Articles by |
We found 10503 results.
History of the US Space Command
Will Griffin | GNspace4peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
1 Nov 2021 – A general history of the US Space Command (USSPACECOM)
→ read full article
Ethiopia: “I’ve Lost Faith in Everything American”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – Last month TRANSCEND Media Service published my interview with Jemal Countess, a photographer who has traveled back and forth between the US and Ethiopia since Nov 2020, when the civil war started. This is Part II of that interview.
→ read full article
Billions of Euros to “Innovate” the Nuclear NATO
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research/Il Manifesto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
26 Oct 2021 – “NATO has ended up in the attic,” wrote the political commentators of several newspapers a month ago, after France had withdrawn its ambassador from Washington on September 16. It was Paris’ protest at being excluded from the strategic-military partnership between the United States, Great Britain and Australia.
→ read full article
(Italiano) Lanza del Vasto al tempo del coronavirus
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Ottobre 2021 – Lanza del Vasto era contro questo progresso del suo tempo. A lungo è stato irriso come un retrogrado infantile. Ma che cosa significare il progresso oggi? Oggi l’1% della popolazione mondiale possiede il 50% delle ricchezze. Ma vediamo in dettaglio questo progresso.
→ read full article
Comparable Modalities of Aesthetics, Logic and Dialogue
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
In the Light of Correspondences between Their Polyhedral Representation – The following speculative argument explores some implications for the relation between disciplines and practitioners — ensconced in their respective ivory towers — and the potential relevance for governance which is typically irrelevant to them.
→ read full article
Alex Saab’s Statement before Being Extracted from Cape Verde by United States Regime (Letter)
Ambassador Alex Nain Saab Moran | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
This letter was read—with tears in her eyes—by Camila Fabri, Alex Saab’s wife, during a demonstration in repudiation of the second kidnapping of the Venezuelan diplomat from Cape Verde by the US, held in Caracas’ Plaza Bolívar on 17 Oct 2021, attended by a crowd of indignant Venezuelans.
→ read full article
Indigenous Groups Officially Excluded from COP26 Continue Calling for Action
Climate Nexus | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Indigenous groups from around the world are preparing to travel to Glasgow for COP26 to demand a greater say in negotiations. However, despite being among the least culpable and most harmed by the climate crisis, they will not be fully credentialed.
→ read full article
After Afghanistan, Time to Review and Reset ASEAN & International Policies towards Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – The vicious dialectic of “failed international policies AND failed Myanmar state”, will need to be placed at the right, left and centre of the new international policy debates on Myanmar. Repeating the same strategy of dangling the sweet discourse of mediation before the intransigent mass-murderous generals of Myanmar without the serious stick of international accountability will simply not do.
→ read full article
The New Generation as World Patriots: Climate Change, Nukes & War
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – Young people are increasingly becoming world citizens and World Patriots. They want to save the world. The biggest mistake by climate change activists is a failure to demand an end to war as one of its top priorities. US/NATO with over 700 foreign military bases is one of the largest polluters in the world while also illegally attacking a number of nations.
→ read full article
One Fine Day: David Byrne Performs His Hymn of Optimism and Countercultural Anthem of Resistance and Resilience with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
“I complete my tasks, one by one. I remove my masks, when I am done…”
→ read full article
Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
→ read full article
Disarmament Week? But Hundreds of Nukes Can Be Launched within Minutes
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Hadn’t it been so worrisome, it would be ironic to hear that humanity is to mark the World Disarmament Week (Oct 24 to 30, 2021) barely six months after learning that the world’s biggest military powers had spent last year some 2,000,000,000,000 US dollars on killing machines.
→ read full article
How U.S. Interference in Cuba Creates a False Picture of Its Society
Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
26 Oct 2021 – The atmosphere is charged. The U.S. government and right-wing Cubans who are in the U.S. Congress have tried to define the terrain for events in mid-November in Cuba. They will ramp up pressure to overthrow the government.
→ read full article
The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. If he is extradited, it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting. He exposed the truth. He exposed it over and over and over until there was no question of the endemic illegality, corruption and mendacity that defines the global ruling elite. And for these truths alone he is guilty.
→ read full article
Any End to This Suicidal War? (I)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – The Destruction of the Web of Life – Can yet another dispendious world gathering find a way to halt the ongoing suicidal war on Nature, which is leading to the destruction of all sources of life?
→ read full article
Michael Jackson 5 Medley (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 | Mark Dukes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
It’s important that current and future generations understand the shock wave this performance created. It not only launched Michael into super-stardom, it had a significant cultural impact. It was the first time, on a global scale, that non-black teens by the millions were idolizing a black artist. Long Live the King!!! Please Click on Watch on YouTube
→ read full article
Appeal Hearing: CIA’s War on Assange, Their ‘Most Prominent Critic,’ Takes Center Stage
Kevin Gosztola and Mohamed Elmaazi | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – The CIA’s record of retaliation against Assange, including reported plans to kidnap or assassinate him, was the focus on the second day of the appeal hearing. It was part of the Assange legal team’s effort to convince the High Court of Justice of the gravity of the risks he would face if they allowed extradition to the USA.
→ read full article
“The Spoils of War”: How Profits Rather Than Empire Define Success for the Pentagon
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Andrew Cockburn’s new book is an incredible compendium of avarice and folly. “War-fighting efficiency has a low priority,” he writes, “by comparison with considerations of personal and internal bureaucracies. … The military are generally not interested in war, save as a means to budget enhancement.”
→ read full article
The World According to Vladimir Putin
Pepe Escobar | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
23 Oct 2021 – Russian president, in Sochi, lays down the law in favor of conservatism – says the woke West is in decline.
→ read full article
(Português) Alterações climáticas e elites suicidas
Manuel Casal Lodeiro | Esquerda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
30 out 2021 – Se o Painel Intergovernamental sobre Alterações Climáticas finalmente censurar o aviso de que o capitalismo é insustentável, ou se os governos se recusarem a cumprir este diagnóstico, estaremos a caminhar para uma guerra de uma minoria contra toda a vida atual e futura.
→ read full article
Julian Assange’s Health Is Central to Upcoming Ruling on Extradition to the U.S.
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – In a case that puts press freedoms on trial, a British appeals court is considering the suicide risk should Assange be sent abroad.
→ read full article
U.S. Empire: The Global Grim Reaper! And It’s Not Just for Halloween!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
26 Oct 2021 – The U.S. Military is the greatest polluter and creator of chaos on the planet. All Empires eventually crumble and fall. I know of no empire in history that has repented and made an about face. The chickens from the U.S. Empire’s foreign wars are coming home to roost with increased spread of violence, hate and division.
→ read full article
Snowden Calls Assange ‘Political Criminal’ Ahead of Extradition Hearing, Where the Pressure Might Now Be on Biden’s Legal Team
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden went on the attack against the US and UK and he appealed for the freedom of his pal, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, who faces the US’ attempt to overturn a UK court decision to deny his extradition.
→ read full article
The Julian Assange Case
Chris Hedges | On Contact/RT America - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
23 Oct 2021 – Chris Hedges talks to documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist John Pilger about the upcoming appeals hearing in London for the Julian Assange case.
→ read full article
Multilevel Marketing Scams Expose Capitalism’s Foundational Lie
Luke Savage | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
23 Oct 2021 – Pyramid schemes aren’t a corruption of capitalism — they’re a microcosm of how the class system arbitrarily creates winners and losers while falsely promising opportunity for all.
→ read full article
Blinken: US Policy Is to ‘Oppose the Reconstruction of Syria’
Dave DeCamp | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
The US Has Ruled Out Normalizing with Syria
→ read full article
Public Health or Private Wealth? How Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way for Unprecedented Surveillance Capitalism
Jeremy Loffredo and Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
19 Oct 2021 – For those yearning for an end to pandemic-related restrictions, credential programs certifying their vaccination against Covid-19 are the key to reopening the economy and restoring their personal freedom. But the implementation of immunity passports is also accelerating the establishment of a global digital identity infrastructure as titans of global capitalism are exploiting the crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems.
→ read full article
The Myth of Redemptive Violence
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Several million dollars’ worth of fiction exploded the other day, leaving cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — age 42, a wife, a mom — dead, and plunging Alec Baldwin, who accidentally shot her, into a state of unimaginable hell.
→ read full article
Any End to This Suicidal War? (II)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
29 Oct 2021 – More Lethal Gases and Fewer, Weaker Sinks – Another Year Another Record! The emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise, the land and sea temperatures are higher than ever since there are records, and the ecosystems could fail their role as vital sinks absorbing carbon dioxide and as a buffer against larger temperature increases.
→ read full article
The Pandora Papers–Why Such Passivity?
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – It is disappointing that the Malaysian government has chosen to adopt a passive approach to the Pandora Papers. Leaving it to the police to investigate may suggest that the government is not prepared to assume leadership in setting the moral tone for society.
→ read full article
Colin Powell: In Life and Death
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Colin Powell died on Monday [18 Oct 2021] at the age of 84. Richard Falk reflects on Powell’s life and the US reaction to his passing including the relevance of identity politics, the question of moderation, his contribution to the horrors of Vietnam and Iraq, and US governmental hypocrisy in the wake of its January 2020 assassination of the comparable Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.
→ read full article
On Denigrating the Humanities
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – This post reflects on the brutal frankness of this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor Joshua Angrist, unqualified rationale for leaving his faculty position at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for a higher paying professorship at MIT. The put down of literature is mindlessly irresponsible and civilizationally obtuse.
→ read full article
Has Interpol Become the Long Arm of Oppressive Regimes?
Josh Jacobs | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
17 Oct 2021 – Once used in the hunt for fugitive criminals, the global police agency’s most-wanted ‘red notice’ list now includes political refugees and dissidents.
→ read full article
Rewilding Food, Rewilding Our Mind & Rewilding the Earth
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Regenerating Biodiversity in our farms, forests, and our Gut Microbiome for Zero Hunger and Good – Mother Earth is self-organised. Mother Earth has created and sustained Diversity.
→ read full article
Melbourne: The Longest in Lockdown
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Asia-Pacific Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – The lockdowns – six in total – came with overly vigilant threatened and threatening police, punitive powers of hefty magnitude, mask mandates, curfews, limits on recreation time and demarcated areas of travel.
→ read full article
Youth, Violence and Peace: Experiences from Cali and Medellín
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – The text, originally in Spanish, is published by Universidad de Medellín in a joint research project with the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Cali) in Colombia. The book can be downloaded for free here.
→ read full article
What It’s Like to Watch a Harpooned Whale Die Right before Your Eyes
Captain Paul Watson | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
19 Oct 2021 – Author Paul Watson has no problem with critics calling him and his marine-life-defending colleagues pirates—it’s far better than helplessly standing by and doing nothing in the face of the violence against animals they have witnessed.
→ read full article
Beloved Writers on the Mightiest Antidote to Depression
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
“It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, the dark threw its patches down upon me also,” Walt Whitman wrote. On the consolations of monarchs and of stars.
→ read full article
Pity the Nation
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Poetic Reflection – 17 Oct 2021
→ read full article
‘Unconscionable’: Pfizer, Moderna to Rake in Combined $93 Billion in 2022 COVID Vaccine Sales
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
19 Oct 2021 – A report by health data analytics group, Airfinity, projects “unprecedented” sales and profits for Pfizer and Moderna in 2022. According to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, the companies are pricing their vaccines by as much as $41 billion above the estimated cost of production.
→ read full article
Taiwan Deaths from COVID-19 Vaccination Exceed Deaths from COVID-19
Medical Trend | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
On 7 Oct 2021, the death toll after vaccination in Taiwan reached 852, while the death toll after the COVID-19 was diagnosed was 844. The number of deaths after vaccination exceeded the number of confirmed deaths for the first time.
→ read full article
Senseless
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Excellent Question
→ read full article
Wall Street’s Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class
Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
13 Oct 2021 – A project of the multilateral development banking system, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that will put, not just the natural world, but the processes underpinning all life, up for sale under the guise of promoting “sustainability.”
→ read full article
Stop Being Polite – Colin Powell Was a Killer
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Colin Powell has died, and the hagiographic obituaries are upon us. Throughout his career, Powell did a swell job of rallying and maintaining bipartisan support for imperial killing – and putting as ‘polite’ a face as possible on it.
→ read full article
The United States Is Doubling Down on Deadly Sanctions
Sanctions Kill Coalition | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
The 2021 Sanctions Review Report ordered by President Biden and released on 18 Oct 2021 is an ominous warning. It shows US is intensifying its economic warfare despite the covid-19 pandemic.
→ read full article
From Russia, with (Taliban) Love
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – Asia’s powerbrokers dropped an Afghan bombshell in Moscow today: ‘The country’s reconstruction must be paid for by its military occupiers of 20 years.’
→ read full article
The Syrian Charity Scam
Paul Larudee | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Americans want to feel good about themselves by giving money to charities that claim to be helping the Syrian people. But they are being duped into supporting terrorist forces that have brought misery and violence to the country—while crippling U.S. sanctions accentuate the humanitarian crisis.
→ read full article
‘In the Spirit of Mandela’: International Tribunal Seeks to Charge U.S. Government with Crimes Against Humanity
Bob Lederer and Matt Meyer | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – An historic International Tribunal on U.S. Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples will take place in New York City on October 22-25, 2021. It is designed to propel this and related issues into the forefront of public consciousness.
→ read full article
‘Indefensible’: US Billionaires Became $2.1 Trillion Richer in 19 Months of Pandemic
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – New analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies shows that just 745 individuals have combined $5 trillion in wealth, most of which will never be taxed.
→ read full article
1901-1934: “Yankee Imperialism” in Latin America
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
On 20 Jun 1898, as U.S. troops prepared to land in Cuba to “pacify” the island, Assist. Sec. State Francis Loomis writing to his boss, Sec. State William Day, declared, “I think it our destiny to control more or less directly most all of the Latin American countries.” One means to this end was economic domination. “It is possible to attain commercial ascendancy in them in much the same way that England does in China, by lending them money and administering their revenues.”
→ read full articleGrabbed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
22 Oct 2021 – Imagine that the land your family has worked for generations is suddenly stripped away from you, purchased by wealthy companies or governments to produce food, bio-fuels or simply as a profitable investment for far away people. Land grabbing is the purchase or lease of large tracts of fertile land by public or private entities. It involves millions of hectares, equivalent to an area as big as Spain, and it continues to spread relentlessly.
→ read full article
Outgoing U.N. Envoy Says Myanmar Has Spiraled into Civil War
Michelle Nichols | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – Myanmar has spiraled into civil war following a military coup, the outgoing U.N. special envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, said today, warning that the chance to return to democracy is disappearing and signaling that further targeted sanctions could be helpful.
→ read full article
People’s Court Tries US and Asks for Assange’s Freedom
Prensa Latina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021 – A people’s court here today condemned the United States for war crimes committed in the name of the fight against terrorism, and demanded the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The symbolic hearing was organised a week before the British judiciary hears an appeal by US prosecutors to extradite the Australian journalist.
→ read full article
Assange: A Threat to War Itself
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – The Pentagon’s offer of “condolence money” to the relatives of the ten people (seven of them children) who were killed in the final U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan — originally declared righteous and necessary — bears a troubling connection to the government’s ongoing efforts to get its hands on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and punish him for exposing the inconvenient truth of war.
→ read full article
The Long Haitian Revolution
Pierre Labossiere, Margaret Prescod and Camila Valle | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.” —C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins
→ read full article
Iraq/Afghanistan: Same Fate?
Kilian Bello | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
In February 2020, an agreement by the Trump administration and the Taliban was signed in Doha, Qatar, for complete withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan in May 2021.
→ read full article
The Horror – Reflecting on the Massacre of 1,428 Dolphins on the Faroe Islands
Astrid Fuchs | Whale and Dolphin Conservation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Astrid Fuchs has worked to try to end the hunts for more than 10 years. She reflects on the reasons the hunts continue and why it’s so hard to find a way to stop them.
→ read full article
Blessed Be the Warmakers? Why Post-9/11 American Religious Leaders Must Atone
Jack Gilroy | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
5 Oct 2021 – Who Profits When Our Pastors of Peace Become Enablers of War?
→ read full article
The Banners of the King of Hell Advance
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
For we are living in a world of endless propaganda and simulacra where vast numbers of people are hypnotized and can’t determine the difference between the real world of nature, the body, etc. and digital imagery. Reality has disappeared into screens. Simulation has swallowed the distinction between the real world and its representations. Meaning has migrated to the margins of consciousness. This process is not yet complete but getting there.
→ read full article
Biden Demands Ethiopia’s Unconditional Surrender
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – President Joe Biden continues to play the cluelessly racist and paternalistic Ugly American in the Horn of Africa. Under his leadership, the US has been at war with Ethiopia since last November.
→ read full article
Pattern of 14-Foldness as an Implicit Organizing Principle for Governance?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – The case for the following search of web resources follows from two similar investigations undertaken previously. Web searches were undertaken to determine the extent to which a 14-fold pattern was used to organize information of relevance to any form of governance. A key question is how the individual results are to be interpreted.
→ read full article
Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ celebrates his 91st birthday. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHAN!
→ read full article
The Story of Cap and Trade
Annie Leonard | The Story of Stuff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution discussed at the Copenhagen 2009 UN Climate Change Conference. The energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme; the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals.
→ read full article
The Rebranding of Antisemitism after the Holocaust
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – This post is concerned with the legacy of the Holocaust as providing antisemitism as a policy tool exploited by Israel and Zionist activists to intensify Palestinian suffering and deflect attention from Israeli wrongdoing. My main contention is that the Holocaust experience accentuated the tendencies of the Zionist movement to be opportunistic in the course of its long effort to attain, little by little, its territorial and ideological goals.
→ read full article
Tyrants of the Nanny State: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the so-called name of the national good by an elite class of governmental and corporate officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions. We, the middling classes, are not so fortunate.
→ read full article
The Nobel Peace Prize Should Have Gone to Julian Assange
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – To some extent one must applaud the choice of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists who have dared to defy government pressure. Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov certainly merit the distinction. But there is another journalist who is even more deserving and his recognition would have contributed far more to the cause of world peace. That is Julian Assange.
→ read full article
The Statelessness Pandemic
Laura van Waas and Natalie Brinham | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
15 Oct 2021 – Over time, denaturalization has rightly come to be seen as a violation of human rights. But, as recent histories of the problem show, the international community still faces the same conundrum that it did a century ago, when droves of newly stateless people appealed to it for protection. At least 15 million people today are stateless, and millions more are threatened with national exclusion. The issue of statelessness thus demands urgent attention, as do works of history that shed light on the problem.
→ read full article
NATO’s Plans to Hack Your Brain
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
8 Oct 2021 – Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militaries. Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.”
→ read full article
(Italiano) Una Costituzione della Terra
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
15 Ottobre 2021 – Il Centro Studi Sereno Regis, insieme ad altre realtà cittadine per la pace, promuove e ospita questo incontro “Per una Costituzione della Terra–Festival della Nonviolenza” 20 ottobre 2021.
→ read full article
(Italiano) L’utilizzo di combustibili fossili deve cessare
John Scales Avery | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
15 Ottobre 2021 – Il rapporto di 4.000 pagine del Comitato Internazionale sul Cambiamento Climatico afferma che “Abbiamo necessità di un cambiamento trasformativo che agisca sui processi e i comportamenti a tutti i livelli: individuale, comunitario, aziendale, istituzionale e governativo. Dobbiamo ridefinire il nostro modo di vivere e i consumi”.
→ read full article
UN Told Failure to Deal with Diversity Is Root Cause of Wars
Edith M. Lederer | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
One by one, South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki listed African countries Tuesday [12 Oct] where the failure to deal with diversity was a root cause of conflict, from the Biafran war in Nigeria in the late 1960s to the current clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. He also cited “the centrality of failure properly to manage diversity” in the conflicts in Congo, Burundi, Ivory Coast and Sudan.
→ read full article
A Zen Koan on Columbus Day
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
13 Oct 2021 – It’s too easy, right? Too simple — shoving Christopher Columbus off the historical honor roll, pulling down his statues, yanking his “day” away from him and renaming it in honor of the people he murdered, kidnapped, turned into property?
→ read full article
The Final Solution. Full Digitization. “The QR Codification of the World”
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – How come, it hasn’t occurred to everyone yet, that there is something wrong? Badly wrong. Can it be that it is simply cognitive dissonance? You know that there is something horribly wrong, but your comfort zone doesn’t allow you to admit it? That was the case in the Third Reich – that brought forward Hitler’s tyranny. The rest is history.
→ read full article
Thomas Wolfe on Ambition, Gratitude, and the True Measure of Success, in Letters to His Mother
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
“It is not all bad, but it is not all good, it is not all ugly, but it is not all beautiful, it is life, life, life — the only thing that matters.”
→ read full article
Goodbye, Columbus? Here’s What Indigenous Peoples’ Day Means to Native Americans
Emma Bowman | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
President Biden issued a proclamation on Friday [8 Oct] to observe this Oct. 11 as a day to honor Native Americans, their resilience and their contributions to American society even as they faced assimilation, discrimination and genocide. The move shifts focus from Columbus Day, the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus.
→ read full article
Parting Thoughts from a Humanitarian Reporter
Ben Parker | The New Humanitarian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
8 Oct 2021 – ‘Reporting on the aid industry can lurch between boosting or bashing – and not much in between.’ Co-founder, former CEO and long-time editor Ben Parker is leaving The New Humanitarian. Here are his reflections on years of reporting on the aid industry.
→ read full article
Understand the GOP Bible
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
And Jesus said…
→ read full article
The Rehearsal Is Over
Charles Eisenstein | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
10 Oct 2021 – A friend wrote me about her dilemma. She owns a company employing hundreds of people and is a staunch critic of that-which-shall-not-be-named. She said she has been trying to fly under the radar until sanity is restored, but with looming mandates for large employers, the radar will soon turn on her. What will she do? I will share with you the inner monologue that her note provoked in me.
→ read full article
From Sci-Fi to Reality: How the US Space Force Launched a Digital Revolution
Nathan Strout | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – All courtesy of the well-educated but passive masses who accept the falsehood that Armed Forces are a deterrent.
→ read full article
The Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built Will Look Back in Time to the Dark Ages of the Universe
Chris Impey | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex piece of mechanical origami that has pushed the limits of human engineering. On Dec. 18, 2021, after years of delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns, the telescope is scheduled to launch into orbit and usher in the next era of astronomy.
→ read full article
(Italiano) Iron Dome Israeliane: la farsa del finanziamento USA
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
4 Ottobre 2021 – Che gli Stati Uniti paghino il conto per ricostituire la scorta di missili nel sistema difensivo israeliano Iron Dome (Cupola di Ferro) utilizzato durante l’attacco a Gaza in maggio è una caricatura di legalità e giustizia.
→ read full article
Diet for a Dead or Dying Planet
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
The Giant Food Corporations and Their Cunningly Marketed “Happy Meals for All” Are Making Us Sick
→ read full article
(Français) Le Prix Nobel de la Paix Aurait du Être Attribué à Julian Assange
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 oct. 2021 – Dans une certaine mesure, il faut applaudir le choix du prix Nobel de la paix de cette année à deux journalistes qui ont osé défier la pression du gouvernement. Maria Ressa et Dmitry Muratov méritent certainement la distinction. Mais il y a un autre journaliste qui le mérite encore plus et sa reconnaissance aurait contribué beaucoup plus à la cause de la paix mondiale. C’est Julian Assange.
→ read full articleInstitutional Blackmail — No Jab, No Job, No Livelihood
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – Reframing Virtual Death and Assisted Dying by “Just Suffering Theory” – Governments’ responses to the pandemic have been cautiously sensitive to the concerns articulated in the Nuremberg Code. Yet, progressively those provisions have been circumvented through policies of “No Jab, No Job”, with restrictions imposed on the unvaccinated–and freedoms reserved for the vaccinated.
→ read full article
L’ONU 75enne: una storia mista di delusioni e adempimenti
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
8 Ottobre 2021 – L’ONU: S’impegna aldilà del suo potenziale [“fa a pugni sopra la sua classe di peso”] ? Le pressioni verso l’unità e il bene pubblico globale possono ricostruire un’ONU orientata e autorizzata a servire gli interessi umani piuttosto che quelli nazionali o la geopolitica? Il suo contributo è nella politica simbolica, come “una superpotenza soft power”, il suo segretario generale è quasi solo come una voce rispettata della ragione e dell’empatia o un gentile critico dell’eccesso geopolitico.
→ read full article
The Research Is Clear: Ivermectin Is a Safe, Effective Treatment for COVID. So Why Isn’t It Being Used?
Dr. Elizabeth Mumper | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021 – Despite efforts to denigrate Ivermectin as “horse paste” and prevent doctors from prescribing it and patients from using it, the latest research shows this safe, inexpensive drug is effective at keeping COVID patients out of the hospital.
→ read full articleLessons for Ethically-compromised Physicians in 2021 from the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
Collated by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021 – The Medical Case, U.S.A. vs. Karl Brandt, et al. (also known as the Doctors’ Trial), was prosecuted in 1946-47 against twenty-three doctors and administrators accused of organizing and participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the form of medical experiments and medical procedures inflicted on prisoners and civilians.
→ read full article
The Cult of the Vaccine
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
8 Oct 2021 – “The Jab” Is Just the Latest Story to Be Reported as Mantra
→ read full article
How the U.S. Derailed an Effort to Prosecute Its Crimes in Afghanistan
Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
5 Oct 2021 – The new chief prosecutor of the ICC, Karim Khan, sought to reopen a suspended investigation in Afghanistan but it would not include conduct by the USA and its allies. He wrote in a statement that his office would focus exclusively on crimes committed by the Taliban and by the Islamic State Khorasan Province, or IS-K. His decision came after years of U.S. obstruction.
→ read full article
US Denounced as ‘Biggest Peddler of Financial Secrecy’ after Pandora Papers Leak
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
“U.S. President Biden must match his own rhetoric on shutting down global illicit finance, and start with the biggest offender—his own country. The biggest blockers to transparency are the U.S. … and the U.K., the leader of the world’s biggest tax haven network.”
→ read full article
Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview
Frances Haugen | 60 Minutes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021 – Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.” Scott Pelley reports.
→ read full article
“Carbon Capture” – Two World Views, Two Technology Paradigms, Two Economic Systems, Two Futures
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – The Earth is Living. She is Gaia, Pachamama, Vasundhara, Terra Madre. For indigenous cultures she is Mother Earth. Even scientists like James Lovelock call her Gaia because they have understood that she is living. The living Earth is a biological self organised self-regulated living system. She is auotopoietic. She has evolved her biodiversity and her complex biosphere over billions of years. Through the biosphere she creates and regulates her climate systems. The Earth’s living systems ,the “Gaian system”, self-regulates global temperature, atmospheric content, ocean salinity, thus maintaining the infrastructure for life to persist and evolve .
→ read full article
Your Money AND Your Life
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
9 Oct 2021 – Central Banks Digital Currencies Will Ransom Our Future
→ read full article
(Français) PEGASUS israélien: votre téléphone est-il un instrument de surveillance permanente?
Belen Fernandez | Investig'Action/Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – Le scandale « Pegasus » est le dernier épisode en date du thriller de science-fiction dystopique, mais bien réel que nous vivons à l’heure actuelle.
→ read full article
Instascam
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Big Brother 2021
→ read full article
Shell Shocked in Amhara, Ethiopia: “I don’t even want to hear the word ‘America’”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – A displaced person in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region told photographer and human rights investigator Jemal Countess that he didn’t want to talk to him because he was American and “didn’t even want to hear the word America” because of all the damage America has done in Ethiopia.
→ read full article
The Spoils of War
Mary Kaldor | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Andrew Cockburn, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine (Verso) –
A chilling account of how corruption has become institutionalised at the heart of the U.S. war machine with consequences for us all.
The Amazon Rainforest Is Losing 200,000 Acres a Day–Soon It Will Be Too Late
Kim Heacox | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – Three days before Christmas, 1988, Brazilian rubber tapper and environmental activist Chico Mendes was shot dead by a rancher’s son. Since his murder, nearly 1 million sq km of the Amazon, an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined, have been destroyed: an average of 200,000 acres every day, or 40 football fields per minute.
→ read full article
Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
“Often the places we grow up in… influence how we perceive and conceptualize the world, give us metaphors to live by, and shape the purpose that drives us.”
→ read full article
Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
→ read full article