Articles by ICH
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How Torture, Deception and Inaction Underpin the UAE’s Thriving Sex Trafficking Industry
Maggie Michael | ICIJ - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
12 Jun 2023 – An underground network of suspected sex traffickers has taken refuge in the wealthy Gulf nation. The U.S. State Department says efforts to identify and protect victims have fallen short.
→ read full articleHeeding Cornel West’s ‘Cri de Coeur’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
Biden’s response to the Russian attack on Ukraine was not for a ceasefire and diplomatic compromise but for weaponry and assistance to sustain a prolonged war as a demonstration of US-led NATO resurgence; not motivated by the defense of Ukraine but by an overwhelming interest in humiliating Putin and defeating Russia. Not only this.
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Achieving Growth as a Constraint
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Let us take a closer look at the systemic imperative to do whatever must be done to achieve growth.
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‘We’re the Dirty Little Secret Nobody Wants to Talk About,’ Says Man Injured by COVID Vaccine
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – Injured by the COVID19 vaccine–that his employer forced him to get–Stephen Wenger is now unable to work full-time and is facing more than $70,000 in medical bills: exclusive interview.
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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.
→ read full articleVoting for Peace? A Democratic Dilemma
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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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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Ipsis Litteris
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
A husband tells his wife triumphantly,
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War Prevention Depends on Respecting Invisible Geopolitical Fault Lines
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
18 May 2023 – ‘Rule-governed’ seems to be a synonym to international law. But Blinken makes no such claim to rationalize U.S. international behavior as ‘law-governed,’ but rather believe, following Thucydides, ‘that strong do as they will, while the weak do as they must.’
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China, India, and the Emerging New World Order
Michael T. Klare | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
What was once the North American century is now potentially the century of the G-3: China, India, and the US.
→ read full articleThe Crisis (or Crises) of Civilization
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
The word “crisis” draws its meaning from medicine. When a patient is in crisis, life and death hang in the balance. When the crisis is over, although the patient may not have recovered yet, the prognosis is that s/he will recover. Below I suggest (1) that business civilization is in crisis too, and (2) a way forward.
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The Normative Current
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
13 May 2023 – Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann [Short-Listed for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022] on a Natural and Continued Flow towards Rebuilding World Peace
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Risen Word
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
7 May 2023 – A divide between elites and the populace is a feature of society that has been true without exception since the abundance by agriculture/husbandry encouraged the growth of early Neolithic bands. A key to elite dominance always was the superior group’s monopoly – or quasi monopoly – of crucial knowledge.
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Japan PM Kishida’s Field of Vision on Nuclear Disarmament Is Out of Focus
Hiromichi Umebayashi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
What are the ‘Inconvenient Truths’ that Mr. Kishida refers to? For him, “the most troublesome inconvenient truth” is nuclear development in the DPRK, and “the second inconvenient truth” is the increasing nuclear arsenals in China. His words and deeds are highly inconsistent. In such circumstances, real “Inconvenient Truths” for nuclear abolition will not enter his field of vision.
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WWIII on the Installment Plan
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – The Invention of a Wartime Presidency to Save the Biden Administration
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Ode to LGBTQ
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Soliloquy
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The IMF Has Just Unveiled a New Global Currency Known as the “Universal Monetary Unit” That Is Supposed to Revolutionize the World Economy
Michael Snyder | The Economic Collapse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – A new global currency just launched, but 99 percent of the global population has no idea. The “Universal Monetary Unit”, also known as “Unicoin”, is an “international central bank digital currency” that has been designed to work in conjunction with all existing national currencies.
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The Bombing of Nord Stream — This Act of War against Europe Requires Congressional Investigation
Dennis Kucinich | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – President Biden’s own statements predicting the end of Nord Stream , preliminary to the devastating attack on its infrastructure, point to the necessity of determining whether or not the president was speaking from his singularly informed position of the Chief Executive, as Hersh indicated.
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Every 11th Has Its 13th Hour: Time to Dismantle Monroe Doctrine Politics
Michelle Ellner | CODEPINK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
The Monroe Doctrine is condemned to failure because people’s determination to be free will always prevail. Why not turn to a policy of mutual cooperation, of U.S. respect for Latin American and Caribbean internal affairs? Why not convince rather than coerce, collaborate rather than take advantage?
→ read full articleAmbiguous Geopolitical Fault Lines Endanger World Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
The idea of ‘geopolitical fault lines’ is not well established in the practice or theory of international relations, but their existence is profoundly relevant to the maintenance of peace and security because of the failure of international law to set consistently respected limits on the behavior of political actors, granting them impunity for acting beyond the limits of the law.
→ read full articleDemocracy at Risk for Jews in Israel, Bare Survival for Palestinians
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – Israeli police violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque directed at Palestinian worshipers in the midst of Ramadan on the nights of April 5 and 6 is a serious violation of international arrangements in Jerusalem to protect Muslim holy sites, none more sacred than Al-Aqsa.
→ read full articleAs Donald Trump Surrenders to Authorities in NY, Remember Feb 1924: The Trial of Adolf Hitler
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
A bit of history as a warning to those celebrating Donald Trump’s forthcoming trial in NY for violating laws on hush money payments, campaign expenditures, business records, and tax filings; also in Georgia and DC for suborning election fraud and inciting violence at the U.S. Capitol.
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Vatican Renounces Euro-supremacist “Doctrine of Discovery”
Richard Becker | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – Five centuries later, the Vatican issued an announcement on 30 Mar repudiating the “Doctrine of Discovery,” which said that all lands not occupied by “Christians” passed to the European conquerors when they were “discovered,” and their inhabitants enslaved.
→ read full articleCreating Dignified Livelihoods
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
My title is taken from the last speech of Martin Luther King, Jr given in Memphis less than 24 hours before his assassination. He was only 39 years old and world-famous for nonviolent resistance to racism, but his thinking and his activism had moved on.
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Acting on Peacebuilding Values
Miho Taka and Michaelina Jakala – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – In teaching, researching and practising in the field of peacebuilding, we talk about ethical challenges and the importance of considering ethical issues. The ethical challenges resonate with most of us in this field and spark lively conversations.
→ read full articleIraq Plus 20 (Part 2): From Iraq into the Abyss?
Dennis Kucinich | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – In Part 1, I detailed the careful lies to ignite the war on Iraq. The US military attack on Iraq commenced on March 20, 2023, after a highly structured domestic and international media campaign of misinformation and disinformation, by the Bush Administration, which succeeded in getting major media and Congressional support.
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U.S. Act of War against the European Union: Biden Ordered the Terror Attack against Nord Stream
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – High Treason against the People of Europe
→ read full articleUkraine and the ‘Thucydides Trap’
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The importance of Ukraine, in the eyes of US officials, goes far beyond the country’s intrinsic geopolitical or economic value. The crisis is rooted in Washington’s preoccupation with Russia. It has very little to do with Ukraine per se. That benighted country has provided the occasion, not the cause of the current confrontation.
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US Banks Want Socialism for Themselves–and Capitalism for Everyone Else
Robert Reich | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail.’
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Iraq Plus 20 (Part 1): Lies as Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The Script for the Lead-Up to War
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Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up
Michael Hudson | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The collapses of the Silvergate and Silicon Valley Banks are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse is the rising temperature of interest rates. Most media reports reflect a prayer that the bank runs will be localized, as if there is no context or environmental cause.
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16 Mar 1968: The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam by US Invading Forces
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
“The obsolete pretensions of sovereign prerogative and military necessity had better be challenged soon if life on earth is to survive,” — Richard Falk
→ read full articleIn Homage to David Ray Griffin: Indispensable Public Intellectual
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
I think it was the successful branding of the 9/11 skeptics as ‘wacky’ that proved more useful in squelching their influence than by labeling them as ‘dangerous,’ ‘subversive,’ and ‘radical’ or ‘socialist.’ It might be understood as the advent of a more advanced, more sophisticated version of McCarthyism, a discrediting ploy that George Orwell would have immediately understood.
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Saint Valentine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – A whimsical poem to celebrate the love legacy of Saint Valentine, written by Marianne Moore 63 years ago, published in The New Yorker on 13 Feb 1960, dedicated by me to all of us who love poetry and dare to love love on Valentine’s Day 2023.
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Israeli Security Forces Carry Out Massacre in Jenin, Palestine
Richard Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have vowed to make it easier for Israelis to carry guns. Ben-Gvir: “I want weapons on the streets, I want Israeli citizens to be able to protect themselves.” It follows the Zionist narrative of demonizing the victim and sanctifying the aggressor [remember Hitler & Nazism?].
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Biden’s Misplaced Optimism: 2023 State of the Union Address
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
18 Feb 2023 – The national situation is far too deeply challenged for us to be content with presidential bromides. What is most needed are policies and practices that embody compassion, and are dedicated with the fullness of being to responding to the imperatives of human security at all levels of social interaction.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) USA – et militarisert samfunn
Richard E. Rubenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
I regnskapsåret 2021 gikk 11 prosent av USAs statsbudsjett til militære formål, litt mindre enn før koronaepidemien. Militærbudsjettet utgjorde $754 milliarder (omkring 7 500 milliarder kroner) og foreslås økt til $773 milliarder i 2023. I 2022 var utgiftene større enn totalen for de neste ni landene i verden, og i 2020 var militærbudsjettet drøyt 20 prosent av alle føderale inntekter.
→ read full articleDignity & Humiliation
Prof. Howard Richards - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Acceptance of the Lifetime Commitment Award from the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Association
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Ukraine, Rethinking Global Security—Webinar
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, et al. | SHAPE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Our second webinar on 23 Feb 2023 draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security. An initiative to address the multiple crises that brought us to the brink of the precipice. Doomsday Clock: 90 seconds to midnight.
→ read full articleReasons (Other than Age) That Joe Biden Should Not Run again for President
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Three factors seem far more important than ageism: the advantages of an open fight for the nomination, Biden’s deficit of charisma, and, most important, this President’s uncritical commitment to a bellicose, imperialist foreign policy.
→ read full articleAntony Blinken Plays the ‘Two Sides Game’: Getting Netanyahu/Israel off the Hook
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Antony Blinken is the most lightweight Secretary of State, a fitting complement to the overweight Mike Pompeo. Together they could do a late night TV comedy routine on the ‘arrogance of decline’ when it comes to US foreign policy in the Trump/Biden years.
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Ukraine: Rethinking Global Security–Saving Humanity and Planet Earth
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Saving Humanity and Planet Earth (SHAPE) is an initiative to address the multiple crises that have brought us to the brink of the precipice. This, our second webinar to be held on 22/23 February 2023, draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security.
→ read full articleThe Rules-Based International Order and the Foggy Bottom Blues
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
The four words Rules Based International Order are surrounded by controversies. I will review some controversies as a prelude to a proposal. The proposal will recommend discarding the currently dominant discourses that are, as Michel Foucault might say, the historical conditions of the possibility of RBIO discourse.
→ read full articleTanks & Tragedy
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – Never has it been so daunting to figure out what’s going on during a major international crisis as with the Ukraine affair, due to total absence of truthful reporting and honest interpretative analysis by the MSM. We are served falsity, fantasy and farrago whose relation to reality is tenuous.
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Lifting the Curtain: Barbara Walters
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – This post is a departure from my usual focus on current political concerns. It attempts a mini-exploration of the public/private interface of a news and entertainment celebrity, especially known for her ability to go ‘persona,’ and even enter intimate terrain with some of the most famous political leaders of our time.
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Davos: Gates, Schwab, Global Elites Face Growing Criticism of Their ‘Master the Future’ Agenda
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. - The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
18 Jan 2023 – Thousands of prominent political and business figures are congregating in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, as critics accused them of “centralizing power into the possession of hand-picked global elites.”
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Israeli Settler Colonialism and Apartheid: Poised for Victory or Defeat?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
13 Jan 2023 – Anyone with but half eye open during the last several decades should by now be aware of the existence of an undisclosed Zionist Long Game that preceded the establishment of Israel in 1948, and remains currently very much alive. It aims at extending Israeli sovereignty over the whole of Occupied Palestine.
→ read full articleAt School
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
Teacher: “What a pair of strange socks you are wearing, one is green the other is blue with red spots!”
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Harvard University Succumbs
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
7 Jan 2023 – Harvard University Withdraws a Fellowship from Kenneth Roth & Human Rights Watch
→ read full articleToward Justice for Kashmir
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
18 Dec 2022 – Among the self-determination struggles of our time, Kashmir is at risk of being forgotten by most of the world (except for Pakistan), while its people continue to endure the harsh crimes of India’s intensifying military occupation that has already lasted 75 years.
→ read full articleThe Failure of Development
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Although “peace” and “security” were ideals that led to the founding of the United Nations, “development” was not. However, conceived as the solution, not as the problem, “development” named an ideal that could keep the UN united. It solved the problem of keeping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on board.
→ read full articleInculcating the “Military Virtues”: The Pentagon’s Predatory Role in U.S. High Schools
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
On 11 Dec, the New York Times broke a front-page story about “J.R.O.T.C,” described as “a program funded by the U.S. military designed to teach leadership skills, discipline, and civil values – and to open students’ eyes to the idea of a military career…” If peace education programs can be combined with civilian job training and public advocacy efforts, we might finally see a real challenge to the ongoing militarization of the schools.
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‘Zombie’ Viruses Are Thawing in Melting Permafrost Because of Climate Change
Michael Birnbaum and Ellen Francis | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Ancient viruses are locked in Russia’s permafrost. We may soon get a peek.
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Heal the World (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson | RAM's F.M. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Ukraine and Russia –> Peace Not War 2022
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A Short Introductory Bibliography on Unbounded Organization
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Concepts of Unbounded Organizing
→ read full articleThe Failure of the Expected Peace and the Suggestion of an Unbounded Way Forward
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
“Expected peace:” the peace expected after WWII. In a few years the UN was founded, human rights redefined to include social rights, colonial empires dissolved and new nation-states welcomed. It was reasonable to believe that human beings were learning how to live together in peace and shared prosperity.
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(Italiano) Elezioni israeliane 2022: una vittoria per i “coloni” colonialisti o per la lotta di Liberazione Palestinese?
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Non c’è dubbio che le elezioni israeliane 2022 del 1°novembre [U.S..] saranno d’importanza durevole. I mesi e gli anni a venire riveleranno se Israele consolida il suo status di stato coloniale di coloni o se la lotta palestinese aumenta la sua resistenza al dominio israeliano rafforzata da un crescente movimento di solidarietà globale.
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Hands off Haiti!!—No Military Intervention!!
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
12 Nov 2022 – The United States and Canada have delivered military machinery to Haiti under the suspicious title of “security equipment”; this “security equipment” includes armored and tactical vehicles to be used to strengthen the police to fight “criminal gangs.” It is reported that, by October 28, Haiti will receive additional delivery of military machinery.
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What to Expect from Netanyahu & Religious Zionism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
A Preliminary Appraisal
→ read full article2022 Israeli Elections: A Victory for Settler Colonialists or for the Palestinian Liberation Struggle?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
There is no doubt that the November 1st Israeli elections will be of lasting significance. The months and years ahead will reveal whether Israel consolidates its status as a settler colonial state or the Palestinian struggle increases its resistance to Israeli rule reinforced by an intensifying global solidarity movement.
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Accuracy
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
A tourist asked a little boy in a village:
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(Italiano) Negoziare la pace in Ucraina ADESSO
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Ottobre 2022 – Benché qualcuno consideri difficile o addirittura impossibile per gli ucraini e i russi fare la pace proprio adesso, questo è effettivamente un ottimo momento per negoziati quanto mai necessari al più presto per por termine a questa guerra immensamente distruttiva e sempre più pericolosa: negoziare la pace in Ucraina ADESSO
→ read full articleAchieving Socialism by Definition
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
My advice on how to cope is to employ patient reasoning and unlimited good will. Socialism can today be defined, if one chooses to do so, as a set of ideals, including ideals of mental flexibility and open-mindedness, which overlap with ideals of capitalist reformers. Meaningful conversations that bridge the capitalist/socialist divide are now possible because some premises can plausibly be construed as shared.
→ read full articleThe Time to Negotiate Peace in Ukraine Is NOW
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Experts in conflict resolution understand that, in many cases, the best time to undertake peace negotiations is exactly when warring parties, having stepped up their military efforts, declare that they will never negotiate with the enemy. Are things in Ukraine getting worse? Yes, for both sides. This is precisely the right time to give peace a chance.
→ read full articleCall on the Future of Humanity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
A webinar to build a global community of endorsers to work for a better future for this lonely endangered planet.
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: la scalata verso l’oblio
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Washington non solo ha mobilitato il mondo per denunciare l’aggressione della Russia, ma ha fornito armi avanzate in grandi quantità agli ucraini per resistere all’attacco russo, e ha fatto tutto il possibile all’ONU e altrove per costruire una coalizione punitiva ostile alla Russia, accompagnando il tutto con una serie di sanzioni e la demonizzazione di Putin. Questa prospettiva di propaganda di Stato è stata fedelmente veicolata da un filtro mediatico occidentale autocensurante.
→ read full articleUkraine War: Climbing the Escalation Ladder to Oblivion
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Not only did Washington mobilize the world to denounce Russia’s ‘aggression,’ but supplied advanced weaponry in great quantities to the Ukrainians doing all it could at the UN and elsewhere to build a punitive coalition hostile to Russia, coupled with a variety of sanctions and the demonization of Putin. This perspective of state propaganda was faithfully conveyed by a self-censoring Western media.
→ read full articleWill Saudi Leadership of OPEC Clash with U.S. Strategic Partnership?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Reevaluating US Relations with Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ Oil Production Cut
→ read full article(Castellano) Derrotar la Pobreza en Todas las Casas
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Una vez que se entiende el principio básico aquí destacado –que el empleo y por ende la dignidad no tienen que depender de las ventas, sino que pueden ser también fruto de la solidaridad, hay innumerables variaciones y extensiones posibles.
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On Loving the ‘Vietnam Syndrome’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
2 Oct 2022 – Never, in my opinion, is the country and world more in need of a second coming of the Vietnam Syndrome than at present, with pressures building for an existential nuclear confrontation more menacing to contemplate than was the Cuban Missile Crisis 60 years ago.
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Please Endorse Our Call for Global Peace
Chandra Muzaffar, Richard Falk and Joseph Camilleri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – This call prepared by the undersigned has been endorsed by 38 individuals from a wide array of nationalities across the globe. They are mainly public intellectuals and activists who have been involved in a variety of causes over the years. We have shared our call with the U.N Secretary General, as well as with other leaders involved directly in the Ukraine and Taiwan Crises, and with those who have tried to mediate.
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(Português) Onze Pistas Falsas sobre o Clima
Michael Löwy | Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
Contestação de lugares-comuns que dificultam o combate à mudança climática.
→ read full articleWhat Makes Ukraine Different from Serbia? Why Kosovo? Why Not Donbas?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
Defying Serbian Territorial Sovereignty in Kosovo, Upholding Ukrainian Territorial Sovereignty in the Donbas Region – The blind eye turned toward denials of the right of self-determination to the Palestinian people in what had been their own country of Palestine represents a flagrant example of international double standards.
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(Français) Bernard Lecomte (1 Sep 1930 – 7 Août 2022): Un grand homme humaniste de l’économie sociale en Afrique
Robin et Michelle Poulton - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
Adieu BERNARD LECOMTE : tu nous as quittés le 07 août 2022
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Ukraine: War, Statecraft, and Geopolitical Conflict—the Nuclear Danger
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
14 Sep 2022 – The risk of nuclear escalation in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been a subject of considerable debate in the United States among scholars, policy analysts and media commentators. These debates reveal a broad spectrum of views from those who dismiss Russian references to nuclear capabilities as mere saber rattling to those who worry that if Russian President Vladimir Putin finds his back to the wall in Ukraine, he may resort to tactical nuclear strikes.
→ read full articleReinventing Employment with Solidarity Ethics
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Solidarity ethics offers keys that open many doors. Here I suggest that if not by force of law, then by force of conscience, they oblige everyone to contribute, to the extent that they can, to the creation of employment with dignity for all those who need it.
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Face It: Anti-Sex Crusades Are Dumb
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
12 Sep 2022 – Catering to the Easily Offended is destroying justice and liberty. The Age of Enlightenment has been replaced by the Age of Stupid. Faith, passion, and feelings have become more important than facts, truth, and freedom.
→ read full articleAppraising Mikhail Gorbachev
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
6 Sep 2022 – Mikhail Gorbachev had the greatest historical impact of any public figure since WW II. It is a bitterly polarized legacy of admiration and historical achievement in the West and one of contempt and almost total disrepute in Russia.
→ read full articleIs It Time to Stop Bullying Iran? Washington Should Restore the Nuclear Program Agreement with Iran Now
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
4 Sep 2022 – It is time for the morally attuned public to awake to the reality that a nuclear Israel has neither security justifications nor political grounds for its continuing bullying of Iran. Iran’s political solidarity with some movements in the region pales in its gravity compared to the U.S. and Israel’s discretionary bombing, political assassinations, interventions, and violations of the basic sovereign rights of countries in the Middle East.
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(Italiano) Il come ricordiamo Hiroshima e Norimberga riflette il potere non la giustizia
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
I pacifisti del vasto mondo sovente scelgono l’8 agosto ogni anno per provare di nuovo la sofferenza umana e la devastazione causate dallo sgancio di bombe atomiche sulle città giapponesi inermi di Hiroshima e Nagasaki.
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(Italiano) Nuovi modelli di conflitto e debolezza dei movimenti per la pace
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
L’inizio della guerra russo-ucraina nel febbraio 2022 ha drammatizzato un pericoloso conflitto globale tra gli Stati Uniti e i loro avversari della Guerra Fredda, Russia e Cina. Un conflitto regionale che avrebbe potuto essere risolto mediante negoziati o dialoghi tra le parti è diventato relativamente intrattabile, senza soluzioni immediate in vista.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Mondale: “George W. Bush doesn’t have the manhood to apologize.”
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – Undoing the human and diplomatic harm of Trump’s international legacy is a complex matter that not only exhibits the persisting influence of unrepentant Trumpists but the passivity of the Democratic Party leadership, particularly when it dares to disagree with Israel on a matter of foreign policy concern.
→ read full articleNew Patterns of Conflict and the Weakness of Peace Movements
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
The beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war in Feb 2022 dramatized a dangerous global conflict between the USA and its Cold War adversaries, Russia and China. A regional conflict that might have been resolved by negotiation or dialogues between the parties became relatively intractable, with no immediate solutions in sight.
→ read full articleMovements to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons and to Establish Geopolitical Accountability
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022 – Go to the links given connecting you with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the NGO that has the longest record of commitment to establish a global security system without nuclear weapons and with geopolitical accountability.
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Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 77th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
Tomihisa Taue, Mayor of Nagasaki | The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Translation of the Peace Declaration read on 9 Aug 2022 by Nagasaki’s Mayor, Mr. Tomihisa Taue, at a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, as released by the Nagasaki Municipal Government.
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The Truth about Markets, Pillar of Capitalist Ideology
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“Market mechanisms” and “market solutions”: politicians, bureaucrats, media pundits, and academics like to refer to them as if they were somehow politically and ideologically neutral, above partisanship. They are not. Markets existed long before capitalism, but capitalism, as Karl Marx noted, made them ubiquitous, almost universal. Capitalism also raised and praised markets—and their prices—to give them an ideological importance, which leaned toward the absurd.
→ read full articleDonation Politics: Worse than Hypocrisy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – We need to ask ourselves with a sense of urgency, ‘where is the outrage?’ and ‘why are the streets empty?’ Bob Dylan’s message of the sixties rings truer than ever: ‘The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind.”
→ read full articleHow We Remember Hiroshima and Nuremberg Reflects Power Not Justice
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
This year the remembrance of the atomic bombings of Japanese cities is especially poignant. The world, as the UN Secretary General noted, is just one miscalculation away from nuclear war. I was also reminded that 8 Aug was the day in 1945 that the Allied Powers had the unfathomable insensitivity to sign the London Agreement setting up the Nuremberg Tribunal to prosecute German war criminals–two days after the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and one day before the second one incinerated Nagasaki. Sad to note, times have not changed.
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The Mouse Trap
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Next time you hear that someone has a problem which does not touch you, think again.
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WHO Director Dr. Tedros: Monkeypox Outbreak Is “Among Men Who Have Sex with Men”
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
“Factual Chaos” at the WHO? The Questionable 99% Estimate – “The monkeypox virus is a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’ but for the moment it is an outbreak concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially with multiple partners; it can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.” This is a FALSE statement as monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease.
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The Greatest Science Fiction Movie Ever Made Starring Us
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
26 Jul 2022 – A new Dark Age is upon us. An unelected shadow government consisting of billionaires, multinational corporations, and international non-governmental organizations like the World Economic Forum and the Rockefeller Foundation has seized power without a shot being fired, without a drop of blood being shed.
→ read full articleBiden’s Middle East Visit: An Orgy of Cynicism, Hypocrisy, and Erasures
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
21 Jul 2022 – This piece criticizes the dual tracks of Biden’s ill-executed trip in mid-July to Israel and Saudi Arabia. It faults Biden for the extreme cynicism of pursuing a realpolitik approach in Riyadh and an approach in Israel that mixed silences about apartheid, Shireen Abu Akleh, and the Palestinian ordeal with fanciful claims about shared values and democratic affinities.
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Economic Theory and Community Development: Why Putting Community First Is Essential to Our Survival
Michael Francis Britton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
This book is not the boring, unreadable stuff I’d come to expect of economics. As Howard Richard’s crowning masterpiece, it addresses hopes for a better world, the rights of everybody to dignity and a decent livelihood, and the need we all have to do things that matter to others, to contribute what we can.
→ read full articleAnti-Abortion Activism and the Sources of Polarization
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
Abundance equally shared can make the tribal conflicts that plague us now seem obsolete. It’s time to find a better way to organize our social and economic affairs.
→ read full articleThe Worst Is yet to Come: When the Center Cannot Hold
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – This is an attempt to connect my despair about developments in the USA with wider global systemic tendencies. It is not hopeful about the future, yet its central message is that we should continue to struggle for a future we can believe in given that we live at a time of radical uncertainty.
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Prof. Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – All or nothing, Hegemony or Armageddon: A logical outcome of a 40-year progression.
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A European Call for an End to the Ukraine War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022 – This piece appeared in the prominent German weekly, ZEIT, last week. It is written from a European perspective, calling for a ceasefire followed by bilateral negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
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(Italiano) Imparare dalla storia
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Luglio 2022 – Nel 1973 lavoravo in Cile con una squadra all’organizzazione di comunità sotto forma di educación popular. Ispirati dalla filosofia di Paulo Freire, non è in fondo un’esagerazione dire che eravamo fanatici nell’evitare a tutti i costi di fare quello che Freire chiamava “educazione bancaria”.
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Nikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with the Serbian scientist and his path-breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).
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