Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Money and Politics
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
A New Freely Downloadable Book – Many countries that call themselves democracies are actually oligarchies, controlled by the richest members of society. This is because the votes of politicians can be bought. It would be highly desirable to sever the connection between money and politics, but the task of doing so is very difficult.
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Is This a Sputnik Moment? Or a Paranoid Geopolitical Moment?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
6 Nov 2021 – US Military Interests Are Promoting a Culture of Fear With China – This is a slightly modified interview with Daniel Falcone. It attempts to challenge the pathological geopolitics that diverts attention from climate change and the global justice agenda in a period of growing dangers.
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Over the Cliff!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
U.S. of America 2021
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
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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COP 26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – Contrasting the failures of the politicians with the popular movement for real and urgent action to tackle the Climate Crisis.
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Top-Selling Drug in the World—Pfizer COVID Vaccine 2021 Sales: $36 Billion
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – In a call with analysts yesterday, the same day the Centers for Disease Control Prevention signed off on Emergency Use Authorization of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, Pfizer boosted its 2021 sales forecast from $33.5 billion to $36 billion.
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The Excuse of Job Creation in Military Investments
Redacción Barcelona | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
6 Nov 2021 – When the General State Budget is presented, the Minister of Defence of the day insists that the multimillion-dollar expenditure dedicated to the purchase of armaments generates employment. But, as the authors point out, a comparison of the jobs created in the military and in other areas allows us to question the dominant narrative.
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(Português) As ameaças sobre a Terra presentes na COP26 em Glasgow?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
2 Nov 2021 – Em Glasgow, nesse final de 2021, com a COP26 se discute como reduzir os níveis de gases de efeito estufa para não chegarmos em 2030 a 1,5 graus Celsius e então a um caminho sem retorno. A maioria está cética, pois os grandes emissores não cumpriram o Acordo de Paris. Reduzirem apenas até 7% e o Brasil, ao contrário, cresceu em 9% sua emissão. Dada a engrenagem do processo produtivo mundial de viés capitalista que tende a não assumir nenhum limite em seus ganhos, provavelmente não alcançaremos esta meta.
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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule and in turn to inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
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(Italiano) Il mondo digitale: «immateriale» oppure ecologicamente distruttivo?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – Il concetto di ‘zaino ecologico’ è stato proposto dagli studiosi del Wuppertal Institute alcuni decenni fa, per rendere facilmente comprensibile al pubblico l’idea che ciascuno di noi, nel fare uso di un oggetto, non ‘utilizza’ solo l’oggetto stesso, ma anche una quantità di energia e di materia che viene prelevata o riversata nell’ambiente esterno, e che resta in buona parte invisibile all’utilizzatore.
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History of the US Space Command
Will Griffin | GNspace4peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
1 Nov 2021 – A general history of the US Space Command (USSPACECOM)
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The Foundation of Peace: The Wisdom of Mevlana Jalalud-Din Muhammad Rumi
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – “Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every Moment, a New Beauty.” — Rumi. As soon as the bus entered the City of Konya, Turkey the passengers are greeted by the display of Tulip flowers in the centre of the traffic circle.
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Ethiopia: “I’ve Lost Faith in Everything American”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – Last month TRANSCEND Media Service published my interview with Jemal Countess, a photographer who has traveled back and forth between the US and Ethiopia since Nov 2020, when the civil war started. This is Part II of that interview.
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Calling on Governments to Commit to Meaningful Military Emissions Cuts at COP26
Conflict and Environment Observatory – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
Militaries are major Greenhouse Gas emitters and should not be excluded. Governments must demonstrate their commitment to the Paris targets by setting military GHG reduction targets at COP26. This call sets out the scope of what these pledges should include and is open for signature by organisations before and during the COP.
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Open Letter to Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – In last week’s article in the Evening Standard newspaper, you said you dislike the dangerous, violent society you live in, that your own life is at risk, not only because of your job, but also due to your religion and the colour of your skin. I’d like to ask you a few questions.
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A Message of Encouragement to Delegates of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
The Group of 21 was a hastily assembled NPO of Japanese and international community friends organized in Kyoto in 1997: 21 youths, ages 1 to 21, from 21 different countries, to take a group photograph and run a global postcard campaign to reduce global warming. The postcards were to support the COP3 Global Warming Conference scheduled for December 1997 offering delegates an inspiring welcoming to Kyoto.
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Billions of Euros to “Innovate” the Nuclear NATO
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research/Il Manifesto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
26 Oct 2021 – “NATO has ended up in the attic,” wrote the political commentators of several newspapers a month ago, after France had withdrawn its ambassador from Washington on September 16. It was Paris’ protest at being excluded from the strategic-military partnership between the United States, Great Britain and Australia.
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(Italiano) Lanza del Vasto al tempo del coronavirus
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Ottobre 2021 – Lanza del Vasto era contro questo progresso del suo tempo. A lungo è stato irriso come un retrogrado infantile. Ma che cosa significare il progresso oggi? Oggi l’1% della popolazione mondiale possiede il 50% delle ricchezze. Ma vediamo in dettaglio questo progresso.
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Comparable Modalities of Aesthetics, Logic and Dialogue
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
In the Light of Correspondences between Their Polyhedral Representation – The following speculative argument explores some implications for the relation between disciplines and practitioners — ensconced in their respective ivory towers — and the potential relevance for governance which is typically irrelevant to them.
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Alex Saab’s Statement before Being Extracted from Cape Verde by United States Regime (Letter)
Ambassador Alex Nain Saab Moran | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
This letter was read—with tears in her eyes—by Camila Fabri, Alex Saab’s wife, during a demonstration in repudiation of the second kidnapping of the Venezuelan diplomat from Cape Verde by the US, held in Caracas’ Plaza Bolívar on 17 Oct 2021, attended by a crowd of indignant Venezuelans.
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Indigenous Groups Officially Excluded from COP26 Continue Calling for Action
Climate Nexus | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Indigenous groups from around the world are preparing to travel to Glasgow for COP26 to demand a greater say in negotiations. However, despite being among the least culpable and most harmed by the climate crisis, they will not be fully credentialed.
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After Afghanistan, Time to Review and Reset ASEAN & International Policies towards Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – The vicious dialectic of “failed international policies AND failed Myanmar state”, will need to be placed at the right, left and centre of the new international policy debates on Myanmar. Repeating the same strategy of dangling the sweet discourse of mediation before the intransigent mass-murderous generals of Myanmar without the serious stick of international accountability will simply not do.
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The New Generation as World Patriots: Climate Change, Nukes & War
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – Young people are increasingly becoming world citizens and World Patriots. They want to save the world. The biggest mistake by climate change activists is a failure to demand an end to war as one of its top priorities. US/NATO with over 700 foreign military bases is one of the largest polluters in the world while also illegally attacking a number of nations.
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One Fine Day: David Byrne Performs His Hymn of Optimism and Countercultural Anthem of Resistance and Resilience with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
“I complete my tasks, one by one. I remove my masks, when I am done…”
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Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
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That Old Brown Shoe
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
A newborn is tightly snug in her embrace,
Her belly swollen no more.
Endearingly she desperately tries to look at his face.
Disarmament Week? But Hundreds of Nukes Can Be Launched within Minutes
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Hadn’t it been so worrisome, it would be ironic to hear that humanity is to mark the World Disarmament Week (Oct 24 to 30, 2021) barely six months after learning that the world’s biggest military powers had spent last year some 2,000,000,000,000 US dollars on killing machines.
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“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
Lao-Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Lao Tzu, also rendered as Laozi and Lao-Tze, was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions.
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Lives in the 18th Century
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
29 Oct 2021 – Human History as Cultural History – I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents many aspects of science and culture during the 18th century. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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How U.S. Interference in Cuba Creates a False Picture of Its Society
Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
26 Oct 2021 – The atmosphere is charged. The U.S. government and right-wing Cubans who are in the U.S. Congress have tried to define the terrain for events in mid-November in Cuba. They will ramp up pressure to overthrow the government.
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Boeing Military Space Report
The Boeing Company – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – News from Destruction, Insanity Headquarters
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The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. If he is extradited, it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting. He exposed the truth. He exposed it over and over and over until there was no question of the endemic illegality, corruption and mendacity that defines the global ruling elite. And for these truths alone he is guilty.
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An Angel in White
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
An Angel is a being, a person
Who spreads joy, comfort
Happiness, even music
(Castellano) Premio Nobel de la Paz 2021: ¿Buena protección de la libertad de prensa?
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
En 2021, el Premio de la Paz se convirtió en un premio a la libertad de prensa. No se debe olvidar que Nobel creó un premio al desarme, no un premio a la libertad de prensa. Assange, fundador de WikiLeaks, merece un agradecimiento del mundo por dar a conocer los crímenes de guerra cometidos por Estados Unidos en Irak y Afganistán.
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Michael Jackson 5 Medley (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 | Mark Dukes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
It’s important that current and future generations understand the shock wave this performance created. It not only launched Michael into super-stardom, it had a significant cultural impact. It was the first time, on a global scale, that non-black teens by the millions were idolizing a black artist. Long Live the King!!! Please Click on Watch on YouTube
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Any End to This Suicidal War? (I)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – The Destruction of the Web of Life – Can yet another dispendious world gathering find a way to halt the ongoing suicidal war on Nature, which is leading to the destruction of all sources of life?
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Appeal Hearing: CIA’s War on Assange, Their ‘Most Prominent Critic,’ Takes Center Stage
Kevin Gosztola and Mohamed Elmaazi | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – The CIA’s record of retaliation against Assange, including reported plans to kidnap or assassinate him, was the focus on the second day of the appeal hearing. It was part of the Assange legal team’s effort to convince the High Court of Justice of the gravity of the risks he would face if they allowed extradition to the USA.
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“The Spoils of War”: How Profits Rather Than Empire Define Success for the Pentagon
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Andrew Cockburn’s new book is an incredible compendium of avarice and folly. “War-fighting efficiency has a low priority,” he writes, “by comparison with considerations of personal and internal bureaucracies. … The military are generally not interested in war, save as a means to budget enhancement.”
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The Triumph of Good over Evil
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Deepavali: The Time for All Nefarious Humanoids, Globally, to Reflect and Rectify Their Aberrant Ways
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The World According to Vladimir Putin
Pepe Escobar | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
23 Oct 2021 – Russian president, in Sochi, lays down the law in favor of conservatism – says the woke West is in decline.
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How the Western Leaders Destroyed the Muslim World: We, the People, and Revival of Colonization
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Arab geography is the by-production of European colonization. Historically, Arabs were nomadic people free to move and trade all over the Arabian Gulf Peninsula and beyond. British, French and Italian demarcated the national borders and extended superfluous nationalities to keep the Arab divided and defeated.
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By Calling the Fight for Palestinian Rights ‘Terror’, Israel Turns Reality on Its Head
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – The aim is to embarrass Europe into defunding Palestinian human rights groups who have been effective at documenting Israeli war crimes, and therefore prevent further scrutiny.
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(Português) Alterações climáticas e elites suicidas
Manuel Casal Lodeiro | Esquerda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
30 out 2021 – Se o Painel Intergovernamental sobre Alterações Climáticas finalmente censurar o aviso de que o capitalismo é insustentável, ou se os governos se recusarem a cumprir este diagnóstico, estaremos a caminhar para uma guerra de uma minoria contra toda a vida atual e futura.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
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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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Very often political leaders tell lies to gain public support to start wars. For example, Adolf Hitler lied about the persecution of German minorities to justify his invasions of Poland and Czechoslovakia, which marked the start of World War II. Approximately 75 million people were killed during the war, including about 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.
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Marriage
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Marriage is the triumph of…
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Julian Assange’s Health Is Central to Upcoming Ruling on Extradition to the U.S.
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – In a case that puts press freedoms on trial, a British appeals court is considering the suicide risk should Assange be sent abroad.
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Multiple Articles on Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction
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(Deutsch-German) Guter Schutz der Pressefreiheit?
Fredrik S. Heffermehl – TRANSCEND Media Service),
1 Nov 2021
Im Jahr 2021 wird der Friedenspreis in einen Preis für Pressefreiheit umgewandelt. Bei all der Begeisterung sollte nicht vergessen werden, dass Nobel einen Preis für Abrüstung geschaffen hat, keinen Preis für Pressefreiheit.
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U.S. Empire: The Global Grim Reaper! And It’s Not Just for Halloween!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
26 Oct 2021 – The U.S. Military is the greatest polluter and creator of chaos on the planet. All Empires eventually crumble and fall. I know of no empire in history that has repented and made an about face. The chickens from the U.S. Empire’s foreign wars are coming home to roost with increased spread of violence, hate and division.
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Snowden Calls Assange ‘Political Criminal’ Ahead of Extradition Hearing, Where the Pressure Might Now Be on Biden’s Legal Team
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden went on the attack against the US and UK and he appealed for the freedom of his pal, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, who faces the US’ attempt to overturn a UK court decision to deny his extradition.
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The Julian Assange Case
Chris Hedges | On Contact/RT America - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
23 Oct 2021 – Chris Hedges talks to documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist John Pilger about the upcoming appeals hearing in London for the Julian Assange case.
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Multilevel Marketing Scams Expose Capitalism’s Foundational Lie
Luke Savage | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
23 Oct 2021 – Pyramid schemes aren’t a corruption of capitalism — they’re a microcosm of how the class system arbitrarily creates winners and losers while falsely promising opportunity for all.
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The World as Idea
Routledge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
The World as Idea: A Conceptual History, by Charles P. Webel, 1 Nov 2021, Routledge, 336 pp. Webel traces the development of “the world” through the past, depicting the history of the world as an intellectual construct from its roots in ancient creation myths of the cosmos, to contemporary speculations about multiverses.
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Indigenous Leaders in Nicaragua Speak Out against Western Media and NGOs
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – Nicaragua has an election to choose their president and national assembly on 7 Nov. According to polls, the Sandinista Front (FSLN) currently in government is expected to win the presidency and a majority of seats in the assembly. At the same time, the Sandinista government is intensely disliked by Washington and there has been a steady stream of negative news and accusations.
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Blinken: US Policy Is to ‘Oppose the Reconstruction of Syria’
Dave DeCamp | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
The US Has Ruled Out Normalizing with Syria
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Public Health or Private Wealth? How Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way for Unprecedented Surveillance Capitalism
Jeremy Loffredo and Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
19 Oct 2021 – For those yearning for an end to pandemic-related restrictions, credential programs certifying their vaccination against Covid-19 are the key to reopening the economy and restoring their personal freedom. But the implementation of immunity passports is also accelerating the establishment of a global digital identity infrastructure as titans of global capitalism are exploiting the crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems.
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The Myth of Redemptive Violence
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Several million dollars’ worth of fiction exploded the other day, leaving cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — age 42, a wife, a mom — dead, and plunging Alec Baldwin, who accidentally shot her, into a state of unimaginable hell.
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Any End to This Suicidal War? (II)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
29 Oct 2021 – More Lethal Gases and Fewer, Weaker Sinks – Another Year Another Record! The emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise, the land and sea temperatures are higher than ever since there are records, and the ecosystems could fail their role as vital sinks absorbing carbon dioxide and as a buffer against larger temperature increases.
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Criminals
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Indeed!
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Albert Camus (7 Nov 1913 – 4 Jan 1960)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Albert Camus was born in Algeria, the son of a French father killed in the First World War when he was only one and an illiterate Spanish mother who raised him while working as a cleaning woman. Camus was intellectually stimulated by his father’s brother who read books of philosophy and was active in the local Masonic lodge.
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COVID World Data -Total: 247,5M -Dead: 5M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
On 1 Nov 2021 (10am GMT):
Total Cases: 247,549,612
Deaths: 5,016,924
Active: 18,334,344
Recovered: 224,198,344
Cases Closed: 229,215,268
Total Vaccinated: 3,890,991,186
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
On Myanmar’s Dead Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement
FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
17 Oct 2021 – Maung Zarni blew the whistle on military-led top-down democratic reforms – which he argued were, in the final instance, cosmetic as early as these “reforms” were launched by the Burmese generals in 2010. To his rage and dismay, this “transition” was blessed by none other than Aung San San Suu Kyi and celebrated by Western media and powerful external actors.
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The Pandora Papers–Why Such Passivity?
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – It is disappointing that the Malaysian government has chosen to adopt a passive approach to the Pandora Papers. Leaving it to the police to investigate may suggest that the government is not prepared to assume leadership in setting the moral tone for society.
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Colin Powell: In Life and Death
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Colin Powell died on Monday [18 Oct 2021] at the age of 84. Richard Falk reflects on Powell’s life and the US reaction to his passing including the relevance of identity politics, the question of moderation, his contribution to the horrors of Vietnam and Iraq, and US governmental hypocrisy in the wake of its January 2020 assassination of the comparable Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.
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On Denigrating the Humanities
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – This post reflects on the brutal frankness of this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor Joshua Angrist, unqualified rationale for leaving his faculty position at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for a higher paying professorship at MIT. The put down of literature is mindlessly irresponsible and civilizationally obtuse.
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Has Interpol Become the Long Arm of Oppressive Regimes?
Josh Jacobs | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
17 Oct 2021 – Once used in the hunt for fugitive criminals, the global police agency’s most-wanted ‘red notice’ list now includes political refugees and dissidents.
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Rewilding Food, Rewilding Our Mind & Rewilding the Earth
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Regenerating Biodiversity in our farms, forests, and our Gut Microbiome for Zero Hunger and Good – Mother Earth is self-organised. Mother Earth has created and sustained Diversity.
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Melbourne: The Longest in Lockdown
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Asia-Pacific Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – The lockdowns – six in total – came with overly vigilant threatened and threatening police, punitive powers of hefty magnitude, mask mandates, curfews, limits on recreation time and demarcated areas of travel.
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Youth, Violence and Peace: Experiences from Cali and Medellín
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – The text, originally in Spanish, is published by Universidad de Medellín in a joint research project with the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Cali) in Colombia. The book can be downloaded for free here.
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Don’t Worry Be Happy (Music Video of the Week)
The Real Bobby McFerrin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Bobby McFerrin in His Classic from 2009 –
(Please click on Watch on YouTube) – ENJOY!!
What It’s Like to Watch a Harpooned Whale Die Right before Your Eyes
Captain Paul Watson | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
19 Oct 2021 – Author Paul Watson has no problem with critics calling him and his marine-life-defending colleagues pirates—it’s far better than helplessly standing by and doing nothing in the face of the violence against animals they have witnessed.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Right from the day a child is born his learning cycle starts. But learning begins with hearing a few words that his mother and sometimes his father or older siblings speak, which gradually helps the child to understand what they mean.
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Pity the Nation
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Poetic Reflection – 17 Oct 2021
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Beloved Writers on the Mightiest Antidote to Depression
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
“It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, the dark threw its patches down upon me also,” Walt Whitman wrote. On the consolations of monarchs and of stars.
→ read full article‘Unconscionable’: Pfizer, Moderna to Rake in Combined $93 Billion in 2022 COVID Vaccine Sales
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
19 Oct 2021 – A report by health data analytics group, Airfinity, projects “unprecedented” sales and profits for Pfizer and Moderna in 2022. According to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, the companies are pricing their vaccines by as much as $41 billion above the estimated cost of production.
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(Castellano) Tribunal popular juzga a EEUU y pide libertad para Assange
Prensa Latina - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Un tribunal popular condenó hoy aquí a Estados Unidos por crímenes de guerra cometidos en nombre de la lucha contra el terrorismo, y exigió la liberación del fundador de WikiLeaks Julian Assange. La vista simbólica fue organizada a una semana de que la justicia británica escuche la apelación presentada a extraditar al periodista australiano.
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The Ethics of Unethicality
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – South Africa’s New Norm: The Acceptable Stealing of Public Funds and “Stepping Aside”
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Washington Always Looking for another War
Bruce K. Gagnon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
23 Oct 2021 – The collapsing US military is making Washington & NATO even more dangerous. US could not beat the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran… a sign of psychopathology for sure.
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Taiwan Deaths from COVID-19 Vaccination Exceed Deaths from COVID-19
Medical Trend | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
On 7 Oct 2021, the death toll after vaccination in Taiwan reached 852, while the death toll after the COVID-19 was diagnosed was 844. The number of deaths after vaccination exceeded the number of confirmed deaths for the first time.
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Senseless
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Excellent Question
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Wall Street’s Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class
Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
13 Oct 2021 – A project of the multilateral development banking system, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that will put, not just the natural world, but the processes underpinning all life, up for sale under the guise of promoting “sustainability.”
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Manufacturing Ignorance: Keeping the Public away from Power
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
22 Oct 2021 – Whereas the ‘mainstream’ media declare that their aim is to educate, inform and entertain the public, their actual societal purpose ‘on matters that are of significance for established power’ is to avert any ‘danger’ that the public can ‘assert meaningful control over the political process’ (Herman and Chomsky, ‘Manufacturing Consent’, Vintage, 1988/1994, p. 303).
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Stop Being Polite – Colin Powell Was a Killer
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Colin Powell has died, and the hagiographic obituaries are upon us. Throughout his career, Powell did a swell job of rallying and maintaining bipartisan support for imperial killing – and putting as ‘polite’ a face as possible on it.
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Amazon and Google: Partners in Israeli Apartheid
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
19 Oct 2021 – Amazon and Google aren’t just doing business with Israel. Through Project Nimbus, they are actively helping to build and improve the technological infrastructure Israel needs to oppress Palestinians.
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The United States Is Doubling Down on Deadly Sanctions
Sanctions Kill Coalition | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
The 2021 Sanctions Review Report ordered by President Biden and released on 18 Oct 2021 is an ominous warning. It shows US is intensifying its economic warfare despite the covid-19 pandemic.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 244,4M -Dead: 4,9M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
On 25 Oct 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 244,429,045
Deaths: 4,963,767
Active: 24,574,308
Recovered: 221,468,889
Cases Closed: 226,432,656
Total Vaccinated: 3,822,607,805
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
From Russia, with (Taliban) Love
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – Asia’s powerbrokers dropped an Afghan bombshell in Moscow today: ‘The country’s reconstruction must be paid for by its military occupiers of 20 years.’
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The Syrian Charity Scam
Paul Larudee | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Americans want to feel good about themselves by giving money to charities that claim to be helping the Syrian people. But they are being duped into supporting terrorist forces that have brought misery and violence to the country—while crippling U.S. sanctions accentuate the humanitarian crisis.
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‘In the Spirit of Mandela’: International Tribunal Seeks to Charge U.S. Government with Crimes Against Humanity
Bob Lederer and Matt Meyer | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – An historic International Tribunal on U.S. Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples will take place in New York City on October 22-25, 2021. It is designed to propel this and related issues into the forefront of public consciousness.
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The IPCC Leaks Bring Us to the Possible Declaration of a World Civil War
Manuel Casal-Lodeiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
24 Oct 2021 – Last June’s leaks of the next IPCC report could pave the way for the most transcendental political act, on an international scale, at least since the end of WWII. If you think this may be a bit of an exaggeration, then please take a minute to consider what will happen once the official version of this report is published.
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‘Indefensible’: US Billionaires Became $2.1 Trillion Richer in 19 Months of Pandemic
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – New analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies shows that just 745 individuals have combined $5 trillion in wealth, most of which will never be taxed.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
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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1901-1934: “Yankee Imperialism” in Latin America
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
On 20 Jun 1898, as U.S. troops prepared to land in Cuba to “pacify” the island, Assist. Sec. State Francis Loomis writing to his boss, Sec. State William Day, declared, “I think it our destiny to control more or less directly most all of the Latin American countries.” One means to this end was economic domination. “It is possible to attain commercial ascendancy in them in much the same way that England does in China, by lending them money and administering their revenues.”
→ read full articleGrabbed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
22 Oct 2021 – Imagine that the land your family has worked for generations is suddenly stripped away from you, purchased by wealthy companies or governments to produce food, bio-fuels or simply as a profitable investment for far away people. Land grabbing is the purchase or lease of large tracts of fertile land by public or private entities. It involves millions of hectares, equivalent to an area as big as Spain, and it continues to spread relentlessly.
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Nelson Mandela’s Wisdom
Nelson Mandela – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
An Inspiring Message in 3 min.
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“Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School, Philadelphia, 26 Oct 1967
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Outgoing U.N. Envoy Says Myanmar Has Spiraled into Civil War
Michelle Nichols | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – Myanmar has spiraled into civil war following a military coup, the outgoing U.N. special envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, said today, warning that the chance to return to democracy is disappearing and signaling that further targeted sanctions could be helpful.
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Prensa Latina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021 – A people’s court here today condemned the United States for war crimes committed in the name of the fight against terrorism, and demanded the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The symbolic hearing was organised a week before the British judiciary hears an appeal by US prosecutors to extradite the Australian journalist.
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[Preview] Staged Terrorism: The Evidence
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
17 Oct 2021 – SPR will soon be phasing in its long-awaited series on state-run and staged terrorism. The coronavirus might well be part of that series. Important: If you are not interested in this topic, or if you are younger than 16, or if you are currently in a state of anxiety or depression, please consider not reading this series. On the other hand, if you are a medical professional, the topic might be of great interest to you.
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