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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The End of Roe
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Meanwhile in the USA – 27 jun 2022
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Western ‘Civilization’
FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Calling Spades Spades
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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 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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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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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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(Italiano) Imparare dalla storia
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Luglio 2022 – Nel 1973 lavoravo in Cile con una squadra all’organizzazione di comunità sotto forma di educación popular. Ispirati dalla filosofia di Paulo Freire, non è in fondo un’esagerazione dire che eravamo fanatici nell’evitare a tutti i costi di fare quello che Freire chiamava “educazione bancaria”.
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Subduing Hatred (Aghatapativinaya Sutta)
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
“These are five ways of subduing hatred by which, when hatred arises in a monk, he should wipe it out completely. Which five?
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Nikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with the Serbian scientist and his path-breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).
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(Français) Nécessité de Creer: Un Mouvement Mondial pour le Désarmement Nucléaire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Toutes ces questions devraient être à l’ordre du jour d’un mouvement mondial pour le désarmement nucléaire. Il n’y a rien de plus important pour l’avenir de notre espèce et de notre planète.
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Conversations with Bertrand Russell (1952, 1959)
Manufacturing Intellect and PhilosophieKanal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
* Romney Wheeler interviews British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic Bertrand Russell in 1952.
* Message to Future Generations (1959)
Empire to Expand NATO in Response to War Caused by NATO Expansion
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – Turkey’s President Erdoğan has officially withdrawn Ankara’s objection to the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit in Madrid.
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US Supreme Court Ruling on Environmental Protection ‘a Setback in Our Fight against Climate Change’
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
30 Jun 2022 – The ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court against the Environmental Protection Agency today is “a setback in our fight against climate change,” said the UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric.
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Needed: A Global Movement for Nuclear Disarmament
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Jul 2022 – The world faces many dangers at this moment of history, famines, global warming, wars in the Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, mass migrations, increasing electoral tendencies towards fascism. But all these are pale in comparison to the danger of a nuclear World War III which could put an end to all of these problems by a suicidal destruction of all human civilization.
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto 67 Years Later
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
9 July 1955 – “In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
20 Jun 2022 – This Modern World
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The Wise Wingless Owl
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
He sat perched so everyone could see.
Unmoving, but called king of the night.
Only God could create that amazing yellow eyesight.
Varieties of Violence
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Prof. Johan Galtung, the founder of TRANSCEND, denies that human nature condemns us to violence; instead he gives another explanation of its etiology based on three interacting forces: structural, cultural, and direct.
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While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army “the Most Lethal Weapon,” War Profiteer BAE Systems Stock Soars
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
27 Jun 2022 – Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations fattening on the death and destruction of the Ukraine war.
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Arundhati Roy: ‘The Damage to Indian Democracy Is Not Reversible’
Arundhati Roy interviewed by CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Roy says Indian politics has something in common with the US Capitol riots, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is stoking hatred, and talks about who the real power in India lies with.
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Gandhi’s Shoes
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
As Mahatma Gandhi was boarding a train, he lost a shoe.
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Panorama: A Compilation of Situational, Acute, and Chronic Global Challenges
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – Limits of Human and Nature Life-Form Survival
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U.S. Exposed as “Secret Partner” in Israeli Airstrikes against Syria that Violate International Law
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – Dirty War in Syria Continues as Media Attention Focuses Elsewhere
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Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster
Jeffrey D. Sachs | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Jul 2022 – If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these U.S. foreign policy debacles, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
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Journeys of Desperation: The Sad Endpoints of the Odyssey of Mass Humanoid Migrations in the 21st Century (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
‘The Migrant Death Trucks; Cursed Mass Coffin on Wheels’
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The Haitian Revolution Today and the Limits of Token Solidarity
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
“Solidarity in the fight for social justice must be international. It’s not acceptable to be in solidarity with the Venezuelan people, but not in solidarity with the Haitian people; it’s not acceptable to be for Iraq, but against Haiti.”
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The Missing Journalism on Conflict and Peace–and the Middle East
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Two images of international affairs, or human affairs for that matter, two discourses: the security approach and the peace approach. They compete for our attention and address the same concern with violence but are diametrically opposed.
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Future Global Exodus to the Metasphere
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
Enabling Mass Migration of Humanity to a Cognitive Frontier – The publicity regarding the rebranding of Facebook as Meta has drawn attention to one particular understanding of the “metaverse” envisaged by techno-optimists.
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U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade, Ending Right to Abortion Upheld for Decades
Nina Totenberg and Sarah McCammon | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
24 Jun 2022 – In a historic and far reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade today, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.
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Fascists in Our Midst
Chris Hedges | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – Supreme Court rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade, herald the ascendancy of Christian fascism in the United States.
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(Português) Brasil: A política de ódio e o assassinato do indigenista Bruno e do jornalista Dom
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
20 Jun 2022 – O assassinato do conhecido indigenista Bruno Pereira e do jornalista inglês Dom Phillips comoveram o país e o mundo. Esse crime só é compreensível no quadro de uma política de ódio e perseguição que o atual governo estabeleceu como política normal, atingindo principalmente os povos originários, os negros, os de outra opção sexual e os pobres em geral.
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G7: Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits – Our Bread, Our Freedom Campaign
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – G7 should stop promoting hunger by design and support movements for Food Sovereignty and Agroecology. The current globalized, industrial agrifood system is a food system that creates hunger by design.
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
Meanwhile in the USA
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(Português) Marcação animal é barbárie institucionalizada
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
“Escolha dos ‘instrumentos’ só leva em conta eficiência e menor custo – sem anestesia ou alívio para dor. Talvez haja medonho prazer nessa violação. E devo duvidar que não?”
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