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Disinformation, Absolutely
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – This is what our public discourse has come to. We in the USA have made a nonsense of ourselves. Our troubled republic sounds like an indecipherable cacophony amid which anything we say can be turned to mean other than what we mean. When we come across anyone who thinks differently than we do, we simply call him or her a disseminator of disinformation, a liar, and nothing more need be said.
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Entire World Votes 185 to 2 against Blockade of Cuba—US and Israel Are Rogue States at UN
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
4 Nov 2022 – For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.
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New U.S. Sanctions Are Designed to Hit Nicaragua’s Poorest Citizens
John Perry | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
4 Nov 2022 – Mainstream media ridiculously claim that Nicaragua is a threat to U.S. national security when it has one of the lowest levels of defense spending in the world.
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It’s a Man’s World (Music Video of the Week)
Brandi Carlile and Brittany Howard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
Madison Square Garden 22 Oct 2022
“Insanely Good!”
Destroying Western Values to Defend Western Values
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – So it turns out the US intelligence cartel has been working intimately with online platforms to regulate the “cognitive infrastructure” of the population according to a new investigative report by The Intercept.
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The Guest House –> Agara Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
In a guest house, O monks, people from the east may take lodgings, or people from the west, north or south.
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Love Like There’s No Yesterday
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
like you’re the first to ever love
like it’s fresh and for the first time
because it is fresh and for the first time
More Than Six Decades of Sanctions on Cuba
Louis A. Pérez, Jr. | NACLA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
24 Oct 2022 – The Biden administration’s renewal of sanctions against Cuba reveals the folly of a long failed policy.
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Talking of Illusions…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
Consider this:
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American Horror: POTUS after POTUS Wronged This Old Pakistani Man
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
3 Nov 2022 – Saifullah Paracha, a 75-year-old Pakistani, was released last week (29 October) after 19 years in the dungeons of Guantanamo Bay for no crime. He won’t even get an apology.
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Musk Takes Twitter Helm, Enacts Sweeping Change as Deal Closes
Katie Roof, Ed Hammond and Kurt Wagner | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
28 Oct 2022 – Elon Musk wasted no time taking complete control of Twitter Inc. The billionaire appointed himself chief executive officer, dismissed senior management and immediately began reshaping strategy at one of the world’s most influential social media platforms as his $44 billion take-private deal closed.
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Why US Hegemony Is Incompatible with a ‘Rules-Based International Order’
Sam Fraser | Quincy Institute/Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
“It is clear that, going forward, the laudable goal of creating a global order based on international law and mutually agreeable rules of conduct is incompatible with U.S. hegemony — or for that matter, the hypothetical hegemony of any other power. Any state possessing a preponderance of power will, as the U.S. has, reject external restraints on that power. Any “rules-based order” put forward by a hegemon will be wielded in service of hegemony, not the other way around.”
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Just Two Weeks
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
I stand here before you
in my mother’s hand-me-downs,
in this world where mothers must work like they don’t have children
and parent like they don’t have jobs, …
Wicked Leaks (Part 1): How the Media Quarantined Evidence on Nord Stream Sabotage
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
26 Oct 2022 – It is easy to understand why the Observer would prefer to quarantine the possibility of US involvement in a terror attack that would make a nonsense of the editors’ lofty rhetoric about a ‘postwar consensus’ based on ‘international law’.
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Solving Plastic
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
The Vending Machines That Could End Single-Use Plastic |
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How Europe Has Navigated Its Energy Crises
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – A multifaceted response from Europe has so far prevented its energy woes from creating widespread social and economic destabilization. But with winter approaching, the crisis is far from over and risks are getting worse.
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Against Nationalism
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
New e-book free of charge – Nationalism has become a dangerous anachronism. History is centered on the country where it is being taught. Our own country is the most important and is always in the right. Patriotic soldiers and generals are exalted.
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India’s GM Mustard and the 30-Year Path to Food Tyranny
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Oct 2022 – A public interest litigation is currently before India’s Supreme Court which challenges the drive to commercialise the growing of genetically modified mustard in India. Yesterday, however, the country’s apex regulatory body – the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee – sanctioned commercialisation of the crop.
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The Fed’s Trading Scandal Broadens into a Scandal with the Mega Banks It “Regulates”
Pam Martens - Russ Martens | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
The president of the St. Louis Fed, James Bullard, gave a private, invitation-only briefing on Oct 14 2022 to clients of Citigroup, which received the largest bailout from the Fed in banking history–a sum of $2.5 trillion in secret loans according to a government audit.
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Transformed
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
Poem Inspired by a Painting
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The Pursuit of Pseudo Peace (Part 2): The Universe of Prostitution in India
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
29 Oct 2022 – This, Part 2, in the series of publication on the exploitation of females by the society, presents the business of prostitution, both male and female in India, where, often, infant girls are kidnapped from rural villages and sold into prostitution.
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The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
30 Oct 2022 – The rapid escalation of online censorship, and increasingly offline censorship, cannot be overstated. The silencing tactic that has most commonly provoked attention and debate is the banning of particular posts or individuals by specific social media platforms. But the censorship regime that has been developed, and which is now rapidly escalating, extends far beyond those relatively limited punishments.
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Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
28 Oct 2022 – In Part 1, we described how state-corporate media non-reporting of sabotage at the Nord Stream pipelines was an example of truth increasingly quarantined by ‘mainstream’ media. At first sight, our second example might appear to contradict this claim.
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Haiti: Statement from Fanmi Lavalas
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
28 Oct 2022 – Haiti Action Committee is honored to circulate this statement from Fanmi Lavalas, the people’s party of Haiti. As threats of a new foreign invasion ramp up, Lavalas states, in the clearest terms, the need for continued popular mobilization to produce a genuine Haitian solution to the crisis. We hope you will read it and circulate it widely.
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The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset
F. William Engdahl | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab.
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Europe in Its Labyrinth
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – European politicians continue to run in all directions to find a way out of their energy crisis. One of them, the Swiss Environment Minister, asked people to ‘shower together’.
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Yemeni Children Starve to Death amid Endless War
CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
26 Oct 2022 – Around 2.2 million children under the age of 5 are not well fed. More than half a million are severely malnourished. More than a million pregnant or lactating women suffered from severe malnutrition this year. Every 10 minutes, a child in Yemen dies from a preventable disease.
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Space Invaders
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
Sci-Fi?
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Meta Threaten to End Canadian News Content on Its Platform
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Oct 2022 – The federal government’s proposed law requiring internet giants to negotiate commercial agreements with Canadian media disturbs Meta, WhatsApp and Facebook’s parent company, which threatens to end the sharing of Canadian news content on its platform.
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My War Never Ends
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
Writing on War and Living in a World from Hell
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Ethiopia Nears Victory in Its Civil War, US Scrambles to Control the Outcome
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
26 Oct 2022 – War between Ethiopia and the TPLF may be coming to an end, but the US is using sanctions to have the final word despite the apparent defeat of its proxy.
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The Growing Chorus for Peace in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Oct 2022 – Calls for peace in Ukraine from across the world and from wiser heads in the United States; the West’s role in the breakdown of peace talks in April; the contradictions in U.S. war goals; the reasons for this destructive and dangerous crisis to be resolved at the negotiating table ASAP.
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Lula Is the New President of Brazil
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
30 Oct 2021 – Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2011) narrowly defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in today’s runoff and was thus elected head of state for the third time, confirmed the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
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The War in Ukraine: Made in Washington Not Moscow
Mike Whitney | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
No American president would allow a potential adversary to deploy their nuclear missiles to sites along the Mexican-American border. The risks to national security would be far-too great. In fact, Washington would remove those missile sites through force-of-arms without batting an eye. We all know that. So, why isn’t that same standard applied to Russia?
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I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Music Video of the Week)
Song Around The World | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
Featuring over 40 musicians from 13 countries who played several instruments and combined their magnificent voices.
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The Avataras of God
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
As we browse through the internet and the media we see the word avatara increasingly used in a number of ways–but often in ways that have nothing to do with its real meaning. Or we also find an increasing number of persons referring to themselves as avataras of God.
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Peace Prayer
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
For Global Peace let’s all pray…
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Diversity Debate Rages as Sunak, a British Indian, Becomes UK PM
Linah Alsaafin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – For the first time in UK’s history, the country has a non-white as its prime minister. At 42, Rishi Sunak, a Hindu, is the youngest prime minister in more than 200 years. The multimillionaire Oxford-educated former hedge fund boss is married to an Indian billionaire’s daughter and some doubt his policies will benefit underrepresented communities.
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How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation around the World
Craig Silverman, Ruth Talbot, Jeff Kao and Anna Klühspies | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
29 Oct 2022 – Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable.
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Keep On Rockin’
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
The experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our warrior culture. An American exchange student in one of my courses here in Germany contributed the following essay about how she became an anarchist for peace.
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German Air Chief: F-35 Buy Safe despite Rising Inflation Costs
Vivienne Machi | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – Rising prices for everything have put some of Berlin’s up-arming plans into question. The air force’s multibillion-euro F-35 program, however, is expected to weather inflation-related cost increases intact, according to the service’s chief of staff.
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The Official Narrative on Ukraine
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
29 Oct 2022 – If you dispute any part of the official Ukraine narrative, you are an evil monster, and a disinformation agent. Because Vladimir Putin is the same as Adolf Hitler, and you are an evil disinformation agent-Neville Chamberlain-appeasement monster, it is legitimate to censor you, to accuse you of being secretly paid by the Russian government, to swarm you with coordinated astroturf trolls to shout you down…
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The Bottomless Pit of War Spending
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – The European Union is giving Ukraine €5 billion in exceptional macrofinancial assistance in addition to 9 billion provided by the EU-sponsored fundraising campaign. The US and EU have already donated 100 billion euros in military supplies to Kiev. These huge funds, coming directly and indirectly from our pockets, serve to fuel the war in the heart of Europe.
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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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(Italiano) Negoziare la pace in Ucraina ADESSO
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Ottobre 2022 – Benché qualcuno consideri difficile o addirittura impossibile per gli ucraini e i russi fare la pace proprio adesso, questo è effettivamente un ottimo momento per negoziati quanto mai necessari al più presto per por termine a questa guerra immensamente distruttiva e sempre più pericolosa: negoziare la pace in Ucraina ADESSO
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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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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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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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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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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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’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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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) 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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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