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A Reflection on 2024 and a Call for Peace in 2025
David Andersson | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – Time Magazine should have named WAR instead of Donald Trump as “Person of the Year.” In 2024, war propaganda took center stage in political and international relations, dominating the discourse and shaping global actions.
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OpenAI Is Using Its Technology to Kill
Nuvpreet Kalra and Tim Biondo | CODEPINK/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 Dec 2024 – The company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with Anduril to produce AI weapons. The OpenAI-Anduril system permits the sharing of data between external parties for decision making on the battlefield. This fits with the US military and OpenAI’s plans to normalize the use of AI on the battlefield.
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Provocation! Or Why Violence in Ukraine and Gaza Was Inevitable
Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – To break out of the cycle of violence, we need to be able to correctly identify what is at stake. In both cases, we need to turn to the United States, for whom Israel is a kind of protectorate and Ukraine a kind of proxy.
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Mysterious Global Hotspots
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – A worrisome trend in the global climate system has popped up. Specific regions of the world are experiencing repetitive severe heat waves so extreme and so deadly that scientists’ models are thrown into a tizzy.
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Conscientious Objectors Refuse to Enlist in the Israeli Army: “Get Out of Gaza Now!”
Mesarvot | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – “Human lives are equally valuable, no matter the ethnic or political line we were born on. We all want and deserve peace, quiet, and security. For over a year the IDF has conducted widespread military operations in the dense Gaza strip. For the sake of humanity and of all, this must stop.”
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Provocations and Escalation
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Iran faces Israel in 2024 exactly as Russia faced the US in 2021. Provocations make Iranian intervention inevitable, which will justify retaliation from Israel, escalation being exactly what Israel seeks.
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New BioDB Global Tool Highlights Conservation Efforts Across 180 Countries
BioDB | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
27 Sep 2024 – The Nature Conservation Index: Findings Underscore the Need for Strategic Biodiversity Protection Worldwide
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Thomas Merton on US Militarism
Anthony Donovan | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Our Government is facilitating mass slaughter. The two political parties running for President are complicit. The Catholic monk Thomas Merton’s writings on US militarism were censored and often forbidden. He resorted to sending his work privately, much unknown until after his assassination.
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Update on Julian Assange and Our Campaign for His Pardon
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – “To gain his freedom back, he had to agree to become a convicted criminal. That has all types of restrictions on how he can make a living and support his family,” Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s brother said.
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The Future of Our World by Noam Chomsky
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
18 Aug 2024 – This article is a synopsis of some of Chomsky’s responses to questions, and it includes third-party supporting facts surrounding his statements about the two biggest risks to humanity’s continual existence.
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India, Mexico, Japan, UK, Australia, France, Canada, USA: Pro-Palestine Protests Grow around the World
Pressenza | Redazione Italia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – In the last two weeks, more than 160 actions and 125 camps in solidarity with Palestine have been registered in at least 17 countries. The common demand of the students is to divest from companies that support Israel and the Gaza genocide.
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AI, Big Tech Seek to Consolidate Hold on Journalism
Patrick Boylan | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 May 2024 -“Can Journalism Survive AI?” was the provocative title of one of the key presentations at the recent Perugia International Journalism Festival (April 17-21). Young activists from the Perugia Social Center “Turba” say no, it cannot.
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Creating a Hydrogel That Removes Microplastics from Water
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 – A breakthrough in the fight against pollution. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in India have developed a sustainable hydrogel that removes microplastics from water by binding them and breaking them down under ultraviolet light.
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Russia Ready for Dialogue with Ukraine, Kremlin Says
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated his readiness for dialogue with Ukraine and that an aborted 2022 peace deal could serve as a basis for resuming negotiations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
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Polling Begins in India: 969 million Voters to Participate in 7 Phases of the National Elections
Nava J. Thakuria | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – The biggest electoral show on Earth begins in India as polling starts at 7 am today. Voters will exercise their franchise through the electronic voting machines to elect 543 members to the 18th Lok Sabha for the next five years.
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The Speech That I Could Not Deliver Because German Police Burst to Disband Our Palestine Congress
Yanis Varoufakis | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words (1930s style):
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World Meteorological Organization Bright Red Alert
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The inherent antagonism between neoliberalism’s free market dictates of “follow the money” versus the planet’s complex ecosystems that don’t need money is addressed in Global Social Challenges. What’s more important for life: Profits or Mother Nature?
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Invitation: Beyond War and Violence as a Way to Resolve Conflict in the Territories of Israel and Palestine
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Israeli peace activist calls for the creation of a new forum to explore nonviolent solutions to the ongoing horrific violence in Israeli and Palestinian territory.
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Ben Arad, Young Israeli Conscientious Objector: “I Will Not Take Part in a War of Vengeance” [BRAVO!!]
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – Ben Arad, 18, is the third young Israeli to refuse enlistment in protest over the war in Gaza publicly; this morning he was sentenced to 20 days in military prison.
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Lula Withdraws Brazil’s Ambassador to Israel and Asks His Colleague to Leave the Country
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
23 Feb 2024 – Brazil severed all diplomatic relations with Israel, expelled Israel’s ambassador as persona non grata, and recalled its ambassador to Tel Aviv announced today Pres. Lula da Silva who compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to the Nazi Holocaust.
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EU Reaches Agreement on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Law
Xinhua | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
10 Dec 2023 – European Union lawmakers and member states reached an agreement on rules governing artificial intelligence. “Historic! The EU becomes the first continent to set clear rules for the use of AI.”
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29 November: UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
The United Nations General Assembly’s poignant reminder of the enduring quest for peace, justice and recognition of the Palestinian cause. This day serves as a platform to reaffirm global solidarity with the Palestinians and to renew collective efforts towards a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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South African Parliament Votes to Close the Israeli Embassy and Suspend Diplomatic Relations
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – The South African Parliament voted on a motion to close the Israeli Embassy in the country. It was PASSED with 248 votes for and 91 against. “Free Palestine in Parliament” slogans were chanted.
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United Nations General Assembly Overwhelmingly Adopts Resolution Calling for an End to Violence in Gaza
Nicolas Boeglin | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – On 27 Oct the UNGA adopted a resolution entitled “Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations .” See which 14 countries voted against in the placard above.
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Of Civil Disobedience
Makhtar Diouf | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
This is a citizen’s right. A right of defiance, of distrust towards a State and its institutions when we are convinced that our rights are being violated.
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The Pentagon Is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room
Melissa Garriga and Tim Biondo | CODEPINK/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – The climate justice movement seems more organized than ever. But, there’s a big elephant in the room, and it has the Pentagon written all over it. The U.S. military is the world’s largest institutional oil consumer.
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Luis Rubiales the King of the Machirulos
Marcelo Trivelli | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – Machirulo in Spain is a man who boasts of being undisguisedly macho, and is generally used in a derogatory sense. Luis Rubiales, the suspended president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, has confirmed in every performance the well-earned title of “king of the machirulos”.
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Cannon Fodder for the Empire
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
20 Aug 2023 – The US dreams of a unipolar world and of global hegemony. It intervenes everywhere to support dictatorships, provoke coups d’état, encourage rebellions and finance opposition. Let’s recall some of their major feats since the end of WWII that will help us understand the Ukrainian tragedy.
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ICAN: Global Spending on Nuclear Arsenals Increased in 2022 for Third Year in a Row
Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
15 Jun 2023 – In 2022 the nuclear-weapon states spent five thousand dollars more per minute on their nuclear arsenals than in 2021: US$ 157 664 (or € 149 938).
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The Threat of Para-state Power Called International Banking
Partido Humanista de Chile/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Banking is the main accumulator of resources and the real power behind formal power. It has become the most powerful sector of Big Capital, being an area of the economy that produces nothing and should have only an instrumental role.
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What Can “the Invisibles” Do to Make Wars Stop?
Victoria Barceló | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
It is said that in a war everyone loses, but that is not true at all. There are those who make huge profits from the death and suffering of other human beings, of men, women and children like us: the Elites
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World Hunger Doubles
IPS | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
29 Apr 2023 – Some 345 million people are acutely food insecure worldwide, more than twice as many as before the covid-19 pandemic, said a new report by the UN World Food Programme.
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The Risk of ChatGPT
Ricardo Baeza Weinmann | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
12 Apr 2023 – Would anyone ask a talented actor not only to act and talk like a skilled surgeon in a convincing manner, but then allow him to take a scalpel and operate on him? It would seem stupid, wouldn’t it? Well, that is precisely what many are doing with ChatGPT.
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Yanis Varoufakis Brutally Attacked by Group of Thugs in Athens
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023 – Last night Yanis Varoufakis, secretary of the Greek Party MeRA25 and founder of DiEM25, was attacked in Athens and taken to hospital with injuries. The condemnation of the violence towards the Greek MP came from (almost) everywhere.
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Battle for the Earth
Fred Hageneder | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – An accurately researched [10-part] account of the effort by industry to cover up the impact of fossil fuels to the environment and public health and to manipulate public opinion. The networks behind this and the truth between big media influence and so called conspiracy theories–and those who truly benefit from them.
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ARD’s (German Public Television) Fact Finder, Genetic Engineering and Vandana Shiva
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – Those who buy “organic” do so in order to obtain food and products that are free of genetic engineering and pesticides and that have also been produced in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way. The organic market has grown enormously in recent decades and continues to rise.
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Roger Waters Questioned in Depth about Ukraine, Russia, Israel, U.S.
Berliner Zeitung | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – Roger Waters can rightly claim to be the mastermind behind Pink Floyd. He came up with the concept of and wrote all the lyrics for the masterpiece “The Dark Side of the Moon”. A musical genius turned activist.
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Fany Kuiru Elected as COICA’s First Woman Coordinator
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – It is the first time in the 38-year history of ‘COICA-Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin’ that a woman will preside over the NGO that represents more than 500 indigenous peoples from 9 Amazonian countries.
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Nonviolence as the Only Way
Maria Giovanna Farina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – Nonviolence seems distant and agonizing in a historical situation where only Pope Francis makes appeals for peace. Nonviolence seems to have become an empty word and this cannot, must not, be accepted. I must point out the “amnesia” of those who forget history and the wars that have bloodied it.
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Free Julian Assange: The Belmarsh Tribunal at the National Press Club Washington DC
Pressenza Int'l Press Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – Chaired by Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) and Srećko Horvat (philosopher co-founder of DiEM25), the Tribunal included testimony from Julian’s father John Shipton.
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New US Nuclear Weapons on European Soil: A Violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Tica Font | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – The US has begun to replace its nuclear weapons on European soil with more modern ones. It is replacing the B61-3, B61-4 and B61-7 thermonuclear bombs with the B61-12, which has become the main US and NATO air-launched nuclear weapon.
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COP27 Sponsor, Coca-Cola, Named Worst Plastic Polluter for the Last Five Years
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and Nestlé come in as the world’s top plastic polluters for five years running, according to Break Free From Plastic’s 2022 global brand audit report.
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A World Cup Stained with Blood and Bribery
Aram Aharonian | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – Qatar is a Soccer World Cup tainted by blood and corruption. The spread of these facts preoccupies the FIFA leadership which, less than 20 days before the start, asked the teams to focus on soccer and not on “sermons” on morality, dragging soccer “into ideological or political battles that exist”.
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Letter from Manuel Zelaya, former President of Honduras, to the British PM about Julian Assange
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
11 Nov 2022 – Your Excellency PM Sunak, I am writing to you in my capacity as Former President of the Republic of Honduras to request the review of the extradition to the USA and the immediate release of the Australian cyber journalist and activist Julian Assange. I base this request on humanitarian reasons, since as is public knowledge the prolonged confinement and the current conditions of detention have seriously affected Mr. Assange’s health; also on reasons that warn of the violation of rights not only of the aforementioned but of civilised society as a whole.
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Meta Threaten to End Canadian News Content on Its Platform
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Oct 2022 – The federal government’s proposed law requiring internet giants to negotiate commercial agreements with Canadian media disturbs Meta, WhatsApp and Facebook’s parent company, which threatens to end the sharing of Canadian news content on its platform.
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War through the Media and the Role of Journalism
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – From a journalist who covered wars for 30 years in Latin America, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia, the book “Truth Is Bombed: Media and War through the Eyes of a War Correspondent” is the result of a long-term research on the role of powerful news organizations in the coverage of armed conflicts, fake news, propaganda and censorship in the major wars from the 19th to the 21st century.
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The Democratic Party, Now the Leading Party of War
John V. Walsh | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
The prowar mentality among the progressive Dem pols is not limited to Biden’s cruel proxy war to the last Ukrainian. It extends to a second proxy war now being ginned up in Taiwan. When Nancy Pelosi recently visited the island to stir up secessionist sentiment, not a single progressive Democrat in Congress made so much as a peep of protest.
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Colombia: Nonviolent Journalism Book Launched
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
22 Sep 2022 – Students, journalists and non-violence activists met at the launch of the book ‘Nonviolent Journalism’ in Bogotá and talked with its authors about the importance of thinking about new forms of journalistic treatment in Latin America,
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Social Media: The Socially Acceptable Addiction
Pressenza | TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
The Internet is like a bottle of wine: you can lift your mood, appear more confident, do things you wouldn’t normally. A key difference: we don’t let children consume alcohol. Why then are children allowed such free reign on the Internet, despite the mounting research into the negative impact of social media addiction? — Trigger Warning // addiction, depression, suicide
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Rise of the New Decadents
Mark Lesseraux | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Donald Trump (USA) and Giorgia Meloni (Italy) are just a few examples amongst dozens of right-wing nationalist political leaders. There has been no shortage of mainstream media pontification about the recent rise of these politicians.
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The Other 9/11 in Chile
Carolina Vásquez Araya | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
11 Sep 1973 – It was very early in the morning when I heard the first shots in the centre of Santiago, where I lived. Through the radio I became aware of the scale of the attack and realised that the coup d’état was already a reality. In front of my window, I could observe the movement of soldiers and the exchange of gunfire.
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(Italiano) Per una politica di pace: ripudiare la guerra
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Sereno Regis/Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
Per assicurare una pace giusta e stabile è necessario negare collaborazione politica, economica, culturale, emotiva, psicologica, alle politiche di guerra, di qualunque stato o potenza. Per la pace è necessario uscire dalle culture politiche militari e dalle alleanze militari di difesa offensiva.
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Tradition vs. Modernity? Humans vs. Animals? The Truth behind the Violations of Animal Rights
Carolina Gomes | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Over the past years animal exploitation became a popular subject but not in a good way. Music, documentaries, and news channels helped bring more public awareness but animal rights are still violated left and right, and we are not even close to some solution.
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Blue Helmets Shoot and Kill Civilians in Congo: Nobody Talks about the Failure of the UN
Cecilia Capanna | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – There are some facts happening in the world that are extremely serious, but very few media talk about them. Few weeks ago, for example, shocking news from the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed silently.
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(Português) Beleza virtual, liberdade virtual, amor virtual: o Metaverso é o nosso futuro?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Quando foi a última vez que você saiu de manhã para fazer parte de um glorioso nascer do sol? Ou você se sentou em uma praia vendo o sol se pôr no horizonte? O que você sente quando toca a pele de um ente querido? Um avô, um pai, um amante ou um filho?
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Singularity: Attractors and Scenarios (Part 2)
Javier E Belda - IHPS | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 -The approaching evolutionary crisis is evidently not a regular evolutionary crisis like the many others in the history of the planet-system. It is the total crisis of an evolutionary path of 4,000 million years. It can be said to be a crisis of the very critical character of the preceding evolution, a crisis of crises.
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Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
¿Cuándo fue la última vez que saliste afuera por la mañana para ser parte de un glorioso amanecer? ¿O te sentaste en una playa a ver la puesta de sol en el horizonte? ¿Qué sientes cuando tocas la piel de un ser querido? ¿Un abuelo, un padre, un amante o un hijo?
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The Dalai Lama – ‘Ocean of Wisdom’ and Man of Peace – Celebrates His 87th Birthday
Anna Lamboglia | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Today, 6 July 2022 marks the 87th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. “The past is past; nothing can change it. But the future depends on the present; we still have the opportunity to shape it. This is not a matter of employing technology or spending more money, it’s a question of developing a sense of concern for others’ well-being…”
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My Name Is ARMFIN. I Am the God of Total Power
Riccardo Petrella | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – My identity code is UCT. It stands for Universal Capitalist Theology. It is a theology because I talk about myself, about God. It is universal because it cannot be otherwise. Theology has no boundaries of time and space, it is ‘one’, and human history tends ‘towards the one’ (universal).
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Either We Will All Be Saved or We Will All Disappear Equally! That, Is the Dilemma
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
2 Jul 2022 – Following the recent strategy decided by NATO at its Madrid Summit, which states that China “challenges its interests, security and values”, and that Russia is “the most significant and direct threat” to its interests, the world is moving very quickly towards its partition in terms of the structure of the international system.
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Progressive International: The Athens Declaration on Ukraine
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
Today, 13 May 2022, three members of the Progressive International, Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn and Ece Temelkuran, called a press conference to make public the Athens Declaration on the Russian invasion and the war in Ukraine. Here is the text.
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Wars Lie!
Eduardo Galeano | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Wars always invoke noble motives. They kill in the name of peace. In the name of God. In the name of civilisation. In the name of progress. In the name of democracy… And just in case, if so many lies are not enough… the mass media are ready to invent imaginary enemies to justify the conversion of the world into a great madhouse and an immense slaughterhouse.
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BioBiden
María Zakharova | Pressenza Argentina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – An idea of the US political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine. Below is an attempt to reconstruct the chronology of this involvement, though not a comprehensive one. There are many gaps in this truly diabolical plan that are still to be filled.
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A Guide for Peace in Ukraine: A Humanist and Nonviolent Proposal from Portugal
Redação Portugal | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions”, the Portuguese branch of the World Centre for Humanist Studies, an organism of the Humanist Movement, is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it.
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Haiti, San Martin and the Odious Foreign Debt
Miguel Julio Rodríguez Villafañe | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
7 Feb 2022 – The colonising logic of the centres of conditioning capital, from the very beginning, sought to take over Latin America, dominating it in different ways, according to their interests, beyond the principles that were proclaimed and the freedom that was promised.
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All the Wars on the Planet
Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022 – There are 34 wars currently declared in the world; dozens of low-intensity conflicts and situations of crisis; there are 13 UN peacekeeping missions, the permanence of which, often lasting several years, signals states of tension only apparently resolved.
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Julian Assange Files Appeal to UK Supreme Court
Stella Moris | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – Official statement from Stella Moris and Don’t Extradite Assange campaign. This morning Julian Assange filed an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court the High Court’s ruling that he can be extradited to the US on three grounds.
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Approved in Brazil, Argentinean GM Wheat Advances: Warnings and Rejections of an Unprecedented Experiment in the World
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
16 Nov 2021 – The decision unleashes effects that are yet to be seen: not only socio-environmental movements and more than 1,400 scientists denounce that this variety is resistant to a herbicide 15 times more toxic than glyphosate. “It is inevitable that this wheat generates a process of contamination of non-genetically modified wheat”.
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Nonviolent Struggle Wins: Three Anti-Farmer Indian Laws to Be Repealed
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
19 Nov 2021 – The Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi announced the Government of India’s decision to repeal all three anti-farmer, pro-corporate black laws first brought in as Ordinances in June 2020.
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On the Sidelines of COP-26, People’s Summit for Climate Justice Takes Place in Glasgow
Redacción Argentina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
From 7-10 November 2021, as world leaders gathered to debate our future, the COP26 Coalition hosted the People’s Summit for Climate Justice.
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“Nonviolent Journalism” Book Presented at the Open World Meeting of New Humanism 2021
Javier Tolcachier | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
10 Nov 2021 – “And, by the way, Press people in contact with daily tragedy are today in a position to act in a humanist direction.” With this significant phrase Nelsy Lizarazo began the presentation of the book “Nonviolent Journalism”, the brand-new production of the Pressenza News Agency with a focus on Peace and Nonviolence at the Open World Meeting of New Humanism 2021.
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Mother Nature, Inc.
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021 – Wall Street investors have hit the jackpot. Soon they’ll be able to buy, own, and dictate The Commons, public lands, the world of Mother Nature. In fact, a pilot project is already in the works with ecosystems up for sale…
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The Excuse of Job Creation in Military Investments
Redacción Barcelona | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
6 Nov 2021 – When the General State Budget is presented, the Minister of Defence of the day insists that the multimillion-dollar expenditure dedicated to the purchase of armaments generates employment. But, as the authors point out, a comparison of the jobs created in the military and in other areas allows us to question the dominant narrative.
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People’s Court Tries US and Asks for Assange’s Freedom
Prensa Latina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021 – A people’s court here today condemned the United States for war crimes committed in the name of the fight against terrorism, and demanded the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The symbolic hearing was organised a week before the British judiciary hears an appeal by US prosecutors to extradite the Australian journalist.
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Celebrating the 2021 National Indigenous Peoples Month
Genevieve Balance Kupang | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
10 Oct 2021 – Capitalizing on inclusion, cultural heritage, shared commonalities, and recognition of contribution to the Kiwi community, the New Zealand tangata whenua (locals) welcomed indigenous peoples from the Philippines and other migrants who work in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
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David Swanson | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
13 Sep 2021 – In 2002, U.S. women’s groups sent a joint letter to then-President George W. Bush in support of the war on Afghanistan to benefit women. Gloria Steinem (formerly of the CIA), Eve Ensler, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, and many others signed. The National Organization for Women, Hillary Clinton, and Madeline Albright supported the war.
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Are We Out of Options on Myanmar?
Nayd Riham | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
22 Aug 2021 – Rohima Kadu’s idyllic village of Rakhine was visited by Myanmar’s much-dreaded military, the Tatmadaw and its local Buddhist militia associates. A helpless Rohingya widow of 50, Rohima’s eldest daughter was bedridden with malaria and too weak to run. So, Rohima grabbed her grandchildren and fled to the nearby forest. She returned when the pillaging was over, but all that remained was a charred skull of her daughter lying on the ground.
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Chomsky on Secret Bolsonaro Meeting with C.I.A Director: A ‘Soft Coup’ May Be Underway
Edu Montesanti | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – Like the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff by a Bunch of Corrupt Gangsters on Fraudulent Grounds – “A military coup does not seem out of the question,” says Noam Chomsky. The meeting in Brasilia on July 1 was at least “suggestive,” he says in an exclusive interview.
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The Rif Republic: A Self-Proclaimed and Internationally Unrecognized State
Rabah Arkam | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
The Rif Republic (Tagduda n Arrif) in Berber, is a state bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Algeria to the east, the plains separating it from Morocco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Composed of mountains and plains, the Rif stretches for nearly 500 km from Tangier to Berkane and Kebdana (border between Algeria and Morocco).
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29 May 2021: First Meeting of the Council of Wisdoms of the Earth’s Peoples
Multiconvergence of Global Networks | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – The Multiconvergence of Global Networks (MRG) is an articulation that aggregates global networks for mutual support, dialogue, development of common strategies and planning of joint actions. It is not an institution, but a confluence of global civil society networks that explores new ways of doing politics through interarticulation, communication and cooperation between various processes that seek to strengthen planetary citizenship.
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Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 May 2021 – Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life. Released by Disrupt Studios on 24 Mar 2021. {Official Trailer | Netflix}
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Collateral Crucifixion – Pressuring for Julian Assange’s Release!
Sabine Bock | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
2 Apr 2021 -The artist duo Captain Borderline has created on the theme of “Collateral Crucifixion” a huge, artistic mural on a complete house facade directly in front of the SPD headquarters, the Willy Brandt House. In conversation with the two artists, they explained to us the reason for creating the revolutionary, crucifix-like work of art.
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The European Council against the Trade in Instruments of Torture
Riccardo Noury | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
On 31 Mar the European Council adopted a recommendation, long solicited by Amnesty International and Omega Research Foundation, by which the 47 member states will effectively fight the trade in torture equipment. It provides a total ban to the trading of any instruments aimed to cause pain and requires stricter controls on the trade in police items potentially used to torture.
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Women Who Build the Future: Vandana Shiva
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021 – We open the series “Women who Build the Future: Towards a Nonviolent Culture“, with Vandana Shiva‘s interview. The renowned physicist, thinker and activist proposes ecofeminism as a response to the current moment, in which the capitalist patriarchy is leading us to destruction and death, after having colonized nature, women and the future.
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No to the Privatization of the Brazilian Central Bank
Marcos Arruda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
24 Feb 2021 – Central banks are by nature public because they formulate and administer the country’s Monetary Policy and invest in the “real economy”, i.e. the part of the economy concerned with socioeconomic development and the production of goods and services. The CB does not have itself as an end but is a means to guarantee the adequate quantity of money and its circulation for the good of all.
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The Great Divorce of the Century
David Andersson | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – Millions lost their jobs and their money, some kept their jobs and their money, and others got even more money without doing much. This situation didn’t start with the pandemic, but it became more ‘in your face.’ COVID has pushed the close-knit relationship between work and money towards a bitter divorce.
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What If Oumuamua Is the Real Deal?
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – If Oumuamua is a real alien craft, then Earthlings are doing some really weird stuff on the scale of alien intelligence. Think about it… If it’s an alien craft or drone there’s no way it entered the sun’s solar system, swooping within 15M miles of Earth, powered by fossil fuels. It is the first known interstellar object in our solar system. It’s estimated to be between 330 and 3,280 feet long and between 115 and 548 feet wide and dark red in color, and it tumbles.
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World: Positive News in the Difficult Year of The Pandemic
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
3 Jan 2020 – Is there any positive news in this era that was accompanied by the outbreak of a pandemic? Here are some news and texts that, as human beings, fill us with pride. Because, they allow us to move forward, breaking down the walls of intolerance and racism, lighting the way and bringing hope, solidarity and cooperation.
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Water, “the Ultimate Commodity”, (*) Has Entered the Stock Market. Poor Water!
Riccardo Petrella | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
31 Dec 2020 – Entering the stock exchange is the result of a long series of steps. In the beginning there was …. the ‘petrolization’ of water. They announced it, proclaimed it since the 1970s. The “petrolization of water” (1) has driven the way we imagine and see water in industrialized and “developed” societies. Thus, in 2020, black gold […]
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Education for Peace and Nonviolence in Times of Crisis
Pía Figueroa | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
21 Nov 2020 – Doris Balvín, senior researcher at the New Civilization Humanist Studies Center in Lima, Peru and a specialist in social ecology, speaks about education for peace and nonviolence in times of social and ecological crisis.
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Edward Snowden Is Granted Permanent Residence in Russia
Pressenza Athens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020 – Edward Snowden has been living in exile in Russia since 2013 when he disclosed the American secret services’ programs of massive surveillance. The USA has requested his extradition for violating espionage laws. Today’s decision ensures he will not be extradited.
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#FREEASSANGE: Video Testimony from Yanis Varoufakis
Pressenza IPA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing up to 175 years in prison for publishing truthful information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Countless journalists, legal scholars, and human rights groups have condemned the politically motivated U.S. efforts to prosecute him. Under the campaign 1′ 4ASSANGE we publish short testimonies and start with Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek ex minister of finance and founder of the European political movement DiEM25.
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The Dying Planet Report 2020
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
24 Sep 2020 – The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the Living Planet Report 2020, but the report should really be entitled the Dying Planet Report 2020 because that’s what’s happening in the real world. Not much remains alive.
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Bolsonaro and WHO United in the Same Fight?
Maria Antonietta Bàlzola, M.D. | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020 – Jair Bolsonaro, just like Trump, claims that there is no epidemic from COVID-19 and shows himself smiling as he swallows chloroquine, thus projecting the image of a good-tempered and decidedly stupid despot. A lot of people make a simple reasoning: if he takes chloroquine, it must certainly be a stupid thing to do.
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Statement on the 75th Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
International Peace Bureau | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
In just two days, the two primitive atomic bombs dropped over Japan killed a quarter of a million women, children and men. Yet from the atomic ruins, an unwavering resolve has survived to bear witness to the personal human tragedy. For 75 years, the Hibakusha have spoken out as the voice of experience and hope for the urgent imperative of eliminating all nuclear weapons.
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Julian Assange Is Awarded the 2020 Stuttgart Peace Prize
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
29 Jul 2020 – Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks imprisoned in London for a year, received the Stuttgart Peace Prize 2020. It is awarded by Die Anstifter and aims to promote the right to unconditional freedom of information and of the press.
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July in History: Anniversaries of Russell-Einstein Manifesto, ICJ Verdict on Illegality of Nuclear Weapons, State-Terrorist Bombing of Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior
Alyn Ware | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
These three anniversaries provide inspiration to consider the roles of science, law and diplomacy to advance peace, security and nuclear disarmament.
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Germany’s Farewell to US Troops: Fewer Soldiers Means More Peace
Reto Thumiger | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 – The President of the United States has decided to withdraw up to 15,000 soldiers from Germany. This announcement by Der Spiegel at the end of last week struck the transatlantic states almost like a bomb. For half of the population in Germany, which is in favor of a complete withdrawal of American troops, the news looks more like a dove of peace on the horizon.
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Are We before the Possible ‘Awakening’ of Mankind?
Juana Pérez Montero | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – A door has been opened and it is worthy to work on a new impulse for the humanization of the world. If we can be silent in this isolation, perhaps we will advance towards the awakening of the human being, towards the arrival of the Winged Lion.
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Abrupt Ecosystem Collapse
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
A new study in Nature Magazine 8 Apr 2020 casts a disturbing light on the prospects of abrupt ecosystem collapse. The report analyzes the probabilities of collapsing ecosystems en masse, and not simply the loss of individual species.
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