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An Illustrated Love Letter to Rivers
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
A painted landscape of fact and feeling along the flow of existence.
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Africa and the War on Terror
Elizabeth Schmidt | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
To understand the war on terror in Africa, it must be placed in historical context. At the close of WWII, the Cold War intensified and African struggles for independence escalated. European colonial powers and Cold War superpowers attempted to control the decolonization process. Western powers deployed military might to promote friendly governments that catered to their own political and economic interests and justified their interventions with the “communist threat.”
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Meet the Real-Life Devil’s Advocate Battling Australian Courts on Behalf of Satan after Religious Education ‘Got His Goat’
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
7 Sep 2021 – Trevor Bell, the first Advocatus Diaboli of the Noosa Temple of Satan, is currently leading litigation challenging religious teaching in Queensland schools, and “the Christian stranglehold over Australia’s government and society.”
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Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites.
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Enabling the “New Normal” through “Renormalization”
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
The pandemic highlighted widespread concern with the possibility of conditions returning to “normal”. This is now framed as “the light at the end of the tunnel”. Recognition that it is becoming unreasonable to expect to return to that old “normal” — whether or not that is desirable — discussion has however shifted to understanding the nature of the so-called “new normal”
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Mary’s Room: A Philosophical Thought Experiment
Eleanor Nelsen | TED-Ed - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Imagine a neuroscientist who has only ever seen black and white things, but she is an expert in color vision and knows everything about its physics and biology. If, one day, she sees color, does she learn anything new? Is there anything about perceiving color that wasn’t captured in her knowledge?
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Military Space Report
Northrop Grumman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Military Doom & Gloom News
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Israel, Global Pioneer in Vaccine Mandates and “Passports,” Has World’s Highest Infection Rate
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
2 Sep 2021 – Israel is reporting the highest coronavirus infection rate in the world, showing that neither vaccine mandates nor “vaccine passports” are suitable means to limit or end the pandemic.
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Costs of War Project – Sep 2021
Watson Institute | Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
• Over 929,000 people died from violence in post-9/11 wars; several times as many from effects of war
• Over 387,000 civilians killed
• 38 million refugees and displaced persons
• US price tag over $8 trillion
• US government leads counterterror in 85 countries
• Wars caused violations of human rights and civil liberties in U.S. and abroad
Afghanistan Is Not the End
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – As Karl Marx put it, spending money on the military is like throwing money into the sea. It produces nothing of value. And eventually an economy that produces nothing of value will crash from its own internal contradiction. This is the contradiction that led Johan Galtung to predict the end of the American Empire by the year 2020.
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Over Two Decades, U.S.’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – The U.S.-led global war on terror has killed nearly 1 million people globally and cost more than $8 trillion since it began two decades ago. These staggering figures come from a landmark report issued today by Brown University’s Costs of War Project, an ongoing research effort to document the economic and human impact of post-9/11 military operations.
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Crime and Punishment in Afghanistan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
29 Aug 2021 – Atrocity in Kabul, Geopolitical Crime in Washington
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Patents: Controlling Knowledge to Extract Wealth
Rod Driver | ElephantsInTheRoom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
There has been a lot of pressure from advanced nations to strengthen patent laws in all poor countries to bring them into line with the US and European systems. Rich countries control most of the world’s patents, so they receive almost all of the royalties.
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The Empire Does Not Forgive
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
30 Aug 2021 – The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan. The Taliban is about to be confronted with the wrath of a wounded empire. The Cuban, Vietnamese, Iranian, Venezuelan and Haitian governments know what comes next. It isn’t pretty. It will be paid for by the poorest and most vulnerable Afghans. Joe Biden: “We will not forgive, we will not forget, we will hunt you down and make you pay.”
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On Propaganda and Failed Narratives: New Understanding of Afghanistan Is a Must
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – Afghanistan is now in urgent need of a government that truly represents the people of that country. This is the true national narrative of Afghanistan that must be nurtured outside the confines of the self-serving Western mischaracterization of Afghanistan and her people.
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Are We Human? Are We Free? Defeating the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ before It Destroys Us
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
For most people, 2020 will be remembered as the year of the ‘virus’ and 2021 will be remembered as the year of the ‘vaccine’. What most people will probably never know is that 2021 is shaping to be the year in which humanity and freedom are both destroyed. If you wish to play a vital role in their defence, you are invited to undertake the actions indicated on these flyers, and share them with those who you think might be interested.
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Afghanistan Shows White Privilege in Action on the Geopolitical Stage
Chandran Nair | The Diplomat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
3 Sep 2021 – The rapid collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan and the consequent yet predictable torrent of responses from Western media and politicians demonstrated just how entrenched the Western worldview in projecting its “right” to be the leaders of the world. Western exceptionalism and privilege have long been entrenched in geopolitics – and war.
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‘Horror Scene’: Anger as US Drone Attack Kills Afghan Children
Ali M Latifi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
The Ahmadi and Nejrabi families had packed all their belongings, waiting for word to be escorted to Kabul airport and moved to the United States. The Sunday [29 Aug] afternoon drone attack, which the US claimed was conducted on an Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP, or ISIS-K) target, killed 10 members of the families, ranging from two to 40 years old.
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The Experts Weigh In
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
This Modern World – 23 Aug 2021
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New York Times Cites US Torturer Michael Chertoff on Chinese “Repression”
Andre Damon | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
A Case Study in “Human Rights Imperialism” – There is one source quoted in the 1,500-word editorial, a report by Freedom House, an organization the Times says nothing about: “Freedom House receives 90 percent of its funding from the US government. Its current chairman is Michael Chertoff, who served as US Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, and co-authored the USA Patriot Act, which justified mass illegal surveillance, torture, and the assassination of American citizens. Chertoff has been accused of war crimes.”
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Distraction
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
A man came to the emergency room with both ears bandaged. The doctor asked him what had happened.
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(Italiano) Nuovo Inizio
Enrico Peyretti | Constituente Terra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
30 agosto 2021 – L’orrore degli attentati e il dramma dei profughi afghani mostrano quanto sia alto il prezzo della rotta americana a Kabul, e non solo per l’America. Essa è stata assimilata alla fuga da Saigon dell’aprile 1975. In realtà è stata molto di più e molto più grande è la sua forza simbolica come evento capace di segnare una periodizzazione della storia in due tempi opposti e diversi tra un’epoca che finisce e un’altra che comincia.
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The Future Is a Landscape
John Michael Greer | Ecosophia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
I’ve been reflecting of late about the way that our habitual expectations about change blind us to the way that change actually happens. One of the most important of these is the frankly weird but pervasive notion that the future is a single place, where only one kind of thing happens. It’s always “The Future,” very much in the singular.
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AFRICOM in the Congo
Kambale Musavuli | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – The US military has operated in the Congo for a long time doing covert operations in South Sudan and Central African Republic. Their current engagement is not covert and highly arrogant after being the military that has trained Rwanda and Uganda, which invaded the Congo twice killing over 6 million people. AFRICOM arrived in the Congo ostensibly to fight ISIS; we can be sure they will do more to support the US looting of the Congo’s wealth than stopping terrorism.
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How the US Created a World of Endless War
Samuel Moyn | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – In 2008, many of Barack Obama’s supporters hoped he would bring the global war on terror to a close. Instead, he expanded it – and his successors have done nothing to change course.
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Don’t Give Up on Your Dreams (Music Video of the Week)
Takako Okamura | high note Music Lounge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Out-of-the-Box from Japan – Enjoy!
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Accepting the Seasons of Life
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Celebrating Spring in South Africa
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Worrying about Your Carbon Footprint Is Exactly What Big Oil Wants You to Do
Auden Schendler | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – In 2004, BP hired the public relations firm Ogilvy & Mather to improve its image by conveying the message that consumers of oil and natural gas bear the responsibility for their greenhouse gas emissions, not the producers of the oil and gas they use. The result was BP’s ingenious carbon footprint calculator, which allows individuals to calculate the carbon emissions that result from their activities. It’s “about helping you to go carbon neutral — reducing and offsetting your carbon footprint,” BP says on its “target neutral” website.
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7 Lies about Afghanistan
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
In covering the fall of Kabul, the Western media are mindlessly repeating seven lies of Western propaganda. By misrepresenting the history of Afghanistan, they mask the crimes committed in that country and make it impossible to foresee the fate that Washington has written for it.
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What Went Right This Week: Taming Big Tech to Protect Kids, plus…
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
2 Sep 2021 – A digital privacy code for children came into effect in the UK, campaigners delayed an oil drilling project in Scotland, bearded vultures had a record season in Spain, plus.
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Afghan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
30 Aug 2021 – Even as UN agencies warn of an impending humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the U.S. Treasury has frozen the Afghan Central Bank’s $9.4 billion in foreign currency reserves, depriving the new government of funds that it will desperately need in the coming months. Under pressure from the Biden administration, the IMF decided not to release $450 million to Afghanistan to cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
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His Master’s Voice, His Master’s Eyes, and His Master’s Ears
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
The Colonial Legacy of the Controlling Master Perpetuates in the 21st Century
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Leo Tolstoy (9 Sep 1828 – 20 Nov 1910)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most-diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ endure as the summit of realist fiction.
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When Did Time Really Begin? The Little Loophole in the Big Bang
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
A pleasurable warping of the figuring faculty to contemplate what was there before the before.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 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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For the US, India Is Little More Than a Pawn to Be Deployed against China – Not a Nation to Be Respected on Its Own Terms
Maitreya Bhakal | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – The US is desperate to recruit allies in its hybrid war against China, and highly covets New Delhi – which has its own issues with Beijing – as a useful partner. So why is Washington so unhelpful and discourteous to its ally?
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Bolsonaro Is Destroying Mental Health Care to Favor Evangelicals
Ana Clara Telles and Gabriela Barros de Luca | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – His assault on public mental health services will hurt Black Brazilians the most and benefit evangelical centres.
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Blowback: Taliban Target US Intel’s Shadow Army
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
27 Aug 2021 – The Kabul Airport bombing shows there are shadowy forces in Afghanistan, willing to disrupt a peaceful transition after US troops leave. But what about US intel’s own ‘shadow army,’ amassed over two decades of occupation? Who are they, and what is their agenda?
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The Media Is Lambasting Biden over Afghanistan. He Should Stand Firm
Bhaskar Sunkara | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
29 Aug 2021 – The president was right to withdraw the US from Afghanistan – and he’s being skewered for it. Joe Biden did something good – and the media want to kill him for it. He should embrace their scorn and defend his actions to the American people.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
For those of us active in peacebuilding, the Afghan situation requires evaluation and a willingness to consider new approaches. We can say now that military forces are not trained or socialized to bring about democratic liberal societies. However, we may have to be clearer on what peacebuilding measures could have made a real difference in such complex and divided societies as Afghanistan.
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Open Letter and Challenge for Rachel Maddow (Full text previously censored by Medium)
Diane Perlman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Ivermectin: Truth or Consequences
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Our Welcoming Country
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Ancient though our country may be
With scholarship in various areas
Such as philosophy, medicine, even archery
But in Tokyo Olympic, India in the bottom category
COVID World Data -Total: 221,6M -Dead: 4,5M -Survival Rate: 98%.
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
On 6 Sep 2021 (12pm GMT):
Total Cases: 221,644,581
Deaths: 4,584,007
Active: 25,039,264
Recovered: 198,169,140
Cases Closed: 202,753,147
Total Vaccinated: 3,180,767,034
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
(Italiano) Dall’Afghanistan all’India. Dalle tragedie mediatizzate a quelle trascurate
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
2 Settembre 2021 – In questi giorni convulsi, in cui l’attenzione del mondo è focalizzata sulla tragedia in corso in Afghanistan, si parla molto di Russia, Cina, USA, Europa, paesi del Mediterraneo…
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Arundhati Roy on America’s Fiery, Brutal Impotence
Arundhati Roy | The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
3 Sep 2021 – The US leaves Afghanistan humiliated, but now faces bigger worries, from social polarisation to environmental collapse. If empires and their outposts need to plunder the Earth to maintain their hegemony, it doesn’t matter if the plundering is driven by American, European, Chinese or Indian capital. These are not really the conversations that we should be having. Because while we’re busy talking, the Earth is busy dying.
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Amazon: In the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to Fire and Deforestation
Georgina Gustin | Inside Climate News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – A new report finds that up to 85 percent of threatened animal and plant species have had their habitat damaged by mining, agriculture or logging.
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(Français) L’Afghanistan N’Est Pas la Fin
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sept. 2021 – Comme l’a dit Karl Marx, dépenser de l’argent pour l’armée, c’est comme jeter de l’argent à la mer. Il ne produit pas de valeur. Et finalement, une économie qui ne produit pas de valeur s’effondrera à cause de sa propre contradiction interne. C’est la contradiction qui ont conduit Johan Galtung à prédire la fin de l’empire américain d’ici 2020.
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Rampage School Shootings in USA
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
The Crisis of School Violence: A New Perspective, by Marianna King, Michigan State University Press – The book elaborates on the connection between exposure to violent video games and rampage shootings including recent neuroscientific research about how the brain responds to violent video games, revealing that youth violence, bullying and rampage shootings peaked in 1993, the year following the widespread popularity of first-person shooter games.
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Vaccine Refusers Don’t Get to Dictate Terms Anymore
Juliette Kayyem | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
29 Aug 2021 – People who opt out of shots shouldn’t expect their employers, health insurers, and fellow citizens to accommodate them.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research and The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
U.S. Psychology’s Unfinished Journey from 9/11
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
3 Sep 2021 – As the upcoming anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the APA’s ethics reforms that constrain the involvement of psychologists in national security detention and interrogation operations still remain in place. But they are fragile and under assault. Particularly worrisome in this regard is the growth of a specialized domain within “operational psychology”—one where individuals are targeted for harm rather than healing; where voluntary informed consent is absent; and where activities are conducted in classified settings beyond the ready reach of outside ethical oversight.
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – US Slips out of Kabul but Is Vengeful
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“Those who can give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first United States Postmaster General. Wikipedia
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Lord Krishna: Symbol of Love, Compassion, Wisdom and Mischief
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
30 Aug 2021 – The lunar day that Krishna (Gopal) was born is known as Krishnan Janmastami that this year falls on Aug 30–today. The wisdom shared by Krishna to Arjun is enunciated in the Hindu epic Bhagwad Gita, which is a source of the meaning of life — both material and spiritual. Krishna is considered as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu and his features or aspects are countless and endearing.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
The argument here is provoked by the single-issue modelling of the global pandemic and the consensus to which it has given rise regarding universal vaccination as “doing the right thing” and “for the benefit of all” — with zero consideration of alternative possibilities. Not only are these alternatives absent from public discourse, but any efforts at their articulation are reframed as misleadingly associated with misinformation — therefore requiring vigorous suppression, and censorship of those promoting such methodological consideration.
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Debacle in Afghanistan
Tariq Ali | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – The fall of Kabul to the Taliban on 15 August 2021 is a major political and ideological defeat for the American Empire. The crowded helicopters carrying US Embassy staff to Kabul airport were startlingly reminiscent of the scenes in Saigon – now Ho Chi Minh City – in April 1975. The speed with which Taliban forces stormed the country was astonishing; their strategic acumen remarkable. A week-long offensive ended triumphantly in Kabul.
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Are You a Seeker of Truth or a Believer in Lies?
Michael J. Talmo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021 – Truth, facts, and individual freedom don’t seem very important these days. As the COVID-19 epidemic rages on, our little blue planet is drowning in a sea of lies, oppression, and propaganda. Day after day, our weary brains are being saturated with case numbers, death totals, and supposedly overcrowded hospitals while governments and private businesses are coercing and bullying us into taking so called vaccines that are killing and permanently disabling who knows how many tens of thousands. We are told that we must bow to the voice of authority and give up our freedom lest we be accused of being selfish and murdering our fellow earthlings.
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2 Things Mainstream Media Didn’t Tell You about FDA’s Approval of Pfizer Vaccine
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr and Meryl Nass, M.D. | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Aug 2021 – Buried in the fine print of yesterday’s approval by the U.S. FDA of the Pfizer Comirnaty COVID vaccine are two critical facts that affect whether the vaccine can be mandated, and whether Pfizer can be held liable for injuries. The FDA is playing bait and switch with the American public. If it doesn’t say Comirnaty, you have not been offered an approved vaccine.
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Everything Went Wrong in Afghanistan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 – In the post-colonial world, the military superiority of Western intervening powers has proved unable to shape the political outcomes of non-Western sovereign spaces, especially if they have unresolved tribal and ethnic conflicts, warlordism, and drug cartels. In Afghanistan, this proved to be once again validated, despite trillions of dollars spent in devastating parts of the country.
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US-Afghanistan August 15, 2021: Eight Conclusions and the Mean Words “What Was It We Said All the Time”?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
17 Aug 2021 – Back then, after September 11, 2001, in Washington and New York, everybody talked about who could have done it, how they did it and with what means. The only thing never brought to the fore was: WHY would somebody want to do something like 9/11 to the United States of America?
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The Story of Solutions
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal. What if the goal of our economy wasn’t more, but better — better health, better jobs and a better chance to survive on the planet? Shouldn’t that be what winning means?
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Pfizer/FDA: 95% Deception?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – How the US FDA “fully approved” the Pfizer vaccine while still excluding product liability.
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Catastrophe in Afghanistan: U.S. Wrecks another Country Thinking It’s Playing the ‘Great Game’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Aug 2021 – As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
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It Is Past Time to Call the Violence against Rohingya Genocide
Myra Dahgaypaw | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – Today marks four years since the Myanmar military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya, a mostly Muslim minority. Under the banner of a “clearance operation”, Rohingya women were abused and raped, and men, women and children were ruthlessly killed. The international community have to officially declare the events of August 2017 genocide to prevent further crimes by the Myanmar military.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 217,2M -Dead: 4,5M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
On 30 Aug 2021 (12pm GMT):
Total Cases: 217,293,229
Deaths: 4,516,835
Active: 24,573,570
Recovered: 194,205,034
Cases Closed: 198,721,869
Total Vaccinated: 3,128,591,289
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”
Harry Truman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945.
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The Tokyo Tribunal: Precedent for Victor’s Justice II
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
This paper aims to find out the situations of the investigation, prosecution and punishment, and analyse the preference for justice: victor’s justice or victim’s justice. During World War II, anti-communist Emperor Hirohito actively led Japan decorated by the Army’s uniform but pretended to be a ceremonial Emperor making scapegoats to his opponents.
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Atmospheric CO2 Levels Haven’t Been This High in 800,000 Years: NOAA
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – Based on contributions of more than 530 scientists from 60 countries, the latest report by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found Earth’s atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and sea levels both hit record highs in 2020.
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A Photograph and Its Meaning
Gary Corseri short interview with Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Note: My American friend, Robert Kowalczyk, a retired Professor and Department Chair at Kindai University, Osaka, Japan, was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, working in Seoul, South Korea, during the Vietnam War. “Can you tell me more about this photo, this image? How did you compose it?” “I always feel the best images compose themselves, that’s how they stay alive.”
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(Italiano) Noi siamo con il popolo afghano e col senso autentico della libertà
Giampiero Leo, Claudio Torrero e Paolo Candelari | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
17 Agosto 2021 – Il precipitare della situazione in Afghanistan, in tempi più celeri di qualsiasi immaginazione, ci induce a essere più che mai a fianco del popolo afghano – un popolo che da più di quarant’anni è dentro al tunnel della guerra; e a rivolgere un triplice appello. Perché noi siamo con il popolo afghano e col senso autentico della libertà.
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Humiliating Defeat in Afghanistan
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – The Western media is full of news about people fleeing Kabul in the wake of the Taliban victory. These visuals serve to divert attention from another reality: the humiliating defeat suffered by the US and its allies after a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan. It was an occupation that devoured US 2.26 trillion dollars. At its height it employed 775,000 US service personnel. The US and its NATO allies had at their command some of the world’s most lethal and sophisticated weapons.
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Haiti Needs Help, but ‘Not from Aid Workers Who Never Leave Their SUVs’
Joe Parkin Daniels | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Aug 2021 – Beset by earthquakes, poverty and gang violence, the country is desperate for aid. “Part of the problem is that international folks don’t talk to people on the ground, and that is going to be worse this time because everyone is afraid of the security situation. So you get a lot of white people driving around in their white SUVs, not getting out of their cars, and they’re the ones making the decisions about what Haitians need and where they need it.”
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Snowden on Secret U.S. Surveillance
Inner Vision – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
1 Jul 2021 – Edward Snowden explains how the government has been exploiting their citizens and betraying their privacy as he talks about the different methods and factors that go into the government’s mass surveillance. He further speaks on his experience working for the NSA, CIA, U.S. government, and what he did during his time spying on US citizens.
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(Italiano) Contro la guerra. Oggi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Agosto 2021 – Hale andò in Afghanistan nel 2012. Quando tornò in USA l’anno successivo aveva già profondi dubbi sul lavoro che aveva svolto (esperto informatico addetto a operazioni con i droni). Durante un recente processo a suo carico affermò di aver appreso – dopo un attacco di droni su un’auto – che un bambino era stato ucciso e un altro gravemente ferito.
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US and UK Usurp Rohingya Voices while (Miss)Framing Myanmar Genocide as “Ethnic Cleansing,” Slobodan Milošević’s Euphemism
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
28 Aug 2021 – It’s one thing for the United States and its British poodle to abandon dissidents worldwide during their hours of needs, yet it is a moral low for the British and American officials and leaders to coordinate acts of genocidal denial as they have done with their official statements on the 4th anniversary of “Ethnic Cleansing” in Rakhine State.
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Who Are the Islamic State in Afghanistan?
Anatol Lieven | Responsible Statecraft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – Today’s ghastly bombings reflect a real threat to the Taliban’s new-found control over the country — and to the U.S. evacuation on the ground.
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Important Information to Employers from America’s Frontline Doctors
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
29 Aug 2021 – The Legality and Ethics of Mandating Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine to Employees – A sample letter to be sent to employers who are illogically considering mandating experimental vaccines for their employees.
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Demystifying Geopolitical Crime and Afghan Debacle
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – Further Thoughts on Demystifying the Afghan Tragedy and the US-led NATO Geopolitical Crime
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Smiling as an Act of Resistance in Occupied Palestine
Mahmoud Soliman | Roar Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – Under the threat of detention and eviction, Palestinian smiles are a powerful message of resistance and hope: “Our smiles beat their brutality.”
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Diane Perlman | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Ivermectin: Truth or Consequences
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United (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change | Song Around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
We traveled across the globe, put headphones on musicians, added them to the track, and created “United,” which serves as a tangible example of something positive we can all do together as a human race.
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Somalia, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – Cold War and War on Terror destabilize Somalia and cause great suffering for its people.
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U.S. Deploys Marines to Haiti under Guise of ‘Disaster Relief’
Patrick MacFarlane | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – The devastation of the 7.2 earthquake on 21 Aug has provided U.S. leaders the cloak of humanitarian aid to deploy Marines to Haiti. Sadly, as the next few weeks play out, the U.S. Military and international NGOs will likely repeat the “Fatal Assistance” of 2010. Regardless, the Haitian people must be given the respect and dignity to control their own destiny. Haitians and non-interventionists everywhere must insist on it.
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We Are Human, We Are Free – 7 Days Campaign
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
We Are the Power – We Create Our Future
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research and The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab Fights Latest US Extradition Maneuvers
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021 – Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab remains defiant after over 14 months under US-ordered arrest in the African archipelago country of Cabo Verde. A special envoy of the Venezuelan government, he is fighting extradition to the US for the “crime” of trying to procure humanitarian supplies of food, fuel, and medicine from Iran in violation of illegal US sanctions. To date, Saab’s legal appeals for freedom have been either denied, rejected, or ignored as his extradition to the US is becoming increasingly imminent.
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From Kabul to the Rio Grande, the U.S. Creates Refugee Crises
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – The United States has long branded itself as a safe haven for refugees fleeing war and persecution abroad. It has a responsibility to provide a safe haven for refugees, from Afghanistan, Latin America, or elsewhere, and to cease interventions that fuel these crises and displace so many.
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Believing… Miracle or Utopia?
Bob Mankoff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Moving towards the cliff; flying into the sky!
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Brazil’s Indigenous Groups Mount Unprecedented Protest against Destruction of the Amazon
Andrew Fishman | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
28 Aug 2021 – Brazil’s largest-ever Indigenous protest came amid efforts by Pres. Jair Bolsonaro and his allies to pave the way for industry in the Amazon.
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Global News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 – A father stripped out of his suit and down to his underwear during a School District Board meeting today, in a creative attempt to argue for mandatory masking at his child’s high school. Hilarious!
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Insane U.S. Plan to Spend Billions on Weaponizing Space Makes Defense Contractors Jump for Joy
Karl Grossman | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – But Rest of World Cowers in Horror at Prospect of New Arms Race Leading to World War III
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108: The Significance of the Number in the Vedic Culture
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Today, 30 Aug 2021, is the celebration (Janmastami) of Lord Krishna’s appearance on planet earth some 5,000 years ago–according to a lunar calendar. He was born in the Vedic Culture, prevalent in Bharata Varsa (India) at the time. The number 108 is also associated with Him and His stay among us.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Regardless of how strongly one might support the vaccine program—and I use the term “vaccine” very loosely, as these injections are far different from traditional vaccines—mandates should be vigorously opposed. There is no proven benefit to such requirements, and if left in place they will only escalate and allow Big Pharma and Big Tech to take increasing control over more and more aspects of our lives.
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We Failed Afghanistan, Not the Other Way Around
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – MSNBC rails against the “fantastically corrupt elite” on the ground that ruined the Afghan mission, but the real corruption was our own.
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Brazil: Struggles of the Roofless
Mario Sergio Conti interviews Guilherme Boulos | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Jul/Aug 2021 – With Lula currently holding an overwhelming lead in opinion polls for the 2022 presidential election, the stakes are high. Latin America has started to roll back the gains of the right of recent years. Could his return to power make the region a beacon of non-conformity once again? Guilherme Boulos—coordinator of Brazil’s Sem Teto and PSOL presidential candidate—speaks to Mario Sergio Conti about the political crisis, bairro psychoanalysis, and the politics of impeachment.
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (31 Aug 1896 – 14 Nov 1977)
Posted by Gaurakisora dasa (ACBSP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was a Gaudiya Vaishnavism spiritual teacher (guru) and the founder preceptor (acharya) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna Movement”. In February 2014, ISKCON’s news agency reported to have reached a milestone of distributing over half a billion books authored by Prabhupada, since 1965. He has been described as a charismatic leader, in the sense used by sociologist Max Weber, as he was successful in acquiring followers in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, India and elsewhere.
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Live to Eat and Eat to Die
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
But There Is No Time to Die, There Is Just Enough Time to Suffer – Hail the Intestinal Microbiome
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The Orange Orchid
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
An orange orchid silently blooms
On bare roots, forgotten but has its own perfume.
The colorful buds emerge, like little orange balloons
World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 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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Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – For those of you trying to understand economics and what capitalism is about, here is an excellent introduction. Capitalism is just one particular way of—a system for—organizing the production and distribution of goods and services. It differs from other systems such as slavery and feudalism but also shares some similarities with them.
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