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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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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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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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India–Largest Democracy and Its Responsibilities
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.
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(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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(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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(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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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.
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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 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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War and Peace: Global Leaders Who Betrayed Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
How to Mirror the On-Going Injustice and Insanity against Besieged Mankind?
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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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How a Notorious Georgia Army School Became America’s Training Ground for Global Torture
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – The School of the Americas (now known as Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or WHINSEC), where around 84,000 Latin American soldiers and police officers have been taught how to kill, torture and how to stamp out political activists.
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Hollywood Actress Katerina Pavelek Died through Assisted Suicide Due to COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries
Dr. William Makis MD | COVID Intel/Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
23 Jun 2023 – Slovakian Model and Hollywood Actress Katerina Pavelek Ended Her Life at an Assisted Suicide Clinic in Basel, Switzerland on 1 Jun 2023 at the age of 41 Due to COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Injuries (ME, CFS, ALS) [Pegasos Swiss Association, Basel]
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Israel’s Bloodcurdling ‘Poison Policy’ to Replace Palestinians with Jewish Settlers
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Jul 2023 – A shocking document last September revealed that, during the 1948 Nakba, Zionist militias engaged in a wide-ranging chemical and biological warfare campaign to expel indigenous Palestinian communities from their lands, slow the advance of intervening Arab armies, and poison citizens of neighboring states.
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Eco Not Ego
Markus Spiske – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
An Essential Response to the Climate Crisis
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Somalia: The Lawless Frontier
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – A UN “peacekeeping” mission continues operations in Somalia.
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Sudan: A Failed Mediation Process
Meg-Ann Lenoble | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – The two generals had jointly orchestrated the Oct 2021 coup, leading to the fall of the civilian government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, thus leading them both to the governance of Sudan. Allies in the past, how can we explain this reversal?
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Delhi is the capital of India and is also important historically, politically, culturally. Its population and buildings, institutions, roads, highways have shot up in the last few years and it continues to grow in all directions.
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Multiple Articles by the U.S. Warfare Report
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Jul 2023 – News from the Source of War and Destruction
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Dr. Denis Rancourt: Covid Injections Have Killed 13 Million People Worldwide
Rhoda Wilson | The Exposé - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
26 Jun 2023 – Dr. Denis Rancourt’s research has shown that the vaccination campaign in India caused the deaths of 3.7 million fragile residents. And, “in Western countries, we quantified the average all-ages rate of death to be 1 death for every 2,000 injections, to increase exponentially with age … We estimated that the vaccines had killed 13 million worldwide,” he said.
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The Not-So-Discreet U.S. Campaign to Pressure Brazil’s Foreign Policy
Pedro Marin | Revista Opera/Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Machiavelli has been exhaustively remembered these days, in the context of the Wagner Group mutiny in Russia, for his classic lessons on the use of mercenaries. It is also worth recalling the Florentine’s words about certain types of “allies”: “These arms may be useful and good in themselves, but for him who calls them in they are always disadvantageous; for losing, one is undone, and winning, one is their captive.”
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Mr Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4th JULY 2023 – HAPPY 4th!
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Afghanistan: Civil War among the Taliban?
Ozair Khan | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – Prominent Taliban figures have criticized the ban on girls’ education, including Abdul Salam Hanafi, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, who said: “We can only develop the country with high-standard educational institutions. …”
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NATO’s Scorched Earth in Ukraine
Tony Kevin | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
The forthcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 11-12 infected by a strange policy fatalism. The West seems content to let Zelensky go on wasting Ukraine’s increasingly scarce military-age men in a process described as NATO’s assisted suicide of the Ukrainian nation.
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Religious Perspectives on Pillars of Peace (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
From Antiquity to the 21st Century: Tracing the Evolution of Religious Contributions to Community and Global Peace
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The Facts about Neo-Colonialism
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
6 Jul 2023 – Developing countries have forked out over $4.2tn in interest payments alone since 1980–a direct cash transfer to big banks in New York and London. Think of all the profits that BP extracts from Nigeria’s oil reserves, for example, or that Anglo-American pulls out of South Africa’s gold mines.
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Is Fukushima Wastewater Release Safe? What the Science Says
Bianca Nogrady | Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Radiation in the water will be diluted to almost-background levels, but some researchers are not sure this will be sufficient to mitigate the risks.
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‘No Guilty Bystander’ Tells the Inspiring Story of Thomas Gumbleton
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
6 Jul 2023 – What does it mean to live as a follower of Jesus in the struggle for justice in today’s world? No Guilty Bystander: The Extraordinary Life of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton tells the inspiring story of a bishop who has lived such a life in a world deeply in need of healing.
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Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government to Conceal Source of Syria’s Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
30 Jun 2023 – Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and BRAZEN THEFT BY U.S. FORCES OF 66,000 BARRELS OF SYRIAN OIL PER DAY (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back to the stone age.
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IAEA Reports on Fukushima Water Release
AEIAvideo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Jul 2023 – The International Atomic Energy Agency has finished its assessment of Japan’s plans to release the radioactive water stored at the Fukushima nuclear power station. The report was presented today to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
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No to NATO (Music Video of the Week)
Mistahi Corkill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
This song goes out to all peace loving people who are taking a courageous stand against US empire building and expansion of the aggressive, warmongering military alliance, NATO.
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How So Many Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nukes
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Social psychosis is widespread. The insouciant acceptance and support of psychotic rulers who promote first-strike nuclear war is very common; it is the United States’ nuclear policy. I recently wrote an article about the dangers of the fourteen U.S. Trident submarines.
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Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
30 Jun 2023 – Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story. But the Establishment hits back at journalists who try to tell it now. The way to prevent understanding of the Ukraine war is to suppress its history. A cartoon version says the conflict began in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine…
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SCO: Eurasian Leaders Focus on Common Goals and Sidestep Disagreements
Amb. Kanwal Sibal | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
6 Jul 2023 – The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s latest joint declaration is a level-headed take on challenges facing the world.
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Atrocity Propaganda in Modern Warfare
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
2 Jul 2023 – Atrocity Propaganda from World War I to the Ukraine War
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BlackRock Recruiter Who ‘Decides People’s Fate’ Says ‘War Is Good for Business’
O'keefe Media Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
19 Jun 2023 – The O’Keefe Media Group has published a new story focusing on perhaps James O’Keefe’s most powerful investigative subject to date, BlackRock Inc. Please click on Watch on YouTube.
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Huge Increase in Transnational Crime in Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – How come that in a world where technology is able to detect an ant in a jungle, the traffickers of death continue to carry out their lucrative criminal activities everywhere and in all fields, from weapons to prostitution, enslavement and drugs to deadly fake medicines, through oil, gas and poisoned food.
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Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
30 Jun 2023 – Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks that produce research of interest to them. The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a report from the Quincy Institute demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the US national discourse.
→ read full articleHuman Suffering Worsens in DRC, the Heart of Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
28 Jun 2023 – A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.
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PETA Demands U.S. Army Ban ‘Classified’ Weapon-Wounding Tests on Dogs, Others
Elena Waldman | PETA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
The U.S. Army is now explicitly permitting formerly banned laboratory experiments involving the wounding of dogs, cats, marine animals, and primates using weapons.
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Who Is National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Why He Should Debate RFK Jr
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
26 Jun 2023 – National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is one of the key people driving US foreign policy. He was mentored by Hillary Clinton with regime changes in Honduras, Libya and Syria. This article will describe his background, what he says, what he has been doing, where the US is headed and why this should be debated.
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They Lied about Afghanistan. They Lied about Iraq. And They Are Lying about Ukraine.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
2 Jul 2023 – The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war. The war industry, not Putin, is our most dangerous enemy.
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U.S. Depleted Uranium to Make Ukraine War Dirtier
John LaForge | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
30 Jun 2023 – The Biden administration is expected to supply Ukraine with highly controversial depleted-uranium munitions which are to be fired from the Abrams battle tanks the U.S. is sending to Kyiv.
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Fairytale (Music Video of the Week)
Alexander Rybak | Eurovision – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
LIVE | Grand Final | Eurovision 2009
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Stoicism: Unveiling the Elusive Path to Peace (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
Zeno’s Stoicism, Aurelius’ Foresight, Renatus’ Strategic Wisdom, and Galtung’s Positive Peace: The Collective Foundation and Pillars Upholding Peace
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The Prison of Religion and the Freedom in Vedic Culture
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
The reason I call it “The Prison of Religion” is that religion, when used improperly or without the real essence of spiritual truth, can also be a way of confining and restricting people of their understanding of the universe and themselves.
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Asia-Pacific NATO: Fanning the Flames of War (SHAPE Webinar)
Richard Falk, Joseph Camilleri and Chandra Muzaffar | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
“I encourage attendance at this webinar on July 4 or 5, depending on time zone, devoted to encroachment of NATO on Asia-Pacific security, with excellent speakers.”
— Richard Falk
The “Korean Solution” for Europe
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
26 Jun 2023 – Create a “Military Demarcation Line” in the EU, Put Ukraine under the Tutelage of Poland
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U.S. Intelligence Agencies Advance Disinformation about Chinese Spy Base in Cuba…
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
… to Gain Support for Cruel Embargo Costing Cubans $455 Million per Month – After having lied about WMDs, Russiagate, chemical weapons in Syria and so much more, the U.S. is now advancing the lie that Cuba is hosting a Chinese spy base.
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The Work of Happiness
May Sarton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
May Sarton, who has written so movingly about Unhappiness and Its Cure, explores in this poem “The Work of Happiness.” (Collected Poems: 1930–1993 public library)
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Why Is Europe the Epicenter of World Wars?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
1 Jul 2023 – Europe was the epicenter of World Wars I and II, and now it threatens, with its war in the Ukraine, to kindle World War III.
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Sky Getting Darker
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
The current armed conflict is among a Tutsi-led militia, Movement du 23 mars, DRC army, and different ethnic militias. President Felix Tshisehed sponsored the creation of local militias to help government soldiers, but the government does not control these militias.
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Portion Control
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
For the second year in a row, Mr. Fish came on top for Best Editorial Cartoon at the Los Angeles Press Club annual awards gala on 25 Jun 2023.
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“The Doomsday Machine”: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
1 Jul 2023 – As we remember Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who died in June, we look at how he was also a lifelong anti-nuclear activist, stemming from his time working as a nuclear planner for the U.S. government.
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Military Initiative by Australia, UK and USA (AUKUS) Is Another Major Step in Prospective War on China
Murray Horton | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
29 Jun 2023 – Peace groups in all three nations need to rally against provocative alliance that is a pivotal component of [nuclear?] war planning.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
Homo is a Latin word meaning man or human, and SAPIENS means wise or clever or astute. Thus, Homo sapiens means wise human beings that have evolved over a time period of about two million years from their primitive form.
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Prigozhin’s Folly
Seymour Hersh - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
29 Jun 2023 – The Russian ‘Revolt’ That Wasn’t Strengthens Putin’s Hand
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New Book: Collected Essays VII
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
I would like to announce the publication of my recent ebook. It may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link:
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The Bolshevik Color Revolution of 1917 and Prigozhin’s 2023 Gambit: Trotsky, Russell, and the War on Civilization
Matthew Ehret | The Last American Vagabond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – Now, I don’t know if the events catalyzed by Prigozhin’s are part of a ‘game within a game’ to flush out fifth columnists and provide a headfake to western strategists… OR if this was an authentic coup. But there are historical processes at play which too few recognize and which President Putin understands very well.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
NATO’s next summit will be in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 11-12 July 2023. Almost on the day 26 years ago – July 8-9, 1997 – NATO held a summit in Madrid that confirmed ”The Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security Between NATO and the Russian Federation.”
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It’s Time to Stop the ‘Insect Apocalypse’
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
28 Jun 2023 – I was reading about the looming demise of bumble bees thanks to human greed and ignorance and started thinking about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. We ‘should’ have eaten from it!
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Hot Off the Press
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
In view of an escalation in the number of wars, small and large, short and long, and general social violence in the world, HUFUD feels the urgent need to summon up all Peace, Human Rights, anti-war and anti-military organizations, worldwide, to the two-day INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT FOR WORLD PEACE in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25th and 26th November 2023.
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Ethiopia Submits Application to Join BRICS
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
30 Jun 2023 – The East African country, home of the African Union, expects a positive response to its application.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi L’europe Est-Elle L’epicentre Des Guerres Mondiales ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
1 juillet 2023 – L’Europe était l’épicentre des guerres mondiales I et II, et maintenant elle menace, avec sa guerre en Ukraine, de déclencher la troisième guerre mondiale.
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The Talented Mr. Fish
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – For the second year in a row, Mr. Fish comes out on top for “Best Editorial Cartoon.”
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The Psychology of Truth-Tellers: Inspired by Dan Ellsberg
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
This is a revision of an earlier piece on “The Psychology of Veridos™ (Seekers of Truth and Justice) being repurposed as a tribute to Dan Ellsberg.
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Director ‘Mismanagement’ Enabled Isabel dos Santos to Illegally Divert Millions, Dutch Court Finds
Fergus Shiel and Karlijn Kuijpers | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
19 Jun 2023 – The daughter of Angola’s former authoritarian president siphoned 52.6 million euros from Angola’s state oil company into a business she controlled.
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Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Waterstones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
“Silent Coup is investigative journalism at its best, charting the rise of corporate power after World War II, where the freedoms fought for were redefined.”
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Children
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
If you have a lot of tension and get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle:
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Fifteen Useful Facts
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
2 Jul 2023 – Profound Insights
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Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America
Sarwar J. Minar | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
25 Jun 2023 – With the rise of China and its increasing influence in various regions of the world, many scholars, academicians, and policy makers wonder how the transition of great power influence will affect regional peace and conflict dynamics, particularly in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
The obsession with the alleged marvels of technology and naming them after ancient Greek and Roman gods are fixations of elite technologues who have lost what Spengler called “living inner religiousness” but wish to show they know the classical names even though they miss the meaning of these myths.
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Corporate Profits Were Biggest Driver of Inflation in Europe, IMF Admits
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – Rising corporate profits have caused 45% of inflation in Europe, compared to 40% for rising import prices and just 15% for workers’ wages, according to research by IMF economists.
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(Italiano) La teoria di Sigmund Freud e l’applicazione della teoria di Galtung sulla soluzione dei conflitti
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
20 Giugno 2023 – Come applicare l’A-B-C della teoria di Johan Galtung della soluzione non violenta dei conflitti. Il caso della teoria di Sigmund Freud sulla psicanalisi.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
19 Jun 2023 – The massive drowning of hundreds of migrants close to Greece shores on 14 June is just a new chapter in Europe’s long series of continued violations of all international human rights laws.
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The Great Reset Is Almost Here – Are You Prepared?
Brandon Smith | Birch Gold Group - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
Imagine a world in which everything we know about the economy is upended. A world fully digital within a cashless society where monetary interactions are replaced by CBDCs, tracked and traced, nothing being private unless you are a criminal in a black market.
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Interactive Polyhedral Configuration of Preoccupations
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
26 Jun 2023 – Use of Force-directed Layout to Explore Coherence of Contrasting Memorability – Frequent reference is made to complexity as it is increasingly perceived to be characteristic of challenges of governance.
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Daniel Ellsberg: A U.S. Hero
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
25 Jun 2023 – If democracy survives the digital age with its scary newly appreciated AI dimensions, it will be thanks to brave whistleblowers starting with Ellsberg and continuing with Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Jack Teixeira, individuals currently hounded as criminals by the U.S. government.
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Stoicism: The Foundation and Pillars Upholding Peace (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
“Humanity in the 21st Century is typified by an ethos and functional operability of “The I, Me, Supreme Me, and the I Specialist” philosophies, resulting in the negation of inner tranquility and global peace, as exemplified by world leaders.”
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UN Summit of the Future: A Structure for Action or a Shopping List?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
Preparations are already underway. A “New Agenda for Peace” is to be issued this July 2023 by the Secretary-General António Guterres. Thus, there is an opportunity for peacebuilders to present ideas and recommendations to individual foreign ministries or to the UN itself through non-governmental organizations in consultative status.
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(Italiano) Dar retta al ‘grido accorato’ di Cornel West
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
La reazione di Biden all’attacco russo all’Ucraina non è stata di quelle che cercano quanto prima una tregua e un compromesso diplomatico. Ha optato piuttosto per armamento e assistenza tali da sostenere una guerra protratta in Ucraina come dimostrazione del la rinascita della NATO a guida USA, a quanto pare non tanto motivata per la difesa dell’Ucraina ma per un incontenibile interesse ad umiliare Putin e sconfiggere la Russia. E non solo.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
12 Jun 2023 – Artificial Intelligence
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