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Israel’s Sociocide, Genocide, Ecocide in Gaza
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

Sociocide is the killing of a society’s capacity to survive, to reproduce itself, a crime against humanity. The USA and Israel were born the same way, as God’s chosen people with promised lands, using sociocide and genocide (the USA).  With no policy change they may also decline and fall the same way.  Even soon.

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The Achilles’ Heel of Propaganda – Julian Assange, Nick Cohen and Russell Brand
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

11 Oct 2023 – In the second decade of the 21st century, after much empty talk of ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’, it was discovered that people weren’t even capable of governing their own media consumption. Huge, artificially intelligent computers revealed…

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The Root of Violence Is Oppression
Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

7 Oct 2023 – Following 16 years of Israeli military blockade, Palestinian fighters from Gaza launched an unprecedented assault, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed and wounded, and civilians kidnapped. The Israeli government declared war, launching airstrikes, killing hundreds of Palestinians and wounding thousands, bombing residential buildings and threatening to commit war crimes against besieged Palestinians in Gaza.

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Palestine: The Resistance Rises toward Revolution, Return and Liberation
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

As the morning dawns on 7 Oct 2023, the resistance rises throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza, confronting the occupier by land and air, taking control of Palestinian land, seizing occupation settlers and soldiers, and launching thousands of missiles as Palestinian resistance forces fight to advance return and the liberation of Palestine.

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A Single Morning That May Change the Middle East Forever!
Mansoor Durrani | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

7 Oct 2023 – After 70 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine; after 50 years of Arab-Israeli Yom Kuppar War; and after 9 months of “low intensity” Israeli violence that killed over 250 Palestinian civilians in the first 9 months of 2023, something unprecedented happened around 6:00 a.m. local time today!

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Nobel Peace Prize 2023 Is Not about Nobel’s Will
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

6 Oct 2023 – This year’s award again violates Nobel’s Will grossly, totally aligned with US/NATO interests. One must wonder how far the Committee can continue to deviate from its legal mandate without being investigated.

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Netanyahu Shows Map of ‘New Middle East’—without Palestine—to UN General Assembly
Brett Wilkins | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

22 Sep 2023 – Speaking to a largely empty chamber, Netanyahu made clear with his little map what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine from the region and legitimizing greater Israel, all with the blessing of Arab regimes.

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

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

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Nobel Peace Prize 2023: Another Deliberate Betrayal of Nobel and World Peace
Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

6 Oct 2023 – The Norwegian award committee has persistently ignored demands that it respect its obligation to formulate and publish the peace idea of Nobel’s Will and use every selection of winners to promote the new world peace order that Nobel had in mind.

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The IMF and World Bank Talk “Good Governance” but Walk with Corrupt Governments
Patrick Bond | Bretton Woods Project - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

There is a deeper reason for sustained corruption: Neoliberal ideology.

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The Many Lessons of the Ukraine [Proxy] War
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

26 Sep 2023 – Combating Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy. Remarks to the East Bay Citizens for Peace

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The Half-Truth of Western Political Realism: A Buddhist Critique
William J. Long, Ph.D. | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

31 Aug 2023 – This paper provides a Buddhist critique of Western political realism and argues that the failure to appreciate the full extent of interdependence and our root nature is the ultimate source of all conflicts.

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Journalism Itself Is Locked Up in Belmarsh
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

At the 17th anniversary of the creation of WikiLeaks on 4 October, it’s probably worth taking a moment to reflect on Julian Assange and what his persecution means for us and our society.

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(Italiano) I tempi sono cambiati… militari e clima
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

In occasione del Centenario dell’Aeronautica Militare, infatti, era stata organizzata una manifestazione aerea che prevedeva la partecipazione di moltissimi velivoli, e un gran finale con lo spettacolo della Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale organizzato dall’Aero Club Torino.

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US Weapons to Ukraine Sold through Back Door to Terrorists
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

4 Oct 2023 – According to former Ukrainian Defense Ministry informants, the Foundation to Battle Injustice identified which NATO weapons are being resold by the Ukrainian government and revealed the scale and routes to resell Western weapons on the black market.

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EXPOSED: How Coke Killed the Refillable Bottle
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

4 Oct 2023 – Coca-Cola, the world’s biggest plastic producer and polluter, knew their plastic would trash the planet… but did it anyway!

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Muslim Future in Indian Homeland
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

The mood among India’s Muslims is bleak, and they see their position being undermined steadily by the new “nationalism” gripping the country.

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A Maidan 2.0 ‘Color Revolution’ Looms in Georgia
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

6 Oct 2023 – The arrest of US regime change operatives in Tbilisi suggests a coup against Georgia’s government could be in the works. As Ukraine’s counteroffensive fails, the West appears eager to open a new front in its proxy war.

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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Brooklyn Duo - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

Composed and performed by Louis Armstrong; arranged for cello and piano by the Brooklyn Duo. Enjoy the beauty.

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Al-Aqsa Flood
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

8 Oct 2023 – We have 15 million native Palestinians, 8 million of us are refugees or displaced people (2/3rd of Gaza’s 2.2 million are refugees). Israel cannot be allowed to get away with stealing lands and resources and setting up a racist apartheid regime. Even besieged, starving, blockaded people in Gaza manage to break through their prison walls.

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

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

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We Don’t Have to Rebottle the Nuclear Genie Just Because It Exists
David P. Barash - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – “I certainly don’t like nukes, but what can we do? We can’t put that genie back in its bottle.” We hear this a lot and at first glance it seems true; we’re stuck with Oppenheimer’s genie because it can’t be disinvented. But this “common sense” is uncommonly wrong.

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The Climate Costs of the US Military Machine
Peace and Planet News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

Fall 2023 – It is entirely possible for next generation to grow up in an economy that’s about nurturing life, not waging death.

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‘It’s like 1948’: Israel Cleanses Vast West Bank Region of Nearly All Palestinians
Oren Ziv | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

In mere months, entire Palestinian communities between Ramallah and Jericho have been chased out by settler violence and state policies — paving the way for a total Israeli takeover of thousands of acres of land.

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The Forgotten: Migration of All Creations–Causing Peace and War (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

Biologically, the migration of humans has caused invasion of the ecosystem of all other creations, including fellow humans and has resulted in significant Peace Disruption over the centuries.

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

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

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Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

3 Sep 2023 – Is Worldwide Depopulation Part of the Billionaires’ “Great Reset?” Secret Gathering Sponsored by Bill Gates, 2009 Meeting of “The Good Club”

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(Français) Pas de Paix Avec la Culture de Guerre
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

2 octobre 2023 – La culture de la guerre semble plus forte que jamais. Pour illustrer cela, un jour avant la Journée internationale de la paix, l’ouverture des Nations Unies a été donnée au président ukrainien Zelensky pour appeler à une guerre totale contre la Russie, même au risque de déclencher une Troisième Guerre mondiale.

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Black Girl Ignored at Irish Gymnastics Medals Ceremony
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

22 Sep 2023 – Footage shows the official skipping the girl, the only black gymnast in a medals lineup.

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Beyond the Neocon Debacle to Peace in Ukraine
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

3 Oct 2023 – The neocons have created utter disasters in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and now Ukraine. The US has not yet held the neocons to account, since foreign policy is carried out with little public or Congressional scrutiny to date. Mainstream media have sided with the slogans of the neocons.

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Doctors, Scientists Cry Foul after Nobel Prize Awarded to mRNA COVID Vaccine Team
John-Michael Dumais | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – Scientists and doctors had harsh criticism for the Norwegian Nobel Committee as it today awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to a pair of biochemists for developing “effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.”

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Using Armenia to Destroy the International North South Transportation Corridor
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

4 Oct 2023 – The recent dissolution of Nagorno Karabakh and the Armenia embrace of a US-led world order have everything to do with destabilizing the largest, most strategic project in Eurasia connecting the Russian Arctic to Iran and India.

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No Peace with the Culture of War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – The culture of war seems stronger than ever. Illustrating this, one day preceding the International Day of Peace, the opening of the United Nations was given to Ukraine president Zelensky to call for all-out war against Russia, even at the risk of launching a Third World War.

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Why Japan Should Stop Its Fukushima Nuclear Wastewater Ocean Release
Tatsujiro Suzuki | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

On 24 Aug 2023 TEPCO started discharging so-called “treated” and “diluted” water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. This is not the end of controversy but the beginning of a long-lasting struggle where science meets politics and lack of public trust both inside and outside Japan.

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

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

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They’re Repeating the Word ‘Unprovoked’ again, This Time in Defense of Israel
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

8 Oct 2023 – Skillful manipulators make frequent use of a cognitive bias known as the illusory truth effect, a glitch in the way human minds tend to operate which makes it hard for us to differentiate between the experience of hearing a well-evidenced fact and the experience of hearing something that we’ve heard repeated multiple times.

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“The Great Taking”: How They Can Own It All
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

3 Oct 2023 – The derivatives bubble exceeds one quadrillion dollars. The GDP of the world is $105 trillion, or 10% of one quadrillion; the collective wealth of the world is $360 trillion. The bubble looks ready to pop. We need to design an alternative financial system that is equitable and sustainable.

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The Geometry of Grief: A Mathematician on How Fractals Can Help Us Fathom Loss and Reorient to the Ongoingness of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

To live at all, however long or short, is an unbidden bargain to lose everything you hold precious: every love and every life, including your own. Loss is the price of life–a price not merely worth paying but beyond questions of worth and why.

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Zionist Settlers Have a Very Effective System for Forcing Palestinians Out of Their Homes
Avishay Mohar | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

Herding sheep into others’ fields, preventing access to water, blocking roads, killing animals and breaking into homes in the middle of the night – these and other tactics are part of the daily terror perpetrated by Israeli settlers in Palestinian villages.

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Brazil’s Supreme Court Upholds Indigenous Rights to Reclaim Land
Lyric Aquino | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

25 Sep 2023 – The ruling puts up additional road blocks for the mining, logging, and cattle industries.

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Who or What Will Do What Must Be Done?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

Given that funds sufficient to solve the employment problem cannot come from sales, and cannot come from taxes, the necessary funds must come from surplus where surplus can be found.

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(Italiano) Gli Usa stanno passando all’Europa la patata bollente della guerra in Ucraina
Paolo Ferrero | Il Fatto Quotidiano – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

E’ infatti del tutto evidente che di fronte al fallimento della controffensiva militare ucraina le classi dirigenti statunitensi – che già erano divise prima – stanno maturando l’idea che la guerra ucraina non meriti più tutto lo sforzo finanziario fatto sino ad ora.

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The United States Has Its Fingerprints All Over the Chaos in Haiti
Branko Marcetic | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

3 Oct 2023 – The ongoing turmoil in Haiti has been exacerbated by US meddling. There’s a very good chance that the foreign intervention announced yesterday by the United Nations will make things worse.

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Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian Exodus
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

6 Oct 2023 – The warnings have been ignored.  The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe created the Minsk Group to facilitate negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan but no visible progress was made.  The Association of World Citizens encouraged Track Two informal meetings. The international community must stay on alert.

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West Bank Dispatch: Palestinian Teen Killed as Israeli Settlers Attack Huwwara
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

6 Oct 2023 – West Bank: An estimated 248 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the start of the year. The UN has documented more than 800 settler attacks on Palestinians and their property since the start of the year. Key Developments (October 3-6)

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Then and Now
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

We all know that things and even life changes all the time. What was true a week back or even yesterday, may not be true today.

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Peace Portraits: Pathways to Nonkilling
Review by Robin Collins of a Memoir by Balwant Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

“Everyone has the right not to be killed and the responsibility not to kill others.”

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The German Banker and British Lord Who Wrote the ‘Capitalist Magna Carta’
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

4 Oct 2023 – In this excerpt from their book, Silent Coup, the authors go to the sources of a key legal mechanism used by multinational corporations to override governments around the world.

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Jupiter-Sized Objects in Orion Nebula Baffle Scientists
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – The new entities, nicknamed ‘JuMBOs’, are neither stars nor planets. And they shouldn’t exist, researchers say.

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

9-15 October 2023

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Spot the Mistakes!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – Rainy Day Fun Game

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A Year of U.S. Lying about Nord Stream
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

26 Sep 2023 – The Biden administration has acknowledged neither its responsibility for the pipeline bombing nor the purpose of the sabotage.

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The Gandhian Path to Resilience
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary reopens a familiar debate around his legacy every year. How could a frail man use his moral strength to galvanize 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence from the mighty British Empire?

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Global Leaders Plead for Peace in Ukraine at UN
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – The calls for peace in Ukraine issued by at least 50 world leaders at this year’s UN General Assembly.

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

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

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A Proven Path to Peace
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

The waves of war are rising again around the fragile ship of our civilization, threatening to sink it to the depths of barbarism and radioactive megadeath. The principle to preventing this is stated in the constitution of UNESCO: “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”

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Ukraine on Fire
Global Tree Pictures - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

20 Aug 2021 – This video provides a historical perspective for the deep divisions in the region which lead to the 2004 Orange Revolution, 2014 uprisings, and the violent overthrow of Yanukovych. Producer Oliver Stone interviews Ukraine’s legally elected president Viktor Yanukovych, who in the 2010 election got 12,5 million votes.

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The Big Business of War–a Clandestine Arms Market in Ukraine
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

25 Sep 2023 – US Congress has allocated 43 billion to the security of Ukraine for direct military purposes. The New York Times calls it “a clandestine arms market” in Ukraine as billions of dollars were pocketed by high-ranking officials in Kyiv; the government had to fire the Minister of Defence and all six deputy Defence Ministers for corruption.

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

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

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Two for the road…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

After eating an entire bull, …

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Cyprus Anti-Migrant Violence: Reconciliation Efforts Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

28 Sep 2023 – To highlight the calls of Pope Francis in Marseille calling for humanitarian efforts for migrants, there was a wave of anti-migrant violence in southern Cyprus in September. Cyprus, in practice, is divided into two.

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The AI Conundrum: The Peace Movement’s Next Big Challenge
Tom Valovic | Mass Peace Action - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

15 Sep 2023 – It’s hard to watch or read the news these days without bumping into the latest breathless glorification of artificial intelligence. For those of us who believe that some sort of technocratic takeover of many government functions is underway, this trend is deeply concerning.

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Winner? Winners!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Which one fits your personal story?

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Israeli Settlements ‘Systematically Erode’ Viability of Palestinian State
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process today expressed deep concern over the relentless expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

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Denmark’s Prime Minister Frederiksen Knows Nothing about Ukraine, Conflict Understanding and Peace–She Wants War
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

22 Sep 2023 – The brief presentation of her views on Ukraine’s situation testifies to an ignorance – conscious, unconscious or opportunistic – that is not easily reconciled with State leadership in general and war participation in particular.

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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

It is an ongoing mystery: What makes you and your childhood self the same person. Across a lifetime of physiological and psychological change, some center holds.

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Amazing Grace in Emotional Show (Music Video of the Week)
Andre Rieu Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

From the Concert Christmas in London 2016

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Ralph Schoenman: Unsung Hero of Progressive Thought and Action (RIP)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

30 Sep 2023 – Ralph Schoenman is a member of a trinity of forgotten heroes of US progressive politics, airbrushed from collective memory by mainstream media and even infrequently notice by online, independent publications. The other two are Tony Russo and David Ray Griffin.

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How Can We Combat Militarism?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Ridding the U.S. and the world of militarism will take time, no doubt. But it will happen. And, as the sage Hillel asked, “If not now, when?”

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The US Air Force Is Clearing Out Jungles in the Pacific to Prepare for War with China
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

A Poem

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

Finding Hope Living Outside the Box

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Torture at Guantanamo
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

25 Sep 2023 – I Was the only U.S. Official Imprisoned over the Torture Program — because I Opposed and Blew the Whistle on It

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

2-8 October 2023

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Hawaiian Nationality: Who Comprises the Hawaiian Citizenry
Hawaiian Kingdom Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

28 Sep 2023 – Nationality is the legal bond between a person and a State and does not indicate the person’s ethnic origin. It is a person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a given State. The terms nationality and citizenship are synonymous.

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Professional Psychology 22 Years after 9/11
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

26 Sep 2023 – The American Psychological Association, US psychology’s most prominent voice, still seems unwilling to do anything that could jeopardize its carefully nurtured ties to the military-intelligence establishment. This needs to change.

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The Forgotten People: Once We Were Migrants (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

It is a Serious Indictment on Governments, that various world leaders have forgotten their Origins as Migrants and are now Anti-migrants.

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Ignorance and Egoistic Leaders Destroying Mankind and the Living Earth
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Humanity is a Victim of Wrong Elite’s Thinking and Wrong Actions

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Atom and Identity: Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Science to Illuminate Consciousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

The Atom and the Doctrine of Identity: Quantum Pioneer Erwin Schrödinger on Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Science to Illuminate Consciousness

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

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

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The Arms Trade Needs a Shift from War Economy to Green Economy
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Stopping militarism and deploying resources towards completion of the UN’s much-needed Sustainable Development Goals would leave a lasting legacy for generations to come, ensuring the continuation and progress of our sacred civilisation and humanity.

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Venezuela to Launch China-Backed Anti-Poverty Program
Andreína Chávez Alava | Venezuelanalysis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

21 Sep 2023 – The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country’s reality to alleviate poverty and inequality.

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US House Rejects Cluster-Bomb Ban
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – Bipartisan House Amendment to Ban US Cluster Bomb Exports Fails – Democrats and Republicans turned down the chance to stop the export of weapons that harm and kill civilians long after military campaigns are over.

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Revealed: Israeli Cyber Firms Have Developed an ‘Insane’ New Spyware Tool–No Defense Exists
Omer Benjakob | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

14 Sep 2023 – A Haaretz investigation reveals that Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the advertising system to monitor civilians, hack into their phones and computers, and spy on them. This is a terrifying capability against which no defense currently exists.

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Scientists Just Proved That ‘Monster’ Black Hole M87 Is Spinning–Confirming Einstein’s Relativity Yet Again
Ben Turner | Live Science - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

28 Sep 2023 – Astronomers have spotted two huge jets fired off by the ‘monster’ black hole M87 wobbling on an 11-year cycle, proving for the first time that black holes spin.

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Development of the Indian City Delhi — Historical, Contemporary
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Delhi is an ancient city with several unique and majestic monuments such as Lal Quilla (Red Fort), Purana Quilla, Qutab Minar, Hauz Khas Fort, Humayun Tomb and others. Akshardham Temple and Lotus Temple are also beautiful structures.

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Top Brazilian Court Rules in Favor of Indigenous Rights
Saurav Sarkar | Globetrotter News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

25 Sep 2023 – Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of Indigenous claims to land occupied before 1988. The case had been brought by “agribusiness-backed lawmakers.” The court ruled against the lawmakers and for Indigenous groups.

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

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

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(Italiano) Vattimo e la cultura della nonviolenza
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

21 settembre 2023 – Propongo a chi studia anche il lato teorico della nonviolenza, di osservare sotto questo profilo il pensiero filosofico di Gianni Vattimo, che ci ha appena lasciati, il 19 settembre.

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How to Think about the Ukraine War after 18 Months
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

20 Sep 2023 -This text addresses various aspects of the global political setting that has crystallized since the Russian attack of 5 Feb 2022 on Ukraine. The repudiation of diplomacy as an alternative to war, despite the costs and dangers of continuing the Ukraine War, are quite striking.

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

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

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Being Spoken to Meaningfully by Constructs
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Reframing Cognitive Implication in Nature and Natural Disasters – Emphasis is increasingly given to the problematic “disconnect” from “nature” and to how this might be recognized and remedied.

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The West Destroyed Africa, Eurasia Will Revive It
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

20 Sep 2023 – In Africa, injustice looms large. After decades of restrictive IMF and World Bank loans, poverty, hunger, and conflict persist throughout the continent. While many attribute this to Africa’s governance challenges, in reality, a deliberate imperial agenda has hindered the continent’s development in all political, economic, and security sectors. 

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How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
Deborah Barsky and Jan Ritch-Frel | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Recent scientific findings and research in the fields of human origins and biology have reached a key threshold: with increasing accuracy, this body of knowledge can tell the complete human evolutionary story that began 7 million years ago and spans to modernity.

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Amnesty International Pushes Regime Change in Eritrea with Dubious, Unverifiable Report
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

21 Sep 2023 – Amnesty’s new report accusing Eritrea’s government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West’s campaign to topple the country’s independent government.

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Leaders of World’s Biggest Polluting Countries Skipping UN Climate Summit
Oliver Milman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

20 Sep 2023 – Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York today.

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How Arab Leaders Betrayed Islam and Defied the Logic of Political Change, Peace and Security
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

18 Sep 2023 – The Arabian landscape portrays continuous wars, insurgency against authoritarianism, insecurity and lack of moral and intellectual leadership to political change for the good of people.

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Noam Chomsky on the Russia-NATO-Ukraine War
Through Conversations Podcast – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Noam Chomsky shares his perspective on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, and where does he think this conflict is heading in the future.

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