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As Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Announce Doomsday Clock at 90 Seconds to Midnight, They Unknowingly Push the Dial Even Closer
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
28 Jan 2023 – On January 24, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Einstein, Oppenheimer and scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, unveiled the 2023 Doomsday Clock, now at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been. This year, they cite new nuclear threats from the Ukraine war, the climate crisis and pandemics.
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War Is Hell… or Not
Paul Combs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Yeah! Not for us…
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Tanks & Tragedy
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – Never has it been so daunting to figure out what’s going on during a major international crisis as with the Ukraine affair, due to total absence of truthful reporting and honest interpretative analysis by the MSM. We are served falsity, fantasy and farrago whose relation to reality is tenuous.
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Children of the COVID!
Matt Orfalea and Matt Taibbi | TK Mashup – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – The video reminds us of the insane media scaremongering about children and COVID and how the pandemic was reported not as a collective problem, but a horror movie to be passively experienced, a media approach we see in a variety of issues from fake news to “sonic weapons,” conditioning frightened audiences to endorse extreme solutions and outsource thinking to authorities.
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Animals, Birds, Pets
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
There are countless numbers of animals and birds in the world we live in. Scientists — anthropologists inform us that mankind has also evolved from the animal world over the course of thousands of years–from four-legged creatures to the two-legged mankind of today.
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The Belmarsh Tribunals Demand Justice for Julian Assange
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – The US government’s impulse to control information and manipulate public opinion to support war is deeply ingrained. The past twenty years ‘War on Terror’ is no exception. Sophisticated PR campaigns, a compliant mass media and the Pentagon’s pervasive propaganda machine all work together.
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World’s 10 Most Peaceful Countries [2022]
Vision of Humanity - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the GPI is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness. This report presents the most comprehensive data-driven analysis to date on trends in peace, its economic value, and how to develop peaceful societies.
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US Constantly Provoking China
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The way the U.S. has been positioning its war machinery around China would have sparked a third world war had the roles been reversed. Nonetheless, talk inside the U.S. empire is all about Chinese “aggression.”
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Russia Moves to End European Treaties
Defend Democracy Press | Delphi Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – President Vladimir Putin asked the Russian lawmakers today to adopt a law that would formally end the country’s participation in 21 treaties and charters related to the Council of Europe.
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What Can the United States Bring to the Peace Table for Ukraine?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – The US bears its share of responsibility for this crisis that is destroying Ukraine and placing the world in “unprecedented danger,” as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ new Doomsday Clock statement calls it. So what can the US bring to the table to help make peace, for Ukraine and the world? We offer some suggestions.
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Why US-China Trade Is on Track to Break Records despite All the Politics
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The real needs of global economics trump political scaremongering – for the time being.
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Faith
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
… is a choice.
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Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
Rainer Maria Rilke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
A Timeless Invitation to Listening for the Light
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Medvedchuk Publishes First Article in Russian Daily on Situation in Ukraine after Swap
TASS Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
16 Jan 2023 – Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk has written his first article after arriving in Russia from Ukraine as a result of a detainee exchange. He previously was a director of the opposition platform, For Life Party, now banned in Ukraine. According to him, in order to defuse the situation in Ukraine it is crucial to recognize Russia’s interests.
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Stop the Arms Supplies! It Destroys Ukraine!
Bjørn Eidsvig - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – This is terrible! We behave cruelly taking part in the destruction of Ukraine and its people. We destroy the world climate, create hatred between nations, and endanger existence of civilization just to keep control of some very reluctant provinces in Eastern Ukraine!
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‘Doomsday Clock’ Moves to 90 Seconds to Midnight as Nuclear Threat Rises
Katharine Jackson | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – Today the “Doomsday Clock,” created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moved its “time” to 90 seconds to midnight, 10 seconds closer than the past three years, to illustrate how threats of nuclear war, disease and climate volatility have been exacerbated, putting humanity at greater risk of annihilation.
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Fany Kuiru Elected as COICA’s First Woman Coordinator
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – It is the first time in the 38-year history of ‘COICA-Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin’ that a woman will preside over the NGO that represents more than 500 indigenous peoples from 9 Amazonian countries.
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Look at How the 1% Are Doing Right Now, and Tell Me the System Isn’t Rigged
Nesrine Malik | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
23 Jan 2023 – The world’s super-rich have amassed so much wealth since the pandemic that even a Tory minister can see something is amiss.
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Nonviolence as the Only Way
Maria Giovanna Farina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – Nonviolence seems distant and agonizing in a historical situation where only Pope Francis makes appeals for peace. Nonviolence seems to have become an empty word and this cannot, must not, be accepted. I must point out the “amnesia” of those who forget history and the wars that have bloodied it.
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Can You Smell What the Year of the Rabbit Is Cooking?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The New Silk Roads, or BRI, as well as the integration efforts of BRICS+, the SCO and the EAEU will be on the forefront of Chinese policy.
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Jeffrey Sachs Highlights from Athens Democracy Forum
Jeffrey Sachs | Bryan Van Norden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Some highlights from Jeffrey Sachs’s comments at the 2022 Athens Democracy Forum session on “A Decade of Democracy: China and Russia.” Prof. Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
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Just Thinking: The Meaning of Our Words
JoAnn McAllister, Ph.D. | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
We string words together and intend for others to ‘get it,’ but how they are understood is up to readers whether colleagues, collaborators, or antagonists. The challenges can arise even among collaborative groups. Some strategies to increase understanding are suggested here.
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Alberto Portugheis 80th Birthday Concert (Music Video of the Week)
Alberto Portugheis | Pyanek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Pianist, pedagogue, peace activist and TRANSCEND Member Alberto Portugheis celebrates his 80 years performing Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin at St John’s Church, London. His life is shared between music and his organization, HUFUD, whose mission is the Abolition of Militarism. Recorded on 11 Jun 2021.
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SOUTHCOM Chief Aims to Increase Imperialist Plunder of Latin America’s Resources
Luigi Morris | Left Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – U.S. Southern Command Chief Laura Richardson has expressed interest in lithium and other natural resources in South America. It shows the country’s commitment to corporate profits at the expense of workers, Indigenous people, and the environment.
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Tribunal in Washington Calls on President Biden to End Prosecution of Julian Assange and to Defend Rights of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Chris Garaffa | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – Nearly 13 years after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released the video Collateral Murder, over 150 people packed the same room in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.–just two blocks from the White House–for the Belmarsh Tribunal. Co-chaired by Amy Goodman and Srećko Horvat, it brought together whistleblowers, activists, lawyers in support of Assange.
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Ecological Footprint by Country 2023
World Population Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Ecological footprint is a metric computed by the Global Footprint Network and used to determine the impact humans are having on the environment in a given place or country. Ecological footprint measures the natural resources humans are consuming in the environment.
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Spot the Mistakes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Our Rainy Day Fun Game–Whoopsie!
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When Journalists Act as State Propagandists
Peter Oborne | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
18 Jan 2023 – In advance of the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, the UK media parroted government lies and became a part of the state’s propaganda machine. An inquiry into British reporting of the Iraq war is well past due.
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Remembering Dr. Glenn D. Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017)
Bill (Balwant) Bhaneja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Prof. Glenn Durland Paige was an innovative political scientist from the US founder of the Center for Global Nonkilling. His legacy of scholarship, leadership, creativity, and visionary thinking continues.
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Nobel Peace Nominations 2023 – Deadline 31 January
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Nobel Peace Prize Watch will encourage all with nomination rights to nominate a candidate within the original intention of Alfred Nobel for peace by global demilitarization and those who have worked to «reduce or abolish standing armies.»
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Conjoining the Incommensurables at the WEF Davos Forum of 2023
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Freudian Economics Underlying Stakeholder Capitalism
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Lifting the Curtain: Barbara Walters
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – This post is a departure from my usual focus on current political concerns. It attempts a mini-exploration of the public/private interface of a news and entertainment celebrity, especially known for her ability to go ‘persona,’ and even enter intimate terrain with some of the most famous political leaders of our time.
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Peace at Gregorian Christmas (Part 2): The Evolution of Christmas in the 21st Century
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
The beginnings of traditional Christmas as celebrated by the majority of Christians.
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USA 2023: 34 Mass Shootings in First Three Weeks (1.5 carnages/day)
Paul LeBlanc | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
23 Jan 2023 – At least 10 people are dead and 10 injured after a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, on Saturday 21 Jan night. BREAKING NEWS: Shooting Leaves at Least 12 Injured in Louisiana on Sunday 22 Jan 2023.
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(Italiano) Immanuel Wallerstein su sinistra e destra globali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Crisi, appunto. La via d’uscita è un discorso nuovo, meno materiale, più spirituale; qualcosa per cui vivere, non solo da. In questo momento Wallerstein vede il capitalismo in crisi senza rimedio–di cui non sono così sicuro–e anche l’egemonia americana in crisi senza rimedio–una visione che condivido–, come la caduta di un impero per il quale i locali le élite erano solite uccidere e governare; ora deve fare la maggior parte degli omicidi da solo.
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The Plague of Social Isolation
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a dangerous social isolation.
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The Secretive Legal Weapon That Fossil Fuel Interests Use against Climate-Conscious Countries
Lois Parshley | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – Investor-state dispute settlements increasingly allow oil and gas investors to sue countries over their climate policies.
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U.S. Mercenaries in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court
Peter Maass | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Amid accusations of fraud and sexual misconduct, the U.S. military vets founders of the high-profile Mozart Group are waging a personal war back home.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
May Others Learn to Avoid That Fate – If we survive the demise of the global US Empire and concomitantly of NATO, a new much more balanced, multipolar, cooperative and peaceful world becomes thinkable, desirable and possible.
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(Português) Merecemos ainda continuar sobre a Terra?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 jan 2023 – Sou um pessimista esperançado. Pessimista face à realidade perversa sob a qual vivemos e sofremos. Esperançado porque creio que o ser humano pode mudar a partir de uma nova consciência e no Criador que desta crise e eventualmente de uma ruína pode construir ou tipo de seres humanos, mais fraternos entre si e respeitosos da Casa Comum.
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Solving the Debt Crisis the North American Way
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today.
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Proxy War: US Announces Massive $2.5 Billion Weapons Package for Ukraine
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – The package will include more Bradley armored vehicles and for the first time, Stryker armored vehicles.
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Free Julian Assange: The Belmarsh Tribunal at the National Press Club Washington DC
Pressenza Int'l Press Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – Chaired by Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) and Srećko Horvat (philosopher co-founder of DiEM25), the Tribunal included testimony from Julian’s father John Shipton.
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Promoting Falsehoods and Marginalizing Truth-Tellers
Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – WaPo’s Revelations about Russiagate Reporting Failures Typify Legacy Media Failures
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
The world over, languages play a dominant role in the history, culture, education and academic work of nations. One can see several examples in everyday lives of people.
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023 – Who is in charge?
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Kids These Days
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Well you know kids these days they’re so entitled
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They’ll quit a job just because they don’t like it
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or because it doesn’t pay enough
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The WEF and WHO – Are They Running a Death Cult? A WHO/Pharma Controlled Worldwide Tyrannical “Health System”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023 – Let us never let an abject power-hungry non-elected criminal like Klaus Schwab, with his roots in the Third Reich, and his NGO, the World Economic Forum, dominate humanity. May sheer solidarity, togetherness of thought and will power, overcome the pathological objectives of the psychopaths’ wish for power and money dominance.
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US Installs New Nukes in Europe: As Destructive as 83 Hiroshima Bombs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – As if the 100 billion dollars that the United States has so far provided to Ukraine in both weapons and aid were not enough, the US has now started to install in Europe its brand new, more destructive nuclear warheads.
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(Italiano) In mezzo all’internet delle cose
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
18 Gennaio 2023 – Quali implicazioni nel vivere in ‘smart cities’, immersi nelle onde, in mezzo all’’internet delle cose’?
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Empire by Invitation
Samar Al-Bulushi | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – African leaders are asking for more U.S. counterterrorism support. They should be careful what they wish for.
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Why War?
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, 1932
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Harry the ‘Traitor’ and Lynch ‘the Grinch’: The Corporate Media’s Automatic Smear Machine
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – Whatever we think of the Harry and Meghan Markle saga, it matters when the son of the current king and brother of the future king writes in his new book, ‘Spare’: “Does the Crown generate tourism income that benefits all? Of course. Does it also rest upon lands obtained and secured when the system was unjust and wealth was generated by exploited workers and thuggery, annexation and enslaved people? Can anyone deny it?”
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Stop the Violence against the Peruvian People and the Journalists!
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
18 Jan 2023 – We, communicators and journalists (below), repudiate the brutal violence against the Peruvian people by the security forces and the disturbing attacks against journalists and photographers who seek to tell the truth about what is happening in the country.
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Imagining an Economy Where You Don’t Have to Buy Anything
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Dec 2022 – What if we didn’t have to spend money on the things we need, getting them instead from our neighbors? That’s what the Buy Nothing Project set out to create. With hundreds of groups around the world, the infrastructure of Buy Nothing could transform our economy.
→ read full articleAll Quiet (Panic) on the Western Front–The Davos Freak Show
Pepe Escobar | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – How to Monetize the Whole World – The mainstream media spinning non-stop for a week all the “news” to extol new declinations of The Great Reset, re-baptized The Great Narrative, framed as a benign offer by “stakeholder capitalism”.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Climate Change
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – The World Economic Forum has been discussing world problems for just about as long as ExxonMobil has been lying about climate change. Greenland just had its hottest decade in 1,000 years and that its massive ice sheet is rapidly melting, causing more sea level rise. Catastrophic climate disruption is here, and disruptors like Greta Thunberg are clearly not the ones who should be arrested.
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Moderna Wants to Quadruple the Price of Its Covid-19 Vaccine as Hundreds Die per Day
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
18 Jan 2023 – With the US federal government’s stock of vaccines for residents running out, Moderna now plans to raise the cost of its vaccine from $26 to up to $130 in a decision that understandably has North Americans pissed.
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Peru’s Natural Resources: CIA-linked US Ambassador Meets with Mining and Energy Ministers to Talk ‘Investments’
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Peru has large reserves of copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas. After a coup overthrew left-wing President Pedro Castillo on 7 Dec 2022, the US ambassador, CIA veteran Lisa Kenna, met with mining and energy ministers to discuss “investments”. Europe is importing Peruvian LNG to replace Russian energy.
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Want to Be a True Feminist Ally? Learn from These Men
Julie Bindel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
A new generation of pro-feminist men is defying stereotypes and combating sexist violence. This battle is not about hating men but about ensuring the rights of women, and I am seeing more men join the fight. That all men who identify as anti-sexist stand up and be counted.
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Davos: Gates, Schwab, Global Elites Face Growing Criticism of Their ‘Master the Future’ Agenda
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. - The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
18 Jan 2023 – Thousands of prominent political and business figures are congregating in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, as critics accused them of “centralizing power into the possession of hand-picked global elites.”
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Japan Reenlists as Washington’s Spear-Carrier
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – It is always the same when Japanese premiers travel to Washington to summit [submit?] at the White House. Nothing seems to happen and nobody pays much attention even when important things happen, when we should all pay attention.
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Conscious Peace: World Peace Depends upon Our Collective Consciousness
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Recent research has shown that the effects don’t stop with the individual. Large groups of people meditating together produce coherence and stability not just in themselves but also in the society around them.
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Time for Action is Now: What Will Happen after the ICJ Delegitimizes Israel’s Occupation of Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – The ICJ’s opinion is very important, but without meaningful action, a legal opinion alone will not reverse the sinister reality on the ground in Palestine, especially when this reality is bankrolled, supported and sustained by Washington and Israel’s other western allies.
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Macron Wants to Double French Military Spending
David William | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Armaments: France wants to increase military spending to 400 billion.
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‘Jaw-Dropping’ Evidence Syngenta Knew Its Paraquat Weedkiller Could Cause Parkinson’s
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – Internal documents show Swiss chemical giant Syngenta and Chevron USA for decades covered up research showing long-term exposure to the weedkiller Paraquat could cause Parkinson’s disease, investigative journalist Carey Gillam shows.
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Censorship
Cory Doctorow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Wall Graffiti Spray: “The problem with Censorship is” with a solid black square after, to represent a blacked out line and loss of information from censorship.
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Covid-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter to Censor Activists Pushing for Generic Vaccine
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
16 Jan 2023 – The social media pressure campaign was just a part of the pharmaceutical industry’s successful lobbying blitz to retain patents — and make obscene record profits.
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Teach your Children (Music Video of the Week)
Crosby, Stills and Nash - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
1970 Live – Legendary singer-songwriter David Crosby died on 18 Jan 2023. He was 81. RIP
Click on Watch on YouTube and Enjoy –> Inspiring Song
The Tragic Miracle of Consciousness: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning and Purpose of Hope
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
“Hope is a diagnostic human trait and this simple cortex symptom seems to be a prime factor in our inspection of our universe.”
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What Price “Defense”?
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – Going Down the Military Drain– US Costly, Dysfunctional Approach to Security Is Making Us Ever Less Safe
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New US Nuclear Weapons on European Soil: A Violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Tica Font | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – The US has begun to replace its nuclear weapons on European soil with more modern ones. It is replacing the B61-3, B61-4 and B61-7 thermonuclear bombs with the B61-12, which has become the main US and NATO air-launched nuclear weapon.
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Have We Reached ‘Peak Meat’? Why One Country Is Trying to Limit Its Number of Livestock
Senay Boztas | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
16 Jan 2023 – Dutch farms are feeling the squeeze from EU rules and need to make sweeping changes to the farm system – could a huge producer like the US follow suit?
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Israeli Settler Colonialism and Apartheid: Poised for Victory or Defeat?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
13 Jan 2023 – Anyone with but half eye open during the last several decades should by now be aware of the existence of an undisclosed Zionist Long Game that preceded the establishment of Israel in 1948, and remains currently very much alive. It aims at extending Israeli sovereignty over the whole of Occupied Palestine.
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The Reusable Shipping Bags That Could Solve Online Shopping’s Plastic Problem
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
1 Dec 2022 – Companies like RePack are beginning to offer an innovative new business model, leasing reusable bags to retailers that sell goods online. Using a service like RePack can save up to 80% of CO2 emissions from shipping and reduce packaging waste by 99%.
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Why Europe Won’t Decouple from the United States – unless Two Things Happen
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
6 Jan 2023 – This article was published yesterday, 5 Jan, by the very important Chinese “Global Times” under the headline, ‘Two Reasons That Europe Would Be Forced to Decouple from the US.’
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What the Rioters in Brazil Learned from North Americans
Anne Applebaum | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
9 Jan 2023 – Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters showed that antidemocratic revolutions can be contagious too.
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The Forgotten Journalists (Part 2): The Quartering of Jamal Khashoggi
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
The Silence of the Nations: The Quartering of Jamal Khashoggi on 2 Oct 2018–May His Soul Rests in Peace – The Middle Eastern Hit Squads are a Commonly Used Mechanism to Terminate Dissidents
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How Western Sanctions Blow Back, Hurting Europe, Deepening Asian Integration
Renate Bridenthal | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – Western sanctions led Russia to greatly increase trade with Asia, while devastating Europe’s economy. The US tech war against China is damaging its own industry.
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Grandson of Charles de Gaulle, an Old CIA Nemesis, Condemns West’s Policy in Ukraine
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – Pierre de Gaulle, grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle, has said the U.S. and NATO triggered the Ukraine conflict and are making Europeans suffer by fueling and waging a pre-planned economic war against Russia.
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Biden Tramples on Japan’s Post-WWII Pacifist Constitution by Pushing Country’s Rearmament
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
9 Jan 2023 – Main target is China in dangerously provocative policy that faces no visible domestic opposition in the U.S.
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How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution
Pedro Ross Leal | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
13 Jan 2023 – A Rare Look from Inside Cuba: In highlighting the little-known role of the Cuban working class during the Special Period, the author has produced a book essential to understanding the survival of revolutionary Cuba.
→ read full articleImmanuel Wallerstein on the Global Left and Right
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
Crisis, indeed. The way out is a new discourse, less material, more spiritual; something to live for, not only from. Right now Wallerstein sees capitalism in crisis with no remedy–of which I am not so sure–and the US hegemony also in a crisis with no remedy–a view I share–, as the fall of an empire for which local elites used to kill and rule; now having to do most killings itself.
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Biden’s War (Part 2)
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
14 Jan 2023 – We tend to view our political leaders as actors in an ideological drama: beautifully attired, faces polished by make-up to look real. But we forget that they are human. Is it not possible for grown men to talk to each other from their hearts?
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Top 20 Most Cringeworthy Zelensky PR Moments
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
14 Jan 2023 – One of the most cringeworthy and degrading aspects of the globe-spanning narrative control campaign surrounding the US empire’s proxy war in Ukraine has been the way the nation’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has been turned into an ever-present corporate mascot for the most aggressive ad campaign ever devised.
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Seeing Is Believing: What the Data Reveal about Deaths Following COVID Vaccine Rollouts around the World
Gavin de Becker | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
9 Jan 2023 – Why would so many countries big and small, rich and poor, in different parts of the world, some with congested cities, some sparsely populated, cold weather or hot weather, tropical or desert, high altitude or low altitude, small islands or landlocked — why would they all see increases in COVID-19 deaths after mass vaccination?
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‘The Government Killed Him’: A Tribute to Activist and Programmer Aaron Swartz 10 Years after His Death
Maximillian Alvarez | The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
13 Jan 2023 – As a computer programmer, Swartz changed the internet forever and fiercely fought against the privatization of knowledge. The federal government persecuted him for it until his death by suicide in 2013.
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After 50 Years of Failed Environmental Diplomacy, We Need to Ask the Obvious Question: “Who Owns the World?”
Ole von Uexkull | Right Livelihood – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
31 Dec 2022 – Half a century ago, 122 countries met in Stockholm for the first UN Conference on the Environment. Last June, the Swedish government hosted an anniversary summit with no political clout or ambition. This was emblematic of the failure of 50 years of environmental diplomacy due to the fact that our leaders have consistently avoided the central question – that of justice.
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African Solutions to African Problems: Let the African Union Resolve the GERD Dispute!
Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
9 Jan 2023 – Following the US-Africa Summit last month, the million dollar question is whether Ethiopia and the US have kissed and made up. Is the Biden administration a “friend” of Ethiopia?
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Genetic Engineering Gives Scientists ‘God-like Power’–but Is It Ethical?
Dan Falk | Undark - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023 – In his new book, “As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age,” Matthew Cobb, a biologist and historian at the University of Manchester, takes an in-depth look at the turbulent history of genetic engineering.
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How Safe Can We Really Be?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – What is freedom–the freedom to be armed and able to defend yourself? Does one man’s freedom force the rest of us to watch their country turn into a John Wayne movie?… And the strongman may kill his enemies, but he can’t kill the paradox.
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The Psychology of Veridos™ (Seekers of Truth and Justice)
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | CoronaWise - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
9 Jan 2023 – A Study of Moral Heroism of the 5% or less – A courageous vocal minority has arisen in the face of relentless opposition, demonization, censorship and punishment to challenge the official Covid narrative, to speak out and work for truth, justice, health and freedom.
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Venezuela: Guaidó Is Gone, but Media Dishonesty Is Here to Stay
Ricardo Vaz | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – The latest iteration of Washington’s regime-change efforts against the democratically elected Venezuelan government came to an end. On 30 Dec an opposition-controlled parliament voted to end the US-backed “interim government” headed by Juan Guaidó.
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MLK: Beyond Vietnam… to Ukraine
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
16 Apr 2023 – In April 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an eloquent and stirring denunciation of the Vietnam War and US militarism in his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, which is relevant to today’s war in Ukraine. Exactly one year after delivering the speech at Riverside Church, Luther King was assassinated.
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Why China’s Belt and Road Initiative-BRI Is Back with a Bang in 2023
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
6 Jan 2023 – As Beijing’s BRI enters its 10th year, a strong Sino-Russian geostrategic partnership has revitalized the BRI across the Global South.
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Net Zero Will Lead to the End of Modern Civilization, Says Top Scientist
Chris Morrison | Daily Sceptic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023 – A damning indictment of the Net Zero political project has been made by one of the world’s leading nuclear physicists. In a recently published science paper, Dr. Wallace Manheimer said it would be the end of modern civilisation.
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Hypocritical or Psychopathic?
Carlos Latuff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
… or Both?
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Bloom
Emily Dickinson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
Without flowers, there would be no us.
No poetry.
No science.
No music.
Yemen War Continues Beyond Media Spotlight
Felix Abt | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – The Washington Post even gives positive spin by suggesting that the war has improved gender equality in devastated country.
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Farruca: Flamenco Dance (Music Video of the Week)
Melina Najjar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
Dancer: Melina Najjar
Guitarist: Yazan Ibrahim