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No Longer a Pariah? Russia and China Could Be about to ‘Normalize’ North Korea and Leave the US with another Asian Headache
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – Once a Cold War proxy battleground for superpowers, is the Korean peninsula being pulled apart by bloc politics again?
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Amidst Uproar over Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan, Media Ignores Aggressive U.S. Maritime Action in South China Sea
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – In order to force high-tech companies to decouple from the People’s Republic of China and reverse U.S. decline, U.S. imperialism needs a political/military crisis with China.
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Ukraine ‘Testing Ground’ Shaping US Network, Electronic Warfare Effort
Colin Demarest | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
17 Aug 2022 – Fierce battles being waged in Ukraine are showcasing cyber and electronic warfare and their consequences for connectivity and communications, according to the deputy commanding general at U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
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On Healing
Audrey Kitching – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Worth the Pain
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Western ‘Naturalism’ Disrespects Nonhuman Animals and the Entire Natural World
Baptise Morizot | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – The self-destructive delusion that we are the only species that has a right to life on Earth has led to the ecological crisis.
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The Story of Nuclear Winter
Future of Life Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
6 Aug 2022 – In the event of a nuclear war, smoke and soot, lofted into the stratosphere by nuclear firestorms and spread around the world by jet-streams, would block enough sunlight to create a ‘nuclear winter’, devastating global agriculture. Scientists predict that the resulting famine and civilizational collapse would kill most people on Earth.
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Sparrow Day
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Many people celebrate this date that fell on 20 March this year.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
How do you react when hearing someone express an opinion that strikes you as ridiculous, outrageous, unbelievable?
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The “Circle of Peace and Tranquility”: The Karamat of The Sultan Shaykh (Sheikh) Abdurahman Matebe Shah (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
The Banishment of a Peace Promoter by Imperial Dutch Colonisers to South Africa
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(Português) Beleza virtual, liberdade virtual, amor virtual: o Metaverso é o nosso futuro?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Quando foi a última vez que você saiu de manhã para fazer parte de um glorioso nascer do sol? Ou você se sentou em uma praia vendo o sol se pôr no horizonte? O que você sente quando toca a pele de um ente querido? Um avô, um pai, um amante ou um filho?
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Saudi Woman Given 34-Year Prison Sentence for Using Twitter
Stephanie Kirchgaessner | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022 – Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists.
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Why the U.S. Is the Main Obstacle to Nuclear Disarmament
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – The Pentagon has made no secret of its goal of military “full spectrum dominance,” with the added delusional claim that the U.S. is “exceptional” and justified in establishing and maintaining an American empire. What’s wrong with this picture?
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This Media Empire Leads the Charge in the US-China Propaganda War
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – Australian-born American billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire has consistently led anti-China narratives in the Western media. Encompassing a long list of influential–both television and print–media, the list of talking points aimed at Beijing is immense.
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When Roger Waters Cried: “Has any Israeli Shed Tears for a Boy from Gaza?”
Roger Waters | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 -Roger Waters cried yesterday on his Twitter page as he read, on camera, an essay at the Mondoweiss news website about a boy from the Gaza Strip. “What is wrong with the fucking Israelis? What is wrong with them?” he asked, in anger and despair.
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We Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, but We Will Probably Be the Last
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
14 Aug 2022 – The archeological remains of past civilizations, including those of the prehistoric Cahokia temple mound complex in Illinois, are sobering reminders of our fate.
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Valerie (Music Video of the Week)
Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Official Video ~ Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy this delightful musical treat.
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Reason U.S. Stays in Syria Revealed: To Steal Its Oil
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
On 8 Aug, the Syrian oil ministry said in a statement that the average daily output in the first half of 2022 was 80,300 barrels, while the US occupying forces and their mercenaries are stealing an average 66,000 barrels a day–over 83 percent of the oil output. The prolonged crisis in Syria has cost the oil sector about 105 billion US$.
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August 15 — India’s Independence Day
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
‘Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny and now the time has come when we shall redeem our pledge not wholly but substantially . At the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps India will wake up to life and freedom.’ — Nehru
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Time to Sign the Treaty
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it has ever been. It’s time to get the US and the 8 other nuclear powers to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Humanity is playing with nuclear fire as if climate catastrophe was not bad enough.
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War Propaganda about Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin
Chay Bowes | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
13 Aug 2022 – More and More Are Seeing Through the Lies – Amnesty International confirms the inconvenient truths, which many independent journalists and political observers already knew.
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Hunger Factory: The Miracle of the Sudden Rise and Fall of Food Prices (Part 1)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – How come food prices declined all of a sudden over four consecutive months? The Ukraine war began around five months ago. So? The “miracle” explained.
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Hunger Factory: The Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Part 2)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 – While often too quickly attributing -quasi exclusively- the world unprecedented hunger tragedy to the current proxy war in Ukraine, other major causes remain hidden in plain sight.
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Can We Please Have an Adult Conversation about China?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental Institute for Social Research– TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – As the US legislative leader Nancy Pelosi swept into Taipei, people around the world held their breath. Her visit was an act of provocation. In December 1978, the US government – following a United Nations General Assembly decision in 1971 – recognised the People’s Republic of China, setting aside its previous treaty obligations to Taiwan.
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We Can’t Let Them Do This: Russell Brand Interviews Matt Taibbi
Russell Brand – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – War, Censorship, and the State’s “Monopoly on Lying” – Mis-information and dis-information. Who should be responsible for deciding what truth we’re told? We should leave that up to the government, shouldn’t we?
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Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 77th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
Tomihisa Taue, Mayor of Nagasaki | The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Translation of the Peace Declaration read on 9 Aug 2022 by Nagasaki’s Mayor, Mr. Tomihisa Taue, at a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, as released by the Nagasaki Municipal Government.
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European Imperialism and How India and Pakistan Won and Lost 14-15 Aug 1947 National Freedom
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
14 Aug 2022 – A Critical Analysis as both India and Pakistan Celebrate Their National Freedoms – Pakistan and India need desperately new, educated and intelligent proactive leadership to facilitate friendship, resolution of major political problems and a sustainable future to exist in peace.
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Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – It is becoming clear that U.S. neoconservatives have succeeded in creating a warmongering, anti-Russian mood in Europe through an unprecedented information war, the consequences of which will take some time to assess. It is, however, possible to identify the signs of what is to come.
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Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO (V): From Politics to Propaganda
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Propaganda in Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
This article focus on the official narrative by NATO, especially the US, which explains the war in terms of madman Putin taking the unprovoked decision to invade Ukraine. This narrative effectively camouflages the geopolitics of the war, especially the role of the US and NATO and the possibility of negotiating peace.
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Washington Steals over 80 Percent of Syria’s Oil Output Per Day
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – The Syrian Oil Ministry released a statement yesterday accusing US forces occupying Syria of being responsible for the theft of most of the country’s oil. The losses incurred by the trafficking campaign surpass US$100 bn, according to Syria’s oil ministry.
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Life and Death and More Life: Leo Tolstoy on Science, Spirituality, and Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“A caterpillar sees itself shrivel up, but doesn’t see the butterfly which flies out of it.” “How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (20 Aug 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Swami Prabhupada was a spiritual teacher (guru) and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna Movement”. Over half a billion books authored by him were distributed since 1965. He has been described as a charismatic leader with followers scattered throughout the world.
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Singularity: Attractors and Scenarios (Part 2)
Javier E Belda - IHPS | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 -The approaching evolutionary crisis is evidently not a regular evolutionary crisis like the many others in the history of the planet-system. It is the total crisis of an evolutionary path of 4,000 million years. It can be said to be a crisis of the very critical character of the preceding evolution, a crisis of crises.
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(Castellano) Rusia-Ucrania-Estados Unidos/OTAN: De la política a la propaganda
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Amanece Metrópolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Este artículo se centra en la narrativa oficial de la OTAN, especialmente de los EE. UU., que explica la guerra en términos de que el loco Putin tomó la decisión no provocada de invadir Ucrania. Esta narrativa camufla efectivamente la geopolítica de la guerra, especialmente el papel de EE. UU. y la OTAN y la posibilidad de negociar la paz.
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Of the Far West, the ‘Good Cowboys’… and the ‘Bad Indians’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – Rough men, ranchers, mercenary killers, saloons, cowboys, guns, gold fever, the ‘good sheriff’… and the ‘bad indians”. Add to this mix the deeply-rooted, widely dominating culture of the so-called “white supremacy.”
→ read full articleAmbitious Man, Aspiring Man in India
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Man is generally ambitious — he wants to be an important person, in the limelight. These days when India is celebrating its 75th year of independence from the British yoke, there are many flags, films, paintings and newspapers dwelling on India’s journey.
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Militarism vs Life
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“As Long as There Is Militarism, the Chances of Living in a World without Wars Are Null”
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Sleeping at the Wheel: The Uber Files, the Media, and the Coup against Labor Rights
Brian Dolber | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
9 Aug 2022 – Uber’s entire model has been about breaking—if not smashing—labor law (and worker power) through systematic misclassification.
→ read full article(Castellano) Belleza virtual, libertad virtual, amor virtual: ¿es el Metaverso nuestro futuro?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
¿Cuándo fue la última vez que saliste afuera por la mañana para ser parte de un glorioso amanecer? ¿O te sentaste en una playa a ver la puesta de sol en el horizonte? ¿Qué sientes cuando tocas la piel de un ser querido? ¿Un abuelo, un padre, un amante o un hijo?
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MIT App: Improve the News
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Aug 2022 – Based in part on the SPR Media Navigator, an MIT research group has developed an online app called Improve the News that allows readers to filter and compare news based on the “political bias” and the “establishment bias” of media outlets. Their own machine learning algorithm confirmed that these are indeed the two most important dimensions of media bias.
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The Ninth of August: Christians Killing Christians in the Name of Christ
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
On 9 Aug 1945 an all-Christian B-29 bomber crew took off from Tinian Island in the South Pacific, with the blessings of its Catholic and Protestant chaplains. In the plane’s hold was the second of the only two nuclear bombs to ever be used against human targets in wartime.
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Americans Rarely See the True Face of Israel’s Bombing of Gaza
Elise Swain and Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – By shying away from graphic images of death, news organizations sanitize the violence of Israeli aggression against Palestinians. This article includes graphic images and depictions of death.
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At the Lost and Found
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
5 Aug 2022 – Those who are never lost are forever lost. Only those who know they are lost and that life is a shipwreck have a chance to find their way to shore. The world’s great religions, including Taoism and Existential philosophy, understand that at the heart of human existence is the presence of the not (death, emptiness, void).
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Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
21 Jul 2022 – The co-founders of the nonviolent resistance movement “WAH-WAF” extend their sincere appreciation to the World Freedom Alliance Greece.
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Let’s Love Each Other
Rumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Let’s love each other,
let’s cherish each other, my friend,
before we lose each other.
Difference or Similarity?
SeekethFind - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Both-and
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Vedic Peace
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Author’s note: I’m grateful to TMS contributor Stephen Knapp for much of the historical information in this paper. We honor the source of the Sanatana Dharma in India and rejoice that it is now once again becoming a global reality – Hari Om!
→ read full articleMaking Money from War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
In the United States the arms industry has been privatized, which is not the case in China or Russia. In the US, selling weapons and death is a business. It is a business, on which capitalist investors can make enormous profits, selling weapons and selling war.
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Leif Eiriksson Peace Award 2022 to Johan Galtung
Thor Magnusson | Mirpuri Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
The award was presented on 8 July 2022 by Thor Magnusson from the Peace 2000 Institute through the Mirpuri Foundation at the Lisbon Opera House, Portugal. 1,400 people attended.
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The “Circle of Peace and Tranquility”: The Karamat of Abadin Tadia Tjoessoep (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Peace Hunter: The Odyssey of an Exiled, Spiritual Person, Sheik Yusuf from Goa to South Africa
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The Invention of Capitalism
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
As Official Narratives Go…
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The US War on Drugs Isn’t What It Seems – and Colombia’s New President Wants to End It
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
14 Aug 2022 – Gustavo Petro Promises a Major Blow to US Hegemony over Latin America – Leftist Gustavo Petro was inaugurated as Colombia’s new president on 7 Aug ushering in an unprecedented political swing for a perennially right-wing government.
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Wisdom
Creig Crippen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Insight
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The Truth about Markets, Pillar of Capitalist Ideology
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“Market mechanisms” and “market solutions”: politicians, bureaucrats, media pundits, and academics like to refer to them as if they were somehow politically and ideologically neutral, above partisanship. They are not. Markets existed long before capitalism, but capitalism, as Karl Marx noted, made them ubiquitous, almost universal. Capitalism also raised and praised markets—and their prices—to give them an ideological importance, which leaned toward the absurd.
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China Threatens the US Empire, Not the US Itself: Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – So many empire apologist arguments depend on pretending the US empire doesn’t exist; pretending the US is just a normal country sitting there minding its own business. If you do that, it really does look like Russia and China are picking on Ukraine and Taiwan completely unprovoked.
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Will My Grandchildren Be Saved by Politicians or by Active Citizens?
Piero P. Giorgi, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
9 Aug 2022 – For many years I have been wondering how the human species could soon become extinct, following the increase of man-against-man social violence and war (probably nuclear war) maintained by governments and their politicians.
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Famine, Disease and War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
I would like to announce the publication of a book which deals in detail with the issues discussed above. It may be downloaded free of charge.
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Cuban Vaccine against Lung Cancer Makes Its Way in the United States
Granma - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
27 Jul 2022 – Cimavax-EGF, a Cuban therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, conquers the scientific community and the population of the United States based on the achievements compiled in studies carried out.
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Historic Decision against Mandatory Vaccination by Italian Court in Florence
Children’s Health Defense Europe - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Covid Vaccine Risk to Human Genome Now Legally Established in Italy – Mandatory vaccination is not possible because there is NO informed consent due to industrial and alleged military secret regarding the ingredients and the mechanism of these injections.
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The Most Bloated Military Budget in U.S. History: A Staggering $850 Billion
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – Specially Named to Honor an 87-Year-Old Disciple of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan – 2023 NDAA Represents Swan Song in Senate of a Long-Time Stalwart of the Radical Right
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Donation Politics: Worse than Hypocrisy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – We need to ask ourselves with a sense of urgency, ‘where is the outrage?’ and ‘why are the streets empty?’ Bob Dylan’s message of the sixties rings truer than ever: ‘The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind.”
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9 August: 77th Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Free Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – Unwelcome Truths for Church and State – 77 years ago (9 Aug 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped an experimental plutonium bomb on Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly incinerating, asphyxiating and/or vaporizing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women and children. Very few Japanese soldiers were killed by the bombs.
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Strategies of Hyper-Elites as Admired and Deprecated
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Exploration of Super-Rich Lifestyles and Their Contribution to Global Order and Disorder
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U.S. Military Activity Near Taiwan
Countercurrents Collective - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
5 Aug 2022 – U.S. Navy ships and planes will transit the Taiwan Strait in the next two weeks. U.S.N.S.C spokesman John Kirby condemned Chinese military drills in the area and said the Pentagon ordered the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan to remain near Taiwan to “monitor the situation.”
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Arab Spring, Russian Spring, Latin American Spring?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – Consciousness becomes a determining factor in history when the dominant regime (i.e. the culture of war) collapses from its own contradictions. This occurred in the 60’s with the Vietnam War and in end of the 80’s with the collapse of the Soviet Empire. We approach another such moment with the imminent collapse of the US Empire.
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The Ugly Americans: Donald, Joe, Nancy, and more
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
2 Aug 2022 – Dangerous Don, Joe, and Nancy are big believers in the US empire of global domination. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi goes to Taiwan against China’s wishes. The Ugly Americans believe they have a right to go anywhere in the world and do anything they want, including overthrowing governments, assassinating people, and taking other countries resources.
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How a Missile in Kabul Connects to a Speaker in Taipei
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Washington’s hard power display of taking out Al-Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri will not be reciprocated by Beijing over Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan. It does however, definitively bury the decades-long era of cooperative US-Chinese relations.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
This year the remembrance of the atomic bombings of Japanese cities is especially poignant. The world, as the UN Secretary General noted, is just one miscalculation away from nuclear war. I was also reminded that 8 Aug was the day in 1945 that the Allied Powers had the unfathomable insensitivity to sign the London Agreement setting up the Nuremberg Tribunal to prosecute German war criminals–two days after the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and one day before the second one incinerated Nagasaki. Sad to note, times have not changed.
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Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, Is Responsible for the War in Ukraine
Roger Annis | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
6 Aug 2022 – Western capitals make statements about sending troops to Ukraine. London intends to send 600 military personnel. Rendering assistance to the state where settlement is a remote prospect and the domestic conflict is far from being resolved, the West should understand that it automatically becomes an accomplice in the crimes against Ukrainian civilians.
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Technology, Social Media Help Traffickers Hunt Their Victims, Enslave Them, Sell Their Organs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Human beings produce innumerable practical inventions while often making the worst use of them. How criminal groups heavily rely on digital platforms to trap and enslave their victims also for extracting and selling their organs.
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From Balkh to Konya: Discovering Rumi’s Spiritual Geopolitics
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
30 Jul 2022 – While the mystic poet, Sufi, theosophist and thinker Jalal al-Din Rumi is synonymous with Islamic mysticism, a deeper dig brings to light the West Asian political changes and upheavals that shaped his world and other-worldly view.
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Why No One Cared That Al Qaeda Honcho Zawahiri Got Droned
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – That Zawahiri’s killing went so quietly suggests that the cultural and political behemoth that was the war on terror had long preceded him into the grave.
→ read full articleSmiling Faces
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
A smile on a face is worth a hundred words.
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“Russian Propaganda” Just Means Disobedience
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
6 Aug 2022 – It is not good that propaganda is shoved into our minds manufacturing consent for dangerous escalations between the world’s two greatest nuclear powers while anyone who opposes any part of it is dismissed as a Russian propagandist or a useful idiot of the Kremlin.
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Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks the US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation into the Pandemic
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Current Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs says he is “pretty convinced [COVID-19] came out of US lab biotechnology” and warns that there is dangerous virus research taking place without public oversight.
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Colombia’s First Leftist President Will Bring Historic Change, if the US Lets Him
Daniel Kovalik | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
7 Aug 2022 – Colombia is the latest Latin American country to turn from the right, and possibly stand up to Washington, with the inauguration of ex-guerrilla President Gustavo Petro.
→ read full articleNancy Pelosi, Taiwan and the Changing World Order
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
4 Aug 2022 – Right after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taipei on 2 Aug, I was asked by Russia Today to comment on that tension-increasing event. 15-min Video
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Completing Rotation in Less Than 24-Hours, Earth Creates Record for Shortest Day
The Universal News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – On July 29, the Earth broke its record for the shortest day as it completed a full spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than its standard 24-hour rotation. The planet recently has been increasing its speed. Back in 2020, the Earth saw its shortest month that has ever been recorded since the 1960s.
→ read full articleProgressives on U.S.-China Policy and Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit (PODCAST)
Deconstructed | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Tobita Chow of ‘Justice is Global’ and Matt Duss, foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, two leading progressive foreign policy voices, discuss the House speaker’s decision to visit Taiwan.
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Change
Caroline Shroeder - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Which is your case?
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Peace, Are You There?
Jocelyn Wright - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Peace,
Are you there?
Peace, speak to me
Whisper in my ear
Are you there?
(Français) Printemps Arabe, Printemps Russe, Printemps Latino-Américain ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 août 2022 – La conscience devient un facteur déterminant dans l’histoire lorsque le régime dominant (c’est-à-dire la culture de la guerre) s’effondre de ses propres contradictions. Cela s’est passé dans les années 60 avec la guerre du Vietnam et à la fin des années 80 avec l’effondrement de l’empire soviétique. Nous approchons d’un autre moment de ce genre avec l’effondrement imminent de l’empire Nord Américain.
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Exit Free
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Radical Peace presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our warrior culture. The following report was contributed by one of the founders of Exit Free, a collective in the USA that helps women leave the military by discharge or desertion.
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The “Circle of Peace and Tranquility”: The Karamat of Sheik Sayed Abduraghman Motura (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Humanoids Are in Regular Pursuit of Materialism at the Expense of Inner Tranquility, Peace and Excellence in Health
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The Spiritual Import of the Cow in Vedic Culture
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
The term “sacred cow” has come to mean any stubborn loyalty to a long-standing institution which impedes natural progress. The term originates in India, where the cow is said to be literally worshiped, while thousands of humans suffer from undernourishment. The common, popular view of India in the West has been of an underdeveloped nation steeped in superstition.
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Love Is in the Air (Music Video of the Week)
John Paul Young – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
The Classic from 1978 still Rocks!
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Fidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba (1959–2008), transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
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Skyrocketing Oil and Gas Profits Hit 14-Year High
The Energy Mix - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
28 Jul 2022 – Skyrocketing fuel costs and high margins on oil refining are driving the world’s biggest fossil companies to their biggest profits, according to a report that showed the oil and gas industry taking home $2.8 billion per day in revenue over the last 50 years. The five biggest—ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalÉnergies, and BP—“are set to make even more money than they did in 2008.
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The Clash of Leadership, Global Peace and Humanity at Crossroads
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Most contemporary leaders appear to be the product of elusive manifestations – an egoistic mysticism of unthinkable military triumphs and glory originating from primitive times of history.
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Hiroshima at 77: Another Hiroshima Is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target: China.
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Moses’ Tea
Readers Digest - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Right!
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Surrendering Power to Reverence
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – “I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous Peoples.” So said Pope Francis last week, at a powwow in Alberta, at the start of his “apology tour” across Canada — for the participation of the Catholic Church in the multi-century horror of Native American “residential schools.”
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How the Pentagon Dictates Hollywood Storylines
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
4 Aug 2022 – New documentary discloses the ways western publics are softened up for aggressive, global US militarism through the Pentagon’s influence over thousands of films and TV shows.
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(Nederlandse-Dutch) De elite staatsgreep om ons te doden of ons tot slaaf te maken: Waarom kunnen regeringen, rechtszaken en protesten hen niet tegenhouden?
Robert J. Burrowes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
In 2020 lanceerde de Wereld Elite, onder de dekmantel van het “virus”/”vaccin” verhaal, haar lang geplande staatsgreep om de totale controle over de menselijke bevolking te veroveren.
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The Mouse Trap
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Next time you hear that someone has a problem which does not touch you, think again.
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NATO-Backed Network of Syria Dirty War Propagandists Identified
Aaron Maté | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – Defaming journalism on the OPCW’s Syria cover-up scandal, The Guardian and its NATO-funded sources out themselves as the real “network of conspiracy theorists.”
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Gaza Death Toll Climbs to 43 amid Ceasefire Reports
Mondoweiss Editors - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
7 Aug 2022 – An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire went into effect today at 11:30 pm local time in Gaza. The Health Ministry reports that 43 Palestinians, including 15 children, have been killed since Israel began airstrikes on 5 Aug.
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Business as Usual for the Death Industry
Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Thought-Provoking Commentary & Opinions
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WHO Director Dr. Tedros: Monkeypox Outbreak Is “Among Men Who Have Sex with Men”
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
“Factual Chaos” at the WHO? The Questionable 99% Estimate – “The monkeypox virus is a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’ but for the moment it is an outbreak concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially with multiple partners; it can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.” This is a FALSE statement as monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease.
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A Brief History of Esperanto, the 135-year-old Language of Peace Hated by Hitler and Stalin Alike
Joshua Holzer | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Esperanto’s vocabulary is mostly from English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian and Yiddish, the languages that Zamenhof was most familiar with. Grammatically, it was primarily influenced by European languages, but some innovations bear a resemblance to some Asian languages, such as Chinese.
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(Italiano) In cammino per la Pace e il disarmo
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
6 agosto 2022, 8:00 – E’ partita mezz’ora fa la marcia per la Pace e il disarmo. Organizzata da ANPI Peretola, ANPI Montagna Pistoiese e ANPI Circolo Pertini. Perché camminare è un’azione politica nonviolenta applicata. Buona camminata a tutte e a tutti.
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