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The Gaza Genocide as Explicit Policy: Michael Hudson Names All Names
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet–a first.
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Rossiya TV Interviews Vladimir Putin
Presidential Executive Office | Kremlin - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – This extensive interview on the global as well as European resource crisis provides more than statement of Russia’s perspective. It also frames issues structurally that need to be addressed in every capital and policy arena… However we judge the actions of Russia, and others, I see no advantage in having a political elite – including those in power – who wear their ignorance as some sort of insignia of rank. — Prof. Michael Brenner
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Today’s Crisis over Ukraine
Amb. Jack F. Matlock | ACURA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense. We are being told each day that war may be imminent in Ukraine. (This article is judged “UNFIT TO PRINT” by The New York Times et al. — Prof. Michael Brenner)
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Mad Dog
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – Trump’s USA is like a rabid dog prowling the globe. It strikes ferociously at whomever gets in its way or encroaches on its deranged mental space or simply is available to satisfy its lusts. If the Middle East is your neighborhood, you live in dread of the equally depraved, murderous mongrel in Jerusalem. How can you deal with its menace?
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Epstein & the Banality of Evil
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Feb 2026
Sex trafficking and rape of minors, blackmail, financial duplicity, espionage, treason, abuse of their powers by public agencies and private institutions, establishment coverups that span decades, perjury – among others. There is not a sinful action missing from its multifaceted violation of law and human morality.
→ read full articleWe Choose Fascism! (?)
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Nov 2025
10 Nov 2025 – Is the USA choosing Fascism? That is the question that will occupy historians – probably Asian – in the second half of the 21st Century. There are indications suggesting that the answer is ‘Yes’ – or, we are in the process of doing so. Let’s examine them.
→ read full articleThe Power of the Word
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025
A key to elite dominance always was the superior group’s monopoly – or quasi monopoly – of crucial knowledge. Before the introduction of writing, it took oral form. The subjects covered matters temporal as well as sacred.
→ read full articleSharing Chopsticks?
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025
29 May 2025 – China is presented with the same fundamental dilemma as is Russia. There are some noteworthy situational differences, though. Here is a summary denotation of both.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025
25 Mar 2025 – The convulsions wracking the US body politic impact the nation’s foreign relations. The USA today defies all conventional categories. Its leader(s) are abnormal, its government is abnormal, its conduct is abnormal – and, perhaps, its society itself is abnormal.
→ read full articleOn Stupidity
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025
Denouncing China as US’ enemy on whom it plans to impose severe economic sanctions and then beseeching Beijing for assistance in keeping the dollar the global currency by ending its sale of U.S. securities; and then demanding that China slow its economic growth… – that’s stupid.
→ read full articleThe Dismal Pseudo-Science
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – Economists claim their discipline is a science. If so, it is an odd one. For the deeper you probe its foundations, the shakier its superstructure looks. Modern-day economics is built on two convenient untruths.
→ read full articleIn Praise of Anger
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Anger is a normal human emotion as any other: affection, combativeness, protectiveness, sorrow; but it gets a bad press. That is especially true in intellectual circles and among the self-consciously virtuous/goodhearted in general.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – Racism is at the core of Western societies complicity in Israeli’s genocide against Palestinians. The US and Britain are co-belligerents in atrocities of the most heinous kinds. Racism, though, is a multifaceted phenomenon.
→ read full articleDilemmas
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – We are experiencing times of global transition. Where we have been is self-evident. Where the world is headed remains obscure. Some states are implacably resisting that transition; others strive to foster a modified international system that conforms to emerging realities.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way – in the name of supporting Jews.
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Sinews of Peace
Michael Brenner, Vladimir Putin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024
29 Oct 2024 – This is a highly classified transcript of remarks made by Vladimir Putin to a select audience of Russian elites at the Kremlin. The secret conclave was held in Jun 2021 on the eve of his meeting with Joe Biden.
→ read full articleArtificial Intelligence – Eureka!
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – AI promises all sorts of wondrous things. We are told that it will add trillions to GDP; diagnosis, prescribe treatment and register cures for all manner of illnesses; relieve us of mind-numbing tasks at work and at home; and ensure that every one of us is better than average.
→ read full articleHumiliation Upon Request
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Israel’s inhumane treatment of the Palestinians leaves Europeans unmoved. European political elites above all. Instead, they cheer on the Israelis in effusive displays of solidarity so that the IDF can better carry out their odious campaign.
→ read full articleHegemony or Bust
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024
Hegemony. The term holds a central place in the present discourse about the United States’ place in the world: what it has been, its sustainability, and alternative ways of formulating the country’s national interests.
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Nuclear War: Still Unthinkable?
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – The United State’s provocative actions are the principal reason the “unthinkable” possibility is becoming ever more likely.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Denial of civil liberties, punishment for exposing those violations, and the grotesque, brutal suppression of free speech on US university campuses is the iron fist of autocracy to intimidate, to hurt, to deter those who question the right of the powers-that-be to impose their concocted version of the truth on the public.
→ read full articleThe West vs. the Rest
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024
30 Apr 2024 – Is the West launching an all-out war against global ‘South,’ against the BRICS – plus, against the ‘other’? Are we in the first stages of a civilizational struggle initiated by the U.S.-led assemblage we call the “collective West”? That would have seemed an absurd idea until very recently.
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Likud Party Charter (1977) – Eretz Israel
Michael Brenner - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024
The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) – Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.
→ read full articleThe West’s Reckoning?
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024
6 Mar 2024 – Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them – unable to penetrate the entrenched barriers of dogma, arrogance and deep-seated insecurities.
→ read full articleBeyond Hypocrisy
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Every resolution, I guess, has its exemptions. Hence, the irresistible impulse to draw attention to a singular example of lying by omission committed by the usual suspects.
→ read full articleEurope-Jews-Muslims
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way – all in the name of supporting Jews.
→ read full articleThe Final Scene
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023
27 Oct 2023 – The USA–its vassal train in tow–is committing moral suicide in Palestine. The political consequences will be profound, and as enduring as the complete discrediting of the country’s standing as a positive presence in world affairs.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – The United States is being defeated in Ukraine. One could say that it is facing defeat or that it is staring defeat in the face. Neither formulation is appropriate, though. The U.S. doesn’t look reality squarely in the eye. We prefer to look at the world through the distorted lenses of our fantasies.
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Risen Word
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023
7 May 2023 – A divide between elites and the populace is a feature of society that has been true without exception since the abundance by agriculture/husbandry encouraged the growth of early Neolithic bands. A key to elite dominance always was the superior group’s monopoly – or quasi monopoly – of crucial knowledge.
→ read full articleOde to LGBTQ
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023
Soliloquy
→ read full articleUkraine and the ‘Thucydides Trap’
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The importance of Ukraine, in the eyes of US officials, goes far beyond the country’s intrinsic geopolitical or economic value. The crisis is rooted in Washington’s preoccupation with Russia. It has very little to do with Ukraine per se. That benighted country has provided the occasion, not the cause of the current confrontation.
→ read full articleTanks & Tragedy
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – Never has it been so daunting to figure out what’s going on during a major international crisis as with the Ukraine affair, due to total absence of truthful reporting and honest interpretative analysis by the MSM. We are served falsity, fantasy and farrago whose relation to reality is tenuous.
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Hope . . . An Implacable Cosmos-Endowed Vitalism
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023
A 2023 national Gallup Poll in the USA revealed that North Americans are very pessimistic regarding 2023. Across all demographic markers, a majority “predict negative conditions in 12 of 13 economic, political, societal and international arenas.” ‘Hope’ appears to be absent or insufficient for mediating or mollifying pessimism.
→ read full articleNeo-Cons: Genesis to Ascendency
Prof. Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – All or nothing, Hegemony or Armageddon: A logical outcome of a 40-year progression.
→ read full articleLast Tango in La-La Land
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – Although admittedly Ukraine is mentioned, this piece is not about that benighted country. It is about another place: La-La Land. That locale is a densely populated mental space inhabited by Western rulers and the vast majority of our political class. Fata Morgana–by my GPS reckoning.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2022
Vladimir Putin is a formidable personality who leads a great country that has been experiencing an historic transformation. We will have to deal with him and with it, one way or another. Simply shouting to the skies: “genocidal killer” is dangerous, counter-productive – and, frankly, childish.
→ read full articleTowards a Model of Wise Power™: Quantum Politics and Second Order Change
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022
Once again, much of the world is gripped by a compelling narrative portraying a simplistic, archetypal drama, a simple Hollywood script: Ukraine is the angel, Russia is the devil, Zelensky is the hero and all good people will wear blue and yellow ribbons.”
→ read full articleOn Humiliation
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Russia’s actions in the Ukraine, to a great extent, are the culmination of the numerous humiliations that the West, under American instigation, has inflicted on Russia’s rulers and the country as a whole over the past 30 years.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jan 2022
When Pompey the Great made his triumphant return to Rome in 61 BCE, a spectacular ceremony was planned. The centerpiece was to be a towering throne where Pompey would pass through a Victory arch. But a small problem arose: the throne was 4 feet taller than the height of the arch. That is a neat metaphor for the uneasy position in which Uncle Sam finds himself these days.
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Mind &/or Brain
Michael Brenner - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Nov 2021
8 Nov 2021 – The question of what constitutes ‘thinking’ overlaps the issues of MIND/BRAIN. Defining, delineating and explicating self-awareness, rationality, and logic has been a perplexing challenge since time immemorial. ‘’Discovery’ of the subconscious has enormously complicated these tasks. Advances in neurology add a new dimension to the discourse.
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Michael Brenner - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – The Congressional panel, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, recommends that the US military launch a major program to develop autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence software. Panel leader, former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, wants $20-30 billion in the program. Vice-chairman Robert Work said: “It is a MORAL IMPERATIVE to at least pursue this hypothesis,” he said.
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Dealing with Memories
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jan 2021
Memory roughly means the thoughts or events that we may remember. Some of these memories are pleasant — give pleasure; some of these are painful , unpleasant and result in pain or sadness or occasional suffering. The latter trait of suffering results both from physical or mental causes. In this essay I focus on memories of individuals both pleasant and painful.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Dec 2020
4 Dec 2020 – So pervasive is this consensus that the foreign affairs community has developed something that approximates herd immunity to critical thinking. Political elites, think tankers, and consultancy gurus all sing in chorus from the same hymnal. Such differences as exist are barely noticeable variations on the fundamentally same threat assessments or on tactics for countering those alleged threats.
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Baseball Cap Implications in the Quest for Global Hegemony
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jul 2020
The existence of “evil” is now widely recognized by world leaders. However, so little is done to explore how the organization of the “demonic forces” might be comprehended — beyond the geometrical allusion to an Axis of Evil. Especially problematic is the degree to which those qualifying others as evil tend to be so qualified. Even more remarkable is the failure to clarify how the “angelic forces” are organized.
→ read full articleFailing to Succeed
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jun 2020
28 Jun 2020 – In a time of quarantine, isolation and anxiety, most literate isolates already have plowed through Decline & Fall, War & Peace, the complete set of Shakespeare’s dramas, and the Iliad. So, now the choice is between you and Paradise Lost – which is not everybody’s cup of tea. Widespread social disorder can be the expression of various conditions: civil war, sectarian strife, economic collapse, natural disasters, external incursions, etc. All of these situations are explicable by the application of some kind of causal logic.
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Snowden
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jun 2020
Edward Snowden’s book is not a ‘coming-of-age’ saga. It is necessary to say that at the outset. One of the peculiarities of our times is the penchant for rendering everything in terms of so-called ‘human interest.’ The most profound events, the most penetrating analysis, the most stirring ideas – all are reduced to personality. Whether it is the personality of the author, a representation of the subject, or some background character.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020
23 May 2020 – Hacking is back in the headlines. The Chinese are accused of breaking into the computers of unnamed American labs – corporate &/or non-corporate – doing research on a coronavirus vaccine. The operative words are ‘China/Chinese’ and ‘hacking’. The two go together like gin & tonic.
→ read full articleRanting in a Time of Plague
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2020
14 Apr 2020 – Overriding all else is the spectacle of a President, DULY ELECTED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, who is a malicious psychopath with not a single redeeming trait. A physical, intellectual and emotional spectre, he has gathered around him a witch’s coven of scoundrels, crooks and crackpots as bereft of mind and ethics as he is. This man is viewed favorably by 46% of the public. THAT REALITY ECLIPSES EVERYTHING ELSE. What Have We Learned?
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Arendt, Eichmann and the Banalization of Blame
Michael Brenner | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Feb 2020
Hannah Arendt, who originated the term “banality of evil” in her provocative writings, was not interested in explaining Eichmann’s blandness per se. She had more profound thoughts to convey. He was a symbol of something much deeper. Her forcefully argued conclusions that ordinary people can commit horrific crimes created a furor – a blazing fire of argument and recrimination whose embers smoldered for decades.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2019
If America in the late eighteenth century was born against others’ history, Western Europe in the mid-twentieth century succeeded in liberating itself from its own history.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2019
12 Oct 2019 – Here we are again: a major series of events in the Middle East accompanied by thin and misleading MSM coverage. It is the background, context and interpretation of implications that are distorted and prejudiced; also, spiked with a drizzle of lies. Par for the course.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019
‘Negotiated truth’ has become the standard currency. Robert Mueller’s manner of handling his relations with the Department of Justice fits the pattern. In declaring that William Barr’s gross misrepresentations of his report’s conclusion were ‘well intentioned,’ while making it obvious that Trump had obstructed justice, is a prime example. In this instance, Mueller negotiated the truth among his sense of professional duty, his conscience and his keen desire to maintain a certain standing among his fellow Republicans. In the end, he tilted toward the last while hiding behind the first. Par for the course.
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019
29 May 2019 – The U.S. Department of State is offering a grant of $75 million to non-government-organizations to help it to further meddle in Syria. Americans have intoxicated themselves for two and a half years on the vapors emanating from the alleged Russian ‘interference’ in the 2016 election affair–never proven. The strongest odor, if one bothers to inhale, is from the stench of hypocrisy.
→ read full articleNeo-Cons: Origin of the Species
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2019
18 May 2019 – Before embarking on an etymological exploration, a few prefatory remarks are in order. One, neo-conservativism is as much a state of feeling as it is a state-of-mind. Two, such logical thinking as occurs among its devotees is deductive – downplaying empirical data and encouraging ad hominem conclusions and pronouncements. Finally, it is a highly adulterated species of doctrine. It has interbred with several other intellectual and ideological entities to produce a hybrid.
→ read full articleWhen Conquer We Must, When Our Cause It Is Just
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2019
12 May 2019 – Bellicosity pervades Washington’s ruling circles. Cartoon images of the enemy are disseminated everywhere. He is alien and menacing. The target is portrayed as a clear and ‘imminent’ threat to America who is beyond reason. Fictive provocations are conjured up. No evidence is presented to substantiate the claims – it’s speculation rooted it’s super-secret classified Intelligence. To question is to traffic in ‘fake news’ and disinformation, to serve as ‘useful idiot’ who is handmaiden to the terrible trio of Russia, Syria and Iran… Let’s step back a couple of generations to Vietnam.
→ read full articleSatanic Venezuela vs Saintly America
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2019
5 May 2019 – America’s entire political class, its foreign policy community in particular, agrees that Maduro ‘has to go.’ Just as Assad ‘had to go’, Gaddafi ‘had to go,’ and before them Saddam ‘had to go.’ With the Ayatollahs high on the to-do list. The only debate is on the method. Tactics are discussed endlessly on Op Ed pages, on the talk shows, on think tank row without any reference to why he ‘must go’ – with what implications. It’s little different from the agitated post-game yapping about an NBA play-off game: why did team ‘X’ fail to execute their pick-and-roll as planned, why this match-up rather than that, what adjustments will the coach make before the next game.
→ read full articleCatechism for America
Prof. Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019
1 Jan 2019 – Donald Trump experienced an epiphany during his lonesome Christmas at the White House. Riveted by the telecast of the midnight Mass at the Vatican, it came unto him a blinding light that awakened his spirit. The troubled soul of America needed a patriotic version of the Church’s ancient catechism. He set about commissioning a composition modeled on the NICENE CREED and the Roman Catholic Catechism to serve as a devotional paean to America.
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Syria – Tell Me It Ain’t So
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Dec 2018
22 Dec 2018 – It is daunting to find polite words for describing American foreign policy- such is its incoherence. Purpose is obscure, logic is invisible. There is no approximation to orderly process – in thought, in deliberation, in decision. These truths have been highlighted by Trump’s stated intention to withdraw (some) American troops from Syria – and by the reaction to it. The harsh reality that it is not the White House alone that lacks anything resembling a strategy in the Middle East. That holds for their critics, too, both inside and outside the government.
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Network Spherons: The UN of Harmony and Global Peace Replacing the UN of Disharmony
Leo Semashko et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2018
Spheral Structure of the UN Harmony – The UN Sociocybernetic Reform Proposal
→ read full articleHow the US Armed-up Syrian Jihadists
Alastair Crooke – Consortium News, 3 Oct 2016
29 Sep 2016 – The West blames Russia for the bloody mess in Syria, but U.S. Special Forces saw close up how the chaotic U.S. policy of aiding Syrian jihadists enabled Al Qaeda and ISIS to rip Syria apart, explains ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke.
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Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2016
There’s way more in common between Wall Street and Silicon Valley than meets the untrained eye. They are two of the key strategic hubs of hyperpower global domination. The others are the industrial-military-surveillance-security complex – of which Hollywood and corporate media are the soft power extensions – and the petrodollar racket/tributary system.
→ read full articleAn Ongoing Liability: The CIA’s Dirty Wars
Michael Brenner - CounterPunch, 13 May 2013
The errant actions of the C.I.A. are by now so evident that they are a staple of Washington conversion. Like the weather, though, it is the topic everybody talks about, but does nothing about.
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The Deep State of the Anglo-Saxon Hegemony: A Material, Cultural, and Racial Trilogy
Linjie Chou Zanadu – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2025
Galtung (1990) identified the concept of cultural violence, which teaches us to see exploitation or repression as normal and natural: religion, language, ideology, and even formal science can all be used as tools for cultural violence.
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Why Academic Scholarship on Israel and Palestine Threatens Western Elites
Joseph Massad | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – No institution in the liberal West is safe from pro-Israel repression, especially universities whose knowledge production has dismantled the official consensus. The gap is most apparent in the US but also in the UK and France.
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The Ideology of Late Imperialism
Prof. Zhun Xu | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Mar 2021
1 Mar 2021 – The Return of the Geopolitics of the Second International
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Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen
Michael LaForgia and Walt Bogdanich | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020
16 May 2020 – President Trump sees arms deals as jobs generators for firms like Raytheon, which has made billions in sales to the Saudi coalition. The Obama administration initially backed the Saudis too, but later regretted it as thousands died.
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Messianic Zionism – The Ass and the Red Heifer
Moshé Machover | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020
1 Feb 2020 – The relation between Zionism and Judaism (the Jewish religion) is paradoxical and complex. In its early days, Zionism was apparently a thoroughly secular political movement. Apparently. In reality, while its ego was secular, its id has always been religious. And in recent times, the latter has emerged from its hidden recess and is parading in full view. A form of religious Zionism has gained influence in Israel, which shares with militant Christian evangelism and Islamic jihadism the character of political movement with fundamentalist religious ideology.
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Trial of Julian Assange–Who Is the Pontius Pilate of Easter 2019?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2019
In Dramatic Anticipation of Emergence of a Church of Julian -> Produced to commemorate the arrest and indictment of Julian Assange (London, 11 April 2019)
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Nourishing Communities
Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Dec 2018
There are many guidelines for dealing with specific nutrition problems. Often treatments are delivered by specialists through community-based nutrition programs. Some are initiated and designed by outside experts and are community-based only in terms of their geographic location. Some community-based programs involve local people in implementation. In some cases, nutrition programs are initiated and carried out by people in the local community. It is important to recognize that the need for such interventions is likely to be far lower when the community itself is healthy.
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Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Nicas – The New York Times, 26 Nov 2018
“This superb investigative reporting on Facebook is sobering and must be seen as a wake-up call for the United States and the larger world. It paints a picture, in great detail, of a corporate culture run amok in service of its own standing, wealth and power. We have had a sense of this for a while, but the stakes now seem even higher.” – Dan Rather
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US-NATO Led Wars Have Created a Global Migrant Crisis. Solutions?
J. Michael Springmann – Global Research, 2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – Migrant Bombs Keep Exploding (Because People Can’t See the Forest for the Trees) – Solutions?
1. Stop the wars generating migrants.
2. End the herding from their home countries to the United States, Canada, and Europe.
3. Rebuild their destroyed nations.
4. Help them go home.
70th Anniversary of Apartheid Israel: History of Violent Invasion. Chronology of Palestinian Genocide
Gideon Polya | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018
14 May 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence by Zionist terrorist David Ben Gurion, the foundation of an invasion-, violence-, racism- , genocide- and theft-based Apartheid Israel. US Alliance backers of Apartheid Israel will mark the occasion with lying praise for this evil rogue state, but decent Humanity will tell the truth and demand “Free Palestine”, an end to Israeli Apartheid, return of all refugees and a democratic, multi-ethnic Unitary State in Palestine.
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The Machiavellian Threefold Game of the Neoconservatives
Laurent Guyénot | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 May 2018
To realize their fantasies of world domination, the neocons resorted to a triple discourse: a cynical political philosophy developed by their mentor Leo Strauss for domestic consumption; a cold analysis of Israeli strategic interests for the benefit of the leaders in Tel Aviv; and a fear-mongering warning against imaginary dangers besetting U.S. public opinion.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2017
Oct 2-8, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: ”The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.” — Leonardo Boff
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2017
Jul 24-30, 2017~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
→ read full articleOn Caring
Prof. George Kent – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2017
Author George Kent feels the theme of caring needs more attention and analysis because of its importance in all social contexts. He used “On Caring” as the foundation for his recent book, ‘Caring About Hunger,’ published by Jørgen Johansen’s Irene Publishing.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2017
Mar 13-19 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
→ read full articleA Short History of the Trump Family
Sidney Blumenthal | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2017
Reckoning with Trump means descending into the place that made him. What he represents, above all, is the triumph of an underworld of predators, hustlers, mobsters, clubhouse politicians and tabloid sleaze that festered in a corner of New York City.
→ read full articleSix Theses on Saving the Planet
Richard Smith | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2016
From the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, workers, trade unionists, radicals, and socialists have fought against the worst depredations of capitalist development: intensifying exploitation, increasing social polarization, persistent racism and sexism, deteriorating workplace health and safety conditions, environmental ravages, and relentless efforts to suppress democratic political gains under the iron heel of capital.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2016
Oct 3-9 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Mar 2016
Mar 14-20 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” — Ernest Hemingway
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Sep 2015
Sep 28–Oct 4 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2015
March 16–22 – Quote of the Week: “Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.” – Unknown
→ read full articleThe NFL’s Anarchist Success Story
Matt Peppe, Just the Facts – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2015
The Green Bay Packers prove that there is no reason for private ownership of sports teams. They are essentially an anarchist organization. Everybody involved has a stake. No one’s voice is dominant. The Packers model closely resembles anarcho-syndicalism, an anarchist theory concerned with workers’ freedom from exploitative labor conditions.
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Ryan Lizza – The New Yorker, 20 Jan 2014
Politically, this speech was a major boost for people like Pat Leahy and James Sensenbrenner, who have written the leading reform bills in their respective chambers, and a rebuke to intelligence officials like the N.S.A. director Keith Alexander and politicians like Diane Feinstein, who have fought to preserve the status quo.
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Gregor Peter Schmitz – Der Spiegel, 18 Nov 2013
The NSA spying scandal has many in Europe calling for the suspension of negotiations on an EU-US free-trade deal. Officials in Washington are undeterred, and continue to push forward with talks despite growing skepticism this side of the Atlantic.
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Kate Sheppard – Mother Jones, 25 Apr 2011
How climate science became the target of “the best-funded, best-organized smear campaign by the wealthiest industry that the Earth has ever known.”
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Stephen Lendman – Dissident Voice, 3 Feb 2010
In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the global BDS movement for “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights” for Occupied Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinian diaspora refugees. Since 1948, hundreds of UN resolutions and civil society actions condemned […]
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Jake Lynch, 13 Feb 2009
I live in the northern Sydney suburb of St Ives, in an area known as Ku-ring-gai, so called after the Aboriginal people who are its traditional owners and custodians. Ku-ring-gai was named in a survey last year as having the highest quality of life of anywhere in Australia. Australia being, at the same time, top […]
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