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Six Years After Their Darkest Hour, the Rohingya Have Been Abandoned
Raïss Tinmaung | Ottawa Citizen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

Aug. 25 marks the sixth anniversary of the last massacre of the Rohingya in Myanmar. Half of their villages were exterminated and 800,000 people fled to Bangladesh. Abandoned by the international community, they remain in the refugee camps and apartheid villages.

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The Real Threat from China: They’re Better at Capitalism Than We Are
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

30 Aug 2023 – The Biden administration’s China strategy comes down to parrying, in a word. All the pointless talk is to obscure an effort to undermine China’s economy because we cannot compete with it, while—part two—buying time to move maximum U.S. military hardware as close to China as possible under the Pacific Defense Initiative.

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

4-10 September 2023

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The Crusaders against India’s Poisoned Pluralism
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

Too much thinking about Muslim rulers is now shaped along predictable, clichéd lines. This is true of all shades of opinion, perception and scholarship.

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Hundreds of Thousands Trafficked into Online Criminality Across SE Asia
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

29 Aug 2023 – Criminal gangs in southeast Asia are using torture and abuse to force hundreds of thousands of people into an online scam operation which generates billions of dollars per year, the UN rights office said today.

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Questioning the Unquestionable
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

Why and What Do We Need to Know?

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Hamsa Naava (Music Video of the Week)
Deepu | T-Series Telugu – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

Enjoy a dreamy, idyllic, inspiring atmosphere.
Click on Watch on YouTube

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West Bank: Spike in Israeli Killings of Palestinian Children
Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

28 Aug 2023 – The Israeli military and border police forces are killing Palestinian children with virtually no recourse for accountability. End Systematic Impunity for Unlawful Lethal Force

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Our Collective Trauma Is the Road to Tyranny
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

3 Sep 2023 – US society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism.

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Magical Discourse Contrasting Human and AI Identity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Being a Wave or Being Apart from a Quantum Perspective

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XV BRICS Summit Johannesburg II Declaration
BRICS Summit Johannesburg - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

South Africa, 23 Aug 2023 – Full Declaration

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BRICS Invites Iran, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia to Join as New Members
PressTV - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

24 Aug 2023 – The five current member states have reached a “consensus on the first phase of this expansion process” and invited the six states to become new members of the BRICS group from 1 Jan 2024. With the new members, BRICS makes up about 40 percent of the world’s population.

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BRICS+: Cure for Intellectual Toxicity of Cultural Relativism
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

27 Aug 2023 – The rampant anti-Chinese (and Russian) bias pervasive in today’s Western society has a lot to do with the fact that people have been conditioned by a very messy world outlook known as “cultural relativism”.

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Law & 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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The Truth about Microfinance
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Anita Rathod learned about microfinance from a neighbour a decade ago. She joined a group of local women to secure small loans — worth a few thousand rupees at a time — and build up her cooking business.

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BRICS Leaders Approve Document Setting Expansion Guidelines
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

23 Aug 2023 – Since January, BRICS Sherpas have been working on the concept of enlargement and the principles of its implementation. To date, twenty-three countries have submitted formal applications for membership.

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Japan Releases Nuclear Wastewater into the Pacific. How Worried Should We Be?
Lesley M.M. Blume | National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

24 Aug 2023 – The plan to gradually discharge more than a million tons of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has started–deeply dividing nations and scientists.

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Surviving Childhood Trauma: The Impact of Domestic Violence
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

It is in our connectedness with other people – in our memories of laughter, smiles, sharing sorrow, being heard, being looked at with kindness, being heard with attention, being remembered by someone, being upset with someone, being comforted – that we become alive as relational beings.

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Neoliberalism Kills People (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | a/political – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Featuring Mai Khalil and Valeria Kurbatova (Lyrics below)

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BRICS Leaders Call for Democratic Economic Order in the Interest of the Majority
Abdul Rahman | People's Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

23 Aug 2023 – Amid a membership expansion, leaders of the bloc spoke out against sanctions, conditions on sovereign credit and dollar hegemony on the first and second days of the summit.

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Palestinophobia and Africanophobia: Apartheid Parallels in Contemporary History
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

“The atrocities committed by tyrannical regimes in history, and presently, based on human phenotypes, knows no bounds.”

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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.

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Disaster Capitalists Are Circling Maui like Buzzards
Guthrie Scrimgeour | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

24 Aug 2023 – Before the embers were even cold in Lāhainā, Maui, survivors of the wildfires started reporting cold calls from land speculators hoping to scoop up Hawaiian properties at bargain prices — proving once again that capitalists never let a good crisis go to waste.

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God Has Sent His Angel to Provide Ukraine with a “Good” Message
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

U.S.A. Has Sent His Angel (IMF) to Provide Ukraine with a Good Message

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India Lands Chandrayaan-3 Craft on Moon, Asserting Its Place in Space Tech
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

23 Aug 2023 – India becomes the fourth country to achieve a moon landing, and the first to land spacecraft near moon’s south pole.

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(Italiano) Pacificazione: il contributo spirituale
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Ovviamente, le organizzazioni religiose possono avere un ruolo positivo nel creare possibilità di dialogo e una comprensione di posizioni opposte. Però, com’è stato detto, il vento soffia dove vuole e spiritualmente non è limitato ai gruppi religiosi organizzati. Di fatto, in alcuni paesi ci sono in aumento persone che dicono “Sono spirituale ma non religioso”.

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The Climate Dice are Loaded. Now, a New Frontier?
James Hansen, Makiko Sato and Reto Ruedy | Columbia University - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Suspicion that we are headed into climate territory not seen in the past million years is fueled by the large Earth’s Energy Imbalance. EEI is the proximate cause of global warming: as long as more energy comes in than goes out, we must expect global warming to continue.

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Dostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Love every leaf… Love the animals, the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love.

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Amazon Nations Launch Alliance to Protect Rainforest at Key Summit
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

9 Aug 2023 – Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela sign declaration to safeguard the Amazon Rainforest (aka Lungs of the World).

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Six Tropes to Look Out for in Western Media’s Distorted Palestine/Israel Coverage
Lara-Nour Walton | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Do Palestinians deserve to be free? “A complex and controversial issue,” says ChatGPT. Do Israelis deserve to be free? “Yes, like all people.,” affirms the AI gadget. “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” — Malcolm X

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Unipolar Hegemony Is a Freakish Historical Aberration
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

25 Aug 2023 – Only the US is instigating wars around the world, circling the planet with hundreds of foreign military bases, starving populations with massive unilateral sanctions and blockades, and working to destroy any nation which disobeys it. No other government has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression; only the US has.

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BRICS Summit Disappointments
Pepe Escobar, George Galloway, et al. | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

25 Aug 2023 – The BRICS summit in Johannesburg that ended yesterday took on six new members but in other ways failed to live up to its billing.

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Humanity Imperiled
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

27 Aug 2023 – The Path to Disaster

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Pigeons Are Our Friends or Not
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Pigeons — our domestic companions are our Friends. These birds, greenish bluish in colour are visible everywhere — in our homes, near our homes outside and in many other places. They look so nice, friendly but they can cause us harm.

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Mexico Should Be Our Example of What Is Possible
Rick Sterling interviews Teri Mattson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

25 Aug 2023 – Teri Mattson is producer and host of the weekly podcast WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean? broadcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Code Pink, as well as Popular Resistance.

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Remembering Nagasaki
Jon Olsen – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Like the Founding Fathers of before,
It is our turn to discover the core
Of a new say, so precious and bold,
And reject this system  cruel and cold.

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Uncle Sam’s Classroom
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

School Begins

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Pakistan in Search of New Life
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Are the Pakistani Generals a replica of the historic European “Razor King”, compelled by the nature of self-interest and expanding one-track mental microscope to go on radiating violence and insane aggressive actions against legitimate political activism?

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The Doctrine of ‘Just War’
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Let it be clear that the present author is against war, there being no “but”. War as an institution is an abomination, like slavery and colonialism. The key word is institution, legitimized by social norms and mores. A doctrine of just war is designed to offer a legitimization by seeing the evil of war as something that can be outweighed by possible positive outcomes.

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Action McNews: 2123
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

14 Aug 2023 – Unwelcome Future

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From Iran to the US: Our History of Coups Has Come Home to Roost
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

24 Aug 2023 – 19 Aug marked the 70th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the first democratically-elected prime minister of Iran, in a coup d’état orchestrated by the US and UK, launching decades of coups, assassinations and “regime change” worldwide. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and his 18 co-conspirators are arrested for attempted coup against the US electoral system.

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(Italiano) Un sistema di pace e sicurezza per il futuro
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

I contribuenti mondiali danno alle proprie difese militari 2.240 miliardi di dollari (USA) annualmente, massimo storico, oltre 600 volte il bilancio regulare dell’ONU e tre volte il valore degli scambi commerciali complessivi fra Cina e USA. Tali sono le priorità perverse dei nostri governi; i cinque paesi che ci spendono di più sono: USA 39% del totale, Cina 13%, Russia 3,9%, India 3,6%, Arabia Saudita 3,1%.

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Spirituality and Peace
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

28 Aug 2023 – Our world is clearly missing much in its efforts to achieve peace. It is expressed by the word “spirituality”, as overused as the word “peace” precisely because both embody so many of our dreams. Tell me your spirituality, and I will tell how much peace there is in you.

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Operational Plan for Transitioning the State of Hawai’i into a Military Government According to International Law Made Public
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

21 Aug 2023 – It is unfortunate that the tragedy of Lahaina has become an urgency for the State of Hawai‘i to begin to comply with the law of occupation and establish a military government. To not do so is a war crime of omission. Despite the prolonged nature of the US occupation and 130 years of non-compliance to the law of occupation, there are two fundamental rules that prevail.

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

28 Aug – 3 Sep 2023

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Big Brave Western Proxy Warriors Keep Whining That Ukrainian Troops Are Cowards
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

19 Aug 2023 – Western officials — under cover of anonymity and from the safety of their desks — are expressing disapproval of Ukraine’s aversion to being killed.

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BRICS Summit: Foundations for a New New World Order
Matt Ehret and John Bosnitch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

25 Aug 2023 – Matt Ehret and John Bosnitch offer their analysis of the BRICS Summit in South Africa, the obstacles to a new multipolar economic architecture and the difference in concepts of value found in this system vs the collapsing rules-based international order of monetarist looting.

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A Tribute to the Life of Daniel Ellsberg
Caitlin Johnstone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Thank You for Your Service

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(Italiano) L’Ucraina e il pericolo di guerra nucleare
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

La guerra in Ucraina è da sempre una guerra per procura fra NATO e Russia, benché combattuta su suolo ucraino e comporti gran sofferenze per gli ucraini. La guerra sta diventando sempre più un confronto diretto fra Russia e Stati Uniti, entrambe potenze con armamenti nucleari.

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The UN Charter Must Remain the Heart and Soul of Any New Peace Architecture
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

This article is a contribution to this year’s Anti-War Day on September 1st. On this day, 84 years ago, the German Reich marched into Poland and ignited WWII, bringing indescribable destruction, misery and suffering to Europe and the world.

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Spain’s 2023 Women’s Soccer World Cup Belongs to Players
Mark Ogden | ESPN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

20 Aug 2023 – Jorge Vilda will never forget the night he guided Spain to a first-ever Women’s World Cup title. He was booed when he held the trophy with barely a pat on the back from his players, but he was a world champion; maybe not for his players, but the World Cup is a response to every condemnation.

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Quran 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.

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Continuity of the Hawai’ian National Consciousness
Pōkā Laenui (Hayden F. Burgess) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

21 Aug 2023 – A nation never dies until its national consciousness dies.  It dies not by a conquest by another, by a loss of territory, by a takeover of a foreign power, by an overthrow of the government, by a change of its economic system, or by the colonization of a foreign people.  It dies when its people have lost consciousness of themselves.

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Liberia Has Suffered 20 Years of ‘Negative Peace’–It’s Time for Change
Robtel Neajai Pailey and Aaron Weah | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

17 Aug 2023 – Since the conflicts ended on 18 Aug 2003, Liberia has only seen what peace studies pioneer Johan Galtung called “negative peace” – the absence of direct physical violence. What Liberia should strive for is “positive peace”, which involves building values, customs and institutions that create and sustain peaceful societies.

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Background of the War in Ukraine
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

Project for a New American Century

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The American Psychological Association Takes Another Step—Backward
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

17 Aug 2023 – Operational psychologists are primarily involved in non-clinical activities linked to national security, national defense, and public safety. Their largest source of employment is the military-intelligence establishment, which includes the Department of Defense and the CIA.

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The Day after Roswell
Col. Philip J. Corso | Dateline NBC – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

Eyewitness Testimony–1947 UFO Crash–US Army Recovers Alien Technology

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What Is a Hicks-Style Plea Bargain for Assange?
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

14 Aug 2023 – David Hicks took a so-called Alford Plea to get out of Guantanamo, in which he pled guilty to a single charge, but was allowed to assert his innocence at the same time.  Such a plea could be offered to Assange. (Watch video below)

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Weapon Transfers, Including Banned Cluster Munitions, Spike in Ukraine
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

17 Aug 2023 – Arms and ammunition transfers to Ukraine have increased rapidly in recent months, alongside concerning reports of deliveries of banned cluster munitions, the UN’s top disarmament official told the Security Council today.

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Revitalising the Peace Movement for the 21st Century
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

18 Aug 2023 – With a barely existing peace movement worldwide and a decline of the left and its ideas and values, how can we make peace activism work? How can we uplift our focus on hope and be optimistic, bold, for positive changes and a more peaceful and compassionate world?

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Bid3 and Counter Militarism Mapping
Ahmed Isam | Chaos Communication Camp 2023 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

Sudan Civic Map is a Counter-Militarisation project, a political statement that challenges the dominant narrative of the Sudan conflict. By foregrounding the experiences of civilian-led movements, the project aims to shift the focus from military-centric news towards the humanitarian efforts of these actors. The project asserts the importance of non-combatant actors, subverting the conventional portrayal of the conflict as a two-party war.

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As Maui Burns, Biden Demands Another $24 Billion… for Ukraine!
Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

14 Aug 2023 – It’s hard to look at footage of the devastation in Maui and then hear Biden demand from Congress another $24 billion for Ukraine. The residents of Maui will take little comfort knowing that the US is more interested in sending their money to the proxy war than in helping them recover.

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Amid ‘Staggering’ Ukrainian Toll and Souring US Polls, Biden Seeks Billions More for War
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

14 Aug 2023 – As Ukraine faces “staggering” losses and US public mood shifts, the Biden administration seeks billions more to prolong the war.

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The Nuclear Apple
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

9 Aug 2023 – How do we turn 26 Sep — declared by the UN to be (I kid you not) the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons — into a reality? Or does the human future have nothing to do with “us”? Are we just spectators of our own lives, stuck in the world our leaders continue to bequeath us?

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What’s Happening in Niger Is Far from a Typical Coup
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

16 Aug 2023 – Rather than send troops in response to the coup, France and the U.S. seem to favor a “Rwanda” type solution applied in Mozambique earlier this year. Only this time ECOWAS would apply force.

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Cannon Fodder for the Empire
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

20 Aug 2023 – The US dreams of a unipolar world and of global hegemony. It intervenes everywhere to support dictatorships, provoke coups d’état, encourage rebellions and finance opposition. Let’s recall some of their major feats since the end of WWII that will help us understand the Ukrainian tragedy.

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How to Say Goodbye: An Illustrated Field Guide to Accompanying a Loved One at the End of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

To comprehend the luckiness of death is to comprehend life itself. When a loved one is dying and we get to be by their side, it is a double luckiness — lucky that we got to have the love at all, and lucky, which is not everyone’s luck, that we get to say goodbye.

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Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte (Music Video of the Week)
Sonu Nigam – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

A song that describes the journey of love. Romancing the Bollywood beauties. Enjoy!

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The Race to Save the World’s DNA
Matthew Hutson | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

9 Aug 2023 – A scientific rescue mission aims to analyze every plant, animal, and fungus before it’s too late.

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The Hiroshima Peace Declaration on 78th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

6 Aug 2023 – The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read today by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark 78 years since the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.

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Pakistan: How Did Neo-Colonial Leaders Stab the Nation?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

Imran Khan wanted to opt for political changes in Pakistan’s external relations and reshape its reliance on the US towards a more balanced relationship with Russia, China and other Middle Eastern nations. Was Khan so naive about his own plans and abstract political and intellectual strength to be removed from office undemocratically by his opponents?

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World Sliding toward WW3 as More Warhawks Grab Power in Washington DC
Drago Bosnic | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

11 Aug 2023 – Their style has always been preying on the weak, as they focus on bringing “freedom and democracy” to those unable to retaliate or defend themselves. Direct attacks are preceded by economic warfare (sanctions) and “isolation” by the so-called “international community” (read USA).

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How the US and France Created a Niger Mess for Themselves
M. K. Bhadrakumar | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

19 Aug 2023 – Neo-colonial powers have become entangled in a diplomatic and military impasse borne from a fundamental lack of understanding.

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Western Media Glorify TPLF Mob Violence against Eritrean Festivals
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

19 Aug 2023 – This summer, violent mobs associated with the US-backed Tigray People’s Liberation Front assaulted Eritrean festivals across the US and Europe. Western media is now spinning the targeted mob violence as legitimate protest against Eritrea’s government.

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US: Summer of the Hawks
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

17 Aug 2023 – Wishful thinking is still the rule among Biden’s foreign policy team, as the slaughter in Ukraine continues.

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Iran Repression Continues: NGO Action Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

17 Aug 2023 – The U.N. International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran has called on non-governmental organizations for information. The broader NGO community needs to keep public attention focused on events in Iran.

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South Africa, My Birthplace, Still Weeping: Coffin on Wheels (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

The Black, Minibus Taxis in South Africa keep the entire “Rainbow Nation” not weeping, but wailing.

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga | TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

21-27 August 2023

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The Purpose of Defending Dharma
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

It is to our advantage to work for the benefit of others and provide the means for them to learn and participate in the Vedic traditions. This is Dharma, our Dharma, and Dharma will protect those who help protect it. That is one reason that it is sanatana, or that which exists eternally.

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Cuba’s Worsening Food Crisis Means US Blockade Must End Now, Not Later
W.T. Whitney Jr. | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

“It is time for all of us, in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, to intensify the struggle against the U.S. blockade and mobilize international cooperation with the island that dared to conquer its independence and sovereignty against the most powerful and genocidal empire in the history of mankind.” — Frei Betto

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A Photo Is Worth a Million Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

 –> What Is Right in This Pic?

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Top 5 U.S. Weapons Contractors Made US$196B in 2022
Connor Echols | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

7 Aug 2023 – Half of the world’s 20 biggest arms makers are based in the US, according to a new ranking from Defense News.

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Assange Be Wary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

17 Aug 2023 – In the proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown its vengeful impulses. Given the 17 charges he faces from the US Espionage Act of 1917, any sentence is bound to be hefty. Were he to be extradited to the US, Assange will disappear into a carceral, life-ending dystopia.

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The US Will Strengthen Its Occupation of Syria, while Plundering Oil Resources
Steven Sahiounie interviews Prof. Glenn Diesen | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

11 Aug 2023 – The main reason behind the US invasion and occupation of Syria, now lasting eight years, was to prevent Syrians from accessing their own oil wells–and steal it. Due to US sanctions, Syria can’t buy energy products, having a chronic shortage of gasoline, diesel and almost no electricity.

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China’s Diplomatic Evolution: A Potential Ally for Palestinians’ Quest for Justice
Ramzy Baroud | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

16 Aug 2023 – It is feasible for China to continue playing an important role in mediating Middle East conflicts. Even before Beijing successfully managed to achieve reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran last April, Chinese diplomacy has shown exceptional maturity.

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The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

This is a sermon I gave on Sunday 20 Aug in Oslo, Norway at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture). Actor and film director Liv Ullmann read the scripture passages.

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How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
April M. Short | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

17 Aug 2023 – Many people are already investing themselves in the local peace economy as they divest from the economy of war.

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The US Is Caught in a Dilemma with Niger
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

15 Aug 2023 – Washington can’t sever relations with the post-coup government lest it lose the basis for its military presence in the African country.

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Mr. 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.

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U.S.-Backed Roll of the Dice Leaves Ukraine in Worse Crisis
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

16 Aug 2023 – How Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive has left it in a worse crisis than before, and how US barbaric decisions to reject peace negotiations and prolong the war have led to a brutal war of attrition that is gradually destroying Ukraine.

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Help
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

Efficiency…

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Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 78th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

9 Aug 2023 – The following is a translation of the Peace Declaration read today by Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki at a ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, as provided by the Nagasaki Municipal Government.

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Rain Rain
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

India, especially its northern parts including the capital Delhi, have been devastated by excess rainfall with the result that many parts of Delhi and the states bordering it are flooded and have landslides.

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Mobilizing 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.

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From Chi-Town Bagman to ECOWAS Chairman: Meet the Former Money Launderer Leading the Push to Invade Niger
Kit Klarenberg and Alexander Rubinstein | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

5 Aug 2023 – Since the overthrow of Niger’s US-friendly government, the chair of the ECOWAS block and Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu, has threatened an invasion of their neighbor. Before, Tinubu spent years laundering millions for heroin dealers in Chicago, and has since been ensnared in numerous corruption scandals. Luckily for the West elites, compromised figures like Tinubu are still on hand to do their dirty work for them.

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Nigerian Senate Rejects President Bola Tinubu’s Demand to Send Troops to Invade Niger
Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

6 Aug 2023 – The head of the Nigerian Senate said Sat [5 Aug] that the chamber rejected military force to reinstate the ousted President of Niger. They also pleaded with the head of ECOWAS, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, to embrace diplomacy in handling the toppling of the Niger government.

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Innovative 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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Niger: A Coup against French Control and Dominance
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

9 Aug 2023 – One of the reasons why ECOWAS has changed its stance is because of strong opposition to any military intervention from some of its member states. Mali and Burkina Faso have made it explicitly clear that they would view military intervention as a “declaration of war” against the people of Niger and would defend the newly installed military junta.

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South Africa, My Birthplace, Still Weeping (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

“In the Post-Liberation Democracy in South Africa, the philosophies as espoused by Ubuntu and Batho pele remain, all, but as dreams of camaraderie now dead and interred with Madiba.”

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Niger – The Liberation from “Independence”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

8 Aug 2023 – Thousands demonstrate in the streets of the capital of Niger. They do not want an ECOWAS-Economic Community of West African States intervention as it stands for western influence. ECOWAS, France, the EU, USA and other western governments may be thinking they are domineering over the sovereignty of other nations.

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