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Peace and Conflict Resolution: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Seems More Intelligent Than Human Political Intelligence (PI)

#788 | Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service

I got the idea of checking what the AI-based ChatGPT had to say about the war in Ukraine and its answers were a pleasant surprise from the perspective that I hold dear: peace. Here is what I asked and what it answered within a couple of seconds.

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TRANSCEND VIDEOS

John Pilger Speaks about Julian Assange in Sydney 10 Mar 2023

John Pilger - TRANSCEND Media Service

10 Mar 2023 - Australia, the ultimate betrayer of Julian Assange.

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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

The “Snipers’ Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine

Ivan Katchanovski, Ph.D. | University of Otawa - TRANSCEND Media Service

Abstract: The massacre of almost 50 Maidan protesters on 20 Feb 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics and a tipping point in the conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine. This mass killing of the protesters and the mass shooting of the police that preceded it led to the overthrow of the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych and gave a start to a civil war in Donbas in Eastern Ukraine, Russian military intervention in Crimea and Donbas, and an international conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine.

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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

AI Robots Invade the Classroom — So What?

Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service

8 Mar 2023 - As long as the system of artificial education focuses on “teaching to the test” by insisting on reducing individual intelligence to a number and belittling the potential of each student, we have a problem. AI isn’t the cause; it helps expose it.

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Other Commentaries

TRANSCEND MEMBERS

‘Outright Hatred’ towards Muslims, Has Risen to ‘Epidemic Proportions’

Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service

15 Mar 2023 - “Terrorism and violent extremism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization, or ethnic group.”

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The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami

Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service

On10 March Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the country, collapsed. This was the second largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, following Washington Mutual in 2008. Despite its size, SVB was not a “systemically important financial institution” as defined in the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires insolvent SIFIs to “bail in” the money of their creditors to recapitalize themselves.

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Food Inglorious Food: Children’s Health Defense Attack on Food Summit

Diane Perlman, Ph.D.  | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service

5 Mar 2023 - Yesterday Dr. Meryl Nass--with assistance, comments and summaries by Alexis Baden-Mayer--convened a magnificent, important 7-hour Attack on Food Symposium + Solutions to Fight Back

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Forever Wars vs. Armageddon

Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service

15 Mar 2023 - The call for the U.S. to end military involvements is often made in order to advocate for new wars against more powerful countries. It appears that the only choices are forever wars or the end of the world.

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Providing Education to Handicapped Students

Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service

Mahatma Gandhi contributed to the freedom of India in diverse ways including in the field of education. He stressed the role of learning appropriate skills along with formal education; simple tasks such as electrical fittings, repair work, housekeeping (for girls), animal care, etc. 

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The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the Sep 2001 Attacks

Edward Curtin and Graeme MacQueen | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service

15 Mar 2023 - Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book - Leftists, no matter what they say in their defense, bear great moral responsibility for the so-called War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq, the deaths of Muslims, etc., all of which emanate from the insider attacks of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks.

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The Travesty of “International Justice”

Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service

18 Mar 2023 - The Latest ICC Attempt to Criminalise a World Leader Who Challenges UK, US Supremacy

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Peace Propagators (Part 2): The Legacy of the Dead Poets

Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service

Poetry Has Propagated Peace but the Heeders Are Indeed a Rare Species about to Become Extinct

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Peace Conference: A World without Militarism

Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service

Sat, 25 Mar: 9am to 5pm, University of London, In-person & Online, Free Entry

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SPECIAL FEATURE

Jeffrey Sachs Testimony on COVID Origins

Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service

6 Mar 2023 - My reasons to believe that SARS-CoV-2 may have emerged from a laboratory are straightforward. If indeed that is the case, it reveals the remarkable danger of ongoing gain-of-function research unknown to the Congress and public. Key questions include the following.

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Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’

Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service

9 Mar 2023 - This is a qualitatively new phase of world history with significant global changes since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, which can be seen in a new phase of imperialism. We hope to stimulate debate and discussion in our broader Battle of Ideas against toxic social philosophies that seek to suffocate rational thought about our world.

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G20, the Ukraine War, and the Global Economic Crisis

Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service

18 Mar 2023 - United States and Its Allies Accused of Hampering Progress within the Global South

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TECHNOLOGY

Will Humans Become an Extension of Their Machines? ChatGPT May Have Irrevocable Consequences for Learning and Decision-Making

Dr. Mathew Maavak | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service

13 Mar 2023 - We already rely on digital crutches in numerous aspects of our lives – will we delegate even our essential faculties to AI?

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ANGLO AMERICA

The Lords of Chaos

The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service

19 Mar 2023 - The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East, and who seek a world dominated by U.S. power, must be held accountable for their crimes.

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What Follows US Hegemony

Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service

Rebirth of the Dream of Global Peace and Mutual Respect - The USA remains a powerful country, but it has not come to terms with the immense changes taking place in the world order.

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WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM

Iraq Plus 20 (Part 1): Lies as Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service

15 Mar 2023 - The Script for the Lead-Up to War

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MILITARISM

U.S. and NATO Allies Were Responsible for Nearly 65% of Global Arms Exports in 2018-22

Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service

14 Mar 2023 - The US share in global arms exports increased from 33% to 40% in 2018-22, and its ally France, the third-largest exporter of weapons, had its share increasing from roughly 7.1% to 11%.

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The US/UK Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia

Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service

17 Mar 2023 - If submarine nuclear reactor technology and weapons-grade (highly enriched) uranium are shared with Australia, it is a breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which Australia is a signatory as a non-nuclear power. Even the supplying of such nuclear reactors by the U.S. and the UK would constitute a breach of the NPT.

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The Not-So-Winding Road from Iraq to Ukraine

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service

15 Mar 2023 - The continuing influence of the neocons architects of U.S. aggression against Iraq and the double standard between blanket impunity for aggression by US/NATO/allies and the Western military response to Russian aggression against Ukraine.

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HISTORY

16 Mar 1968: The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam by US Invading Forces

Richard Kreitner and The Almanac | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service

“The obsolete pretensions of sovereign prerogative and military necessity had better be challenged soon if life on earth is to survive,” -- Richard Falk

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ASIA--PACIFIC

A Sane Voice amidst the Madness

Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service

17 Mar 2023 - Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia.

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BALKANS AND EASTERN EUROPE

A Donbas Diary: Looking Back at the Early Stages of the Conflict in Ukraine

Fergie Chambers | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service

17 Mar 2023 - It is evening in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, one of NATO’s easternmost members. I am waiting at the edge of Izvor Park in the city center to meet with a young friend who has fled Ukraine. In the backdrop of the park is the Palace of the Parliament, the brutalist architectural crown jewel of the Ceaușescu era, and the heaviest building on earth.

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BRICS

China’s Great Leap in the Middle East

Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service

14 Mar 2023 - What Beijing just sponsored and got done, putting two millennia of diplomatic craft to work, is an exquisite example of what can be accomplished once this imperative is fully realized.

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CENTRAL ASIA

Pakistan: Firing in Flood

Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service

They Want to Arrest Imran Khan and Destabilize the Country

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EUROPE

Frankfurt Undermines Human Rights by Canceling a Concert by Roger Waters

Katie Halper and Vijay Prashad | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service

Roger Waters will take his “This Is Not a Drill” tour to Europe. But on 24 Feb, Frankfurt’s city council cancelled the concert for “persistent anti-Israel behavior” calling Waters an antisemite. In response, Peter Gabriel, Julie Christie, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, Alia Shawkat, Glenn Greenwald and others signed a petition calling on the German government to uncancel the concert.

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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Haiti: “The Truth Speaks for Itself”

Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service

With a defunded health care system, Haiti is once again confronting a cholera epidemic.  Food insecurity threatens 5 million people, including 2.4 million children, in a country of 12 million. Government-supported paramilitary groups continue to terrorize opposition neighborhoods, with kidnappings at an all time high. These crises have their roots in the 2004 coup and the subsequent imposition of foreign occupation, coordinated through the UN. 

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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

The Saudi-Iran Détente and Its Regional Implications

Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service

12 Mar 2023 - What the normalisation between two regional powers means and does not mean.

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PALESTINE - ISRAEL

An Open Call for Genocide in Palestine

Jafar M Ramini | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service

Theodore Herzl, founder of Zionism, in his 1895 vision of a Jewish State in Palestine: “We shall have to spirit the penniless population across the border … while denying it any employment in our country…Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” (Source: Theodore Herzl Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895) “It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples … If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us. The only solution is a Land of Israel … without Arabs.”

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Huwara Reels after Night of Settler Terror under Israeli Army’s Watch

Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service

Palestinians in the West Bank town were left to deal with burned-out buildings and cars after hundreds of settlers ran riot while soldiers protected them.

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UNITED NATIONS

WCPA’s Two Track Strategy for Earth Federation Government or a ‘New UN’

Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service

16 Mar 2023 - Einstein noted the absence of enforceable world law in the UN Charter.  Bully nations violate international law with impunity as leaders responsible for world crimes, especially from the UN Security Council (U.S., Russia, China, UK, France) are untouchable, never held accountable, even by the ICC or the ICJ.

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CAPITALISM

Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up

Michael Hudson | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service

15 Mar 2023 - The collapses of the Silvergate and Silicon Valley Banks are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse is the rising temperature of interest rates. Most media reports reflect a prayer that the bank runs will be localized, as if there is no context or environmental cause.

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REVIEWS

Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order

A. B. Abrams | Clarity Press – TRANSCEND Media Service

Atrocity fabrication, the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary, has a long history in propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public opinion. It provides pretext for hostile measures against targets, transforming wars of aggression into wars of liberation of the oppressed.

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INSPIRATIONAL

Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness

Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service

“Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

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SPIRITUALITY

To the Brahmin Sela: Sela Sutta

Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service

I heard thus: At one time the Blessed One was touring the country of Anguttaraapa with a large community of Bhikkhus, about one thousand two hundred and fifty and entered a hamlet named Aapana. The matted hair ascetic Keniya heard "The good recluse Gotama, son of the Saakyas touring the country of Anguttaraapa."

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist

Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service

13 Mar 2023 - FORBES Has a New List of the World’s Richest People

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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida

David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service

Não é um argumento especista se digo que a violência contra outros animais deve ser combatida por causa das consequências para humanos?

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(Italiano) Antifascismo e Costituzione

Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service

16 Marzo 2023 - Appunti scritti dopo l’assemblea antifascista del 6 marzo, nel tentativo di concentrare intorno ad alcuni valori programmatici anche la nostra attività di cultura positiva della pace.

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JOKE OF THE WEEK

Lovers’ Kiss…

Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service

7 Mar 2023 - Joke? No Joke

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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

Anything to Say? Assange, Snowden & Manning in Sydney

Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service

11 Mar 2023 - The three bronze statues that have been touring the world have arrived in Assange’s home country, Australia.

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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)

Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service

Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode, Le Déserteur, composed by Boris Vian in 1954. The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway.

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