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(Italiano) Verso un’Abbondanza Frugale. Gaia e l’Umanità: Esperimento in Corso
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
La situazione mondiale è critica: la popolazione umana ha raggiunto la cifra di 8 miliardi, e il suo impatto sul pianeta ha alterato i processi e le dinamiche del nostro pianeta a tal punto, da innescare una trasformazione dell’ecosistema globale.
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Make Peace, Not War, in Ukraine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – There were a series of provocations by NATO that aroused security concerns in Moscow, including the expansion of NATO after the Cold War was over, the threat from the Soviet Union had disappeared, and promises were made by Western leaders to Gorbachev of no further NATO expansion. Such geopolitical behavior amounted to imprudent statecraft by the West,
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South Sudan: Oil Underground, Blood on the Surface
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While politicians and media have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan as a “civil war” between ethnic groups, there are some facts that should be considered. One of them is that this country is rich in oil.
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How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The title comes from a speech by Vladimir Posner at Yale Sept 27, 2018. Posner was the spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev in the latter years of the 1980’s and has continued over the years to provide independent, informed journalism from his base in Russia.
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Wars Lie!
Eduardo Galeano | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Wars always invoke noble motives. They kill in the name of peace. In the name of God. In the name of civilisation. In the name of progress. In the name of democracy… And just in case, if so many lies are not enough… the mass media are ready to invent imaginary enemies to justify the conversion of the world into a great madhouse and an immense slaughterhouse.
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Vaccine Myocarditis: Mystery Solved?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
3 Apr 2022 – A Brazilian investigator may have identified the mechanism driving mRNA vaccine myocarditis. And the US CDC finally acknowledges the strongly increased risk in young males.
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Stressing the Obvious
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Reacting to Life
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The Urgent Need for Climate Action
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
One reason that the Glasgow Climate conference failed so miserably to produce urgently needed climate action was that humans tend to react to what is close to them. Money to pay the rent is urgent, while a climate catastrophe seems to be a distant threat. A second reason is cultural inertia.
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While You Were Distracted by Will Smith, the International Elite Met at the World Government Summit
Derrick Broze | The Last American Vagabond - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – While much of the world spent the last days obsessing over the celebrity spectacle of actor Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock ‘live,’ the international elites were meeting in Dubai for the 2022 World Government Summit. Guests included Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and Kristalina Georgieva of the International Monetary Fund.
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Ukrainians Could Defeat a Russian Occupation by Scaling Up Unarmed Resistance
Jørgen Johansen, et al. | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – As scholars of nonviolent resistance, we see four key ways Ukrainians can organize and expand the civil resistance that’s already happening.
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Geopolitics and the Rise of China
Anna Jaguaribe | OpinionSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Let’s start with a reverse order as the rise of China has a direct impact on how we perceive geopolitics today. It is unique by the historical situation in which it is couched.
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Bruce Willis Developed Aphasia after Being Vaccinated against COVID19
Steve Kirsch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage in a specific area of the brain. It controls language expression and comprehension, leaving a person unable to communicate effectively with others. Many have aphasia as a result of stroke.
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Putin… &…
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – I first saw Dylan Morgan’s painting a couple of months ago. The recent horrors of the War in Ukraine have opened old wounds and whipped me back to confront the stalking “strong men”–on their side and ours–and to weep with the mothers of shattered children.
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Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This Ukrainian War
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue.
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(Castellano) “Las Guerras Mienten”
Eduardo Galeano | Promotores No Violencia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
“Ninguna guerra tiene la honestidad de confesar: Yo mato para robar. Las guerras siempre invocan nobles motivos, matan en nombre de la paz, en nombre de dios, en nombre de la civilización, en nombre del progreso, en nombre de la democracia y si por las dudas, si tanta mentira no alcanzara, ahí están los grandes medios de comunicación dispuestos a inventar enemigos imaginarios para justificar la conversión del mundo en un gran manicomio y un inmenso matadero.”
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2022 Global Policy Institute Book Award to Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Dr. Falk is now a Santa Barbara resident. After four decades at Princeton, he has served as Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has lectured widely around the world as one of America’s most recognizable and relentless crusaders for international justice.
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Corporate Profits Soar to Record $2.8 Trillion
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Federal data released yesterday shows U.S. corporate profits jumped 25% to record highs in 2021, even as COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the nation’s economy and CEOs bragged on corporate earnings calls about jacking up consumer prices.
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My Sweet Lord “Live” (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison | Federico Perlingieri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
A Tribute to George Harrison by “Family & Friends”
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The U.S. Has Its Own Agenda against Russia
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – Ukraine is ground zero for the expansion of the U.S.-Russia proxy war, simultaneously a war of aggression being waged by Putin and a larger geopolitical battle between the U.S., NATO, and Russia. “It’s a proxy war with Russia, whether we say so or not,” said Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary under Obama.
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Really??
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
No Shame…
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Focusing on some of the more obscure aspects of the deeper agenda that is driving this conflict. This reflects my own long-standing interest in understanding how elite power manifests in the world.
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Comedians’ Tragedy: The Global Shortage of Cynicism in the Russian-Ukrainian War
Michimi Muranushi | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – The world has no choice but to condemn the Russian aggression against Ukraine. It has no choice but to help the Ukrainians to end the war with honor. But it is the role of the Ukrainians to produce statesmen who understand that the Ukrainians need to suspect not only the Russians but also the Americans and the Europeans.
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Showing Off — Splashing Oneself Visually in Social Media
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
A trend that has become visible today among the well-to-do younger generation is to show off and display oneself on the Social Media. How?
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Coronavirus Doesn’t Exist?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
3 Apr 2022 – For (non-scientist) readers interested in questions such as the reality of SARS-CoV-2 (or viruses in general), if it is causing covid, if the virus fulfills Koch’s postulates, if it has been isolated etc., SPR recommends this Twitter thread by geneticist Kevin McKernan.
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(French) Comment Les États-Unis Ont Créé Vladimir Poutine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 avril 2022 – Le titre de ce blog vient d’un discours de Vladimir Posner à Yale le 27 septembre 2018. Posner était le porte-parole de Mikhaïl Gorbatchev dans les dernières années des années 1980 et a continué au fil des ans à fournir un journalisme indépendant et informé depuis sa base en Russie. .
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Resisting Militarism: Mission Impossible?
Sean Howard | Cape Breton Spectator – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – “I don’t think the country should be militarized… but we live in the moment when the Army matters.” — Ukrainian peace activist Nataliya Gumenyuk. But denying millions the right to conscientiously object or leave the country is criminal. Overall problem: war. Pseudorealities lead to war. All lines lead to the war. It may be a mission impossible, but can pacifism help lead us back?
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BioBiden
María Zakharova | Pressenza Argentina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – An idea of the US political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine. Below is an attempt to reconstruct the chronology of this involvement, though not a comprehensive one. There are many gaps in this truly diabolical plan that are still to be filled.
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Siddhartha Gautama–the Buddha’s Birthday: 8 April (563 – 483 BC)
Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
8 Apr – Today is the anniversary of the Buddha’s birth—born Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, the fourth largest religion in the world.
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Nonkilling Political Reflections: The Sham of Non-Existence and the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022
Clay Edwards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – What should greatly concern us, in my view, is that US President Biden hit the impotence of our security structures squarely when he declared that Russian President Putin should not be in power. The use of the word “power” in regard to Russian President should be clarified.
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Russians Resist War
Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – Over 15,000 Arrested for Anti-War Protests – Russian citizens continue to protest against the invasion of Ukraine despite harsh repression by the Russian authorities.
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Round and Round
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Now you see… Now you don’t…
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On Being Disappeared
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – The entire archive of On Contact, the Emmy-nominated show I hosted for six years for RT America, has been disappeared from YouTube. I received no inquiry or notice. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist; then you don’t. Are we a more informed and better society because of this wholesale censorship?
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The Wondrous Mountain
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Is the wondrous mountain you?
Holding you back… like a boulder?
Or can you climb up and realise your true potential?
Resurrecting the Fear of AIDS
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
2 Apr 202 – Here we go again folks. The COVID-19 narrative is getting old. Oppressive, idiotic, and useless restrictions are being rolled back. But now we are being told that scientists in the Netherlands discovered a more aggressive variant of HIV-AIDS. They have to find some way to keep the fear porn going.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: The Making of the Mahatma in South Africa
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
The Cutting, Faceting and Polishing of a Diamond
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The Impact of Ukraine on Yemen
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – The People of Yemen Suffer Atrocities, Too – The Western economic war on Russia over Ukraine is having a spillover effect on the forgotten war in Yemen. The ghastly blockade and bombardment of Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is now entering its eighth year.
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Rand Report Prescribed US Provocations against Russia and Predicted Russia Might Retaliate in Ukraine
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
26 Mar 2022 – According to the 2019 Rand Report: “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”, the US goal is to undermine Russia. Rather than “trying to stay ahead” or to improve the US relations, the emphasis is on efforts and actions to undermine the designated adversary Russia. Rand is a think tank that receives three-quarters of its funding from the US military.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – “Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population has been displaced. More than 100,000 are missing or forcibly disappeared. Syria’s cities and infrastructure have been destroyed. The poverty rate is 90 percent; 14.6 million people depend on humanitarian aid.”
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Obituary: How Madeleine Albright’s ‘Munich Mindset’ Turned into Uninhibited Interventionism
Daniel Larison | Responsible Statecraft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
24 Mar 2022 – Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State, a prominent liberal interventionist, and promoter of NATO expansion, died on 23 Mar from cancer at the age of 84. A refugee who rose to the highest levels of government, she became a well-positioned advocate of American exceptionalism.
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U.S. Space Force Becomes More Lethal
GNspace4peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
26 Mar 2022 – What’s the newest branch of the US armed forces, the Space Force, doing in 2022? Find out in this video from the Global Network.
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Reporting from Moscow: Sanctions May Achieve the Opposite of Biden’s Stated Long-Term Goals
Glenn Greenwald and Dimitri Simes Jr. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In Russia, sanctions have taken a bite out of the Russian economy, but interviews and data suggest they cannot fulfill the West’s strategic motives for imposing them.
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Washington Is Driving the World to Nuclear War
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Washington dumped three more provocations simultaneously on the Kremlin. The signal it consistently sends is aggression. Why has no government and no presstitute in the West pointed this out? Why provoke a country concerned with its security with more security concerns unless you are trying to widen the war?
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Ukraine Being Destroyed by Proxy War, Not for Peace or Sustainable Future-Making
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Mar 2022 – Witness to Killing and Destruction: Ukraine Fast Becoming the Epic Centre of Cataclysm
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Body and Soul (Music Video of the Week)
Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
From Duets II: The Great Performances
→ read full articleNegotiate Peace in Ukraine Now!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Interestingly, most news sources in the U.S. and Europe continue to attribute Russia’s military difficulties in Ukraine to their own incompetence or Ukrainian heroism, but seldom to the $3.2 billion worth of high-tech weapons that the U.S. has shipped to Kyiv since 2014. Joe Biden, of course, is an architect of this de facto Western alliance with Ukraine. What his end game is nobody can say.
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The Marriage of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – I was in London as a guest of Julian Assange and Stella Moris for their wedding, but even on that day the authorities continued their relentless campaign of cruelty against Julian.
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Yemen: The Largest Humanitarian Crisis That No One Discusses
Martin Armstrong | Armstrong Economics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The media rarely reports on Yemen and most journalists likely would not be able to recognize Yemen’s flag. The public does not discuss or shed tears for the people of Yemen who live in unfathomable conditions because they are not a piece of the larger agenda and no one can profit off of their suffering at this time.
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Confession
Raymond Nat Turner | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” —P. J. O’Rourke
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The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution
Nils Melzer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution, by Nils Melzer, Verso, 8 Feb 2022, 368 pp. – In July 2010, WikiLeaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. Unsurprisingly, Melzer’s book has hardy received a whisper in the Western corporate mainstream press.
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More Evidence That the U.S. Is Trying to Prolong This Ukrainian War
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – “Secretary of State Antony Blinken has not attempted any conversations with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, since the start of the conflict. So the US government is continuing its policy of refusing to attempt any high-level diplomatic resolutions to this war despite its public hand-wringing
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Marzo 2022 – Di recente è stata approvata una modifica della Costituzione Italiana, all’articolo 9. L’inserimento della biodiversità e degli ecosistemi è un passo avanti rispetto al ‘paesaggio’. Viene riconosciuta almeno una parte di Gaia – il nostro pianeta vivente – tra i soggetti da tutelare, anche se c’è ancora qualche ambiguità.
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Ice Shelf Bigger than New York City Breaks Off Eastern Antarctica
Jason Samenow | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
26 Mar 2022 – The first major shelf to collapse in more than four decades of satellite observations. The Conger Ice Shelf, spanning about 460 square miles, shattered off the continent on March 15. Its disintegration has alarmed scientists, who have long considered ice in eastern Antarctica as relatively stable.
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Anana Sutta – Debtlessness
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
There are these four kinds of bliss that can be attained in the proper season, on the proper occasions, by a householder enjoying the pleasures of the senses. Which four?
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Unsettling Coloniality in the Psychological Sciences by Restoring Our Kinship Worldview
Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Psychology is the go-to social science for helping mitigate imbalanced mental capacity and behavior. This paper shows how it is also one of the most colonized science disciplines and explains how it contributes indirectly to or at least does little to prevent calamities. Metacognitive reflection that focuses on re-embracing Indigenous worldview is the best way to challenge the colonial assumptions behind most psychological approaches effectively.
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Ukraine Déjà Vu 1984: Political Egocentrism, Nuclear Narcissism and Political Maturity
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – In 1984 I went to the USSR with the Association of Humanistic Psychology as a citizen diplomat during the height of the Soviet-American nuclear arms race. That was the good old days when Reagan called the USSR “the Evil Empire.” I put aside my shyness to become a speaker for Physicians for Social Responsibility on the psychology of the arms race.
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Poem about Holi Festival
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
The vibrant colours of Holi
Bringing sheer delight with jubilant colour
Like a rainbow, announcing its Spring
Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
Ray McGovern, John Mearsheimer | Salon, Committee for the Republic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To an empire, everything looks like a crisis to justify a multi-trillion-dollar military-industrial-security complex as dictatress of the world. The crisis du jour for the American empire is Russia‘s aggression against Ukraine.
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UN Condemnation of Russia Endorsed by Countries Run by the Richest, Oldest, Whitest People on Earth
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360° - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
24 Mar 2022 – The statistics below show that only 41% of the world’s people live in countries that joined the US in voting for the UN resolution: Divided World
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The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – We have arrived into the dystopian future dreamed up by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move. Much like Huxley’s A Brave New World, we are churning out a society of watchers who “have their liberties taken away from them, but … rather enjoy it.
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Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
“As for me, I am rather often uneasy in my mind, because I think that my life has not been calm enough; all those bitter disappointments, adversities, changes keep me from developing fully and naturally in my artistic career.” —Vincent van Gogh
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The Comedian
Unknown author – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Tragicomedy?
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Expectations…
George Bernard Shaw - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
True.
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Delhi — Old and New
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Delhi, the capital of modern India, has had a long chequered background. It has been plundered and rebuilt seven times over its long history.
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Facing Severe Repression, Russians Are Turning to Antiwar Graffiti
Colleen Wood and Alexis Lerner | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – As the Kremlin cracks down on antiwar protests, subversive street art critiquing the war in Ukraine is proliferating across Russia.
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(Italiano) Conflitto NATO/Russia in Ucraina
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – La reazione “rettiliana” dell’Occidente si dimostrerà estremamente autodistruttiva: una lettura di Jan Oberg del conflitto NATO/Russia in Ucraina.
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Biden’s Reckless Words Underscore the Dangers of U.S. Use of Ukraine as a Proxy War
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
27 Mar 2022 – The central question from the start of the war in Ukraine was what role, if any, should the U.S. government play in it? If the U.S. is going to involve itself in this war, what objectives should drive that involvement? Those questions were never considered and it may be too late for them to be examined. But given the stakes, this is as clear a case of better late than never.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – Current Affairs
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U.S. Lied about Funding “Dangerous Pathogen” Research in Secret Ukrainian Biolabs, Newly Leaked Documents Reveal
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – Newly Leaked Documents Reveal Pentagon Contractors Worked Under $80 Million Program Funded by Defense Department but Kept Hidden from Public
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World’s Dullest Editorial Launches Panic
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Mar 2022 – In an inane sequel to the Harper’s Letter fiasco, a New York Times editorial ignites a fury proving its anodyne thesis.
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2021 Amazon Deforestation Map Shows Devastating Impact of Ranching, Agriculture
Maxwell Radwin | Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The Andean Amazon Project found that around 1.9 million hectares (4.8 million acres) of primary forest were lost in 2021, mostly as the result of cattle ranching and other agricultural activities.
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Jane Goodall (Born 3 Apr 1934)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Animal Rights Activist, Scientist – Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times.
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The Lie of North American Innocence
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. Our hypocrisy makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: una prospettiva geopolitica
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Ripresa modificata di una conferenza tenuta il 9 marzo 2022 a una sessione dei Colloqui su Studi Globali all’Università di California – Santa Barbara convocata dal professor Jan Nederveen Pieters, purtroppo priva di una serie di domande impegnative a seguito del mio intervento, fra cui da vari partecipanti in Europa.
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NATO Is Arming and Training Nazis in Ukraine, as US Floods Russia’s Neighbor with Weapons
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
11 Mar 2022 – NATO is sending weapons and trainers to help neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s white-supremacist Azov movement fight Russia. This follows numerous reports of Western government support for Ukrainian far-right extremists.
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Ukrainian Leftist Criticizes Western War Drive with Russia: US Is Using Ukraine as ‘Cannon Fodder’
Yuliy Dubovyk | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia.
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The United Fruit Co.
Pablo Neruda, Nobel Literature Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
When the trumpets had sounded and all
was in readiness on the face of the earth,
Jehovah divided his universe:
Anaconda, Ford Motors,
Coca-Cola Inc., and similar entities
To Be Human–Lives Matter
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
The women, the poor, the marginalised, the ostracised,
What do they have in common?
Their rights are forsaken and forgotten.
United Nations as a Potemkin Institution Faced with Potemkin Crises?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Potential of AI to Enable a Transformative Dynamic through Meta-Discourse – As noted previously, the current global campaign of sanctions against Russia curiously recalls the psychosurgical procedure of lobotomy — much favoured in the USA and the UK subsequent to World War II during the Cold War period.
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We Are All Ukrainian
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – I am of Ukrainian origin. Like many Jewish Americans, my ancestral roots reach back to Eastern Europe. My father was born in Kiev and thought he was a Russian. Other relatives lived in the Pale of Settlement created by the Tsarina Catherine the Great which was part of Ukraine. They thought they were Russian too. Even today families blend Russia with Ukraine.
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From Kyiv to Kabul: The ‘Blessings’ of Civilisation
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – It’s time to put an end to a long history of violence in the name of benevolence.
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Ukraine War: Three Academic Perspectives
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – The following discussion resulted from three separate interviews. There was no interaction among the three of us. I wonder whether this war is best described as ‘Russo-Ukrainian War’ or simply as ‘Ukrainian War’ or ‘Russo-U.S. Proxy War.’ It seems an amalgam of all three.
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(Castellano) La guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania: Toma de posición equivocada de algunas ONGs
Ernesto Kahan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – En general los conflictos armados ente naciones, generan la aparición de posiciones extremistas entre la gente, que exacerban los sentimientos de identidad y concordia, que contradicen los principios de respeto y tolerancia.
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A Commune Called ‘Che’: A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes
Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – Just as the independence struggle had different resonances in the Andes, so too does Venezuela’s project of communal socialism. The region is home to one of the most successful communes in the country and has a solid productive basis (a chocolate factory and coffee cooperative). However, the Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others.
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Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – International law is a meaningless concept when it only applies to people the US power alliance doesn’t like. Neither George W Bush nor Tony Blair are in prison cells at The Hague where international law says they ought to be.
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(Italiano) Se lo stato abdica alle sue leggi, i comuni hanno il diritto/dovere di disobbedire
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Stavo pensando ad alcune esperienze di resistenza civile in cui la pubblica amministrazione (PA) locale (Comuni) è intervenuta nei conflitti armati e non armati.
→ read full article(Italiano) Centrali nucleari – una ‘tassonomia’ controversa?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Pochi giorni fa, l’11 marzo, in sordina, ricorreva l’undicesimo anniversario della tragedia di Fukushima (in Giappone) Il 26 aprile prossimo saranno trascorsi 27 anni dal disastro di Chernobyl (in Ucraina)
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Transcending the Certainties of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Can we stare into hell and refuse to see . . . an enemy?
→ read full articleBiggest Oil Giants Made ‘Eye-Popping’ $205 Billion in Profits in 2021: Report
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – While millions have been hurt by surging gas prices, a new report from a government watchdog group shows 25 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel corporations in 2021 collectively pulled in $205 billion in profits. Now, fossil fuel giants are trying to “cash in on inflation and the crisis in Ukraine,” said one critic.
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Plea to Second Language Educators
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Dear second language educators,
When to your teaching Peace Linguistics you apply
your students achieve more than communication
They experience a deep transformation
Barcoding Nature: The Largest Global Land Grab in Human History
Meleni Aldridge and Melissa Smith | ANH International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – The commoditization of nature is justified as being driven by the protection of natural resources. But scratch beneath the surface and the greed and avarice is clear to see. Is the largest corporate land grab in recent history hiding in plain sight?
→ read full article3 for the Road
Reader's Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Oh, well…
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Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.
→ read full articleNATO/Russia Conflict in Ukraine: The West’s Spinal Cord Reaction Will Prove Extremely Self-Destructive
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Since Russia’s foolish and totally unacceptable war on Ukraine started, there no longer seems to be any limit to what can be said about Russians and Russia and what can be done to isolate the country and its people economically, culturally, socially, financially and in the media. The word ‘Putin’ explains everything as if by magic.
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The UK Supreme Court Won’t Listen to Assange, but the Legal Battle Is Still On
Sara Chessa | Bella Caledonia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – What are Assange’s lawyers’ options after the Supreme Court refused to listen to his appeal. Why US diplomatic assurances are unacceptable from a human rights point of view.
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Bias(?)
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
In the eyes of the beholder…
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Sanatana-Dharma: Its Real Meaning
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Dharma consists of both the force that sustains as well as what is sustained. It can also be said that there is the path of dharma as well as its conclusion, the object of dharma, or what we are seeking, the goal of life. So dharma is the means as well as the goal. Dharma is also said to be the force which maintains the universe.
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Lockheed and Raytheon–Today’s ‘Masters of War’
Betsey Piette | Workers World -TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Mar 2022 – That the U.S./NATO-instigated war in Ukraine could result in a WWIII is of major concern for all of humanity. Yet for some global billionaires — today’s ‘masters of war’ — this conflict is an opportunity to further boost profits.
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Nikolayevich Tolstoy: The Aristocratic Renunciator of Materialism
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
The Path Will Be Clear if the Worldly Weeds Are Renounced and Removed
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Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuitive Antidote to the Time-Anxiety That Haunts and Hampers Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
“Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster… Since finitude defines our lives… living a truly authentic life — becoming fully human — means facing up to that fact.”
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UK Supreme Court Slams Door on Assange Appeal, Extradition May Be Authorized
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – Without any explanation, the British Supreme Court denied WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “permission to appeal” a decision by the British High Court. If the British Home Office approves extradition, Assange’s defense may submit an appeal on the issues of freedom of the press.
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