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Protection Wall
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022

Emotional Health

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Galtung on Militarism
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2022

Solve the Underlying Conflict

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Demands for Peace
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

INDEED!

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Sustainable Debt Slavery
Iain Davis and Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

13 Sep 2022 – How the UN’s “sustainable development” policies, the SDGs, do not promote “sustainability,” as most conceive of it, but instead utilize the same debt imperialism long used by the Anglo-American empire to entrap nations in a new, equally predatory system of global financial governance.

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Western Myanmar as a Genocide Triangle
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

The Triangle:
– Myanmar’s Military-State;
– Separatist Rakhine Nationalists;
– Rohingya Genocide Victims.
– The erasure of a Genocide Convention-protected identity is a crucial part of any genocidal process. The Arakan Army is engaged in this process.

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Why Is Germany Committing Suicide? The Same Reasons that the EU/UK Are Being Deindustrialized
David Chu | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

17 Sep 2022 – Why is Germany committing harakiri (or seppuku)? Because the USA ordered them to do so! Is it to emasculate Europe completely so as to make it completely dependent on the US for both energy and technology? The rest of the world is moving towards BRI and BRICS.

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On the Ongoing Decline and Fall of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a complete configuration, articulated in a statement by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the United States Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing”. In other words, direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.

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Myanmar Spiraling ‘from Bad to Worse, to Horrific’, Human Rights Council Hears
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

21 Sep 2022 – Since the Myanmar military launched its “disastrous” coup last year, UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said today that conditions have worsened, “by any measure”.

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Trauma vs Healing
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022

YES

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A Few for the Road…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022

What do you call a sleeping bull?

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UN International Day of Peace –> 21 September
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022

The UNGA has declared this as a day for strengthening the ideals of peace through 24 hours of nonviolence and cease-fire. But peace is much more than laying down arms [negative peace] as it requires societies where all members feel they can flourish, creating a world in which people are treated equally regardless of their race [positive peace].
2022 Theme: End Racism–Build peace

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IMF Tells Bolivia to Drop Its Successful Economic Model
Kawsachun News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022

16 Sep 2022 – The IMF released a report today on the Bolivian economy in which it recommends adopting drastic neoliberal measures, including; reducing workers’ salaries, cutting public investments, and ending currency controls. These policies have turned Bolivia from one of the poorest countries in the region into it’s fastest-growing economy. 

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Really?
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

How Poignant!

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The Bewildering Vote in Chile That Rejected a New Constitution
Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

On 4 Sep 2022, more than 13 million Chileans voted on a proposal to introduce a new constitution in the country. As it happened, Pinochet’s constitution remains in place with more than 61 percent of voters rejecting the new constitution and only 38 percent of voters approving it.

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(Italiano) Sociocidio, Genocidio, Ecocidio d’Israele in Palestina
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

Sociocidio è un nuovo concetto che non ha ancora trovato il proprio spazio nel diritto internazionale positivo. Genocidio, l’ineffabile crimine di uccisione di massa di membri di un genus, una nazione, per nessun altro motivo che tale loro appartenenza.

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The Meaning of Success
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

One Image Is Worth a Million Moral, Philosophical, or Psychological Studies or Treatises

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The Hundred Year War on Palestine
Jim Miles | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

Rashid Khalidi’s book is an interesting well written overview of the Zionist colonial-settler enterprise in Palestine. How the creation of Israel fits into the colonial-settler mindset that established the current Five Eyes scenario of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia within the global influence of the British empire.

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(Norsk-Norwegian) Israels forbrytelser mot Palestina
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022

Samfunnsdrap er villet lemlestelse – drap av et samfunn ved å eliminere forutsetningene for et levende, levende, dynamisk samfunn.

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The Usual Suspects
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022

Take your pick.

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Believe! You Can!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022

Dare to Risk

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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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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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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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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.

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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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Nelson Mandela at the United Nations
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

18 July 2022 – UN Nelson Mandela International Day

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Israel’s Sociocide, Genocide, Ecocide in Palestine
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

Sociocide is the killing of a society’s capacity to survive, to reproduce itself, should become equally prominent a crime against humanity. The USA and Israel were born the same way, as God’s chosen people with promised lands, using sociocide and genocide. With no policy change they may also decline and fall the same way. Even soon.

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For Those about to Rock, NAM 2.0 Salutes You
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

22 Jul 2022 – Those were the days, in 1955, at the legendary Indonesia conference when the Global South started dreaming of building a new world via the Non-Aligned Movement. NAM 2.0 drive – of which China is a key player – stands in stark opposition to how the Empire of Chaos wove its toxic net since the start of the millennium.

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Droupadi Murmu Is the New President of India
Ajay Ghosh | UNN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

Mrs. Droupadi Murmu, a 64-year-old tribal politician and former teacher from the Orissa state, was sworn in as the 10th successive president of the Republic of India on 22 July 2022 in New Delhi becoming the constitutional head of India.

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Focus
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

Your choice…

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Mozart Concerto No 3 (Music Video of the Week)
Elisey Mysin | Young Talent Great Genius – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022

Elisey Mysin is a child prodigy born in Stavropol, Russia. In 2022 he celebrates his 12th birthday.

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People — Able Bodied and with Disabilities
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia (Retired from Delhi University) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022

Stephen Hawking was born normal bodied. But at the age of 21, he was diagnosed with a neuronal disease that resulted in him being confined to a wheelchair for his remaining life. However, this did not affect his genius in working on different aspects of physics — he was known as another Albert Einstein for his brilliance.

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Dag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 Apr 1953 to 18 Sep 1961 when he died in a plane crash in the Congo. He was born on 29 July 1905 in Jonkoping, Sweden. An authority on literature whose translations of poetry were widely admired, Dag’s journal of personal and spiritual reflections was published posthumously as Markings in 1963.

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On Growth
Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022

YES!

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Hardships…
Unknown Author – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022

… for Success

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(Italiano) Medio Oriente e giornalismo mancante su conflitto e pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2022

8 Luglio 2022 – Due immagini di affari internazionali, affari umani a dire il vero, due discorsi: l’approccio securitario e l’approccio pacifista; che competono per la nostra attenzione trattando la stessa preoccupazione per la violenza ma in modo diametralmente opposto.

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Facing the Storm
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2022

Hope

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Key Takeaways from BRICS Summit
Orinoco Tribune | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2022

29 Jun 2022 – Last week the 14th BRICS Summit took place virtually, chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The BRICS bloc (Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) represents a key political, economic, and scientific force in the international arena. These nations represent half of the world’s population and their collective GDP is greater that $20 trillion.

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US Supreme Court Ruling on Environmental Protection ‘a Setback in Our Fight against Climate Change’
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2022

30 Jun 2022 – The ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court against the Environmental Protection Agency today is “a setback in our fight against climate change,” said the UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric.

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Arundhati Roy: ‘The Damage to Indian Democracy Is Not Reversible’
Arundhati Roy interviewed by CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2022

22 Jun 2022 – Roy says Indian politics has something in common with the US Capitol riots, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is stoking hatred, and talks about who the real power in India lies with.

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The Haitian Revolution Today and the Limits of Token Solidarity
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2022

 “Solidarity in the fight for social justice must be international. It’s not acceptable to be in solidarity with the Venezuelan people, but not in solidarity with the Haitian people; it’s not acceptable to be for Iraq, but against Haiti.”

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The Missing Journalism on Conflict and Peace–and the Middle East
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2022

Two images of international affairs, or human affairs for that matter, two discourses: the security approach and the peace approach.  They compete for our attention and address the same concern with violence but are diametrically opposed.

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Helen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jun 2022

American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.

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The Wide Role Brazil’s Military Has Played in the Destruction of the Amazon
Pedro Marin | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jun 2022

23 Jun 2022 – In the Brazilian Amazon, as deforestation reaches record levels and rivers are increasingly polluted, the illegal gold mining contributing to these problems continues largely unabated. The response of the government has been to increase military action to curb environmental crimes in Brazil. Far from achieving this purpose, however, the military intervention has only led to tragedies in the region, directly or indirectly.

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India Is Becoming a Hindu-Fascist Enterprise
Arundhati Roy | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

17 Jun 2022 – The practice of bulldozing Muslim homes and businesses for purely punitive reasons is proof that India is ‘transitioning pretty brazenly into a criminal Hindu fascist enterprise.’

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US Department of Defense Finally Admits in Public Document that There Are 46 US Military-Funded Biolabs in Ukraine
Jim Hoft | Gateway Pundit – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

The Pentagon on Thursday [9 Jun] finally admitted in a public statement that there are 46 US-funded biolabs in Ukraine. This is after months of lies and denials by Democrats, Biden, and their fake news mainstream media!

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UK’s Bid to Export Some Refugees to Rwanda, ‘All Wrong’, Says UN Refugee Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

13 Jun 2022 – UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, today dismissed the British government’s proposal to process United Kingdom-bound asylum seekers in Rwanda, describing the offshore deal between the two countries announced in April, as “all wrong”.

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New Bill That Passed U.S. House Reinvokes Old Russian Bogeyman as Pretext for More Intervention in Africa
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

14 Jun 2022 – Liberal Democrats shamefully all voted for the “Countering Malign Russian Influence Activities in Africa” Act—seems like relic from bygone era.

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Teach Your Children (Music Video of the Week)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

Live – A Classic from 1969

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A Couple for the Road…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

They said, ‘Do what you love and the money will follow.’

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We Need a Culture of Nonviolence
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jun 2022

8 Jun 2022 – The culture of violence is failing us. It’s time to change everything. U.S. society is defined by a culture of violence. This year, Campaign Nonviolence’s Action Days aim to build momentum toward a radical, nonviolent future.

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Most Important
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jun 2022

Pertinent Question –> Perfect Answer

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Kissinger Nails It. For Once.
Michael Whitney | The Unz Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jun 2022

3 Jun 2022 – Kissinger didn’t criticize the way the war in Ukraine is being conducted or the lack of progress on the ground. No. What Kissinger criticized was the policy itself, that’s what triggered the firestorm. He was throwing a bucket of cold water on the people who concocted this loony policy by telling them to their faces that they “got it wrong.”

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Common Security 2022: For Our Shared Future
Olof Palme Center, IPB, and Int'l Trade Union Confederation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jun 2022

The world stands at a crossroads. The choice is between an existence based on competition and aggression or one rooted in peace and common security. Humanity faces the existential threats of nuclear war, climate change and pandemics. How we respond to these threats will define our very survival.

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Italy Drops Last COVID Entry Rules, Ditches Testing and Vaccination Restrictions
Nichola Daunton | Euronews - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jun 2022

1 Jun 2022 – Italy will abolish all entry rules for international travellers from June 1. At present, unvaccinated tourists need to take a test before visiting the country – but this rule expires on May 31. Italy’s Health Ministry have indicated that it “will not be extended,” marking the end of all entry restrictions on travellers.

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Seeing vs Believing
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 May 2022

Ring any bells?

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Extend the Spirit of Partisans to Fight New Fascisms: Homophobia, Discrimination, Exclusion and Racism
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 May 2022

9 May is officially the Europe or Victory Day, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Allies–-USSR, USA, France and UK–-in 1945. For the first time since the ethnic cleanings in 1992-95, Bosnian human rights activists explore the possibility of international solidarity networks, linking their local activism with those from other parts of the world.

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On Being Human
Unknown Author – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2022

Indeed… ?

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The War in Ukraine: A CLA Analysis
Sohail Inayatullah | Proutist Universal – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2022

19 Apr 2022 – Understanding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of Prout using CLA-Causal Layer Analysis, a technique for strategic planning, futures studies and foresight. We analyzed different perspectives on the causes of the war, possible future scenarios, and how to work towards the best possible one.

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Nicaragua Expels the Organization of American States (OAS)
Kawsachun News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

25 Apr 2022 – “We will not have a presence in any of the instances of that diabolical instrument of the misnamed OAS. Its local branch has been closed” reads the communique released by the Foreign Ministry yesterday.

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Democracy in France 2022: Conversation with Sorbonne Constitutional Scholar and Leftist Intellectual Marie Gren
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

29 Apr 2022 – In the fascinating 60-minutes discussion, Professor Gren touched on various aspects of contemporary democracy in France, ranging from the sordid state of the Left and its “caviar socialists” and the increasing acceptability and mainstreaming of Far Right ideologies which Le Pen personifies, to the economic hardships that inflict immense pains on the great majority of the French public.

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Total War… U.S. Capitalism Is Addicted to War… Not Just Against Russia but Against Workers as Well
Finian Cunningham interviews Bruce K. Gagnon | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

28 Apr 2022 – Neo-feudalism is what we are being offered in place of the “American dream”. This is why we are seeing growing efforts of workers to organize unions.

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Myanmar Mothers’ Cries Do Not Bode Well for the Nation’s Future
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

19 Apr 2022 – The musician of resistance Mun Awng reminded the viewers, “The revolution must prevail, against all odds.” Tain Sway was seen nodding her head profusely when Mun Awng spelled out the pervasive sentiment – that “it is better to die fighting for the cause than living under the boot, again”.

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Why War?
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, 1932

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Civilization Progress
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Right!!

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Wisdom of the Day
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Indeed

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The New Capitalist Gold Rush
William Hartung and Julia Gledhill | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

17 Apr 2022 – How Pentagon Contractors Are Cashing in on the Ukraine Crisis

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“Conflicts Should Be Resolved through Negotiations, Not War”
Reiner Braun | IPB, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

7 Apr 2022 – Interview by Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau, by email, with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliakhenko, peace activists from Russia and Ukraine respectively.

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My First Aid Kit: Turmeric
Horacio Mesón | REHUNO - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

10 Apr 2022 – Our healers, our shamans and witches, our “curanderos” used these medicines for millennia and today science is beginning to vindicate them through the force of reason and a return to the origins, the path of the heart. Originally from India and Southeast Asia, the use of turmeric dates back more than 4,000 years.

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Stressing the Obvious
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Apr 2022

Reacting to Life

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The Comedian
Unknown author – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2022

Tragicomedy?

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Stepping up
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Mar 2022

Indeed…

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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine through My Burmese Eyes
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Mar 2022

13 Mar 2022 – None of the leading liberal democracies of the West really honours the principles they loudly espouse such as nonviolence, popular and state sovereignty, human rights, or democracy, nor do they support democratic resistance, armed or nonviolent, unless such support serves their hidden interests, whether commercial or geostrategic.

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The Situation in Russia and Ukraine – Why Is Ukraine the West’s Fault?
Prof. John Mearsheimer | King’s Politics/The University of Chicago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Feb 2022

John J. Mearsheimer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. In 2020 he won the James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.”

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Coping with the Dark Side
Carl Jung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Feb 2022

Us & Them

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Fake News Warfare in Ukraine Conflict
José Manuel Blanco Díaz | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Feb 2022

27 Feb 2022 – The ongoing geopolitical and military conflict situation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine is being used for fake news production by Western press and social media platforms, as is becoming evident.

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Patience
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Feb 2022

Yes!

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Artificial ‘Intelligence’
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Feb 2022

Sorry? Really?

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Justice 2022
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2022

More to the point…

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Genocide: Why We Let It Happen
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2022

5 Feb 2022 – As a detour, judicial demand for PROOF, beyond reasonable doubt, THE INTENT is one of the stupidest anti-THOUGHT and anti-INTELLECTUAL elements in the rich collection of legal and other literature. This question is raised – and answered – typically by lawyers and legally minded individuals. 

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You’re Beautiful (Music Video of the Week)
James Blunt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2022

(Official 2004 Music Video) Click on Watch on YouTube – Enjoy!

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ICJ Must Not Allow Myanmar’s Coup Regime to Leverage Genocide Hearings as a Source of Legitimacy
Maung Zarni | Anadolu News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2022

20 Jan 2022 – Court’s failure to deal head-on with highly contested issue of legitimacy of regime will hamper efforts of other int’l state actors to deny mass-murderous military international acceptance, legitimacy.

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Reward
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2022

Good Old Capitalism…

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How Nonviolent Action Is Protecting the Earth
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2022

18 Jan 2022 – Nonviolence toward the Earth is neither a lofty dream nor a utopian vision. It is practical, necessary and our only choice.

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The Rule of Law Must Finally Evolve into the Rule of Justice
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jan 2022

14 Jan 2022 – Many politicians, academics, media pundits are wont of invoking the “rule of law”, a “rules-based international order”, “values diplomacy,” etc.  But what do all these benevolent-sounding slogans actually mean in practice?  Who makes the rules, who interprets them, who enforces them?  What transparency and accountability accompany these noble pledges?

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Glenn D. Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Giant for Peace Leaves Behind an Indelible Mark – In Memoriam
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jan 2022

His transformation from praising a killing society, USA, in the Korean War to invoking a non-killing society did not come easily. To revoke his own book on the Korea War decision, and the prize received for that book, has few equals.

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Peace and Justice Organizations Call for Freedom for Julian Assange
UNAC - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jan 2022

14 Jan 2022 – Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder, journalist and free speech champion Julian Assange today faces life imprisonment for telling the truth about U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and at the U.S. torture base in Guantanamo Bay. Assange faces charges under the 1917 U.S. Espionage Act.

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What Does the Statement of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War Tell Us?
Kim Petersen | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jan 2022

5 Jan 2022 – The Doomsday Clock has been sitting at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to civilization-ending apocalypse. Will the first-ever Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races help to put a damper on any potential conflagration? An analysis of the statement seems called for.

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Warnings from the Far North
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jan 2022

27 Dec 2021 – It’s never been more urgent and timely for the world to change its ways and abandon the current economic maelstrom that haunts all life on the planet. The pros and cons of capitalism’s experiment with neoliberal tendencies that enrich the few and bury the many should be debated in the context of strained resources throughout the biosphere, including all life forms.

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Fully Vaccinated Individuals at Risk for COVID Infection with Omicron Variant – Columbia Study
Columbia University Irving Medical Center – SciTechDaily – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Dec 2021

24 Dec 2021 – Results suggest that previously infected individuals and fully vaccinated individuals are at risk for infection with the omicron variant, and omicron is completely resistant to all antibodies in clinical use today.

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Patterns
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Dec 2021

Paradigm Change

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Breaking Down the State
James M. Jasper, Clifford Bob and Jack Goldstone | Amsterdam University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Dec 2021

This text concentrates on interactions between protestors and the various players who comprise the state, from courts to police, legislators to bureaucrats. Again, some remarkable contributors are helping to develop a new language for describing political interaction.

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A Myanmar’s Military That Burns Civilians Alive Ought to Be Designated as Terrorist
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2021

9 Dec 2021 – While governments and human rights organizations were occupied with the farce of the coup junta’s trial of Aung San Suu Kyi and the expected guilty verdict on 6 December 2021, the junta’s back-to-back acts of terrorism have not been reported in the ways they deserve nor have they received worldwide scrutiny and condemnation.

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Necessary Struggle
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Indeed

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The Dreaded Rainforest Shift
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Nov 2021

23 Nov 2021 – Major portions of the Amazon rainforest have shifted from a carbon sink to a carbon source. This shift has severe planet-wide negative implications.

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Appearances
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Nov 2021

Deceitful

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Fauci as Darth Vader of the Covid Wars
Pepe Escobar | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Nov 2021

25 Nov 2021 – A rollicking review of RF Kennedy Jr’s, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

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Why Are Moderna’s Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture?
Sam Pizzigati | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Nov 2021

5 Nov 2021 – Moderna now has four of its top players on the Forbes list of America’s 400 richest. In early 2020, it had none. The quartet owes its current good fortune completely to the company’s Covid-19 vaccine. And who made that vaccine possible?

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Nov 2021

At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.

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UN-Backed Banker Alliance Announces “Green” Plan to Transform the Global Financial System
Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Nov 2021

5 Nov 2021 – The most powerful private financial interests in the world, under the cover of COP26, have developed a plan to transform the global financial system by fusing with institutions like the World Bank and using them to further erode national sovereignty in the developing world.

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