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Facebook Silences the People Who Know Its Operations Best
Yael Eisenstat | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
3 Aug 2021 – Tech giants use nondisparagement clauses to keep former employees from discussing the companies.
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Capitalism Is What’s Burning the Planet, Not Average People
Chris Saltmarsh | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – Not all humans are equally culpable in the climate chaos outlined in the 9 Aug IPCC report. Identifying the rich and powerful as the principal culprits is key to stopping further destruction.
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War, Herbicides and Moral Disengagement
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
On 10 Aug 1961 the U.S. started poisoning the forests and crops of Vietnam with herbicides to deprive the commies of Ho Chi Minh of food and ground cover. Agent Orange Awareness Day was on 10 Aug. I think we should spend the rest of the year honoring War and Dehumanization Awareness Day.
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Assange: The End Game
Scott Ludlam | The Monthly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope.
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Industrial Meat Producers Use Same Playbook as Big Oil, Pesticide Industry to Deceive Consumers
The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
23 Jul 2021 – DeSmog analyzed the public relations and lobbying efforts of industrial meat producers and found the industry is stepping up its game in an effort to cast itself in a climate-friendly light.
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India’s Independence Day—15 August
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
We hail Mahatma Gandhi,
We remember his Salt March to Dandi
He is the
Father of our Nation who promoted freedom and nonviolence
We’ve Never Seen Vaccine Injuries on This Scale — Why Are U.S. Regulatory Agencies Hiding COVID Vaccine Safety Signals?
Children's Health Defense Team | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – In under a year, more than 500,000 post-COVID vaccine injuries have been reported to VAERS — nearly a third of all reports accumulated over the system’s entire three-decade lifespan — yet regulatory agencies remain silent.
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Does China’s Rise Really Threaten the U.S.—Or Just Its Sociopathic Power Elite, Who Want to Keep Ruling the World Even If It Drags Us into WW III?
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
14 Aug 2021 – Government-sponsored “fake news” is brainwashing the public into accepting a new U.S./NATO-sponsored Cold War with China.
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US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington No Longer Calling the Shots
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
“Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business,”
— Jonah Goldberg quoting Michael Ledeen in The National Review, before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003
Collected Essays (volume VI)
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
A New Freely Downloadable Book – I would like to announce the publication of a collection of the articles and book announcements which I have written during the last two years.
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The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie about the Atom Bomb
William J. Broad | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Aug 2021 – Charles H. Loeb defied the American military’s denials and propaganda to show how deadly radiation from the strike on Hiroshima sickened and killed.
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What the West Must Learn from China
Marshall Auerback | UnHerd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
10 Aug 2021 – The Chinese government has made an existential choice: rather than surviving by betting on the markets, it is going to produce stuff instead. Unlike America’s Federal Reserve, whose increasing tolerance and support of financial bubbles continues to engender profound systemic fragility in the American economy, Beijing is prioritising social cohesion above the narrow interests of financial rentiers.
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How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect Nature
Jim Robbins | Yale Environment 360 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using traditional knowledge, from how to support wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds.
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(Français) Pour Trouver la Paix au Mali, Il Faudra Ecouter
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
La gouvernance démocratique ne signifie pas voter: elle signifie une vraie participation du peuple, donc la consultation et l’écoute. Injurier et crier n’avane personne et rien. Ecouter permet de comprendre. Voici deux livres qui vont aider les Maliens à s’écouter.
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Saber Rattling in the South China Sea
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – Six days of Chinese naval maneuvers have begun on 6 August 2021 near southeast Hainan province in the South China Sea at the same time as war ships of the U.S.A, the United Kingdom, Australian Defense Forces ships and those of the Japan Self-Defense Forces are also training in the area. The South China Sea is fast becoming a theater of brinkmanship.
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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.” –Mathematician Robert Kaplan. If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today.
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Brazil Indigenous Groups Take Bolsonaro to ICC over Genocide
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
The complaint of indigenous communities joins two other similar processes already in the International Criminal Court against Bolsonaro, the first president whose conduct is analyzed by that Court as complaints are usually against States.
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The Berg
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
The mountains stand tall
Yet look so small,
Somewhere the birds call.
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country’s greatest moral, cultural, constitutional, and political crisis.
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Laying the Foundations for Our Jewish Liberation
Mira Stern | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
4 Aug 2021 – The Jewishness I love is one of a people rooted in collective freedom, in justice, in hereness. What might it mean for us to divest from the projects of Zionism, whiteness, and settler colonialism, while also holding pride in the layers of our Jewish identity?
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Diseased
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
After an interval of four million years, two planets meet again in the universe.
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Why Relationships Fail
Radhanath Swami - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
My friend who is a marriage counsellor shared with me a story which gives us insight into this subject. A couple came to her in tears. They had been arguing for weeks. Each took their turns to explain their issues. Several sessions passed discussing the harsh words and mental pain that they both suffered.
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If You Build It, They Will Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship around the World
Kurt Opsahl | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted messages. It has created an infrastructure that is all too easy to redirect to greater surveillance and censorship. Apple has paved the road to mandated security weakness around the world, enabling and reinforcing the arguments that, should the intentions be good enough, scanning through your personal life and private communications is acceptable.
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How Myanmar Fits into China’s New Silk Roads
Pepe Escobar | InsideOver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
4 Aug 2021 – How Beijing approaches the Myanmar maze is conditioned by four variables: natural gas; water; the drug trade; and the fractious clashes between the Tatmadaw and a dizzying patchwork of over 135 ethnic minorities.
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Induced Divisionism
Opinion Sur | Editorial - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
20 Jul 2021 – Since remote times and even today, those who seize power defending minority interests need to coopt followers from other spaces to secure sustainability. They achieve that manipulating public opinion, colonizing minds, buying wills, also with repression.
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Where Are We?
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Aug 2021 – Very quietly and with no media fuss, in the space of a week the IDF destroyed two Palestinian villages, Humsa al Bqai’a (for the sixth time) and Ras a-Tin, in a drive to compel the residents to relocate. The IDF has devised a strategy for circumventing legal measures that would delay execution of demolition orders, issued only after the fact.
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The Biggest Lie
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Nagasaki Day, August 9, 2021 – The biggest secret ever revealed was the Manhattan Project, in which the US spent two billion dollars or more to build the bomb. It was followed by a big lie by President Truman when he got on national radio to announce that this marvelous invention had been dropped on “Hiroshima, a military base.
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Thriller (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Michael Jackson’s 14-minute short film “Thriller” revolutionized the music video genre forever. Hailed as the greatest music video of all time, it is also the only one selected to be in the Library of Congress’ prestigious National Film Registry. Aug 2021: 777,807,758 views – (Click on Watch on YouTube)
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
The Durban Conference was a forum at which Israel, colonialism, the legacy of slavery, and victimization of vulnerable ethnicities would be depicted and condemned. It is no longer plausible to contend that associating Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people as antisemitic. As a Jew myself, I regard Israeli justifications for its behavior toward Palestine as the embodiment of antisemitic behavior, bringing discredit to the Jewish people.
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Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – The fall of the centralized, corrupt Afghan government propped up by the Western powers was inevitable, whether this year, next year or ten years from now. The rapid advance of the Taliban and the U.S. response to it.
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Rumsfeld Then, DeSantis Now: The Lies That Bind
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
10 Aug 2021 – In particular, three “political mind games” stand out. First, “It’s a False Alarm”: when others raise doubts about your plan, offer overconfident assurances of success. Second, “Don’t Blame Us”: when your rosy predictions are proven wrong, deny that anything could have been done to prevent the setbacks. And third, “They’re Misguided and Misinformed”: when you’re questioned about falling short, attack the media for purportedly misrepresenting events.
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(Italiano) I conflitti ambientali e il bluff dell’economia circolare
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Agosto 2021 – 3.492 pallini sulla carta, indicatori di altrettanti conflitti ambientali segnalati e descritti dall’Environmental Justice Atlas, uno straordinario archivio, tuttora ‘in progress’, che dagli anni ’70 del Novecento segnala al pubblico storie di comunità che in tutto il mondo sono impegnate nella difesa dei loro territori.
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The US Legacy in Afghanistan
Maya Evans | Afghanistan Peace Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
15 Aug 2021 – The Taliban take all major cities in Afghanistan ~ The Presidential Palace has fallen ~ President Ghani flees the country ~ US pledge to redeploy 5,000 troops ~ All embassy staff leave the country ~ We are now looking at a Taliban led Government ~ The Taliban say they want to take power without violence. The war in Afghanistan can be summed up as chaotic and disastrous.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Interrelating Multiple Ways of Looking at a Crisis
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
9 Aug 2021 – It is extraordinary to note that the current period is witness to a singular way of looking at a crisis. In this case the challenge is the pandemic. The one way of looking that has emerged as an absolute global necessity is universal vaccination. Informed by “science”, every effort is now made to ensure that all authorities reinforce this modality and that any other way is depicted as ridiculous, if not dangerous — to be eradicated by any means possible.
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(Français) Prosternez-vous devant le Dieu Vaccin
Dr Pascal Sacré | Centre de Recherche sur la Mondialisation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
30 juillet 2021 – La question, pour moi, n’est pas de diaboliser la vaccination comme les intégristes de celle-ci diabolisent toute alternative à leur Dieu. La question, pour moi, est de dire la vérité aux gens : Il y a des alternatives plus sûres, plus efficaces et moins dangereuses pour trouver la porte de sortie de cette crise.
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Our Life as Rohingya Refugees
Austin Jani | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – A poem written by a young Rohingya poet, from Rakhine state, living in Rangoon.
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Austin Jani | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – From Sittwe, Rakhine, Myanmar – ရိုဇင်မြင့်ထိုက် -ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ကဗျာဆရာ
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Hiroshima Never Again!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Aug. 6th marks the anniversary of the U.S. dropping the first atomic bomb named “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. Three days later, on Aug. 9th a second atomic bomb named “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki. In two blinding flashes of light, heat and radiation, hundreds of thousands of people were killed.
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Lessons Learned
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Bethlehem, Palestine Oct 2008 – It has been ten years since I returned to Palestine after living in the US for nearly three decades. Those ten years in Palestine have been truly phenomenal and inspirational despite the pain and agony associated with them. For example,…
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(Français) Mise à Jour Sur la Culture de la Guerre
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Il ne semble pas probable que l’avancée de la démocratie et de la conscience anti-guerre puisse renverser l’empire américain et sa culture de guerre, mais comme son prédécesseur, l’empire soviétique, finira par s’effondrer à cause de ses propres contradictions. Et à ce point lá, le développement de la démocratie et de la conscience anti-guerre sera essentiel si on peut faire un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale, une ONU basée directement sur le peuple et promouvant une culture de paix.
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Neither Judges nor Diplomats Are Coming to Save Sheikh Jarrah
Amjad Iraqi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – It was infuriating to follow the Israeli High Court’s deliberations on Sheikh Jarrah today. The three presiding judges proposed a deal that would allow the families to remain in their homes as “protected tenants” for several years, in exchange for paying a small “rental” fee to the settler group Nahalat Shimon, which has been aggressively coveting the properties with the backing of the police. What the judges described as a “compromise,” however, was delivered more like an ultimatum.
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Preliminary Assange Appeal Hearing Scheduled for 11 Aug 2021
Defend WikiLeaks - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
7 Aug 2021 – The US government has been given permission to appeal the decision to block the extradition of Julian Assange from the UK to the U.S. Now a hearing has been scheduled for Aug 11 to argue the scope of that appeal. Assange is expected to attend in person.
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Whistleblowers Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden Talk with Amy Goodman
UMassHistory – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
6 May 2021 – An historic conversation between Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, moderated by the award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman. This conference was collectively organized by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Departments of History and Journalism.
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Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence
Henry A. Giroux | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
On 6 Aug 1945, the US unleashed an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 140,000 people and destroying 70% of the city instantly. On 9 Aug, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimated 70,000 people. The Japanese government stated that the death toll was much higher: close to a half million. The incineration of mostly innocent civilians was buried in official government pronouncements about the victory of the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
→ read full articleInvestigation: How the Meat Industry Is Climate-Washing Its Polluting Business Model
Caroline Christen | DeSmog - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
18 Jul 2021 – Growing global meat consumption threatens to derail the Paris Agreement, but that hasn’t stopped the meat industry insisting it is part of the solution to climate change.
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Corporate Courts vs. the Environment
Nick Dearden | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – Corporate courts were invented to protect the West’s control of the world against decolonisation. They are now undermining attempts to halt climate change. Italy expects to be ordered to hand millions of dollars over to an oil exploration corporation, following the Italian government’s decision to ban such exploration off its coast.
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(Português) Um Relato Sobre a Dor dos Frangos Antes do Abate
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
28 jul 2021 – Na tentativa de resistir, os frangos, já estressados e assustados, balançam as asas, se debatem e dão bicadas. Irritados, os catadores de frangos reagem batendo nos animais, o que pode ir além de arrancar asas. “Tem quebra de osso. É mais normal do que você pode imaginar, porque frango de granja já é um bicho meio frágil.
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Ánanda Sutta (On Self, No Self, and Not-self)
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
“Now then, Venerable Gotama, is there a self?”
When this was said, the Blessed One was silent.
“Then is there no self?”
A second time, the Blessed One was silent.
Then Vacchagotta the wanderer got up from his seat and left.
Murray’s Last Words before Prison
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
1 Aug 2021 – The former British diplomat, who is going to prison for contempt of court, has published his last blog post until he is free in eight months.
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Stringing a Garland
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
I sit mesmerized, as I thread each delicate flower
The petals are perfectly arranged from a dew`s shower.
It is true that only God can use His power
To create such beauty imprinted in every flower.
Predicting the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
LIMITS TO GROWTH: A “healthy” economic growth rate of 4% per year corresponds to an increase by a factor of 50 in a century, by a factor of 2,500 in two centuries and 125,000 in three centuries. No one can maintain that resource-using, waste-producing economic activities can continue to grow except by refusing to look more than a certain distance into the future.
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Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years at War with Anglo American Power
Carla Stea | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
A Review of A. B. Abrams’s Book – The United Nations, to its disgrace, participated in this genocidal policy throughout the war, and continues to the present day.
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Progress… (?)
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Reflections from Kyoto (on Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Dissonance Searching for Resonance
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A Shocking List of 52 Zionist Israel-Nazi Germany Comparisons
Gideon Polya | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
7 Aug 2021 – The cruel and genocidal oppression of the Indigenous Palestinians by nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel invites comparison with the cruelties of Nazi Germany.
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Pentagon Documents Reveal How the DOD Bullies Movie and TV Producers into Forcing Them to Accept Their ‘Assistance’
Tom Secker | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – The US military’s central office for dealing with Hollywood revealed how the Department of Defense strong-armed the industry to achieve its propaganda goals. The reports were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Fidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba (1959–2008), transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
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Canada Is Waging an All-Front Legal War against Indigenous People
Justin Podur | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – After mass graves full of Indigenous children have been found, how can Canada justify ongoing land theft?
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Obstacle to Economic Development in Nepal Is Systemic Political Corruption
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
4 Aug 2021 – This nation has certainly missed the initial opportunities while dancing in the euphoria of political elixir emanating from the glorification of democracy and rhetoric of republicanism as if it is the only panacea of all political, social, and economic malaise. It does not seem to improve even after a decade of governance by elected people and by overthrowing the hereditary system of monarchy. Democracy exists on paper for the manipulative use of political elites and resembles like a cartel of political oligarchs.
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Chomsky on Secret Bolsonaro Meeting with C.I.A Director: A ‘Soft Coup’ May Be Underway
Edu Montesanti | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – Like the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff by a Bunch of Corrupt Gangsters on Fraudulent Grounds – “A military coup does not seem out of the question,” says Noam Chomsky. The meeting in Brasilia on July 1 was at least “suggestive,” he says in an exclusive interview.
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Craig Murray’s Jailing Is the Latest Move in a Battle to Snuff out Independent Journalism
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – The supreme court’s refusal to hear Craig Murray’s appeal against his unprecedented conviction for ‘jigsaw identification’ means the British state is now effectively credentialising journalists. Only corporate journalists will be safe from state retribution.
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Havana Heat
Andrea Arroyo and Angel Boligàn Corbo | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – Cuba Libre
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Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
“The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.” Consider this.
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The Specter of Vaccine Fundamentalism: Bowing Down and Serving the “God of Vaccines”
Dr. Pascal Sacré | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
3 Aug 2021 – The issue, for me, is not to demonize vaccination the way fundamentalists demonize any alternative to their God. The issue, for me, is to tell people the truth: There are safer, more effective and less dangerous alternatives to finding the way out of this crisis.
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Apophenia
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One – The easier it becomes to produce information, the harder that information becomes to consume — and the harder we have to work to separate the spurious from the significant.
→ read full articleA Note on Morons and Oxymorons
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
A moron means a stupid or foolish person. There are some rich persons or those who occupy high positions in society who think that most people that they come in contact with are morons. But I am going to talk of oxymoron: a word or phrase that is a contradiction in itself. For example, the phrases happily married, honest politician, and deafening silence.
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‘Unimaginably Catastrophic’: Researchers Fear Gulf Stream System Could Collapse
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – While heatwaves, fires, and floods produce warnings that “we are living in a climate emergency, here and now,” a scientific study suggested today that a crucial Atlantic Ocean current system could collapse, which “would have severe impacts on the global climate system.” Scientists say we cannot allow this to happen. People in power stand in our way.
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The March of Hatred in South Africa: One Bullet, One Indian
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
It Was One Settler, One Bullet – Now It Is One Indian, One Bullet
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Tyranny: The Deadliest Pandemic
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Government power is a two-edged sword. It can be used to do good or evil.
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Brilliant New Film ‘Pray Away’ Picks Personal Stories of ‘Ex-Ex-Gays’ to Expose Faith-Based Conversion Therapy as a Religious Sham
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
7 Aug 2021 – Conversion’s therapy’s bogus science is exposed in a new documentary in which ‘ex-gay’ Christian cheerleaders admit they’re homosexual and confess they were lying all along as they brought misery to vulnerable young people.
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An Urgent Reading Assignment That Makes Vaccine-hesitancy Logical for the Vaccinology-illiterate
Compiled by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
8 Aug 2021 – Especially for Big Pharma-corrupted Scientists, Politicians, Journalists, Talking Heads, Public Health Bureaucrats and Vaccinology-naïve Doctors and Nurses
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We Restricted Nuclear Weapons–Now We Must Limit Fossil Fuels
Lyn Adamson | Toronto Star - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
6 Aug 2021 – The percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere today is 419 parts per million. We are experiencing chaotic climate conditions at a global average temperature rise of just over 1° Celsius. But we are very quickly heading to 450 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere; that’s the tipping point when feedback loops will be set in motion that humans will be unable to reverse, and the global average temperature rise will soar uncontrollably.
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COVID World Data: 203,4M Total; 4,3M Dead; Survival Rate 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
On 9 Aug 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Cases: 203,460,679
Deaths: 4,307,532
Active: 21,890,185
Recovered: 182,777,553
Cases Closed: 187,085,085
Total Vaccinated: 2,327,241,330
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)
Twitter Will Allow You to Deny the Genocide of Palestinians, but Not a ‘Uighur Genocide’, So I’ve Been Banned
Maram Susli | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
7 Aug 2021 – Big Tech censors are shutting down voices like mine, because they don’t like me exposing the truth of what’s going on in Palestine. But they’re happy with tweets about killings in Xinjiang, even when there’s no evidence for it.
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Remembering Richard Lewontin, the Great Scientific Crusader Who Showed There Is No Biological Basis for Race
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Lewontin fought a lifelong battle against racism, imperialism and capitalist oppression.
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“Tell me how you behave in any given conflict; I will tell you how much peace culture you have.”
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University. He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize. Galtung has mediated in over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues, 96 as the sole author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages, including 50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives published by TRANSCEND University Press. His book, Transcend and Transform, was translated to 25 languages. He has published more than 1700 articles and book chapters and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service. More information about Prof. Galtung and all of his publications can be found at transcend.org/galtung.
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Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Position Statement
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
31 Jul 2021 – Since the electoral coup d’etat, Haiti has been experiencing progressively worse conditions: repression, corruption, kidnappings, gangs spreading terror by massacring working-class neighborhoods, burning down their homes and forcing people to flee.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 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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Last Dance (Music Video of the Week)
Donna Summer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
The Queen of Disco
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Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The Story They Want Us to Forget
Bruce Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on 16 July 1945 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. US President Harry Truman ordered the first atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 Aug 1945. On 9 Aug Washington dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki.
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The US Needs to Break China’s Siege Mentality
Daniel Larison | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – High-level U.S. and Chinese officials met in the city of Tianjin earlier this week. Combative meetings highlight the urgency for Washington to take small steps toward reducing tensions.
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Towards a Science of Misinformation and Deception
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – The Challenge of an Information Pandemic–a COVID19 Infodemic – The study of information has been remarkably clarified by information theory. This is the scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of digital information.
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(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: come appare la pace
Prof. Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Ma il peacebuilding non è sufficiente; abbiamo bisogno pure del peacemaking – una soluzione politica – e il peacekeeping. E qui entra in ballo l’EU: non solo come mediatrice, ma come modello, che sistema brillantemente una Germania che si era resa molo difficile da digerire dai paesi circostanti. Ieri. Come Israele, oggi.
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Challenging Colonization: Building Sustainable Human and Natural Communities in Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Radical Ecological Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021 – Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people have endured in the past, and continue to engage in, currently. In this article, I want to raise an issue that is not discussed often enough in this massive literature, that of challenging colonization through activities that sustain humans and nature.
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Why Are We Still at War with Syria?
Ted Snider | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
15 Jul 2021 – While congress continues to ask Biden to justify bombing Syria without congressional approval, the real question is: Why is the US bombing and sanctioning Syria at all?
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Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – In this day of zoom communications, there is no backstage. But the UN Food System pre-Summit held at the FAO offices in Rome did bring together a live audience of 500, with the virtual participants numbering 20,000. Allegedly the event, which called itself the Peoples’ Forum, was meant to be inclusive. They claimed to welcome everyone. But not everyone felt included.
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UNFSS – Where Multinationals Continue to Design Our Food Systems and Control Our Diets
Navdanya International | Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – The Pre-Summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) taking place in Rome, as a preparative stage to the New York September Summit, is, as expected, going in the wrong direction. As many civil society members, as well as past and current Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, have denounced, this summit is yet another instrument to reinforce corporate control over food and agriculture, while attempting to restrain civil society’s role in global food governance.
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Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us from the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – On July 14, the EU unveiled sweeping climate change and emissions targets that would mean “the end of the internal combustion engine.” Hemp fuel and other biofuels could quickly reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech climate solutions.
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Court Withdraws Assange’s Ecuadorean Nationality
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – An Ecuadorean court revoked the citizenship of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange without allowing him to participate in the process, his lawyers denounced today. Assange, who currently remains in a U.K. prison, received Ecuadorean citizenship in 2018 despite pressure from former president Lenin Moreno to force him out of the embassy.
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Democracy: Enemy of the Powerful
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – Perhaps the best possible thing we could acknowledge being is a “divided nation.” Failing to do so justifies — or at least avoids noticing — all manner of violent cruelty and repression in the name of so-called democracy, from the jailing of whistleblowers who reveal U.S. war crimes…
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The Collective Suicide Machine
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
26 Jul 2021 – The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the U.S. empire — and nobody will be held accountable. Two decades of combat, one trillion dollars spent, 100,000 troops deployed, high-tech gadgets, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, Reaper and the Global Hawk drones with high-resolution cameras, Special Operations Command, elite rangers, SEALs, black sites, torture, electronic surveillance, satellites, attack aircraft, mercenary armies…
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The Price of Conscience
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced today to 45 months in prison.
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Be like a Pencil
Natarajan Ravendhran, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
A pencil writes, but in fact it is the hand that guides it, and the mind that guides the hand. Similarly,…
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“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
Henry Ford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of industrial mass production.
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2021, the Year of Israeli Apartheid
Ahmed Abbes and Jonathan Rosenhead | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – More than 1000 academics, artists and intellectuals have signed a “Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine,” in a sign of the growing acceptance of the term in the west.
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Team Hawaiian Kingdom? Activists Want Some U.S. Olympians to Surf for a Different Homeland
Claire Wang | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – After decades of whitewashing, Hawai’i sovereignty activists say, the effort is part of an attempt to reclaim the sport’s cultural and spiritual importance in its place of birth.
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Vedic Literature Says Caste by Birth Is Unjust
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
When it comes to the sensitive topic of Varnashrama, the caste system of India, we have seen both pro and con, back and forth, this way and that. The Vedic system of Varnashrama has been mentioned in the Purusha Sukta verses of the Rig-veda but there is no indication that birth is the essential quality for one’s varna. This article contains many quotes from Vedic shastra to clarify what the caste system is actually supposed to be.
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As Progressives Call for End to Blockade, Biden Announces More Sanctions against Cuba
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – While President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to reverse the “failed” policies of his predecessor that “inflicted harm on Cubans and their families,” his administration—already under mounting pressure from progressives to deliver on that promise—announced new sanctions against Cuba today.
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Here Is Why We Are Boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit
Elizabeth Mpofu and Edgardo Garcia | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
25 Jul 2021 – In September this year, the United Nations will host a Global Food Systems Summit in New York. Social movements and scientists are staying out because it represents big agribusiness interests.
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