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Taliban’s Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions about What US Was Doing All Along
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
4 Aug 2023 – The Taliban government in Afghanistan, which produced 90% of the world’s heroin, has drastically reduced opium cultivation across the country; up to 99% in some provinces. This raises questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication efforts in the country over the past 20 years of occupation.
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Ecologically-sound Development: A Vital Need for Concerted Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – With the consequences of climate change in the background, ecologically-sound development must be the center of a concerted action.
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Hawaii: Maui’s Deadly Wildfires Burn Through Lahaina
Mojtaba Sadegh | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – It’s a Reminder of the Growing Risk to Communities That Once Seemed Safe
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War by Other Means: Short Selling JPMorgan
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
10 Aug 2023 – As was said of Lehman Brothers fifteen years earlier, the targeted banks did not fall; they were pushed. One blogger shows how even JPMorgan Chase, the US largest bank, could be pushed — not perhaps by local short-sellers, but by China. And that is another good reason not to provoke the Chinese Dragon into “war by other means.”
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Hawaii: Catastrophic Wildfires Lay Waste to Historic Maui Town of Lahaina
Euronews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – Flyover footage of the once-vibrant tourist town of Lahaina shows street after street reduced to grey and black rubble.
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Nuclear Now—What Is Nuclear Power (Documentary)
Oliver Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
June 2023 – Whether you’re a seasoned environmentalist or a curious newcomer, Nuclear Now offers a thought-provoking look at the challenges and opportunities presented by nuclear energy. With director Oliver Stone’s signature, style, and a wealth of expert insights, this is a must-see for anyone concerned about the future of our planet. And its present.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
The war in Ukraine has always been a proxy war between NATO and Russia, although it involves great suffering for the Ukrainian people. It is increasingly becoming a direct confrontation between Russia and the United States, both nuclear armed powers.
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Victoria Nuland Has Gone to Africa
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023 – Victoria Nuland has gone to Africa. Gone to Africa to talk some sense into the Nigeriens and convince them to return to the shackles of Paris. Gone to Africa to harvest blood diamonds and cobalt. Gone to Africa to masturbate on Gaddafi’s grave.
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Quran Burnings Assertion of Broader Bias against Immigrants in Europe: Ex-UN Rapporteur
Rabia Iclal Turan | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – There is a ‘strong case’ for prohibition of such acts that ‘serve no possible constructive purpose,’ says Richard Falk.
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(Português) Ela Canta, Pobre Ceifeira
Ferrnando Pessoa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Ela canta, pobre ceifeira,
Julgando-se feliz talvez;
Canta, e ceifa, e a sua voz, cheia
De alegre e anónima viuvez,
Kuznick’s Essential Companion to the Oppenheimer Movie
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
4 Aug 2023 – In this interview, Peter, who also teaches a film course on “Oliver Stone’s America,” gives an essential analysis of Chris Nolan’s Oppenheimer. He commends the film in many respects, and then criticizes the exclusion of important historical facts, which he proceeds to supplement in great depth and detail.
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Can We Measure Inequality without Tallying the Wealth of the Wealthiest?
Sam Pizzigati | Inequality - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
31 Jul 2023 – Hundreds of prestigious economists don’t think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
12 Aug 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regurgitates every lie, racist trope, distortion of history, and demeaning comment about the backwardness of the Palestinians peddled by Israel’s most retrograde and far-right elements. This alone discredits him as a progressive candidate. It calls into question his judgment and sincerity.
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Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Music Video of the Week)
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Composition by Johann Sebastian Bach – Cantata BWV 147
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(Italiano) Camminatori e Camminatrici per la Pace e Il Disarmo
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
La Camminata da Maresca a Sant’Anna di Stazzema, 6-12 Agosto 2023
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Pakistan Striving for Its Soul
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Arrest of Imran Khan Signals Corrupt Authoritarian Order
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Learning and Building Relationships
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Many people think that children learn many aspects of academia or life mainly in schools or academic institutions. This is indeed so but a child also learns from his surroundings.
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USA No Longer the “Lone” Superpower
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
13 Aug 2023 – Coming to Terms with China
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Anti-Imperialist Sentiment Spreads across West Africa amid Threats against Niger
Abayomi Azikiwe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
10 Aug 2023 – Nigerian Senate rebukes president’s effort to invade a neighboring state at the aegis of Paris and Washington.
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US Cluster Munitions Will Bring More Pain and Death to Donbass Civilians, but Washington Doesn’t Care
Eva Bartlett | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – Kiev will use its newly received weapons to target residential areas, just as it has for the past nine years.
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Independent Journalism as It Was: Portugal Case Study
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Lisbon, following the revolution, was the author’s classroom. As Washington made another nation one of its experiments in altered reality, the U.S. press played POLO — “the power of leaving out” — with abandon.
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New Investigation Exposes a Stomach-Churning Practice to Make Your Bacon
Kenny Torrella | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
5 Aug 2023 – The pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained. Why they feed feces and raw intestines to pigs.
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How Not to Go to War
David Swanson - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
The book by Vijay Mehta comes to us from Britain where the author is a leading peace activist, and it is actually a set of recommendations for how to not go to war at all ever.
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Indictment Talking Points
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – GOP Indictment Talking Points
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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.
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Who Is the Real Threat in the Pacific
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Take a look.
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Surf the Apocalypse
William T. Hathaway - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
We stand on doomsday’s beach
watching waves rise and crash,
breathing the brisk and final breeze.
How U.S. News Coverage of the Wars in Yemen and Ukraine Reveals a Bias in Recording Civilian Harm
Esther Brito Ruiz and Jeff Bachman | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – War entails suffering. How and how often that suffering is reported on in the U.S., however, is not evenhanded. Take, for example, the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in March 2015 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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US Response to Russia-China Naval Patrol Exposes Glaring Hypocrisy
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Washington believes it has a divine right to send its warships wherever it wants, but when ‘rivals’ do the same it’s deemed a threat
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Chocolates and a Chat: A Peaceful Response to Quran Burnings in Sweden
Nils Adler | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Muslims present at the burnings refuse to be provoked as they hand out chocolates and seek dialogue with onlookers.
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The United Nations’ New Agenda for Peace
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – The UN report–apart from identifying the conflict between the unipolar and multipolar worlds, and showing concern over the metastasizing weapons industry–throws moral scaffolding over hard realities it can’t directly confront.
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Syrian Civilians Struggle between Deadly Israeli Air Strikes and Equally Deadly US Sanctions
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Israeli airstrikes on Syria have become routine and deadly.
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Nothing New in New GMOs
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – A new report exposes the corporate interest behind the gene editing business.
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Malu ‘Aina in Search of Volunteers
Jim Albertini and Antonio C. S. Rosa | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
10 Aug 2023 – Founded in 1979, Malu ‘Aina is an all-volunteer non-profit peace farm in Hawaii. We are looking for a farm torch carrier, someone to take on the volunteer farm coordination that Jim Albertini has done for over 40 years. (Read the special note from the TMS Editor, a former volunteer.)
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“Little Women” Author Louisa May Alcott on the Creative Rewards of Being Single
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
“Liberty is a better husband than love.”
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
14 – 20 August 2023
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Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Many nations in the Americas have suffered from US promoted coups, dictatorships, sanctions and outright invasions. Nicaragua may take the cake for being the most victimized. Dan Kovalik has written a book which reviews the history of intervention and resistance up to the present day.
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Literature as Peace Work: Eyes on Kashmira Sheth’s ‘Keeping Corner’
Jocelyn Wright | The Beacon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – Johan Galtung, the founder of Peace and Conflict Studies, conceptualized peace and I adopt his views here. In Peace by Peaceful Means, he sees peace as a perpetual process, and an “acceptable and sustainable outcome,” which is satisfying the basic needs of survival, wellbeing, identity/meaning, freedom, and ecological balance via harmonious and associative means.
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Do 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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Harold Pinter Had It Right
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
“After Oliver Cromwell had taken the town of Drogheda, he announced: ‘Kill all the women and rape all the men.’ His aide said: ‘Excuse me General. Isn’t it the other way around?’ A voice from the crowd called out: ‘Mr. Cromwell knows what he’s doing!’”
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Africa in Rebellion: Is a Second Anti-Colonial Liberation on the Horizon?
Denis Rogatyuk | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – After a series of coups, one country after the other is moving to expel the traces of former empires.
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Syria Updates – Military Escalation
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
30 Jul 2023 – As things are moving fast in Syria, I will try to maintain regular updates.
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International Forgiveness Day—7 July 2023
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
The Theft of the Hawaiian Islands Kingdom by the United States of America
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A Corporate Takeover of the UN Must Be Stopped
Harris Gleckman | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – The UN’s vision for the future involves giving corporate executives crucial say in decisions. That is too dangerous to be allowed.
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The Algorithm [ Brilliant! ]
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – The algorithm knows what you want before you do. The algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. The algorithm knew you back before you were a screaming slime child, back before they washed off the uterine gunk and handed you a smartphone and made you get a landlord, back before you knew that war…
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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates and Silicon Valley behind Push for ‘Farming without Farmers, Food without Farms’
Brenda Baletti Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
2 Aug 2023 – On this episode of Russell Brand’s “Stay Free,” TRANSCEND member, scholar, environmental activist and food sovereignty advocate Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., discusses food fascism, the power of “philanthropy,” digital enslavement and how people can free themselves from this system.
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Russia-Africa Summit Held Amid Worsening Global Security Situation
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
2 Aug 2023 – African Union member-states put forward their peace plan for ending the conflict in Ukraine and received a positive response from Moscow.
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Second-order Dialogue and Higher Order Discourse for the Future
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Potential Implications of Second-order Cybernetics and Higher-order Communication Possibilities — Second-order cybernetics is a form in which “the role of the observer is appreciated and acknowledged rather than disguised, as had become traditional in western science”.
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The Niger Coup – Syria Military Escalation as U.S. Increases Pressure
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Section one: The military coup in Niger and the Pan-Africanist movement led by Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali.
Section two: The U.S. military build-up and ISIS attacks triggered by the U.S-led axis of terror occupying one third of Syrian territory.
USA: How to Hide and Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths
Bryce Greene | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – A ‘Costs of War’ study estimates that the USA’s 9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and Syria with 40–60 million people displaced from their homes. “Pax Americana”
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Why Oppenheimer Read the Bhagavad-gita when the First Atomic Bomb Exploded
Jason Gregory – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
19 Jul 2023 – The meaning of the famous line from the Bhagavad-gita that Oppenheimer remembered when the first atomic bomb exploded. Oppenheimer’s rendition of the verse as ‘I am death’ was, in fact, a misinterpretation.
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A Brief Neocolonial History of the Five UN Security Council Permanent Members
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – Understanding the actions and justifications behind territorial colonial behavior by the UN Security Council since 1945.
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Enough of the Blaming Game: Let’s for Once Try Talking to Each Other
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
25 Jul 2023 – In the UN Human Rights Council, the blaming game is known as “naming and shaming”, as if the States “naming” possessed a higher moral authority over the “named;” as if blaming could contribute to dialogue and compromise.
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The Dialectics of History: Aggression Produces a Reaction of Solidarity
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – History is dialectical, as described by Hegel, Marx and Engels. We see this in our times as three policies of aggression have led to the increased solidarity of those who have been attacked.
→ read full articleHow Green Is Lab-grown meat?
Navdanya International Press Office – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – Synthetic foods are the next generation of ultra-processed foods through the hyper-processing of industrially produced crops, a combination of processed and artificial ingredients produced through synthetic biology and cell-culturing.
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Could We Save Humanity Being Destroyed by Ignorance and Perpetuated Animosities?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Global Warriors Besiege We, the People in Draconian Conflicts
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In Haiti, Kenya Chooses Imperialist Servitude Over Pan-African Solidarity
Black Alliance for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – By agreeing to send troops into Haiti, the Kenyan government is assisting in undermining the sovereignty and self-determination of Haitian people, while serving the neocolonial interests of the United States, the Core Group, and the United Nations.
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Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Kashmir Hill | NYT/Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – Porsha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology.
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Flash Mob – Pachelbel’s Canon in D (Music Video of the Week)
Flash Mob Geek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Performed by 7–16-Year-Old Kids at Bellavita Department Store, Taipei, Taiwan
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The Violent Lies of Israel’s President
Yuli Novak | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
When members of the US Congress applaud falsehoods about Israel being a vibrant democracy, they are aiding and abetting further oppression of Palestinians.
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The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. It spies on us by the most devious means, through TikTok, Huawei 5G, and weather balloons, and ensnares Africa with debt traps.
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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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Palestine: Unsettling Israeli Settlers Severely Damaging the USA
Dan Lieberman | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: “There have been 570 attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in the first six months of 2023; three attacks a day.” 2010-2019: 3,000 settler attacks, 22 Palestinians killed, 1,258 injured.
→ read full article(Italiano) Camminata per la Pace e il disarmo 6-12 agosto 2023
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
6 ago 2023 – Parte oggi la Camminata per la Pace e il disarmo 2023. Da Maresca a Sant’Anna di Stazzema. Il percorso è fatto di cammino, visite ai luoghi della storia e della memoria collettivi, incontri pubblici, riflessioni e contributi dei partecipanti, …
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(Français) La Dialectique de L’histoire : L’agression Produit Une Réaction de Solidarité
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
1 août 2023 – L’histoire est dialectique, comme l’ont décrit Hegel, Marx et Engels. Nous le voyons à notre époque alors que trois politiques d’agression ont conduit à une solidarité accrue de ceux qui ont été attaqués.
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1999 NATO/CIA False Flag Operation at Račak Set Precedent for Similar Operations in Syria and Ukraine
Olga Peterson | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Designed to Create a Pretext for Military Intervention
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What’s So Important about the San Francisco Promise?
Roger Kotila and Suchismita Pattanaik | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
The global crisis of climate change must be dealt with effectively, yet the superpowers USA, Russia and China are making it worse with their wars and threats of war. What about the UN? To save our world, a review of the UN Charter is necessary to open doors to the changes urgently needed.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2024: Too Fast and Premature, IPB!
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – It was sad, indeed, to see even the venerable International Peace Bureau, in a 4 Aug press release, once again undermining the peace legacy of Alfred Nobel. Both came to life in the 1890s, emanating from the same sources.
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Humanity Needs a Completely Different Peace and Security System in the Future
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
The world’s taxpayers give US$ 2,240 billion annually to their national military defenses. It is the highest ever, more than 600 times the UN budget and three times the total trade between China and the US. The five largest spenders are the USA 39% of the total, China 13%, Russia 3,9%, India 3,6% and Saudi Arabia 3,1%.
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A Vital Atlantic Ocean System Could Collapse Sooner Than Previously Thought
Siri Chilukuri | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
26 Jul 2023 – Climate change is slowing down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key ocean “conveyer belt.” New research finds it could collapse completely by 2060.
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How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
“Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul,” Walt Whitman wrote in the preface to Leaves of Grass. “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood.”
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The Resurrection of the Luciferous Demons of Democracy and Archangels of Autocracy, as Peace Disruptors in South Africa (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
The Decline of Democracy in South Africa Is Propelled by Rampant Corruption and a Legacy of Racism from the Past, with Greed for Materialism, Post Liberation–The Original Philosophy as Espoused by Madiba Is Dead and Buried
→ read full articleSend Julian Home: A More Constructive Message
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
I was curious about the urge to extradite him to the US, where he is not a citizen, for more harsh punishment. Anticipating extradition, activists are discussing plans for massive protests.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
India has produced scholars of repute in various fields–astronomy, geography and allied fields like Mathematics. India’s traditional Hindu calendar is called Vikram Samvat. This is the year 2080 according to it.
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78 Years Ago Today, in Hiroshima: What Oppenheimer Wrought
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – The official U.S. bombing survey on what happened in Hiroshima 78 years ago today.
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Putin Says African Proposal Could Be Basis for Peace in Ukraine
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
30 Jul 2023 – The proposal floats a series of possible steps to defuse the conflict, including a Russian troops pullback from Ukraine.
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Why You Need to Know the Difference Between Race and Ethnicity in Hawaii
Jonathan Okamura | Honolulu Civil Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Ethnicity matters in Hawaii because it yields explanations about how our society operates that race does not. Ethnicity can also enable us to address more significant problems and issues, such as persisting ethnic inequality and injustice in Hawaii.
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An Intrepid Crusader Resurrecting South India’s Muslim Heritage
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Forgotten Muslim Empires of South India
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The Causes of Hunger Are Manipulation of Food Prices and Corporate Land Grabbing
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
31 Jul 2023 – Headline: “Russia starves the world, Italy’s Meloni confirms it.” The accusation that Russia is starving Africa by blocking Ukrainian grain shipments, falls in the face that all of the grain from Ukraine went to EU countries, not to poorer nations, to which only 2 ships out of 87 were sent.
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Militarization of AI Has Severe Implications for Global Security and Warfare
Tshilidzi Marwala | United Nations University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
24 Jul 2023 – As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, the need for effective governance mechanisms to manage its use and mitigate potential hazards grows.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
7-13 August 2023
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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).
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Sinéad O’Connor Always Knew That Black Lives Mattered
John Nichols | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The singer, who died on 26 Jul 2023, made an unforgettable protest song about the police killings of black people 30 years before the murder of George Floyd.
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An Elephant’s Tale…
Vienna International Summit for Peace in Ukraine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
… not of the Fairy persuasion.
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X Marks the Spot
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
31 Jul 2023 – X ex Twitter
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Requiem for NATO’s Nightmare
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The dysfunction of the Atlantic military alliance over Ukrainian membership was just the most public manifestation of the debacle that was the Vilnius summit.
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Mainstream Journalists
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
4 Aug 2023 – It’s not just the obscenely wealthy owners of the mass media who are protecting their class interests, it’s the reporters–cloistered Ivy League-educated trust fund kids–, editors and pundits as well.
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Oceans Hit Hottest Average Temperature Ever Recorded, Endangering Ecosystems on Which We Depend
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
5 Aug 2023 – The world’s oceans hit an average temperature of 20.96°C (69.728°F ) this week, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. It is the highest average ocean temperature ever recorded.
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Central Europe’s Arms Makers Scramble for Workers as Ukraine Boosts Business
Michael Kahn, Robert Muller and Karol Badohal | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
2 Aug 2023 – From building apartments for new employees to offering retired workers free canteen meals to share their expertise, Central Europe’s arms manufacturers are scrambling for new ways to cope with the biggest boom since the end of the Cold War.
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Israeli Court Orders Eviction of Bedouin Village for New Predominantly Jewish Neighborhood
Nati Yefet | Haaretz/PAJU - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
31 Jul 2023 – The illegal and immoral eviction of a Bedouin village to make way for a Jewish neighborhood is a prime example of ethnic cleansing given a legal framework via an apartheid system based on institutional discrimination against non-Jewish populations.
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Pertinent Concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI): Friend or Foe?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
31 Jul 2023 – Intelligence or… what? What are AI possibilities, vis-a-vis its human counterpart? A new human master? You be the judge.
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ASEAN and Its 50 Years of Failure in Ending Wars and Genocides
Maung Zarni | Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
16 Jul 2023 – The gulf between the impact of ASEAN in Myanmar affairs and the spins – “centrality” “cohesion” “inclusive dialogue” blah blah blah – is jaw dropping.
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Why 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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Israel and Ukraine: Zionists and Nazis Collide
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – The extraordinary history of Zionist and Nazi collaboration.
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How to Avoid WWIII?
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The New York Times recently ran an article on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up named Anthropic. Doing so, they created their own AI, named Claude2, which was linked in the article. A friend asked Claude2 how peace could be brought to Ukraine and avoid WWIII. Its thoughts are below.
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International Inertia Follows Israeli Assault on Jenin in the West Bank
Catherine Wilson | IPS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The likelihood of further confrontations remains high following a major Israeli military assault on an impoverished camp of more than 23,500 Palestinian refugees in Jenin in the occupied West Bank earlier this month.
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The U.K. Government Is Very Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide
Joe Mullin | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
26 Jul 2023 – The U.K. Parliament is pushing the Online Safety Bill, which will undermine the privacy of people around the world; now at the final stage. It gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, destroying end-to-end encryption. No amendments have been accepted.
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Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet: On Giving
Kahlil Gibran - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Then said a rich man, Speak to us of Giving.
And he answered:
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Storm Clouds Gathering: NATO in the Perilous Black Sea
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – In an ominous development, Kiev is suggesting the continuation of the collapsed Black Sea Grain Deal without Russia’s participation and with apparent NATO protection.
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New Files Reveal MKUltra’s Terrifying Reach: Ethnic Bioweapons, Mind Control and Disturbing Experiments
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
25 Jul 2023 – Renowned anthropologist Orisanmi Burton exposes a dark chapter in CIA history. Classified Agency files obtained through Freedom of Information reveal ties between the infamous MKULTRA program and nightmarish experiments on prisoners of color in the United States.
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