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The West Destroyed Africa, Eurasia Will Revive It
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023 – In Africa, injustice looms large. After decades of restrictive IMF and World Bank loans, poverty, hunger, and conflict persist throughout the continent. While many attribute this to Africa’s governance challenges, in reality, a deliberate imperial agenda has hindered the continent’s development in all political, economic, and security sectors.
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How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
Deborah Barsky and Jan Ritch-Frel | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Recent scientific findings and research in the fields of human origins and biology have reached a key threshold: with increasing accuracy, this body of knowledge can tell the complete human evolutionary story that began 7 million years ago and spans to modernity.
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Amnesty International Pushes Regime Change in Eritrea with Dubious, Unverifiable Report
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – Amnesty’s new report accusing Eritrea’s government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West’s campaign to topple the country’s independent government.
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Leaders of World’s Biggest Polluting Countries Skipping UN Climate Summit
Oliver Milman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023 – Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York today.
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How Arab Leaders Betrayed Islam and Defied the Logic of Political Change, Peace and Security
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
18 Sep 2023 – The Arabian landscape portrays continuous wars, insurgency against authoritarianism, insecurity and lack of moral and intellectual leadership to political change for the good of people.
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Noam Chomsky on the Russia-NATO-Ukraine War
Through Conversations Podcast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Noam Chomsky shares his perspective on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, and where does he think this conflict is heading in the future.
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International Day of Peace –> 21 September
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Fear? Not even…
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
25 Sep – 1 Oct 2023
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Agreement Boosts Academic Mobility Across BRICS Borders
University World News | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
22 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries, a grouping of emerging economies, agreed to facilitate the recognition of academic qualifications among members to ensure the mobility of skilled professionals, academics and students.
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Why the Media Aren’t Telling the Whole Story of Libya’s Floods
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
15 Sep 2023 – The reality of the West’s current foreign policy – marketed under the principle of a “Responsibility to Protect” – is all too visible amid Libya’s flood wreckage. There are reasons for Libya’s ‘chaotic’, ‘dysfunctional’ response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home.
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Defeat
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – The United States is being defeated in Ukraine. One could say that it is facing defeat or that it is staring defeat in the face. Neither formulation is appropriate, though. The U.S. doesn’t look reality squarely in the eye. We prefer to look at the world through the distorted lenses of our fantasies.
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Veganic Farming: How My Tiny Plot Produced 5,000 Pounds of Food without Using Manure
Jimmy Videle | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
19 Sep 2023 – Veganic farming is the growing, gardening, cultivation, and production of food and fiber crops with a minimal amount of exploitation of animal and plant species. Veganic methods use no animal products, byproducts or any other animal-originated matter.
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Comparing Galtung’s Theory of Conflict Resolution with Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory
Prof. Antonino Drago | CIC-Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Abstract: The present paper compares Galtung’s theory of conflict resolution with Freud’s psychoanalytical theory. The basic notions of this comparison are the “adjunction” and the transference. Freud’s description of the inner conflict resolution is first interpreted by the adjunction of one person (Analyst) to the patient.
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Assad and Xi Summit Heralds a New Dawn in East and West Asia Relations
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
On Thu 21 Sep Syria’s Pres. Assad arrived in China as guest of Pres. Xi Jinping who chartered a private plane to bring Assad and his wife to China for their first visit since 2004.
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A Groundbreaking German Peace Proposal for Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
18 Sep 2023 – At the end of August this year, four highly respected German personalities[i] presented a peace proposal for ending the war in Ukraine through a ceasefire and subsequent peace negotiations.
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Peace Education and International Community
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
The common masses of every nation are exploited and oppressed by their masters whether they are dictators or democrats. Common people everywhere are poor and slaves. Even intellectuals are not free from the organized authority of societies’ institutions.
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NATO Admits That Ukraine War Is a War of NATO Expansion
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
19 Sep 2023 – During the Vietnam War, the US government treated the public like a mushroom farm: keeping it in the dark and feeding it with manure. The heroic Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers documenting the unrelenting US government lies. A half century later, in the Ukraine War, the manure is piled even higher.
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Collaboration, Not Confrontation
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Peoples Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
24 Sep 2023 – Since a defeat of one side or the other is simply not possible, the only way forward is through a diplomatic settlement. The alternative, put simply, is collective suicide as both sides move up the escalation ladder until it is too late.
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The Titan
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
18 Sep 2023 in the US of A
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UNGA’s Dennis Francis: G77+China Promoting Multilateralism
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
22 Sep 2023 – The group’s voice is needed for the pressing implementation of the 2030 Agenda and for the reform of the international financial architecture, UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis said.
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Australian Parliamentarians Speak Outside DOJ after Assange Talks
Consortium News | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – A delegation of six Australian members of Parliament are in Washington this week lobbying for the release of Julian Assange.
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Declaration of the Summit of Heads of State of the G77+China
Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Havana, Cuba 15-16 Sep 2023 – The summit held in Havana was attended by more than 1,300 participants from 116 countries and 12 organizations and agencies of the United Nations system.
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Diversities in Modern Times
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
The world we are familiar with, has different types of diversities — linguistics, social, economic, cultural, and scientific, etc. Considering these and other related differences, perhaps the economic diversities are fairly quite pronounced and tragic.
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The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke
Mnar Adley | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – Here’s how this deadly disaster has everything to do with the Obama administration and NATO’s 2011 “humanitarian intervention” to overthrow Muammar Qadaffi. The US and NATO bombed Libya into a failed state with open-air slave markets. Before, Libya was the most successful country in Africa.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Sep 2023 – A documentary about the father of modern propaganda and public relations – the man who coined the phrase “manufacture of consent” 60 years before Noam Chomsky popularized it: Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud.
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Empowering Populism Worldwide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Modern Populism: Weaponizing for Power and Influence, by Deepak Tripathi (2023) – Foreword by Richard Falk
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Hoax: UK Intelligence Spun 2013 Syria Chemical Attack, Leaked Docs Show
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
19 Sep 2023 – US officials suppressed assessments that Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing had an “advanced” sarin production cell as the US blamed the Assad government for a 2013 chemical weapons attack. Leaked documents show a shadowy British intelligence contractor helped sell the story that Assad was responsible – and nearly triggered Western intervention.
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Judge Rules 9/11 Defendant Unfit for Trial after CIA Torture Made Him Psychotic
AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
22 Sep 2023 – A military judge at Guantánamo Bay has ruled a 9/11 defendant incompetent to stand trial after a military medical panel found that the man’s sustained abuse in CIA custody years earlier had rendered him lastingly psychotic.
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Peace Disruption by Weaponisation of Water Security through the Passage of Time (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
This paper discusses water security from the perspectives of the history of water supply disruptions from antiquity through to the 21st century, and how empires, cities and towns have been decimated by weaponisation of water scarcity over the millennia.
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Wish You the Best (Music Video of the Week)
Lewis Capaldi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Lyrics Below – Please click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy the video.
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Consciousness and the Nature of the Universe: Panpsychism in the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Coined in the sixteenth century by the Italian philosopher and proto-scientist Francesco Patrizi, whose work inspired Galileo, panpsychism is the idea that all matter is endowed with the capacity for subjective experience of immaterial quality — the sort of experience we call, in its expression familiar to us, consciousness.
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(Italiano) Guerre perpetue degli Stati Uniti d’America
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Settembre 2023 – Guerre perpetue… Il complesso militar-industriale ha bisogno di nemici. Senza di loro avvizzirebbe. Non possiamo sbarazzare il mondo di queste pazzesche armi antiumane prima che tutto ciò che vale nel nostro magnifico mondo venga ridotto a ceneri radioattive? Non possiamo sgombrare il mondo dall’istituzione della guerra?
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Real Savings
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
A Suggestion…
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 September had been set by the United Nations as the International Day of Peace when, through meditation and action, we try to advance a culture of peace. This September there were enough armed conflicts and areas of tension so that we did not have to search far for objects of study.
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The Mass-Media Memory Hole – Blair, Ukraine and Libya
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023 – A key function of the ‘mainstream’ state-corporate media is to keep the public pacified, ignorant and ill-equipped to disrupt establishment power. Knowledge on how the world operates politically and economically is kept to a minimum. George Orwell’s famous ‘memory hole’ from ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ signifies the phenomenon brilliantly.
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The Future of Muslims in Saffronsed India
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is inflaming hatred of Muslims in India, as the world looks the other way. Hindu hard-liners, one holding a sword, chant slogans against Muslim communities. A darker narrative is starting to define Modi’s India.
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G-7 and BRICS Visions of the Future: Coercive Geopolitics or Multilateral Cooperation?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
17 Sep 2023 – A modified version of this post was published in CounterPunch on 8 Sep 2023, which itself is a reconfigured version appearing earlier on TMS (Transcend Media Service) on 4 Sep. Neither version considers the relevance of the Delhi meeting of the G-20, which represents a weaker and somewhat overlapping grouping compared to either G-7 or BRICS.
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U.N. General Assembly Starts: NGO Action Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
With the United Nations General Assembly starting on 19 September 2023, there is a good deal of reflection going on among governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) regarding the effectiveness of the U.N. to meet the challenges facing the world community.
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Beyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – Mother Earth is a sacred, self organized living being. She creates and sustains life. Through her biosphere and her complex ecological processes, she regulates her water systems, her nutrition cycles, and her climate system.
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Libya Climate Crisis Linked to Pentagon-NATO Intervention of 2011
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
13 Sep 2023 – Western foreign policy has destroyed the capacity of Libya and the Kingdom of Morocco to coordinate relief efforts amid the worsening effects of climate change.
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Peace Disruption by Weaponisation of Food Security through the Passage of Time (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
“There is Enough on this Planet for Everyone’s Needs but not for Everyone’s Greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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Climate Collapse – The Grim Silence of Our Leaders
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
14 Sep 2023 – None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of worldwide extreme weather like in this summer. Canadian wildfires, a Hawaiian town incinerated, a Greek island devastated by rainfall, a Libyan town washed into the sea leaving 20,000 dead, killer hurricanes fueled by climate change, heatwaves, floods…
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BRICS: The Quest for a Just Multi-Polar World (video)
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – The BRICS Summit that concluded on 24 Aug 2023 in Johannesburg is a significant milestone in the journey towards a multi-polar world.
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How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote as she contemplated the art of seeing just before the Little Prince sighed his timeless sigh: “What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
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The Elite’s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing–Can We Defeat It? (Part 2)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 – Part 1 of this study introduced the subject and discussed the psychological and political methods used to control our minds. Part 2 will consider the medical and technological methods used and explain what is necessary to win this war.
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(Castellano) C. G. Jung: La espiritualidad como dimensión esencial del alma
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
9 septiembre 2023 – Hoy existe una preocupación fundamental: rescatar la razón sensible o cordial (del corazón) para equilibrar el exceso desastroso de la razón instrumental-analítica. Tenemos que armonizar el logos con el pathos, el anima con el animus si queremos resolver los problemas sociales y enfrentar la alarma ecológica.
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War/No More Trouble (Music Video of the Week)
Bono et al. | Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
This song around the world features musicians who have seen and overcome conflict and hatred with love and perseverance. We don’t need more trouble, what we need is love. The spirit of Bob Marley always lives on.
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Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – Much has been made of the simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, part of the security detail in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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Fernando Botero Angulo, Painter and Sculptor (19 Apr 1932 – 15 Sep 2023)
Nick Caistor | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Colombian painter and sculptor of voluminous figures that grace city centres the world over including Paris, Madrid and London. RIP
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Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
16 Sep 2023 – NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.
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Operational Plan for Transitioning the Military Government into the Hawaiian Kingdom Government
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
12 Sep 2023 – Bringing the U.S. Occupation to an End – What the U.S. military did when they invaded Hawaiian territory and caused the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom government was unlawful, and admitted being so by President Grover Cleveland, but that didn’t mean it ended then and there.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
The military-industrial complex needs enemies. Without them it would wither. Can we not rid the world of these insane and anti-human weapons before everything of value is reduced to radioactive ashes? Can we not rid the world of the institution of war?
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Voting, Democracy, Solutions
The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Really?
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‘War Is Good for Business,’ Declares Executive at London’s Global Arms Fair
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
15 Sep 2023 – “Deals done at DSEI will cause misery across the world, causing global instability, and devastate people’s lives,” one peace activist lamented. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the West’s scramble to arm Ukrainian homeland defenders have been a bonanza for arms-makers.
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Departments for Peace – A Great Institutional Invention
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
15 Sep 2023 – We need to change this culture of militarism, populism and extremism or we will face the scenario of what John F Kennedy said in his speech to the UN in 1961, ‘Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.’
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Alejandra Garcia | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
14 Sep 2023 – Tomorrow the G77+China Summit will kick off in Havana, Cuba, with the attendance of heads of state and government from more than 100 nations.
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What Every Child Should Know about Marx’s Theory of Value
Michael A. Lebowitz | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
September 2023 – The law of value works in mysterious ways. For some Marxists, it underlies everything we need to know about capitalism. But, just as Karl Marx claimed he was not a Marxist, so too might he have said, “that’s not my law of value.”
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It’s Hard to Find Fulfillment in a Civilization That Revolves Around Corporate Profits
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
18 Sep 2023 – Corporate profits are our life. Corporate profits are our religion. Most of us pour more of our energy into generating corporate profits throughout our lives than the most pious monk pours into worshipping any deity.
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The Never-Ending Story
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Ad Nauseam…
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
India has sent a Moon Lander to land on the moon on 22 August.
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Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
All men tend to be free. Freedom is the birth right of every man irrespective of caste, creed and color.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
18-24 September 2023
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Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military’s Climatic Experiments
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
14 Sep 2023 – ‘Climatic Warfare’ Has Been Excluded from the Agenda on Climate Change
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Of Civil Disobedience
Makhtar Diouf | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
This is a citizen’s right. A right of defiance, of distrust towards a State and its institutions when we are convinced that our rights are being violated.
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(Castellano) La Paloma de la paz de Fernando Botero, una obra que ha entrado y salido de la Casa de Nariño
Notícias Caracol - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
La paloma de la paz de Fernando Botero fue creada en 2016, con motivo de la firma del Acuerdo Final de Paz entre el Gobierno Santos y las FARC. Las controversias alrededor suyo no han sobrado.
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Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Women represent half the world’s population ~ and half of its economic potential. A society cannot have sustained economic prosperity and well-being until the central role of women is recognized and their financial health is used to shape policy.
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Intra-BRICS Trade and Analysis 2023
Chris Devonshire-Ellis and Farzad Ramezani Bonesh | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries as a total currently includes about 26% of the total global land mass, and about 42% of the world’s population. This basic clout means that BRICS combined efforts in restructuring the global economy and strengthening economic and financial cooperation have been welcomed by many countries – and been viewed with suspicion elsewhere.
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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
The Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us, bringing together our three primary instruments of investigating reality: empirical science, philosophy, and metaphysics.
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The Expansion of BRICS: Challenges and Uncertainties
William Daldegan | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
13 Sep 2023 – The negotiations for expansion faced significant pressure from the Chinese. In contrast, Brazil and India resisted and, along with South Africa, negotiated for a stance from Russia and China for a broader UN reform. However, this raises uncertainties about the future of BRICS.
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(Italiano) L’intelligenza artificiale e il suo ‘metabolismo’
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
11 Settembre 2023 – Che cos’è l’intelligenza artificiale (IA)? Tra le numerose definizioni disponibili scelgo quella proposta dal sito dell’Unione Europea:
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The Elite’s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing–Can We Defeat It? (Part 1)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
— Steve Biko, South African freedom fighter, beaten to death in an Apartheid prison cell in 1977
A Psychological Evaluation of a Certain Megalomaniacal Narcissistic Paranoid Demagogic Leader from Recent World History
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duluth Reader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
This sometimes charismatic political leader was one of the richest persons in his country yet he was often joked by comedians, regarded as a buffoon, but he impressed his followers at his campaign stops by flying in to his political rallies on a private airplane.
→ read full articleInternational Rules-Based Order vs UN Charter: What You Need to Understand Now
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – It has become commonplace amongst alternative media to see efforts to reframe the conflict between multipolar vs unipolar systems as a chimera devoid of meaning for the “wise” to the Great Game.
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In Hottest Summer Ever, West Bank Sears from Israeli Water Apartheid
Basel Adraa | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Across the West Bank, Palestinians and Israeli settlers have very different access to water resources — even when they live on the same hill.
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The Pentagon Is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room
Melissa Garriga and Tim Biondo | CODEPINK/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – The climate justice movement seems more organized than ever. But, there’s a big elephant in the room, and it has the Pentagon written all over it. The U.S. military is the world’s largest institutional oil consumer.
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Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – Girls who had exposure to modern careers ranging from journalism to teaching have chosen in the past few years to wear the hijab. Most strikingly, however, these women fluently and cogently articulate how they believe Islam has liberated and empowered them.
→ read full articleWhat Must Be Done
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Videos produced by The Drawdown Project outline what must be done to prevent more climate catastrophes worse than the ones already happening. The main staff members of the project, including narrator Jonathan Foley, are climate scientists.
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Fan the Flames: Lahaina on Fire
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – The Looting of Lahaina
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Story of Krishna
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Today, 7 September, is an important day for Hindus — it is called Krishna Janmashtami — the birth of Lord Krishna and the several aspects that are known and believed about his birth. Janam-ashtami indicates the eighth day of the Moon.
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Revisiting John Pilger’s 2016 Warnings about US Warmongering against Russia and China
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – “It’s like listening to a time traveler warning people from the past about a grave mistake they were about to make.”
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In AI Regulation Coverage, Media Let US Lawmakers off the Hook
Julianne Tveten | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – Corporate Press: ‘US Policymakers would like to place guardrails on artificial intelligence, but, given its novel and evolving nature, they’ll need more time.’ This narrative minimizes their responsibility— excusing, rather than interrogating, regulatory inertia.
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What Makes You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
To face the question of what makes us who we are with courage, lucidity, and fullness of feeling is to face, with all the restlessness and helplessness this stirs in the meaning-hungry soul, the elemental fact of our choicelessness in the conditions that lead to our existence.
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Exploring the Centrality of Nonviolent Communication for Resolution of Conflicts and a Culture of Peace
Vedabhyas Kundu | CIC-Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
It can be an important starting point of analyzing and linking Johan Galtung’s conflict triangle using the Gandhian nonviolent communication. It may also be mentioned that Galtung himself was much influenced by Gandhi.
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NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because of NATO Expansion
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
During a speech at the EU Parliament on 7 Sep, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism.
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Belgian Minister Says What Biden Won’t: Israel Is Wiping Entire Palestinian Villages Off the Map
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
3 Sep 2023 – Belgium’s Minister of Development, Caroline Gennez, said in an interview that “Entire villages are being wiped off the map by the Israelis” in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. The Israeli ambassador to Brussels lambasted the remarks as “libel.” To her credit, Ms. Gennez has stood her ground since she is right.
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‘Occupied by the US’: Wildfires Renew Native Hawaiian Call for Sovereignty
Claire Wang | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – As Disaster Capitalists Descend on Lahaina, Indigenous Hawaiians Fight for Self-Governance
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Media: Bad Faith & Blank Checks
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere. An excerpt from Lawrence’s new book, ‘Journalists and Their Shadows.’
→ read full article“The War Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – The War on Afghanistan Is a Profit-driven “Resource War” – US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan more than 20 years ago on 7 Oct 2001. It’s been a continuous war marked by US military occupation. In the wake of the withdrawal of US troops, Afghanistan’s assets were confiscated.
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Peace and War: Russia-Ukraine Conflict Urgently Needs a Dialogue for Peace
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – Mankind Is Being Traumatized for Its Hopes for Peace and Sustainable Future
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Peace Ambassador of Old: Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Ganj-E-Shakar, R.A.
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
A Brilliant Star in the Galaxy Shines Gloriously and Draws even after Death
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A Bad One
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
No Comment
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As the U.S. Wages War on It China Reacts with Defiance
Moon of Alabama - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – Just as U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo returns from China her department issues new restrictions on chip deliveries. But China is not only autarkic in making chips but also in making the delicate machines needed to make them.
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Luis Rubiales the King of the Machirulos
Marcelo Trivelli | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – Machirulo in Spain is a man who boasts of being undisguisedly macho, and is generally used in a derogatory sense. Luis Rubiales, the suspended president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, has confirmed in every performance the well-earned title of “king of the machirulos”.
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Fears of ‘Plantation Disaster Capitalism’ Mount in Wake of Maui Fires
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
“Justice is returning control of public resources like land and water to the people,” wrote one activist. “For too long the strings of Maui and thousands of communities like it have been pulled by forces indifferent to their soul.”
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The Hunt
Balwant (Bill) Bhaneja | The Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Short Fiction
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Haiti Violence: ‘Carnage Needs to Stop’ Says UN Relief Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – Haiti is in the grip of “extreme brutality”, with gang-related violence continuing to force thousands from their homes amidst widespread suffering, said the UN’s top humanitarian official there.
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Depleted Uranium Won’t Bring Peace to Ukraine
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – Militarism is obsolete, for God’s sake. Its technology is out of control. The latest news left me stunned and terror-stricken: “The Biden administration will send munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, despite the dangers such weapons pose to civilians.”
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New BRICS Bloc Will Democratize World Economy and Global South Future
Pedro Mzileni | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – The addition of Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Argentina, Egypt, and Iran to the BRICS block is the consolidation of a struggle to end the domination of this planet by Washington. The future of the world is in the Global South.
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Condolences on the Passing of Dr. M.S. Gosavi
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – I am extremely shocked to hear the news about the death of Dr. M.S. Gosavi, Director General and Secretary, Gokhale Education Society, Nashik, Maharashtra, India on 9 Jul 2023. This is my delayed condolences because I was not aware of his death.
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Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Talk at the Lokahi Cultural Center in Wai`anae, Honolulu, Hawaii – The Theft of the Hawaiian Islands Kingdom by the United States of America
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