Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
We found 28008 results.
War Machine vs. Balloons
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – US Surrounds China with War Machinery while Freaking Out about Balloons – Maybe Americans should stop watching out for hostile foreign ‘threats’ and start looking a little closer to home.
→ read full article
A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
→ read full article
Ukraine—The Inevitable War
Chay Bowes | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Why negotiate a diplomatic settlement and adhere to the Minsk agreement when there is so much money in war?
→ read full article
How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the US Patent System
Rebecca Robbins | The New York Times/Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.
→ read full article
Remembering the Man Who Saved the World (from a Nuclear War)
Glen Milner and Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
The man who saved the world from thermonuclear annihilation in 1962 was born on 30 January 1926.
→ read full article
US House Republicans Vote to Remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee
Lexie Schapitl | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – House Republicans have voted to remove Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, citing past controversial comments she made about Israel and concerns over her objectivity.
→ read full article
Lives in Acting
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “Lives in Molecular Biology”. The pdf file of the book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full article
Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate (Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges, John Kiriakou)
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Matt Taibbi joins CN Live! to discuss the implications of his Twitter Files revelations, including his latest on Hamilton 68 and its fatal blow to the Russiagate narrative. With Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou.
→ read full articleGreed Is Driving Us Towards Disaster
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Compassion and Greed: Two Sides of Human Nature
→ read full article
Earth Constitution: Only A Democratic World Federal Government Is Realistic
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – The Constitution for the Federation of Earth (aka Earth Constitution) is a blueprint for an emerging democratic world federal government — an Earth Federation movement led by the World Constitution & Parliament Association to replace the United Nations system stymied with its obsolete and fatally flawed Charter.
→ read full article
The Analysis Is Simple; It Is Economic
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
For a Profound Analysis of Our Political Situation, the Answer Is Simple: It Is Economic
→ read full article
Inside the Fight to Save the Peruvian Amazon from Big Oil
Josh Fox | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – The survival of the world’s biggest rainforest is critical to the survival of life on Earth. The fossil fuel industry is hell-bent on drilling in it.
→ read full article
Roger Waters Questioned in Depth about Ukraine, Russia, Israel, U.S.
Berliner Zeitung | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – Roger Waters can rightly claim to be the mastermind behind Pink Floyd. He came up with the concept of and wrote all the lyrics for the masterpiece “The Dark Side of the Moon”. A musical genius turned activist.
→ read full article
Military Spending by Country 2023
World Population Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
China, India, and the United States, unsurprisingly, have the largest militaries. Only 36 countries do not have a military. Many nations have mandatory military service. The United States has the highest military spending of any nation at all times.
→ read full article
(Français) L’Analyse Est Simple ; C’est Economique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 févr. 2023 – Pour une analyse approfondie de notre situation politique, la réponse est simple : c’est économique.
→ read full article
The Ukraine War in 2023
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
February 2023 – A no-nonsense analysis of recent developments and deceptions.
→ read full article
Woke Imperialism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Woke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state.
→ read full article
Why the Western Media Is Afraid of Julian Assange
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Text of my talk at #FreeTheTruth: Secret Power, Media Freedom and Democracy, London, 28 Jan 2023. Other speakers: former British ambassador Craig Murray and Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi. Jeremy Corbyn presented the Gavin MacFayden award to Julian Assange for being “the journalist whose work most exemplifies the importance of a free press”. Craig Murray accepted it on Assange’s behalf.
→ read full article
Just Like That (Music Video of the Week)
Bonnie Raitt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
In an era when cruelty and greed run rampant, human kindness is at an ultimate premium. Of all the emotions our species finds in desperately short supply, compassion and empathy top the list. That’s among the reasons that this is a Song for the Ages.
→ read full article
Ukraine’s Tank Problem
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – This is an ever-broadening war of the West against Russia with Ukraine an experimental proxy convinced it will win. Efforts to limit the deepening conflict continue to be seen as the quailing sentiments of appeasers, the wobbly types who find democracy a less than lovable thing.
→ read full article
Why Bonnie Raitt’s “Just Like That” Is a Song for the Ages
Harvey Wasserman | Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – In an era when cruelty and greed run rampant, human kindness is at an ultimate premium. Of all the emotions our species finds in desperately short supply, compassion and empathy top the list.
→ read full article
Vedantic Democracy, Education and Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
All men tend to be free. Freedom is the birth right of every man irrespective of caste, creed and color.
→ read full article
Positive Approach to Life
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
On many occasions, adults wonder who they are, what is the purpose of their life, and how should they live in the society where they find themselves.
→ read full article
This 22-Year-Old Is Trying to Save Us from ChatGPT before It Changes Writing Forever
Greg Rosalsky and Emma Peaslee | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
18 Jan 2023 – While many were nursing hangovers on New Year’s Day, 22-year-old Edward Tian was working feverishly on a new app to combat misuse of a powerful, new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT. The technology is both awesome — and terrifying.
→ read full article
Poland Says It’s Ready to Send F-16s to Ukraine in Coordination with NATO
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – Biden said “No” when asked if the US would send F-16s to Ukraine. To send F-16s, Poland needs the approval of the US under export rules. The Netherlands also showed a willingness to do the same, with the Dutch saying they would have an “open mind” if asked.
→ read full article
(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Não é um argumento especista se digo que a violência contra outros animais deve ser combatida por causa das consequências para humanos?
→ read full article
The Pentagon’s Perpetual Crisis Machine
Jacob Hornberger | The Future of Freedom Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
26 Jan 2023 – When the Pentagon crossed Russia’s “red line” by threatening to absorb Ukraine into NATO, the Pentagon achieved what it wanted — the continuation of its old Cold War racket, except that the Reds were coming to get us. But they’re doing their best to gin up a crisis with China over Taiwan, which will enable them to exclaim, “See, you need us to protect you from both Russia and the Chinese Reds.”
→ read full article
Reconciliation in Africa: A Vital Need
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – What is required today in eastern Congo is not more soldiers but persons who are able to restore relations among ethnic groups of the area. Such bridge builders can help strengthen local efforts at conflict resolution and the restoration of confidence among peoples in conflict.
→ read full article
Germany Risks Forgetting Its History
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, under heavy pressure from Washington, announced that Germany would send 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine breaking the self-imposed constraints on the military’s role in German foreign policy in place since the end of WWII.
→ read full article
Planetary Impalement by Stakeholder Capitalism?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
“Stake” as a Strategic Metaphor Promoted by the World Economic Forum
→ read full article
(Italiano) Memoria della com-passione
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 Gennaio 2023 – Nel giorno in cui si fa giusta e meditata memoria della Shoah, è giusto esprimere solidarietà al popolo ebraico, nel clima di un discorso franco e sincero.
→ read full article
(Castellano) Fany Kuiru Es Elegida la Primera Mujer Coordinadora de la COICA
Servindi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 enero 2023 – Es la primera vez en 38 años de historia de la COICA que una mujer presidirá la organización que representa a más de 500 pueblos indígenas de 9 países de la Amazonía.
→ read full article
(Français) Amilcar Cabral : l’anticolonialisme comme « patrimoine commun à l’humanité »
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
20 janvier 2023 – Il y a 50 ans, le 20 janvier 1973, sous l’instigation de la dictature portugaise, était assassiné Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973), l’une des principales figures des luttes anticolonialistes. Il mourrait quelques mois seulement avant l’indépendance de la Guinée-Bissau et du Cap-Vert.
→ read full article
The Winter of Our Discontent: Mind’s Accommodation to Disparate Experiences
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
A Personal Essay – MIND, MEANING, CHANCE . . .
→ read full article
Tensions in the Asian Trinity: China – Japan – U.S.A.
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – After five years of growing tensions among China Japan and the U.S.A., U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make an official visit to Beijing on 5-6 February 2023. There is a long list of possible issues to discuss although the list of common actions may be much shorter.
→ read full article
How [Much] Are You Today?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – Gone are those times when catastrophes were measured in terms of human suffering. Now, with an exception: Ukrainians victims of the Russian invasion, everything is calculated in just money.
→ read full article
A Responsibility to Wonder: Pioneering Neuroscientist Charles Scott Sherrington on the Spirituality of Nature
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
“We have, because human, an inalienable prerogative of responsibility which we cannot devolve…not… even upon the stars. We can share it only with each other.”
→ read full article
(Italiano) Fare Storia e Memoria E’ Necessario. Il Percorso Atipico Proposto da Collettivamente Memoria per Il Giorno Della Memoria 2023
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Silenzio. Dal Silenzio. Al silenzio. Il percorso per il Giorno della Memoria 2023, proposto dal progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria, ha un andamento circolare: dal silenzio al silenzio. A’ rebours. Et vice-versa.
→ read full article
The World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization Are Elevating Themselves above the World’s Governments
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
15 Jan 2023 – “In the last three years, the common people’s exclusion from what is still sold as a democratic process has reached a pinnacle.” — Peter Koenig, former senior economist for the World Bank and the World Health Organization
→ read full article
The Nightmare of NATO Equipment Being Sent to Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations, and rebukes the WWII history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin. Today the White House decided that it would send about 30 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, a political cover for Germany that decided to ship 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Kiev.
→ read full articleThe Rules-Based International Order and the Foggy Bottom Blues
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
The four words Rules Based International Order are surrounded by controversies. I will review some controversies as a prelude to a proposal. The proposal will recommend discarding the currently dominant discourses that are, as Michel Foucault might say, the historical conditions of the possibility of RBIO discourse.
→ read full article
Palpable Peace: The Institution of the Iconic Christmas Tree (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
The pagan origins and customs associated with the institution of the Christmas Tree, as observed in the 21st Century.
→ read full article
Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 5 Yrs Ago Today
Nat Parry | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 Jan 2023 – The founder of Consortium News died five years ago today. Robert Parry had an illustrious career as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press, Newsweek and PBS Frontline, best-known for his revelations in the Iran Contra scandal and the October Surprise.
→ read full article
Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware won’t help.
→ read full article
Burkina Faso Ejects French Troops
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
On 18 Jan 2023, the government of Burkina Faso made a decision to ask the French military to depart from the country. France entered the Sahel region in 2013. The ejection of France does not mean that there will be no NATO countries in the region. Both the US and UK have a large footprint from Morocco to Niger.
→ read full article
Josip Broz Tito and Che Guevara Speak
Srećko Horvat | The Internationalist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
In 1959, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito received the members of the Cuba Goodwill Mission led by Dr. Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. The historic Tito-Che conversation contextualized in the history of the Non-Aligned Movement and Yugoslavia-Cuba relations.
→ read full article
Big Tech to US Congress: Listen to Taylor Swift and Go after Ticketmaster, Not Us
Ryan Grim | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – Lobbyists for tech giants asked US Congress to focus less on Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Congress was happy to oblige.
→ read full article
Parade of Monsters
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
28 Jan 2023 – This week’s decision by Germany, US and NATO to send tanks to Ukraine has generated powerful images of the Second World War. It’s a parade of monsters.
→ read full article
As Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Announce Doomsday Clock at 90 Seconds to Midnight, They Unknowingly Push the Dial Even Closer
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
28 Jan 2023 – On January 24, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Einstein, Oppenheimer and scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, unveiled the 2023 Doomsday Clock, now at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been. This year, they cite new nuclear threats from the Ukraine war, the climate crisis and pandemics.
→ read full article
War Is Hell… or Not
Paul Combs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Yeah! Not for us…
→ read full article
Children of the COVID!
Matt Orfalea and Matt Taibbi | TK Mashup – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – The video reminds us of the insane media scaremongering about children and COVID and how the pandemic was reported not as a collective problem, but a horror movie to be passively experienced, a media approach we see in a variety of issues from fake news to “sonic weapons,” conditioning frightened audiences to endorse extreme solutions and outsource thinking to authorities.
→ read full article
Tanks & Tragedy
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – Never has it been so daunting to figure out what’s going on during a major international crisis as with the Ukraine affair, due to total absence of truthful reporting and honest interpretative analysis by the MSM. We are served falsity, fantasy and farrago whose relation to reality is tenuous.
→ read full articleAnimals, Birds, Pets
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
There are countless numbers of animals and birds in the world we live in. Scientists — anthropologists inform us that mankind has also evolved from the animal world over the course of thousands of years–from four-legged creatures to the two-legged mankind of today.
→ read full article
The Belmarsh Tribunals Demand Justice for Julian Assange
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – The US government’s impulse to control information and manipulate public opinion to support war is deeply ingrained. The past twenty years ‘War on Terror’ is no exception. Sophisticated PR campaigns, a compliant mass media and the Pentagon’s pervasive propaganda machine all work together.
→ read full article
World’s 10 Most Peaceful Countries [2022]
Vision of Humanity - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the GPI is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness. This report presents the most comprehensive data-driven analysis to date on trends in peace, its economic value, and how to develop peaceful societies.
→ read full article
US Constantly Provoking China
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The way the U.S. has been positioning its war machinery around China would have sparked a third world war had the roles been reversed. Nonetheless, talk inside the U.S. empire is all about Chinese “aggression.”
→ read full article
Russia Moves to End European Treaties
Defend Democracy Press | Delphi Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – President Vladimir Putin asked the Russian lawmakers today to adopt a law that would formally end the country’s participation in 21 treaties and charters related to the Council of Europe.
→ read full article
What Can the United States Bring to the Peace Table for Ukraine?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – The US bears its share of responsibility for this crisis that is destroying Ukraine and placing the world in “unprecedented danger,” as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ new Doomsday Clock statement calls it. So what can the US bring to the table to help make peace, for Ukraine and the world? We offer some suggestions.
→ read full article
Why US-China Trade Is on Track to Break Records despite All the Politics
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The real needs of global economics trump political scaremongering – for the time being.
→ read full article
Faith
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
… is a choice.
→ read full article
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
Rainer Maria Rilke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
A Timeless Invitation to Listening for the Light
→ read full article
Medvedchuk Publishes First Article in Russian Daily on Situation in Ukraine after Swap
TASS Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
16 Jan 2023 – Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk has written his first article after arriving in Russia from Ukraine as a result of a detainee exchange. He previously was a director of the opposition platform, For Life Party, now banned in Ukraine. According to him, in order to defuse the situation in Ukraine it is crucial to recognize Russia’s interests.
→ read full article
Stop the Arms Supplies! It Destroys Ukraine!
Bjørn Eidsvig - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – This is terrible! We behave cruelly taking part in the destruction of Ukraine and its people. We destroy the world climate, create hatred between nations, and endanger existence of civilization just to keep control of some very reluctant provinces in Eastern Ukraine!
→ read full article
‘Doomsday Clock’ Moves to 90 Seconds to Midnight as Nuclear Threat Rises
Katharine Jackson | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – Today the “Doomsday Clock,” created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moved its “time” to 90 seconds to midnight, 10 seconds closer than the past three years, to illustrate how threats of nuclear war, disease and climate volatility have been exacerbated, putting humanity at greater risk of annihilation.
→ read full article
Fany Kuiru Elected as COICA’s First Woman Coordinator
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – It is the first time in the 38-year history of ‘COICA-Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin’ that a woman will preside over the NGO that represents more than 500 indigenous peoples from 9 Amazonian countries.
→ read full article
Look at How the 1% Are Doing Right Now, and Tell Me the System Isn’t Rigged
Nesrine Malik | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
23 Jan 2023 – The world’s super-rich have amassed so much wealth since the pandemic that even a Tory minister can see something is amiss.
→ read full article
Nonviolence as the Only Way
Maria Giovanna Farina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – Nonviolence seems distant and agonizing in a historical situation where only Pope Francis makes appeals for peace. Nonviolence seems to have become an empty word and this cannot, must not, be accepted. I must point out the “amnesia” of those who forget history and the wars that have bloodied it.
→ read full article
Jeffrey Sachs Highlights from Athens Democracy Forum
Jeffrey Sachs | Bryan Van Norden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Some highlights from Jeffrey Sachs’s comments at the 2022 Athens Democracy Forum session on “A Decade of Democracy: China and Russia.” Prof. Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
→ read full article
Can You Smell What the Year of the Rabbit Is Cooking?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The New Silk Roads, or BRI, as well as the integration efforts of BRICS+, the SCO and the EAEU will be on the forefront of Chinese policy.
→ read full article
Just Thinking: The Meaning of Our Words
JoAnn McAllister, Ph.D. | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
We string words together and intend for others to ‘get it,’ but how they are understood is up to readers whether colleagues, collaborators, or antagonists. The challenges can arise even among collaborative groups. Some strategies to increase understanding are suggested here.
→ read full article
Alberto Portugheis 80th Birthday Concert (Music Video of the Week)
Alberto Portugheis | Pyanek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Pianist, pedagogue, peace activist and TRANSCEND Member Alberto Portugheis celebrates his 80 years performing Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin at St John’s Church, London. His life is shared between music and his organization, HUFUD, whose mission is the Abolition of Militarism. Recorded on 11 Jun 2021.
→ read full article
SOUTHCOM Chief Aims to Increase Imperialist Plunder of Latin America’s Resources
Luigi Morris | Left Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – U.S. Southern Command Chief Laura Richardson has expressed interest in lithium and other natural resources in South America. It shows the country’s commitment to corporate profits at the expense of workers, Indigenous people, and the environment.
→ read full article
Tribunal in Washington Calls on President Biden to End Prosecution of Julian Assange and to Defend Rights of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Chris Garaffa | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – Nearly 13 years after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released the video Collateral Murder, over 150 people packed the same room in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.–just two blocks from the White House–for the Belmarsh Tribunal. Co-chaired by Amy Goodman and Srećko Horvat, it brought together whistleblowers, activists, lawyers in support of Assange.
→ read full article
Ecological Footprint by Country 2023
World Population Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Ecological footprint is a metric computed by the Global Footprint Network and used to determine the impact humans are having on the environment in a given place or country. Ecological footprint measures the natural resources humans are consuming in the environment.
→ read full article
Spot the Mistakes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Our Rainy Day Fun Game–Whoopsie!
→ read full article
When Journalists Act as State Propagandists
Peter Oborne | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
18 Jan 2023 – In advance of the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, the UK media parroted government lies and became a part of the state’s propaganda machine. An inquiry into British reporting of the Iraq war is well past due.
→ read full article
Remembering Dr. Glenn D. Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017)
Bill (Balwant) Bhaneja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Prof. Glenn Durland Paige was an innovative political scientist from the US founder of the Center for Global Nonkilling. His legacy of scholarship, leadership, creativity, and visionary thinking continues.
→ read full article
Nobel Peace Nominations 2023 – Deadline 31 January
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Nobel Peace Prize Watch will encourage all with nomination rights to nominate a candidate within the original intention of Alfred Nobel for peace by global demilitarization and those who have worked to «reduce or abolish standing armies.»
→ read full article
Conjoining the Incommensurables at the WEF Davos Forum of 2023
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Freudian Economics Underlying Stakeholder Capitalism
→ read full article
Lifting the Curtain: Barbara Walters
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – This post is a departure from my usual focus on current political concerns. It attempts a mini-exploration of the public/private interface of a news and entertainment celebrity, especially known for her ability to go ‘persona,’ and even enter intimate terrain with some of the most famous political leaders of our time.
→ read full article
Peace at Gregorian Christmas (Part 2): The Evolution of Christmas in the 21st Century
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
The beginnings of traditional Christmas as celebrated by the majority of Christians.
→ read full article
USA 2023: 34 Mass Shootings in First Three Weeks (1.5 carnages/day)
Paul LeBlanc | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
23 Jan 2023 – At least 10 people are dead and 10 injured after a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, on Saturday 21 Jan night. BREAKING NEWS: Shooting Leaves at Least 12 Injured in Louisiana on Sunday 22 Jan 2023.
→ read full article
(Italiano) Immanuel Wallerstein su sinistra e destra globali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Crisi, appunto. La via d’uscita è un discorso nuovo, meno materiale, più spirituale; qualcosa per cui vivere, non solo da. In questo momento Wallerstein vede il capitalismo in crisi senza rimedio–di cui non sono così sicuro–e anche l’egemonia americana in crisi senza rimedio–una visione che condivido–, come la caduta di un impero per il quale i locali le élite erano solite uccidere e governare; ora deve fare la maggior parte degli omicidi da solo.
→ read full article
The Plague of Social Isolation
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a dangerous social isolation.
→ read full article
The Secretive Legal Weapon That Fossil Fuel Interests Use against Climate-Conscious Countries
Lois Parshley | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – Investor-state dispute settlements increasingly allow oil and gas investors to sue countries over their climate policies.
→ read full article
U.S. Mercenaries in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court
Peter Maass | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Amid accusations of fraud and sexual misconduct, the U.S. military vets founders of the high-profile Mozart Group are waging a personal war back home.
→ read full articleThe Occident Is Now Militarising Itself to Death for a Second Time
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
May Others Learn to Avoid That Fate – If we survive the demise of the global US Empire and concomitantly of NATO, a new much more balanced, multipolar, cooperative and peaceful world becomes thinkable, desirable and possible.
→ read full article
(Português) Merecemos ainda continuar sobre a Terra?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 jan 2023 – Sou um pessimista esperançado. Pessimista face à realidade perversa sob a qual vivemos e sofremos. Esperançado porque creio que o ser humano pode mudar a partir de uma nova consciência e no Criador que desta crise e eventualmente de uma ruína pode construir ou tipo de seres humanos, mais fraternos entre si e respeitosos da Casa Comum.
→ read full article
Solving the Debt Crisis the North American Way
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today.
→ read full article
Proxy War: US Announces Massive $2.5 Billion Weapons Package for Ukraine
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – The package will include more Bradley armored vehicles and for the first time, Stryker armored vehicles.
→ read full article
Free Julian Assange: The Belmarsh Tribunal at the National Press Club Washington DC
Pressenza Int'l Press Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – Chaired by Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) and Srećko Horvat (philosopher co-founder of DiEM25), the Tribunal included testimony from Julian’s father John Shipton.
→ read full article
Promoting Falsehoods and Marginalizing Truth-Tellers
Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – WaPo’s Revelations about Russiagate Reporting Failures Typify Legacy Media Failures
→ read full articleThe Language Factor
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
The world over, languages play a dominant role in the history, culture, education and academic work of nations. One can see several examples in everyday lives of people.
→ read full articleLand of the Fee, Home of the Depraved
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023 – Who is in charge?
→ read full article
The WEF and WHO – Are They Running a Death Cult? A WHO/Pharma Controlled Worldwide Tyrannical “Health System”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023 – Let us never let an abject power-hungry non-elected criminal like Klaus Schwab, with his roots in the Third Reich, and his NGO, the World Economic Forum, dominate humanity. May sheer solidarity, togetherness of thought and will power, overcome the pathological objectives of the psychopaths’ wish for power and money dominance.
→ read full article
Kids These Days
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Well you know kids these days they’re so entitled
.
They’ll quit a job just because they don’t like it
,
or because it doesn’t pay enough
, …
US Installs New Nukes in Europe: As Destructive as 83 Hiroshima Bombs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – As if the 100 billion dollars that the United States has so far provided to Ukraine in both weapons and aid were not enough, the US has now started to install in Europe its brand new, more destructive nuclear warheads.
→ read full article
Empire by Invitation
Samar Al-Bulushi | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – African leaders are asking for more U.S. counterterrorism support. They should be careful what they wish for.
→ read full article
(Italiano) In mezzo all’internet delle cose
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
18 Gennaio 2023 – Quali implicazioni nel vivere in ‘smart cities’, immersi nelle onde, in mezzo all’’internet delle cose’?
→ read full article
Harry the ‘Traitor’ and Lynch ‘the Grinch’: The Corporate Media’s Automatic Smear Machine
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – Whatever we think of the Harry and Meghan Markle saga, it matters when the son of the current king and brother of the future king writes in his new book, ‘Spare’: “Does the Crown generate tourism income that benefits all? Of course. Does it also rest upon lands obtained and secured when the system was unjust and wealth was generated by exploited workers and thuggery, annexation and enslaved people? Can anyone deny it?”
→ read full article