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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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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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Assange Put on Suicide Watch after Patel Decision, Father Says
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – John Shipton said Julian Assange was stripped naked and put in an empty cell to prevent him from killing himself over the home secretary’s decision to sign his extradition order.
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The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine War: A Lecture by John J. Mearsheimer
The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
Prof. Mearsheimer focuses on both the origins of the war in Ukraine and some of its most important consequences. He argues that the crisis is largely the result of the West’s efforts to turn Ukraine into a Western bulwark on Russia’s border. Russian leaders viewed that outcome as an existential threat that had to be thwarted.
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Embracing the Complexity of Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars. One can also quickly, unavoidably imagine the cynicism that rushes in whenever someone tosses out the word “peace.” Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars.
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Is There Life After Death?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – A review of ‘James and Whitehead on Life after Death’ by David Ray Griffin – The meaning of death, and whether humans do or do not survive it in some form, has always obsessed people, from the average person to the great artists and thinkers. Death is the mother of philosophy and all the arts and sciences.
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What Is ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’? Inside China’s Economic Model
Ben Norton | Multipolarista - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
22 May 2022 – How does socialism with Chinese characteristics differ from Western neoliberal capitalism? Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton discussed China’s socialist model with economist John Ross, a senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China.
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New Bill That Passed U.S. House Reinvokes Old Russian Bogeyman as Pretext for More Intervention in Africa
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
14 Jun 2022 – Liberal Democrats shamefully all voted for the “Countering Malign Russian Influence Activities in Africa” Act—seems like relic from bygone era.
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Doctor’s Orders: ‘Do Not Extradite Assange’
Doctors for Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Ahead of the U.K. Home Secretary’s decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, a group of more than 300 doctors representing 35 countries have told Priti Patel that approving his extradition would be “medically and ethically unacceptable”.
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On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations
Robert Frost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
You’ll wait a long, long time for anything much
To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud
And the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.
Summit of the Americas Fails: Boycott by Presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – As the US government’s Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
→ read full articleUSA: The Collateral Damage Comes Home
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – 13 gun massacres this past weekend, at strip malls, nightclubs, graduation parties — with 16 people dying, many more injured — and the total number of such shootings so far in 2022 is 246. The country is on pace to match or surpass last year’s total, which is the worst on record.
→ read full articleTerrified of Freedom: Why Most Human Beings Are Embracing the Global Elite’s Technotyranny
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Human freedom is on the verge of being lost. Forever.
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U.S. Global Empire of Violence!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – The U.S. says weapons, weapons, and more weapons, are the solution for everything! More weapons for Ukraine! Arm teachers in schools! Put armed guards everywhere!
→ read full articleAFRICOM: Black Skin, White Mask
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – Lt. General Michael Langley is poised to become the first black Four Star Marine Corps Officer and second black commander of AFRICOM—a neocolonial force to enable Western corporate pillage of Africa. We have seen Blacks assist in the subjugation of their own people before and it is not something to cheer about.
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Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia (Part 5)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – I wish I could conclude on a lighter note, but summoning Gramsci’s “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will,” I can only resolve to share what I’ve learned back home and suggest that the US let Ethiopia live.
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Why Is Everything Broken?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
The U.S.A. and its allies are waging war on many fronts. It is a form of total war – cold, hot, medical, military, mind-control, spiritual, etc. – that demands a total response from us. None of us is completely innocent; we are all part of the deep evil that is happening all around us. But if we listen carefully, we might hear God asking for our help. For we need each other.
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Phase Three in Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – No amount of western military aid has been able to prevent Russia from achieving its military objective of liberating the entire territories of both Lugansk and Donetsk as Phase Three begins.
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U.S. Congress Holds First UFO Hearings in Fifty Years Just as Biden Administration Budgets Record $27.6 Billion for Space Weapons
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
On 17 May 2022, the U.S. Congress held its first hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena —the new official name for Unidentified Flying Objects —in more than 50 years. Wernher von Braun, a Nazi scientist recruited under Operation Paperclip, said: “Weapons will be based in space—hence the need to create a psychological nexus whereby people will fear all things alien.”
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‘Realist’ Kissinger Says Ukraine Must Give Up Land to Russia, Warns West Not to Seek to Humiliate Putin with Defeat
Tom Porter | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – Even for those of us who are not big fans of Henry Kissinger, his ‘Realpolitik’ comments yesterday to the World Economic Forum in Davos about what should be done in Ukraine requires careful consideration by Western leaders.
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Sweden Poised to Join NATO as Part of Western Mobilization against Russia
Andi Olluri | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
28 May 2022 – Debates in the Country Follow Narrow Lines Defined by Government As Dissenting Voices Are Silenced
→ read full articleUS Threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with Illegal “Legal Designation of Genocide”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
25 May 2022 – The US is falsely accusing Ethiopia and Eritrea of hindering food aid and committing genocides in the ongoing war in Tigray. The charges are false and the US has no right to make such a claim on its own.
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The History They Don’t Teach You in School: U.S. and Russia Have a Long History of Collaboration
Nancy Spannaus | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
21 May 2022 – Relationship Can Be Rekindled Today, Even in These Darkest of Times
→ read full articleEthiopia: The TPLF Destruction of Afar (Part 4)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
18 May 2022 – The U.S. backs TPLF war, then when IDPs overwhelm public health capacity, USAID sends help. Measles threatens to sweep IDP camps full of undernourished children. Contradictions of empire.
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Western Media Engages in a War on Truth
Russell Bentley | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – Yellow Journalism of the Hearst Era Is Alive and Well in the 21st Century
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The Heart Is Mightier Than the Sword
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Sounds like a horror movie on permanent rewind through the brain, through the soul. Catch your breath, buy a gun. What other choice do you have?… The heart is mightier than the sword. I’m allowing myself to imagine a world where most people believe this.
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(Castellano) La batalla final por la humanidad: Es ‘ahora o nunca’ en la larga guerra contra el homo sapiens
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
Si perdemos esta batalla, no habrá batalla posterior. La Larga Guerra contra la humanidad se habrá perdido, de una vez por todas. Esta batalla es por todo lo que significa ser humano: identidad humana, libertad humana, derechos humanos, privacidad, dignidad, libre albedrío y cualquier otra cosa que haga que valga la pena vivir la vida, y por el control de la Tierra y todos sus recursos.
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The New Iron Curtain
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe’s crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment.
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Not in the Heat of Battle
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – On the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day and six days after Holocaust Memorial Day, Israel’s High Court of Justice issued their heinous decision to allow the Israeli army to demolish eight Palestinian villages and expel their inhabitants in the South Hebron Hills.
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USA’s Selective Outrage over Ukraine Is Fashioned by a Well-Oiled Propaganda Machine… Just Ask the People of Yemen
Robert Bridge | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
15 May 2022 – North Americans are being shepherded to the next emoji crusade – the latest being Russia’s special operation in Ukraine – like consumers waiting in line for junk food and Happy Meals. When does the mindless virtue-signaling end?
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Sanctions
Laini Mataka | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
15 May 2022 – the hateful’s favorite tool for dismantling dissension,
their weapon of choice
for punishing those who refuse to gap their legs wide for rape w/out protest.
Notes from Eritrea (Part 2)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
11 May 2022 – If Eritreans or other peoples of the world choose multi-party democracy, fine, but the US/NATO shouldn’t be trying to ram it down their throats with sanctions or using it as an excuse to bomb them into submission.
→ read full articleThe Final Battle for Humanity: It Is ‘Now or Never’ in the Long War against Homo Sapiens
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
If we lose this battle, the Long War against humanity will have been lost. This battle is for everything that it means to be human – human identity, human freedom, human rights, privacy, dignity, free will and anything else that makes life worth living – and for control of the Earth and all its resources.
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The EU Is Destroying Its Own Energy Security with the Planned Russian Oil Embargo
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
7 May 2022 – With no clear alternatives and surging energy prices, sanctions look set to hurt the bloc more than they will harm Russia.
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PayPal Cancels Consortium News Account–May Seize Balance
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
1 May 2022 – PayPal has canceled CN’s account without any prior notice or due process and with virtually no explanation. The online payment system gave no warning or reason and indicated that only if “applicable” will the balance be returned.
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Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Elites’ War to Rule the World
Fritz Pointer | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
4 May 2022 – We can date the beginning of the war in Ukraine to October 2002, when the Project for the New American Century was published for the Pentagon and clearly and unambiguously stated U.S. foreign policy for the 21st century: “Full Spectrum Dominance.” That is, to dominate militarily the nations, peoples and resources of the entire world. Not “Full Spectrum” or Global Peace, Diplomacy or Cooperation, but Domination.
→ read full articleNotes from Eritrea (Part 1)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
4 May 2022 – Ann Garrison continues her reporting from the Horn of Africa. She is now in Eritrea.
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Why Should Russia and the United States Be Enemies When They Have a 240-Year History of International Friendship and Support?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
April 25 marked the 77th anniversary of the “Oath of the Elbe,” when U.S. and Russian soldiers embraced in a historic meeting on the Elbe River in Torgau, Germany, to mark the final end of the Third Reich and pledge mutual understanding, empathy and peaceful relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
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Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ Is another Propaganda Tool
Ian Miles Cheong | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
3 May 2022 – The so-called proponents of freedom and democracy have given themselves the right to designate what the ‘truth’ is.
→ read full articleThe Global Suicide Budget
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
In 2021, the human race, in order to keep itself safe, invested $2.1 trillion in the ability to make war — to kill one another, even to end life altogether. We live counter to our deepest values in order to, as Obama put it, “upheld our highest traditions.” Or something like that. The bullets fly in all directions. Sometimes they hit the soul.
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UK Calls for a ‘Global NATO’
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
The world order created after the Second World War and the Cold War isn’t working anymore, so the West needs “a global NATO”, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss argued on 27 Apr 2022. She says a ‘global NATO’ needs to arm Taiwan, like Ukraine.
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Western Claims of Russian Mass Graves near Mariupol another Fake News Hoax
Eva K Bartlett | Resistance Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – According to Western media, now copy-paste reporting the same claims, Russian forces apparently secretly buried up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians in “mass graves” in a town just west of the city. Except, it never happened, there is no mass grave. I Know, I Went To See.
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The Corruption of Our Nation: How to Reclaim Our Power from Corrupt Global Corporatists
Robert W. Malone M.D., M.S. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
21 Apr 2022 – Inverted totalitarianism: The World Economic Forum represents global political capture by capitalism as corruption of political systems by global corporatists filtered down to our science, medicine and healthcare systems.
→ read full article(Czech-čeština) Válka na Ukrajině: Porozumění a odolávání hlubší agendy globální elity
Robert J. Burrowes | Oral.sk/Porno Politika – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
Zaměření na některé z obskurnějších aspektů hlubší agendy, která tento konflikt řídí. To odráží můj vlastní dlouhodobý zájem porozumět tomu, jak se elitní moc projevuje ve světě.
→ read full articleIt’s About Time
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
28 Apr 2022 – Isn’t it always? With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible. I am speaking of nuclear annihilation.
→ read full articleNotes from Wartorn Ethiopia (Part 2)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
Ann Garrison continues her reporting from Ethiopia.
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Why War?
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
Letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, 1932
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‘Crushing Dissent’ with George Galloway, Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter and Jill Stein
Joe Lauria and Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News Live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Join us as we examine the information warfare being waged to enforce a single narrative about the war in Ukraine. It may be worse than McCarthyism, which was defeated by its own excesses. Our guests have been targets of censorship and smears in this coordinated assault on freedom of expression.
→ read full articleHumanity: Evolving in Spite of Itself
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
As wars rage, cruelty shatters lives across the planet, nuclear Armageddon remains a viable option for all of us — I think that the human race is evolving in spite of itself — evolving beyond war, empire, dominance and conquest, and toward an uncertain future. Most of us already know this, but at a level so deep, so vague, it feels like mere “hope.”
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#FreeAssange Petition: Sign to Urge UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to Reject Julian Assange’s Extradition to the US
Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
If extradited to the USA, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison on 18 charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication in 2010 of military and diplomatic documents exposing war crimes and human rights violations. Assange has been targeted for this important contribution to journalism.
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The New Capitalist Gold Rush
William Hartung and Julia Gledhill | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – How Pentagon Contractors Are Cashing in on the Ukraine Crisis
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Michigan Bomb Plot: FBI Scheme to Create False ‘Domestic Terror’ Cabal Exposed in Court
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – Jury finds FBI agents fabricated a kidnapping threat against Michigan governor so they could be heroes by foiling a “crime” of their own creation. FBI director’s use of entrapment is part of a strategy designed to sow public fear and render support for draconian anti-terrorist legislation.
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Jingoistic Journalism Is No Friend of Ukraine
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Propaganda for a bigger and longer Ukraine war is flooding the media on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal in attempts to manipulate public opinion.
→ read full articleEinstein and Freud’s ‘Why War?’ Revisited: Why Anti-War Efforts Go Nowhere
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein exchanged letters, later published under the title ‘Why War?’ However, whatever insight these two giants of an earlier era brought to our understanding of war, the reality is that a great deal has been learned since they corresponded.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons and Cranial Winter
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – “The defense industry mobilized a small army of at least 718 lobbyists and doled out more than $67 million dollars pressuring Congress for increased weapons spending generally.”
→ read full articleNotes from Wartorn Ethiopia (Part 1)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US backing their former puppet, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation, which ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when they were finally overthrown by a popular uprising.
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Having a Laugh…
CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
… on us.
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Biden Administration Budgets Record $27.6 Billion for Militarization of Outer-Space
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – As homeless rates skyrocket and public education flounders, the Biden administration has proposed a record $27.6 billion budget for the militarization of outer space in 2023—a 25% increase from the 2022 budget. New cold war provides continued backdrop for misallocation of public resources into weaponry right out of science fiction films.
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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr | Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 1967 – I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
→ read full article(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: capire l’agenda sottostante dell’élite globale e resisterle
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Aprile 2022 – In un comunicato televisivo del 24 febbraio 2022, il presidente russo Vladimir Putin ha annunciato la sua decisione di ordinare alle forze militari russe di invadere l’Ucraina in quella che ha denominato una ‘operazione militare speciale’ per difendere le neo – autoproclamate repubbliche di di Donetsk e Luhansk e ‘smilitarizzare e […]
→ read full articleThe US Bubble of Pretend
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most North Americans.
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Was Alleged Russian Army Massacre of Civilians at Bucha Actually a False Flag Event Staged by Ukrainian Nazis?
Evan Reif | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – Why was Nazi Butcher Botsun at Bucha? This story raises an important challenge to the official storyline of the Bucha massacre promoted in the mainstream media.
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MLK: “Beyond Vietnam” Speech
Martin Luther King, Jr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
April 4, 1967 – One year before his death, Dr. King gave a speech criticizing the involvement of the U.S. in Vietnam. Great consequences would follow. His criticism made him very unpopular towards the end of his life.
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Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.
→ read full articleSave the Planet, Behead the Military Budget
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – Why, why, why, as our ecosystem collapses, as millions flee the horrors of war and poverty, as the pandemic continues, as WWIII and a nuclear Armageddon rears its evil head, does ever-expanding, global militarism remain our primary national purpose? This question stabs me as President Whoever announces his proposed military budget, as Congress increases it, as the media shrugs.
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Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This Ukrainian War
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue.
→ read full articleThe War in Ukraine: Understanding and Resisting the Global Elite’s Deeper Agenda
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Focusing on some of the more obscure aspects of the deeper agenda that is driving this conflict. This reflects my own long-standing interest in understanding how elite power manifests in the world.
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Washington Is Driving the World to Nuclear War
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Washington dumped three more provocations simultaneously on the Kremlin. The signal it consistently sends is aggression. Why has no government and no presstitute in the West pointed this out? Why provoke a country concerned with its security with more security concerns unless you are trying to widen the war?
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Yemen: The Largest Humanitarian Crisis That No One Discusses
Martin Armstrong | Armstrong Economics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The media rarely reports on Yemen and most journalists likely would not be able to recognize Yemen’s flag. The public does not discuss or shed tears for the people of Yemen who live in unfathomable conditions because they are not a piece of the larger agenda and no one can profit off of their suffering at this time.
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U.S. Lied about Funding “Dangerous Pathogen” Research in Secret Ukrainian Biolabs, Newly Leaked Documents Reveal
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – Newly Leaked Documents Reveal Pentagon Contractors Worked Under $80 Million Program Funded by Defense Department but Kept Hidden from Public
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NATO Is Arming and Training Nazis in Ukraine, as US Floods Russia’s Neighbor with Weapons
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
11 Mar 2022 – NATO is sending weapons and trainers to help neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s white-supremacist Azov movement fight Russia. This follows numerous reports of Western government support for Ukrainian far-right extremists.
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A Commune Called ‘Che’: A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes
Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – Just as the independence struggle had different resonances in the Andes, so too does Venezuela’s project of communal socialism. The region is home to one of the most successful communes in the country and has a solid productive basis (a chocolate factory and coffee cooperative). However, the Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others.
→ read full articleTranscending the Certainties of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Can we stare into hell and refuse to see . . . an enemy?
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Preparing for a Dictator Down Under?
Brian Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – Australia has a stable, prosperous democracy. There are no looming external threats and no violent opposition movements. Yet, in the past two decades Australian governments have passed numerous laws giving police and security agencies ever more powers for surveillance and repression.
→ read full articleOn the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – To grasp this possibility within the context of Ukraine, we need to put aside all talk of morality, rights, international law, and think in terms of great power politics. When a great power feels its existence is threatened, might makes right. You simply can’t understand world politics without thinking at this level. It is a means of clarifying the causes of wars.
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An Interview with Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann, a Short-listed Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Robert Kowalczyk: Not many Germans recently have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Please explain the essence of your thoughts and why they are crucial at this moment in our world’s history.
→ read full articleLife Goes on, Right?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – I had a breakthrough yesterday — and I don’t mean metaphorically. Wars rage, countless humans suffer, the rich get richer, life goes on. I still have my morning coffee. But not yesterday.
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A Guide for Peace in Ukraine: A Humanist and Nonviolent Proposal from Portugal
Redação Portugal | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions”, the Portuguese branch of the World Centre for Humanist Studies, an organism of the Humanist Movement, is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it.
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Ukrainian Refugees to Portugal Will Have Over 11,500 Jobs to Choose from
Natasha Donn | Portugal Resident - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – As the government announced earlier this week, bureaucratic details like temporary residence authorisation/social security, fiscal and SNS State health Service numbers, will all be fast-tracked to make this transition for new arrivals as simple as possible.
→ read full articleThe Frailty of Peace in the Midst of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Prior to any analysis of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, prior to the casting of blame and outrage — at Putin’s hubris, at NATO’s pernicious eastward expansion over the last three decades — there’s this:
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The Curse of NATO
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The war over Ukraine is an example of the curse of NATO. Russia reacted to the possibility of Ukraine being in NATO. This is not irrational in that US/NATO has over 750 military bases around the world, and many of these bases appear to be there to militarily encircle Russia (and China).
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What You Should ‘Really’ Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
As tensions began to rise over Ukraine, US media produced articles attempting to explain the situation: “Ukraine Explained” (New York Times, 12/8/21) and “What You Need to Know About Tensions Between Ukraine and Russia” (Washington Post, 11/26/21). But to truly understand this crisis, you would need to know much more than what these articles offered.
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Leak Exposes Ericsson’s Secret Dealings with ISIS amid Iraq Corruption Spree
Sydney P. Freedberg, Maggie Michael and Amir Musawy | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The embattled Swedish telecom giant concealed years of bribery and fraud in the war-torn nation and grappled with undisclosed corruption allegations in more than a dozen other countries.
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US, UK, France Promised USSR Not to Expand NATO East of Germany, Newly Discovered Document Proves
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Feb 2022 – A newly discovered document provides more evidence that Western governments broke their promise not to expand NATO eastward after German reunification. Notes from a 1991 meeting prove that the US, UK, France, and Germany assured the Soviet Union that NATO would not expand east.
→ read full articleCreating Peace Means Changing the World
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
23 Feb 2022 – Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right? Regarding Ukraine: Both sides in the matter are flawed, and both sides need to listen.
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Switzerland at Risk of EU Blacklist after Credit Suisse Leak
Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
– 21 Feb 2022 –
* Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians.
* What is the Suisse secrets leak and why are we publishing it?
Multiple Articles on Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News | Military Space Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Thought-provoking News on War and Destruction
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Gay rights, women’s rights — in reality, these are a nuisance to many U.S. conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the world is a great excuse to play war.
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Dissonance Searching for Resonance: A Time to Remember the Hibakusha, or Are We Too Late?
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The world is now bracing itself for a possible Russian invasion of the Ukraine. The U.S. is pushing back, with President Biden talking about “a World War.” Hopefully, it’s not too late to remember the Hibakusha (Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings). How does one limit such an exchange once the first button is pressed?
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Seventy-Seven Years Ago, U.S. and Russia Signed Historic Agreement at Yalta
Jeremy Kuzmarov and Jacques Pauwels | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – With tensions between the U.S. and Russia at historic levels and threat of a hot war breaking out in Ukraine, we would do well to remember FDR’s visionary leadership and pursuit of diplomacy.
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Oliver Stone: American Exceptionalism Is on Deadly Display in Ukraine
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The creator of the Showtime documentary series “The Putin Diaries” speaks to Robert Scheer about the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
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Sleepwalking into Hell: The Global Elite’s Technological Coup d’état Against Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Opposed to vaccine mandates, QR codes and other restrictions on our rights and freedom?
Refusing to wear a mask, have the vaccine and stay locked-down when ordered?
Attended a number of demonstrations in your country?
Involved in or supporting the truckers convoys?
Argentina Turns to Russia and Joins China’s Belt and Road
Ben Norton | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Seeking alternatives to US hegemony, President Alberto Fernández traveled to Russia and China, forming an alliance with the Eurasian powers, joining the Belt and Road Initiative. Argentina is trapped in $44 billion of IMF odious debt taken on by corrupt right-wing regimes.
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BREAKING: Joint Russia-China Statement Articulates United Opposition to Western Alliance
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – Today’s joint statement is a historic articulation of the major shift underway from the unipolar world that has existed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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The Moral, Military and Financial Cost of Guantanamo Bay, 20 Years Later
Stefano Kotsonis and Meghna Chakrabarti | WBUR/On Point - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – 20 years ago, the first detainees in the U.S. War on Terror arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Many detainees were innocent, and tortured. Presidents since then have promised to close Guantanamo, and failed. They picked up human beings and moved them halfway around the globe without an idea of how to undo this. They’re stuck with this mission. So, what’s next?
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Stripping Away the Bulls**t: U.S. and Russian Threats over Ukraine—What They’re about and Who’s the Aggressor
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
25 Jan 2022 – Threats and counter-threats flying between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine have caused a flurry of fear and confusion that escalates and expands daily. Is the world on the brink of war? What is it about, who is the aggressor and who is to blame?
→ read full articleNostalgic for the Future
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Nostalgia is always about time and space. In that sense, it is equivalent to all human experience that also takes place within these dimensions. And when technology has radically disrupted our human sense of limits in their regard, it becomes harder and harder to feel at home, to dwell enough to grasp what is happening in the world.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – There is a paradox here the size of the whole planet. The essential point here, as far as I can tell, is that the signatories are confessing that, yes, we possess the weapons that could destroy all life, and yes, we think using them would be wrong, but we have no idea how to make them go away and so we’ll just use them to scare each other, a.k.a., serve defensive purposes.
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The News Is Not That Israel Has Apartheid, but That Amnesty Dares Say So
Ari Paul | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture? AP (1/31/22) disclosed that its government called on Amnesty International not to release a report (2/1/22) that defines that nation’s legal structure as a form of apartheid. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the report endorses “lies shared by terrorist organizations.”
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Whose Body Is It?
Ron Hauge | The Nation OppArt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Choice on the Line Again
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