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Peace Dollars: Putting U.S. Economic House in Order
John Rachel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
27 May 2023 – The total federal deficit at $31+ trillion? Maybe it’s time for some creative thinking . . . a totally unique strategy that benefits all North Americans, not just capitalist predators. Special use currency is not unprecedented.
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Seeing Spiritual India
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
India, like other places in the world that have unusual mystical traditions, can be both physically and mentally demanding. India is an exotic, beautiful, and wondrous country, depending on what aspects you see. Living and traveling there can be pleasant and exciting, but it is also likely to provide you with many trying situations. (Photos)
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Why Are We [USA] in Ukraine?
Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne | Harper’s Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
June 2023 Issue – The armed camps of NATO and the Russian Federation menace each other across a new Iron Curtain. Unlike the long twilight that characterized the Cold War, the current confrontation is running decidedly hot. As former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and former secretary of defense Robert Gates acknowledge approvingly, the United States is fighting a proxy war with Russia.
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Chopin Nocturne (Music Video of the Week)
Tiffany Poon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Chopin Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2
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A Short Tale of a Tree, a Bottle of Oil, and a Moroccan Wedding Party
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
12 May 2023 – A much needed break amidst so many alarming news, with a brief story of a tree, a bottle of liquid gold, and a wedding gift.
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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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A Timely Call for Peace in Ukraine by U.S. National Security Experts
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
16 May 2023 – The intervention by a group of 15 U.S. national security experts from the Eisenhower Media Network (named “The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace in the World”) comes when Ukraine delays its spring offensive to avoid “unacceptable” losses; a return to the negotiating table could save countless lives.
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New Rules of Engagement: How Palestinians Defeated Netanyahu and Redefined ‘Unity’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – It is the unity of those resisting on the ground, from Gaza to Nablus, and from Jenin to Sheikh Jarrah, that matters most.
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The Coca-Cola-ization of “God Bless America”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Can we make the best choices without sufficient information and imagination? Governments and media seem hell-bent on suppressing adequate information! Can we work together to imagine a better world: to honor truth, inquiry, dialogues and expositions?
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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.
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Digital Privacy Legislation Is Civil Rights Legislation
Paige Collings and Adam Schwartz | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
18 May 2023 – Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life. Corporate databases are vast, interconnected, and opaque. The movement and use of our data is difficult to understand, let alone trace.
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Guidelines for Living a Spiritual Life
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
1. Awareness
I resolve to be more aware and responsive to the spiritual dimensions of my being and my nature.
(Italiano) Tolstoj: la Guerra e la Pace
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
18 Maggio 2023 – Questa mia relazione consiste solo in appunti modesti su un grande ampio tema, la guerra e la pace, visto nell’opera e nella persona di Lev Tolstoj. Questa lettura, fatta alla luce degli avvenimenti in corso nel 2023, porta la coscienza a concludere: l’umanità deve mettere al bando l’omicidio statale come l’omicidio privato.
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A Century of Censorship
Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
19 May 2023 – A painstaking timeline of over a hundred years of U.S. information suppression, secret bureaucracies, and “anti-disinformation” scares.
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How I Wonder
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
In India, rich people have everything–good homes, more than enough to eat, lots of warm clothes for the severe winters in the north. Their celebrations for birthdays, marriage anniversaries, etc. are noisy affairs with music, food and frills. On the other hand, the poor are bereft of all things mentioned above… But there are positive things also that make one wonder.
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Exploring the History of the Hippie Movement and Its Impact on Society
Hanan Ackerman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Mar 2023 – As told by an AI Robot – Looking back on the 1960’s Hippie Movement, it’s hard to imagine that a small group could change how an entire generation thought and dressed.
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75 Years of Israeli Violence against Palestinians
Sam Carliner | Left Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
14 May 2023 – 75 years since the Nakba, it is increasingly clear that Israel is a violent occupier of the Palestinian people. In the last three quarters of a century, it has also served the interests of U.S. imperialism and trained and aided other capitalist states in methods of violence and repression.
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Give the Defense Innovation Unit a Slice of Ukraine Funds
Maj. Gen. John Ferrari (ret.) and Charles Rahr | Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
16 May 2023 – Calls to make Ukraine a laboratory and a testing ground for U.S. weapons and platforms are the right ones. Ukraine presents a tremendous opportunity for the Pentagon, industry, and our allies to learn how our weapons fare under real-world, high-intensity combat. But Ukraine should also be an accelerator, speeding up technologies with military applications.
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Post-9/11 US Armed Conflicts Killed over 4.5 Million–Estimates
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
15 May 2023 – Death Outlives War: “The US government has a significant obligation to invest in humanitarian assistance and reconstruction in post-9/11 war zones,” said a new report.
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The False Promise and Bitter Fruit of Neoliberalism
Thomas Palley - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Neoliberalism is a political economic philosophy that consists of two claims, one economic and the other political. The economic claim is free market laissez-faire economies are the best way to organize economic activity as they generate efficient outcomes that maximize well-being. The political claim is free market economic arrangements promote individual liberty. This paper argues both claims are problematic.
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US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
15 May 2023 – To paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the new one is being born at breakneck speed. It’s no wonder “socialism with Chinese characteristics” spooks the Hegemon creditor oligarchy to the point they are even risking a Hot War.
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Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Search for Meaning: Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT, 30 Years before ChatGPT
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
“We read excitedly of the latest chemical, computational, or quantum theory of mind, and then ask, ‘Is that all there is to it?’”
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Climate Breakdown, Extinction and ‘the Most Stupid Boast’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
16 May 2023 – Politics and ‘democracy’ are broken. It is now up to us, the public, to save ourselves.
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Nonviolence: A Force More Powerful (Parts 1-2)
ICNC International Center on Nonviolent Conflict – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Part 1 (India 1930, USA 1960, South Africa 1985)
Part 2 (Denmark 1940, Poland 1980, Chile 1983)
North American Colonization of Indigenous People, Cultures, and System of Social Welfare
Mohammad Momin Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
History Speaks to Clarify the Facts of Life
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China and the Axis of the Sanctioned
Juan Cole | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
16 May 2023 – How U.S. Divide-and-Rule Strategy in the Middle East Backfired
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Peace Disruption (Part 1): Palestine’s Killing Fields–Ignominious Beginnings
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
The entities of Love, Hope, and Joy have been most elusive for the Oppressed Palestinians, for 75 long years. Now their very essence for sustained life and Peace are dispelled forever, within the Killing Fields of Palestine, due to the ongoing Peace Disruptions by Apartheid Israel.
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Got Titers? New Test Makes It Easy, Inexpensive to Find Out if You’re Immune to 11 Infectious Diseases
Brian S. Hooker | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
15 May 2023 – ImmunoProfile®, a new at-home test kit available online, simultaneously measures antibody titers for 11 infectious diseases, allowing individuals to determine quickly and inexpensively if they already have immunity to the diseases.
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Russia to Resume Regular Flights to Cuba
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
19 May 2023 – Russian Deputy PM Dmitry Chernyshenko told reporters today that as of July 1 Russia will resume regular flights with Cuba. Currently, only tourist charter flights are conducted between the two countries.
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Deewangi Deewangi (Music Video of the Week)
T-Series – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Om Shanti Om is a Bollywood movie released in 2007 starred by Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. It is a glamorous, romantic drama and comedy with high energy song and dance. Enjoy! Please click on Watch on YouTube
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Russia Responds to US Sanctions Announced at the G7 Summit
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
19 May 2023 – Today, the Kremlin responded to new U.S. sanctions by banning 500 U.S. citizens from entering Russian territory. Among them is former President Barack Obama. Washington set over 300 sanctions against companies and individuals located in more than 20 countries or jurisdictions.
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Nakba at 75: Israel’s State-Building Project Is Unraveling – From Within
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – Israel’s undoing will not be an attack from Arab states or international sanctions. Rather, its leaders have created a monster they can no longer tame.
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Escaping Debt Slavery: Ethiopia, Africa, and the IMF
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – In 1987, at the Organization for African Unity, Thomas Sankara said, “Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa.” Ethiopia might actually be better off if the US keeps the IMF from signing off on its latest loan request.
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The Ukraine Refugee Question
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
19 May 2023 – Ukraine’s neighbors push for Zelensky to pursue peace as millions of displaced people flow into Europe.
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Ukraine’s ‘Press Freedom’ Score Increases Despite Martial Law, Banned Media
Bryce Greene | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
9 May 2023 – Now you know why Ukraine is fighting for “our values” – meaning something terrible has happened to those “our values.”
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Hiroshima’s Nuclear Lesson: The G7 Must Push for Peace in Ukraine
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
18 May 2023 – President Joe Biden is attending this year’s G7 summit, with Russia’s war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons there at the top of the agenda. The G7 comprises Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the US, the UK, and Germany.
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Hmm…
Curtis Spangler - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Really?
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Stepping over the Border, onto Planet Earth
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – “. . . we belong to the Earth rather than to a nation . . .” These words stick in my heart like a wedding ring. At the same time, I feel surrounded by a cynical “realism”: Don’t be a fool. A marriage like that isn’t possible. Be grateful you’re a US citizen. Arm yourself! We’re being invaded.
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Confessions of a CIA Terrorist
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
“This book is my attempt to correct the misperceptions that make the Agency one of the least understood and most mistrusted institutions in the US today. The reality we faced on the ground in places from Muslim Africa to East Asia, to our own streets here at home, is one of persistent threats that must be countered to keep our people safe.”
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Squeezed by the Shorts: Time to Ban Short Selling?
Ellen Brown | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this year. Short sellers “borrow” stock they don’t own and immediately sell it, driving the price down. Then they buy it back at the lower price, return the stock, and pocket the difference.
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To Meet EV Demand, Industry Turns to Technology Long Deemed Hazardous
Rebecca Tan, Dera Menra Sijabat and Joshua Irwandi | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
10 May 2023 – Indonesia is richly endowed with nickel, but refining this crucial mineral poses a daunting environmental challenge.
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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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Why War?
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Albert Einstein’s Letter to Sigmund Freud – In 1931, Albert Einstein decided to write to Sigmund Freud asking his opinion about how humanity could free itself from the curse of war.
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A Certain Form of Thieving: The US Banksters Strike Again
Binoy Kampmark | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – It looks like 2008 all over again. Economic and financial mismanagement feature in scorching, consuming brilliance. The culpable, bungling banksters, have returned with their customary, venal incompetence. In the customary script, they habitually seek the role of the public purse to socialise their losses. Along the way, they will avoid richly deserved prison sentences, lie low, and return to repeat their sins.
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Iraq and Syria to Re-Open Crucial Oil Pipeline
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – An end to US regional resource piracy is finally in sight with the Russia-Iran alliance.
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Ilhan Omar Voted to Withdraw from Somalia, but She’s No Anti-Imperialist
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is not the progressive she is thought to be. She follows US policy regarding her native Somalia and has connections there that compromise her actions. True anti-imperialist politics are needed to counteract the US interference that has devastated the country.
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A God Consults the Buddha
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Sakka’s Questions (Sakkapanha Sutta)
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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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The Way
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
How ‘The Way’ Continues to Inspire Over a Decade after Its Release – Emilio Estevez co-stars with his father Martin Sheen. It is about a father’s pilgrimage on the Camiño de Santiago following his son’s death.
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Time (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
50th Anniversary of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’
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The Current Collapse of Ethics
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
13 May 2023 – I perceive two main factors, among others, that strike at the heart of ethics: the globalization of predatory capitalism and the commodification of society.
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Brazil: Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Fell 67.9% in April
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
12 May 2023 – The Brazilian Institute for Space Studies reported today that deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest fell 67.9 percent in April compared to the same month in 2022.
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My Mother’s Day
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
14 May 2023
The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
“Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.”
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Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families (Part 1 of 6)
Dean Henderson - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
9 May 2023 – The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European behemoths. The Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.
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A Historic Defeat of Imperialism: Arab League Readmits Syria
Dave DeCamp | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – On Sunday [7 May], the Arab League voted to readmit Syria, marking a significant step in Damascus’ efforts to normalize relations with regional countries. Assad Could Attend an Arab League Summit in Saudi Arabia Later This Month
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Talking about Growth Miracle and Emerging Quadripolar Economic Construct
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Policymakers in developing economies should rethink and prepare for recalibration of policy compatibility in the emerging geopolitical quadripolar economic construct. This may be the beginning of a new World Economic Order.
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Martyred…
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
… by the Present Evil Empire
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As Arab States Seek Peace, US Insists That Syrians Suffer
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
14 May 2023 – After the Arab League re-admits Syria, Washington threatens new sanctions to prevent reconstruction.
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War for Profit: A Very Short History
Brad Wolf | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – As they did over a century ago ahead of WW I, the Merchants of Death thrive behind a veil of duplicity and slick media campaigns. Wherever they go, suffering and death, war crimes and atrocities, profits, and stock buybacks follow.
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Unceasing Human Attacks on the Source of 80% of Food, 98% of Oxygen
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – Plants are the source of 80% of all food, and as much as 98% of all oxygen. Logically, human beings would do anything to protect this essential source of life. But do they? Not at all. Rather the whole contrary.
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AI Machines Aren’t ‘Hallucinating’. But Their Makers Are
Naomi Klein | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative Artificial Intelligence will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves
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Senate Report: Nearly 700 Former High-Ranking Pentagon and Other Government Officials Now Work at the Top 20 Defense Contractors
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
12 May 2023 – Ideally, Warren’s report would precipitate a much larger congressional investigation of the military-industrial complex modeled after the 1934 Nye Committee hearings.
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(Português) O Colapso Atual da Ética
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
12 maio 2023 – Percebo dois fatores principais, entre outros, que atingem o coração da ética: a globalização do capitalismo depredador e a mercantilização da sociedade.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s report highlights that some 250 million persons are living under acute food insecurity, with the DRC leading with some 27 million due to armed violence and the breakdown of governmental structures.
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There Is No Escape from Telling
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
A new Dark Age is closing upon us, as Max Weber noted more than a century ago when he described the people who run our societies and educational institutions as “specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – In 2016, Africa had 60-65% of the world’s uncultivated arable land and 10% of renewable freshwater resources. According to the AU, African farmers could feed the world. Is it still the case?
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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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Peace Disruption: Multipronged Treatment for this Cancerous Malady
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
13 May 2023 – Peace Disruptions at a personal level, as well as globally, have reached pandemic proportions. Oh you selfish humans, curtail this malady, forthwith.
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This Is What Dystopia Looks Like
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
3 May 2023 – Simpsons characters waving Ukrainian flags; an opera about a drone operator sponsored by General Dynamics; Bono drawing pictures of Zelenksy and Sesame Street working with USAID in Iraq.
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Covid Vaccines and Mortality: The RCT Review
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
May 2023 – The real scandal is that Covid vaccine manufacturers suppressed or excluded serious and deadly vaccine adverse events during their clinical trials. But the bigger scandal is that coronavirus is a synthetic virus—engineered in the US, not in China–released either accidentally or deliberately.
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Headless Hounds
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Headless hounds from Boston Dynamics.
Headless hounds from Raytheon.
Headless hounds in our nightmares huddled shivering under US flags
Pakistan Goes to Anarchy and Self-Destruction
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – The suspicious, paranoid and much hated illegitimate Sharifs, Bhuttos and the Generals are unleashing blind terror against the masses of Pakistan. The unprecedented abduction of Imran Khan, the former PM by the paratroopers…
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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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Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (2)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Quoted from the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi.
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Report Unpacks Dangers of Emerging Military Tech from AI Nukes to Killer Robots
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
“While the media and the U.S. Congress have devoted much attention to the purported benefits of exploiting cutting-edge technologies for military use, far less has been said about the risks involved.”
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A Mini World in Goa
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Goa is a small state on the west coast of India not very far from the well known city of Bombay. It has been ruled by various dynasties alternatively Hindu, Muslim, Hindu again. It was annexed by Portugal in 1510 by the initiative of Albuquerque who did not disturb the culture and customs of the local people.
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Maria Salmon | Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
A teenager brings her new boyfriend home to meet her parents.
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The Army We Don’t See
Andrea Mazzarino | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
9 May 2023 – The Private Soldiers Who Fight in North America’s Name
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NATO’s Stealthy Expansion into Asia-Pacific Can Blow up Region
Alex Lo | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – A proxy war in Ukraine is not enough for NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg, who clearly thinks his mandate extends to containing China in its own backyard.
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Artificial Emotional Intelligence and Its Human Implications
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
There is currently no lack of references to the major future impacts of artificial intelligence on global civilization at every level. Some of these are anticipated with concern, especially with warnings of how AI is likely to be misused to undermine valued social processes and employment, whether deliberately or inadvertently.
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Sudan: The New Geopolitical Battlefield between East and West?
Matthew Ehret | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – The potential outbreak of a civil war sparked by a factional fight within Sudan’s military government poses a destabilization threat beyond the nation’s borders – into Africa, West Asia, and the emerging multipolar order. This suits the West just fine.
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To Close All US Military Bases, We First Have to Identify Them
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – The global infrastructure of the American military empire must be mapped before it can be properly dismantled. Meet the person who is doing just that.
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Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
3 May 2023 – Historian Alfred W. McCoy discusses China’s rapid economic and political rise and how Beijing is well positioned to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. PODCAST
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Updates on the Economic War and the Political Crisis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 May 2023 – The trip to China this month by Brazilian President Lula was marked by the installation of former Pres. of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, to preside over the New Development Bank of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
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How Incredibly Sad U.S. News Media Has Become – w/ Seymour Hersh
The Jimmy Dore Show - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – Guest host Aaron Maté and Kurt Metzger talk to Hersh about how reporters now often prioritize being on TV and podcasts than doing actual reporting.
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Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
War is minimally questioned — taken for granted — in the mainstream consciousness, or what I would call the consensus groupthink, which is quietly structured into mainstream reporting. Conflict between nations instantly summons the possibility of war; that’s just the way it is, no matter the certainty of “collateral damage.”
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How to Ignore Israel’s Apartheid: Learn from Ursula Von Der Leyen
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – The EU boss should be ashamed about her use of anti-Palestinian racist tropes. She won’t be.
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Scientists Say They’ve Finally Solved Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
Jackie Appel | Popular Mechanics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
5 May 2023 – The paradox states that information can neither be emitted from a black hole or preserved inside forever. But the laws of quantum physics dictate that information cannot be destroyed.
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(Français) Mises À Jour Sur La Guerre Économique Et La Crise Politique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 mai 2023 – Les événements récents ont des effets profonds sur les sujets de mes blogs précedents : NOUVELLES DU FRONT DE LA GUERRE ÉCONOMIQUE et L’ANALYSE EST SIMPLE ; C’EST ECONOMIQUE.
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A Tribute to Daniel Ellsberg
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 May 2023 – The Inspiration for My Psychological Study of Moral Heroism and the Courageous Personality
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
The role and scope of education in most countries— developed and developing, is increasing worldwide. As a result, education has become indispensable — it has become a fundamental right for all. We now try to impart education not only in the traditional school and blackboard way, but also electronically.
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Engaging Conflict History and Memory across the Taiwan Strait
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Conflict Timelines from Interactive Conflict Resolution (ICR) Dialogues
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Protection…
Wilcox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
… merely a matter of interpretation?
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US Troops in Somalia Rise to 900, House Votes Not to Withdraw
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
3 May 2023 – The presence of US troops in Somalia helps the Islamist insurgency Al Shabaab recruit, exacerbating the very violence they claim to be fighting. But the House has voted down a resolution to withdraw.
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Raw Materials or Sacred Beings? Lithium Extraction in Bolivia Puts Two Worldviews into Tension
Mario Orospe Hernández | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – A rapid escalation of lithium extraction in the Bolivian Andes conflicts with the beliefs of Indigenous communities who call the region home.
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Nobody for President Campaign
Curtis Spangler - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
‘None of the above’ should be a valid choice on voter ballots. The ‘Birthday Party’ provided an easy, cost-effective way to restore political balance
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What China Is Really Playing at in Ukraine
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
30 Apr 2023 – Beijing is fully aware the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is the un-dissociable double of the U.S. war against its Belt and Road Initiative.
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Natural Disasters: Where is God in All of This?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
A short article that helps show how we can recognize God in situations that may seem to force us to reassess ourselves and our life, and in the cooperation and renewed spirituality that it may take to overcome disasters and tragedies.
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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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