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Tony Bennett, Master Jazz Vocalist, Dies at 96
Chris Morris | Variety – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Bennett had a professional career spanning eight decades. Winner of 18 Grammy Awards (with 36 total nominations), and a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in 2001, he also garnered two Emmy Awards and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006. RIP
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The Contributions and Impact of Contemporary Religious Rituals on Pillars of Peace (Part 5)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Contemporary Religious Rituals Are to Be Respected in Interfaith Initiatives Towards Social Harmony Peaceful Coexistence
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UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel Has Turned All of Palestine into ‘An Open-Air Prison’ to Further Annexation Plans
Jeff Wright | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
16 Jul 2023 – Francesca Albanese’s June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to “de-Palestinianize” the occupied territory, threatening “the existence of the Palestinians as a people.”
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
24 Jul —> 30 Jul
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Congressional Testimony of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the Weaponization of the US Federal Government
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – The hearing examined the federal government’s role in censoring North Americans, the Missouri v. Biden case, and Big Tech’s collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence free speech on social media.
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Facing Climate Change as One World
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – When it comes to climate change, one word has me totally perplexed: “we.” A transcendent “we” grabbing control over the planet’s rising temperature.
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No Aloha in Reaper Drones Now Based in Hawaii
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Recent news reports noted Russian jets “harassing” MQ-9 Reaper US drones over Syria. What was not reported was that the Russians are operating at the request of the Syrian government whereas the US drones are operating illegally, aiding theft of oil. The US acts like an international mafia boss, assassinating people and stealing other countries’ oil.
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Complexity in Modern Lifestyles
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
The world that we see around us is complex. Trying to live meaningfully in it is not easy, be it physically or mentally.
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Economics According to the Dharmic Way
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
This is a simple explanation of how we should view economics according to the principles of Vedic Dharma.
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A Tribute to Tony Bennett: Body and Soul (Music Video of the Week)
Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Legendary jazz singer Tony Bennett died on 21 Jul 2023 at age 96. RIP
Please click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy this treat.
The COVID Affair
Swiss Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
“The Path to Freedom”
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The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – Ultimately, NATO must be recognized not only as a criminal organization, a blustering vestige of a moribund Western imperialism, but as a mortal danger to the survival of civilization on Earth. NATO is on the wrong side of history.
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Internal Beauty
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Ditto!
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The Real History of the War in Ukraine
Jeffrey D. Sachs | The Kennedy Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – A Chronology of Events and Case for Diplomacy – The public urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine. Unfortunately, US mainstream media have become mere mouthpieces of the government, repeating Joe Biden’s lies and hiding history from the public.
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Want to See How Foreign Policy Should Be Crafted? Look to Vietnam
Amiad Horowitz | People's World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Vietnam used to be one of the poorest and most diplomatically isolated countries in the world, but those days are gone. The neoliberal, capitalist world has been bogged down in decades of unending war. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam offers the world a different model of foreign policy.
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US Cluster Munitions Supply to Ukraine Will Harm Civilians the Most
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – Millions of people have been affected by the use of cluster munitions in countries like Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, even years after the invasions and occupations by the USA. The same plight awaits Ukrainian civilians in the current East European war zone.
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Extreme Heat Is Ramping Up All Over the World. So Are Solutions.
Claire Elise Thompson | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – From Seville to Phoenix, city governments and community-based organizations are trying new strategies to protect residents from deadly heat.
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Food Insecurity in Africa and the Politics of NATO Expansion
Abayomi Azikiwe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
20 Jul 2023 – United Nations affiliated humanitarian and development agencies are reporting that many countries across the African continent are experiencing food insecurity. This phenomenon is related to at least three major factors:
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There Are Very Few Good Films about War—“20 Days in Mariupol” Is an Exception
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Feature war films and documentaries, from The Sands of Iwo Jima to Saving Private Ryan, are war pornography that romanticize those wielding the instruments of death, justify the unjustifiable, pay homage to the war machine, entice naïve youngsters into becoming cannon fodder, and distort the public’s perception of war. Those who return and attempt to speak the truth are alienated and ignored.
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Save the Dates for Whistleblowers Summit & Film Festival and Legacy Tribute to Dan Ellsberg
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Dan Ellsberg will be honored at the Whistleblower Summit where he gave the keynote address and received the Pillar Award in 2021. Dan is considered the father of whistleblowers and has also acted as a father to whistleblowers as he nurtured those going through the trauma of retaliation.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Competing Narratives of the War in Ukraine – Empire is the missing piece in most narratives of the war in Ukraine. We would do well to give it a central place in our thinking and action.
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Why the Ukraine Conflict Will Unravel NATO and Biden
Radhika Desai | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – The US has only military might to offer allies. So, Biden’s impending military failure in Ukraine is likely to prove the effective undoing of NATO. If the US cannot ensure military victory, its utility to Europe can only be limited. And if Biden’s has failed in this intermediate Russian stage, it can hardly go onto its final, Chinese one.
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As Russia Exits Grain Deal, Which Countries Will Be Affected?
Hanna Duggal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Almost 33 million metric tonnes of grain were exported since the Black Sea Grain Initiative was brokered a year ago.
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Luanda Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Faces Fresh Charges Despite Amnesty from Papal Visit
Matei Rosca | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – The source of the Luanda Leaks and of another exposé that rocked the global soccer industry faces 377 new charges and the prospect of another trial, despite an anticipated amnesty.
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Latin America again Refuses to Fall in Line with the Collective West
Nick Corbishley | Naked Capital - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Another attempt by the Collective West to isolate Russia from the rest of the world — or the “Jungle,” as the EU’s chief “diplomat” Josep Borrell calls it — fails spectacularly.
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World Hunger and the War in Ukraine
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
The current food crisis is a price crisis, not a supply crisis. The end of the Black Sea Grain Initiative by Russia is not the leading cause of hunger in the world. Rather, it is the financial speculation in food markets the main culprit.
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NATO, Russia, the EU and Ukraine Urgently Need a Dialogue to End the War
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – The NATO summit at Vilnius ended without any tangible move for peacemaking. It was more a show of compelling solidarity to enlarge and sustain the conflicts between Russia, Ukraine and NATO professing to be peacemakers.
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Arming Taiwan Is an Insane Provocation
John V. Walsh | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – As Washington applies the neocon Wolfowitz Doctrine to East Asia, Taiwan becomes a “powder keg” by U.S. weaponry. The provocations must stop and Biden should instead take up China’s offer of peaceful coexistence.
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Thousands of Authors Urge AI Companies to Stop Using Their Works without Permission
Chloe Veltman | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Thousands of writers have signed a letter asking artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Meta to stop using their work without permission or compensation. But protecting writers from the negative impacts of these technologies is not an easy proposition.
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Capitalist Ethics
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
Jul 2023 – No Joke –> Black Humor
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Devastating Rights Violations against Indigenous People Must End
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Indigenous Peoples have the ancestral wisdom to guide humanity towards a more sustainable use of the Earth’s resources, yet they are systematically discriminated against and excluded, UN rights chief Volker Türk warned today.
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NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – The unfulfilled goals and objectives from last year’s meeting in Madrid loom over the Atlantic military alliance. When the membership meets in Vilnius this week, normalizing failure might best describe the most that can be accomplished.
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Bullying Escalates: US Nuclear Submarine Docks in Cuban Territory
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – Just days before Cuba marked two years since the July 11 riots, a nuclear-powered US submarine crossed Cuban waters and docked at the illegal base of Guantanamo. From July 5-8 it remained in that Cuban territory usurped and illegally occupied by Washington 121 years ago.
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The US-Nordic Summit: NATO Expansion, Confusion and Repetition
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – It is extremely important to think of alternatives to the ongoing NATO militarism, re-think its triumphalistic, provocative expansion, and refer to words and concepts cancelled from the Western discourse: peace, cooperation, common security, reconciliation, media diversity.
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16 Jul 1945: First Successful Atomic Bomb Test
History - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
This Day in History – On 16 Jul 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project yields explosive results as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. [“A day that will live in infamy.” — TMS Editor]
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Why Are There No Slums in China?
Dongsheng Explains – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – How the Chinese government deals with homelessness, how this issue relates to socialist construction, and how China confronts the challenges posed by rapid economic development, urbanization, and the migration of recent decades. What are the structural reasons behind it?
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Michio Kaku Just Revealed What the Navy Saw while Diving in the Arctic
Voyager - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
29 Jun 2023 – NASA has found something quite shocking in the Arctic Ocean that seems out of this world, catching the attention of experts like Michio Kaku.
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The Great Chessboard: China’s Economic Rise and the Collapse of the USA
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – The One Chart That Explains Everything
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Gary M. Feinman | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
Our blinders and misconceptions about the past constrain the knowledge that we have to plan for a better future. Societies don’t get much out of living memory because the longer-term ramifications from recent decisions generally remain unsettled.
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The Dissolution of NATO May Be the Only Way to Prevent WWIII
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – 10 Reasons Why NATO Ought to Be Disbanded – Its dissolution may be the only way to prevent wider war and to stop the US and the world from being plunged into the abyss of a wider, cataclysmic war.
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Christmas in July
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
Black Humor–Tragicomedy
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British Intelligence in the Dock for CIA Torture
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA’s global torture program.
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El Salvador’s Secretive Mega-Jail
BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – El Salvador’s mega-jail, Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), opened in Jan 2023. It has become a symbol of President Bukele’s “war against gangs”, which has resulted in the detention of at least 68,000 people since Mar 2022.
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Has Hunter Biden’s Decadent Lifestyle Become a Metaphor for U.S. Society?
Robert Bridge | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – When cocaine was found in the White House, observers immediately linked it to the US president’s infamous son. Hunter Biden, currently US’ most infamous drug abuser, appeared on the White House balcony, looking sweaty and nervous.
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The Weaponization of Human Rights at the Human Rights Council
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Alas, the Human Rights Council has become predominantly a platform for those who engage in war-mongering and incitement to hatred. Notwithstanding the clear language of Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, many states practice flagrant Russophobia, Sinophobia and other phobias. Article 20 stipulates:
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The UK-Rwanda Pact to Keep Migrants from Crossing the English Channel
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – The UK is spearheading a European drive to outsource migrants to Rwanda.
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A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
“Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.”
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The Uncertainty Principle of Power Politics: “Arrogance, Hubris, Stupidity, …”
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
We are in the biggest and most fateful fight of and for our lives, despite the insufferably obtuse zombie indifference of so many who cannot or will not accept the irrefutable. Will the zombies be revived in time? Will the transnational Deep State Cabal implode? Will the citizenry stand strong? Who can be sure?
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Silex Scintillans
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
“Seek and ye shall find,”
I keep telling myself,
seeking along in my sneakers,
trying to find the way back to you,
Salaam (Music Video of the Week)
Alka Yagnik | T-Series – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
From the movie Umrao Jaan – Music by Anu Malik
(Please click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy)
Humanity in Hypnotic Thrall to a Techno-Industrial God
Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – As long as enough people buy into it for long enough, the slavery exercise will be irreversible.
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NATO Fails to Reduce Nuclear Risks at Vilnius Summit
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – The leaders of NATO countries, meeting in Vilnius at a time of unprecedented nuclear risk, took no action to reduce nuclear dangers and, on the contrary, issued a communique continuing to support the use of nuclear weapons. The alliance pointed to the risks posed by Russia’s nuclear weapons while hailing its own nuclear deterrent and nuclear sharing arrangements. It also criticised the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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Palestine: Destruction in Jenin Is ‘Catastrophic’: This Is What We Know So Far
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – Residents who were forced by the Israeli occupation forces to leave their homes and take refuge in hospitals reported that the attacks pursued them inside hospitals, supposed to be a haven. There were 12 Palestinians killed and 120 wounded, 20 of whom in serious condition.
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Competing with the Dollar: BRICS Launches Game-Changing Gold-Backed Currency
Jeff | Crypto News Flash - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – BRICS nations unveil a gold-backed digital currency that could challenge the US Dollar in global payments. It aims to enhance financial sovereignty, reduce reliance on existing monetary systems, and provide an alternative means of conducting global trade and accumulating reserves.
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Listening to Oppenheimer, Seven Decades Later
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – A mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission had taken away from him in 1954, declaring him to be not simply a communist but, in all likelihood, a Soviet spy.
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Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine Is a Grave Mistake
Adam Zikri | War Prevention Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – The War Prevention Initiative condemns the US decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. They kill and maim civilians indiscriminately after the war, contaminating land for decades after they are used. They do not win wars and will only hurt current and future generations of Ukrainians.
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Executive Pay: A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?
Sam Pizzigati | Inequality – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.
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Greenwald: Ex-Spies Run Censorship Operations for Tech Giants
Brenda Baletti | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – On a recent episode of his show ‘System Update,’ journalist Glenn Greenwald explained how the ‘censorship-industrial complex’ merges corporate media, big tech and the security state to crack down on dissent.
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Science Activism Is Surging – Which Marks a Culture Shift among Scientists
Scott Frickel and Fernando Tormos-Aponte | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
6 Jul 2023 – India: Hundreds of scientists protested government restriction of access to Western science theories, including Darwin’s. Mexico: Scientists participated in a research strike to protest a law that would threaten basic research. Norway: Three scientists were arrested for protesting the nation’s slow-moving climate policy.
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NATO Isn’t Defending Ukraine–It’s Stabbing It in the Back
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – The US and its allies are sustaining the very war they now cite as grounds for disqualifying Kyiv from NATO membership.
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Pierangelo Pirak | Vimeo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
The Neuroscience, Physics, and Philosophy of Freedom in a Universe of Fixed Laws
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NATO Is a Warfare Alliance, Not a Force for Global Peace or Stability
Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd | CODEPINK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – CODEPINK’s Statement on 2023 NATO Summit
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Gitmo’s Permanent Chains
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Now comes yet another little-noted UN Report on the continuing excesses and inhumanity at Guantánamo Bay, the post-9/11 US military prison that only two decades ago set the standard for war crimes.
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The Orca Uprising: Whales Are Ramming Boats–but Are They Inspired by Revenge, Grief or Memory?
Emma Beddington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – A pod in the strait of Gibraltar has sunk three boats and damaged dozens of others, and their story has captivated the world. What explains this unprecedented behaviour?
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The Jenin Operation Didn’t End–Phase Two Has Already Begun
Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – The Israeli army’s bulldozers and airstrikes not only leveled Jenin refugee camp, but paved the way for the PA to return to the camp and reassert its influence. This is the unofficial second phase of the Jenin operation.
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Profit-Driven Systems Are Driving Us to Our Doom
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – Under our current systems for profit generation, making a quality product that lasts a long time instead of quickly going obsolete or turning into landfill will actually drive you into bankruptcy.
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Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
Peace appeals to the heart; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart. And that, in a nutshell, is what peace studies and peace practice are all about.
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Analysing EU Foreign Policy on Russia before the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Rob May | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
28 Jun 2023 – A change in power image resulting from militarisation would restrain Europe’s normative impulses and introduce greater cognitive flexibility to policymaking.
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Fear and Loathing on Air Force One
Seymour M. Hersh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
15 Jul 2023 – A silly fear that signals the Democratic Party’s panic about the 2024 Presidential election: Trump could be the Republican nominee and will select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate. The duo will then sweep to a huge victory over Joe Biden and take down many of the party’s House and Senate candidates.
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The Federal Debt Trap: Issues and Possible Solutions
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – The US achieved its greatest-ever infrastructure campaign in the Great Depression. We can do that again with the same machinery: off-budget financing through a government-owned financial institution. It is good to have viable alternatives when, as in the 1930s, politicians are compelled to seek them out.
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Stronger Respect for International Humanitarian Law: NGO Action Needed!
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – The carnage in Ukraine and the violent actions by ethnic militias in the DRC have highlighted that the Geneva Conventions are not bedside reading for those engaged in war. There are warlords whose only claim to the charisma of leadership is the ruthlessness with which they wield a gun.
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At Summit, NATO Reiterates It Will Fight Russia to the Last Ukrainian
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – At the Vilnius summit, NATO assured more arms to Ukraine to fight Russians instead of Zelensky’s much-desired accession to the war alliance.
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US’ Top Competition Watchdog Opens Investigation into ChatGPT Maker
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – FTC makes move on claims OpenAI has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk.
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The Magaverse
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Or is it Megaverse?
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Jenin Raid Is Over–Palestinians Are Left to Cope with the Trauma
Virginia Pietromarchi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – Palestinians sift through the wreckage of their destroyed homes and of their damaged psyches. In Palestine, there’s no PTSD. Trauma is chronic and enduring.
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Extremist Ideology in Europe: ‘Leave Everyone Behind’ (Except Us)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – A glance at the European political map would show how far the extremist ideology has been installed in European countries–those who still wave the French Revolution’s flag of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.”
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
India is a big country and a democracy–people call India the biggest democracy in the world. It has 28 states, some big some small. The largest state, UP (Uttar Pradesh) in north India has a population of about 230 million, larger than populations of many countries of the world.
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Temperatures Off the Charts, but More Records Imminent: WMO
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – Global sea surface temperatures reached a record high in May, June and July – and the warming El Niño weather pattern is only just getting started – experts at the UN World Meteorological Organization said today.
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From ICC to ‘Sportswashing’: West’s Self-Serving Narratives Must Be Combated
Ramzy Baroud | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – The denunciation of the ICC came two days after the court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes. The speed with which the case against him was lodged, discussed, and followed by concrete action raised questions about the integrity, balance and political agenda of the Western-inclined court.
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The Impact of Prehistoric Religious Rituals on Pillars of Peace (Part 4)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
This paper, the fourth part in the series on “Pillars of Peace,” discusses the impact and contributions the Prehistoric Religious Rituals in general have made to the structure and spiritual fibre of the essence of individual, community and global peace.
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Palestinian Hope: Present and Future
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – The past 30 hours, Israeli occupation and apartheid forces invaded the city of Jenin including the Jenin Refugee camp. They bulldozed streets and electricity and water infrastructure. They prevented ambulances and attacked he press. Thousands of people were forced to leave their homes. A second ethnic cleansing for them.
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Today in War Propaganda
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – The New York Times has an article with the headline “Cluster Weapons U.S. Is Sending Ukraine Often Fail to Detonate.” The real story isn’t that the US has failed to send Ukraine its primo mint-condition cluster bombs, the story is that undetonated munitions will kill civilians and keep killing them even long after the fighting stops.
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(Italiano) 11 settembre: Chi è stato? E perché importa al movimento pacifista
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Johan Galtung mi presentò a Graeme a un simposio TRANSCEND nel 2011 in North Carolina. L’11 settembre non era nell’agenda formale, ma emerse in conversazioni laterali con l’approssimarsi del 10° anniversario. Galtung ha sempre promosso un dialogo aperto su argomenti provocanti, tenendo testa a una propensione delle istituzioni accademiche e delle maggiori piattaforme mediatiche ad ignorare opinioni dissenzienti sul 11.09 passandole per infatuate teorie cospiratorie.
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‘A Real Massacre’: Israel’s Attack on Palestinians in Jenin
Arwa Ibrahim | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Israel’s bloody incursion against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank continues with growing calls for the protection of civilians and fears the tense situation could explode into another devastating war. Israeli forces kill at least nine Palestinians as major military operation continues in the Jenin refugee camp.
→ read full article(Italiano) Vertice NATO di Vilnius: 30 anni di provocazioni di conflitti
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Luglio 2023 – Il prossimo vertice NATO avrà luogo a Vilnius, Lituania, il 11-12 luglio 2023, quasi esattamente 26 anni dopo (8-9 luglio 1997) quello tenutosi a Madrid, che confermò ”L’atto di Fondazione di Mutui Rapporti, Cooperazione e Sicurezza fra la NATO e la Federazione Russa”.
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Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media.
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IAEA Endorses Japan’s Release of Treated Water from Fukushima Plant
Eric Johnston | The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Jul 2023 – The International Atomic Energy Agency gave an essential endorsement today of a controversial plan by Japan to release treated water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the Pacific, paving the way for it to be released this summer.
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(Italiano) Innovazione spaziale da Parigi a Torino
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Luglio 2023 – Dal 19 al 25 giugno 2023 si è svolta a Parigi una importante esposizione: il Salone Internazionale dell’Aeronautica e dello Spazio. Il Salone di Parigi ha registrato la presenza di 130.000 professionsti (43% dall’estero) e 170.000 visitatori del grande pubblico; 322 delegazioni ufficiali, 1850 giornalisti accreditati.
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(Français) Haïti : la solution volée
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
6 juillet 2023 – Il y a deux ans, était assassiné le président haïtien, Jovenel Moïse. L’ONU développe ces dernières semaines une offensive diplomatique pour appuyer l’envoi d’une force internationale sur place. La communauté internationale s’obstine à passer à côté de la solution avancée par une grande partie de la société civile haïtienne.
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Communism, Capitalism and Feudalism: How Nominalism Makes Us Fools
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – Nominalism can be thought of as a “rule of reasoning” governing which pathways our minds use as we move from ignorance to understanding on any topic imaginable. In essence, this school of thought presumes that reality can only be known through the names and definitions given to things and processes in the real world.
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Dispelling the Myths about Palestinian Refugees — in Jenin and Beyond
Anne Irfan | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – With Israel’s Jenin invasion sparking a new round of misinformation, here are the truths behind five hasbara tropes on Palestinian refugees.
→ read full articleWhy More Upstream Care Ethics Are Badly Needed
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
The time has come for ethics of care. In the plural. Reverberating through revivals of venerable old spiritual caring traditions. Reverberating through adoptions of benevolent new innovative caring practices. My story starts in Sweden in the early 1970s.
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Declassified Files Expose British Role in NATO’s Gladio Terror Armies
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine?
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Ukraine and the Cluster Bombs Debate
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – There is currently a debate, at the highest foreign policy-making level in the U.S.A., concerning the delivery of cluster bombs to Ukraine in support of the ongoing counter offensive. However, cluster weapons have been outlawed on 30 May 2008 by the Cluster Weapons Convention, signed by many states.
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Conditions for Guantanamo Detainees Are Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading, UN Investigator Says
Edith M. Lederer | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
26 Jun 2023 – The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said today the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.”
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Authors File a Lawsuit against OpenAI for Unlawfully ‘Ingesting’ Their Books
Ella Creamer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay allege that their books, which are copyrighted, were ‘used to train’ ChatGPT because the Chatbot generated ‘very accurate summaries’ of the works.
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In Bid to Compete with Twitter, Zuckerberg Launches Social Media App That ‘Collects All Your Data and Follows You Everywhere’
Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – One day after a federal judge barred Biden administration officials and agencies from communicating with social media about censoring content, Mark Zuckerberg launched Threads — Meta’s new social media platform to compete with Twitter.
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UN Forcefully Hits at US Blockade of Cuba and Prison in Guantanamo
W.T. Whitney Jr. | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – The United Nations put forth a denunciation that carries unusual force because of its legal authority and practical experience in Cuba. Internal criticism of U.S. policies on Cuba is brushed aside due to the low priority Washington officials assign to Cuban affairs.
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The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
How to grow “absorbed into the being or existence of the universe.”
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The Role of Artmaking and Symbolism in Trauma Therapy
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – In the long-term treatment of Complex Trauma, when we look at the internal processes that go on within the mind and body of a trauma survivor, we realise that it is a complicated process because what we are trying to disentangle is multidimensional and invisible.
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