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Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us
Sue Ann Martinson | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – It’s time to acknowledge how the failure to connect the dots between U.S. imperialism and the growing climate crisis threatens all life on this planet in more ways than one.
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(Italiano) Perché la NATO è antiquata, pericolosa e merita di essere abolita
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
13 Luglio 2022 – Da un punto di vista analitico del conflitto è ragionevole dire che la Russia è responsabile della guerra ma che la NATO con la sua espansione noncurante, contro tutte le promesse fatte alla Russia e una serie di ammonimenti d’esperti è responsabile del conflitto soggiacente. Discutiamo del mondo post-NATO.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
Born on the island of Martinique under French colonial rule, Frantz Omar Fanon was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring.
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‘The Uber Files’: 124,000+ Leaked Files Expose Global Dirty Dealings of Ride-Hailing Giant
Common Dreams Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
10 Jul 2022 – Internal documents reveal how company “won access to world leaders, cozied up to oligarchs and dodged taxes amid chaotic global expansion.”
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Neo-Cons: Genesis to Ascendency
Prof. Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – All or nothing, Hegemony or Armageddon: A logical outcome of a 40-year progression.
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War with Iran
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – The United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, responsible for military fiascos, hundreds of thousands of deaths and innumerable war crimes in the Middle East, are now plotting to attack Iran.
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Hardships…
Unknown Author – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
… for Success
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Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Three Illuminating Quotes about the War in Ukraine
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
12 Jul 2022 – John Pilger, Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges have lent their expertise to the subject of the war in Ukraine with some recent comments that help bring some much-needed clarity to an often confusing and always contentious issue. Here they are:
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The Future of Education: 3 Challenges for an Uncertain and Complex World
Felipe Zamana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – That the school has changed very little since the 19th century is no secret. Perhaps one of the biggest reasons is that schools have their “clients” guaranteed; therefore, why should they change? We have three challenges and questions that are urgent to answer.
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Witching Hour
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
4 Jul 2022 – Meanwhile in the old US of A
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Life Is Not a Game…
The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
The Medium Is the–Wrong–Message
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Willing the End
George Monbiot - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – On both sides of the Atlantic, powerful interests seem determined to trigger the collapse of life on Earth. Why? In the US last week, a highly partisan Supreme Court decided that the Environmental Protection Agency is not entitled to restrict carbon dioxide emissions from power stations.
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The B61-12 Mini-Nukes “Made in America” Coming Soon to Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – To Be Used in “a Nuclear First Strike” – Europe is thus being turned by the U.S. into the front line of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, even more dangerous than that of the Cold War.
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Hundreds of Millions of Human Workers Treated Worse than Robots
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – While big private business pours billions of dollars in producing automatic machines, barely no money has been invested in the human workers who are left unprotected, treated like cheap robots, or even worse.
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No Starvation for Oil
Kathy Kelly | The Progressive Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – As President Joe Biden embarks on his trip to the Middle East, those of us back home must acknowledge the suffering the United States has caused in places like Yemen.
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The Dying Swan (Music Video of the Week)
Natalia Osipova | The Royal Ballet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
Royal Ballet Principal Natalia Osipova at the Royal Opera House in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Swan Lake from 1877.
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US$2 Trillion for War versus US$100 Billion to Save the Planet
Murad Qureshi | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – The West is more fixated on spending social wealth on the military than addressing the climate catastrophe.
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Ukraine: End War. Lift Sanctions.
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – NATO’s hardline position on expansion and membership is further reinforced by a motive which has become more obvious in the course of the war. Some members of NATO and the US leadership are keen to exploit the war to emasculate Russia as a military power. This is why they would like to prolong the war.
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Global Demilitarization – The True Goal of the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – Dear Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, since I discovered, in 2007, that Alfred Nobel – in his legally binding will – intended to support general and complete disarmament, I have been using the prize as a wedge to help undo the political influence of global militarism.
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A World War in Pieces
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
On 29 Jun 2022, took place the NATO Madrid Summit with the USA as the main actor and the European Union in a humiliating subordination. In this Summit a “New Strategic Commitment” was established. The perverse category of the “enemy” has been introduced, to be confronted and defeated. This brings us back to Hitler’s jurist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985).
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World Looks Away as Oil Disaster Looms off Yemen’s Coast
Elizabeth Hagedorn | Al-Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – Time is running out to prevent what Yemen envoy Tim Lenderking warns will be a “massive oil spill the likes of which the world has not seen.”
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A Better World Is Possible
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
In the future, we will be faced with many important challenges and tasks. We need a new economic system, a new society, a new social contract, a new way of life. Here are the great tasks that history has given to our generation:
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Bogus Report on Nicaragua by “60 Minutes” Exposed as Propaganda from CIA-linked National Endowment for Democracy
Susan Lagos | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
I was appalled to see your program on Nicaragua of June 19, 2022. The correction of this travesty of reporting requires 60 Minutes to actually come to Nicaragua to interview the people whose lives have improved since 2007 with free universal education and health care; 99.2% of homes have electricity; about 90% have running water; the best roads in the region; housing programs; more than half a million people have received a registered title to their land.
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Johan Galtung on Peace
True Heroes Films - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
Words of Wisdom from Father of Peace Studies
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The Responsibility of Choice
Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
July 2022 – If there is a silver lining to the catastrophic Covid experience for us here in New Zealand it is the very clear and indisputable exposure of the political establishment. The green clean smiling benevolent face of the New Zealand government is nothing more than a mask behind which is harsh dictatorial mien of a government that feels no need to answer to the needs of the people it purports to govern.
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The Martyrs of Apartheid in pre-1994 South Africa: Dr Neil Hudson Aggett (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
16 Jul 2022 – The Targeted Torture and Murder of Political Activists by the Agents of the South African Apartheid Regime – (Please note that certain images in this publication may be disturbing to some readers. Parental guidance is advised.)
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The Supreme Awakening – A Review
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
‘The Supreme Awakening: Experiences of Enlightenment throughout Time–And How You Can Cultivate Them’ is the ultimate guide to higher states of consciousness. This latest book from Craig Pearson presents inspiring experiences from mystics and saints and shows us how we ourselves can live these states permanently in enlightenment.
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The Uber Whistleblower: I’m Exposing a System That Sold People a Lie
Paul Lewis, et al. | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – Exclusive: Mark MacGann says he has decided to speak out about firm to ‘right some fundamental wrongs’.
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(Italiano) La NATO e l’Ucraina
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
12 Luglio 2022 – La NATO è la macchina da guerra globale che gli Stati Uniti dominano; la cui politica è la “Full Spectrum Dominance”. Contrariamente alle sue affermazioni, la NATO non è un’organizzazione difensiva. Il suo scopo è stato quello di agire come strumento per il dominio mondiale degli Stati Uniti e di prevenire tutte le sfide all’egemonia statunitense. Avrebbe dovuto essere sciolta nel 1991, dopo lo scioglimento del Patto di Varsavia, ma invece si è espansa in quindici nuovi Paesi.
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Latin America’s Second Wave of Left-Wing Governments Could Be More Powerful than the First
Kyla Sankey | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
12 Jul 2022 – A few years ago, commentators were announcing the demise of the Latin American left. But if Lula wins this autumn’s presidential election in Brazil, the Left will be governing the region’s six largest economies for the first time.
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Varieties, Ups and Downs in the World
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
Life for most of us today has incredible types of varieties or ups and downs
We have different physical conditions — coldest and hottest regions
Don’t forget the wettest and the driest place in the same nations
Condolences on the Passing of Prof. Charles Mercieca
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
TRANSCEND Member and Founder of the Association of Educators for World Peace-IAEWP: RIP
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(Italiano) Un papa invita al rifiuto della guerra
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
13 Luglio 2022 – Per la prima volta un papa invita al rifiuto della guerra per ragioni morali, di coscienza. Non solo condanna la guerra (“inutile strage”), ma chiede – non ai governanti, ma ai soldati – di non farla, di disobbedire!
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Angola Mourns Ex-President Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Africanews | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – Angolans eulogized former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos who died yesterday in Spain. He was 79 and ruled Angola for 38 years. Born 28 Aug. 1942 to immigrant parents from the archipelago of São Tome, dos Santos was raised in the poor Luanda neighborhood of Sambizanga. His father was a builder, his mother a maid.
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Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Assassinated
Takashi Yokota, Kanako Takahara and Tomoko Otake | The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022 – Nation grapples with news of Japan’s longest-serving leader gunned down by former MSDF member.
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How Cuba Is Eradicating Child Mortality and Banishing the Diseases of the Poor
Vijay Prashad and Manolo de los Santos | Globetrotter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022 – To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat.
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German Parliament Condemns Psychological Torture of Julian Assange
Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
In a historic vote on July 6, the German parliament voted in favor of a petition condemning “in the strongest possible terms the psychological torture of journalist Julian Assange and the associated attack on press freedom in Germany and Europe.”
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A World of 8 Billion, Yes, but only a Few Are Seen as Human Beings (Part 1)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – Far-right Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, was quoted as saying to a small group of indigenous people that they “now look a bit more like humans.”
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Cuba Should Be Removed from the U.S. List of State Sponsors of Terrorism
Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022 – There are currently four countries on that list: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. Cuba, rather than exporting weapons around the world, has a long history of medical internationalism with an international campaign for Cuban doctors to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Why would a country that floods the world with health care be targeted as a state sponsor of terrorism?
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(Italiano) Medio Oriente e giornalismo mancante su conflitto e pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Luglio 2022 – Due immagini di affari internazionali, affari umani a dire il vero, due discorsi: l’approccio securitario e l’approccio pacifista; che competono per la nostra attenzione trattando la stessa preoccupazione per la violenza ma in modo diametralmente opposto.
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Somewhere in My Heart (Music Video of the Week)
Aztec Camera | Rhino – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
The twelfth single and biggest hit by the Scottish band from their 1987 studio album “Love”. Please click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy.
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A European Call for an End to the Ukraine War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022 – This piece appeared in the prominent German weekly, ZEIT, last week. It is written from a European perspective, calling for a ceasefire followed by bilateral negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
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Brazil’s Amazon Lost Record Amount of Forest during First Six Months of 2022
Olivia Rosane | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
6 Jul 2022 – Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has breached another record this year. The rainforest lost 1,448 square miles between 1 Jan and 24 Jun. The new findings follow reports that deforestation broke records during 2022. Rainforest advocates have blamed the pro-business policies of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro for the historic losses.
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Selling Weapons, Selling War
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
War was always madness, always immoral, always the cause of unspeakable suffering, economic waste and widespread destruction, and always a source of poverty, hate, barbarism and endless cycles of revenge and counter-revenge. A Freely Downloadable Book
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Haiti: The Ransom Is Still Being Paid
Robert Roth | San Francisco Bay View - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
On 20 May 2022, the NYT published a series entitled “The Ransom” about the “Independence Tax” enforced by France in 1825 on the world’s first Black Republic. Haiti became the only place where the descendants of slaves were forced to pay compensation to the descendants of slave owners.
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From Cheerleader to Enemy of the State
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
RADICAL PEACE presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our warrior culture.
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A World of 8 Billion, Yes, but the Unseen, Untold Story of the 50% (Part 2)
Baher Kamal | IPS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022 – While women and girls enjoy some of their rights in Western high-income countries, the overwhelming majority of teen and adult women in the impoverished regions of the world’s 8-billion population suffer all kinds of inequalities.
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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
10 Jul 2022 – The secret story of how the tech giant won access to world leaders, cozied up to oligarchs and dodged taxes amid chaotic global expansion.
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The Dalai Lama – ‘Ocean of Wisdom’ and Man of Peace – Celebrates His 87th Birthday
Anna Lamboglia | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Today, 6 July 2022 marks the 87th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. “The past is past; nothing can change it. But the future depends on the present; we still have the opportunity to shape it. This is not a matter of employing technology or spending more money, it’s a question of developing a sense of concern for others’ well-being…”
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NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
10 Jul 2022 – The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Meanwhile in the USA – 27 jun 2022
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Handling International Crises: From JFK to Biden
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
There are significant parallels between the international crises in Cuba in 1962 and Ukraine today. Both involved: intense confrontations between the USA and the Soviet Union or Russia, and third party countries on the doorstep of a major power. The Cuban Missile Crisis threatened to lead to WW3, just as the Ukraine crisis does today.
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Jill Godmilow | Vimeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Here’s a film for high school students and their teachers about the history of the Viet Nam War.
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U.S. Announces Visa Restrictions for 28 Cuban Officials
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – The United States announced today the visa restrictions as part of its policy of sanctions against the island, coupled with the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade. Cuba considers that they are part of the aggressive escalation promoted by the White House.
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Keep Dreaming
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Neither do I see you in person
Nor am I able to dream about you
Why NATO Is Outdated, Dangerous and Deserves to Be Abolished
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
From a conflict-analytical point of view, it is reasonable to say that Russia is responsible for the War but that NATO with it reckless expansion against all promises given to Russia and a series of expert warnings is responsible for the underlying Conflict. Let’s discuss the post-NATO world.
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NATO and Ukraine
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
NATO is the US dominated global war machine whose policy is ‘Full Spectrum Dominance.’ Contrary to its claims, NATO is not a defensive organization but an instrument for US world domination to prevent all challenges to its hegemony. It should have been disbanded in 1991 after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact but instead expanded into fifteen new countries.
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War Scars the Earth. To Heal, We Must Cultivate Hope, not Harm
Kathy Kelly and Matt Gannon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022 – The persistence of militarism is promoted by so-called “realists.” Nuclear armed opponents push the world closer and closer to annihilation. Sooner or later these weapons are bound to be used. Cooperation is the only way forward. The “realist” option leads to collective suicide.
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15 Years of Failed Experiments: Myths and Facts about the Israeli Siege on Gaza
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
6 Jul 2022 – 15 years have passed since Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, subjecting two million Palestinians to the longest and most cruel blockades in history. Inevitably, the experiment has backfired and the only way out is for the Gaza siege to be completely lifted and, this time, for good.
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Journalism, Music & War
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – Last week I loved reading Johan Galtung’s comparison between the two styles of Journalism and would now like to present the similarities and differences between Music and War.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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(Italiano) Trascinati dall’incosciente caduta fatalistica dell’eroe occidentale?
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Luglio 2022 – Da un secolo la storia dell’Occidente è una sequenza di disrupts: l’ultimo è lo scoppio della guerra in Ucraina. Questa sequenza è il segno che l’Occidente non ha più il controllo della propria storia.
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The Martyrs of Apartheid in pre-1994 South Africa: Ahmed Timol (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
‘The Murder of Innocence by Brutal, Racist, White Security Forces’
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Facing the Storm
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Hope
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The Assassination and Mrs. Paine
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022 – A Review of Max Good’s Documentary Film – Human duplicity is a marvel to contemplate. This documentary will force you to do that.
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Western ‘Civilization’
FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Calling Spades Spades
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My Name Is ARMFIN. I Am the God of Total Power
Riccardo Petrella | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – My identity code is UCT. It stands for Universal Capitalist Theology. It is a theology because I talk about myself, about God. It is universal because it cannot be otherwise. Theology has no boundaries of time and space, it is ‘one’, and human history tends ‘towards the one’ (universal).
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Boris Johnson Quits as Decades of Bullshit Finally Catch Up with Him
Jamie Ross | The Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – The prime minister who spent his career using lies and deflection to wriggle out of scandal has finally found a crisis entirely of his own making that he couldn’t survive.
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Global Conflicts, Time and Humanity: Are the Leaders Making Extinction a Reality?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022 – The raging conflicts between Russia, NATO, the EU and Ukraine and its spilled-over impacts across the globe are dehumanizing our perceptions and actions to make us redundant as rational beings. Time and history, no matter how you define them, are not on our side as we so-called intelligent beings could not learn from the consequences of our own wrong thinking.
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By Making China the Enemy, NATO Is Threatening World Peace
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022 – NATO’s new posture towards Beijing brings into question its whole claim to be a ‘defensive’ alliance.
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Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally. But how to fund local food co-ops without pricey loans from big banks? “Deglobalizing” and “dedollarizing” have been much in the news.
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The Financial Bubble Era Comes Full Circle
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – An Unstable Encounter with a $50 Billion Stablecoin
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Quotes on War and Peace, the UN, and the Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – You can smell it. US Empire doubling down on war preparations. Ukraine is now armed with over US$ 40 billion in order for Ukrainians to die to the last man to weaken Russia. North Americans promise military support to Taiwan so they, too, can die for Empire… to weaken China.
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China’s Red Lines on Taiwan Are Clear Regardless of the US’ Policy of Strategic Ambiguity
Zhou Bo | South China Morning Post/Scheer Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
10 Jul 2022 – In spite of Biden’s reiteration afterwards of US adherence to the “one China” policy, his apparent gaffe – the third in nine months – would seem to signal a burgeoning US policy of “strategic clarity”, a shift from its decades-old policy of “strategic ambiguity”.
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Why Brazil Still Matters
Glenn Greenwald | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
With Lula eligible to run against Bolsonaro, Brazilians hold the world’s future in their hands.
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The Avataras of God
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
The word avatara is being increasingly used but often in ways that have nothing to do with its real meaning. We also find that an increasing number of people are referring themselves as avataras of God. Let us really understand what the word means and how it is referred in relation to its real purpose, or how to discern who is really an avatara.
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The Foodware Solution That Every Restaurant Needs
The Story of Stuff Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
3 Jun 2022 – This Meals on Wheels program serving 25,000 meals a week saved $32,000 in just the first year after switching to reusable containers. What if every food service program and restaurant adopted the same practice?
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Palestinians ‘Are Not Animals in a Zoo’: On Kanafani and the Need to Redefine the Role of the ‘Victim Intellectual’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – But for the Palestinian narrative to be truly relevant, Palestinians must indeed assume the role of the Gramscian intellectual, as “purveyors of consciousnesses” and abandon the role of the ‘victim intellectual’ altogether.
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Striking Five-Minute Summary of the Ukraine Atrocities
Joe Lauria | George Galloway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
27 Jun 2022 – US & Britain Wanted Ukraine Invasion to Happen – Otherwise they could not launch an economic war against Russia.
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No Comment
Egyptian Proverb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
No Subtitles
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Rhapsody in Blue (Music Video of the Week)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
– Full Performance – Live from the Factory Floor
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Is Participating in the Sanctions against Russia a Cultural Matter?
Dr. PJ Peverelli | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
The currently emerging Cold War is not in terms of political alliances but a cultural one, a conflict between the old West, the former colonists, that is gradually losing its dominance and the newly emerging economic and political powers, many of which are former colonies. Thus, the Western reaction is neocolonialist.
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Covid Vaccines and Fertility
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Jun 2022 – Why is there a substantial decrease in births in Germany, Switzerland, and other countries – nine months after the beginning of covid mass vaccinations?
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(Português) Por que é importante opor-se à exploração animal?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
A reflexão não é sobre um olhar para suas existências, e sim para suas ausências, os vazios diários que reafirmam uma ideia de que o mundo está repleto de “animais ausentes”.
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How to Motivate Non-Donors to Toss a Coin into TMS Hat?
The TRANSCEND Media Service team,
4 Jul 2022
With TMS funds depleted and donations dwindling, it gets harder to keep up the struggle. It is discouraging after 14 years of making a difference. Please support our Peace Journalism work TODAY. Thank you!
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Brazil: Portuguese President Meets with Lula despite Bolsonaro’s Snub
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
3 Jul 2022 – Today the president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, held in São Paulo a meeting with former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. As a consequence, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro canceled an official audience he was to have with Pres. de Sousa in Brasilia. Marcelo and Lula talked about the political situation in Europe, Latin America and the war in Ukraine.
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Either We Will All Be Saved or We Will All Disappear Equally! That, Is the Dilemma
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
2 Jul 2022 – Following the recent strategy decided by NATO at its Madrid Summit, which states that China “challenges its interests, security and values”, and that Russia is “the most significant and direct threat” to its interests, the world is moving very quickly towards its partition in terms of the structure of the international system.
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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,
4 Jul 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Foreword by Dr Vandana Shiva, President of Navdanya International – How can we heal our relationship with food in the age of artificial food? Technological solutions aim to replace animal products and other food staples with lab-grown alternatives. Artificial food advocates are reiterating the old and failed rhetoric that industrial agriculture is essential to feed the world.
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New World Records: More Weapons than Ever–and a Hunger Crisis like No Other
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Jul 2022 – While the NATO Summit ended in Madrid on 30 June with net commitments to double spending on weapons and to increase by eight-fold the number of troops in Europe, the total of hungry people worldwide now marks an unprecedented record.
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Key Takeaways from BRICS Summit
Orinoco Tribune | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – Last week the 14th BRICS Summit took place virtually, chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The BRICS bloc (Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) represents a key political, economic, and scientific force in the international arena. These nations represent half of the world’s population and their collective GDP is greater that $20 trillion.
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“Beautiful Resistance” in Palestine: Challenging Occupation by Forging Inner Peace
Abdelfattah Abusrour | Beautiful Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Our organization, Alrowwad, works with the Palestinian youth, and that has been our enduring mandate since we founded it in 1998. People often ask me, why, given the severity of the politics surrounding the Palestinian struggle, would we not aim to tackle other, more pressing, issues?
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Fifteen Years of Gaza Blockade: Open the Doors of Our Prison Now
Haidar Eid | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
24 Jun 2022 – They will keep us imprisoned on this strip, and continue to slowly suffocate us for another 15 or even 150 years if the world does not wake up and say ‘enough’.
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The United States Contests the Chinese Belt and Road with a Private Corporation
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
At the G7 Summit in Germany, Joe Biden made a pledge to raise $200 billion for the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment. It was made clear that this new G7 project was intended to counter the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.
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The Role of Value Systems in Conflict Resolution
Abbas Aroua, et al. | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Jun 2022 – Understanding, “right-sizing,” and adequately respecting the role of value systems in conflict transformation avoids both over- and under-emphasis. Johan Galtung’s “Attitude-Behavior-Contradiction” (ABC) triangle is one useful conflict analysis tool to deal with the role of value systems and other factors in conflict analysis.
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Exile on Main Street: The Sound of the Unipolar World Fading Away
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Let’s cut to the chase and roll in the Putin Top Ten of the New Era, announced by the Russian President live at the St. Petersburg forum for both the Global North and South. The future world order, already in progress, will be formed by strong sovereign states. The ship has sailed. There’s no turning back.
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NATO Has Completed Its Post-Cold War Transformation from Europe’s Guard Dog into Anglo America’s Attack Dog
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
30 Jun 2022 – From an ostensible defensive alliance, NATO has grown into an aggressor designed to promote ‘rules’ dictated by the U.S.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Most people are religious and follow their religion truthfully and faithfully in their lives.
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Behind the Tin Curtain: BRICS+ vs NATO/G7
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
28 Jun 2022 – The West is nostalgically caught up with outdated ‘containment’ policies, this time against Global South integration. Unfortunately for them, the rest of the world is moving on, together.
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Turkey Aligns with NATO against Russia
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
30 Jun 2022 – One wonders, what forces have influenced Erdogan to distance himself from Russia and the East by accepting NATO membership of the two Nordic countries. Why would Turkey want to dance on two fiestas, the western lying, deceiving and collapsing NATO / G7+ , and the progressive, growing and peace seeking fast developing East, or better the Greater Global South?
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