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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version – 1970
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Rebuilding Life after Partition — Vinni School
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The partitioning 1947 of India into two countries — India and Pakistan was a momentous event. People who are still alive relate the horrors, tragedies, anxieties, loss of jobs, loss of homes and one’s belongings.
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Preparing for a Dictator Down Under?
Brian Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – Australia has a stable, prosperous democracy. There are no looming external threats and no violent opposition movements. Yet, in the past two decades Australian governments have passed numerous laws giving police and security agencies ever more powers for surveillance and repression.
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Lives in the Middle Ages
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents many aspects of culture in the Middle Ages. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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The Amazon, Undone: Death in the Forest
Terrence McCoy | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – The groups, which dominate this stretch of the forest, had unleashed a wave of fire and destruction that was transforming much of southern Amazonas state into smoldering pastureland. The way they solve problems is with violence.
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Say Hello to Russian Gold and Chinese Petroyuan
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed. The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions.
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(Italiano) Si può fare la pace con le armi?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Nei giorni scorsi sono comparsi diversi articoli di autorevoli intellettuali quali Vito Mancuso su «LaStampa»o di politici impegnati come Luigi Manconi su «La Repubblica», in difesa della scelta etica dell’invio di armi all’Ucraina.
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On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – To grasp this possibility within the context of Ukraine, we need to put aside all talk of morality, rights, international law, and think in terms of great power politics. When a great power feels its existence is threatened, might makes right. You simply can’t understand world politics without thinking at this level. It is a means of clarifying the causes of wars.
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Russia-Ukraine: Western Media Are Acting as Cheerleaders for War
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – Journalists are cheering on the arming of militias and civilians making improvised explosives – acts they usually treat as terrorism. It’s suddenly sexy to make IEDs – at least, if the media consider you white, European and “civilised“.
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Unique Resource on the Russia/Ukraine Conflict 2022
Rachael Mellor | Better World Info - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Mar 2022 – Better World Info provides a unique peace perspective on the current developments. At over 4,000 links, and growing daily, they feature the conflict from a Western/NATO perspective, Russian perspective, and independent viewpoints.
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Noam Chomsky on Hope and the Barcelona World Conference
Noam Chomsky | IPB International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Second IPB World Peace Congress: Campaign for Peace, Disarmament & Common Security Apr 2021
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A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War
Greg Mello | Los Alamos Study Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires security for others, says the Los Alamos Study Group.
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Nation-States Are Destroying the World – Could ‘Bioregions’ Be the Answer?
Shrishtee Bajpai, Juan Manuel Crespo and Ashish Kothari | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – From the border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are seeking new ways to organise societies that respect humans and nature.
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Ukraine, It Was All Written in the Rand Corp Plan
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – How to Destroy Russia–2019 Rand Corporation Report: “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia.” Rand is “a global research organization developing solutions to [USA] policy challenges”: it has an army of 1,800 researchers from 50 countries, speaking 75 languages in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Persian Gulf: more than 25 countries.
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Business as Usual in Munich: White Men Rule the World
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – A photograph from a CEO lunch at this year’s Munich Security Conference yet again demonstrated who continues to run the world.
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Stop the Ukraine War — Now!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
11 Mar 2022 – The war in Ukraine can and must be stopped now, before any more Ukrainians or Russians are killed and maimed, by declaring a ceasefire and then negotiating a peace. A decisive victory or defeat for either party is highly unlikely. Now – right now! — is the time for a ceasefire. There simply is no alternative to a negotiated peace.
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California Dreamin’ (Music Video of the Week)
The Mamas & The Papas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
California Dreamin’s best-known version is by The Mamas and the Papas, who released it as a single in 1965. The song is No. 89 in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It express the narrator’s longing for the warmth of Los Angeles during a cold winter in New York City.
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Orwell Was Right
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
13 Mar 2022 – From free speech to “spheres of influence” to our passion for endless war, we’ve become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has “Biological Research Facilities,” Worried Russia May Seize Them
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – The neocon’s confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.
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Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – Dividing the world into worthy and unworthy victims is a tactic used to justify our crimes and demonize our enemies. Conflicts will not be solved until all nations abide by international law and all victims are deemed worthy.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
In addition to illegally invading Ukraine, Russian leaders have put their nuclear forces on high alert, thus illegally threatening nuclear war. This recent crisis emphasizes the urgent need for the world to somehow rid itself of nuclear weapons before human civilization is destroyed by them, together with much of the biosphere.
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Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – From Sep-Nov 2021, overlapping with the UN Climate Change Conference, three major developments in global finance marked a turning point in the financial expropriation of the earth and a shift in the economic paradigm to unlimited accumulation of total capital, which is now seen as including “natural capital.”
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Covid Vaccine Injuries: The German Pathologists’ Findings
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022 – A group of German pathologists have studied tissue samples of people who died after Covid vaccination. They presented their preliminary results at three press conferences. Using state-of-the-art immunohistological technology, they detected vaccine-induced spike protein in the endothelium of blood vessels up to at least four months after vaccination.
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Ruling Out Social Democracy as an Option and a Way to Rule It Back In
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – A decisive misunderstanding prolonging today´s mega crisis is the lingering belief that social democracy, as it existed in Europe during the thirty glorious years after World War II, and in a different form in the USA during the four terms of Franklin Roosevelt´s presidency, is a viable option in today´s world.
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An Interview with Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann, a Short-listed Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Robert Kowalczyk: Not many Germans recently have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Please explain the essence of your thoughts and why they are crucial at this moment in our world’s history.
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Arms Flood into Ukraine as US, NATO Pursue Proxy War over Peace
Kit Klarenberg | The Dissenter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country has been flooded with weapons and military hardware from Europe and North America. The strategy significantly expands the growth prospects for military companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman.
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Putin’s Criminal Invasion of Ukraine Highlights Some Ugly Truths about U.S. and NATO
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – The fact that Putin is trying to justify the unjustifiable in Ukraine does not mean we must ignore the U.S. actions that fuel his narrative.
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Life Goes on, Right?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – I had a breakthrough yesterday — and I don’t mean metaphorically. Wars rage, countless humans suffer, the rich get richer, life goes on. I still have my morning coffee. But not yesterday.
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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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COVID World Data -Total: 458,5M -Dead: 6M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
On 14 Mar 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 458,582,742
Deaths: 6,066,254
Active: 60,684,497
Recovered: 391,834,920
Cases Closed: 397,901,174
Total Vaccinated: 4,999,997,559
Owning the Libs
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Current Affairs…
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The Ukraine War: A Geopolitical Perspective
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Talk on 9 Mar 2022 at the Global Studies Colloquium, UCSB. When we agreed on a theme for my presentation, we were in a pre-Ukraine world. Interim developments: the imprudent US-led provocations, Russian aggression against a sovereign state of over 44 million people, the confrontational Western sanctions, and a surging Russophobia produced a win/lose calculus rather than partial win/win political outcomes.
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Homage to Women
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
For Women’s Day – 8 Mar 2022 –
A feminine force so mighty and monumental
Yet so delicate, almost ornamental!
(Italiano) Da Gaia a Tecno-Gaia… e poi?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
“Voglio finire presto, perché ho bisogno di staccare la mente e di immergermi nella consapevolezza gloriosa e sensuale delle connessioni tra la grande atmosfera, i germogli primaverili, la profondità del tempo dell’evoluzione e il mio umile respiro. Inspiro. Espiro…
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The Root Problem Is War–Not Putin
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
War is a highly contagious disease, spreading germs the way a common cold causes its human host to sneeze. Among the many war germs are hatred, fear, dehumanization, tribalism, glorification of violence, and legitimization of murder. Without sufficient therapy, each war leads to the next.
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U.S. and NATO’s Unprecedented Weapons Transfers to Ukraine Could Prolong the War
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – The USA, world’s largest arms dealer, is leading an effort to dramatically increase the flow of weapons to the government in Kyiv. The weapons transfers represent a significant escalation of Western involvement and nations must ask themselves whether it is more or less likely to help end the horrifying violence being imposed on Ukraine’s civilian population.
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Extremely Important Statements by Putin (MUST SEE!)
Andrei | The Saker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – This is such an important statement that I am also posting the transcript below. In this exchange, Putin spells out in quite some details WHAT Russia is doing and WHY she is doing it. — Andrei
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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Understanding the War in Ukraine
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – The United States wants “to organize chaos between Russia and the Europeans.” Peace in Ukraine “is a matter of reconciliation between NATO and the new global powers, Russia and China.”
→ read full articleWorld Problems — Social Structure
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
There are countless conflicts, disagreements, problems in the world today. To add to the existing ones, new problems or conflicts are coming up on almost a daily basis.
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It’s Time to Ask: What Would a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Look Like?
Anatol Lieven | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The West is morally right to oppose the illegal Russian war and to impose severe sanctions on Russia, but would be morally wrong to oppose an agreement to end the invasion and spare the people of Ukraine terrible suffering. America’s own record over the past generation gives no basis for such self-righteous hyper-legalism.
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How U.S. Has Empowered and Armed Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – Exploring the troubling and dangerous U.S. relationship with the Azov Battalion and other neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in Ukraine.
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Virology of Ideas and Colonialism
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022 – This brilliant talk by a Nobel Prize Winner George Smith on “The Virology of Ideas — An Indispensable Pandemic” calls us to a higher level of (re)thinking our world.
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Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Annihilation of the Kingdom of Benin and Pillaging of the Royal Palace by British Soldiers (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022 – A frenzied and savage mob of 1200 British soldiers, empowered and fired up with a singular aim of revenge “against the barbarous savages”, landed on the serene coast line of Nigeria, on 09th February 1897. This was the beginning of a massive attack on and the ruthless invasion of the Kingdom of Benin.
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Some Lives Are More Valuable Than Others
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – According to Western Media’s Coverage of the Ukraine War
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How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
“To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.”
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Richard Falk on Peace, War, and the Life of a Citizen Pilgrim
David Swanson | Talk World Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
11 May 2021 – Richard Falk is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University London. Since 2009 he has been annually nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. His political memoir, Public Intellectual: Life of a Citizen Pilgrim was published by Clarity Press in Feb 2021.
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Follow the Money: US Sanctions–Will Russia Be Able to Bypass Western Economic Warfare?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide.
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Vandana Shiva on the Dangers of Philanthrocapitalism
Vandana Shiva | Nonviolence Radio Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Physicist, ecologist and prolific author Vandana Shiva discusses her new book, “Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy,“ which identifies a new form of colonialism turning us away from each other and the Earth.
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Severing the Russian Hemisphere as Problematic Global Lobotomy?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – Engendering a Transformative Dynamic through the Potential of Meta-Discourse – 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.
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A Guide for Peace in Ukraine: A Humanist and Nonviolent Proposal from Portugal
Redação Portugal | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions”, the Portuguese branch of the World Centre for Humanist Studies, an organism of the Humanist Movement, is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it.
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Searching My Roots in Ukraine: What I Learned and Re-learned in Kiev
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
76 years after August, 1945, we have not eliminated the threat of nuclear war! Nearly 8 billion of us better connected than ever, sharing a shrinking planet–beautiful, fragile and endangered. Who is in control? How do we deem ourselves ‘free and independent’ when we have surrendered autonomy and agency?
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Ukrainian Refugees to Portugal Will Have Over 11,500 Jobs to Choose from
Natasha Donn | Portugal Resident - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – As the government announced earlier this week, bureaucratic details like temporary residence authorisation/social security, fiscal and SNS State health Service numbers, will all be fast-tracked to make this transition for new arrivals as simple as possible.
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Despite Government Crackdown, Russians Continue to Protest the War
Culture of Peace News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
6 Mar 2022 – CPNN has published several articles recently about Russian opposition to the war, including open letters from scientists, from cultural figures, and from the “Congress of Intelligentsia.” Opposition continues to grow despite draconian, even ridiculous, measures by the Russian government to stifle protest.
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Ulysses’ Final Journey
Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Penelope dead, my son in mourning,
I took a skiff along the craggy shores
I had no thirst for the world of men
The Frailty of Peace in the Midst of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Prior to any analysis of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, prior to the casting of blame and outrage — at Putin’s hubris, at NATO’s pernicious eastward expansion over the last three decades — there’s this:
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Ukraine: A Conflict Soaked in Contradictions and New Patterns in War and Media
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – The world has become used to military interventions by the United States. This is, however, not a U.S. intervention. That in itself is a surprise—one that has befuddled reporters and pundits alike. It is valuable to step back and look at how the rest of the world may perceive this conflict, starting with the West’s ethnocentric interests.
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Ukraine: How Close Was the Nuclear Plant Attack to Catastrophe?
Esme Stallard and Victoria Gill | BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – Buildings at the Zaporizhzhia plant–the largest in Europe–were damaged after it was hit by shelling. UN’s nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency says that none of the safety systems at the plant were affected, and there was no release of radioactive material.
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Ukraine, Russia and the West to Rethink Dialogue for Peace, Not War
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
In an age of Reason, the cause of humanity calls for peace, freedom and respect for human dignity… Isn’t true that intelligent leaders and people always readily accept reasoned advice?
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How the U.S. Started a Cold War with Russia and Left Ukraine to Fight It
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – How the US reignited its Cold War with Russia and precipitated the crisis that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the catastrophic results of its actions being borne by Ukrainians, not by North Americans.
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The Risk of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine
Bennett Ramberg | Project-Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Of all the obvious dangers that come with war, one of the most far-reaching in the current Russia-Ukraine conflict has been woefully underappreciated. Even if commanders took pains to avoid striking Ukraine’s 15 nuclear power reactors, that might not be enough to avoid a catastrophe.
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Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Long Odysseys of Goddess Annapurna and Treasures of India (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The Ungodly Thievery of Godly Treasures from India
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The Dangerous Assumption That Violence Keeps Us Safe
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
26 Feb 2022 – A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again. One of the most popular — and dangerous — assumptions in the world is that violence keeps us safe.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 446,7M -Dead: 6M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
On 7 Mar 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 446,721,728
Deaths: 6,020,582
Active: 60,831,275
Recovered: 379,869,871
Cases Closed: 385,890,453
Total Vaccinated: 4,976,030,953
So This Is What It Looks Like When the Corporate Media Opposes a War
Jeff Cohen | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Having worked inside mainstream U.S. media during the beginning of the “War on Terror” and run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the differences in today’s war coverage are dizzying to me. Major American media outlets oppose military aggression… unless the United States is doing it.
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Corporations versus Democracy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the ways in which giant corporations control both governments and media, thus undermining democracy. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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Toxic Nostalgia, from Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?
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See Saw
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
21 Feb 2022 – Please clarify…
→ read full articleDoubling Down on Double Standards – The Ukraine Propaganda Blitz
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – What a strange feeling it was to know that the cruise missile shown descending towards an airport and erupting in a ball of flame was NOT fired by US or British forces. This was Russia’s war of aggression, not ‘ours’. This was not an approved orgy of destruction and emphatically not to be celebrated.
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(Français) La Chute de Poutine – Un Déjà-vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
J’ai travaillé par intermittence en Union Soviétique dans les années 1970 et 1980 et j’ai observé le crash de l’Empire Soviétique – de l’intérieur. Il y avait trois causes principales: la perte de valeur du rouble, la perte de la guerre en Afghanistan et la perte de confiance du peuple.
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Now, Perhaps . . .
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
5 Mar 2022 – In this personal response to the invasion of Ukraine, I composed a continuous commentary, unbroken by conventional grammatical punctuations and sentence structure, save a comma, in an effort to stifle and restrain the inequities of division, and instead, to sear minds with a plaintive, mournful, rhythmic statement, sanctioned by shared horror.
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Swami Vivekananda and His Gospel
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Swami Vivekananda travelled all over India and met large number of people especially the poor marginalised sections of society and wondered if there was a God, how could people live in such pitiable conditions. In fact he asked this question about existence of God to several religious people and seers.
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The Curse of NATO
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The war over Ukraine is an example of the curse of NATO. Russia reacted to the possibility of Ukraine being in NATO. This is not irrational in that US/NATO has over 750 military bases around the world, and many of these bases appear to be there to militarily encircle Russia (and China).
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Abolish Violent and Corrupt Police Forces
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
How brutal the police are depends on the country. Some places are worse than others. But data reported by CNN in a June 2020 article shows that cops in my country, the US, are among the worst.
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Tears – Assu Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating and wandering on.
→ read full articleThis War of MMXXII
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
This is war my dear!
Invasion for pure greed and gratification.
What else can this be?
I Want You Back (Music Video of the Week)
The Jackson 5 | The Ed Sullivan Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The Jackson 5 on The Ed Sullivan Show December 14, 1969
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They Are ‘Civilized’ and ‘Look Like Us’: The Racist Coverage of Ukraine
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so.
→ read full articleDoes Gabriel Boric Have the Answer?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Markets command governments more than governments command markets. Governments, whatever their ideology, in practice devote themselves to attracting investment and to discouraging disinvestment. “When investors choose not to invest, policymakers are powerless to force them.”
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Ukraine and the Orwellian “Ministry of Truth”: The Attack Was Launched by NATO Eight Years Ago
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU is banning Sputnik and Russia Today so that “they can no longer spread their lies to justify Putin’s war with their toxic disinformation in Europe”. The EU thus officially establishes the Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Country Health Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Welcome to World Life Expectancy. Find info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated daily. CLICK HERE
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On Humiliation
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Russia’s actions in the Ukraine, to a great extent, are the culmination of the numerous humiliations that the West, under American instigation, has inflicted on Russia’s rulers and the country as a whole over the past 30 years.
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Navigating our Humanity: Ilan Pappé on the Four Lessons from Ukraine
Ilan Pappé | The Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The USA Today reported that a photo that went viral about a high-rise in the Ukraine being hit by Russian bombing turned out to be a high-rise from the Gaza Strip, demolished by the Israeli Air Force in May 2021. Legitimizing internationally the invasion of sovereign countries and licensing the continued colonization and oppression of others, such as Palestine and its people, will lead to more tragedies, such as the Ukrainian one, in the future.
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The Fall of Putin – a Déjà vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Déjà vu. I worked on and off in the Soviet Union during the 1970’s and 1980’s and I watched the crash of the Soviet Empire – from inside. Three main causes: the loss of value of the ruble, the loss of the war in Afghanistan and the loss of confidence of the people.
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West Backs Ukraine but Ignores Palestinians
Gideon Polya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Both the Russian occupation of Ukraine and the Apartheid Israeli occupation of Palestine are wrong, inhumane, international law-violating, and hugely destructive. However, a racist and specifically anti-Arab West utterly ignores the Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, while quite rightly condemning and sanctioning Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
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Militarism Is Never the Answer
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The West has always demonized Russia and ignored its border security. The US has successfully stoked another war because NATO always needs an enemy–Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria—and they have now turned their sights back to Russia. It will be the Europeans who reap the fall out of another US/NATO folly.
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(Italiano) La Russia non doveva bombardare l’Ucraina: c’erano alternative
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Marzo 2022 – Un giorno o due prima dell’attacco russo all’Ucraina, scrissi che la Russia NON avrebbe invaso l’Ucraina. La notizia del mattino del 24 febbraio francamente mi scioccò e mi intristì molto.
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Grow Man (Human) for Peace: The Role of Peace Education
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
We have developed tremendously in science, humanities, technology, medicine, agriculture, transportation, communication, and the other fields of knowledge except man (human), hence we have violence of others and selves, war, exploitation of each other.
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Climate Change: IPCC Report Warns of ‘Irreversible’ Impacts of Global Warming
Matt McGrath | BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Many of the impacts of global warming are now simply “irreversible” according to the UN’s latest assessment.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The little girl opened the door and said happily to her uncle,
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Ending Poverty by Rethinking Thinking
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Ending poverty would benefit everyone. It would be relatively inexpensive. It would open paths to sustainability. Rethinking thinking is needed to see why ending poverty is feasible…
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(Italiano) Quale pedagogia nei conflitti
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Marzo 2022 – Questi appunti su quale pedagogia nei conflitti li ho scritti pensando a Gene Sharp che è stato per diversi anni direttore del Program of nonviolent sanctions del Center for International Affair della Harward University.
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The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
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The War-Profiteering Gangsters Will Kill Us All Unless We Unite against Them
Roger Waters | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Western media simplifies the conflict in Ukraine in ways that divide us. But what if instead, we chose to unite against those who profit from all wars throughout the world?
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What You Should ‘Really’ Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
As tensions began to rise over Ukraine, US media produced articles attempting to explain the situation: “Ukraine Explained” (New York Times, 12/8/21) and “What You Need to Know About Tensions Between Ukraine and Russia” (Washington Post, 11/26/21). But to truly understand this crisis, you would need to know much more than what these articles offered.
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Ukraine versus Iraq — Humanitarian Intervention versus Invasion?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Russian “Peacekeeping” or another “Forever War” – With the emphasis so emphatically placed on “invasion”, little is said of the possibility of “humanitarian intervention” — let alone of the meaning of any form of “promise” not to invade.
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How the US Instigated the Ukraine Crisis
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – US intervention, both open and secret, has been a major driver of the events in Ukraine. Let us hope that the violence ends quickly and a genuinely independent Ukraine, no longer a tool of the United States, emerges.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – We continue to be threatened by the culture of war, which, as usual in recent history, is monopolized by the nation states.
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