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(Italiano) Dalla propaganda di guerra al giornalismo di pace: Russia-Ucraina-Usa/Nato
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Questa serie di articoli ha sostenuto che la guerra in Ucraina è alimentata da una campagna di propaganda che nasconde l’aggressività precedente e attuale della NATO e degli Stati Uniti nei confronti della Russia, nonché le possibilità di raggiungere una soluzione pacifica risolvendo i conflitti sottostanti.
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We’re Being Trained to Worry about ‘Russian Propaganda’ while Drowning in US Propaganda
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Whose Propaganda Is Most Worrisome? – One of the weirdest things today is the way the western world is trained to freak out about “Russian propaganda” while ignoring that we are marinating in billions of dollars worth of US empire propaganda.
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The Most Important Election in the Americas Is in Brazil
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Both Bolsonaro and Lula face an electorate that either loves them or hates them. There is little room for ambiguity in this race. Bolsonaro represents not only the far right, whose opinions he openly champions, but he also represents large sections of the middle class, whose aspirations for wealth remain largely intact despite the reality that their economic situation has deteriorated over the past decade.
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(Italiano) Nuovi modelli di conflitto e debolezza dei movimenti per la pace
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
L’inizio della guerra russo-ucraina nel febbraio 2022 ha drammatizzato un pericoloso conflitto globale tra gli Stati Uniti e i loro avversari della Guerra Fredda, Russia e Cina. Un conflitto regionale che avrebbe potuto essere risolto mediante negoziati o dialoghi tra le parti è diventato relativamente intrattabile, senza soluzioni immediate in vista.
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Mediation and Restorative Justice in Latin America
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – Latin America continues to advance towards a culture of peace: Last month we reviewed results of elections in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia; a progressive government has returned to Bolivia following the coup d’état against Evo Morales; Lula da Silva is favored to win the presidency of Brazil in next month’s election.
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(Italiano) Intelligenza Artificiale: aspetti etici e responsabilità degli scienziati
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Dell’Intelligenza Artificiale (IA) si parla e si scrive ormai da decenni: tra finanziamenti alla ricerca, sperimentazioni nei più disparati ambiti, e applicazioni concrete, si può affermare che non c’è quasi aspetto della vita umana che non sia stato già cambiato, o che non possa essere modificato nel prossimo futuro.
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«I Am Peace»
GAMIP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
The Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace (GAMIP) Short Film Forum 2022
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CIA Sued over Alleged Spying on Lawyers, Journalists Who Met Assange
Kanishka Singh | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
15 Aug 2022 – A group of journalists and lawyers sued the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador’s embassy in London.
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The Meaning of Success
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
One Image Is Worth a Million Moral, Philosophical, or Psychological Studies or Treatises
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Thirty Six Percent of Mass Shooters Were Trained by the U.S. Military, but the Media Never Report It
Jack Gilroy | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – Media pundits and politicians blame lax gun laws, social isolation and mental illness for mass shootings, but ignore the advent of a fascist culture that venerates the U.S. military.
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Leo Tolstoy (9 Sep 1828 – 20 Nov 1910)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most-diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ endure as the summit of realist fiction.
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The Hundred Year War on Palestine
Jim Miles | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Rashid Khalidi’s book is an interesting well written overview of the Zionist colonial-settler enterprise in Palestine. How the creation of Israel fits into the colonial-settler mindset that established the current Five Eyes scenario of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia within the global influence of the British empire.
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Generations of Resistance to War
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
My 1950’s parents’ generation had grown up in the Depression and fixated on stability and security, measuring progress by their possessions: buying their first car, first television, first house. Their morality centered on controlling sexuality and protecting private property. Their deepest philosophy was, “There is no free lunch.” The peak of their scientific achievement was the hydrogen bomb.
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Living Peacefully in the World
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Our Mounting Needs Are Spoiling the Environment
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An Evening with Brendan O’Hara (Music Video of the Week)
Playing For Change - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Get ready to be drawn into the soulful sounds and riveting performance of Brendan O’Hara, who leaves his heart and moves spirits on every stage he graces.
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UN Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Declared a Failure
Thalif Deen | IDN-InDepthNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – A Four-Week Festival of Double Standards, Hypocrisy and Lying by Nuclear States – The 10th NPT Review Conference didn’t fail because it couldn’t produce a final document but because the nuclear-armed states haven’t made good on their nuclear disarmament. “This result is terminally unserious, and a total abdication of responsibility in the face of an unacceptably dangerous global situation.” — ICAN Director Beatrice Fihn
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RIP Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Peace Laureate
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – I am sad to learn of the death of Mikhail Gorbachev on Tue, 30 Aug 2022. I had the honour of meeting him on several occasions at Nobel Peace Summits. May we all be inspired by his spirit, courage, integrity and vision of Nuclear Disarmament and Peace for Russia, the West and the World.
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(Italiano) Per una politica di pace: ripudiare la guerra
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Sereno Regis/Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Per assicurare una pace giusta e stabile è necessario negare collaborazione politica, economica, culturale, emotiva, psicologica, alle politiche di guerra, di qualunque stato o potenza. Per la pace è necessario uscire dalle culture politiche militari e dalle alleanze militari di difesa offensiva.
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Did the West ‘Bring War’ to Ukraine? One Expert Makes the Case
David C. Speedie | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – The war in Ukraine, and the role of NATO and the Atlanticist powers, are fueled by an official western narrative depicting the conflict as one between the little Ukrainian David and the brutish Goliath Russia. The invasion was unwarranted and vicious providing justification for a tally of US$57 billion in lethal and non-lethal aid from the U.S. alone, with the UK at its side.
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US Asked British Spy Agency to Stop Guardian Publishing Snowden Revelations
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – The US National Security Agency tried to persuade its British counterpart to stop the Guardian publishing revelations about secret mass data collection from the NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, according to a new book.
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(Français) Médiation et Justice Restauratrice en Amérique Latine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 septembre 2022 – L’Amérique latine continue de progresser vers une culture de la paix. Le mois dernier, nous avons passé en revue les résultats progressistes des élections au Mexique, au Chili, au Pérou et en Colombie. Lula da Silva est favori pour remporter la présidence du Brésil au cours de la prochaine l’élection du mois.
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The Amazon Undone: Deforesters Are Plundering the Amazon and Brazil Is Letting Them Get away with It
Terrence McCoy | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – A Failure of Enforcement: series revealing how crime, corruption and greed are speeding the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest.
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The Classification of Solitude –> Aranavibhangasuttam
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
I heard thus: At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery offered by Anathapindika in Jeta’s grove in Savatthi. The Blessed One addressed the Bhikkhus from there. ‘Bhikkhus, I will teach the Classification of solitude listen carefully and attentively.’
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Staring into the Eyes of the Wolf
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Close your eyes and try to envision the two wolves. The wise grandfather explains to the child that the two wolves are inside all of us. One of the wolves is an arrogant narcissist — a jerk, an egocentric idiot. You know, evil. The other is the embodiment of joy and empathy, kindness and love. The trembling child asks in alarm: “Which one wins?”
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Digitizing Your Identity Is the Fast-Track to Slavery: How Can You Defend Your Freedom?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Throughout your lifetime, you or someone you trusted has unwittingly given up many aspects of your biometric and other personal data so that your digital identity can be created. Over time, this digital identity is being progressively defined and is replacing your actual physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual identity.
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(Italiano) Fare soldi con la guerra
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Secondo l’Istituto Internazionale di Ricerca sulla Pace di Stoccolma (SIPRI), nel 2021 il mondo ha speso 2,113 trilioni di dollari in armamenti. Di questa cifra quasi incomprensibile, gli Stati Uniti hanno speso quasi la metà del totale, 801 miliardi di dollari. Ecco come fare soldi con la guerra.
→ read full articleSteps towards Avoiding a Climate Catastrophe
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Climate-related threats are becoming more severe: record-breaking heat waves in Europe, Americas and China; drought and falling water tables; the poles are warming four times faster than the remainder of the world. What actions can we take to avoid a catastrophe? Below is a list of helpful actions that can and should be taken.
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Report: Russia, Ukraine Tentatively Agreed on Peace Deal in April
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv not long after the talks and told Zelensky not to negotiate with Russia, saying the West wasn’t ready to sign a deal.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Last Soviet Leader, Dead at 91
Matt Murphy and Robert Greenall | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, died yesterday aged 91. RIP
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A Tale of Spanish Neckties and Other Made-in-Europe Things
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – While the United States continue to rank top oil and weapons producers, the world’s citizens are, once more, to pay the price: skyrocketing energy and food prices, unprecedented inflation rates, economic slowdown and the risk of a great recession, just to mention some.
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U.S. Military Space Report
Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – Thought-provoking Commentary and News on War and Destruction
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With Western Imperial Decline, Capitalism Is in Crisis – a New Phase Is Emerging
João Romeiro Hermeto | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – The energy crisis in Europe, proxy war in Ukraine, rebellion in the Global South, and expansion of the BRICS reflect the decline of Western imperialism and growing cracks in the capitalist world system.
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Come again?!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Mondale: “George W. Bush doesn’t have the manhood to apologize.”
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Learning How to Die: Finding Meaning in the Midst of Collapse
Elizabeth West – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Remember: no matter how dire things become, no one can force us to surrender our right to love—nature, one another, ourselves—and to be loved. These will always be ours to choose.
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It Is a Good Time to Appreciate the Insects
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
It is a good time to appreciate the insects
and functioning supply chains
and normal weather
and the fact that there are whales.
WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent about His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said nothing about the TPLF’s recent theft of fuel intended for UN relief efforts in Ethiopia.
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All the Way to Odessa
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
26 Aug 2022 – The leadership in Moscow is making it very clear, the new deal consists in slow cooking the Kiev racket inside a massive cauldron while polishing its status of financial black hole for the collective West. Until we reach boiling point – which will be a revolution or a putsch.
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Six Months into Ukraine’s Collapse, the World Has Changed Forever
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
24 Aug 2022 – The inevitable transfer of power away from the west is leading to a surge in state-sponsored terrorism, but this will do little to reverse the trend. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, this is the way the (new) world begins, not with a whimper but a bang.
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How Can North Americans Tolerate U.S. Government’s Crucifixion of Julian Assange?
Eric Zuesse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – Julian Assange has long been in solitary-confinement imprisonment in Britain awaiting extradition to the USA on charges that could bring him 175 years in prison, but he has never been convicted of anything, and the U.S. government has violated both the U.S. Constitution and U.S. laws.
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Howard Zinn at 100: the Enduring Legacy of the U.S. People’s Historian
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
24 Aug 2022 marked six months since Russia launched its war on Ukraine, with millions displaced and tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers killed. That same day marked the centennial of the late historian Howard Zinn’s birth. He was an author, professor, and anti-war activist.
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The Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA, 2015) Should Be Renewed
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – Undoing the human and diplomatic harm of Trump’s international legacy is a complex matter that not only exhibits the persisting influence of unrepentant Trumpists but the passivity of the Democratic Party leadership, particularly when it dares to disagree with Israel on a matter of foreign policy concern.
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Albino Sisters Born 12 Years Apart Become Modeling Sensations
Viral Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
These two beautiful girls show what it means to embrace your unique qualities and let them shine.
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New Thinking on Military Defense Needs
Marc Pilisuk, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
28 Aug 2022 – The US Pentagon FY 2021 budget calls for $705.4 b. up from $704.6 in FY2020, amounting to more than half of all discretionary funding and exceeding the military spending of the next 10 counties combined: supporting 800 military bases in 70 countries…. A better and more peaceful world is possible. We must envision it, promote it, and let our leaders know that we require it.
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The Instinctive Distrust of Big Media
Nat Parry | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – US citizens’ trust in the media has reached all time lows, with just 11 percent expressing confidence in television news and 16 percent expressing confidence in newspapers. These are the startling findings of Gallup’s latest survey of US attitudes about the media.
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The Children of the Gods of War (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
The Death, Abuse and Suffering of Children by the Evil Purveyors of Regional Conflicts
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Ron Tandberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Go Figure
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Vandana Shiva: “This Is How We Beat the Great Reset”
Russell Brand - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Renowned environmental activist and author, Vandana Shiva, joined me and we spoke about the mainstream media, great reset, and more.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Israels forbrytelser mot Palestina
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Samfunnsdrap er villet lemlestelse – drap av et samfunn ved å eliminere forutsetningene for et levende, levende, dynamisk samfunn.
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Vera Sharav: When a Holocaust Survivor Confirms the Parallels, We Need to Listen
Ann Tomoko Rosen | On Second Thought - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – This is the New Eugenics. It is embraced by the most powerful global billionaire technocrats who gather at Davos: Big Tech, Big Pharma, the financial oligarchs, academics, government leaders & the military industrial complex. These megalomaniacs have paved the road to another Holocaust. This time, the threat of genocide is Global in scale.
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Is Lula under Threat? Political Intrigue Grows as Right Suddenly Merges with Left in Brazil’s Upcoming Presidential Election
Julian Cola | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – Latin America’s pink tide resumes its stride when Luíz Inácio “Lula” da Silva is re-elected for a third term as president. It’s a sentiment rooted in the size and geopolitical importance of the country. Lula’s two-term presidency (2003-2011) was no fluke, much less a disappointment.
→ read full articleNew Patterns of Conflict and the Weakness of Peace Movements
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
The beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war in Feb 2022 dramatized a dangerous global conflict between the USA and its Cold War adversaries, Russia and China. A regional conflict that might have been resolved by negotiation or dialogues between the parties became relatively intractable, with no immediate solutions in sight.
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No Safe Haven: Nuclear Weapons Are Making Us Crazy
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
There are no safe havens from a nuclear war. Nuclear weapons are illegal by international law approved by 122 countries (of 197) at the UN on 7 Jul 2017; ratified by 66 countries.
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For Those Who Still Trust the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Radioactive Cesium – 137 Limits in Food by Country
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European Central Bank Says Cash ‘Not Fit’ for Digital Economy, Dismisses CBDC Privacy Concerns
Andrew Moran | The Epoch Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – In the digital economy, cash is no longer a useful tool, and a Central Bank Digital Currency is the “only solution” to continue the existing monetary system, according to a new paper, “The Economics of Central Bank Digital Currency.”
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Israel’s Assault on Palestinian NGOs Is Shutting off Access to International Community
Umar Farooq | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Experts say that Israel’s recent assault with overnight raids on Palestinian NGOs and closure of six Palestinian civil society groups will further block ties to international institutions from which they receive most of their funding. To what extent these groups will be able to continue operating with the outside world?
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Why Is There Suffering?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
It is natural that at some point in our lives we ask, “Why is there suffering?” Or “Why am I not happy?” “Why can’t we simply go on with life and not undergo so many trials and tribulations? Why can’t God make a universe or world where there is no suffering?” Well, He already has, but we are simply in the wrong one.
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Nuremberg: Holocaust Survivor Vera Sharav’s Alert about Nazi Tactics in 2022
Vera Sharav | CHD TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
“Humanity Is Currently Under Siege by the Global Heirs of the Nazis” – Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate, speaks first at the 75th Anniversary Event of the Nuremberg Code in Nuremberg, Germany, on 20 Aug 2022.
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8 Y.O. Child Prodigy Plays Chopin’s Nocturne (Music Video of the Week)
Elisey Mysin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Elisey Mysin was born in 2010 in Russia. He performed Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor in 2018 in his first performance on a TV show.
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The Monstrous Game of Nuclear Annihilation
Ray Acheson | Reaching Critical Will – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
States parties and signatories to the TPNW issued a joint statement on 26 Aug 2022 reiterating their support for the NPT and its full implementation. We will not rest until the last state has joined the TPNW, the last warhead has been irreversibly dismantled and destroyed, and nuclear weapons have been totally eliminated from the Earth.
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Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
28 Aug 2022 – Permanent War Requires Permanent Censorship
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They Lie to Us
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
They lie to us all our lives about what soldiers do,
about what cops do,
about what journalists do,
about what presidents do.
Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Possible Israeli War of Aggression against Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
26 Aug 2022 – While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. The deadly Israeli wars on Gaza are made possible, not only by western weapons and political support, but through an endless stream of media misinformation and misrepresentation.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Putin og Zelenskij på ville veier!
Bjørn Eidsvig - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
26.august 2022 – Jeg skvatt da jeg hørte det: På NRK Nyhetsmorgen, onsdag den 24/8, like før kl 9 ble vi servert nyheten om at Zelenskij nettopp har holdt en tale der han presiserte at Ukraina uansett vil fortsette krigen mot Russland helt til de har gjenvunnet Donbass og Krim!
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Philippine Activist Walden Bello Arrested for Cyber-libel
Carlos H. Conde | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
9 Aug 2022 – Philippine police yesterday arrested Walden Bello, a 76-year-old social activist, academic, and former congressman on charges of cyber-libel. Charges Spotlight Criminal Defamation Laws
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The West’s Dangerously Simple-Minded Narrative about Russia and China
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – The overwrought fear of China and Russia is sold to a Western public through manipulation of the facts. Europe should reflect on the fact that the non-enlargement of NATO and the implementation of the Minsk II agreements would have averted this awful war in Ukraine.
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Afghanistan, Iraq, and the “War on Terror”
Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov | USFP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
The paper analyzes how the North American people were duped into believing that the proper and necessary response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks was to attack other nations (beyond stateless terrorists); and examines the counterproductive policies pursued in the name of counterterrorism.
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What Do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and TikTok all Have in Common?
John Parker | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – They are all funded or staffed by Western and U.S. intelligence members pushing the U.S. narrative on Ukraine. Fact-finding mission to Ukraine and Russia to report on the suppressed information that challenges the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S. The Facebook algorithm driving white supremacists. More…
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Lives in Molecular Biology
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
A New, Freely Downloadable Book: “Lives in Molecular Biology” – The PDF of the book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link:
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‘And of Water We Made Every Living Thing’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – This is how the Muslims’ Holy Book–the Quran–refers to the most precious element of life… Religions aside, also UNESCO underlines that “water is a unique and non-substitutable resource.” Now comes the question: is water finite or infinite?
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“The Worse, the Better” Doctrine and the Melting Ice
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – There is a prevailing doctrine among the right and far-right political parties that are still in the opposition and most likely to jump to power in those countries where they are not already ruling. It is the doctrine of “the worse things go, the better for us.”
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Global Peace and Conflict Resolution Need Leaders of Proactive Vision, Intelligence and Effective Communication
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Egoistic Leaders Are Misleading Humanity
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The Usual Suspects
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Take your pick.
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Diversity of India and Its People
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
India is a vast country with a population of about 1.37 billion. Africa, with so many countries, has about 1.4 billion. The world population is about 8 billion with the Chinese being the highest; however, India is expected to surpass it in a year or two.
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Tradition vs. Modernity? Humans vs. Animals? The Truth behind the Violations of Animal Rights
Carolina Gomes | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Over the past years animal exploitation became a popular subject but not in a good way. Music, documentaries, and news channels helped bring more public awareness but animal rights are still violated left and right, and we are not even close to some solution.
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Julian Assange Files His Perfected Grounds of Appeal
Assange Defense | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Today, 26 August 2022, Julian Assange is filing his Perfected Grounds of Appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court. The Respondents are the Government of the United States and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel.
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The Plastics Paradox Facing Humanity
Alice Mah | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Properly addressing the plastics problem involves not only interrogating corporate tactics but also understanding that some plastics provide societal benefits.
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‘Disaster Capitalism at Its Worst’: Profits of Grain Giants Spark Global Criticism
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – The fact that global commodity giants are making record profits at a time when hunger is rising is clearly unjust. “There are strong arguments for a windfall tax on the food oligopoly.” — Natalie Bennett, U.K. Green Party Peer
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The Hidden Truth about the War in Ukraine
Jacques Baud | The Postil Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
1 Ago 2022 – The way we understand crises determines the way we solve them. Cheating with the facts leads to disaster. This is what is happening in Ukraine. In this case the number of issues is so enormous that we will not be able to discuss them here. Let me just focus on some of them.
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Believe! You Can!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Dare to Risk
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(Français) Le CETRI condamne l’arrestation et les poursuites engagées contre l’intellectuel et activiste philippin Walden Bello
CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
10 août 2022 – C’est avec stupeur et colère que nous avons appris l’arrestation, ce lundi 8 août, aux Philippines, de Walden Bello, intellectuel et activiste philippin bien connu, figure majeure du mouvement altermondialiste, ancien parlementaire, et récent candidat à la vice-présidence des Philippines.
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Values, Virtues and Sins of a Viable Democratic Civilization
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – Reframing the Controversy of Unconstrained Population Growth as a Hyperobject
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The TFF Abolish NATO Catalogue
Jan Oberg and TFF Associates | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – Abolish NATO or Convert It to Serve Peace – 30 Arguments & 100s of Inspirations
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Movements to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons and to Establish Geopolitical Accountability
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022 – Go to the links given connecting you with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the NGO that has the longest record of commitment to establish a global security system without nuclear weapons and with geopolitical accountability.
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(Castellano) Rusia-Ucrania-Estados Unidos-OTAN (Parte VI): De la Propaganda de Guerra al Periodismo para la Paz
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Amanece Metrópolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – El marco general para la práctica del periodismo de paz consiste en proporcionar el contexto de las interrelaciones entre tres formas clave de violencia que son constitutivas de la guerra: 1. La violencia directa, física, hacia los seres humanos, las infraestructuras y el medio ambiente; 2. La violencia cultural, comunicativa, contra el otro; y 3. La violencia estructural basada en relaciones de poder desiguales.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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Why Don’t You Stop This War?
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 –
Are you living in a jar?
No one can see the brutality of war?
Don’t close your eyes…
New Polls Show almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore
Lee Camp | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Putting the CIA in every newsroom was a clandestine project called Operation Mockingbird, and it paid mighty dividends.
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Assange Attorneys and Journalists Sue the CIA over Spying
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – “Journalists are allowed to request documents that have been stolen and to publish them.” So wrote U.S. federal Judge John Koeltl in a 2019 opinion dismissing a lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee against Julian Assange, Wikileaks and others.
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How Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan Has Enabled China to Redefine the Rules of the Game
Míng Jīnwéi (明金维) | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation of important ongoing dialogue within top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.
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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
“In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.”
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A Hall of Mirrors
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – I have long wondered why our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators give so similar accounts of things. This has been especially so in the Ukraine crisis: Keeping readers and viewers a safe distance from reality is a touchy matter. One slip and the shroud shreds.
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Blue Helmets Shoot and Kill Civilians in Congo: Nobody Talks about the Failure of the UN
Cecilia Capanna | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – There are some facts happening in the world that are extremely serious, but very few media talk about them. Few weeks ago, for example, shocking news from the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed silently.
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The Simile of the Snake ~ Alagagadduupama Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Thus I heard: At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery. At that time to a Bhikkhu, a vulture trainer in his previous birth, this evil view had arisen. As I know the Teaching of the Blessed One, to one who pursues those impedimental things declared as impediments are not suitable impediments.
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Homage to Hiroshima, Homage to Life
Roy Tamashiro | IPRA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
This address was delivered at the 33rd Annual Hiroshima Peace Service Ceremony commemorating the 77th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, on August 6, 2022, at the Izumo Taishakyo Mission
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Today’s youth are an unpowered witnesses to numerous unprecedented crises, which they did not create but are expected to overcome… and hopefully leave a much less baleful inheritance.
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Three Lessons from Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan
Huáyǔ Think Tank (华语智库) | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation of important ongoing dialogue within top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.
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Washington Wants a New Cold War—but That’s a Bad Idea
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – As China unleashed live-fire military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, simulating a real “reunification by force” operation in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ceremonial visit to the island last week, the bipartisan fervor for a new Cold War with China and Russia took greater hold in Washington.
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The Deadly Business of Reporting Truth
Andy Lee Roth | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
17 Aug 2022 – Violence is press censorship. To kill or imprison a journalist is to silence the public’s source of news. 33 journalists around the world have been killed this year and 494 are imprisoned, according to Reporters Without Borders. In 2022 once per week, average, somewhere in the world a journalist is killed.
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Words or Deeds?
Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Take your pick…
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Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO: From War Propaganda to Peace Journalism
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Propaganda in Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – This series has argued that the war in Ukraine is being fueled by a propaganda campaign which hides previous and current NATO/US aggressiveness towards Russia as well as the options to reach a peaceful settlement by resolving underlying conflicts.
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