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Igniting a Peace Fire, Even as War Rages
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023

25 Oct 2023 – Here’s some advice about parenting: Write your child’s name on his or her leg or stomach, so that when your building is bombed, the child can be identified from the rubble. Mothers in southern Gaza are doing this now.

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Meanwhile at Lockheed Martin
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

12 Oct 2023 – NO Joke

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A Blow to the Strategy of Power
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

16 Oct 2023 – Fifty years after the surprise of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel has once again been taken by surprise. Israel’s fundamental security conception – based solely on its military superiority vis-à-vis its enemies – has received a crushing blow. Peace is essential to our ability to survive in the Middle East.

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Israel’s Culture of Deceit
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

18 Oct 2023 – Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.

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“Peace, War, and 9/11”: A Cinematic Portrait of Graeme MacQueen, a Warrior for Peace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

19 Oct 2023 – It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film and another to watch it.  The former fades into insignificance when one takes an hour-and-a-half to immerse oneself in its tragic yet revelatory story. 

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Let Them Eat Cement
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

22 Oct 2023 – Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war — starvation. The U.S. and its Western allies are as morally bankrupt and as complicit in genocide as those who witnessed the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and did nothing.

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Atrocity Propaganda
Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

17 Oct 2023 – Israel and its supporters in the West are helping to provide psychological cover for an ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians.

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Reporters without Borders Launches Global ‘Collateral Damage’ Campaign
RSF/Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

18 Oct 2023 – Developed in partnership with the French advertising agency BETC, the campaign depicts Assange with his facial features made up of the logos of media organisations that initially ran stories based on WikiLeaks in 2010.

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Hell Is Not Predestined
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

11 Oct 2023 – Humanity’s cancer in Israel and Palestine: Missiles fly, hell makes global headlines, thousands die, many of them (oh God, of course) children. Israeli Defense Minister declares: “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly. . . . We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza; no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything will be closed.”

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This Way for the Genocide, Ladies and Gentlemen
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

14 Oct 2023 – Washington and European governments are cheerleading Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence throughout the region.

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Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

8 Oct 2023 – The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier.

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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Came to Love Climate Change
Gloria Guillo | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

6 Oct 2023 – Does the Threat of Climate Change Misdirect the Anti-War Movement?

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Avoiding World War III
Eric Herter | Peace & Planet News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

AI’s Thoughts on Peace – Can artificial intelligence communicate wisdom that has been ignored when it comes from the peace movement?

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Emerging Science: The True Precipitating Cause of Alzheimer’s May Be Much Simpler Than Previously Believed
Ben Bartee | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

5 Oct 2023 – The mainstream medical community has long held that the buildup of amyloid and tau proteins in the brain is the precipitating cause of Alzheimer’s disease, but the true cause may be much simpler and, critically, much more simply prevented/treated.

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Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance against Israeli Colonialism
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

8 Oct 2023 – International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against Apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a “prison camp”. We look over the evidence.

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Fascism Comes to the USA
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

8 Oct 2023 – The failure of the liberal class to halt the corporate assault on working people has spawned an ascendant Christian fascism that is poised to seize power and radically reshape the United States of America.

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Dying for Inches in Ukraine
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

30 Sep 2023 – That weapons systems are being tested on human bodies to the immense benefit of war profiteers over a completely avoidable and provoked war is nightmarishly depraved. 

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Peace Journalists in London and Vicinities
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

I plan to organise a journalistic event (lectures, debate, party) but would like to hear first from Peace journalists interested in taking part.

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Why Our Popular Mass Movements Fail
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

1 Oct 2023 – The wave of global popular protests that erupted in 2010 and lasted a decade were extinguished. This means new tactics and new strategies.

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Waiting for an Apocalypse
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Finding Hope Living Outside the Box

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From a German War Primer
Bertolt Brecht - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Among the highly placed
It is considered low to talk about food.
The fact is: they have
Already eaten.

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Father of the Nation: Mahatma Gandhi’s Granddaughter Remembers Her Heroic Ancestor on the Anniversary of His Birth
Tara Gandhi-Bhattacharjee | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – Gandhi’s desire for harmony with nature and the environment remains significant with the current focus on climate action and sustainability.

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Menendez Bribery Scandal: Egypt versus Ethiopia
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – U.S. federal investigators caught New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine with $180,000 worth of gold bars, $550,000 in cash, plus furniture and a $60,000 Mercedes Benz that they didn’t pay for.

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The Real Message from the BRICS Summit
Prince Michael of Liechtenstein | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

28 Sep 2023 – Between 22-25 Aug, the BRICS – a loose association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – held a summit in Johannesburg where some 30 other developing nations were invited to participate.

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BRICS+: Experts Explain What the Strategic Entry of Six New Nations Means for Bloc
Yusra Asif | Al Arabiya/BRICS Info Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

19 Sep 2023 – Why these six countries? One of the prominent goals of BRICS is to enhance cross-border trade among member nations to boost the group economically and reduce the bloc’s reliance on the US dollar.

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Agreement Boosts Academic Mobility Across BRICS Borders
University World News | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

22 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries, a grouping of emerging economies, agreed to facilitate the recognition of academic qualifications among members to ensure the mobility of skilled professionals, academics and students.

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Australian Parliamentarians Speak Outside DOJ after Assange Talks
Consortium News | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

21 Sep 2023 – A delegation of six Australian members of Parliament are in Washington this week lobbying for the release of Julian Assange.

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The Elite’s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing–Can We Defeat It? (Part 2)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

10 Sep 2023 – Part 1 of this study introduced the subject and discussed the psychological and political methods used to control our minds. Part 2 will consider the medical and technological methods used and explain what is necessary to win this war.

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Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

4 Sep 2023 – Much has been made of the simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, part of the security detail in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. 

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Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

16 Sep 2023 – NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.

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Intra-BRICS Trade and Analysis 2023
Chris Devonshire-Ellis and Farzad Ramezani Bonesh | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

4 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries as a total currently includes about 26% of the total global land mass, and about 42% of the world’s population. This basic clout means that BRICS combined efforts in restructuring the global economy and strengthening economic and financial cooperation have been welcomed by many countries – and been viewed with suspicion elsewhere.

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The Elite’s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing–Can We Defeat It? (Part 1)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
— Steve Biko, South African freedom fighter, beaten to death in an Apartheid prison cell in 1977

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In AI Regulation Coverage, Media Let US Lawmakers off the Hook
Julianne Tveten | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

8 Sep 2023 – Corporate Press: ‘US Policymakers would like to place guardrails on artificial intelligence, but, given its novel and evolving nature, they’ll need more time.’ This narrative minimizes their responsibility— excusing, rather than interrogating, regulatory inertia.

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Media: Bad Faith & Blank Checks
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

4 Sep 2023 – All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere. An excerpt from Lawrence’s new book, ‘Journalists and Their Shadows.’

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Depleted Uranium Won’t Bring Peace to Ukraine
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

6 Sep 2023 – Militarism is obsolete, for God’s sake. Its technology is out of control. The latest news left me stunned and terror-stricken: “The Biden administration will send munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, despite the dangers such weapons pose to civilians.”

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New BRICS Bloc Will Democratize World Economy and Global South Future
Pedro Mzileni | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

8 Sep 2023 – The addition of Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Argentina, Egypt, and Iran to the BRICS block is the consolidation of a struggle to end the domination of this planet by Washington. The future of the world is in the Global South.

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The Pedagogy of Power
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

10 Sep 2023 – The ruling classes always work to keep the powerless from understanding how power functions. This assault has been aided by a cultural left determined to banish “dead white male” philosophers.

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Why We Can’t Have World Peace
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

31 Aug 2023 – We can’t have world peace as long as the US government’s foreign policy is to (militarily) conquer the world. Western think tanks refer to this grandiose wet dream to dominate the world as US “exceptionalism” and “hegemony.”

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US Extends Science Pact with China: What It Means for Research
Natasha Gilbert and Gemma Conroy | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

25 Aug 2023 – The move is a stop-gap measure, and scientists warn that lack of a full renewal could damage research collaborations.

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Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

Everybody knows that 2 + 2 = 4 since 4 = 2 + 2.  They know that excellent thing with certainty but generally fail to appreciate the charming nature of 2 + 2 = 5.  Tautologies are usually preferred to choices that seem to contradict the “laws of nature.” 

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Our Collective Trauma Is the Road to Tyranny
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

3 Sep 2023 – US society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism.

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Six Tropes to Look Out for in Western Media’s Distorted Palestine/Israel Coverage
Lara-Nour Walton | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Do Palestinians deserve to be free? “A complex and controversial issue,” says ChatGPT. Do Israelis deserve to be free? “Yes, like all people.,” affirms the AI gadget. “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” — Malcolm X

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What Is a Hicks-Style Plea Bargain for Assange?
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

14 Aug 2023 – David Hicks took a so-called Alford Plea to get out of Guantanamo, in which he pled guilty to a single charge, but was allowed to assert his innocence at the same time.  Such a plea could be offered to Assange. (Watch video below)

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The Nuclear Apple
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

9 Aug 2023 – How do we turn 26 Sep — declared by the UN to be (I kid you not) the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons — into a reality? Or does the human future have nothing to do with “us”? Are we just spectators of our own lives, stuck in the world our leaders continue to bequeath us?

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How the US and France Created a Niger Mess for Themselves
M. K. Bhadrakumar | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

19 Aug 2023 – Neo-colonial powers have become entangled in a diplomatic and military impasse borne from a fundamental lack of understanding.

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The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

This is a sermon I gave on Sunday 20 Aug in Oslo, Norway at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture). Actor and film director Liv Ullmann read the scripture passages.

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How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
April M. Short | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

17 Aug 2023 – Many people are already investing themselves in the local peace economy as they divest from the economy of war.

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The US Is Caught in a Dilemma with Niger
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

15 Aug 2023 – Washington can’t sever relations with the post-coup government lest it lose the basis for its military presence in the African country.

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Mr. Blue and the CIA
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

18 Aug 2023 – Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down to dinner, our phone rang.  Since I didn’t recognize the phone number and it was dinnertime, I hesitated to answer it, but for some chance reason I did.  The voice on the other end was agitated, intense, and asked for me.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

12 Aug 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regurgitates every lie, racist trope, distortion of history, and demeaning comment about the backwardness of the Palestinians peddled by Israel’s most retrograde and far-right elements. This alone discredits him as a progressive candidate. It calls into question his judgment and sincerity.

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US Cluster Munitions Will Bring More Pain and Death to Donbass Civilians, but Washington Doesn’t Care
Eva Bartlett | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

1 Aug 2023 – Kiev will use its newly received weapons to target residential areas, just as it has for the past nine years.

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US Response to Russia-China Naval Patrol Exposes Glaring Hypocrisy
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

8 Aug 2023 – Washington believes it has a divine right to send its warships wherever it wants, but when ‘rivals’ do the same it’s deemed a threat

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Malu ‘Aina in Search of Volunteers
Jim Albertini and Antonio C. S. Rosa | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

10 Aug 2023 – Founded in 1979, Malu ‘Aina is an all-volunteer non-profit peace farm in Hawaii. We are looking for a farm torch carrier, someone to take on the volunteer farm coordination that Jim Albertini has done for over 40 years. (Read the special note from the TMS Editor, a former volunteer.)

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Do People Change?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

11 Aug 2023 – Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world, many people often wonder how they might personally change to find happiness, contentment, or some elusive something.

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Africa in Rebellion: Is a Second Anti-Colonial Liberation on the Horizon?
Denis Rogatyuk | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

8 Aug 2023 – After a series of coups, one country after the other is moving to expel the traces of former empires.

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USA: How to Hide and Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths
Bryce Greene | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

1 Aug 2023 – A ‘Costs of War’ study estimates that the USA’s 9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and Syria with 40–60 million people displaced from their homes. “Pax Americana”

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Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Kashmir Hill | NYT/Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

6 Aug 2023 – Porsha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology.

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1999 NATO/CIA False Flag Operation at Račak Set Precedent for Similar Operations in Syria and Ukraine
Olga Peterson | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

Designed to Create a Pretext for Military Intervention

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Requiem for NATO’s Nightmare
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

28 Jul 2023 – The dysfunction of the Atlantic military alliance over Ukrainian membership was just the most public manifestation of the debacle that was the Vilnius summit.

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Central Europe’s Arms Makers Scramble for Workers as Ukraine Boosts Business
Michael Kahn, Robert Muller and Karol Badohal | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

2 Aug 2023 – From building apartments for new employees to offering retired workers free canteen meals to share their expertise, Central Europe’s arms manufacturers are scrambling for new ways to cope with the biggest boom since the end of the Cold War.

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How to Avoid WWIII?
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

28 Jul 2023 – The New York Times recently ran an article on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up named Anthropic. Doing so, they created their own AI, named Claude2, which was linked in the article. A friend asked Claude2 how peace could be brought to Ukraine and avoid WWIII. Its thoughts are below.

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Free Speech Denied 25 Years Ago: Free Speech Trial
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

Big Island, Hawaii’s History: Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 1998 – Albertini presented Choi with an estimated 5-foot-by-8-foot check made out to the District Court for the amount of $100. At the top of the check was written, “free speech denied” and “no lie can live forever.”

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Will the Small States of Oceania Be Able to Maintain Their Independence in the Face of a New China-USA Cold War?
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

23 Jul 2023 – The ‘friends to all, enemies to none’ strategy is living its last days as the US and China press the island nations to take sides.

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The Profiteers of Armageddon
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

30 Jul 2023 – Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex

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Haitians Protest UN Occupation and Pending Foreign “Intervention”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

19 Jul 2023 – The US and Canada argue for a multilateral military intervention in Haiti, possibly led by Rwanda, to support the puppet regime they installed. They are using “gang violence” as the excuse, but there are actually more gang killings in Jamaica or El Salvador.

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Colonialism or Sovereignty? How the Global Financial System Traps Countries in Debt
Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Serevice, 24 Jul 2023

12 Jul 2023 – Political economists Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Ann Pettifor discuss how the international financial system traps Global South countries in debt, reinforcing a neocolonial order.

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Facing Climate Change as One World
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

19 Jul 2023 – When it comes to climate change, one word has me totally perplexed: “we.” A transcendent “we” grabbing control over the planet’s rising temperature.

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No Aloha in Reaper Drones Now Based in Hawaii
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

17 Jul 2023 – Recent news reports noted Russian jets “harassing” MQ-9 Reaper US drones over Syria. What was not reported was that the Russians are operating at the request of the Syrian government whereas the US drones are operating illegally, aiding theft of oil. The US acts like an international mafia boss, assassinating people and stealing other countries’ oil.

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There Are Very Few Good Films about War—“20 Days in Mariupol” Is an Exception
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

Feature war films and documentaries, from The Sands of Iwo Jima to Saving Private Ryan, are war pornography that romanticize those wielding the instruments of death, justify the unjustifiable, pay homage to the war machine, entice naïve youngsters into becoming cannon fodder, and distort the public’s perception of war. Those who return and attempt to speak the truth are alienated and ignored.

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Luanda Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Faces Fresh Charges Despite Amnesty from Papal Visit
Matei Rosca | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

13 Jul 2023 – The source of the Luanda Leaks and of another exposé that rocked the global soccer industry faces 377 new charges and the prospect of another trial, despite an anticipated amnesty.

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NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023

10 Jul 2023 – The unfulfilled goals and objectives from last year’s meeting in Madrid loom over the Atlantic military alliance. When the membership meets in Vilnius this week, normalizing failure might best describe the most that can be accomplished.

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The Dissolution of NATO May Be the Only Way to Prevent WWIII
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023

11 Jul 2023 – 10 Reasons Why NATO Ought to Be Disbanded – Its dissolution may be the only way to prevent wider war and to stop the US and the world from being plunged into the abyss of a wider, cataclysmic war.

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Christmas in July
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023

Black Humor–Tragicomedy

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Has Hunter Biden’s Decadent Lifestyle Become a Metaphor for U.S. Society?
Robert Bridge | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023

9 Jul 2023 – When cocaine was found in the White House, observers immediately linked it to the US president’s infamous son. Hunter Biden, currently US’ most infamous drug abuser, appeared on the White House balcony, looking sweaty and nervous.

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The UK-Rwanda Pact to Keep Migrants from Crossing the English Channel
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023

12 Jul 2023 – The UK is spearheading a European drive to outsource migrants to Rwanda.

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Listening to Oppenheimer, Seven Decades Later
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023

12 Jul 2023 – A mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission had taken away from him in 1954, declaring him to be not simply a communist but, in all likelihood, a Soviet spy.

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Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

9 Jul 2023 – The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media.

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Somalia: The Lawless Frontier
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

5 Jul 2023 – A UN “peacekeeping” mission continues operations in Somalia.

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NATO’s Scorched Earth in Ukraine
Tony Kevin | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

The forthcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 11-12 infected by a strange policy fatalism. The West seems content to let Zelensky go on wasting Ukraine’s increasingly scarce military-age men in a process described as NATO’s assisted suicide of the Ukrainian nation.

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Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government to Conceal Source of Syria’s Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

30 Jun 2023 – Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and BRAZEN THEFT BY U.S. FORCES OF 66,000 BARRELS OF SYRIAN OIL PER DAY (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back to the stone age.

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How So Many Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nukes
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

7 Jul 2023 – Social psychosis is widespread. The insouciant acceptance and support of psychotic rulers who promote first-strike nuclear war is very common; it is the United States’ nuclear policy. I recently wrote an article about the dangers of the fourteen U.S. Trident submarines.

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Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

30 Jun 2023 – Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story. But the Establishment hits back at journalists who try to tell it now. The way to prevent understanding of the Ukraine war is to suppress its history. A cartoon version says the conflict began in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine…

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SCO: Eurasian Leaders Focus on Common Goals and Sidestep Disagreements
Amb. Kanwal Sibal | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

6 Jul 2023 – The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s latest joint declaration is a level-headed take on challenges facing the world.

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Human Suffering Worsens in DRC, the Heart of Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

28 Jun 2023 – A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.

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They Lied about Afghanistan. They Lied about Iraq. And They Are Lying about Ukraine.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

2 Jul 2023 – The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war. The war industry, not Putin, is our most dangerous enemy.

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U.S. Intelligence Agencies Advance Disinformation about Chinese Spy Base in Cuba…
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

… to Gain Support for Cruel Embargo Costing Cubans $455 Million per Month – After having lied about WMDs, Russiagate, chemical weapons in Syria and so much more, the U.S. is now advancing the lie that Cuba is hosting a Chinese spy base.

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The Work of Happiness
May Sarton – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

May Sarton, who has written so movingly about Unhappiness and Its Cure, explores in this poem “The Work of Happiness.” (Collected Poems: 1930–1993 public library)

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Military Initiative by Australia, UK and USA (AUKUS) Is Another Major Step in Prospective War on China
Murray Horton | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

29 Jun 2023 – Peace groups in all three nations need to rally against provocative alliance that is a pivotal component of [nuclear?] war planning.

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It’s Time to Stop the ‘Insect Apocalypse’
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

28 Jun 2023 – I was reading about the looming demise of bumble bees thanks to human greed and ignorance and started thinking about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. We ‘should’ have eaten from it!

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Hot Off the Press
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

In view of an escalation in the number of wars, small and large, short and long, and general social violence in the world, HUFUD feels the urgent need to summon up all Peace, Human Rights, anti-war and anti-military organizations, worldwide, to the two-day INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT FOR WORLD PEACE in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25th and 26th November 2023.

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Director ‘Mismanagement’ Enabled Isabel dos Santos to Illegally Divert Millions, Dutch Court Finds
Fergus Shiel and Karlijn Kuijpers | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

19 Jun 2023 – The daughter of Angola’s former authoritarian president siphoned 52.6 million euros from Angola’s state oil company into a business she controlled.

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Sea Monsters Threaten the World with Their Tridents
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

The obsession with the alleged marvels of technology and naming them after ancient Greek and Roman gods are fixations of elite technologues who have lost what Spengler called “living inner religiousness” but wish to show they know the classical names even though they miss the meaning of these myths. 

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Corporate Profits Were Biggest Driver of Inflation in Europe, IMF Admits
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

27 Jun 2023 – Rising corporate profits have caused 45% of inflation in Europe, compared to 40% for rising import prices and just 15% for workers’ wages, according to research by IMF economists.

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US Still Nowhere with the Chinese
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

20 Jun 2023 – The bitter truth is that the leaders of Biden’s foreign policy are too paralyzed by the ideology of American primacy to come up with a single, solitary new thought as to how to address other great powers as we enter an historically new era.

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Sea Birds’ Last Refuges: 4G and 5G Radiation Sickness from the Cell Towers
Arthur Firstenberg | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

22 Jun 2023 – All over the Earth, birds — symbols of freedom and joy — have been disappearing, and unless we stop killing them, they will never more enliven our skies and imaginations.

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Biden Would Need His Pound of Flesh from Assange
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

21 Jun 2023 – The U.S. president would not likely move on the case without some face-saving measure to ward off pressure from the C.I.A. and his own party.

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Tragedy vs. Statistic
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

22 Jun 2023 – The way the media talks about the Titian vs. how they talk about the hundreds of migrants who drowned are night and day. It reminds me a lot of how the media talked about Ukrainian refugees vs. middle eastern refugees.

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The FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old with Brain Development Issues to Become a ‘Terrorist’
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023

15 Jun 2023 – An undercover FBI agent befriended the teenager online. When he turned 18, he was arrested for supporting ISIS. The only “terrorist” the boy was ever in contact with was the FBI agent.

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A History of Ceasefires & Peace in Ukraine
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023

14 Jun 2023 – Negotiations, ceasefires, armistices and peace agreements are as old as wars themselves. Every war ends with some version of one of them. To stop the killing in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, people of conscience must do everything they can to make negotiations for a ceasefire become a reality.

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The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023

17 Jun 2023 – Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime. Julian may be imprisoned for journalism, but he won’t be the only one.

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