Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Cognitive Navigation of the Elements as Indicative Strategic Metaphors
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
14 Apr 2023 – Engagement via Technomimicry with Global Entanglement of Earth, Air, Fire and Water – Much is made of the possibility of being a part of community and of society more generally. Hence the many references to participation.
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The Bombing of Nord Stream — This Act of War against Europe Requires Congressional Investigation
Dennis Kucinich | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – President Biden’s own statements predicting the end of Nord Stream , preliminary to the devastating attack on its infrastructure, point to the necessity of determining whether or not the president was speaking from his singularly informed position of the Chief Executive, as Hersh indicated.
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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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BRICS: A New Leader’s Big Banking Opportunity to Improve Global Development
Marco Fernandes | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
12 Apr 2023 – Will the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement be able to fulfill their original mission with the arrival of the new bank president Dilma Rousseff?
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Loneliness and Rachel
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
10 Apr 2023 – On this day, Rachel Corrie’s Birthday, I reflected on her message which mentions loneliness (see message below). In my 65 years on this earth I talked to more than 120,000 people and I continue to find difficulty understanding connectivity and loneliness.
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Can You Fight for Climate Justice Without Being Antiwar?
Teddy Ogborn | CodePink – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
14 Apr 2023 – Can organizations sincerely say they are leading the climate justice fight without also being unapologetically antiwar? Short answer – no. Here’s why: The US military is the planet’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gasses and consumer of oil,…
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Prosecuting Donald Trump
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – Donald Trump Is Currently Being Charged with 34 Felonies
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Superbugs among Top 10 Threats to Whole Cycle of Life
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – Research after research, scientists renew their alerts of the dangers of human-driven ‘superbugs’ – bacterias and pathogens that do not respond to antimicrobials, increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.
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US Hit by ‘Worst Leak of Secret Documents since Edward Snowden’
Roland Oliphant | RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
10 Apr 2023 – More than 100 classified items relating to Ukraine, China, the Middle East, the Pacific and terrorism published on social media.
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Who Is Jack Teixeira, the Man Arrested over Pentagon Files Leak?
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old air national guardsman suspect in the leak of classified intelligence documents is youthful looking, like his teenage friends in the online group where the documents were leaked. Today the FBI arrested Teixeira and were searching his home.
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Al-Aqsa Mosque Waiting for the Arab Leaders
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
12 Apr 2023 – How do you contemplate wisdom, reason and respect for tolerance and decency out of the political chaos, blind terror, religious awe, and moral and intellectual hatred filled trajectory submerged in inhuman action?
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(Français) Brésil : La « malédiction de l’or » en territoire Yanomani–une tragédie préméditée
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
3 avril 2023 – Riches en ressources minérales, les terres indigènes du Brésil, malgré les protections légales, sont soumises à une pression intense. Les mineurs illégaux, en quête d’or, ont multiplié les incursions, les exactions contre les communautés et les atteintes à l’environnement, dans une dynamique qui rappelle les pires heures de la conquête coloniale.
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U.S. Hypocrisy toward the World Is another Way of Saying, ‘Don’t Do as We Do, Do as We Say’
David Starr | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – The U.S./NATO alliance’s ulterior motives have been evident, for those who care to directly look at the situation and to directly understand it.
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Benjamin Ferencz, Champion of World Law, Leaves a Strong Heritage on Which to Build
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
14 Apr 2023 – World Citizen Benjamin Ferencz died on 7 Apr 2023 at the age of 103, leaving a strong heritage of action for world law on which we can build. He was particularly active in the creation of the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
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Finland’s NATO Move Leaves Others to Carry On the “Helsinki Spirit”
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
On 4 Apr 2023, Finland became the 31st member of the NATO military alliance. The 830-mile border between Finland and Russia is now by far the longest border between any NATO country and Russia. The Finnish border comes within 100 miles of Severomorsk, where Russia’s Northern Fleet and 13 of its 23 nuclear-armed submarines are based.
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Lichens and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
We Are Lichens on a Grand Scale
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A Note on Suicides
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
There is another route to death of a person. He/she may commit suicide and die. Why a person would choose this form of dying is a complex issue which I try to briefly discuss in this article.
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The Cup of Life – La Copa de la Vida (Music Video of the Week)
Ricky Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
Official Song Soccer World Cup France 1998 – Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin opens the Festival de Viña del Mar 2014 in Chile in a big way.
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A Condolence Message on the Passing of Dr. Benjamin B. Ferencz
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
I shocked to hear the news of the passing of Dr. Benjamin B. Ferencz, on 7 April 2023, at the age of 103 and express condolences to his family members.
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If the U.S. Can’t Boss the World, It Will Spitefully Destroy It
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – Unable to accept the reality of a growing multipolar world order, U.S. elites are willing to risk nuclear war.
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Ukraine a ‘Non-Existent Country’ Financially – Orban
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
14 Apr 2023 – The conflict will end as soon as the West stops giving money to Kiev, the Hungarian PM has insisted.
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All Roads Lead to Beijing
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
15 Apr 2023 – This is the tale of two pilgrims following the road that really matters in the young 21st century; one coming from NATOstan and another one from BRICS. Let’s start with Le Petit Roi, Emmanuel Macron.
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Duplicity
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
Joke? No Joke!
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Two Thirds of the UNSC Supported Investigation of the Nord Stream Bombing: Rejected
Roger Stoll - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
10 Apr 2023 – 72% of the UN Security Council, Measured by Population, Supported Russia’s Resolution Calling for the UN to Investigate the Nord Stream Pipeline Bombing, But it Was Rejected Anyway
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Daniel Ellsberg Has Foiled Those Who Want Him Confined to the Past
Norman Solomon | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – In just a few words — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — George Orwell summed up why narratives about history can be crucial.
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The West Is Facing the Nightmare of Peace in the Middle East
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
“The North Americans are so far up the lie tree, we have to find a way to allow them to come down without humiliating them.”
— Syrian President Bashar Al Assad
Global Symbols of Peace (Part 2): The Peace Flame in Hiroshima
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
The Mega Scale of Death and Destruction Humans Have Inflicted on Fellow Humanoids throughout History Knows No Bounds
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Every 11th Has Its 13th Hour: Time to Dismantle Monroe Doctrine Politics
Michelle Ellner | CODEPINK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
The Monroe Doctrine is condemned to failure because people’s determination to be free will always prevail. Why not turn to a policy of mutual cooperation, of U.S. respect for Latin American and Caribbean internal affairs? Why not convince rather than coerce, collaborate rather than take advantage?
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The Risk of ChatGPT
Ricardo Baeza Weinmann | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
12 Apr 2023 – Would anyone ask a talented actor not only to act and talk like a skilled surgeon in a convincing manner, but then allow him to take a scalpel and operate on him? It would seem stupid, wouldn’t it? Well, that is precisely what many are doing with ChatGPT.
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Policing the Elite’s Technocracy: How Do We Resist This Effectively?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
14 Apr 2023 – As has been carefully documented, under cover of the ‘virus’/‘vaccine’ narrative, the Global Elite is implementing long-planned and profound changes to 200 areas of human life. Hence, our persistence in presenting the information, while listening well when appropriate, is crucial to mobilizing the resistance we need to succeed.
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Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough–We Need to Shut It All Down
Eliezer Yudkowsky | TIME - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” I refrained from signing because I think the letter is understating the seriousness of the situation and asking for too little to solve it.
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BRICS Bank De-dollarizing, New Chief Dilma Rousseff Says
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
16 Apr 2023 – The new chief of the BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, Brazil’s leftist ex-President Dilma Rousseff, revealed they are gradually moving away from the US dollar, promising at least 30% of loans in local currencies of members.
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Suspension of Curiosity Leads to Serious Adverse Events
Heather Heying | Natural Selections – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – Analysis of and Excerpt from Celia Farber’s Book on the History of AIDS
→ read full articleAmbiguous Geopolitical Fault Lines Endanger World Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
The idea of ‘geopolitical fault lines’ is not well established in the practice or theory of international relations, but their existence is profoundly relevant to the maintenance of peace and security because of the failure of international law to set consistently respected limits on the behavior of political actors, granting them impunity for acting beyond the limits of the law.
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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of the Art of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
“We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship.”
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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Train Disaster
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. I have therefore taken a keen interest in the toxic chemical disaster in East Palestine on 3 Feb. The official narrative doesn’t seem to add up. Something else must have been going on, but what?
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Why the Media Don’t Want to Know the Truth about the Nord Stream Blasts
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – First, journalists lapped up Russian culpability. Now they peddle a preposterous James Bond-style story. Anything to ignore the US role.
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Macron Says Europe Shouldn’t Follow the US into a Confrontation with China
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
9 Apr 2023 – French President Emmanuel Macron said today that Europe should not follow the US and risk a confrontation with China over Taiwan as he returned from Beijing, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Macron wants ‘strategic autonomy’ for Europe.
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Nazi Skeletons in Finland and Sweden’s Closets
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – Finland’s official induction into NATO has been celebrated across the trans Atlantic technocracy-sphere as a victory for democracy and freedom. Is it?
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Empire of Jingoistic Lies
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
8 Apr 2023 – How the US and its military alliance created, encircle, attack, and destroy potential rivals, governments and leaders abusing their (including NATO) powers through proxy politics and victor-centric justice. NATO is a collective, defensive, rich countries’ alliance that functions under control/leadership of the USA.
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Planet Garbage
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
4 Apr 2023 – Straight to the point: the current system of voracious money-making production and the induced over-consumption patterns have turned Planet Earth into a giant garbage dump. And straight to the facts:
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US Resumes Biolab Program in Ukraine
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – During a media briefing held today, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the commander of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, presented a new collection of documents regarding US-funded biological programs in Ukraine. “Despite the forced pause… the program has now been resumed…”
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Preliminaries to Russia-Ukraine Negotiations: The Key Role of China
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
French Pres. Emmanuel Macron was in China from 5 to 7 Apr 2023 and urged the country to play a major role in bringing peace to the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict. China’s 12-point plan has indicated President Xi Jinping’s willingness to be active in peace efforts.
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Finland Joins NATO as 31st Ally
NATO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
4 Apr 2023 – Finland became NATO’s newest member today, upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the United States at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.
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Israel Attacks Al-Aqsa Two Nights in a Row, Beating Worshipers at Holy Site
Mariam Barghouti | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – Israeli forces conducted violent raids on the Al Aqsa Mosque compound two nights in a row, beating worshipers and forcing Palestinians out of the holy site in order to make way for Jewish pilgrims on Passover.
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Northrop, Lockheed, Raytheon Team up on Navy’s E-XX ‘Doomsday’ Plane
Stephen Losey | C4ISRNET - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
3 Apr 2023 – Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, and Raytheon Intelligence and Space are teaming up to bid on the Navy’s next command-and-control aircraft, to be used if a nuclear war breaks out. The “E-XX” would replace the Navy’s fleet of 16 E-6B Mercury aircraft.
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Follow the Trail of Blood and Oil (Part 3)
Cynthia Chung | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
Why Iran’s Development of Nuclear Energy Will Create Stability and Prosperity in the Middle East
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Patience
Ross Gay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
“The spirit of joy as a force-field of connection comes alive in Gay’s poem.”
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Democracy at Risk for Jews in Israel, Bare Survival for Palestinians
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – Israeli police violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque directed at Palestinian worshipers in the midst of Ramadan on the nights of April 5 and 6 is a serious violation of international arrangements in Jerusalem to protect Muslim holy sites, none more sacred than Al-Aqsa.
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History of US-NATO Military Campaigns (1991-2023)
Jean Toschi Marazzani Visconti | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
1 Apr 2023 – Speech presented to the Conference, “Is our future NATO?” organized by Abbasso la Guerra Group. “The US/NATO forces have cleared corruption as a weapon of war, and wherever they have intervened to establish democracy they have left only instability and misery.”
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Human Destiny in Ukraine
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – To scale the pinnacles of corporate, political or military power in the United States requires certain rigid deficiencies of character, specifically the absence of compassion, decency and humanity. In their personal lives, powerful individuals may possess these qualities, but as an elite class, they lack them utterly.
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Tigers in Wildlife
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
There was a time when influential people of India would display in their homes the head of a tiger or lion that presumably they had killed with their guns and bullets in a forest.
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Any Ukraine Peace Talks Should Be about ‘New World Order’ – Lavrov
AFP | The Moscow Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – Moscow wants any Ukraine peace talks to focus on creating a “new world order,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today on a visit to Turkey, which has retained ties with both Moscow and Kyiv. Lavrov was there for talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu.
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The Answer to ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’
Roger McKenzie | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
31 Mar 2023 – The United States is interested in safeguarding the profits of monopoly capital, which carries politicians around in its pockets like loose change. It demands that the world bow down to its wills and whims. A failure to do so is met with the full force of the international military-industrial-media complex it controls.
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War between Russia, Ukraine and the West Leading Humanity towards Extinction
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured, oppressed and sinned against humanity were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.
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Why Using AI Is about Ethics
Felipe Zamana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – When an AI creates, who is the creator: you (who prompted) or the AI? AI’s ethics as teachers have a hard time dealing with it in the classroom. Copying/pasting from Google is not a problem anymore, because now students are using ChatGPT to answer the questions for them.
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Yearning for PEACE
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
When for Peace
We yearn…
UN Bureau Condemns Israeli Forces Violence against Palestinian Worshipers in Holy Sites in Jerusalem
UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 April 2023 – We condemn the raid by Israeli Forces inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque on 4 Apr 2023, resulting in hundreds of Palestinian worshipers beaten, injured and detained. This violence is particularly egregious during a time of heightened religious sensitivity with the observance of Ramadan, Passover, and Easter.
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The Republican Martyr
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
Right!
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Will the West Support Ukraine’s Attack on Crimea?
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
According to U.S. and U.N., Putin “annexed” Crimea in 2014. According to Putin, Crimea, daunted by the violence of neo-Nazis in the Maidan, had asked Putin to intervene; the subsequent referendum confirmed their approval.
→ read full articleAs Donald Trump Surrenders to Authorities in NY, Remember Feb 1924: The Trial of Adolf Hitler
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
A bit of history as a warning to those celebrating Donald Trump’s forthcoming trial in NY for violating laws on hush money payments, campaign expenditures, business records, and tax filings; also in Georgia and DC for suborning election fraud and inciting violence at the U.S. Capitol.
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The Capital of the Multipolar World: A Moscow Diary
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
2 Apr 2023 – This global nomad now addressing you had the privilege of spending four astonishing weeks in Moscow at an historical crossroads, the Putin-Xi geopolitical game-changing summit at the Kremlin. In Moscow you feel no crisis. No effects of sanctions. No unemployment. No homeless people in the streets. Minimal inflation.
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Khoya Hain – The Beginning (Music Video of the Week)
Prabhas & Tamannaah | Zee Music Company – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
“The music is melodious and cinematography is breathtaking.”
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Global Symbols of Peace (Part 1): The Emerald Buddha
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
The Revengeful, Greedy and Lustful Humanoids need to be regularly reminded about Peace in these times of Global Belligerence.
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Vatican Renounces Euro-supremacist “Doctrine of Discovery”
Richard Becker | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – Five centuries later, the Vatican issued an announcement on 30 Mar repudiating the “Doctrine of Discovery,” which said that all lands not occupied by “Christians” passed to the European conquerors when they were “discovered,” and their inhabitants enslaved.
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How to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Wisdom from the Great Buddhist Teacher Pema Chödrön
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
“We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.”
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Yodhajiva Sutta – The Warrior (Parts 1 and 2)
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
“Monks, there are these five types of warriors who can be found existing in the world. Which five?
→ read full articleHow BBC Coverage Is Enabling Israeli State Violence at Al-Aqsa
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – Once again, the British state broadcaster is using a bogus ‘neutrality’ to trick its audience into siding with Israeli state oppression.
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Face 2 Face with Kathy Kelly
David Andersson | Face 2 Face Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – We speak with TRANSCEND Member Kathy Kelly about the situation of young women in Afghanistan. Since 2021 she has been assisting young Afghans to resettle in safer havens. She co-coordinates the BanKillerDrones.org campaign and is planning the 2023 Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.
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“Long Covid”: The Truth at Long Last
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – A new Norwegian study exposes propagandists on both sides of the debate.
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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.
→ read full articleThe Passing of Benjamin Ferencz (11 Mar 1920 – 7 Apr 2023) RIP
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
Easter 2023 (9 Apr) was marked by the passing of a remarkable man–Benjamin Ferencz. He died on 7 Apr at the age of 103. Ben was the last living Nuremberg WWII war crimes prosecutor. I met him in 1972.
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War Criminals & Military Aggressors Who Occupy Seats in the UN Security Council
Thalif Deen | IPS/Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
3 Apr 2023 – On 1st Apr, a post-Ukraine Russia started presiding over the UNSC in a month-long presidency. But Russia is not the first or the only country—accused of war crimes or charged with violating the UN charter—to be either a member or preside over the most powerful body in the UN.
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US Uses Rusesabagina’s Release to Whitewash Its Decades of Support for the Kagame Regime
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – Paul Rusesabagina is free after being kidnapped and taken to Rwanda in 2020. The US claims credit for pressuring Rwanda to release him, hoping to distract the world from its decades of support for President Paul Kagame and his human rights crimes in Rwanda and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Belmarsh Warden Blocks Assange from Meeting with Reporters Sans Frontières
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
4 Apr 2023 – The warden of the Belmarsh Prison blocked representatives of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) from visiting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, despite previously agreeing to grant access.
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The Israeli Government Doing What They Do Best
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – Israeli apartheid police brutality beat Palestinian worshipers inside the sacred al Aqua mosque during Ramadan.
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The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War over Peacemaking
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
3 Apr 2023 – The United States’ choice to give up on peacemaking and surrender to the gods of war and how this has led to the emergence of new peacemakers from the Global South.
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The Fishing Revolution and the Origins of Capitalism
Ian Angus | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
The Fishing Revolution is a rarely explored, yet critical, event in the evolution of capitalism. Ian Angus elaborates on this revolution in the global marketplace and its role as a cornerstone of imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Savage Capitalism
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – From Climate Change to Bank Failures to Wars
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The World Bank and the BRICS Bank Have New Leaders and Different Outlooks
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – Joe Biden announced the nomination of Ajay Banga to be the next head of the World Bank. Banga will come from the world of international corporations. Dilma Rousseff, meanwhile, comes to the BRICS Bank with a different resume.
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The Fear of AI Is Overblown—and Here’s Why
Bappa Sinha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – The unprecedented popularity of ChatGPT has turbocharged the AI hype machine. We are being bombarded daily by news articles announcing humankind’s greatest invention—Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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The Nord Stream Ghost Ship
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – The false details in the CIA’s cover story.
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A Most Perfect Genocide
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
It takes a while … we quibble long into the night and day with ‘reset’, ‘cleansing’, ‘renaissance’ and even the distasteful ‘genocide’. But whatever term we use we are agreed: it is most perfect. Isn’t it?
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Africa ‘All Out,’ 54-0, against Joining Biden’s Proxy War on Russia
Walt Zlotow | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
4 Apr 2023 – Unsurprisingly, not one of Africa’s 54 countries has joined US sanctions against Russia. Many are neutral; some are supporting Russia’s war to prevent NATO’s eastward expansion to Russia’s borders.
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(Português) Brasil: Lava-Jato, Essa Desconhecida
Leneide Duarte-Plon e Leonardo Boff | RED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
2 abril 2023 -Publicamos este texto-pesquisa que revela o escondido da Lava-Jato e mantido escondido pela grande imprensa empresarial e conservadora do Brasil. Foi preciso que pesquisadores estrangeiros pusessem esse escondido à luz e assim refutar tantas afirmações de jornalistas nacionais que não se comprometem com a verdade dos fatos mas servem aos interesses do grande sistema nacional e norte-americano.
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Why EU Strategic Autonomy Apart from the U.S. Is Currently Impossible
James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
30 Mar 2023 – With Paris distracted by a populist revolt, Washington is exercising a kind of hegemony on the continent not seen since President Reagan. A politically stable France and German buy-in are the two foundational prerequisites for strategic autonomy to succeed. And as of this writing, there is neither.
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The So Far Non-Existent Vulkan Leaks
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
31 Mar 2023 – The Guardian, Washington Post and Der Spiegel have today published “bombshell” revelations about Russian cyber warfare based on leaked documents, but have produced only one single, rather innocuous leaked document between them (in the Washington Post), with zero links to any. Where are these documents and what do they actually say?
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The Banality of Biden’s ‘Exceptional’ Elite Advisers
Ray McGovern | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Mar 2023 – Sophomores running U.S. foreign policy live in a dream world on the verge of a war with both Russia and China. It is scary that Biden is out of it as his advisers are oblivious to the tectonic-change implications of Russia-China entente. Blinded by US “exceptionalism,” they have to learn the hard way.
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Offerings
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
Efforts after Resolving Questions and Answers: Obligations, Duties, Responsibilities
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(Français) Guerre en Ukraine : pourquoi les pays émergents ne s’alignent pas sur l’Occident
François Polet | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
21 mars 2023 – Les pays occidentaux ont les plus grandes peines à entraîner les pays émergents dans la logique des sanctions contre la Russie. Cette perte d’influence s’enracine pour une bonne part dans l’unilatéralisme et le double standard dont les Occidentaux, États-Unis en tête, ont fait preuve dans des dossiers importants aux yeux des pays du Sud global.
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UN: Aaron Maté Spars with British Diplomat over Syria Cover-up
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
30 Mar 2023 – At a UN meeting on the Syria cover-up scandal at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Aaron Maté responds to a challenge from British diplomat Thomas Phipps.
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The Sword of Damocles over Western Europe: Follow the Trail of Blood and Oil (Part 2)
Cynthia Chung | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
An Introduction to the ‘Shah of Shahs’, ‘King of Kings’
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
Exploring the Malleability of a Fundamental Symbol for Society
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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 Dwindling Band of Iraq Obsessives’ – Endless War and Media Complicity
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Mar 2023 – The 20th anniversary of the illegal US/UK-led invasion of Iraq has demonstrated once again the subservience of state and corporate media to Western power.
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(Français) Nouvelles du Front de la Guerre Economique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
19 mars 2023 – Le soutien américain et l’escalade de la guerre d’Ukraine sont au cœur de la politique de l’administration Biden et de ses stratèges NEOCON qui tentent de maintenir l’hégémonie américaine sur le monde entier. L’Ukraine est un pion dans la stratégie d’attaque contre la Russie considérée comme le principal ennemi de cette hégémonie avec la Chine.
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News from the Front of the Economic War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
19 Mar 2023 – The US support and escalation of the Ukraine War is central to the politics of the Biden administration and its NEOCON strategists trying to maintain US hegemony. Ukraine is a pawn in the strategy of attacking Russia that is considered the principal enemy of that hegemony along with China.
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UN Security Council Won’t Probe Nord Stream Bombing
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
28 Mar 2023 – The UNSC voted yesterday against a Russian effort to get an independent investigation into the bombings of the Nord Stream pipelines. The only members that voted in favor of the resolution were Russia, China and Brazil. The remaining 12 members abstained from the vote–including the US, the likely culprit of the attacks. Politics as usual.
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Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan…
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
4 Apr is the day the USA lost a great prophet, truth teller, and leader on nonviolence. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on that day in 1968; exactly one year after he delivered an extraordinary and prophetic speech titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.”
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The EU’s Digital Trade Rules: Undermining European Policy to Rein in Big Tech
Deborah James | CEPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Mar 2023 – This report shows how Big Tech companies are working to constrain the ability of EU democratic bodies to regulate their activities in the public interest through “trade” agreements, which are binding and permanent.
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