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Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know
Matt Taibbi, et al. | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – The Citizen’s Starter Kit to Understanding the New Global Information Cartel
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Sudan Talks Held in Saudi Arabia Reveal Underlying Crisis of Governance
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
11 May 2023 – Jedda negotiations illustrate the role of Washington and its allies in the Gulf Region.
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Shock Doctrine: Industry Exploiting Ukraine War for Liquefied Natural Gas Expansion
Olivia Rosane | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – In an investigation targeting the “shock doctrine” practices of the gas industry, Greenpeace is calling on policymakers in both the U.S. and EU to move away from expanding LNG infrastructure before it’s too late.
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Chilean President Plans to Nationalize Lithium Industry
Gabriel Boric | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – The initiative, which will be sent to Congress later this year, is designed to boost the economy of the nation, which has some of the world’s largest reserves of the high-demand metal.
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Microplastics Invading the Male Reproductive System
Huanjia Zhang | Environmental Health News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – The authors of a new pilot study that found microplastics in human testis and semen called for more data and research to determine how the tiny particles affect the male reproductive system. It builds on evidence that male fertility is at risk from environmental toxics.
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Western Media’s Peculiar Incuriosity about Nord Stream
Jonathan Cook | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
26 Apr 2023 – Seymour Hersh’s investigation is filled with details that could be checked — and verified or rebutted — if anyone wished to do so.
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Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Introduction to a series of features about the new global speech-policing bureaucracy, uncovered in the Twitter Files and beyond.
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Syria Comes in from the Cold
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
24 Apr 2023 – After the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another diplomatic coup is unfolding in the Middle East. This one is orchestrated by the Russians.
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Pentagon Documents Leak: Here’s What You Need to Know
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – Documents posted online appeared to reveal details of how US agencies spy on other nations, including allies.
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Leaks Spelling the End for Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington.
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Lula and Xi Jinping Sign 15 Partnership Agreements in Beijing
Kawsachun News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
14 Apr 2023 – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed today in Beijing 15 trade and partnership agreements. Lula was received at the Great Hall of the People, seat of the Chinese government. Find the joint communique released by the two presidents here in English.
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The Plight of a Woman Who Questioned Vaccine Safety in Malaysia
Simay Bayatli | TrialSiteNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – TrialSite is following the controversial issue of vaccinating children against COVID-19, as well as the medical community’s perspective on this topic.
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The Iinternational Criminal Court’s Selective Prosecution
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – The ICC’s double standard in the treatment of Ukraine and Palestine is largely due to political coercion by the U.S., which isn’t even a party to the court’s Rome Statute.
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The Mafia: BP Stole £15 Billion of Iraqi Oil after British/West Invasion
Matt Kennard | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – Shell, the other U.K. “super-major” oil company, also re-entered Iraq in 2009 after an invasion in 2003 that was widely denounced at the time as a war-for-oil on the part of the U.S. and U.K.
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G7 vs BRICS — Off to the Races
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – BRICS Surpasses G7 in PPP-Adjusted Global GDP – An economist digging below the surface of an IMF report found something that should shock the Western bloc out of any false confidence in its unsurpassed global economic clout.
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People Can Win
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – We’ve been trained to think that endless rule by tiny minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of things, but that turns out to be just another lie.
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Anything to Say? Assange, Snowden & Manning in Sydney
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – The three bronze statues that have been touring the world have arrived in Assange’s home country, Australia.
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A Sane Voice amidst the Madness
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia.
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G20, the Ukraine War, and the Global Economic Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
18 Mar 2023 – United States and Its Allies Accused of Hampering Progress within the Global South
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WCPA’s Two Track Strategy for Earth Federation Government or a ‘New UN’
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
16 Mar 2023 – Einstein noted the absence of enforceable world law in the UN Charter. Bully nations violate international law with impunity as leaders responsible for world crimes, especially from the UN Security Council (U.S., Russia, China, UK, France) are untouchable, never held accountable, even by the ICC or the ICJ.
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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report about Biden deliberately blowing up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline but corporate mainstream media have ignored the Pulitzer Prize reporter’s bombshell. In the US, only four mentions were found among the 20 most influential publications.
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Seismic Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Isolates US
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – The Chinese-brokered diplomatic deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran not only opens the way for resolution of region-wide conflicts, but foils U.S. Mideast divide-and-rule designs based on Saudi-Iranian enmity. The success of the normalization and its effect on the Middle East remains to be seen. But it is a start that few thought they’d ever see as long as the U.S. stood in the way.
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Putin Suspends START Nuclear Pact with USA
AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the US, announcing the move yesterday in a bitter speech in which he made clear he would not change his strategy in the war in Ukraine.
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Totalized Censorship
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
20 Feb 2023 – Content warning, canceling, de-platforming, denying access: The fate of Sy Hersh’s Democracy Now! interview on YouTube is the latest indication of how much rougher press suppression is in this new media era.
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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Hersh, the journalist who broke the stories of the My Lai Massacre, the CIA spying program and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, reports that U.S. Navy divers attached C4 explosive charges to the pipeline and President Biden himself ordered its destruction, an operation that began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite this, corporate media have overwhelmingly ignored the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter’s bombshell.
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‘Cleansing’ Palestinians from Palestine
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Israel’s new extremist regime — the most anti-Palestinian in history — seems to be aiming at incorporating all of the occupied Palestinian territories into Israel.
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Einstein & Freud Agree: Ending War Requires World Government
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – A new form of global governance will be needed to end war between nations according to Einstein and Freud in their 1932 exchange of letters. They describe a governing system consistent with what world federalists describe as world government.
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Alone and Unafraid: How to Prepare to Fight and Win the Next War
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Ernest “Nest” Cage | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – A near-peer conflict between the U.S. and China will be a nightmare in real life. Just how scary it might be is dependent on what is done now. Man is not perfect and is a reliable creature of habit, so we must prepare to win today.
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WATCH: Roger Waters at UN Security Council on Ukraine (Full Text)
Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – The British rock star was invited by Russia to address the Council. The Pink Floyd co-founder has been an outspoken critic of U.S. policy in Ukraine and has called for an end of arms shipments to Kiev.
→ read full articleUS-Laid Trap for Russia Has Trapped West Instead
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – A month before the Feb. 24, 2022 Russian invasion, CN wrote that the U.S. was laying a trap to lure Russia into an economic, information and proxy war. All three have failed for the U.S.
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On the History of the Black Power Movement in the USA
Mark Whitaker | CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Wallace: “Mr. Carmichael, if you had the chance to stand up in front of the white community and say to them, ‘Understand me, white man,’ what would you say?” Carmichael: “I would say, ‘Understand yourself, white man. You are the savages. Yes, it is you who have always been uncivilized. Civilize yourself.'”
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The US Is Legitimizing Jewish Terrorism against Palestinians
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – There is one line at the very end of the State Department’s statement that is particularly cynical: “We look to both sides not to take steps that actually make things worse.” This comment is noteworthy because Blinken did make one proposal that will make things far worse and will without doubt bring about more violence.
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How US Marines Are Being Reshaped for China ‘Threat’
Jonathan Marcus | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – The US military commitment to the Pacific was underlined in a White House meeting between the leaders of the US and Japan. But behind the scenes, this renewed focus on Asia has sparked a fierce debate within one of its most fabled military forces.
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Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – Palestinian journalists pay a heavy price for carrying out their mission of spreading the truth about the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Their work is critical not only to balanced media coverage but to the very cause of justice and freedom in Palestine. However, the harm inflicted on Palestinian journalists is not only physical and material. They are also constantly exposed to a very subtle but equally dangerous threat: the constant delegitimization of their work.
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How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the US Patent System
Rebecca Robbins | The New York Times/Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.
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Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate (Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges, John Kiriakou)
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Matt Taibbi joins CN Live! to discuss the implications of his Twitter Files revelations, including his latest on Hamilton 68 and its fatal blow to the Russiagate narrative. With Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou.
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Earth Constitution: Only A Democratic World Federal Government Is Realistic
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – The Constitution for the Federation of Earth (aka Earth Constitution) is a blueprint for an emerging democratic world federal government — an Earth Federation movement led by the World Constitution & Parliament Association to replace the United Nations system stymied with its obsolete and fatally flawed Charter.
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Why Bonnie Raitt’s “Just Like That” Is a Song for the Ages
Harvey Wasserman | Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – In an era when cruelty and greed run rampant, human kindness is at an ultimate premium. Of all the emotions our species finds in desperately short supply, compassion and empathy top the list.
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Germany Risks Forgetting Its History
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, under heavy pressure from Washington, announced that Germany would send 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine breaking the self-imposed constraints on the military’s role in German foreign policy in place since the end of WWII.
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The Nightmare of NATO Equipment Being Sent to Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations, and rebukes the WWII history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin. Today the White House decided that it would send about 30 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, a political cover for Germany that decided to ship 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Kiev.
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Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 5 Yrs Ago Today
Nat Parry | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 Jan 2023 – The founder of Consortium News died five years ago today. Robert Parry had an illustrious career as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press, Newsweek and PBS Frontline, best-known for his revelations in the Iran Contra scandal and the October Surprise.
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‘The Government Killed Him’: A Tribute to Activist and Programmer Aaron Swartz 10 Years after His Death
Maximillian Alvarez | The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
13 Jan 2023 – As a computer programmer, Swartz changed the internet forever and fiercely fought against the privatization of knowledge. The federal government persecuted him for it until his death by suicide in 2013.
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Glenn Greenwald: US Government Doesn’t Care about Spreading Democracy
Tucker Carlson interviews Glenn Greenwald | FOX News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
9 Dec 2022 – The USA is spreading democracy on the other side of the world by sending billions of taxpayers’ dollars in weapons to Ukraine, whose war is being orchestrated and fueled by US and NATO. If you want to believe the fairy tale that the US government goes to war to spread democracy, then Ukraine is not the place for you.
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Pelé (23 Oct 1940 – 29 Dec 2022), Brazil’s Mighty King of ‘Beautiful Game,’ Has Died
Tales Azzoni and Mauricio Savarese | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died today. He was 82. The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. RIP
→ read full articleOn the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.
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Former Pope Benedict XVI (16 Apr 1927 – 31 Dec 2022) Passes Away
Vatican News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
31 Dec 2022 – Following the announcement of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI today at the age of 95, we look back at his long life and its main highlights with the following official biography.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Indict Me Too
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – Daniel Ellsberg has called on the U.S. to indict him for having the same unauthorized possession of classified material as Julian Assange. Ellsberg follows the Cryptome.org founder who has also invited prosecution.
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Moral High Ground
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Are you serious? Really?? Wow!
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Cryptome Founder Asks to Be Indicted with Assange
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – John Young, the founder of the Cryptome website, has asked the U.S. Justice Department to also indict him as he published un-redacted State Dept. files before WikiLeaks did.
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Be It Resolved: Don’t Trust Mainstream Media
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – My Opening Remarks for the Munk Debates in Toronto Tonight
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The COVID Pandemic Farce Served as a Trial Balloon for the New World Order
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò | LifeSiteNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
22 Nov 2022 – Viganò’s Address to Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International – “There can be no neutrality, because when there is a clash between two armies, those who choose not to fight are also making a choice that affects the outcome of the battle.”
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Largesse: US Air Force Seeks the Aircraft Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife
Stephen Losey | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
7 Nov 2022 – Preparing for a potential fight against China, weighing limited budgets and fleets, and looking for more capabilities from existing aircraft: if a C-130 can act as bomber, a bomber can serve as a cargo plane, the argument goes. Toys for the boys.
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Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
31 Oct 2022 – A MintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have positions of influence in the biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. The Israeli Defense Forces’ Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population.
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German Air Chief: F-35 Buy Safe despite Rising Inflation Costs
Vivienne Machi | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – Rising prices for everything have put some of Berlin’s up-arming plans into question. The air force’s multibillion-euro F-35 program, however, is expected to weather inflation-related cost increases intact, according to the service’s chief of staff.
→ read full articleStrategy to Open the Door for a New UN and for an Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
29 Oct 2022 – The United Nation’s primary job is to end war. It hasn’t worked. It could not prevent the devastating criminal invasion of Iraq by the US, and now it’s Russia against US/Ukraine. To add to the frustrating madness, US/NATO promises a future war against China over Taiwan. The UN needs a world federal constitution.
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U.S. Military News Roundup
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
18 Oct 2022 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction – Sponsored by The Boeing Company
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The Chris Hedges Report: Noam Chomsky (Part 1)
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
21 Oct 2022 – In a wide-ranging discussion, Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges discuss the war in Ukraine, the rising tide of global fascism, the climate catastrophe, and the role left to public intellectuals in an increasingly restrictive and censored media environment.
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Australia Reverses Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
18 Oct 2022 – Australia says it will no longer recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing a decision taken by the previous administration in 2018. Foreign Minister Penny Wong says government reiterates commitment to two-state solution.
→ read full articlePipelines v. USA
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.
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Brazil Votes in Tense Election: Bolsonaro vs. Lula
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
2 Oct 2022 – Divisive polls head into second round after far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro did better than polls had suggested. The second-round vote will take place on October 30.
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A New UN to Prevent the Sacrifice of Europe to the Nuclear Gods
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
The UN is stymied by its fatally flawed Charter. Despite the fact that the original purpose of the UN is to end “the scourge of war,” it has failed time and time again. While the UN has done much good, the world has seen over 250 wars since the Charter was signed.
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The Timing of the Pipeline Attack
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – The U.S. had already forced Germany to shut down Nord Stream 2 but there are signs that an end to the Ukraine war would have put it back online. Why then did someone attack the pipeline on Monday [26 Sep], releasing the gas it contained into the Baltic Sea?
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John Pilger’s 2014 Warning about Ukraine
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
24 Sep 2022 – In an article on May 13, 2014 in The Guardian, republished here, John Pilger warned the “U.S. is threatening to take the world to war” over Ukraine, words that have taken on new meaning.
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The Israel Files: WikiLeaks Docs Show Top Hollywood Producers Working with Israel to Defend Its War Crimes
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
23 Sep 2022 – Exploring and highlighting the many revelations about the Israeli occupation of Palestine that WikiLeaks documents disclosed in hopes of shedding light on many of the most important and underreported revelations the publishing group exposed.
→ read full articleReaping the Whirlwind
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
22 Sep 2022 – “A permanent member of the UNSC invaded its neighbor, attempted to erase a sovereign state from the map,” Biden said. “Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the UN Charter.” History, however, is a harsh mistress, where facts become inconvenient to perception; through the prism of historical fact, the narrative being promulgated by Biden becomes flipped.
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Myanmar Spiraling ‘from Bad to Worse, to Horrific’, Human Rights Council Hears
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – Since the Myanmar military launched its “disastrous” coup last year, UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said today that conditions have worsened, “by any measure”.
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The Historic Collapse of Journalism
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters.
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IMF Tells Bolivia to Drop Its Successful Economic Model
Kawsachun News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
16 Sep 2022 – The IMF released a report today on the Bolivian economy in which it recommends adopting drastic neoliberal measures, including; reducing workers’ salaries, cutting public investments, and ending currency controls. These policies have turned Bolivia from one of the poorest countries in the region into it’s fastest-growing economy.
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Queen Elizabeth II Has Died
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. She died peacefully on Thursday [8 Sep] afternoon at her Scottish estate. The Queen came to the throne in 1952. RIP
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A Warning from Chomsky and Ellsberg
Paul Jay | theAnalysis-news – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In their 90s, the two men tirelessly fight to warn people of the need for urgent action to deal with climate change and the threat of nuclear war. Joining Paul Jay, they discuss the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the war in Ukraine, and the climate crisis.
→ read full articleGetting It Wrong on Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – Bill Arkin and his employers at Newsweek seem to be content with serving as the Defense Intelligence Agency’s stenographers, putting out stories which have not, and will not, stand the test of time. Arkin is a prisoner of his sources, a problem that pervades Western reporting on the conflict in Ukraine.
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UN Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Declared a Failure
Thalif Deen | IDN-InDepthNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – A Four-Week Festival of Double Standards, Hypocrisy and Lying by Nuclear States – The 10th NPT Review Conference didn’t fail because it couldn’t produce a final document but because the nuclear-armed states haven’t made good on their nuclear disarmament. “This result is terminally unserious, and a total abdication of responsibility in the face of an unacceptably dangerous global situation.” — ICAN Director Beatrice Fihn
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Last Soviet Leader, Dead at 91
Matt Murphy and Robert Greenall | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, died yesterday aged 91. RIP
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U.S. Military Space Report
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction
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The Instinctive Distrust of Big Media
Nat Parry | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – US citizens’ trust in the media has reached all time lows, with just 11 percent expressing confidence in television news and 16 percent expressing confidence in newspapers. These are the startling findings of Gallup’s latest survey of US attitudes about the media.
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Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Possible Israeli War of Aggression against Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
26 Aug 2022 – While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. The deadly Israeli wars on Gaza are made possible, not only by western weapons and political support, but through an endless stream of media misinformation and misrepresentation.
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New Polls Show almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore
Lee Camp | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Putting the CIA in every newsroom was a clandestine project called Operation Mockingbird, and it paid mighty dividends.
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Ukraine ‘Testing Ground’ Shaping US Network, Electronic Warfare Effort
Colin Demarest | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
17 Aug 2022 – Fierce battles being waged in Ukraine are showcasing cyber and electronic warfare and their consequences for connectivity and communications, according to the deputy commanding general at U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
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Why the U.S. Is the Main Obstacle to Nuclear Disarmament
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – The Pentagon has made no secret of its goal of military “full spectrum dominance,” with the added delusional claim that the U.S. is “exceptional” and justified in establishing and maintaining an American empire. What’s wrong with this picture?
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Completing Rotation in Less Than 24-Hours, Earth Creates Record for Shortest Day
The Universal News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – On July 29, the Earth broke its record for the shortest day as it completed a full spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than its standard 24-hour rotation. The planet recently has been increasing its speed. Back in 2020, the Earth saw its shortest month that has ever been recorded since the 1960s.
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Hiroshima at 77: Another Hiroshima Is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target: China.
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Business as Usual for the Death Industry
Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Thought-Provoking Commentary & Opinions
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Behind the Drought and Food Deficits in Africa
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
19 Jul 2022 – The world is facing a combination of imperialist interventions, climate change and the burgeoning economic crisis of world capitalism.
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Angola Mourns Ex-President Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Africanews | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – Angolans eulogized former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos who died yesterday in Spain. He was 79 and ruled Angola for 38 years. Born 28 Aug. 1942 to immigrant parents from the archipelago of São Tome, dos Santos was raised in the poor Luanda neighborhood of Sambizanga. His father was a builder, his mother a maid.
→ read full articleThe Financial Bubble Era Comes Full Circle
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – An Unstable Encounter with a $50 Billion Stablecoin
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Quotes on War and Peace, the UN, and the Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – You can smell it. US Empire doubling down on war preparations. Ukraine is now armed with over US$ 40 billion in order for Ukrainians to die to the last man to weaken Russia. North Americans promise military support to Taiwan so they, too, can die for Empire… to weaken China.
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US Supreme Court Ruling on Environmental Protection ‘a Setback in Our Fight against Climate Change’
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
30 Jun 2022 – The ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court against the Environmental Protection Agency today is “a setback in our fight against climate change,” said the UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric.
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Assange Put on Suicide Watch after Patel Decision, Father Says
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – John Shipton said Julian Assange was stripped naked and put in an empty cell to prevent him from killing himself over the home secretary’s decision to sign his extradition order.
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The Paradoxical Seeds of the Holocaust: Oppression and Death Live on in the Apartheid State
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – It is becoming increasingly difficult for Israel and the agencies that promote Zionism around the world to portray Zionism in rosy colors.
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Multiple Articles on U.S. Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction – Military Space Report
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UK’s Bid to Export Some Refugees to Rwanda, ‘All Wrong’, Says UN Refugee Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, today dismissed the British government’s proposal to process United Kingdom-bound asylum seekers in Rwanda, describing the offshore deal between the two countries announced in April, as “all wrong”.
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Doctor’s Orders: ‘Do Not Extradite Assange’
Doctors for Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Ahead of the U.K. Home Secretary’s decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, a group of more than 300 doctors representing 35 countries have told Priti Patel that approving his extradition would be “medically and ethically unacceptable”.
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African Union Leaders Meet with Russian Government amid Escalating Food Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – The Russian special military operations in neighboring Ukraine have brought to the surface a number of persistent economic problems which have plagued the world since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged during the early months of 2020.
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Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction – Military Space Report
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Chad Declares Food Emergency While International Agencies Sound the Alarm
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – There have been 20 hunger hotspots listed by UN humanitarian organizations while underlying problems remain unaddressed. Two of the major UN agencies are warning of the potential for widespread hunger and famine in several geopolitical regions of the world.
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Italy Drops Last COVID Entry Rules, Ditches Testing and Vaccination Restrictions
Nichola Daunton | Euronews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – Italy will abolish all entry rules for international travellers from June 1. At present, unvaccinated tourists need to take a test before visiting the country – but this rule expires on May 31. Italy’s Health Ministry have indicated that it “will not be extended,” marking the end of all entry restrictions on travellers.
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Phase Three in Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – No amount of western military aid has been able to prevent Russia from achieving its military objective of liberating the entire territories of both Lugansk and Donetsk as Phase Three begins.
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The New Iron Curtain
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe’s crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment.
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When Is a TV News Interview Not Just an Interview?
Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
When TV News Won’t Identify Defense Lobbyists – As war rages, viewers watch commercials for weapons dealers, often without knowing it.
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PayPal Cancels Consortium News Account–May Seize Balance
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
1 May 2022 – PayPal has canceled CN’s account without any prior notice or due process and with virtually no explanation. The online payment system gave no warning or reason and indicated that only if “applicable” will the balance be returned.
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