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The Unexpected
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

9 Feb 2024 – Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises are at the heart of existence.  This may seem like a truism…

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An Immense Hunger
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

1 Jan 2024 – What can we do, how create the new when we are such stuff as dreams are made on? To escape the period that ends every sentence, every year, every life, one only needs winged words to take flight, to shimmer in the ascending iridescent light.

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Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem who grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. What we celebrate at Christmas is the opposite of what he stood for. Once there was a mother, father and child on the run to safety in Egypt; today, there are millions of Palestinian refugees on the run to nowhere but a dead-end.

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Four Died Trying: A Powerful, Riveting, Masterful Documentary Series Begins
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

13 Dec 2023 – It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s to grasp their significance for today.  Many might assume that that was then, long before their time, so let’s move on to what we must deal with today. This is an understandable but mistaken attitude that this documentary will quickly shatter, visually and audibly.

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The Life and Public Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the CIA
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

23 Nov 2023 – Why Pres. Kennedy was publicly murdered by the CIA sixty years ago has never been more important. There is nothing to debate unless one is some sort of intelligence operative, has an obsession, or is out to make a name or a buck.

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An Epistle to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

10 Nov 2023 – Seeing you stumble on your way by throwing your full support to the Zionist leaders of Israel has been a body blow to me. That you have not defended the children of Gaza and condemned their massacre by the thousands has shocked and sickened me.

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“Peace, War, and 9/11”: A Cinematic Portrait of Graeme MacQueen, a Warrior for Peace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

19 Oct 2023 – It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film and another to watch it.  The former fades into insignificance when one takes an hour-and-a-half to immerse oneself in its tragic yet revelatory story. 

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Waiting for an Apocalypse
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Finding Hope Living Outside the Box

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Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

4 Sep 2023 – Much has been made of the simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, part of the security detail in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. 

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Clearing the Fog of ‘Unprovoked’ War
Edward Lozansky, Ph.D. | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

9 Aug 2023 – For the record: I was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia, and worked in the USA as a laser fusion researcher and Professor of Mathematics and Physics. I have relatives and friends in all three countries, and for the last 35 years, I have been trying to do my best to make them friends, partners, or even allies. Instead, all three are now at war, even if some call the U.S. war only a war “by proxy.”

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Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

Everybody knows that 2 + 2 = 4 since 4 = 2 + 2.  They know that excellent thing with certainty but generally fail to appreciate the charming nature of 2 + 2 = 5.  Tautologies are usually preferred to choices that seem to contradict the “laws of nature.” 

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Mr. Blue and the CIA
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

18 Aug 2023 – Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down to dinner, our phone rang.  Since I didn’t recognize the phone number and it was dinnertime, I hesitated to answer it, but for some chance reason I did.  The voice on the other end was agitated, intense, and asked for me.

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Do People Change?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

11 Aug 2023 – Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world, many people often wonder how they might personally change to find happiness, contentment, or some elusive something.

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How So Many Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nukes
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

7 Jul 2023 – Social psychosis is widespread. The insouciant acceptance and support of psychotic rulers who promote first-strike nuclear war is very common; it is the United States’ nuclear policy. I recently wrote an article about the dangers of the fourteen U.S. Trident submarines.

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Sea Monsters Threaten the World with Their Tridents
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

The obsession with the alleged marvels of technology and naming them after ancient Greek and Roman gods are fixations of elite technologues who have lost what Spengler called “living inner religiousness” but wish to show they know the classical names even though they miss the meaning of these myths. 

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The Del Monte Deaths: Shocking Claims of Violence at Pineapple Plantation
Edwin Okoth, Matthew Chapman and Emily Dugan | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

21 Jun 2023 – Security guards working for the multinational food company Del Monte in Kenya have been accused of killing and brutally assaulting local villagers suspected of trespassing on its farm.

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Rehearsed Lives and Planned History
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

“Certain lies are too big to fail, for if they did and entered the official histories as truths, they would be preserved, not to be forgotten. Then society could deal with their implications.”

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Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

21 May 2023 – We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant.  Many still do not.

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There Is No Escape from Telling
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

A new Dark Age is closing upon us, as Max Weber noted more than a century ago when he described the people who run our societies and educational institutions as “specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

Despite a family actively opposed to his candidacy, despite all the media lies about him, and despite the oddsmakers giving him little chance, RFK, Jr. is entering the race.  It is an act of supreme moral courage.  Like his father in ’68, he is the only candidate who can heal this nation’s great divide. 

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“Facing Clear Evidence of Peril” in a Country of Lies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

28 Mar 2023 – Perhaps silence is the best response to the endless cavalcade of official lies that is United States history. The Internet and digital technology have allowed those lies to increase exponentially in number and frequency with the result that people’s minds have become like 7-Eleven stores, open 24/7 for snack-crap “news.”

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The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the Sep 2001 Attacks
Edward Curtin and Graeme MacQueen | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

15 Mar 2023 – Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book – Leftists, no matter what they say in their defense, bear great moral responsibility for the so-called War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq, the deaths of Muslims, etc., all of which emanate from the insider attacks of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks.

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Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Mar 2023

It was an intentional genocidal war waged to torture, kill, and maim as many Vietnamese as possible and to use North American boys to do the killing and suffer the consequences. Its Phoenix Program, the CIA’s assassination and torture operation, became the template for Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA black sites, hybrid wars, terrorist actions, etc. up to today.

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Inside the Iron Cage
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

7 Feb 2023 – I would prefer not to relay the following very strange story given to me by a fellow sociologist, but I feel obligated.  I don’t know what to make of the whole thing.  Below you will find the manuscript he handed me. I realize you are getting this third hand, but there’s nothing I can do about that.  I don’t know his friend.  So here it is.

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The New York Times Is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2023

It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if all were reversed and Russia had put troops and weapons in Mexico and Canada that the United States would respond forcefully.

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Our Authentically Fake and Hypocritical Society of Copies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Dec 2022

4 Dec 2022 – Indeed, to make people into machines is the goal of trans-humanists Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum with its Great Reset and the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Artificial Intelligence for artificial people.  While there are innocent examples of repetition, the use of it is a fundamental tactic of propaganda.

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David Ray Griffin (8 Aug 1939 – 26 Nov 2022)–The Man and His Work: A Synopsis
Elizabeth Woodworth | AE911truth - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

2 Dec 2022 – From a hopeful common-sense theology to the exposés of imperialist propaganda and false flag operations, to the full extent of the climate crisis, to our evolving perception of the nature of the divine, David Griffin stands with the greats; yet was quiet, humorous, down to earth, and unassuming. RIP

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Who Knew: We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022 – My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World War I. We’re all lucky to still be here. If we continue to celebrate past wars and the soldiers who fought them in a sly homage to the greatness of war, we are doomed.

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The Last Temptation of Things
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2022

22 Oct 2022 – Let me tell you a story about a haunted house and all the thoughts it evoked in me. Do we believe we can save ourselves by saving things? Or do our saved possessions come to possess their saviors?

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Only Adult Children Still Believe U.S. Propaganda
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2022

30 Sep 2022 – It should now be quite clear to any reasonable person that the Biden administration is hell-bent on destroying Russia and will risk nuclear war in doing so.  It has already started World War III with its use of Ukraine to light the final match.  The problem is that reasonable people are in very short supply.

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USA’s Open Wound
Edward Snowden | Continuing Ed - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

20 Sep 2022 – The CIA Is Not Your Friend – Democracy and the rule of law have been so frequently invoked as a part of the U.S. political brand that citizens simply take it for granted they enjoy both.

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At the Lost and Found
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Aug 2022

5 Aug 2022 – Those who are never lost are forever lost.  Only those who know they are lost and that life is a shipwreck have a chance to find their way to shore. The world’s great religions, including Taoism and Existential philosophy, understand that at the heart of human existence is the presence of the not (death, emptiness, void).

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The Assassination and Mrs. Paine
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2022

5 Jul 2022 – A Review of Max Good’s Documentary Film – Human duplicity is a marvel to contemplate.  This documentary will force you to do that.

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Is There Life After Death?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

16 Jun 2022 – A review of ‘James and Whitehead on Life after Death’ by David Ray Griffin – The meaning of death, and whether humans do or do not survive it in some form, has always obsessed people, from the average person to the great artists and thinkers. Death is the mother of philosophy and all the arts and sciences.

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Why Is Everything Broken?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jun 2022

The U.S.A. and its allies are waging war on many fronts.  It is a form of total war – cold, hot, medical, military, mind-control, spiritual, etc. – that demands a total response from us.  None of us is completely innocent; we are all part of the deep evil that is happening all around us.  But if we listen carefully, we might hear God asking for our help.  For we need each other.

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Journalist Assassination: Are Israeli Defense Forces Out of Control?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 May 2022

18 May 2022 – Israeli Soldier Kills Al Jazeera Journalist on 11 May 2022

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It’s About Time
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

28 Apr 2022 – Isn’t it always? With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible.  I am speaking of nuclear annihilation.

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Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Apr 2022

29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness  that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description.  They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen. 

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Nonkilling Political Reflections: The Sham of Non-Existence and the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022
Clay Edwards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Apr 2022

29 Mar 2022 – What should greatly concern us, in my view, is that US President Biden hit the impotence of our security structures squarely when he declared that Russian President Putin should not be in power. The use of the word “power” in regard to Russian President should be clarified.

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2021 Amazon Deforestation Map Shows Devastating Impact of Ranching, Agriculture
Maxwell Radwin | Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2022

21 Mar 2022 – The Andean Amazon Project found that around 1.9 million hectares (4.8 million acres) of primary forest were lost in 2021, mostly as the result of cattle ranching and other agricultural activities.

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On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Mar 2022

10 Mar 2022 – To grasp this possibility within the context of Ukraine, we need to put aside all talk of morality, rights, international law, and think in terms of great power politics.  When a great power feels its existence is threatened, might makes right. You simply can’t understand world politics without thinking at this level.  It is a means of clarifying the causes of wars.

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‘Politics as Usual’ Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat (or to Nuclear War)
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Richard Falk | DWF News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Feb 2022

17 Feb 2022 – There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity’s greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. (Commentary added by Roger Kotila)

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The United Nations: Beyond Reform?
Edward J Horgan, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Feb 2022

The Collective Insecurity of the International System and the Prospects for Sustainable Global Peace and Justice

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This Ukraine Crisis Was a George W. Bush Mistake
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Feb 2022

George W. Bush and his neo-con administration made an awful lot of foreign policy blunders. This Ukrainian crisis is just the latest of many mistakes.

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Ukrainian Sovereignty Means Not Joining NATO
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2022

1 Feb 2022 – Taking international law seriously requires looking at the world in a particular way. And this view of the world is very different from the view presented to Americans by their foreign policy establishment.

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Nostalgic for the Future
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2022

2 Feb 2022 – Nostalgia is always about time and space. In that sense, it is equivalent to all human experience that also takes place within these dimensions.  And when technology has radically disrupted our human sense of limits in their regard, it becomes harder and harder to feel at home, to dwell enough to grasp what is happening in the world.

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International Neutrality Project
Edward J. Horgan | Veterans Global Peace Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jan 2022

The UN Charter opted for a more pragmatic system of ‘collective security’, a bit like the Three Musketeers – one for all and all for one. The three musketeers became the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, sometimes known as the five policemen, who were tasked with maintaining or enforcing international peace.

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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2022

16 Jan 2022 – Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. With JFK Revisited, Oliver Stone has truly honored this fallen hero.

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Communing with Albert Camus in 2022
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jan 2022

10 Jan 2022 – The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself.  It’s just the way it is.  I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself” way, or in any deep psychoanalytical sense, but very simply.  We have our own thoughts and feelings that come and go like breaths, most of which never get expressed in words. 

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(Français) Mauvaise foi, mauvaises nouvelles et Julian Assange
Edward Snowden | Le Grand Soir - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jan 2022

24 décembre 2021- Edward Snwoden explique pourquoi la décision de la Haute Cour britannique en faveur de l’extradition d’Assange pourra créer un précédent extrêmement dangereux pour le métier de journaliste.

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Musings on Olympia by Emanuel Garcia
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jan 2022

31 Dec 2021 – If you are a lucky reader, you chance upon a book that makes your hair stand on end in wonder and sends a shiver down your spine.  This book does that, for it is deft, digressive, and capricious in ways that leave you wondering what whim set the author’s mind so ablaze to dare to set this story to paper.

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Obituary: South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu
DW - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Dec 2021

26 Dec 2021 – One of South Africa’s giants in the fight against the apartheid regime in the 20th century, Desmond Tutu remained a critical voice in the country’s politics throughout his life. He died today aged 90.

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Everything Going Great
Edward Snowden | Continuing Ed - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Dec 2021

23 Dec 2021 – Gospel, a word from Old English, is a compound that means “good news.” And it’s gospel that’s been in short-supply as we head into the Christmas season. Whenever this fact gets me down, I remember that finding evil, malfeasance, and even suffering in the headlines is just a sign that the press is doing its job. I don’t think any of us wants to wake up in the morning and read “Everything Going Great!”

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Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.’s Heroic Resistance to the CIA’s Continuing Covid Coup D’état
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2021

7 Dec 2021  – With his extraordinary new book, RFK, Jr. has made it very clear that he will not allow Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian boot to stamp on his face. His is a very rare moral courage, and he is asking us to join him, before it is too late and we enter into a new dark age.

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Changes
Rick Godwin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2021

Right!

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President John F. Kennedy: His Life and Public Assassination
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Nov 2021

22 Nov 2021 – Despite a treasure trove of new research and information having emerged over the last fifty-eight years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions.

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Cultural Revolutions
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Nov 2021

10 Nov 2021 – Freedom Is Not a Goal, but a Direction

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A Quest for Wisdom: Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Nov 2021

7 Nov 2021 – A Review of David Lorimer’s Book – This is a fascinating and beautiful book, one of those gems you serendipitously discover and shake your head at your good fortune.

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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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A Propaganda Model
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

Excerpted from Manufacturing Consent, 1988 – The Five Filters:
1. Size, ownership, and profit orientation of the mass media
2. The advertising license to do business
3. Sourcing mass-media news
4. Flak and the enforcers (according to the authors, Freedom House is a flak)
5. Anticommunism as a control mechanism

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Your Money AND Your Life
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

9 Oct 2021 – Central Banks Digital Currencies Will Ransom Our Future

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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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9/12
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Sep 2021

12 Sep 2021 – The Greatest Regret of My Life – The following is an excerpt from my memoir, Permanent Record, available in most languages wherever fine books are sold.

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Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Sep 2021

11 Sep 2021 – It is impossible to overemphasize the importance of this book. Reading ‘Unanswered Questions’ will roil you to the depths of your soul and illuminate your mind as Ray McGinnis presents fact after fact backed up by almost one thousand endnotes and twelve years of meticulous research. There is nothing speculative about this book. It is not a “conspiracy theory.”

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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Aug 2021

26 Aug 2021 – By now you’ve probably heard that Apple plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system out to many of the more than one billion iPhones it has sold, which all run the behemoth’s proprietary, take-it-or-leave-it software. This new offensive is tentatively slated to begin with the launch of iOS 15⁠—almost certainly in mid-September⁠—with the devices of its US user-base designated as the initial targets.

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A Hell of Our Own Making
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Aug 2021

18 Aug 2021 – Reflections on the Road to Kabul – Nearly 20 years after it was launched in the wake of 9/11, the long war in Afghanistan, one of the great cruelties of my generation, has unexpectedly reached its expectedly tragic conclusion. I am certainly not sad to see it go, but it’s difficult to avoid a profound sense of regret at the error of it all.

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A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Aug 2021

The Whistleblower Who Started It All – For the Fourth of July, I reached out to an old friend, Daniel Ellsberg, to experiment with recording little conversations for you about big topics. I hope you enjoy it.

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The Houses of Dead and Crooked Souls
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Aug 2021

Obama’s Vineyard mansion stands as an outward sign of his inner disgrace, his soullessness. Trump’s golden towers and his never-ending self-promotion or the multiple million-dollar mansions of high-tech, sports, and Hollywood’s superstars send the same message. Take Bill Gates’ sixty-three-million-dollar mansion, Xanadu, named after William Randolph Hearst’s estate in Citizen Kane, that took seven years to build.

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(Français) Pour Trouver la Paix au Mali, Il Faudra Ecouter
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Aug 2021

La gouvernance démocratique ne signifie pas voter: elle signifie une vraie participation du peuple, donc la consultation et l’écoute. Injurier et crier n’avane personne et rien. Ecouter permet de comprendre. Voici deux livres qui vont aider les Maliens à s’écouter.

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Apophenia
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Aug 2021

5 Aug 2021 – How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One – The easier it becomes to produce information, the harder that information becomes to consume — and the harder we have to work to separate the spurious from the significant.

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The Insecurity Industry
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Aug 2021

26 Jul 2021 – The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is take it apart simply because it is unsafe to operate. Surgically removing the two or three tiny microphones hidden inside is only the first step of an arduous process.

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Answering Readers’ Questions
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jul 2021

19 Jul 2021 – …How do we sort True conspiracies from False?

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Peace by Piece: Harnessing Peace, Conflict and Dialogue
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jul 2021

Peace by Piece: Harnessing Peace, Conflict and Dialogue, by Uduak-Abasi Akpabio, Amazon, Jun 2021 – Making peace is tough in a world where vast sums of money fuel the makers and users of weapons. Violence enriches the suppliers of ammunition. Arms and automobile manufacturers, petroleum corporations and security companies all get rich from war. Other people’s misery and deaths make weapon corporations rich.

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Drinking Coffee in the Early Morning Rain and Thinking of Donald Rumsfeld
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jul 2021

17 Jul 2021 – I think of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on his recent deathbed. Here was a man whose entire life was dedicated to the American Empire. He spent all his allotted time making war or making money from the spoils of war. He was a desert maker, a slaughterer for the Empire. No doubt he died very rich in gold.

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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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The Most Dangerous Censorship
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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Geneva Summit: Low Expectations, Modest Results, Glimmers of Hope
Edward Lozansky | The Washington Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

24 Jun 2021 – U.S. political circles and the media: this summit is a huge mistake because it will allow President Putin to appear as an equal partner of the U.S. president. The Hill’s headline screamed that “Biden loses to Putin at Geneva summit just by showing up.” Hudson Institute portrayed it as “Biden’s gift to Putin” because it will lead to “empowering Russia, undermining the EU, a threat to the NATO alliance.”

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The Etymological Animal Must Slip Out of the Cage of Habit to Grasp Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jun 2021

2 Jun 2021 – Since Sep 11, 2001, the corona virus lockdowns, and the WEF’s push for a Fourth Industrial Revolution that will lead to the marriage of artificial intelligence, cyborgs, digital technology, and biology, that the USA has been slipping into a new form of fascism. Dissent has become unpatriotic and worse – treasonous. Unless people wake up and rebel in greater numbers, the gates of this electronic iron cage will quietly be shut.

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Second Stage Terror Wars
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2021

11 May 2021 – If you wistfully think the corona crisis will soon come to an end, I suggest you alter your perspective. We are in the second phase of a long war of terror waged with two weapons – military and medical – whose propaganda messaging is carried out by the corporate mainstream media in the pursuit of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset. Part one has so far lasted twenty years; part two may last longer. You can be certain it won’t end soon and that the new terrorists are domestic dissidents.

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Remembering My Friend General Hendrik Van Der Graaf, Famous UN Peacemaker Who Died on 10 Mar 2021
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2021

UNIDIR’s General Henny Invented “Weapons-for-Development” – He was a leader in UN and EU peace and disarmament, particularly in reducing the proliferation and illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons.

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Between Us
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 May 2021

26 Apr 2021 – He was sick of people, especially those he saw in masks because of their obsessive fear of death… He said to Billy Bush, “Thank you, it took me a while, but between us, that sure explains the masked desperadoes running in packs. But I won’t tell them, for as you told me long ago, they prefer their illusions.”

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Afghanistan 2022: Peace without Reconciliation Will Be a Salvaging Operation for Biden
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Apr 2021

19 Apr2021 – What can President Biden’s team and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken salvage from the promised withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan? American dreams of ‘democracy’ produced the Afghan nightmare President Biden wants to terminate in September 2021. Can he replace the nightmare with something that resembles peace, based on realism?

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The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Apr 2021

2 Apr 2021 – Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the United States’ celebrated civil rights icon.  Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For more than fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government disinformation to hide the truth. 

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Adam Thiam’s Death Reminds Us How Europe Harms Africa
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Mar 2021

25 Mar 2021 – Mali’s greatest journalist and political analyst, Adam Thiam, has died of COVID. I mourn a friend whom I greatly admired.

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Media Pseudo-Debates and the Silence of Leftist Critics
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Mar 2021

19 Mar 2021 – The Incompetent, Negligent, Mishandling, Miscalculating Elite Blunderers – You’ve heard of them, no doubt, the U.S. rulers who can’t rule too well and are always getting surprised by events or fed bad advice by their underlings. Their “mistakes” are always well intentioned. They stumble into wars through faulty intelligence…

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“Everything we face, we may not be able to change, but it is certain that what is not faced can never be changed.”
James Baldwin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Mar 2021

James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in the Western society of the United States during the mid twentieth-century.

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The Pine-eyed Boy Escapes from the Belly of the Dark Night in the Fish’s Tale
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Mar 2021

24 Feb 2021 – We are now living in a world where freedom has been replaced by dim grim grimaces of widespread depression and resignation as the shroud of solicitous neofascism descends upon us. Human freedom is under widespread assault. Free speech is being attacked. Censorship is widespread and growing. Flesh and blood life is being sucked into a whirlpool of “a universe of disembodied data.”

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Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Feb 2021

13 Feb 2021 – To denounce censorship, as they have done, is admirable. But now Greenwald, Taibbi, and Hedges need go up to the forbidden gate with the sign that says – “This far and no further” – and jump over it.  That’s where the true stories lie.  That’s when they’ll see the worms squirm.

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The Invincible Green Stick of Happiness
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Feb 2021

6 Feb 2021 – After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman poet Catullus once said, in the depth of a dark winter morning, I decided that I would take a walk in the afternoon, hoping that the sun would then appear, and it did, so I went walking toward the woods through deep white new-fallen snow all around me…

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JFK, Allen Dulles, and Indonesia
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Feb 2021

2 Feb 2021 – Before I digress slightly, let me state from the outset that the book by Greg Poulgrain that I am about to review is extraordinary by any measure. The story he tells is one you will read nowhere else, especially in the way he links the assassination of President Kennedy to former CIA Director Allen Dulles and the engineering by the latter of one of the 20th century’s most terrible mass murders.  It will make your hair stand on end and should be read by anyone who cares about historical truth.

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Vaccines May Not Work as Well against the Coronavirus Variant Detected in South Africa, Research Shows–People May Also Face a Risk of Reinfection
Aylin Woodward | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

22 Jan 2021 – At first, there was little evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines wouldn’t work against the mutated, more infectious versions of the virus that have emerged in the last few months. But preliminary research published this week suggests that a coronavirus variant detected in South Africa in December can partially evade the defenses vaccines build in our bodies’ immune systems.

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An Open Letter to President Biden
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021

One of my sad conclusions: the U.S.A’s foreign policy has been a major cause of war in the world since 2001, a source of poverty and misery, a manufacturer of refugees and of terrorists. As an expert on the origins of terrorism, I know that the U.S.A. is a major supporter of terrorism and terrorist organizations.

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“Orders to Kill” Dr. Martin Luther King: The Government That Honors MLK with a National Holiday Killed Him
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jan 2021

A Review of ‘The Plot to Kill King’ by William Pepper – Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For almost fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government deception to hide the truth.

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The Correct Response to Fascism Is Not Compromise: QAnon and Hate Speech Need to Be Dealt with Head-On
Robin Edward Poulton - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jan 2021

11 Jan 2021 – After the invasion of – and temporary suspension of – Congress, what is the correct response? As a peace maker, you might think I would opt for compromise, but that is not my position. A surgeon faced with a cancerous tumor does not wait until the tumor gets bigger: he cuts it out as soon as possible, and radiates the surrounding area to ensure the cancer does not grow back. QAnon is a cancer in the American body politic, and it needs to be treated like the Fascist Cancer it has become.

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After 50 Years, the Pentagon Papers Give Up Their Final Secrets
Edward Helmore | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jan 2021

10 Jan 2021 – It is to many the greatest journalistic scoop in a generation. Journalist behind scoop reveals how he tricked whistleblower to get copies of explosive Vietnam War reports.

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Eisenhower Farewell Address – 17 Jan 1961
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jan 2021

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

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What Time Is It in Lockdown?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Dec 2020

24 Dec 2020 – Here where I dwell in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice has just occurred. The darkest day of the year in a dark year. A few days ago was also the Grand Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which is interesting to those who like the musical Hair and believe their fates lie in the stars and not in themselves.

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‘Buy It or Else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Strategy to Force Farmers to Buy GMO Seeds and Pesticides
Johnathan Hettinger | Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Dec 2020

4 Dec 2020 – Internal company records show the companies knew their weedkiller, sprayed on GMO soybeans, would drift onto neighboring fields, devastate non-GMO organic crops, and that crop damage would be extensive. They sold it anyway.

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Partly Truth and Partly Fiction – Totally Genius: Kris Kristofferson
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Dec 2020

While great songs usually take but a few minutes to travel from the singer’s mouth to the listener’s ears, they keep echoing for a long time, as if they had taken both singer and listener on a circular journey out and back, and then, in true Odyssean fashion, replay the cyclic song of the shared poetic mystery that is life and death, love and loss, the going up and coming down, the abiding nostalgia for a future home.

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To Force Climate Action, We Need More Than Just Protests
Edward Carver | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Dec 2020

11 Dec 2020 – Two years ago, the Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion both captured media attention through bold direct action. Since then, Sunrise has combined protest with political work challenging fossil-fuel interests. XR and other groups tepid about electoral politics should do the same.

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