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Hey There Delilah (Music Video of the Week)
Plain White T | HollywoodRecordsVEVO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
(Official Video) Please click on WATCH ON YOUTUBE kick back and enjoy!
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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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(Italiano) La minaccia di una carestia diffusa entro metà secolo
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 Dicembre 2021 – A meno che vengano fatti sforzi per stabilizzare e infine ridurre la popolazione globale, c’è una grave minaccia che il cambiamento climatico, la crescita demografica e la fine dell’era dei combustibili fossili possano combinarsi nel produrre una carestia di casta scala per la metà del secolo in corso.
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Big Power Rivalries: The Thugs of Myanmar
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
21 Dec 2021 – ASEAN leaders should explore a joint strategy with China, India and the US. By working together on a conflict that does not directly affect the three powers’ strategic interests, ongoing high tensions between China and US could cool down, and pave the way for additional small building blocks of cooperation and partnership.
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Sex Crimes of the CIA—Unreported, Unrepented, and Unpunished
John Kiriakou | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – The CIA rivals the Vatican in covering up sex crimes against children and then protecting the members of its organization who commit them.
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US Still Doesn’t Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Pile of Nuclear Waste
Charles Pekow | Earth Island Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 Dec 2021 – Senate Armed Services Committee report: “As the USA continues to modernize its nuclear weapons, waste will be generated. It is not clear whether there are sufficient facilities to address the waste or if such facilities are in current plans and budgets.” The estimated cost of handling the degrading radioactive material is rising steadily — $512 billion at last count.
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‘Rampant Forest Destruction’ Wracks Reserve as Cattle Ranching Advances in Brazilian Amazon
Morgan Erickson-Davis and Ana Ionova | Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
29 Dec 2021- The Terra do Meio reserve is a federally protected area across the Amazon Brazilian state of Pará. But, despite its protected status, the reserve has come under growing pressure. Between Jan. 1 and Dec. 14 2021, some 25,943 deforestation alerts were confirmed in primary forest within it.
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(Français) La Biennale de Luanda : Passé et Avenir de la Culture de la Paix en Afrique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Maintenant, l’avenir de la culture panafricaine de la paix est là où il devrait être, entre les mains de la jeunesse africaine et de la diaspora. Un nouveau jour se lève. Il a besoin de notre soutien.
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What’s Ahead for Palestine in 2022
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
2 Jan 2022 – To begin with, we will witness a growing awareness that traditional diplomacy will not bring stability, much less peace with justice to this struggle that has gone on for more than a century.
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The Biennale of Luanda: Past and Future of the Culture of Peace in Africa
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Now the future of the Pan-African Culture of Peace is where it should be, in the hands of the youth of Africa and the Diaspora. A new day is dawning. It needs our support.
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Private Prescriptions for a Better Life in 2022
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 -A thoughtful Indian friend in Paris sent this list as her prescription for a better life in 2022. I adopted her list and added to it. I invite readers to propose their own additions and subtractions.
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Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Restrings the Brain
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”
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A Startling Video Emerges
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Year 2022
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Journalist Karl Grossman Interviews Bruce Gagnon on His 39-Year Career against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
EnviroVideo1 | TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Bruce tells of hearing Lt. General Daniel O. Graham, head of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed “Star Wars,” declaring as nearly a million people protested in New York City against nuclear weapons, “We are moving into space. They don’t have a clue. Let them keep doing what they are doing.”
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Your $1.7 Billion of Gold Is Now Ours, UK Tells Starving Venezuelans
Belen Fernandez | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
26 Dec 2021 – In its prolonged freezing of Venezuelan assets, the UK continues to withhold 31 tons of its gold stored at the Bank of England, with a new Supreme Court ruling supporting the seizure.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Desmond Tutu, the Nonviolent Foe of Two Apartheids – South Africa and Israel-Palestine
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – “Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won’t let ambulances reach the injured.” — Desmond Tutu
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NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi to Urge Assange’s Extradition, Hiding His Key Role
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
2 Jan 2022 – The most dangerous, and under-discussed, development in corporate media is the spate of ex-security state agents now employed to deliver the “news.”
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Learning Something New about [Nobel Peace Laureate] Desmond Tutu
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
28 Dec 2021 – You are unlikely to learn about it in the media tributes to Archbishop Rev. Desmond Tutu who died on 26 Dec at 90 (1931-2021). But Tutu, like the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was morally and spiritually a true world citizen belonging to a large list of VIP’s who supported the drafting of a new world constitution – what is now known as the Earth Constitution.
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Natural Immunity Denial Disorder: Diagnosing a Dangerous Condition
Diane Perlman | TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – Natural immunity has been known for centuries. It has not been questioned until now.
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(Français) Gabriel Boric, l’ancien leader étudiant qui a été élu président de Chili
Guido Vassalo | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
24 Déc 2021 – A 35 ans, il était le plus jeune candidat et veut mettre fin au néolibéralisme. Écologiste, féministe et fervent critique du modèle néolibéral mis en place pendant la dictature militaire et consolidé plus tard dans la transition, Boric était aussi celui qui offrait le programme de changements le plus profond en Chili.
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Humanitarian Exemptions to Crushing U.S. Sanctions Do Little to Prevent Collapse of Afghanistan’s Economy
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
28 Dec 2021 – More Afghan people may die from sanctions than from 20 years of war.
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A Conversation with Dr. Emanuel Garcia in New Zealand
Tessa Lena | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
24 Dec 2021 – This story is about a brave and classy human being and a medical doctor in New Zealand, [a TRANSCEND member] who had his medical license suspended and was forced to retire due to his opposition to mandates and his general sense of dignity and a lack of desire to fold under the boot.
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Was China’s Amazing Rise Due to ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’ or ‘Capitalism with a Chinese Facade? Or a Little of Both?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – There has in recent months many discussions centering around the proper characterization of China from an ideological point of view. The Chinese leadership has its own reasons for doing this, seeking to present what it deems a glorious self-image.
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What Would Europe, the US, Do with One Billion Climate Refugees?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
20 Dec 2021 – A bit of fiction. Or maybe not. If things keep going the way they are, the result will be that such a massive flux would create instability and tensions, impact the global markets, cause record prices of fossil fuels, food and everything else, and the bankruptcy of big private financial corporations…
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Severe Water Stress, Absolute Scarcity for 2 to 4 Billion Humans by 2025
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – Up to four billion people–over half the population of the planet–are already facing severe water stress for at least one month of the year, while half a billion suffer from permanent water stress.
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The Real Antidote to Inflation: Stoking the Fire without Burning Down the Barn
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
24 Dec 2021 The Fed has options for countering the record inflation the U.S. is facing that are more productive and less risky than raising interest rates.
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Monsanto to Plead Guilty to 30 Environmental Crimes, Pay $12 Million Fine
U.S. Attorney’s Office, California | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – “Monsanto is a serial violator of federal environmental laws,” said U.S. attorney Tracy L. Wilkison. “The company repeatedly violated laws related to highly regulated chemicals, exposing people to pesticides that can cause serious health problems.”
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Socrates on Teaching
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Feeding your thought…
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Will the Islamic World Save Afghanistan?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
21 Dec 2021 – Between the complex internal dynamics of the Taliban and the western trick of conditional aid, it is the Muslim world that must act to save Afghanistan.
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Do We Dare Stop Being Afraid of Ourselves?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
22 Dec 2021 – We’re stuck, right now, in the myth of collective suicide, more generally known as the myth of the conquest of good over evil. And since history is told by the winners of humanity’s wars, those currently in power are always — always! — the good guys. David Suzuki puts it this way: “As dictators have shown throughout history, collective narratives are often successful when they have a bad guy, someone or something that is ‘other.’”
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‘Colourless’ vs ‘Coloured’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
25 Dec 2021 – In short: is it just a matter of ‘colourless’ versus ‘people of colour’? Or is it also a question of ‘full-pockets’ versus ‘empty-pockets’? By the way: aren’t all humans… African-descent?
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There’s Only One Essential Role Humans Have on Earth—A Humbler Perspective Could Save the World
Captain Paul Watson | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
While the world’s oceans, nonhuman animals, and plants play starring roles in sustaining our ecosystem, why are we so bent on sabotaging it?
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The “Humanewashing” of Meat and Dairy, Explained
Jessica Scott-Reid | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
21 Dec 2021 – Why you can’t trust claims of humane treatment on meat and dairy labels. Most meat, dairy, and eggs sold in the US come from factory farms, where animals are tightly packed together in dark, unsanitary warehouses. But you wouldn’t know it while browsing the meat, dairy, and egg aisles at the grocery store.
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For Third Year, Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes Assange from Jailed Journalist Index
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
20 Dec 2021 – A record number of journalists are imprisoned throughout the world, according to the annual prison index released by the Committee to Protect Journalists. But that number excludes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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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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(Italiano) Solo il disarmo è razionale. La pace armata è guerra.
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
20 Dic 2021 – Il 22 gennaio 2021, quasi un anno fa, entrava in vigore, nel diritto internazionale, il divieto (votato dall’Assemblea dell’Onu il 7 luglio 2017) di costruire, usare e anche solo detenere armi nucleari.
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Julian Assange Files Appeal to UK Supreme Court
Stella Moris | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – Official statement from Stella Moris and Don’t Extradite Assange campaign. This morning Julian Assange filed an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court the High Court’s ruling that he can be extradited to the US on three grounds.
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May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedbed of Self-Discovery
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”
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Israel Killed Up to 192 Palestinian Civilians in May 2021 Attacks on Gaza
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – More than 70 percent of the Israeli attacks that killed civilians in Gaza had no corresponding reports of militants hit alongside them. “I still don’t know why they bombed my house and killed my wife and children and my sister and her children.”
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India: Making Sense of Kerala
Patrick Heller and Olle Törnquist | The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – A Closer Look at the Social Democratic Experiment of India’s Southern State
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Poisoning Ourselves with War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the guys at Talon Anvil, a secret U.S. “strike cell” recently exposed by the New York Times as a unit with a reputation for ignoring the rules of engagement and killing lots and lots of civilians with drone strikes as it plays war with ISIS.
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The NYT Reports US Forces ‘Killed Dozens in Syria’–The Reality Is Far Worse
Eva Bartlett | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – Two recent reports by the New York Times highlight some of the US’ manifold crimes in Syria, murdering untold numbers of Syrian civilians over the years, under the pretext of fighting the Islamic State.
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(Italiano) Creare sussistenze dignitose che non dipendano da vendite
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Si dissolvono i principali ostacoli al salvarci dalle sei minacce all’umanità trattate in Project Save the World; per chi non ne sappia abbastanza, le 6 minacce sono: Guerra e armi, riscaldamento globale, fame, pandemie, contaminazione radioattiva, e rischi cibernetici.
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(Italiano) Pace mediante disarmo globale o libertà di stampa?
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Commento sul Premio Nobel per la Pace 2021
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Henna Maria Vermeulen interviews Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Odysee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – Where violence comes from and how we can best reclaim our freedom in this time of ever increasing oppression and surveillance. I speak with a man who has dedicated 14 years of his life in seclusion to explore in depth why human beings kill each other. Robert is an author and world renowned scholar and teacher of nonviolent action strategy, especially the Gandhian approach.
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‘Monster’ Antarctic Glacier at Risk as Key Ice Shelf Faces Collapse Years Earlier Than Expected
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – The ice shelf holding back one of Antarctica’s most perilous glaciers is eroding from below due to higher ocean temperatures, prompting scientists to warn today that this key reinforcement could shatter in the next three to five years—a development that would threaten millions of people with intensifying sea level rise.
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The Execution of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.
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Breaking Down the State
James M. Jasper, Clifford Bob and Jack Goldstone | Amsterdam University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
This text concentrates on interactions between protestors and the various players who comprise the state, from courts to police, legislators to bureaucrats. Again, some remarkable contributors are helping to develop a new language for describing political interaction.
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(Italiano) USA in declino fanno i prepotenti con Cina/Russia, Terra, spazio extra terrestre, sé stessi: letture per aprire gli occhi
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
9 Dicembre 2021 – Voi siete oggetto di una operazione psicologica per far sì che abbiate solo opinioni negative sulla Cina. E’ il più importante conflitto al mondo. Leggete il Sommario esecutivo TFF in 15 punti: “Dietro la cortina di fumo. Un’analisi della distruttiva Agenda Occidentale per la Guerra Fredda alla Cina e del perché deve cessare” *
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Israel Is Hell-Bent on Sabotaging US Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold | Jacobin Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – You’d think that Israel might feel obligated not to drag the United States into another disastrous military conflict in the Middle East, this time with Iran. But no: Israel is doing everything it can to sabotage US-Iran nuclear negotiations and stoke a war.
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Red Current, Pink Tide: A Visit to El Maizal Commune in Venezuela
Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
1 Dec 2021 – Chris Gilbert on how Venezuela’s El Maizal Commune’s flag-waving communards are among the reddest elements in the so-called Pink Tide.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Same old, Same old…
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The Mysterious Case of Joe Biden and the Future of Drone Wars
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – The handling of the Kabul strike is an ominous sign that while Biden has pledged to review the drone program, a long-standing mechanism for self-exoneration remains entrenched.
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“Every Option Is on the Table”: US Prepping for Libya-Style Intervention in Ethiopia
Alan Macleod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – War Drums Sounding – While many in the Horn of Africa clearly need help, the Biden administration’s idea of “help” might not be exactly what they had in mind.
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What Putin Really Told Biden
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
8 Dec 2021 – So Russian President Vladimir Putin, by himself, and United States President Joe Biden, surrounded by aides, finally had their secret video link conference for two hours and two minutes – with translators placed in different rooms. Both leaders dropped their respective rhetorical gauntlets but nobody really expects Russia to invade Ukraine.
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Slanted Truths: Women Characters in Vijay Tendulkar’s Plays
Dr. Bill Bhaneja | The Beacon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
The philosophy behind Tendulkar’s writing is based upon his perception of society and its values — his life experiences, and observing what he had seen in others around him: “I did not attempt to simplify matters and issues for the audience, though it would have been easier to do so through such a medium. Sometimes my plays jolted the society and I was punished…I was adamant as it is an old habit with me to do what I am asked not to.” (2)
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FDA Now Wants 75 Years to Release Pfizer Vaccine Documents
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – “ … it is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure.”
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Vandana Shiva: Great Reset Is ‘a Project of Extermination’
Jeremy Loffredo | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Indian scholar, environmental activist, and food sovereignty advocate, Vandana Shiva explained how the economic plan known as the Great Reset is a “project of extermination” dissecting the motives and psychology of the ruling elite.
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UK High Court Overturns Assange Win
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – The British High Court in London today overturned an earlier lower court decision blocking the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States. The ruling sends the case back to Magistrate’s Court with instructions to allow the extradition to be approved or denied by the British Home Secretary Prita Patel.
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‘Reckless Misuse of Resources’: US House Approves $778 Billion Military Budget
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
In bipartisan fashion, the U.S. House of Representatives late Tuesday [7 Dec] passed a sprawling military policy bill that contains nearly twice as much funding on an annual basis as Democrats’ flagship social spending and climate bill. “There was no CBO score needed. No concern about the deficit. No mention of inflation,” said Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
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Covering Up Failure: Ignoring the Record of Regime-Changing Interventions
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The militarized U.S. political class rejects the record of failure with respect to regime-changing interventions since suffering defeat in the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.
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WHO: Omicron in 38 Countries, No Deaths Reported
Jack Phillips | The Epoch Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
The World Health Organization on Friday [3 Dec] said the COVID-19 omicron variant is now in 38 countries, up from 23 two days ago. No deaths have been reported so far in connection to the COVID-19 strain, another WHO spokesperson told reporters.
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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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How to Counter the Growing Threat of Agent Provocateurs
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
3 Dec 2021 – Those who want movements to fail will try to lure them into violence. A new handbook shows how to reduce that risk.
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8 Top Pfizer, Moderna Shareholders $10 Billion Richer after Media Hypes Omicron Fears
Seth Hancock | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Global Justice Now on Saturday [4 Dec] released data showing “just eight top Pfizer and Moderna shareholders” and their CEOs made $10.31 billion since the new COVID variant, Omicron, emerged, but doctor who discovered it says it’s mild, and may even be useful.
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All Humans Are Born Equal in Rights? That’s Still Far from Being True
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – 6 Dec 2021 – “All Human, All Equal” is the slogan for the 2021 Human Rights Day, marked 10 December. The introduction to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights;” it proclaims the “inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”
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Why the Dutch Are Closing Prisons – and What They’re Doing with Empty Ones
Deborah Nicholls-Lee | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – The Netherlands has reduced its prison population to such a degree that it’s now turning old prisons into socially useful buildings, such as schools and refugee centres. What went right?
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 Scandal: How It Fits the CIA and US ‘Democracy’ Global Media War
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – Imagine that the Nobel Prize in Literature is given to a book publisher or papermaker and the official motivation is that publishers or papermakers are preconditions for the writer writing and being read. Roughly, this is how the Nobel Peace Committee reasons – unreasonably.
→ read full articleGun Talk
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Sociopaths
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American Satyricon
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The Maxwell trial will not hold the powerful men complicit in the rape and abuse of countless girls by the Epstein ring accountable or challenge the oppressive systems which fuel the scourge of male violence.
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Rohingya Sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar Genocide
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – Facebook’s negligence facilitated the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar after the social media network’s algorithms amplified hate speech and the platform failed to take down inflammatory posts, according to legal action launched in the US and the UK.
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Updating Dire Warnings
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – A little over a year ago, I wrote in this blog that we are at a turning point in human history, that the US Empire is crashing and that there is a serious risk of a new North American Civil War. The blog was illustrated by automatic weapons being accumulated by millions of US citizens.
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Biden Deploys National Guard: It’s “Déjà Vu All Over Again” as Government Hawks and Corporate Media Play Up Ethiopian Atrocities in Tigray
Ann Garrison | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Twelve days after a Bloomberg Nov. 11 Headline proclaimed that “Ethiopia’s Civil War Is a Problem That U.S. Troops Can Help Solve,” President Joe Biden announced the Deployment of 1,000 National Guard Troops to the Ethiopian border—as if he had learned nothing from the U.S.’s disastrous 75-year history of military involvement in (and incitement of) foreign civil wars in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia, Nicaragua, Haiti, Serbia, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria.
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‘Pool of Blood’: US Drone Strike Hits Syria Family
AFP | France24 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
8 Dec 2021 – Ahmad Qassum was driving home with his family when a US drone targeting an Al-Qaeda-linked militant in Syria struck.
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What Went Right This Week: A ‘Historic’ Win for Nature, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Ecuador recognised the rights of nature in a landmark ruling, encouraging data emerged about Omicron, and lab-grown meat reached another milestone, plus more positive news.
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We Wage Wars Because We Are Violent Animals Likely Headed Toward Extinction
Jack Balkwill | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – We are spiraling headlong toward extinction as long as we allow our primitive violence to dominate. Ours is a species that builds cities only to blow them up in wars, again and again. Capitalists profit from the weapons that destroy the cities, and again from rebuilding the cities, and since their only concern is for profit, the insanity won’t end until a new economic order is adopted.
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How Google Advances the Zionist Colonization of Palestine
Yarden Katz | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
8 Dec 2021 – Software engineers at Google and Amazon have objected to providing services to the Israeli government because of the harm it would bring to Palestinians, yet these companies are already contributing to Israel’s colonial project in many ways.
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A Myanmar’s Military That Burns Civilians Alive Ought to Be Designated as Terrorist
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – While governments and human rights organizations were occupied with the farce of the coup junta’s trial of Aung San Suu Kyi and the expected guilty verdict on 6 December 2021, the junta’s back-to-back acts of terrorism have not been reported in the ways they deserve nor have they received worldwide scrutiny and condemnation.
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Richest 1% Took 38% of New Global Wealth Since 1995. The Bottom Half Got Just 2%
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – A new report finds that global inequities in wealth and income are “about as great today as they were at the peak of Western imperialism in the early 20th century. If there is one lesson to be learnt from the global investigation, it is that inequality is always a political choice.”
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 déc. 2021 – Il y a un peu plus d’un an, j’écrivais dans ce blog que nous étions à un tournant de l’Histoire de l’humanité, que l’empire américain s’effonderait et qu’il existe un risque sérieux d’une nouvelle guerre civile aux USA. Le blog était illustré par les armes automatiques accumulées par des millions de citoyens américains.
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Billionaires Increased Wealth by $3.6 Trillion in 2020, as Millions Died from Global Pandemic
Trévon Austin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
The World Inequality Report 2022, released by the World Inequality Lab on 7 Dec, found that the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the financial gap between the rich and poor. The world’s billionaires enjoyed the steepest increase in their share of wealth last year since the World Inequality Lab began keeping records in 1995.
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Backed By AFRICOM, Corporations Plunder DR Congo for “Climate-Friendly” Materials and Blame China
T.J. Coles | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Cobalt, a key metallic element used in lithium batteries and other “green” technology, is sourced from slave labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As the West points the finger at China, the US Africa Command is indirectly policing mining operations that profit US corporations.
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Russia’s ‘Plan to Invade Ukraine’ Exists Only in the US and NATO Imagination
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
5 Dec 2021 – Ukraine has accused Russia of preparing to invade, triggering a crisis that will bring Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin together via a phone call. Someday international-relations students will scratch their collective heads, wondering what, if anything, was going through the minds of those responsible for the current crisis. In any other circumstance, this sort of narrative would be fodder for dark comedy.
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OMG, Omicron! Why It’s too Soon to Panic about COVID Vaccines and the New Variant
Adam Taylor | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
3 Dec 2021 – We won’t know whether Omicron evades COVID vaccines for another few weeks. Here’s why.
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The Ancient Technique to Making Tough Decisions
Gregg Braden | The Outcome – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
What Gregg Braden calls “heart intelligence” is an ancient technique used to make tough decisions.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
1 Dec 2021 – No matter what it is called — it is the abhorrent daily life of a billion enslaved humans. The real number of “modern” slaves is understandably unknown. The International Labour Organisation estimates that more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery.
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‘We Have Fallen into a Trap’: Qatar’s World Cup Dream Is a Nightmare for Hotel Staff
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
18 Nov 2021 – I spent weeks waiting at the Kathmandu Airport. Among the returning migrant workers were coffins bearing the bodies of young men who had paid the ultimate price in search of work overseas. They were being flown home from Qatar, host of the 2022 football World Cup.
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Republican Congressman Sparks Outrage for Family Christmas Photo with Guns Days after School Shooting
Lauren Booker | Boston Globe - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
4 Dec 2021 – Republican US Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky received swift condemnation for posting a Christmas-themed photo of him and his family holding firearms today. It has been called insensitive given the 30 Nov school shooting in Michigan that resulted in the deaths of four Oxford High School students.
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From AIDS to Omicron, Pharmaceutical Apartheid Hurts Us All
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
2 Dec 2021 – People over profit must be the guiding mantra as we soon enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without immediate action, we could well be dealing with COVID, just as we still battle AIDS, for the next forty years.
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Declining USA Bullies China/Russia, Earth, Outer Space, Itself: Eye-opener Readings
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
2 Dec 2021 – As I write, serious tension is building–again–around Ukraine, Iran and Taiwan while we could live in a much more peaceful and thriving world. Who and what are the constant peace destroyers? You are the object of a psychological operation to make you have only negative views about China.
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Biden’s Global Democracy Summit Raises an Awkward Question: Can Ours Endure?
Sue Halpern | The New Yorker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
30 Nov 2021 – In the past year, the prospects for improving American democracy have dimmed considerably. In the months since Joe Biden took office, nineteen states have enacted thirty-three laws that make it more difficult for citizens to vote.
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Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
“I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
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Lalo Alcaraz | OppArt/The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Come Clean
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New Study Links Major Fashion Brands to Amazon Deforestation
Laura Pitcher | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – LVMH, Zara, Nike and others at risk of contribution to destruction of rainforest based on connections to leather industry.
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Prof Johan Galtung on Peace Journalism, Capitalism, Positive Peace, Structural Violence, Feminism, and Much More
Josef Mühlbauer | Varna Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
3 Dec 2021 – Johan Galtung was at the core of the group of intellectuals who established the Peace Research Institute Oslo in 1959. Without his enormous effort and personality, PRIO would never have come true. He left it in 1969 to become Professor of Conflict and Peace Studies at the University of Oslo and was the founding editor of the Journal of Peace Research in 1964. In 1993 Galtung, Dietrich Fischer, Poka Laenui and wife Fumiko Nishimura founded TRANSCEND-A Peace Development Environment Network in Honolulu, Hawai’i, a Conflict Mediation Organization that thrives to this day with about 400 members worldwide. In 2008 he co-founded TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS with editor Antonio C.S. Rosa.
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‘Hate Crime’ Attacks by Israeli Settlers on Palestinians Spike in the West Bank
Steve Hendrix | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – Israeli settlers have dramatically increased their attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank over recent months, with violent incidents up about 150 percent in the past two years, according to data presented by the Israeli military at a defense ministry meeting this month.
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Goading China to Go to War
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
28 Nov 2021- A number of defence analysts are convinced that the United States of America, supported by Britain and Australia, is goading China to go to war over Taiwan. They point to constant statements by officials from the three countries pledging to come to Taiwan’s defence.
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Inventing the Science of Race
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran | The New York Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
16 Dec 2021 issue – In 1741, Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest searching for the origin of “blackness.” The results help us see how Enlightenment thinkers justified chattel slavery. With Foreword by Dr. Maung Zarni for TMS.
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Pride and Poverty: Qatar’s World Cup Fever Tempered by Legacy of Labour Abuses
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
18 Nov 2021 – With a Year to Go, the New Stadiums, Hotels and Roads Are Finished and Locals Are Excited, but the Low-Paid Workers Who Built Them Are Ambivalent
→ read full articlePeace by Global Disarmament or by Press Freedom?
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee never abided by Nobel’s vision of peace and has used the prize to serve its own ideas and interests. It has practiced a concept of Peace without any meaningful limitation; Nobel did not use the word peace in his will. It has been glorifying individuals whereas the task is to promote a political idea: Peace by Disarmament.
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