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Sustainable Debt Slavery
Iain Davis and Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022
13 Sep 2022 – How the UN’s “sustainable development” policies, the SDGs, do not promote “sustainability,” as most conceive of it, but instead utilize the same debt imperialism long used by the Anglo-American empire to entrap nations in a new, equally predatory system of global financial governance.
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Decadent “Western Community of Values”. Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery
Dr. Rudolf Hänsel – Global Research, 6 May 2019
29 Apr 2019 – The commercial sexual exploitation of American children has become “Big Business” in the USA and one of the worst crimes.
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John Scales Avery Interviews Binu Mathew
John Scales Avery | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Nov 2018
John Scales Avery: Dear friend and colleague in the peace movement, dear highly respected and admired Editor Binu Mathew, can you tell us what are the influences that led you to become the Editor of Countercurrents.org, one of the world’s most important and influential alternative news websites?
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Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young (Part 1)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2018
26 Dec 2017 – Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.
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John Cusack - Outlook India, 16 Nov 2015
The United States cannot understand how irrelevant it is. And how wicked. Your short-term gains are the rest of the world’s long-term disasters.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jul 2015
Usury, the charging of interest on loans, has a history of being forbidden by several major religions, including not only the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but also the ancient Vedic Scriptures of India.
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David Carroll Cochran – Waging Nonviolence, 15 Jun 2015
Wars still exist, but in John Mueller’s influential theory, most represent the “remnants of war,” low-intensity civil war fought by loosely-organized warlords and criminal gangs in failed states. Abolition is not a neat and linear process. Its starts and stops, stubborn hold-outs and even reversals can make it seem futile. However, Margaret Mead famously suggests that “Warfare Is Only an Invention – Not a Biological Necessity.”
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report 6 (Apr 2015)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015 – Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
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Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2015
In popular memory, Brown is known for taking an unwavering stand against the evil of slavery, to the point of killing civilians who stood in his way. In academic circles, Brown serves as the centerpiece of discussions regarding the use of violence for moral ends. As such, the John Brown story can easily become an aspect of cultural violence, meaning those beliefs, ideologies, and cosmologies that legitimize and perpetuate direct and structural (indirect) violence.
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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era
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Condemnation of Protest Evoked by Places of Worship
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – The Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced a crackdown on protests, following antisemitic attacks in Melbourne. Of interest in the Australian initiative is how “places of worship” are defined. Implications for academies, think tanks, laboratories, arenas and bodies cultivating patterns of belief.
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Lee Lakeman and the Whoredom of the Left
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – The radical feminist Lee Lakeman has spent her life calling out patriarchy for its oppression, the left for its bankruptcy, neoliberalism for its cruelty and organizing women to fight back.
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Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” and ‘Monthly Review’: A Historical Introduction
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024
Albert Einstein, the world’s most famous physicist and celebrated scientist, had fled Nazi Germany for the US where he became a citizen in 1940. But for the FBI Einstein remained a dangerous and Un-American figure, threatening the security of the US by his very presence.
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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Andreas Malm | Verso Books - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – The last six months of genocide in Gaza have ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. A true understanding of the present crisis requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine’s subjugation to fossil empire.
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Peace Propagation: Human Rights Day, Post Liberation 1994 South Africa (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024
“The erosion of basic human rights is witnessed in freedom of speech and religious association. In these unfolding tragedies, South Africa stands proud by innovating the Human Rights Day as a public holiday and sustains it in protecting and ensuring that human rights are always respected.”
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023
11-17 December 2023
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023
16-22 October 2023
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The Many Lessons of the Ukraine [Proxy] War
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023
26 Sep 2023 – Combating Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy. Remarks to the East Bay Citizens for Peace
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023
25 Sep – 1 Oct 2023
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The Elite’s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing–Can We Defeat It? (Part 1)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
— Steve Biko, South African freedom fighter, beaten to death in an Apartheid prison cell in 1977
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023
11-17 September 2023
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The Nuclear Apple
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023 – How do we turn 26 Sep — declared by the UN to be (I kid you not) the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons — into a reality? Or does the human future have nothing to do with “us”? Are we just spectators of our own lives, stuck in the world our leaders continue to bequeath us?
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USA: How to Hide and Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths
Bryce Greene | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – A ‘Costs of War’ study estimates that the USA’s 9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and Syria with 40–60 million people displaced from their homes. “Pax Americana”
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Daniel Ellsberg Is Lauded in Death by the Same Media That Ignores Assange Rotting in Jail
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023
20 Jun 2023 – The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality is now completely unchecked.
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International Criminal Court Advancing Global Injustice, Unaccountability and Criminal Agenda against Guardians of Peace
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023
“Rise, O’ all you intelligent, righteous humanoids”. Just as the war in Ukraine has become a festering sore in the politically motivated, combined, western, proxy war against Russia, the plight of Palestinians is a chronic human rights violation, festering, as an ulcer, already systemic in its manifestations, generated by Israel in its ongoing philosophy of ethnic cleansing. In reality it is a genocide, which is obfuscated by various institutes and governments for their personal support of the Zionist agenda.
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The Fifth Estate
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023
Designed with three purposes in mind. First: a coherent overview of US foreign policies covering the wars, military interventions and major doctrines over 245 years. Each entry draws on the work of experts, summarizing major developments, analyzing causes and contexts, and providing links to additional information and resources. The second one…
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U.S. Empire Named Most Murderous Killing Machine in History
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – New Study Finds U.S. Responsible for Nearly 300 Million Deaths—and Counting
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Peace Disruption: Multipronged Treatment for this Cancerous Malady
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023
13 May 2023 – Peace Disruptions at a personal level, as well as globally, have reached pandemic proportions. Oh you selfish humans, curtail this malady, forthwith.
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The Atlantic Realists
Felix Rösch | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2023
Attempting to broaden our understanding of international relations but failing to classify the theoretical schools to which key actors belong. The role of German-speaking scholars forced by Fascism to emigrate from Central Europe in 1920s/30s vis-à-vis North American scholarship should not be underestimated.
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
Ashley Gjovik | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck.
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Afghanistan: A Hidden Trophy Worth more than a Trillion Dollars
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022
6 Sep 2022 – How the Taliban’s regime has in just a few months erased with a stroke of a pen all the “great achievements” made over 20 years of US and allies’ massive military attacks on Afghanistan’s unarmed population. Has all this happened in just 12 months?
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‘Good’ Wars, ‘Good’ War Criminals, ‘Good’ Dictators, ‘Good’ Separatists, ‘Good’ Oligarchs, ‘Good’ Money Launderers—and Their Antitheses
Felix Abt | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022
Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know about It
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Journeys of Desperation: The New Export Commodity of Britain (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022
“Migrants Back to the Colony, with Love to Rwanda” – It is ironic that a person of Indian origins, Home Secretary Ms Priti Patel, concluded the deal to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, when the good lady herself had grandparents who were from India. Her paternal grandparents were born in Gujarat before emigrating to Uganda.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
American Transcendentalism Web – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 May 2022
Emerson had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adulation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
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Medical Bigotry: Jim Crow in a White Lab Coat
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 May 2022
13 May 2022 – Bigotry is an ugly thing. In my country, the US, it has had a long and nasty history. From treating black people and women as second class citizens via slavery, Jim Crow Laws, and blaming Eve for the fall of the human race in Genesis, to persecuting gay and transgender people, to barring atheists from holding public office.
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Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 May 2022
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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We Are All Ukrainian
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – I am of Ukrainian origin. Like many Jewish Americans, my ancestral roots reach back to Eastern Europe. My father was born in Kiev and thought he was a Russian. Other relatives lived in the Pale of Settlement created by the Tsarina Catherine the Great which was part of Ukraine. They thought they were Russian too. Even today families blend Russia with Ukraine.
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Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – From Sep-Nov 2021, overlapping with the UN Climate Change Conference, three major developments in global finance marked a turning point in the financial expropriation of the earth and a shift in the economic paradigm to unlimited accumulation of total capital, which is now seen as including “natural capital.”
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine through My Burmese Eyes
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Mar 2022
13 Mar 2022 – None of the leading liberal democracies of the West really honours the principles they loudly espouse such as nonviolence, popular and state sovereignty, human rights, or democracy, nor do they support democratic resistance, armed or nonviolent, unless such support serves their hidden interests, whether commercial or geostrategic.
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Barbarism by the Epicentre of Civilisation against the Irish on “Bloody Sunday 1972” (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Feb 2022
The Bloody Sunday Massacre at Lodonderry, Northern Ireland by British Soldiers
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USA: The Post-Cold War Era, 1989-2001
Brian D’Haeseleer, Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jan 2022
Imperial Self-Deception: There is no shortage of books, articles, and websites addressing the history of US foreign policy. There is nevertheless, within the USA, a dearth of understanding and often knowledge about the subject. This is due in part to popular nationalistic history, which tends to obscure, overwrite, and sometimes whitewash actual history.
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American Satyricon
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The Maxwell trial will not hold the powerful men complicit in the rape and abuse of countless girls by the Epstein ring accountable or challenge the oppressive systems which fuel the scourge of male violence.
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World Development under Monopoly Capitalism
Benjamin Selwyn and Dara Leyden | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Nov 2021
1 Nov 2021 – Benjamin Selwyn and Dara Leyden explain how, as the internationalization of monopoly capital grows, particularly through the domination of global value chains, so do the worldwide rate of exploitation and degree of monopoly.
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The Autocrats Are Winning
Anne Applebaum | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Nov 2021
15 Nov 2021 – If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.
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Iran’s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East
Danny Postel | New Politics – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021
The Other Regional Counter-Revolution – The last decade has seen historic political upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa: a tsunami of popular uprisings that have brought down several dictators and led to momentous transformations in political consciousness, if not always to democratic outcomes. But the last decade has also seen a concomitant counter-revolutionary roll-back across the region.
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Transnational Activism vs White Saviourism in Myanmar Affairs
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – As a Burmese who has been angry – very angry – for decades over numerous forms and countless instances of oppression and injustices in Myanmar, and emphatically, around the world, I am less concerned about the morally corrupt desire of revenge and vengeance of the oppressed towards their oppressor or the System than the enveloping White Saviourism with its corrupting coloniality.
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Behind the Smokescreen: West’s China Cold War Agenda
Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby | TFF - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Aug 2021
An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop
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Climate: We Are Not Doing Enough!
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jul 2021
18 Jul 2021 – Measurements of the carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere as a function of time have been made ever since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the “Keeling Curve”. Despite promises made at the 2015 Paris Conference, despite global concern about the threat of catastrophic climate change, despite massive worldwide protests organized by Greta Thunberg, despite the reduced emissions resulting from the COVID-19 lockdown, the Keeling Curve continues to rise steadily, and the carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere continues to rise steadily.
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Chris Hedges Speaks on ‘American Sadism’ (video)
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021
Chris Hedges gave this talk on American Sadism at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on Sunday June 27.
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Burma: Engaging with State Power without Losing Principles or Head (Part 1)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jun 2021
9 Jun 2021 – The Burmese military regime remained, as intransigent towards any compromise with the democratic opposition, as it was repressive, towards Burmese dissidents.
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Two Centuries of ‘the Imperialist, Warmongering, Hate-Filled Guardian’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jun 2021
2 Jun 2021 – Guardian reader on Twitter: ‘My comment comparing the detention of the journalist in Belarus with what is being done to Craig Murray and Julian Assange in the UK has been deleted by The Guardian within seconds.’ Awkward readers like this are simply ostracised and no longer deemed part of the ‘Guardian’s community’.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
American Transcendentalism Web – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 May 2021
Emerson had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adulation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
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Comparability of “Vaxxing Saves” with “Jesus Saves” as Misinformation?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2021
Problematic Challenge of Global Discernment – The international community strongly deprecates the isolated voices associated with vaccine hesitancy citing possibilities of: autism, vaccine overload, paradoxical vaccine responses, autoimmune triggering, prenatal infection, ingredient concerns, sudden infant death syndrome, and infertility. Reference is to incidence of other vaccines-related injuries (readily dismissed by authorities as rare and negligible)
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The Council on Foreign Relations, the Biden Team, and Key Policy Outcomes
Laurence H. Shoup | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2021
1 May 2021 – Laurence Shoup looks at the Council on Foreign Relations to analyze the new Biden administration, its personnel, and the policies it is likely to follow.
→ read full articleMalcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2021
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Antiquities, Monuments, Statues, Heritage Sites and Colonial Legacy versus Divergent Cultures, Philosophies, Ethnic Nationalism and Religious Beliefs
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – A Global Dilemma between Preservation of the Past and the Destruction of Human History – The bottom line is that the oppressed must not transform themselves into the oppressors. This philosophy was espoused by the first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela of South Africa in 1994, in a bloodless transformation of power from the previous oppressive white minority government.
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On 10th Anniversary of the U.S.-NATO Attack on Libya: Powerful Perpetrators Have Yet to Face Justice
Jeremy Kuzmarov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Mar 2021
19 Mar 2021 – In this day ten years ago, the Obama administration launched air strikes over Libya under NATO’s banner. Three powerful American women—Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice—pushed Obama into destroying the wealthiest, healthiest and happiest nation in Africa.
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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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Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Feb 2021
The Sad Odyssey of South Africa Continues for the Rainbow Nation
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Report on the State of Planet Earth at Year’s End 2020
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jan 2021
The global elite continues to exercise enormous power to determine our fate and only a strategic response has any genuine prospect of defeating the elite coup to defend our identity, freedom and volition. ‘Never send to know for whom the bell tolls.’
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Aldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jul 2020
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become known especially for his fifth novel, Brave New World, written in 1931. At the age of 14 he lost his mother subsequently becoming ill in 1911, what would leave him virtually blind. As if all of this was not enough, his other brother, Noel, would kill himself in 1914. Huxley would then turn himself to literature.
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While Statues Sleep
Thomas Laqueur | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – A few years ago Susan Neiman published an article titled ‘History and Guilt’, which asked whether America can ‘face up to the terrible reality of slavery in the way that Germany has faced up to the Holocaust’. -Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman, Allen Lane, 415 pp., Aug 2019
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The Pillage of India
Christopher de Bellaigue | New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 issue – The company was transformed into an instrument of imperialism under Robert Clive, a terse, pugnacious delinquent from Shropshire. After arriving in Madras as a writer in 1744, Clive distinguished himself on the battlefield, making up in daring what he lacked in experience. In 1752 he and a fellow officer led a company force that took prisoner almost three thousand troops from the Compagnie des Indes, for which he was rewarded with a lucrative sinecure.
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
American Transcendentalism Web – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020
Emerson had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adulation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
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Prostitution, the Sex Trade, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melissa Farley | Logos Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020
Spring 2020 – The pandemic reveals the exploitation and violence in all forms of prostitution, including sugar daddy/sugar baby prostitution, cell phone/escort prostitution, massage parlor prostitution, street prostitution, webcam prostitution (Moran & Farley, 2018; Farley, 2016). A San Francisco group mainstreaming prostitution as work admitted, “People who are doing street-based sex work may not be able to stop doing sex work to survive,”
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Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic as Opportunity in the Midst of Suffering: For a Future of Global Solidarity
Dr. Evelin Lindner | Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020
2 Apr 2020 – Where do we stand, as humankind? We have dug ourselves into a multitude of perilous crises, both despite and because of what we call progress or economic growth. In service of profit, we practice strategies of development that shred our social fabric while simultaneously plundering our planet – fuelling a toxic combination of sociocide and ecocide that leads to intractable cycles of systemic humiliation. The coronavirus pandemic is one manifestation of this dire predicament.
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Haiti on the Precipice as Coronavirus and US-Imposed Leadership Take Their Toll
Jeb Sprague and Nazaire St. Fort | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – While Haiti’s widely despised, US-backed government officially promotes social distancing to suppress Covid-19, the stark reality is that most of the population is likely heading toward herd immunity, where many must get infected in the street rather than die by hunger at home.
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Prof. Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020
Among the most significant challenges of political reporting today is the rise of the so-called ‘alt-right’, led by demagogues who specialise in evidence-averse rabble-rousing, notably on issues of race and immigration. A classic BBC kerfuffle followed the call by President Trump last year for members of the so-called ‘squad’ – four left-wing Democratic Congresswomen of colour – to “go back to the places from which they came”. Three of the four were born in the USA. But it was clearly not Trump’s intention to appeal for Rashida Tlaib to return from Washington to Detroit, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the Bronx.
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Never Has So Little Done So Much Harm to So Many
Scott C. Tips | The National Health Federation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020
4 Apr 2020 – The Latest Coronavirus Attack Is A Cover for Restricting Our Health Freedoms
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The Prosecution of Julian Assange, the Destruction of Legality and the Rise of the National Security State
Richard Hoffman | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – It is worthwhile to consider briefly the lawless character of Assange’s persecution by Britain, the United States and Sweden. Since the beginning, Assange has been subjected to endless procedural abuses and political interference in the legal process. Virtually every customary precept, practice and procedural protection, which an accused is traditionally afforded, has been discarded in the effort to railroad him. The disintegration of the democratic system and the rise of the national security state are hallmarks of the deepening crisis of imperialism.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2020
There are at least four distinct paths to imminent (that is, within five years) human extinction: nuclear war (possibly started regionally), biodiversity collapse (already well advanced and teetering on the brink), the deployment of 5G (commenced recently) and the climate catastrophe. Needless to say, each of these four paths might unfold in a variety of ways.
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Capitalism and Robbery: The Expropriation of Land, Labor, and Corporeal Life
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2019
1 Dec 2019 – It is impossible to understand the totality of capitalist relations apart from the conditions of both exploitation and expropriation, which together generate the ensemble of oppressions that characterize the system. It is here too that we begin to understand the various interlocking aspects of capitalist domination, which require a corevolutionary praxis in response.
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WaPo’s Afghan Papers Propagate Colonial Narrative of Noble Intentions Gone Awry
Joshua Cho | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2019
The Afghanistan Papers should also be considered an excellent case study of contemporary colonial propaganda, and yet another example of corporate media criticizing US wars without opposing US imperialism. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s famous analysis of media coverage of the Vietnam War, in Manufacturing Consent, found that questions of the invasion’s “tactics and costs”—to the US—dominated the debate.
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Christianity, Imperialism, Capitalism: Christian Dogma Should Be Questioned
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2019
This year as in every other year, Christianity and fundamentalist/military capitalism, two great allies, are joining their forces to extract billions of dollars, all over the world, mainly from the poor, as money flies towards the coffers of churches and into military and corporate accounts.
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Reservation, Debate and Reality in Nepal
Shree Prasad Devkota and Mahadev Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – After the declaration of federal democratic republican state, the power structure has been shifted from central to local units. People were really excited. They believe they will get service delivery from their own places. However, because of their inexperience, they cannot materialize people expectation into action and service delivery has been affected.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2019
An immediate payoff for peace is that once one analyses the main causes at work in history as structures, not as people, one should (if one is logical) tone down one’s anger. The world works the way it does because its main dynamics (capital accumulation, war) and other principal dynamics were socially constructed during long centuries when none of our contemporaries had yet been born. Another immediate payoff for peace is guidance on how to do peace-making.
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What Happened to [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi?
Ben Rhodes – The Atlantic, 19 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – A Human-Rights Icon’s Fall from Grace in Myanmar
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Neoliberalism, Neofascism & Trumpism – Racist Alliance of Mob & Capital
Dr Gideon Polya | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2019
4 Aug 2019 – Philosopher Hannah Arendt found common causes of genocidal Western European imperialism on 5 continents and genocidal 20th century fascism as an alliance between the mob and capital, with a commonality in this union of extreme nationalism, lying, rapacity, atrocity-justifying racism and anti-humanism. Today American Trumpism is ferociously anti-intellectual, anti-humanist, nationalist and racist, with genocidal Trump threats to “totally destroy” or “obliterate”.
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{What War on Drugs?} US Protection of Afghan Opiates Has Killed 5.2 Million People since 9-11
Gideon Polya – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2019
11 Aug 2019 – US-imposed Opiate Holocaust
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Generations of Transitional Justice in the World
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2019
The objectives of the paper are to investigate the axiomatic truth and record the human wrongdoings of the past, deliver justice to the victims at present, make perpetrators accountable and initiate generous change in the rule of law for prosperous, peaceful and harmonious nation. The state-of-the-art paper is prepared based upon literature review, exchanging and sharing, and a practical observation approach rather than theoretical-analytical conception, except Generation.
→ read full articleAldous Huxley (26 Jul 1894 – 22 Nov 1963)
European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2019
Aldous Huxley was a British writer who would become most specifically known to the public for his novels, and especially his fifth one, Brave New World, written in 1931 and published in 1932, which would delineate what the perfect dictatorship would look like. It would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.
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‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System
Andrea Pitzer | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019
On Monday [17 Jun 2019], New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to US border detention facilities as “concentration camps,” spurring a backlash in which critics accused her of demeaning the memory of those who died in the Holocaust. Debates raged over a label for what is happening along the southern border and grew louder as the week rolled on. -A Brief History of US Concentration Camps-
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Why Stonewall Matters Today
Andy Thayer – Jacobin Magazine, 24 Jun 2019
22 Jun 2019 – Stonewall wasn’t just an uprising for LGBT rights — it was also part of a broader movement that fought racism, war, and poverty. To go beyond today’s tepid gay activism, we need to remember its anti-capitalism.
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Redrawing the Galtung Triangle – Finding Place for Healing Trauma in Peace Work
Kirthi Jayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019
Abstract – The Galtung Triangle describes direct violence as emanating from underlying cultural and structural violence. This focal point enables a cogent understanding of how every instance of direct violence depicts something underlying that needs to be addressed. This paper digs deeper and makes the case for expanding the framework presented by Galtung, by advancing an argument that underlying structural and cultural violence, is unhealed and unresolved trauma. In doing so, this paper argues in favor of addressing the unhealed trauma in order to address both structural and systemic factors keeping violence alive, as well as the direct manifestations of violence.
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‘Mirthless Laugh’ – The Persecution and Torture of Julian Assange
Editorial | Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019
11 Jun 2019 – As Melzer says, corporate media have an astonishing power to influence what we think. We are all vulnerable to the impact of numerous, apparently independent and impartial journalists all insisting that Assange is a vile narcissist, that Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous anti-semite, that Nicolas Maduro is a brutal dictator, that Gaddafi is planning a vast massacre, that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction that pose a genuine threat to the West, that Iran is working on a ‘nuclear trigger’, and so on.
→ read full articleRalph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2019
Emerson had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adulation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
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The Problem Is Civil Obedience
Howard Zinn | Zinn Reader – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2019
I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail, that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people are out of power, that the wealth is distributed in this country and the world in such a way as not simply to require small reform but to require a drastic reallocation of wealth. I start from the supposition that we don’t have to say too much about this because all we have to do is think about the state of the world today and realize that things are all upside down.
→ read full articleMalcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2019
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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We Need an Ecological Revolution
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2019
I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled We Need an Ecological Revolution. It can be freely downloaded and circulated .
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Saving the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Feb 2019
Only immediate climate action can save the future. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world are on the horizon.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Message for Today’s World
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Feb 2019
If humans are ever to achieve a stable global society in the future, they will have to become much more modest in their economic behavior and much more peaceful in their politics. For both modesty and peace, Gandhi is a useful source of ideas. The problems with which he struggled during his lifetime are extremely relevant to us in the 21st Century, when both nuclear and ecological catastrophes threaten the world.
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Media Worried US Won’t Occupy Syria Forever
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jan 2019
11 Jan 2019 – In December, President Donald Trump said that he planned to withdraw the US troops from Syria, which number between 2,000 and 4,000. Trump’s claim was widely condemned in corporate media, demonstrating the commentariat’s shared belief in American benevolence toward other peoples, in Washington’s alleged right and duty to decide other countries’ fates, and in the forever war the US supposedly has to wage in the Middle East.
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From Marc Lamont Hill to the Quakers, No Criticism of Israel Is Allowed
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Dec 2018
7 Dec 2018 – The reactions to Marc Lamont Hill, the Quakers and Airbnb reveal that in practice there is no criticism of Israel that will be treated as legitimate – and that when it comes to the suffering of Palestinians, the only acceptable stance is silence.
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Thanksgiving 2018: Why First Nations Regard USA’s Thanksgiving Day as a National Day of Mourning
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Nov 2018
And Why Minnesota’s Governors Sibley and Ramsey Should Be Tried Posthumously for Crimes against Humanity
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Nov 2018
At present, we treat nations as though they were persons: We punish entire nations by sanctions, even when only the leaders are guilty, even though the burdens of the sanctions fall most heavily on the poorest and least guilty of the citizens, and even though sanctions often have the effect of uniting the citizens of a country behind the guilty leaders. Should we not regard sanctions as collective punishment? If we do so, then sanctions are a war crime, under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
→ read full articleU.S.A. Participation in World War One
A deep analysis into the origins of U.S. involvement in WWI unpacking President Woodrow Wilson’s idealistic justifications for entering it and charting the efforts of European and U.S. peace advocates. It is written for the general public and students, synthesizing the work of many historians.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report #13 (Oct 2018)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Oct 2018
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
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To Fix the Climate Crisis We Must Face Up to Our Imperial Past
Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Oct 2018
8 Oct 2018 – It’s time to join the dots between our overlapping crises of – and shared solutions to – environmental degradation, damaged health, racial oppression and gender injustice.
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