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Toward a Peoples Tribunal on the Ukraine Wars
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

The time has come for civil society to counter the global confrontation endangering the world for U.S. geopolitical goals disguised, with media complicity, in a Ukraine War for its own defense. This is a false and dangerous image… I hope some readers throughout the world will feel motivated to make the Peoples Ukraine Wars Tribunal a reality!

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Everyone’s Anti-War until the War Propaganda Starts
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

27 Apr 2022 – Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they’re spouting the slogans they’ve been programmed to spout, waving the flags they’ve been programmed to wave, and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants in that moment.

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World Military Expenditure Passes $2 Trillion for First Time
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

25 Apr 2022 – World military spending continued to grow in 2021, reaching an all-time high of $2.1 trillion. This was the seventh consecutive year that spending increased.

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Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

25 Apr 2022 – Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend. Boycott the Bay Area Book Festival. That is the least we owe a literary and moral titan.

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(Czech-čeština) Válka na Ukrajině: Porozumění a odolávání hlubší agendy globální elity
Robert J. Burrowes | Oral.sk/Porno Politika – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

Zaměření na některé z obskurnějších aspektů hlubší agendy, která tento konflikt řídí. To odráží můj vlastní dlouhodobý zájem porozumět tomu, jak se elitní moc projevuje ve světě.

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(Français) «Le développement du Sud est à la fois perçu comme une solution et une menace»
François Polet | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

22 avril 2022 – En quoi consistent les principales critiques du développement aujourd’hui (à savoir les pensées anti-productiviste et décolonialiste) ? Qu’est-ce que l’investissement public mondial, et en quoi diffère-t-il de la notion classique d’aide au développement ?

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We Can Find the Truth, but Where Can We Find Hope?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

1 May 2022 – Devoted to the courageous individuals who dare to seek and publish the truth in the face of the censorship and outright lies of the information war between NATO and Russia.

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(Français) Nous Pouvons Trouver la Vérité, mais Où Pouvons-Nous Trouver l’Espoir ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

1 Mai 2022 – Consacré aux individus courageux qui osent rechercher et publier la vérité face à la censure et aux mensonges éhontés de la guerre de l’information entre l’OTAN et la Russie.

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It’s About Time
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

28 Apr 2022 – Isn’t it always? With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible.  I am speaking of nuclear annihilation.

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Al-Aqsa Violence during Ramadan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

21 Apr 2022 – Once more Israel strikes hard against Palestinian rights when the world has its attention fixed elsewhere, with a mainstream media posture of indifference and inattention compounding the problem . The pro-Palestinian solidarity movement is being seriously challenged not to let this happen.

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The Political Economy of Systemic U.S. Militarism
James M. Cypher | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

The U.S. industrial-military-congressional complex is made up of the interdependent dynamics of military contractor corporations, military forces, intelligence agencies, and the civilian national security state, which take form as strategy, political-economy factors, and international affairs shift.

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Myanmar Mothers’ Cries Do Not Bode Well for the Nation’s Future
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

19 Apr 2022 – The musician of resistance Mun Awng reminded the viewers, “The revolution must prevail, against all odds.” Tain Sway was seen nodding her head profusely when Mun Awng spelled out the pervasive sentiment – that “it is better to die fighting for the cause than living under the boot, again”.

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Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia (Part 2)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Ann Garrison continues her reporting from Ethiopia.

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Why Non-Western Countries Tend to See Russia’s War Very, Very Differently
Trita Parsi | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

18 Apr 2022 – The West appears blind to its own hypocrisy and narrow interests in calling for a rules-based order.

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Dual Denialisms
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

As hydrocarbon addiction turns downward, and extractivist logics weaken, it will become less attractive to cosy up to repressive Gulf monarchies – and we may also observe the further weakening of US support for Zionism, which has been its main foundation since 1947. Both for powering the planet, and for bringing peace to Palestine, we must be ready with alternative visions.

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The Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Mar 2022 – How can we heal our relationship with food in the age of artificial food? Its advocates are reiterating the old and failed rhetoric that industrial agriculture is essential to feed the world. Real, nutrient-rich food is gradually disappearing, while the dominant industrial agricultural model is causing an increase in chronic diseases and exacerbating climate change.

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The US Military Is Driving Environmental Collapse across the Planet
Sam Carliner | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

24 Apr 2022 – The U.S. military emits more carbon than 140 countries combined, fueling climate change and environmental degradation. Below we examine five ways in which the Pentagon is destroying the environment.

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The Cause, and the Goal, of Israeli Violence
Mark Muhannad Ayyash | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

20 Apr 2022 – Another Ramadan, another attack on Palestinian worshipers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. What is the real reason behind Israel’s routine violence against Palestinians?

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Why War?
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, 1932

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Night’s Companion — The Charming Moon
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Oh you charming moon – Chandamama
You are a guide when it is night
Come over to this dark land
Lead people from darkness into light

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The US Cries about War Crimes while Imprisoning a Journalist for Exposing Its War Crimes
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

20 Apr 2022 – In what his lawyers have described as a “brief but significant moment in the case,” a British magistrates’ court has signed off on Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, bringing the WikiLeaks founder one step closer to a US trial under the Espionage Act which threatens press freedoms worldwide.

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Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 Apr 1955): Evolution toward World Unity
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Pierrre Teihard de Chardin, the French paleontologist, after a lifetime of study of the evolution of the human species concluded that humanity was entering a new age with a higher, peaceful and more responsible sense of the unity of the world community. Optimism and evolution are the two themes that Teilhard de Chardin leaves with us. He insisted at looking at the human population as one global family, developing a network of mutual support − recognizing the need of global solidarity.

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The Purpose of Life
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

So now that we find ourselves in this human form, and in this material world, what are we really supposed to do with it? Everybody at some point in their life wonders why God created this world and how they got here, and what they are meant to do.

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Ukraine: The Fakes of Anti-Russian Propaganda
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

18 Apr 2022 – The New York Times published on April 4 a satellite photo, dated March 19, showing a street in the Ukrainian city of Bucha strewn with corpses. The photo, disseminated by the mainstream on a global scale, was presented as evidence of a “war crime committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.”

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Renounce the Geopolitical War between the U.S. and Russia
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

18 Apr 2022 – Stopping the Geopolitical War being waged by the United States against Russia is a precondition for ending the aggressive war initiated by Russia against Ukraine and also a return to semi-responsible statecraft, which is the most we can expect or hope for in the present. Diplomacy seeking a ceasefire and a political compromise is the only sane path.

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Reparations in Reverse: Afghanistan Pays, Vatican Prays, US Preys
Azeezah Kanji | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

22 Apr 2022 – What better illustration of the perversities of “justice” under colonial modernity, than the grotesquely disparate treatment of Afghanistan versus the Vatican when it comes to exacting recompense for international crimes. The doctrine of ‘sovereign immunity’ is being used to insulate state violence from legal liability.

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Civilization Progress
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Right!!

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How Obama-Biden Team Empowered Terrorists in Syria
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

20 Apr 2022 – Ukraine is the Obama-Biden team’s second major proxy war against Russia. The first was Syria, where US support for the insurgency helped create an Al Qaeda safe haven.

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Wisdom of the Day
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Indeed

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The Suicidal War on Nature Continues Unabated – International Mother Earth Day
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

20 Apr 2022 – The gloomy picture is drawn from indisputable scientific conclusions and should be already known by everybody, in particular by decision-makers, whether they are politicians… or rather not. 

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Officials Manipulated COVID Data to Exaggerate Crisis, Mathematician Tells RFK, Jr.
Susan C. Olmstead | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

18 Apr 2022 – “Data was very easily used by influencers and decision-makers to fit particular narratives,” Norman Fenton, Ph.D., a mathematician at Queen Mary University of London, said.

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Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War, the Media, Propaganda, and Accountability
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

14 Apr 2022 – Noam Chomsky spoke with Jeremy Scahill in a wide-ranging discussion on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Ukraine Is a Pawn on the Grand Chessboard
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

22 Apr 2022 – Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book, The Grand Chessboard, was published 25 years ago. His assumptions and strategies for maintaining ‘U.S. global dominance’ have been hugely influential in US foreign policy. We can see where this policy leads and how crucial it is to re-evaluate. 

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Doing His Own Research
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

11 Apr 2022 – At the Treehouse

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Oxfam Report: Poorer Countries Going from Crisis to Catastrophe
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

19 Apr 2022 – In the lead up to the semi-annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank being held in Washington this week, the global aid agency Oxfam has produced a report detailing the horrendous impact of rising inflation, coming on top of the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, for almost half the world’s population.

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Is the UN Able to Promote Peace in 2022?
Piero P. Giorgi, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service   , 25 Apr 2022

21 Apr 2022 – Exceptional events require exceptional remedies. It would be an appropriate decision if the Secretary-General would exceptionally apply a temporary removal of the Russian Federation as a member of the UN; it is an institution that promotes peace and their member states should demonstrate to be coherent with such an aim.

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Russian Geoeconomics Tzar Sergey Glazyev Introduces the New Global Financial System
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

14 Apr 2022 – The world’s new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.

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Skin Deep (Music Video of the Week)
Buddy Guy | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

| Song Across the USA | The song includes over 50 musicians from coast to coast featuring Buddy Guy, Tom Morello, Billy Branch, Chicago Children’s Choir, and Roots Gospel Voices of Mississippi.

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‘Crushing Dissent’ with George Galloway, Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter and Jill Stein
Joe Lauria and Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News Live – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

14 Apr 2022 – Join us as we examine the information warfare being waged to enforce a single narrative about the war in Ukraine. It may be worse than McCarthyism, which was defeated by its own excesses. Our guests have been targets of censorship and smears in this coordinated assault on freedom of expression.

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“Peace”: The Neuro-Anthropology of Peace and the Innate Proclivity of Humanoids to Generate Conflict (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

23 Apr 2022 – Oh, Humanoids Control You Reptilian Brain and the Elusive Peace Will Be Yours

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Dark Day for Press Freedom: British Court Orders Assange Extradition
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

20 Apr 2021 – Outrage as a British magistrates court ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States and sent the request for his extradition to Home Office Secretary Priti Patel for approval. He will remain in detention at Belmarsh until Patel’s decision and during any appeal.

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U.S. Commissars
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

18 Apr 2022 – Social media platforms are aggressively censoring all who challenge the dominant narrative on Ukraine, the ruling Democratic Party, the wars in the Middle East and the corporate state.

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“One less Traitor”: Zelensky Oversees Campaign of Assassination, Kidnapping and Torture of Political Opposition
Max Blumenthal and Esha Krishnaswamy | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

17 Apr 2022 – While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.

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Easter Call for Heroic Cease Fire
Thor Magnusson | Peace 2000 Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

17 Apr 2022 – Prof. Johan Galtung, the Internationally recognized father of peace studies who correctly predicted the fall of the Berlin wall, said: “We seem to have come to the point that we ourselves, as the major cause of death and being wounded through violence and war, are our own worst enemies. It takes two to make war. And to make peace. If others do the same, those who do have achieved common security.” 

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Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part I: UK, Greece
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

21 Apr 2022 – In what looks pretty much like an ‘operation clean sweep’ aiming at getting rid of more and more migrants, refugees and asylum seekers by shipping them far away, the process of ‘externalisation’ of millions of victims of wars, poverty, climate crisis and political persecution, is now growing fast.

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Humanity: Evolving in Spite of Itself
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

As wars rage, cruelty shatters lives across the planet, nuclear Armageddon remains a viable option for all of us — I think that the human race is evolving in spite of itself — evolving beyond war, empire, dominance and conquest, and toward an uncertain future. Most of us already know this, but at a level so deep, so vague, it feels like mere “hope.”

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Three for the Apocalypse
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

A Jew, a Christian and a Muslim are sitting around arguing the merits of their respective religions.

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#FreeAssange Petition: Sign to Urge UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to Reject Julian Assange’s Extradition to the US
Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

If extradited to the USA, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison on 18 charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication in 2010 of military and diplomatic documents exposing war crimes and human rights violations. Assange has been targeted for this important contribution to journalism.

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Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part II: Hungary, Poland
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

22 Apr 2022 – This article will deal with how Hungary has been criminalising organisations that provide humanitarian assistance to migrants, and how Poland ‘arbitrarily’ detains thousands of asylum seekers.

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Towards Inclusive Multi-Massacre Memorials to Victims of Conflict
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

Interrelating the Opponents, Perpetrators and Victims of Human Tragedy — Known and Unknown

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Give War a Chance
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

12 Apr 2022 – More and more, we’re told outright war isn’t just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve U.S. existential problems.

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America’s Hypocrisy over Ukraine and ‘Spheres of Influence’
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

15 Apr 2022 – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that he does not recognize “spheres of influence,” and the concept “should have been retired after World War II.” Those are empty words because they obviously do not apply to the Western Hemisphere–or the USA. Take Cuba, for example, or Nicaragua, Venezuela… Hypocrisy is common in international relations.

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Elon Musk Offers $43 Billion in Cash to Buy Twitter in Bid to ‘Save Free Speech’
David Charbonneau, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

14 Apr 2022 – The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, yesterday offered $43 billion — cash — to buy Twitter so he can “unlock” its “potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe.”

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Dr. Vandana Shiva: ‘The Evolved Mind Sees Earth as One Family’
David Marks interviews Vandana Shiva | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

6 Apr 2022 – Environmental champion shares her perspective on how the degradation of the planet can be reversed by returning to traditional organic farming practices and compassionate community organization.

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Two for the Road
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

A little child in church for the first time watched as the ushers passed the offering plates.

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From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, Killing Civilians Is a Crime
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

12 Apr 2022 –The lies and double standards that corrupt the Pentagon’s latest effort to whitewash its criminal non-compliance with the Geneva Conventions. North Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the US has waged war in country after country for decades, carving swathes of destruction through cities, towns and villages on a far greater scale than has so far disfigured Ukraine.

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‘It Can Get Very Creepy Very Fast:’ John Oliver Exposes Multimillion-Dollar Data Brokering Industry
Susan C. Olmstead | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

11 Apr 2022 – Data brokering is the multi million-dollar industry of collecting personal information and then reselling or sharing it with marketers and others. Data brokers are “the middlemen of surveillance capitalism.” “They know significantly more about you than you might like and do significantly more with it than you might think,” Oliver said.

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Pedagogy of Positiveness
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

A Plea

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The Pimps of War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

11 Apr 2022 – The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.

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The New Capitalist Gold Rush
William Hartung and Julia Gledhill | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

17 Apr 2022 – How Pentagon Contractors Are Cashing in on the Ukraine Crisis

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Elon Musk, Twitter’s Largest Shareholder: We Can’t Let Billionaires Control Major Communications Platforms
Victor Pickard | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

14 Apr 2022 – Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO notorious for posting asinine tweets to his 80 million–plus Twitter followers, has purchased himself a position of power within the platform itself by becoming the company’s largest shareholder–and that’s bad news.

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Countries Currently at War–2022
World Population Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

As of 13 April 2022

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The Monopoly on Your Mind (Part 1): Six Media Companies Control 90% of What You Read, Watch and Hear
Rebecca Strong | Down The Rabbit Hole - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

12 Apr 2022 – Ever-mounting media consolidation has narrowed the perspectives the public is privy to. Ownership and funding of these corporations are riddled with conflicts of interest and Big Tech companies are outright censoring and demonetizing independent outlets.

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Russia, Ukraine, and the USA: Trapped in a Cultural Script
Kristin Y. Christman - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

16 Apr 2022 – Compassion for Ukrainians victimized by Russia’s violence demonstrates that human hearts care. However, beneath the visible current of compassion there’s an alarming, dangerous dynamic at play.

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“Peace”: The Odyssey of the Relentless Pursuit of Humanoids of an Elusive Philosophy (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

16 Apr 2022 – The concept of peace was first introduced into academic literature by the Norwegian pioneer of peace research Johan Galtung, who distinguished between two types of peace: positive peace and negative peace. Defining Peace itself is an arduous process and Galtung, the patriarch of formal Peace Research, has formulated the “Mini Theory of Peace”.

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Michigan Bomb Plot: FBI Scheme to Create False ‘Domestic Terror’ Cabal Exposed in Court
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

17 Apr 2022 – Jury finds FBI agents fabricated a kidnapping threat against Michigan governor so they could be heroes by foiling a “crime” of their own creation. FBI director’s use of entrapment is part of a strategy designed to sow public fear and render support for draconian anti-terrorist legislation.

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Jingoistic Journalism Is No Friend of Ukraine
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

14 Apr 2022 – Propaganda for a bigger and longer Ukraine war is flooding the media on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal in attempts to manipulate public opinion.

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Singularity
Marie Howe - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

After Stephen Hawking

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Einstein and Freud’s ‘Why War?’ Revisited: Why Anti-War Efforts Go Nowhere
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein exchanged letters, later published under the title ‘Why War?’ However, whatever insight these two giants of an earlier era brought to our understanding of war, the reality is that a great deal has been learned since they corresponded.

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The Righteous, the Black Sheep, and the Sacrificial Lamb
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

16 Apr 2022 – “Countries in the developing world with large populations like Indonesia, Brazil, and India do not support the sanctions against Russia because of the behavior of the USA, which they recognize as ‘moral hypocrisy.'” Specifically the difference between our response to the white Europeans of Ukraine and our behavior in Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The Dangerous ‘Truth’ of the Kashmir Files
Sanjay Kak | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

13 Apr 2022 – The popular Bollywood film, powered by a visceral demonisation of the Kashmiri Muslim, attempts to construct the truth about Kashmir out of the carcasses of facts.

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Submission to the Disability Rights Commission of New Zealand: COVID Vaccination Mandates
Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

13 Apr 2022 – I and my colleagues in the New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out for Science would be happy to participate in a debate with the government ministries on the scientific and ethical points in this submission. To date the government has ignored our pleas for transparency and dialogue, opting to represent itself, incredibly enough, as a ‘single source of truth.’ This position is as ludicrous as it is harmful.

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Ukraine on Fire (2016 Documentary)
Oliver Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

Documentary by Oliver Stone about the history of Ukraine, what happened in Kiev in 2014, and the role of western media and USA in what happened on Maidan. Premiered Mar 5, 2022

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Nuclear Weapons and Cranial Winter
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

13 Apr 2022 – “The defense industry mobilized a small army of at least 718 lobbyists and doled out more than $67 million dollars pressuring Congress for increased weapons spending generally.”

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The Censorship Campaign against Western Criticism of NATO’s Ukraine Policy Is Extreme
Glenn Greenwald | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

13 Apr 2022 – Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.

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Dutch Journalist: ‘We Are Here, in Donbass, to Awaken Westerners Deluded by Propaganda’
Ekaterina Blinova | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

6 Apr 2022 – There are only a handful of Western journalists on the ground in Donbass, while the Western mainstream press is rubber-stamping fake news about the Ukrainian crisis using the same templates it previously exploited in Iraq, Libya and Syria, says Dutch independent journalist Sonja van den Ende.

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How Movements Can Maintain Their Radical Vision while Winning Practical Reforms
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

12 Apr 2022 – Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.

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The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine
Richard Wolff | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

14 Apr 2022 – To the motives for war in human history, capitalism added another: profit. Ukraine, per se, is not the issue. It is tragically a war-ravaged pawn in a much larger conflict.

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Why Are Humans Fighting Other Humans when We Are Facing Extinction as a Species?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

How can the absurdity of humans fighting humans lead to solutions while physics, chemistry and biology have us slated for extinction?  How can we contribute to rethinking and reinventing ourselves? An idea: a Pedagogy  of the Rich, conceived as a companion volume to Paulo Freire´s ‘The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.’  It could also be called ‘The Pedagogy of the Unoppressed.’

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Palestine’s Widening Geography of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat the Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

13 Apr 2022 – If Israel continues to subjugate the Palestinian people under the current system of military occupation and deepening apartheid, Palestinians will surely continue to respond until their oppressive reality is changed.

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Evil Empire
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

Indeed…

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Venezuela’s Great Housing Mission Achieves Major Milestone of Delivering 4 Million Homes
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

On 7 Apr 2022, the socialist government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the delivery of a record 4 million homes to its citizens as part of a social housing program called the Great Housing Mission of Venezuela launched by Commander Hugo Chávez in 2011.

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Complexities of the Ukraine War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

15 Apr 2022 – This war can be characterized thus:
– Level One: Russia vs. Ukraine
– Level Two: USA vs. Russia
– Level Three: Ukrainian nationalism vs. Russian-oriented separatism

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Siding with Ukraine’s Far-Right, US Sabotaged Zelensky’s Peace Mandate
Aaron Maté | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

10 Apr 2022 – In 2019, Zelensky was elected on an overwhelming mandate to make peace with Russia. As Stephen F. Cohen warned that year, the US chose to side with Ukraine’s far-right and fuel war.

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Sounds — Soft and Aloud
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

Tell me my Dear
What sounds do you hear

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Ukraine, Russia and the Easter of Insanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

17 Apr 2022 – We, the People witnessing a planned scheme of things to exterminate humanity with superior weapons hitting targeted civilian towns and daily bloodbath as a new normal. Have we not learned any lessons from the European nationalistic wars of First and Second World Wars?

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Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia (Part 1)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

13 Apr 2022 – I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US backing their former puppet, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation, which ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when they were finally overthrown by a popular uprising.

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More Than 1 Million COVID Vaccine Injuries, Nearly 27,000 Deaths Reported to VAERS, CDC Data Show
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

15 Apr 2022 – VAERS data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,226,314 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 26,976 deaths and 219,865 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 8, 2022.

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Peace Train (Music Video of the Week)
Yusuf/Cat Stevens | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media service, 18 Apr 2022

Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ timeless anthem of hope and unity was originally released in 1971. This Song Around The World version features more than 25 musicians from 12 countries, and Cat Stevens singing and playing a beautiful white piano in a tranquil open air setting in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Imran Khan Ousted as Pakistan’s PM after Vote
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

10 Apr 2022 – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ousted from power after losing a no-confidence vote in his leadership. The vote was held past midnight after opposition parties brought a motion against him, following days of drama.

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Eliminating the Causes of War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the causes of war, and how they may be eliminated. The book may be downloaded  and circulated free of charge.

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“Conflicts Should Be Resolved through Negotiations, Not War”
Reiner Braun | IPB, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

7 Apr 2022 – Interview by Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau, by email, with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliakhenko, peace activists from Russia and Ukraine respectively.

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(Français) La Guerre d’Ukraine Aurait Pu Être Évitée
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

1 avril 2022 – La guerre en Ukraine est le résultat de décisions politiques erronées des États-Unis et de l’OTAN en 1997 qui ont conduit à l’expansion de l’OTAN jusqu’aux frontières de la Russie.

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The Origins of the Ukraine Crisis and the Need for Collective Security between Russia and the West
Tom Sauer | Global Policy, Wiley Library – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

This paper tries to explain the origins of the Ukraine crisis. It posits that it is only a symptom of a wider conflict between two major powers (or power blocs), whose origins can only be understood by assessing the post-Cold War security architecture in Europe. Instead of having integrated Russia in a collective security organization on an equal level, the West kept NATO alive.

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Having a Laugh…
CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

… on us.

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Biden Administration Budgets Record $27.6 Billion for Militarization of Outer-Space
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

10 Apr 2022 – As homeless rates skyrocket and public education flounders, the Biden administration has proposed a record $27.6 billion budget for the militarization of outer space in 2023—a 25% increase from the 2022 budget. New cold war provides continued backdrop for misallocation of public resources into weaponry right out of science fiction films.

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Sparkman & the Blinkster
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

28 Mar 2022 – This Modern World

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Towards a Model of Wise Power™: Quantum Politics and Second Order Change
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

Once again, much of the world is gripped by a compelling narrative portraying a simplistic, archetypal drama, a simple Hollywood script: Ukraine is the angel, Russia is the devil, Zelensky is the hero and all good people will wear blue and yellow ribbons.”

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Monopoly – Who Owns the World? [MUST SEE]
Documentary by Tim Gielen – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

This incredibly eye opening documentary reveals how a small group of super rich criminals have been buying virtually everything on earth. From media, health care, travel, food industry to governments, they seek to impose a New World Order: Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, etc. The names of the two companies that virtually own the world are Vanguard and BlackRock.

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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr | Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

4 Apr 1967 – I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam

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