Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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My Mother’s Day
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
14 May 2023
The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
“Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.”
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Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families (Part 1 of 6)
Dean Henderson - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
9 May 2023 – The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European behemoths. The Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.
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A Historic Defeat of Imperialism: Arab League Readmits Syria
Dave DeCamp | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – On Sunday [7 May], the Arab League voted to readmit Syria, marking a significant step in Damascus’ efforts to normalize relations with regional countries. Assad Could Attend an Arab League Summit in Saudi Arabia Later This Month
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Talking about Growth Miracle and Emerging Quadripolar Economic Construct
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Policymakers in developing economies should rethink and prepare for recalibration of policy compatibility in the emerging geopolitical quadripolar economic construct. This may be the beginning of a new World Economic Order.
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Martyred…
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
… by the Present Evil Empire
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War for Profit: A Very Short History
Brad Wolf | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – As they did over a century ago ahead of WW I, the Merchants of Death thrive behind a veil of duplicity and slick media campaigns. Wherever they go, suffering and death, war crimes and atrocities, profits, and stock buybacks follow.
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As Arab States Seek Peace, US Insists That Syrians Suffer
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
14 May 2023 – After the Arab League re-admits Syria, Washington threatens new sanctions to prevent reconstruction.
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Unceasing Human Attacks on the Source of 80% of Food, 98% of Oxygen
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – Plants are the source of 80% of all food, and as much as 98% of all oxygen. Logically, human beings would do anything to protect this essential source of life. But do they? Not at all. Rather the whole contrary.
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AI Machines Aren’t ‘Hallucinating’. But Their Makers Are
Naomi Klein | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative Artificial Intelligence will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves
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Senate Report: Nearly 700 Former High-Ranking Pentagon and Other Government Officials Now Work at the Top 20 Defense Contractors
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
12 May 2023 – Ideally, Warren’s report would precipitate a much larger congressional investigation of the military-industrial complex modeled after the 1934 Nye Committee hearings.
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(Português) O Colapso Atual da Ética
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
12 maio 2023 – Percebo dois fatores principais, entre outros, que atingem o coração da ética: a globalização do capitalismo depredador e a mercantilização da sociedade.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s report highlights that some 250 million persons are living under acute food insecurity, with the DRC leading with some 27 million due to armed violence and the breakdown of governmental structures.
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There Is No Escape from Telling
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
A new Dark Age is closing upon us, as Max Weber noted more than a century ago when he described the people who run our societies and educational institutions as “specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
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Can African Farmers Still Feed the World?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – In 2016, Africa had 60-65% of the world’s uncultivated arable land and 10% of renewable freshwater resources. According to the AU, African farmers could feed the world. Is it still the case?
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Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know
Matt Taibbi, et al. | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – The Citizen’s Starter Kit to Understanding the New Global Information Cartel
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Peace Disruption: Multipronged Treatment for this Cancerous Malady
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
13 May 2023 – Peace Disruptions at a personal level, as well as globally, have reached pandemic proportions. Oh you selfish humans, curtail this malady, forthwith.
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This Is What Dystopia Looks Like
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
3 May 2023 – Simpsons characters waving Ukrainian flags; an opera about a drone operator sponsored by General Dynamics; Bono drawing pictures of Zelenksy and Sesame Street working with USAID in Iraq.
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Covid Vaccines and Mortality: The RCT Review
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
May 2023 – The real scandal is that Covid vaccine manufacturers suppressed or excluded serious and deadly vaccine adverse events during their clinical trials. But the bigger scandal is that coronavirus is a synthetic virus—engineered in the US, not in China–released either accidentally or deliberately.
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Headless Hounds
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Headless hounds from Boston Dynamics.
Headless hounds from Raytheon.
Headless hounds in our nightmares huddled shivering under US flags
Pakistan Goes to Anarchy and Self-Destruction
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – The suspicious, paranoid and much hated illegitimate Sharifs, Bhuttos and the Generals are unleashing blind terror against the masses of Pakistan. The unprecedented abduction of Imran Khan, the former PM by the paratroopers…
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Sudan Talks Held in Saudi Arabia Reveal Underlying Crisis of Governance
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
11 May 2023 – Jedda negotiations illustrate the role of Washington and its allies in the Gulf Region.
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Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (2)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Quoted from the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi.
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Report Unpacks Dangers of Emerging Military Tech from AI Nukes to Killer Robots
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
“While the media and the U.S. Congress have devoted much attention to the purported benefits of exploiting cutting-edge technologies for military use, far less has been said about the risks involved.”
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A Mini World in Goa
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Goa is a small state on the west coast of India not very far from the well known city of Bombay. It has been ruled by various dynasties alternatively Hindu, Muslim, Hindu again. It was annexed by Portugal in 1510 by the initiative of Albuquerque who did not disturb the culture and customs of the local people.
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Boyfriend Trouble
Maria Salmon | Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
A teenager brings her new boyfriend home to meet her parents.
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The Army We Don’t See
Andrea Mazzarino | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
9 May 2023 – The Private Soldiers Who Fight in North America’s Name
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NATO’s Stealthy Expansion into Asia-Pacific Can Blow up Region
Alex Lo | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – A proxy war in Ukraine is not enough for NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg, who clearly thinks his mandate extends to containing China in its own backyard.
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Artificial Emotional Intelligence and Its Human Implications
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
There is currently no lack of references to the major future impacts of artificial intelligence on global civilization at every level. Some of these are anticipated with concern, especially with warnings of how AI is likely to be misused to undermine valued social processes and employment, whether deliberately or inadvertently.
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Sudan: The New Geopolitical Battlefield between East and West?
Matthew Ehret | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – The potential outbreak of a civil war sparked by a factional fight within Sudan’s military government poses a destabilization threat beyond the nation’s borders – into Africa, West Asia, and the emerging multipolar order. This suits the West just fine.
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To Close All US Military Bases, We First Have to Identify Them
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – The global infrastructure of the American military empire must be mapped before it can be properly dismantled. Meet the person who is doing just that.
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Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
3 May 2023 – Historian Alfred W. McCoy discusses China’s rapid economic and political rise and how Beijing is well positioned to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. PODCAST
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Updates on the Economic War and the Political Crisis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 May 2023 – The trip to China this month by Brazilian President Lula was marked by the installation of former Pres. of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, to preside over the New Development Bank of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
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How Incredibly Sad U.S. News Media Has Become – w/ Seymour Hersh
The Jimmy Dore Show - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – Guest host Aaron Maté and Kurt Metzger talk to Hersh about how reporters now often prioritize being on TV and podcasts than doing actual reporting.
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Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
War is minimally questioned — taken for granted — in the mainstream consciousness, or what I would call the consensus groupthink, which is quietly structured into mainstream reporting. Conflict between nations instantly summons the possibility of war; that’s just the way it is, no matter the certainty of “collateral damage.”
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How to Ignore Israel’s Apartheid: Learn from Ursula Von Der Leyen
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – The EU boss should be ashamed about her use of anti-Palestinian racist tropes. She won’t be.
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Scientists Say They’ve Finally Solved Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
Jackie Appel | Popular Mechanics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
5 May 2023 – The paradox states that information can neither be emitted from a black hole or preserved inside forever. But the laws of quantum physics dictate that information cannot be destroyed.
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(Français) Mises À Jour Sur La Guerre Économique Et La Crise Politique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 mai 2023 – Les événements récents ont des effets profonds sur les sujets de mes blogs précedents : NOUVELLES DU FRONT DE LA GUERRE ÉCONOMIQUE et L’ANALYSE EST SIMPLE ; C’EST ECONOMIQUE.
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A Tribute to Daniel Ellsberg
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 May 2023 – The Inspiration for My Psychological Study of Moral Heroism and the Courageous Personality
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Education and Its Importance
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
The role and scope of education in most countries— developed and developing, is increasing worldwide. As a result, education has become indispensable — it has become a fundamental right for all. We now try to impart education not only in the traditional school and blackboard way, but also electronically.
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Engaging Conflict History and Memory across the Taiwan Strait
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Conflict Timelines from Interactive Conflict Resolution (ICR) Dialogues
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Protection…
Wilcox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
… merely a matter of interpretation?
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US Troops in Somalia Rise to 900, House Votes Not to Withdraw
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
3 May 2023 – The presence of US troops in Somalia helps the Islamist insurgency Al Shabaab recruit, exacerbating the very violence they claim to be fighting. But the House has voted down a resolution to withdraw.
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Raw Materials or Sacred Beings? Lithium Extraction in Bolivia Puts Two Worldviews into Tension
Mario Orospe Hernández | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – A rapid escalation of lithium extraction in the Bolivian Andes conflicts with the beliefs of Indigenous communities who call the region home.
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Nobody for President Campaign
Curtis Spangler - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
‘None of the above’ should be a valid choice on voter ballots. The ‘Birthday Party’ provided an easy, cost-effective way to restore political balance
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Natural Disasters: Where is God in All of This?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
A short article that helps show how we can recognize God in situations that may seem to force us to reassess ourselves and our life, and in the cooperation and renewed spirituality that it may take to overcome disasters and tragedies.
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What China Is Really Playing at in Ukraine
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
30 Apr 2023 – Beijing is fully aware the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is the un-dissociable double of the U.S. war against its Belt and Road Initiative.
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Shock Doctrine: Industry Exploiting Ukraine War for Liquefied Natural Gas Expansion
Olivia Rosane | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – In an investigation targeting the “shock doctrine” practices of the gas industry, Greenpeace is calling on policymakers in both the U.S. and EU to move away from expanding LNG infrastructure before it’s too late.
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Desecration of yet another Ahmadi Mosque in Pakistan
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
JUST is of course aware that some Muslims are opposed to Ahmadis and certain aspects of their teachings which are incongruent with fundamental Islamic beliefs. But that does not give them a right to vandalise places of worship used by the Ahmadis. Disputes of this sort should be resolved through peaceful means.
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Hymn for the Weekend (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Hymn for the Weekend is from the album A Head Full of Dreams released in 2015.
Click on Watch on YouTube and delight your senses.
Quick Quiz: Mapping Militarism 2023
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – A picture can be worth a couple of trillion dollars–when it’s of military spending. A new ‘Mapping Militarism 2023’ is available. You can pick a map and zoom in and out, click on a country to get details, move the slider back to see earlier years, switch to list-view and get the information in text form, or click “source” to see the origins of the data and exactly what it means.
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Key Nations Don’t Want to Follow the US on Russia, China Policies
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
30 Apr 2023 – Leaked intelligence assessments detail how Brazil, Pakistan, India, and other countries don’t want to follow Biden.
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How Facebook and Instagram Became Marketplaces for Child Sex Trafficking
Katie McQue and Mei-Ling McNamara | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex.
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Risen Word
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
7 May 2023 – A divide between elites and the populace is a feature of society that has been true without exception since the abundance by agriculture/husbandry encouraged the growth of early Neolithic bands. A key to elite dominance always was the superior group’s monopoly – or quasi monopoly – of crucial knowledge.
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Souls for Sale – The Times Interviews Noam Chomsky
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – In a society built on lies, the search for truth is a game.
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Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For
C.J. Polychroniou and Noam Chomsky | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
3 May 2023 – The subset of artificial intelligence known as Large Language Models can’t tell us anything about human language learning, but it excels at misleading the uninformed.
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Control
Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Knock! Knock!
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Of Africa and the Magic Formula of the Italian Taxi Driver
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – Africa is the continent that has contributed the least (just 2 to 3%) to the causes of the current climate emergencies while bearing the brunt of 82% of the devastating consequences.
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As US Grip on Middle East Slips, Peace Breaks Out
Robert Inlakesh | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – Washington’s poor decision-making is starting to catch up with it, as nations choose to pursue peace without US interference.
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Global Peace Destruction: The Fire of the Gods
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Nuclear Energy Is the Fire of the Gods, Constructive in Good Hands and Destructive in the Evil Hands of Miscreants, as well as Misdemeanants
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Jeffrey Sachs on China’s “Historic” Push for Multipolar World to End U.S. Domination
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – China is taking an assertive role in world affairs, helping restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, offering a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, and strengthening its relationships with European and Latin American powers. Last week, China continued its diplomatic outreach by offering to hold talks between Israel and Palestine.
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Japan PM Kishida’s Field of Vision on Nuclear Disarmament Is Out of Focus
Hiromichi Umebayashi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
What are the ‘Inconvenient Truths’ that Mr. Kishida refers to? For him, “the most troublesome inconvenient truth” is nuclear development in the DPRK, and “the second inconvenient truth” is the increasing nuclear arsenals in China. His words and deeds are highly inconsistent. In such circumstances, real “Inconvenient Truths” for nuclear abolition will not enter his field of vision.
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Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (1)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Quoted from the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi.
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A Quantum Experiment Suggests There’s No Such Thing as Objective Reality
MIT Technology Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it.
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Chilean President Plans to Nationalize Lithium Industry
Gabriel Boric | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – The initiative, which will be sent to Congress later this year, is designed to boost the economy of the nation, which has some of the world’s largest reserves of the high-demand metal.
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WWIII on the Installment Plan
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – The Invention of a Wartime Presidency to Save the Biden Administration
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Can the U.S. Adjust Sensibly to a Multipolar World?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – The multipolar world that is taking shape, and the failure of the United States to adjust sensibly to the new order or play a constructive role in it.
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Geoffrey Roberts – Why Putin Went to War
Brave New Europe - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – I have spoken with the British historian Geoffrey Roberts about an article he recently published in the Journal of Military and Strategic Studies under the title “Now or Never: The Immediate Origins of Putin’s Preventive War on Ukraine”.
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You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – On 7 Oct 2022, the US government implemented export controls to hinder the development of China’s semiconductor industry. ‘The whole point is to kneecap China’s AI and HPC efforts’. The next day, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said:
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The Coming War Shrouded in Propaganda: Time to Speak Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 May 2023 – John Pilger recalls the ‘electric’ opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the two greatest powers draw closer to armed conflict.
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Calling for the Immediate Release of Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – Talk I Gave in New York City at a Rally for Julian Assange – “This legal lynching marks the official beginning of corporate totalitarianism.”
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Taiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. Surrounding China with military bases, nuclear weapons and military vessels is a highly dangerous provocation. U.S. wars are for corporate profit.
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From “Vaccine Passports” to Digital Identity
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
How to Follow the Digital Identity Debate
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US Corporations Cash in on Ukraine’s Oil and Gas
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – As Ukraine sells off public assets in a privatization spree, US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Halliburton are in talks to run its oil and gas industry, and the IMF imposes the Washington Consensus.
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Paradoxes of Durable Peace, Heaven and a Sustainable Lifestyle
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
24 Apr 2023 – Mysterious Dynamics Fundamental to Hopeful Anticipation of Enduring Viability – There is a widespread familiarity with the aspiration to “peace in our times”. Some form of equivalent is anticipated by many in the afterlife — a “heavenly peace”. The condition may well be imaginatively associated to some degree with holidays and retirement.
→ read full articleRobert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Despite a family actively opposed to his candidacy, despite all the media lies about him, and despite the oddsmakers giving him little chance, RFK, Jr. is entering the race. It is an act of supreme moral courage. Like his father in ’68, he is the only candidate who can heal this nation’s great divide.
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Microplastics Invading the Male Reproductive System
Huanjia Zhang | Environmental Health News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – The authors of a new pilot study that found microplastics in human testis and semen called for more data and research to determine how the tiny particles affect the male reproductive system. It builds on evidence that male fertility is at risk from environmental toxics.
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The UN Is Negotiating a Treaty That Could Solve the Plastic Problem–Here’s What You Need to Know
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
21 Apr 2023 – 175 countries are negotiating a legally-binding, international treaty on plastic pollution that could change the world. It’s a big deal. Some countries and companies say they want an ambitious treaty, but when you actually look into the details, they aren’t pushing for meaningful solutions.
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500 Australians Join World’s First COVID Vaccine Injury Class Action Lawsuit
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – Dr. Melissa McCann raised more than $110,000 to crowdfund the case, which accuses the Australian government of negligence related to the approval and monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Winner Takes All: John Perkins on the Global Economy
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
21 Apr 2023 – “Senate Finance Chief: Nothing Unites GOP More Than ‘Helping Rich People Cheat on Their Taxes” reads a headline on Common Dreams this morning. But actually that has been the strategy of both parties in US development programs for decades, according to John Perkins.
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US War Crimes in the War on Terror
Melvin A. Goodman | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
The mainstream media are increasing their attention to war crimes and the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, but there has been no attempt to link the issues. The war itself could be labeled a war crime or a “crime against the peace,” which was the charge against Germany introduced at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945 and 1946.
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National Peace Disruption: This Is a Nation of Thieves
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
22 Apr 2023 – Thievery and thieves in operation are attributes of basic, human, reptilian brain in the course of evolution and is refined in Homo Sapiens, Sapiens
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The Enemy from Within
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
1 May 2023 – The US war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China.
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The American Dream
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Ditto!
→ read full articleThe West’s State Media and Their Increasing Violence: The Hersh Affair
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
The disturbing truth behind the West State Media’s use of violence to maintain their grip on power and control public opinion. The explosive Hersh Affair and the dark forces it helped uncover.
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Avoiding Climate Disaster: Our Last Chance?
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Despite promises made at each COP climate conference, the Keeling Curve, which registers carbon dioxide concentrations in our atmosphere, keeps increasing, indicating that the nations of the world have by no means stopped emitting greenhouse gases.
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Moving Forward to Protect the Oceans
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
On 4 March 2023, at the United Nations in New York, an important step toward the protection of the oceans was taken with the presentation of the Treaty on the High Seas. The aim of the treaty is the protection of the biodiversity of the oceans beyond the national territorial limits. These negotiations began in 2004.
→ read full articleNow Europeans Learn What Climate Extremes Are All About
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Apologies to those Western politicians and media who continue to say that Ukraine’s brutal proxy war stands behind whatever catastrophes, disasters or crises that occur in the Planet. Scientific evidence confirms that much earlier than that war Europe, like many other regions, was already walking closer to the edge of extreme weather consequences.
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What Can “the Invisibles” Do to Make Wars Stop?
Victoria Barceló | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
It is said that in a war everyone loses, but that is not true at all. There are those who make huge profits from the death and suffering of other human beings, of men, women and children like us: the Elites
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Bombshell Filing: 9/11 Hijackers Were CIA Recruits
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
18 Apr 2023 – At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing.
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Media Briefing: U.S. Liquefied Gas Flooding Europe
Tim Donaghy | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – The oil and gas industry has moved quickly to take advantage of the US terror attack on the Russian Nordstream 2 pipeline. In 2022, shipments of liquefied natural gas from the US were redirected to Europe to replace Nordstream 2 and secure supplies for the European winter. The industry has also secured financing and begun construction on numerous LNG terminals on both sides of the Atlantic designed to operate permanently.
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Syria Updates: ISIS Massacres and Turkish Double-Dealing
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
18 Apr 2023 – The US Cartel Is Doubling Down on War
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Big Tech Companies Are More Powerful Than Nation-States
Tom Valovic | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – They are already richer than many countries, and the rise of AI looks set to increase their influence.
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Global Peace and Conflict Resolution: Xi Jinping Mediating the Russia/Ukraine Conflict
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – China’s President Xi Jinping Takes Initiative to Make Peace between Russia and Ukraine
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How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
29 Apr 2023 – Facts & Info – Expert Analysis
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Western Media’s Peculiar Incuriosity about Nord Stream
Jonathan Cook | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
26 Apr 2023 – Seymour Hersh’s investigation is filled with details that could be checked — and verified or rebutted — if anyone wished to do so.
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Facebook Censors Journalist Seymour Hersh’s Report on Nord Stream Pipeline Attack
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Facebook censored a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany, forcing users to instead read a website funded and partially owned by NATO member Norway.
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Realities in Conflict of Interest and Corruption Challenges in South Asia: The Case of Nepal
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
22 Apr 2023 – Introductory Background and Context – According to the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International, Nepal is one of the most corrupt in South-Asia and it ranks one of the top fifteen most corrupt in all of Asia. Corruption is a well-documented issue in Nepal, and several government institutions and individuals have been implicated in corrupt practices.
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Young People from the U.S. Travel to Cuba and Break the Siege
Manolo de los Santos and Kate Gonzales | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
It’s a very hot and crowded Tuesday morning in the Yoruba Cultural Center in Havana. Yet, 150 young organizers from the U.S. listen attentively to two leaders of the cultural movement in Cuba before submitting their questions—on climate change, on housing, on fighting racism, about hope in the future—before time is up.
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Lemon Tree (Music Video of the Week)
Fools Garden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Kick back and enjoy – w/ Lyrics
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