Articles by NATO
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Finland Joins NATO as 31st Ally
NATO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
4 Apr 2023 – Finland became NATO’s newest member today, upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the United States at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.
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It’s Time to Ask: What Would a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Look Like?
Anatol Lieven | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The West is morally right to oppose the illegal Russian war and to impose severe sanctions on Russia, but would be morally wrong to oppose an agreement to end the invasion and spare the people of Ukraine terrible suffering. America’s own record over the past generation gives no basis for such self-righteous hyper-legalism.
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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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“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread.”
Anatole France – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Anatole France, full name François-Anatole Thibault (16 Apr 1844 – 12 Oct 1924), was a French poet, journalist and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He wrote the quoted phrase in his 1894 novel, The Red Lily.
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Billionaires Add $1tn to Net Worth during Pandemic as Their Workers Struggle
Michael Sainato | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – Billionaires in the US have increased their net worth by more than $1tn during the coronavirus pandemic, while many of their US workers have struggled with coronavirus risks in workplaces, for little to no extra pay to work in hazardous conditions.
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Coronavirus and the Heterogenesis of Ends: Underpinning the Ecological and Health Catastrophe Is a Political Crisis
Donato Bergandi, Fabienne Galangau and Hervé Lelievre | Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
The coronavirus catastrophe’s underlying cause is the political crisis that our democracies are living. The sustainable development model is a smokescreen that will lead not to changes to the economic paradigm but to business as usual. The betrayal of the elites, both political and economic, supported by a system no longer democratic, has exposed the population to this sanitary problem. A deep transformation of our political system is urgently needed.
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How the West Lost
Anatol Lieven | Prospect Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
After the long stand-off against communism, victory seemed as total as it was sudden. But the west has since fractured and is now losing prestige and influence—does the reversal expose a moral defeat?
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Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Garry Jacobs and Donato Kiniger-Passigli | Other News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – Sixty-five years ago this week, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and nine other Nobel Laureates released a historical document which became known as the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. The Manifesto called for the governments of the world to abolish nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the imminent danger of nuclear warfare and an existential threat to the human race.
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It’s Time to Trust the Taliban
Anatol Lieven | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
31 Jan 2019 – Afghanistan’s jihadi insurgents are ready to give America what it wants: defeat without humiliation.
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Largest Known Prime Number Discovered: Why It Matters
Anthony Bonato – The Conversation,
15 Jan 2018
9 Jan 2018 – An online collective, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, crunched numbers for days on end to discover a new prime number in December 2017. Here’s why it’s so important.
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Anatoly Karlin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
16 Mar 2014 – As voting gets underway – and by all accounts, it seems to be overwhelmingly heading for the pro-secession choice – it’s worthwhile to dispel five common but erroneous beliefs about it.
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Senator Cristovam Buarque - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jun 2012
The last few decades have revealed two new facets of Economics. On the one hand, its power to transform the Planet and Humanity, and, on the other hand, the ushering in of the Anthropocene Era through the conscious power of the economic agents in their decisions.
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Rick Rozoff – Stop NATO,
4 Apr 2011
Libya is also one of only five of Africa’s 54 countries that have not been integrated into, which is to say subordinated to, the new U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).
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Al Franken, U.S. Senator, Minnesota – The Huffington Post,
14 Mar 2011
In January, Facebook made a troubling announcement that it plans to allow third-party developers to request access to the home addresses and phone numbers of users. Despite Facebook’s insistence that it will protect its users, I believe this policy will place users at great risk… And even more alarming, Facebook’s new privacy policy would endanger the privacy and safety of children as young as 13. Under Facebook’s policy, 13 million users under the age of 18 may be allowed to share their personal information just like adult users.
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Senator Jean William Jeanty – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
As Haiti gears up for its forthcoming elections, Jean William Jeanty decries the complete absence of transparency in the country around post-earthquake reconstruction and the ability of foreign companies to usurp Haitian law. With the country gripped by cholera (the ‘natural indicator of underdevelopment’), Jeanty stresses that Haiti’s leaders ‘are trying to rush the elections so that they can perpetuate things the way they are’.
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Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space,
22 Jun 2009
We lecture and threaten Iran and North Korea about the evils of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). But the US routinely tests our own WMD’s from Vandenberg Air Force Base in southern California. And there will soon be another "test firing" of a Minuteman III nuclear missile from that base. A protest is planned at the […]
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Evaggelos Vallianatos,
13 Apr 2009
When I was teaching at Humboldt State University in northern California 20 years ago, I invited a beekeeper to talk to my students. He said that each time he took his bees to southern California to pollinate other farmers’ crops, he would lose a third of his bees to sprays. In 2009, the loss ranges […]
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Rutagengwa Claude Shema, M.D. - Regional Coordinator, Great Lakes Peace Initiative (GLPI),
10 Feb 2009
Review of book by peace discipline pioneer Pr. Dr. Johan Galtung The world we live today is facing multiple challenges, different kind of disasters, but often the calamities made by human beings. In other words, the conflict issues and wars made by ourselves as humane are more disastrous than any natural disaster. The reason is […]
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Rutagengwa Claude Shema, M.D. - Regional Coordinator, Great Lakes Peace Initiative (GLPI),
10 Feb 2009
My Opinion about Systematic use of Rape and Torture in the Conflict in the Congo A) Rape Rape in DR Congo (République démocratique du Congo, DRC) has been used as a war weapon in different ways. But the fundamental reasons can vary as well. Military on the front line can spend a long time in […]
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