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Hi-Tech Military Weapons Breed New Danger
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – New Report Unpacks Dangers of Emerging Military Tech: AI Nukes, Killer Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Hypersonic Missiles, Cyber Battles
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Apocalypse: The End of the Current Humanoid Civilisation on Earth–Armageddon Guaranteed
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
The Doomsday Clock as a universal symbol that represents the likelihood of human-made global catastrophes, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, resulting in Armageddon and the final, mortal destination of humanoids.
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Lift Sanctions against Syria to Lessen Sufferings from the Earthquake
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
The International Movement for a Just World urges the North American, British, Australian, Canadian, Swiss and some European Union and Arab League governments to lift the unjust, immoral sanctions against Syria in order to lessen the immense sufferings of the people caused by the massive earthquake of 6 Feb 2023.
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How the USA Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2022 – The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now.
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There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine.
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Untouchable
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Wretched Caste System
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Three factors seem far more important than ageism: the advantages of an open fight for the nomination, Biden’s deficit of charisma, and, most important, this President’s uncritical commitment to a bellicose, imperialist foreign policy.
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The Warrior (1 and 2): Yodhajiva Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
“Monks, there are these five types of warriors who can be found existing in the world. Which five?
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(Italiano) Le incertezze crescenti della scienza
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Febbraio 2023 – Nell’ambito della rassegna di ‘Biennale Tecnologia’ organizzata dal Politecnico di Torino a novembre del 2022 una nota studiosa americana, Naomi Oreskes, ha tenuto una lezione dal titolo “Perché fidarsi della scienza?”. Nella locandina di presentazione dell’evento si leggeva:
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The Use of Child Soldiers: Children of Conflict
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
12 Feb is the UN sponsored International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers. Forced to learn to kill instead of pursuing education, they lack the knowledge and skills needed to build their futures and of their communities. For a society, the lives destroyed could have a devastating effect on long-term stability and development.
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Some Similarities in Languages
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
India and France do not now have any commonalities in politics, cuisine or social behaviour, but in language one occasionally finds strange relationships.
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ARD’s (German Public Television) Fact Finder, Genetic Engineering and Vandana Shiva
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – Those who buy “organic” do so in order to obtain food and products that are free of genetic engineering and pesticides and that have also been produced in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way. The organic market has grown enormously in recent decades and continues to rise.
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US-Laid Trap for Russia Has Trapped West Instead
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – A month before the Feb. 24, 2022 Russian invasion, CN wrote that the U.S. was laying a trap to lure Russia into an economic, information and proxy war. All three have failed for the U.S.
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Decommission US Land-Based Nuclear Missiles NOW!
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – There has not been any international outcry over the launch of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that would carry a thermonuclear warhead. No discussion anywhere by the news media about the test and its implications regarding control of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and disarmament.
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For Palestine, Justice Is Not a Question of Law
M Muhannad Ayyash | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – As we work towards Palestinian liberation, we should not forget that international law is itself a form of imperial violence.
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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 fev 2023 – Não é um argumento especista se digo que a violência contra outros animais deve ser combatida por causa das consequências para humanos?
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Just Beneath
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Don’t let the fraudulence of this civilization eclipse the supernova of authenticity hidden just beneath that thin membrane.
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Sanctions Imposed by US and Allies Hamper Relief and Rescue Work in Earthquake-Devastated Syria
Defend Democracy Press | Delphi Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent demanded that the US and its allies lift their siege and sanctions on Syria so that rescue and relief work can proceed after the devastation of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake yesterday. Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria.
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The Ukraine War in the Light of the UN Charter
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – Whether or not the West considers NATO’s expansion a provocation, what is crucial is how NATO expansion is perceived by those who feel threatened by it. In this context we must remember that article 2(4) of the UN Charter prohibits not only the use of force but also the threat of the use of force.
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The New Geopolitics
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Horizons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Winter 2023 – Understanding the forces that are refiguring the international ‘system’ and what outcomes we can imagine.
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On the History of the Black Power Movement in the USA
Mark Whitaker | CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Wallace: “Mr. Carmichael, if you had the chance to stand up in front of the white community and say to them, ‘Understand me, white man,’ what would you say?” Carmichael: “I would say, ‘Understand yourself, white man. You are the savages. Yes, it is you who have always been uncivilized. Civilize yourself.'”
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Poverty amid Plenty
Liz Theoharis | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – A World Fragmented by Inequality
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Romanza (Music Video of the Week)
Al Marconi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Romance d’Amour played with feeling on Spanish classical guitar.
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The US Is Legitimizing Jewish Terrorism against Palestinians
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – There is one line at the very end of the State Department’s statement that is particularly cynical: “We look to both sides not to take steps that actually make things worse.” This comment is noteworthy because Blinken did make one proposal that will make things far worse and will without doubt bring about more violence.
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White House-Linked Venture Capital Fund Boasts China War Would Be Great for Business
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – A representative from America’s Frontier Fund said that a “kinetic event” in the Pacific would be very good for its bottom line.
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Mechanistic and Non-mechanistic Science
The Hieronimus Show | Vedic Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Thompson defines the soul (jivatma) as a “distinct quanta of consciousness”, and argues convincingly that this basic principle of life cannot logically arise from matter. He affirms the need for intelligence in some of nature’s more intricate designs.
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Three New Books by Former Soldiers That the US Military Doesn’t Want You to Read
Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire.
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U.S. Hypocrisy on War Crimes Is a Gift to Putin
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – The failure to prosecute American officials and other powerful nations for war crimes has created a jurisdictional mess.
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
Ashley Gjovik | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck.
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Russia-Ukraine Lessons to Boost US Electronic Warfare, Sen. Reed Says
Colin Demarest | C4ISRNET - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – “We are in a tremendously dynamic situation,” said Sen. Jack Reed, “where technology is changing rapidly, techniques are changing rapidly.”
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Can Europe Survive This Moment?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused by warfare during the last 100 years is heading for a new war.
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The Progenitor of Inequalities – Corporate Personhood vs. Human Beings
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – The word “inequality” is everywhere in the media. It usually refers either to race, gender, rich vs. poor, or other differences between human beings. Absent from the public debate is the biggest perpetrator of “inequality” against human beings – the corporate entity itself.
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The Leopard’s Tale: U.S. Weapons Makers on a Marketing Spree
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – When western Europe depleted its armory by shipping everything to Ukraine to get blown up by the Russians, it created a huge market opportunity for the U.S. weapons industry due to a concerted media and political humbug campaign to trap the world as a purchaser of U.S. armaments. In fiscal 2022, U.S. weapons sales increased 48.8 percent. War is good business, and blood-soaked war profiteers are making out like the mafiosi they are.
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Antony Blinken Plays the ‘Two Sides Game’: Getting Netanyahu/Israel off the Hook
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Antony Blinken is the most lightweight Secretary of State, a fitting complement to the overweight Mike Pompeo. Together they could do a late night TV comedy routine on the ‘arrogance of decline’ when it comes to US foreign policy in the Trump/Biden years.
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The Doomsday Clock: Deceptive and Rather an Indicator of US Foreign Policies
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
26 Jan 2023 – Like the Nobel Prizes, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atom Scientists attracts enormous media attention. It simplifies a very complex issue into a time measure: How close is the world to global catastrophe?
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Peace Negators: A Litany of Abduction, Torture, Deprogramming, Rendition and Murder by First World Governmental Security Agencies
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
The extra judicial excesses of the US government’s security apparatus and how the workings of the organization impacts upon the lives of ordinary people globally.
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Ukraine: Rethinking Global Security–Saving Humanity and Planet Earth
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Saving Humanity and Planet Earth (SHAPE) is an initiative to address the multiple crises that have brought us to the brink of the precipice. This, our second webinar to be held on 22/23 February 2023, draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security.
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‘Obscene’: Exxon Posts Record $56 Billion in Profits — But Keeps Gouging Consumers
Brett Wilkins | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – ExxonMobil on Tuesday [31 Jan] joined other U.S. oil companies in reporting record 2022 earnings amid rising gas prices, sparking renewed calls by consumer and climate advocates for a Big Oil windfall profits tax.
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WATCH: Swedish Prosecutors Destroyed Assange Documents
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – A 35-minute interview with Stefania Maurizi. Swedish prosecutors destroyed copies of email correspondence related to the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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A Birthday Thank You Note
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
To TMS editor Antonio C.S. Rosa – Dear Antonio, thinking of your Birthday on 8 Feb and your friendship, I came up with the following poem.
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Lola
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Love is
in her dough as she
kneads it with both hands,
mixes za’atar spice;
Revealed: Sweden Destroyed a Substantial Part of Its Documents on Julian Assange
Stefania Maurizi | Il Fato Quotidiano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Almost six years after the British Crown Prosecution Service destroyed key emails, the Swedish Prosecution Authority also destroyed a large part of the documentation–as Assange’s life hangs in the balance.
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Ilhan Omar Is Not Mama Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – The new Speaker of the House announced he will remove Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. The attack from Republicans has given her image a boost, but her record shows the credibility is not deserved.
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War and Peace: Animosity and Insanity Destroying the Earth and Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
In Search of Moral and Intellectual Human Consciousness
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Wishful Thinking
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
What took them so long?…
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Nobel Peace Prize Watch: Watchdog Suspends Screening of Nobel Peace Prize Candidates
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – After 15 years studying the award’s intention, finding out who should have received the NPP over 120 years, and who are the most suitable recipients in our time, we have concluded that the Committee does not contribute for elimination of wars; rather, it takes sides.
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Missing Links in Textbook History: Indigenous Peoples
Jim Mamer | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – By the time I started high school I had come to see the world in Manichaean terms, full of good guys and bad guys. We, North Americans, were the good guys, often presented as settlers defending our families against hostile Indians. It was dangerously easy to accept the notion that history is pretty simple.
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Reactive
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Men, Women
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How US Marines Are Being Reshaped for China ‘Threat’
Jonathan Marcus | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – The US military commitment to the Pacific was underlined in a White House meeting between the leaders of the US and Japan. But behind the scenes, this renewed focus on Asia has sparked a fierce debate within one of its most fabled military forces.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Nobel Peace Prize Watch avslutter sine årlige anbefalinger til Nobelkomiteen
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
6. februar 2023 – Etter ti år har vi i år besluttet å ikke publisere vår årlige anbefaling til Nobelkomiteen, en liste over de som er både nominert og kvalifisert til å motta Nobels fredspris. Så lenge Den norske Nobelkomite fortsetter å sabotere Nobels intensjon om fred ved global nedrustning har vårt arbeid med å få frem gode kandidater ingen hensikt opplyse.
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Shell Makes ‘Obscene’ $40bn Profit—Highest Ever
Alex Lawson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – Sunak government under pressure after gas prices fuel ‘outrageous’ doubling of profits at Anglo-Dutch group
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Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – Palestinian journalists pay a heavy price for carrying out their mission of spreading the truth about the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Their work is critical not only to balanced media coverage but to the very cause of justice and freedom in Palestine. However, the harm inflicted on Palestinian journalists is not only physical and material. They are also constantly exposed to a very subtle but equally dangerous threat: the constant delegitimization of their work.
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War Machine vs. Balloons
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – US Surrounds China with War Machinery while Freaking Out about Balloons – Maybe Americans should stop watching out for hostile foreign ‘threats’ and start looking a little closer to home.
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A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
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Ukraine—The Inevitable War
Chay Bowes | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Why negotiate a diplomatic settlement and adhere to the Minsk agreement when there is so much money in war?
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How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the US Patent System
Rebecca Robbins | The New York Times/Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.
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Remembering the Man Who Saved the World (from a Nuclear War)
Glen Milner and Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
The man who saved the world from thermonuclear annihilation in 1962 was born on 30 January 1926.
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US House Republicans Vote to Remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee
Lexie Schapitl | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – House Republicans have voted to remove Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, citing past controversial comments she made about Israel and concerns over her objectivity.
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Lives in Acting
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “Lives in Molecular Biology”. The pdf file of the book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate (Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges, John Kiriakou)
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Matt Taibbi joins CN Live! to discuss the implications of his Twitter Files revelations, including his latest on Hamilton 68 and its fatal blow to the Russiagate narrative. With Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Compassion and Greed: Two Sides of Human Nature
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Earth Constitution: Only A Democratic World Federal Government Is Realistic
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – The Constitution for the Federation of Earth (aka Earth Constitution) is a blueprint for an emerging democratic world federal government — an Earth Federation movement led by the World Constitution & Parliament Association to replace the United Nations system stymied with its obsolete and fatally flawed Charter.
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The Analysis Is Simple; It Is Economic
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
For a Profound Analysis of Our Political Situation, the Answer Is Simple: It Is Economic
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Inside the Fight to Save the Peruvian Amazon from Big Oil
Josh Fox | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – The survival of the world’s biggest rainforest is critical to the survival of life on Earth. The fossil fuel industry is hell-bent on drilling in it.
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Roger Waters Questioned in Depth about Ukraine, Russia, Israel, U.S.
Berliner Zeitung | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – Roger Waters can rightly claim to be the mastermind behind Pink Floyd. He came up with the concept of and wrote all the lyrics for the masterpiece “The Dark Side of the Moon”. A musical genius turned activist.
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Military Spending by Country 2023
World Population Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
China, India, and the United States, unsurprisingly, have the largest militaries. Only 36 countries do not have a military. Many nations have mandatory military service. The United States has the highest military spending of any nation at all times.
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(Français) L’Analyse Est Simple ; C’est Economique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 févr. 2023 – Pour une analyse approfondie de notre situation politique, la réponse est simple : c’est économique.
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The Ukraine War in 2023
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
February 2023 – A no-nonsense analysis of recent developments and deceptions.
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Woke Imperialism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Woke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state.
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Why the Western Media Is Afraid of Julian Assange
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Text of my talk at #FreeTheTruth: Secret Power, Media Freedom and Democracy, London, 28 Jan 2023. Other speakers: former British ambassador Craig Murray and Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi. Jeremy Corbyn presented the Gavin MacFayden award to Julian Assange for being “the journalist whose work most exemplifies the importance of a free press”. Craig Murray accepted it on Assange’s behalf.
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Just Like That (Music Video of the Week)
Bonnie Raitt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
In an era when cruelty and greed run rampant, human kindness is at an ultimate premium. Of all the emotions our species finds in desperately short supply, compassion and empathy top the list. That’s among the reasons that this is a Song for the Ages.
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Ukraine’s Tank Problem
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – This is an ever-broadening war of the West against Russia with Ukraine an experimental proxy convinced it will win. Efforts to limit the deepening conflict continue to be seen as the quailing sentiments of appeasers, the wobbly types who find democracy a less than lovable thing.
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Why Bonnie Raitt’s “Just Like That” Is a Song for the Ages
Harvey Wasserman | Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – In an era when cruelty and greed run rampant, human kindness is at an ultimate premium. Of all the emotions our species finds in desperately short supply, compassion and empathy top the list.
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Vedantic Democracy, Education and Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
All men tend to be free. Freedom is the birth right of every man irrespective of caste, creed and color.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
On many occasions, adults wonder who they are, what is the purpose of their life, and how should they live in the society where they find themselves.
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This 22-Year-Old Is Trying to Save Us from ChatGPT before It Changes Writing Forever
Greg Rosalsky and Emma Peaslee | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
18 Jan 2023 – While many were nursing hangovers on New Year’s Day, 22-year-old Edward Tian was working feverishly on a new app to combat misuse of a powerful, new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT. The technology is both awesome — and terrifying.
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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Não é um argumento especista se digo que a violência contra outros animais deve ser combatida por causa das consequências para humanos?
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Poland Says It’s Ready to Send F-16s to Ukraine in Coordination with NATO
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – Biden said “No” when asked if the US would send F-16s to Ukraine. To send F-16s, Poland needs the approval of the US under export rules. The Netherlands also showed a willingness to do the same, with the Dutch saying they would have an “open mind” if asked.
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The Pentagon’s Perpetual Crisis Machine
Jacob Hornberger | The Future of Freedom Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
26 Jan 2023 – When the Pentagon crossed Russia’s “red line” by threatening to absorb Ukraine into NATO, the Pentagon achieved what it wanted — the continuation of its old Cold War racket, except that the Reds were coming to get us. But they’re doing their best to gin up a crisis with China over Taiwan, which will enable them to exclaim, “See, you need us to protect you from both Russia and the Chinese Reds.”
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Reconciliation in Africa: A Vital Need
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – What is required today in eastern Congo is not more soldiers but persons who are able to restore relations among ethnic groups of the area. Such bridge builders can help strengthen local efforts at conflict resolution and the restoration of confidence among peoples in conflict.
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Germany Risks Forgetting Its History
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, under heavy pressure from Washington, announced that Germany would send 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine breaking the self-imposed constraints on the military’s role in German foreign policy in place since the end of WWII.
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Planetary Impalement by Stakeholder Capitalism?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
“Stake” as a Strategic Metaphor Promoted by the World Economic Forum
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(Italiano) Memoria della com-passione
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 Gennaio 2023 – Nel giorno in cui si fa giusta e meditata memoria della Shoah, è giusto esprimere solidarietà al popolo ebraico, nel clima di un discorso franco e sincero.
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(Castellano) Fany Kuiru Es Elegida la Primera Mujer Coordinadora de la COICA
Servindi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 enero 2023 – Es la primera vez en 38 años de historia de la COICA que una mujer presidirá la organización que representa a más de 500 pueblos indígenas de 9 países de la Amazonía.
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(Français) Amilcar Cabral : l’anticolonialisme comme « patrimoine commun à l’humanité »
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
20 janvier 2023 – Il y a 50 ans, le 20 janvier 1973, sous l’instigation de la dictature portugaise, était assassiné Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973), l’une des principales figures des luttes anticolonialistes. Il mourrait quelques mois seulement avant l’indépendance de la Guinée-Bissau et du Cap-Vert.
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The Winter of Our Discontent: Mind’s Accommodation to Disparate Experiences
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
A Personal Essay – MIND, MEANING, CHANCE . . .
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Tensions in the Asian Trinity: China – Japan – U.S.A.
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – After five years of growing tensions among China Japan and the U.S.A., U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make an official visit to Beijing on 5-6 February 2023. There is a long list of possible issues to discuss although the list of common actions may be much shorter.
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How [Much] Are You Today?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – Gone are those times when catastrophes were measured in terms of human suffering. Now, with an exception: Ukrainians victims of the Russian invasion, everything is calculated in just money.
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A Responsibility to Wonder: Pioneering Neuroscientist Charles Scott Sherrington on the Spirituality of Nature
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
“We have, because human, an inalienable prerogative of responsibility which we cannot devolve…not… even upon the stars. We can share it only with each other.”
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(Italiano) Fare Storia e Memoria E’ Necessario. Il Percorso Atipico Proposto da Collettivamente Memoria per Il Giorno Della Memoria 2023
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Silenzio. Dal Silenzio. Al silenzio. Il percorso per il Giorno della Memoria 2023, proposto dal progetto culturale Collettivamente memoria, ha un andamento circolare: dal silenzio al silenzio. A’ rebours. Et vice-versa.
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The World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization Are Elevating Themselves above the World’s Governments
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
15 Jan 2023 – “In the last three years, the common people’s exclusion from what is still sold as a democratic process has reached a pinnacle.” — Peter Koenig, former senior economist for the World Bank and the World Health Organization
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The Nightmare of NATO Equipment Being Sent to Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations, and rebukes the WWII history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin. Today the White House decided that it would send about 30 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, a political cover for Germany that decided to ship 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Kiev.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
The four words Rules Based International Order are surrounded by controversies. I will review some controversies as a prelude to a proposal. The proposal will recommend discarding the currently dominant discourses that are, as Michel Foucault might say, the historical conditions of the possibility of RBIO discourse.
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Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 5 Yrs Ago Today
Nat Parry | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 Jan 2023 – The founder of Consortium News died five years ago today. Robert Parry had an illustrious career as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press, Newsweek and PBS Frontline, best-known for his revelations in the Iran Contra scandal and the October Surprise.
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Palpable Peace: The Institution of the Iconic Christmas Tree (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
The pagan origins and customs associated with the institution of the Christmas Tree, as observed in the 21st Century.
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Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware won’t help.
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Burkina Faso Ejects French Troops
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
On 18 Jan 2023, the government of Burkina Faso made a decision to ask the French military to depart from the country. France entered the Sahel region in 2013. The ejection of France does not mean that there will be no NATO countries in the region. Both the US and UK have a large footprint from Morocco to Niger.
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Josip Broz Tito and Che Guevara Speak
Srećko Horvat | The Internationalist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
In 1959, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito received the members of the Cuba Goodwill Mission led by Dr. Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. The historic Tito-Che conversation contextualized in the history of the Non-Aligned Movement and Yugoslavia-Cuba relations.
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Parade of Monsters
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
28 Jan 2023 – This week’s decision by Germany, US and NATO to send tanks to Ukraine has generated powerful images of the Second World War. It’s a parade of monsters.
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Big Tech to US Congress: Listen to Taylor Swift and Go after Ticketmaster, Not Us
Ryan Grim | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – Lobbyists for tech giants asked US Congress to focus less on Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Congress was happy to oblige.
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