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The World as Idea
Routledge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
The World as Idea: A Conceptual History, by Charles P. Webel, 1 Nov 2021, Routledge, 336 pp. Webel traces the development of “the world” through the past, depicting the history of the world as an intellectual construct from its roots in ancient creation myths of the cosmos, to contemporary speculations about multiverses.
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Indigenous Leaders in Nicaragua Speak Out against Western Media and NGOs
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – Nicaragua has an election to choose their president and national assembly on 7 Nov. According to polls, the Sandinista Front (FSLN) currently in government is expected to win the presidency and a majority of seats in the assembly. At the same time, the Sandinista government is intensely disliked by Washington and there has been a steady stream of negative news and accusations.
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Blinken: US Policy Is to ‘Oppose the Reconstruction of Syria’
Dave DeCamp | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
The US Has Ruled Out Normalizing with Syria
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Public Health or Private Wealth? How Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way for Unprecedented Surveillance Capitalism
Jeremy Loffredo and Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
19 Oct 2021 – For those yearning for an end to pandemic-related restrictions, credential programs certifying their vaccination against Covid-19 are the key to reopening the economy and restoring their personal freedom. But the implementation of immunity passports is also accelerating the establishment of a global digital identity infrastructure as titans of global capitalism are exploiting the crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems.
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Any End to This Suicidal War? (II)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
29 Oct 2021 – More Lethal Gases and Fewer, Weaker Sinks – Another Year Another Record! The emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise, the land and sea temperatures are higher than ever since there are records, and the ecosystems could fail their role as vital sinks absorbing carbon dioxide and as a buffer against larger temperature increases.
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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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Criminals
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Indeed!
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Albert Camus (7 Nov 1913 – 4 Jan 1960)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Albert Camus was born in Algeria, the son of a French father killed in the First World War when he was only one and an illiterate Spanish mother who raised him while working as a cleaning woman. Camus was intellectually stimulated by his father’s brother who read books of philosophy and was active in the local Masonic lodge.
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COVID World Data -Total: 247,5M -Dead: 5M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
On 1 Nov 2021 (10am GMT):
Total Cases: 247,549,612
Deaths: 5,016,924
Active: 18,334,344
Recovered: 224,198,344
Cases Closed: 229,215,268
Total Vaccinated: 3,890,991,186
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
On Myanmar’s Dead Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement
FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
17 Oct 2021 – Maung Zarni blew the whistle on military-led top-down democratic reforms – which he argued were, in the final instance, cosmetic as early as these “reforms” were launched by the Burmese generals in 2010. To his rage and dismay, this “transition” was blessed by none other than Aung San San Suu Kyi and celebrated by Western media and powerful external actors.
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The Pandora Papers–Why Such Passivity?
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – It is disappointing that the Malaysian government has chosen to adopt a passive approach to the Pandora Papers. Leaving it to the police to investigate may suggest that the government is not prepared to assume leadership in setting the moral tone for society.
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Colin Powell: In Life and Death
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Colin Powell died on Monday [18 Oct 2021] at the age of 84. Richard Falk reflects on Powell’s life and the US reaction to his passing including the relevance of identity politics, the question of moderation, his contribution to the horrors of Vietnam and Iraq, and US governmental hypocrisy in the wake of its January 2020 assassination of the comparable Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.
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On Denigrating the Humanities
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – This post reflects on the brutal frankness of this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor Joshua Angrist, unqualified rationale for leaving his faculty position at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for a higher paying professorship at MIT. The put down of literature is mindlessly irresponsible and civilizationally obtuse.
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Has Interpol Become the Long Arm of Oppressive Regimes?
Josh Jacobs | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
17 Oct 2021 – Once used in the hunt for fugitive criminals, the global police agency’s most-wanted ‘red notice’ list now includes political refugees and dissidents.
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Rewilding Food, Rewilding Our Mind & Rewilding the Earth
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Regenerating Biodiversity in our farms, forests, and our Gut Microbiome for Zero Hunger and Good – Mother Earth is self-organised. Mother Earth has created and sustained Diversity.
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Melbourne: The Longest in Lockdown
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Asia-Pacific Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – The lockdowns – six in total – came with overly vigilant threatened and threatening police, punitive powers of hefty magnitude, mask mandates, curfews, limits on recreation time and demarcated areas of travel.
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Youth, Violence and Peace: Experiences from Cali and Medellín
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – The text, originally in Spanish, is published by Universidad de Medellín in a joint research project with the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Cali) in Colombia. The book can be downloaded for free here.
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Don’t Worry Be Happy (Music Video of the Week)
The Real Bobby McFerrin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Bobby McFerrin in His Classic from 2009 –
(Please click on Watch on YouTube) – ENJOY!!
What It’s Like to Watch a Harpooned Whale Die Right before Your Eyes
Captain Paul Watson | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
19 Oct 2021 – Author Paul Watson has no problem with critics calling him and his marine-life-defending colleagues pirates—it’s far better than helplessly standing by and doing nothing in the face of the violence against animals they have witnessed.
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Pity the Nation
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Poetic Reflection – 17 Oct 2021
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Beloved Writers on the Mightiest Antidote to Depression
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
“It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, the dark threw its patches down upon me also,” Walt Whitman wrote. On the consolations of monarchs and of stars.
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The Learning Ladder — Schooling and Education
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Right from the day a child is born his learning cycle starts. But learning begins with hearing a few words that his mother and sometimes his father or older siblings speak, which gradually helps the child to understand what they mean.
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‘Unconscionable’: Pfizer, Moderna to Rake in Combined $93 Billion in 2022 COVID Vaccine Sales
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
19 Oct 2021 – A report by health data analytics group, Airfinity, projects “unprecedented” sales and profits for Pfizer and Moderna in 2022. According to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, the companies are pricing their vaccines by as much as $41 billion above the estimated cost of production.
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(Castellano) Tribunal popular juzga a EEUU y pide libertad para Assange
Prensa Latina - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Un tribunal popular condenó hoy aquí a Estados Unidos por crímenes de guerra cometidos en nombre de la lucha contra el terrorismo, y exigió la liberación del fundador de WikiLeaks Julian Assange. La vista simbólica fue organizada a una semana de que la justicia británica escuche la apelación presentada a extraditar al periodista australiano.
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The Ethics of Unethicality
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – South Africa’s New Norm: The Acceptable Stealing of Public Funds and “Stepping Aside”
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Washington Always Looking for another War
Bruce K. Gagnon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
23 Oct 2021 – The collapsing US military is making Washington & NATO even more dangerous. US could not beat the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran… a sign of psychopathology for sure.
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Senseless
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Excellent Question
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Taiwan Deaths from COVID-19 Vaccination Exceed Deaths from COVID-19
Medical Trend | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
On 7 Oct 2021, the death toll after vaccination in Taiwan reached 852, while the death toll after the COVID-19 was diagnosed was 844. The number of deaths after vaccination exceeded the number of confirmed deaths for the first time.
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Wall Street’s Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class
Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
13 Oct 2021 – A project of the multilateral development banking system, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that will put, not just the natural world, but the processes underpinning all life, up for sale under the guise of promoting “sustainability.”
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Manufacturing Ignorance: Keeping the Public away from Power
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
22 Oct 2021 – Whereas the ‘mainstream’ media declare that their aim is to educate, inform and entertain the public, their actual societal purpose ‘on matters that are of significance for established power’ is to avert any ‘danger’ that the public can ‘assert meaningful control over the political process’ (Herman and Chomsky, ‘Manufacturing Consent’, Vintage, 1988/1994, p. 303).
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Stop Being Polite – Colin Powell Was a Killer
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Colin Powell has died, and the hagiographic obituaries are upon us. Throughout his career, Powell did a swell job of rallying and maintaining bipartisan support for imperial killing – and putting as ‘polite’ a face as possible on it.
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The United States Is Doubling Down on Deadly Sanctions
Sanctions Kill Coalition | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
The 2021 Sanctions Review Report ordered by President Biden and released on 18 Oct 2021 is an ominous warning. It shows US is intensifying its economic warfare despite the covid-19 pandemic.
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Amazon and Google: Partners in Israeli Apartheid
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
19 Oct 2021 – Amazon and Google aren’t just doing business with Israel. Through Project Nimbus, they are actively helping to build and improve the technological infrastructure Israel needs to oppress Palestinians.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 244,4M -Dead: 4,9M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
On 25 Oct 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 244,429,045
Deaths: 4,963,767
Active: 24,574,308
Recovered: 221,468,889
Cases Closed: 226,432,656
Total Vaccinated: 3,822,607,805
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
From Russia, with (Taliban) Love
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – Asia’s powerbrokers dropped an Afghan bombshell in Moscow today: ‘The country’s reconstruction must be paid for by its military occupiers of 20 years.’
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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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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 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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‘Indefensible’: US Billionaires Became $2.1 Trillion Richer in 19 Months of Pandemic
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – New analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies shows that just 745 individuals have combined $5 trillion in wealth, most of which will never be taxed.
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The IPCC Leaks Bring Us to the Possible Declaration of a World Civil War
Manuel Casal-Lodeiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
24 Oct 2021 – Last June’s leaks of the next IPCC report could pave the way for the most transcendental political act, on an international scale, at least since the end of WWII. If you think this may be a bit of an exaggeration, then please take a minute to consider what will happen once the official version of this report is published.
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1901-1934: “Yankee Imperialism” in Latin America
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
On 20 Jun 1898, as U.S. troops prepared to land in Cuba to “pacify” the island, Assist. Sec. State Francis Loomis writing to his boss, Sec. State William Day, declared, “I think it our destiny to control more or less directly most all of the Latin American countries.” One means to this end was economic domination. “It is possible to attain commercial ascendancy in them in much the same way that England does in China, by lending them money and administering their revenues.”
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Grabbed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
22 Oct 2021 – Imagine that the land your family has worked for generations is suddenly stripped away from you, purchased by wealthy companies or governments to produce food, bio-fuels or simply as a profitable investment for far away people. Land grabbing is the purchase or lease of large tracts of fertile land by public or private entities. It involves millions of hectares, equivalent to an area as big as Spain, and it continues to spread relentlessly.
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Nelson Mandela’s Wisdom
Nelson Mandela – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
An Inspiring Message in 3 min.
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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
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Outgoing U.N. Envoy Says Myanmar Has Spiraled into Civil War
Michelle Nichols | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – Myanmar has spiraled into civil war following a military coup, the outgoing U.N. special envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, said today, warning that the chance to return to democracy is disappearing and signaling that further targeted sanctions could be helpful.
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Prensa Latina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021 – A people’s court here today condemned the United States for war crimes committed in the name of the fight against terrorism, and demanded the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The symbolic hearing was organised a week before the British judiciary hears an appeal by US prosecutors to extradite the Australian journalist.
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[Preview] Staged Terrorism: The Evidence
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
17 Oct 2021 – SPR will soon be phasing in its long-awaited series on state-run and staged terrorism. The coronavirus might well be part of that series. Important: If you are not interested in this topic, or if you are younger than 16, or if you are currently in a state of anxiety or depression, please consider not reading this series. On the other hand, if you are a medical professional, the topic might be of great interest to you.
→ read full articleEvidently the West Cannot Live without Enemy Images–Go See a Shrink so We Shall All Live in Peace
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
I’m 70 now and all my life I’ve heard that the Russians would make a surprise attack and within 48 hours occupy the Eiffel Tower. We in the West were weak, or would be in five years, if we did not invest more in ”defence”. Well, these damn Russians haven’t come yet–another reason we shouldn’t trust them, I assume!
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Assange: 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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The Long Haitian Revolution
Pierre Labossiere, Margaret Prescod and Camila Valle | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.” —C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins
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White Jasmine
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
A quatrain. The star jasmine is from my garden.
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Iraq/Afghanistan: Same Fate?
Kilian Bello | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
In February 2020, an agreement by the Trump administration and the Taliban was signed in Doha, Qatar, for complete withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan in May 2021.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2021 a Most Ig-Nobel Decision: Assange Was the Journalist Entitled to Win
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Having been studying the topic since 2007, I found the 2021 NPP most disgraceful. The Norwegian committee was again making its own prize, again it ignored the peace vision of Alfred Nobel and the legally binding intention of his testament.
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The Horror – Reflecting on the Massacre of 1,428 Dolphins on the Faroe Islands
Astrid Fuchs | Whale and Dolphin Conservation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Astrid Fuchs has worked to try to end the hunts for more than 10 years. She reflects on the reasons the hunts continue and why it’s so hard to find a way to stop them.
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Cultures
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Bacteria…
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One Reason That I Am Determined to Spread Spiritual Knowledge
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
When you see the people of the world who are troubled or confused by the violence, the political upheavals, the poverty, or the lack of unity on this planet, it’s natural to want to do something about it.
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The International Crisis Group Report on Burma/Myanmar–An Analysis
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
22 Oct 2021 – Over the nearly 20 years, I have generally viewed ICG’s reports as little more than polished, but low quality, slanted analyses of Myanmar affairs, and have written extensively and critically on ICG’s policy briefs. However, 20 Oct 2021 ICG policy brief is an empirically grounded prognosis – the Deadly Stalemate in Post-Coup Myanmar.
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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?
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The Deadly Stalemate in Post-coup Myanmar
International Crisis Group - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – World attention to Myanmar is waning, despite the deepening impasse between the junta and resistance forces. Major powers should back the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in reinvigorated efforts to relieve the suffering of people facing poverty and disease as well as regime repression.
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The 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.
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Pattern of 14-Foldness as an Implicit Organizing Principle for Governance?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – The case for the following search of web resources follows from two similar investigations undertaken previously. Web searches were undertaken to determine the extent to which a 14-fold pattern was used to organize information of relevance to any form of governance. A key question is how the individual results are to be interpreted.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ celebrates his 91st birthday. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHAN!
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Netflix to Launch WikiLeaks Smear Job Three Days Before Assange Court Date
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
14 Oct 2021 – Netflix will begin streaming a brazen hatchet job on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for its U.S. subscribers on October 24th, just three days prior to a significant court date in Assange’s fight against extradition from the UK to the United States on October 27th.
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The Story of Cap and Trade
Annie Leonard | The Story of Stuff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution discussed at the Copenhagen 2009 UN Climate Change Conference. The energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme; the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals.
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Abandoning Yemen
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – Why is the UN Human Rights Council Silencing Yemeni Human Rights Victims? – Politicizing UN agencies and procedures makes it all the more difficult for people making inquiries to establish trusting relationships with people whose rights should be upheld by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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The Rebranding of Antisemitism after the Holocaust
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – This post is concerned with the legacy of the Holocaust as providing antisemitism as a policy tool exploited by Israel and Zionist activists to intensify Palestinian suffering and deflect attention from Israeli wrongdoing. My main contention is that the Holocaust experience accentuated the tendencies of the Zionist movement to be opportunistic in the course of its long effort to attain, little by little, its territorial and ideological goals.
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Tyrants of the Nanny State: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the so-called name of the national good by an elite class of governmental and corporate officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions. We, the middling classes, are not so fortunate.
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The Moon and the Stars
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
A Poem on our Cosmos
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The Nobel Peace Prize Should Have Gone to Julian Assange
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – To some extent one must applaud the choice of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists who have dared to defy government pressure. Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov certainly merit the distinction. But there is another journalist who is even more deserving and his recognition would have contributed far more to the cause of world peace. That is Julian Assange.
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Washington Kidnaps a ‘Fugitive’ Ambassador– State Terrorism?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
17 Oct 2021 – The US Has Placed Itself in Charge Over Which Nations Get to Eat – The propaganda multiplier news agencies AP and AFP have both informed their readers that “fugitive businessman” Special Envoy and Ambassador to the African Union for Venezuela Alex Saab has been extradited to the United States.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 241,5M -Dead: 4,9M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
On 18 Oct 2021 (12pm GMT):
Total Cases: 241,546,207
Deaths: 4,915,687
Active: 17,856,372
Recovered: 218,774,148
Cases Closed: 223,689,835
Total Vaccinated: 3,749,474,527
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
Fantasies
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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The Statelessness Pandemic
Laura van Waas and Natalie Brinham | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
15 Oct 2021 – Over time, denaturalization has rightly come to be seen as a violation of human rights. But, as recent histories of the problem show, the international community still faces the same conundrum that it did a century ago, when droves of newly stateless people appealed to it for protection. At least 15 million people today are stateless, and millions more are threatened with national exclusion. The issue of statelessness thus demands urgent attention, as do works of history that shed light on the problem.
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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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(Italiano) Una Costituzione della Terra
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
15 Ottobre 2021 – Il Centro Studi Sereno Regis, insieme ad altre realtà cittadine per la pace, promuove e ospita questo incontro “Per una Costituzione della Terra–Festival della Nonviolenza” 20 ottobre 2021.
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Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Death Knell for Planet Earth: Is Humankind Embracing a Greater Evil?
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(Italiano) L’utilizzo di combustibili fossili deve cessare
John Scales Avery | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
15 Ottobre 2021 – Il rapporto di 4.000 pagine del Comitato Internazionale sul Cambiamento Climatico afferma che “Abbiamo necessità di un cambiamento trasformativo che agisca sui processi e i comportamenti a tutti i livelli: individuale, comunitario, aziendale, istituzionale e governativo. Dobbiamo ridefinire il nostro modo di vivere e i consumi”.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
UN Told Failure to Deal with Diversity Is Root Cause of Wars
Edith M. Lederer | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
One by one, South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki listed African countries Tuesday [12 Oct] where the failure to deal with diversity was a root cause of conflict, from the Biafran war in Nigeria in the late 1960s to the current clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. He also cited “the centrality of failure properly to manage diversity” in the conflicts in Congo, Burundi, Ivory Coast and Sudan.
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Free Julian Assange: The Belmarsh Tribunal Comes to London
Progressive International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
13 Oct 2021 – Inspired by the famous Russell-Sartre people’s tribunal, the Belmarsh Tribunal places the War on Terror on trial and holds the US government accountable for its war crimes. It is named for the London prison that has held Assange for the last two years as he faces extradition to the US, which plotted his assassination.
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A Zen Koan on Columbus Day
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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(Norwegian – Norsk) Det andre Afghanistan
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Krigen i Afghanistan har kostet Norge mer enn 20 milliarder kroner i militær og sivil bistand fra årsskiftet 2001/2002 til utgangen av april 2021. Hele 9 000 norske soldater tjenestegjorde i landet, hvorav ti ble drept. Forfatteren kommenterer forholdene i dette fattige, krigsherjede landet.
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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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Peace Education for Good Governance and Nonviolence
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Here I would like to explain about the right kind of education that is peace education. And this man-making education is missing everywhere.
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The Final Solution. Full Digitization. “The QR Codification of the World”
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – How come, it hasn’t occurred to everyone yet, that there is something wrong? Badly wrong. Can it be that it is simply cognitive dissonance? You know that there is something horribly wrong, but your comfort zone doesn’t allow you to admit it? That was the case in the Third Reich – that brought forward Hitler’s tyranny. The rest is history.
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Thomas Wolfe on Ambition, Gratitude, and the True Measure of Success, in Letters to His Mother
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
“It is not all bad, but it is not all good, it is not all ugly, but it is not all beautiful, it is life, life, life — the only thing that matters.”
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Goodbye, Columbus? Here’s What Indigenous Peoples’ Day Means to Native Americans
Emma Bowman | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
President Biden issued a proclamation on Friday [8 Oct] to observe this Oct. 11 as a day to honor Native Americans, their resilience and their contributions to American society even as they faced assimilation, discrimination and genocide. The move shifts focus from Columbus Day, the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus.
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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.
Parting Thoughts from a Humanitarian Reporter
Ben Parker | The New Humanitarian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
8 Oct 2021 – ‘Reporting on the aid industry can lurch between boosting or bashing – and not much in between.’ Co-founder, former CEO and long-time editor Ben Parker is leaving The New Humanitarian. Here are his reflections on years of reporting on the aid industry.
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Are You Awake?
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Victimization, persecution, corruption, detestation,
Deforestation, degradation, alienation.
Are you awake? Governed by distractions,
Make a distinction, to stop these factions.
World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 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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One Fine Day (Music Video of the Week)
David Byrne and Brooklyn Youth Chorus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Performed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus, David Byrne and Mauro Refosco at the National Sawdust 2019 Spring Gala
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Understand the GOP Bible
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
And Jesus said…
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
My wife keeps complaining I never listen to her — or something like that. ** “Why do you answer every question with another question?” “What’s wrong with that?”
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(Português) O Grande Engodo: O Capitalismo Verde
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 outubro 2021 – Os grandes mega capitais estão reunindo centenas de economistas e politólogos documentados no The Economist (principais acionistas: as famílias Rothschild e Agnelli), sob o título:”O futuro que nos espera”. Se lemos os seus 20 pontos ficamos estarrecidos: apresentam um projeto onde só eles entram, deixando fora o resto da humanidade controlada por uma inteligência artificial destinada a desarmar e liquidar qualquer reação em contrário.
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Covid: Conscientious Resignation of Police Officer in Australia
Krystle Mitchell and Police for Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – Following the conscientious resignation of Acting Senior Sergeant Krystle Mitchell of the Victoria Police in Australia, the international network Police for Freedom has issued a statement. Krystle had served for 16 years and has recently resigned over a matter of conscience in relation to policing of the Covid-19 restrictions.
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The Rehearsal Is Over
Charles Eisenstein | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
10 Oct 2021 – A friend wrote me about her dilemma. She owns a company employing hundreds of people and is a staunch critic of that-which-shall-not-be-named. She said she has been trying to fly under the radar until sanity is restored, but with looming mandates for large employers, the radar will soon turn on her. What will she do? I will share with you the inner monologue that her note provoked in me.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Given today´s economic science and common sense assume, jobs for everybody, paid for by the products the employees contribute to making, will never happen. There will never be enough employers finding it profitable to hire workers and pay them well to create sustainable good jobs for everyone who needs one.
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Bolsonaro Wants to Privatize Brazil’s State-Owned Petrobras
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
15 Oct 2021 – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro declared yesterday that he wants to privatize state-owned Petrobras as he authorized the entry of US military forces for exercises next month.
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