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T-shirts
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
These days, most young people wear interesting t-shirts that have sometimes photos of Spiderman or some other popular character that children like.
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Europe and the Legitimization of Deception
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
8 Jan 2023 – The U.S. has long practiced the diplomacy of no diplomacy. You can’t expect much from bimbos such as Antony Blinken or Wendy Sherman, his No. 2 at the State Department. All they can do is roar, even if they are mice next to any serious diplomat.
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Meditation: A Lifeline to Sanity in a World Gone Crazy
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
We need to stay grounded in ourselves so we can act effectively amid all the seismic shocks that keep rolling through us. Meditation helps us develop an inner unshakability, a great asset in times like these.
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World Peace and Conflict Resolution: Ukraine, Russia, and We the People
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
Voices of the Oppressed
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US Threatens African Countries, Demanding to End Relations with Russia
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – On 9 Jan, the Wall Street Journal reported that relations USA – South Africa are tense: Last month a South African naval base received a Russian cargo ship sanctioned by Washington, with no public information about the contents on the vessel.
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Itamar Ben Gvir Just Banned the Palestinian Flag
Mariam Barghouti | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
9 Jan 2023 – Today the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, banned the display of the Palestinian flag in all public spaces. This order is one in a recent string of escalating attacks on Palestinians by the newly formed ultra-rightwing Israeli government.
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Glenn Greenwald: US Government Doesn’t Care about Spreading Democracy
Tucker Carlson interviews Glenn Greenwald | FOX News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
9 Dec 2022 – The USA is spreading democracy on the other side of the world by sending billions of taxpayers’ dollars in weapons to Ukraine, whose war is being orchestrated and fueled by US and NATO. If you want to believe the fairy tale that the US government goes to war to spread democracy, then Ukraine is not the place for you.
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Beyond Geopolitics: Re-Examining Russia’s BRICS Relationship
Lucas Dias Rodrigues dos Santos | E-IR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
20 Dec 2022 – The BRICS have come a long way (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). Despite the differences, they have deepened their relationship with regular meetings (from leaders’ summits to scientific cooperation), and jointly-run institutions (New Development Bank-NDB). Argentina and Iran have applied to join.
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At School
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
Teacher: “What a pair of strange socks you are wearing, one is green the other is blue with red spots!”
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Consciousness: Viññana Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
“Monks, eye-consciousness is inconstant, changeable, alterable. Ear-consciousness… Nose-consciousness… Tongue-consciousness… Body-consciousness… Intellect-consciousness is inconstant, changeable, alterable.”
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Russia-Ukraine War: How the US Paved the Way to Moscow’s Invasion
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023 – Nearly a year after Russia’s invasion, the western narrative of an ‘unprovoked’ attack has become impossible to sustain.
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Hope . . . An Implacable Cosmos-Endowed Vitalism
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
A 2023 national Gallup Poll in the USA revealed that North Americans are very pessimistic regarding 2023. Across all demographic markers, a majority “predict negative conditions in 12 of 13 economic, political, societal and international arenas.” ‘Hope’ appears to be absent or insufficient for mediating or mollifying pessimism.
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Brazil’s Lula: “Join Us in a Great Collective Effort against Inequality”
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
6 Jan 2023 – In a landmark inauguration speech, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva lays out his agenda for a more just Brazil and a new internationalism.
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With Echoes of Jan. 6, Thousands of Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Presidential Offices
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
9 Jan 2023 – “The insurrection in Brazil can be directly tied to Trump and the Republicans’ emboldening of fascism and violent extremism,” said one progressive U.S. lawmaker. Lula was in São Paulo at the time of the attack and Congress was not in session.
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George Harrison’s Search for a Higher Truth
George Harrison | T&H Inspiration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
An eye-opening and moving talk from Beatle George Harrison (1943-2001) on truth, life, change and consciousness. Let’s remember the messages he had to share with the world: “It’s all in the mind.”
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The UN General Assembly Drags Israel to the World Court
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
4 Jan 2023 – The UNGA voted last week to refer Israel to the ICC (World Court) for its ongoing violation of the right of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. Before we analyse the significance of the vote, let us probe the actual voting pattern.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Fredspioneren Johan Galtung 92 år!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Redaktør – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
‘Fader of Peace Studies’ feirer sin 92-årsdag. Som 24-åring ble han fengslet i 6 måneder som militærnekter i Norge. I fengsel skrev han, sammen med Arne Næss, sin første bok: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. I dag har han bidratt med mer enn 170 bøker; over 1500 artikler, artikler og bokkapitler; og over 500 redaksjoner for TRANSCEND Media Service om freds- og konfliktstudier, mekling og relaterte spørsmål. GRATULERER med dagen, JOHAN!
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Can NATO and the Pentagon Find a Diplomatic Off-Ramp from the Ukraine War?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
3 Jan 2023 – The precarious fine line the US and NATO are walking in Ukraine, caught between their commitment to an open-ended, ever-escalating war and the existential danger of nuclear war. The dichotomy between the sober assessments of senior military officials and the policy choices of their political bosses.
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Harvard University Succumbs
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
7 Jan 2023 – Harvard University Withdraws a Fellowship from Kenneth Roth & Human Rights Watch
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Looking Forward to 2023
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
1 Jan 2023 – Before looking forward to 2023, let’s look back at 2022 from the perspective of the culture of peace.
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‘Hallelujah Chorus’ from Handel’s Messiah (Music Video of the Week)
Royal Choral Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
The Royal Choral Society has performed Handel’s Messiah on Good Friday at the Royal Albert Hall every year since 1876. This clip features the glorious Hallelujah Chorus with the choir. Students from the City of London School for Girls joined the choir for this performance.
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Trying to Predict the Future
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
3 Jan 2023 – I announce the publication of a new eBook entitled “Trying to Predict the Future”. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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If You Wouldn’t Ask Hannibal Lecter to Stop Mass Atrocities, Don’t Ask “The International Community”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
4 Jan 2023 – The hope that the U.S. will intervene anywhere in the world for humanitarian reasons is misguided in the extreme. Claims of concern are always a ruse hiding ulterior motives. Imperialist actions are antithetical to human needs.
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The Old Use the Young to Wage War: “Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?”
Vern Loomis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” Oscar Wilde’s wry observation highlights an obvious truth: age alone does not confer wisdom or any other desirable trait. The powerful and elderly decision-makers of the world demonstrate the disconnect between age and wisdom with every war.
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Spiritual Evolution
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
Indeed
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The Sino-Russian Summit You Didn’t Read About
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
4 Jan 2023 – The New York Times coverage of the recent summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping misses some of its most important details.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
Most countries have many festivals–some peculiar to the country others related to prominent religions. We celebrated the Sikh festival Gurupurab recently on November 8.
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Brazil Has a New President, and a Renewed Chance to Save the Amazon
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
5 Jan 2023 – The victory in Brazil’s presidential race by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may be one of the most momentous events in modern world history. Lula returned for a third term and has pledged to protect the Amazon and the indigenous communities that have long stewarded the forest.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
2 Jan 2023 – Are You Kidding?
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U.S. Spreads Misery across the Globe Imposing Sanctions on a Third of Humanity
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a ‘response to foreign tyranny,’ but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations–a true fascist tyranny.
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(Français) Dans l’Attente de 2023
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
1er janvier 2023 – Avant d’envisager 2023, regardons 2022 du point de vue de la culture de la paix.
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Peace Disruption: Incursion, Insurrection, Intifada
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
“The 131/2-minute incursion that will change the Middle East forever.”
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Biden’s War (Part 1)
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
Biden doesn’t want to end the war and we are supporting him. When Zelenski spoke before Congress in his green sweatshirt, he received a standing ovation three times. We are risking nuclear war while thousands of Ukrainians and Russians are dying! For what? How long is this infamy going to go on?
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US, Israel Vote No as UN Approves World Court Resolution on Illegal Occupation
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
2 Jan 2023 – The UNGA on 30 Dec 2022 approved a resolution that asks the ICJ to issue an opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. It passed with 87 in favor, 26 opposed and 53 abstaining. Among those opposed were USA, Israel, UK and Germany.
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Allen Ginsberg’s Self-Recording Sessions
Kathryn Winner | The New Yorker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
6 Jan 2023 – In the late sixties, Ginsberg began taping many of his public appearances, as well as his casual and private conversations. He used the recordings to compose his greatest work.
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Brazil Protests: Lula Vows to Punish ‘Neo-Fascists’ after Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Congress
Tom Phillips and Andrew Downie | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
9 Jan 2023 – President tours scene of riot and orders federal government to take control of policing in capital Brasília as extremists refuse to accept his presidency.
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Russia Offering ‘Korea-style‘ Peace Deal – Kiev
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
8 Jan 2023 – Moscow wants to formalize the status quo on the ground, Ukraine’s top security official said.
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In a Violent Economy, People of Faith Try Cooperatives
Renée Darline Roden | Sojourners - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
3 Jan 2023 – Cooperatives are businesses democratically run by the owners–one person, one vote: no majority owners, no outside shareholders, no hostile takeovers. Many people are turning to cooperatives as an alternative to the dehumanizing economics of capitalism.
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Brazil’s Ex-President Bolsonaro Fled to Florida
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
3 Jan 2023 – Lula da Silva returned as Brazil’s president, calling for fighting poverty and hunger, re-industrializing, strengthening the BRICS, and deepening Latin American integration. Far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro fled to Florida, fearing legal consequences for his corruption.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
After his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert. The threat brought back memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis. We are once again reminded of the urgent need for the world to rid itself of nuclear weapons.
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The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
But after repeating her experiment for five years and obtaining the same result over and over, Jeanne Villepreux-Power demonstrated that the octopus is indeed this planet’s patron saint of the possible.
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Guiding Hands…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
Tragicomedy?
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Anecdotals (COVID Vaccination)
Anecdotals | Sharp Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
11 Dec 2022 – While the ‘COVID Vaccine’ debate grows more divided, those with adverse reactions get stuck in the middle: a compassionate exploration of the nuanced vaccine debate.
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Memorable Packing of Global Strategies in a Polyhedral Rosetta Stone
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
1 Jan 2023 – Correspondence of Cognitive Internalization with Collective Strategic Articulation – In a period of multiple global crises there is an extraordinary disconnect between strategic articulations and the remarkable media preoccupation with competitive ball games.
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Ransacking the World Economy until ‘You’ll Own Nothing’ (Part 1): 5,000 Years Setting the Stage
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Dec 2022 – According to the World Economic Forum, by 2030 ‘You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.’ If this prediction is to come true many things must happen. Let me identify why the WEF believes it will happen and then investigate these claims.
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Ransacking the World Economy until ‘You’ll Own Nothing’ (Part 2): The Coup de Grâce–>The Great Reset
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Dec 2022 – Building on millennia of learning how to structure and manage an economy to accumulate and consolidate control and wealth in particular hands (Part 1), the Global Elite launched its final coup in January 2020 under cover of the fake Covid-19 ‘pandemic’.
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US Senate Passes Massive $858 Billion for Pentagon’s Wars
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
15 Dec 2022 – The record breaking spending bill now heads to President Biden’s desk.
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Washington Is Waking Up on Weapons for Taiwan
Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery and Bradley Bowman | C4ISRNET – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
19 Dec 2022 – The legislation includes guidance to the U.S. Defense and State Departments to prioritize the delivery of arms to Taiwan. The aim is to deter China by building U.S.-Taiwan interoperability.
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Toward Justice for Kashmir
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
18 Dec 2022 – Among the self-determination struggles of our time, Kashmir is at risk of being forgotten by most of the world (except for Pakistan), while its people continue to endure the harsh crimes of India’s intensifying military occupation that has already lasted 75 years.
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The Peace at Saturnalia (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
A Bioscopic Foundation of Festivities, Religion, Syncretism, Shamanism, Immorality, Materialism, Gifting and Humanity
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Covid Vaccines Profits: A Reality Check
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
December 2022 – Cutting through the COVID Vaccine Hysteria
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Militarism of the United States
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
The U.S. Government Aims at Global Hegemony through Military Force – The military-industrial complex, against which President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned, has bipartisan support in the United States Congress and Senate. The amount of money involved is enormous.
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(Português) Pelé Morreu (23 out 1940 – 29 dez 2022)
A Bola - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – O futebol está de luto: morreu hoje Edson Arantes Nascimento, o Rei Pelé, aos 82 anos. Pelé, uma lenda que por muitos é considerado o melhor jogador de todos os tempos, é o único na história do futebol que conseguiu ser três vezes campeão do mundo: 1958, 1962 e 1970. Foi Ministro do Desporto do Brasil entre 1995 e 1998. RIP
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State Department Approves $180 Million Arms Sale for Taiwan
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – The Deal Is for Volcano Anti-Tank Mine-Laying Systems – China is opposed to any new US arms sales to Taiwan and much more strongly opposed to the new military aid.
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Pelé (23 Oct 1940 – 29 Dec 2022), Brazil’s Mighty King of ‘Beautiful Game,’ Has Died
Tales Azzoni and Mauricio Savarese | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died today. He was 82. The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. RIP
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NATO’s Peace Delivery–For Whom the Bell Tolls
John Donne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
“Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
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Barbara Walters (25 Sep 1929 – 30 Dec 2022), TV’s Tireless Pursuer of the Newsmaker ‘Get,’ Dies at 93
Laurence I. Barrett | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
30 Dec 2022 – Wielding a bemused and intimate style, she became one of television’s premier interrogators of the newsworthy.
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‘Nearly Every War Has Been the Result of Media Lies’: Julian Assange, State-Corporate Media and Ukraine
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
14 Dec 2022 – Julian Assange once observed that, ‘Nearly every war has been the result of media lies.’ For daring to publish evidence of US war crimes, Assange now sits in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London, at risk of being extradited to the US within the next few weeks. The prospects for a fair trial range from miniscule to zero.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
The world has always faced wars, killings, cruelty and injustice, but the Twentieth Century has displayed new forms of wars, murders and displacement.
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Despite US Opposition, UN Passes Resolution Condemning Death Penalty
Julia Conley | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
16 Dec 2022 – Biden’s stated opposition to the death penalty did not stop the US from joining Saudi Arabia, Iran and North Korea today in voting against a UN resolution supporting a worldwide moratorium on the practice.
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BlackRock Logo to Be Added to Ukrainian Flag
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag—BlackRock, world’s largest investment management firm–which will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. BlackRock will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and McDonald’s upon the blue and yellow flag.
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The Meat Industry Has Created a False Dichotomy That Pits People against Animals
Vicky Bond | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
16 Dec 2022 – Factory farms are harmful to animals, the environment, local communities, and public health. We need a more logical and just food system that puts pigs and people back where they belong—on the same side.
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If the US Told Rwanda and Uganda to Get Out of Congo, the War Would End
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
14 Dec 2022 – Rwanda and Uganda continue their plunder and destabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as proxies of the United States.
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Looking Back on 2022: Ukraine and the Rest of the Story
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
26 Dec 2022 – As 2022 draws to a close, the world bears the tragic burden of the war in Ukraine and there is nothing to indicate that it will end any time soon. Thousands have perished. A huge number of people have been injured and maimed. Both Russian and Ukrainian prisoners have been subjected to torture.
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Russia Dropping US Dollar for Chinese Yuan – And Fast
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
26 Dec 2022 – In response to Western sanctions, Russia’s central bank is dropping the US dollar for Chinese yuan. The yuan’s share of Moscow’s currency trading increased from 1% to 40-45% in 2022, while dollar trade halved from 80% to 40%.
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Pandemics and Propaganda
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
December 2022 – How SPR covered the pandemic and defused the propaganda.
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) endures as one of humanity’s most lucid and luminous minds — an oracle of timeless wisdom on everything.
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Music Video of the Week)
Tears For Fears – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
This is one of those songs that you have heard all your life until one day you wake up and REALLY HEAR IT. Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy the experience. Lyrics provided.
→ read full articleReimagining Global Peace and One Humanity beyond the Lens of Human Consciousness
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Towards Critical Thinking of Time for Change, Peace and Future-Making
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On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.
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They Write Themselves (Part 1)
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
No Kidding…
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ICC Wanted to Investigate Israeli War Crimes–Now It’s Caving to US Pressure
Marjorie Cohn | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
17 Dec 2022 – Two years after launching an investigation of war crimes in Palestine, the International Criminal Court is still dragging its feet.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Although “peace” and “security” were ideals that led to the founding of the United Nations, “development” was not. However, conceived as the solution, not as the problem, “development” named an ideal that could keep the UN united. It solved the problem of keeping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on board.
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Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Spirits Rebellious
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Gibran’s bitter denunciation of both religious and political injustice brought his anticipated exile from Lebanon. He was also excommunicated from the Church in a country where much civil identity and justice was based on religious membership — not to mention the popular idea that God did not allow excommunicated souls into his Heaven.
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(Italiano) Caduta fatalistica dell’eroe occidentale e coscienza storica delle religioni
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Quale è la risposta delle religioni davanti al mondo dei nostri tempi che, oltre ad essersi secolarizzato sembra aver dimostrato la inutilità del Messia, perché l’avrebbe superato di gran lunga nella vita pratica?
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Looking Back…
Marcandangel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Happy New Year!
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(Português) Brasil: Da calamidade das calaminades de Bolsonaro à esperança esperante de Lula
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dez 2022 – Durante os quatro anos da administração do presidente Bolsonaro, o país viveu afetado por todas as pragas do Egito. Das muitas opções possíveis para algum problema, o presidente geralmente escolhia a pior. Psicótico, era apático face às desgraças infligidas ao´povo, particularmente aos mais vulneráveis.
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners Have Deep CIA Ties
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
21 Dec 2022 – Far-fetched as it sounds, this year’s winners are all connected to a CIA offshoot, the National Endowment for Democracy and parroted CIA/State Department/Pentagon talking points about Ukraine and Russia in their acceptance speeches.
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The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love–>Thich Nhat Hanh
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
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Former Pope Benedict XVI (16 Apr 1927 – 31 Dec 2022) Passes Away
Vatican News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
31 Dec 2022 – Following the announcement of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI today at the age of 95, we look back at his long life and its main highlights with the following official biography.
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US Trial of Venezuela’s Alex Saab Exposes Diplomatic Espionage
Anya Parampil | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
12 Dec 2022 – Reporting from inside the federal courtroom where the US is prosecuting Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, we learn of disturbing acts of diplomatic espionage. Saab’s advocates insist he is imprisoned for violating Washington’s economic blockade.
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Electoral Conflicts and Political Polarization: What Can Mediators Do?
Kenneth Cloke | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Mar 2022 Issue – Biden and Harris won the U.S. election, but what exactly did they win? What was lost in the process? What is lost and won in electoral conflicts around the world? The U.S. experience offers some lessons for those who seek to reduce the destructive impact of electoral conflicts.
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The U.S. Military Is Poisoning Okinawa
Pat Elder | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
28 Dec 2022 – Blood testing confirms high levels of carcinogen PFAS in the blood of hundreds living close to U.S. bases in Ginowan, Okinawa (10 Jul 2022). Japanese demand answers while Americans deny responsibility. (Toshio Takahashi).
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Merkel’s Candid Revelation of Minsk’s Role in the War in Ukraine
Amit Sengupta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
14 Dec 2022 – MUST WATCH – Listen to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s honesty about the Minsk Peace Accords to a German weekly on 7 Dec 2022. Slip of tongue? Be the judge.
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Migrants? ‘Don’t You Dare Come Here, Unless…’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
19 Dec 2022 – When tens of thousands of Europeans had to flee the horrors of two born-in-Europe devastating armed conflicts–World Wars I and II–they migrated to the Americas and other Western countries in search of safe haven.They were checked at the border and admitted to enter as useful workforce. Seldom, if ever, anybody classified them as “illegal” migrants.
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Iran, Past and Present
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
20 Dec 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new eBook entitled “Iran, Past and Present”. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge. Below is some discussion of its contents.
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The Democrats Are Now the War Party
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
25 Dec 2022 – The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war.
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The Ukraine Crisis Is a Classic “Security Dilemma”
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
27 Dec 2022 – A more objective way of looking at the conflict and its underlying causes that may suggest a path to a mutually-acceptable diplomatic solution. Today, both Russia and Ukraine issued calls for ending the war in Ukraine, but only on non-negotiable terms that they each know the other side will reject.
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The 60-Year U.S. Blockade on Cuba Is an Abomination just as Guantanamo—with No End in Sight
David Starr | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
14 Dec 2022 – “El Bloqueo” (The Blockade) is what Cubans call it. It is a 60-year-old abomination. It is the U.S. embargo against Cuba imposed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962.
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Nonviolent Theory on Communication: The Implications for Theorizing a Nonviolent Rhetoric
Ellen W. Gorsevski | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2022
The interrelationship between nonviolence and rhetoric is examined. While we have studied the world of adversarial relationships, conflict, and difference of belief, rhetorical critics have not done as much to understand the practices of seeking mutual identification, cooperation, and learning how to live with diversity and adversity. Nonviolent theory shows rhetoricians that language and culture—our ways of creating and perpetuating our reality—can impose minimal aggression while maximizing the potential for peacemaking.
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COVID Notice Update
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
19 Dec 2022 – Dear Readers, Friends, Supporters, as you may know, I have contracted COVID, still bedridden. This week I did my best but it wasn’t nearly enough. The materials submitted by writers are being published to the best of my abilities.
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Corruption (I): The Most Perpetrated–and Least Prosecuted–Crime
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
6 Dec 2022 – Transparency International’s report, Exporting Corruption 2022, rates the performance of 47 leading global exporters, including 43 countries that are signatories to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Anti-Bribery Convention, in cracking down on foreign bribery by companies from their countries.
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Corruption (II): Europe Doing Nothing
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – Western Europe and the European Union remain the highest scoring regions in the world’s corruption index; progress has halted and worrying signs of backsliding have emerged: Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Indict Me Too
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – Daniel Ellsberg has called on the U.S. to indict him for having the same unauthorized possession of classified material as Julian Assange. Ellsberg follows the Cryptome.org founder who has also invited prosecution.
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Judicial Coup in Argentina: Corrupt Judges Conspire with Media Oligarchs to Ban Cristina Kirchner from Office
Ben Norton | Multipolarista - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
9 Dec 2022 – Leaked messages show Argentina’s corrupt judges and prosecutors conspired with right-wing media oligarchs to launch a judicial coup against left-wing ex President and current VP Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sentencing her to six years in prison and banning her from running in the 2023 elections.
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The Poetic Science of the Aurora Borealis
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
“And now commenced a display which baffles all description.”
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
New Worlds…?
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How British Colonialism Killed 100 Million Indians in 40 Years
Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.
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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates Is Promoting ‘Surveillance Agriculture’
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
5 Dec 2022 – Vandana Shiva and Russell Brand discussed the history of agriculture, the role of Big Food in the current global cost-of-living crisis and how Gates is promoting “basically a surveillance agriculture.”
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My Sweet Lord (Music Video of the Week)
Billy Preston | George Harrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
This show was a tribute to George Harrison two years after his death. On guitar Eric Clapton, on the other guitar Harrison’s son, on piano Paul McCartney, 1st drummer Ringo Star, on second Phil Collins, on guitar Tom Petty, on organ and vocals Billy Preston.
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