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Gaza: After Genocide What Future?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
29 Nov 2023 – My responses waver between fears of a resumed Israeli military operation and hopes of confronting day-after issues of post-genocidal economic reconstruction and scenarios of political transformation.
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Cop28 President Says There Is ‘No Science’ Behind Demands for Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels
Damian Carrington and Ben Stockton | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
3 Dec 2023 – The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed. He said a phase-out would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.
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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping Not Attending the Cop28 Climate Meeting in Dubai
Reuters | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
27 Nov 2023 – US President Joe Biden is not attending a gathering of world leaders focused on climate change in Dubai this week. Xi Jinping of China is also not expected to attend. Envoys for Biden and Xi have signaled their close cooperation before the talks.
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The Enduring Legacies of Edward Said
Richard Falk | AUC, School of Humanities and Social Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
21 Nov 2023 – The Department of English and Comparative Literature hosted the Edward Said Memorial Lecture given by Dr. Richard Falk, public intellectual and professor of international law.
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Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara (Music Video of the Week)
Nathalie Cardone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
Song in honor of the great revolutionary leader, Ernesto Che Guevara, by Cuban composer Pablo Cuebras. Viva Che !!!
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Justifying Genocide, a Shameful Transparent Spectacle
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Revised version of an interview by Mohaddeseh Pakravan of Mehr News Agency published in the Tehran Times on 16 Nov 2023.
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Interrupting Genocide: Humanity Challenged as Never Before
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
25 Nov 2023 – The ‘pause’ or ‘truce’ as it frequently called in Western media, is detached from the genocide that preceded and closely linked to the Hamas Attack of 7 Oct, which is characterized as ‘terrorism’ whereas Israeli genocidal violence is treated as Israel defending itself on target inflicting massive casualties on Palestinian civilians.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Two weeks after the attack, it is still unclear what the alleged “Hamas apparatus” beneath the al-Shifa hospital consisted of. “Minimizing carnage” of the innocent has proved to be a pipe dream; the massacre has taken more than 13,000 Palestinian lives, some 5,000 of whom were children.
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The Life and Public Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the CIA
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – Why Pres. Kennedy was publicly murdered by the CIA sixty years ago has never been more important. There is nothing to debate unless one is some sort of intelligence operative, has an obsession, or is out to make a name or a buck.
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What Israel Wants? Why Genocide?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
16 Nov 2023 – As the genocidal assault on Gaza continues, Israel remains defiant and the US stands firm in support of its supposed goal of destroying Hamas as a presence in Gaza, but also intent on mounting an ethnic cleansing crusade with a West Bank focus but a Gaza subtext.
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Israel Faces Wave of International Condemnation over Hospital Raid
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – The scale and virulence of the global condemnation from Arab and western governments raised questions about how much longer Israel can continue with its offensive. The US distanced itself from the military takeover of the hospital, saying it had not authorised the Israeli decision.
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(Português) Os Crimes de Guerra em Gaza; a Demência da Razão e a Falta de Coração
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
16 nov 2023 – Assistimos à “era da guerra eterna” pelos EUA onde vivem a ideologia do “Destino Manifesto” de serem “o novo povo de Deus”, pela democracia (burguesa), os direitos humanos (individuais, esquecendo os sociais e ecológicos) e o valor supremo do indivíduo (base da acumulação capitalista). Farão guerra para impedir a multipolaridade.
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Can Crimes of Resistance Ever Justify Genocide? The Tragic Reality of Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
3 Nov 2023 – Israel has seized this opportunity to fulfill Zionist territorial ambitions amid “the fog of war” by inducing one last surge of Palestinian catastrophic dispossession. Whether it is called “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide” is of secondary importance; it qualifies as the predominant humanitarian catastrophe of the 21stcentury.
→ read full articleAn Epistle to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
10 Nov 2023 – Seeing you stumble on your way by throwing your full support to the Zionist leaders of Israel has been a body blow to me. That you have not defended the children of Gaza and condemned their massacre by the thousands has shocked and sickened me.
→ read full articleA Proposed Framework for Thinking about Existential Threats
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Today´s existential threats to humanity might perhaps be classified in four categories. Let this be the offer of one among many ways to classify existential threats, followed by ten theses for discussion.
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(Português) O Genocídio Israelense: Suprema Expressão do Paradigma Moderno?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
9 nov 2023 – Vamos direto ao assunto. A retaliação do estado de Israel ao ato de terror pelo Hamas foi profundamente desproporcional. Tinha o direito de autodefesa, mas a pretexto de caçar e matar terroristas acionou seu sofisticado arsenal bélico. Foram destruídos centenas de edifícios, assassinados milhares de crianças, mulheres e civis. Não se trata de uma guerra, mas de um verdadeiro genocídio e limpeza étnica.
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Slaughter in Gaza: The Failures of International Law and Responsible Statecraft
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – Israel’s bloodlust shows international law is ‘a manipulated series of norms.’ International Law Professor Richard Falk says Western leadership becomes “self-righteous” to enforce international law “when it’s in their interest” while in other cases, they remain silent.
→ read full articleGaza in Real Time: Geopolitics vs Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – Israel has long been a master of what is called in Hebrew hasbara–the spinning, manipulating and distorting of public discourse so that it either justifies what Israel is doing or diverts attention from the message of critics and skeptics to the supposedly questionable credibility of the messenger. ‘The weaponizing of antisemitism’ is a cynical example of the deployment of hasbara.
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Why Capitalism Cannot Finally Repress Socialism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
In fact, the capitalism-versus-socialism contest does not really resume because it never really stopped. As changing social conditions changed socialism—a process that took time—it sometimes seemed to wishful thinkers that the systems struggle had ended with capitalism’s victory.
→ read full article(Português) A Desumanidade Atual: Perdeu-se a Humanidade do Ser Humano?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 out 2023 – Nietzsche repetiu muitas vezes que o desumano pertence também ao humano dado a nossa condição humana ser simultaneamente racional e irracional, caótica e harmoniosa. O que as maiorias da humanidade desejam desesperadamente é um mundo onde todos possam caber em paz, com o suficiente e o decente para todos, na mesma Casa Comum, agora em guerra e sob o fogo.
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Operation Al-Aqsa: Middle East Scholars Weigh in on Gaza–Israel Conflict
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – International relation scholars Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes comment on the politics of Hamas, the role of the press, how international law is applied in the region, human rights for civilians, the nature of terrorism, and the prospects of a Third Intifada.
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G7 Versus BRICS: Power Struggles Are Not Class Struggles
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while within each, slaves and enslavers engaged in class struggles.
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“Peace, War, and 9/11”: A Cinematic Portrait of Graeme MacQueen, a Warrior for Peace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film and another to watch it. The former fades into insignificance when one takes an hour-and-a-half to immerse oneself in its tragic yet revelatory story.
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Reporters without Borders Launches Global ‘Collateral Damage’ Campaign
RSF/Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – Developed in partnership with the French advertising agency BETC, the campaign depicts Assange with his facial features made up of the logos of media organisations that initially ran stories based on WikiLeaks in 2010.
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No Power, Water or Fuel to Gaza Until Hostages Freed, Says Israel Minister
Bethan McKernan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – US secretary of state lands in Tel Aviv after fifth night of bombardment and preparations for ground invasion.
→ read full articleWho or What Will Do What Must Be Done?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
Given that funds sufficient to solve the employment problem cannot come from sales, and cannot come from taxes, the necessary funds must come from surplus where surplus can be found.
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The German Banker and British Lord Who Wrote the ‘Capitalist Magna Carta’
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
4 Oct 2023 – In this excerpt from their book, Silent Coup, the authors go to the sources of a key legal mechanism used by multinational corporations to override governments around the world.
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Ralph Schoenman: Unsung Hero of Progressive Thought and Action (RIP)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
30 Sep 2023 – Ralph Schoenman is a member of a trinity of forgotten heroes of US progressive politics, airbrushed from collective memory by mainstream media and even infrequently notice by online, independent publications. The other two are Tony Russo and David Ray Griffin.
→ read full articleHow Can We Combat Militarism?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
Ridding the U.S. and the world of militarism will take time, no doubt. But it will happen. And, as the sage Hillel asked, “If not now, when?”
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Waiting for an Apocalypse
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
Finding Hope Living Outside the Box
→ read full articleHow to Think about the Ukraine War after 18 Months
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023 -This text addresses various aspects of the global political setting that has crystallized since the Russian attack of 5 Feb 2022 on Ukraine. The repudiation of diplomacy as an alternative to war, despite the costs and dangers of continuing the Ukraine War, are quite striking.
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Leaders of World’s Biggest Polluting Countries Skipping UN Climate Summit
Oliver Milman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023 – Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York today.
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Empowering Populism Worldwide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Modern Populism: Weaponizing for Power and Influence, by Deepak Tripathi (2023) – Foreword by Richard Falk
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Judge Rules 9/11 Defendant Unfit for Trial after CIA Torture Made Him Psychotic
AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
22 Sep 2023 – A military judge at Guantánamo Bay has ruled a 9/11 defendant incompetent to stand trial after a military medical panel found that the man’s sustained abuse in CIA custody years earlier had rendered him lastingly psychotic.
→ read full articleG-7 and BRICS Visions of the Future: Coercive Geopolitics or Multilateral Cooperation?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
17 Sep 2023 – A modified version of this post was published in CounterPunch on 8 Sep 2023, which itself is a reconfigured version appearing earlier on TMS (Transcend Media Service) on 4 Sep. Neither version considers the relevance of the Delhi meeting of the G-20, which represents a weaker and somewhat overlapping grouping compared to either G-7 or BRICS.
→ read full article(Castellano) C. G. Jung: La espiritualidad como dimensión esencial del alma
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
9 septiembre 2023 – Hoy existe una preocupación fundamental: rescatar la razón sensible o cordial (del corazón) para equilibrar el exceso desastroso de la razón instrumental-analítica. Tenemos que armonizar el logos con el pathos, el anima con el animus si queremos resolver los problemas sociales y enfrentar la alarma ecológica.
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Fernando Botero Angulo, Painter and Sculptor (19 Apr 1932 – 15 Sep 2023)
Nick Caistor | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Colombian painter and sculptor of voluminous figures that grace city centres the world over including Paris, Madrid and London. RIP
→ read full articleAnother Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – Much has been made of the simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, part of the security detail in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
→ read full articleWhat Must Be Done
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Videos produced by The Drawdown Project outline what must be done to prevent more climate catastrophes worse than the ones already happening. The main staff members of the project, including narrator Jonathan Foley, are climate scientists.
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‘Occupied by the US’: Wildfires Renew Native Hawaiian Call for Sovereignty
Claire Wang | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – As Disaster Capitalists Descend on Lahaina, Indigenous Hawaiians Fight for Self-Governance
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(Italiano) Niger: il calvario del colonialismo perenne
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Da allora sono successe molte cose che riguardano il Niger e il modo in cui intendiamo la sua relazione con quel Paese, con la regione del Sahel dell’Africa occidentale, con l’Africa in generale e con la guerra geopolitica di posizione che mette in primo piano la rivalità degli Stati Uniti con Russia e Cina.
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Economic Growth in G7 vs BRICS: A Reality Check
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – We are confronted with a combination of denials and pretenses by the conjoined decline of U.S. capitalism and its global empire (or hegemony). Those declines have become clear to observers within the old capitalist establishment. For example, …
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Australian Intelligence Agency Funding Research to Merge Human Brain Cells with AI
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
A team of researchers in a Melbourne lab received a $600,000 grant to merge biology with AI. They already demonstrated how 800,000 brain cells in a Petri dish play a game of “Pong.” Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Neuralink has FDA approval to study brain implants in humans since May. They call it transhumanism.
→ read full articleNiger’s Ordeal of Forever Colonialism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
27 Aug 2023 – A lot has happened since the coup, which affects Niger and how we understand its relation to that country, to the Sahel region, to Africa generally, and to the U.S. rivalry with Russia and China in the foreground. I have taken ‘liberties’ with my answers to address this awareness of the broader context.
→ read full articleRoads Taken and Not Taken: Two Visions of the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
When the Cold War ended in 1991, the West, and particularly the United States, found itself at a fork in the road. One road led to peace, justice, cooperation, nuclear disarmament, a revitalized UN, inclusiveness, pluralism, human rights, multilateralism, fair trade, regulated markets, food security, sustainability, and humane governance. The other road led to militarism…
→ read full article(Italiano) Vietnam e Palestina/Israele: un confronto tra legge e guerra
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Agosto 2023 – Il testo che segue è la mia prefazione a un confronto di conflitti di eccezionale valore: Vietnam e Palestina/Israele. Queste due regioni mi hanno preoccupato per tutta la mia carriera professionale e nel corso della mia vita di cittadino attivista.
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Clearing the Fog of ‘Unprovoked’ War
Edward Lozansky, Ph.D. | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
9 Aug 2023 – For the record: I was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia, and worked in the USA as a laser fusion researcher and Professor of Mathematics and Physics. I have relatives and friends in all three countries, and for the last 35 years, I have been trying to do my best to make them friends, partners, or even allies. Instead, all three are now at war, even if some call the U.S. war only a war “by proxy.”
→ read full articleNumbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Everybody knows that 2 + 2 = 4 since 4 = 2 + 2. They know that excellent thing with certainty but generally fail to appreciate the charming nature of 2 + 2 = 5. Tautologies are usually preferred to choices that seem to contradict the “laws of nature.”
→ read full articleLaw & War: A Comparison of Vietnam and Palestine/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
26 Aug 2023 – The text below is my foreword to an exceptionally valuable comparison of conflicts: Vietnam and Arab-Israeli.
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(Italiano) Mobilitazione per la guerra con la Cina: falchi USA prendono di mira “Code Pink”
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
22 Agosto 2023 – Per gli attivisti antiguerra, la mobilitazione per la guerra con la Cina e i preparativi per una guerra di primo rango hanno un aspetto letteralmente da incubo, in cui si osserva come fisicamente o moralmente paralizzati l’approssimarsi passo passo di una situazione minacciosa finché è troppo tardi per evitare un prevedibile disastro.
→ read full articleQuran Desecration and Freedom of Expression
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
The harder efforts are made to stop this highly objectionable behavior by Islamophobic and right-wing extremists groups, the greater is their temptation to persist in such action. In the short-term what these groups seek is public recognition and media attention, not power or authority.
→ read full articleMr. Blue and the CIA
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 – Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down to dinner, our phone rang. Since I didn’t recognize the phone number and it was dinnertime, I hesitated to answer it, but for some chance reason I did. The voice on the other end was agitated, intense, and asked for me.
→ read full articleMobilizing for War with China: U.S. Hawks Target “Code Pink”
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
A sign of war fever involves concerted efforts by government and news media hawks to defame and criminalize the behavior of activists who oppose the deterioration of relations with the alleged enemy. The anti-China crowd’s latest target is Code Pink.
→ read full articleInnovative Regional Dialogue: Iran, Iraq, and Six Gulf Countries
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – The regional dialogue scheduled for Sep 2023 is a notable breakthrough, by diplomatic initiatives, to replace tensions with stability in the Middle East, and in the process gaining political independence from U.S./Israel hegemony. This development also reflects the increased involvement of China in the region.
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Hawaii Fires: Fresh Blaze Prompts Renewed Evacuations as Maui Death Toll Rises
The Observer/Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
12 Aug 2023 – At least 80 people killed in deadliest disaster in the state’s history, as questions asked about the local warning system.
→ read full articleDo People Change?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world, many people often wonder how they might personally change to find happiness, contentment, or some elusive something.
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U.S. Leaders Are Split on China Policy
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – The U.S. bipolar approach to China: It aims to constrain China’s economic, political, and military development because it has become U.S.’ chief economic competitor—thus, enemy. However, U.S. also seeks to secure the many benefits of its companies doing business in China. “Decoupling” or “de-risking”?
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Hear the Hibakusha… before It’s Too Late!
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – Seventy-eight years ago, on 6 Aug 1945, a United States warplane dropped an atomic bomb, which detonated over the city of Hiroshima, Japan early in the morning. Testimony of Tokie Mizuno, Hibakusha of Hiroshima (Recorded in 2010).
→ read full articleWhy Is the West Bank Under Assault by Settlers and Netanyahu Government?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – While the media focus has been on ‘the judiciary overhaul’ confrontation between antagonistic Jewish factions as to the ‘democratic’ character of Israel, the unifying themes in apartheid Israel remain the further marginalization of the Palestinians in their own homeland.
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Outlaw Superpower: United States Refuses to Play by the World’s Rules
Rebecca Gordon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
25 Jul 2023 – Here Are Three Ways
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(Italiano) Il fattore Impero: il pezzo mancante nella narrazione della guerra in Ucraina
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Narrazioni in concorrenza della guerra in Ucraina: il fattore impero come pezzo mancante.
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Fukushima Water Release Fears: Fish with 180 Times over Legal Limit of Radioactive Cesium Caught
Gavin Blair | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – Black rockfish caught close to disaster-hit nuclear power station is one of dozens caught in the past year above the legal safety limit.
→ read full articleThe Empire Factor: The Missing Piece in Narratives of the Ukraine War
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Competing Narratives of the War in Ukraine – Empire is the missing piece in most narratives of the war in Ukraine. We would do well to give it a central place in our thinking and action.
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The Orca Uprising: Whales Are Ramming Boats–but Are They Inspired by Revenge, Grief or Memory?
Emma Beddington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – A pod in the strait of Gibraltar has sunk three boats and damaged dozens of others, and their story has captivated the world. What explains this unprecedented behaviour?
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US’ Top Competition Watchdog Opens Investigation into ChatGPT Maker
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – FTC makes move on claims OpenAI has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk.
→ read full articleWhy More Upstream Care Ethics Are Badly Needed
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
The time has come for ethics of care. In the plural. Reverberating through revivals of venerable old spiritual caring traditions. Reverberating through adoptions of benevolent new innovative caring practices. My story starts in Sweden in the early 1970s.
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Authors File a Lawsuit against OpenAI for Unlawfully ‘Ingesting’ Their Books
Ella Creamer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay allege that their books, which are copyrighted, were ‘used to train’ ChatGPT because the Chatbot generated ‘very accurate summaries’ of the works.
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Sudan: A Failed Mediation Process
Meg-Ann Lenoble | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – The two generals had jointly orchestrated the Oct 2021 coup, leading to the fall of the civilian government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, thus leading them both to the governance of Sudan. Allies in the past, how can we explain this reversal?
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Afghanistan: Civil War among the Taliban?
Ozair Khan | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – Prominent Taliban figures have criticized the ban on girls’ education, including Abdul Salam Hanafi, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, who said: “We can only develop the country with high-standard educational institutions. …”
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‘No Guilty Bystander’ Tells the Inspiring Story of Thomas Gumbleton
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
6 Jul 2023 – What does it mean to live as a follower of Jesus in the struggle for justice in today’s world? No Guilty Bystander: The Extraordinary Life of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton tells the inspiring story of a bishop who has lived such a life in a world deeply in need of healing.
→ read full articleHow So Many Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nukes
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Social psychosis is widespread. The insouciant acceptance and support of psychotic rulers who promote first-strike nuclear war is very common; it is the United States’ nuclear policy. I recently wrote an article about the dangers of the fourteen U.S. Trident submarines.
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Asia-Pacific NATO: Fanning the Flames of War (SHAPE Webinar)
Richard Falk, Joseph Camilleri and Chandra Muzaffar | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
“I encourage attendance at this webinar on July 4 or 5, depending on time zone, devoted to encroachment of NATO on Asia-Pacific security, with excellent speakers.”
— Richard Falk
Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Waterstones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
“Silent Coup is investigative journalism at its best, charting the rise of corporate power after World War II, where the freedoms fought for were redefined.”
→ read full articleSea Monsters Threaten the World with Their Tridents
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
The obsession with the alleged marvels of technology and naming them after ancient Greek and Roman gods are fixations of elite technologues who have lost what Spengler called “living inner religiousness” but wish to show they know the classical names even though they miss the meaning of these myths.
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Daniel Ellsberg: A U.S. Hero
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
25 Jun 2023 – If democracy survives the digital age with its scary newly appreciated AI dimensions, it will be thanks to brave whistleblowers starting with Ellsberg and continuing with Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Jack Teixeira, individuals currently hounded as criminals by the U.S. government.
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(Italiano) Dar retta al ‘grido accorato’ di Cornel West
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
La reazione di Biden all’attacco russo all’Ucraina non è stata di quelle che cercano quanto prima una tregua e un compromesso diplomatico. Ha optato piuttosto per armamento e assistenza tali da sostenere una guerra protratta in Ucraina come dimostrazione del la rinascita della NATO a guida USA, a quanto pare non tanto motivata per la difesa dell’Ucraina ma per un incontenibile interesse ad umiliare Putin e sconfiggere la Russia. E non solo.
→ read full articleHeeding Cornel West’s ‘Cri de Coeur’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
Biden’s response to the Russian attack on Ukraine was not for a ceasefire and diplomatic compromise but for weaponry and assistance to sustain a prolonged war as a demonstration of US-led NATO resurgence; not motivated by the defense of Ukraine but by an overwhelming interest in humiliating Putin and defeating Russia. Not only this.
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Achieving Growth as a Constraint
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Let us take a closer look at the systemic imperative to do whatever must be done to achieve growth.
→ read full articleRehearsed Lives and Planned History
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
“Certain lies are too big to fail, for if they did and entered the official histories as truths, they would be preserved, not to be forgotten. Then society could deal with their implications.”
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UK: Julian Assange Dangerously Close to Extradition Following High Court Rejection of Appeal
RSF/Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023 – RSF is deeply concerned by the UK High Court’s rejection of the WikiLeaks publisher’s appeal, bringing him close to being extradited to the US where he could face life in prison for publishing leaked classified documents in 2010.
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Against Involuntary Death
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – I recently celebrated my 85th birthday, an event that clearly lands me in “the valley of the shadow of death,” as King David so neatly put it. For a self-donated birthday present I gave myself permission to talk publicly about the more general implications of this situation in a way that some people may consider irritating or tasteless.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
I recently discussed Biden’s and U.S. Democratic Party’s foreign policies with a friend in the peace movement. He agreed that to call these policies “imperialist” was, if anything, an understatement: “In the American two-party system, there is no lesser evil to vote for or support.” No lesser evil?
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(Português) Um Humanismo Radical
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
23 maio 2023 – Um dos problemas mais angustiantes na cultura mundial é a falta de humanidade. Não olhamos para o outro em suas dores, buscas e necessidades. Consideremos os imigrantes do Oriente Médio e de África que buscam a Europa por causa de guerras e da fome. São rejeitados e fizeram do Mediterrâneo um cemitério. O mesmo destino trágico sofrem os milhares de Latino Americanos que procuram atravessar as fronteiras dos Estados Unidos.
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Assessing Big History at a Time of Global Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
27 May 2023 – To achieve positive forms of change at a time of multiple converging crises imperiling the human species and its natural habitat is the ‘crisis of crises’ facing humanity at this time.
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(Português) Se Lula Rifar o Meio Ambiente Seu Governo Acaba
Eliane Brum/Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Um grito de alarme sobre as funestas consequências da exploração de petróleo na foz do Rio Amazonas. Não se trata de vantagens e lucros, mas de colocar a vida do planeta e da humanidade em risco. Eliane Brum vê o desastre que pode significar se este projeto de exploração vingar. Precisamos reagir e nos opor renhidamente a este ataque à vida e negação da ciência.
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Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
21 May 2023 – We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant. Many still do not.
→ read full articleWar Prevention Depends on Respecting Invisible Geopolitical Fault Lines
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
18 May 2023 – ‘Rule-governed’ seems to be a synonym to international law. But Blinken makes no such claim to rationalize U.S. international behavior as ‘law-governed,’ but rather believe, following Thucydides, ‘that strong do as they will, while the weak do as they must.’
→ read full articleThe Crisis (or Crises) of Civilization
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
The word “crisis” draws its meaning from medicine. When a patient is in crisis, life and death hang in the balance. When the crisis is over, although the patient may not have recovered yet, the prognosis is that s/he will recover. Below I suggest (1) that business civilization is in crisis too, and (2) a way forward.
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The Current Collapse of Ethics
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
13 May 2023 – I perceive two main factors, among others, that strike at the heart of ethics: the globalization of predatory capitalism and the commodification of society.
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AI Machines Aren’t ‘Hallucinating’. But Their Makers Are
Naomi Klein | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative Artificial Intelligence will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves
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David Miranda, Campaigner and Former Brazilian Congressman, Dies Aged 37
Tom Phillips | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
15 May 2023
9 May 2023 – Pres. Lula celebrates ‘extraordinary trajectory’ of favela-born politician and Guardian columnist who played key role in Snowden leaks with husband Glenn Greenwald.
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(Português) O Colapso Atual da Ética
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
12 maio 2023 – Percebo dois fatores principais, entre outros, que atingem o coração da ética: a globalização do capitalismo depredador e a mercantilização da sociedade.
→ read full articleThere Is No Escape from Telling
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
A new Dark Age is closing upon us, as Max Weber noted more than a century ago when he described the people who run our societies and educational institutions as “specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
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How Facebook and Instagram Became Marketplaces for Child Sex Trafficking
Katie McQue and Mei-Ling McNamara | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex.
→ read full articleRobert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Despite a family actively opposed to his candidacy, despite all the media lies about him, and despite the oddsmakers giving him little chance, RFK, Jr. is entering the race. It is an act of supreme moral courage. Like his father in ’68, he is the only candidate who can heal this nation’s great divide.
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500 Australians Join World’s First COVID Vaccine Injury Class Action Lawsuit
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – Dr. Melissa McCann raised more than $110,000 to crowdfund the case, which accuses the Australian government of negligence related to the approval and monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines.
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A World of Violence
Eduardo Galeano | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
30 Apr 2023 – On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion – Passages excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s book ‘Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History,’ just out in paperback.
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Lemon Tree (Music Video of the Week)
Fools Garden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Kick back and enjoy – w/ Lyrics
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‘Spreading Faster than Ever’: Bangladesh’s Tea Pickers Have World’s Highest Rate of Leprosy
Thaslima Begum and Kaamil Ahmed | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the disease.
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Who Is Jack Teixeira, the Man Arrested over Pentagon Files Leak?
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old air national guardsman suspect in the leak of classified intelligence documents is youthful looking, like his teenage friends in the online group where the documents were leaked. Today the FBI arrested Teixeira and were searching his home.
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