Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Analects of Confucius
Translated by Robert Eno – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
The Analects of Confucius is an anthology of brief passages that present the words of Confucius and his disciples, describe Confucius as a man, and recount some of the events of his life. The book may have begun as a collection by Confucius’s immediate disciples soon after their Master’s death in 479 BCE.
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Why Is Germany Committing Suicide? The Same Reasons that the EU/UK Are Being Deindustrialized
David Chu | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
17 Sep 2022 – Why is Germany committing harakiri (or seppuku)? Because the USA ordered them to do so! Is it to emasculate Europe completely so as to make it completely dependent on the US for both energy and technology? The rest of the world is moving towards BRI and BRICS.
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(Português) Subjugação Animal Não É Esporte
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
12 set 2022 – Impor a um animal que reaja a uma prática classificada como “esportiva” não significa que o seja, já que a participação do mesmo é involuntária.
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Reaping the Whirlwind
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
22 Sep 2022 – “A permanent member of the UNSC invaded its neighbor, attempted to erase a sovereign state from the map,” Biden said. “Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the UN Charter.” History, however, is a harsh mistress, where facts become inconvenient to perception; through the prism of historical fact, the narrative being promulgated by Biden becomes flipped.
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Rise of the New Decadents
Mark Lesseraux | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Donald Trump (USA) and Giorgia Meloni (Italy) are just a few examples amongst dozens of right-wing nationalist political leaders. There has been no shortage of mainstream media pontification about the recent rise of these politicians.
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Rūmī (30 Sep 1207 – 17 Dec 1273)
Annemarie Schimmel | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
Sufi Mystic and Poet – Rūmī’s use of Persian and Arabic in his poetry, in addition to some Turkish and Greek, has resulted in his being claimed variously for Turkish and Persian literature. The influence of his writings in the Indian subcontinent is also substantial.
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On the Ongoing Decline and Fall of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a complete configuration, articulated in a statement by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the United States Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing”. In other words, direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.
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Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Policy & “West’s False Narrative” Stoking Tensions with Russia, China
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – We discuss Western hegemony and U.S. policy in Russia, Ukraine and China with Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, whose new article is headlined “The West’s False Narrative About Russia and China.” Sachs says the bipartisan U.S. approach to foreign policy is “unaccountably dangerous and wrongheaded,” and warns the U.S. is creating “a recipe for yet another war” in East Asia.
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What Do North Americans Care About? Not a Cold War with Russia and China
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
20 Sep 2022 – US Citizens’ top security concerns include safety at home and protecting jobs. The US Congress is about to add tens of billions of dollars to the military budget.
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Rural and Urban Landscapes — Problems and Solutions
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
Some people including Mahatma Gandhi and some spiritual persons felt that a rural region is almost like the soul of India, clean and away from the materialistic and selfish tendencies prevalent in urban life.
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Myanmar Spiraling ‘from Bad to Worse, to Horrific’, Human Rights Council Hears
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – Since the Myanmar military launched its “disastrous” coup last year, UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said today that conditions have worsened, “by any measure”.
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The Other 9/11 in Chile
Carolina Vásquez Araya | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
11 Sep 1973 – It was very early in the morning when I heard the first shots in the centre of Santiago, where I lived. Through the radio I became aware of the scale of the attack and realised that the coup d’état was already a reality. In front of my window, I could observe the movement of soldiers and the exchange of gunfire.
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Revealed: US & EU Plans to Plunder Ukraine
Lee Camp | Behind the Headlines – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – Lee Camp has evidence that the most powerful people in the world have been planning to plunder the Ukrainian economy since at least 2017. The West’s favorite form of diplomacy is to use conditional loans to dismantle struggling governments and sell their assets to the rich.
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Our Mortality Should Unite Us
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
A jet airliner opens up and sends its passengers falling to earth. You’d expect them to scream, to cry in fear, to prepare for the end, to pray, but instead they turn on each other and start fighting. “I hate you! I hate you!” they scream at each other on their way down. Some try to strangle each other to death. Some try to steal from each other…
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Ukraine: War, Statecraft, and Geopolitical Conflict—the Nuclear Danger
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
14 Sep 2022 – The risk of nuclear escalation in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been a subject of considerable debate in the United States among scholars, policy analysts and media commentators. These debates reveal a broad spectrum of views from those who dismiss Russian references to nuclear capabilities as mere saber rattling to those who worry that if Russian President Vladimir Putin finds his back to the wall in Ukraine, he may resort to tactical nuclear strikes.
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The Historic Collapse of Journalism
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters.
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Cognitive Embodiment of Patterns of Governance of Higher Order
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
19 Sep 2022 – Given the chaotic state of global governance and the crises it faces, it is useful to question the methods employed to address the challenges as they are framed. It is presumptuous to assert the merit of alternatives, however vigorously their merits are described.
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“Monsters Breed Monsters”: The Impact of Systemic Peace Disruption on Children in Violent Conflict Situations
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
17 Sep 2022 – The Western countries are guilty of allowing warring parties globally to breed children and transform them into terrorists of the future who will come back to haunt them and seek revenge. This publication contains graphic images which may be disturbing to certain readers. Parental guidance is advised.
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Latin Americans Reject Resource Plundering by Same NATO Countries Fueling Military Conflict in Ukraine
Camila Escalante | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
13 Sep 2022 – It’s a witch hunt where Washington is saying either you are with the U.S., NATO and the West, or you’re against us. Anyone trying to be ‘neutral’ becomes ‘pro-Russia’. Meanwhile, no one is sanctioning the U.S. or the EU for their plundering wars or their violent crimes against humanity and war crimes throughout the world.
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Tech Workers Demand Google and Amazon End Contract That Fuels Israeli Apartheid
Zane McNeill | Waging Nonviolence –TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
9 Sep 2022 – Google and Amazon employees are pressuring their companies to drop a $1.2 billion cloud computing project that will harm Palestinians.
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Understanding Childhood Trauma
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Although the word ‘trauma’ occupies the associations of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in popular thinking, the kind of trauma I am writing about is the one where character-by-character, the story of one’s childhood will fall apart if the symptomatic rage that it creates were allowed to run free. Childhood trauma impacts more people than we recognise
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The Surge
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
After getting his college degree, a former student of mine worked as a market researcher and an advertising salesperson, but both jobs soured him on the corporate world. He hated being a junior suit, and the thought of becoming a senior suit was even worse. He’s now a janitor and says it’s a much better job.
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Gender Equality Almost 300 Years Away at Current Rate of Progress
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
15 Sep 2022 – Millions of women don’t know what a salary is all about.
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UN Special Rapporteur Calls for the End of All Unilateral Sanctions against Iran
Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
14 Sep 2022 – Alena Douhan also expressed the need to create a legal framework to prevent countries such as the US taking unilateral action against others.
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Europe, More Than Putin, Must Shoulder the Blame for the Energy Crisis
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
14 Sep 2022 – The same arrogant, self-righteous posturing from the West that fuelled the Ukraine war is now plunging Europe into recession.
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The Great Success of Mikhail Gorbachev
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
3G: Gandhi, Galtung, Gorbachev
→ read full articleReinventing Employment with Solidarity Ethics
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Solidarity ethics offers keys that open many doors. Here I suggest that if not by force of law, then by force of conscience, they oblige everyone to contribute, to the extent that they can, to the creation of employment with dignity for all those who need it.
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Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) – What You Need to Know
August Neverman | Common Sense Home – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
23 Aug 2022 – The two most likely reasons for an EMP are a nuclear explosion or solar flare. This post discusses the damage an EMP may cause and actions that you can take to prevent or manage the results of the EMP. A large Electromagnetic Pulse EMP would cause widespread problems.
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Asia’s Future Takes Shape in Vladivostok, the Russian Pacific
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – Sixty-eight countries gathered on Russia’s far eastern coast to listen to Moscow’s economic and political vision for the Asia-Pacific.
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Imposed Insanity – Royalty, Propaganda and the Coming Catastrophe
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
14 Sep 2022 – If every journalist, politician and priest is currently expressing devotion to Britain’s deceased monarch, it is not because she ‘served’ her country for 70 years. The powerful interests that determine Britain’s political and media agenda are not sentimentalists; they do not impose ‘managed democracy’ as a kind of game. Propaganda blitzes are always pragmatic.
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Trauma vs Healing
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
YES
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A Few for the Road…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
What do you call a sleeping bull?
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China and Russia Partner to Inject Stability into World – SCO
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
15 Sep 2022 – China and Russia’s leaders agreed to take a guiding role as great powers to bring stability and positive energy to the world.
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Dissecting the Evolution of the Official 9/11 Narrative
Marilyn Langlois, Graeme MacQueen and Ted Walter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
19 Sep 2022 – Last week marked the 21st anniversary of the crimes of 9/11, which cost over 3,000 lives and triggered the never-ending “War on Terror”. On this occasion, ‘Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth’ published a lengthy research report by [TRANSCEND member] Dr. Graeme MacQueen and Ted Walter.
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A Devastating Burning Season for the Brazilian Amazon
Luciana Téllez Chávez | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
18 Sep 2022 – Illegal Deforestation Linked to Violence, Loss of Livelihoods for Communities – There were more fires in the Brazilian Amazon during the first week of Sep this year than in all of Sep 2021. Last month, fires were the worst in a decade.
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Pride Humbled –>Ambattha Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Thus have I heard. Once the lord was touring Kosala with a large number of monks, some five hundred, and he came to a Kosalan Brahmin village called Icchanankala. And he stayed in the dense jungle of Icchanankala. At that time the Brahmin Pokkharasati was living at Ukkhattha, a populous place.
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UN International Day of Peace –> 21 September
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
The UNGA has declared this as a day for strengthening the ideals of peace through 24 hours of nonviolence and cease-fire. But peace is much more than laying down arms [negative peace] as it requires societies where all members feel they can flourish, creating a world in which people are treated equally regardless of their race [positive peace].
2022 Theme: End Racism–Build peace
(Português) A Ciência É Importante na Defesa dos Direitos Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
11 de setembro de 2022 – Num mundo de inferiorização não humana com viés exploratório, e pondero sobre a dominação como fator-perpétuo, porque vida e morte são “trânsitos para lucro e consumo”, como partes de interesse de um sistema perenal, até o óbvio precisa ser esmiuçado para servir como contestação às violências físicas e não físicas impostas aos outros animais.
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‘Dear Friends’ Xi and Putin: Project Unity
Ray McGovern | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
16 Sep 2022 – In the official Chinese and Russian statements regarding yesterday’s meeting between Presidents XI Jinping and Vladimir Putin in Samarkand lies not a scintilla of evidence that China’s support for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has weakened.
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North American Billionaires Collectively Control the Hegemonic U.S. Imperial Government
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
13 Sep 2022 – Today, two very grim reports about the world’s future were published: one by the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation and the other by the Gallup polling organization; both are data-based. How & Why Billionaires’ Charities’ Efforts to Help the World Are Now Turning It Rapidly Worse
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Should the UN Investigate 9/11?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
18 Sep 2022 – When your government is suspected of committing a crime, but refuses to provide an independent investigation, you are stuck. There is nowhere else to turn. What about the United Nations?
→ read full articleSeeing or Dreaming or Both
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
22 Aug 2022 – Wherever we may be, we are flooded with sights and sounds during the daytime. Some of these sights are so intense, we often dream about them if not in an exact form; sufficiently close to recognise them even while sleeping.
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IMF Tells Bolivia to Drop Its Successful Economic Model
Kawsachun News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
16 Sep 2022 – The IMF released a report today on the Bolivian economy in which it recommends adopting drastic neoliberal measures, including; reducing workers’ salaries, cutting public investments, and ending currency controls. These policies have turned Bolivia from one of the poorest countries in the region into it’s fastest-growing economy.
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Paulo Freire (19 Sep 1921 – 2 May 1997)
Leslie Bentley | Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator, philosopher and a leading advocate of critical pedagogy.
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Explosive Situation in Europe
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
12 Sep 2022 – Sanctions imposed by the EU, UK, US and Canada on Russia are preventing Gazprom from operating North Stream 1. The U.S.-EU strategy is clear: to prevent Europe from receiving Russian gas at low prices and force European consumers to buy it on the spot market at extremely higher prices set by the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, which is now part of a large U.S. holding company.
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Keith Haring on Our Resistance to Change, the Dangers of Certainty, and the Root of Creativity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
“To be a victim of change is to ignore its existence. It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis,” — Henry Miller
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Face It: Anti-Sex Crusades Are Dumb
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
12 Sep 2022 – Catering to the Easily Offended is destroying justice and liberty. The Age of Enlightenment has been replaced by the Age of Stupid. Faith, passion, and feelings have become more important than facts, truth, and freedom.
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Look with Nature’s Eyes
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Look with nature’s eyes,
with atomic eyes,
with Eden eyes,
with primordial eyes.
Appraising Mikhail Gorbachev
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
6 Sep 2022 – Mikhail Gorbachev had the greatest historical impact of any public figure since WW II. It is a bitterly polarized legacy of admiration and historical achievement in the West and one of contempt and almost total disrepute in Russia.
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The Children of the Gods of War (Part 3): The Lost Innocence of a Generation of Syrian Children
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
“The Forgotten War in Syria – The Lost World of Children”
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
7 Sep 2022 – More than two-thirds of 10-year-olds are unable to read and understand a simple text. This shocking finding should be enough to be alarmed about the horrifying fate of an entire generation. But there is much more.
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Afghanistan: A Hidden Trophy Worth more than a Trillion Dollars
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
6 Sep 2022 – How the Taliban’s regime has in just a few months erased with a stroke of a pen all the “great achievements” made over 20 years of US and allies’ massive military attacks on Afghanistan’s unarmed population. Has all this happened in just 12 months?
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Conflicts with Asteroid Mining
The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – Questions abound about unregulated space mining. Before humans rush off into the heavens in a quest to extract wealth, that the institutions on Earth be enabled and prepared to monitor and regulate the process.
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All-Day Peace Conference in the UK: The Game of War and the Path to Peace
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
24 September 2022 – 10am to 6pm — Harrogate, Yorkshire. Organized by HUFUD and Harrogate Quakers
→ read full articleThe Art of Choosing Love over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
“You’ll long for me when I’m gone… You’ll kiss the headstone of my grave… Kiss my face instead!”
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Really?
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
How Poignant!
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Ultra-Hawk Liz Truss to Be Next British Prime Minister
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
5 Sep 2022 – Truss said at a recent town hall that she would be ‘ready’ to launch nuclear weapons as prime minister.
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Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
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An Open letter to Mrs Olena Zelenska from Roger Waters
Roger Waters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
5 Sep 2022 – Dear Mrs Zelenska, peace may lie in your husband’s previously stated good intentions and in the platform he so laudably ran for the office of President of Ukraine and won:
A) To end the civil war in the East and bring peace to the Donbas and partial autonomy to Donetsk and Luhansk.
B) To ratify and implement the rest of the body of the Minsk2 agreements.
Putin Sees Future with Asia and Claims Western Economic Decline in New Speech
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
9 Sep 2022 – Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin addressed Western sanctions, Russia’s growing relationship with Asia and an update on Ukraine.
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Gorbachev’s Legacy
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In 11 Mar 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union. Within a few weeks, his full-scale reformation began to unfold. Perestroika (“restructuring”)—as Gorbachev called his reforms—officially ended with the URSS in 1991. The historic opportunities for a better future it offered Russia have been steadily undermined ever since.
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Electoral Conflicts and Political Polarization: What Can Mediators Do?
Kenneth Cloke | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In conflict, our options ultimately boil down to two: go it alone or face it together. We make these choices every day, as individuals and neighbors, as organizations, societies, and nations. With the development of mediation, dialogue facilitation, collaborative negotiation, consensus building, and similar skills, we are better able to face our problems together and collaboratively.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
There are some markets in Delhi, the capital of India, where one can see and buy beautiful, expensive products. These range from clothes and shoes to slippers, eye-wear, etc. Even sports items are on display.
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Film ‘I Am Peace’ from Alberto Portugheis Selected
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
The Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace (GAMIP) Short Film Forum 2022
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Ukraine and the Crisis of Media Censorship
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
2 Sep 2022 – Throughout the Ukraine war, Western news outlets have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real world.
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Organized Religion
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Within the eloquent vocabulary is the deep revelation and insightful perception of the dangers that exist within most of today’s worldly forms of theistic institutions and their misleading religious indoctrination. A must read; twice if necessary.
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Flamenco Dance Farruca (Music Video of the Week)
Melina Najjar with Yazan Ibrahim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Dancer: Melina Najjar – Guitarist: Yazan Ibrahim – Kick back and enjoy…
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Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
11 Sep 2022 – No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.
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The Ukraine Proxy War Has Been a Propaganda Win for Interventionists
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
6 Sep 2022 – Neocon erotica publication The Atlantic has a new article out titled “The Rise of the Liberal Hawks” which is infuriating as much for its sycophantic empire apologia as it is for the fact that much it is entirely correct.
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Coronavirus September Update
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
New Insights into the Coronavirus Pandemic – September 2022
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A Crisis of Consent in UN Peace Operations
Anjali Dayal | Global Observatory/International Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
2 Aug 2022 – Last week, at least 15 people died in protests demanding UN peacekeepers leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The week before, the military junta ruling Mali halted troop rotations for the UN mission there and ejected the mission’s deputy spokesperson. These incidents highlight deep-seated crises of consent and legitimacy.
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Who Benefits from US Government Claims That the UFO Threat Is Increasing ‘Exponentially’?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
5 Sep 2022 – The US government’s newly named Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office: someone’s benefiting from this. And it’s unreasonable to expect the most murderous and tyrannical regime on earth to tell us the truth about UFOs when it would stand nothing to gain. We ordinary people should do our best to understand what’s happening for ourselves.
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Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
4 Sep 2022 – The U.S. posits itself as a champion of opportunity, freedom, human rights and civil liberties, even as half the country struggles at subsistence level, militarized police gun down and imprison the poor with impunity, and the primary business of the state is war. This collective self-delusion masks who we have become. Under inverted totalitarianism, there is no attempt, unlike fascism and state socialism, to address the needs of the poor.
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Lawmakers Seek Answers on Pentagon’s Role in Deadly Nigeria Airstrike
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – A new congressional caucus called on Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III today to disclose details of the U.S. role in an airstrike that killed more than 160 Nigerian civilians at a displaced persons’ camp, including many children.
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Queen Elizabeth II Has Died
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. She died peacefully on Thursday [8 Sep] afternoon at her Scottish estate. The Queen came to the throne in 1952. RIP
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Top 10 Reasons Sweden and Finland Will Regret Joining NATO
David Swanson | World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
7 Sep 2022 – Friendly advice to my brothers and sisters in Finland and Sweden.
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(Italiano) La minaccia nucleare: verso la presa di coscienza?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Per anni il pubblico occidentale (ma anche quello giapponese!) fu tenuto all’oscuro della reale entità della tragedia provocata dalle esplosioni nucleari in Giappone. Poi gradualmente la censura lasciò filtrare documenti e testimonianze…
→ read full articleEducation for a World Society
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
“Transforming education means empowering learners with knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to be resilient, adaptable and prepared for the uncertain future while contributing to human and planetary well-being and sustainable development.”
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(Português) Alimentar-se de animais é uma forma de consumo consciente?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
7 set 2022 – Há um estreitamento no uso do termo e em seu conceito, ainda que “consciente” implique em reconhecimento de impactos nocivos e evitáveis.
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Global Peace and Human Security: Are We, the People, and Global Leaders at Crossroads?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Global Leaders Lack Understanding of the Nature, Peace and Human Security
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‘Refusing Is the Minimum’: Why These Israeli Teens Are Objecting to Army Service
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
2 Sep 2022 – Ahead of imprisonment, four conscientious objectors share their reasons for refusing conscription and their hopes of inspiring opposition to apartheid.
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The Amazon Rainforest Has Already Reached a Crucial Tipping Point
Luke Taylor | New Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
5 Sep 2022 – About 26 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has already been lost or badly degraded and without intervention the rest could transform into savannah, says a report on its status.
→ read full articleA Tremendously Innocent Man
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Meanwhile, in the US of A
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The Bewildering Vote in Chile That Rejected a New Constitution
Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
On 4 Sep 2022, more than 13 million Chileans voted on a proposal to introduce a new constitution in the country. As it happened, Pinochet’s constitution remains in place with more than 61 percent of voters rejecting the new constitution and only 38 percent of voters approving it.
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Chain of Corruption: How the White Helmets Compromised OPCW Investigations in Syria
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
9 Sep 2022 – By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, US-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence.
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A Warning from Chomsky and Ellsberg
Paul Jay | theAnalysis-news – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In their 90s, the two men tirelessly fight to warn people of the need for urgent action to deal with climate change and the threat of nuclear war. Joining Paul Jay, they discuss the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the war in Ukraine, and the climate crisis.
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San Diego: At the Intersection of Militarism and Patriarchal Gender
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In the pool
a girl,
slim and new-breasted, treads water,
Peace Talks Essential as War Rages on in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
5 Sep 2022 – The urgent need for peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, the role that the US and the UK played in killing the promising 15-point peace plan that was negotiated between Russia and Ukraine in March, and the ever-escalating consequences of that intervention.
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Western Media Continues to Ignore Ukraine’s Public ‘Kill List’ Aimed at Those Who Question the Kiev Regime
Eva Bartlett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
11 Sep 2022 – The Mirotvorets list is an issue trending in independent and Russian media, but not in the mainstream international press.
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Gorbachev: Dramaturge?!
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Paper prepared for the 12th Conference (Barcelona, 1991) of the World Futures Studies Federation. Participative Democracy vs. Participative Drama: Lessons on social transformation for international organizations from Gorbachev.
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NPT’s Second Failure to Reach Consensus
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
3 Sep 2022 – The 4-week UN Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference (NPT RevCon), rescheduled from May 2020 due to Covid, ended around 11:30 PM on August 26, 2022 in its second failure to reach consensus. This highlights the need for input from our field of conflict transformation.
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Is It Time to Stop Bullying Iran? Washington Should Restore the Nuclear Program Agreement with Iran Now
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
4 Sep 2022 – It is time for the morally attuned public to awake to the reality that a nuclear Israel has neither security justifications nor political grounds for its continuing bullying of Iran. Iran’s political solidarity with some movements in the region pales in its gravity compared to the U.S. and Israel’s discretionary bombing, political assassinations, interventions, and violations of the basic sovereign rights of countries in the Middle East.
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(Italiano) Sociocidio, Genocidio, Ecocidio d’Israele in Palestina
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Sociocidio è un nuovo concetto che non ha ancora trovato il proprio spazio nel diritto internazionale positivo. Genocidio, l’ineffabile crimine di uccisione di massa di membri di un genus, una nazione, per nessun altro motivo che tale loro appartenenza.
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Free Speech Doesn’t Matter if Propagandists Determine What People Say
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
29 Aug 2022 – None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. None are more hopelessly ignorant than those who falsely believe they’re informed. None are more hopelessly propagandized than those who don’t know they are propagandized.
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From Warfare to Peacefare Economic Thinking
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
20 Aug 2022 – This analysis of warfare, peace and economic thinking was written at the invitation of the China Investment Magazine and published in its July 2022 issue in both Chinese and English.
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Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – Bill Arkin and his employers at Newsweek seem to be content with serving as the Defense Intelligence Agency’s stenographers, putting out stories which have not, and will not, stand the test of time. Arkin is a prisoner of his sources, a problem that pervades Western reporting on the conflict in Ukraine.
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Factchecking the Factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and Media Access
John Kempthorne | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – US-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective. When social critic Noam Chomsky pointed out how unprecedented this was, Newsweek‘s “factchecker” (26 Jul 2022) declared his criticism “clearly untrue”—a determination that did more to confirm the ideological strictures of US media than to debunk them.
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(Italiano) Il come ricordiamo Hiroshima e Norimberga riflette il potere non la giustizia
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
I pacifisti del vasto mondo sovente scelgono l’8 agosto ogni anno per provare di nuovo la sofferenza umana e la devastazione causate dallo sgancio di bombe atomiche sulle città giapponesi inermi di Hiroshima e Nagasaki.
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The Children of the Gods of War (Part 2): The Ongoing Rohingya Genocide
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
The Impact on Children of the Mass Exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar by Peace Disruptors
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USA: How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
2 Sep 2022 – There are work-arounds the U.S. can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-needed infrastructure that was left out of the two recent spending bills.
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