaccine” and the Nuremberg Code: Crimes against Humanity, Genocide
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
• EU/EEA/Switzerland to 11 Sep 2021: 24,528 Covid-19 injection related deaths and 2,292,967 injuries
• UK to 1 Sep 2021: 1,632 Covid-19 injection related deaths and 1,186,844 injuries
• USA to 3 Sep 2021: 14,506 Covid-19 injection related deaths and 3,146,691 injuries
• TOTAL for EU/UK/USA: 40,666 Covid-19 injection related deaths and 6,626,502 injuries on 15 Sep 2021
[Update] Covid Early Treatment
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
19 Sep 2021 – In view of non-durable covid vaccine protection, the availability of effective early treatment options for high-risk covid patients should remain a top public health priority.
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Crafting an Exit Strategy from Universal Vaccination Failure
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Serice,
20 Sep 2021
20 Sep 2021 – Prudent Preparation for the Probability and Impact of the Unforeseen – There is clearly a major global consensus by authorities on the strategy of universal vaccination as the primary response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is justified by them in the light of interpretations of available evidence and modelling with regard to herd immunity — for which there is necessarily no hard evidence in the current case.
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Four Remarkable Women
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Sep 2021 – This post reflects an amateurish interest in depicting a fascinating form of feminism that is exemplified by certain exceptional women whom I have been privileged to know. It was originally to be a chapter for my memoir, but I was compelled to cut 100,000 words, and this is one way of saying that my life is bigger than the book!
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Gorgon Stare, the Latest in Mass Surveillance
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
17 Sep 2021 – U.S. wars in foreign nations always come home. The latest example is “Gorgon Stare,” wide angle surveillance planes, used in Iraq and Afghanistan, that have now been brought home to an urban area near you. “Gorgon Stare” is named for the three Gorgons in Greek mythology, snakeheaded sisters whose stare could turn a person to stone.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 229,2M -Dead: 4,7M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
On 20 Sep 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 229,291,098
Deaths: 4,705,472
Active: 25,034,488
Recovered: 205,914,152
Cases Closed: 210,619,624
Total Vaccinated: 3,397,601,513
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
20 Years, $6 Trillion, 900,000 Lives: The Enormous Costs and Elusive Benefits of the War on Terror
Dylan Matthews | VOX - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
11 Sep 2021 – The costs of the war in Iraq, and indeed of every other front in the war on terror, are relatively easy to relate: hundreds of thousands of lost lives, trillions in dollars spent, incalculable damage to the US’s reputation in the world. So let’s start with a harder question: What, if any, benefits accrued to the US and the world as a result of the war on terror?
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White Lily
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
While the snow white lily creates sheer delight,
with her innocence and her beauty so bright.
World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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Up to Half of the $14 Trillion Spent by Pentagon since 9/11 Has Gone to War Profiteers
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Sep 2021 – A new analysis shows that a “large portion” of Pentagon contracts in recent years have gone to just five companies: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman.
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IIMM Reports Serious Crimes in Myanmar
NHK World-Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
14 Sep 2021 – The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar warns that serious crimes and violations of international law continue to be committed in the country. The international team of legal experts reported to a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday [13 Sep 2021].
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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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In the Guise of Converting the Heathens
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
The Oppression of Indigenous Peoples in the Name of Religion
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Big Tech War Profiteers Raked in $44 Billion during ‘Global War on Terror’
Andrea Germanos | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
The report “Big Tech Sells War” released on 9 Sep accuses Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants of providing tools–“from databases to drones”–that have propped up the war on terror for two decades. “When the U.S. chooses war over aid, Big Tech profits”, it affirms.
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China: The Paradox and Contradictions of a Tributary Empire
Juan Eugenio Corradi | Opinion Sur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
Despite appearances, current Chinese power is an amalgam of two contradictory models. In turn, each of them has internal contradictions. If this hypothesis is correct, we can cast doubt on the sustainability of such power in the medium and long terms.
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What Went Right This Week: Indigenous Climate Wins, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – How Indigenous resistance reined in fossil fuels, why Britain is more united than we think, the rise of edible playgrounds, plus…
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The Third Revolution in Warfare
Kai-Fu Lee | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
11 Sep 2021 – First there was gunpowder. Then nuclear weapons. Next: artificially intelligent weapons.
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Frei Betto Pays Homage to Paulo Freire on His Birth Centenary: 19 Sep 2021
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
Frei Betto is one of the best experts on Paulo Freire. Besides being a personal friend, he applied his method in popular education, which he practices until today. This homage to him on the 100th anniversary of his birth is a mixture of experiences lived with him and a simple and exemplary exposition of his method. I join him in this celebration. — L. Boff
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Pentagon-Backed Movie, ‘Black Hawk Down’, Championed Military Intervention after 9/11
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
9/11 and Its Impact on Cinema – The film, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, was made with full support from the Pentagon before the 9/11attacks. But its release was moved to Dec 2001 because it was a tale of American heroism that could sell audiences on the supposed necessity of military intervention.
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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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The Story of Bottled Water
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
The story of manufactured demand—how you get people to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every day when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces.
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1,428 Dolphins Were Slaughtered as Part of a Tradition–Activists Say It’s Cruel
The Associated Press | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
15 Sep 2021 – The slaughter of 1,428 white-sided dolphins over the weekend, part of a four-century-old traditional drive of sea mammals into shallow water where they are killed for their meat and blubber, has reignited a debate on the small Faeroe Islands.
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Mary’s Room: An Animated Inquiry into the Limits of Knowledge and the Mystery of Consciousness
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
The gasp beyond fact, contouring the central question of what it is like to be you.
→ read full articleMultiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
The Afghanistan Humanitarian Imbroglio: An Affirmative Nonkilling Perspective
Prof Anoop Swarup and Dr. Bill Bhaneja | Centre for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
30 Aug 2021 – Commemorating the 80th Birth Anniversary of Dr. Bill Bhaneja
→ read full articleIs It Still Possible to Reverse Humanity’s March toward Self-Destruction?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
YES! Today the conflicts of interest that created today´s unsustainable world no longer exist. NO! Most governments are fighting the economic impact of Covid by promoting growth through funding consumption, keeping banks solvent, and subsidizing business–to get people back to work. After the crisis, the same mental model will be employed to raise growth rates that in most of the world were already lagging before Covid, to bring down the numbers of those who were even then rejected by the labour market.
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Why Is Biden Prosecuting Assange for Telling the Truth about Afghanistan?
Daniel Ellsberg, Alice Walker and Noam Chomsky | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
The Biden administration is stubbornly pursuing the extradition of Julian Assange, who exposed the corrupt motives and doomed policies behind the War on Terror. Biden stuck to his word and finally ended the war in Afghanistan. But he cannot close this chapter with the man who told the truth about that war still in prison.
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As War Keeps Poisoning Humanity, Organizing Continues to Be the Antidote
Norman Solomon | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Sep 2021 – In the long run, peace activism is essential for overcoming militarism. And organizing is what makes that possible.
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Tribute to Paulo Freire
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
100 Years of His Birth
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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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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
This Modern World 6 Sep 2021
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Monks and Monkeys
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
Monks are respected people in Christianity. A monk practises religious asceticism in the church and outside. Monk comes from the Greek word that means solitary or single.
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(Castellano) El Once de Septiembre en Chile
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Septiembre 2021 – El día once de septiembre, este año como todos los años, fuimos junto con mi pareja Carolina y con nuestra hija Shelley, al cementerio de Limache, el pequeño pueblo de la quinta región donde vivimos. Nos sumamos a nuestros vecinos limachinos quienes también no dejen de conmemorar la muerte de seres amados, y la muerte de la democracia, el once de septiembre de 1973.
→ read full articleWHIF: White Hypocritical Imperial Feminism
David Swanson | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Sep 2021 – In 2002, U.S. women’s groups sent a joint letter to then-President George W. Bush in support of the war on Afghanistan to benefit women. Gloria Steinem (formerly of the CIA), Eve Ensler, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, and many others signed. The National Organization for Women, Hillary Clinton, and Madeline Albright supported the war.
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The Bipartisan Demise of U.S. Democracy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – The Republican Party contempt for liberal U.S. values, traditions, constitutionalism, the findings of science and truthfulness, became routine features of the presidency of Donald Trump.
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One Love (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Marley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
The one and only Marley: Reggae Classic
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After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong
Garrett M. Graff | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
8 Sep 2021 – A mission to rid the world of “terror” and “evil” led the USA in tragic directions.
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Despite Its Exit, the US Will Continue to Wage War on Afghanistan
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
14 Set 2021 – Ever the bad loser, Washington will be tempted to crush the Taliban with sanctions and covert operations, unleashing more chaos.
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“A newly married couple asked a wise man: ‘What shall we do to make our love endure?’ He answered: ‘Love other things together.’”
Anthony de Mello – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
Anthony de Mello, also known as Tony de Mello, [4 Sep 1931 – 2 Jun 1987] was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A spiritual teacher, writer, and public speaker, de Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hosted numerous spiritual retreats and conferences.
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U.S. and China Reach Deal to Block Myanmar’s Junta from U.N.
Colum Lynch, Robbie Gramer, and Jack Detsch | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Sep 2021 – The informal deal offers common ground with Beijing and a blow to Myanmar’s hopes of legitimacy.
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Praise Be to Those Who Refused to Kill
Paul Buhle | The Progressive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
7 Sep 2021 – Two 2021 books take a fresh look at the unheralded heroes of the Vietnam War.
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Understanding the Basics of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, and Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – Marxism’s criticisms of capitalism in the century after Marx’s death might have led it to advocacy for worker cooperatives. Instead, it focused on which agents could accomplish a transition from capitalism to socialism: the working class or the state.
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Who Is My Neighbor?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
I would like to announce the publication of a book which discusses religious ethics and cosmology. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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Whitewashed: Canada Is Shackled by Its History of Denial
Summer Mahmud and Rahul Varma | Rabble – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
When colonizers write history, their greatest device is their control over what to leave out, undermine, or alter. Thus, generations of Canadians have not learned what was deliberately left out of their history and know very little about what European explorers did to the Indigenous peoples who first lived on this land.
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Noam Chomsky: Average People Still Have the Power to Stop Wars
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by J. C. Pan and Ariella Thornhill | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – Noam Chomsky on why the US withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t change US imperialism, the many war crimes of George W. Bush, and why he still believes in average people’s ability to push back against the war machine.
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – A cybersecurity organization at the University of Toronto revealed the existence of a “zero-click” exploit that exposed 1.65 billion Apple iPhone and other devices to a complete and undetectable takeover by the spyware Pegasus, produced by NSO Group. Pegasus grants unlimited access to all of an infected device’s content: chat messages, emails, phone calls, control of microphone and camera, phone’s location in real time.
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Never Forget…
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Never Remember…
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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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Secretary-General’s Report on “Our Common Agenda”
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
10 Sep 2021 – “Our Common Agenda” report looks ahead to the next 25 years and represents the Secretary-General’s vision on the future of global cooperation and reinvigorating inclusive, networked, and effective multilateralism. The Secretary-General presented his report to the General Assembly in September 2021 before the end of the 75th session of the General Assembly.
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(Português) Frei Betto Homenageia Paulo Freire em Seu Centenário de Nascimento
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
7 Setembro 2021 – Frei Betto é um dos melhores conhecedores de Paulo Freire. Além de amigo pessoal aplicou o seu método na educação popular que exerce até os dias de hoje. Essa homenagem que ele lhe presta pelos seus 100 anos de nascimento é um misto de experiências vividas com ele e exposição simples e exemplar de seu método. Unimo-nos a ele nesta celebração. — L. Boff
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What’s in a Covid-19 Vaccine?
South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Countries around the world are ramping up efforts to vaccinate their populations in a race to achieve herd immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But what exactly goes into each vial? How different are the components? Here’s what you need to know about the ingredients that make up the vaccines against Covid-19.
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The Prisoner | Brighteon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
An Investigation into the “Isolation” of the SARS-COV2 “Virus”
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