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The French Army Has Killed Hamadoun Kouffa, the Malian Robin Hood
Robin Edward Poulton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
How might the Malian government find a way to negotiate with his successors, to avoid genocide or civil war?
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Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News
Edward Said – Al Jazeera English,
4 Feb 2019
Palestinian-American literary historian Edward Said showed how the West had the power to represent the colonial ‘other’ – while simultaneously leaving them silent.
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The CIA Then and Now: Old Wine in New Bottles
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
When the CIA’s dirty tricks were made public in the 1970s, it is not hard to imagine that the intellectual pimps who do their long-range thinking were asked to go back to the drawing board and paint a picture of the coming decades and how business as usual could be conducted without further embarrassment. By that time it had become clear that intellectual or high culture was being swallowed by mass culture and the future belonged to electronic screen culture and images, not words.
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James W. Douglass Talks about Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth
Introduction by Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948 but the spirit of his nonviolent experiments with truth live throughout the world in individuals and groups. The writer and peace-activist James Douglass, a guide to such experiments with truth and author of many books on nonviolence and the meaning of political assassinations, recently travelled to Gandhi’s home district in India and delivered the following talk. It begins at 26:58 minutes into the video.
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Martin Luther King Day and the Unspeakable
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous,” warned Dr. King, “than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” How true those words. For the government that honors Dr. King with a national holiday killed him. This is the suppressed truth behind the highly promoted day of service. It is what you are not supposed to know. It is what Thomas Merton, as quoted by James W. Douglass, called The Unspeakable.”
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An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis
James Baldwin | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
November 19, 1970 – Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can, here in Europe, on radio and television—in fact, have just returned from a land, Germany, which was made notorious by a silent majority not so very long ago. I was asked to speak on the case of Miss Angela Davis, and did so. Very probably an exercise in futility, but one must let no opportunity slide.
→ read full articleWhat Are We Working for “At Eternity’s Gate”?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
Vincent, responding to Gauguin, a former stock broker, when he urged him to paint slowly and methodically, said, “I need to be out of control. I don’t want to calm down.” He knew that to be fully alive was to be vulnerable, to not hold back, to always be slipping away, and to be threatened with annihilation at any moment. When painting, he was intoxicated with a creative joy that belies the popular image of him as always depressed.
→ read full articleA Spiritual Special Ops Team’s Christmas Gift
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – “It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning, they shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid general applause from all the wits, who believe that it is a joke.” — Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
→ read full articleSometimes a Pair of Pants Can Give You Vertigo
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
6 Dec 2018 – Between my desire for a changed world and the world that seemed to change only for the worse lay the desolation Berger identified. Many people feel it, I know, especially dissidents who fight in various ways against the powerful. But we prefer not to go there, to see what it consists of and how we may transmute it into acts and words that might make a difference.
→ read full articlePhil Ochs and the Crucifixion of President John F. Kennedy
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Whatever the truth in this age of “not knowing,” I think his story is a parable for our times. Whenever you think you’re getting the straight scoop, think again, and then again. The CIA’s Operation Mockingbird is still singing its siren song to convince us that the crucifixion was a one-time event, when Phil knew otherwise, right from the start and right to the end. I think he tried to warn us and wouldn’t be silenced, even in death.
→ read full articleThe Apocalypse Not Now
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
“When they will sell you even your rain,” he said sadly. “They sold me a bill of goods. The American dream! What a bad joke, here I am, a college graduate, not a drunk or drug addict, and I’m living in a tent in the woods in a ravine by a golf course. Some nights I think they make it rain on me for fun, as if to say: here’s your free water, you loser.”
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Oslo Accords: The Morning After
Edward Said | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
Edward Said wrote in Oct 1993 a remarkably accurate portrayal of the level of capitulation that was done via the so-called Oslo Accords. This piece is remarkable and still worth reading. Oslo II of 1994 was even worse and we saw the ramification of all of this in the past 25 years. No wonder the Trump administration cut all aid to Palestinians except the money for the “Vichy style” Palestinian Authority security services–the Dayton Forces.
→ read full articleThe Fakest Fake News: The U.S. Government’s 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
If you want to fathom today’s world, absolutely nothing is more important than to understand the truth about the attacks of September 11, 2001… 9/11 Unmasked is the definitive book on the defining event of the 21st century.
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A Diabolic False Flag Empire
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – No one is more emblematic of this noble effort [to report the truth about America’s demonic history] than David Ray Griffin, who, in book after book since the attacks of 11 Sep 2001, has meticulously exposed the underside of the American empire and its evil masters. His persistence in trying to reach people and to warn them of the horrors that have resulted is extraordinary. Excluding his philosophical and theological works, this is his fifteenth book since 2004 on these grave issues of life and death and the future of the world.
→ read full articleThe Cell Phone and the Virgin (2018): A Montreal Odyssey
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Curtin’s primary odyssey was to try to unmask the true font of power in the contemporary world. The world had suffered a series of radical breaks with historical continuity and loss of identity with place, starting shortly after Adams was born in the mid-nineteenth century. Space and time had been contracted by the new technology. Adams had contemplated the dynamo. The computerized cell phone was its current symbol, and its evil twin the concentrated power of nuclear weapons. The modern mind had suffered severe dislocation and confusion.
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A Writer’s Last Port of Call: V.S. Naipaul
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
V. S. Naipaul, the Nobel winning author who just died, was, like so many people, an enigma, at least in his writing. He once said that fiction never lies, and while this may or may not be true, it is true that writers whose politics one may find repulsive can also, despite their conscious intentions, write books that glow with an extraordinary prose luminescence that mesmerizes and reveals deep insights.
→ read full articleThe Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
Unless we enter into deep contemplation of the evil that was released into the world with those bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are lost in a living hell without escape. And we will pay. Nemesis always demands retribution. We have gradually been accepting rule by those for whom the killing of innocents is child’s play, and we have been masquerading as innocent and good children for whom the truth is too much to bear.
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Flash Mob “Symphony No. 9” (Music Video of the Week)
Ludwig van Beethoven – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
Performed at Tokushima Prefecture, Tokyo, where Symphony # 9 was performed for the first time in Asia—to celebrate the 100th anniversary of that performance.
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World Citizens or World Subjects?
John O. Sutter, PhD | DWF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
27 Jul 2018 – Many of us concerned with the future viability of the Earth and its population and environment like to think of ourselves as World Citizens. But are we really “World Citizens” or “World Subjects”? Should one differentiate between aspirations and reality, especially when it comes to citizenship?
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European Parliament Calls for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly and a UN Reform Summit in 2020
UNPA Campaign | DWF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
27 Jul 2018 – In a resolution adopted today, the European Parliament called on the EU’s governments to advocate “the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly” and to support a “UN 2020 summit” that will consider “comprehensive reform measures for a renewal and strengthening of the United Nations.”
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The Sexual Passion of Winston Smith
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
It may sound silly to say, but language, as its etymology tells us, begins with the tongue (Latin, lingua). And the tongue is a bell, tolling out its meaning. Indeed, all language springs from the body – is body language. And when language becomes abstract and devoid of blood, it becomes etiolated and unable to convey the truth that is the mystical body of the world. It becomes a viper’s tongue, dividing the “good” people from the “bad” so the good can eliminate the bad who have become abstractions.
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USA’s Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes and No One Is Talking about It
Lee Camp | DWF News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
20 Jul 2018 – And that’s odd, because we’re technically at war with—let me think—zero countries. So that should mean zero bombs are being dropped, right? Hell no! You’ve made the common mistake of confusing our world with some sort of rational, cogent world in which our military-industrial complex is under control.
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Genocide Hoax Tests Ethics of Academic Publishing
Reuben Rose-Redwood – The Conversation,
16 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – When the Third World Quarterly published Bruce Gilley’s “The Case for Colonialism” last fall, it sparked outrage within the scholarly community. Not only did the article proclaim that colonialism was “beneficial” to the colonized, but it also advocated for the recolonization of former colonies by the Western powers. In response, two petitions garnered over 18,000 signatures calling for the article’s retraction.
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The Shock Troops Who Expelled the Rohingya from Myanmar: Tip of the Spear
A Reuters Investigation by Simon Lewis, Zeba Siddiqui, Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – A Reuters’ investigation provides the first comprehensive account of the precise role played by Myanmar’s 33rd and 99th elite divisions in the savage offensive, and the close ties between the army’s commander in chief and its elite troops. They led a crackdown that forced 700,000 Muslims to flee Myanmar. Here’s how they did it.
→ read full articleSlow Suicide and the Abandonment of the World
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
21 Jun 2018 – I believe the story has it that when he was in jail for refusing the poll tax that supported slavery and the Mexican-American war, Thoreau was visited by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, who asked him, “Henry, what are you doing in there?” To which Thoreau responded, “Ralph, what are you doing out there?” Today, however, most folks don’t realize that being outside their cells is being in them, and such imprisonment is far from principled. That’s not a text message they’re likely to receive.
→ read full articleThe Blatant Conspiracy behind Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
June 5 is the 50th anniversary of RFK’s assassination. To honor such a man requires that we discover and speak the truth about those who killed him. The propaganda that he was killed by a crazed young Arab needs exposure. Robert Kennedy, like his brother John, was a great danger to those virulent forces of war and oppression within his own government, and he died opposing them as a true patriot.
→ read full articleGina Haspel and Pinocchio from Rome
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
My thoughts kept returning to all the U.S. Senators who have voted for this torturer to lead the CIA. Will they say they were only doing their jobs and following orders? Do they think of themselves as civilized? Where will we conduct the next Nuremberg trials?
→ read full articleThough Invisible to Us, Our Dead Are Not Absent
Edward Curtin, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Those titular words were sent to me by Fr. Daniel Berrigan shortly before he died.
→ read full articleSpeaking the Unspeakable: The Assassination and Martyrdom of Thomas Merton
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
“Killing a man who says ‘No!’ is a risky business,” the priest replied, “because even a corpse can go on whispering ‘No! No! No! with a persistence and obstinacy that only certain corpses are capable of. And how can you silence a corpse?”
— Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine
Faust Walks Out on Easter Morning
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
“All things transient are but a parable.”
— Goethe, Faust
False Flag Operations Will Start New War? Towards a U.S.-Israeli Attack on Syria and Lebanon?
Edward Curtin and Geopolitics and Empire – Global Research,
9 Apr 2018
An interview with Edward Curtin – All signs point toward an upcoming large-scale Israeli/U.S. attack on Syria and Lebanon, with Russia and Iran as the ultimate objectives. As always, the corporate media play along as if they don’t yet know what’s coming. Everyone in the know knows what is, just not exactly when. And the media wait with baited breath as they count down to the dramatic moment when they can report the incident that will compel the “innocent” to attack the “guilty.”
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(Italiano) Segni di Guerra
Edward Curtin | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Per Donald Trump stanno finendo i giorni per atteggiarsi ad anfitrione ora passivo ora aggressive di un gioco televisivo di reality. O licenzia tutti gli apprendisti lievemente esitanti a scatenare una guerra mondiale ben più vasta con una gragnuola di bombe, o sarà sostituito da uno che lo farà.
→ read full articleDisembodied Americans and the Crucifixion of the World
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
Contemplation on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, 30 Mar 2018
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The Health Benefits of Probiotics
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
Gut health is a balancing act. Stress, toxins, and a bad diet can upset the balance and throw your whole digestive system into complete chaos. Probiotics are the key to keeping the peace and pushing out the harmful organisms that throw everything off.
→ read full articleFurther Signs of More War: A Most Dangerous Game
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018 – Donald Trump’s days of playing the passive/aggressive host of a reality-television game show are coming to an end… Today things are far more sophisticated and sinister, with a massive and unrelenting war on truth being waged by the Western corporate media, an arm of the CIA, capitalism’s invisible army. It is a twisted game show with deadly consequences. Its method is Janus-faced.
→ read full articleThe Coming Wars to End All Wars
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2018
24 Feb 2018 – The Trump and Netanyahu governments have a problem: How to start a greatly expanded Middle-Eastern war without having a justifiable reason for one. No doubt they are working hard to solve this urgent problem. If they can’t find a “justification” (which they can’t), they will have to create one (which they will). Or perhaps they will find what they have already created.
→ read full articleTry Learning Not to Ride a Bicycle So We Can Save the World
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
“Einstein discovered a law of physical change: the way to convert a single particle of matter into enormous physical energy. Might there not also be, as Gandhi suggested, an equally incredible and undiscovered law of spiritual change, whereby a single person or small community of persons could be converted into an enormous spiritual energy capable of transforming a society and a world? I believe that there is.”
→ read full articleDenying the Obvious: Leftists and Crimestop
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
5 Feb 2018
3 Feb 2018 – It is well known that effective propaganda works through slow, imperceptible repetition. “The slow building up of reflexes and myths” is the way Jacques Ellul put it in his classic, Propaganda. This works through commission and omission.
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A Rare Glimpse into the Inner Workings of American Empire in the Middle East
Edward Hunt – MintPress News,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – Four former U.S. diplomats provided remarkably candid commentary on recent U.S. involvement in the Middle East, revealing that it is still about oil and regional dominance.
→ read full articleA Genuine Actor: Francesco Serpico
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
When this honest cop was lying in a pool of his own blood on the night of February 3, 1971, having been shot in the face in a set-up carried out by fellow cops, Frank Serpico heard a voice that said, “It’s all a lie.” In that moment as he fought for his life, he realized a truth he had previously sensed but never fully grasped in its awful reality.
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Thyroid Gland: Functions, Symptoms, Diet, and Natural Support
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland located at the front of your neck, sort of like an internal bowtie. Part of the endocrine system, your thyroid produces and secretes the hormones T4 and T3. These essential hormones regulate growth, development, and metabolism.
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Is Whistleblowing Worth Prison or a Life in Exile? Edward Snowden Talks to Daniel Ellsberg
Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
22 Jan 2018
The two most famous whistleblowers in modern history discuss Steven Spielberg’s new film, The Post, about Ellsberg’s leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the personal cost of what they did – and if they’d advise anybody to follow in their footsteps.
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To Honor Albert Camus on the Day He Died: January 4, 1960
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2018
Albert Camus was criticized by the right, left, and center. His allegiance was to truth, not ideologies. He opposed state murder, terrorism, and warfare from all quarters. An artistic anarchist with a passionate spiritual hunger, an austere and moral Don Juan, this sensual man of conscience and honor earned his reputation by a lifelong literary meditation on death in all its guises.
→ read full articleAn Advent Calendar to Beat the Devil
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our ‘deceivers’ than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced. The Graphic revolution has produced new categories of experience. They are no longer simply classifiable by the old common sense tests of true or false. At no time is this more evident than in the months leading up to Christmas and the holidays.
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(Français) La R2P comme instrument d’agression
Edward S. Herman | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
27 Nov 2017 – Avec cet article fondamental sur les interventions dites humanitaires, Investig’Action souhaite rendre hommage à Edward S. Herman, décédé le 11 novembre. Avec Chomsky, il avait signé un ouvrage majeur de l’analyse critique des médias, Fabriquer un consentement. Investig’Action va d’ailleurs rééditer ce livre en juin 2018*. Dans cet article, Herman expose avec brio comment les grandes puissances instrumentalisent les concepts de « Responsabilité de protéger » et d’« Intervention humanitaire » pour justifier des guerres totalement illégales au regard du droit international.
→ read full articleWaiting for the American Dream
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
Waiting – so what’s new? Some sullen sage once said that life is what we do while we wait for death. It’s not the kind of wise-guy wisdom I would try to refute, since I was one of the precocious kids who saw the skull at his first pabulum banquet.
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Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies
Edward S. Herman | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
Aug 2017 – It has been amusing to watch the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets express their dismay over the rise and spread of “fake news.” These publications take it as an obvious truth that what they provide is straightforward, unbiased, fact-based reporting. They do offer such news, but they also provide a steady flow of their own varied forms of fake news, often by disseminating false or misleading information supplied to them by the national security state, other branches of government, and sites of corporate power.
→ read full articleReviving the Spirit of Existential Rebellion in a World of Propaganda, Lies, and Self Deception
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
9 Nov 2017 – In these very dark times – these end- times created by nuclear weapons – seeing the truth is dependent on the will to truth, and the will to truth only arises when people believe they are free to alter the circumstances in which they find themselves. This belief in freedom is at the core of all existential thought and is why we need to resurrect it today.
→ read full articleThree for the Road, in Light and Shadows
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – It was getting dark on the street as the young man emerged from his high school on New York’s Upper East Side after basketball practice. He had lost track of time as he dreamed his basketball dreams and headed to the subway for the long ride home.
→ read full articleFinding Our Way Back to Truth by Following a String of Facts
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
14 Oct 2017 – If you find yourself lost and confused in a dark wood, then perhaps following this network of knots strung on a long string of dates listed below will help you find your way back home, where the bread of truth awaits you on the kitchen table.
→ read full articleHow a 3-Day Fast Resets Your Immune System
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
The benefits of fasting are many and various. Fasting supports good health by promoting a healthy body weight, encouraging normal cognitive function, and even facilitating detoxification. Now, research has also shown that fasting may help reset the immune system.
→ read full articleHow to Fast Safely: Considerations before Starting a Fast
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
If you haven’t done the research, you might find yourself wondering if fasting is safe. You may have heard from people who’ve never even tried it that it’s crazy, dangerous, or just pointless. And yet, for thousands of years, many cultures have embraced fasting wholeheartedly. This ancient practice leads to numerous health benefits for most people—when done correctly.
→ read full articleThe Unspoken Truth behind the Colin Kaepernick Story
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – Two recent sports news items have reminded me of incidents from my own athletic past. And those memories in turn have brought my reflections back to the current news regarding the failure of any NFL team to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick to a contract, and the recent boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.
→ read full articleGhostly Voices Dancing in the Rain
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
8 Sep 2017 – A solitary, early Sunday morning walk in the rain. As I like it, my only walking companion was the soothing sound of rain in the trees and on the lake. From the shallow water at the lake’s swampy edge, a blue heron, perched on one leg, froze my gaze as I stopped and stared.
→ read full articleThe Lies of 9/11 Miracle Workers
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
A Review of David Ray Griffin’s Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World – David Ray Griffin is an international treasure and truth teller, who, while being ignored by the mainstream corporate media for his extraordinary series of books exposing the false flag attacks of Sep 11, 2001, will someday be lauded as a modern prophet.
→ read full articleThe Health Benefits of Water Fasting
Edward Group, MD | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
3 Jul 2017 – While fasting has been part of human culture for thousands of years, only recently have we begun to investigate the therapeutic benefits of the practice. Interestingly, modern science has found a variety of verifiable positive effects fasting that has on human health.
→ read full articleThe “Deep State” Then and Now
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
So much of the ongoing propaganda travels under the banner of “the war on terror,” which is, of course, an outgrowth of the attacks of September 11, 2001, appropriately named and constantly reinforced as 9/11 in a wonderful example of linguistic mind-control: a constant emergency to engender anxiety, depression, panic, and confusion, four of the symptoms that lead the DSM “experts” and their followers to diagnose and drug individuals.
→ read full articleWhat Is Fasting? A Guide to the Different Types of Fasts
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
A fast is a voluntary practice in which people go for extended or structured periods without eating and drinking for spiritual, medical, or weight loss reasons. Others fast to protest or raise awareness for causes. Fasting is not starvation. For those who fast for health reasons, fasting is just a more structured way of eating. Some people may find fasting challenging, but there are many types of fasting regimens and protocols from which to choose.
→ read full article‘The Hotel Tacloban:’ A Poetic Masterpiece of War and Redemption
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Part ventriloquistic non-fiction memoir, part history, part murder mystery, part war story, part confessional – wholly beyond categorization, really – The Hotel Tacloban is a mesmerizing read that will leave you stunned and shaken, but also awe-struck by the courage and depravity to which humans can rise and fall. So gripping is the story that I find it shocking that it hasn’t yet been made into a movie. Don’t miss it.
→ read full articleOperation Condor: US, Latin American Slaughter, Torture Program
Edward Rhymes – teleSUR,
26 Jun 2017
The United States was a major backer of the military dictatorships during the 1970s that overthrew some Latin American democracies. [From TMS Editor: I was tortured after Brazil’s 1964 CIA military coup with electric shocks to my limbs, genitals as Operation Condor ravaged Latin America in my 20’s. For the record.]
→ read full articleThe CIA Paid Psychologists $81 Million to Devise Brutal Tactics for Use on Terror Suspects, and They’re Suing
Erin Brodwin | Business Insider – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
22 Jun 2017 – After a doctor X-rayed one prisoner’s badly broken feet, his colleague gave interrogators the go-ahead to force him to stand for 52 hours. A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of former prisoners shines new light on the grisly details of the tactics the doctors approved for use on terrorism suspects. These tactics range from water-boarding to “walling” — a method that involves pushing a person into a flexible plywood wall so hard that it creates a disturbing sound that pierces the ear.
→ read full articleThe Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: Questions, Hints and Allegations
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Robert Kennedy, like his brother John, was a great danger to those virulent forces of war and oppression within his own government, and he died opposing them as a true patriot. We should honor him on this day – June 6th – that he died; honor him by pursuing the truth of why he died and why it still matters. Because it does.
→ read full articleDangers and Adventures in United Nations Peace Making
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
For TRANSCEND members to read and to encourage them to share their own experience of risk management.
→ read full articleEscaping the Iron Cage of Hopelessness
Prof. Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
In a previous article I argued that those who think science can solve our major social problems – in particular, world destruction with nuclear weapons and the poisoning of the earth’s ecology and atmosphere – were delusional and in the grip of the myth of science and technology. These problems were created by science when it became untethered from any sense of limits in its embrace of instrumental rationality.
→ read full articleMarching in Circles: Faustian Thinking and the Myth of Science
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Nature and all living creatures, including ourselves, have become our enemies and are rejected as ends in themselves. Everything and everyone is a means. We must bomb, bulldoze, manipulate, drug, control, poison, etc. – all in the service of a diabolical willfulness that brooks no resistance.
→ read full article(Français) Guerre de Corée : après les tapis de bombes, les mensonges
Dwight Garner | Tlaxcala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
La Corée du Nord, une menace pour les Etats-Unis? Oui, si on applique un principe fondamental de la propagande de guerre: occulter l’histoire. Par contre, si on replace les événements dans leur contexte, les tensions entre Washington et Pyongyang prennent une toute autre dimension. C’est pourquoi nous vous proposons la lecture cet article de 2010. Un historien revient sur la guerre qui a ravagé la Corée de 1950 à 1953. Utile pour remettre les pendules à l’heure.
→ read full article‘A National Disgrace’: Catalogue of Animal Suffering at Scottish Abattoirs Revealed
Andrew Wasley and Rob Edwards - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
24 Apr 2017
19 Apr 2017 – Cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens have been found injured, emaciated, diseased or dead on arrival at abattoirs. Numerous animals were slaughtered while heavily pregnant or had to be repeatedly stunned before they were killed. “It shows without a shadow of a doubt that the business of slaughtering animals is brutal and all too often is conducted without a thought for either the law or the appalling suffering of the animals involved.”
→ read full articleHow to Think about Vladimir Putin
Christopher Caldwell | Imprimis, Hillsdale College – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
If we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the pre-eminent statesman of our time… He has become a symbol of national sovereignty in its battle with globalism. That turns out to be the big battle of our times. As our last election shows, that’s true even here.
→ read full articleThe Silent Cries of Hiding Children: Fifty Years after MLK’s Riverside Church Speech
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war. This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social up lift is approaching spiritual death.” — MLK
→ read full articleSnow, Death, and the Bewildered Herd
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Wherever you go these days, you sense a generalized panic and an inability to slow down and focus. Depression, anxiety, hopelessness fill the air. Most people sense that something is seriously wrong, but don’t know exactly what. So they rage and rant and scurry along in a frenzy. It seems so huge, so everything, so indescribable. Minds like pointilliste canvases with thousands of data dots and no connections.
→ read full articlePeeping Pigs and Propaganda by Omission
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
5 Mar 2017 – While there is much talk these days about “fake news,” omitting important news is perhaps as widespread and egregiously harmful to an informed public. The following report tries to remedy the way the mainstream media have for years ignored one of the oddest but more important news stories of the last sixty years.
→ read full articleWill Trump’s America Make the World Safer or More Dangerous?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Donald Trump’s speech to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday February 28th certainly had a different tone from his usual, irascible midnight tweets. Some of the speech sounded quite similar to speeches given by previous presidents. Some of it was even boring (which is rare for Trump: he may be a horrible misogynist, but he is seldom boring).
→ read full articleSymbolic Seduction: Women’s Rights, Partisan Politics, Ethnocentrism and “American Narcissism”
Edward Curtin | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – In 1929, Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, U.S./CIA war and coup propagandist, and the founder of public relations, conducted a successful mind-manipulation experiment for the tobacco industry. In those days there was a taboo against women smoking in public, and Bernays was hired to change that.
→ read full articleThe Efficient Absorption of Nutrients: What Is Bioavailability?
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Bioavailability is the proportion of a nutrient the human body is able to absorb and use. You might think that when you eat an apple every iota of vitamin A, every antioxidant, and every mineral it contains is used by your body with total efficiency, but that’s not exactly the case.
→ read full articleA Valiant Verbal Warrior Demythologizes the CIA
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
Like Odysseus, Douglas Valentine is a wily warrior who managed to enter the enemy’s stronghold disguised as a gift. Not Troy, and not within a wooden horse, but in the guise of a nice young “Nobody,” he was able, thirty or so years ago, to breach the walls of the CIA through William Colby, a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
→ read full articleGut Health 101: What Is the Microbiome?
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
The human body is a complex, interconnected ecosystem and the gut is at the center of it all. The gut is where the body converts food to energy and a major, frontline component of the immune system. It is connected to the central nervous system, brain, and can influence mood. You can’t talk about the gut or its importance without talking about the organisms that live there.
→ read full articleIn the Blood
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
Born in a normal time,
The periodic slaughter of millions
By the civilized nations of the earth
I grew to adulthood half-crazed
With fear and numbed wonder.
NGOs: Grassroots Empowerment or Tool of Information Warfare?
Daniel Deiss, J.Hawk and Edwin Watson | South Front – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Fake NGOs as Bellingcat, White Helmets, Syria Observatory for Human Rights and other self-styled “open-source information analysts” have become the tip of the spear in the ongoing information war. These fake NGOs play a leading role in what US military refers to as “shaping the information battlefield.” Their second function is allowing interested governments to refrain from directly lying to the media and the public themselves.
→ read full articleBayer Buys Monsanto for US $66 Bln.
Greg Roumeliotis and Ludwig Burger | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
German drug and crop chemical maker Bayer clinched a $66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto on Wednesday [14 Sep 2016], ending months of wrangling with a third sweetened offer that marks the largest all-cash deal on record.
→ read full articleContaining the United States
Edward S. Herman | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – “Containing the United States” is, of course, a ridiculous and self-contradictory idea in the U.S. and Western ideological and propaganda system. We all know that the United States had to “contain” the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991, and since then has had the task of containing Russia and China. Only they threaten, bully, aggress and worry countries like Poland and Vietnam.
→ read full articleHow Alcohol Affects the Gut Microbiome
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism considers at-risk drinking to be more than four drinks per day or fourteen per week for men, and more than three drinks per day or seven per week for women. Heavy drinking can lead to an array of serious health issues. In this article, we will focus on one of the lesser known—dysbiosis—which is an imbalance in the gut microbiota.
→ read full articleThe Disappearance of Silence
Edward Curtin - Intrepid Report,
22 Aug 2016
Silence is a word pregnant with multiple meanings: for many a threat; for others a nostalgic evocation of a time rendered obsolete by technology; for others a sentence to boredom; and for some, devotees of the ancient arts of contemplation, reading, and writing, a word of profound, even sacred importance. Gandhi, the revolutionary, put it perfectly, “In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
→ read full articleKinetics of Empire
Paul Edwards – Information Clearing House,
25 Jul 2016
Whether our dissolution comes through annihilation by war or evisceration through financial meltdown, it will be the greatest act of state terrorism ever inflicted on humankind. In this catastrophic imperial suicide, the collateral damage will be the world.
→ read full articleTheory of ‘Conspiracy Theorists’
Marcus Godwyn – Oriental Review,
4 Jul 2016
It seems to have become one of the most popular ways of ridiculing somebody’s argument or position, calling into question someone’s sanity or even somebody’s right to their very own existence in recent years are “You’re a conspiracy theorist!”, “That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me!”
→ read full articleSupport Your Digestive System with Aloe Vera
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
A healthy gut reacts positively to good nutrition and is also the result of good nutrition. Refined sugar, artificial ingredients, and artificial coloring offer no nutrition and, even worse, can upset gut balance. Aloe vera, on the other hand, is a nutrient-dense superfood that soothes, nourishes, and promotes detoxification and normal bowel movements.
→ read full articleEnjoy These 10 Detox Water Recipes All Year Long!
Dr. Edward Group | Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Detox water is basically water infused with fruits, vegetables, and/or herbs. Sometimes called infused water, many people use it as part of a body detox strategy. I know many people who don’t enjoy drinking water. Some say it’s tasteless and dull. That’s what makes detox water so excellent. It adds flavor to plain water while also infusing key, beneficial nutrients.
→ read full articleThis Chart Shows the Staggering Human Cost of Staging a World Cup in Qatar
Edwin Rios – Mother Jones,
6 Jun 2016
Allegations of bribery have long plagued FIFA, especially since its controversial decision to grant Qatar the 2022 World Cup. Comparing the number of workers who died in the run-up to several Olympics and World Cups with the number of those who have died in Qatar so far. It’s horrifying!
→ read full articleWhat Are the Benefits of Turmeric and Curcumin?
Dr Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Turmeric has been traditionally used for pulmonary and gastrointestinal system problems. Research within the 50 years has shown much of the supposed benefit of turmeric is due to curcumin, the active component, a polyphenol that has displayed activity in antioxidant, anti-redness, anti-harmful organism capacities.
→ read full articleWhistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance
Edward Snowden – The Intercept,
9 May 2016
One of the challenges of being a whistleblower is living with the knowledge that people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency, who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint. They learn to live not just with untruths but with unnecessary untruths, dangerous untruths, corrosive untruths.
→ read full articleCan Lemon Water Detox Your Body?
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Adding a little lemon to your water is a great way to add flavor and experience the benefits offered by lemons. It’ll also help cleanse your body of toxins and waste. The American Cancer Society recommends hot lemon water for alleviating constipation and clearing the bowels. [4] Let’s look at four more benefits of lemon water.
→ read full articleThe Benefits of Aloe Vera for Your Heart
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Aloe vera is great for flushing out toxins and waste from the digestive tract [3], which in turn helps the body to absorb nutrients more effectively. This also supports circulation and gets more oxygen-rich blood to cells throughout the body. Today, we’ll look at how aloe vera supports heart health.
→ read full articleRaw Pecans: Discover 7 Health Benefits of Pecans
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
From 277 different nuts and foods, USDA researchers say pecans are the most antioxidant-rich nut; with more oleic acid than olive oil, they contain 90% unsaturated (heart-healthy) fats, are low sodium, cholesterol free, contain essential vitamins and minerals, and have alpha and gamma-tocopherol forms of vitamin E.
→ read full articleHere Come the Paris Truthers: Paranoia, the American Right, and the Missing Complexity from Our Terrorism Debate
Arthur Goldwag - Salon,
23 Nov 2015
France was a colonial power in the Middle East and Africa for a century; it has boots on the ground in West Africa and its war planes have been bombing ISIS strongholds in Iraq and Syria. As shocking and terrible as Friday’s attacks were, there really is no mystery as to why they happened; they did not come out of the blue. Just as Israeli realpolitik helped lay the groundwork for Hamas, ISIS, as we now know, is a monster that the West had a hand in creating.
→ read full articleThe Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
Prof. Edward Curtin – Information Clearing House,
2 Nov 2015
The continuing Killing Deep State within the U.S. Empire. David Talbot has exposed the face of evil incarnate in Allen Dulles, the hitman for the power elite.
→ read full article“Nothing about Us without Us”: South Africa Set to Quit the International Criminal Court
Bongani Mbindwane - The BRICS Post,
19 Oct 2015
The ICC has been seen by many as a proxy tool of the US to further its narrow global hegemonic political interests.
→ read full articleThe Benefits of Ozonated Olive Oil for Toenail Fungus
Dr. Edward Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Untreated, foot fungus, also known as athlete’s foot or tinea pedis, “eats” away at the skin of the foot and can easily spread to other areas of the body, such as the groin. Toenail fungus, or onychomycosis, disfigures the toenail and creates thick discolored nails that can cause painful pressure and difficulty walking.
→ read full articleEconomist Editorial Gets Economic With the Facts
Bongani Mbindwane - The BRICS Post,
7 Sep 2015
The policies endorsed by The Economist have only led to more chaos and severe global instability, argues Bongani Mbindwane.
→ read full articleThatcher’s Tyrants – The Tanks, The Guns, The Christmas Cards
David Edwards – Media Lens,
31 Aug 2015
“Tyrants willing to serve the West are sent tanks, guns and Christmas cards. Their crimes are buried out of sight, protected from censure at the United Nations. Likewise, outrage at dissidents’ alleged ‘support’ for tyranny is mostly a device used to attack voices threatening power and profit. The state-corporate moral compass is not malfunctioning or broken – there is no moral compass.” – Howard Zinn
→ read full articleWhat Are Obesogens?
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Obesogens is an umbrella term given to the dozens of endocrine disruptors that play a role in obesity. Chemicals from plastics, like BPA, are known obesogens, and these chemicals pollute our waterways and pervade our homes.
→ read full articleIs Artificial Intelligence Really an Existential Threat to Humanity?
Edward Moore Geist – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
17 Aug 2015
With intellectual powers beyond human comprehension, Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom prognosticates, self-improving artificial intelligences could effortlessly enslave or destroy Homo sapiens if they so wished.
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