Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service

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Who Benefits from Persistent Hunger?
Prof. George Kent | World Nutrition – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

I am writing this because an article of mine on ‘The Benefits of World Hunger’ was unclear. Some readers have taken it to mean I advocate having more hunger in the world. That was not my intention. I have been pushing for reduction of hunger for decades. I am writing this to explain my views relating to who benefits from hunger.

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Bad News: Headlines Are Indeed Getting more Negative and Angrier
David Rozado, Ruth Hughes and Jamin Halberstadt | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

27 Nov 2022 – New research shows that right-leaning media outlets tend to be more negative and angry. But the left peddles fear, too.

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Postpone Enforcement of CPTPP
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

29 Nov 2022 – A postponement of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership is necessary because it impinges on our sovereignty and affects the ability of Malaysia to protect its workers and people. If a dispute arouse, a decision by an international arbitration panel would be final; our local courts would have no say.

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Festive Season in India
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

India is a country that demonstrates religious and cultural unity within its diversity. Come to India and see for yourself.

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China Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself with U.S. Bases
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

29 Nov 2022 – Everyone knows the US has invaded countries completely unprovoked very recently and will definitely do so again, but we still have to pretend that Putin is the worst thing since Hitler. I cannot emphasize enough how little respect I have for anyone who parrots US empire narratives about China.

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NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to ‘Doorstep of Doom’
Robin Andersen | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 Dec 2022 – Corporate media are failing democracy and to disclose our current, stark choice between war, life and the planet. They shout for more war in loud voices. They censor and poison public discourse and position North Americans as targets of propaganda—the denizens of empire—instead of citizen participants in a democracy.

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Prepare for a New World Order
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 Dec 2022 – The culture of war is so firmly established in the modern state that it will take a revolutionary change in global governance to move to a culture of peace. To understand the nature of revolutionary change, I turn to that old expert, Karl Marx.

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Be It Resolved: Don’t Trust Mainstream Media
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 Dec 2022 – My Opening Remarks for the Munk Debates in Toronto Tonight

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How Joe Biden Suckered Europe
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

29 Nov 2022 – Europe is lost for answers. Boxed in, the EU is failing the test of the war in Ukraine.

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Unequal Mercy
Helen Benedict | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

4 Dec 2022 – The West’s Approach to Refugees – Almost anyone would agree that war is horrifying and peaceful countries should do their best to help its victims.

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World Cup in Qatar Is “Deadliest Major Sporting Event” in History, Built on a Decade of Forced Labor
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

21 Nov 2022 – A look into Qatar’s labor and human rights record. Minky Worden, of Human Rights Watch, describes how millions of poor migrant workers have faced deadly, forced labor conditions on the $2 billion infrastructure. By one count, 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since 2010, when it was awarded the hosting of the games.

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Did the World Make Progress on Climate Change? Here’s What Was Decided at CP27
Nathan Rott et al. | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

20 Nov 2022 – Contentious climate negotiations ended in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, as negotiators from around the world finalized a modest deal to help control global warming and pay for the costs of a hotter Earth.

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Sanctions: Another Form of War on Designated Enemies
Kathleen Malley-Morrison | MAPA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

18 Nov 2022 – Both the UN and illegal US sanctions have had disastrous effects on millions of people, effects that violate both the UN charter and the UDHR. Research in 69 countries showed that sanctions lowered infant weight and increased the likelihood of death before age three.

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The US Is Determined to Drive a Wedge between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

23 Nov 2022 – Thanks to the 21 Nov US-imposed sanctions,  Eritrea has been excluded from the SWIFT system along with Russia, Iran, and North Korea.  Now American Enterprise Institute fanatic Michael Rubin wants it on the US list of state sponsored terrorists along with Cuba, North Korea, and Syria—triggering sanctions that penalize persons and countries trading with Eritrea. 

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73% of the World’s Population Did Not Call for Russian Reparations to Ukraine
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

On 14 Nov 2022, the UNGA passed a resolution (A/ES-11/L.6) calling for Russia to pay war reparations to Ukraine. The majority of the world’s countries simply did not support this resolution:
99 NOT VOTING IN FAVOR (AGAINST, ABSTENTION or NOT VOTING)
93 IN FAVOR

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Crimes against the Innocent Child
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

21 Nov 2022 – In addition to the reported brutalities, many more crimes against children continue amidst worldwide impunity. The following are just some tragic examples.

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Heal the World (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson | RAM's F.M. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Ukraine and Russia –> Peace Not War 2022

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Indigenous People Push Back Against US ‘Thanksgiving Mythology’
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

24 Nov 2022 – “We will not stop telling the truth about the Thanksgiving story and what happened to our ancestors,” says Kisha James, whose grandfather founded the National Day of Mourning in 1970.

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Lives of Some Great Philosophers
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

I announce the publication of a new book, “Lives of Some Great Philosophers.” It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.

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What Spirituality after 1989?
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

A Universal Spirituality Adequate to Our Times

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Every Child Has a Right to Realize the Human Potential
Yasmine Sherif | ECW - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

20 Nov 2022 – Racism and discrimination against children on the basis of their ethnicity, language and religion remain widespread in many countries. Statement by Yasmine Sherif, Director of ‘ECW-Education Cannot Wait’

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Memorial Prose Poem
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

I write in memory of a tragic day in history that changed the destiny of the USA and the world. With the assassination of JFK, the path was open for presidential deceit and deception, for abuses of national purpose and moral authority. Say what you will, JFK was our nation’s last hope for principled charismatic leadership capable of inspiring hope and sacrifice for higher purpose.

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Zelensky Trapped by Moscow and Washington
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

22 Nov 2022 – The balance of power on the Ukrainian battlefield and the tragic episode of the G20 in Bali mark the first time the West has failed to impose its worldview on the rest of the planet. The USA has already begun secret negotiations with Russia to let go of Ukraine and blame solely Volodymyr Zelensky. As in Afghanistan, the awakening will be brutal.

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Friedrich Engels (28 Nov 1820 – 5 Aug 1895)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Friedrich Engels was a German author, political theorist and philosopher, best known for his monumental works with Karl Marx, ‘The Communist Manifesto’ and ‘Das Kapital’. He is pegged as being the cornerstone of a development of Marxism that led to Soviet Marxists and the institution of dialectical materialism.

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Anyway
Mother Teresa of Kolkata – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
~Love them anyway.

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SAMs for Uncle Sam
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Radical Peace presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our US warrior culture.

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Interpol Arrest Warrant Issued for Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos
Fergus Shiel and Micael Pereira | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

19 Nov 2022 – The daughter of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos was the subject of the ICIJ 2020 Luanda Leaks investigation. Sources say the warrant relates to allegedly corrupt dealings exposed.

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COP27 Sponsor, Coca-Cola, Named Worst Plastic Polluter for the Last Five Years
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and Nestlé come in as the world’s top plastic polluters for five years running, according to Break Free From Plastic’s 2022 global brand audit report.

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Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces Are Defending Their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism
Eva Bartlett | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

19 Nov 2022 – Western Media Inverted Reality, Lauding Nazis and Demonizing Defenders: The U.S. is widely understood to be a key instigator behind conflict in Ukraine that has pitted brother against brother.

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A Short Introductory Bibliography on Unbounded Organization
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Concepts of Unbounded Organizing

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Thanksgiving Read Meat
Mr. Fish - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Enjoy!

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Wang Yi Briefs the Media on the Meeting between Chinese and U.S. Presidents and Answers Questions
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – Yesterday, President Xi Jinping had a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Bali, Indonesia. After the meeting, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi briefed the media on the meeting and answered questions.

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A Thanksgiving Reminder
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

24 Nov 2022 – Happy Thanksgiving, sucker…

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Forgive Yourself
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Feel compassion for yourself. Love yourself, not merely your body.

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The U.S. Military Pledged to Remove Unexploded Bombs from This Island–Native Hawaiians Are Still Waiting
Rob Perez | Honolulu Star-Advertiser/ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

26 Nov 2022 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is leading the remediation effort, has been plagued by shoddy work and multiple regulatory disputes, according to an investigation by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica.

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Peace Disruptors–The Conversion and Repurposing of Places of Worship (Part 3): The Odyssey of Byzantia’s Hagia Sophia from Christianity to Islam
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

The Eastern Roman Empire was the site of repeated and enormous Peace Disruption due to Inter-Abrahamic Religious conflicts.

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Georgian Legion Carries Out ISIS-Style Executions in Ukraine—with Covert U.S. Support
Evan Reif  | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

23 Nov 2022 – U.S. has a long history of subcontracting dirty counterinsurgency operations to brutal proxy forces–the Georgian Legion, which stands out among the many right-wing militias of Ukraine, is but the latest.

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Israel Has Jailed 50,000 Palestinian Children since 1967, and the Number of Detentions Is Growing Rapidly: Report
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

23 Nov 2022 – The Palestinian Commission on Detainees and Ex-Detainees released a report for World Children’s Day on the routine Israeli arrest and jailing of minors, saying that Palestinian children are not secure from being constantly targeted by Israeli security forces.

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Their Children Struggled with Addiction—Now They’re Fighting against the War on Drugs
Troy Farah | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

26 Nov 2022 – A growing number of parents see the war on drugs as an abject failure that harmed their kids.

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Elderly Populations
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

India has some 1.3 billion inhabitants, the second highest in the world after the Chinese population of about 1.4 billion. If the present conditions continue, we may exceed the Chinese in another year and may equal 1.5 billion by 2030.

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(Italiano) Il risveglio arabo-musulmano e USA/Israele
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Il risveglio arabo è contro la violenza e la corruzione a favore della democrazia, della crescita e dell’occupazione, e contro il dominio USA-Israele. Ma credere che l’Islam tolleri il secolarismo imposto è incredibilmente ingenuo. C’è un risveglio musulmano. Tuttavia, ci sono molti islam, come ci sono i cristiani e gli ebraismi. Come reagiscono USA-Israele e quale sarebbe una reazione positiva alla loro reazione?

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What Does the EU Parliament’s Designation of Russia as a ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ Mean?
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

24 Nov 2022 – The European Parliament’s non-binding resolution is a PR effort rooted in political agenda.

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While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed Readers
Ari Paul | FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

19 Nov 2022 – Before Bankman-Fried’s transition from financial genius to possible financial criminal, he received little scrutiny in the media.

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Biden Sides with Trump in Killing Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

27 Nov 2022 – Events in the U.S. and in Israel indicate that the Biden administration has decided to drop all notion of reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action-JCPOA. Biden will hold to Trump’s position when he pulled the U.S. out of the pact in 2018. 

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Global Peace and Humanity: We the People Are Victims of Failed Global Leadership
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Looking Beyond the Obvious Lens of Human Consciousness

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The Failure of the Expected Peace and the Suggestion of an Unbounded Way Forward
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

“Expected peace:” the peace expected after WWII. In a few years the UN was founded, human rights redefined to include social rights, colonial empires dissolved and new nation-states welcomed. It was reasonable to believe that human beings were learning how to live together in peace and shared prosperity.

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Black ‘Fraud-Days’ and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

25 Nov 2022 – Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales; most of them are fake, as often denounced by consumers organisations, which report that the business usually inflates prices before launching such deals. 

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The COVID Pandemic Farce Served as a Trial Balloon for the New World Order
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò | LifeSiteNews – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

22 Nov 2022 – Viganò’s Address to Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International – “There can be no neutrality, because when there is a clash between two armies, those who choose not to fight are also making a choice that affects the outcome of the battle.”

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Why German State Racism Is Now Directed at the Palestinians
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

23 Nov 2022 – The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others, as the cancellation of an arts prize to Caryl Churchill shows.

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(Italiano) Elezioni israeliane 2022: una vittoria per i “coloni” colonialisti o per la lotta di Liberazione Palestinese?
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Non c’è dubbio che le elezioni israeliane 2022 del 1°novembre [U.S..] saranno d’importanza durevole. I mesi e gli anni a venire riveleranno se Israele consolida il suo status di stato coloniale di coloni o se la lotta palestinese aumenta la sua resistenza al dominio israeliano rafforzata da un crescente movimento di solidarietà globale.

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Don’t Be Fooled: Climate Disasters Are Highly Lucrative
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

17 Nov 2022 – Companies involved in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear warheads, have been supported by over 150 big banks by lending them money or underwriting bonds, according to ICAN’s ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ report.

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Behaviors to Avoid at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup
Reflect Your Respect | Twitter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

A FIFA spokesperson told Reuters that the poster is not an official 2022 World Cup document. It was made by a Qatari citizen group called “Reflect Your Respect.”

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Biden Travels East in Clouds of Mistrust
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

20 Nov 2022 – U.S. Joe Biden and Chinese Xi Jinping met for more than three hours at the G20 conference Nov 14-15 in Indonesia. China “is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and… the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to advance that objective,” Biden wrote in the U.S. Defense Strategy in Oct, a document focused on China and Russia as “threats” to U.S. hegemony.

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Imagining Partnership of the SDG Goals as Phases of the Cross
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Correspondence between cognitive internalization and collective strategic articulation.

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Dealing with Fashion Industry Plastic Pollution
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

4 Nov 2022 – The Repair Model That Could Save the Fashion Industry’s Environmental Impact

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The U.S. Has Seen At Least 601 Mass Shootings This Year Alone
Ashley Ahn | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

20 Nov 2022 – In 2022 the US has seen at least 601 mass shootings, an average of 13 shootings a week according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident where at least four people are shot or killed. The year 2021 saw 690 mass shootings, 2020 had 610, and 2019 had 417.

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In Praise of Toilets
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

14 Nov 2022 – Some billionaires, in particular in the Gulf oil-producing kingdoms, pose their buttocks on a solid-gold toilet around solid-gold faucets. The other side of the coin shows a shocking, different picture: 4 billion people –or about half of the world’s population– still live without access to a safe toilet and other sanitation facilities.

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Is Fascism Returning? A Reflection on the Centennial of the March on Rome
Hugo Bardi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Collapses are the way the universe gets rid of the old to leave space for the new. It was noted for the first time by the Roman Philosopher Lucius Anneaus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) and it is called today the “Seneca Effect.”

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Confucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.

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Russia, India, China, Iran: The Quad That Really Matters
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – Southeast Asia is right at the center of international relations for a week with three consecutive summits: ASEAN in Phnom Penh, the G20 in Bali, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Bangkok.

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(Italiano) Quale spiritualità dopo il 1989?
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Una spiritualità universale e all’altezza dei nostri tempi.

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Western Allies Look to Ukraine as a Testing Ground for Weapons
Lara Jakes | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – Delta is one example of how Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems, and new ways to use them, that Western political officials and military commanders predict could shape warfare for generations to come.

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Some Old Memories
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

I have been living in Delhi for decades now. I lived in a Lumsden Square in the city when I was about 7 or 8 years old. The accommodation composed of a room and a toilet on the rear boundary of the house. At that time I did not know who Lumsden was.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.

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World Cup Stadium Workers ‘Had Their Money Stolen and Lives Ruined’, Says Rights Group
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022 – Report on conditions in Qatar alleges labour abuses are widespread and calls on FIFA to set up compensation fund.

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The Stage Is Set for US Combat Troops in Ukraine
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

11 Nov 2022 – If US forces join the fighting, the calculus for winning could change dramatically, but the strategic objectives would remain the same. No nation can be expected to live at peace when a gun is pointed at its head. That is why Putin opposed NATO membership for Ukraine, and that is why the current war is being fought.

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It’s Not Just Coca-Cola: Corporations Have Co-Opted the UN Climate Talks
Kate Yoder | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – COP27 is covered with logos. But that’s just the start of companies’ influence. The event is brought to you by the largest plastic producer in the world, Coca-Cola.

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US Aid to Ukraine Invested in Crypto FTX Scheme
FreeWestMedia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

14 Nov 2022 – The company FTX, in its bankruptcy filing appears to have held tens-of-billions in American “military aid” to Ukraine. Instead of using the alleged funds to fight Russia, the money was instead invested in the FTX Ponzi scheme. From the bankruptcy filing it is clear that this money has now disappeared.

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Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.

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A Fast-Emptying Ark
Bill McKibben - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

A vast new study finds there are 70 percent fewer wild animals sharing the earth with us than there were in 1970.

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Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

“All you have is what you are, and what you give.”

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Criminals, Terror Financiers, Arms Traffickers, Drug Runners Infiltrated Honorary Consul Ranks
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Shadow Diplomats: Accused terror financiers, arms traffickers and drug runners among hundreds of rogue diplomats, global investigation reveals. Honorary consuls are meant to foster ties between countries. But criminals and others accused of exploiting the position have infiltrated their ranks.

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The Arab/Muslim Awakening–and USA/Israel
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

The Arab awakening is against the violence and corruption in favor of democracy, growth and jobs, and against US-Israel domination. But to believe that Islam tolerates imposed secularism is incredibly naive. There is a Muslim awakening. However, there are many Islams, like there are Christianities and Judaisms. How do USA-Israel react, and what would be a positive reaction to their reaction?

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(Italiano) Difesa Nucleare: Lettera Aperta a Papa Francesco
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

18 novembre 2022 – Lettera a papa Francesco sulla preparazione della difesa popolare non violenta dello SCV; se attuata, sarebbe di grande insegnamento per tutti i Paesi nel mondo.

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Lost and Damaged: The UN’s COP27 Climate Summit
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

17 Nov 2022 – An estimated 30,000 people from around the world have descended on this Red Sea resort on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. The summit is hosted by Egypt, a dictatorship propped up by billions of dollars annually in military aid from the United States.

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Betrayal All the Way Down (Part 1)
Diane Perlman | TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Whether we deal with our experience of betrayal consciously or unconsciously will make all of the difference. It is critical that we take an enlightened approach to get it right. Here I attempt a comprehensive, coherent and constructive analysis towards intentional, wisely designed strategies and processes, informed by social science, conflict analysis, psychology and history.

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Shatter Alley
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

I snuggle behind the wheel
and see
shards of glass
scattered across
the seat of my car.

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Hawai’i: The Very First U.S. Regime Change
Jon D. Olsen | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – Illegitimate overthrow of Polynesian Queen Lili’uokalani of Hawai’i in 1893 marked beginning of more than a century of American regime-change operations.

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Women of the World Unite (Music Video of the Week)
Yael Deckelbaum – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Cast aside for centuries
Bound in chains of slavery
Waiting for the roots to come together
Women of the world unite!

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College Degrees Help Incarcerated People Take the Next Step to Freedom
M. Yayah Sandi | Prison Journalism Project - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – At East Jersey State Prison prior to 2013 the only rehabilitative program available was a high school equivalency diploma. The Prison Journalism Project trains incarcerated writers to become journalists and publishes their stories.

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Qatar: World Champion Human Rights Violators
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Bloodied Trophy…

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Peace Disruptors–The Conversion and Repurposing of Places of Worship (Part 2): The Ayodhya Temple, from Hinduism to Islam and back to Hinduism
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

19 Nov 2022 – This part 2 in the series on conversions of existing places of worship into buildings for the remembrance and supplication of a God of another religion highlights the saga of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya, India. 

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Pioneer Jews of North America
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

The first European settlers in what is now the USA weren’t English Puritans or French fur trappers but Sephardic Jews. Before the Mayflower sailed to the United States, Jews had fled the Spanish Inquisition and settled in what are now Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.

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Corporate Weapons Heaven Is a Hell on Earth
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

17 Nov 2022 – A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales

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See 867 US Military Bases on New Online Tool
World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

14 Nov 2022 – World BEYOND War has launched a new online tool that allows viewing 867 U.S. military bases outside the USA, and to zoom in for a detailed information on each base. It also allows filtering the map or list of bases by country, government type, opening date, number of personnel, or acres of land occupied.

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(Italiano) Cambiamento climatico: facciamo finta
Anthony Judge | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Perché dobbiamo fare qualcosa per il cambiamento climatico dopo la COP27?

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Jeffrey Sachs on World Peace, US Wars, NATO, and the Costs
Jeffrey Sachs | InvestoPads - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

12 Nov 2022 – Hegemonic USA Is Causing a Horrific Financial Crisis

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A World Cup Stained with Blood and Bribery
Aram Aharonian | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

14 Nov 2022 – Qatar is a Soccer World Cup tainted by blood and corruption. The spread of these facts preoccupies the FIFA leadership which, less than 20 days before the start, asked the teams to focus on soccer and not on “sermons” on morality, dragging soccer “into ideological or political battles that exist”.

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FTX: The Joke of Democracy
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – From its founding in 2017, the one-man company rose to a “partner organisation” of the WEF and second largest donor to Biden and the Democrats’ mid-term election. It has now gone completely bust, taking every penny of its depositors’ money with it.

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Eat Me
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Help Yourself…

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‘On the Highway to Climate Hell’ – The Climate Crisis, Activism and Broken Politics
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

14 Nov 2022 – Last month, the UN Environment Agency issued its starkest warning yet about the climate crisis. The failure by governments around the world to cut carbon emissions means there is ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’. Limiting the rise of global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels was the international agreement at COP21, the UN Climate Summit in Paris in 2015.

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Attempt to Try Russian Leaders for War Crimes Is Part of the West’s Weaponization of the ICC
Robin Philpot | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

14 Nov 2022 – International Criminal Court continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it.

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US Nuclear Forces Chief: ‘The Big One Is Coming’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

6 Nov 2022 – The commander that oversees US nuclear forces delivered an ominous warning at a naval conference last week by calling the war in Ukraine a “warmup” for the “big one” that is to come. [Having fun yet?]

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Climate Change — Let’s Just Pretend
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

Why Do We Need to Do Anything Following COP27?

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TRANSCEND Members November Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished members VANDANA SHIVA and RICHARD FALK a HAPPY BIRTHDAY with many returns. We take this opportunity to thank them for all their contributions to the world–and to TMS. Bless your lives!

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Urging Peace with Russia, Top US General Challenges DC’s Proxy War
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

12 Nov 2022 – A series of leaks, including a call for diplomacy from Gen. Mark Milley, show that some US officials are ready for a settlement in Ukraine. While US “diplomats” oppose diplomacy, White House officials would not be disclosing that Milley, the nation’s highest military officer, is challenging their stance if he were alone.

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The Girl in the Picture
Doug Rawlings – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

On occasion the iconic picture of Kim would cross into my consciousness at odd times but just recently I found out she was nine at that horrific moment captured for eternity. My oldest granddaughter just turned ten.

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Energy Bills in Europe Are 90% Higher Than Last Year
Irina Slav | Oilprice - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

8 Nov 2022 – Electricity and gas prices are soaring across Europe, with bills close to double from last year in most European capitals, according to new data from the Household Energy Price Index—a monthly tracker of energy prices for households across 33 European capitals, including the 27 EU member states and several non-members.

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Stop Funding Climate Disaster
Transnational Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

2 Nov 2022 – Big Bankers Are Part of the Problem, Not the Solution – Declaration: We cannot save the planet from disastrous climate change without tackling financial markets. As long as trillions of dollars go unhindered to fund yet more fossil fuels and deforestation, it will not be possible to halt climate change or enable communities to adapt.

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What Is Missing from the Climate Debate
Dr. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

7 Nov 2022 – “The destabilisation of the Earth’s climate systems is the consequence of violating the ecological processes and cycles of the earth, violating the Rights of the Earth, Rights of Indigenous People, and the Rights of Future Generations. — Dr. Vandana Shiva

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