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The Spoils of War
Mary Kaldor | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Andrew Cockburn, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine (Verso) –
A chilling account of how corruption has become institutionalised at the heart of the U.S. war machine with consequences for us all.
Afghanistan Today – Overview
UK Afghanistan Peace Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
20 Years of Occupation by 31 of the Richest Countries in the World –
What has US/UK and NATO occupation achieved? Afghanistan today:
CIA Plan to Poison Assange Wasn’t Needed–the US Found a ‘Lawful’ Way to Disappear Him
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – The reality of Julian Assange’s years of persecution is far worse than even the picture painted by a new investigation of a thuggish, power-mad CIA bent on vengeance for his role in exposing its crimes.
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Use of Fossil Fuels Must Stop
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
The IPCC Report states that, “We need transformational change operating on processes and behavior at all levels: individual, communities, business, institutions and governments. We must redefine our way of life and consumption.”
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Graphics: Major U.S. Military Operations since WW II
CGTN China Global Television Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 -Two decades ago, on 7 Oct 2001, the onset of the U.S. bombing campaign against the Taliban triggered an endless nightmare for Arabs in general and the Afghan people in particular: 5,430,084 deaths and incalculable suffering.
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The Amazon Rainforest Is Losing 200,000 Acres a Day–Soon It Will Be Too Late
Kim Heacox | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – Three days before Christmas, 1988, Brazilian rubber tapper and environmental activist Chico Mendes was shot dead by a rancher’s son. Since his murder, nearly 1 million sq km of the Amazon, an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined, have been destroyed: an average of 200,000 acres every day, or 40 football fields per minute.
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Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
“Often the places we grow up in… influence how we perceive and conceptualize the world, give us metaphors to live by, and shape the purpose that drives us.”
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Kishida Elected as Japan’s PM, Calls Election for October 31
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021 – Fumio Kishida was formally elected as Japan’s prime minister today. A 64-year-old former foreign minister with an image as a consensus builder, he has called a parliamentary election for 31 Oct and promised to bolster the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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An Alien’s View of Life on Earth
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
The author’s reasons for never having been too comfortable on this human level of existence. A different perspective on the peculiarities of what living on this planet and in a human body can be like, and why it may be better to move on.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
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“The further away you are from a problem the more likely you think you have a solution.”
Popular Proverb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Street Wisdom
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Facebook, the Largest Autocracy on Earth
Adrienne LaFrance | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – When a company has all the power of a country itself, it takes on a darker meaning. The basic components of nationhood are land, currency, a philosophy of governance, and people. When you’re an imperialist in the metaverse, you need not worry so much about physical acreage—though Zuckerberg does own 1,300 acres of Kauai, one of the less populated Hawaiian islands. As for the rest of the items on the list, Facebook has them all.
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From Rural Drought to Urban Shortages: Afghanistan’s New Hungry
Shadi Khan and Irwin Loy | The New Humanitarian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – ‘We have cut our grocery expenditures and are trying to consume as little as possible.’ Hunger is rising in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, and the clearest sign may be who’s now struggling to afford food: the educated, urban, and middle-class.
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Consequences
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
A boy brought home a very bad school report.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 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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Florida’s Republican Governor Awards Medal of Freedom to Che Guevara’s Assassin
Michael Stephen Smith | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – After Rodriguez ordered Che be shot, his hands were chopped off and shipped to Langley, but not before he stole the Rolex from Che’s corpse that was meant for the son of one of his compatriots in Bolivia.
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“Eulogy” for James Bond: World Peace Is at Peril
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021 – The Glorious End
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Celebrating the 2021 National Indigenous Peoples Month
Genevieve Balance Kupang | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
10 Oct 2021 – Capitalizing on inclusion, cultural heritage, shared commonalities, and recognition of contribution to the Kiwi community, the New Zealand tangata whenua (locals) welcomed indigenous peoples from the Philippines and other migrants who work in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
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The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Steven Donziger to six months in prison Friday [1 Oct]. Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital.
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COVID World Data -Total: 238,6M -Dead: 4,8M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
On 11 Oct 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 238,652,927
Deaths: 4,867,295
Active: 24,459,776
Recovered: 215,856,036
Cases Closed: 220,723,331
Total Vaccinated: 3,664,224,352
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
(Português) Nove Vezes em que Woody Harrelson Promoveu o Veganismo ou os Direitos Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
21 set 2021 – Sem se alimentar de animais há mais de 30 anos, o ator vegano Woody Harrelson tem utilizado há muito tempo a sua influência para motivar mais pessoas a considerarem o veganismo, os direitos animais e a preservação do meio ambiente.
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Israel "IZ" KamakawiwoʻOle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
The Hawaii state flag flew at half-staff on July 10, 1997, the day of his funeral attended by some ten thousand people. Thousands of fans gathered as his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean at Mākua Beach in Hawai’i two days later. The funeral and the scattering of ashes were featured in this music video released posthumously.
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What Went Right This Week: Historic Malaria Vaccine for Africa Gets Go-Ahead, plus more Positive News
Sarah LaBrecque | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – The WHO gave the nod for a malaria vaccine to be rolled out to much of Africa, an indigenous group officially named a new species for the first time, and a global citizens’ assembly was announced for Cop26, plus.
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A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021 – Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are extracting it economically without ecological damage.
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Integrating Ouroboros and Yi Jing as Fundamental Symbols in 3D
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Dynamics of Change Indicated in Virtual Reality by a Torus of 64 Hexagrams – Curiously the imaginative anticipation of the organization of a possible future by different cultures involves a change of metaphor from “global” to “toroidal.”
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A Buddhist Perspective on Gandhi and Nonviolence
Dr. A.T Ariyaratne | Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Facebook Live, Tue 5 Oct 2021, 11:30 am (GMT)
In Celebration of Mahatma Gandhi’s 2 Oct Birth Anniversary
The True Cost of the Military-Industrial Complex
Our Changing Climate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The environmental and social costs of militarism with a focus on the US military industrial complex as the biggest military in the world. How the military is a massive polluter in terms of both emissions and chemical waste. The video connects environmental destruction with military imperialism and concludes that demilitarization is the only truly effective answer to the carbon footprint of the military.
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Lending Legitimacy to a Murderous Military: What Is in the “Stateless” Label for Rohingyas?
Natalie Brinham and Ali Johar | University of Melbourne - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Oct 2021 – Critiquing the widely accepted understanding of “statelessness” as a rights claim, the authors call our attention to the ways in which labelling the Rohingya ethnic community as stateless undermines belonging and legitimises the power of the Myanmar military to exclude.
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Jesus, Judas and Che Guevara
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Che Guevara, of the Bolivia diaries and the brilliant movie based on them, was assassinated by the CIA on 9 Oct 1967. In an interview in the early 60s he conveyed to this author his disappointment that his respected Fidel privileged Soviet support against a US attack, and the Soviets wanted raw sugar in return for their industrial goods.
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Problems with Capitalism
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
We need a new economic system. Capitalism is driving us towards disaster.
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The Conceit of U.S. Indispensability
Sam Klug | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
In recent years debates about U.S. foreign policy have been haunted by the history of the 1940s. Donald Trump resurrected the “America First” slogan, associated with the far right during World War II. As both politicians and historians mine for alternate visions of international order, we must guard against the presumption that the United States remains the benevolent center of global politics.
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USA’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict.
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“Avoid the tyranny of the law. Obedience keeps the rules, but love knows when to break them.”
Anthony de Mello – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Anthony de Mello, also known as Tony de Mello, [4 Sep 1931 – 2 Jun 1987] was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A spiritual teacher, writer, and public speaker, de Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hosted numerous spiritual retreats and conferences.
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(Italiano) La devastante tecno-privatizzazione del mondo
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
1 Ottobre 2021 – In prossimità dell’inizio della terza edizione del Festival della Nonviolenza e della Resistenza Civile proponiamo un recente articolo sulle imprese spaziali che potrebbero anche coinvolgere Torino, come testo di riflessione e di sintesi su temi che saranno affrontati da diverse angolature nelle giornate del Festival.
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Europe after Angela Merkel: Is the Atlantic Era Over?
James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
29 Sep 2021 – Any answer must begin with France’s role in the EU and include the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Pfizer, Moderna Eye Windfall Profits as COVID Booster Rollout Begins
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – One analyst predicted COVID boosters alone will bring in about $26 billion in global sales next year for Pfizer — that splits profits with BioNTech — and around $14 billion for Moderna.
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The Secret Philosophy of Bonsai Trees
Tim Brinkhof | Big Think - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.
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Killing Off Humanity: How the Global Elite Is Using Eugenics and Transhumanism to Shape Our Future
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – The world as we knew it has ended. If we are to recover the vaguest semblance of what we once had and, hopefully, an even better version of it, we have a monumental struggle ahead of us. So our choice is simple. Resist, strategically, as outlined above or watch Earth being depopulated to a planet of cyborg slaves.
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(Italiano) Intervista con Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Settembre 2021 – In prossimità dell’inizio della terza edizione del Festival della Nonviolenza e della Resistenza Civile, presentiamo un’intervista a Vandana Shiva per una riflessione e una sintesi sui temi che saranno affrontati da diverse angolature nelle giornate del Festival.
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Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The Final Nemesis of Humanoids
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 235,7M -Dead: 4,8M-Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
On 4 Oct 2021 (7am GMT):
Total Cases: 235,730,535
Deaths: 4,816,145
Active: 24,790,506
Recovered: 212,609,370
Cases Closed: 217,425,515
Total Vaccinated: 3,589,157,141
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 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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China’s ‘Hostage Diplomacy’ Wins: Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou Flies Home a National Heroine after Her Release from Detention in Canada
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – Big crowds greeted Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou’s arrival back in China, which believes its show of strength against the USA forced Washington to back down in this three-year standoff.
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Ode to a Dove
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Everyday, a gentle dove comes to visit.
he perches his head and stares at me.
Trying to give me a message.
Adiya Sutta – Benefits to Be Obtained from Wealth
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Then Anathapindika the householder went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said to him: “There are these five benefits that can be obtained from wealth. Which five?
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Indigenous People of Brazil Fight for Their Future
Nick Estes | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
17 Sep 2021 – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear what he wanted to build, but he knew exactly who and what he wanted to destroy: the Indigenous people and the Amazon rainforest respectively.
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Imagine (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Please click on Watch on YouTube and ENJOY!
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The NYT’s Partisan Tale about COVID and the Unvaccinated Is Rife with Sloppy Data Analysis
Jeremy Beckham | Outside Voices - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021 – The Times’ piece on “Red Covid” obscures the reality of the pandemic and manipulates data in favor of a self-congratulatory liberalism.
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War on Terror Film Festival
Coalition for Civil Freedoms – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The War on Terror Film Festival will run on five weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) beginning Friday, October 1 and ending Sunday, October 31. Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, Mohamedou Slahi, Michael Moore and many others.
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US Lawyer Who Sued Chevron Sentenced to 6 Months in Contempt Case
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021 – Disbarred American lawyer Steven Donziger, who spent more than two decades battling Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, has been sentenced to six months in prison on contempt charges.
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Lives in the 19th Century
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – Human History as Cultural History – I announce the publication of a book that presents many aspects of science and culture during the 19th century. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
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Mansoor Adayfi: Detainee #441, Lost and Found at Guantánamo
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – Yemeni-born Mansoor Adayfi, or “Detainee #441,” was held for 14 years, until 2016. He is now living in exile in Serbia, where the U.S. forced him to relocate despite having no connection to the country. Adayfi’s memoir has just been published. “I was sold to the CIA and was taken to the black site, where I was tortured for over two months.”
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U.S. Litany of Lethal Lies
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – The latest US drone strike that obliterated a family in Afghanistan was a heinous crime. A “Hellfire” missile fired from a “Reaper” drone obliterated the Corolla and the 10 dead included Ahmadi and three of his children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 13, as well as his cousin, Ahmad 30, and three of Ahmadi’s nephews, Arwin, seven, Benyamin, six, and Hayat, two and two three-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya.
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The Myth of Green Capitalism
Katharina Pistor | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
It is perfectly understandable that major corporations and private financial institutions would rally behind new disclosure standards and other market-based measures to address climate change. It is an approach that allows the owners of capital yet another way to avoid a real reckoning. If business and finance leaders were serious, they would recognize the need to change course drastically to ensure that this planet remains hospitable for all of humanity now and in the future.
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Václav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
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CIA Officials under Trump Discussed Assassinating Julian Assange – Report
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – Mike Pompeo and officials requested ‘options’ for killing Assange following WikiLeaks’ publication of CIA hacking tools, report says.
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Good Riddance… Afghanistan Wins
Paper Cartoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
One more down.
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Nobel Literature 2005 Acceptance Speech by Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading – as a last resort – all other justifications having failed to justify themselves – as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.
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The Doomsday Clock
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival – Prospects for decent long-term survival are not high unless there is a significant change of course. A large share of the responsibility is in our hands — the opportunities as well.
→ read full articleThe UN after 75: A Mixed Record of Disappointment and Fulfillment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
UN: Does It Punch above Its Weight? Can pressures toward unity and global public good remake a UN oriented and empowered to serve the human interest rather than national ones or geopolitics? Its contribution is in symbolic politics, as ‘a soft power superpower,’ its Secretary General being almost alone as a respected voice of reason and empathy or a gentle critic of geopolitical excess.
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(Português) 88 Bilhões de Animais São Abatidos para Consumo por Ano
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
25 set 2021 – Isso Equivale a mais de 11 Vezes a População Humana Global
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
And people look up to them. The joke is on whom, exactly?
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John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. John met Paul McCartney in 1957 and invited him to join his music group. They eventually formed the most successful songwriting partnership in musical history. Lennon left the Beatles in 1969. On December 8, 1980, he was killed by a crazed fan named Mark David Chapman.
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Pandora Papers: Biggest Ever Leak of Offshore Data Exposes Financial Secrets of Rich and Powerful
Guardian investigations team - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – The secret deals and hidden assets of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people have been revealed in the biggest trove of leaked offshore data in history: More than 100 billionaires, 30 world leaders and 300 public officials.
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Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Born in London, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Free Julian Assange!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
CIA Plotted to Kidnap and Assassinate Assange! What the US and UK are doing to Julian Assange for exposing the crimes of empire is criminal. A free society stands on freedom of the press, speech, and dissent. We all need to speak out for his freedom. If not, we’re next!
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Child’s Gaze
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The child is gazing at us
Looking for help from us
Ethiopian Mystery: The Case of the 428 Disappearing Food Aid Trucks
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
29 Sep 2021 – For nearly a year, warmonger and USAID administrator Samantha Power has been shrieking about famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray, and demanding the humanitarian corridor that 428 massive food aid trucks have now mysteriously disappeared into.
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The Poison Cartel Is Poisoning the World, Driving Species to Extinction, and Contributing to Hunger
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
1 Aug 2021 Pachamama Day – The web of life is a food web woven by Pachamama through her self-organization, creativity, generative power and regeneration. Food is the flow that embodies our relationship to the earth, materially, biologically, nutritionally, ecologically. Food is the currency of life which flows from biodiversity in living soil, through plants and insects, to sustain the biodiversity in our gut microbiome.
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Second October — A day of Peace, Harmony
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Most people would know that this was the day Gandhi was born in 1869. This day, 2 October, is now internationally recognised as the International day of Nonviolence and for promoting Peace, Justice and Harmony. For a person like me, I feel proud that I was born in the country of Gandhiji.
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Reacting to Crime by Waging War(s) – 9/11+9/12: Compounding Tragedy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
20/22 Sep 2021 – Greater transformative effects resulted from 9/12 than the tragic events of 9/11 due to the vengeful recklessness of the U.S. response. It is a reflection of the deficiencies of political pedagogy and journalistic priorities in the US that despite all that has happened at home and abroad in the course of the last twenty years virtually no distinct attention is given to 9/12.
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India State of 241 Million People Declared COVID-free after Government Promotes Ivermectin
Infowars - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
18 Sep 2021 – The state of Uttar Pradesh in India, which has the equivalent of 2/3 of the U.S. population, has been declared COVID-free. There are no more active cases of coronavirus in the 33 districts, the state government announced.
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Covid Vaccines and Cancer
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
25 Sep 2021 – Can Covid vaccines cause cancer? In some cases, the answer appears to be yes. They can cause a temporary immune suppression or immune dysregulation and could potentially trigger sudden tumor growth and cancer in the weeks following vaccination. Of note, lymphocytopenia has also been frequently observed in cases of severe covid.
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Biden Threatens Sweeping Sanctions on Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Responds
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
22 Sep 2021 – The U.S. is once again attempting to overthrow a legitimate head of state in Africa, this time in Ethiopia, where they want to put their old puppet, the TPLF, or a new one, in power.
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ShadowDragon: Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software That Can Watch Your Every Move
Michael Kwet | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – A Michigan State Police contract obtained by The Intercept sheds new light on the use of a little-known surveillance software that helps law enforcement and corporations watch people’s social media and other activities—the product of a growing industry.
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“Last Warning, They Want to Take Control!”
Edward Snowden | Inner Vision – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
27 Jun 2021 – Edward Snowden explains how the government is taking advantage of the people, stealing their information and storing it in a secret data center. He tells about his experience working at the CIA, NSA, and FBI as a contractor. Snowden further suggests that we need to take action against mass surveillance.
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Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines
American Journal of Therapeutics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Repurposed medicines may have a role against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The antiparasitic Ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, has now been tested in numerous clinical trials.
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The Meaning of the FDA Resignations
Jeffrey A. Tucker | Brownstone Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
14 Sep 2021 – How significant is it that the two top US Food and Drug Administration officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters? This is a remarkable sign that the project of government-managed virus mitigation is in the final stages before falling apart.
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Protesters around the World Target Global Corporate Food Empire, Demand UN Cut Ties with World Economic Forum
Sustainable Pulse - TRANSCEND Media Servce,
27 Sep 2021
23 Sep 2021 – People’s movements and civil society groups say the United Nations Food Systems Summit is a platform for consolidating corporate control over food and agriculture, and perpetuating neoliberal food systems that wreak havoc on the lives of small food producers, who supply 80% of the world’s food.
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How Big Corporations and Bill Gates Took Over the UN Food Summit
Nils McCune and Camila Escalante | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
24 Sep 2021 – Large corporations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took over the UN Food Systems Summit, abandoning small farmers on behalf of Big Ag companies, endangering food sovereignty.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
A boy asks, “Father, where is the equator?”
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Bayer Forced to Change Roundup Label, Pay $39.5 Million for Misleading Advertising
Sustainable Pulse | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
22 Sep 2021 – Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, agreed to settle the case of Lisa Jones et al. v. Monsanto Company for $39.5 million, and will make changes to the Roundup product label.
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Huge Hack Reveals Embarrassing Details of Who’s Behind Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Websites
Drew Harwell, Craig Timberg and Hannah Allam | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – Extremism researchers and political opponents have treated the leak as a Rosetta Stone to the far-right, helping them to decode who has been doing what with whom over several years.
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Pegasus Project: All the Articles
Forbidden Stories | Global Investigative Journalism Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – Forbidden Stories Gathered All the Articles from the Pegasus Project Here
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The Profits of War: How Corporations Won the War on Terror
William Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented: a staggering $8 trillion. Who has benefited most from such an orgy of military spending has received far less attention, however. -How U.S. Corporations Cashed in on the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge-
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The Difference (Gandhi’s Birthday Music Video of the Week)
Peter Gonsalves – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
A Sing-Along Anthem for Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary – “You be the change you want to see.”
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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence Arms Race
Dan Cohen | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. How the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the possibility of a devastating war.
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Ela Gandhi | Nonviolence Radio - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – The granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi discusses growing up in her family’s intentional community and the importance of self-sufficiency.
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The Good War
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
What for?
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Twenty Years in a Security State: CIA Goes into the Torture Business
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
20 Sep 2021 – CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou was asked in July 2002 if he wanted to be trained in “enhanced interrogation techniques.” He was one of 14 people invited to learn how to apply these torture methods who declined the offer. “I had a moral and ethical problem with them. I had a legal problem with them. Besides being immoral and unethical, to me, they were clearly illegal. We have very clear laws and are signatories to international treaties that ban this kind of behavior,”
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Haitians Fleeing “Unacceptable Misery” Greeted by Whips and Shackles at U.S. Border
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
23 Sep 2021 – Images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping Haitian asylum seekers as they waded across the Rio Grande River into Texas shocked the world this week. After as many as 15,000 refugees arrived, sheltering under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, President Biden responded with an aggressive deportation campaign.
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War of Terror: Legal Colonialism Reincarnated
Azeezah Kanji | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
18 Sep 2021 – Did 9/11 really open a ‘new’ chapter in U.S. history? What we are told to “never forget” and what we are made to “always forget” are two sides of the same operation of power. And so the colonial present continues, inscribing each new chapter of violence as if it was the first.
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Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
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(Italiano) Invertire la marcia verso l’auto-distruzione?
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Sì, è ancora possibile invertire la marcia verso l’auto-distruzione. Oggi non esistono più i conflitti d’interesse che hanno creato l’insostenibile mondo odierno.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the U.S. Empire–And Then What?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system in macro-space and macro-time with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery: economically, exploiters/exploited as inequity; militarily, killers/victims as enforcement; politically, dominators/dominated as repression; culturally, alienators/alienated as conditioning. Empires have different profiles.
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Clear Away the Hype: The U.S. and Australia Signed a Nuclear Arms Deal, Simple as That
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
On 15 Sep 2021, the heads of government of Australia, UK and USA announced the formation of AUKUS, “a new enhanced trilateral security partnership” between the three countries. While not explicitly mentioned, countering China is the unstated motivation for the new partnership.
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“A man who doesn’t read the newspaper is uninformed. A man who reads the newspaper is misinformed.”
Mark Twain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced,” and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”.
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(Italiano) 11 settembre: quanti sono?
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
Perché ci dimentichiamo che gli 11 settembre (famosi) sono 3?
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U.S. Militarism’s Toxic Impact on Climate Policy
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
23 Sep 2021 – The U.S. failure to address climate change and how our government’s militaristic priorities are still diverting it from confronting the real existential crisis that threatens us all.
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