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The Timing of the Pipeline Attack
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – The U.S. had already forced Germany to shut down Nord Stream 2 but there are signs that an end to the Ukraine war would have put it back online. Why then did someone attack the pipeline on Monday [26 Sep], releasing the gas it contained into the Baltic Sea?
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John Pilger’s 2014 Warning about Ukraine
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
24 Sep 2022 – In an article on May 13, 2014 in The Guardian, republished here, John Pilger warned the “U.S. is threatening to take the world to war” over Ukraine, words that have taken on new meaning.
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The Israel Files: WikiLeaks Docs Show Top Hollywood Producers Working with Israel to Defend Its War Crimes
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
23 Sep 2022 – Exploring and highlighting the many revelations about the Israeli occupation of Palestine that WikiLeaks documents disclosed in hopes of shedding light on many of the most important and underreported revelations the publishing group exposed.
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Reaping the Whirlwind
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
22 Sep 2022 – “A permanent member of the UNSC invaded its neighbor, attempted to erase a sovereign state from the map,” Biden said. “Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the UN Charter.” History, however, is a harsh mistress, where facts become inconvenient to perception; through the prism of historical fact, the narrative being promulgated by Biden becomes flipped.
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Myanmar Spiraling ‘from Bad to Worse, to Horrific’, Human Rights Council Hears
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – Since the Myanmar military launched its “disastrous” coup last year, UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said today that conditions have worsened, “by any measure”.
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The Historic Collapse of Journalism
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters.
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IMF Tells Bolivia to Drop Its Successful Economic Model
Kawsachun News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
16 Sep 2022 – The IMF released a report today on the Bolivian economy in which it recommends adopting drastic neoliberal measures, including; reducing workers’ salaries, cutting public investments, and ending currency controls. These policies have turned Bolivia from one of the poorest countries in the region into it’s fastest-growing economy.
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Queen Elizabeth II Has Died
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. She died peacefully on Thursday [8 Sep] afternoon at her Scottish estate. The Queen came to the throne in 1952. RIP
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A Warning from Chomsky and Ellsberg
Paul Jay | theAnalysis-news – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In their 90s, the two men tirelessly fight to warn people of the need for urgent action to deal with climate change and the threat of nuclear war. Joining Paul Jay, they discuss the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the war in Ukraine, and the climate crisis.
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Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – Bill Arkin and his employers at Newsweek seem to be content with serving as the Defense Intelligence Agency’s stenographers, putting out stories which have not, and will not, stand the test of time. Arkin is a prisoner of his sources, a problem that pervades Western reporting on the conflict in Ukraine.
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UN Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Declared a Failure
Thalif Deen | IDN-InDepthNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – A Four-Week Festival of Double Standards, Hypocrisy and Lying by Nuclear States – The 10th NPT Review Conference didn’t fail because it couldn’t produce a final document but because the nuclear-armed states haven’t made good on their nuclear disarmament. “This result is terminally unserious, and a total abdication of responsibility in the face of an unacceptably dangerous global situation.” — ICAN Director Beatrice Fihn
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Last Soviet Leader, Dead at 91
Matt Murphy and Robert Greenall | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, died yesterday aged 91. RIP
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U.S. Military Space Report
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction
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The Instinctive Distrust of Big Media
Nat Parry | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – US citizens’ trust in the media has reached all time lows, with just 11 percent expressing confidence in television news and 16 percent expressing confidence in newspapers. These are the startling findings of Gallup’s latest survey of US attitudes about the media.
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Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Possible Israeli War of Aggression against Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
26 Aug 2022 – While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. The deadly Israeli wars on Gaza are made possible, not only by western weapons and political support, but through an endless stream of media misinformation and misrepresentation.
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New Polls Show almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore
Lee Camp | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Putting the CIA in every newsroom was a clandestine project called Operation Mockingbird, and it paid mighty dividends.
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Ukraine ‘Testing Ground’ Shaping US Network, Electronic Warfare Effort
Colin Demarest | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
17 Aug 2022 – Fierce battles being waged in Ukraine are showcasing cyber and electronic warfare and their consequences for connectivity and communications, according to the deputy commanding general at U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
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Why the U.S. Is the Main Obstacle to Nuclear Disarmament
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – The Pentagon has made no secret of its goal of military “full spectrum dominance,” with the added delusional claim that the U.S. is “exceptional” and justified in establishing and maintaining an American empire. What’s wrong with this picture?
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Completing Rotation in Less Than 24-Hours, Earth Creates Record for Shortest Day
The Universal News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – On July 29, the Earth broke its record for the shortest day as it completed a full spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than its standard 24-hour rotation. The planet recently has been increasing its speed. Back in 2020, the Earth saw its shortest month that has ever been recorded since the 1960s.
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Hiroshima at 77: Another Hiroshima Is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target: China.
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Business as Usual for the Death Industry
Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Thought-Provoking Commentary & Opinions
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Behind the Drought and Food Deficits in Africa
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
19 Jul 2022 – The world is facing a combination of imperialist interventions, climate change and the burgeoning economic crisis of world capitalism.
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Angola Mourns Ex-President Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Africanews | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – Angolans eulogized former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos who died yesterday in Spain. He was 79 and ruled Angola for 38 years. Born 28 Aug. 1942 to immigrant parents from the archipelago of São Tome, dos Santos was raised in the poor Luanda neighborhood of Sambizanga. His father was a builder, his mother a maid.
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The Financial Bubble Era Comes Full Circle
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – An Unstable Encounter with a $50 Billion Stablecoin
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Quotes on War and Peace, the UN, and the Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – You can smell it. US Empire doubling down on war preparations. Ukraine is now armed with over US$ 40 billion in order for Ukrainians to die to the last man to weaken Russia. North Americans promise military support to Taiwan so they, too, can die for Empire… to weaken China.
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US Supreme Court Ruling on Environmental Protection ‘a Setback in Our Fight against Climate Change’
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
30 Jun 2022 – The ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court against the Environmental Protection Agency today is “a setback in our fight against climate change,” said the UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric.
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Assange Put on Suicide Watch after Patel Decision, Father Says
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – John Shipton said Julian Assange was stripped naked and put in an empty cell to prevent him from killing himself over the home secretary’s decision to sign his extradition order.
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The Paradoxical Seeds of the Holocaust: Oppression and Death Live on in the Apartheid State
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – It is becoming increasingly difficult for Israel and the agencies that promote Zionism around the world to portray Zionism in rosy colors.
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Multiple Articles on U.S. Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction – Military Space Report
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UK’s Bid to Export Some Refugees to Rwanda, ‘All Wrong’, Says UN Refugee Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, today dismissed the British government’s proposal to process United Kingdom-bound asylum seekers in Rwanda, describing the offshore deal between the two countries announced in April, as “all wrong”.
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Doctor’s Orders: ‘Do Not Extradite Assange’
Doctors for Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Ahead of the U.K. Home Secretary’s decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, a group of more than 300 doctors representing 35 countries have told Priti Patel that approving his extradition would be “medically and ethically unacceptable”.
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African Union Leaders Meet with Russian Government amid Escalating Food Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – The Russian special military operations in neighboring Ukraine have brought to the surface a number of persistent economic problems which have plagued the world since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged during the early months of 2020.
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Multiple Articles on U.S. Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations in Space
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction – Military Space Report
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Chad Declares Food Emergency While International Agencies Sound the Alarm
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – There have been 20 hunger hotspots listed by UN humanitarian organizations while underlying problems remain unaddressed. Two of the major UN agencies are warning of the potential for widespread hunger and famine in several geopolitical regions of the world.
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Italy Drops Last COVID Entry Rules, Ditches Testing and Vaccination Restrictions
Nichola Daunton | Euronews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – Italy will abolish all entry rules for international travellers from June 1. At present, unvaccinated tourists need to take a test before visiting the country – but this rule expires on May 31. Italy’s Health Ministry have indicated that it “will not be extended,” marking the end of all entry restrictions on travellers.
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Phase Three in Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – No amount of western military aid has been able to prevent Russia from achieving its military objective of liberating the entire territories of both Lugansk and Donetsk as Phase Three begins.
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The New Iron Curtain
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe’s crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment.
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When Is a TV News Interview Not Just an Interview?
Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
When TV News Won’t Identify Defense Lobbyists – As war rages, viewers watch commercials for weapons dealers, often without knowing it.
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PayPal Cancels Consortium News Account–May Seize Balance
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
1 May 2022 – PayPal has canceled CN’s account without any prior notice or due process and with virtually no explanation. The online payment system gave no warning or reason and indicated that only if “applicable” will the balance be returned.
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Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Elites’ War to Rule the World
Fritz Pointer | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
4 May 2022 – We can date the beginning of the war in Ukraine to October 2002, when the Project for the New American Century was published for the Pentagon and clearly and unambiguously stated U.S. foreign policy for the 21st century: “Full Spectrum Dominance.” That is, to dominate militarily the nations, peoples and resources of the entire world. Not “Full Spectrum” or Global Peace, Diplomacy or Cooperation, but Domination.
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PayPal’s IndyMedia Wipeout
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
3 May 2022 – A series of moves against media outlets by PayPal shows the next step in speech control: confiscation. Why won’t the company answer questions?
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An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Old Propaganda, New Cold War
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Nicaragua Expels the Organization of American States (OAS)
Kawsachun News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – “We will not have a presence in any of the instances of that diabolical instrument of the misnamed OAS. Its local branch has been closed” reads the communique released by the Foreign Ministry yesterday.
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‘Crushing Dissent’ with George Galloway, Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter and Jill Stein
Joe Lauria and Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News Live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Join us as we examine the information warfare being waged to enforce a single narrative about the war in Ukraine. It may be worse than McCarthyism, which was defeated by its own excesses. Our guests have been targets of censorship and smears in this coordinated assault on freedom of expression.
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Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Propaganda for a bigger and longer Ukraine war is flooding the media on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal in attempts to manipulate public opinion.
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Imran Khan Ousted as Pakistan’s PM after Vote
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ousted from power after losing a no-confidence vote in his leadership. The vote was held past midnight after opposition parties brought a motion against him, following days of drama.
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Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most North Americans.
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Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This Ukrainian War
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue.
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Really??
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
No Shame…
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Siddhartha Gautama–the Buddha’s Birthday: 8 April (563 – 483 BC)
Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
8 Apr – Today is the anniversary of the Buddha’s birth—born Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, the fourth largest religion in the world.
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Russians Resist War
Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – Over 15,000 Arrested for Anti-War Protests – Russian citizens continue to protest against the invasion of Ukraine despite harsh repression by the Russian authorities.
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Despite Government Crackdown, Russians Continue to Protest the War
Culture of Peace News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
6 Mar 2022 – CPNN has published several articles recently about Russian opposition to the war, including open letters from scientists, from cultural figures, and from the “Congress of Intelligentsia.” Opposition continues to grow despite draconian, even ridiculous, measures by the Russian government to stifle protest.
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Ukraine: How Close Was the Nuclear Plant Attack to Catastrophe?
Esme Stallard and Victoria Gill | BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – Buildings at the Zaporizhzhia plant–the largest in Europe–were damaged after it was hit by shelling. UN’s nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency says that none of the safety systems at the plant were affected, and there was no release of radioactive material.
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The Curse of NATO
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The war over Ukraine is an example of the curse of NATO. Russia reacted to the possibility of Ukraine being in NATO. This is not irrational in that US/NATO has over 750 military bases around the world, and many of these bases appear to be there to militarily encircle Russia (and China).
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‘Politics as Usual’ Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat (or to Nuclear War)
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Richard Falk | DWF News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity’s greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. (Commentary added by Roger Kotila)
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Multiple Articles on Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News | Military Space Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Thought-provoking News on War and Destruction
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Activism Uncensored: The Freedom Convoy
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – As Canada Clamps Down on Trucker Protest, American Copycat Event Fails to Materialize So Far – A Balanced Look at the Canadian Protests
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NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia over Ukraine
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describing Putin as Hitler incarnate.
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The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized “Fact-Checking”
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker’s British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact.
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What Went Right This Week: Iceland to Ban Whaling, Plus More Positive News
Sarah LaBrecque | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – Iceland made moves to ban commercial whaling, a paralysed man walked again, scientists published research into chimpanzees showing each other empathy, …
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Russia-Ukraine Standoff: Putin Says US Could Drag Moscow into War with Aim to Impose Sanctions
Vladimir Putin | Global News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The Ukraine Conflict: Views from the Other Side
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Native American Tribes Reach Major Opioid Settlement
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Native American tribes have agreed a landmark settlement with major drug companies over the devastation caused by opioid addiction.
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ICJ Must Not Allow Myanmar’s Coup Regime to Leverage Genocide Hearings as a Source of Legitimacy
Maung Zarni | Anadolu News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
20 Jan 2022 – Court’s failure to deal head-on with highly contested issue of legitimacy of regime will hamper efforts of other int’l state actors to deny mass-murderous military international acceptance, legitimacy.
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Hawaii’s Red Hill Disaster: The Latest Episode in 200 Years of Colonialism
Lowkey | The Watchdog, MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – In November, a huge underground US Navy fuel storage facility at Red Hill near Honolulu burst, leaking 14,000 gallons of jet fuel, contaminating the water supply, poisoning scores of people and driving thousands of Hawaiian families from their homes.
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What Went Right This Week: Defending Democracy, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Analysis suggested autocrats are losing their grip on power, child marriage was banned in the Philippines, gorillas got a boost, plus…
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Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea | TK News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – Pandemic Scare-Coverage Reaches New Heights, or Depths, or Something
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Learning Something New about [Nobel Peace Laureate] Desmond Tutu
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
28 Dec 2021 – You are unlikely to learn about it in the media tributes to Archbishop Rev. Desmond Tutu who died on 26 Dec at 90 (1931-2021). But Tutu, like the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was morally and spiritually a true world citizen belonging to a large list of VIP’s who supported the drafting of a new world constitution – what is now known as the Earth Constitution.
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South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dies at 90
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
26 Dec 2021 – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90.
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Incredible Cave Paintings 8 Miles-Long Revealed Deep in Amazon Forest: The Sistine Chapel of Ancients
Good News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Nov 2021 – Believed to be 12,500 years old, tens of thousands of pristine cave paintings were found across an eight-mile stretch of rock in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest. Hailed as the “Sistine Chapel of the Ancients,” it’s the kind of discovery that changes the world of archaeology; the art is extremely detailed.
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“Every Option Is on the Table”: US Prepping for Libya-Style Intervention in Ethiopia
Alan Macleod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – War Drums Sounding – While many in the Horn of Africa clearly need help, the Biden administration’s idea of “help” might not be exactly what they had in mind.
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Why the Dutch Are Closing Prisons – and What They’re Doing with Empty Ones
Deborah Nicholls-Lee | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – The Netherlands has reduced its prison population to such a degree that it’s now turning old prisons into socially useful buildings, such as schools and refugee centres. What went right?
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What Went Right This Week: A ‘Historic’ Win for Nature, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Ecuador recognised the rights of nature in a landmark ruling, encouraging data emerged about Omicron, and lab-grown meat reached another milestone, plus more positive news.
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The Lancet Publishes Rare Dissenting Voice on COVID-19 Vaccines
Calvin Freiburger | LifeSiteNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – A dissenting perspective from COVID-19 orthodoxy has found its way into one of the medical establishment’s most prestigious voices criticizing the narrative that COVID now represents a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” It is ‘far too simple,’ Dr. Günter Kampf says.
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‘Nicaragua Presents a Challenge to the International Left’ (Video)
Maximillian Alvarez | The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
11 Nov 2021 – With the US leading an international chorus rejecting the legitimacy of Nicaragua’s general elections, the anti-imperialist left ‘is walking a tightrope’ between opposing foreign intervention while still condemning the abuses of the Ortega-Murillo government.
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Ultimate Dog Whistle: World Misses Israel’s Hebrew-Language Incitement against Palestinians
Miko Peled | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
22 Nov 2021 – Israeli State-sponsored terrorism and incitement against the Palestinians are not new. The Naqab–Zionist incitement against Palestinians–is at all-time high but you wouldn’t know it because it is all done in Hebrew. The violent, racist-supremacist discourse that takes place in the Israeli media and among Israeli politicians is all in Hebrew and so it gets little or no attention worldwide.
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What Went Right This Week: Ideas to Change the World, Plus…
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
18 Nov 2021 – A raft of problem-solving inventions were unveiled, the EU drafted a law to curb deforestation, and the UK’s largest urban rewilding project was approved, plus more positive news.
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The Dream Must Start
Bob Neumann | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
Is it too early for a strong world government?
Wiser men have said so for decade — too soon!
There are far too many differing cultures,
a myriad of languages and dialects!
The New Generation as World Patriots: Climate Change, Nukes & War
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – Young people are increasingly becoming world citizens and World Patriots. They want to save the world. The biggest mistake by climate change activists is a failure to demand an end to war as one of its top priorities. US/NATO with over 700 foreign military bases is one of the largest polluters in the world while also illegally attacking a number of nations.
→ read full articleMultiple Articles on Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction
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UN Told Failure to Deal with Diversity Is Root Cause of Wars
Edith M. Lederer | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
One by one, South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki listed African countries Tuesday [12 Oct] where the failure to deal with diversity was a root cause of conflict, from the Biafran war in Nigeria in the late 1960s to the current clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. He also cited “the centrality of failure properly to manage diversity” in the conflicts in Congo, Burundi, Ivory Coast and Sudan.
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From Sci-Fi to Reality: How the US Space Force Launched a Digital Revolution
Nathan Strout | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – All courtesy of the well-educated but passive masses who accept the falsehood that Armed Forces are a deterrent.
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Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
8 Oct 2021 – “The Jab” Is Just the Latest Story to Be Reported as Mantra
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Kishida Elected as Japan’s PM, Calls Election for October 31
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021 – Fumio Kishida was formally elected as Japan’s prime minister today. A 64-year-old former foreign minister with an image as a consensus builder, he has called a parliamentary election for 31 Oct and promised to bolster the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
→ read full articleWhat Went Right This Week: Historic Malaria Vaccine for Africa Gets Go-Ahead, plus more Positive News
Sarah LaBrecque | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
7 Oct 2021 – The WHO gave the nod for a malaria vaccine to be rolled out to much of Africa, an indigenous group officially named a new species for the first time, and a global citizens’ assembly was announced for Cop26, plus.
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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence Arms Race
Dan Cohen | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. How the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the possibility of a devastating war.
→ read full articleThe Empire’s Last Stand
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
20 Sep 2021 – The origins of the first Cold War have been hopelessly blurred in the histories. We can watch this time. It is occurring before our eyes. I venture a prediction. When enough people begin to resist the madness and we begin to get somewhere, Cold War II will turn out to be the American empire’s last stand.
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Swastika, the Ancient Symbol That Was Hijacked by Evil
Bhakta dasa | ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
25 Sep 2021 – The Hon Premier of Victoria, Australia announced that his Government was going to recommend a prohibition of the Swastika symbol as anti-Semitic and racial tension is raising its ugly head by some far-right Neo-Nazi groups. We strongly oppose the prohibition or criminalization of our ancient, auspicious, holy symbol–the Swastika, as it predates by millennia the hateful use of Hakenkreuz by the Nazis.
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Gorgon Stare, the Latest in Mass Surveillance
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
17 Sep 2021 – U.S. wars in foreign nations always come home. The latest example is “Gorgon Stare,” wide angle surveillance planes, used in Iraq and Afghanistan, that have now been brought home to an urban area near you. “Gorgon Stare” is named for the three Gorgons in Greek mythology, snakeheaded sisters whose stare could turn a person to stone.
→ read full articleBreakthrough Strategy: The Earth Constitution & the United Nations
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – The public is largely unaware that forming a world federal union government is the solution to critical world problems, or that the Earth Constitution is the key to the needed changes. The United Nations, hampered by its fatally flawed Charter, is trying to resolve global problems with one hand tied behind its back.
→ read full articleWhat Went Right This Week: Indigenous Climate Wins, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – How Indigenous resistance reined in fossil fuels, why Britain is more united than we think, the rise of edible playgrounds, plus…
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Why Is Biden Prosecuting Assange for Telling the Truth about Afghanistan?
Daniel Ellsberg, Alice Walker and Noam Chomsky | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
The Biden administration is stubbornly pursuing the extradition of Julian Assange, who exposed the corrupt motives and doomed policies behind the War on Terror. Biden stuck to his word and finally ended the war in Afghanistan. But he cannot close this chapter with the man who told the truth about that war still in prison.
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Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites.
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What Went Right This Week: Taming Big Tech to Protect Kids, plus…
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
2 Sep 2021 – A digital privacy code for children came into effect in the UK, campaigners delayed an oil drilling project in Scotland, bearded vultures had a record season in Spain, plus.
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Amazon: In the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to Fire and Deforestation
Georgina Gustin | Inside Climate News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – A new report finds that up to 85 percent of threatened animal and plant species have had their habitat damaged by mining, agriculture or logging.
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Dad Strips at School Board Meeting to Make a Point about Mask Mandates (video)
Global News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021 – A father stripped out of his suit and down to his underwear during a School District Board meeting today, in a creative attempt to argue for mandatory masking at his child’s high school. Hilarious!
→ read full articleWe Failed Afghanistan, Not the Other Way Around
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – MSNBC rails against the “fantastically corrupt elite” on the ground that ruined the Afghan mission, but the real corruption was our own.
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What Went Right This Week: Scotland’s Minimum Income Plan, plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – Scotland announced plans for a minimum income to tackle poverty, Qatar took tentative steps towards democracy, and Denmark and Costa Rica sought to hasten the end of fossil fuels, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Afghanistan: We Never Learn
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, when asked months ago about a “significant deterioration” of the security in Afghanistan once the USA withdrew, said, “I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.” As the Taliban waltzes into Kabul, the look of surprise on the faces of top officials should frighten us most of all.
→ read full articleWhat Went Right This Week: How We Saved Earth Before, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – Scientists said saving the ozone layer bought us time to tackle the climate crisis, Scotland promised free bikes for disadvantaged children, and Illinois put media literacy on the curriculum, plus.
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John Pilger: A Day in the Death of British Justice
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The veteran journalist has covered Julian Assange’s case from the beginning and was in London this week to witness the latest shameful episode. “The reputation of British justice now rests on the shoulders of the High Court in the life or death case of Julian Assange.” Here is his dispatch.
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