Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Appraising Mikhail Gorbachev
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
6 Sep 2022 – Mikhail Gorbachev had the greatest historical impact of any public figure since WW II. It is a bitterly polarized legacy of admiration and historical achievement in the West and one of contempt and almost total disrepute in Russia.
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The Children of the Gods of War (Part 3): The Lost Innocence of a Generation of Syrian Children
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
“The Forgotten War in Syria – The Lost World of Children”
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Hundreds of Millions of Children Sentenced to Ignorance
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
7 Sep 2022 – More than two-thirds of 10-year-olds are unable to read and understand a simple text. This shocking finding should be enough to be alarmed about the horrifying fate of an entire generation. But there is much more.
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Afghanistan: A Hidden Trophy Worth more than a Trillion Dollars
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
6 Sep 2022 – How the Taliban’s regime has in just a few months erased with a stroke of a pen all the “great achievements” made over 20 years of US and allies’ massive military attacks on Afghanistan’s unarmed population. Has all this happened in just 12 months?
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Conflicts with Asteroid Mining
The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – Questions abound about unregulated space mining. Before humans rush off into the heavens in a quest to extract wealth, that the institutions on Earth be enabled and prepared to monitor and regulate the process.
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All-Day Peace Conference in the UK: The Game of War and the Path to Peace
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
24 September 2022 – 10am to 6pm — Harrogate, Yorkshire. Organized by HUFUD and Harrogate Quakers
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The Art of Choosing Love over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
“You’ll long for me when I’m gone… You’ll kiss the headstone of my grave… Kiss my face instead!”
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Really?
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
How Poignant!
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Ultra-Hawk Liz Truss to Be Next British Prime Minister
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
5 Sep 2022 – Truss said at a recent town hall that she would be ‘ready’ to launch nuclear weapons as prime minister.
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Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
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An Open letter to Mrs Olena Zelenska from Roger Waters
Roger Waters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
5 Sep 2022 – Dear Mrs Zelenska, peace may lie in your husband’s previously stated good intentions and in the platform he so laudably ran for the office of President of Ukraine and won:
A) To end the civil war in the East and bring peace to the Donbas and partial autonomy to Donetsk and Luhansk.
B) To ratify and implement the rest of the body of the Minsk2 agreements.
Putin Sees Future with Asia and Claims Western Economic Decline in New Speech
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
9 Sep 2022 – Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin addressed Western sanctions, Russia’s growing relationship with Asia and an update on Ukraine.
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Gorbachev’s Legacy
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In 11 Mar 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union. Within a few weeks, his full-scale reformation began to unfold. Perestroika (“restructuring”)—as Gorbachev called his reforms—officially ended with the URSS in 1991. The historic opportunities for a better future it offered Russia have been steadily undermined ever since.
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Electoral Conflicts and Political Polarization: What Can Mediators Do?
Kenneth Cloke | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In conflict, our options ultimately boil down to two: go it alone or face it together. We make these choices every day, as individuals and neighbors, as organizations, societies, and nations. With the development of mediation, dialogue facilitation, collaborative negotiation, consensus building, and similar skills, we are better able to face our problems together and collaboratively.
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BEG and BUY
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
There are some markets in Delhi, the capital of India, where one can see and buy beautiful, expensive products. These range from clothes and shoes to slippers, eye-wear, etc. Even sports items are on display.
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Film ‘I Am Peace’ from Alberto Portugheis Selected
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
The Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace (GAMIP) Short Film Forum 2022
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Ukraine and the Crisis of Media Censorship
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
2 Sep 2022 – Throughout the Ukraine war, Western news outlets have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real world.
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Organized Religion
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Within the eloquent vocabulary is the deep revelation and insightful perception of the dangers that exist within most of today’s worldly forms of theistic institutions and their misleading religious indoctrination. A must read; twice if necessary.
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Flamenco Dance Farruca (Music Video of the Week)
Melina Najjar with Yazan Ibrahim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Dancer: Melina Najjar – Guitarist: Yazan Ibrahim – Kick back and enjoy…
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Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
11 Sep 2022 – No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.
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Coronavirus September Update
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
New Insights into the Coronavirus Pandemic – September 2022
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The Ukraine Proxy War Has Been a Propaganda Win for Interventionists
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
6 Sep 2022 – Neocon erotica publication The Atlantic has a new article out titled “The Rise of the Liberal Hawks” which is infuriating as much for its sycophantic empire apologia as it is for the fact that much it is entirely correct.
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A Crisis of Consent in UN Peace Operations
Anjali Dayal | Global Observatory/International Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
2 Aug 2022 – Last week, at least 15 people died in protests demanding UN peacekeepers leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The week before, the military junta ruling Mali halted troop rotations for the UN mission there and ejected the mission’s deputy spokesperson. These incidents highlight deep-seated crises of consent and legitimacy.
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Who Benefits from US Government Claims That the UFO Threat Is Increasing ‘Exponentially’?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
5 Sep 2022 – The US government’s newly named Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office: someone’s benefiting from this. And it’s unreasonable to expect the most murderous and tyrannical regime on earth to tell us the truth about UFOs when it would stand nothing to gain. We ordinary people should do our best to understand what’s happening for ourselves.
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Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
4 Sep 2022 – The U.S. posits itself as a champion of opportunity, freedom, human rights and civil liberties, even as half the country struggles at subsistence level, militarized police gun down and imprison the poor with impunity, and the primary business of the state is war. This collective self-delusion masks who we have become. Under inverted totalitarianism, there is no attempt, unlike fascism and state socialism, to address the needs of the poor.
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Lawmakers Seek Answers on Pentagon’s Role in Deadly Nigeria Airstrike
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – A new congressional caucus called on Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III today to disclose details of the U.S. role in an airstrike that killed more than 160 Nigerian civilians at a displaced persons’ camp, including many children.
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Top 10 Reasons Sweden and Finland Will Regret Joining NATO
David Swanson | World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
7 Sep 2022 – Friendly advice to my brothers and sisters in Finland and Sweden.
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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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(Italiano) La minaccia nucleare: verso la presa di coscienza?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Per anni il pubblico occidentale (ma anche quello giapponese!) fu tenuto all’oscuro della reale entità della tragedia provocata dalle esplosioni nucleari in Giappone. Poi gradualmente la censura lasciò filtrare documenti e testimonianze…
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
“Transforming education means empowering learners with knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to be resilient, adaptable and prepared for the uncertain future while contributing to human and planetary well-being and sustainable development.”
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(Português) Alimentar-se de animais é uma forma de consumo consciente?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
7 set 2022 – Há um estreitamento no uso do termo e em seu conceito, ainda que “consciente” implique em reconhecimento de impactos nocivos e evitáveis.
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Global Peace and Human Security: Are We, the People, and Global Leaders at Crossroads?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Global Leaders Lack Understanding of the Nature, Peace and Human Security
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‘Refusing Is the Minimum’: Why These Israeli Teens Are Objecting to Army Service
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
2 Sep 2022 – Ahead of imprisonment, four conscientious objectors share their reasons for refusing conscription and their hopes of inspiring opposition to apartheid.
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The Amazon Rainforest Has Already Reached a Crucial Tipping Point
Luke Taylor | New Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
5 Sep 2022 – About 26 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has already been lost or badly degraded and without intervention the rest could transform into savannah, says a report on its status.
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A Tremendously Innocent Man
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Meanwhile, in the US of A
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The Bewildering Vote in Chile That Rejected a New Constitution
Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
On 4 Sep 2022, more than 13 million Chileans voted on a proposal to introduce a new constitution in the country. As it happened, Pinochet’s constitution remains in place with more than 61 percent of voters rejecting the new constitution and only 38 percent of voters approving it.
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Chain of Corruption: How the White Helmets Compromised OPCW Investigations in Syria
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
9 Sep 2022 – By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, US-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence.
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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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Peace Talks Essential as War Rages on in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
5 Sep 2022 – The urgent need for peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, the role that the US and the UK played in killing the promising 15-point peace plan that was negotiated between Russia and Ukraine in March, and the ever-escalating consequences of that intervention.
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San Diego: At the Intersection of Militarism and Patriarchal Gender
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In the pool
a girl,
slim and new-breasted, treads water,
Western Media Continues to Ignore Ukraine’s Public ‘Kill List’ Aimed at Those Who Question the Kiev Regime
Eva Bartlett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
11 Sep 2022 – The Mirotvorets list is an issue trending in independent and Russian media, but not in the mainstream international press.
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Gorbachev: Dramaturge?!
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Paper prepared for the 12th Conference (Barcelona, 1991) of the World Futures Studies Federation. Participative Democracy vs. Participative Drama: Lessons on social transformation for international organizations from Gorbachev.
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NPT’s Second Failure to Reach Consensus
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
3 Sep 2022 – The 4-week UN Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference (NPT RevCon), rescheduled from May 2020 due to Covid, ended around 11:30 PM on August 26, 2022 in its second failure to reach consensus. This highlights the need for input from our field of conflict transformation.
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Is It Time to Stop Bullying Iran? Washington Should Restore the Nuclear Program Agreement with Iran Now
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
4 Sep 2022 – It is time for the morally attuned public to awake to the reality that a nuclear Israel has neither security justifications nor political grounds for its continuing bullying of Iran. Iran’s political solidarity with some movements in the region pales in its gravity compared to the U.S. and Israel’s discretionary bombing, political assassinations, interventions, and violations of the basic sovereign rights of countries in the Middle East.
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(Italiano) Sociocidio, Genocidio, Ecocidio d’Israele in Palestina
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Sociocidio è un nuovo concetto che non ha ancora trovato il proprio spazio nel diritto internazionale positivo. Genocidio, l’ineffabile crimine di uccisione di massa di membri di un genus, una nazione, per nessun altro motivo che tale loro appartenenza.
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Free Speech Doesn’t Matter if Propagandists Determine What People Say
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
29 Aug 2022 – None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. None are more hopelessly ignorant than those who falsely believe they’re informed. None are more hopelessly propagandized than those who don’t know they are propagandized.
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From Warfare to Peacefare Economic Thinking
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
20 Aug 2022 – This analysis of warfare, peace and economic thinking was written at the invitation of the China Investment Magazine and published in its July 2022 issue in both Chinese and English.
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Getting It Wrong on Ukraine
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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Factchecking the Factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and Media Access
John Kempthorne | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – US-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective. When social critic Noam Chomsky pointed out how unprecedented this was, Newsweek‘s “factchecker” (26 Jul 2022) declared his criticism “clearly untrue”—a determination that did more to confirm the ideological strictures of US media than to debunk them.
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(Italiano) Il come ricordiamo Hiroshima e Norimberga riflette il potere non la giustizia
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
I pacifisti del vasto mondo sovente scelgono l’8 agosto ogni anno per provare di nuovo la sofferenza umana e la devastazione causate dallo sgancio di bombe atomiche sulle città giapponesi inermi di Hiroshima e Nagasaki.
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The Children of the Gods of War (Part 2): The Ongoing Rohingya Genocide
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
The Impact on Children of the Mass Exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar by Peace Disruptors
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USA: How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
2 Sep 2022 – There are work-arounds the U.S. can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-needed infrastructure that was left out of the two recent spending bills.
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(Italiano) Dalla propaganda di guerra al giornalismo di pace: Russia-Ucraina-Usa/Nato
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Questa serie di articoli ha sostenuto che la guerra in Ucraina è alimentata da una campagna di propaganda che nasconde l’aggressività precedente e attuale della NATO e degli Stati Uniti nei confronti della Russia, nonché le possibilità di raggiungere una soluzione pacifica risolvendo i conflitti sottostanti.
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We’re Being Trained to Worry about ‘Russian Propaganda’ while Drowning in US Propaganda
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Whose Propaganda Is Most Worrisome? – One of the weirdest things today is the way the western world is trained to freak out about “Russian propaganda” while ignoring that we are marinating in billions of dollars worth of US empire propaganda.
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The Most Important Election in the Americas Is in Brazil
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Both Bolsonaro and Lula face an electorate that either loves them or hates them. There is little room for ambiguity in this race. Bolsonaro represents not only the far right, whose opinions he openly champions, but he also represents large sections of the middle class, whose aspirations for wealth remain largely intact despite the reality that their economic situation has deteriorated over the past decade.
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(Italiano) Nuovi modelli di conflitto e debolezza dei movimenti per la pace
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
L’inizio della guerra russo-ucraina nel febbraio 2022 ha drammatizzato un pericoloso conflitto globale tra gli Stati Uniti e i loro avversari della Guerra Fredda, Russia e Cina. Un conflitto regionale che avrebbe potuto essere risolto mediante negoziati o dialoghi tra le parti è diventato relativamente intrattabile, senza soluzioni immediate in vista.
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Mediation and Restorative Justice in Latin America
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – Latin America continues to advance towards a culture of peace: Last month we reviewed results of elections in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia; a progressive government has returned to Bolivia following the coup d’état against Evo Morales; Lula da Silva is favored to win the presidency of Brazil in next month’s election.
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«I Am Peace»
GAMIP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
The Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace (GAMIP) Short Film Forum 2022
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(Italiano) Intelligenza Artificiale: aspetti etici e responsabilità degli scienziati
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Dell’Intelligenza Artificiale (IA) si parla e si scrive ormai da decenni: tra finanziamenti alla ricerca, sperimentazioni nei più disparati ambiti, e applicazioni concrete, si può affermare che non c’è quasi aspetto della vita umana che non sia stato già cambiato, o che non possa essere modificato nel prossimo futuro.
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The Meaning of Success
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
One Image Is Worth a Million Moral, Philosophical, or Psychological Studies or Treatises
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CIA Sued over Alleged Spying on Lawyers, Journalists Who Met Assange
Kanishka Singh | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
15 Aug 2022 – A group of journalists and lawyers sued the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador’s embassy in London.
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Thirty Six Percent of Mass Shooters Were Trained by the U.S. Military, but the Media Never Report It
Jack Gilroy | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – Media pundits and politicians blame lax gun laws, social isolation and mental illness for mass shootings, but ignore the advent of a fascist culture that venerates the U.S. military.
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Leo Tolstoy (9 Sep 1828 – 20 Nov 1910)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most-diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ endure as the summit of realist fiction.
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The Hundred Year War on Palestine
Jim Miles | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Rashid Khalidi’s book is an interesting well written overview of the Zionist colonial-settler enterprise in Palestine. How the creation of Israel fits into the colonial-settler mindset that established the current Five Eyes scenario of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia within the global influence of the British empire.
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Generations of Resistance to War
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
My 1950’s parents’ generation had grown up in the Depression and fixated on stability and security, measuring progress by their possessions: buying their first car, first television, first house. Their morality centered on controlling sexuality and protecting private property. Their deepest philosophy was, “There is no free lunch.” The peak of their scientific achievement was the hydrogen bomb.
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Living Peacefully in the World
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Our Mounting Needs Are Spoiling the Environment
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An Evening with Brendan O’Hara (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Get ready to be drawn into the soulful sounds and riveting performance of Brendan O’Hara, who leaves his heart and moves spirits on every stage he graces.
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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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RIP Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Peace Laureate
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – I am sad to learn of the death of Mikhail Gorbachev on Tue, 30 Aug 2022. I had the honour of meeting him on several occasions at Nobel Peace Summits. May we all be inspired by his spirit, courage, integrity and vision of Nuclear Disarmament and Peace for Russia, the West and the World.
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(Italiano) Per una politica di pace: ripudiare la guerra
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Sereno Regis/Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Per assicurare una pace giusta e stabile è necessario negare collaborazione politica, economica, culturale, emotiva, psicologica, alle politiche di guerra, di qualunque stato o potenza. Per la pace è necessario uscire dalle culture politiche militari e dalle alleanze militari di difesa offensiva.
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Did the West ‘Bring War’ to Ukraine? One Expert Makes the Case
David C. Speedie | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – The war in Ukraine, and the role of NATO and the Atlanticist powers, are fueled by an official western narrative depicting the conflict as one between the little Ukrainian David and the brutish Goliath Russia. The invasion was unwarranted and vicious providing justification for a tally of US$57 billion in lethal and non-lethal aid from the U.S. alone, with the UK at its side.
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US Asked British Spy Agency to Stop Guardian Publishing Snowden Revelations
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – The US National Security Agency tried to persuade its British counterpart to stop the Guardian publishing revelations about secret mass data collection from the NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, according to a new book.
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(Français) Médiation et Justice Restauratrice en Amérique Latine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 septembre 2022 – L’Amérique latine continue de progresser vers une culture de la paix. Le mois dernier, nous avons passé en revue les résultats progressistes des élections au Mexique, au Chili, au Pérou et en Colombie. Lula da Silva est favori pour remporter la présidence du Brésil au cours de la prochaine l’élection du mois.
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The Amazon Undone: Deforesters Are Plundering the Amazon and Brazil Is Letting Them Get away with It
Terrence McCoy | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – A Failure of Enforcement: series revealing how crime, corruption and greed are speeding the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest.
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Staring into the Eyes of the Wolf
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Close your eyes and try to envision the two wolves. The wise grandfather explains to the child that the two wolves are inside all of us. One of the wolves is an arrogant narcissist — a jerk, an egocentric idiot. You know, evil. The other is the embodiment of joy and empathy, kindness and love. The trembling child asks in alarm: “Which one wins?”
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The Classification of Solitude –> Aranavibhangasuttam
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
I heard thus: At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery offered by Anathapindika in Jeta’s grove in Savatthi. The Blessed One addressed the Bhikkhus from there. ‘Bhikkhus, I will teach the Classification of solitude listen carefully and attentively.’
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Digitizing Your Identity Is the Fast-Track to Slavery: How Can You Defend Your Freedom?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Throughout your lifetime, you or someone you trusted has unwittingly given up many aspects of your biometric and other personal data so that your digital identity can be created. Over time, this digital identity is being progressively defined and is replacing your actual physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual identity.
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(Italiano) Fare soldi con la guerra
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Secondo l’Istituto Internazionale di Ricerca sulla Pace di Stoccolma (SIPRI), nel 2021 il mondo ha speso 2,113 trilioni di dollari in armamenti. Di questa cifra quasi incomprensibile, gli Stati Uniti hanno speso quasi la metà del totale, 801 miliardi di dollari. Ecco come fare soldi con la guerra.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Climate-related threats are becoming more severe: record-breaking heat waves in Europe, Americas and China; drought and falling water tables; the poles are warming four times faster than the remainder of the world. What actions can we take to avoid a catastrophe? Below is a list of helpful actions that can and should be taken.
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Report: Russia, Ukraine Tentatively Agreed on Peace Deal in April
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv not long after the talks and told Zelensky not to negotiate with Russia, saying the West wasn’t ready to sign a deal.
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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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A Tale of Spanish Neckties and Other Made-in-Europe Things
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – While the United States continue to rank top oil and weapons producers, the world’s citizens are, once more, to pay the price: skyrocketing energy and food prices, unprecedented inflation rates, economic slowdown and the risk of a great recession, just to mention some.
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With Western Imperial Decline, Capitalism Is in Crisis – a New Phase Is Emerging
João Romeiro Hermeto | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – The energy crisis in Europe, proxy war in Ukraine, rebellion in the Global South, and expansion of the BRICS reflect the decline of Western imperialism and growing cracks in the capitalist world system.
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Learning How to Die: Finding Meaning in the Midst of Collapse
Elizabeth West – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Remember: no matter how dire things become, no one can force us to surrender our right to love—nature, one another, ourselves—and to be loved. These will always be ours to choose.
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Come again?!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Mondale: “George W. Bush doesn’t have the manhood to apologize.”
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It Is a Good Time to Appreciate the Insects
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
It is a good time to appreciate the insects
and functioning supply chains
and normal weather
and the fact that there are whales.
WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent about His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said nothing about the TPLF’s recent theft of fuel intended for UN relief efforts in Ethiopia.
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All the Way to Odessa
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
26 Aug 2022 – The leadership in Moscow is making it very clear, the new deal consists in slow cooking the Kiev racket inside a massive cauldron while polishing its status of financial black hole for the collective West. Until we reach boiling point – which will be a revolution or a putsch.
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How Can North Americans Tolerate U.S. Government’s Crucifixion of Julian Assange?
Eric Zuesse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – Julian Assange has long been in solitary-confinement imprisonment in Britain awaiting extradition to the USA on charges that could bring him 175 years in prison, but he has never been convicted of anything, and the U.S. government has violated both the U.S. Constitution and U.S. laws.
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Six Months into Ukraine’s Collapse, the World Has Changed Forever
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
24 Aug 2022 – The inevitable transfer of power away from the west is leading to a surge in state-sponsored terrorism, but this will do little to reverse the trend. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, this is the way the (new) world begins, not with a whimper but a bang.
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Howard Zinn at 100: the Enduring Legacy of the U.S. People’s Historian
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
24 Aug 2022 marked six months since Russia launched its war on Ukraine, with millions displaced and tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers killed. That same day marked the centennial of the late historian Howard Zinn’s birth. He was an author, professor, and anti-war activist.
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The Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA, 2015) Should Be Renewed
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – Undoing the human and diplomatic harm of Trump’s international legacy is a complex matter that not only exhibits the persisting influence of unrepentant Trumpists but the passivity of the Democratic Party leadership, particularly when it dares to disagree with Israel on a matter of foreign policy concern.
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Albino Sisters Born 12 Years Apart Become Modeling Sensations
Viral Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
These two beautiful girls show what it means to embrace your unique qualities and let them shine.
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New Thinking on Military Defense Needs
Marc Pilisuk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
28 Aug 2022 – The US Pentagon FY 2021 budget calls for $705.4 b. up from $704.6 in FY2020, amounting to more than half of all discretionary funding and exceeding the military spending of the next 10 counties combined: supporting 800 military bases in 70 countries…. A better and more peaceful world is possible. We must envision it, promote it, and let our leaders know that we require it.
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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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The Children of the Gods of War (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
The Death, Abuse and Suffering of Children by the Evil Purveyors of Regional Conflicts
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Ron Tandberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Go Figure
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Vandana Shiva: “This Is How We Beat the Great Reset”
Russell Brand - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Renowned environmental activist and author, Vandana Shiva, joined me and we spoke about the mainstream media, great reset, and more.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Israels forbrytelser mot Palestina
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Samfunnsdrap er villet lemlestelse – drap av et samfunn ved å eliminere forutsetningene for et levende, levende, dynamisk samfunn.
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