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Will the Lettuce Outlast All This?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
One third of all plastic waste ends up in soils or freshwater. Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, known as microplastics, and these break down further into nanoparticles.
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Progressive Democrats Retract Biden Ukraine Letter after Furious Debate
Ed Pilkington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – The chair of the progressive caucus of the US House of Representatives, Pramila Jayapal, has retracted a letter sent by 30 of the members urging Joe Biden to engage in direct talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine following a heated debate within the Democratic party about future strategy over the conflict.
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Act!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
If not HERE, WHERE?
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Everybody Wants to Hop On the BRICS Express
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
28 Oct 2022 – Eurasia is about to get a whole lot larger as countries line up to join the Chinese and Russian-led BRICS and SCO, to the detriment of the West.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
My advice on how to cope is to employ patient reasoning and unlimited good will. Socialism can today be defined, if one chooses to do so, as a set of ideals, including ideals of mental flexibility and open-mindedness, which overlap with ideals of capitalist reformers. Meaningful conversations that bridge the capitalist/socialist divide are now possible because some premises can plausibly be construed as shared.
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Silence and Its Many Concepts
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
I had started with the concept of silence and avoidance of noise. This has been developed into the ideas of meditation and seeking of peace and tranquility. The complex world we inhabit makes our efforts difficult but still essential.
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The ‘War of Terror’ about to Hit Europe
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – Never underestimate a wounded and decaying Empire collapsing in real time. Imperial functionaries, even in a “diplomatic” capacity, continue to brazenly declare that their exceptionalist control over the world is mandatory. The blowing up of Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2, everybody knows who did it, but the perpetrator cannot be named.
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NATO Rehearsed for an Amphibious Assault on Eastern Ukraine Using Ukrainian Naval Bases Acquired in Agreement with the UK
Arnaud Develay | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
26 Oct 2022 – Documents Reveal: Russia felt it had to act in self-defense in special military operation to thwart U.S.-UK-NATO provocations and aggression and save people of the Donbas.
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’24 Hours of Hell’: Israeli Settler Gangs Terrorize Palestinian Town under Army Protection
Yumna Patel | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – Israeli settlers continued their attack on the Palestinian town of Huwwara in the northern occupied West Bank, vandalizing several storefronts, vehicles and homes–escorted and enabled by the Israeli army that fired live ammunition at Palestinians in the town.
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Plastic Recycling Is a Dead-End Street: Year After Year It Declines Even as Plastic Waste Increases
Greenpeace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new Greenpeace USA report concludes. Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, released today, finds that U.S. households generated an estimated 51 million tons of plastic waste in 2021, only 2.4 million tons of which was recycled. Paper, cardboard, and metals are all recycled at a high rate, but plastic continues to be trash.
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Palestine/Israel: Australia Hammers Final Nail in US ‘Deal of the Century’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
On 17 Oct 2022, the Australian government announced it is revoking its 2018 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Expectedly, the new decision was strongly criticized by Israel, celebrated by Palestinians, and welcomed by Arab countries. As long as Palestinians continue to resist and fight for their freedom and international solidarity continues to grow around them, the Palestinian cause will remain central to all Arabs and to all conscientious people around the world.
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Strategy to Open the Door for a New UN and for an Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
29 Oct 2022 – The United Nation’s primary job is to end war. It hasn’t worked. It could not prevent the devastating criminal invasion of Iraq by the US, and now it’s Russia against US/Ukraine. To add to the frustrating madness, US/NATO promises a future war against China over Taiwan. The UN needs a world federal constitution.
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Scoring Goals for Peace
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
Let’s play…
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Diwali — the Delightful Indian Festival
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – One of the principal Hindu festivals, Diwali, is celebrated today. In fact not only Hindus celebrate it with fervour and gaiety, but people from other religions also join the celebrations with joy sharing the spiritual and religious festivities.
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Eliciting Potential Patterns of Governance from 16 Sustainable Development Goals
Anthony Judge, Ph.D. | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Interactive Exploration of Goal 17 through a Polyhedral Compound of 16 Tetrahedra in 3D
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The Pentagon Loves First-Person Shooter Video Games
Laura Bartkowiak and Brian J. Sullivan | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
19 Oct 2022 – Video games are the most popular entertainment media on the planet — and one of the American war machine’s most effective propaganda tools.
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Rural Women Work the Hardest, Produce the Most, Eat the Least
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – Make no mistake. Violence against women has been perpetuated, specially when it comes to those who have already been deprived of their basic human rights, as it is the case of rural women in over two-thirds of the world.
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Chelsea Manning’s Book Further Complicates US Government’s Case against Julian Assange
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
20 Oct 2022 – The US government’s theory of the case against Assange depends upon a narrative that involves Assange recruiting Manning to leak documents to WikiLeaks. Facts have always conflicted with this conspiracy theory, and Manning raises a few of these facts in her new book, README.txt, which further complicates the prosecutors’ case.
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(Italiano) Sessant’anni dopo la crisi di Cuba
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
16 ottobre 2022 – Non è vero che la guerra c’è sempre stata e sempre ci sarà: non è un dio, ma il diavolo dell’odio umano, strumento di dominio omicida super organizzato e finanziato.
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(Italiano) Fermare la guerra in Ucraina, prima che sia troppo tardi!
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
18 Ottobre 2022 – Il tema di come affrontare e fermare la guerra in Ucraina continua a essere molto controverso e divisivo. Anche nel caso che non si dovesse giungere fino a ciò, una vittoria militare non porterebbe alcuna pace, ma porrebbe solo le basi per un prossimo conflitto.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Experts in conflict resolution understand that, in many cases, the best time to undertake peace negotiations is exactly when warring parties, having stepped up their military efforts, declare that they will never negotiate with the enemy. Are things in Ukraine getting worse? Yes, for both sides. This is precisely the right time to give peace a chance.
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Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Bomb
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – The longer the proxy war in Ukraine continues, the closer we come to a direct confrontation with Russia. Once that happens, the Dr. Strangeloves running the show will reach for the nukes.
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Call on the Future of Humanity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
A webinar to build a global community of endorsers to work for a better future for this lonely endangered planet.
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Positivizers
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Fill in the blanks
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Two New Books Explore Pernicious Impact of U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – Credibility is low these days for the U.S. government, politicians and the mainstream media. Sorting through news reports for reliable fact and analysis would make George Orwell weep. How ideologies of American exceptionalism and innocence have inoculated public from human suffering meted out in their name.
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U.S. Senate to Give Taiwan $10 Billion in Military Aid
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – The Senate’s effort comes as tensions are soaring between the US and China whose unprecedented military drills in response to Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan make it clear that more US military support will only make a conflict more likely.
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U.S. Military News Roundup
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
18 Oct 2022 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction – Sponsored by The Boeing Company
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The Europeans Have Been Nicely Played by the Americans
Amb. MK Bhadrakumar | The Tribune India - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – Two massive terrorist strikes in quick succession misfired spectacularly in the Ukraine war: on Nord Stream gas pipelines and on the Crimean Bridge. Basically, the Biden administration created a contrived energy crisis whose real aim is war profiteering. The Crimean Bridge attack of 8 Oct is much more serious.
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The Parts of Chelsea Manning’s Book Censored by the US Government
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – The US government censored parts of Chelsea Manning’s new book, where she attempted to describe the information she provided to WikiLeaks in 2010. Manning says she wrote README.txt because she had not really been able to tell her story, and this book was a “first draft of history” from her perspective.
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Lives of Some Great Film Directors
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new e-book. The PDF file may be downloaded and circulated free of charge. It is part of my series of books on cultural history.
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Ukraine War: New Developments
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
October 2022 – A no-nonsense analysis of recent political and military developments in the Ukraine war: Energy situation / Military and political situation / Crimea bridge attack / War crimes and propaganda / Outlook
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Europe’s Self Destruction
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.
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Pakistan in Search of Freedom and Security
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – People and nations once colonized by the European Empires remain colonized in thoughts, behavior and practices forever. Pakistan is no exception in contemporary global affairs. Its systems of political governance, public institutions, legal systems and delivery of services to public are replicas of British colonial systems.
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Bordering on Failure: A Tale of Discovering the Three Rules of Conflict
Duncan Autrey, MA | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
How I discovered the Three Rules for Transforming Conflict while working on border conflicts in Ecuador. Poignant lessons about the essential nature of conflict and the existential value of improving our political, social, and environmental discourse. They present a guide to improving collective decision making; teach us to get clear on what the conflict is really about; to include everyone who is involved; and to ensure that the process of transformation is aligned with the desired outcome. Win-Lose processes are dividing us, impeding our healing and progress.
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The Pursuit of Pseudo Peace (Part 1): The Religious Odyssey of Heavenly Bodies on Earth
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Humanoids are susceptible to lewdness since Genesis, it is an inherent attribute.
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Planting Angel Eggs on a Dying World
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Planting angel eggs on a dying world,
at the feet of billboards,
in the clearcut wastelands,
Tulsi Gabbard Leaves the US Democratic Party
The Tulsi Gabbard Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
11 Oct 2022 – “I believe in a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite. If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me.”
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(Português) Gols para Paz
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Um Jogo Imaginativo
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Objective Reality: Threat or Menace?
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
10 Oct 2022 – Soap Opera USA
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16 Life-Learnings from 16 Years of The Marginalian
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – The Marginalian was born as a plain-text newsletter to seven friends on October 23, 2006, under the outgrown name Brain Pickings. Reflections on keeping the soul intact and alive and worthy of itself.
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(Italiano) Iran: L’evoluzione dei simboli della protesta
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Sempre più spesso, i temi simbolici delle proteste si stanno spostando dall’attenzione alle restrizioni imposte alle donne alla natura stessa del regime clericale. L’ayatollah Khamenei è anziano e non sta bene. Non c’è un ovvio sostituto in caso di sua morte. La situazione in Iran merita di essere osservata da vicino.
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Liz Truss Resigns after Six Weeks as UK Prime Minister
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
20 Sep 2022 – Liz Truss said today she was resigning as British prime minister, brought down by her economic programme that sent shockwaves through the markets and divided her Conservative Party just six weeks after she was appointed. Full text of her statement.
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: la scalata verso l’oblio
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Washington non solo ha mobilitato il mondo per denunciare l’aggressione della Russia, ma ha fornito armi avanzate in grandi quantità agli ucraini per resistere all’attacco russo, e ha fatto tutto il possibile all’ONU e altrove per costruire una coalizione punitiva ostile alla Russia, accompagnando il tutto con una serie di sanzioni e la demonizzazione di Putin. Questa prospettiva di propaganda di Stato è stata fedelmente veicolata da un filtro mediatico occidentale autocensurante.
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The Last Temptation of Things
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – Let me tell you a story about a haunted house and all the thoughts it evoked in me. Do we believe we can save ourselves by saving things? Or do our saved possessions come to possess their saviors?
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Nights in White Satin (Music Video of the Week)
Moody Blues – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
“Classic” Recorded on 8 October and released on 10 November 1967 – Fresh after 55 years
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Getting to Yes: What U.S. Africa Command Doesn’t Want You to Know
Nick Turse | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – What’s the U.S. military doing in Africa? It’s an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, straight-jacketed in secrecy, and hogtied by red tape. Or at least it would be if it were up to the Pentagon.
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The Chris Hedges Report: Noam Chomsky (Part 1)
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
21 Oct 2022 – In a wide-ranging discussion, Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges discuss the war in Ukraine, the rising tide of global fascism, the climate catastrophe, and the role left to public intellectuals in an increasingly restrictive and censored media environment.
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The Lion’s Roar on the Turning of the Wheel –> Cakkavattisihananda Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Monks, be islands unto yourselves, be a refuge unto yourselves with no other refuge. And how does a monk dwell on an island unto himself, as a refuge unto himself with no other refuge, with Dhamma as his island, with the Dhamma as his refuge, with no other refuge?
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Ukrainian Nonviolent Civil Resistance in the Face of War
Felip Daza Sierra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Analysis of trends, impacts and challenges on nonviolent action in Ukraine between Feb and Jun 2022 based on 235 nonviolent actions and over 55 interviews with Ukrainian political and social leaders, academics, and activists.
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55% of Humanity Does Not Reject the Accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
21 Oct 2022 – just as with previous UNGA votes condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the Western press, with maximum duplicity, continues to treat the 12 Oct vote as an resounding world condemnation of Russia, when in fact it is proof of the world majority’s refusal to condemn Russian actions in Ukraine.
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Australia Reverses Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
18 Oct 2022 – Australia says it will no longer recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing a decision taken by the previous administration in 2018. Foreign Minister Penny Wong says government reiterates commitment to two-state solution.
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The Last Days of the Lilliputians
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
The ruling elite have tied the working class in bondage. Small in number but great in power, the elite have designed myriad mechanisms of control to hold the much larger working class down and force it to work for them.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – Geoengineering proposals for mitigating climate change continue to proliferate without being tested. It is time to select and assess the most promising ideas according to efficacy, cost, all aspects of risk and, importantly, their rate of mitigation.
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Why the US Imprisoned Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
A year ago, October 16, the long arm of US extra-territorial judicial overreach abducted Alex Saab and threw him into prison in Miami, where the Venezuelan diplomat has languished ever since.
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Iran: The Evolving Symbols of Protest
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – The themes of the protests are shifting from the restrictions on women to the clerical regime itself. Ayatollah Khamenei is aged and not well. There is no obvious replacement should he die. The situation in Iran merits to be watched closely.
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Peace in a Cup of Tea (Part 2): The Exploitation of the Tribal Tea Plantation Workers in Assam
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
While Enjoying a Cup of Tea, Reflect on Assam’s Tea Gardens, Which Are Rooted in the Abuse and Torture of Labourers Since 1834
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(Português) Eleições no Brasil: Tensão na reta final. E o day after?
Jean Marc von der Weid | Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
15 outubro 2022 – Texto analítico de Jean Marc com os vários cenários possíveis face à eleição no dia 30 de outubro e nos tempos subsequentes. Vale estar atentos, pois se trata de nossa sobrevivência como nação civilizada e sem os ódios e mentiras que marcaram o governo atual. — L. Boff
→ read full articleTo Be a Life Partner
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Now we have a woman Prime Minister in England. Will her rule in England and their few possessions, be more humane and less harsh? Let us hope so.
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US Rejection of Moscow’s Offer for Peace Talks Is Utterly Inexcusable
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that Moscow was open to talks with the US or with Turkey on ending the war in Ukraine, claiming that US officials are lying when they say Russia has been refusing peace talks. Lavrov’s claim was given more weight when US State Department spokesman Ned Price dismissed the offer for peace talks shortly after it was extended.
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The Indigenous Fight against Big Oil in the Arctic Circle
The Story of Stuff Project– TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Alaska is melting at twice the rate of the rest of the world, and with it, the livelihoods of its Native people. Now, Big Oil is trying to disrupt the ecosystem even more by drilling the Arctic Circle. Watch as Bernadette Demientieff of the Gwich’in people illustrates the fight to save her ancestral lands and the caribou that her people are deeply intertwined with.
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(Italiano) Va’ a dire agli affamati che i loro alimenti li si stanno buttando nei rifiuti!
Baher Kamal | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Questi sono fatti, non supposizioni: circa 1.300 milioni di tonnellate di alimenti vanno sprecati e persi… ogni singolo anno, l’equivalente di oltre una tonnellata per ciascuno del miliardo di affamati, molti dei quali sono quelli che li hanno prodotti.
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PayPal: Rule of Power
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
11 Oct 2022 – Last week PayPal announced that at its “sole discretion,” $2,500 would be seized from accounts guilty of spreading misinformation–dissent from official narratives–,a policy of thought control like in George Orwell’s «1984». The rule of power, not the rule of law, is what we are up against, and some are slow to realize it.
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War through the Media and the Role of Journalism
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – From a journalist who covered wars for 30 years in Latin America, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia, the book “Truth Is Bombed: Media and War through the Eyes of a War Correspondent” is the result of a long-term research on the role of powerful news organizations in the coverage of armed conflicts, fake news, propaganda and censorship in the major wars from the 19th to the 21st century.
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Biden’s Broken Promise to Avoid War with Russia May Kill Us All
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
11 Oct 2022 – The US and NATO’s escalating war with Russia in Ukraine has raised the danger of nuclear war to a level that even President Biden has compared to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. How Biden and his allies have taken fateful decisions to keep escalating this war.
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Comrades in Arms
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
A Letter from an Ex-US Soldier
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Energy Flow
Anima Mundi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Give or Take…
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The Latest Outrage
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
3 Oct 2022 – This Modern World
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Our Shared Addiction to Empire
Patrick Lawrence | Scheerpost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
If the Columbus myth has been thoroughly discounted, what is it that causes us to continue closing the banks, stopping the mail, and marching in parades on a Monday around October 12 each year?
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Prof. Dietrich Fischer, Co-Founder of TRANSCEND, Passed Away on 18 Oct 2015
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
My dear friend, co-founder of TRANSCEND in 1993 with myself and Fumiko Nishimura left us on this date after a short hospital stay in coma, basically due to his diabetes for many years. Let us celebrate your life while deploring that you are no longer among us, in deep gratitude for all you did to inspire and help–and for peace in general. RIP
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Tulsi Gabbard Dares to Challenge Washington’s War Machine
Tony Cox | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – Tulsi Gabbard’s rapid transformation from rising Democratic star to demonized outcast–culminating this week with her decision to leave the party–has exposed the one thing on which every powerful person in Washington agree: war is good. The former presidential candidate has shown that opposing regime-change policies is the one taboo that the ruling class will not tolerate.
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Africa, the Looted Continent
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
10 Oct 2022 – Africa. The birthplace of “Homo Sapiens.” The land of plenty. The home of over 1.3 billion humans, with 500 million plus living in extreme poverty, continues to be looted. It is a sort of graveyard for half of the world’s victims of terror and the land with the highest suicide rate on Earth. Why?
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Millions of Girls Abused in the Name of Fake, Toxic Masculinity
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – A common feature to religions – including the monotheistic ones – is that groups of males have self-proclaimed themselves as the source for interpreting the “Word of God,” shaping them, and spreading them among the peoples of good faith.
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Pipelines v. USA
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.
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Westerners Live in Denial Convinced They’re the Good Guys
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – Stark contradictions in West’s treatment of the Ukraine war and the occupation and siege of Palestine should serve as a wake-up call.
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Morning Has Broken (Music Video of the Week)
Cat Stevens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Song by Cat Stevens. Scenes of Cornwall and Devon. Video by Dennis Bolt. Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy.
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The Flaws and Fantasies of the New Biden Doctrine
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – United States President Joe Biden’s newly released National Security Strategy is an amalgam of his predecessors’ doctrines. It is ambitious–and delusional–about America’s role in the world.
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Peace Agenda for Ukraine and the World
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Statement of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement Adopted on 21 Sep 2022, International Day of Peace, at the Meeting of Ukrainian Pacifists
→ read full articleUkraine War: Climbing the Escalation Ladder to Oblivion
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Not only did Washington mobilize the world to denounce Russia’s ‘aggression,’ but supplied advanced weaponry in great quantities to the Ukrainians doing all it could at the UN and elsewhere to build a punitive coalition hostile to Russia, coupled with a variety of sanctions and the demonization of Putin. This perspective of state propaganda was faithfully conveyed by a self-censoring Western media.
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Big Tech: Not Only Market but Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
Cecilia Rikap | Institute for New Economic Thinking - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
How do we regulate an information utility?
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Direct Link
Helen Berg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Ditto
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Will Saudi Leadership of OPEC Clash with U.S. Strategic Partnership?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Reevaluating US Relations with Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ Oil Production Cut
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Elections in Ukraine Provinces
Marc Pilisuk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – The recent Russian sponsored elections in four Ukraine provinces were seriously flawed. The US and NATO response to these elections, however, once again missed an opportunity for dialogue that might lead to an end to the war before its escalation into new weapons use and further killing.
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The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford to Lose Kabul and Kiev
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Russia will not allow the Empire to control Ukraine, whatever it takes. That’s intrinsically linked to the future of the Greater Eurasia Partnership.
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The Non-West Coalesces
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – Nations representing more than 80 percent of the global population and a like percentage of global gross domestic product are perfectly capable of seeing the Biden administration’s pointed provocations and do not approve.
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(Português) Animais Devem Existir para Nos Servir?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Reduzir animais a uma finalidade de consumo não anula capacidades dissociadas do consumo. Apesar de haver uma resistência de reconhecimento, esses animais, embora inaturais, manifestam características de sujeitos.
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Israel Authorizes Military to Kill Palestinians with Drones in West Bank
Marjorie Cohn | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
15 Oct 2022 – Commanders of the Israeli Occupying Forces have been authorized to use armed drones to kill Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Journalists who report the truth about Israel’s crimes incur the risk of being fired or even assassinated. Neither Israel nor the U.S. government and its corporate media will tolerate any criticism of the illegal Israeli occupation.
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Biden Administration Wants Kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to “Suffer like Julian Assange,” according to UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
Ed Rampell | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela.
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Once Upon a Time
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
9 Oct 2022 – Just as was the case with the birth of the universe, when life first arrived it was as simple as could be. It remained in that state of radical simplicity for a very long time, like a kind of incubation period, before hatching and exploding into organisms of greater and greater complexity. The story of the universe is a story of expanding perception of the universal consciousness.
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The Fatal Attraction of the City
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
3 Oct 2022 – While cities are seen as a symbol of glamour and comfort for a number of their residents, over one billion people continue to live in overcrowded settlements with inadequate housing. And their number is rising every single day.
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How Private Interests and the Banking Dynasties Control Washington
Shane Quinn | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – The strongest branch of the Federal Reserve is the New York Federal Reserve Bank, which fell under the control of 8 long-established banking families. Only 4 of these dynasties hail from largely American backgrounds, which are Goldman Sachs, the Rockefellers, Lehman Brothers and Kuhn Loeb. The other 4 are the Rothschilds in Paris and London, the Warburgs from Germany, the Lazards from France and Israel Moses Sieff from Britain.
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Death by Nationalism?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – The irresolvable dilemma facing Western leaders is that this is a no-win situation. How can they militarily defeat Russia, when it possesses 6,000 nuclear warheads and its military doctrine explicitly states that it will use them before it will accept an existential military defeat? If a nuclear war happens, everyone on the planet is no more than a deportee.
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Open Letter to UNSG Antonio Guterres: The 2022 Nobel War Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
6 Oct 2022 – Nobel´s prize should each year serve to remind the nations of the world of the urgent need for demilitarization and for taking the UN Charter obligations very seriously. Unfortunately, the Norwegian award committee is betraying Nobel´s trust, breaking the law and deliberately acting in bad faith.
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“Peace in a Cup of Tea” (Part 1): The Beginning
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
8 Oct 2022 – Life Is Like a Cup of Tea – It Is All in How You Make It
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Optimism of the Will
David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
And the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Pipeline Terror Is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on 30 Sep as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties.
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Iranian and Turkish Moves to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization Raise Its Profile
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
7 Out 2022 – While far from being an alliance, the SCO is increasingly utilized for managing Eurasian affairs without traditional Western mechanisms and organizations.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – These are facts, not guesses: about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted and lost… every single year, the equivalent of one ton per each of the one billion hungry people, many of them are those who produced the food.
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Consider this…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
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Einstein’s Prescience
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
War and many other forms of violence are generated by the underlying structural violence of capitalism, which is intrinsically unjust and inevitably produces conflict. This outmoded, destructive system chains us also into working to make its owners rich.
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(Castellano) Derrotar la Pobreza en Todas las Casas
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Una vez que se entiende el principio básico aquí destacado –que el empleo y por ende la dignidad no tienen que depender de las ventas, sino que pueden ser también fruto de la solidaridad, hay innumerables variaciones y extensiones posibles.
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