Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Syria Deception: The Public Has Been Hoodwinked Yet Again into Supporting a Criminal War of Aggression—and One That Has Been Effectively Lost
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – United States warmakers have become so skilled at propaganda that not only can they wage a war of aggression without arousing protest; they can also compel liberals to denounce peace activists using language reminiscent of the McCarthy era. Take the case of Syria. The people and groups one would normally count on to oppose wars have been the ones largely defending it.
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Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Unity
Tricontinental - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
5 Jul 2021 – How do you visualise the footprint of Empire? The images in this dossier map some of AFRICOM’s military bases on the African continent – both ‘enduring’ and ‘non-enduring’, as they are officially called. The satellite photos were gathered by data artist Josh Begley, who led a mapping project to answer the question: ‘how do you measure a military footprint?’
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Key Witness Admits Lying about Julian Assange–a Major Blow to U.S. Extradition Case–yet Western Media Ignores This Development
Ron Ridenour | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
12 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Former WikiLeaks volunteer, who became an FBI informant for $5,000, says he fabricated important parts of the accusations in the U.S. indictment.
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US Vaccine-Related Deaths Increasing Rapidly
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021 – The latest weekly US VAERS update added a shocking 2,083 post-vaccination deaths – by far the largest weekly increase to date – raising the total of reported post-vaccination deaths to 9,048.
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Letting Filthy Private Jets Go Tax-Free Shows How the EU Prioritises the Mega-Rich Over the Masses
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – Despite being hugely damaging for the environment, private planes operated by mi(bi)llionaires are to be given carbon tax exemption by hypocritical bureaucrats who tirelessly push a green agenda. It’s Brussels hypocrisy at its finest.
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Three Poems on Grief
Emily Dickinson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
I Measure Every Grief I Meet (1862)
The Looking Back on Grief (1862)
Grief Is a Mouse (1863)
Haiti in Upheaval: President Moïse Assassinated at Home
Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home Wednesday [7 Jul], with police killing four suspects and arresting two others hours later amid growing chaos in a country already enduring gang violence and protests of his increasingly authoritarian rule.
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The Numbers Game
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Numbers or numerals are very important in our lives
Or should we say even before we can draw a line
What Is Wrong With the “Humanitarian Crossing” into Syria?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – There are important facts which western media stories typically leave out or distort. Here are some reasons why the Bab al Hawa border crossing should NOT be renewed. [On 9 Jul the UN Security Council unanimously agreed to a one year extension of the Bab al Hawa crossing. The problems outlined in this article remain true. — RS]
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Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
6 Jul 2021 – Daniel E. Hale, a former Air Force analyst who blew the whistle on the consequences of drone warfare, will appear for sentencing on 27 July. The whistleblower acted on behalf of the public’s right to know what is being done in its name.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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How Not to Cover Critical Race Theory
Julie Hollar | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Fox News and its conservative media allies have turned white rage onto a more actionable target: critical race theory. Though the theory is a longstanding and specific academic lens for understanding systemic racism, the right has transformed it into a catchall for anything that encourages talking about and addressing racism.
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science/technology gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Isaac Asimov (2 Jan 1920 – 6 Apr 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Asimov wrote hard science fiction.
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(Italiano) Teoria critica della razza: osservazioni e lezioni apprese
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Per risolvere il conflitto fra propugnatori e oppositori della Teoria Critica sulla Razza, perciò pare che bisogni procedere in due fasi. La prima immediata e la seconda più a lungo termine. Subito, la teoria dev’essere riformulata in termini comprensibili ai non-accademici chiarendo che il nodo della teoria non è condannare i bianchi per la loro razza o eredità culturale oppure impancarsi a giudizio finale sull’America. Si tratta invece di dimostrare le fonti strutturali delle idee e prassi più benefiche e più distruttive dell’America, e la necessitàdi cambiamenti risoluti in un sistema che genera tali profonde contraddizioni.
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An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.
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(Français) L’acte d’accusation contre Assange repose sur le faux témoignage d’un sociopathe avéré
Caitlin Johnstone | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
28 Juin 2021 – C’est une bombe dans l’affaire Assange. Pour faire extrader le fondateur de WikiLeaks, le gouvernement US l’a notamment accusé de piratage. Or, le témoin-clé de cette accusation vient de retourner sa veste dans un journal islandais. Pire, le témoin en question serait une taupe rémunérée du FBI qui avait été reconnu coupable d’abus sexuels sur mineurs et de détournement de fonds. Il admet maintenant avoir menti. Pour Edward Snowden, cette révélation marque la fin de l’affaire Assange.
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Aloha & Mahalo Haunani-Kay Trask! RIP
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Haunani-Kay Trask, Hawaiian scholar and activist, died in the morning of 3 Jul 2021 on Oahu, Honolulu. She was 71. Tenured as a professor for more than 30 years at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Trask worked in co-founding the contemporary field of Hawaiian Studies.
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U.S. Mass Murder by Economic Warfare Mocks the UN and the Teachings of Jesus
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – The United Nations has not been able to protect socialist countries in Latin America from economic warfare by the U.S. At its worst such aggression could be considered to be indirect mass murder — some say genocide. Cuba and Venezuela have been prime targets.
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Believe Your Eyes: Becoming a Snitch–If You See Something, Say Something
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021 – The reality of snitching on others has been around for a long time. Just think Adolf Hitler’s or Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian police states where free thought and free speech was a punishable crime against the state. The same thing happened in every war that America has ever entered. The corporate propaganda machinery behind all those wars had their ways to ferret out dissenters.
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Declaration of the Crime of Apartheid: Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
9 Jul 2021 – The Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine below is an initiative endorsed by scholars and artists worldwide. Please distribute widely as there is a campaign underway to reach 1,000 signatures. List of the 773 signatories (last update : 8 Jul 2021)
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World Economic Forum Announces Creation of Orwellian ‘Global Coalition for Digital Safety’
Leo Hohmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – The World Economic Forum announced June 29 it will initiate a new “public-private partnership” with Big Tech and governments around the world to identify and uproot all opinions from the Internet that it considers “harmful.” The WEF is one of those elitist organizations that wields enormous influence over the elected leaders of Western nations but which almost nobody in the general population has heard of.
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Fox News’ Anti-Vaccination Hysteria Has Reached a Disturbing New Level
Ryan Bort | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
9 Jul 2021 – Right-wing media is melting down over President Biden’s push to … inoculate people against a virus that has killed more than 600,000 Americans.
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US Imperialism’s Criminal Debacle in Afghanistan
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – US troops pulled out of the sprawling Bagram Air Base at three in the morning last Friday [2 Jul], without notifying the Afghan government forces meant to replace them, and cutting off the power on the way out, an act that triggered an invasion of the base by a small army of looters. This ignoble retreat is a fitting symbol of the debacle wrought by 20 years of US war and occupation in Afghanistan.
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Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Strategically Resisting the New Dark Age: The 7 Days Campaign to Resist ‘The Great Reset’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – Measured by the Christian calendar, the period of about 500 years from the fall of the Roman Empire until the end of the first millennium was a time characterized by economic, intellectual and cultural decline in the European Christian world. In retrospect, it is now referred to as ‘the Dark Age’, even as other cultures, including that of Islam but those in other parts of the world too, thrived during this period.
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First Flight
RD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
I don’t think I’m ready for that.
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Death of Mohammed Yusuf Khan, India Made Him into an Icon: Dilip Kumar
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
The Odyssey of a Peshwarian into a Global Cinematic Giant
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The Failure of “Vaccine Passports”
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
5 Jul 2021 – With vaccine effectiveness down to just 60%, the case for “vaccine passports” implodes.
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Biden’s Failure to End Trump’s War on Cuba Is Threatening Lives
Danny Glover | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Imagine a country developing and producing Covid-19 vaccines enough to cover its entire population, but being unable to inoculate everyone because of a syringe shortage. Cuba has already vaccinated about 2 of its 11 million people, and hopes to have 70 percent of the population vaccinated by August. Yet, because of the 60-year US embargo the country is facing a shortage of millions of syringes. Biden promised to return to Obama’s policies of engagement with Cuba, but the embargo and other Trump-era restrictions remain in place.
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Assange Turns 50 in Jail–A Reminder of a Western Democracy Paradox He Exposed: Non-Freedom Gives a Sense of Freedom
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Today, WikiLeaks co-founder Assange is celebrating his 50th birthday, being held at the Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London as Washington seeks his extradition to the US, where he could be jailed for up to 175 years if found guilty. That reminds us of the dark aspects of the ‘Land of the Free’ and most of Western democracies.
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Settlers, Not Immigrants
Haunani-Kay Trask – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Settlers, not immigrants,
from America, from Asia.
Come to settle, to take.
To take from the Native
that which is Native:
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
“This oration stands with the most inspirational addresses in US history. The erudition, eloquence, and elocution are unmatched. Douglass’ words should bring shame and guilt to those zealots who deny the importance and essential inclusion of Critical Race Theory in US education as it is the authentic history of the USA.”
— Anthony Marsella, Ph.D. – Member of TRANSCEND
A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout after Key Witness against Assange Admits Lying
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – A fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again. A major witness in the US case against Julian Assange has just admitted fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder. These dramatic revelations emerged in an extensive article published on 26 June in Stundin, an Icelandic newspaper.
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Dangerous US NATO Expansion in Norway
GNspace4peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jun 2021 – In recent years, the US and NATO have been militarizing the Arctic through Norway as a means to confront Russia. This militarization is increasing tensions between nuclear-armed nations. As the Arctic melts away, these powerful nations are competing for dominance in the region by establishing new routes, building new military bases and constructing new radars, as less efforts are placed on diplomacy.
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Lisbon Court Rules Only 0.9% of ‘Verified Cases’ Died of COVID, Numbering 152, Not 17,000 Claimed
Mordechai Sones | America's Frontline Doctors - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
23 Jun 2021 – Following a citizen’s petition, a Lisbon court was forced to provide verified COVID-19 mortality data. According to the ruling, the number of verified deaths from Jan 2020 to Apr 2021 is only 152, not about 17,000 as claimed by government ministries.
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Chris Hedges Speaks on ‘American Sadism’ (video)
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Chris Hedges gave this talk on American Sadism at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on Sunday June 27.
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Governance of Pandemic Response by Artificial Intelligence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Control of Human Agents Unconscious of AI-Elaboration of Communication Scripts?
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‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Jul 12-19 Issue – Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen sat for a chat with The Nation. Born in Vietnam and raised in the United States, where his family was resettled as refugees, Nguyen has become an essential literary voice—at once an eloquent champion of the displaced and a trenchant critic of empire.
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Choosing a Material or Spiritual Lifestyle–or a Balance of Both
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Quite often I get questions from young people who may be in college or starting out in their career, regarding the decision of whether they should take up a serious spiritual lifestyle, or remain engaged in material pursuits, such as education, career, family, etc. Often times they are worried that their family will not understand or will wonder what will become of them if they become overly spiritual. Or the family may even become overly upset if they show too much spiritual inclination.
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Haiku on War and Peace
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
8:15 a.m.
August 6, 1945 —
frozen in time
Sadako Peace Day —
we gather to remember
the innocent children
The Astronaut
Readers’ Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Claustrophobic
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Illusions of Empire: Amartya Sen on What British Rule Really Did to India
Amartya Sen | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Sen’s counter-history of the institutionalized elite’s delusion that the British Raj was better than French rule, building liberal institutions for the colonized, etc. As a tyrannical blood-sucking alien ruler, Britain did nothing good for the colonized out of the goodness of its heart. Many of the arguments defending the Raj are based on serious misconceptions about India’s past, imperialism and history itself.
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The Mirror of Enigmas: Chance, the Universe, and the Pale Blues of Knowing Who We Are
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
“There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who s/he is.” It takes a great sobriety of spirit to know your own depths–and your limits. It takes a special grandeur of spirit to know the limits of your self-knowledge.
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U.S. Military: Greatest Polluter on the Planet!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – The U.S. Military is the largest consumer of oil and largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the world. In the name of “defense” the U.S. military is carbon bombing the planet and countries all around the world, including munitions sites this week in Syria and Iraq.
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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates’ Book Is Rubbish!
Russell Brand | Under the Skin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
I spoke with Indian scholar, food sovereignty advocate and environmental activist #VandanaShiva. She speaks about #BillGates’ book and the colonisation of land and food production. However, she provides us with hopeful and powerful words of advice that might help us challenge these Tech Giants and monopolies.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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Scientific American Retracted Pro-Palestine Article without Any Factual Errors
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – After right-wing outrage, the esteemed journal removed an opinion piece expressing solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli bombardment.
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Critical Race Theory: What It Is and What It Isn’t
David Miguel Gray | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor and central figure in critical race theory, said that it “just says, let’s pay attention to what has happened in this country, and how it is continuing to create differential outcomes. … Critical Race Theory … is more patriotic than those who are opposed to it because … we believe in the promises of equality.”
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Native Hawaiian Educator and Activist Haunani-Kay Trask Dies
Anita Hofschneider | Honolulu Civil Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Haunani-Kay Trask, indigenous poet, author, scholar and teacher, a staunch advocate for her Native Hawaiian community, died in Honolulu today at age 71. Trask was known for her powerful speaking and persistent advocacy, her Hawaiian nationalism, and her writings. “We are not American!” she told a crowd on the 100th anniversary of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. “We will die as Hawaiians, we will never be Americans!” RIP
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(Italiano) Pico Fidel: partigiani e ribelli cubani
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
2 Luglio 2021 – “Nella mattinata di sabato 25 novembre 2017, un gruppo di appassionati della montagna e alpinisti torinesi, integrati da giovani della “Brigada Gino Done” e dell’Agenzia per l’interscambio culturale ed economico con Cuba da attivisti del “Circolo Valle Susa dell’Associazione di Amicizia Italia – Cuba”, insieme all’ambasciata di Cuba in Italia si sono inerpicati dal Col del Lys verso la cima del Monte Arpone a 1600 metri di altitudine.
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U.S. Wargames in Nordic Region Aimed at Moscow
Agneta Norberg | Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – The US & NATO are rapidly developing a military encirclement of Russia with heavy emphasis on the Nordic region – the High North. It is a Cuban-missile crisis in reverse. Few in the west know anything about it.
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Yoga Can Be Done by Well-Fed
Surya Nath Prasad and Mira Purn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
A Dialogue between Surya Nath Prasad and Mira Purn on International Day of Yoga, 21 June
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UN Security Council: Key Reform for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – The key is the reform of the United Nations Security Council, which at the present time is controlled by the nuclear powers and unable to act in the Middle East because of alliances with the State of Israel. What we have now is not promoting a culture of peace. What we need is radical change, and the UNSC is a key point to be changed.
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Glyphosate’s Toxic Legacy Exposed: Why This Weedkiller Should Be Banned
Stephanie Seneff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
30 Jun 2021 – When it comes to Monsanto’s controversial herbicide, both the mainstream scientific community and our regulatory establishments have failed us.
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NYTimes Op-Ed Denounces Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden on 50th Anniversary of Publishing the Pentagon Papers
Barbara Koeppel | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – This past June 13th, The New York Times celebrated the 50th anniversary of its publishing the Pentagon Papers. In a special section, “Uncovering the Secret History of the Vietnam War,” it told how a team of 50 reporters, researchers and editors worked on the story for nearly four months, holed up in a “whole group of suites” at a New York City Hilton Hotel—to ensure their secrecy.
→ read full articleApproaching Iran: The Flaws of Imperial Diplomacy in the Middle East
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
28 Jun 2021 – Biden pledged as a candidate to restore JCPOA, but has so far shown only a limited commitment to rejoin the earlier agreement, and seems to be insisting on a new agreement that is more restrictive of Iran’s nuclear program and its regional political activity. The U.S. Government seems to forget that it was its actions that led to the breakdown of the agreement.
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Get back to work!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Why everyone should return to the office now.
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My Lovely Cave
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
This is the Cave that I am living in
This is the Cave I invite you to come within
Changing Ourselves
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Changing others? Changing ourselves! Is it possible to have revolutionary change such as the one needed to change course on climate change or corruption of our political systems? Does that require drastic behavioral change by many individuals ill-structure to do so? Sometimes I think like that and then sometimes I do see drastic changes in individuals that are amazing.
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“Governments are vassals of Bankism and Military Capitalism, the Mafia that controls human affairs through Cyber-information manipulation.”
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Antonio C.S. Rosa, born 1946, is founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS (from 2008), an assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung at the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, and recipient of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s 2017 Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice. He is on the Global Advisory Board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and completed his B.A., M.A., and graduate Ph.D. work in the fields of Communication-Journalism and Political Science-Peace Studies/International Relations at the University of Hawai’i. Originally from Brazil, he lives presently in Porto, Portugal. Antonio was educated in the USA where he lived for 20 years; in Europe-India since 1994.
→ read full articleThe Battle over Critical Race Theory Heats Up: Observations and Lessons Learned
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
To resolve the conflict between the advocates and opponents of Critical Race Theory, it seems that two steps need to be taken, one immediate and the second more long term. Immediately, the theory needs to be restated in terms understandable to non-academics that make it clear that the point of the theory is not to condemn white people because of their race or cultural heritage or to sit in final judgment on America. It is to demonstrate the structural sources of America’s most beneficial and most destructive ideas and practices, and the need for thoroughgoing changes in a system that generates such deep contradictions.
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The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party
Walden Bello | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation. Reflecting on the meaning of the 100th anniversary on 1 Jul 2021 of one of the most important institutions of our time, the Chinese Communist Party, the first thing that entered my head was that the present does change the significance of the past.
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Art versus Drones
Kathy Kelly | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – An exhibit seeks to raise public awareness of the anonymous killing machines. People in many parts of the world can’t speak up. Comparatively, we don’t face torture or death for protesting. We can tell the stories of the people being killed now by our drones, or watching the skies in terror of them.
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Said the Enchantress
Dr Usha Roopnarain - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Don’t open the cupboard, she said to me.
There’s something I don’t want you to see.
Special potions and pills for him.
Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – This is an edited text from the 30 Jun 2021 book launch of Timothy Brennan’s ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ (2021), under the auspices of the Cambridge Centre of Palestinian Studies and moderated by its director, Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool.
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COVID World Data: 184,6M Total; 3,9M Dead; Survival Rate 99.9%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
On 5 Jul 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 184,667,799
Deaths: 3,995,265
Percentage Dead: 0.02%
Survival Rate 99.9%
Active: 11,681,411
Recovered: 168,991,123
Cases Closed: 172,986,388
Total Vaccinated: 1,897,474,080
Dr Edward Jenner, the Father of Vaccination, in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Challenges of Fighting Smallpox and SARS Cov-2 Remain Unchanged
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(Italiano) Armamenti nucleari: scelta suicida per l’umanità e l’ambiente?
Elena Camino e Paolo Candelari | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
30 Giugno 2021 – La bomba atomica che colpì Hiroshima era contenuta in un involucro in acciaio lungo di 3 metri x 70 cm, e pesava circa 4,4 tonnellate. Fu trasportata con un grande aereo, un bombardiere modello Boeing B-29 Superfortress, fu sganciata sulla città ed esplose a circa 600 metri dal suolo. I morti immediati furono circa 80.000, altri morirono nei giorni successivi, e molto altri ancora negli anni.
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China Pulls Itself Out of Poverty 100 Years into Its Revolution
Vijay Prashad and John Ross | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – On 25 Feb China’s President Xi Jinping announced that his country of 1.4 billion people had pulled them out of poverty as it is defined internationally. Since 1981, 853 million Chinese have lifted themselves out of poverty thanks to large-scale interventions from the Chinese state and the Communist Party; according to the data of the World Bank, three out of four people worldwide who were lifted out of poverty live in China.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
What Went Right This Week: A Milestone for Lab-Grown Meat, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 -The world’s first lab-grown meat factory opened, an ‘extinct’ mouse reappeared, and the UK brought forward plans to phase out coal, plus the week’s other positive news.
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The Chinese Miracle, Revisited
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Chinese Communist Party’s centennial takes place on 1 July at the heart of an incandescent geopolitical equation. China, the emerging superpower, is back to the global prominence it enjoyed throughout centuries of recorded history, while the declining Hegemon is paralyzed by the “existential challenge” posed to its fleeting, unilateral dominance.
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Hawaiʻi 78’ (Music Video of the Week) [Must Watch]
Israel 'IZ' Kamakawiwo'ole | Kokua Films Hawaii – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
44 years ago, history was about to be made ~~ Click on Watch on YouTube
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What Is Critical Race Theory?
Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
And why are racists afraid of it? The culture of settler-colonial peoples coming from across the world and overpowering the original inhabitants of a territory to form a state around themselves has enduring and insurmountable maladies and misanthropies. They act as the native inhabitants of the lands they violently conquered and brand those who come after them as “immigrants”.
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Nikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with the Serbian scientist and his path-breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).
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Myanmar’s Twin Curse of Murderous Military and Cultist Opposition
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – The last few days saw heated debates and name-calling between national minority activists who are completely fed up with the ethnic majoritarian colonial mentality, and the political practices of majoritarian democrats who treat Aung San Suu Kyi’s words like Holy Scripture. This is her lasting gift to Myanmar and her dark legacy from which society will reel for decades.
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Conspiracy: Theory and Practice
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Toward a Taxonomy of Conspiracies – The truest conspiracies meet with the least opposition. Conspiracy practices — the methods by which true conspiracies such as gerrymandering, or the debt industry, or mass surveillance are realized — are almost always overshadowed by conspiracy theories: those malevolent falsehoods that in aggregate can erode civic confidence in the existence of anything certain or verifiable. In my life, I’ve had enough of both the practice and the theory.
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(Castellano) Brasil: El Desenmascaramiento de un Gobierno Embustero Genocida Y Corrupto
Fernando De la Cuadra | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 juin 2021 – En las últimas semanas, el gobierno Bolsonaro viene acumulando evidencias de corrupción en diversos ámbitos del quehacer nacional. De hecho, el ministro de (la destrucción del) medioambiente, Ricardo Salles, tuvo que renunciar debido a los procesos por los que está siendo sometido en la justicia por favorecimiento ilícito y por la exportación irregular de maderas a Estados Unidos y Europa.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1er juillet 2021 – La clé est la réforme du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies, qui est actuellement contrôlé par les puissances nucléaires et incapable d’agir au Moyen-Orient en raison d’alliances avec l’État d’Israël. Ce que nous avons maintenant, ce n’est pas la promotion d’une culture de paix. Ce dont nous avons besoin, c’est d’un changement radical, et le CSNU est un point clé à changer.
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Beyond Passive Victims and Agentic Survivors: Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Anne-Kathrin Kreft and Philipp Schulz | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
3 Apr 2021 – The words of a woman living in Colombia who was raped by armed actors; and of a male survivor of sexual violence from Uganda, who was raped by Ugandan government soldiers. Today both are local activists working closely with victim-survivors of (conflict-related) sexual violence. In Colombia the word ‘victim’ is widely used whereas in Uganda ‘survivor’ is the preferred term.
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Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
22 Jun 2021 – Think about it: if the suppression is happening in your own home, if you’re suppressing your own speech, who will know? And how can you ever call for help?
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Transcending War: Everyone Wins
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
23 Jun 2021 – When will we as a nation admit it? Barbara Lee was right. She was the only member of Congress to vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force back in 2001, following the 9/11 disaster, which allowed George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan. A year later she voted against a second AUMF that launched the invasion of Iraq and Bush’s alleged Global War on Terror, a.k.a., our endless war to pummel evil into dust and sweep it out of the universe.
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‘7 Days Campaign to Resist The Great Reset’ Now Launched
Robert J. Burrowes & Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
‘We Are Human We Are Free’ announces the launch of the ‘7 Days Campaign to Resist The Great Reset’. This worldwide nonviolent resistance movement is a strategy to resist the achievement of elite control through implementation of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’.
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The USA Has Very Little to Gain by Overdemonizing China
Michael E. O’Hanlon | The Brookings Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
The recent bipartisan push in the United States to be tough on China seems to be confirming the adage: If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing. While the Biden administration suggests that we compete against Beijing in some realms, cooperate with it in others and confront the Chinese where we must, Washington seems all too willing to overemphasize this last leg of the policy triad.
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry (29 Jun 1900 – 31 Jul 1944): Solitude and Solidarity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Saint Ex’s style was influenced by Frederic Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra which he had read. However, the spirit is much closer to Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. His outlook was basically that of the Stoics: the common nature of all humans whatever the cultural differences, harmony with Nature, and calm in the face of danger.
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Brazil: Bolsonaro Government Has Brought Death to Indigenous People
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
28 Jun 2021 – The contempt that the current president shows for indigenous peoples is notorious. He considers them sub-people and in 2018 stated quite clearly: “Our project for the Índios is to make them equal to us”. And said further: “There is not going to be a centimeter demarcated for indigenous reserve or for quilombolas”.
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Culture as Combat: Palestinian Voices
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Festivals, Museums and Awards – In stirring opening remarks at the international 2021 mega-conference, Palestine Writes, Susan Abulhawa asserts that “… this festival is meant to expand Palestine’s cultural imprint in the world.”
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
22 Jun 2021 – Given the risks of covid vaccines, health authorities may want to consider the possibility of voluntary, medically supervised viral challenges in low-risk children and young adults.
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A Tear and a Smile
Khalil Gibran – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart
For the joys of the multitude.
Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country- Hollywood in South Africa: 1951 and Bollywood Has Come As Well
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
The Challenges of Filming in Different Eras and Regimes
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US Blocks Websites Linked to Iranian Government
FRANCE 24/AFP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
23 Jun 2021 – US law enforcement seized the websites of two Iranian state-controlled news groups, Press TV and Al-Alam, and of the Al-Masirah TV channel of Yemen’s Huthis, statements posted on the websites showed Tuesday [22 Jun].
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Have We Learned Nothing? Biden Backs Mass Murder in the Middle East
Connor Freeman | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
18 Jun 2021 – The Gaza Strip, measures only 25 miles long and five miles wide. It is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Since 2007, Israel has imposed a full blockade on Gaza from the air, land, and sea. The two million Palestinians living there are trapped in an open air prison where food, potable water, electricity, medicine, building materials, etc. are severely restricted by the Israeli authorities.
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It’s Apartheid, Say Israeli Ambassadors to South Africa
Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel | GroundUp - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
8 Jun 2021 – During our careers in the foreign service, we both served as Israel’s ambassador to South Africa. In this position, we learned firsthand about the reality of apartheid and the horrors it inflicted. But more than that – the experience and understanding we gained in South Africa helped us to understand the reality at home.
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G-7 Aftermath: Western Leaders in Search of New Animosities
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – Has civilization taught us to be friendlier towards one another? Asked Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher and intellectual. The G-7 used to be G-8 inclusive of Russia, but it shrunk to being the “West and America First” and anything else is a matter of opinion to be relevant for global peace and harmony.
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What Went Right This Week: England’s New Beauty Spots, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – England was promised four new areas of outstanding natural beauty, Wales shelved plans to build more roads, and Guinea stamped out Ebola, plus the week’s other positive news.
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How Biden Helped Hardliner Raisi Win Iran Election
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
23 Jun 2021 – How President Biden’s failure to quickly rejoin the nuclear agreement with Iran helped a hard-liner win the presidential election. The U.S. on a path toward war with Iran unless Biden promptly rejoins the JCPOA.
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Why War?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
I would like to announce the publication of a book that discusses the reasons why the institution of war continues to threaten human civilization and the biosphere, as well as the steps that might be taken to rid the world of war. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi (4 Jul 1807 – 2 Jun 1882): Godfather of Transnational Democratic Politics
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice, now France, often called the hero of two worlds because of his efforts for independence in Latin America and then Europe, is in many ways inventor of transnational democratic politics.
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