Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Moral, Military and Financial Cost of Guantanamo Bay, 20 Years Later
Stefano Kotsonis and Meghna Chakrabarti | WBUR/On Point - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – 20 years ago, the first detainees in the U.S. War on Terror arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Many detainees were innocent, and tortured. Presidents since then have promised to close Guantanamo, and failed. They picked up human beings and moved them halfway around the globe without an idea of how to undo this. They’re stuck with this mission. So, what’s next?
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Major Media Outlets That Use Invasive User Tracking Are Lobbying Against Regulation
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The “surveillance advertising” industry makes online news possible. News outlets entrusted with promoting transparency and privacy are also lobbying behind closed doors against proposals to regulate the mass collection of data.
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The Exit from the Ukraine Crisis That’s Hiding in Plain Sight
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Is there any way out of this exceedingly dangerous crisis? Perhaps the only hope is the Minsk II agreement, forged in February 2015 between Russia and Ukraine, brokered by Germany and France, and endorsed by the European Union and the United Nations. The agreement essentially called for a recognition of reality in law.
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Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Amnesty International has analysed Israel’s intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and has concluded that this system amounts to apartheid. Israel must dismantle this cruel system and the international community must pressure it to do so. All those with jurisdiction over the crimes committed to maintain the system should investigate them.
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Russia-Ukraine Standoff: Putin Says US Could Drag Moscow into War with Aim to Impose Sanctions
Vladimir Putin | Global News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The Ukraine Conflict: Views from the Other Side
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The Problematics of Middle Eastern Diplomacy: The Case of Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – In relation to both Iran, Israel, and Palestine, the essential message sent by the new leadership is continuity when it comes to substance combined with a resumption of the pre-Trump pretension of equi-distance diplomacy when it comes to the search for a sustainable peace.
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For Warmth
Thich Nhat Hanh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
I hold my face between my hands.
No, I am not crying.
Reimagining Guernica to Engage the Antitheses of a Cancel Culture
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Coherence in the Surreal as a Kaleidoscope of Imagery Forming a Hyperobject – There is no lack of commentary and explanation with regard to the surreal nature of the current times. Emphasis is commonly placed on the pervasive sense of meaninglessness — with various parties to be appropriately blamed.
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Press Stunned as Ukraine President Zelensky Points Finger at West
Nury Vittachi | Friday Everyday - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
* Campaign to paint Russia as aggressor is huge, but there are cracks
* Putin placing troops on Ukrainian border is “no different to last year”
* Ukrainian leader tells journalists that Russia isn’t the main problem, the press is
* NATO has continuously broken promises made to Moscow, archives reveal
The Execution of Love as a Tool in Ethnic and Religious Cleansing in India (Part 4)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
“Love Jihad”: Deadly, Peace Destroying, New Strategies in Ensuring the Survival of a Political Ideology
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The Blackwater Is in Ukraine with the Azov Battalion
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – In the Donbass front line is the Azov battalion, trained and armed by the US and NATO. The Azov recruits neo-Nazis from all over Europe under its flag from SS Das Reich. It is not only a military unit, but an ideological and political movement. In addition, there is the $10 billion plan being implemented by Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, now renamed Academy, which has been supplying mercenaries to the CIA, Pentagon and State Department for covert operations (including torture and assassinations).
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Too Good Not to Share!!
Neil Johnson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – I got this from ‘Truckers For Freedom’ on Telegram. Share it everywhere.
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Why Amnesty Is Taking Aim at the ‘Root Causes’ of Israeli Apartheid
Edo Konrad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Amnesty International’s Saleh Hijazi elaborates about his organization’s new report, the Israeli government’s harsh response, and why our analysis of Israeli apartheid needs to begin from 1948.
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Carbon Colonialism
George Monbiot - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public.
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Pegasus Spyware Row Is Really about Who Controls Cyber Weapons
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – Washington’s ban on NSO Group is not about safeguarding human rights. It’s about curbing Israel’s dominance of ‘espionage diplomacy.’
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Ukrainian Sovereignty Means Not Joining NATO
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Taking international law seriously requires looking at the world in a particular way. And this view of the world is very different from the view presented to Americans by their foreign policy establishment.
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US National Debt Surpasses $30 Trillion for the First Time
Michael Peterson | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – On Monday [31 Jan], the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the national debt surpassed US$30 trillion, which included US$23.5 trillion in debt held by the public and US$6.5 trillion in intergovernmental holdings.
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USA, NATO and Russia: Why War and Not Peace?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – The ongoing war syndrome between the U.S., NATO and Russia typifies what can go wrong when human thinking evolution is restricted to imaginary temptations and compulsions of animosities. Often myth of war is manifested in self-interest and its evolution becomes unquestionable on the rational screen of reason and moral values.
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Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
“It is only a narrow passage of truth (no matter whether scientific or other truth) that passes between the Scylla of a blue fog of mysticism and the Charybdis of a sterile rationalism. This will always be full of pitfalls and one can fall down on both sides.”
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Stripping Away the Bulls**t: U.S. and Russian Threats over Ukraine—What They’re about and Who’s the Aggressor
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
25 Jan 2022 – Threats and counter-threats flying between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine have caused a flurry of fear and confusion that escalates and expands daily. Is the world on the brink of war? What is it about, who is the aggressor and who is to blame?
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Justice 2022
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
More to the point…
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 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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(Français) Guerre à l’étranger, Guerre Dans la Métropole
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 février 2022 – C’est une vieille expression selon laquelle “les poulets sont rentrés chez eux pour se percher”. Les guerres que l’Empire américain a menées à l’étranger arrivent aux États-Unis sur son propre territoire ! L’invasion du Capitole il y a un an a marqué le début d’une seconde guerre civile dans la métropole.
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NPPW Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Shortlist Respecting Nobel’s Antiwar Intention Updated on 5 Feb 2022
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Prosecutors Silence Evidence of Cruel Factory Farm Practices in Animal Rights Cases
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
30 Jan 2022 – The government wants to keep juries from seeing gruesome evidence of animals in distress — the very reason activists are going into farms.
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Is It Time to Bar Coup Leaders from the UN?
Thalif Deen | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – A rash of military coups in Africa has resurrected a long dormant question: should leaders who take power through armed insurrections be barred from addressing the United Nations—an institution which swears by, and promotes, multi-party democracy?
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The USA Is Reaping what It Sowed in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – So the revived Cold War that U.S. officials and corporate media hacks have been mindlessly cheering on could very quickly turn into one in which the United States would find itself just as encircled and endangered as its enemies.
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Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State
István Mészáros | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – István Mészáros was one of the greatest political theorists of the twentieth century. Left unfinished at the time of his death, Beyond Leviathan focuses on the transcendence of the state, along with the transcendence of capital and alienated labor, while traversing the history of political theory from Plato to the present. Aristotle, More, Machiavelli, and Vico are only a few of the thinkers discussed in depth.
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Reaching COVID-19 “Turning Point of Critical Mass”: Is Nuremberg 2 Next? London Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation
Joachim Hagopian | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – At least 1,011 scientific studies have proven beyond any doubt that the Covid-19 non-vaccines are in fact lethal. The deceivers are realizing that regardless of how many times they repeat their lies to those no longer buying it, it will only lead to their own downfall sooner than later. The despots’ narrative is quickly falling apart smashed by real science.
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COVID World Data -Total: 395,9M -Dead: 5,7M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
On 7 Feb 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 395,981,600
Deaths: 5,758,707
Active: 74,365,422
Recovered: 314,910,018
Cases Closed: 320,668,725
Total Vaccinated: 4,832,623,444
War Abroad, War at Home
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – There is an old expression that “the chickens have come home to roost.” The wars that the American Empire waged abroad have come to the continental USA. The invasion of the Capitol one year ago has signaled the beginning of a second civil war at home.`
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The Fields
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
A gravel path separates the fields
The clouds form a shady shield.
Nostalgic for the Future
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Nostalgia is always about time and space. In that sense, it is equivalent to all human experience that also takes place within these dimensions. And when technology has radically disrupted our human sense of limits in their regard, it becomes harder and harder to feel at home, to dwell enough to grasp what is happening in the world.
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Native American Tribes Reach Major Opioid Settlement
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Native American tribes have agreed a landmark settlement with major drug companies over the devastation caused by opioid addiction.
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A Night with the Untouchables
David Maybury | The Reformed Physicist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
I live in downtown Ottawa, right in the middle of the trucker convoy protest. They are literally camped out below my bedroom window. They moved in on Friday [28 Jan] and they seem determined to stay. They are our moral conscience reminding us – with every blow of their horns – what we should have never forgotten: We are not a country that makes an untouchable class out of our citizens.
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Ukraine and the Nuclear Paradox
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – There is a paradox here the size of the whole planet. The essential point here, as far as I can tell, is that the signatories are confessing that, yes, we possess the weapons that could destroy all life, and yes, we think using them would be wrong, but we have no idea how to make them go away and so we’ll just use them to scare each other, a.k.a., serve defensive purposes.
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Harsh Times, Triumph of Bravery
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
The breakup of a country, popularly called a partition, brings forth harsh times in terms of loss of occupation, of homes, and worse, many people die in its aftermath. The former India broke up in 1947 into a majority Hindu country, India, and Muslim majority areas on the West and East of India called West and East Pakistan, respectively.
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(Italiano) Il paradosso della crisi ucraina e le possibilità della pace
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Gennaio 2022 – Lo scenario della crisi ucraina presenta elementi molto allarmanti e contraddittori, ma anche concrete vie di uscita per il ristabilimento della pace nel cuore dell’Europa. Ecco il paradosso della crisi ucraina.
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Genocide: Why We Let It Happen
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
5 Feb 2022 – As a detour, judicial demand for PROOF, beyond reasonable doubt, THE INTENT is one of the stupidest anti-THOUGHT and anti-INTELLECTUAL elements in the rich collection of legal and other literature. This question is raised – and answered – typically by lawyers and legally minded individuals.
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Amnesty Apartheid Report: The Walls Protecting Israel Are Finally Crumbling
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – The walls protecting Israel are quickly crumbling. A year ago, it was the human rights group B’Tselem. Months later, Human Rights Watch. Now, Amnesty International – an organisation widely viewed as the most authoritative arbiter of what constitutes human rights violations.
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The Blockade against Cuba Turns 60
Rosa Miriam Elizalde | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – It’s easy to say, but it’s been six very hard decades that began with disconcerting lightness and the belief that the United States government’s blockade of Cuba would not last long—a couple of years, maybe.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
What accounts for the indifference to a calamitous loss of life and millions of serious injuries? Johan Galtung points to an answer in his 1969 essay on structural violence, where he notes that, unlike personal violence in which people intentionally and visibly injure each other, the violence generated by a social system can seem so natural and inevitable that it virtually disappears from people’s consciousness.
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The News Is Not That Israel Has Apartheid, but That Amnesty Dares Say So
Ari Paul | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture? AP (1/31/22) disclosed that its government called on Amnesty International not to release a report (2/1/22) that defines that nation’s legal structure as a form of apartheid. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the report endorses “lies shared by terrorist organizations.”
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Heeding James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – A century after its publication, the timeless novel warns us about the poisons of nationalism and idolatry and the commonality of our sojourns between birth and death.
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One Person Can Change the World (and Prevent a Nuclear War)
Leonard Eiger and Glen Milner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – The very real risks created by the relatively new, low-yield nuclear warhead introduced by the Trump administration, and the story of Vasili Arkhipov who prevented WWIII in a tense moment during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Whose Body Is It?
Ron Hauge | The Nation OppArt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Choice on the Line Again
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You’re Beautiful (Music Video of the Week)
James Blunt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
(Official 2004 Music Video) Click on Watch on YouTube – Enjoy!
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The USA Is in Danger of Having More Rivals Than It Can Handle
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 – The US wants a world in which everyone – Russia, China and Iran included – bows down to it. But the days of a single superpower are gone. As the Ukraine crisis rolls on, there is a growing fear among Western commentators and foreign policy elites that a “China-Russia” axis is consolidating.
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USA: The Post-Cold War Era, 1989-2001
Brian D’Haeseleer, Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Imperial Self-Deception: There is no shortage of books, articles, and websites addressing the history of US foreign policy. There is nevertheless, within the USA, a dearth of understanding and often knowledge about the subject. This is due in part to popular nationalistic history, which tends to obscure, overwrite, and sometimes whitewash actual history.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Theranos Verdict: In the U.S., It Is Fine to Lie to Consumers but Not to Investors
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022 – Hyper-capitalism has systematically weakened regulations to help capital at the cost of consumers. The verdict on the Elizabeth Holmes case simply illustrates the growing post-’90s disregard for consumers.
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The “Operational Psychology Professional Practice Guidelines” Are Deeply Flawed — the American Psychological Association Needs Your Comments
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 – My deep concerns about the ‘Guidelines’ that will soon be considered for adoption by the APA. The period for online comments has begun and extends until 15 Feb. I would like to briefly share some thoughts about why this is important and deserving of readers’ attention.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Let’s Not Have a War
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
25 Jan 2022 – The U.S. foreign policy establishment, chasing decades of failures, appears to be seriously considering the unthinkable in Ukraine.
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(Italiano) Ostaggi del militarismo
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Gennaio 2022 – I nostri “Ministeri della Difesa” ci difendono davvero? Assolutamente no! Il lor stesso nome è una bugia. C’è pericolo che il nostro mondo, con tutta la sua bellezza e la preziosità che contiene, venga distrutto da questo cinico gioco per il potere e il denaro in cui i civili sono ostaggi del militarismo. Lasceremo che succeda?
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(Italiano) Thich Nhat Hahn [Thay]: La morte per l’impermanenza, la vita per la pace
Cinzia Picchioni | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
È talmente famoso che mi «vergogno» un po’ a scrivere qualcosa, qualsiasi cosa, in occasione della morte di Thich Nhat Hahn, Thay come era affettuosamente chiamato. Ma d’altra parte, con qualche notizia in più, potrebbe nascere l’interesse ad approfondire la vicenda umana, l’insegnamento, l’impegno per la pace di questo piccolo-grande uomo che ha smesso di camminare sulla Terra nella notte, alle 00.00, del 22.1.22, al Tempio T? Hi?u a Hu?, Vietnam.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 375,2M -Dead: 5,6M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
On 31 Jan 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 375,240,488
Deaths: 5,681,744
Active: 72,013,252
Recovered: 296,534,147
Cases Closed: 302,215,891
Total Vaccinated: 4,802,615,047
Will the Iran Nuclear Agreement Be Restored?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
26 Jan 2022 – An interview with Mojtaba Majidi of the Mehr News Agency (Tehran) on the Vienna Talks that are seeking to restore the Iran Nuclear Agreement of 2015 reached during the Obama presidency.
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The Destruction of Literary Heritage as a Tool in Ethnic Cleansing (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Cultural Genocide: The Intentional Burning of Historically Ancient Books of Bosnia
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Warnings from the Poles
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses worrying recent developments in the Antarctic and the Arctic, which warn us of catastrophic consequences if we neglect urgent climate action. The book may be downloaded free of charge from the following link:
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Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
“Perhaps dreams are an arena that can enable supracognitive powers to perform calculations and perceptions of reality that may be incomprehensible in our wake state.”
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The Clash of Two Civilizations over Human Rights
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022 – It seems that the conflict between the “U.S.-led Western countries (as well as their followers)” and “China” over human rights may be considered as one of the main clashes between these two main civilization spheres in the contemporary world.
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Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh
Paul R. Dekar | Fellowship of Reconciliation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
22 Jan 2022 – The renowned 95-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away, leaving behind a legacy of interconnection.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 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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Us and Them (Music Video of the Week)
℗ Pink Floyd Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
From The Dark Side of the Moon – Released March 1973
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The Illegality of NATO
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022 – Russia understandably fears the eastward expansion of NATO. Recently NATO countries, led by the United States, have supplied arms to Ukraine. There is a threat that the tensions building up in the region will lead to war. Such a development would be catastrophic for the entire world. Against this backdrop, we examine the question of NATO’s illegality.
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Man-Making Universal Education for Justice and Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Dedicated UNESCO International Day of Education 24 January
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International Neutrality Project
Edward J. Horgan | Veterans Global Peace Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
The UN Charter opted for a more pragmatic system of ‘collective security’, a bit like the Three Musketeers – one for all and all for one. The three musketeers became the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, sometimes known as the five policemen, who were tasked with maintaining or enforcing international peace.
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What You Should Really Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022 – These “explainer” pieces are emblematic of Ukraine coverage in the rest of corporate media, which almost universally gave a pro-Western view of US/Russia relations and the history behind them. Media echoed the point of view of those who believe the US should have an active role in Ukrainian politics and enforce its perspective through military threats.
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Germany Blocks NATO Partners from Supplying Their Weapons to Ukraine
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022 – Despite being a lead NATO country and close US ally, it’s become clear Berlin has sought to avoid unnecessarily provoking Moscow, also as the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is soon to come online. German government spokesman reaffirmed “The principle governing arms exports” which “is always the same—whether they come directly from Germany or from third countries—and no permission has been issued at this stage.”
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(Castellano) Borrador de Propuestas para Construir la Paz en Chile
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
20 enero 2022 – Quisiera decir algo concretando unos sueños de paz que han venido a vivir en mi alma, con la finalidad de hacerlos concretos con acciones que mi mente y otras mentes consideran inteligentes, y también con otra finalidad mayor. La finalidad mayor es contribuir a un sueño colectivo que nace, compartido entre numerosos individuos y numerosas instituciones tanto privadas como públicas.
→ read full articleThe Global Elite’s ‘Kill and Control’ Agenda: Destroying Our Food Security
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
31 Jan 2022 – Governments around the world continue to impose an expanding sequence of measures to curtail rights and freedoms ostensibly to tackle a ‘virus’. In response, public demonstrations against these government measures are also ongoing and expanding with truck convoys the latest manifestation of this form of protest.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
8 Jan 2022 – I myself am a victim of COVID and suffer mentally physically. This may be my last article to my good friend Antonio. May God bless him to become healthy and fit.
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Corruption Perceptions Index 2021
Transparency International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
25 Jan 2022 – This year’s Corruption Perceptions Index reveals that corruption levels are at a worldwide standstill. The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the world by their perceived levels of public sector corruption.
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White House Discusses Plans to Send up to 50,000 Troops to Eastern Europe
Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 – Yesterday the New York Times reported that the Biden administration is discussing plans to deploy tens of thousands of troops to the borders of Russia and Ukraine. Despite the administration’s threadbare attempt to present this as a defense of Ukrainian sovereignty against Russia, it is apparent that Washington is preparing a military escalation aiming to provoke Russia, a major nuclear power, into a war.
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Peace Now in Ukraine
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022 – Is a Russian invasion of Ukraine imminent? At the heart of this avoidable catastrophe is Moscow’s concern over the ever-increasing U.S. military threat on its doorstep. Since the Soviet Union fell, the U.S, through its NATO allies, has pushed troops and arms closer to Russia. Grassroots movements must demand peace and diplomacy, now, before the outbreak of war.
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Reincarnation: A Simple Explanation
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Reincarnation is called samsara in the classic Vedic texts of India. The word samsara is Sanskrit and means being bound to the cycle of repeated birth and death through numerous lifetimes. How this works…
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Prof. Johan Galtung’s Concepts of Violence
Profesor Espinoza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
The Violence Triangle
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Freedom
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Blood flowed through their veins.
Shackled and jailed for freedom.
Exploited, oppressed, and subjugated.
Indian heroes and heroines made a sacrifice.
Silence in Communication
Thich Nhat Hanh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Mind you
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Ukraine on Fire
Oliver Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Documentary by Oliver Stone, a guy hated by both left and right, about what happened in Ukraine and Maidan Square in 2014, and the roles played by the Western media and the USA. The origins of the apocalyptic endgame being played over Ukraine now.
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Green Gaslighting: Another Face of Climate Denialism
Vijay Kolinjivadi | Aljazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
25 Jan 2022 – All the talk about ‘net zero’ measures and ‘climate resilience’ investments is just a mass deception. According to the Oxford Dictionaries, the word “gaslighting” means “the action of manipulating someone by psychological means into accepting a false depiction of reality or doubting their own sanity”.
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Iran-Russia Hit Maximum Strategy
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022 – Three ain’t a crowd: The Iran-Russia summit this week, concurrent with RIC military drills in the Sea of Oman, in advance of a Xi-Putin meeting in two weeks, suggests a rapidly-advancing strategic vision for the three Eurasian powers.
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Mr. Xi Plays Davos Man
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – A collective West “led” by unspeakable mediocrities looks at the Russia-China strategic partnership as if it was something like a double-headed Anti-Christ. Xi, for his part, seems not to be impressed.
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All the Wars on the Planet
Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022 – There are 34 wars currently declared in the world; dozens of low-intensity conflicts and situations of crisis; there are 13 UN peacekeeping missions, the permanence of which, often lasting several years, signals states of tension only apparently resolved.
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Asia-Pacific: Just 5% of the Region’s Population Owns 70% of Its Total Wealth
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – The Asia-Pacific region is experiencing growing inequality even while registering impressive economic growth and poverty reduction. Such sharp inequalities continue to be persistent in the region, with nearly 2 in 4 people still unable to afford a healthy diet.
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. With JFK Revisited, Oliver Stone has truly honored this fallen hero.
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Introduction to Conflict Transformation
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Language: Arabic. Author: Abbas Aroua. Publisher: Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – The Arab/Muslim world is one of the regions with the highest densities of conflict in the world (intra- and interstate). Yet it is one of the poorest ones in terms of conflict transformation resources, both theoretical and practical.
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Ukraine-Donbas-Russian Frontier: Is a Non-governmental Interposition Peace Team a Possibility?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
20 Jan 2022 – There are discussions at the UNSC on what could be a U.S.- led response if there were a Russian intervention into Ukraine. While such a Russian intervention seems unlikely, the possibility is being seriously discussed in NATO government circles. Thus it is opportune for non-governmental organizations also to discuss possible measures to prevent conflict and reduce tensions.
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How WHO Chief Tedros Violated UN Rules to Advance TPLF Interests in Ethiopia
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – In leaked audio, UN staffers accuse World Health Organization Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of violating UN code to further the objectives of his political allies in Ethiopia’s conflict.
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(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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A Solitary Bird
St. John of the Cross – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Words of Light and Love
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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.
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.
→ read full articleCOVID 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
‘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