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The Ocean
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
There is a timeless source leaving the shore.
Waves are crashing, fierce almost like a roar!
The deep blue sea cannot cover or conceal.
Whistleblower Exposes Credit Suisse’s Bankrolling of Spy Chiefs Involved in CIA Torture
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – A major global journalism project called “Suisse Secrets” revealed the names of criminals and corrupt government officials who had Credit Suisse accounts, including spy agency chiefs implicated in the CIA’s torture program.
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Culture — Food, Music, Languages, Dress
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
Many countries had their own culture
Consisting of languages people spoke, food they ate
The attractive dresses that they wore
Leak Exposes Ericsson’s Secret Dealings with ISIS amid Iraq Corruption Spree
Sydney P. Freedberg, Maggie Michael and Amir Musawy | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The embattled Swedish telecom giant concealed years of bribery and fraud in the war-torn nation and grappled with undisclosed corruption allegations in more than a dozen other countries.
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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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(Italiano) Di fronte alla guerra
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Febbraio 2022 – La prima reazione che viene spontanea di fronte a quanto sta accadendo in queste ore non troppo lontano dai nostri confini è lo sconforto, unito a sgomento e dolore. Di fronte alla prospettiva di tante vite distrutte solo il silenzio è adeguato. Poi, però, di fronte alla guerra, segue il bisogno di capire, di riflettere e di agire.
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The ICJ and the Issue of Lawful Representation in The Gambia v Myanmar
John Packer, Gregory Stanton, Nathalie Chaar, Loujain El-Sahli, and Bailey Pelletier | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
18 Feb 2022 – Ahead of the scheduled public hearings in The Gambia v Myanmar (the Rohingya genocide case) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Canada, the Genocide Watch of USA and FORSEA release a comprehensive legal analysis. It focuses on the crucial question of who should lawfully speak for Myanmar before the ICJ as Myanmar’s coup resulted in an unprecedented situation with no recognized government or even regime with effective control of the state.
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Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
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God’s Eternal Spiritual Abode–Our Ultimate Goal
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
The Vedic texts describe that there are innumerable spiritual planets in the spiritual sky beyond this material creation, each having one of the unlimited forms of the Lord with countless devotees engaging in His service.
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Veganism vs. Cruelty-Free Products: What Is the Difference?
Jason Hughes | VeganLiftz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
It is a common misconception that the term veganism and cruelty-free are synonymous. But there are several factors that differentiate both the terms from each other. When you’re new to the plant-based diet and lifestyle, there is so much information out there that it can be overwhelming.
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Assange Affirms the Existence of another Kind of Human Nature
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
** Statement made at the Belmarsh Tribunal on 25 Feb 2022 ** Beyond his great public service with WikiLeaks, it is his unwillingness to surrender his integrity and dignity that is key to understanding why the powers that be continue to crucify him.
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How Nanoplastics Enter the Human Body
Erica Cirino | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – If you regularly drink water from plastic bottles, you’re likely ingesting even more plastic than the average consumer.
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Meeting Thousands of People–Conversing with a Few of Them
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
With hundreds of thousands of people that I encounter at different places every day, is there even one person whom I know or who knows me? I have travelled a lot in my life due to academic pursuits or as a tourist… (read on)
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COVID World Data -Total: 436M -Dead: 5,9M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
On 28 Feb 2022 (9am GMT):
Total Cases: 436,012,909
Deaths: 5,968,333
Active: 63,468,125
Recovered: 366,576,451
Cases Closed: 372,544,784
Total Vaccinated: 4,934,325,612
Nils Melzer: The Political Persecution of Julian Assange
Saturday Morning | RNZ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being made an example of by the US government to deter investigative journalists from exposing state abuses, the current UN Special Rapporteur on torture says.
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Coping with the Dark Side
Carl Jung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
Us & Them
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US, UK, France Promised USSR Not to Expand NATO East of Germany, Newly Discovered Document Proves
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Feb 2022 – A newly discovered document provides more evidence that Western governments broke their promise not to expand NATO eastward after German reunification. Notes from a 1991 meeting prove that the US, UK, France, and Germany assured the Soviet Union that NATO would not expand east.
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(Português) Guerra?
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
Quem opta por guerra
E’ inimigo da Terra
Diplomaticamente erra
(Italiano) Industria delle armi: la coda che agita il cane
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
24 Febbraio 2022 – Il militarismo è una minaccia negli sforzi di costruzione di un sistema mondiale più pacifico. Ed è spinto dalla forza gravitazionale, che distorce le risposte sia politiche sia mediatiche, del complesso militar-industriale. Opporvisi comporta aver qualcos’altro da proporre, da mettere al suo posto, come fonte di sicurezza come pure di prosperità.
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War Propaganda about Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – Every useful or pleasing claim about the war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents.
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Hymn for the Weekend (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
* From the album A Head Full of Dreams released in 2015
* Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy.
Chronicle of a War Foretold
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
24 Feb 2022 – After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.
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Propaganda Switch: From Covid to Ukraine
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
23 Feb 2022 – During the last two years, geopolitical propagandists have had rather little to do – with the partial exception of quickly blaming China for the pandemic. With the escalation of the Ukraine crisis, the following “propaganda switch” can now be observed:
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 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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Russia’s Security Threats to Increase if Ukraine Joins NATO
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Feb 2022 – Today Russian leader Vladimir Putin noted that the security threats would increase if Ukraine joins NATO.
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The Insurrection
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
Life in the Stupidverse
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Creating Peace Means Changing the World
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
23 Feb 2022 – Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right? Regarding Ukraine: Both sides in the matter are flawed, and both sides need to listen.
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Ukraine: Understanding the Concern of the Other
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Bluntly put, Moscow has now been provoked to act since Washington was not willing to use diplomacy. Moscow’s response is perfectly understandable and rational. Cuba 60 years ago is relevant to the present situation. Just as the US did not want Russian missiles at its doorstep, Russia does not want overwhelming Western military power at its gate today.
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Switzerland at Risk of EU Blacklist after Credit Suisse Leak
Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
– 21 Feb 2022 –
* Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians.
* What is the Suisse secrets leak and why are we publishing it?
Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, and Life Has Never Been Better
Ida Auken | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
[Note from TMS editor: We republish this 2016 piece without approving or subscribing to the author’s or the WEF’s views. It is purely for analysis and context as it was written 6 years ago about 8 in the future. You the judge.]
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The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
An Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation – “Only through full awareness of the danger to life can this potential be mobilized for action capable of bringing about drastic changes in our way of organizing society.”
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(Français) Les États-Unis et l’OTAN ont-ils promis de ne pas menacer la Russie en déplaçant les forces militaires de l’OTAN vers ses frontières ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 février 2022 – Nous continuons d’être menacés par la culture de la guerre qui, comme d’habitude dans l’histoire récente, est monopolisée par les États-nations.
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Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Looting of Wealth, and Plundering of Cultural and Religious Treasures of India (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
The Odyssey of Systematic Theft of Wealth and Heritage Artifacts from India by Imperial Britain
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
The acceleration of history foreshortens our memory of past events, especially when disillusionment displaces hope. This happened a decade ago when uprisings were celebrated as ‘the Arab Spring.’ The role of activist youth, the spontaneous displays of populist strivings for a better political future, created the feeling that something irreversible, and for the better, was taking place. Yet it was not to be.
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The Sacralization of War, U.S.-Style
Kelly Denton-Borhaug | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – St. Paul’s line from Galatians, “A person reaps what they sow,” sprang into my consciousness with the death of the 95-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, who helped encourage Martin Luther King to declare his opposition to the Vietnam War so long ago.
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There Were Alternatives: Why Russia Should Not Have Bombed Ukraine
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
A fundamentally different professional Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment/Solution approach that should have been tried – just bits of it – during the last 30 years.
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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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(Français) Avoir confié la politique sanitaire mondiale à Big Pharma est une faute impardonnable
Nick Dearden | Guardian/Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Fév 2022 – Le Covid l’a clairement démontré : Pfizer et ses semblables, asservis aux actionnaires, ne se soucient vraiment que de leurs profits faramineux. C’est ce qu’explique, dans une tribune parue dans le Guardian, Nick Dearden, directeur de Global Justice Now.
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The Belmarsh Tribunal
The People's Forum NYC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunals of the late 1960s, which put the US government on trial for its war crimes in Vietnam, the Belmarsh Tribunal exposes the crimes of the so-called War on Terror 20 years after the first prisoners were brought to Guantánamo Bay — and calls for Assange’s freedom.
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What Russia Wants
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Both Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Secretary Sergey Laverov have repeatedly stated that Russia does not intend to invade Ukraine. Logic also tells us that if they had wished to do so, they would have done it long ago. The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is a western invention.
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Conflict: Management, Resolution, or Transformation?
Charles Webel, Ph.D. | The New Presence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – What is a conflict? Is conflict always undesirable? What is the range of human conflicts? What are the reasons for conflicts? And when conflicts arise, how should one optimally deal with them? These general issues have particular relevance for understanding and mitigating contemporary conflicts
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Russia Announces Withdrawal of Troops near Ukraine as Drills End
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Amid the hype around a potential Russian invasion, Moscow announced today that it is withdrawing troops from areas near Ukraine as military drills in the region conclude. The Russian Defense Ministry said the troops are returning to their permanent bases.
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The US Government Truly Believes the Entire Planet Is Its Property
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The irony of the Wall Street Journal yelling about China’s “global expansionism” over a ‘potential’ military base in Equatorial Guinea without applying that label to the US, which has hundreds of times the number of foreign military bases as China. It is ridiculous that a military base some six thousand nautical miles from the US coastline be framed as a threat to North Americans.
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With Its Doomsday Clock at 100 Seconds to Midnight, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Calls for Escalating US Aggression against Russia
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Citing the Atlantic Council, the US-based think tank for NATO, the Bulletin explains that the sanctions they advocate would cause the Russian economy to “experience significant chaos.” Instead of supporting peaceful measures in the Ukraine, it has become a cheerleader for Washington. From an organization run by scientists, the current governing board of the Bulletin has hardly a scientist in sight.
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska | Our Chopin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, he was the author of two polonaises…. In the summer of 1849, Ludwika Jedrzejewiczowa, the eldest sister of the composer, came from Warsaw to take care of her ill brother. On 17 October 1849, Chopin died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendôme. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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Future Psychosocial Implications of the Metaverse
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Exploring Possible Non-Technical and Existential Dimensions
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On Israel as an Apartheid State: An Interview with Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
19 Feb 2022 – An interview David Falcone originally published in CounterPunch on 11 Feb prompted by the Amnesty Report but extending beyond it.
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RAND Corporation Study Calls for Regime Change in Moscow
Bruce Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
13 Feb 2022 – Imagine how Moscow felt when they first read this study. It is clear that there is a method behind US-NATO madness. If you were sitting in Russia’s shoes how would you react to these proposals – many of which have been or are now being implemented?
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 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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‘Politics as Usual’ Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat (or to Nuclear War)
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Richard Falk | DWF News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity’s greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. (Commentary added by Roger Kotila)
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Ukraine: Situation and Background
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – A brief overview of the situation in Ukraine and its geopolitical background.
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Multiple Articles on Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News | Military Space Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Thought-provoking News on War and Destruction
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War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain. On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin, the currency of the age. In 1964, Marshall McLuhan famously declared, “The medium is the message.” The lie is the message now.
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Barbarism by the Epicentre of Civilisation against the Irish on “Bloody Sunday 1972” (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
The Bloody Sunday Massacre at Lodonderry, Northern Ireland by British Soldiers
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The Mind Control Police: U.S. Government’s War on Thought Crimes and Truth-Tellers
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – The U.S. government, which speaks in a language of force, is afraid of its citizenry. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell
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How We Can See God
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
If we expect to see God with our material senses, we must consider their limitations. We often need glasses to see clearly, and also enough light. We will never experience the spiritual with these dull material senses. When researching atoms, neutrons, protons, etc., scientists actually don’t see every molecule they ‘find.’ Sometimes they only see the evidence that such particles exist. It is in the realm of ‘consciousness.’ The Higgs boson is a case in point.
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A Scene of Mughal-E-Azam (Music Video of the Week)
Lata Mangeshkar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Celebrating the 78-year career of the famous Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar who passed away in Mumbai on Sunday 6 Feb 2022. The song’s movie is based on the life of Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great and his son who dared to fall in love with a Mughal court dancer.
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The Western Allied Nations Bully the World While Warning of Threats from China and Russia
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – Why the chief of Germany’s navy, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, was sacked? Because while in India he said two things that are unacceptable in the West:
• That “the Crimean Peninsula is gone and never [coming] back” to Ukraine.
• That Putin should be treated with respect.
Activism Uncensored: The Freedom Convoy
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – As Canada Clamps Down on Trucker Protest, American Copycat Event Fails to Materialize So Far – A Balanced Look at the Canadian Protests
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Lives in the Renaissance
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
18 Feb 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a book that presents many aspects of science and culture in the Renaissance (meaning “Re-birth”), a period of excitement and innovation in Europe. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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What Is Going to Happen in Ukraine?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
* Three possible scenarios in the current crisis in Ukraine.
* How current US-UK-NATO policy is designed to erect a new EU/Russia Iron Curtain.
* What the actual outcome could be.
Today’s Crisis over Ukraine
Amb. Jack F. Matlock | ACURA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense. We are being told each day that war may be imminent in Ukraine. (This article is judged “UNFIT TO PRINT” by The New York Times et al. — Prof. Michael Brenner)
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 425M -Dead: 5,9M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
On 21 Feb 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 425,071,562
Deaths: 5,906,496
Active: 68,405,260
Recovered: 350,759,806
Cases Closed: 356,666,302
Total Vaccinated: 4,898,997,900
Afghanistan on the Brink of Disaster
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Gay rights, women’s rights — in reality, these are a nuisance to many U.S. conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the world is a great excuse to play war.
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Hinduism in View of World Thinkers
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Hinduism is the oldest of all religions in the world. Many great world thinkers were highly impressed with its universal, tolerant, and elastic tenets. Below cited views on Hinduism of a few world renowned thinkers are worth mentioning here.
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The US Empire Is Evil and You Should Want It to Fail
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
20 Feb 2022 -To rule the world, make it rely on a single dominant financial system you control so anyone who disobeys you can be cut off from the economy you’ve made them dependent on. The challenge isn’t so much obtaining evidence of the depravity of the empire as helping people to really, truly see the evidence we already have.
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“Do You Want a War Between Russia and NATO?”
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
9 Feb 2022 – Mr. Macron went to Moscow to see Mr. Putin with a simple 4-stage plan in mind.
→ read full articleMeanwhile in the USA – Big Enough
Ed Wexler - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Dangerous and offensive.
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Corporate Vaccine Mandates and Vaccine Passports — Brought to You by BlackRock and Vanguard?
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Investment giants BlackRock and The Vanguard Group stand to benefit from their ownership stakes in most of the corporations that imposed COVID vaccine mandates, and in some of the technology firms developing vaccine passports.
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US Democrats, the More Effective Evil
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire, and the primary business is war.
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(Italiano) Ucraina, oltre gli schieramenti…
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Febbraio 2022 – La crisi che sta vivendo l’Europa, con il suo punto focale in Ucraina, è descritta, spiegata, alimentata da dichiarazioni e azioni, mosse e contromosse di molti soggetti interessati, in una complessa e mutua esibizione delle ‘forze in campo’: truppe, aerei, navi; soldati regolari e mercenari; armamenti…
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George Harrison (25 Feb 1943 – 29 Nov 2001)
Biography Online - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
George Harrison was a British guitarist, singer, songwriter and film producer. As a member of the Beatles, he achieved international fame and renown. In addition to music, Harrison was interested i n Hindu spirituality. After meeting A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, of which he became an active participant, Harrison turned his devotion to Lord Krishna and became a devotee of the Hare Krishna Movement in 1969.
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The Bridge or the Barrier?
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
There is a tottering bridge,
across the rocky mountain ridge
Will you use it to build?
Arms Industry–The Tail Wagging the Dog
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Militarism is a menace, in efforts to build a more peaceful world system, and it is propelled by the gravitational force, which distorts political and media responses alike, of the military-industrial complex. To oppose it entails having something else to propose, to put in its place, as a source of security and prosperity alike.
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Pipeline Politics and the Ukraine Crisis
John Foster | Canadian Dimension – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Amid escalating tensions, all eyes are on Ukraine. Canada’s Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland describes it as “a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism.” But Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas directly to Germany, is an integral part of the story.
→ read full articleThe Cattle of Goa
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
After the government of Goa was forcibly driven out by the independent India in 1961, the original Portuguese speaking people cannot be seen today after more than half a century of that event.
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What Happens When We Die
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
“How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
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‘Nothing More Grotesque than a Media Pushing for War,’ Says Edward Snowden
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill similarly notes that “the talking heads on cable news are almost drooling over the prospect of a ratings-boosting war.”
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Patience
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Yes!
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Open Letter to Presidents Biden and Putin
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
18 Feb 2022 – Please, Mr. Presidents, be a light in a dark and dangerous world. Give the people hope. Please meet each other in friendship and in respect for each other, and the sake of the great peoples of your countries, USA and Russia.
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Meta’s Facebook to Pay $90 Million to Settle Decade-Old Privacy Lawsuit
Makena Kelly | The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Meta, Facebook’s parent company, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users even after they logged out of their accounts.
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Why Is the White House Stealing $7bn from Afghans?
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Last week, the White House issued an executive order announcing the theft of some $7bn. In a move that can only be described as brazenly immoral and utterly unconscionable, the Biden administration has begun a process to seize the more than $7bn of assets that the Central Bank of Afghanistan has on deposit at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since the Taliban gained control of the war-ravaged country last year, that money has been frozen in place.
→ read full articlePotential for Coherence through Engaging Strategic Poetry
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Memorable Cycles of Subdivision Enabling Viable Governance – Ever increasing quantities pose an ever increasing challenge for governance — its comprehension and its coherence. The matter can be clarified by the following somewhat simplistic exercise.
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Is the Amnesty International Report an Israeli ‘Sharpeville Moment?’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – This interview followed the release on 1 Feb of the explosive Amnesty International Report finding Israel guilty of the continuing crime of apartheid. How much longer can governments, the UN, and liberal Zionist close their eye in face of the mounting consensus in the international human community on the question of Israeli apartheid?
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Attacks on Democracy in the United States
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The worst crime of the Republican Party is obstruction of action to prevent catastrophic climate change, which Donald Trump called “a hoax” pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement. Trump’s party continues to echo his denialism and his obstruction of climate action.
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Dissonance Searching for Resonance: A Time to Remember the Hibakusha, or Are We Too Late?
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The world is now bracing itself for a possible Russian invasion of the Ukraine. The U.S. is pushing back, with President Biden talking about “a World War.” Hopefully, it’s not too late to remember the Hibakusha (Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings). How does one limit such an exchange once the first button is pressed?
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NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia over Ukraine
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describing Putin as Hitler incarnate.
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Dahara Sutta – Young
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
“There are these four things, great king, that shouldn’t be despised and disparaged for being young. Which four?
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The United Nations: Beyond Reform?
Edward J Horgan, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The Collective Insecurity of the International System and the Prospects for Sustainable Global Peace and Justice
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Haiti, San Martin and the Odious Foreign Debt
Miguel Julio Rodríguez Villafañe | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
7 Feb 2022 – The colonising logic of the centres of conditioning capital, from the very beginning, sought to take over Latin America, dominating it in different ways, according to their interests, beyond the principles that were proclaimed and the freedom that was promised.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 412,6M -Dead: 5,8M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
On 14 Feb 2022 (10am GMT):
Total Cases: 412,627,461
Deaths: 5,836,222
Active: 73,538,688
Recovered: 333,252,551
Cases Closed: 339,088,773
Total Vaccinated: 4,869,912,010
What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version,1967 – Click on Watch on YouTube, kick back…, enjoy!
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Rather Than Sink Main Street by Raising Interest Rates, the Fed Could Save It. Here’s How.
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Today’s price inflation was triggered not so much by “too much money” as by “too little supply,” due to U.S. lockdowns and mandates. The Fed can help restock consumer supplies using tools that include Open Market Operations to counteract speculation, and the Discount Window to purchase loans from local banks willing to fund Main Street businesses if they had some help from the national Lender of Last Resort.
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The Lotus Flower
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Through dirty mud, the lotus flower emerges
Tied to spirituality, the sacred lotus flower
exudes divinity, is a symbol of beauty and spirituality.
Listen…
Rumi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
… within.
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Seventy-Seven Years Ago, U.S. and Russia Signed Historic Agreement at Yalta
Jeremy Kuzmarov and Jacques Pauwels | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – With tensions between the U.S. and Russia at historic levels and threat of a hot war breaking out in Ukraine, we would do well to remember FDR’s visionary leadership and pursuit of diplomacy.
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Chinese-Russian Text on Constructing a Community of Common Destiny for Mankind – A Crucial Peacebuilding Approach
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The presence of the Russian President to the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics led to an important Joint Statement that stresses current proposals of the two States meriting close attention. It highlights the concept of the community of common destiny for humankind and sets out the political framework for its proposals.
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Oliver Stone: American Exceptionalism Is on Deadly Display in Ukraine
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The creator of the Showtime documentary series “The Putin Diaries” speaks to Robert Scheer about the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
→ read full articleArtificial ‘Intelligence’
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Sorry? Really?
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The Three Kinds of Violence Defined by Prof. Johan Galtung
Gandhi Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The word “violence” is typically used to describe harmful actions inflicted upon one person by another, but Galtung suggests that the the concept of “violence” actually denotes a much broader range of actions and behaviors. This video defines and differentiates the three types: “Direct Violence” – “Structural Violence” – “Cultural Violence”
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