Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Rehearsed Lives and Planned History
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
“Certain lies are too big to fail, for if they did and entered the official histories as truths, they would be preserved, not to be forgotten. Then society could deal with their implications.”
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India and Pakistan: Forbidden Truths of People and Cultures Revive Interwoven Passions
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Legacy of British Colonialism and Loss of Strategic Direction
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Sights and Sounds Galore
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
See the background — hills, mountains, rivers, gardens, forests
All standing, full of colours, sounds, along paths with twists
Requiem for Our Species
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
11 Jun 2023 – The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed as past civilizations were when facing catastrophic destruction.
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Old Age Issues
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Old age is not a curse but one had to be careful to cope up with it. It is not the same for everyone. Some people become authors or musicians or politicians at old age. Whatever you may become, just be honest and lead a good life without fear or distress.
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A Memorial Day to Remember What, Exactly?
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Memorial Day USA [Revisited]
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Ethology: The Study of Inherited Behavior Patterns – Charles Darwin’s observations convinced him that in humans, just as in other mammals, the emotions and their expression are to a very large extent inherited universal characteristics of the species.
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Importance of Bhagavad-gita in This Day and Age
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Most everyone hears about the Bhagavad-gita, but do they know how profound is the knowledge it provides? It is the core of the deepest levels of spiritual understanding. It is also a handbook for life, like when you purchase a refrigerator, television or computer you get a manual that teaches you how to use it properly.
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US Anti-tank Weapons Shipped to Kiev Now in Hands of Mexican Gangs
PressTV | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – A video footage broadcast in a Mexican news report has shown a Mexican gang member carrying a US-made Javelin anti-tank missile launcher, thousands of which were shipped to Ukraine for use against Russian forces.
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I Came Out to My MIT Classmates as a “Conspiracy Theorist”
Madhava Setty | An Insult to Intuition - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – I decided to drop some truth-bombs at my college reunion last week. Here’s what happened…
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UK: Julian Assange Dangerously Close to Extradition Following High Court Rejection of Appeal
RSF/Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023 – RSF is deeply concerned by the UK High Court’s rejection of the WikiLeaks publisher’s appeal, bringing him close to being extradited to the US where he could face life in prison for publishing leaked classified documents in 2010.
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Bridging the Gap between Peacebuilders and Environmentalists
Tia Savarese | Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – Conflict, environmental threats and disasters, climate change, and food insecurity are often separate issues with different solutions. However, they are directly related and it is essential to remove the divisions to create common solutions.
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BRICS New Development Bank De-Dollarizing, Adding Members
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
The BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, an alternative to the US-dominated World Bank, is de-dollarizing its loans, promoting local currencies, and adding new members: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, and Zimbabwe.
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The Acrimonious and Targeted Destruction of Houses of God: Climax of Religiophobia
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
The targeted vandalisation, demolition, destruction and repurposing of existing religious structures is the final outcome of a total loss of spirituality; humans have reached an abysmal state in their social evolution, defying all norms of civilisation and culture acquired over millennia by humanoids.
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Bubba the Bullet
Monte Wolverton | Cagle Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Be Responsible!
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You Sure You Want to Eat That Sentient Being?
Robert Scheer & Peter Singer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Peter Singer’s classic work on animal welfare, remastered for the modern age, remains a timeless source of the lessons he has passionately conveyed for the past 50 years.
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Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023 – “We trusted the government not to screw us,” said Edward Snowden. “But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power.”
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France Is Reportedly Making a Principled Stand against NATO’s Expansion to Asia
Andrew Korybko | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – The Financial Times cited eight sources who revealed that France is preventing the opening of NATO’s liaison office in Japan. Macron’s position is predicated on his assessment of France’s national interests.
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Quitting Time
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – AI Times
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Bangladesh Must Suspend Plans to Return Rohingya Refugees to Myanmar: Rights Expert
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023 – Bangladesh must “immediately suspend” a pilot repatriation project for Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar, where they face “serious risks” to their lives and freedom, a UN-appointed independent rights expert said today.
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56 Years of Israeli Occupation: Explaining the Palestinian ‘Naksa’
Yumna Patel | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – Today Palestinians mark 56 years of Israeli military occupation. When Palestinians commemorate the Naksa, it is not only loss of life and land but also the military occupation that strips them of their rights to life, freedom, dignity and self-determination.
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As US Considers Reoccupying Haiti, History Shows Occupation Is the Root Problem
Danny Shaw | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023 – The tragedy unfolding in Haiti is a direct result of over a century of U.S. political, military and economic coercion.
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15 Reasons Why Media Don’t Do Journalism
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
4 Jun 2023 – Mass Media Employees Act Like Propagandists
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Freedom in Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Now is the time to reject the industrial agriculture model, a model that came from and behaves like war. Industrial agriculture is destroying life on Earth, the role of women in food and farming, our health, and the health of the planet.
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The U.S. Military in Hawaii: The Dark Side of Paradise!
Jim Albertini | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – The Hawaiian Islands are viewed as the Paradise in the Pacific–image promoted by the tourist industry. But Hawaii has a very different dark side as one of the most militarized places in the world and a long history of illegal U.S. occupation.
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Of the Sahel and the Merchants of Death
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – There is a trafficking web across the Sahel spanning 6.000 kilometres–from Atlantic Ocean to Red Sea–home to more than 300 million people in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
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Use of ChatGPT to Clarify Possibility of Dialogue of Higher Quality
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Implications for “Yes” and “No” Campaigns on Controversial Issues
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Against Involuntary Death
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – I recently celebrated my 85th birthday, an event that clearly lands me in “the valley of the shadow of death,” as King David so neatly put it. For a self-donated birthday present I gave myself permission to talk publicly about the more general implications of this situation in a way that some people may consider irritating or tasteless.
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International Day of the Oceans
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
8 June has been designated by the UNGA as the International Day of the Oceans to highlight the important role that the U.N. played in the creation of the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention. -Progress on Asian Maritime Delimitations Needed-
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The High Costs of Military Air Shows
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
A Short History: Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for our Amusement
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Putin, South Africa, and the International Criminal Court
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – The Upcoming BRICS Meetings in South Africa – The West has deployed the International Criminal Court in the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
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U.S. Empire Named Most Murderous Killing Machine in History
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – New Study Finds U.S. Responsible for Nearly 300 Million Deaths—and Counting
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Journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow & Crimea (Part 2)
Dan Kovalik and Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Eyewitness Crimea – In May of this year, we took the long, 27-hour train ride from Moscow to Crimea to see how life is there and what the sentiment of the people are as the US and Ukraine sharpen their threats to “recapture” this peninsula from Russia.
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Peace Disruption (Part 2): Palestine’s Killing Fields–The End Must Go On
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Endless, 75 years of apartheid Israel’s discrimination, tyranny, oppression, massacres of women and children, targeted ethnic cleansing and displacement of indigenous Palestinians, marked by the total silence of world religious leaders.
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Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire–Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – The US will focus on arming Ukraine and not on a negotiated settlement: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out a plan to massively expand Kiev’s military before talks begin.
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(Italiano) Etica nella Ricerca negli Atenei Torinesi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
“Quando ragioniamo di etica della ricerca pensiamo alla sua libertà, al suo pluralismo, a un’etica che non risponde a una qualsivoglia morale ma ai valori costituzionali del nostro Paese”.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
A cliché often repeated is that India is a land of diversities of all types: religious, political, economic, linguistic, geographic, ethnic, cultural, and food or cuisine-gastronomy.
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Iran to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization in July
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said today that his country’s accession to the SCO will be completed in the next summit on 4 Jul under the chairmanship of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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(Français) L’Hypocrisie des Sanctions Économiques
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Les sanctions économiques sont-elles une violation des droits de l’Homme ?
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The Vassalage at Heart of the G7
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Resurrecting the Concept of the Triad – Following the end of the Second World War, the United States built an international system that was premised on the subordination and integration of Japan and Europe.
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Another Look at the U.S. Financial Transactions Tax That Could Eliminate Need for All Others
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in the US economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening wealth divide to the rampant financialization of the economy, while eliminating taxes on income and sales.
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The Hypocrisy of Economic Sanctions
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Are economic sanctions a violation of human rights?
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Spirituality Negation in Religions: A Catalyst for Global Peace Disruption
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
This publication discusses Spirituality as one of the multifaceted elements, of the pillars of religious beliefs and ritualistic ideologies of humanoids, since evolution.
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What’s Your Sign
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
26 May 2023 – Say, what?
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Saudi Arabia Set to Join BRICS’ New Development Bank
Ahmed Adel | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – The ties between the BRICS bank and Saudi Arabia signals an advancement in the de-dollarisation of the global economy. This week, Saudi Arabia held talks to join BRICS’ New Development Bank as its ninth member, a decision not only economic but also political.
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When Will US Join Global Call to End Ukraine War?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – Peace initiatives to end the war in Ukraine being pursued around the world, and the grassroots movement that supports them, as the US is determined to prolong it at great cost in Ukrainian lives and risk of nuclear war.
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USA: Disconnecting War from Its Consequences
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. It lost in the House, 420-1 and in the Senate, 98-0. Barbara Lee’s was the lone vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force resolution. Militarism keeps expanding. If there’s a problem out there, option one is to kill it quickly. Problem solved!
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
I recently discussed Biden’s and U.S. Democratic Party’s foreign policies with a friend in the peace movement. He agreed that to call these policies “imperialist” was, if anything, an understatement: “In the American two-party system, there is no lesser evil to vote for or support.” No lesser evil?
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The Polarities of Democracy from Conception to Execution
Bill Benet, PhD | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Abstract: People around the globe have embraced democracy to bring about positive social change to address our environmental, economic, and militaristic challenges. Yet, there is no agreement on a definition of democracy that can guide social change efforts. The polarities of democracy present a unifying theory of democracy to guide healthy, sustainable, and just social change efforts.
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Consciousness – Viññana Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Monks, eye-consciousness is inconstant, changeable, alterable. Ear-consciousness… Nose-consciousness… Tongue-consciousness… Body-consciousness… Intellect-consciousness are inconstant, changeable, alterable.
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Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (4)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Quoted from the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi.
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The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
28 May 2023 – Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.
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The Threat of Para-state Power Called International Banking
Partido Humanista de Chile/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Banking is the main accumulator of resources and the real power behind formal power. It has become the most powerful sector of Big Capital, being an area of the economy that produces nothing and should have only an instrumental role.
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Climate Carnage: Things Can Only Get Worse
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – Please stop repeating all this softened wording, such as climate change, climate-related hazards, climate crisis, or extreme weather events… And just call it what it really is: climate carnage.
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Beethoven’s Ode to Joy (Music Video of the Week)
Sabadel Flashmob – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
A Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians in a Touchingly Human Reminder of Our Capacity for Ecstasy, Transcendence, and Collective Felicity
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Fossil Fuels, Tipping Points, and a Viable Solution
Steve Hoffman | Freedom Socialist Party - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Jun 2023 – A condemnation of the capitalist overuse of fossil fuels–and a solution.
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The Slow Ethnic Cleansing of Ein Samiya’s Bedouin Community
Mariam Barghouti | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – Israeli settlers and military systematically made life unbearable for the Bedouin community living in the West Bank’s Ein Samiya region. On May 22 they were forced to leave their lands and were displaced for the fourth time since 1969.
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Judge Finds Australian War Hero to Be a War Criminal
Graham Hryce | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – Canberra’s most-decorated living soldier loses the “defamation case of the century” over alleged murder of Afghan civilians.
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“Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if It Takes Place,” Says Noam Chomsky
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
26 May 2023 – “Major world powers need to shift from confrontation to accommodation soon; otherwise, we’ll go off the precipice together.”
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The Accounting Crisis
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – Sigh!
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The Wars We Don’t (Care to) See
David Barsamian and Norman Solomon | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Aggression Made Easy
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Experts Urge Action to Mitigate ‘Risk of Extinction from AI’
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – It “should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” says a new statement signed by dozens of artificial intelligence critics and boosters.
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The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions: Event Summary
Francisco Rodríguez and Mark Weisbrot | Center for Economic and Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
23 May 2023 – On 19 May, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions?
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How a Tour of Russia Showed Me That Propaganda Perverts Reality in the Minds of US Citizens
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
‘Waging Peace’: My month-long tour of the country was an eye-opening experience, and so was the hostility that met me back home in the US.
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African Unity and the New Cold War
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Imperialism extends its destabilization efforts against China and Russia across the continent. This year’s 60th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity occurs at an important point in international relations. Africa and its people were essential in the rise of western colonialism due to the Atlantic Slave Trade, 15th to 19th century.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Elaboration of Strategic Sonnets as Memorable 14-Fold Modes of Aesthetic Presentation
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(Português) Um Humanismo Radical
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
23 maio 2023 – Um dos problemas mais angustiantes na cultura mundial é a falta de humanidade. Não olhamos para o outro em suas dores, buscas e necessidades. Consideremos os imigrantes do Oriente Médio e de África que buscam a Europa por causa de guerras e da fome. São rejeitados e fizeram do Mediterrâneo um cemitério. O mesmo destino trágico sofrem os milhares de Latino Americanos que procuram atravessar as fronteiras dos Estados Unidos.
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Assessing Big History at a Time of Global Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
27 May 2023 – To achieve positive forms of change at a time of multiple converging crises imperiling the human species and its natural habitat is the ‘crisis of crises’ facing humanity at this time.
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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in China
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – Eritrea can chart an exciting new development path through mutually respectful collaboration with China.
→ read full articleG7 Owes the Poor $13 Trillion in Unmet Pledges. Meanwhile…
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
The G7 countries owe low- and middle-income countries US$ 13.3 trillion in unpaid aid and funding for climate action when one billion people risk cholera because of the reduction and non-payment of committed assistance.
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Dan Kovalik and Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – At the end of April of this year, the two of us ventured together to Russia. We went with the purpose of fact-finding and also to make a point that we do not believe that Russia should be isolated from the world through sanctions and travel bans.
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Can the Global South Build a New World Information and Communication Order?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
It is remarkable how the media in a few countries are able to set the record on matters around the world. The European and North American countries enjoy a near-global monopoly over information; their media houses vested with a credibility and authority inherited from colonial times plus their command of the neocolonialist structure of our times.
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NATO’s Dirty War in Ukraine
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
25 May 2023 – Connecting dots between illegal weapons in Ukraine and Syria.
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Censorship at the American Psychological Association
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
There’s more than a little irony in the APA’s decision to quash Arrigo’s article; it examines the damage and danger of letting military-intelligence interests covertly interfere in the proper functioning of psychological science.
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(Italiano) Munizioni
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Con il comunicato stampa del 3 maggio 2023 la Commissione Europea riunita a Bruxelles annuncia l’adozione di una nuova legge che consentirà ai Paesi dell’Unione di produrre rapidamente una quantità crescente di munizioni e di missili.
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ChatGPT Imagines a World Where Power Structures Are Reversed
Joe Martino | The Pulse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
If our current ideas of a society were truly suspended, what type of world would we envision?
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(Português) Se Lula Rifar o Meio Ambiente Seu Governo Acaba
Eliane Brum/Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Um grito de alarme sobre as funestas consequências da exploração de petróleo na foz do Rio Amazonas. Não se trata de vantagens e lucros, mas de colocar a vida do planeta e da humanidade em risco. Eliane Brum vê o desastre que pode significar se este projeto de exploração vingar. Precisamos reagir e nos opor renhidamente a este ataque à vida e negação da ciência.
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Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (3)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Quoted from the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
In India there are basically two agriculture seasons — Kharif and Rabi. In the Kharif season there is a lot of rainfall especially in the southern states. On the other hand, the Rabi season does not have too much rainfall but has more of sunlight.
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Another Regrettable Incident
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
15 May 2023 – Meanwhile, in the US of A
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Tina Turner, Queen of Rock & Roll, Dead at 83
Brittany Spanos and David Browne | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – Legendary Singer “Died Peacefully” Today in Switzerland after a Long Illness
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Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
21 May 2023 – We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant. Many still do not.
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Reflections on the G7 Summit in Hiroshima
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
27 May 2023 – Following is a series of thoughts and reactions to the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Now is a time to share positive, balanced solutions to help prevent the grim possibilities of a future world war; these thoughts and actions are offered in that spirit.
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An Interview with Satan on the Eve of His Retirement
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
“You seem surprised,” he purred. His voice was light and easy on the ears. “You didn’t expect horns and a tail, did you?” he chuckled. He grasped my hand warmly and offered me a seat opposite. It was dusk and we looked out, from our chairs on the balcony, over a quiet harbor.
→ read full articleIpsis Litteris
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
A husband tells his wife triumphantly,
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Why Is the African Union Absent in Sudan?
Tafi Mhaka | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
25 May 2023 – In Sudan, ‘African solutions to African problems’ is proving to be a hollow mantra.
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CIA Front Company Extends Intrusive Surveillance Operations in Lithuania under Pretext of New Cold War
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
22 May 2023 – Creation of Orwellian surveillance apparatus belies claim that the U.S. is upholding democracy in the face of Russian authoritarianism.
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Global South Aims to Fix the UN
Ramzy Baroud | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
23 May 2023 – Calls to reform the Security Council have been made many times in the past, but Beijing’s position is particularly important in both language and timing.
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Hiroshima Spring
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
In the Twentieth Epoch of Love
we pulled on the rubbery face
and found the luminous skull
turning around in its place,
wearing the grin of our race,
What’s the Use of William Blake?
Stephen F. Eisenman | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
26 May 2023 – What’s the use of William Blake? Or for that matter, of any art and literature in an age of climate change, proxy wars, nuclear threat, pandemic, rise of fascism? Rather than study long dead poets or painters, shouldn’t we focus on the emergency?
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Rearmament & Europe’s Welfare
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
17 May 2023 – Farewell to the Welfare State? Not Just Yet. Let’s see how Europeans respond when they are told their peace dividend is to be spent on the machinery of war — when it’s “howitzers instead of hospitals” now, as a New York Times article puts it.
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Comparative Economic Advantage of Asia: South Asian Diaspora Impact in the USA
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
The Context and Prospect for Economic Progress
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Revisiting the G-7, Ukraine-Russia War, Hiroshima, and the Cruelty of Wars
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
22 May 2023 – How do you cure political cynicism with intellectual foresights? The G-7 used to be a G-8 including Russia but since 2014, it was changed to an exclusive club of the like-minded USA-European think-tanks for their own politics and future-making.
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Japan’s Fukushima Water Release Plan Falls Short of Full G7 Support
KBS World/Global Times/Pacnews | Islands Business – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
18 Apr 2023 – Japan failed to secure unanimous support from the G7 for its release of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean due to Germany’s opposition.
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USA: $1.1 Trillion – or 62% – of the Federal Budget Spent on Militarism and War
Institute for Policy Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
May 24, 2023 – “When we invest so heavily in militarism at home and abroad, we deprive our own communities and people of solutions to problems that pose immediate security threats.”
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Sudan Instability Pushes Refugees to Chad
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
26 May 2023 – It is difficult to know how long the struggle for power between the generals will go on and how it will impact different parts of the country. We must hope that some of the mediation proposals already made can lead to a halt to the violence.
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British Warmongering Is Driving Europe Towards Catastrophe in Ukraine
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – From lobbying for fighter jets to supplying depleted uranium, the UK is making sure escalation is the only way forward.
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The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – By recognizing that the question of NATO enlargement is at the center of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Only diplomatic efforts can do that.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
There is much talk about evolution and peace and, having worked on it off and on, here are some notes.
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1st Trimester 2023: Shell Profited US$ 9.6 BILLION or US$ 106 MILLION/day
Lisa Göldner | Greenpeace Germany – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Shell is raking it in whilst linked to unlawful activities and extreme weather wreaks havoc across the world. They’re literally profiting off people’s pain. Please can you sign our urgent petition calling on fossil criminals like Shell to stop their climate-wrecking activities and pay for the damage they have caused?
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