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At the Lost and Found
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
5 Aug 2022 – Those who are never lost are forever lost. Only those who know they are lost and that life is a shipwreck have a chance to find their way to shore. The world’s great religions, including Taoism and Existential philosophy, understand that at the heart of human existence is the presence of the not (death, emptiness, void).
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The Truth about Markets, Pillar of Capitalist Ideology
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“Market mechanisms” and “market solutions”: politicians, bureaucrats, media pundits, and academics like to refer to them as if they were somehow politically and ideologically neutral, above partisanship. They are not. Markets existed long before capitalism, but capitalism, as Karl Marx noted, made them ubiquitous, almost universal. Capitalism also raised and praised markets—and their prices—to give them an ideological importance, which leaned toward the absurd.
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Donation Politics: Worse than Hypocrisy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – We need to ask ourselves with a sense of urgency, ‘where is the outrage?’ and ‘why are the streets empty?’ Bob Dylan’s message of the sixties rings truer than ever: ‘The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind.”
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
This year the remembrance of the atomic bombings of Japanese cities is especially poignant. The world, as the UN Secretary General noted, is just one miscalculation away from nuclear war. I was also reminded that 8 Aug was the day in 1945 that the Allied Powers had the unfathomable insensitivity to sign the London Agreement setting up the Nuremberg Tribunal to prosecute German war criminals–two days after the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and one day before the second one incinerated Nagasaki. Sad to note, times have not changed.
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(Português) O Confronto Bolsonarista do “Bem Contra o Mal”: Um Erro Filosófico, um Antagonismo Falso e uma Proposta Absurda
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
27 julho 2022 – No Brasil, o confronto que o Partido Liberal e Bolsonaro propõem como estratégia eleitoral representa um maniqueísmo que falsamente imagina haver de um lado somente o mal e do outro somente o bem e sempre se confrontando. Eles, os fanatizados, se apresentam como os portadores do bem. Os outros, do mal.
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Biden’s Middle East Visit: An Orgy of Cynicism, Hypocrisy, and Erasures
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
21 Jul 2022 – This piece criticizes the dual tracks of Biden’s ill-executed trip in mid-July to Israel and Saudi Arabia. It faults Biden for the extreme cynicism of pursuing a realpolitik approach in Riyadh and an approach in Israel that mixed silences about apartheid, Shireen Abu Akleh, and the Palestinian ordeal with fanciful claims about shared values and democratic affinities.
→ read full articleAnti-Abortion Activism and the Sources of Polarization
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
Abundance equally shared can make the tribal conflicts that plague us now seem obsolete. It’s time to find a better way to organize our social and economic affairs.
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The Worst Is yet to Come: When the Center Cannot Hold
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – This is an attempt to connect my despair about developments in the USA with wider global systemic tendencies. It is not hopeful about the future, yet its central message is that we should continue to struggle for a future we can believe in given that we live at a time of radical uncertainty.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
Born on the island of Martinique under French colonial rule, Frantz Omar Fanon was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring.
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A World War in Pieces
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
On 29 Jun 2022, took place the NATO Madrid Summit with the USA as the main actor and the European Union in a humiliating subordination. In this Summit a “New Strategic Commitment” was established. The perverse category of the “enemy” has been introduced, to be confronted and defeated. This brings us back to Hitler’s jurist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985).
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The Uber Whistleblower: I’m Exposing a System That Sold People a Lie
Paul Lewis, et al. | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – Exclusive: Mark MacGann says he has decided to speak out about firm to ‘right some fundamental wrongs’.
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A European Call for an End to the Ukraine War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022 – This piece appeared in the prominent German weekly, ZEIT, last week. It is written from a European perspective, calling for a ceasefire followed by bilateral negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
→ read full articleThe Assassination and Mrs. Paine
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022 – A Review of Max Good’s Documentary Film – Human duplicity is a marvel to contemplate. This documentary will force you to do that.
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My Name Is ARMFIN. I Am the God of Total Power
Riccardo Petrella | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – My identity code is UCT. It stands for Universal Capitalist Theology. It is a theology because I talk about myself, about God. It is universal because it cannot be otherwise. Theology has no boundaries of time and space, it is ‘one’, and human history tends ‘towards the one’ (universal).
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The Role of Value Systems in Conflict Resolution
Abbas Aroua, et al. | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Jun 2022 – Understanding, “right-sizing,” and adequately respecting the role of value systems in conflict transformation avoids both over- and under-emphasis. Johan Galtung’s “Attitude-Behavior-Contradiction” (ABC) triangle is one useful conflict analysis tool to deal with the role of value systems and other factors in conflict analysis.
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(Italiano) Imparare dalla storia
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Luglio 2022 – Nel 1973 lavoravo in Cile con una squadra all’organizzazione di comunità sotto forma di educación popular. Ispirati dalla filosofia di Paulo Freire, non è in fondo un’esagerazione dire che eravamo fanatici nell’evitare a tutti i costi di fare quello che Freire chiamava “educazione bancaria”.
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(Português) Brasil: A política de ódio e o assassinato do indigenista Bruno e do jornalista Dom
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
20 Jun 2022 – O assassinato do conhecido indigenista Bruno Pereira e do jornalista inglês Dom Phillips comoveram o país e o mundo. Esse crime só é compreensível no quadro de uma política de ódio e perseguição que o atual governo estabeleceu como política normal, atingindo principalmente os povos originários, os negros, os de outra opção sexual e os pobres em geral.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
I had already learned from my California experience that whatever national laws may be, the law of the Modern World-System is that investors choose which nation´s laws they will obey when they chose where to site their operations.
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Reaching a Just and Lasting Peace in Ukraine
Submitted by Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
On June 6-7, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network convened at the Vatican a study group of experts in international affairs, military and security affairs, and international relations among the US, European Union, Ukraine, and Russia. Their statement follows.
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Human Rights and Confronting China Geopolitically
Richard Falk and Alfred de Zayas | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – Breakthrough success of Bachelet’s HRC mission to China. We decry those who distort such an achievement to continue to rationalize confronting China coercively. Opportunism in relation to human rights is not a path to peace and justice. Rather than provoking a critical storm the mission, in our judgment, should have been applauded with a sustained shout of BRAVO!
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Is There Life After Death?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – A review of ‘James and Whitehead on Life after Death’ by David Ray Griffin – The meaning of death, and whether humans do or do not survive it in some form, has always obsessed people, from the average person to the great artists and thinkers. Death is the mother of philosophy and all the arts and sciences.
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New Bill That Passed U.S. House Reinvokes Old Russian Bogeyman as Pretext for More Intervention in Africa
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
14 Jun 2022 – Liberal Democrats shamefully all voted for the “Countering Malign Russian Influence Activities in Africa” Act—seems like relic from bygone era.
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Why Are We Risking Nuclear War over Ukraine? Have We Gone Mad? (MUST WATCH)
Col. Richard Black (ret.) | Schiller Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Col. Richard Black (ret.), former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon and former Virginia State Senator, addresses the May 26 Schiller Institute conference.
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Anthem (Music Video of the Week)
Leonard Cohen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
London 2008 – Click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy.
→ read full articleUkraine and the Risk of Geopolitical Conflict — A Reawakening to Nuclear Dangers?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
11 Jun 2022 – The risk of nuclear escalation has been subject of debate in the US. These debates reveal those who dismiss Russian references to nuclear capabilities as mere saber rattling to those who worry that if Putin finds his back to the wall in Ukraine, he may resort to tactical nuclear strikes.
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Ode to Joy – Finale (Music Video of the Week)
Leonard Bernstein | Beethoven – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. This is the final part of the piece, which contains the incredible Prestissimo Finale. In 1985, it was adopted by EU leaders as the official anthem of the European Union.
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Impact of Israeli Strike in Gaza Akin to Chemical Weapons, NGO Report Finds
Bethan McKernan and Hazem Balousha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – Shells fired at agrochemical warehouse created toxic plume that has left residents with health problems.
→ read full articleWhy Is Everything Broken?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
The U.S.A. and its allies are waging war on many fronts. It is a form of total war – cold, hot, medical, military, mind-control, spiritual, etc. – that demands a total response from us. None of us is completely innocent; we are all part of the deep evil that is happening all around us. But if we listen carefully, we might hear God asking for our help. For we need each other.
→ read full articleWestphalian Logic and Geopolitical Prudence in the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – The Ukraine War, its complexities and global spillover effects, have not been adequately depicted by either political leaders or the more influential media. Most commonly, the Ukraine War has been narrowly and reductively depicted as a simple matter of defending Ukraine against Russian aggression.
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(Castellano) ¿Guerra para quién?
Eduardo Galeano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Castellano with subtitles in English and Portuguese
→ read full articleThe Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
28 May 2022 – The USA Must Demand a Credible Investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing – The assassination sent shock waves throughout the Middle East as Shireen was known and respected as a trusted journalist. We keep waiting for a ‘Sharpville Moment’ with respect to Palestine and Israeli impunity. When will it come?
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Journalist Assassination: Are Israeli Defense Forces Out of Control?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
18 May 2022 – Israeli Soldier Kills Al Jazeera Journalist on 11 May 2022
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(Português) A Sombra Tenebrosa do Bolsonarismo no Brasil
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
18 maio 2022 – Bolsonaro é tão pouco político e desvairado que nem esconde o jogo. Revela-o às claras. Tal comportamento de um chefe de estado que se caracteriza por constantes ameaças às instituições e pelo permanente descaso da situação dramática do país, dos milhões de famintos, de insuficiência alimentar, dos desempregados, nos provoca graves preocupações e sérias apreensões.
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Israeli Police Attack Funeral Procession for Shot Journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh
Sufian Taha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
13 May 2022 – Israeli forces have attacked a funeral procession for a Palestinian American journalist shot dead this week, kicking and hitting people with batons and causing mourners carrying her coffin to lose balance and drop it to the ground.
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Marcos Dynasty Back in Power: What’s Next for the Philippines?
Richard Javad Heydarian | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
12 May 2022 – The Marcos dynasty is returning to power in the Philippines. Almost exactly 50 years after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and a dictatorship, his namesake son secured more than 30 million votes, nearly double that of his nearest rival, current Vice President Leni Robredo. Will he replicate his father’s dictatorial ambitions?
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(Italiano) Tribunale dei Popoli sulle Guerre Ucraine
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
È ormai tempo d’iniziative della società civile per opporsi al disastroso confronto globale che sta ora mettendo in pericolo il mondo, anzi prospettive di sopravvivenza di specie, perseguendo obiettivi politici degli Stati Uniti camuffati con una certa dose di complicità dei media che continuano a trasmettere l’impressione che la guerra in Ucraina concerna la difesa dell’Ucraina.
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(Português) Rússia/EUA/Ucrânia: O que Está em Jogo
Federico Fubini, Jeffrey Sachs | Leonardo Boff – Corriere della Sera/TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
3 maio 2022 – Entrevista de Jeffrey Sachs, economista e especialista em desigualdade social, que como poucos articula a economia com a ecologia. Ele criticamente esclarece as posições dos EUA e da Rússia no contexto do conflito na Ucrânia. É importante conhecermos os dois lados para não sermos dependentes só da versão EUA-UE.
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The New Turn in Ukraine: Putin’s War Becomes Biden’s War
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
27 Apr 2022 – Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 Feb, it was fair to call the ensuing conflict “Putin’s war.” True, the U.S. and Europe could have avoided it by stopping NATO expansion. True, U.S. arms had been pouring into Ukraine since 2014, and Ukraine was using them to kill pro-Russian separatists. But Putin crossed the line; it does matter who shoots first, and he shot first. At first one could rightfully have called this Putin’s war, but it has now become Joe Biden’s war as well. Consider what has happened so far.
→ read full articleThe Second Level Geopolitical War in Ukraine Takes Over
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
30 Apr 2022 – The recent acknowledgement that U.S. goals are secondarily related to the wellbeing of Ukraine, and primarily by the dangerously regressive goals of taking on challengers to the unipolarity, which has guided U.S. grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.
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The Different Ways That the U.S. and Chinese Governments Use Their Power to Regulate Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
28 Apr 2022 – As defined by its productive relation of employer/employee, capitalism is now developing its productive forces and GDP growth faster in China’s public form of capitalism than in the United States’ private form. The role of the state is central to this decline and ascent.
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(Italiano) Guerra ed estinzione della specie
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
Per pensatori critici le conseguenze a cascata della guerra d’Ucraina sono prove ridondanti di quanto già sapevano prima della guerra: non ci sono soluzioni ai problemi principali dell’umanità entro gli schemi delle strutture legale ed etiche basilari del sistema-mondo moderno.
→ read full articleToward a Peoples Tribunal on the Ukraine Wars
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
The time has come for civil society to counter the global confrontation endangering the world for U.S. geopolitical goals disguised, with media complicity, in a Ukraine War for its own defense. This is a false and dangerous image… I hope some readers throughout the world will feel motivated to make the Peoples Ukraine Wars Tribunal a reality!
→ read full articleIt’s About Time
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
28 Apr 2022 – Isn’t it always? With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible. I am speaking of nuclear annihilation.
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Al-Aqsa Violence during Ramadan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
21 Apr 2022 – Once more Israel strikes hard against Palestinian rights when the world has its attention fixed elsewhere, with a mainstream media posture of indifference and inattention compounding the problem . The pro-Palestinian solidarity movement is being seriously challenged not to let this happen.
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Renounce the Geopolitical War between the U.S. and Russia
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – Stopping the Geopolitical War being waged by the United States against Russia is a precondition for ending the aggressive war initiated by Russia against Ukraine and also a return to semi-responsible statecraft, which is the most we can expect or hope for in the present. Diplomacy seeking a ceasefire and a political compromise is the only sane path.
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#FreeAssange Petition: Sign to Urge UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to Reject Julian Assange’s Extradition to the US
Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
If extradited to the USA, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison on 18 charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication in 2010 of military and diplomatic documents exposing war crimes and human rights violations. Assange has been targeted for this important contribution to journalism.
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Elon Musk, Twitter’s Largest Shareholder: We Can’t Let Billionaires Control Major Communications Platforms
Victor Pickard | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO notorious for posting asinine tweets to his 80 million–plus Twitter followers, has purchased himself a position of power within the platform itself by becoming the company’s largest shareholder–and that’s bad news.
→ read full articleWhy Are Humans Fighting Other Humans when We Are Facing Extinction as a Species?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
How can the absurdity of humans fighting humans lead to solutions while physics, chemistry and biology have us slated for extinction? How can we contribute to rethinking and reinventing ourselves? An idea: a Pedagogy of the Rich, conceived as a companion volume to Paulo Freire´s ‘The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.’ It could also be called ‘The Pedagogy of the Unoppressed.’
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The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine
Richard Wolff | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – To the motives for war in human history, capitalism added another: profit. Ukraine, per se, is not the issue. It is tragically a war-ravaged pawn in a much larger conflict.
→ read full articleComplexities of the Ukraine War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
15 Apr 2022 – This war can be characterized thus:
– Level One: Russia vs. Ukraine
– Level Two: USA vs. Russia
– Level Three: Ukrainian nationalism vs. Russian-oriented separatism
Animal Crossing: World’s Biggest Wildlife Bridge Comes to California Highway
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – Unprecedented overpass will allow fauna of the Santa Monica mountains to safely cross a dangerous 10-lane stretch.
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Leonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Leonardo would have been exposed to a vast range of technical skills and had the opportunity to learn drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling.
→ read full articleThis Geopolitical War Is a ‘Geopolitical Crime’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – There is no doubt that atrocities have been committed in Ukraine, seemingly yet not exclusively by Russian attacking forces, and in a perfect world those who so acted would be held responsible. But the world is highly imperfect when it comes to accountability for international crimes.
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Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.
→ read full articleMake Peace, Not War, in Ukraine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – There were a series of provocations by NATO that aroused security concerns in Moscow, including the expansion of NATO after the Cold War was over, the threat from the Soviet Union had disappeared, and promises were made by Western leaders to Gorbachev of no further NATO expansion. Such geopolitical behavior amounted to imprudent statecraft by the West,
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Wars Lie!
Eduardo Galeano | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Wars always invoke noble motives. They kill in the name of peace. In the name of God. In the name of civilisation. In the name of progress. In the name of democracy… And just in case, if so many lies are not enough… the mass media are ready to invent imaginary enemies to justify the conversion of the world into a great madhouse and an immense slaughterhouse.
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(Castellano) “Las Guerras Mienten”
Eduardo Galeano | Promotores No Violencia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
“Ninguna guerra tiene la honestidad de confesar: Yo mato para robar. Las guerras siempre invocan nobles motivos, matan en nombre de la paz, en nombre de dios, en nombre de la civilización, en nombre del progreso, en nombre de la democracia y si por las dudas, si tanta mentira no alcanzara, ahí están los grandes medios de comunicación dispuestos a inventar enemigos imaginarios para justificar la conversión del mundo en un gran manicomio y un inmenso matadero.”
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2022 Global Policy Institute Book Award to Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Dr. Falk is now a Santa Barbara resident. After four decades at Princeton, he has served as Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has lectured widely around the world as one of America’s most recognizable and relentless crusaders for international justice.
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Resisting Militarism: Mission Impossible?
Sean Howard | Cape Breton Spectator – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – “I don’t think the country should be militarized… but we live in the moment when the Army matters.” — Ukrainian peace activist Nataliya Gumenyuk. But denying millions the right to conscientiously object or leave the country is criminal. Overall problem: war. Pseudorealities lead to war. All lines lead to the war. It may be a mission impossible, but can pacifism help lead us back?
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Nonkilling Political Reflections: The Sham of Non-Existence and the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022
Clay Edwards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – What should greatly concern us, in my view, is that US President Biden hit the impotence of our security structures squarely when he declared that Russian President Putin should not be in power. The use of the word “power” in regard to Russian President should be clarified.
→ read full articleNegotiate Peace in Ukraine Now!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Interestingly, most news sources in the U.S. and Europe continue to attribute Russia’s military difficulties in Ukraine to their own incompetence or Ukrainian heroism, but seldom to the $3.2 billion worth of high-tech weapons that the U.S. has shipped to Kyiv since 2014. Joe Biden, of course, is an architect of this de facto Western alliance with Ukraine. What his end game is nobody can say.
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The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – We have arrived into the dystopian future dreamed up by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move. Much like Huxley’s A Brave New World, we are churning out a society of watchers who “have their liberties taken away from them, but … rather enjoy it.
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Expectations…
George Bernard Shaw - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
True.
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: una prospettiva geopolitica
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Ripresa modificata di una conferenza tenuta il 9 marzo 2022 a una sessione dei Colloqui su Studi Globali all’Università di California – Santa Barbara convocata dal professor Jan Nederveen Pieters, purtroppo priva di una serie di domande impegnative a seguito del mio intervento, fra cui da vari partecipanti in Europa.
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Ukraine War: Three Academic Perspectives
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – The following discussion resulted from three separate interviews. There was no interaction among the three of us. I wonder whether this war is best described as ‘Russo-Ukrainian War’ or simply as ‘Ukrainian War’ or ‘Russo-U.S. Proxy War.’ It seems an amalgam of all three.
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version – 1970
→ read full articleOn the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – To grasp this possibility within the context of Ukraine, we need to put aside all talk of morality, rights, international law, and think in terms of great power politics. When a great power feels its existence is threatened, might makes right. You simply can’t understand world politics without thinking at this level. It is a means of clarifying the causes of wars.
→ read full articleStop the Ukraine War — Now!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
11 Mar 2022 – The war in Ukraine can and must be stopped now, before any more Ukrainians or Russians are killed and maimed, by declaring a ceasefire and then negotiating a peace. A decisive victory or defeat for either party is highly unlikely. Now – right now! — is the time for a ceasefire. There simply is no alternative to a negotiated peace.
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Ruling Out Social Democracy as an Option and a Way to Rule It Back In
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – A decisive misunderstanding prolonging today´s mega crisis is the lingering belief that social democracy, as it existed in Europe during the thirty glorious years after World War II, and in a different form in the USA during the four terms of Franklin Roosevelt´s presidency, is a viable option in today´s world.
→ read full articleThe Ukraine War: A Geopolitical Perspective
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Talk on 9 Mar 2022 at the Global Studies Colloquium, UCSB. When we agreed on a theme for my presentation, we were in a pre-Ukraine world. Interim developments: the imprudent US-led provocations, Russian aggression against a sovereign state of over 44 million people, the confrontational Western sanctions, and a surging Russophobia produced a win/lose calculus rather than partial win/win political outcomes.
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It’s Time to Ask: What Would a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Look Like?
Anatol Lieven | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The West is morally right to oppose the illegal Russian war and to impose severe sanctions on Russia, but would be morally wrong to oppose an agreement to end the invasion and spare the people of Ukraine terrible suffering. America’s own record over the past generation gives no basis for such self-righteous hyper-legalism.
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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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They Are ‘Civilized’ and ‘Look Like Us’: The Racist Coverage of Ukraine
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Markets command governments more than governments command markets. Governments, whatever their ideology, in practice devote themselves to attracting investment and to discouraging disinvestment. “When investors choose not to invest, policymakers are powerless to force them.”
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Ending Poverty by Rethinking Thinking
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Ending poverty would benefit everyone. It would be relatively inexpensive. It would open paths to sustainability. Rethinking thinking is needed to see why ending poverty is feasible…
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Nils Melzer: The Political Persecution of Julian Assange
Saturday Morning | RNZ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being made an example of by the US government to deter investigative journalists from exposing state abuses, the current UN Special Rapporteur on torture says.
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Switzerland at Risk of EU Blacklist after Credit Suisse Leak
Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
– 21 Feb 2022 –
* Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians.
* What is the Suisse secrets leak and why are we publishing it?
The Paused Quest for Humane Governance in the Arab World: Is It Time ‘to fail better’?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
The acceleration of history foreshortens our memory of past events, especially when disillusionment displaces hope. This happened a decade ago when uprisings were celebrated as ‘the Arab Spring.’ The role of activist youth, the spontaneous displays of populist strivings for a better political future, created the feeling that something irreversible, and for the better, was taking place. Yet it was not to be.
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(Français) Avoir confié la politique sanitaire mondiale à Big Pharma est une faute impardonnable
Nick Dearden | Guardian/Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Fév 2022 – Le Covid l’a clairement démontré : Pfizer et ses semblables, asservis aux actionnaires, ne se soucient vraiment que de leurs profits faramineux. C’est ce qu’explique, dans une tribune parue dans le Guardian, Nick Dearden, directeur de Global Justice Now.
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On Israel as an Apartheid State: An Interview with Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
19 Feb 2022 – An interview David Falcone originally published in CounterPunch on 11 Feb prompted by the Amnesty Report but extending beyond it.
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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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The Mind Control Police: U.S. Government’s War on Thought Crimes and Truth-Tellers
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – The U.S. government, which speaks in a language of force, is afraid of its citizenry. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell
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Why Is the White House Stealing $7bn from Afghans?
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Last week, the White House issued an executive order announcing the theft of some $7bn. In a move that can only be described as brazenly immoral and utterly unconscionable, the Biden administration has begun a process to seize the more than $7bn of assets that the Central Bank of Afghanistan has on deposit at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since the Taliban gained control of the war-ravaged country last year, that money has been frozen in place.
→ read full articleIs the Amnesty International Report an Israeli ‘Sharpeville Moment?’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – This interview followed the release on 1 Feb of the explosive Amnesty International Report finding Israel guilty of the continuing crime of apartheid. How much longer can governments, the UN, and liberal Zionist close their eye in face of the mounting consensus in the international human community on the question of Israeli apartheid?
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The United Nations: Beyond Reform?
Edward J Horgan, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The Collective Insecurity of the International System and the Prospects for Sustainable Global Peace and Justice
→ read full articleWhat a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version,1967 – Click on Watch on YouTube, kick back…, enjoy!
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This Ukraine Crisis Was a George W. Bush Mistake
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
George W. Bush and his neo-con administration made an awful lot of foreign policy blunders. This Ukrainian crisis is just the latest of many mistakes.
→ read full articleThe Problematics of Middle Eastern Diplomacy: The Case of Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – In relation to both Iran, Israel, and Palestine, the essential message sent by the new leadership is continuity when it comes to substance combined with a resumption of the pre-Trump pretension of equi-distance diplomacy when it comes to the search for a sustainable peace.
→ read full articleUkrainian Sovereignty Means Not Joining NATO
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Taking international law seriously requires looking at the world in a particular way. And this view of the world is very different from the view presented to Americans by their foreign policy establishment.
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Prosecutors Silence Evidence of Cruel Factory Farm Practices in Animal Rights Cases
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
30 Jan 2022 – The government wants to keep juries from seeing gruesome evidence of animals in distress — the very reason activists are going into farms.
→ read full articleNostalgic for the Future
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Nostalgia is always about time and space. In that sense, it is equivalent to all human experience that also takes place within these dimensions. And when technology has radically disrupted our human sense of limits in their regard, it becomes harder and harder to feel at home, to dwell enough to grasp what is happening in the world.
→ read full articleDeath and Destruction on the Highways: A Global Disaster Hiding in Plain Sight
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
What accounts for the indifference to a calamitous loss of life and millions of serious injuries? Johan Galtung points to an answer in his 1969 essay on structural violence, where he notes that, unlike personal violence in which people intentionally and visibly injure each other, the violence generated by a social system can seem so natural and inevitable that it virtually disappears from people’s consciousness.
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One Person Can Change the World (and Prevent a Nuclear War)
Leonard Eiger and Glen Milner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – The very real risks created by the relatively new, low-yield nuclear warhead introduced by the Trump administration, and the story of Vasili Arkhipov who prevented WWIII in a tense moment during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
→ read full articleWill the Iran Nuclear Agreement Be Restored?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
26 Jan 2022 – An interview with Mojtaba Majidi of the Mehr News Agency (Tehran) on the Vienna Talks that are seeking to restore the Iran Nuclear Agreement of 2015 reached during the Obama presidency.
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Us and Them (Music Video of the Week)
℗ Pink Floyd Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
From The Dark Side of the Moon – Released March 1973
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International Neutrality Project
Edward J. Horgan | Veterans Global Peace Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
The UN Charter opted for a more pragmatic system of ‘collective security’, a bit like the Three Musketeers – one for all and all for one. The three musketeers became the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, sometimes known as the five policemen, who were tasked with maintaining or enforcing international peace.
→ read full article(Castellano) Borrador de Propuestas para Construir la Paz en Chile
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
20 enero 2022 – Quisiera decir algo concretando unos sueños de paz que han venido a vivir en mi alma, con la finalidad de hacerlos concretos con acciones que mi mente y otras mentes consideran inteligentes, y también con otra finalidad mayor. La finalidad mayor es contribuir a un sueño colectivo que nace, compartido entre numerosos individuos y numerosas instituciones tanto privadas como públicas.
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Germany Blocks NATO Partners from Supplying Their Weapons to Ukraine
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022 – Despite being a lead NATO country and close US ally, it’s become clear Berlin has sought to avoid unnecessarily provoking Moscow, also as the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is soon to come online. German government spokesman reaffirmed “The principle governing arms exports” which “is always the same—whether they come directly from Germany or from third countries—and no permission has been issued at this stage.”
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. With JFK Revisited, Oliver Stone has truly honored this fallen hero.
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Introduction to Conflict Transformation
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Language: Arabic. Author: Abbas Aroua. Publisher: Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – The Arab/Muslim world is one of the regions with the highest densities of conflict in the world (intra- and interstate). Yet it is one of the poorest ones in terms of conflict transformation resources, both theoretical and practical.
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