Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Português) Pelé Morreu (23 out 1940 – 29 dez 2022)
A Bola - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – O futebol está de luto: morreu hoje Edson Arantes Nascimento, o Rei Pelé, aos 82 anos. Pelé, uma lenda que por muitos é considerado o melhor jogador de todos os tempos, é o único na história do futebol que conseguiu ser três vezes campeão do mundo: 1958, 1962 e 1970. Foi Ministro do Desporto do Brasil entre 1995 e 1998. RIP
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State Department Approves $180 Million Arms Sale for Taiwan
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – The Deal Is for Volcano Anti-Tank Mine-Laying Systems – China is opposed to any new US arms sales to Taiwan and much more strongly opposed to the new military aid.
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Pelé (23 Oct 1940 – 29 Dec 2022), Brazil’s Mighty King of ‘Beautiful Game,’ Has Died
Tales Azzoni and Mauricio Savarese | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died today. He was 82. The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. RIP
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NATO’s Peace Delivery–For Whom the Bell Tolls
John Donne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
“Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
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Barbara Walters (25 Sep 1929 – 30 Dec 2022), TV’s Tireless Pursuer of the Newsmaker ‘Get,’ Dies at 93
Laurence I. Barrett | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
30 Dec 2022 – Wielding a bemused and intimate style, she became one of television’s premier interrogators of the newsworthy.
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‘Nearly Every War Has Been the Result of Media Lies’: Julian Assange, State-Corporate Media and Ukraine
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
14 Dec 2022 – Julian Assange once observed that, ‘Nearly every war has been the result of media lies.’ For daring to publish evidence of US war crimes, Assange now sits in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London, at risk of being extradited to the US within the next few weeks. The prospects for a fair trial range from miniscule to zero.
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Some Barbaric Times in Our Recent History
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
The world has always faced wars, killings, cruelty and injustice, but the Twentieth Century has displayed new forms of wars, murders and displacement.
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Despite US Opposition, UN Passes Resolution Condemning Death Penalty
Julia Conley | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
16 Dec 2022 – Biden’s stated opposition to the death penalty did not stop the US from joining Saudi Arabia, Iran and North Korea today in voting against a UN resolution supporting a worldwide moratorium on the practice.
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BlackRock Logo to Be Added to Ukrainian Flag
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag—BlackRock, world’s largest investment management firm–which will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. BlackRock will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and McDonald’s upon the blue and yellow flag.
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The Meat Industry Has Created a False Dichotomy That Pits People against Animals
Vicky Bond | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
16 Dec 2022 – Factory farms are harmful to animals, the environment, local communities, and public health. We need a more logical and just food system that puts pigs and people back where they belong—on the same side.
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If the US Told Rwanda and Uganda to Get Out of Congo, the War Would End
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
14 Dec 2022 – Rwanda and Uganda continue their plunder and destabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as proxies of the United States.
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Looking Back on 2022: Ukraine and the Rest of the Story
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
26 Dec 2022 – As 2022 draws to a close, the world bears the tragic burden of the war in Ukraine and there is nothing to indicate that it will end any time soon. Thousands have perished. A huge number of people have been injured and maimed. Both Russian and Ukrainian prisoners have been subjected to torture.
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Russia Dropping US Dollar for Chinese Yuan – And Fast
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
26 Dec 2022 – In response to Western sanctions, Russia’s central bank is dropping the US dollar for Chinese yuan. The yuan’s share of Moscow’s currency trading increased from 1% to 40-45% in 2022, while dollar trade halved from 80% to 40%.
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Pandemics and Propaganda
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
December 2022 – How SPR covered the pandemic and defused the propaganda.
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) endures as one of humanity’s most lucid and luminous minds — an oracle of timeless wisdom on everything.
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Music Video of the Week)
Tears For Fears – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
This is one of those songs that you have heard all your life until one day you wake up and REALLY HEAR IT. Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy the experience. Lyrics provided.
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Reimagining Global Peace and One Humanity beyond the Lens of Human Consciousness
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Towards Critical Thinking of Time for Change, Peace and Future-Making
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On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.
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They Write Themselves (Part 1)
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
No Kidding…
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Although “peace” and “security” were ideals that led to the founding of the United Nations, “development” was not. However, conceived as the solution, not as the problem, “development” named an ideal that could keep the UN united. It solved the problem of keeping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on board.
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ICC Wanted to Investigate Israeli War Crimes–Now It’s Caving to US Pressure
Marjorie Cohn | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
17 Dec 2022 – Two years after launching an investigation of war crimes in Palestine, the International Criminal Court is still dragging its feet.
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Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Spirits Rebellious
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Gibran’s bitter denunciation of both religious and political injustice brought his anticipated exile from Lebanon. He was also excommunicated from the Church in a country where much civil identity and justice was based on religious membership — not to mention the popular idea that God did not allow excommunicated souls into his Heaven.
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(Italiano) Caduta fatalistica dell’eroe occidentale e coscienza storica delle religioni
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Quale è la risposta delle religioni davanti al mondo dei nostri tempi che, oltre ad essersi secolarizzato sembra aver dimostrato la inutilità del Messia, perché l’avrebbe superato di gran lunga nella vita pratica?
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Looking Back…
Marcandangel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Happy New Year!
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(Português) Brasil: Da calamidade das calaminades de Bolsonaro à esperança esperante de Lula
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dez 2022 – Durante os quatro anos da administração do presidente Bolsonaro, o país viveu afetado por todas as pragas do Egito. Das muitas opções possíveis para algum problema, o presidente geralmente escolhia a pior. Psicótico, era apático face às desgraças infligidas ao´povo, particularmente aos mais vulneráveis.
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners Have Deep CIA Ties
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
21 Dec 2022 – Far-fetched as it sounds, this year’s winners are all connected to a CIA offshoot, the National Endowment for Democracy and parroted CIA/State Department/Pentagon talking points about Ukraine and Russia in their acceptance speeches.
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The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love–>Thich Nhat Hanh
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
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Former Pope Benedict XVI (16 Apr 1927 – 31 Dec 2022) Passes Away
Vatican News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
31 Dec 2022 – Following the announcement of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI today at the age of 95, we look back at his long life and its main highlights with the following official biography.
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US Trial of Venezuela’s Alex Saab Exposes Diplomatic Espionage
Anya Parampil | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
12 Dec 2022 – Reporting from inside the federal courtroom where the US is prosecuting Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, we learn of disturbing acts of diplomatic espionage. Saab’s advocates insist he is imprisoned for violating Washington’s economic blockade.
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Electoral Conflicts and Political Polarization: What Can Mediators Do?
Kenneth Cloke | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Mar 2022 Issue – Biden and Harris won the U.S. election, but what exactly did they win? What was lost in the process? What is lost and won in electoral conflicts around the world? The U.S. experience offers some lessons for those who seek to reduce the destructive impact of electoral conflicts.
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The U.S. Military Is Poisoning Okinawa
Pat Elder | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
28 Dec 2022 – Blood testing confirms high levels of carcinogen PFAS in the blood of hundreds living close to U.S. bases in Ginowan, Okinawa (10 Jul 2022). Japanese demand answers while Americans deny responsibility. (Toshio Takahashi).
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Merkel’s Candid Revelation of Minsk’s Role in the War in Ukraine
Amit Sengupta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
14 Dec 2022 – MUST WATCH – Listen to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s honesty about the Minsk Peace Accords to a German weekly on 7 Dec 2022. Slip of tongue? Be the judge.
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Migrants? ‘Don’t You Dare Come Here, Unless…’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
19 Dec 2022 – When tens of thousands of Europeans had to flee the horrors of two born-in-Europe devastating armed conflicts–World Wars I and II–they migrated to the Americas and other Western countries in search of safe haven.They were checked at the border and admitted to enter as useful workforce. Seldom, if ever, anybody classified them as “illegal” migrants.
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Iran, Past and Present
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
20 Dec 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new eBook entitled “Iran, Past and Present”. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge. Below is some discussion of its contents.
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The Democrats Are Now the War Party
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
25 Dec 2022 – The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war.
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The Ukraine Crisis Is a Classic “Security Dilemma”
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
27 Dec 2022 – A more objective way of looking at the conflict and its underlying causes that may suggest a path to a mutually-acceptable diplomatic solution. Today, both Russia and Ukraine issued calls for ending the war in Ukraine, but only on non-negotiable terms that they each know the other side will reject.
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The 60-Year U.S. Blockade on Cuba Is an Abomination just as Guantanamo—with No End in Sight
David Starr | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
14 Dec 2022 – “El Bloqueo” (The Blockade) is what Cubans call it. It is a 60-year-old abomination. It is the U.S. embargo against Cuba imposed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962.
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Nonviolent Theory on Communication: The Implications for Theorizing a Nonviolent Rhetoric
Ellen W. Gorsevski | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2022
The interrelationship between nonviolence and rhetoric is examined. While we have studied the world of adversarial relationships, conflict, and difference of belief, rhetorical critics have not done as much to understand the practices of seeking mutual identification, cooperation, and learning how to live with diversity and adversity. Nonviolent theory shows rhetoricians that language and culture—our ways of creating and perpetuating our reality—can impose minimal aggression while maximizing the potential for peacemaking.
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COVID Notice Update
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
19 Dec 2022 – Dear Readers, Friends, Supporters, as you may know, I have contracted COVID, still bedridden. This week I did my best but it wasn’t nearly enough. The materials submitted by writers are being published to the best of my abilities.
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Corruption (I): The Most Perpetrated–and Least Prosecuted–Crime
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
6 Dec 2022 – Transparency International’s report, Exporting Corruption 2022, rates the performance of 47 leading global exporters, including 43 countries that are signatories to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Anti-Bribery Convention, in cracking down on foreign bribery by companies from their countries.
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Corruption (II): Europe Doing Nothing
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – Western Europe and the European Union remain the highest scoring regions in the world’s corruption index; progress has halted and worrying signs of backsliding have emerged: Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Indict Me Too
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – Daniel Ellsberg has called on the U.S. to indict him for having the same unauthorized possession of classified material as Julian Assange. Ellsberg follows the Cryptome.org founder who has also invited prosecution.
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Judicial Coup in Argentina: Corrupt Judges Conspire with Media Oligarchs to Ban Cristina Kirchner from Office
Ben Norton | Multipolarista - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
9 Dec 2022 – Leaked messages show Argentina’s corrupt judges and prosecutors conspired with right-wing media oligarchs to launch a judicial coup against left-wing ex President and current VP Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sentencing her to six years in prison and banning her from running in the 2023 elections.
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The Poetic Science of the Aurora Borealis
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
“And now commenced a display which baffles all description.”
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Having a Blast
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
New Worlds…?
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How British Colonialism Killed 100 Million Indians in 40 Years
Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.
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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates Is Promoting ‘Surveillance Agriculture’
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
5 Dec 2022 – Vandana Shiva and Russell Brand discussed the history of agriculture, the role of Big Food in the current global cost-of-living crisis and how Gates is promoting “basically a surveillance agriculture.”
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My Sweet Lord (Music Video of the Week)
Billy Preston | George Harrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
This show was a tribute to George Harrison two years after his death. On guitar Eric Clapton, on the other guitar Harrison’s son, on piano Paul McCartney, 1st drummer Ringo Star, on second Phil Collins, on guitar Tom Petty, on organ and vocals Billy Preston.
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The Christmas Truce of 1914 and Other Unlearned Lessons from WWI
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
That spontaneous event, the Christmas Truce of 1914, was expressed in a variety of ways at a multitude of locations all along the 600 miles of trenches that stretched across France, but it was an event that would never again be duplicated in the history of warfare.
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Escaping the Military–Healing the Virus of Violence
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Radical Peace presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our U.S. warrior culture. A young Buddhist novice contributed this account, which we then revised together.
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Carlos Latuff | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Are you serious? Really?? Wow!
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The War Crime of Usurpation of Sovereignty by the US against the Hawaiian Islands since 1898
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
9 Dec 2022 – Usurpation of sovereignty during military occupation was listed as a war crime in a 1919 report by the Commission on Responsibilities of the Paris Peace Conference.
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Our Authentically Fake and Hypocritical Society of Copies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
4 Dec 2022 – Indeed, to make people into machines is the goal of trans-humanists Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum with its Great Reset and the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Artificial Intelligence for artificial people. While there are innocent examples of repetition, the use of it is a fundamental tactic of propaganda.
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Peru’s Oligarchy Overthrows President Castillo
Manolo de los Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
8 Dec 2022 – The coup against Pedro Castillo is a major setback for the current wave of progressive governments in Latin America and the people’s movements that elected them. This coup and the arrest of Castillo are stark reminders that the ruling elites of Latin America will not concede any power without a bitter fight to the end. And now that the dust has settled, the only winners are the Peruvian oligarchy and their friends in Washington.
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World Health Organization Meets to Plot Censorship of “Misinformation” under International Pandemic Treaty
Tom Parker | Reclaim the Net - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
6 Dec 2022 – The unelected UN health agency inches closer toward being granted unprecedented, legally-binding censorship powers.
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The Forgotten Journalists (Part 1): The Assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
The Targeted, Governmental Extrajudicial Execution of Journalists Who Are Classified as Personae Non Gratae and Enemies of the State
→ read full articlePeace or War: To Be Optimistic or Pessimistic about the Future of Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Realism has its own moral and intellectual properties and truth cannot be made truer simply by numbers and fake political statements. We, the People of globe have no passion for war; it is incompatible with human nature.
→ read full articleInculcating the “Military Virtues”: The Pentagon’s Predatory Role in U.S. High Schools
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
On 11 Dec, the New York Times broke a front-page story about “J.R.O.T.C,” described as “a program funded by the U.S. military designed to teach leadership skills, discipline, and civil values – and to open students’ eyes to the idea of a military career…” If peace education programs can be combined with civilian job training and public advocacy efforts, we might finally see a real challenge to the ongoing militarization of the schools.
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Journalism Defenders Push for Passage of ‘Game-Changing’ PRESS Act
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – “The PRESS Act is the most important free press legislation in modern times because it would finally stop the government from spying on journalists and threatening them with arrest for doing their jobs,” explained one advocate.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Beethoven was a German composer and the predominant musical figure between the Classical and Romantic periods. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was unable to hear.
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In Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs
AllesAfrikaans | TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
“The mainstream media wants you to believe that the Russia/Ukraine conflict is the result of an unprovoked invasion by Russia. This fundamental lie about the conflict clearly stands in the way of understanding the war and of finding a peaceful end to the conflict.”
→ read full articleThe World — Real or Digital
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
The world around us that we can see or even unable to see is the real world. Here you may see a few people walking, working or eating together. In the digital world we get interesting glimpses of different activities being performed. These may include women in sparkling dresses walking on the ramp; or children playing various games or just rapidly exiting from the classroom when the bell rings.
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COVID Notice
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2022
12 Dec 2022 – Dear Readers, Friends, Supporters, this is the first time that TMS fails to be updated since its inception on 3 Mar 2008. The reason: I have been infected with COVID and bedridden still without prognosis; my very first bout with the condition. Read on…
→ read full articleBuilding Stronger Track-Two Networks
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2022
The continuing armed conflict in Ukraine and the likelihood that the conflict will drag on through the winter–as well as armed conflicts in other parts of the world–forces us to ask if more can be done on the part of non-governmental organizations to encourage negotiations in good faith.
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 1)
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Latin America and the Caribbean are again taking on a pink complexion with June’s historic electoral victory in Colombia over the US-backed rightwing and a similar reverse in Brazil in October. These electoral rejections of the rightwing followed left victories last year in Peru, Honduras, and Chile. And those, in turn, came after similar routs in Bolivia in 2020, Argentina in 2019, and Mexico in 2018.
→ read full article(Português) Vamos ao Encontro de Nossa Destruição?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 dez 2022 – A história de ser humano na Terra em grande parte se resume num permanente conflito com o ambiente. Os seres humanos modernos moveram uma verdadeira guerra contra a Terra: no solo, no subsolo, no ar e no mar, sempre na perspectiva de saquear e extrair mais e mais vantagens.
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(Italiano) Verso un Nuovo Ordine Internazionale–Una Prospettiva Nonviolenta
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Come l’industria delle armi sta portando l’umanità all’autodistruzione.
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 2)
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
3 Dec 2022 – The US has long considered Latin America and the Caribbean its “backyard” under the anachronistic 1823 Monroe Doctrine. Even though Biden mistakenly thinks that upgrading the region to “front yard” makes any difference, Yankee hemispheric hegemony is becoming increasingly volatile by a “Pink Tide” of left electoral victories.
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Australian PM Tells USA to Drop Charges against Julian Assange
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today said that he has personally asked the US government to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is an Australian citizen. His comments came after five major news organizations finally spoke out for Assange.
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Pelé Goes Into Palliative Care after Cancer Hospitalization
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
3 Dec 2022 – The Brazilian soccer legend is reportedly receiving palliative care, after his body did not respond to chemotherapy treatment to fight colon cancer, according to Brazilian media.
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International Media Groups Urge US to Drop Julian Assange Charges in Letter
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Twelve years ago, on 28 Nov 2010, our five international media outlets–the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El País and Der Spiegel–published a series of revelations in cooperation with WikiLeaks that made the headlines around the globe. Our statement supporting the end of the US government’s prosecution of Julian Assange.
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 3)
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
4 Dec 2022 – A surging Pink Tide has brought left electoral victories in Latin America and the Caribbean protesting the neoliberal model imposed by the US and its collaborators. Neoliberalism has failed to meet the needs of the peoples of the region and is losing its legitimacy as a prototype for development.
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From Lateral Thinking to Voluminous Thinking
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Unexplored Options for Subterranean Habitats in Dense Urban Areas – Reposted in celebration of world population having reached 8 billion on 15 Nov 2022, with challenges to every kind of resource, and the continuing inability to discuss what cannot otherwise be discussed
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Be Yourself
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
NOW!
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(Français) Préparons-Nous pour un Nouvel Ordre Mondial
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 décembre 2022 – La culture de la guerre est si fermement établie, en particulier dans l’État moderne, qu’une culture de la paix ne peut être achèvée qu’avec un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale. Pour comprendre la nature du changement radical, je me tourne vers ce vieil expert, Karl Marx.
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Why Does U.S. Navy Allow Officers to Commit Gory Murders and Other Atrocities with Impunity?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – And even more disturbingly, why are the men who commit these crimes revered in American popular culture? “The thrill of killing [is] like a drug; the greatest feeling I’ve ever experienced in my life.” – Eddie Penney, Navy SEAL Team 6.
→ read full articleThe Climate Emergency
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Immediate and drastic action is needed to prevent irreversible climate change. However, the worst effects of climate change lie in the distant future, perhaps as much as a thousand years from today. It is part of our human nature to see what is near to us. We accept the comfort and convenience provided by fossil fuels.
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The Guardian Could Help Assange by Retracting All the Lies It Published about Him
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – The Guardian has joined The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País in signing a letter from the five papers which collaborated with WikiLeaks twelve years ago to call for the Biden administration to drop all charges against Julian Assange. The Guardian’s participation in this letter is particularly noteworthy, given the leading role that publication has played in manufacturing public support for his persecution in the first place.
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Regional Leaders Raise Doubts over US-Backed Plan to Send Foreign Military to Haiti
Jake Johnston | Center for Economic and Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
28 Nov 2022 – How Haiti’s neighbors are resisting the USA inciting them to participate in another military intervention in Haiti.
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Cryptome Founder Asks to Be Indicted with Assange
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – John Young, the founder of the Cryptome website, has asked the U.S. Justice Department to also indict him as he published un-redacted State Dept. files before WikiLeaks did.
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Jan Oberg in China Daily: Abolish NATO and Build Peace Instead
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
While most organisations are evaluated and reformed as time goes by, NATO isn’t. It has become sacrosanct and criticism of its operations silenced. In Western media, it is always called the ”defensive” alliance. It does not see itself as party to the conflict with Russia…
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TRANSCEND Members December Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished member JIM ALBERTINI a HAPPY BIRTHDAY with many returns. We take this opportunity to thank him for all his contributions to the world and to TMS. Bless your life!
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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.” — Kurt Vonnegut
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David Ray Griffin (8 Aug 1939 – 26 Nov 2022)–The Man and His Work: A Synopsis
Elizabeth Woodworth | AE911truth - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – From a hopeful common-sense theology to the exposés of imperialist propaganda and false flag operations, to the full extent of the climate crisis, to our evolving perception of the nature of the divine, David Griffin stands with the greats; yet was quiet, humorous, down to earth, and unassuming. RIP
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US Tax Dollars at Work: Neocolonial Dictatorship, Paramilitary and Police Terror in Haiti Today
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Sending additional foreign troops into Haiti: it misses the fact that it was subjected to such an intervention culminating in the foreign occupation of Haiti since 2004. Similarly, the call for greater US-funding and training of the Haitian police camouflages the following fundamental realities:
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Hawai’i to Pentagon: Stop Bombing Pohakuloa Toxic Area
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Lava Flow from Maunakea Volcano Has Entered Hawaii’s Military Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) –->Danger of Toxins! There is a massive toxic stew at Pohakuloa from 75 years of bombing and the use of nuclear depleted uranium, spotting rounds, and likely chemical and biological weapons. Pohakuloa is NOT safe for soldiers, residents and visitors to Hawaii Island.
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‘Zombie’ Viruses Are Thawing in Melting Permafrost Because of Climate Change
Michael Birnbaum and Ellen Francis | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Ancient viruses are locked in Russia’s permafrost. We may soon get a peek.
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This Planet Is Drying Up–and These Are the Consequences
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of loss of life arising from wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress. Droughts devastate farmland, destroy livelihoods and cause untold suffering.
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Peace Disruptors–The Conversion and Repurposing of Places of Worship (Part 4): Synagogues Defiled by Spanish Monarchy
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
The Odyssey of the Second Exodus Based on Religious Conflicts and Oppression
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Eight Reasons That Now Is a Good Time for a Ukraine Ceasefire and Peace Talks
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Eight reasons that this would be a good time for diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, as faith leaders around the world call for a Christmas Truce. We join these leaders declaring that the holiday season presents “a much-needed opportunity to recognize our compassion for one another.
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Plurality of Information Can Prevent War
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
29 Nov 2022 – In the world we observe a multiplicity of media but no pluralism; all refer to the same sources which convey the same vision of the facts. If the facts exist in a unique way, the way we perceive them is multiple. UNESCO has highlighted “information imperialism:” Imposing a single perception and denying all the others.
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The Warrior –> Yodhajiva Sutta (1 and 2)
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
“Monks, there are these five types of warriors who can be found existing in the world. Which five? In the same way, monks, there are these five warrior-like individuals who can be found existing among the monks. Which five?”
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Where Matter Doesn’t Matter: “Consciousness and the Quantum”
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Quanta aren’t physical particles but energy frequencies. They exhibit mass at the macro scale only because of their energy, as Einstein established with his discovery that energy is interchangeable with mass.
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Nationalism and Migration in Relation to Peace
Johan Galtung | Univ. of Antwerp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) on 21 Apr 2016 – “His work has a unique imprint on many scholarly disciplines; it is a combination of systematic scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics of peaceful means and harmony.”
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Top Antitrust Expert: We Need a New Approach to Giant Tech Firms like Google
Lynn Parramore | Institute for New Economic Thinking – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
28 Nov 2022 – Economist Cristina Caffarra, a leader in competition and antitrust, warns that ever-expanding tech giants raise concerns about the extent of their power.
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Stop and Smell the Apocalypse
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
23 Nov 2022 – In the eyes of the beholder…
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The Racists Return to Kindergarten
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Damn those Marxists! You know their game, right? No doubt they’re in favor of dropping charges against Julian Assange, who (as all real Americans know) deserves 175 years in prison for exposing — with the help of the New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País — embarrassing realities about U.S. foreign policy.
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Home (Music Video of the Week)
David Byrne | Talking Heads – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
From the movie This Must Be the Place (2011) starring Sean Penn
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Qatar’s World Cup Is a Lavish Exercise in Sportswashing
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – Qatar’s treatment of foreign workers is a consequence of colonialism: The “kafala” system was the migrant labor governance structure put in place initially by British colonizers to preserve their own interests.
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10 Suggestions for Lula, New President of Brazil
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
28 Nov 2022 – Dear President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, when I visited you in prison on 30 Aug 2018, in the brief time that the visit lasted, I experienced a whirlwind of ideas and emotions that remain as vivid today as they were then.
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