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At Doom’s Doorstep: It Is 100 Seconds to Midnight
John Mecklin | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
To: Leaders and Citizens of the World
Date: 20 Jan 2022
The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 11 Nobel laureates. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains.
(Português) “Eu só sou eu através de você”. Ubuntu: Uma Saída da Barbárie
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – A pandemia mostrou uma abissal desigualdade mundial e uma falta cruel de solidariedade. Não abandonamos ainda o mundo da barbárie e se já a havíamos deixado, retornamos a ele. O nosso mundo não pode ser chamado de civilizado porque um ser humano não reconhece e acolhe um outro independente do dinheiro que tem no bolso ou no banco, da sua visão do mundo, ou da sua inscrição religiosa.
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COVID World Data -Total: 352,1M -Dead: 5,6M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
On 24 Jan 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 352,130,563
Deaths: 5,614,795
Active: 66,054,186
Recovered: 279,853,072
Cases Closed: 285,467,867
Total Vaccinated: 4,763,861,004
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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‘The World’s Most Evil Company’ May Lose a Few Court Fights—but Will Keep on Poisoning and Killing Millions of People with Its Carcinogenic Pesticide ‘Roundup’
Mitchel Cohen | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – Monsanto (now part of Bayer AB) had to pay $78 million in 2018 and $10 billion more in 2020 to settle 100,000 cancer lawsuits. But that won’t stop a company whose 2021 revenues will top $49.991 billion…which is why Roundup is still being profitably sprayed in 160 countries around the world.
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Skin Deep (Music Video of the Week)
Buddy Guy | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Playing For Change and Buddy Guy united to record and film his anthem, “Skin Deep” across the USA. Originally, this was going to be a song across Chicago to bring light to all the violent shootings across the city but as time marched on, along with various shootings across our country, we realized we needed to expand our vision and use this song as a tool to unite our divided nation.
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Palestine/Israel: The Smearing of Emma Watson
Sut Jhally and Roger Waters | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – A Classic Blunder and Smear against an Outspoken Activist
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Inequality, Class, and Economics
Eric Schutz | Montly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the economic inequalities pervading every aspect of society—and then multiplied them to a staggering degree. A mere nine months into the lockdown, the net worth of the infamous Forbes 400 increased by one trillion dollars. In a single year the US poverty rate rose by the largest amount ever since record-keeping began sixty years ago.
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The Rhino
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
I watch you on the safari.
There you go…rhinoceros
To think that you are murdered
(Italiano) Capaci di immaginare, incapaci di credere
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Gennaio 2022 – In questi giorni ho avuto occasione di leggere e vedere alcuni documenti – apparentemente scollegati – che mi hanno portata a riflettere sul fatto che la nostra società è diventata capace di immaginare l’inimmaginabile: soprattutto con l’esplodere della realtà virtuale.
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NATO in Ukraine: Readings
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
20 Jan 2022 – Fake is one thing and people with knowledge and experience will smell when something is wrong. Much worse is omission /cancelling: Deliberately leaving out stories, perspectives, voices, experts and analyses that do not fit the single propaganda narrative. But sadly, the West is now moving towards its Pravda moment: Only one truth and more people by the day finding that they are being deceived.
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(Italiano) Coronavirus: dove porta la sua Arca papa Francesco-Noé?
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Si esaminano le risposte morali e politiche delle Chiese e di papa Francesco alla pandemia e le si valutano deboli. E’ piuttosto l’Islam che oggi realizza il passaggio storico cruciale del tempo attuale: l’introduzione di una forte etica nella politica, il solo atto che possa affrontare adeguatamente i molti problemi del mondo.
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Understanding Hinduism and Bhagwad Gita
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Hinduism, the dominant religion in India, is one of the oldest world religions and existed in some form or another, perhaps even as early as 8000 years back. It deals with the four aims or purusharthas of life.
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Starving Afghans Use Crypto to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions, Failing Banks, and the Taliban
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – NGOs looking to provide emergency aid to Afghanistan are turning to cryptocurrency.
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The Annual Resurrection of a Fake Dr. King
Black Alliance for Peace | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
17 Jan 2022 – It is January, and in the U.S. this means it is time for the annual ritual of revisiting the white-washed, de-radicalized, pro- “American” M.L. King fairy tale as part of the official celebration of King’s birthday.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 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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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791)
Encyclopædia Britannica– TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. With Haydn and Beethoven he brought to its height the achievement of the Viennese Classical School. Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers.
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For the Attention of Davos’ World Economic Forum Attendees: In Tax We Trust
Abigail Disney, Nick Hanaue, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – 100+ Ultra-Rich Individuals Warn Fellow Elites: It’s Taxes or Pitchforks – “History paints a pretty bleak picture of what the endgame of extremely unequal societies looks like,” reads an open letter signed by millionaires and billionaires calling for higher taxes on people like themselves.
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This One-Two Punch from China and Russia Marks the End of U.S. Adventurism
Bradley Blankenship | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Syria’s inclusion in the Belt and Road Initiative is the final act in a long saga against American imperialism that shows how China and Russia can effectively counter U.S. intervention in the future.
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Reward
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Good Old Capitalism…
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Chemical Pollution Has Passed Safe Limit for Humanity, Say Scientists
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – Study calls for cap on production and release as pollution threatens global ecosystems upon which life depends. Plastics are of particularly high concern along with 350,000 synthetic chemicals including pesticides, industrial compounds and antibiotics.
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Detachment
Sujata - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Today’s Wisdom
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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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Got MLK?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
17 Jan 2022 – MLK Day in Anglo America
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Nobel Peace Prize 2022: Shortlist Respecting Nobel’s Antiwar Intention
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
January 2022 – Nobel Peace Prize Watch hereby presents its list of nominations for the 2022 Nobel Prize “for the champions of peace”. The overarching purpose of the prize, specified in the Nobel testament, is to liberate all nations from weapons, warriors and war.
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The Destruction of Literary Heritage as a Tool in Cultural Genocide (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
The Intentional Burning of “Un-German Literature” by Nazi Germany
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Nomination of Dr. Edward Horgan for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
12 Jan 2022 – Ms. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, has today nominated Dr. Edward Horgan for the Nobel Peace Prize.
→ read full articleWe Are Militarism’s Hostages
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Do our “Defense Departments” really defend us? Absolutely not! Their very title is a lie. There is a danger that our world, with all the beauty and value that it contains, will be destroyed by this cynical game for power and money, in which civilians are militarism’s hostages. Will we let this happen?
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Six Things the Media Won’t Tell You about Ukraine
Ted Snider | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – Western media and political analysts have cast Putin’s demands that NATO not expand further east to Ukraine and that NATO not establish military bases in former Soviet states as bold and impossible. Here are six crucial pieces of background that the western media will not tell you.
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Hawaii’s Red Hill Disaster: The Latest Episode in 200 Years of Colonialism
Lowkey | The Watchdog, MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – In November, a huge underground US Navy fuel storage facility at Red Hill near Honolulu burst, leaking 14,000 gallons of jet fuel, contaminating the water supply, poisoning scores of people and driving thousands of Hawaiian families from their homes.
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A Citizen of the World (Still) Speaks
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – I decided to honor Martin Luther King Day this year by reading — and trying to absorb, more fully than ever before — the entirety (nearly 7,000 words) of the iconic speech he gave at Riverside Church a year to the day before his assassination.
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Billionaires ‘Had a Terrific Pandemic’ While Inequality Killed Millions: Oxfam
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
17 Jan 2022 – A new report explains how inequality contributed to the death of 21,000 people each day of the pandemic while the wealthiest collectively got $1.2 billion richer every 24 hours.
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Prof. Ehud Qimron: “[Israeli] Ministry of Health, It’s Time to Admit Failure”
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading Israeli immunologists, has written an open letter sharply criticizing the Israeli – and indeed global – management of the coronavirus pandemic.
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How the CDC Fooled the World
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Throughout the pandemic, the US Center for Disease Control published numerous false and misleading studies that bolstered national and international political goals and guided social media censorship. Three recent examples illustrate the issue.
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Dangerous Gaps: Knowledge, Action, and Justice
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – This essay was published on 13 Jan 2022 on This View of Life, which brings to bear the views of science and evolutionary biology on a series of global challenges increasingly overwhelming the capabilities of civilizational modernity.
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Brazil: Lula Leads Bolsonaro by 20 Points Newly Released Poll Shows
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022 – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2011) is 20 points ahead of President Jair Bolsonaro in voting intentions for the October elections, according to a survey released today by the Ipespe institute.
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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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Introducing TRANSCEND and TMS
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – Can We Transcend Covid? Some Perspectives on Mass Psychology – I would like to introduce you to TRANSCEND, A Network for Peace Development Environment, near to my heart. I encourage you to subscribe to TRANSCEND Media Service (TMS)
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Fully Ready to Kill, Shockingly Unprepared to Save Lives
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022 – While absolutely ready to kill, with the biggest military powers spending in 2020 nearly two trillion US dollars on weapons, the world is shockingly unprepared to save the lives of millions of unarmed, innocent civilian victims of wars… and other man-made catastrophes.
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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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I Say a Little Prayer (Music Video of the Week)
Aretha Franklin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
A Classic from 1967 by the “Queen of Soul” – (Official Lyric Video)
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 328,8M -Dead: 5,5M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
On 17 Jan 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 328,827,870
Deaths: 5,557,760
Active: 55,554,929
Recovered: 267,715,181
Cases Closed: 273,272,941
Total Vaccinated: 4,712,854,193
Theory of Everything: The Standard Model
Quanta Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
16 Jul 2021 – The Standard Model of particle physics describes how everything in the universe is made of 12 different types of matter particles, interacting with three forces, all bound together by a rather special particle called the Higgs boson. The Standard Model is the most successful scientific theory ever.
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Structures of Oppression
Kheya Bag & Susan Watkins | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
Querying recent analogies of ‘race’ and ‘caste’, the authors ask what parallels and divergences a more systematic comparison of African-American and Dalit predicaments might reveal.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
There are several religions or faiths in the world. Of these, the principal ones are (In approximate order of establishment) Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Baha’i Faith, Sikhism, Arya Samaj, etc.
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Hey, Hey, USA! How Many Bombs Did You Drop Today?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – Airpower Summary and its implications. The U.S. and its allies have dropped 46 bombs and missiles per day on other countries for the past twenty years, promoting the myth that U.S. militarism is a force for good. The country that has been bombing cities to rubble and waging wars that kill millions paints Russia and China as threats to peace.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Gennaio 2022 – Tempi sospesi per l’umanità: problemi planetari, tragedie globali, guerre, cambiamento climatico e pandemia… e il nucleare?
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The Covid Vaccine War (II)
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – New developments concerning “vaccine passports”, vaccine mandates, and protests against them – an updated international overview.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
3 Jan 2022 – Pandemic Real Talk with the invisible hand of the free market.
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Cattle Boom in Brazil’s Acre Spells Doom for Amazon Rainforest, Activists Warn
Sarah Brown | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – With about 80% of its forests still untouched, Acre is one of Brazil’s least-deforested Amazonian states. But in the past three decades, the thriving cattle industry has become a major threat to Acre’s forests, with livestock now outnumbering the state’s human population by a factor of four.
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The Destruction of Literary Heritage (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – It is appropriate to begin in ancient history to highlight how libraries were destroyed for political and territorial gains by stronger forces oppressing the weaker ones, throughout history.
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Public Intellectual–The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, by Richard Falk
Clarity Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
Book Reviews and Selected Interviews (UNCLA Law, Ha’aretz, Counterpunch, Consortium News
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USA, Russia and NATO Look for New Frontiers of Influence
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Why the Lessons of History Are Ignored – USA, Russia and NATO’s Geneva diplomatic talks ended in failure without any formal course of action to avoid military confrontation on Ukraine’s border.
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Kazakhstan Coup Fails, US-Russia Talks Go Nowhere. Is War on Horizon?
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Max Blumenthal and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar: Inside Look at Kazak & Russia Events
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#Ethiopia #TigrayGenocide #ExcuseForRegimeChangeWar
Ann Garrison | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Ethiopia’s growing ties with China and Russia and the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Cooperation Between Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea so threaten U.S. global hegemony that a U.S. “regime change” campaign is well underway. One of the first stages of any such campaign is, of course, massive disinformation.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 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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The Day CNN’s Jake Tapper Sold His Soul to Pharma
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – There’s a reason CNN’s Jake Tapper is intent on branding me a “menace” and “a liar,” and why he refuses to debate me on the merits of facts and scientific evidence. Here’s the back story.
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None Dare Call It “Encirclement”
Michael Klare | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Washington Tightens the Noose around China
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Washington Pursues RAND’s Plan in Kazakhstan, Then in Transnistria
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
11 Jan 2022 – The events that have been unfolding for the past week in Kazakhstan are the fifth part of a plan by the RAND Corporation, the sixth of which will take place in Transnistria. The four previous episodes took place over the last two years in Ukraine, Syria, Belarus and Nagorno-Karabakh. The aim is to weaken Russia by forcing it to over-deploy.
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Evangelicals in Brazil Are Stronger Today Than Ever Before
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – The appointment of André Mendonça to the Supreme Federal Court was a turning point for the evangelical movement in Brazil.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
While this is being written, tension builds up around the more comprehensive Ukraine conflict formation. If this blows up in real war – God forbid! – the main reason will be three serious lies disseminated by the NATO side.
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Maha Kumbha Mela 2001: The Greatest Spiritual Festival and Gathering of People in the History of the World
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
Every six years, the Kumbha Mela festival is the largest gathering of people, mostly Hindus, in the history of the world; what to speak of it being a religious festival. Over the course of its 41 days, it is calculated that as many as 70 million people of all kinds attend the Kumbha Mela. However, 2001 saw an amazing increase.
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‘Jaw-Dropping’ Targeting: How Pegasus Was Used against Critical Journalists in El Salvador
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – A new report by Citizen Lab and Access Now, shared with Forbidden Stories, shows how investigative journalists at El Faro and GatoEncerrado, two independent media outlets in El Salvador, were repeatedly and aggressively targeted with Pegasus spyware.
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The Mauling of Tennis Player Novak Djokovic
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Asia-Pacific Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – Tennis World Number One Novak Djokovic’s treatment by Australian authorities, and his subsequent detention as an unlawful arrival despite being granted a visa to participate in the Australian Open, had the hallmarks of oppression and incompetent vulgarity; another example of provincial opportunism and crass stupidity.
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Selected Articles on the Kazakhstan Uprisings
CovertAction Magazine and openDemocracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
9 Jan 2022 – Anger, Injustice and Politics Brought People to the Streets in Kazakhstan
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
No Comparison
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
A customer complained to his tailor,
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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Fight to Contain Them
Rebecca Gordon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
9 Jan 2022 – The continued construction and deployment of killer robots is not inevitable. Let’s give U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres the last word: “Machines with the power and discretion to take human lives without human involvement are politically unacceptable, morally repugnant, and should be prohibited by international law.” I couldn’t agree more.
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The Kite
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
Up and up the kite flies.
The wind carries it afloat
Yet it cannot reach the star.
Are Western Wealthy Countries Determined to Starve the People of Afghanistan?
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022 – A few days after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, the U.S. government announced the seizure of $9.5 billion in Afghan assets that were being held in the U.S. banking system. Under pressure from the USA, the IMF also denied Afghanistan access to $455 million of its share of special drawing rights.
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Communing with Albert Camus in 2022
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself” way, or in any deep psychoanalytical sense, but very simply. We have our own thoughts and feelings that come and go like breaths, most of which never get expressed in words.
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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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Syrian Extremists Had Free Access to Western Media, Says Award Winning Syrian Photographer
Patrik Paulov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Issa Touma, photographer from Aleppo, has portrayed the Syrian people before, during and after the war. But it was only when he moved to Sweden that he understood why the Western world’s image of Syria was so distorted.
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Why Is Joe Biden Discreetly Looking the Other Way as His AFRICOM Commander Commits War Crimes for Which He Would Have Been Hanged at Nuremberg?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Townsend Oversaw Army Unit in Syria That Committed Myriad Atrocities and Helped Cover Up Crimes – He claims that the U.S. was “never a colonizing power in Africa,” that AFRCOM’s motto is “African solutions, for African problems,” and that countries “drowning in poverty” frequently “ask for U.S. help.” These words mask the imperial underpinnings of U.S. foreign policy.
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What Went Right This Week: Defending Democracy, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Analysis suggested autocrats are losing their grip on power, child marriage was banned in the Philippines, gorillas got a boost, plus…
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Untangling Ourselves from the Dark Side
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
12 Jan 2022 – “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” The words are those of Albert Einstein. He adds, pointing out a truth: “The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war.”
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James Baldwin on Resisting the Mindless Majority, Not Running from Uncomfortable Realities, and What It Really Means to Grow Up
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
“We ought to try, by the example of our own lives, to prove that life is love and wonder and that that nation is doomed which penalizes those of its citizens who recognize and rejoice in this fact.”
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“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind…”
Dalai Lama – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
The 14th Dalai Lama, known as Gyalwa Rinpoche to Tibetans [born 6 Jul 1935], is the current Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and a retired political leader of the nation. His teachings are about peace of mind, holiness and love. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
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Covid: A Collision of Historical and Scientific Illiteracy
Kevin Ryan | Dig Within – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – People don’t want to acknowledge the fact that we do not live in democratic societies any longer. Yet today the world is fully run by an oligarchy and that oligarchy wants us to be diverted and outraged about superficial things while staying ignorant or silent on issues important to us like the following.
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Native Hawaiians Fight US Navy for Polluting Island’s Water
Empire Files - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
30 Dec 2021 – Under the cover of pre-dawn darkness, Native Hawaiians surprised the gates of the US Navy Command with a civil disobedience action over the #RedHill fuel leak. Empire Files producer Mike Prysner was on the ground.
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(Italiano) L’ascesa sorprendente della Cina
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
4 Gennaio 2022 – L’ascesa sorprendente della Cina: dovuta a un ‘socialismo con caratteristiche cinesi’ o a un ‘capitalismo con facciata cinese? O a un po’ di entrambi?
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Futura Vecchia, New Year’s Eve
Rebecca Elson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Returning, like the Earth
To the same point in space,
We go softly to the comfort of destruction,
Bombshell: CDC No Longer Recognizes the PCR Test as a Valid Method for Detecting “Confirmed Covid-19 Cases”
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – In the Course of the Next Two Days the PCR Test in the US Will Be Declared Invalid
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(Italiano) San Marino Abbraccia la Nonviolenza: Il Sì a un Corpo Civile di Pace
Manuela Petrini | In Terris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
1 Gennaio 2022 – La Repubblica di San Marino ha promulgato la legge 2 dicembre 2021 n. 194 che prevede l’istituzione di un corpo civile di pace.
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Nobel Nominations 2022 Deadline: 31 January
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – We in Nobel Peace Prize Watch still encourage those with nomination rights to make nominations by January 31, strictly adhering to and demanding respect for the Nobel goal of promoting global co-operation on a global peace order, based on international law, institutions and disarmament. Information below in English, French, German, Russian, Castellano and Swedish
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Azeem-O-Shaan Shahenshah (Music Video of the Week)
SonyMusicIndiaVEVO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
An ode to Akbar, the Moghul Emperor of India. The exquisitely choreographed song is not just a celebration of color and beauty; it also depicts the power of the Moghul Empire under Akbar.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 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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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Austria’s greatest achievement…
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(Français) Mauvaise foi, mauvaises nouvelles et Julian Assange
Edward Snowden | Le Grand Soir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
24 décembre 2021- Edward Snwoden explique pourquoi la décision de la Haute Cour britannique en faveur de l’extradition d’Assange pourra créer un précédent extrêmement dangereux pour le métier de journaliste.
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Frozen Berries
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Frozen strands of beads,
Looking like crimson pearls.
The sun is never seen.
Hidden?
Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races
U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Italy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
3 Jan 2022 – The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks as our foremost responsibilities.
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(Italiano) Anno nuovo: revisione e rinnovamento
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Gennaio 2022 – C’è da parte di molti una consuetudine diffusa di approcciare l’anno imminente rivedendo avvenimenti dell’anno al termine e facendo propositi di miglioramento per l’anno Nuovo – un momento di rinnovamento.
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Despite Widespread Opposition, Japan Plans to Dump Water from Fukushima Plant into the Pacific Ocean
Mong Palatino and Nevin Thompson | Global Voices – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
30 Dec 2021 – A Million Tons of Contaminated Water Will Be Released in Two Years’ Time
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Covid’s Lesson: When Anxious, Isolated and Hopeless, We’re Less Ready to Think Critically
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – The corporate media is not our friend. The aim of its coverage of the pandemic is not to promote the public good. It is there to feed our anxieties, keep us coming back for more and monetize that distress.
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France’s highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award. Author of The Little Prince among other jewels of literature.
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A Texas Team Comes Up with a COVID Vaccine That Could Be a Global Game Changer
Joe Palca | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – The vaccine is called CORBEVAX. It uses old but proven vaccine technology and can be manufactured easier than all of the COVID-19 vaccines in use today. “And it’s cheap, a dollar, dollar fifty a dose,” Hotez says. The real beauty is that the intellectual property of this vaccine will be available to everybody.
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The Danger of False Accusations of Antisemitism
Natasha Roth-Rowland | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – A high-profile Israeli official suggested that posting a picture of Palestinian flags at a protest alongside an open-ended slogan about solidarity is tantamount to anti-Jewish hatred. The insistence of Israel’s former UN Ambassador Danny Danon that the British actor Emma Watson is an antisemite for making said post should be recognized for the farce it is.
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Building a Life Worth Living
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
This book is a heartfelt, honest, and touching account of Marsha M. Linehan’s personal life, scientific research and her lifelong relationship with her Catholic faith and spirituality. She is a distinguished US psychologist who has made significant contributions to the treatment of a psychiatric condition called ‘personality disorders’.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Gennaio 2022 – La Commissione Europea (CE) da circa quattro anni sta lavorando per arrivare a individuare e definire quali attività economiche – e quali investimenti – possano definirsi sostenibili.
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The US Military Is Polluting Hawaii’s Water Supply – and Denying It
Wayne Tanaka | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
4 Jan 2022 – The Hawaiian governor issued an emergency order to de-fuel the Red Hill Facility. The US Navy has enlisted top lawyers to make sure its 600m liters of petroleum stay perched above our water supply.
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