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Updating Dire Warnings
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – A little over a year ago, I wrote in this blog that we are at a turning point in human history, that the US Empire is crashing and that there is a serious risk of a new North American Civil War. The blog was illustrated by automatic weapons being accumulated by millions of US citizens.
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Biden Deploys National Guard: It’s “Déjà Vu All Over Again” as Government Hawks and Corporate Media Play Up Ethiopian Atrocities in Tigray
Ann Garrison | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Twelve days after a Bloomberg Nov. 11 Headline proclaimed that “Ethiopia’s Civil War Is a Problem That U.S. Troops Can Help Solve,” President Joe Biden announced the Deployment of 1,000 National Guard Troops to the Ethiopian border—as if he had learned nothing from the U.S.’s disastrous 75-year history of military involvement in (and incitement of) foreign civil wars in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia, Nicaragua, Haiti, Serbia, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria.
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‘Pool of Blood’: US Drone Strike Hits Syria Family
AFP | France24 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
8 Dec 2021 – Ahmad Qassum was driving home with his family when a US drone targeting an Al-Qaeda-linked militant in Syria struck.
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What Went Right This Week: A ‘Historic’ Win for Nature, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Ecuador recognised the rights of nature in a landmark ruling, encouraging data emerged about Omicron, and lab-grown meat reached another milestone, plus more positive news.
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We Wage Wars Because We Are Violent Animals Likely Headed Toward Extinction
Jack Balkwill | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – We are spiraling headlong toward extinction as long as we allow our primitive violence to dominate. Ours is a species that builds cities only to blow them up in wars, again and again. Capitalists profit from the weapons that destroy the cities, and again from rebuilding the cities, and since their only concern is for profit, the insanity won’t end until a new economic order is adopted.
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How Google Advances the Zionist Colonization of Palestine
Yarden Katz | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
8 Dec 2021 – Software engineers at Google and Amazon have objected to providing services to the Israeli government because of the harm it would bring to Palestinians, yet these companies are already contributing to Israel’s colonial project in many ways.
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A Myanmar’s Military That Burns Civilians Alive Ought to Be Designated as Terrorist
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – While governments and human rights organizations were occupied with the farce of the coup junta’s trial of Aung San Suu Kyi and the expected guilty verdict on 6 December 2021, the junta’s back-to-back acts of terrorism have not been reported in the ways they deserve nor have they received worldwide scrutiny and condemnation.
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Richest 1% Took 38% of New Global Wealth Since 1995. The Bottom Half Got Just 2%
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – A new report finds that global inequities in wealth and income are “about as great today as they were at the peak of Western imperialism in the early 20th century. If there is one lesson to be learnt from the global investigation, it is that inequality is always a political choice.”
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(Français) Mise à Jour des Avertissements
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 déc. 2021 – Il y a un peu plus d’un an, j’écrivais dans ce blog que nous étions à un tournant de l’Histoire de l’humanité, que l’empire américain s’effonderait et qu’il existe un risque sérieux d’une nouvelle guerre civile aux USA. Le blog était illustré par les armes automatiques accumulées par des millions de citoyens américains.
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Billionaires Increased Wealth by $3.6 Trillion in 2020, as Millions Died from Global Pandemic
Trévon Austin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
The World Inequality Report 2022, released by the World Inequality Lab on 7 Dec, found that the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the financial gap between the rich and poor. The world’s billionaires enjoyed the steepest increase in their share of wealth last year since the World Inequality Lab began keeping records in 1995.
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Backed By AFRICOM, Corporations Plunder DR Congo for “Climate-Friendly” Materials and Blame China
T.J. Coles | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Cobalt, a key metallic element used in lithium batteries and other “green” technology, is sourced from slave labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As the West points the finger at China, the US Africa Command is indirectly policing mining operations that profit US corporations.
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Russia’s ‘Plan to Invade Ukraine’ Exists Only in the US and NATO Imagination
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
5 Dec 2021 – Ukraine has accused Russia of preparing to invade, triggering a crisis that will bring Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin together via a phone call. Someday international-relations students will scratch their collective heads, wondering what, if anything, was going through the minds of those responsible for the current crisis. In any other circumstance, this sort of narrative would be fodder for dark comedy.
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OMG, Omicron! Why It’s too Soon to Panic about COVID Vaccines and the New Variant
Adam Taylor | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
3 Dec 2021 – We won’t know whether Omicron evades COVID vaccines for another few weeks. Here’s why.
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The Ancient Technique to Making Tough Decisions
Gregg Braden | The Outcome – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
What Gregg Braden calls “heart intelligence” is an ancient technique used to make tough decisions.
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Call It ‘Old’, ‘Contemporary’, ‘Modern’ or Whatever: It Is Slavery
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
1 Dec 2021 – No matter what it is called — it is the abhorrent daily life of a billion enslaved humans. The real number of “modern” slaves is understandably unknown. The International Labour Organisation estimates that more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery.
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‘We Have Fallen into a Trap’: Qatar’s World Cup Dream Is a Nightmare for Hotel Staff
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
18 Nov 2021 – I spent weeks waiting at the Kathmandu Airport. Among the returning migrant workers were coffins bearing the bodies of young men who had paid the ultimate price in search of work overseas. They were being flown home from Qatar, host of the 2022 football World Cup.
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Republican Congressman Sparks Outrage for Family Christmas Photo with Guns Days after School Shooting
Lauren Booker | Boston Globe - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
4 Dec 2021 – Republican US Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky received swift condemnation for posting a Christmas-themed photo of him and his family holding firearms today. It has been called insensitive given the 30 Nov school shooting in Michigan that resulted in the deaths of four Oxford High School students.
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From AIDS to Omicron, Pharmaceutical Apartheid Hurts Us All
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
2 Dec 2021 – People over profit must be the guiding mantra as we soon enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without immediate action, we could well be dealing with COVID, just as we still battle AIDS, for the next forty years.
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Declining USA Bullies China/Russia, Earth, Outer Space, Itself: Eye-opener Readings
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
2 Dec 2021 – As I write, serious tension is building–again–around Ukraine, Iran and Taiwan while we could live in a much more peaceful and thriving world. Who and what are the constant peace destroyers? You are the object of a psychological operation to make you have only negative views about China.
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Biden’s Global Democracy Summit Raises an Awkward Question: Can Ours Endure?
Sue Halpern | The New Yorker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
30 Nov 2021 – In the past year, the prospects for improving American democracy have dimmed considerably. In the months since Joe Biden took office, nineteen states have enacted thirty-three laws that make it more difficult for citizens to vote.
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Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
“I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
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Bannon’s Plea
Lalo Alcaraz | OppArt/The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Come Clean
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New Study Links Major Fashion Brands to Amazon Deforestation
Laura Pitcher | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – LVMH, Zara, Nike and others at risk of contribution to destruction of rainforest based on connections to leather industry.
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Prof Johan Galtung on Peace Journalism, Capitalism, Positive Peace, Structural Violence, Feminism, and Much More
Josef Mühlbauer | Varna Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
3 Dec 2021 – Johan Galtung was at the core of the group of intellectuals who established the Peace Research Institute Oslo in 1959. Without his enormous effort and personality, PRIO would never have come true. He left it in 1969 to become Professor of Conflict and Peace Studies at the University of Oslo and was the founding editor of the Journal of Peace Research in 1964. In 1993 Galtung, Dietrich Fischer, Poka Laenui and wife Fumiko Nishimura founded TRANSCEND-A Peace Development Environment Network in Honolulu, Hawai’i, a Conflict Mediation Organization that thrives to this day with about 400 members worldwide. In 2008 he co-founded TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS with editor Antonio C.S. Rosa.
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‘Hate Crime’ Attacks by Israeli Settlers on Palestinians Spike in the West Bank
Steve Hendrix | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – Israeli settlers have dramatically increased their attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank over recent months, with violent incidents up about 150 percent in the past two years, according to data presented by the Israeli military at a defense ministry meeting this month.
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Goading China to Go to War
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
28 Nov 2021- A number of defence analysts are convinced that the United States of America, supported by Britain and Australia, is goading China to go to war over Taiwan. They point to constant statements by officials from the three countries pledging to come to Taiwan’s defence.
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Inventing the Science of Race
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran | The New York Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
16 Dec 2021 issue – In 1741, Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest searching for the origin of “blackness.” The results help us see how Enlightenment thinkers justified chattel slavery. With Foreword by Dr. Maung Zarni for TMS.
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Pride and Poverty: Qatar’s World Cup Fever Tempered by Legacy of Labour Abuses
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
18 Nov 2021 – With a Year to Go, the New Stadiums, Hotels and Roads Are Finished and Locals Are Excited, but the Low-Paid Workers Who Built Them Are Ambivalent
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Peace by Global Disarmament or by Press Freedom?
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee never abided by Nobel’s vision of peace and has used the prize to serve its own ideas and interests. It has practiced a concept of Peace without any meaningful limitation; Nobel did not use the word peace in his will. It has been glorifying individuals whereas the task is to promote a political idea: Peace by Disarmament.
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The Provisional World Parliament & Earth Constitution Offer Inspiration and Hope
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Dec 2021 – The ideal of a one world global family is one of the underlying moral and spiritual foundations for the values which will be needed to save the world. The Earth Constitution expresses this high ideal by providing a new, visionary governing structure designed for the benefit of the whole world, not just the few. The current Session of the Provisional World Parliament serves to provide potential future world legislation which would be extremely useful.
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Homeland or Death! Che Guevara’s Historic Speech at the UN on 11 Dec 1964
Juliana Medeiros, Ernesto Che Guevara | Jornalistas Livres - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Che declared, in that historic UN Assembly meeting, the internationalist character of the Cuban Revolution and the non-negotiable willingness to defend its sovereignty — concepts that have become even more urgent and universal due to the coronavirus pandemic that the world faces today.
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The Role of Value Systems in Conflict Resolution
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Understanding, “right-sizing,” and adequately respecting the role of value systems in conflict transformation avoids both over- and under-emphasis. It aims at a better understanding of the interplay between tangible conflict issues and religious or secular value systems.
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(Italiano) Sicurezza e limiti
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
1 Dicembre 2021 – Ma il concetto di ‘sicurezza’ può essere anche riferito alla protezione e al benessere delle persone, e implica un approccio diverso, più ampio, volto a prevenire, trasformare, mitigare le minacce che derivano dai conflitti violenti ai cambiamenti climatici, dalle pandemie alle crisi economiche e all’oppressione politica.
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Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
30 Nov 2021 – New data shows that over the last two quarters of 2021, U.S. corporations outside the finance sector have raked in their largest profits since 1950. “Let’s be clear. The problem is not the worker who got a small raise and a $1,400 check seven months ago. Corporations can get away with it because they have too much power in the economy.”
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How Organized Crime Infiltrated American Business after WWII and Corrupted National Politics from Truman to Trump
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Provocative new book documents the unsavory alliance between the Mafia, the CIA, and the corporate establishment that transformed America into “the world’s most dangerous nation”
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On the Collective Will of the Human Species to Survive
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – The human will to survive is often uncritically taken for granted, which was of little consequence prior to the advent of the nuclear age in 1945. That the first atomic explosion was the event chosen by the scientific community agreed to signal the advent of the age of the Anthropocene is of added significance.
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The Dreaded Rainforest Shift
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – Major portions of the Amazon rainforest have shifted from a carbon sink to a carbon source. This shift has severe planet-wide negative implications.
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The Lancet Publishes Rare Dissenting Voice on COVID-19 Vaccines
Calvin Freiburger | LifeSiteNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – A dissenting perspective from COVID-19 orthodoxy has found its way into one of the medical establishment’s most prestigious voices criticizing the narrative that COVID now represents a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” It is ‘far too simple,’ Dr. Günter Kampf says.
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The Case for a Central Bank Digital Currency
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – Whether the U.S. should have its own Central Bank Digital Currency is hotly debated. Several countries, including China, already have CBDCs in operation. Prof. Saule Omarova, President Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency, is in favor and has made a strong case for it.
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From Pegasus to Blue Wolf: How Israel’s ‘Security’ Experiment in Palestine Became Global
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
17 Nov 2021 – The truth is, for as long as Israel maintains its military occupation of Palestine, and as long as the Israeli military continues to see Palestinians as subjects in a mass ‘security experiment’, the Middle East—in fact, the entire world—will continue to pay the price.
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Climate Change in an Unjust World
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – It is a great pleasure to participate once again in this annual Congress on Agricultural and Food Ethics. The fact that it coincides with the UN COP-26 Summit on CC taking place is especially appropriate.
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The War Party
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
21 Nov 2021 – From Bush to Obama, and Trump to Biden, U.S. Militarism Is the Great Unifier
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Atlantic Ocean: Former Naval Air Station Has Contaminated the Mussels in Maine
Pat Elder | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
24 Nov 2021 – Environmental Destruction Is Part of the Huge Human Costs of the American Military Empire
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The Great Narrative and the Metaverse–A Dystopian Vision of the Future (Part 1)
Derrick Broze | The Last American Vagabond - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
17 Nov 2021 – As the World Economic Forum returns to their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the “international organization for Public-Private cooperation” is launching the next phase of The Great Reset agenda – The Great Narrative.
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‘Nicaragua Presents a Challenge to the International Left’ (Video)
Maximillian Alvarez | The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
11 Nov 2021 – With the US leading an international chorus rejecting the legitimacy of Nicaragua’s general elections, the anti-imperialist left ‘is walking a tightrope’ between opposing foreign intervention while still condemning the abuses of the Ortega-Murillo government.
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Behind “The Great Reset” and “The Green Pass” Is Big Finance: Plan for Power Consolidation and Social Control
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
25 Nov 2021 – The main vaccines used in Italy in the “Covid-19 vaccine plan” are produced by three U.S. pharmaceutical companies – Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson – owned and controlled by the three largest U.S. investment companies: BlackRock, the largest in the world, Vanguard and State Street. These three financial firms also own and control the U.S. pharmaceutical company Merck, which first produced the “anti-Covid pill.”
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Stand by Me (Music Video of the Week)
Ben E. King | DopeLyrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
The Perennial Classic Released in 1961 (Lyrics)
Click on *Watch on YouTube* kick back and enjoy!
Ultimate Dog Whistle: World Misses Israel’s Hebrew-Language Incitement against Palestinians
Miko Peled | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
22 Nov 2021 – Israeli State-sponsored terrorism and incitement against the Palestinians are not new. The Naqab–Zionist incitement against Palestinians–is at all-time high but you wouldn’t know it because it is all done in Hebrew. The violent, racist-supremacist discourse that takes place in the Israeli media and among Israeli politicians is all in Hebrew and so it gets little or no attention worldwide.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
15 Nov 2021…
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Expert Censored after Demonstrating That a Gas Attack in Syria Was a False-Flag Operation by U.S.-Funded Terrorists
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
22 Nov 2021 – Fearful editors and CIA-connected hacks ganged up to defame top MIT scientist who refused to echo government propaganda and had article exposing truth about alleged Syrian chemical weapons attacks pulled by prestigious scientific journal. Instead, he quit his 30-year job on principle.
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Apple Sues Israeli Gov’t-Backed NSO Spyware Company: “Notorious Hackers-21st Century Mercenaries”
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
24 Nov 2021 – Apple is suing the NSO group, which produced the spyware that Israel uses to keep under surveillance the 5 million Palestinians. They have sold their hacking tools to repressive governments to hack into iPhones and Android smartphones against democracy activists and dissidents.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Lands: Stolen Fair and Square
Mark P. Fancher | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday, in which exceptionalism and selective amnesia are celebrated. The sick fairy tale obscures the violent foundations of a settler colonial nation.
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(Italiano) Notizie sul clima e azioni del pubblico
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
Paradosso. Il periodo in cui l’interesse pubblico globale per il cambiamento climatico è aumentato più rapidamente – grosso modo, nei 5 anni dopo il 2013 – è anche quello in cui sono stati eletti a funzioni pubbliche partiti politici in paesi chiave per emissioni di anidride carbonica il cui scopo fondamentale comporta ignorare, negare o addirittura non tenere in minimo conto le prove del riscaldamento globale mentre i loro membri e clienti continuano a far soldi con le industrie estrattive.
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Fauci as Darth Vader of the Covid Wars
Pepe Escobar | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
25 Nov 2021 – A rollicking review of RF Kennedy Jr’s, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
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The Choking of the Global Minotaur
James K. Galbraith | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
21 Nov 2021 – The supply disruptions plaguing the US economy are not the result of “excessive demand,” “central planning,” or a lack of efficiency. Rather, it is that a logistics ecosystem that was developed to feed the beast of American consumption was not designed for a pandemic.
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Kyle Rittenhouse, Who Killed Two People, Acquitted of Homicide Charges
Peter Wade | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
19 Nov 2021 – The jury ruled that Rittenhouse, who brought a military-style weapon to a protest and shot three people, killing two of them, was acting in self-defense.
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CDC Finally, Quietly, Begrudgingly Releases Natural Immunity Numbers and Now We Know Why They Waited
J.D. Rucker | The Liberty Daily - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
13 Nov 2021 – If the CDC cared about healthcare, they’d embrace natural immunity and acknowledge the risks associated with the injections. But healthcare is an afterthought to the CDC. 100% of their concern is for the vaccine agenda, science and lives be damned.
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Climate Challenge Cannot Be Overcome in an Unjust World
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
16 Nov 2021 – Climate Change, Survival, and Justice in Relation to Agricultural and Food Security – The UN COP-26 delivered mixed messages that disappointed a worried world public. Only the future will tell us whether Glasgow was a welcome new beginning or, in Greta Thunberg’s rhetoric, “more blah, blah, blah.”
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Ringling’s Animal-Free Comeback Sends a Powerful Industry Message: Cruelty Has No Place in Circuses
Katherine Sullivan | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Nearly five years after PETA’s triumph over Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, they are planning their return without elephants, tigers, or any other nonconsenting animals! This sends a powerful message to the entire industry: Cruelty doesn’t belong in the circus or in any other form of entertainment.
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(Italiano) Cambiamento Climatico, Sopravvivenza e Giustizia
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
18 Nov 2021 – Il Raduno sul Cambiamento Climatico ONU COP-26 recentemente concluso a Glasgow ha rilasciato messaggi misti a un pubblico mondiale preoccupato.
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Dear School Nurse, Covid Shots for Tots Are Erring on the Side of Danger
Diane Perlman | Substack, TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
17 Nov 2021 – A Letter You Can Send with a Fully Informed Consent Checklist
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
18 Nov 2021 – “We should call it the ‘Glasgow suicide pact’ for the poorest in the world,” Asad Rehman of the COP26 Coalition said. “It does not keep us below the 1.5 degree Celsius guard rail. In fact, it heads us closer to 3 degrees [C, or 5.4 degrees F]…They’re ramming through so many loopholes that it makes a mockery of these climate negotiations.”
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Why Are Moderna’s Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture?
Sam Pizzigati | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
5 Nov 2021 – Moderna now has four of its top players on the Forbes list of America’s 400 richest. In early 2020, it had none. The quartet owes its current good fortune completely to the company’s Covid-19 vaccine. And who made that vaccine possible?
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What Makes You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of Consciousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.”
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World Development under Monopoly Capitalism
Benjamin Selwyn and Dara Leyden | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
1 Nov 2021 – Benjamin Selwyn and Dara Leyden explain how, as the internationalization of monopoly capital grows, particularly through the domination of global value chains, so do the worldwide rate of exploitation and degree of monopoly.
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Instant Karma
Susanta Nanda IFS | Twitter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
Hero Cow Flattens Dog Abuser to the Ground in Viral Video – Just as you would surely defend one of your loved ones from harm, a courageous cow gave a man abusing a dog in the street a taste of his own medicine.
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What Went Right This Week: Ideas to Change the World, Plus…
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
18 Nov 2021 – A raft of problem-solving inventions were unveiled, the EU drafted a law to curb deforestation, and the UK’s largest urban rewilding project was approved, plus more positive news.
→ read full article(Italiano) Emissioni di Carbonio: I Militari a Glasgow?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
17 Nov 2021 – Molti gruppi di attivisti e associazioni impegnate nella difesa dell’ambiente, della pace e dei diritti umani avevano alimentato le aspettative del pubblico su un tema centrale della ‘lotta’ al cambiamento climatico. E cioè il tema complesso del ruolo e delle responsabilità degli apparati militari nelle trasformazioni in atto sul nostro pianeta.
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UN-Backed Banker Alliance Announces “Green” Plan to Transform the Global Financial System
Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
5 Nov 2021 – The most powerful private financial interests in the world, under the cover of COP26, have developed a plan to transform the global financial system by fusing with institutions like the World Bank and using them to further erode national sovereignty in the developing world.
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India: Let Us Learn from Our Farmers!!
Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
20 Nov 2021 – The journey of the farmers is still not over! But they definitely know the way, show the way and go the way for the future of India! Let us have the openness, the humility and the courage to learn from them! Thanks to their relentless struggle and their great sacrifices, for all of us – the three anti-farmer laws have finally been repealed. For more than a year now – with blood, sweat, toil and tears, their protest has continued unceasingly. BRAVO!!
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After Daniel Ortega’s Victory in Nicaragua, Biden Signs RENACER Act and OAS Votes to Condemn
Julie Varughese | Toward Freedom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
14 Nov 2021 – The “RENACER ACT-Reinforcing Nicaragua’s Adherence to Conditions for Electoral Reform Act of 2021” slaps sanctions on Ortega government officials, attempts to restrict multilateral financing to Nicaragua, monitors Nicaragua’s relationship with Russia, punishes the country for alleged human-rights violations and targets reported corruption inside Nicaragua.
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Revealed, the Shocking Conditions at Belmarsh Prison That Julian Assange Is Exposed to
Kit Klarenberg | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
17 Nov 2021 – A new report has painted a bleak picture of the London prison where Julian Assange is being held. On 12 Nov, the HM Inspectorate of Prisons published an investigation on conditions in London’s Belmarsh Prison – dubbed ‘Britain’s Gitmo’ – which spells out the nightmarish environment.
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Organized Crime Is a Top Driver of Global Deforestation–along with Beef, Soy, Palm Oil and Wood Products
Jennifer Devine | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
15 Nov 2021 – Every year the world loses an estimated 25 million acres (10 million hectares) of forest, an area larger than the state of Indiana. Tropical forests store enormous quantities of carbon and are home to at least two-thirds of the world’s living species, so deforestation has disastrous consequences for climate change and conservation.
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1 in 2 Humans Cannot Celebrate World Toilet Day – This Is Why
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
18 Nov 2021 – Did you know that half of the world’s population do not have toilets? And that, globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with feces? And that every day, over 700 children under five die from diarrhea linked to unsafe water, sanitation and poor hygiene?
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Interpol: Torture Accusations against UAE Candidate
Kersten Knipp | Deutsche Welle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
17 Nov 2021 – The new head of Interpol will be elected next week. However, one of the candidates has been accused of torture. “Given the devastating human rights record of the United Arab Emirates, the appointment of Major General Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi as president would be in blatant contradiction to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the organization’s mission.”
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
This Modern World
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Socio-Political Philosophy of M. K. Gandhi: An Analysis
Dr. Tarun Gogoi | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
M. K. Gandhi was a prominent figure in the realm of peace and humanism. He played a noteworthy role in the movement of peace and freedom. He bestowed a lot of ideas relating to socio-political dimension. Gandhi ” s ideas are basically philosophical in nature as he was inspired by various great philosophers of the world.
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The Pentagon as Pentagod
William Astore | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
16 Nov 2021 – America’s Abyss of Weapons and Warmaking – In the Pledge of Allegiance, we speak proudly of One Nation under God, but this country doesn’t serve or worship Jesus Christ, or Allah, or any other god of justice and mercy. The deity America believes in is the five-sided one headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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The Autocrats Are Winning
Anne Applebaum | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
15 Nov 2021 – If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.
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‘I Just Can’t Believe It Exists’: Peter Jackson Takes Us into the Beatles Vault Locked Up for 52 Years
Andy Welch | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
20 Nov 2021 – Ahead of his epic series Get Back, the director reveals the secrets of 60 hours of intimate, unseen footage of the Fab Four – and why it turns everything we know about their final days upside down.
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On the Sidelines of COP-26, People’s Summit for Climate Justice Takes Place in Glasgow
Redacción Argentina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
From 7-10 November 2021, as world leaders gathered to debate our future, the COP26 Coalition hosted the People’s Summit for Climate Justice.
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Cultural Revolutions
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
10 Nov 2021 – Freedom Is Not a Goal, but a Direction
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
11 Nov 2021 – Antibiotics, like other antimicrobials, have become a threat to health rather than healing it. Why? Because their misuse and overuse have created such a strong resistance that they no longer respond to medicines…
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“Nonviolent Journalism” Book Presented at the Open World Meeting of New Humanism 2021
Javier Tolcachier | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
10 Nov 2021 – “And, by the way, Press people in contact with daily tragedy are today in a position to act in a humanist direction.” With this significant phrase Nelsy Lizarazo began the presentation of the book “Nonviolent Journalism”, the brand-new production of the Pressenza News Agency with a focus on Peace and Nonviolence at the Open World Meeting of New Humanism 2021.
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Meta Isn’t Just about Rebranding Facebook—Could It Bring a Dystopian Future?
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
On 28 Oct, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched a new company brand, Meta. The announcement has implications about digital life and work—provided it can overcome the hate speech and disinformation problems that could still plague Zuckerberg’s vision.
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“Activism” and the Demonization of Political Action
Rim Trad | Kohl Journal– TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
The pinnacle of “activism” – white activism in particular – is exported to the ends of the earth. It is embodied in conferences and workshops that lull the youth into believing that their voices are heard and that their opinions are effective when it comes to “peacebuilding,” to the extent that most of the participants go out of these workshops with a sense of self-fulfillment, thinking: We did what we have to do to make the world a better place.
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Pandora Papers: Secret Real Estate Purchases Are a Driving Force behind the Offshore Economy
Margot Gibbs and Agustin Armendariz | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – No longer content with Miami condos and London townhouses, investors are pouring money into properties in all corners of the world, fueling inequality and driving up prices, Pandora Papers investigation reveals.
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Why Israel Calls Human Rights ‘Terrorism’
Raja Shehadeh | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – In a widely condemned move, the Israeli government has banned the group I founded. This is how it enforces impunity for its illegal policies of occupation.
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Who Has the Most Delegates at the COP26 Summit? The Fossil Fuel Industry
Karla Adam and Harry Stevens | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
8 Nov 2021 – But while top oil executives are feeling unwelcome, many in the industry are in Glasgow to talk about carbon trading.
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A Dog’s Life
Gene Weingarten | The Washington Post Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
8 Nov 2021 – Why are so many people so cruel to their dogs? My search to understand a hidden scourge.
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Informed Consent on Behalf of Children
Diane Perlman | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
14 Nov 2021 – Children are not capable of informed consent. A Checklist for Pfizer BioNTech Injections for Ages 5 – 11
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Mother Nature, Inc.
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021 – Wall Street investors have hit the jackpot. Soon they’ll be able to buy, own, and dictate The Commons, public lands, the world of Mother Nature. In fact, a pilot project is already in the works with ecosystems up for sale…
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No Flag No Frontier
Amelia Burke | Fabricants de Futur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
Ink drawing by activist-artist Amelia Burke depicts a person under siege lifted from a hostile violent crowd.
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(Italiano) Antisemitismo arma politica controproducente
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
Non solo questo, sta producendo altri sentimenti anti-ebraici e antisraeliani, andando in cerca di antisemitismo [altrui] come [propria] legittimazione anche dove non ce n’è. Io, per esempio, sono un ricercatore di pace profondamente interessato a evitare genocidi come la shoah, a realizzare i sogni sionisti di un Israele con un carattere ebraico, e a lottare contro l’antisemitismo.
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Science Fiction Has Become Fact: The Metaverse Is “Big Brother in Disguise”
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021 – Freedom Meted Out by Technological Tyrants – Welcome to the Matrix (i.e. the metaverse), where reality is virtual, freedom is only as free as one’s technological overlords allow, and artificial intelligence is slowly rendering humanity unnecessary, inferior and obsolete.
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US Government Boldly Scrutinized: Oliver Stone’s New JFK Documentary Is a Must-Watch
Michael McCaffrey | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
12 Nov 2021 – Stone’s new documentary, ‘JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass’, isn’t perfect, but it’s vitally important.
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HSBC Led Big Banks’ Charge against Climate Change Action
Josephine Moulds | The Bureau of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
8 Nov 2021 – HSBC coordinated efforts to try and water down action on climate change in the banking sector by seeking to delay a key deadline and scrap mandatory science-based targets for a major net-zero alliance, the Bureau can reveal.
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
11 Nov 2021 – The UK’s strict visa requirements and its failure on promised pre-COP vaccination for attendees from nations with low vaccine availability have made this summit the whitest, most privileged COP in its 30-year history. Meanwhile, over 500 oil, gas and coal lobbyists have been given the red carpet treatment. If they were a nation, they would be the largest delegation at COP26.
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Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto/Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021 – In order to understand, it is necessary to start from those used: sanctions, including embargo, implemented against entire states, companies and individuals. The U.S. and EU decide at their sole discretion that an entity has committed a violation, establish the sanction or total embargo, and demand that third countries comply under penalty of retaliation.
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Israel Slapped ‘Terrorist’ Label on Palestinian Human Rights Groups after They Uncovered Pegasus Spyware
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
8 Nov 2021 – After the Israeli government designated six Palestinian human rights organizations as “terrorist,” Jonathan Kuttab, the co-founder of one of them, said that “Israel realizes it has lost the public relations-war. The world now knows and acknowledges the reality that it is an apartheid state and a systematic violator of human rights and international law.”
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