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Covid Vaccines: Facts, Fears, Fraud
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
March 2023 – Vaccinating senior citizens was right; vaccinating young and healthy people was wrong; pressuring people into vaccination was criminal; omicron degraded vaccine protection after just one year; the value of additional “boosters” remains questionable; and potential long-term health effects of vaccination need to be monitored closely.
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United Nations General Assembly Divides over Ukraine Resolution and Belarus Amendment
CPNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
25 Feb 2023 – Of the 91 votes that defeated the Belarus amendment condemning arms shipments to Ukraine, 45 were cast by Europe and the US/Canada while 46 by all the rest of the world.
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(Français) Somnambules vers Armageddon : Le Monde se Divise Sur l’Ukraine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 mars 2023 – Alors que les États-Unis, l’OTAN et la Russie intensifient la guerre en Ukraine, le risque augmente d’une guerre nucléaire mondiale qui pourrait détruire la plupart des vies sur la planète, correspondant à la mythique bataille d’Armageddon dans la Bible qui marque la fin du monde.
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Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
To laugh often and much
to win the respect of intelligent people
and affection of children
West Is Out of Touch with Rest of World Politically, EU-Funded Study Admits
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found the West is out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, and they want multipolarity, not continued “American global supremacy”.
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China’s Turn
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – The U.S. Hyper-Financialized Economic System Is No Match for China’s Government-Directed Investment Model–Regrettably, China’s Explosive Growth Is Pushing a Desperate Washington Closer to War
→ read full articleAlternatives to War: Renewal and Impact
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
One year into the Russia-Ukraine War, one has a “been there, done that” feeling. To settle arguments by war is not a new idea. For those of us working on alternatives to war, it is imperative that we renew our efforts and find ways to increase our impact. Present governments cannot to be trusted to deal with conflicts nonviolently or build peace by peaceful means. These became Civil Society’s tasks. Like war, peace is too important to be left to the generals.
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Defending a Democracy Is Not the Same as Imposing One
Vern Loomis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
If it’s true, as Applebaum suggested, that North Americans are “less willing to die in order to inflict violence, cruelty, and terror on other people,” it somehow didn’t stop several administrations from offering up the lives of US military men and women abroad simply to forestall political unpleasantness at home.
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Prodigy Plays Mozart Concerto # 23 (Music Video of the Week)
Elisey Mysin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Oct 2021 – Symphony Orchestra of the Dagestan State Opera and Ballet Theater – Elisey Mysin was born in 2010 in Russia. He is currently a student at the Central School of Music at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
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Kapicam Now a Place for the Dead
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Poem inspired by the mass graves in Turkey after a 7.8 earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on 6 Feb 2023.
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Belarus Court Sentences Nobel Peace Laureate Ales Bialiatski to 10 Years
Yuras Karmanau | AP/The Philadelphia Enquirer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – Belarus authorities arrested Bialiatski and two of his associates after massive protests over a 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a new term in office.
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Battle for the Earth
Fred Hageneder | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – An accurately researched [10-part] account of the effort by industry to cover up the impact of fossil fuels to the environment and public health and to manipulate public opinion. The networks behind this and the truth between big media influence and so called conspiracy theories–and those who truly benefit from them.
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China Meets American Hegemony Head-On
Timur Fomenko | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
23 Feb 2023 – In a rare scathing essay, Beijing’s foreign ministry has blasted Washington’s continued attempts at world domination.
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The Deafening Silence of Intellectuals in the Face of Growing Global Armed Conflicts
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – Intellectuals do not have a monopoly on culture, values or truth, much less on the meanings attributed to any one of these “domains of the spirit.” But intellectuals should not shrink from denouncing what they see as destructive of culture, values and truth, notably when it is carried out in the name of these “domains of spirit.”
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Activist Dan Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower, Has Terminal Cancer
Daniel Ellsberg | Twitter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it’s being circulated, so I’ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going! — Dan
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‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (I)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – Today, there are more children in need of desperate humanitarian assistance than at any other time since World War II.
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‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (II)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – While the world’s biggest powers and their giant private corporations continue to attach high priority to their military –and commercial– dominance, both of them being shockingly profitable, entire generations are being lost to deadly armed conflicts, devastating climate catastrophes, diseases, hunger and more imposed impoverishment.
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Provocation of “Unprovoked Aggression” by Varieties of Encroachment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Challenge of Insensitivity to Collective Historical Amnesia – Expression of alternative perspectives on the USA/NATO-Russia-Ukraine armed conflict has been limited–and actively suppressed as “disinformation” whenever possible. Those articulating such perspectives have been discredited and personally condemned, if not actively sanctioned in some manner.
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Malcolm X: His Struggle Continues
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago, on 21 Feb 1965, standing at the podium before a crowd in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. His wife Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins, and his four daughters were in the ballroom looking on.
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International Investigative Commission into the Terrorist Attacks on Nord Stream
MP Sevim Dagdelen (Germany) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
German Lawmaker Calls for Nord Stream Probe on a 10 Feb 2023 Speech to the Bundestag – MP Sevim Dagdelen takes the Scholz government to task for its lack of “strength and will” in responding to Seymour Hersh’s reporting on the U.S. sabotage of the Russian pipeline.
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Ukraine: 1 Year of War on Top of 30 Years of Conflict Escalation
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – The Only Re-Armament Needed Is Intellectual and Moral – on All Sides – Beyond Russia, NATO/EU policies will prove morally wrong, unrealistic, dangerous and self-destructive.
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Putin Suspends START Nuclear Pact with USA
AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the US, announcing the move yesterday in a bitter speech in which he made clear he would not change his strategy in the war in Ukraine.
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Cry Uncle
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Like with everything else…
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China Report Excoriates ‘US Hegemony’, War Crimes, CIA Coups, 400 Foreign Interventions
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – China’s Foreign Ministry published a lengthy report condemning “US hegemony” and its crimes around the world, including wars with millions of victims, coups and “regime change” against elected leaders, and 400 foreign military interventions.
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US Power Alliance Says It’s Preparing an “Information War” against China
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
24 Feb 2023 – In an article published last week titled “US working with ‘Five Eyes’ nations, Japan on information warfare” C4ISRNET, a military intelligence and communications publication, reports that the US and its allies are collaborating “to share and sharpen information-warfare techniques in the Indo-Pacific” with the goal of “countering” the “increasingly aggressive China.”
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Can Public Comments Penetrate FDA’s Illusory Parallel Universe?
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
On 26 Jan 2023, the 178th Meeting of Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee met to pretend to have a process before unanimously “voting” to authorize a simplified annual Covid shot in order to not confuse the public.
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The Security Apparati (Part 1): Tentacles of Global Peace Disruptors
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
25 Feb 2023 – This publication discusses the global strategies, after the two world wars, when the great powers, suspicious of foreign ones, entered into a phase of Cold War using subterfuge, covert operations, and secret, double or triple agents, to gain access to strategic information.
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The Ukraine War Viewed from the Global South
Krishen Mehta | ACURA American Committee for US Russia Accord – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – In October 2022, about eight months after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the University of Cambridge harmonized surveys that asked the inhabitants of 137 countries about their views of the West, Russia, and China: different perspectives.
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Lessons from Majid Khan’s Release from Guantánamo
David Rosen | The Progressive Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – An interview with the attorney for the former al Qaeda operative, who testified to the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ and more torture at the prison camp.
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Who Really Started the Ukraine Wars?
Ted Snider | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – The Four Interrelated Wars in Ukraine
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The 20th Anniversary of the Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – Will President Biden, Congress and other North Americans recognize the massive war crimes committed against the Iraqi people with appropriate declarations and actions on 19 Mar 2023?
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Free Speech Is for Fighting the Empire
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – My research has led me to conclude that there’s an elite conspiracy to enslave us all and turn us all into brainwashed automatons mindlessly enacting the wishes of our rulers in a cruel dystopia built by the powerful, for the powerful. Haha, just kidding. That already happened.
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Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara (Music Video of the Week)
Nathalie Cardone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Song in honor of the great revolutionary leader, Ernesto Che Guevara, by Cuban composer Pablo Cuebras. Viva Che !!!
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Seymour Hersh on “How the US Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”: Exclusive TV Interview
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. “The fear was Europe would walk away from the war,” he says.
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U.S. Hegemony: At War with China’s Global Security Initiative
Moon of Alabama - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
24 Feb 2023 – Over the last week China released a flurry of papers and statements accusing the U.S. of hegemony while contrasting it with China’s peace initiatives. As ‘western’ media rarely communicate what the Chinese say I find it necessary to give the Chinese standpoint some extended space.
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From South Africa to Israel, the Three Pillars of Apartheid
Na’eem Jeenah | Orient XXI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
How does a South African and former anti-apartheid activist feel about visiting Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories? Classification of the population, freedom of choice of residence and movement, importance of security: based on the three central drivers of separation, Israeli apartheid is worse than South Africa’s.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
I think it was the successful branding of the 9/11 skeptics as ‘wacky’ that proved more useful in squelching their influence than by labeling them as ‘dangerous,’ ‘subversive,’ and ‘radical’ or ‘socialist.’ It might be understood as the advent of a more advanced, more sophisticated version of McCarthyism, a discrediting ploy that George Orwell would have immediately understood.
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One Humanity and the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – Reflections on the Aftermath of Earthquakes and Human Survival
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Who’s Winning and Losing the Economic War over Ukraine?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 – After a year of war, Western expectations have gone up in smoke (and methane). The winners are the opportunists and war profiteers; the losers are the people of Ukraine, working/poor people everywhere, and hopes of halting the climate crisis, as half a million tons of methane rose from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline.
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We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite’s ‘Great Reset’: Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 – Since the dawn of human civilization 5,000 years ago, ordinary people like you and me have been engaged in an endless struggle to resist efforts by elites, whether local, national, international or global, to assert complete control over us and the resources around us.
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Russia and China Draw ‘Red Lines’ on Their Borders; US Draws Them on the Other Side of the Planet
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 – Reacting to China’s announcement that it will be putting forward a proposal for a political settlement to end the war in Ukraine, the US ambassador to the UN said that if China begins arming Russia in that conflict this will be a “red line” for the US.
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The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is so Little Anti-War Protest in the United States
Joan Roelofs | Clarity Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
How Military Spending Infests Civil Society Sectors: The Trillion Dollar Silencer investigates the astounding lack of popular protest at the death and destruction that the military industrial complex is inflicting on people, nations, and the environment, and its budget-draining costs.
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How Social Networks Became a ‘Subsidiary’ of the FBI and CIA
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
20 Feb 2023 – THE BIG STORY: The Twitter Files have lifted the lid on a secret alliance between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the political establishment.
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Call for Peace Fellowships: International Association for Media and Communication Research-IAMCR
IAMCR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Call for candidates for the IAMCR peace fellowships. Applications should be submitted via an online form. Established during the Cold War by researchers from East and West, IAMCR has a long history of promoting academic collaboration and dialogue in situations where governments or communities see each other as unfriendly adversaries at best, and enemies at worst.
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The New Thoughtful Generation
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
This new synthesis asserts that the entire universe consists of divine consciousness vibrating at different frequencies which emerge from the unified field. Quantum physics has established that all matter and energy manifests from this nonmaterial unified field. These discoveries refute the materialist worldview.
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US Admits Chinese Balloon Was off Course–It Shot down a $12 Balloon in $2M Missile Attack
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
19 Feb 2023 – US officials acknowledged the Chinese balloon they shot down on 4 Feb had likely been blown off course by unexpected weather. The US Air Force later spent $2 million using missiles to blow up what appeared to be a $12 hobbyist balloon.
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Rwanda, Israel, and the African Union
Ann Garrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – The official anti-genocide campaigners most often target African nations, and never come to Palestine’s defense. Granting Israel observer status at the African Union therefore risks validating the Israeli settler Zionist colonial state.
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(Français) Austérité, déréglementation : La Banque mondiale et le FMI ont-ils changé ?
Renaud Vivien | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
21 février 2023 – La crise du covid-19 a démontré la nécessité de renforcer les services publics et la protection sociale. Pour autant, a-t-elle servi de leçon à la Banque mondiale et au Fonds monétaire international (FMI) ? Est-ce que ces deux institutions ont cessé de conditionner leurs prêts à la mise en œuvre de politiques d’austérité budgétaire et de déréglementation ? C’est ce que semblent indiquer certaines déclarations récentes de la directrice du FMI [1]. Reflètent-elles pour autant la réalité ?
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Free Thought and Official Propaganda
Bertrand Russell | Project Gutenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Delivered at South Place Institute on 24 Mar 1922 by the Hon. Bertrand Russell, M.A., F.R.S.
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The Enlightened Ones
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Right!
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AI and ChatGPT: Yet another Assault on Democratic Governance?
Tom Valovic | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
We must understand that democracy is morphing with more technocratic systems of governance that lack full oversight and a clear understanding of their social and political impacts.
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How to Be with Each Other’s Suffering: Elie Wiesel on the Antidote to Our Paralysis in the Face of World-Overwhelm
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
“I believe if people talk, and they talk sincerely, with the same respect that one owes to a close friend or to God, something will come out of that, something good. I would call it presence.”
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(Italiano) Ambiente e Guerra
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
20 Febbraio 2023 – Nei mesi scorsi mi sono lasciata prendere dal desiderio di condividere con dei giovani alcune emozioni e riflessioni, sul tema ambiente e guerra, che provo di fronte a immagini e ai discorsi bellici che ormai da un anno accompagnano le nostre giornate, mescolandosi alle pubblicità, alle cronache cittadine, ai dibattiti politici.
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Lonesome
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Indeed, his worst fears came true and after a week or so the wife passed away. People came and expressed their condolences and sorrow promising to help the lonesome man.
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Meditation in Sunlight
May Sarton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
A beguiling reflection on the relationship between presence, solitude, and love.
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How Can the Peace Movement Be More Effective?
Tom Valovic | Massachusetts Peace Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
I’m probably not your typical peace activist. As a former research analyst, educator, and political journalist looking at the movement with a fresh pair of eyes, I wanted to share some thoughts about how the peace movement considered as a whole might become more effective.
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The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of US Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
25 Feb 2023 – The media caters to a particular demographic, telling that demographic what it already believes — even when it is unverified or false. This pandering defines the coverage of the Trump-Russia saga.
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Totalized Censorship
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
20 Feb 2023 – Content warning, canceling, de-platforming, denying access: The fate of Sy Hersh’s Democracy Now! interview on YouTube is the latest indication of how much rougher press suppression is in this new media era.
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The Case for Diplomacy in Ukraine
Katrina vanden Heuvel and James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – As 2023 unfolds, we fear that US policy will continue to be characterized by both mission creep and the absence of any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia. Throughout the course of the war, the Biden administration has slowly, steadily, even stealthily increased US involvement.
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What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
25 Feb 2023 – “Bail-ins:” the provision allowing Systemically Important Financial Institutions (basically the biggest banks) to bail in or expropriate their creditors’ money in the event of insolvency. So how big is the risk to your deposit account? From Bailouts to Bail-Ins.
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Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
The fear of the storm
Intense circular, it’s a cyclone
It’s fast approaching
Its path unknown
Can anyone fathom it?
Syria: The White Helmets Are “Actors and Frauds”
Vanessa Beeley - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
20 Feb 2023 – I Speak to a REAL Syria Civil Defence Officer in Aleppo –
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The Theft of Harun Abu Aram’s Body, Home, and Life
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – Harun was born into, paralyzed, and killed by Israel’s colonial system. The struggle to dismantle it begins in the cave where he spent his final years.
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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Hersh, the journalist who broke the stories of the My Lai Massacre, the CIA spying program and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, reports that U.S. Navy divers attached C4 explosive charges to the pipeline and President Biden himself ordered its destruction, an operation that began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite this, corporate media have overwhelmingly ignored the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter’s bombshell.
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Story Killers: Inside the Deadly Disinformation-for-Hire Industry
Forbidden Stories/Story Killers - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – Journalists investigating disinformation are threatened, jailed and in extreme cases, like that of Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh, killed. Forbidden Stories gathered more than 100 journalists from 30 media outlets to expose the inner workings of the global, secretive world of disinformation mercenaries.
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Story Killers (Part 1): In the Age of False News–A Journalist, a Murder, and the Pursuit of an Unfinished Investigation in India
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories/Story Killers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
In 2017, journalist Gauri Lankesh was assassinated in Bangalore days before she planned to publish an article about disinformation. Over five years later, Forbidden Stories pursued Lankesh’s work on fake news and explored new leads in her murder case.
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Saint Valentine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – A whimsical poem to celebrate the love legacy of Saint Valentine, written by Marianne Moore 63 years ago, published in The New Yorker on 13 Feb 1960, dedicated by me to all of us who love poetry and dare to love love on Valentine’s Day 2023.
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Israeli Security Forces Carry Out Massacre in Jenin, Palestine
Richard Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have vowed to make it easier for Israelis to carry guns. Ben-Gvir: “I want weapons on the streets, I want Israeli citizens to be able to protect themselves.” It follows the Zionist narrative of demonizing the victim and sanctifying the aggressor [remember Hitler & Nazism?].
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NATO’s Aggressive Militarism
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
The Illegality of NATO: Violation of the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles
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(Castellano) Comunicación y Paz–Homenaje a Johan Galtung: Call for Papers CIC 28
Joan Pedro-Carañana y Ángel Carrasco-Campos | Universidad Complutense de Madrid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
En homenaje a la trayectoria y aportaciones de Johan Galtung, la revista Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación (CIC) hace una llamada a contribuciones para su número 28, que incluirá un monográfico sobre “Comunicación y paz”, enfocado a difundir investigaciones y aportaciones teóricas centradas en el papel de la producción social de comunicación, tanto en la reproducción de los conflictos sociales como en la promoción de los procesos de paz.
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US ‘Neo-Imperialist’ Dollar Scheme Explained by Economist Yanis Varoufakis
Geopolitical Economy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – Greece’s former Finance Minister explains the US system of “neo-imperialism” based on the dollar, which finances a huge trade deficit by letting foreign capitalists “extract colossal surplus value from their workers and then stash it away in US’s rentier economy”.
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What We Know about the US Air Force’s Balloon Party So Far
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
18 Feb 2023 – The US military only kill foreigners for resource and profits for the military-industrial complex. Turns out it is also used for shooting down party balloons.
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Story Killers (Part 2): “Team Jorge”–In the Heart of a Global Disinformation Machine
Cécile Andrzejewski | Forbidden Stories/Story Killers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – In Part 2 of the “Story Killers” project, the Forbidden Stories consortium investigated an ultra-secret Israeli company involved in manipulating elections and hacking African politicians. We took an unprecedented dive into a world where troll armies, cyber espionage and influencers are intertwined.
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Gabriel of Peace or Lucifer of War: Generative Artificial Intelligence
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Artificial Intelligence, a Protagonist of Global Peace or a Peace Disruptor?
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Biden’s Misplaced Optimism: 2023 State of the Union Address
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
18 Feb 2023 – The national situation is far too deeply challenged for us to be content with presidential bromides. What is most needed are policies and practices that embody compassion, and are dedicated with the fullness of being to responding to the imperatives of human security at all levels of social interaction.
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Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – As Somalia struggled to hold its first real national elections since the country collapsed in 1991, the US and its allies pushed separatism and undermined democracy so as to militarily dominate the country and plunder its resources.
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Inside the Iron Cage
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – I would prefer not to relay the following very strange story given to me by a fellow sociologist, but I feel obligated. I don’t know what to make of the whole thing. Below you will find the manuscript he handed me. I realize you are getting this third hand, but there’s nothing I can do about that. I don’t know his friend. So here it is.
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Feeding the Beast That Feeds on You
Monte Wolverton - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
A Symptom of the ‘Superior’ Intelligence of Humans
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Barcelona Mayor Cuts City’s Ties with Israel over ‘Crime of Apartheid’
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau yesterday announced her city is cutting ties with Israel and ending its symbolic 25-year-old “twin cities” relationship with Tel Aviv over the Israeli government’s violent anti-Palestinian policies. “We cannot be silent,” said Colau.
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Rage against the War Machine Rally
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
This is the text of a talk I gave in Washington, D.C. on Sunday 19 Feb at the Rage Against The War Machine rally.
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How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
A simple perspective shift that reorients the roots of being. Hermann Hesse believed that trees are our greatest spiritual teachers. Walt Whitman cherished them as paragons of authenticity amid a world of mere appearances.
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Juxtaposition
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
When peace and language we juxtapose…
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Sy Hersh & the Way We Live Now
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – It is a clear indicator of the disappearance of freedom from our so-called Western democracies that Sy Hersh cannot get the monumental revelation of US destruction of the Nordstream pipelines on the front page of The Washington Post or The New York Times, but has to self-publish on the net.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
As many of us would know, India is a country with several different religious faiths. Apart from well known Christianity and Islam, India is home to various forms of Hinduism and many other beliefs and faiths–Jains, Sikhs, etc. We gave birth to Buddhism.
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Nord Stream: What Hersh Got Wrong
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – There’s something not-quite-right about Sy Hersh’s report on the destruction of Nord Stream 2. There are a number of inconsistencies in the piece that lead me to believe that Hersh was less interested in presenting ‘the unvarnished truth’ than relaying a version of events that advance a particular agenda.
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Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Ella Autti | World Dignity University Workshop – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – The First World Dignity University Initiative Workshop, “For People and the Planet: Learning for a Future of Dignity,” has been hosted online on 9 Dec 2022.
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Harold Pinter’s Acceptance of Nobel Literature 2005
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Art, Truth & Politics: The truth is to do with how the US understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it. I believe it is obligatory upon us some kind of scrutiny. [TMS republishes Pinter’s speech due to its relevance and immediacy in 2023.]
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(Norsk-Norwegian) USA – et militarisert samfunn
Richard E. Rubenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
I regnskapsåret 2021 gikk 11 prosent av USAs statsbudsjett til militære formål, litt mindre enn før koronaepidemien. Militærbudsjettet utgjorde $754 milliarder (omkring 7 500 milliarder kroner) og foreslås økt til $773 milliarder i 2023. I 2022 var utgiftene større enn totalen for de neste ni landene i verden, og i 2020 var militærbudsjettet drøyt 20 prosent av alle føderale inntekter.
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Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Cuba, with 11 million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the USA for over six decades. Despite this, Cuba’s people have been able to transcend the indignities of hunger, ill health and illiteracy, social plagues that still troubles much of the world.
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Prof. Howard Richards - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Acceptance of the Lifetime Commitment Award from the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Association
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How Spin and Lies Fuel a Bloody War of Attrition in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – How U.S. officials and corporate media have buried the U.S. role in the crisis in Ukraine under a “white hats vs black hats” narrative, in which Russia’s guilt for the invasion doubles as proof of the West’s innocence and righteousness, and how this fuels a bloody war of attrition.
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Human Rights Rapporteurs Express Concern on Education of Tibetan Students
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023 – Three UNHRC Special Rapporteurs have recently highlighted the quality and methods of education of Tibetan students. When the reply of the government is non-existent or superficial, then the SR can “go public.”
→ read full article‘Hate Speech Loads the Gun, Misinformation Pulls the Trigger’ – And It Is Profitable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023 – In this world of wars, massive weapons production, sales and use; of sharpening inequalities and deadly climate emergencies, hate speech and its inhumane impact is being amplified at ‘unprecedented scale’ by new technologies.
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Ukraine, Rethinking Global Security—Webinar
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, et al. | SHAPE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Our second webinar on 23 Feb 2023 draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security. An initiative to address the multiple crises that brought us to the brink of the precipice. Doomsday Clock: 90 seconds to midnight.
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Brazil: Pres. Lula Knows How to Fight the Far Right. We Should Listen.
Craig Johnson | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – Brazilian president Lula da Silva knows the dangers of the far right all too well, and during his visit to the US last week he laid out exactly how to defeat such reactionaries: not by striving for a false unity but by confronting the foes of democracy head-on.
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United States Tells Citizens: Leave Russia Immediately
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies. “Do not travel to Russia,” it added.
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ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Launched on 30 Nov 2022 by OpenAI, ChatGPT is open to the curious, the lazy and the opportunistic. In January, the Manchester Evening News reported that a student asked the bot to put together a 2,000-word essay on social policy. Within 20 minutes, the work was done.
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Chopin Recital
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Piano concert by Alberto Portugheis to celebrate Chopin’s 213th birthday on 22 Feb 2023.
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Israel Continues to Block Passage of Vital Medical Supplies to Gaza
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Leading medical professionals have written an open letter pointing out that the Israeli occupation continue to block the passage of vital medical supplies to the Gaza Strip, which has been under a blockade imposed by Israel and its allies for seventeen years.
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How to Understand God
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Sometimes people say that they want to see God, or that God is not perceivable. This is confirmed in the Vedic Scriptures, but with additional points of instruction on how we can perceive Him/Her/It. This is the means by which we can reach the stage of understanding the Supreme Being.
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