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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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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.
→ read full articlePatience
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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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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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.
→ read full articleNecessary 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.
→ read full articleAppearances
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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India: Let Us Learn from Our Farmers!!
Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
20 Nov 2021 – The journey of the farmers is still not over! But they definitely know the way, show the way and go the way for the future of India! Let us have the openness, the humility and the courage to learn from them! Thanks to their relentless struggle and their great sacrifices, for all of us – the three anti-farmer laws have finally been repealed. For more than a year now – with blood, sweat, toil and tears, their protest has continued unceasingly. BRAVO!!
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Socio-Political Philosophy of M. K. Gandhi: An Analysis
Dr. Tarun Gogoi | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
M. K. Gandhi was a prominent figure in the realm of peace and humanism. He played a noteworthy role in the movement of peace and freedom. He bestowed a lot of ideas relating to socio-political dimension. Gandhi ” s ideas are basically philosophical in nature as he was inspired by various great philosophers of the world.
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Mother Nature, Inc.
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021 – Wall Street investors have hit the jackpot. Soon they’ll be able to buy, own, and dictate The Commons, public lands, the world of Mother Nature. In fact, a pilot project is already in the works with ecosystems up for sale…
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(Italiano) Antisemitismo arma politica controproducente
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
Non solo questo, sta producendo altri sentimenti anti-ebraici e antisraeliani, andando in cerca di antisemitismo [altrui] come [propria] legittimazione anche dove non ce n’è. Io, per esempio, sono un ricercatore di pace profondamente interessato a evitare genocidi come la shoah, a realizzare i sogni sionisti di un Israele con un carattere ebraico, e a lottare contro l’antisemitismo.
→ read full article“Anti-Semitism” as Political Weapon Is Now Backfiring
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
Not only that, it is producing more anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment; in search of anti-Semitism as legitimation also where there is none. I, for instance, am a peace researcher deeply concerned with avoiding genocides like the shoa, realizing Zionist dreams of Israel with a Jewish character, and fighting anti-Semitism.
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Alex Saab’s Statement before Being Extracted from Cape Verde by United States Regime (Letter)
Ambassador Alex Nain Saab Moran | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
This letter was read—with tears in her eyes—by Camila Fabri, Alex Saab’s wife, during a demonstration in repudiation of the second kidnapping of the Venezuelan diplomat from Cape Verde by the US, held in Caracas’ Plaza Bolívar on 17 Oct 2021, attended by a crowd of indignant Venezuelans.
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After Afghanistan, Time to Review and Reset ASEAN & International Policies towards Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – The vicious dialectic of “failed international policies AND failed Myanmar state”, will need to be placed at the right, left and centre of the new international policy debates on Myanmar. Repeating the same strategy of dangling the sweet discourse of mediation before the intransigent mass-murderous generals of Myanmar without the serious stick of international accountability will simply not do.
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Wall Street’s Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class
Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
13 Oct 2021 – A project of the multilateral development banking system, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that will put, not just the natural world, but the processes underpinning all life, up for sale under the guise of promoting “sustainability.”
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The International Crisis Group Report on Burma/Myanmar–An Analysis
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
22 Oct 2021 – Over the nearly 20 years, I have generally viewed ICG’s reports as little more than polished, but low quality, slanted analyses of Myanmar affairs, and have written extensively and critically on ICG’s policy briefs. However, 20 Oct 2021 ICG policy brief is an empirically grounded prognosis – the Deadly Stalemate in Post-Coup Myanmar.
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Lending Legitimacy to a Murderous Military: What Is in the “Stateless” Label for Rohingyas?
Natalie Brinham and Ali Johar | University of Melbourne - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Oct 2021 – Critiquing the widely accepted understanding of “statelessness” as a rights claim, the authors call our attention to the ways in which labelling the Rohingya ethnic community as stateless undermines belonging and legitimises the power of the Myanmar military to exclude.
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Jesus, Judas and Che Guevara
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Che Guevara, of the Bolivia diaries and the brilliant movie based on them, was assassinated by the CIA on 9 Oct 1967. In an interview in the early 60s he conveyed to this author his disappointment that his respected Fidel privileged Soviet support against a US attack, and the Soviets wanted raw sugar in return for their industrial goods.
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How Big Corporations and Bill Gates Took Over the UN Food Summit
Nils McCune and Camila Escalante | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
24 Sep 2021 – Large corporations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took over the UN Food Systems Summit, abandoning small farmers on behalf of Big Ag companies, endangering food sovereignty.
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The Profits of War: How Corporations Won the War on Terror
William Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented: a staggering $8 trillion. Who has benefited most from such an orgy of military spending has received far less attention, however. -How U.S. Corporations Cashed in on the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge-
→ read full articleThe Fall of the U.S. Empire–And Then What?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system in macro-space and macro-time with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery: economically, exploiters/exploited as inequity; militarily, killers/victims as enforcement; politically, dominators/dominated as repression; culturally, alienators/alienated as conditioning. Empires have different profiles.
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Secretary-General’s Report on “Our Common Agenda”
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
10 Sep 2021 – “Our Common Agenda” report looks ahead to the next 25 years and represents the Secretary-General’s vision on the future of global cooperation and reinvigorating inclusive, networked, and effective multilateralism. The Secretary-General presented his report to the General Assembly in September 2021 before the end of the 75th session of the General Assembly.
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The Other 9/11: Salvador Allende and Chile
Bharat Dogra | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
11 Sep 2021 – On Sep 11 the world rightly pays homage to the victims of the 9/11 attack in the USA. However, on this day we should also remember the even higher number of victims of the US-engineered military coup in Chile on 11 Sep 1973, which also resulted in the tragic death of one of the most sincere and democratic leaders of Latin America—President Salvador Allende.
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song Around The World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
From Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World, featuring Grandpa Elliott with children’s choirs across the globe. In these hard times, children and music bring us hope for a better future. Today we celebrate life and change the world one heart and one song at a time!!
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Costs of War Project – Sep 2021
Watson Institute | Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
• Over 929,000 people died from violence in post-9/11 wars; several times as many from effects of war
• Over 387,000 civilians killed
• 38 million refugees and displaced persons
• US price tag over $8 trillion
• US government leads counterterror in 85 countries
• Wars caused violations of human rights and civil liberties in U.S. and abroad
Don’t Give Up on Your Dreams (Music Video of the Week)
Takako Okamura | high note Music Lounge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Out-of-the-Box from Japan – Enjoy!
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The Media Is Lambasting Biden over Afghanistan. He Should Stand Firm
Bhaskar Sunkara | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
29 Aug 2021 – The president was right to withdraw the US from Afghanistan – and he’s being skewered for it. Joe Biden did something good – and the media want to kill him for it. He should embrace their scorn and defend his actions to the American people.
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Arundhati Roy on America’s Fiery, Brutal Impotence
Arundhati Roy | The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
3 Sep 2021 – The US leaves Afghanistan humiliated, but now faces bigger worries, from social polarisation to environmental collapse. If empires and their outposts need to plunder the Earth to maintain their hegemony, it doesn’t matter if the plundering is driven by American, European, Chinese or Indian capital. These are not really the conversations that we should be having. Because while we’re busy talking, the Earth is busy dying.
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – US Slips out of Kabul but Is Vengeful
→ read full articleUS and UK Usurp Rohingya Voices while (Miss)Framing Myanmar Genocide as “Ethnic Cleansing,” Slobodan Milošević’s Euphemism
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
28 Aug 2021 – It’s one thing for the United States and its British poodle to abandon dissidents worldwide during their hours of needs, yet it is a moral low for the British and American officials and leaders to coordinate acts of genocidal denial as they have done with their official statements on the 4th anniversary of “Ethnic Cleansing” in Rakhine State.
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United (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song Around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
We traveled across the globe, put headphones on musicians, added them to the track, and created “United,” which serves as a tangible example of something positive we can all do together as a human race.
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James Blunt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
(Please Click on WATCH ON YOUTUBE)
→ read full articleQuick Quiz
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Find the ass.
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Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” about Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
India McKinney and Erica Portnoy | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage and messaging systems. Apple’s compromise on end-to-end encryption may appease government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, but it is a shocking about-face for users who have relied on the company’s leadership in privacy and security.
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Transnational Activism vs White Saviourism in Myanmar Affairs
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – As a Burmese who has been angry – very angry – for decades over numerous forms and countless instances of oppression and injustices in Myanmar, and emphatically, around the world, I am less concerned about the morally corrupt desire of revenge and vengeance of the oppressed towards their oppressor or the System than the enveloping White Saviourism with its corrupting coloniality.
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(Italiano) ONU: Due imperi in crollo – e poi?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Agosto 2021 – Washington: C’è Storia nel voto ONU del 29 novembre 2012: 138 SI’ per dare alla Palestina lo status di “stato osservatore non-membro” ONU, solo 9 NO, e 41 astensioni.
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What the West Must Learn from China
Marshall Auerback | UnHerd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
10 Aug 2021 – The Chinese government has made an existential choice: rather than surviving by betting on the markets, it is going to produce stuff instead. Unlike America’s Federal Reserve, whose increasing tolerance and support of financial bubbles continues to engender profound systemic fragility in the American economy, Beijing is prioritising social cohesion above the narrow interests of financial rentiers.
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If You Build It, They Will Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship around the World
Kurt Opsahl | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted messages. It has created an infrastructure that is all too easy to redirect to greater surveillance and censorship. Apple has paved the road to mandated security weakness around the world, enabling and reinforcing the arguments that, should the intentions be good enough, scanning through your personal life and private communications is acceptable.
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Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence
Henry A. Giroux | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
On 6 Aug 1945, the US unleashed an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 140,000 people and destroying 70% of the city instantly. On 9 Aug, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimated 70,000 people. The Japanese government stated that the death toll was much higher: close to a half million. The incineration of mostly innocent civilians was buried in official government pronouncements about the victory of the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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A Shocking List of 52 Zionist Israel-Nazi Germany Comparisons
Gideon Polya | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
7 Aug 2021 – The cruel and genocidal oppression of the Indigenous Palestinians by nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel invites comparison with the cruelties of Nazi Germany.
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“Tell me how you behave in any given conflict; I will tell you how much peace culture you have.”
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University. He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize. Galtung has mediated in over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues, 96 as the sole author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages, including 50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives published by TRANSCEND University Press. His book, Transcend and Transform, was translated to 25 languages. He has published more than 1700 articles and book chapters and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service. More information about Prof. Galtung and all of his publications can be found at transcend.org/galtung.
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(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: come appare la pace
Prof. Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Ma il peacebuilding non è sufficiente; abbiamo bisogno pure del peacemaking – una soluzione politica – e il peacekeeping. E qui entra in ballo l’EU: non solo come mediatrice, ma come modello, che sistema brillantemente una Germania che si era resa molo difficile da digerire dai paesi circostanti. Ieri. Come Israele, oggi.
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UN: Two Empires Crumbling–and Then What?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
The USA is out of touch. Stop droning, killing; make a beautiful North America with Mexico and Canada. Add it all up: the fall of the US empire is on track. How about Israel? Heading for a cliff of its own making: suicide. Israel is out of touch. A regime change from within is needed.
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Dag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
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.
→ read full articleThree for the Road
CountryLiving – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
Why do fathers take an extra pair of socks when they go golfing?
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Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
But peacebuilding is not sufficient; we need also peacemaking–a political solution–and peacekeeping. And here the EU enters: not only as a mediator, but as model, brilliantly accommodating a Germany that had made itself very difficult to digest by surrounding countries. Yesterday. Like Israel. Today.
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Myanmar Coup Regime’s Handling of COVID-19: Is It Genocidal?
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – It is conceivable that the Myanmar terrorist regime of the SAC may be genocidally minded in its approach in tackling COVID-19 within the military and its sub-social system, while deliberately putting at risk the lives of millions of anti-military Burmese of all ethnic and religious backgrounds.
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Clash of Paradigms: The Threat to Our Food Supply
Stephanie Hiller | Sonoma Sun - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021 – Klaus Schwab, founder and director of the World Economic Forum, sees “the opportunity” to make fundamental change. He uses a lot of familiar green-worthy terms in his book, ‘Covid-19: The Great Reset’: “interdependence”, “equity”, “sustainable.” But even with the resonant language, this is not the systems change ecologists and progressives have been talking about.
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The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – Today, the people of Haiti are facing down the US-backed dictatorship of the ruling Haitian Tet Kale Party (PHTK) that came to power through the fraudulent election of Michel Martelly in 2010 and maintained its grip on power through the fraudulent election of Jovenel Moise in 2016, what Haitian activists refer to as electoral coup d’etats.
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Key Witness Admits Lying about Julian Assange–a Major Blow to U.S. Extradition Case–yet Western Media Ignores This Development
Ron Ridenour | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE,
12 Jul 2021
3 Jul 2021 – Former WikiLeaks volunteer, who became an FBI informant for $5,000, says he fabricated important parts of the accusations in the U.S. indictment.
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Settlers, Not Immigrants
Haunani-Kay Trask – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Settlers, not immigrants,
from America, from Asia.
Come to settle, to take.
To take from the Native
that which is Native:
Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates’ Book Is Rubbish!
Russell Brand | Under the Skin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
I spoke with Indian scholar, food sovereignty advocate and environmental activist #VandanaShiva. She speaks about #BillGates’ book and the colonisation of land and food production. However, she provides us with hopeful and powerful words of advice that might help us challenge these Tech Giants and monopolies.
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The Chinese Miracle, Revisited
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Chinese Communist Party’s centennial takes place on 1 July at the heart of an incandescent geopolitical equation. China, the emerging superpower, is back to the global prominence it enjoyed throughout centuries of recorded history, while the declining Hegemon is paralyzed by the “existential challenge” posed to its fleeting, unilateral dominance.
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Myanmar’s Twin Curse of Murderous Military and Cultist Opposition
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – The last few days saw heated debates and name-calling between national minority activists who are completely fed up with the ethnic majoritarian colonial mentality, and the political practices of majoritarian democrats who treat Aung San Suu Kyi’s words like Holy Scripture. This is her lasting gift to Myanmar and her dark legacy from which society will reel for decades.
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It’s Apartheid, Say Israeli Ambassadors to South Africa
Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel | GroundUp - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
8 Jun 2021 – During our careers in the foreign service, we both served as Israel’s ambassador to South Africa. In this position, we learned firsthand about the reality of apartheid and the horrors it inflicted. But more than that – the experience and understanding we gained in South Africa helped us to understand the reality at home.
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Myanmar Anti-Coup Opposition’s Happy Birthday Parties for Aung San Suu Kyi Do Not Augur Well for the Country’s Future
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – The mass hysteria around Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday is the clearest indication of deeply entrenched cultist neo-totalitarian thoughts, mental habits and political behaviour among Ms Suu Kyi’s populist base. It confirms how indifferent this base is to the democratic ethos, international law, and normative principles of human rights.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Trade Mark
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Key Witness in Assange Case Admits to Lies in Indictment
Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson and Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson | Stundin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
26 Jun 2021 – A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.
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NATO Declares China as Global Security Challenge
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
The NATO summit in Brussels on 14 Jun 2021 reminds us of what a hoax the USA had perpetrated on the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 by assuring him that the western alliance would expand “not one inch eastward” once Moscow allowed German Unification and disbanded the Warsaw Pact.
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Helen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
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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Chan Chan (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Buena Vista Social Club Project – The Best of Traditional Cuba to the World
*Click on Watch on YouTube*
Activism for Life: “Wake Up, the World Is Dying!”
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Do Something about It! ACTIVISM FOR LIFE is published by Luath Press Ltd., and is available from a number of booksellers. All royalties will go to Trident Ploughshares, a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a nonviolent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.
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Burma: Engaging with State Power without Losing Principles or Head (Part 3)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – Those of us Burmese who have made overthrowing our country’s well-entrenched military dictatorship, our business – or Doe-Ayay, as we say in Burma in specific reference to protests against any Oppressive Order – do not look to the UN or the EU, let alone ASEAN, for help.
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Burma: Engaging with State Power without Losing Principles or Head (Part 1)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – The Burmese military regime remained, as intransigent towards any compromise with the democratic opposition, as it was repressive, towards Burmese dissidents.
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Burma: Engaging with State Power without Losing Principles or Head (Part 2)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
11 Jun 2021 – In those years, the Burma policy world was caught in the emerging Orwellian duality of ‘Sanctions Bad, Engagement Good’ of international debates which took place with respective proponents talking past one another, pursuing their own concealed interests.
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