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The International Community Must Stand Up to Myanmar’s Junta
Heidi Hautala | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
22 Jul 2023 – With authoritarianism on the rise in much of our world, the struggle of the Myanmar people is the struggle of all who cherish democracy and justice.
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Just Asking Questions
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Media Impartiality
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Dozens of Nations Express Interest in Joining an Expanded BRICS
Saurav Sarkar | Globetrotter News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
25 Jul 2023 – 45 countries have expressed interest in joining the Global South bloc ahead of a summit scheduled for 22-24 Aug 2023 in South Africa. Current members are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. 22 countries submitted their formal applications.
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UN Chief Proclaims ‘Era of Global Boiling:’ July Hottest Month Ever
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
27 Jul 2023 – New data released today showed that July is the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. “We can still stop the worst,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres insisted. “But to do so we must turn a year of burning heat into a year of burning ambition.”
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Free Speech Denied 25 Years Ago: Free Speech Trial
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Big Island, Hawaii’s History: Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 1998 – Albertini presented Choi with an estimated 5-foot-by-8-foot check made out to the District Court for the amount of $100. At the top of the check was written, “free speech denied” and “no lie can live forever.”
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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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22 Organizations Using Digital Technology to Build a More Peaceful, Just World
Taylor O’Connor | Everyday Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
For those of you new to the term PeaceTech, it basically means the use of digital technology in any efforts to build peace and/or justice.
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Opera Buffa in Ukraine
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
“How would President Biden react if China had established a base in Tijuana, Mexico, and met there with all the left-leaning governments of South America? That’s how Putin would be expected to react to the meeting earlier this month of all the NATO chiefs in Vilnius, close to the Russian border.”
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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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Election Time — Photos and Promises
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Politics plays a major role in the media just as it does in reality. Various political parties and individuals appreciate the role of media–newspapers, posters, television.
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Reflections on ‘Political Capitalism’
Lola Seaton | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Jul-Aug 2023 – The debate is an attempt to grapple with a succession of unprecedented crises—and the distinctive political reactions they elicited—in the heartlands of the capitalist system.
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US Admits to Pushing Ukraine into a Fight It Can’t Win
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – A US “windfall” in Ukraine comes at an unfathomable cost.
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Niger Coup Leader Joins Long Line of U.S.-trained Mutineers
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
27 Jul 2023 – Brig. Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou, who trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, helped oust Niger’s democratically elected president.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Obviously, religious organizations can play a positive role in creating possibilities for dialogue and an understanding of opposite positions. However, spirituality is not limited to organized religious groups. In fact, in some countries there is an increasing number of people who say “I am spiritual but not religious.”
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Russia-Africa Summit Ends with Signing of Final Declaration
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – Vladimir Putin and African leaders today adopted the final declaration of the 2nd Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg. It commits to adopting coordinated approaches to the role for the development of Russian-African cooperation and efforts in the international arena.
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Nothing Compares 2 U (Music Video of the Week)
Sinéad O'Connor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Enjoy
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Will the Small States of Oceania Be Able to Maintain Their Independence in the Face of a New China-USA Cold War?
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 – The ‘friends to all, enemies to none’ strategy is living its last days as the US and China press the island nations to take sides.
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Is the Multipolar Alliance ‘Controlled Opposition’? The Case of Two Green Paradigms
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
29 Jul 2023 – In 2022, Xi Jinping and Putin unveiled a ‘Joint Declaration on the International Relations and the Global Sustainable Development.’ “Sustainable development” was coined by misanthropic fanatic Maurice Strong to promote depopulation as ‘de-carbonization.’
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Reduce Migration by Ending Economic Sanctions
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – US sanctions affect a third of humanity impacting more than 40 countries. They are a form of economic warfare and amount to Crimes Against Humanity. Meanwhile, both the EU and the US struggle with excessive migration, immigrants seeking a better life as they flee their impoverished home countries.
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‘Pax’ Americana? Really?
Liu Rui | Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
US Democrats and Republicans scream about the ‘threat’ of Russia and China. Meanwhile, the US military has weapons pointed at the entire world–and beyond.
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American Anthropological Association Endorses Resolution Boycotting Israeli Apartheid
Anthroboycott | TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 — The AAA, representing thousands of anthropologists and scholars, has passed a historic resolution in support of Palestinians, pledging to boycott Israeli academic institutions that are complicit in maintaining Israel’s oppressive apartheid system.
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The War on Julian Assange
Lowkey interviews Stella Assange | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Lowkey catches up with legal expert and human rights defender Stella Assange to talk about her battle to free her husband Julian, the world’s most famous political prisoner.
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Impact of Religion in Gandhi’s Philosophy on Nonviolence
Thando Gwinji | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Religion is often a trigger to conflicts. It is a double-edged sword that can both encourage and/or discourage world change, and can facilitate both violent and peaceful activism. Leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, and Mother Teresa, have tried to put this into practice.
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The Resurrection of the Demons of Democracy and Angels of Autocracy as Peace Disruptors (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
The Cancerous Pathogens of the Decline of Democracy and the Growth of Autocracy in Liberated Countries.
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Literacy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
I would like to announce the publication of a new ebook, which may be downloaded and circulated free of charge. Here are some of the topics discussed in the book:
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The City of Nine Gates
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
29 Jul 2023 – This paper was originally presented at ‘Toward a Science of Consciousness,’ an international conference attended by leading scientists, physicians, philosophers, and other scholars, and hosted by the University of Arizona in Tucson. An allegory from the Srimad-Bhagavatam sheds light on the mind/body connection.
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Covid’s Origins and the Death of Trust
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
20 Jul 2023 – Public releases the Proximal Origin documents. What they show, and why they’re historic.
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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.
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Alert! New ‘Redesigned GMOs’ Being Forced on Farmers and Consumers
Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – In the corridors of politico-industrial power in Washington and in the hallowed bastion of the European Commission in Brussels, the same dark plans are being pushed forward: to alter the genetic code of life to make humans and nature patentable and controllable by the techno-industrial god of insentient progress.
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
31 Jul –> 6 Aug 2023
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Nonviolent Journalism: New Book Offers Pathbreaking Alternatives to Mainstream Media’s Embedded Militarism
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
22 Jul 2023 – Is there Nonviolent Journalism? Of course! But we live in a perverted militarist culture where nobody questions the concept of War Reporting and most would probably respond to “nonviolent journalism” with a: What?
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The Most Embarrassing “Facebook Files” Revelation? The Press, Exposed as Censors
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The most embarrassing revelation of the “Facebook Files” released by the House Judiciary Chair yesterday involves the news media. They show that the press is part of the censorship establishment, but that’s not the worst part.
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The Profiteers of Armageddon
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
30 Jul 2023 – Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex
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Sinéad O’Connor, Fiery and Uncompromising Singer, Dead at 56
Keith Harris | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
26 Jul 2023 – Sinéad O’Connor, the fiery Irish singer-songwriter whose striking voice made her a pop superstar while her bold public stances on child abuse, war, and the Catholic Church made her a controversial figure, has died today in London. Her most successful recording was Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ (on TMS Music Video of the Week). RIP
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Coronavirus/COVID Pandemic: New Doubts, Revelations by US Congress
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – Communications between officials and scientists who wrote the key paper promoting a natural origin for Covid-19 show doubts, interference, politicized science, and more.
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Peace Planners: Awake!
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
“We do not hold the vision of a world without conflict. We do hold the vision of a world without war – and this inevitably requires an alternative system for dealing with conflict.”
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(Italiano) Studi di pace: ispirazione, obiettivi, conseguimenti
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
La pace piace ai cuori, gli studi al cervello. Sono necessari entrambi, anzi indispensabili. ma altrettanto indispensabile è una connessione valida fra cervello e cuore. Ed è ben questo, in essenza, ciò di cui trattano gli studi e la prassi di pace.
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Eliciting Patterns of Global Consensus via Tensional Integrity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – Interweaving Agreement and Disagreement Coherently with Force-Directed Layout Tensegrity – Much is made of the need for consensus in global affairs, most notably in a major crisis such as climate change. Efforts are made for a consensus, as is evident in the current initiative of the World Health Organization…
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If Everybody’s Going to Join NATO, Then Why Have the United Nations?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
20 Jul 2023 – Since the year 2000, NATO used its military might to destroy several states, such as Afghanistan (2001) and Libya (2011), shattering societies with its aggressive alliance, and end the status of Yugoslavia (1999) as a unified state. It is difficult, given this record, to sustain that NATO is a ‘defensive alliance’.
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Agent Zelensky
Scott Ritter Extra - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Volodymyr Zelensky’s rise to power represents a manipulation of world opinion, a social psychological engineering. An ordinary comedian who came to power because he promised a long-awaited peace, who then dragged his fellow citizens into a bloody war, a massacre. How he accumulated his vast wealth.
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From Enlightenment Corruption to Cybernetics Fusion
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – We are told that we are living through the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. In this period humans will merge with the machines engineered by social engineers and will be part of a new “organism.” This new species of “transhuman” will be liberated from all outdated ideas of Soul, morality, freedom, free will or any relationship with the Divine.
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Haitians Protest UN Occupation and Pending Foreign “Intervention”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – The US and Canada argue for a multilateral military intervention in Haiti, possibly led by Rwanda, to support the puppet regime they installed. They are using “gang violence” as the excuse, but there are actually more gang killings in Jamaica or El Salvador.
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Boosting COVID Clarity
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
July 2023 – New insights into excess mortality, COVID vaccines, vaccine passports, and COVID origins.
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In Sicily, Top of the Mountain, Watching the New Barbarians
Pepe Escobar | TheAltWorld – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – NATO, already humiliated in Afghanistan, is now being demilitarized, a process running in parallel to the state of the economy prevailing amongst all NATOstan members. War? Against a nuclear, hypersonic superpower? Give us a – Thucydides – break.
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Takeaways from the UN Special Rapporteur Report on Guantanamo
Scott Roehm | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
On 26 Jun 2023–the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture–,the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism released the final report of her technical visit to the Guantanamo detention facility. It covers the rights of victims of terrorism, the rights of detainees at Guantánamo, and the rights of former detainees–with a fair amount of detail.
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Argentina’s Yuan Lifeline Is Sign of Brinkmanship between China, US
Natalie Alcoba | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Buenos Aires has been looking for ways to safeguard its dwindling dollar reserves and has found a willing partner in Beijing.
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Tony Bennett, Master Jazz Vocalist, Dies at 96
Chris Morris | Variety – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Bennett had a professional career spanning eight decades. Winner of 18 Grammy Awards (with 36 total nominations), and a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in 2001, he also garnered two Emmy Awards and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006. RIP
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The Contributions and Impact of Contemporary Religious Rituals on Pillars of Peace (Part 5)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Contemporary Religious Rituals Are to Be Respected in Interfaith Initiatives Towards Social Harmony Peaceful Coexistence
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UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel Has Turned All of Palestine into ‘An Open-Air Prison’ to Further Annexation Plans
Jeff Wright | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
16 Jul 2023 – Francesca Albanese’s June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to “de-Palestinianize” the occupied territory, threatening “the existence of the Palestinians as a people.”
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
24 Jul —> 30 Jul
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Congressional Testimony of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the Weaponization of the US Federal Government
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – The hearing examined the federal government’s role in censoring North Americans, the Missouri v. Biden case, and Big Tech’s collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence free speech on social media.
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Facing Climate Change as One World
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – When it comes to climate change, one word has me totally perplexed: “we.” A transcendent “we” grabbing control over the planet’s rising temperature.
→ read full articleNo Aloha in Reaper Drones Now Based in Hawaii
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Recent news reports noted Russian jets “harassing” MQ-9 Reaper US drones over Syria. What was not reported was that the Russians are operating at the request of the Syrian government whereas the US drones are operating illegally, aiding theft of oil. The US acts like an international mafia boss, assassinating people and stealing other countries’ oil.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
The world that we see around us is complex. Trying to live meaningfully in it is not easy, be it physically or mentally.
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Economics According to the Dharmic Way
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
This is a simple explanation of how we should view economics according to the principles of Vedic Dharma.
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A Tribute to Tony Bennett: Body and Soul (Music Video of the Week)
Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Legendary jazz singer Tony Bennett died on 21 Jul 2023 at age 96. RIP
Please click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy this treat.
The COVID Affair
Swiss Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
“The Path to Freedom”
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The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – Ultimately, NATO must be recognized not only as a criminal organization, a blustering vestige of a moribund Western imperialism, but as a mortal danger to the survival of civilization on Earth. NATO is on the wrong side of history.
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Internal Beauty
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Ditto!
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The Real History of the War in Ukraine
Jeffrey D. Sachs | The Kennedy Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – A Chronology of Events and Case for Diplomacy – The public urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine. Unfortunately, US mainstream media have become mere mouthpieces of the government, repeating Joe Biden’s lies and hiding history from the public.
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Want to See How Foreign Policy Should Be Crafted? Look to Vietnam
Amiad Horowitz | People's World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Vietnam used to be one of the poorest and most diplomatically isolated countries in the world, but those days are gone. The neoliberal, capitalist world has been bogged down in decades of unending war. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam offers the world a different model of foreign policy.
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Extreme Heat Is Ramping Up All Over the World. So Are Solutions.
Claire Elise Thompson | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – From Seville to Phoenix, city governments and community-based organizations are trying new strategies to protect residents from deadly heat.
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US Cluster Munitions Supply to Ukraine Will Harm Civilians the Most
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – Millions of people have been affected by the use of cluster munitions in countries like Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, even years after the invasions and occupations by the USA. The same plight awaits Ukrainian civilians in the current East European war zone.
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Food Insecurity in Africa and the Politics of NATO Expansion
Abayomi Azikiwe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
20 Jul 2023 – United Nations affiliated humanitarian and development agencies are reporting that many countries across the African continent are experiencing food insecurity. This phenomenon is related to at least three major factors:
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There Are Very Few Good Films about War—“20 Days in Mariupol” Is an Exception
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Feature war films and documentaries, from The Sands of Iwo Jima to Saving Private Ryan, are war pornography that romanticize those wielding the instruments of death, justify the unjustifiable, pay homage to the war machine, entice naïve youngsters into becoming cannon fodder, and distort the public’s perception of war. Those who return and attempt to speak the truth are alienated and ignored.
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Save the Dates for Whistleblowers Summit & Film Festival and Legacy Tribute to Dan Ellsberg
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Dan Ellsberg will be honored at the Whistleblower Summit where he gave the keynote address and received the Pillar Award in 2021. Dan is considered the father of whistleblowers and has also acted as a father to whistleblowers as he nurtured those going through the trauma of retaliation.
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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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Why the Ukraine Conflict Will Unravel NATO and Biden
Radhika Desai | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – The US has only military might to offer allies. So, Biden’s impending military failure in Ukraine is likely to prove the effective undoing of NATO. If the US cannot ensure military victory, its utility to Europe can only be limited. And if Biden’s has failed in this intermediate Russian stage, it can hardly go onto its final, Chinese one.
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As Russia Exits Grain Deal, Which Countries Will Be Affected?
Hanna Duggal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Almost 33 million metric tonnes of grain were exported since the Black Sea Grain Initiative was brokered a year ago.
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Luanda Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Faces Fresh Charges Despite Amnesty from Papal Visit
Matei Rosca | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – The source of the Luanda Leaks and of another exposé that rocked the global soccer industry faces 377 new charges and the prospect of another trial, despite an anticipated amnesty.
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Latin America again Refuses to Fall in Line with the Collective West
Nick Corbishley | Naked Capital - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Another attempt by the Collective West to isolate Russia from the rest of the world — or the “Jungle,” as the EU’s chief “diplomat” Josep Borrell calls it — fails spectacularly.
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World Hunger and the War in Ukraine
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
The current food crisis is a price crisis, not a supply crisis. The end of the Black Sea Grain Initiative by Russia is not the leading cause of hunger in the world. Rather, it is the financial speculation in food markets the main culprit.
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NATO, Russia, the EU and Ukraine Urgently Need a Dialogue to End the War
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – The NATO summit at Vilnius ended without any tangible move for peacemaking. It was more a show of compelling solidarity to enlarge and sustain the conflicts between Russia, Ukraine and NATO professing to be peacemakers.
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Thousands of Authors Urge AI Companies to Stop Using Their Works without Permission
Chloe Veltman | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Thousands of writers have signed a letter asking artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Meta to stop using their work without permission or compensation. But protecting writers from the negative impacts of these technologies is not an easy proposition.
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Arming Taiwan Is an Insane Provocation
John V. Walsh | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – As Washington applies the neocon Wolfowitz Doctrine to East Asia, Taiwan becomes a “powder keg” by U.S. weaponry. The provocations must stop and Biden should instead take up China’s offer of peaceful coexistence.
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Capitalist Ethics
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Jul 2023 – No Joke –> Black Humor
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Devastating Rights Violations against Indigenous People Must End
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Indigenous Peoples have the ancestral wisdom to guide humanity towards a more sustainable use of the Earth’s resources, yet they are systematically discriminated against and excluded, UN rights chief Volker Türk warned today.
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NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – The unfulfilled goals and objectives from last year’s meeting in Madrid loom over the Atlantic military alliance. When the membership meets in Vilnius this week, normalizing failure might best describe the most that can be accomplished.
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Bullying Escalates: US Nuclear Submarine Docks in Cuban Territory
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – Just days before Cuba marked two years since the July 11 riots, a nuclear-powered US submarine crossed Cuban waters and docked at the illegal base of Guantanamo. From July 5-8 it remained in that Cuban territory usurped and illegally occupied by Washington 121 years ago.
→ read full articleThe US-Nordic Summit: NATO Expansion, Confusion and Repetition
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – It is extremely important to think of alternatives to the ongoing NATO militarism, re-think its triumphalistic, provocative expansion, and refer to words and concepts cancelled from the Western discourse: peace, cooperation, common security, reconciliation, media diversity.
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16 Jul 1945: First Successful Atomic Bomb Test
History - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
This Day in History – On 16 Jul 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project yields explosive results as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. [“A day that will live in infamy.” — TMS Editor]
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Why Are There No Slums in China?
Dongsheng Explains – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – How the Chinese government deals with homelessness, how this issue relates to socialist construction, and how China confronts the challenges posed by rapid economic development, urbanization, and the migration of recent decades. What are the structural reasons behind it?
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Michio Kaku Just Revealed What the Navy Saw while Diving in the Arctic
Voyager - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
29 Jun 2023 – NASA has found something quite shocking in the Arctic Ocean that seems out of this world, catching the attention of experts like Michio Kaku.
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The Great Chessboard: China’s Economic Rise and the Collapse of the USA
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – The One Chart That Explains Everything
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Gary M. Feinman | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
Our blinders and misconceptions about the past constrain the knowledge that we have to plan for a better future. Societies don’t get much out of living memory because the longer-term ramifications from recent decisions generally remain unsettled.
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The Dissolution of NATO May Be the Only Way to Prevent WWIII
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – 10 Reasons Why NATO Ought to Be Disbanded – Its dissolution may be the only way to prevent wider war and to stop the US and the world from being plunged into the abyss of a wider, cataclysmic war.
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Christmas in July
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
Black Humor–Tragicomedy
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British Intelligence in the Dock for CIA Torture
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA’s global torture program.
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El Salvador’s Secretive Mega-Jail
BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – El Salvador’s mega-jail, Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), opened in Jan 2023. It has become a symbol of President Bukele’s “war against gangs”, which has resulted in the detention of at least 68,000 people since Mar 2022.
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The Weaponization of Human Rights at the Human Rights Council
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Alas, the Human Rights Council has become predominantly a platform for those who engage in war-mongering and incitement to hatred. Notwithstanding the clear language of Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, many states practice flagrant Russophobia, Sinophobia and other phobias. Article 20 stipulates:
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Has Hunter Biden’s Decadent Lifestyle Become a Metaphor for U.S. Society?
Robert Bridge | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – When cocaine was found in the White House, observers immediately linked it to the US president’s infamous son. Hunter Biden, currently US’ most infamous drug abuser, appeared on the White House balcony, looking sweaty and nervous.
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A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
“Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.”
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The UK-Rwanda Pact to Keep Migrants from Crossing the English Channel
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – The UK is spearheading a European drive to outsource migrants to Rwanda.
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The Uncertainty Principle of Power Politics: “Arrogance, Hubris, Stupidity, …”
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
We are in the biggest and most fateful fight of and for our lives, despite the insufferably obtuse zombie indifference of so many who cannot or will not accept the irrefutable. Will the zombies be revived in time? Will the transnational Deep State Cabal implode? Will the citizenry stand strong? Who can be sure?
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Silex Scintillans
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
“Seek and ye shall find,”
I keep telling myself,
seeking along in my sneakers,
trying to find the way back to you,
Salaam (Music Video of the Week)
Alka Yagnik | T-Series – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
From the movie Umrao Jaan – Music by Anu Malik
(Please click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy)
Humanity in Hypnotic Thrall to a Techno-Industrial God
Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – As long as enough people buy into it for long enough, the slavery exercise will be irreversible.
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NATO Fails to Reduce Nuclear Risks at Vilnius Summit
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – The leaders of NATO countries, meeting in Vilnius at a time of unprecedented nuclear risk, took no action to reduce nuclear dangers and, on the contrary, issued a communique continuing to support the use of nuclear weapons. The alliance pointed to the risks posed by Russia’s nuclear weapons while hailing its own nuclear deterrent and nuclear sharing arrangements. It also criticised the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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Palestine: Destruction in Jenin Is ‘Catastrophic’: This Is What We Know So Far
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – Residents who were forced by the Israeli occupation forces to leave their homes and take refuge in hospitals reported that the attacks pursued them inside hospitals, supposed to be a haven. There were 12 Palestinians killed and 120 wounded, 20 of whom in serious condition.
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Competing with the Dollar: BRICS Launches Game-Changing Gold-Backed Currency
Jeff | Crypto News Flash - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – BRICS nations unveil a gold-backed digital currency that could challenge the US Dollar in global payments. It aims to enhance financial sovereignty, reduce reliance on existing monetary systems, and provide an alternative means of conducting global trade and accumulating reserves.
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